Lincoln County leader., July 07, 1905, Image 3

CICLY
By H. W.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Dropping bis gloves upon the out
spread map, and with an exclamation of
unmistakable astonishment and delight.
Mason Huntley sprang forward and seiz
ed the outstretched hand in big own. And
then, while both were speaking so that
neither could understand the other, he
threw his arm about her, and seeing
something in her eyes that at least did
not repel him, he bent his head impul
sively and pressed his lips again and
again to hers, that were very perceptibly
turned toward him and pouted in the
prettiest concession iranginaiile. John
Wickly looked on in the greutest nston
'sluuent, set off and illuminated with a
half sarcastic smile of enjoyment.
"I don't care," said Lizzy, still hold
ing Mr. Huntley's hand iu ber own, and
plainly interposing to prevent him from
dropping the encircling arm from her
shoulder, ns she hulf turued her head
with a rosy flush upon her face and some
pretty drops of shining tears in her eyes,
and along the under lashes, while a
smile of enchanting mingled shame and
clf-vindication lighted up her face like
a halo about an angol'a head. "I don't
care! He's treated me dreadfully I
mean horribly, since I've been here In
ilie city. And I'm g"ifig to know why.
before I let go of your hand Blr!" she
continued, turning away from her father,
find shaking her brown curls that hung
so charmingly out from under her hat
and down a little way upon the sides of
hor face.
"If that's It," said Mr. Wickly, with
a sort of roguish shrugging of his shoul
ders, "I think I'll step out and see if
those horses are standing all right. They
might run away and leave us, you know.
And then I can't be of any use what
ever in this sort of an investigation,"
and he turned and went out, his daugh
ter calling after him:
"You needn't, sir! I don't care if yon
are here. I shall say just what I've got
to say, anyhow. Now, tell me what you
meant by It, Mr. Huntley. Why did you
tell me you would see me soon, if it
were in your power, and then have me
right here in the city for weeks and
weeks, passing me on the streets every
dny without a word or a look, or any
thing to indicate that you Ijad ever had
cren a passing acquaintance with me?
Wasn't it your place to come to me at
once? Or. if you had any doubts about
my treatment of you, couldn't you write
to me? Do you think it was my place to
chose you all over the city and hunt you
down, without even a trace of you?
Couldn't you even do so much to facili
tate the search as to leave a hint of your
whereabouts, upon which I could begin?
Suppose I hndn't found you at all; would
yon have persisted in staying away for
ever?" There was enough light from the af
ternoon sun coming in at the west and
southwest windows of the room to throw
a very effective gleam upon the lovely
form of Lizzy Wickly, clad in a pale
brown silk that shed its suit sheen along
every line and curve, rie had never seen
Iter so richly dressed. She had never
been so richly dressed. And there was,
in the heightened effect of her charming
' dress upon her always pleasing face and
figure, that best of all excuses for the
very richest dresses that any woman can
afford to wear. He stood a moment
without a word, but with his eyes telling
voluble stories eloquent with admiration,
as they flew rapidly from the brown
plumes in her darker brown silk hat, that
framed her fresh, ruddy face so charm
ingly, with its broad, brown satiu strings,
tied in an elegant bow under her dim
pled chin; down the sloping shoulders,
with the line of faintly glittering light
reflected from the silk threads, changing
its direction as the bosom rose and fell
in quick, sharp undulations of excite
ment and delight. Ah! W. Mason Hunt
ley! If ever there were a pretty, straight
forward, frank and fearless daughter of
the Wabash, well worthy of the ndmira
tion. the respect and the love of a good
mnn, for those qualities that enabled her
to throw aside the conventionalities and
go thus boldly about the city, to chase
you down and take you to task for your
neglect and misfeasance, then this is
one!
"And have you actually been hunting
me all the time?" he murmured, delight
edly. "Have you actually felt that I
have mistreated you In not going at once
to see you? Have you had time, in all
the rush and hurry of the last two
months, to think about me long enough
to make real search for me?"
He stopped to kiss her again and
again, just as she was opening her pretty
curved lips to reply and so frustrating
the reply for a full twenty seconds.
"You know I have," she says, putting
op her gloved hand to prevent another
frustration of her reply. "I'm sure now,
that you knew of it on the very first day
that I chased you, and lost you behind
a barricade of wagonB. If I had known
just what your scheme was, sir, I
shouldn't have hunted you a step." And
she slaps his face and then pulls it down
to cure the blow with a kiss that heals
like magic. "But you haven't told me
one reason for your abstention and a
good one, too. No more shallow excuses
will do. What was it?" She looked very
engerly and brightly expectant into his
eyes.
