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The Delta independent., 1916-05-26

prepared for something strange. but
not for SO overpowering a personality
as this. 1t was his size which took
ones breath away-his size ana MS
imposing presence. His head was
enormous. the largest i have ever seen
upon a human being. l am sure that
his top hat had ever ventured to don
it, would have slipped over me entire
ly and rested on my shoulders He
had the face and beard which l as
sociate with an Assyrian bull - the
former horid. the latter SO black as
almost to have a suspicion of blue.
spade shaped and ripping down over
his chest The hair was peculiar. plas-
tered down in front in long. curvtng
wisp over his massive forehead. The
eyes were blue gray under great black
tufts, very clear. very critical and very
masterful. A huge spread Of shout
ders and a chest like barrel were
the other parts of him which appeared
above the table. save for two enor-
nous hands covered with long black
hair This and believing. roaring,
rumbling voice made up my first i'm
preston of the notorious Professor
Challenger.
"well?" said he, with n most inso-
lent stare. What nowY
must keep up my deception for at
least little time longer. otherwise
here was evidently an end OF the inter
view
you were good enough to give me
IN appointment, SIR said :. humbly.
producing his envelope
He took my letter from his desk and
laid 1t out before him.
"Oh. You are the young person who
cannot understand plain English. are
your My general conclusions you art
good enough to approve. as under
standY'
Entirely. sir-entirelyr was en-
phatic.
Dear me! That strengthens my po-
sition very much. does Il not? Your
age and appearance make your support
doubly valuable Well. Mt least You arc
better than that herd of swine In Wen
ma, whose gregarious grunt IL. how
ever, not more offensive than the $50
lated effort OF the British hog" He
glared at me as the present representa-
tive OF the beast
They seem TO have behaved abomi-
nably." said /.
II assure you that ! can fight my
own battles and that have no possible
need OF your sympathy. Put me alone,
sir. and with my back TO the wall. G.
Il. c. IL happicst then. Well. SIR let us
do what we can to curtnil this visit.
which can hardly be agreeable to you
and Is inexprcssibly irksome to me.
You had. us I have been led TO believe.
some comments to make upon the prop
osition which l advanced In my ihesis.''
There wns brutal dircctness about
his methods which made evasion difi-
cult I must still make play and wait
for better opening. II had seemed
simple enough Mt n distance. oh. my
Irish wits. could they not help me now7
II am. Of course. . mere student
said I. with fatuous smile. hardly
more. ] might say. than an earnest in
quirer. At the same time. 1t seemed to
me that you were n little severe upon
Weissmann In this matter. Has not tho
general evidence since thRt date tend
ed lowell. to strengthen his posi-
tionr'
What evidcncer' He spoke with a
menacing calm.
well, Of course am aware that
there Is not any whnt you might call
definite evidence. I alluded merely to
the trend Of modern thought and the
general scientific point OF view. II
might so express it,
ITO be continued)
The Delta independent., 1916-05-26


