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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-06-28
CHAPTER XIV.
An AWakeninu.

Time vas when Phil Strange boosted
that he and his wife had played every
Playground and seaside amusement
park from Coney island to Galveston.
In his battered wardrobe trunks were
parts Of old costumes, scrapbooks Of
| clippings. and a goOdly collection Of
autographs, some advertising the su-
pernatural powers of professor Magi,
Sovereign of the Unseen World" and
others the. accomplishments Of mile.
LIE Garde, Renowned Serpent Enchan-
tress." In these gaudy portraits of
"Magi the Mystic" no one would have
recognized Phil Strange. And even
more difficult would it have been to
trace a resemblance between Mrs.
Strange and the blond, bushy-headed
Mile. LIE Garde" Of the posters. New
~ertheless, the likenesses at one time
had been considered not too flattering,
and Phil treasured them as evidences
of imperishable distinction.
But the Stranges had tired Of public
life. For a long time the wife had
confessed to a lack of interest in her
vocation which amounted almost to a
repugnance. Snake-charming, she had
discovered, was far from an ideal pro-
fession for a woman of refinement. It
possessed unpleasant features, and
even such ~euphemistic titles as "Ser-
pent Enchantress" and "Reptilian
Mesmerist" failed to rob the calling
l'of a certain odium, a suggestion of
vulgarity in the minds of the more
discriminating. This had become so
distressing to Mrs. Strange's finer
sensibilities that she had voiced a
yearning to forsake the platform and
pit for something more congenial, and
finally she had prevailed upon Phil
to make a change.
The step had not been taken without
misgivings. but a benign Providence
had watched over the pair. Mrs
Strange was a natural seamstress, and
luck had directed her and Phil to q
community which va not only in need
of a good dressmaker but peculiarly
ripe for the talents Of q soothsayer.
Phil, too, had intended to embrace q
new profession; but he had soon dis
covered that J%onesville offered better
financial returns to q man of his &C.
cepted gifts than did the choicest of
seaside concessions, and therefore he
had resumed his old calling under a
slightly different guise. Before long
he acknowledged himself we'll pleased
with the new environment, for his wife
was fur happier in draping dress goods
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upon the figures Of her customers thar
hanging python folds about her own,
and he found his own fame growing
with every day. His mediumistic gifts
came into general demand. The coun-
try-people journeyed miles to consult
him, and Blaze Jones' statement. that
they confided in the fortune-teller as
they would have confided in q priest
was scarcely an exaggeration. Phil
did indeed become the repository for
confessions Of many sorts.
Contrary to Blaze's belief, however,
Strange was no Prince of Darkness,
and took little joy in some of the Sc
crets forced upon him. Phil was a
good man in his way-so conscientious
that certain information he acquired
weighed him down with a sense of un-
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-06-28

the cows received hay they con.
sumed practically the same amount
of silage a when no hay was
Included in the ration. Both lots
consumed an excess Of protein and
net energy above that necessary for
maintenance and milk production
when based on Eckles' standard. There
were no apparent undesirable physi-
cal effects from the feeding Of silage
alone for roughage with the grains
used. There was very little difference
ln the cost Of the two rations or in
the feed cost Of milk and milk fat.
No perceptible difference was observed
In the health Of the two lots.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-06-28
"There Comes My Honeysuekle," She
Would Say.

