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The Green Forest tribune., 1915-05-21
APRIL RECORD BET-
 THAN ' RCH
AVERAGES SHOWING HEAVIER EREE3S SCMEWH!AT AHEAD
 FOR APREA.

The egg production for ne month of April in the egg laying contest is given below, by pens and breeds.
 Pen No. White Wyandottes, 12 hens, IT eaE Ne. ? Bu& Orpingtons. I2 he's, 143 eggs No. 3, White I.ea..orns, 12 hens, 153 eggs No. 1, Minorcas, 12 hen 152 eggs; No. 5, White Orpnng tens, . hens, 121 eggs; N, z, Columbian Rocks, 12hens, 152 eggs; No. 8, Brown Leg horns, Il hens, 157 eggs; No. 6, White Rocks, 12 hens, 207 eggs; No. 10, Barred Rocks, 12 hens, POS eggs; No. II, White Orping- tons, 12 hens, 148 eggs; No. F, Buff Leghorns, 12 hens, 92 eggs; No. 12, White Leghorns, 12 hens. 147 eggs No. 5, White Leg horns, F hens, III eggs; No. Is, Pl ode Island Reds, 12 hens, 110 eggs; No. 19. Anccnas 12 hens, 129 eggs; No. IA Barred Rocks 6 hens, 70 eggs; No. r, White Rock, ( hens, "A eggs; No. IS, Rhode Island Reds, 6 hens, 50 eggs; No. 20, Barred Rocks, 6 hens, "A eggs; No. 21, Golden Campines, 6 hens, 73 eggs; No. l22, Black Spanish, 6 hens, 97 eggs: No. 23, Silver Campines, I6 hens, 99 eggs; No. "A, White Wyandottes, 6 hens, 124 eggs; No. 25, s. l., Wyandottes, 6 hens 124 eggs: No. 2G, R. I. Reds, 6 hens, 19G eggs; No. 27, Buff Rocks, 6 hens, s eggs; No. 28, Brown Leghorns, 6 hens, 95 eG9s; No. %, Block Minorcas, 6 hens, S9 eggs; No. 30, White Rocks, 6 hens, 113 eggs; No. 14b, Barred Rock, 6 hens, Fl eggs; No. 17b, White rocks, 6 hens, 95 eggs; No. 18b, Rhode Island Reds, 6 hens, 66 eggs; 20b, Barr ed Rocks, 6 hens, 108 eggs.
 The egg production for April surpasses the record for March by over 600 eggs.
 Carefully computed averages show the heavier breeds running somewhat ahead for the month.
 Pen 25, s. L. Wyandottes, again leads in the monthly record. This is the third month this pen has held the lead.
 The highest individual record for the month is 26 eggs, pro- duced by a white face Black Spanish hen. Seven other hens nearly reached that record.
 A fact equally as notable is that seven hens produced no eggs during the month.
 Chicks that we wish to raise and are now depending upon for next winters layers and for the market shoud be carefully guard ed against loss from vermin, the most destructive of which is headlice. UnsaIted lard or car bolated vaseline carefully used will save the chichs. They usually need treatment before i've are aware of the fact.
 We are approaching the sea son of bad eggs on the market. 1 the worst feature of the whole poultry industry. Do you know that 20 fertile eggs spoil to each one infent'le egg? Remove : the males fror' the flock as soor IS YOU have necessary eggs for setting. Upon the poultry rais- CTS of Arkansas. ard uron them only, will depend whether our state puts good eggs on the market
 Martin Nelson di"ecto.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-05-21
Inst 3einr hoNnY

Just Ge;nG h@NDy
 E 2 e,e t.',;co to d0' Looking oa he bright sioe Pat!le than tha bluo, Sad O. C1ny nusin9 Is largely to the ehoosino, And just being happy
 Is brave work ard t1ue. Jrst being happy
 He'ps otheG souls elong The 'u 1ens may be heavy AnQ Is G-ong, And your own sky vt tighten If other skies you brighten
 With a heart full of song!
 Ripley D. Saunde.:
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-05-21
CDD FELLOWS SUPPER

The Odd Fellows will give ar ice cream supper at the Ode Fellows hall on May 31, for all that are now members and al that have been members, Re beccas and their respective fam ilies.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-01-08
EASY FOR THE DETECTIVE
knowledge Of Human Nature and a
Little Reasoning Led Him to
the Truth.

