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The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-05-08

! lum. Most of the negroes are more
or less spoiled, as youIl find. I'm
afraid" She turned the conversation
bluntly Had you seen Damory
Court before?"
No. never."
DO YOU like the general plan of the
place."
DO / like ito" cried John Valiant.
DO | like it,"
\ quick pleasure glanced across her
face. Its nice of YOU 10 say it that
way. We ask that question so often
it's become mechanical. You see, it's
our great show-place."
At that moment a patter of foot
steps and shrill shrieks came flying
over the last-year's leaves beyond the
lilac bushes. It's Hickey Snyder" she
said, peering out smilingly as two
children, pursued and pursucr. burst
into view, Hush" she whispered:
4 wonder what they are up to-"
The pair came in a whirl through
the bushes. The foremost was a
seyen-year-old negro girl, in a single
short c|ottonade garment. wizened.
barelegged and b~areheaded. her black
wool parted in little angular patches
and tightly wrapped with bits OF cord
The other was white and as freckled
as a turkeys egg, with hair cropped
like a boys. She held a carving
knife cut from a shingle, whose edge
had been deeply e%nsanguined by poke
berry juice. The pursued one STUN
pi2d over a root and came to earth in
a heap, while the other pounced upon
her like a wildcat.
Hold still, you limb Of Satan" she
scolded. How can | do it when you
won't stay still?"
"Oh, lawd," moaned the PROSTATE
one, in simulated terror; oh. Doctah.
good Doctah Snydah, has All gotter
hab dat operation? Is yo' sho' gwine-
ter twitter arOun' nah insides wild
dem knives en- saw en- things?"
1T won't hurt treasured the would
be operator; mo more than it did Mis-
Poly Clifford. And III put your liver
right back again"
Wait er minute. All tes' remem-
bahs All fo'got ter make nah will. All
leabs-"
Nonsense" objected the other irri-
tably. You made it yesterday. They
always do it beforehand"
No, sub; All done clean forgot ct.
All leabs mai thimble ter de Mefodis'
church, en- nah black en- wife kitten
ter Rickev Snyder, en-"
A twig snapped under Valiant's foot.
Both scrambled to their feet. the black
girl to look at them with a wide self
conscious grin. Hickey, tossing her
short hair back from her freckled
face, came toward them.
My goodness, Miss Shirley" she
said, we didn't see you az all" She
looked at Valiant. Are you the man
that's going to fix up Damory Court?"
she inquired, without any tedious for
malities.
Yes" said Valiant.
Well" she said critically, you've
got your job cut out for you. But |
should say you're the kind to do it."
"Rickey!" Shirley's voice tried TO
be stern. but there was a hint OF
laughter In it.
What did | say now" inquired
Hickey. I'm sure | meant 1t to be
complimentary"
1T was" said Valiant. 81 shall try
deserve your good opinion"
But what a CHASTITY play" ex-
claimed Shirley, Where did you
it?"
We were playing Mis- Poly Clifford
in the hospital" Hickey answered.
She's got a whole lot of little peb-
bles what they cut out"
oh, Rickey!" expostulated Shirley
with a shudder.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-05-08

