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Common Sign Language.
Travelers in the interior ot South
Amercia, although knowing little or
nothing of the language ot the Indi
ans, claim that an astonishing amount
ot communication may be held by
means of a sign language. The dif
ferent Indian groups of Brazil, for in
stance, while speaking each a differ
ent language, have a more or less com
mon language of signs.
State Named from River.
Wisconsin derived its name from
the principal river, named Masconsin
by Pere Marquette, translated wild,
rushing channel. The present spelling
is derived from a misprint. All early
French documents have Ouisconsing
or Misconsing.
Down on the Farm.
"The only worker I ever knew who
would work when the boss was away
was the old-fashioned American hired
man," declared a professor at Grand
Rapids. We have known a couple of
them to sit on a fence at such times
and work until their jaws were totally
exhausted.
Already Free.
During the Sunday School lesson
the teacher made reference to a pas
sage of Scripture reading, "Ye shall
know the truth and the truth shall
make you free." A little girl in the
front row exclaimed: "I'm already
free. I'm free and a half."
One Way to Reduce.
A rather robust woman recently
asked a doctor what she should do to
reduce. "Take a certain kind of ex
ercise," said he . "What kind do you
recommend?" she asked. "Push your
self away from the table three times
a day" replied the doctor. Topeka
Capital.
Meat Distribution.
Two-thirds of the live stock used for
food is raised west of the Mississippi,
while two-thirds of the consumers live
east of the Mississippi. This accounts
for the 1,300 packing houses occupied
in converting live stock into meats and
transferring them to markets.
Remark Left Impression.
A man and his wife were buying a
horse. "How could such a lovely
creature have a temper?" asked the
woman. "My dear, that is exactly
what passed through my mind when I
married you," answered the man, and
he has not heard the last of it yet.
Word for the Cyclone.
About the only good thing that can
be said about cyclone is that it doesn't
cost the taxpayers anything for an
investigation as to who was to blame.
Des Moines Register.
Slight Accident Fatal.
A young man in London who was
struck on the head by a chicken bone
used as a missile died of septic pneu
monia set up by the slight scalp wound
he had received.
Final Adjudication.
Though reading and conversation
may furnish us with many ideas of
men and things, yet it is our own
meditation must form our judgment.
Oxalic Acid in Rhubarb.
Rhubarb, when eaten in excess, has
been known to act as a powerful poi
son on accpunt ot its natural content
of oxalic acid. Science Service.
Must Move Fast.
The lowest speed at which It is pos
sible for an airplane to fly is 31
miles an hour.
Mankind's Duty.
Life Is a problem; mortal man was
made to solve the solemn problem,
right or wrong. J. Q. Adams.
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No. 24, 1925
IT WAS
A PRIVATE
QUARREL
By WILLIAM T. DAVANT
( by Short Story Pub. Co.)
DEVIL ANSB CANF1ELD gazed
quietly at the man before him.
His thumb fumbled the ham
mer of a brown rifle, a nervous
trick which had worn the steel smooth.
"So ye want work?" he drawled,
presently.
The man to whom he spoke was clad
In overalls. His smooth-shaven face
was tanned darkly. His upper lip had
the peculiar puffy effect which be
trayed the fact that a mustache had
been sacrificed.
"Yes, I do."
"Whur're ye from? Whut kinda
work kin ye do?"
The stranger met the searching
gray eyes for the first tim.
"Stranger," he said, frankly, "to be
square with you, I ain't going to tell
you where I come from. I'll say this
much : I ain't always worn these
kind of clothes and a look at my
hands will show you that I ain't n
laboring man, although I'm willing to
do anything that will pay my board
and keep for a month or two."
The case was not unusual. The
country is well suited to the needs
of men who have come under the dis
pleasure of the law. On one side of
Tug river Is West Virginia, on the
other lies the state of Kentucky.
Hills, valleys, valleys and more hills ;
the landscape presents a monotonous
ruggedness which discourages pursuit.
Once across the river, the fugitive Is
safe until the slow process of extra
dition Is gone through with.
Anse fumbled the hummer of his
rifle, always keeping the muzzle di
rected toward the other.
