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itself to bigoted condemnation, and the
girls refinement Of speech and manner
bred of the convent-soon wore the edge
off his first sharp judgment. AS the
meal progressed, moreover. he came more
and more under the fascination Of
nature that had been nodded by tropical
environment out of all semblance TO the
average Northern girl. and as she could
not open her lips without giving off
fash from some unexpected facet, she had
for him all the charm and sparkle Of
wildly new personality.
These feelings of his were. however, not
unmixedly pleasant; they verged too often
on surprise For instance he revolted
when springing up, she impaled a Ian
tern-fy and pinned 1t in her hair, where
IT glowed. waxing and waning like some
weird emerald He chilled at her quiet
comment on Phelps grumblings over the
laziness Of his cook house women--"Why
don't you whip them only TO thrill
and glow all over as she took a fedglng
paroquet out Of her bosom and showered
caresses and endearments upon il with
sensuous abandon
Il found II today" she said. offering
1t for his inspection Il shall teach it
to talk.
Afterward he saw many native women
thus nest nedgling chickens. one day his
Tehuana cook produced eight which she
was motherng until their rightful par
enl should have completed the conquest
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hues that mark the pure Indian blood I'M
muddled by Spanish strains.
A primal woman. round-armed. deep
breasted, her shapely ampitudes were
such as Phidias dreamed of and tried to
fix in marble. A loose white bodice clothed
them. but was cut so short that her waist
and bust showed whenever she raised her
arms: a cotton cloth, blood red in color,
clothed her limbs Coming and going be-
tween kitchen and table, she moved with
soft stealth on naked feet. carrying her
self uprightly and with balanced ease.
Though broad her face was comely in
outline, and wildly expressed that brood
ing motherhood passion of-animal ten
derness peculiar to aboriginal woman.
Her voice. answering a question Of Hert-
zer's, had that soft refinement that had
caused many a traveller in Mexico to
glance out Of his window expecting to see
the best blood Of CASTLE, only to find a
couple Of criadas Cseryant girls) exchang-
ing the news of the town
In color the girl was much lighter. Her
skin rivaled cream in hue as well as tex
ture. and when she bent to the light a
yellow tide rippled through the brown Of
her hair on a delicate scale her features
were Hertzer $: the nose less pronounced,
eve passionate instead of cruel, mouth
sensuous without his coarseness. Though
lighter in figure than the Tehuna, she
gave promise Of the same voluptuous de-
yeIopment. which fact caused David 10 set
hem down as mother and daughter.
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'Hertzer's daughter Phelps confirmed,
when the Austrian went out TO the htch-
en-. The others his woman"
His wife,"
Phelps looked up in quick annoyance.
Look here, Mann. this isn't New Eng
land. you know. When fellow has lived,
like Hertzer, twenty years in the tropics,
he's apt to follow the patriarchs bit in
the matter of wives. He's had so many,
doubt whether he could say which was
Patricia mother; but he doesn't need
any one TO tell him that he's her father.
She's the apple of his eye. He had her
educated at the Oaxaca convent, so she
has all the small accomplishments"
As aforesaid, David's youthful clay had
been kneaded into some resemblance Of
his mothers pattern. Reared in a com
munity which held a fiddler a suspicious
character and cataIogued dancing among
the deadly sins. it was perfectly natural
that the Iooseness implied in Phelps re-
marks should stick in his gorge. When
the girl came in with Hertzer, his bow
verged on the imperceptible, his glasses
cleaned coIdly as lenses Of ice.
The prigi" Phelps thought. Then re-
membcring certain beliefs and ortho-
doxies Of his own that had frizzled under
tropic heats until they resembled nothing
So much as cIinkered sins he modified
his harsh judgment on well. he'll
learn. and that too, quickly"
The meal saw the partial fulGllment Of
his prophecy. for youth does not lend
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Of a last refractory egg. and so he came
to understand where the girl learned the
practice and how commonplace it must
have appeared TO herself But now he
bushed. Withal. he could not but feel
her perfect innocence and what with
those lightning changes OF feeling. she
impressed him very much as the orchids
Of the jungle had that same morning
splendid, vivid, flaming, yet so strange as
to mingle revulsion with admiration.
Having on her part but a limited ex-
perlence in white men. and none in the
genus New England, she found his staid
quletness equally strange; bur setting il
TO bashfulness, she was vastly surprised
by his blunt refusal to sit in to a game
Of poker at the close of the meal. Paus-
ing in shuffiing the cards, she turned
arched brows upon him while She ad-
vanced the only argument that seemed
to her germane to refusals.
I'VE don't play large stakes. You
couldn't lose more than a hundred dol
lars"
hundred dollars, Now. Mortified
had gambler barber. in whose back
parlor it was said as much as So of real
money was won or lost in a single even
ing. Three-card men. too occasionally
blew into town. but usually their shrift
was short as they generally jumped from
the fat of private mobbing into the
fires Of public justice With certain other
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-22
By HERMAN WHITAKER.
Copyright by Harper & Bros)
TODAY'S INSTALLMENT,

