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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-08-31

still and stare. and then. pitchfnrk
in hand. start on a rapid run.
There, carrying a great arinful of
barley straw to the pig pens was
Tom Lee. And sneaking toward him.
just emerged from behind a stuck.
was n lurking evil-faced fellow car
rying a big, short but heavy hickory
cudgel. He raised it and swung out
a fearful blow. Tom Lee went down
like a shot. His assailant drew back
to repeat the blow, when the big straw
hat, the prototype Of that worn by
Reuben, fell off.
"The wrong mani" shouted the ruff
fan.
Am l the right one?" announced
Reuben. stir an inch and | will
split you with the fork. Ha, Jim
Devlin, ! see, l seel March to the
house, hands up, or I'll nail you good"
stay quiet, lad, you're in good
hands," In truly genial, almost af-
f%ectionate tones spoke Farmer Waite
to Tom Lee an hour afterward.
The latter stared hard. He was ly-
ing in a bed in the best spare room in
the house. His head was b%andaged.
The farmer sat beside him.
"What has happened?" questioned
Tom Lee family.
"You saved my life, that's what"
came the sturdy reply. "You looked
like me in my old suit and hat. A
man named Jim Devlin did it. A fell
low / sent over the road five years
ago for stealing horses. He swore
then that he would have my life when
he got out. He must have escaped,
for he got a t~wenty-year term"
Yes, he escaped, and l with him."
was the surprising statement of Tom
Lee. II had only a week to serve, but
the opportunity came and because |
knew he was aimed for you, l joined
him, slipped him and came here to
guard you against his revenge"
"Why?" uttered the bewildered Reu-
ben.
Because l loved your daughter.
Stay, do not get angry. l was sent to
the %penitentiary an innocent man. The
world will yet know it. l had met
your daughter when she was visiting q
friend"
Eyes, father" broke in an impress
sive voice, and Nellie Waite appeared
at the doorway. HE is an innocent
man. He saved you-help him. You
have wondered why l have refused to
marry. 1t is because of Elston Deane,
whom you know as Tom Lee, the only
man I shall ever love-"
Elston Deane went back to prison
to serve out the few remaining days
of his sentence, but the law RENTED
it. Jim Devlin had ten years added
to his former sentence. Farmer Waite
took up the cudgel in behalf of the
man who had saved his life and whom
his daughter SO loyalty loved.
1t was no easy task digging up
the buried past, but persistence and
money unearthed the real criminals,
for whose misdoings Elston Deane had
so unjustly suffered.
Truth will prevail" sapiently OBJ,
served old Reuben, the day that the
complete v%indication of "Tom Lee
was publicly announced.
"And love will inspire the darkest
life with hope and %courage!" added
Elston Deane fervently, as he wound
his arm affectionately about his wife
that was to be.
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Blu VICTOR REDCLIFFE
Copyright. 1916. by W. G. Chapman.)

NSSPsA-op ~ ~ ~ ShaPAAoNFt
Reuben Waite was just about to
thrust his pitchfork into a winnow of
hay when he espied a human foot.
"Hey, wake up here!" he shouted in
his customary stentorian tones.
AS he spoke, he tapped an extend
ing boot sole with the tines of the
fork. The foot drew in, the hay rose
up in a cascade and a 1.-the well-fea-
tured. young man was revealed. He
brushed dust and seed from hair and
clothing and rather shamefacedly con-
fronted the farmer.
TRAMP, eh? gruffly suggested old
Reuben.
II look it, don't ~ propounded the
stranger, with a little bitter laugh.
"YOu do, for a fact. l say-where
did you get those togs?"
Il found them over on a rubbish
heap back of the barn."
They were, in fact, an utterly dis
carded suit Reuben had thrown away
as unfit the day previous.
HIN! your W must have been
pretty bad to change for these" OBJ
served the farmer.
"They were, for a fact" answered
the stranger and his face grew stern
and cold. I'm Tom Lee. I'm a
tramp. I'm hungry, give me work"
swell, l need help" spoke Reuben,
after a critical inspection of the ap-
plicant. "You look likely, and, if
you're honest as well, we may hitch
for harvest"
"Ill try to suit" said Tom Lee.
"Those toys won't do, though" de-
clared Reuben, and they we're. indeed,
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Splitting His Face,