"I'll take ye, furriner," he pro
nounced, after giving him due consid
eration. "Whenever all ye be ready to
go to work?"
"I'm ready now."
He picked up a bundle of clothes
and prepared to follow his employer.
The old man wheeled like a cat.
"No ye don't !" he snarled, his eyes
red suspicion. "Ye go fust."
Without a word the younger obeyed.
At a clearing Canfleld halted him.
"Troy I Hey-o-o, Troy !" he shouted,
his voice resounding In the typical
mountaineer's call.
A tall lad appeared noiselessly be
hind them. On his shoulder was the
Inevitable rifle.
"Want me, dad?"
"Fetch this man a crow-bar an'
shovel. He's golnta grub th' pastur'."
When the Implements came, he set
the stranger to work in the gruel
ling nfternoon sun, uprooting stumps
In the clearing. During the operation
he sat on the rail fence, an embod'
ment of somber menace. With his
head sunk into his bowed shoulders
he was never at rest. His keen gray
eyes under shaggy brows darted now
this way, now thnt; his beaked nose
seemed to sniff the air suspiciously,
his curly brown beard, shot with
white, failed to hide the nervous
twitching of a cruel mouth. And al
ways he kept his rllle pointed in the
direction of the worker.
At the mellow call of a horn, he slid
to the ground and called his employee.
"Supper," he announced, laconically.
They filed to the house, the stranger
In front. An elderly woman met them
at the door.
"My new hand," the Devil said, by
way of Introduction. The woman
murmured something and led the way
Into the kitchen.
A'nse played the part of host with
a hospitality bred in the bone of the
mountaineer. He pressed fried chick
en and squirrel and all the viands
which constitute the highland menu
npon his guest. But the stranger no
ticed the boy, Troy, sat In front of
the stove with a rifle across his knees
and never took his eyes from his
face.
The meal finished, the host escorted
the laborer Into the living room. A
certain look of constraint seemed to
leave him as he picked up his rifle
and fumbled the hammer.
He caught his guest's eye and
chuckled : "Somehow I don't never
seem right unless I'm totin' ole Betsy."
"I reckon there are some pretty
tough men In these hills," the other
responded, looking with concern at his
blistered palms.
"They's five thousan' dollars reward
fer me In Kalmuck an'1 I hafter be
keerful. I hain't one uh th' McBees.
My men knows 'em all an' they hain't
one uh 'em could cross Tug river
alive. Whut I'm nervus about Is
these here smart. Jack deetoctlves.
They hain't nothln' to heuder 'em
from comln' to me, like ye done, fer
a job, an' waltln' fer a chanst to cap
ture me when I hain't on my guard."
"That's why you carry the rifle with
you all the time," exclaimed the hired
man, In sudden enlightenment.
The Devil brooded In portentous
silence. The other busied himself
pricking with his pocket-knife the wa
ter blisters caused by his strenuous
afternoon.
"Hit's tills away," Anse fumbled,
suddenly, "I hain't never harmed a
soul whut hain't fust harmed me. I
wanta live In peace with my feller
man. but things has happened, which
they won't let me.
' Them McBees butchered my broth
er. He wux my pal, my playmate.
They filled him with lead an' cut twenty-five
wounds In hli body all on ac
count uh some pigs, which they wa'n't
wuth a dollar.
"I hain't never harmed th' state uh
Kahituck. All I've did is to kill ev'ry
man I c'n find whut helped kill my
brother. I hain't hurt none uli them
th' state sent after me, although they
wuz meddlin' in a personal mutter
whut Is jus' between th' McBees an'
Cantiel'g."
He got up and faced his listener.
"Whut ye got to do with hit, Bill
Hardin? Whut blsness is hit uh
yourn?" A vein of raillery ran
through his next words. "But I for
got. Ye didn't come fer me. but jus'
wanted a Job. Hev ye got enough uh
grubbln' stumps?"
The detective sat quietly In his
chair, his eyes half-closed. "Anse,
you've caught me with the goods."
"I reckernlzed ye as soon as I seen
ye. Shavln' off a mustache hain't
much uli a disguise, Bill."