Conspicuous on the end of the coun-
ter in the little cigar shop was brand
new, highly ornate cigar lighter made
of heavy bronze. It was the type
which has wire rod sheathed in a
phial of alcohol from which the rod
is drawn to be dipped in jet of fire.
So proud was the cigarmaker of the
every customer with special courtesy.
While thus engaged one evening re-
Gently he was Mortified to discover
that the wire rod with it's beautiful
bronze handle was missing.
ut was here a moment SINCE" he
declared to man who was waiting
for light. Where can it be?'
easy question to answer" smiled
the customer. THAT little rod is out
there on the pavement just outside
the door have not seen it, but I
know it is there"
Sure enough, it is there" ex-
claimed the cigarmaker, rushing to
recover his property. How did you
know that?"
I'm my business, which happens to
be that of professional detective"
exclaimed the customer, II find that
a knowledge of the human inclination
to do many trifling things unconscious
ly is of value. In the present case
force of habit caused your last Gus
toner to throw away the cigar lighter
after using it precisely as If it were
a match. He did it without thinking.
He threw the rod either to the right
or left, after lighting his cigar, &C
cording to the hand he had used.
Nov, the rod was not on the floor
to his left, for looked carefully when
you spoke. Consequently it had to be
on the pavement. as the cigar lighter
stands just next to the open door.
Here is my card. If ever you need
a detective let me know"
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Needless Interruptions.

A New Yorker writes the Times to
protest against a habit he says met
ropolitan women have of knitting at
concerts. Recently, he declares, he
was obliged to sit near knitter and
the click of her busy needles dis
turbed him.
Here is a serious issue. One has
seen a woman, returning from mar
ket, Smelling her beans on the street
car. There could be no objection to
her plucking a holiday goose under
the same circumstances, provided she
didn't scatter feathers on the floor.
But knitting at concert is differ
ent. A knitting needle obbligato to a
harp selection might lack something
Of the ideal One might better take
a basket of corn to husk, or an arm
full of stockings to darn.
Almost any concert enthusiast win
agree with the Times complainant. II
the music is not to ones liking it is
better to exchange whispered stories
with ones neighbor than to disturb
the assemblage with clicking needles.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-01-08

battle was waged, an hour later,
Hyde's barn was full to Overlooking
with enthusiastic spectators. Candor
compels the admission that Conrad
was wOrsted in the encounter, but that
was not the point. He had fought
gamely from beginning to end.
That was his initiation. From that
day he was admitted to be man
among men, without any regard what
ever to nationality or habit Of
speech; and where the boys led, fol-
lowed the girls. Through them he pa
tientTy pl6dded to Blanche Reynolds,
and having secured her frank favor
there was nothing more in this world
that he wanted. He was the acknowl-
edged sutton of the handsomest, the
most brilliant, the most wonderfully
endowed girl in all the world; he lived
in home atmosphere that to him was
divine; his work was not only con-
genial; it was his life, and his en-
ployers-precious thing to this vivid
otionalist-trusted him implicitly.
Both to save expense and to con-
centrate energy, the Office had been
moved down to the mill, where Con-
rad became not only designer and
craftsman, but timekeeper.
One evening Harper asked for his
time-book.
Perched on a high stool, Harper
read him the items one by one; that
on such a date one workman had put
in nine hours, another six, another
two, and so on through the spring and
the early summer.
"That cannot be-" objected Conrad
at one point, raising his head; Wright
hat not work nine hours by the 18th.
That day he hat been hurt"
That's So" admitted Harper, con-
fused. I'm looking at the wrong line.
1t was on the 28th he worked nine
hours"
ia, but on the 2Sth you hat read it
seven hours"
"That was a mistake, too, said
Harper impatiently. Make it nine"
Conrad looked troubled. The whole
time-list had an unfamiliar look to
him, and it bothered him that his usu-
ally Photographic memory should be
confused. 1t did not occur to him
for an instant to suspect that Harper
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III

When they were through, after
three solid hours of toll, Harper sent
Conrad home ahead of him while he
counted up the new record. AS re-
vised, the book showed over a thou
sand dollars still due him from Meade
enough to tide him over this desper-
ate pinch in which he found himself.
Musing in pallid-faced self-loathing
over this, his first departure from rec
titude, he did thing inexplicable even
in one of his careless habits. He de-
stroyed the old book, abstractedly
tearing it up page by page and drop
ping it in the wastebasket.
In the morning came Conrad, and
recognized those scraps at once. On
the table lay the new book where Har-
per had left it the night before. Me-
chanically obeying the memorable logic
of the situation, Conrad picked some
Of the scraps from the basket and com
pared entries. Every legible word
was damning. Here, on the 10th, was
Turner, on the old book three hours,
in the new book nine. Wright was in
the new book for nine hours on that
date, and in the old one his name was
not written down at all, for he had
been at work on another job.
Then Harper came in, strangely
shaken, though trying to preserve an
air of easy nonchalance.
II have just had settlement with
Meade" he began in voice Intended
to be quiet and CHEEKY, land what do
you think the fellow did? Offered me
a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. bonus for the
good work we have done!
Here's your back pay, Conrad" he
said. I'm sorry to have kept you
waiting so long,"
Conrad backed away from the check
as if it were an unclean thing
mo, MOI" he cried. That money,
want it not! 1t is not goot money.
saw in the basket this morning the
book where you tore it up. You hat
been a t'ief; am part t'ief;" and slip
ping his instruments into his pockets
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..ohifent Ifs here 2"