Senator P~enrose was discussing a
turbulent element in the Republican
convention.
"These men," he said, 'were ami
mated by the same spirit that posses
sed Pat.
Pat, a road member, was observed
by a mate to be holding his heavy
sledge motionless high above his head,
ready to be brought down the minute
the boss looked at him.
"'What the dickens are We dom,
Pat?' his mate asked.
"Pst!' said Pat, in a low, reproach-
full voice. Can't ye let a chap rest a
minute when the boss back is
turnedg'"
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of the year the chickens live on grass,
clover, surplus garden stuff, gleanings
from the grain fields, litter about the
barn and feed lots, and more important
than all else, they consume weed seeds,
insect enemies to crops and other pests.
Record Of Eighteen Ohio Farm Flocks.
Two years ago the Ohio experiment
station made a study of the profits in
farm poultry. Records of IS typical
farm flocks were carefully kept.
These flocks ranged in number from
36 to $40, some were ~purebreds; others
were mongrels. They were kept, fed
and tended just as the farmer had been
caring for them before the experiment
station asked him to keep a record.
Here are the results Of the investiga-
ton. For the sake of comparison, we
have figured the profit from each flock
on the basis of 100 hens in a flock.
The best five fiocks yielded respect
lively $247, 1854, $153, $1O7 and $1O4
per hundred hens, while the poorest
five fiocks yielded $67, $3.50, 1853, $62 and
$15 respectively. In no case was there
a loss. The average profit per hundred
hens of the IS tflocks was $S7.
Poultry Profits.
One hundred hens are worth a hun
dred dollars-just about the price of a
good dairy COW. Records of the cow
testing association in Iowa show that
the average dairy COW makes a profit
of $33. Which would you rather do
milk two or three COWS or take care of
a hundred hens?
Most of us fail to realize that poul-
try Is profitable-the wife pays the
grocery bills and every now and then
gets a new piece of furniture or a new
dress with the "chicken money" But
probably not one farmer In a thousand
could tell just how much his chickens
are paying.
You probably have about a hundred
hens-that's the average size of the
farm f1ocks in the United States. How
much profit are they producing? ARA
they above the average or below? ARR
you getting $247 or SIS?
Produce Eggs When Price is Hiqh.
Sixty per cent of the eggs are pro-
duced in March, April and May. Then
the number drops gradually until only
INT per cent is produced in November.
production remains low during Janu-
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e%vaporating through the shell. The
higher the temperature and the more
circulation of air there Is the faster
the evaporation takes place. Eggs
grow stale in warm poultry houses, in
hot kitchens, on the farm or in the
cupboards of the consumer. Egg deal
ers count that three stale eggs are
equal to a rotten egg and pay accord
ingly.
Gather your eggs daily and keep
them in a cool place. Market them as
often as possible-at least once a
week-better twice a week.
$15,000,o00 Annual Loss.
Fertile eggs cause a great loss-a
loss estimated by the government ex-
perts at $15,000,000 a year.
Two years ago the United States
government experts conducted an ex-
pertinent in Kansas to compare the
loss from fertile and infertile eggs.
How Experiment Mas Conducted.
Ten thousand eggs, collected from
different farms, were used in the ex-
pertinent. Half were fertile and half
were infertile, and every egg was alb
solutely fresh when it entered the ex-
pertinent.
These eggs were kept on the farm
under ordinary farm conditions. Some
were stored in parlors, some in kitch-
ems, some In cellars and some in pan
tries. Some were put in nests, some
under laying hens and some under sit
ting hens. The same number Of fertile
and infertile eggs were always put I'M
der exactly the same conditions. In a
week the eggs were collected and sold
to the local grocery store where they
were candled. They were then shipped
to st. Louis, where they were again
candled.
Results Of Experiment.
While on the farm 30 per cent of the
fertile eggs were spoiled for food, as
compared with only is per cent Of the
infertile ones. On the way to market
IA per cent of the fertile ones were
spoiled as compared with 8 per cent of
the infertile. This makes a total Of
AZ per cent Of the fertile eggs unfit for
food as compared with only % per cent
OF the infertile ones-a difference of 10
per cent. Notice that the greatest loss
In both fertile and infertile eggs is on
the farm.
Fresh air is as good for hens as it
Is for people. If you have an open
front or a partly open front poultry
house you need not worry about the
ventilation. ~
Fresh air does not hurt hens, but
drafts are injurious. The north, east
and west sides of the coop should be
tight to prevent drafts.
Get the habit of cleanliness and you
need not fear lice and poultry dis
eases.
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tatters. "Come into the barn and I'll
provide something better"
Within a few minutes Tom Lee
looked somewhat more respectable in
q homespun suit, worn but whole and
a yellowed prototype Of the great
straw hat the farmer wore. He was
given a good meal in the kitchen, fur
nished with a pitchfork by the farmer
and put in the day 10 diligently that
Reuben commended him approvingly.
"Tn show you your quarters in the
attic" said the farmer after supper.
"There's a cool sheltered nook in
that old summer house in the garden"
dissented Tom Lee. IF you'll let me
have a hay cover and don't mind, I'll
bunk In the open air."
"Just as you like" said Reuben.
"Ah, there's Nellie, my daughter. Been
visiting since yesterday. Put up the
rig, will your"
Tom Lee braced himself and stood
like a statue at the hitching block
as a young lady drove into the yard,
and, waving her hand gayly to her
father, rounded the house and came
to the barn. She alighted graceful as
some nymph, then stood rooted, star
ing with strangely questioning eyes
at Tom Lee.
Your she gasped, and her face be-
came bloodless.
Tom simply bowed. He had folded
his arms and stood like a nan await
ing anger, disdain, censure.
"Why did you come here% she
faltered.
"For q purpose. You need not rec
ognize me, you must not betray me.
You will know in q few days."
Old Reuben was coming towards
her now and the brief colloquy was
suspended.
Tom Lee did not seek to meet Nellie
Waite again. He went about his work
steadily. If old Reuben Waite had
been watchful, however, he would
have noticed that the eyes of the new
farmland followed him everywhere
and that he sought to be near him
whenever he could.
1t was three days afterwards when
Farmer Waite came upon Tom Lee
mending a hay rake. His face was
stern and fo~reboding.
"You will have to go at the end of
the week, Lee" he said.
"Why, sirT questioned Tom Lee.
Because / found the clothes you
changed for my old suit. You threw
them behind some brush. A striped
suit"
Tom Lees chin sank.
"a convict's suit"
"That condemns me, doesn't it?" In
CURED Tom Lee in a crushed tone.
"Do you blame me? II the woman
folks or the %nelghbors know what you
have been, you can imagine their
fears. oh, I'm not going to tell on
you, Tom Lee. OF course you are an
escaped convict, but | sha'n't tell any
body. ] burned your old suit safely
that night. Go your way when Satur-
day night ONE and good luck to IL.
for you are a faithful worker"
THANK you, sir" said Tom Lee
humbly.
Saturday morning early, Reuben
came around the barn to hait stock
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Why not take better care Of your
hens and have them working for you
during the winter instead Of keeping
them at a loss during this period?
You car produce winter eggs. Put
your hens in a warm, comfortable, we'll
ventilated house, give them nitrogen
food and furnish water, grit and
oyster shell.
OF course, it will be some trouble to
increase your egg production. Don't
expect results If you go at things spas
medically, doing one or two things and
letting the rest go.
Fowls need animal protein food.
Bugs and worms furnish this in the
summer; buttermilk and beef scrap
make good substitutes in the winter.
This chart gives the results of an
Ontario experiment. Twenty-Five hens
receiving buttermilk in their ration
made $11 profit in eight months; a
similar flock fed beef scrap made $40
profit, while a flock receiving no meat
or milk was kept at a loss of So.
A similar experiment in Indiana
shows that hens fed skim milk or beef
scrap made a profit of 81 per hen an
nually, while those receiving neither
beef scrap or milk were kept at a loss
of four cents per hen.
If you feed beef scrap, get good quail
ity, testing go or 65 per cent protein.
Be careful not to feed too much.
Few people understand that eggs are
almost as %perishable as meat or milk.
They belong to the same class of food
but just because they are inclosed in
a hard shell, people think they will
stand almost any kind of treatment.
Government experts estimate a loss
of $45,000,O00 every year from bad
eggs. This loss can be prevented by
better handling and marketing.
Loss From Shrinkaqe.
Five per cent of the eggs in the
United States are lost through shrink
age. The shell of an egg is porous. II
is made this way so the developing
chick can get air during the incubation
period.
Seventy-four per cent of an egg is
water. Whenever an egg is in a tenn
perature above freezing, this water is
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POULTRY mi EGG CROP