They did. She keeps them in a
little ~pasteboard box like wedding-cake,
with a blue ribbon around it. She was
showing i to Miss Matte Sue y%ester-
day. She was telling her ell about It.
She said all the women there showed
each other their cuts and Dragged
about how long they were"
You certainly have a highly devel-
oped taste for the dramatic" said
Shirley. Il wonder what your next
effort Will be-"
IT'S tomorrow" Hickey informed
her. We're going to have the duel
between Valiant and Sassoon."
The smile was stricken from John
Vaiiants face. A duel-the duel-be-
tween Valiant and Sassoon. He felt
his blood beat quickly. Had there
been such a thing in his fathers life?
Was that what had blighted it?
Only not here where it really hap
pened, bat in the Meredith orchard.
Greenie's going TO be"
All AIM ~contradicted Greene.
"Ah ain gwineter be dat Valiant. no
how"
You are, too" insisted Hickey,
~wrathfully. You needn't be so pickety
and choosety-and after she kills Sas-
soon, We put the b~loodhounds on her
trail"
Greene Uttered. Day ain no dawg
aroun' heah'd tech me-" she said, zen
sides"
But, Hickey" Shirley interposed,
that wasn't a murder. That was a
duel between gentlemen. They don't"
Il know it," assented Hickey cheer
fully. But it makes it more exciting.
VIII you come, Miss Shirley, deed and
double? won't charge you any ad-
mission
Il can't promise said Shirley. by
the way, isn't it about time Miss Mat
tie Sue had her tea?"
1T certainly is, Miss Shirley" said
Hickey, with penitent emphasis. Il
clean forgot it, and she'll row me up
the gump-stump, Come on, Greenie,"
and she started off through the
bushes.
Shirley looked at Valiant with a
deepening of her dimple. hickey
isn't an a~ristocrat," she said; she's
what we call here poor-white. but she's
got a heart of gold. She's an orphan,
and the neighborhoOd in general, and
Miss Matte Sue Mabry in particular,
adopted her"
He hardly heard her words for the
painful wonder that was holding him
His father had taken a mans life.
Was it this Observation-Disclosures the
~proyocation, however justified by the
customs of the time and section
that had driven him to s~elf-exile? He
recalled himself with an effort, for
she was speaking again.
you've found Lovers Leap. no
NO. This is the first time I've
been so far from the house. Is it neal
I'll show 1t to you" She held out
her hand for the bunch of jessamine
and laid it IN the broad roots OF a
tree that were notified with lichen.
Look there" she said suddenly;
isn't that a beauty"
She was pointing to a jimson- weed
which had settled, with CLASSY
wings vibrating, a long, ungainly,
needlelike insect with an odd sword
like beak. What is that?" he asked.
"A snake-doctor. II Unc' Jefferson
were here he'd say, Bettah watch
out. Dah's er snek roun' erbout heah,
sho"! He'll fill you full OF darby
superstitions."
Suddenly the slim path between the
took a quick turn, and fell away
at their feet. There she said. This
is the finest view at Damory Court"
CTO BE C~ONTINUEDD
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-05-08
To the Point.

A lawyer residing in Washin ston,
and noted for his laconic style OF OK.
preston. sent the following terse and
witty note to a refractory client who
would not comply with his reiterated
demands for ths payment of his bill:
Sir: II you pay the inclosed. you will
oblige me. II you do not | shall obIies
res ss.-~..~ssS ssp."~-s~as~s >s~ ~s~
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-05-08
Business.

Business is the king pin Of all pro-
fessions - the master profession, be-
cause business Is the one fabric
woven out Of all %entangled activities
of a community which go to make up
society, and society is life.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-05-08

Vegeta-
bic Compound the
praise it deserves,
for ] have taken it
at different times
and it always re-
lieved me w b g n
other m edicines
failed, and when I
hear a woman COM
plain | always rec
ommend it. Lastwin-
ter | was attacked
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-05-08

Putnam Fadeless Dyes guarantee
satisfaction. Adv.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-05-08

II you have lived long, you have
lived wisely.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-05-08
FEELS like
A new WOMAN
AS Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound Dispelled
Backache, Headaches
and Dizziness.

Pluua, Ohio.--"I would be very un-
grateful if | failed to give Lydia E.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27
FRESH AIR REQUIRED
OXYGEN is poUsLY IMPORTANT
DURING THE NIGHT.

Many Advantages Seen In Use Of Open
Front House-seratohins Shed Is
Kept Dry During Wet Wealth
er-Hens Keep Clean.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27