But the women and children" David
SAID as Hertzer locked the door You
surely DON'T leave them in with the men,
Why rot9"
But they can not have any privacy,
Where do they wash"
Privacy?" Tertzer grunted, con-
empiuously. They wouldn't thank you
or j. As for washing we march them
gown to the river Sunday afternoons. But
-el US 60 in. I'm hungry
That2' Phelps answered David 5
Siahce at a bell that hung in tree
.roloh hard by the door The velador
"alehmam, you know. rings it every
''''-Aour through The night to show he's
awake.
'1sA had now merged in night, close
'.f'ssive as a nightmare, that shrouded
Jungle across the river in inSy black
rs which was accumulated rather than
-..'Nea by the greenfsh tncandescense of
Pa" lantern flies Turning cor
HeN suddenly came from tn,ck dark
INTO band of red light ana as Hert-
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81

adventurous youths David had sometimes
PLAYED seven up with beans, at an ex-
change rate of five to the nickel in view
of which reckless experience imagine his
surprise. only hundred dollars!
Virtue Had Triumphed.
1t was a difficult situations difficult
as callow youth is called to face Hertz
er's glance of cold suspicion slid like a
lance over the top of his cards; Phelps
was regarding him with dry amusement
A touch of contempt was adding itself
to the surprise in the girls amber eyes
Yet, If he Redeemed he returned a stout
nod to the Engishmans question:
Perhaps Mr. Mann's reason are con-
scientious? ?"
Virtue had triumphed-not without
wounds to the conqueror. Through a
thick magazine. which he picked up from
the lounge beside him, he felt the girI's
curious chances. He could not still a
feeling of meanness, and as later he no.
ticed the absence of the wild excitement.
greed for gain. which he had associated
with the game, insidious doubts OF the
absoluteness of Mortified where he could
overlook Hertzers hand he soon per-
ceived that whereas he had thought the
game 10 be one entirely of blind chance.
il really required the constant exercise
of skill and shrewd judgment
To be continued Monday.
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Two Women at Work.

only that it could boast Of brick
tile floor and had bedrooms cut on lls
}anqth nv partitions of mating, the house
INJECTED the gaIera in its inside features
hove the split pole siding. the same ser
ried rows Of brown palm ribs curved up
ont Of the Iamplight into the gloon. u lile
lam, apex 4 few chairs, two lounges
s .gl with native zarapes, table ana
az, Te abe latter piled with Hertzer
naners and account books, and a pno ll.,
l n,.tl an a wooden stand summed the tu'
7ist,frgs which bore the earmarhs OF
ho,na carpentry. The table was set win
- crockery, and from the chair
that Hertzer placed for David ne !, co una
see woman and a girl at work IN me
s,,,stda kitchen over glowing charcoal
braziers
even at tnat distance he could MOI nu pun
notice The vivid contrast between cen mem mem
I'M tre angauchodores he had just seen
,''' H.. s,lara cook house instead OF the
NM n ~ chocolate. The skin Of the elder "2-
,,,, sbone like beaten soId-had the rieh
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yer paused al door to give an ORDER.
David obtained a glimpse of women nan
naked. kneeling beside the cooking hres'
who rubber tortilla paste with heaVy pms
on stone metates 1t flashed our lul'u
picture in reddish bronze; then ms SUM
jings continued till he stepped ihto amp
light that streamed between 'ie MUSE
u tl,n nnt side Kitchen.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11
RIoh. Age for Marriage.