"You know already. lou know as
well as if I had said it in every possl
ble form of phraseology," he retorted,
laughingly.
"But I want you to tell it, even If 1
do know it. And can yon pretend to
read a young woman's thoughts In such
a off-hand manner? Or to presume up
'S WOODS
TAYLOR
on my ability to read the purposes of
such an arch impersonator and dissem
bler as you? Why in the world did you
ever put on that ugly brown wig, Mr.
Huntley? Now, there wasn't a particle
of reason in that, you must confess. But
go on and tell me first, why you didn't
come to me at the hotel. Or before I
came away from Sandtown, even." He
stooped a little and kissed her again be
fore be replied:
"I wanted you to see and mingle with
the best people of the city. I wanted
you to feel free to form any opinion of
them, or of any one of them, without
hindrance from me in any way. I knew
that you felt sure of my love and devo
tion. I wnnted you also to feel sure of
your own. Y'ou remember that you said
to me on that night in the woods that it
might be my just punishment that you
should not be able to tell whether you
loved an ideal or a real man? You re
member? I thought of that almost ev
ery hour, and wondered if I were to be
punished by such a misadventure of all
my plans."
"Ah, yon cunning fellow, you! I sup
pose you didn't know that to surround
yourself with all this mystery and diffi
culty was the best of all methods to
make me think of nobody else? Why,
it was equal to parental ciisaeut, I veii.y
believe! Of course, none of the attrac
tive young gentlemen whom I have met
here had the slightest chance against all
your mystery. But I'm really a little
doubtful of you yet Father's coming
in now, and you must get into the cab
ith its, and go down to the hotel. I
have hours of business conversation to
bo held with you, in relation to-my num
erous and Important financial transac
tions. And I know of no one whom I
could so complacently put in charge of
my wealth as the man who put me in
charge of it."
What a ride it was, to be sure! Bud
Ellet, knowing by intuition, or perhaps
by experience, juBt what was required of
him, saw his party of three safely in the
cab, and then concerning himself about
nothing beyond making this the longest
possible trip to the hotel, drove slowly
down one street and across and up an
other, taking the party past all the pret
tiest and newest and grandest residences,
and by every object of interest that he
could ' think of, well knowing that no
body save John Wickly himself would
be, by any probability within his com
prehension, likely to see these sights.
CHAPTER XXIV.
In fact, the two lovers were In that
state of ecstatio somnambulism in which,
with eyes and ears wide open, they are
able to see absolutely nothing, besides
each other, and to hear no sounds save
the murmured words that passed between
themselves, to the perfect and inexorable
exclusion of everybody else. .Listening,
as anybody "in the world will listen, to
the cooing of real lovers, and looking at
thera slyly through the wicket, as any
body in the world will look at real lovers,
Bud Ellet could see and hear almost all
that could liave been seen and heard by
John Wickly, leaning back on the front
seat, in the shadow so deep as to be in
effect absent, and therefore not at all in
the way.
"There appeared to be some real es-
cuse for my disguise and my imperson
ation of a fictitious individual," Mr,
Huntley was saying, as his left arm fit
ted itself snugly into a comfortable sup
port for her head, where his hand could
lie protectingly, caressingly upon her left
shoulder without the slightest Inconven
ience to anybody. "You see the other
road held the mortgages as collateral for
a debt of the Farmers' Bank. And by
some means they had gotten a hint of
the existence of coul veins under your
hind. I was employed by our company
to go and make a thorough investiga
tion of the whole matter as secretly and
quickly as possible. Fortunately for us
and for you, the other company was not
impressed with the value of the deposit
to the extent of inducing them to act
very promptly. And consequently my
work was almost completed when they
began their Burvey that revealed to
them the great value of the deposit. Then
came strategem and strife. Both com
panies had obtained right of way, save
some formalities on the part of our op
ponents that enabled us to claim ex
elusive right up to that time; and not
only to put down our track, but to nre
vent them from putting down theirs. By
means of my character of geologist, and
my brown wig, I could come and go ue
tween the field of my explorations and
the central office of the company without
arousing suspicion. On the evening of
tne nurncane, you remember?"
"I have never forgotten it for a mo
ment. I shall never forget It. I shall
always love a storm of wind and ralu so
long as I live," she interrupts, leaning
her brown silk hat down against his
cheek In a way that everybody openly
aeriaes, ana secretly applauds and envies,
The protecting and caressing left hand
upon her left shoulder beats a little tat
too of grateful applause.