"Well, Anse," Hardin arose and met
his eyes fearlessly, "what you going
to do about It?"
"Ye know whut I oughta do. But
I don't want no trouble with th' state.
Yo've et my grub, ye kin sleep In
my house tonight. Tomorrow I'll drive
ye to th' station In time to ketch
Number Four. But don't never come
back out here, Bill."
"Is that threat?"
"Take hit as a warnln', Bill. Ye're
squar' an' ye've got nerve. 1 don't
want nothln' to happen to ye In my
country."
The detective yawned. "I think you
said something about a bed," he sug
gested. The feudist lighted a tallow-dtp and
pointed to the steep stairway. Hardin
took the light out of his hand and
started to climb upstairs.
"Wait a minute, Bill," the Devil
called. "Less have ev'rything straight
between us. We uns is awful light
sleepers an' mighty nervus. Whenever
we hear a soun' In th' night we shoot
fust an' look afterwards. Gin ye walk
In yer sleep ye'd better fassen th' door
so's ye can't open It less'n ye're wide
awake."
The next morning Anse presided at
the breakfast table with his homely
grace. Hardin ate a hearty meal, ex
pressing his appreciation by the keen
neRs of his appetite.
A gleam came Into his eyes ns he got
In the buggy beside his host and no
ticed that the brown old rifle liud been
left behind.
The mountaineer was by nature a
taciturn soul and the law officer was
busy with his thoughts, therefore the
drive was finished in silence.
As the train pulled in, Anse reached
in his pocket.
"Bill," he drawled, a humorous light
In his deep-set eyes, "th' Good Book
says that th' laborer is worthy uh his
hire" ; with the words, he dropped a
sliver dollar In Hardin's blistered palm.
The detective readied buck to put
the coin In his pocket. His hand
flashed up holding a revolver.
"I don't see any reason why you
shouldn't take the trip with me," he
remarked, cheerfully.
The old man shook his head gloom
ily. "Put hit back, Bill, I'm disap
pointed with ye. Ye'd oughta know me
better. I don't trus' no man further
back than a fust cousin an' I expected
this."
"Cut that out," Hardin snapped tri
umphantly. "Get aboard."
For answer the outlaw whistled
shrilly. Half a dozen loafers on the
platform were transformed Into alert
mountain men. They bounded toward
the detective and surrounded him with
leveled revolvers. Anse chuckled at
the changed expression of Hardin's
lace and waved them away.
"Ye see, Bill, they're my people.
They'd die fer me like I'd die fer 'em.
Ye bin buttin' In on a private quar'l
an' ye don't deserve to git awny. Jump
on yer train an' go back to Roanoke
whar ye belong before I change my
mln'. An' don't never come back !"
The officer shrugged his iboulders
and thrust his gun hack in bis pocket.
"Good-by, Anse," he called from the
platform of the last coach.
Devil Anse Canfleld stood and
watched the train disappear In the
East. His thumb felt vainly for Its
wonted occupation; a look of fear
sprang Into his eyes.
"Troy, Tro-o-y!" he yelled, shrilly.
The boy ran to him.
"Whur's Betsy?"
The lad handed her to him. The
feel of the cold steel reassured him.
With a sigh of relief he turned to his
buggy, his thumb twiddling the worn
hammer as a dog licks bis master's
shoe.
"Come on, kid ; less go home," he
drawled.
Firet in Forests
It Is not practicable to equip for
ests with lightning rods. No remedy
Is now In sight for disastrous forest
fires due to lightning, such as have
occurred on a vast scale In the west
ern states during the last season.
When lightning strikes a tree the ordi
nary result is to splinter the wood or
strip off bark through the sudden gen
eratlon of steam. In the great Inujor
Ity of cases the tree is not set on fire.
Nevertheless the aggregate number of
forest fires started by lightning is, in
many parts of the country, greater
than the number due to all other
causes combined.
Odd Way to Pay Tax
A southern Ohio taxpayer, being
assessed H cents as his federal in
come tax, originally mulled postage
stamps covering this amount, but was
informed that stamps were not ac
ceptable. Then the collector received
a small block of wood, in which a hole
had been bored and 8 cents secreted
A corn cob was used as a stopper to
bold the money In place.
