Carolyn o f the Corners
BY RUTH
BELMORE
ENDICOTT
OoprrUkt. ms. by IXidd. K m
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fore, Joseph Stagg went that way—set
ting off down the tote road, lesillng
Cherry by his birdie.
Suddenly bo remembered calling
Prince Ihe day Carolyn May bad been
lost on the Ice. lie rnlsed Ids voice In
a mighty shout for the dog now.
“Prince I Prlncey, old boy I where
are you?”
Again nnd ngnln he cnlled, hut there
was no reply. The smoke was more
stifling and the heat more Intense
every minute. Mr. Stagg realized that
he must get out quickly If he would
save himself nnd the horse.
He hnd Just stepped into tho buck-
board again, when there was an ex
cited scrambling In tho underbrush,
and a welcoming hark was given.
“Prince I Good boy 1" the man shout
ed. "Where are they?"
Tho excited dog flew nt him, lenplng
on the buckboard so as to renrh him.
Tho mongrel was delighted, and
showed It as plulnly ns a dumb brute
could.
But he wns nnxlous, too. Ho leaped
bnck to the ground, rnn a little ahead,
nnd then looked back to see If the man
wns following. The hardware denier
shouted to him ngnln;
“Go ahead, Prlncey 1 Wo’re coming 1"
He picked up the reins nnd Cherry
started. The dog, harking his satisfac
tion, rnn on nhend nnd struck Into n
side path which led down n glndo. Jo
seph Stngg knew Itnmedlntely where
this pnth led to. There wns a spring
nnfl n small morass In the bottom of
the hollow.
y w
mm w a n
usual. News came over the long-dis
Together they backed the nnlmal be
C H A P TER X V —Continued.
tance wires thnt thousands of acres tween the shafts, fastened the trace«,
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He knew very well that what she of woodland were burning, that the for and Mr. Stagg leaped quickly to the
had snkl about his (laughter and Jo est reserves were out,and that the farm seat and gathered up the reins.
seph Stagg was quite true. Iu his self ers of an entire township on the far
"You'll hafter take the Fallow rond,”
ishness he had been glad all these side of the mountain were engaged In the carpenter shouted nfter him. "And
years that the hardware merchant was trying to make n barrier over which have n care drlvln’ Cherry—”
balked of happiness.
the flames would not leap. It was the
Horse nnd buckboard whirled out of
The carpenter had always been a consensus of opinion, however, that the yard nnd ills voice was lost to the
self-centered individual, desirous of the Are would not cross the range.
hardware merchant.
his own comfort, and rather miserly.
“Scarcely any chance of Its swoop
Cherry stepped out splendidly, nnd
He had not approved, In the tlrst place, ing down on us,” decided Mr. Stagg. they left n cloud of dust behind them
of the intimacy between Joseph Stagg “Reckon I won't have to go home to ns they rolled up the pike, not In the
and his daughter Amanda.
plow fire furrows.”
direction of the abandoned camp. Fore
“No good'll come o’ that,” he had
At the usual hour he started for The warned, he did not seek to take the
told himself.
Corners for dinner. Having remained shortest way to the cabin where
That is, no good to Jedidiah Parlow. In the store all the morning, he had Amanda Parlow and Carolyn May were
He foresaw at the start the loss of the not realized how much stronger the perhaps even now threatened by the
girl's help about the house, for his smell of smoke was than It had been forest fire. The Fallow rond turned
wife was then a helpless invalid.
at breakfast time. Quite Involuntarily north from the pike three miles from
Then Mrs. Parlow died. This death he quickened his pace.
The Corners.
made plainer still to the carpeuter
Flecks of foam began to appear on
The fog and smoke overcast the sky
that Mandy’s marriage was bound to thickly and made It of a brassy color, Cherry’s glossy coat almost at once.
bring inconvenience to him. Especial just as though a huge copper pot had The air was very oppressive, and there
(TO BB C O N TINU ED .)
ly If she married a close-tisted young been overturned over the enrth. Wom wns no breeze.
business man like Joe Stagg would en stood at their doors, talking back
The streak of flume that had fol
this be true. For, at the reading of his and forth In subdued tones. There lowed down the bnnks of West “LOVE THAT SUBDUES EARTH”
wife's will Mr. Parlow discovered that wns a spirit of expectancy In the air. hrook moved mysteriously. He could
Robert G. Ingersoll's Beautiful Trib
the property they occupied, even the
The hardware merchant wns striding see the smoke of It now.
ute to Women Has Been Sur
shop in which he worked, which had along at a quick pace when he came to
Amnndn Parlow nnd ids niece might
passed by Few Writers.
been given to Mrs. Parlow by her par the Parlow place; but he wns not go even now be threatened by the flames)
ents, was to be the sole property of ing so fast thnt he did not hear the
Now thnt danger threatened the
It tnkea n hundred men to mnke
her daughter. Mandy was the heir. carpenter hailing him iu his crucked woman he had loved all these years, It
nn encampment, but one woman enn
Mr. Parlow did not possess even a life voice.
seemed ns though his mind nnd heart
Interest In the estate.