"That evening I discovered that our
adversary had become aware of what
was going forward, and had prepared to
outbid me for the land. It was neces
sary to go back and present all the facts
that went to show the actual great value
of the deposit, and get authority, and
perhaps means, for a large advance upon
the original sum I had been authorized
to offer. I found some difficulty, and ex
perienced a vexatious delay in this
orancn 01 ins worn. Ana wnen i was
finally ready, I found a fores of armed
man to oppose our rightful entry epon
the land, and so was compelled to meet
force with force. A bloody conflict was
probably avoided by the timely and. de
termined interposition of old Coonrod
Redden, who, when he discovered that
some one else had been at the bottom of
the troubles of the Sandtown Farmers'
Bank, and that I was not at all to blame.
took part with us very heartily and sav
ed us from a very formidable peril in
the shape of the militia of Big Rattle
snake Creek and Reetfoot Pond. And
now you know all the mysteries of the
geological survey of Wickley's Woods."
.
Not many days after there was a great
stir at Sandtown; this time not at all
a military nor financial excitement. Quite
the reverse. The Sandtown Brass Bund
wa out in full uniform, and the Mount
Zion Double Quartet Club were out, too,
In an open wagon, and there was the
whole available population of Sandtown
and its immediate vicinity, gathered
about the little new railroad station.
As the train from the city pulled in
upon the sidetrack, the band, following
a little signal blown by tne leader, tbe
young Doc Dikes, upon his cornet, struck
up a very popular air of those days, and
very appropriate' to the occasion, in
which every instrument save the bass
drum had a turn at a bit of solo based
upon "Haste to the Wedding."
Then the bridal party got off the car,
and was instantly surrounded by the
whole crowd, in the center of which the
tall, angular form of Coonrod Redden
could be seen, a head above the tallest.
"Howdy, Mason! Howdy, Lizzy! Orto
call you Miss Huntley, now, I 'low.
Wush yuh much joy, both uv yuh! By
gum! I nuvver no more thought uh sich
a theng thun I thought uh gittun maird
muhself. By gum! I didn't. But Ma
son, you needn't to clper bn go-un away
from Rnn'town to live, un uh teckun
the purtiest un smartust g-yurl they is
about h-yur away from urse. We've
gut use fur you h-yur, I kin tell yuh,
my good feller! Un we hain't uh go-un'
to let yuh off, nuther. Drive thattair
cairge roun' h-yur, fellers! Closeter!
Thst's hit! Now, clam en thar, Lizzy!
Mason! H-yur's yur father un mother,
right en thar. Lots a room! Now, soon's
tham fellers git ready to let the club
seng, we'll pull out fur ar house. We're
a go-un to have the bustunest infair yuh
uver see, Lizzy! By gum; uvverbody en
Redden township's thar, by this time.
There goes the sengers. 'At's Clumburse
sengun tenor thataway! You kin h-yur
'im a mile uv a clur evenun, when the
wind haint uh blowun. Listen at tham
Reelfoot Pon' fellers uh yelun. Yuh
cain't h-yur yourselves fur 'ttm."
What a triumphal march down the
Overcoat road, from the station to Coon
rod Redden's house! What waving of
hats and handkerchiefs, and what yells
and screeches! There was just that ele
ment of the ludicrous, that tint of absurd
ity, in this noisy demonstration that made
it doubly acceptable to the fun-loving
Snndtowner. It was an unexpected dem
onstration, and so had the features of a
huge and successful prnetlcal joke whicl
the Hoosier loves so wpII; while It served
as an ample opportunity for all to join in
a public exhibition of respect and admira
tion, which the true Hoosier delights to
make in honor of any citizen who, in
any walk of life, attains distinction and
so reflects luster upon his native State,
or his adopted town and "country.
"There's the Woods," Lizzy whispers
in Mr. Huntley's ear. He turns, and
glances up the little woods road that
branches off from the Overcoat road and
winds away into the recesses' of the for
est, now beginning to exchange its gay
green coat for a mantle of brown, trim
med with ' knots and fringes of yellow,
and cardinal and purple.
"My darling wife," he whispers. "I
want to keep that little, lone brier
fringed road just as it Is, so long as you
shall love me."
(The end.)
"Confidential" Bore Squelched.