JOHN LISKA WROTE
BEST ROAD ESSAY
John Liska, Wisconsin Rnplds, Wis.,
wrote the best essay In the 1924 na
tional good roads essay contest for the
Harvey S. Firestone four-years' univer
sity scholarship. The subject of his
essay, which told In simple form the
epic story of a country crossroads, was
"The Relation of Improved Highways
to Home Life." Liska Is the fifth
high-school student to earn this honor
and award.
The contest is conducted ench year
under the auspices of the highway
education board, Washington, D. C,
of which the United States commis
sioner of education is chairman. It
Is strictly educational In character and
In the several states Is sponsored by
one of the leading universities, or by
the state department of education.
Mr. LIska's essay follows:
Isolation is the primary cause of
the ignorance so evident in rural com
munities. Poor roads, more than any
thing else, have forced the farm home
into a demoralizing Isolation. The Im
provement of highways, making the
consolidated school and social center
possible. Is injecting new life Into
homes formerly hopelessly isolated.
Home life Is broadened and enriched.
Boys are willing to stay "down on the
farm." Girls cease to envy their city
cousins and to leave home for "the
bright lights."
Just a few minutes of travel, on a
particular road leading out of the city
of Wisconsin Rapids, will convince the
most doubtful skeptic of the value of
good roads and their Influence upon
home life. About two miles from the
city this road branches. One branch
Is called "the left rond" ; the other "the
right rond." The left road is almost
always In a deplorable condition; the
right road Is hard-surfaced. The
homes on the left roud are dilapidated,
the front yards scarcely recognisable
among the tangle of broken machinery,
old wire nnd various other objects
placed "out of the way." The land
has been cropped until It Is Impossible
for even quack grass to flourish. The
stock, descendants of some grand-dad's
icrubs, Is now so degenerated that
scarcely any characteristics of a high
producing, profitable animal are evi
dent. Can you expect the boy or girl to
remain on the farm under these con
ditions? Not one boy or girl living
on this road has any education above
the eighth grade, and very many have
pot even progressed thnt far. These
young people, many of them lying
about their ages, have bad to seek
a "Job" at the slore, mill or fac
tory, instead of completing their edu
cation. Can home life be pleasant
and happy where these conditions
exist T
The road to the right leads through
land slightly more fertile, but more
fertile only as n result of better farm
management. No farm home on this
road, for a distance of twenty miles,
Is without at least one modern con
venience. Several fnnns are equipped
with every modern convenience, both
In and out of the home.
The esthetic influence a good road
exerts Is very evident. Often It stimu
lates Intent self-respect into practical
expression. These people are con
tinually ndiiing some Improvement In
an honest attempt to beautify their
home surrounillngfl. Through diversifi
cation and rotation of crops they have
succeeded In bringing their land to a
high degree of fertility, resulting In
a more stable Income each year. They
are sending their children to high
schools, agricultural schools and
universities. A better education Is
teaching these children to realize the
value of a true home.
In a large mejisure, on the rond to
the left, the average fanner hu. lost
his self-respect, has allowed his home
to fall below the standard, and has
failed to keep In stride with the times.
He Is considered inferior to city peo
ple. Fanners, such as those on the
right road, are again placing the farm
home upon the pinnacle where It
should rest, "The True Home of Man."
How necessary to that home is a
good rond I What a relief It must
have been to those simple folk In
Whlttler's "Snow Bound" to have the
roud opened and the floundering car
rier bfcng the village paper to the
door !
The left roid may be compared to
the snow-bound road, Impelling prog
ress, forcing Isolation. The right road
may be compared to the opened rond,
offering new opportunities, new possi
bilities and new happiness.
The right rond Is. In the true sense
of the word, the "right road." We
must build more of them. Until this
Is accomplished home life In isolated
sections will, In the future, Simply
exist; but when all roads are "right
roads," these sume communities,
these same homes, will live.
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of dollars have been spent slnee 191S
on the Lincoln hlghwiiy alone for im
provements, and many millions more
will be spent during the few years
Just ahead on this great .'(.100-mlle
transcontinental road, which stretches
from the Hudson river to Sun I- an
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Purely Myth.