“Hey, you. Joe Stagg! Hey, you 1” were numbed. He wns terrified be mnke n home. I not only ndmlre
It was a blow to the carpenter. He
Amazed, Mr. Stagg turned to look. yond expression—terrified for her safe woman ns the most beautiful objec»
made a good Income and had money Parlow wns hobbling from the rear ty, nnd terrified for fear thnt some ever created, but I reverence her ns
In bank, but he loved money too well premises, groaning at every step, body, even Jedidiah Parlow, should the redeeming glory of huiunnlty, the
sanctuary of all the virtues, the pledge
to wish to spend it after he had made scarcely able to walk.
suspect Just how he felt about It.
of nil perfect qunlltles of henrt and
It He did not want to give up the
“That sciatica's got me ng'in,” he
The horse's hoofs rnng zharply over
place. If Mandy remained unmarried snarled. “I'm a'most doubled up. the stony path. Presently they capped liend. It Is not Just nor right to lay
there would never be any question be Couldn’t climb Into a carrluge to save u little ridge nnd started down Into n the sins of men nt the feet of women
It Is becnusc women nre so much
tween them of rent or the like.
my soul.”
hollow. Not until they were over the
better
than men thnt their faults are
Therefore, If he was not actually the
"What d’you want to climb into a ridge wns Mr. Stngg nwnre thnt the
cause of the difference that arose be carriage for?” demanded Mr. Stagg.
hollow wns filled, chokingly tiled, with considered grenter. A man's desire Is
the foundation of his love, hut a wom
tween the two young people, he seized
“ ’Cause somebody's got to go for billowy white smoke.
an’s desire Is born of her love. The
and enlarged upon it and did all in that gal of mine—and little Car'lyn
Another man—one ns cautious ns
his power to make a mere misunder
one thing In tlds world thnt Is eon
the hardware merchant notoriously stnnt, tho one peak that rises above
standing grow Into a quarrel that nei
wns—would hnve pulled the horse all clouds, the one window In which
ther of the proud, high-spirited lovers
down to a walk. But Joseph Stngg's the light forever burns, the one star
would bridge.
c-’Utiousness hail been flung to the
thnt darkness cannot quench. Is woin-
Jedidiah Parlow knew why Joe
winds. Instead, he shouted to Cherry,
. an’s love.
Stagg had taken that other girl to
nnd the beast Increased Ills stride.
It rises to the greatest heights. It
Faith camp meeting. The young man
Ten rods further on the horse snort
sinks
to the lowest depths. It forgives
had stopped at the Parlow place when
ed, stumbled, and tried to stop. A
Amanda was absent and explained to
writhing, flaming snnke—a burning j the most cruel Injuries. It Is peren
the girl's father. But the latter had
branch—plunged down through the nial of life and grows In every climate.
Neither coldness nor neglect, harsh
never mentioned this fact to his daugh
smoke directly ahead.
ness
nor cruelty, enn extinguish It. A
ter.
“Go on I” shouted Joseph Stngg, with
Instead he had made Joe's supposed
a sharpness that wctald ordinarily huve woman’s love Is the perfume of the
heart. This Is the real love thnt sub
offense the greater by suggestion and
ret Cherry off at n gallop.
Innuendo. And It was he, too, who
B ut ns the snorting creature still dues the earth the love that has
had urged the hurt Mandy to retaliate
shied, the man seized the whip nnd wrought all miracles of nrt thnt gives
by going to the dance with another
lashed poor Cherry cruelly along Ids us music nil the way from the cradle
song to the grand closing symphony
young man. Meeting Joe Stagg later,
flank.
the carpenter had said bitter things
At that the horse went mad. He thnt bears the soul away on wings of
to him, purporting to come from
plunged forward, leaped the blazing fire. A love thnt Is grenter tlinn pow
Mandy. It was all mean and vile; the
brand, nnd gnlloped down the road nt er. sweeter than life nnd stronger thnn
old man knew it now—as he had
a perilous gnlt. The man tried neither death.—Robert G. Ingersoll.
known It then.
to soothe hln. nor to retard ihe puce.
Hapless Clarlbel’s Encounter.
All these years he had tried to add
The smoke swirled nround them.