A lively little controversy Is going
its rounds OF newspaper discussion rel
atIve to the right age at which man
should take the matrimonial plunge. A
professor In the Boston university
precipltated the controversy BY scot.
fing at the assertion that a young man
at twenty was prepared for the re-
sponsibilities of marriage, declaring
with much truth that matrimony at
that tender age was generally ghast-
ly and expensive joke on the father ia.
law. Marriage at the best, Is an ex.
pertinent that should never be rashly
undertaken. Love at f1rst sight" Is
the surest road to the divorce court.
Its victims need the immediate service
Of a physician much more than that
of 9 parson. The right time to marry
Ia when the right young man meete
the right young girl, but up to date
the wisdom of humanity has devised
no accurate test for that happy con
junction.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11
The Southeast Missouri
Oratorical Association.

The Eight Annual Meet Of the High
School Atheletic and oratorial Associa
ton Tor Southeast Missouri win be held
at Cape Giraroeau, May 8 and 10, 1918
The counties listed below compose the
Third Normal School District and al
high schools in these counties are
invited to send representatives to the
Dig meet; Bollineer, Butler, Cape Cir
ardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent, Dsnk.
lin, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron, Jefier-
son, Madison, Mississippi, New Madrid
Oregon, Pemiscot, Perry, Reynolds
Ripley, Scott, Shannon, steddard, ST.
Francis, Ste. 6eneviese, Sc. Louis
Washington, Wayne.
The exercises for May 9th include;
The Seventh Annual Inter-Higt
School Declamatry Contest for Boys.
The exercises for 10 inlude;
Profitable teachers meeting
Seventh Annual Inter- High Schoo1
Declsmatory Contest for Girls.
Second Annual Inter-High Schoo
Essay Contest for Boys.
Second Annual Inter- High School
Contest for Girls.
First Annual Inter- High School De.
batting CONTEST for Boys and Girls.
Eighth Annual Inter-High Schoo
Track and Field Meet.
More than s225 % worth Of prizes will
be distributed on the evening Of May L
10 the successful contestants in Essay
Defamation, Debating and Athletics.
Tue prospects now are that there viii
be much larger representation ol
High Schools than ever before. Il Il
confidently expected that more thar
fifty high schools will be on the list fol
Essay, Defamation, Debating ant
Track Work. A cordial invitation is ex.
tended TO all friends OF education In tn,
Third Normal School District 70 bs
present on the two big days, May 8 ant
10, 1913. For futhsr Information, entry
blanks, address,
EN-. CARTRR, y
Cape Gifardeau, Mo.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11

thoroughly In house ard sc tie. would
put many members in Awkward po-
sitions.
No one knows whethe or not the
provision to which Mr.. I. objected
viii be inserted In the sundry civil bin
as II is to be redrawn. II Is appar-
ent that a good many members hope
1t VIII be omitted rom the bill, be-
cause there never any very great
desire to discuss question which
might bring trouble In. the future to
men who have ambition to be return
ed to office. II this clause IL retain.
ed and the bill passes and 10 signed.
II will mark another advanced step
In labor legislation in the United
States, and 1t also will In a way, put
the agricultural producer in a class
OF exemption from prosecutions. un-
less, of course, the combination OF
which he is a part becomes one In re
straint Of trade and Of marked Grim
inai intent, as the Sherman law views
criminality.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11
PROTEST DlslNF1crANr slLL.
Missouri Firms Say Act Gives Out,
side conesrns Monopoly.

Jefferson city.--No measure In 70,
cent years has raised louder voice
OF protest from the people Of par.
ticulsr industry than that passed BY
the legislature regulating the manu-
facture and branding of dislnfectnnts.
germlcides and insecticides and the
representatives of a number of whole
sale drug houses told Gov Major that
If he signed this bill that the West
Dislnfectant Company Of New York
would be given monopoly in Mis-
souri, and that companies In this
state would be put out of business.
The bill requires every bottle or
package OF dlsinfecant or germicide
to contain a label showing a corbolic
test and Imposes penalties raging
between s25 and 500 for every vio-
lation. Rhodes told the governor
there is not disinfectant house in
the state that can meet this test,
for the reason that hydrocarbon offs.
and not carbollc acid. are made the
base in this state, and since this Is
not soluble the test could not be
compliend with
Missouri ranks second TO New York
in the manufacture of dislnfectants.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11