"Hare you ever met him? I mean
the fellow wbo at all sorts of func
tions goes around with tihat profound,
confidential air. He'll come along
quietly, place his hnnd at the side of
his mouth, Incline bis bead towards
your ear, and with a semblance of
deep mystery whisper some Inconse
quential nonsense to you, the while
others look on and think something of
deep moment is being discussed, and
that you are ns rude and unrefined as
he.
"There's a fellow of my acquaint
ance Just like this. He was at a ball
the other night. I was there, too.
During the evening I saw him steering
for where I stood. I knew what was
going to happen, so I made up my
mind to squelch him.
"On he came. Wlien he reached my
side he ducked his head forward and
whispered, 'Say, Mr. Doe, don't you
think It's awfully warm in here?'
Observing that nearly every one was
looking In our direction, I dived down
Into my pockets and laboriously drew
forth a five-dollar bill. I turned to die
bore, and, addressing him In as loud
a voice as was permissable, said:
" 'Why, certainly, old man. Here's
five dollars; that's the smallest I have.
Return It when you please.'
"I'll bet that fellow has been broken
off a very annoying hnWt"
Kussian Bootmakers.
The most noticeable feature about a
Russian at home Is his boots. Hus
sion boots are really a form of the old
time jackboot which was In common
use centuries ago in the American col
onies and England. Its more modern
form is known as the Wellington. The
Russian bootmaker sets up bis shop on
whatever sidewalk he finds most'eon
venlent, and remains there until traffic
or the police drive him away, only to
I soak another "shop" of the same sort
For Taking Up Barb Wire.
Take a pair of cultivator wheels,
make an axle to fit, out of 2x4 oak, 30
Inches long. Side pieces should be 1
inches by 2 Inches, 4 feet long, of hard
wood. Bolt to axle securely. The up
rights should be 2-Inch by 4-inch pine,
via. 1.
securely bolted to side pieces, nnd high
enough to reach above wheels. The
cross fiar may be lVi Inches square,
ends round for handles. The whole
(see Fig. 1) should be well braced, as It
must be strong. For windlass axle
(Fig. 2), take oak, 1 Inches square,
2r Inches long, fit crank on one end;
for reel, take bnrb-wlre reel, cut hole
through It square to fit axle. To take
up wire, fasten end to reel, take cross
bar In left hnnd, turn crunk with liLiL
fio. 2.
The cart is propelled by winding wire
on reel; when one reel Is full, slip off
and put on another. Sylvanus Scott.
8ub-8oillu for Orchards.
Fruit trees, nnd particularly apples,
require a deep soil and, of course, one
that Is fairly rich. There are hun
dreds of acres of rich clay soils Unit
would do splendidly for apples if prop
erly prepared. Trials which have re
suited In failures have been almoet
wholly due to the fact that the soli
had not been opened deep enough to
permit the roots of the trees properly
to penetrate It
If such solN had been subsolled,
using the implement made for that
purpose which does not throw back a
wide furrow, the roots would have a
elm nee to get Into the soil several
inches deeper than otherwise, and
after that would be strong enough t
pierce tie soil below without Its being
losened. Of course It must be remem
bered that If the soli below the dis
tance penetrated by the subsoiler is
wet and remains so, it is not suited
to tree roots. On tbe other hand, if
It is simply wet enough to retain a
pood amount of moisture, the trees
will then make a most desirable
grow til.
Hand Cultivator.
Take a board 20 Inches wide and
long, and cut a wheel out of It. Then
make a frame of lfe-lnch-square lum
ber, and two small brace strips near
wheel, of light lumber. Get a black
smith to make the scufllelioe out of
steel, as shown In figure 2, with four
small short rods, riveted back of blade.
These little rods are curved up, and
turn up the roots of weeds to the sun.
You can take this device off and put
on a shovel if you want to cultivate
deep. It runs light for amount of
WEED KII.LKH AND CULTIVATOR.
work done, and is superior to any $5
wheel hoe I ever saw. J. Holmes Wil
son. When Lambs Need Dlpplngr.
If mature sheep are troubled with
ticks and lambs run with the flock
most of the tlckB In two or three weeks
after shearing will have loft the old
sheep to live upon the tender skin and
amid the longer wool of tbe lambs. It
Is therefore evident that money will
be saved by dipping the lambs. In
badly infected cases a second dipping
will prove advantageous unless the old
sheep wore dipped nt the first applica
tion. Ticks multiply very rapidly, and
even If a few escape death their pro
geny will cause the whole flock untold
discomfort. American Cultivator.
Hny Versus Corn Fodder.