The sun wns slowly sinking In Ihe
fuel to the lire of his daughter’s anger
The driver could not see ten feet be
against Joe Stagg. And he believed
yond the horse's nose. Ton minutes usual plnee. Clnribel Sklppenhop, over
he had benefited thereby. B ut some
later they rattled down Into the whose youthful head senree thirty-sev
how, during the past few months, he
straight road, and then, very soon, en summers hnd lightly flown, sat In a
had begun to wonder if, after all, “the
indeed, were nt the abandoned camp. regulation-size hammock. Idly swinging
game was worth the candle.”
The fire was near, but It had not her foot to the tune of “Keep the
Suddenly he had gained a vision of
reached this pluce. There was no sign Home Liars Squirming,” played on a
Hottentot bagpipe 42 ndles away.
w-hat Amanda Parlow’s empty life
of life about.
meant to her.
Suddenly n thought seized her. She
The man knew which wns Judy’s
He Plunged Forward Leaped the Blaz
tried
to serenm nnd break Its hold. She
Carolyn May, Interested only In see
cabin.
He
leaped
from
the
vehicle,
ing Brand and Galloped Down the
ing her friends made happy, had no
leaving the pnntlng Cherry unhitched, succeeded In both. Probably one and
Road.
fifteen elght-mllllonths of a cubic
idea of the turmoil she had created In
and ran to the h u t
Mr. Parlow’s mind.
May. Ain’t you heard—or is your mind
The door swung open. The poor second was allowed to elnpse between
During the time that the nurse was so sot on makin’ money down there to furniture was In place. Even the bed her scream nnd the time the thought
at the abandoned lumber camp caring your store that you don’t know nothin’ clothing was rumpled in the old wom wns cowering nt her feet.
for Judy Mason, Carolyn May hoped else?”
“Avaunt," she cried.
“Don't you
an’s bunk. But neither she nor Aman
that something might take Uucle Joe
“Haven't I heard what?” returned da Parlow nor little Carolyn May was know this Is my thoughtless dny? Now,
there.
the other with fine restraint, for he there.
doggone It, I'll hnve a headache.”
The next Friday, after school was saw the old man was in pain.
Then she went back to swing her
out, Miss Amanda appeared at the
CHAPTER XVI.
foot nnd the hammock.
“The fire’s come over to this side. I
Stagg home and suggested taking Caro saw the flames myself. And Aaron
lyn May Into the woods with her, “for Crummlt drove through and suys thnt
The Laurel to the Brave.
Margery Disapproved.
The heart of the man was like a
the week-end," as she laughingly said. you can’t git by on the main road. The
Mnrgery’B mother took her to a cot
Tim, the hackman, had brought the fire’s followed the West Brook right weight In his bosom. With so many tage prnyer meeting. The meeting wns
nurse home for a few hours and would down and is betwixt us and Adams’ hundred acres of forest on fire, and led by n returned missionary who be
that, too, between the abandoned camp lieved strongly In the efficacy of prny
take her back to Judy’s cabin.
old camp.”
“Poor old Judy is much better, but
“Bless me I” gasped the hardware nnd The Corners nnd Sunrise Cove, er. And she believed In prnyer not
how would Amanda I’nrlow and Caro only from the heart but from the
she is still suffering and cannot be left dealer, paling under his tan.
alone for long," Miss Amanda said.
“Wal?” snarled Parlow. “Goln’ to lyn May know where to go?
knees, as well.
Certainly the place must have been
“Carolyn May will cheer her up.”
stand there chatterin’ all day, or be
When Mnrgery’s father returned
deserted In haste. There was Carolyn thnt night he began to question her
Mr. Parlow would drive over on Sun you goin’ to do something?”
“Somebody must get over to that May’s coat. The man caught It up and regarding her experience. “I under
day afternoon and bring the little girl
home. Of course, Prince had to go cabin and bring them out,” Joseph stared around, ns though expecting the stand you went to your first prayer
Stagg said, without taking offense at child to be within sight.
along.
meeting today, daughter,” he said.
The old woman's clothing was scat “How did you enjoy It?”
Thnt Friday evening at supper mat the crabbed old carpenter.
“Wal I” exclaimed Parlow, “glad ter tered about, too. It did not look ns
ters in the big kitchen of the Stagg
The youngster’s nnswer came In a
though anything had been removed flash. “I didn't like It nt all, daddy,
house were really at a serious pass, Jo see you're awake.”
"Oh, I’m awuke,” the other returned from the hut. Coming out, he found not nt all,” she said. “They didn’t do
seph Stagg sat down to the table visi
bly without appetite. Aunty Hose shortly. “I wns Just figuring on who’s another article on the threshold—one a thing but Just sing nnd turn over I”
of Amanda's gloves.
drank one cup of tea after another got the best horse.”
Surely Has “ Done His Bit."
Joseph Stngg lifted tho crumpled
“I have,” snapped Parlow.
without putting a crumb between her
"I think this man Is doing his bit,"
lips.