n HR. HUNGERTON. her father,
really was the most tactless
person upon earth-a fluffy,
untidy cuckoo of a man, per-
fectly good natured. but absolutely
centered upon his own silly self. II
anything could have driven me from
Gladys 1t would have been the thought
Of such a father-in-law.
For an hour or more that evening i
listened to his monotonous chirrup
about bad money driving out good. the
token value of silver. the depreciation
of the rupee and the true standards Of
exchange.
But at last l was alone with Gladys,
and the moment Of Fate had come! All
that evening had felt like the soldier
who awaits the signal which will send
him on a forlorn hope, hope Of victory
and fear Of repulse alternating in his
mind
She sat with that proud, delicate pro-
Ale of hers outlined against the red
curtain. How beautiful she was! And
yet how aloof! We had been friends.
quite good friends. but never could /
get beyond the same comradeship
which j might have established with
one of my fellow reporters upon the Ga.
1ette-perfectly frank. perfectly kindly
and perfectly unsexual-
Gladys was full of every womanly
quality. Some judged her to be cold
and hard. but such a thought was trea-
son That delicately bronzed skin, al
most oriental In Its coloring; that ra-
ven hair. the large liquid eyes, the full
but exquisite lips-all the stigmata Of
passion was there. But was sadly
conscious that up to now | had never
found the secret of drawing 1t forth.
However, come what might. ] should
have done with suspense and bring
matters to a head tonight. She could
but refuse me. and better be re-
pulsed lover than an accepted brother.
So far my thoughts had carried me.
and l was about to break the long and
uneasy silence when two critical. dark
eyes looked round at me. and the proud
head was shaken in smiling reproOf.
81 have a presentiment that you are
going to propose. Ned. do wish you
wouldn't for things are so much nicer
as they are"
l drew my chair a little nearer
Nov. how did you know that was
going to proposer' asked In genuine
wonder.
Don't women always know? Do
you suppose any woman in the world
was ever taken unawares? Butch.
Ned. our friendship has been so good
and so pleasant! What pity 10 spoil
IT! Don't you feel how splendid 1t is
that a young man and a young woman
should be able to talk face to face Is
we have talkedr
II don't know. Gladys. You see.
can talk face TO face-with the station
master" l cant image how that ON
siai came into the matter. but In he
trotfed and set US both laughing.
THAT does not satisfy me In the least.
want my arms round you and your
head on my breast. and-oh. Gladys. !
want
She had sprung from her chair, a.
she saIs signs that proposed to dem
onstrate some Of my wants. you've
spoiled everything, Ned" she said
ITS all 30 beautiful and natural until
this kind Of thing comes in! 1t il
such a pity Why can't you control
yourself7'
II didn't invent It," pleaded. ITS
nature. It's love"
We'll, perhaps II both love It may be
A1NBrsnt. have never felt It."
mt you must-you. with your
nSn0aatv ~oth vossr ss,.,ii nh HlaAvn
The Delta independent., 1916-05-26
CHAPTER II.
Face to Face with Professor.

VXYHEN called on Wednesday
WV there was a letter with the
West Kensington postmark
upon 1t and my name scrawl-
ed across the envelope in handwrit
ing which looked like a barbed wire
railing. The contents were as fol-
lows: s-.
Enmore Park, w.
Sir-I have daily received your note. in
which you claim to indorse my views. al
though am not aware that they are de-
pendent upon Endorsement either from you
or any one else. You have ventured to
use the word speculation" with regard to
my statement upon the subject of Darwin
ism. and would call your attention to
the fact that such a word in such a con-
nection is offensive to degree The con-
text convinces me. however. that you have
sinned rather through ignorance and tact
iessness than through malice. so / am con-
tent to pass the matter by. You quote an
isolated sentence from my lecture and ap-
pear to have some difficulty In understand
ing II. l should have thought that only
a subhuman intelligence could have failed
to grasp the point. but II It really needs
application l shall consent to see you Mt
the hour named though visits and visitors
of every sort are exceeding distasteful to
me AS to your suggestion that l may
modify my opinion l would have you know
that it is not my habit to do 30 after a
deliberate expression of my mature views.
You will kindly show tho envelope of this
letter to my man. Austin. when you call.
he has to take every precaution to-
shield me from the intrusive rascals who
call themselves Journalists" Yours faith
fully,
GEORGE EDWARD CHALLENGER.
1t was nearly half past 10 before
had received my message. but a taxi
cab took me round in good time for
my appointment 1t was an imposing
porticoed house at which we stopped.
and the heavily curtained windows
gave every Indication Of wealth on the
part OF this formidable professor. The
door was opened by an odd. swarthy.
dried up person Of uncertain age.
with a dark pilot jacket and brown
leather CATERS. found afterward
that he was the chauffeur who filed
the gaps left by a succession of fugi-
tive buffers. He looked me up and
down with searching light blue eye.
"ExpectedT' be asked
AN appointment"
Got your letterP'
produced the envelope.
"Rightr' He seemed TO be n person
of few words. Following him down
the passage. ! was suddenly interrupt
ed by n small woman. who stepped out
from what proved to be the dining
room door. She was bright, viva
cious, dark eyed lady. more French
than English In her type.
"One moment" she said. You can
wait. Austin. Step in here. sir. May
/ ask II you have met my husband be
The Delta independent., 1916-05-26