How it ever came to happen that
chickens came to be confined in small,
close, ill-ventIlated houses during the
long hours Of night, It is hard to inn
agine
Perhaps It was the result of mans
effort to domesticate the wild fowls.
He had to make many changes in the
habits Of the birds, and It was natural
for him to do so along the lines of his
convenience and in imitation of his
own conditions
If he and his family spent the night
indoors with as little fresh air as pos
sible admitted into the rooms, why
was not that the proper plan to pur-
sue with his hens?
Oxygen is needed even more at
night than in the daytime, and a chick
ems night is a long affair, especially
during the winter time, when It goes
to bed at 4:SO, and is up at $50 or Z
a. m. So if fresh air is important, It
certainly is doubly so at night, and
the open houses provide for this very
nicely.
There are many kinds of fresh air
houses in use at the present time;
those that have a canvas or burlap
curtain are not truly open-front
houses, except when the curtain is
withdrawn.
The best open-front is covered with
wire netting on one side or at least
the greater part Of one side. The
open side should face the south, so
as to admit the sunshine as well as
the fresh air.
As this is the storm side, the end
Of the house occupied by the roosts
should have a canvas frame fitted
over the upper part, leaving all the
rest of the front that is occupied by
the scratching pen. etc, open to the
weather, as the protecting caves or
slanting roofs are sufficient to keep
out the rain and excess of,sunshine.
The advantages Of this way Of hous-
ing chickens are many, and it pro-
vides a well-veutilated scratching
shed, which is a big item during the
winter, and a more even temperature
during all seasons Of the year.
During wet and muddy weather, the
scratching shed, which remains dry,
prevents the fowls from bringing mud
into the nest boxes on their feet, and
dirty eggs do not bring as ready a
sale as the clean ones, and washed
eggs lose their gloss, and that outer
film from the shell, which admits the
air more freely to the inner part Of
the she'll, causing it to spoil moro
readily.
The open-front houses remain com
paradyely dry during the wet weather,
and frost never accumulates on the in
side, so that litter remains dry for O
long time and droppings are more
easily cleaned. There is no danger OF
the fowls taking cold as one would
seem to fear. Such troubles come from
impure air, produced by long damp
ness or draughts.
The pure air gives them resisting
power against roup, throat or similar
troubles, as It adds to their vigor
These houses are now being tried in
places where the weather is very Sc
we're in the wintertime, and no bad
results have yet been reported.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27
Red RaspherrIes.

Red raspberries should not be
nipped. but should be pruned back
from two and one-half to three and
onehalf feet before growth starts in
the spring. OF course. the old, dead
canes must be removed and all the
young ones that are weak. With
Schaffer and Columbia. the new
growth should be nipped when II at.
tains a growth of rs inches, in orde'
that a bushy growth may develop.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27
THE THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION
OF THE NEW YORK,WCRL0
Practically Daily at the Price
of a Weekly. No other News.
paper in the world. gives so
so much at so low a price,

This is'a time Of great events. and
you will want the news accurately
and promptly. All the.countries Of
the world steadily draw closer to.
gether, and the telegraph wires
bring the happenings.of every one
No other newspaper has a service
equal to that of The World and il
relates everything fully and prompt
ly.
The World long since established a
record for impartiality. and any
body can afford its sThrice-a-W Week
edition. which, comes every other
day in the. week, except Sunday. II
will be of particular value to you
now. The Thrice-a-Week World al
so abounds in other strong features,
serial stories. humor, markets, car
toons; in fact. everything that it to
be found in first class daily.
THE THRIcE-A-WEEK WORLDS
regular subscription price is only
LOO per year. and this pays for
l56 papers. We offer this unequalled
newspaper and Hopkinsville Ken
tuckian together fOrsone year for
So 65. w~~ -
The regular subscription price Of
the two papers is $500.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27
FLOWING IS OF IMPORTANCE
Upon Il Depends to Great Degree Ma
ture Of Later operations-Money
and Labor Saved.

Flowing. though seemingly a simple
process, is easily the most important
operation in the tillage Of the soil
Upon il depend 10 great degree the
nature OF later operations and the fire.
quency with which they will be re-
Quired In fact, unless land Is plowed
IN the best manner possible, and at
the right time, the preparation of the
land for growing a crop will require
additional labor and cost. II may
sven be impossible to prepare a good
onssf ,beSk Plowed under certain
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27
Detachable Overflow.

shown, writes James M. Kane OF
Doylestown, Pa. in Popular Mechanics,
Holes were drilled in the pipe at in
tervals and plugged with corks. The
water can be made to overflow at any
height by removing a cork in the pipe
at that level. The rubber tubing can
be discarded and the pipe threaded
to tit into the waste nut at the bottom
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27
PROTECT PLANTS FROM BUGS
Simple Devices May Be Made From
Wire screens-lllustratio Show
How They Are Made.

These figures represent a simple de-
vice for protecting young plants from
insects It is made from wire screen.
The first figure shows the screen with
a section cut out.
The second figure IS a section Of
wire screen about 20 inches In diane
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27
OVERFLOW FOR BARREL-TANK
Pipe Can Be Removed if Desired ane
Water Level Changed by Taking
Out One of Corks.

Deeming it unnecessary to add an
overflow to a barrel section which ]
had fitted up for tank and not car
ing to remove any of the attached
pipes, l slipped a piece Of rubber
tubing over the end of a piece of pipe
so as to make a water-tight fit, and in.
serted it in the outlet in the manner
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27
Feed for GROWING Pios.