Almost every farmer keeps some
poultry. The trouble is he doesn't
make the poultry keep him. Too many
of them are ROSTERS. A lot more are
old hens that lay but a few eggs and
then want to set. Whenever the price
of eggs gets high, the old hens go on a
strike. They lay in the henhouse when
they please, but too much of the time
prefer to lay their eggs out in the
fence corners. That means they are
not gathered until they are staIe-and
in consequence a low price for the
eggs.
The average farmer considers poul-
try raising a "side ISSUE" a job for
women and children-a sort Of neces-
sary nuisance in order to provide fresh
eggs and a toothsome roast or fry. But
after all, this "side. issue" branch of
the farming business, poultry, nets an
annual return in the United States of
over $600,000,000 or enough money to
build two Panama canals every year.
The Panama canal has been written in
to the pages of history as one of the
greatest achievements of modern times.
In it's construction u greatest minds
in the science of engineering, art and
medicine were employed. Yet the farm
hen with little or no care closes her
yearly account with a balance of more
than half a billion dollars. Only a
very small portion of this vast sum of
money is earned by the ~well-cared-for
commercial hen. Ninety per cent of it
goes to the credit of the much neglect
ed f1ocks ranging at liberty on the
farms of the country.
Hen Not Appreciated.
None of us half appreciate the
m~oney-earning possibilities Of the hen.
For example, the cotton growing states
during a recent slump in the cotton
market due to the European war,
Joined other cotton producing states in
an appeal to congress for federal aid
to tide them over the financial diff
Guilty. The appeal was for $3.50, 900, 900
to be distributed in the South through
the medium of the federal reserve
banks. If these one-crop states had
reckoned with the farm hen they
would have saved themselves the hui
initiation of asking Uncle Sam for help.
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Record Breaker.