tired Of paying damages and ly-
ing awake at night in reOollec-
ton Of the automobiles misde-
meanor's. Princeton Telegraph.
According to the report Of the
State Historical Society, just is
sued. that body has $50 news
papers coming to its reading
rooms. representing 274 different
towns and cities. Every one of
the ia counties in the state are
represented. The society now has
on hand 5,455 bound volumes Of
Missouri newspapers, some Of
them dating back to 1919. The
newspapers are all contributed
free by the publishers.
Dan Sherman of near Birch
free, was bitten and otherwise
injured by a horse a few days ago
supposed to be suffering from hy-
drophobia. He killed the horse,
which had bitten itself several
times, and the Herald states that
a portion of its brain had been
sent to the Pasteur Institute at
st. Louis, to determine If the an
imal was suffering from rabbies,
in which case Mr.. Sherman will
go there for treatment.
Apparently, from a letter from
e. B, Drinkard, a one. time resi-
dent of Macon, to the Times
Democrat, most of Montana's
present stock Of great men are
former Missourians. Among them
are Messrs Stout, Evans and
Myers, members of Congress;
Joseph X. Toole, twelve years
governor and never defeated for
office, though an occupant Of
many; W. l.. Holloway, one Of
the supreme court judges; Bis.
hop Naphtali Luccock; e. B.
Crsighesd, native Of the "king-
dom of Callaway," president of
OF the Montana State University,
and many others.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11

The newspapers of Creston, Ia,
are in a bitter controversy. One
of the papers is edited by a lady
OF high standing in the W. c. T
U. and she said of the other edi.
tor: '.lf | were a skunk re dc
pothing to make him smell bad.''
Missouri editors may now go way
back and sit down Worth Coun-
ty Times.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11
Vletorlan Ieat.

The diversions of the court includ-
ed an anticipation of the spelling bee,
When lady OF the court spelled
thermometer with an "a" Melbourne
judlciousiy observed: st is a very
good way to spell II. but not the
way."--London Athenaeum.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11
Bullion Wants a Depot.

Kirksville.--The people living near
Bullion. seven miles east Of Kinks
Vile, and half way point between
Kirksville and Brashear. are petition.
Ing the O., o. & X. c. railroad to
build depot there and make It q
regular station on the railroad.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11

Falton.-Mrs. Bettie Galwith Hood.
who, on February 3, married in Full
ton Harry II. Hood, u Chicago civil
engineer, brought suit for divorce.
The couple lived together Ave days.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11
Riches IN Poverty.

How slight a thing is poverty; what
riches. nay treasures untold. a man
may possess In the midst OF Il, IL be
does but seek them aright-Cole-,
ridge
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11

Jefferson City.--Clerk OF the Su-
preme Court J. A. Allen arranged the
docket of the supreme court en- bancl
TO commence April 2S. This will fol-
low the call Of cases in the divisions
which will open April s.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11

"This man. your hcnor. is one Of
the lookouts for a receiver OF stolen
goods."
81 see. A fence picket"
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11
sAesAesAs*sAAessssssssAAAe
ROUNDABOUT THE STATE.
Cleaned from Exchanges--Made by the Shears,
the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Origi-
nal Some Credited. and Some Stolen.
but Nearly All Interesting Reading.