the chance-at least ! never had the
chance. II ! did ] should try to take
it,
But chances are all around you.
II IL the mark OF the kind Of man !
mean that he makes his own chances.
You can't hold him back. I've never
met him. and yet seem to know him
30 well. There are her0isms all round
MS waiting to he done. It's for men to
do them and for women to reserve
their love ~ a reward for such men.
Look nj that young Frenchman who
went up last week In a balloon. II was
blowing a gnie OF wind. but because he
was announced TO go he insisted on
starting. The wind blew him fifteen
hundred miles In twenty-four hours.
and he fell In the middle Of Russia.
The Delta independent., 1916-05-26
CHAPTER I.

There Are Heroisms All Around U.s."
n KR. HUNGERTON. her father,
really was the most tactless
person upon earth-a fluffy,
untidy cuckoo of q man, per-
The Detroit times., 1916-05-01
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
DELINQUENT TAX LIST
Notice of City Tax Sale for General Taxes of 1915.

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The Detroit times., 1916-05-01

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The Detroit times., 1916-05-01
Observation-Disclosures.

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The Detroit times., 1916-05-01
Observation-Disclosures.

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f0 n OF lot and the casa e. OF the II all OF
SUD or o. 1856, L. Beaubien farm
W..
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a. w. Bosey, of Palmer OF
park lot 81. Detroit T. q r. IL
WARD CAP
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part or the half OF park lot 3s between Fsrnswoh st
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-11
The Wonderful Onion.

That good friend of humanity, the onion,
if not actually worth its weight in gold at
least has high avordupois value in equiv
alent silver and independence.
According to a news story found in an
exchange, a business man near Waupun,
Wis, not long since put eighty acres into
onions. Having all his work done by hire,
his initial expenses were greater than those
of the practical farmer, who does at least
fair proportion of his own work. But he
kept careful week-by-week record of his ex-
penditures and returns, and when his crop
had been sold-part of it for $2.55 bushel
he found that his eighty acre onion patch
lad yielded a clears profit of $48,206.
Which means, duly itemiled, that each Of
the eighty acres planted to onions" had
earned $6O25S for its summer work.
Wisconsin is by no means the only To-
cality in which remunerative onion results
may be attained at the price of intelligent
and faithful culture, nor is the necessary
work so physically arduous as many other
branches of agriculture.
To the South Georgia farmer who seeks
to escape the impending disaster of the boil
weevil and at the same time find the means
of a generous livelihood the onion field of
fers tempting possibilities.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-11
Drop the Credit System Nov
From the Moultrie Observer.

We will never find better time to quit
the credit system than right now. We be-
lieve the people who usually buy on credit
have more money now than they have ever
had before. Not only is there more money
in the country, and among the small farmer
and tenant classes, but there are more hogs,
more corn, more feed crops, ETC.
Nearly every farmer in the county will
have more than enough corn this year to
run him. There is an unprecedented hay
crop made, and there should be very little
hay shipped into this county next year.
There are beans and peanuts to fatten the
hogs and cows, and enough of the latter to
abundantly supply our needs for meats the
next twelve months.
We can make the next crop without 60
ing in debt for a single thing. We can
make a crop without fertilizers, as many
have demonstrated this year, and as a few
have demonstrated year after year. If we
make crop next year without going in
debt, the boil weevil will do us little harm.
Conditions now are more favorable to
staying out of debt. We have more to sell
in the spring and summer.
We have been talking about this iniqu-
tous credit system for many years, and we
have been DESTROYS of shaking it off. 1t
seems to US the time has come right now for
getting ready for it.
The farmers will be fifty per cent better
off when they get to where they do not have
to ask a store or fertilizer man to credit
them. The country as whole will be better
off when this day of independence comes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-11
The "HOt Dog" You Eat.
From Our Dumb Animals.