Maggie" said the inexperienced
young thing to the cook, 1.-The biscuits
were a sight. If you can't do better
next time I will have to discharge
you"
"Ye will, will We? I'll have We know,
mum, that I've been workin' out for
two years, and I've worked for eighty
nine av the best families in town, an
| amt ever bin discharged yet. I'm
lawn this Afternoon for a better
place."-New York Globe.
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What The average
farm hen produces

We will take Arkansas to illustrate the
point
The average county in Arkansas CON
tains about 5000 farms. If on each
farm there had been 100 hens, each
laying through the year eight dozen
eggs, only about a quarter of an egg a
day, and the eggs had sold for 20 cents
a dozen, the income per farm would
have amounted to $3.50. At this rate
the 5000 farms in each county would
have produced $4S0,000. Based on these
figures, the state Of Arkansas with her
IA counties, would have produced near
lIy a 3 5,000,000-dollar egg crop. This
sum is far in excess of the money Ar
kansas would have received as her
share Of the federal loan and more
than half Of the value of the annual
cotton crop.
This $35,000,000 distributed among
the banks Of Arkansas would have re-
Illeved one of the most critical periods
i'm the economic history Of the state.
The earning power of the hen exceeds
that of all other farm animals-the
dairy COW not excepted.
Profit In Poultry.
Let us not overlook this opportunity.
Amy farmer can have poultry. He can
make more clear profit out Of poultry
than the commercial poultryman can
make.
First, the care of poultry fits well into
the other farm work the investment is
small ; feed is cheap; the chickens con-
vert the waste products of the farm
into profits. During the greater part
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Not DuIIed nv Aoe-

They still repeat in Chicago and the
West a witticism of George AIDES
enunciated at a Christmas dance In
the early nineties.
A very pretty young lady said to Mr.
AIDE at this dance:
what do you think of our scheme
Of decoration-holly leaves over lau'
rel?"
swell, to be frank" the brilliant
bachelor replied, I'D much prefer
mistletoe over yew."-Exchange.
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Volunteer Adviser.

TITS a lucky thing l came out here
exclaimed the delirious basel
ball fan. IF it hadn't been for me,
wed have lost that game sure"
why the man who won this game
is the chap who just now slid to Sec
'ond." /
"Yes. But didn't you hear me yeIlA
ing at the top of my voice telling him
what to dof"
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BRAVE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
Grimaldi, Who Drove the Moors From
the Mediterranean, Given Monaco
as His Reward.