4. an architect IFS here?"
- !. brandon Meade, deep in his con-
n. Mans for booming the live
S'', .i,y Of Holden, stopped abruptly,
va his black cigar from between
|, ~ teeth, and surveyed the youthful
.,a,er through the gently falling
r.Iov here calls himself one; he's
splrsctor, and runs a planning mill
sliss he replied.
me- other made an indescrlbable
y. GESTURE with his hands and shout
and head. not exactly of con-
,,,t but more of pity and sorrow.
Tben ISIS no chance" he said with
ny resignation
Are you an architect?" asked
laie in his turn.
What you call-draftsman," replied
hptber Designer, to originate; ca
saal. residence, anything; details,
wpectiye, water-color, everything"
Good" approved Meade with awak-
r,s interest. 1--WE need something
lie that in Holden.
whats vour name?" he demanded.
Conrad HOehler."
We'll Conrad whatever-your-last-
arsis-Hayler's as near as / can get
|nf-yOu ought to starve. l have to
" a man in ten minutes" He
upDed open his watch, looked at 1t,
rlpped it shut, snapped it open once
ure took a second look, and jammed
back into his pocket. You can't
gsH me to miss a business engage
Rlt because you're too naughty to
s when you're hungry. Come along
Hh ne"
The bOy-he was scarcely more than
aat-OOked at him in solemn perplex-
~ but followed as he was told to do.
Notwithstanding his announcement
Dat be had no time to waste, Meade
tuned with his quick, nervous stride
Down the side street, at right angles
a6e direction in which he had been
lgFng, and wheeled into the hall
Wy Of an old, rickety, frame build
E Up one flight of stairs he stalked
fh an office where, near the window,
lNg rough table, Uttered with paper
sidrawing materials, was tilted upon
noe treStles. A cheerful wood fire
rs burning in an old-fashioned stove;
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when he opens our door tomorrow

when he opens our door tomoron-
morning" ~"
"Harper's an ass; tell him 7 cold
so! Meade retorted, and turned back
into the architects office.
lie found Conrad, his hands clasned
Den1nd him, inspecting the materials
upon the tablewit greedy eyes.
Nice pickle you've got me into },
fussed Meade. Il suppose have to
stand around now till you earn your
breakfast; and my times worth
money. Where are my plans. / won
der?"
With a ruthless hand he began to
open and scatter about the Office sew.
eral small rolls of tough manila-pa-
per drawings until he found the ones
Tor which he had been searching. They
were the first and second story MANS
OF moderate-sized house, arranged
side by side upon one sheet: and this
he spread upon the table in front Of
Conrad.
There" he said; see what you can
do toward designing an outside for
that house; just a rough, free-hand
sketch"
In spite of the draftsman's apparent
del1berateness, they had not long to
wait; for presently he put pencil to
the block of paper and, with deft, sure
strokes, not one mark wasted.
sketched, in perfect perspective. a
house fitting the plans that he had
seen; its roof simple to avoid snow
pockets, its caves and porches wide
TO afford shade in summer, it's lines
simple and squat for the fat grounds.
The ornamentation, massed against
broad, plain surfaces, was exquisite
in its suggested detail and placed
with consummate art. Meade, as the
last strokes were put down, could
scarcely wait.
Look at that" he exclaimed in
triumph to his friends. Harper
couldn't make drawing like that in
two years!"
AS young Conrad added chimney
and lined in the wide porch-steps,
Meade was for jerking the sketch
from under his fingers, but the artist
held up his right hand solemnly.
You shout watt" he calmly COM
manded; and, with few deft lines,
suggested sidewalk. lawn, some
trees and clouds; then, having drawn
a waving line about it to circumscribe
the plane of his picture, he detached
the sheet from the block and handed
it over, with the pencil upon it.
The three bent over it in profound
respect.
THAT is certainly some house," pro-
nounced Hyde.
II don't know how to say lovely"
drawled Eastman, but I'm willing to
pronounce that. a mighty decent de-
sign"
Decent" repeated Meade. Its
great!"
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times have walked from that corner