It Is dilllcult to muke a comparison
between corn fodder and hny, because
the quality of either largely depends
upon the curing. Bright green com
fodder, shredded or cut fine, Is superior
to Improperly cured hny, while good
hny Is far superior to corn fodder that
whs not cut until the leaves turned
yellow.
If fodder Is tender and Juicy the
animals will prefer the stalks to the
leaves, as the stalks are rich In sugar,
hut much depends upon tbe stage of
rrowth at which tbe stalks were har
vested. Farm Visitor.
Breeding Polled Calvee.
Answering the query, "Are double
standard Polled Durham bulls as sure
to get polled calves from horned cows
as are Angus bulla?" F. S. Hlnes saye
In Breeder's. Gazette:
Without knowledge as to the per
centage of polled calves got by Angus
bulls used on horned cows it would
naturally seem that the Angus bulla
would be the surer dehorners, as they
have been bred hornless for many gen
erations, while Polled Durhami are
not many removes from horns. How
ever, there are many Polled Durham
bulls that have made excellent records
ns dehorners, some having as high as
00 per cent 6f polled calves from horn
ed cows. '
If your correspondent wishes to
breed polled calves his best course
would be to buy an aged Polled Dvrr-
haiu bull with a good record as a de-
horner. There Is a great deal of the
lottery about this "breeding off the
horns," Just as there Is In breeding In
general, and some bulls with many
polled crosses are not as sure dehorn
ers as those with only one cross of
polled blood. Therefore I should ad
vise your correspondent not to try a
young bull, but to get one' that Is
known by his works.
Water for Swine.
There are farmers who raise swine
and never feel It necessary to give
them water to drink. They argue that
as the slop is composed largely of
water that Is all that Is necessary.
It probably Is, In muny cases, where
the slop consists of one part solids and
nine parts-water, but If the slop la
nutritious, as It should be, and If corn
Is fed In addition, the swine need con
siderable water. Men qf experience
claim that swine carefully watered are
rarely diseased, and they have little
difficulty In preventing them from mak
ing wallows. As a matter of fact,
about half of the nnstlness of the hog
is due to the carelessness of Its owner.
Give the hog half a chance and he or
she will be reasonably clean. Try the
trough of cold, clean water at feodlng
time and see for yourself what the
swine think of It.
Harro
w for Btony Ground,
plecesr of 8V42 Inches,
and set them as shown In
Sink tbe wings into the
lncb. This saves inak
. Get -lnch bolts with
bore hole as shown by
The binges,- etc., can be
Take six
Plane them
Illustration,
center piece
lng mortise,
heads and
dotted lines,
HARHOW FOR STONY GROUND.
made of old wagon tire. Set teeth
slanting, and attach chain. This har
row with twenty-four teeth Is made to
work a width of 0 feet, and Is of light
draft. It can be made by any one
handy with tools, and If well made, is
strong, lasting and effective.
Poultry Picking;.
Try feeding little chicks a dry ration
of cracked grain, seeds, etc. It is bet
ter than Johnny cake, corn dough or
mashes.
Place a self-feeding box of grain in
the coop so the chicks can eat whnt
they want. There Is little danger of
over-feeding (rowing stock on free
rnnge.
If hens on free range are given a
small feed of fresh-cut bone once a
day, or a box of beef scraps and granu
lated bone Is placed In the henhouse,
they will produce more eggs. .
Keep the brooders nlid colony houses
clean and look out for red mites and
lice on the chicks. Incubator chicks
are hatched free from lice, but it does
not take long to contract them.
Set turkey hens this month nnd It
you have plenty of eggs, till the incu
bator. Arrange so tbe hens and incu
bator will hatch at the same time, then
you can give all the polts to the turkey
hen.
Keep the chicks growing. Too often
after chicks have left the brooder or
have been weaned by the hen they get
Insufficient food to make the most rapid
growth. Especially is this .true of
chicks on free range.
Plant sunflowers outside the wire of
the poultry yard nnd In and by waste
places. They will afford shade during
the summer nnd the hens will relish the
seed. If planted Inside the yawl they
must be protected until out of reach
of the hens.
Garden Hints,
The suckers of gooseberries, currants
nndwed raspberries should be rigidly
pulled.
In making the home garden do not
overlook garlic, chives, shallots, herbs,
etc., as they are exceedingly desirable
for flavoring purposes.
Early varieties of dwarf peas can
be grown between the rows of tomato
plants. By the time the tomatoes are
large enough to occupy the ground the
peas will be out of the way. The pea
vines may be removed or left as a,
mulch for the tomatoes.