Growing pigs may be fed a mixture
OF corn or oOrnmeal seven or eight
parts, and tankage two or three parts.
AS the pigs mature the tankage may
be diminished until II occupies about
one-tenth Of the ration.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27

ter. Cut out a quarter section as
shown in the first figure, Bring the
edges together and paste Put wire
ring in the top. Put in small wire
loops at bottom so the screen can be
fastened down with pegs.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27

We are prepareesult Of the adoptions
high grade Job . State Text Book Com
nich is now working on
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27
KohI.Rabl plants.

Sow seed Of kohl-rabi as soon al
possible in fine. well-prepared son
Sow In rows and thin the plants &c
stand eight inches apart
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27

No. ! timothy hay. $50 90
No. ! clover hay, $50 90
Clean, bright straw hay, 25c bale
Alfalfa hay, s21 90
White seed oats, SAC
Black seed oats, 59c
Mixed seed oats, 65c
No. 2 white corn, goo
Winter wheat bran, $500
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27
ATTENTION TO CHICKS
WARM sRooDER AND PROPER RAJ
TON ARE ESSENTIAL.
Ergs Should Be From Carefully Sc
lccted Stock, We'll Fed and
Housed to Produce Sturdy
stcck-What 10 Feed.

tBy DIR. sANBORN. Holden, Mass. Copy
right, 19ll)
There Is less fuss in rearing Of
chicks than a few years ago. A warm
brooder, some fine litter, cracked grain
and grit. with perhaps a mash con-
tanning ground grain and animal food,
and you should raise 80 per cent Of
the chicks.
Every chick deserves to be we'll
Matched, of sturdy ancestry and prop
erly reared. The eggs should be from
carefully selected stock, well housed
and fed, to produce chicks that stand
adverse conditions. The hen or incu-
bator should do its part well, as many
slip is made between the laying of
the egg and the Matching of the chick.
prefer the lamp heated brooder to
either the hen or the heatless brooder,
for while some hens do good brooding
and in some seasons you can raise
good chicks with the fireless brooder,
yet for easy, successful brooding OF
so chicks my preference is for the
heated brooder.
The chicks, when dry, are taken
from the hen or machine and trans
ferred to the well warmed brooder.
prefer it should be fully as warm un'
der the hover as was the Incubator
then, If too hot, the chicks can be
spread out into the less warm part OF
the brooder floor, or If at any hour
the temperature drops the chicks can
retire to a warmer place under the
hover.
What to Feed hem.
At the start the chicks get cool wa.
ter to drink and only the food that is
in the barn waste is used to cover the
brooder floor Really they need nc
food, and what they find in the waste
is plenty. When a few days old they
need light feeding of cracked wheat
good fish or beef scrap personally ]
have found nothing better than a good
grade of fish scrap added at eight
days of age and finely cracked, dry
corn at ten to twelve days. Il is i'm
portant that all chick feed be sound
sweet and clean. Avoid musty corn
scrap that is fit only for fertilizer
and stale drinking water Unless
there is some grit in the barn waste
that is used for brooder floor it should
be supplied. Chicks need a warm
place to retire to when cold. an open
room to get out into and exercise, as
well as a grass run to range over
when two weeks old. Close conhne
ment to hot breeders tends to give
leg weakness. AS the chicks grow
in age the heat of the brooder can be
reduced to about so degrees. Too
many chicks are Matched that arc
doomed to die because from weak
stock or incubated wrongly, but the
blame is usually laid on the brooder
Yearling hens make the best of breed
ers.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-27
aOpkinSviIIe Market
Quotations.
Corrected June 4, 1914.