One of the many disappointments
of the present war is almost total alb
n of thrilling stories concerning
the soldier of fortune. Even the for
eign legion" of France, that is made
up of dare-devils from all over the
world, has little or nothing in the way
of romance to offer, and the romantic
spirits have always been the me that
attached themselves to the French BAN
ner.
Did you ever hear of the most dis
tinguished Of the Grimaldi family, not
the Genoese general who remained at
home and fought for his own country,
nor yet the artist who did heroic stunts
on canvas, nor the sixteenth century
Grimaldi who died by the hand of an
assassin in the palace at Monaco, but
the tenth century ancestor of that
prince, who saved Monaco from the
Moors? His was an achievement
worthy of a true soldier of fortune.
The tiny principaIity, perched on its
seagirt cliff had been settled by the
Greeks even before Athens became
the greatest city of the civilized world.
1t was one of the cultural outposts Of
Rome, and in the fifth century it was
an important center of Christianity.
Then the Moors crossed the Medi-
t%erranean, extended their sway over
Spain and seized the ancient H~erculis
Monoeci 'Portus and gave over its
churches and monasteries to the in
fdels. For 200 years they defed the
soldiers of Europe, and then Grlmaldi
came. There had been many wars in
Genoa, and here was a chance for a
Genoese captain. When his military
genius had driven the Moors into the
sea, he was rewarded by being made
absolute monarch of a country SO miles
in circumference.
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You may say that ''mesmerlsm Il
a form Of hypnotlsm," or you may
with equal propriety, say that 'hypno
tlsm Is a form of m%esmerism." 1t Il
as broad as It is long. Mesmerism II
so-called from the fact that It first
sprang into prominence through on,
+. A. Mesmer, a German physician Of
Merseburg, about 1760.i The nam'
mesmerism has in these days beer
eclipsed by the more familiar hypno
tiam.
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Shark Bitters.

AOpS
"What is it, Rutherford?"
SIS it true that a shark has to turn
over before it can bite"
"Yes."
"And do you think it has to turn
over to drink, tool"
II don't think so. Why do you ask?"
Il was just thinking of Uncle Hen.
ry."
"What about Uncle Henry?"
II have often heard you say he
drinks like a fish, and 1 was just won.
derlng if it is because he throws bacl
his head until he nearly lies on his
back" - Pittsburgh Chronicle-Te
graph.
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Muzzled.

Speaking Of garters-have yor
heard Of the Harvard students who
spied a pair with silver clasps in Q
Harvard square shopwindow, and
thinking to raise a smile. at least
from the charmer at the counter
asked the price of a dog collar, point
ing at the same time to the silver
clasped garter? She turned, looked
swectly at the young men, and said
I'VE do not separate them for puppies
sir."-Boston Herald.
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What she
should produce

airy and February and increases to 70
per cent in March. The price goes
down whenever the production goes up.
Why not produce eggs In the winter?
Get the advantage not only Of in
creased production, but Of high price.
In January eggs sell on an average
for about 80 cents per dozen. The
price decreases until in April eggs are
bringing only IS cents. A large number
OF eggs are put in cold storage at this
time and this keeps the price fairly
high considering the great amount of
eggs produced. The price drops to II
cents during the summer months be-
cause there is such a large number of
poor eggs on the market. In Septem-
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SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with la Creole" Hair Dressing,
and darken, in the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. $1.0O.-Adv.
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RestfuI.

who is that chap riding on the
hearse with the driver7"
That's Smiley. the professional hu-
morist. He's on his vacation.P
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COVETED az AL

but possessed by feW-a beautiful
head OF hair. II yours is streaked with
gray. or is harsh and stiff, you can re-
store it to its former beauty and ius.
ter by using La Creole" Hair Dress.
ing. Price S1.o0.-AdS.
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Corn for Hoaainn Down.

An ideal variety Of corn for hog
cling down should have a small stalk
and with ears set low down. Here is
an opportunity for corr breeders.
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Select True Breed Type.

Always keep in mind the true breed
type and never select an animal, either
male or female. that does not conform
to the type.
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learn From Observation.

Take a day Off and visit someone
else engaged in your line of work. Per-
haps you can learn something from
their methods.