This term, applied to sandwich made of
roll and bologna sausage, is quite as re-
pulsive as the thing it stands for. Though
many people, especially young folks on a
lark, eat these sandwiches, they would never
think of touching them did they know how
the most of them are made. We have often
declared that the cheap, often wholly unfit
meat boned out of the carcasses of diseased
animals formed no small part of the ingre-
dents of bologna sausages
Take the following illustration: Near
Lowell a man had a cow to die by strangula-
ton. He bled her and then sold the car
cass to a cheap butcher. When the carcass
was dressed the Inspector refused either to
condemn it or to pass it. The butcher then
sold it to a dealer who boned it out and
sold it to a large packing company which
used it for bologna sausages For confir-
nation of our statement see court record.
Yet to our personal knowledge the flesh of
COWS in far worse condition than this one
is being cleaned from the skeleton and sold
for just this human food. If "hot dog
sounds like something unfit for food its
character sustains its name.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-11
A Confession.

81 have owned an automobile for some
years now," remarked a well-known Daw-
CONAN, land truly believe l am one OF the
most careful drivers in town."
And thereby hangs a tale. Continuing,
he said: "When 1 first bought machine
and began to operate it there crept gradu-
allv into my manipulation of the wheels
that degree of carelessness which SEEM
ingly comes to all autosts with growing
familiarity. Within two weeks / had mar
rowly missed half dozen pedestrians who
failed to get out of my way with what
considered sufficient nimbleness. L didn't
worry myself much about such incidents,
either. l appeared to be imbued with the
firm conviction that pedestrians were nee
essarv evils, and not entitled to any great
degree of consideration, But about that
time something came over the spirit OF my
dreams. | saw a light, and, incidentally,
it came perilously near being the last one
ever saw. Walking unoffendingly along
one day while my car was in the garage
big touring car shot past me, making,
should say, not less than fifty miles an hour
I didn't see the machine until 1t was al
most on me, and if the driver saw me at all
he didn't pay any attention to my presence
There was no warming blast from his horn.
One of his front wheels grazed my heel. 1t
was an effective lesson. / had been in the
pedestrians place, and understood the pc
destrian's point of view. l saw myself as
in mirror, and knew the frightful care
lessness of which l had been guilty many
times I'm different kind of driver
now"
Putting ones self in the other fellows
place unquestionably is educative. This is
merely one example of where its effects
were practical and benefeent. 1t will do
none of us harm if occasionally we pause
and repeat to ourselves the golden rule.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-11
pARTRIDcEs DEvoUR BOIL wEEvILs

From the Opelka (Ala.) News.
Russell Cole, former game warden of this
county, while at the News office Tuesday
told of an occurrence which shows we have
a blessing in our midst, if we will only take
advantage of it. He says that while sitting
on his porch with his family a few days ago
a covey of cartridges few into his yard
One bird alighted in the hall of his home,
which Mr. Cole caught alive. He said he
examined the bird and found its craw full
of boil weevils. Mr.. Cole says he didn't
see how that bird could possibly have eaten
another weevil, as its craw was crammed
with them. He says this assuredly indi-
Gates that we have blessing in our midst
if we only realized it. He said that while
he was county warden the state game war
den wrote him repeatedly and urged that
hunters hold down as much as possible in
killing cartridges, as they were the best boil
weevil destroyers we had. Mr.. Cole fur
Their said that in his opinion it would be the
best thing that ever happened for our sec
ton if everyone owning land would prohibit
trespassing or shooting, so that the par
tridges might be protected
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-11
The Wind and the Sea

The sea is a jovial comrade,
He laughs wherever he goes;
His merriment shines in the dimpling lines
That wrinkle his hale repose;
He lays himself down at the feet of the sun
And shakes all over with glee,
And the broad-backed pillows fall faint on
the shore
In the mirth of the mighty sea.
But the wind is sad and restless,
And cursed with an inward pain;
You may bark as you WILL by valley or hill,
But you hear him still complain.
He walls on the barren mountains,
And shrieks on the wintry sea;
He sobs in the cedar, and means in the pine,
And shudders all over the aspen tree.
Welcome are both their voices,
And l know not which is BEST
The laughter that slips from the oceans lips
Or the comfortless winds unrest;
There's q pang in all rejoicing,
A ioy in the heart of pain,
And the wind that saddens, the sea that
gladdens,
Are singing the selfsame strain!
-BAYARD TAYLOR.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-11
In the Field of Cotton
From the New York Times.