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A man at Battlefield has mule
five years old, which is Dinsteen
hands high and is valued al
$1,000.
Al a cake sale and pie supper
recently in Dunklin county, the
cake for the prettiest girl brought
S86.75.
In the Wayne county court a
man pleaded guilty on IL counts
TO violating the local option law
and was fned $500 on each one.
A jury at Springfield was so
! pngallant recently as to award q
paan damages in the sum Of $3.50
for being run over by an automo-
bile driven by young lady.
when that Kansas City young
woman gave up her ring finger
that tho doctor might make
nose out of it, she probably had
no intention of allowing anyone
to put ring in her nose,
'The Hannibal couple who
have just wed after twenty years
OF courting," says the Spring.
field Republican, "will soon find
out that the only real way 10 be-
come acquainted is to get mar
ried."
According to the Holt County
Sentinel, Holt county tax payers
gave nearly s175,0O during the
year endiag March /, for general
maintenance in state, county,
school, ditehes, and merchants
taxes.
The farmers down Champ
Clark's way are certainly enter
prisine, After raising $4,000 for
graveiiug eleyen miles Of the
roads they went into Bowling
Green and made Champs home
folks Gig up 200 more.
The grand lodse Of Free Ma
sons of the state, in session at st.
Louis, made plans for the ereo-
ton Of a new $4,000 home for
children and the aged on the site
ofthe old infrmary, to match the
new inhrmary just dedicated.
Gallatin can almost be accused
of having bats in its belfry. A
citizen of that town Gays that a
small hawk has found that the
hands Of the Daviess county
court house clock are nice things
TO rest and roost upon and it
makes free use of them.
A calaboose in a Missouri town
was sold last week for $1,000.
The moral uplift in Missouri has
grown to such an extent, that
very few towns have any need
for 3 calaboose. In another gen.
GRAFTON the children will have to
be told what calaboose was.
Another victim OF injury from
the gun that wasn't loaded was
Mrs. George Reynolds, wife Of a
farmer living southeast Of Gull
ford, who was painfully, though
not seriously injured 10 the right
arm and side BY the accidental
discharge of shot gun In the
hands Of her nine-year-old son,
Cleo.
James s. Kinzie has been ar
rested ct Maiden on the charge
Of raising one dollar bill TO .
ten. he had formerly served in
q reform school and when arrest
ed on this charge by q deputy
marshal was found to have .
mask and ; pistol on his person.
He has been placed in Jail at
Cape Gifardeau and viii await
his trial In April,
A Nodaway county mail csr-
rier had . funny experience re-
Gently With > parcel post packs
sge Of yeast. The yeast got wet
t -
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11
couraas and Nerve.

Courage is the tning which enables
. man to tackle q hard task with
ease. Nerve is the thing which en-
ables him 70 tackle X when hes
scared to death.--Dr. Push.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-04-11

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and the carrier placed it under
his coat. 1t began to raise and
soon pulled the coat off over his
head and kept raising until II
took the roof off his postsl wagon.
All along the road where the
| yeast dropped the streams raised.
! Peach growers in the 0zariks
lwho have examined their or
chards very carefully report the
trees in fine condition and esh-
mate there will be a half crop OF
peaches. Twenty per cent OF the
buds are killed already. Last year
the trees were two full eonse-
queutly the peaches were more
or less inferior. In q half crop
the peaches will be much better
and bring better prices.
Fancy a lady person whose
sure enough front name is D'Ar'
line, deliberately quitting the
millinery business, as was the
case in a Missouri town few
days ago. Why, the paying
possibilities of 80 conjuring a
cognomen, eoaxingly curlicued,
on the plate glass windows and
big pas.board boxes Of an up-to-
date feminine hat shop are be-
yond computation. "Ain't it the
trlth?P
Cape Girardeau county, under
the capable direction of Booster
A. H. Hinchey, is making ar
rangements so to place itself be-
fore the opportunity seeking pub
lie that the limelight's rays can't
possibly miss it. Twenty-fonr
miner clubs are correlated in ac-
tive work under the county or
ganization and great results seem
certain. Already ten carloads OF
products are slated for the San
Francisco Exposition.
Notes amounting to nearly S5,-
200 were found recently, payable
to the Bethany Hardware Co., OF
Bethany. They we're concealed
in a secret drawer OF an old desk
formerly owned By the company
when J. P. Hamilton was the
president. Hamilton died a few
years ago and no one knew Of the
notes. Some time ago the desk
vas sold to England Bros. for use
ia their garage, and it was at that
place that the notes were discUv-
cred. Earl Hamilton, a son of
the company's president, found
the notes.
William Crenshaw, superinten-
dent Of cross roads in the Fulton
special road district, has divided
his territory into forty. five small
Ter districts, averaging about two
miles Of road, in each OF which
he has employed a man to drag
the roads when called upon at
the rate of fifty eentsa mile. All
are notified to appear on the same
day, and their united work, at
small cost, keeps the nearly one
hundred miles of road In Mr.
crenshaw's territory in good con-
dition practically all Of the time:
Possible imitators are given off,
cial assurance that Mr.. .Cren-
shaws plan isn't copyrighted.
Ex-shsriff Bonner, Of Csld-
well county, last week, deliber-
ately and with malice aiore-
thought took his auto, "old Su-
sie' to the top Of the hill near
Kingston, put her in high speed
and turned her loose alone to
land at the bottom OF Shoal creek.
Not satisfied with this, Bonner
tackled up sign near the cars
watery grave warning all TO kesp
Ihands off under penalty Of pros-
ecution. 's0Id Susie'' was .
renegade, an outlaw and an as
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