“Yes. And I’d decided on taking glove to his lips.
“Oh, God, spnre herl” he burst forth. writes nn army correspondent who
"Say, Aunty Rose,” demanded Mr. Cherry, too,” the hardware dealer add
sends the following dlspntch to the
Stagg, “what under the sun did we do ed, and swung Into the lane toward the “Spare them both I”
Then he kissed the glove again nnd Army and Navy Journal:
before Hannah’s Car’lyn came here, carpenter’s barn.
“George Borden, a negro, of Golds
“Hey, you ! Needn’t be so brash hid It away in the Inner pocket of his
anyway? Seems to me we didn’t really
boro, N. C„ has furnished sons to the
about It,” growled the carpenter. "He’s vest.
live, did we?”
The hardware denier tried to think war In the sum of nearly two squads,
Aunty Rose had no answer to make my hoss, I s’pose?”
Joseph Stagg went straight ahead, of Just what the fugitives might hnve lie Is the fnther of 35 children, 27 of
to these questions.
In the morning there wns a smoky and without answering. Having once done when they escaped from the them living nnd 14 of them In the Unit
ed States nrmy either In this country
fog over everything—a fog that the decided on his course, he wasted no cabin.
If It were true thnt Amnndn would or In Frnnce.
«un did not dlsslpnte, and behind time.
He rolled bnck the big door and saw not run townrd the fire, then she more
which it looked like an enormous saf
"He has been married three times
Cherry already harnessed In his box- than likely hnd taken the opposite di nnd on four occasions has been the
fron ball.
rection on leaving the cabin. There- father of quadruplets."
Mr. Stagg went down to the store as stall.
PLAN FOR BETTER DAIRYING
Joint Ownership of Purebred Slree
Enablee Herd Improvement at
Minimum Expense.
Dairymen who would like to use
purebred hulls to Improve their herds
hut who cunnot afford to purchase
such animals should Investigate the
advantages of a co-operative hull as
sociation.
These organizations ure
formed by farmers for ihe Joint own
ership, use und exchange of purebred
hulls. The purchase price and cost of
mulntcuunce ure distributed according
to the number of rows owned by each
member, thereby giving the dairyman
an opi>ortunlty to build up Ids herd
nt a minimum expense. The organi
zation also helps Ils members to mar
ket dairy stock and dairy products, to
fight contagious diseases of cattle In
telligently, and In other ways to nsslst
In Improving the dulry Industry.
The typical co-operative hull asso
ciation Is composed of from fifteen to
thirty farmers, who Jointly own five
bulls. The territory In which these
farmers live Is divided into live
“breeding blocks," one hull being as
signed to each block. As many ns fifty
or sixty cows may belong to the fann
ers In each block, und the hull in tho
block should be kept on a conveniently
located funn. To prevent Inbreeding
each hull Is moved to the next block
every two years. If all the bulls live,
and If all ure kept until each bus made
one complete circuit, no new hulls need
Io he purchased for ten years. In this
way each member of tin- association
has the use of good purebred hulls for
uiuny years, nt a cost of only a small
part of the purchnsc price of one good
hull—usually less thuu Is Invested In
u more Inferior hill owned by Indi
vidual dulryiueu.
In a survey conducted by the United
States depurtmeut of agriculture on
1,210 farms In eight districts In Iowa,
Minnesota and Massachusetts In which
there were no associations. It was
found thnt there were 817 bulls, huv-
Ing nn average value of $70. Hud the
owners of these cheap hulls been prop
erly organized the name Investment
would have purchased the necessary
bulls of an average vnlue of $283. In
one association having more than 100
members the ortglnul cost of good
purebred hulls to each member wns
only $23. When questioned regarding
the vnlue of co-operative hull associa
tions. 150 farmers In Maryland, Michi
gan and Minnesota estlmnted thnt the
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Purebred Bull.
use o t hulls belonging to the organiza
tion increased the value of the off
spring In the first generation from 30
to 80 per cent, with an average of <15
per cent.
The selection of the bulls for nn as
sociation Is one of the most Important
considerations. A good purebred hull
will niuke rapid and ronrkod Improve
ment in the herds, and the association
Interest increase In proportion to the
improvement obtained. If a poor dairy
bull Is used the milk production of the
members’ herds Is sometimes reduced,
the Interest is lessened, and these
conditions may lead to the breaking up
of the association. Success in the op
eration of nn association depends a
great deal on tho care that is used In
Its organization. Dairymen contem
plating forming an association should
consult the local county ugent, write to
the state agricultural collego or to the
dairy division of the United States de
partment of agriculture at Washington
tor advice and assistance. The farm
ers’ bulletin previously mentioned will
be found of great value along this line,
particularly the suggestions which nre
given In connection with the constitu
tion and by-laws.
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