Cotton picking and ginning are now well
under way, the latter especially so, being
much ahead of the average at this time of
the year. There are reports of big sales,
and there have been large takings by the
mills as we'll as for export. Over half
million bales have been shipped this season
to Great Britain, where the stocks are not
as large as usual. What Weddings of price
have occurred have not been significant.
The main problem is whether this years
crop will suffice for the worlds needs until
the next one comes around Domestic mills
are continuing to show an increased con-
sumption, and even with the markets of the
central empires practically closed to this
mands from foreign countries which are
able to take cotton. In the goods end there
has been during the week slight easing up
now and then on print cloths and similar
constructions, mainly on the part of second
hands, but the underlying frmness of the
market has been undeniable. High as the
asking prices are, it is commended with
great deal of argument in its favor that
they are not unreasonable. The demand
for export is still an important factor in
helping to keep prices up, South America
being a particularly good customer. Mills
are complaining of a scarcity of labor and
giving this as a reason why they cannot
make deliveries promptly. Higher prices
are asked for certain colored goods where
fastness of dye is guaranteed, and some
fabrics have been withdrawn or placed at
value. In hosiery and knit goods generally
sales are restricted only by the capacity of
the mills, the number of which is being
continually added to. Exports of hosiery
have been especially notable lately.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-11
Kansas has our lynching sympathy.
THESE GOLDEN DAYS OF AUTUMN

From the Walton County News.
Squirrels bounding over the first fallen
leaves of autumn to the nearby corn field
and, while stealing from the ear made bar
rem by their thievish claws, prick their ears
to hear the hunters voice. The hunter,
trudging his way along paths almost car
peted BY over-ripe and shriveled musca-
dimes, talks with natures God, wondering
how He made it all so beautiful-how it
was He fashioned into plumes the golden
rod and how, by the touch of His great
hand, He painted so many beautiful things
in the autumn sky Nightfall closes from
view the scene, and the hunter, tired and
wearied by his journey, lies down and
dreams of a place beautiful-of Heaven,
the eternal abiding place of the righteous.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-11

The talk of eighteen to twenty cents for
cotton impresses many people, and will not
down. If cotton does not go to the higher
price it may be due largely to the tremen-
dous selling movement. 1t is the cotton
growers themselves who may be bearing"
cotton prices by rushing their product to
market in. such great volume. That cotton
holds its price as we'll as it does under the
movement indicates that it is worth more
than it brings.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-11

yNine hundred years ago China had a
hank failure. Hi Hung, ruler of the celes-
tial empire at the time, investigated and
discovered shady conduct on the part OF the
bank officials He Immediately issued an
edict that the next time a bank went to the
wall the heads of its president and directors
should be forfeited. Since then there have
been no bank failures in China" says a
news item. This method of dealing with
frenzied finance may not be appealingly
poetic, but it appears to have been indis-
putably effective.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-11
The Delinquent Subscriber.

The delinquent subscriber is becoming a
very unwelcome customer of both the
weekly and daily newspapers these days OF
high-priced paper and short supply, and
never a week passes without some of our
contemporaries paying their respects to
him. The Washington Reporter, in its cur
rent issue, announces that it is going to
abandon the pleading process adopted by
the average newspaper to get subscription
money, and put it on business basis. It
says:
We have been spending something
like $40 a month for this kind of york,
and simply cannot afford it. Paper is
too expensive to mail out every week
several hundred newspapers to those
who have not paid for them, and we
are going to quit it Therefore, if
your Reporter fails to come from now
on it might be we'll to inquire if your
subscrition has expired. Look at the
label on your paper, and if it shows
that your subscription has expired it
will likely be the last issue that you
will get until you renew it.