The belief that the tail of a snake
after the head Is cut off or the rest
of the snake is killed lives until sun
set is merely an old myth. Owing to
the reaction of the snake's nervous
systom its tail will continue to wigglo
long nfter the snake Is otlierwiso ap
parently dead. I!ut then; is nothing
to th notion that it will continue to
wiggle until sunset and then stop.
Sometimes It will stop beforo and
sometimes after sunset. Pathfinder
Magazine.
The Dependable Man.
Give us a man, young or old, high
or low, on whom wo know wo can
thoroughly depend, who will stand
firm when others fail; the friend faith
ful and true, the adviser honest nnd
fearless, the adversary just and chival
rous -in such a ono there is a frag
BMBt of the Hock ot Ages. Dean
Stanley.
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CUT FLOWERS & FLORAL DESIGNS
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Twins Had Same Idea.
Probably tbo most remarkable and
authentic story concerning twins is
that of A., a twin, who bought a set
of champaign glasses in a town in
Scotland as a surpriso for Ml brother,
B.i who at the same timo bought a
set of exactly the same pattern in
England as u present for A.
Founded by Champlain.
The earliest founding of any Cana
dian city was that of Port Hoyal, now
Annapolis Hoyal, in Nova Scotia,
founded by C'liamplain ami his asso
ciates in 1C05, but this colony was
withdrawn a couple of years later.
The Port Hoyal that appears In tbo
later history of old Acadia was found
ed in HV.W by D'Aunay Chnrnlwiy.
Reaching the Top.
The men who reach the top seldom
watt (or a lift. They are climbing
While others are waiting for a boost.
The higher they climb tho more room
they have, for then 's always room on
top, though it may be ever ho crowded
n! the bottom where all must start.--
fjrlt
Rush for Home Sites.
Had Many Successors.
"Pinafore." was first introduced in, When Oklahoma was thrown open to
the United States at tho Standard while settlers after the federal gov-
theater in New York city la 1789. Mrs, eminent had purchased II from the
Thomas Whlffen was the original Ml- Creek Indians in INS!), ii i ; cslir.iah-il
tic Buttercup.
Cannibalistic Spiders.
Spiders were found by the Mount.
Everest expedition 4,ouo feet higher
than any vegetable growth. Tho
spiders are believed to feed upon ono
another.
What Job Escaped.
Another thing old Job escaped - and
It in probably one of tho reasons ho
was so patient was having someone
Come smiling around as ho sat there
among the ashes, scraping hlniKelf
wilh a potsherd, and telling him Just
to think tho right thought and he'd
soon be perfectly well and happy.
Ohio State Journal.
that 100,000 persons look part in Hie
rush lor claims,
WA HI Nd ION
avtr
May or Juiia hatched W. L.
Oiirki fit a JiiO. A l(o H
$17. 100'i hvt- delivery guar
a nt Writ for ie la! yrm
M leghorn. K, I Hi-fi or ltsrrl
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CfU r.N HATCHERY- tie )bj
IATTLE '
High Price, Considering.
Pallor "I had no idea that your
Stndles would cost so mm h!" Son
"They ought, not. to father. I don't
sludy very much!" Pep! Mrb Paris.
Flattery's a Compliment.
Flattery pleases greatly. in tho.,
first place, the flattarer may think
what ho suys to ho true, hut, in tho
second place, whether he thinks so
or not, ho certainly thinks l hose whom
he flatters of consequence enough to
bo flattered.- Doctor Johnson.
Classifying Peanut.
Thf peanut is a pVa rather than a
nut. and belongs to the same group of
planls as do beans and common gar
den pojis, differing only In that it pos
sesses tie: character of blooming above
Hi-omul anu niaiunng us iruit or pod
beneath the surface of the soil.
ROOT
AND HERB
REMEDIES
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Aattima I.unir, Throat. Liver,
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Stmutch and allfemal dia
opjVm. Hladdi-r Truublsta.
The C. Cc3Wo Kemcdka are
harmleu, at no drug, or iMriion
are ud. Qtmixned of the
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hudt and hark, knnorted try ut
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