RETAIL GROCERY PRICES.
Country lard, good color and clean
14c and l5c DER poUr1.
Country bacon. nc per pound.
Blsck-eyed peas. $3.50 per bushel
Country shoulders, l21c pound.
County hams 2lc per pound.
Irish potatoes. $1.3O per bushel
Northern eating Rural potatoes
$1.S0 per bushel
Texas eating onions, $3.50 per
bushel, newistock
Dried Navy beans. $500 per
bushel
Cabbage, new, 3 Genus a pound.
Dried Lima beans, Coo per gallon.
Country dried apples. l0c pc,
pound. 8 for 25c
Daisy cream cheese, 25c DER
pound
Full cream brick cheese. 25c per
roun1
Full cream Limberger cheese, 25e
PEI pound
Popcorn, dried on ear &c per pound
Fresh Eggs 25c per doz
Choice lots fresh, well-worked
country butter, in pound prints. 30c,
FRUITS.
Lemons. 25c per dozen
Navel Oranses.20c to 40c per do7
Bananas, l5c and 25c doz
Cash Price Paid For Produce.
POULTRY.
Dressed hens, 15c per pound
Dressed cocks, &c per pound
live hens, l2c per pound; live cocks
&c pound; live turkeys, l4c pc,
pound
RooTs, HIDES. Wool AND TALLow
Prices paid by wholesale dealers tG
butchers and farmers:
Roots-Southern ginseng, So. rs ID
Golden Seal" yellow root, Sl.35 Il
Msyapple, 81; pink root, l2c and Is,
Tallow-No. |, Al; No. 2. &c.
W ol-Burry, Ice to TIC; Clear
Grease, 21c. medium, tub WASH ed
2Sc to 30c; coarse, dingy, tubwash ed
18c.
Festhers-Prime white goose. SOC,
dark and mixed old goose, I5c to SOC
gray mixed, I5c to S0c' white duck
22c to 35c. new.
Hides and Skins-These quotations
are for Kentucky hides. Southern
green hides Sc. We quote assorted
lots dry flint. re to l4c. $40 bet
ter demand
Dressed geese. lie per pound for
choice lots, live %
Fresh country eggs, IS cents per
dozen
Fresh country butter 25c ID.
A good demand exists for spring
chickens, and choice lots Of fresh
country butter,
HAY AND GRAIN.
No I tirnothv bav 40 10
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-03-06
EIGHT SHIPS;
1,7O0 MARINES
WAIT ORDERS TO RUSH TO MExi.
CAN WATERS At A MO-
MENT's NOTICE.
CRISIS S7IRs WILSON
TRANSPORTS AND DEsTRoYERs
MOBILIZE IN SOUTHERN
WATERS.
we.tern Ne~spaper unIon News servIce.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Washington, Feb. 2S.-Sudden and
aggressive action on the part of the
United States Government in the
Mexican situation was taken when the
navy transport Prairie with 700 ma
rines ON board was ordered prepared
for start to Mexican waters at a
moments notice. Coaling OF the yes
sci was hurriedly completed and 400
marines from the Pensacola naval sta
tion were added to the 300 already on
board
In addition to the orders to the Pratt
rie the scout cruiser Chester was or
dered to steam to Vera Cruz as
quickly as possible and left Mobile un-
der forced draft. expecting to reach
the Mexican port in forty-eight hours
The torpedo boat destroyers Monag-
han, Terry and Sterrett will leave Mo
bile today for Pensacola, where they
will join the destroyers Reid, Flussen
and Preston. and all six will proceed
to New Orleans.
At New Orleans the transport Han
cock with 1000 marines aboard is
making rapid preparations to sail.
probably with the six destroyers. Sew.
eral tons OF supplies which reached
Pensacola were ordered reshipped at
once to the Hancock at New Orleans.
special request being made to the rail-
roads for quick dispatch.
Realization of the gravity OF the
Mexican situation has been forced
,,nn,, tho a1r,ic is,t ,at,~,, ~, tho .z.;,y
of events which have followed the
murder of William s. Benton. the Brit
ish subject, by Villa, and the assassin
alton of Clemente Vergara. citizen
of Texas. by federals at Hidalgo. Mex.
Governor Colquitt of Texas. by iele-
grams, has demanded that the Wilson
administration recognize one side or
the other in the Mexican situation, so
that he may take steps to apprehend
the slayers of Vergara. AS a result
of Colquitt's insistence. Secretary Bry-
an cabled Charge O'Shaughnessey at
Mexico City to demand action by
Huerta to avenge the death of Ver-
CARA. Late yesterday following two
hour Cabinet meeting, Secretary Bry-
an conferred with Sir Cecil Spring
Rice, the British ambassador. He in
formed him General Villa had consent
ed to allow the body of Benton to be
seen or examined by two representa-
.tives of the American government, two
representatives of the British govern
ment. two physicians, and the widow
and any relatives of Benton who de-
sired to accompany the party.