times l have walked from that corner
to the station and back"
Tears were in Blanche's eyes, too;
but now she, too. laughed.
And now none Of us, not even your
self, will ever know whether you
would really have gone away or come
back she said with the faintest trace
of jealousy, which, however, was lost
at once in sympathy for the distress
to which he had been put. Poor boy,
you must have been In an agony OF
perplexity. Look at this!" and proud
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Gsds &c was no one in the room, and
&ngb plunged into the next office
ee5 10. Tue communicating door,
Sat w.; vas lawyers office, if one
Mks n huge from the yellow-backed
Sas ss t1icn filled three cases, and
ssosta ~. Two men with their feet on
= haly. u d nat-top desk chat
tasDdaSs Harper?" Meade briskly
&l2sn,sS.' Oh town, Brandy" drawled
@desI 'aeed man at the far side of
&isno,..Hl arper's gone to mortgage
see sUs 'ai soul for another new ma
y roon1 M keeping up his fire so
won't be so beastly cold
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of him for his very error and the per-
turbation that had caused it, she dis
played his note.
"Mein schoenes Liebchen," it began,
from all happiness am going away"
but that was as far as Meade or Har-
per-or Blanche herself, for that mat
ter-could read it, for the rest of it
was all in most tumultuous German.
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he started toward the door. ''Goot-by."
he said brokenly.
Harper was ash-white under the ac-
cusation that he could not resent.
Where are you going? he STAN
mered
Il do not know Away like came"
answered Conrad. Il forgif you" and
he was gone.
Harper was still sitting rigidly upon
the stool when Meade came busting
in five minutes later.
Got new job for you, SAM" he,
said. I've made Parsons consent to
tear down the rickety old buildings on
his corner and put up good business
block. Say, what's the matter with
you, anyhow"
i Harper had not moved. He had been
gazing at Meade with fixed eyes. like
one in q horror-stricken trance; but
now he drew from his pocket the
check that Meade had given him but
an hour before and proffered it.
II stole it," he numbly confessed.
II falsified the time"
"Oh, climb down from your perch!"
Meade whipped out with no abatement
whatever of his crisp manner. Now
what's all this about? Tell me like a
sane man.
you say you falsif1ed those time
entries" he went on. Il glanced
them over while you we're at my Of
flee. They were all in Conrad's writ
ing"
Cad" exclaimed Harper. For the
moment / had forgotten him. read
off those items to him from the old
book last night, changing them as I
went along He found out this morn
ing what I'd had him do and he called
me thief and left. God knows what
it cost him. There's girl here that
we'll, after he went away / had to re-
nege."
"Away?" yelled Meade. What do
you mean by 'away?' Not that he's
going to leave Holden?"
Just that" affirmed Harper. HE
said he couldn't look my wife and me
in the face and tell on me, and
couldn't look you in the face and not
tell"
Put away your books! We've got
to stop Conrad. We've got to over
take that Dutchman, tell you'll"
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Nv.

They were just about to leave the
Office when suddenly the door opened
and Blanche Reynolds, a trifle pale
and much too anxious for frivolous
embarrassment, stood before them.
rs Mr.. Hoehler here?" she asked,
glancing swiftly about the Office. 1t
was notable that, though knowing no
German, she pronounced his name
with a perfect mastery Of the difficult
sound Of the modulated vowel.
Harper shook his head and glanced
at Meade with miserable sense of
guilt.
"He is gone" he faltered. "He left
about half an hour ago."
Il got such curious note from
him." she explained. HE met my
brother on the street and gave it to
him. Why did he go?'
ut was IA point of honor" Har-
per lamely told her!
1t was splendid to see the way the
girl squared her shoulders, and how
her eyes flashed, though she grew
paler still.
declared. Il know"
BLESS your heart, mol" exploded
Meade. HE couldn't if he tried.
Now don't you worry about Conrad,
because his friends are not going to
let him get away" and he hustled
outside with his usual spluttering
energy.
Bewildered, not able to understand
any of it, the girl went out upon the
street, scarcely rejecting that she was
going with them. Walking at the side
Of Harper, with Meade forging nerv-
ously on ahead, during the next four
blocks she lost herself in the knowl-
edge of how much, how very much,
she cared!
AS they turned the corner toward
the station Meade, who was in adj
vance, gave an exclamation of sur
prise, for there. but half block ahead
of them, and going in the same direc-
ton, was Conrad. He was walking
slowly along the shady street, his head
down, his shoulders dropped, his peck
cts bullying with his portable posses
sions. Blanche. all thought for con-
ventions swept away in this over
wrought moment. flew swiftly after
him.
"Oh, Conrad" she called, as she
overlook him and put her hand on
his arm.
He whirled, and passing teamster;
with a jovial cast of countenances
stopped his horses and looked back
ward with grin, for it was quite I'M
usual in the streets of Holden to see
a young man sob and clasp young
lady in his arms.
ZACH, ich sterbe fuer dich!-I die for
you!" cried the young man, stopping
even then, in his consideration Of her,
to translate; but when Meade and Har-
per came up he drew her arm within
his own and turned his back upon
them and walked away. She was
going with him quite contentedly. She
did not know what these men had
done, but if Conrad held them in con-
tempt she scorned them!
wait minute!" commanded
Meade, and caught Conrad by the
shoulder. instantly understanding his
quandary. "Everything's all right my
boy. Harper told me all about it.
Look here" and he thrust before Con-
RAIDS eyes the check that Harper had
returned to him. "Harper's an honest
man. So are you; so am / SOS Miss
Reynolds. Let's all shake hands.
Now we're all four going back to the
Office and talk it over BY the way,
Conrad, what are you doing here? We
expected to find you four miles down
the track by this time"
Conrad smiled through his tears.
Il could not go, and / could not
stay!" he exclaimed. -Four, five. six
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III.

OF course they called him "the
Dutchman" after he had become an
intimate part of the life of Holden.
for there was almost no foreign ele-
ment in the town Eight dollars a
week and his board Harper paid Con-
rad, and the boy was satisfied.
II am more worth he said, adding
philosophically, "but it ISIS not here
the money. If you have not profit OF
my work that do, then l am--what
you call it?-no goot."
Harper, with whom economy was
stern necessity, brought cot into the
office, and for a week Conrad slept
upon this cot, taking his meals at a
nearby restaurant. During that week
Harper studied his craftsman closely,
and Mrs. Harper made two unobtru-
siye trips to the Office for the same
purpose. On Sunday Conrad was taken
to the Harper home and formally IN
stalled.
Hes simply a revelation, SAM,
Mrs. Harper pronounced in surprise
after the first week. After you get
used to the dialect you begin to dis
cover that he's well educated; he's
artistic to his finger-tips, a poet IN
feeling, a lover of severely good
music: he sings iivinely, and little
Elsie fairly loves him. She makes
him rock her to sleep every noon De-
fore he goes back to work.
It was the good-fellowship of this
couple, together with their unWaver-
ing affection, which made Conrad turn
his admiration of them to the same
degree of worship that he had already
bestowed upon four-year-old Elsie his
lines were cast in pleasant places IN
decd and he thrust his roots deeply
into the soil.
At first he had to overcome the
same contemptuous prejudice that nao
bestowed upon him the title OF the
Dutchman." Mrs. Harper introduced
him to some nice girls, but secretiy
thew laughed at his broken English
and Blanche Reynolds, by wnom no
was at once speechlessiy smltlen'
onenly flouted him; whereat MRS. mar
nor wanted to shake her. with tue
Young men he was in somewhat less
constraint. though even here he was
stiu an alien until one evening Wnen'
IN passing the library, one OF q group
of Young men made some Laughing re-
marx loud enough to be overnearu.
ohont "the Dutchman. Conrad
wheeled Immediately and came DacA.
mot Northumberland ne ue'
clared. marching directly up 10 .ne
one who had spoken It was Pr,ee
REYNOLDS, her brother. 1t ISIS not uis.
Grace to be Dutchman, either put y
e disgrace the way you say u, a.a
Dutchman no more! and you hear IT.
The other laughed. -
sKeep your collar on, Dutcny' ne
odmonished with amused tolerance.
81 am not Dutchman, ! have sara:
,ns;stad conrad. Il challench you!
They repaired to Hyde's barn. here
tofore fights in Holden had been swlIl !,
unexpected, spontaneous analrs' anV
thav had been fought out with great
yigor in an entirely impromptu man
ner: but this was decided nosel.s'
- wbicb even the sworn officers OF the
- winked complacently. When the
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skehed Perspective Fitting

was reading the items willfully wrong;
that he was deliberately adding sew
erai dollars a day to Meade's account
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-29
THE VOTERS or AMERICUS HAVE MADE A
WISE CHOICE -9Is s

The morning
the council The
with
existing
the city.
thought the city needed strictly business admnstra
government administration
treasury
administration there and
handle
affairs the city forward The city council published
by cooperation their the city out of debt
administrations before
Their
But they the caibre
Choice"
administration.