blebees do. And I love them too! The
little dears! But 1 must tell you the
reason why I come up each year, even
though sometimes it seems so hard.
"Years and years ago I was planted
by a little girl-a little girl, Mary
Alice, who loved flowers and who could
always make them grow. And above
all the flowers she loved her red Hon.
eysuckle best Of oil. She watched
over me. She gave me drinks. She
dug up the earth around my roots. She
made me so comfortable. And now,
when I come to think Of it, for q very
special occasion, she would pluck 81
a spray of my red blossoms and
them.
"Now Mary Alice grew up to be a
big lady-though she was I've very
big. She always seemed like q little
girl to me, for she was so dainty, so
small and so lovely. Her Eyes were
very blue and her hair very golden.
But after the years went by each
spring. I noticed that silver was grow.
ing in her hair, and then n spring ]
saw that it was quite white.
During all this time there were
other little children growing up-and
now there are some more. How they
do grow! Every spring I see them so
much older and SO much bigger. And I
always saw my little girl-for I
thought of her as that even when she
was quite, quite old-smiling ut all the
little faces, and the children would
smile at her-never scOwls-always
smiles. Somehow no one could have
scowled at Nary Alice, and I don't
believe she ever scowled at anyone.
For when her hair was white, her fore
head had no wrinkles.
"Every spring she would be waiting
for me. there comes my honey
suckle,' she would say. The last few
years it's been very hard to come up.
MY roots have lost their strength. but
I have come along as best I could, for
I have thought Of Mary Alice and her
smiles.
"Last year she was sitting by her
window and looking out at me. THAT
h~oneysuckle is as old as I am she
said.
"And not long after that I missed
seeing dear little %old-young Mary Alice
and her smiles when I waited my fra
GRANGE through her window.
"But one day I saw the other people
Of the house and the children, too,
looking at me. The h%oneysuckle that
she loved they said. 'Oh. we hope it
will keep on coming up each year, for
it reminds us so Of her. But it looks
pretty old now
$50 you see, little Hyacinth, I must
come up, even though I am so very
tired and old!"
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Copyright BY Harper 4 Brothers
CHAPTER xlv-continued.

"Heaven knows! Out in the barn
o under the house," Taking advan-
tage Of the dressmaker's momentary
absence from the room, Paloma con-
tinued in a whisper: II wish you'd talk
to dad and see what you make of him.
He's absolutely-queer. Mrs. Strange
seems to have a peculiar effect on him.
Why, it's almost as If"
"What?"
swell, I suppose I'm foolish, but
Tn beginning to believe in spells. You
know, Mrs. Strange's husband is a sort
of-necromancer."
"How silly!"
There was no further opportunity
for words, as the woman reappeared at
that instant; but a little later Alaire
went in search of Blaze, still consid-
erably mystified. AS she neared the
farm buildings, she glimpsed a mans
figure hastily disappearing into the
barn. The figure bore a suspicious re-
semblance to Blaze Jones, yet when
she followed, he was nowhere to be
seen.
"Mr. Jones! J" Alaire called. She re.
peated 'Blaze's name several times
then something stirred. The door Of a
harness closet opened cautiously, and
out of the blackness peered Paloma's
father. He looked more owlish than
ever behind his big, gold-rimmed spec
tacles. "What in the world are you
doing.in thereY" she cried.
Blaze emerged, blinking. He was
dusty and perspiring.
"Hello, Miz Austin !" hi saluted hel
with a poor assumption of br~eeziness
81 was fxin' some harness, but I'm
right glad to see YOU"
Alaire regarded him quizzically
"What made you hide2" she asked.
glide? Who, me?" az
gopher"
Blaze confessed: II re- son I've go
the willies. Every oma I see looks
like that dressmaker."
"Paloma was telling NJ about you
Why do you hate her so?"
II don't know s I hate her, but he,
and her husband have pvt a jinx OF
IHe. 1uey rG Tie WOiSt people 1 eve
see, Miz Austin"
"You don't reall'-' olieve in sucl
things?"
Blaze busted off a seat for his visi
tor, saying: II never did till lately
but now I'm worse than a plantation
niger. I tell you there's things ii
this world we don't sabe. I wish you''
get Paloma to fire her. ! We tried an,
failed. I wish you'd tell her thos
dresses are rotten"
"But they're very nice ;:-they're love
ly; and I've just been complimentinI
her. Now what has this woman don
to you?"
It seemed impossible t At a man o
Blaze Jones' character could actuall
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-06-28

Probably 1t was nicotine poisonin' that
killed twenty acres of my cotton, too;
and maybe if I'd cut out tobacco I'd
have floated that bond issue on the
irrigation ditch. But I was welded to
cigarettes, so my banks are closin'
down on me. Sure! That's what a
man gets for slnokin'."
"And do you attribute all these mis-
fortunes to Paloma's dressmaker"
The man nodded gloomily. "That
amt half! Everything goes wrong.
I'm scared to pack a weapon for fear
I'll injure myself. Why, I've carried
a bowie knife in my bootleg ever since
I was a babe in arms, you might say;
but the other day I jabbed myself
with it and nearly got blood-poisonin'.
This fellow, Strange, with his fortune
tellin' and his charms and his centuries,
has hocus-pocused the whole neigh
borhood. He's gettin' rich off Of the
Mexicans. He knows more secrets
than a parrot"
"He is nothing more than q circus
fakir, Mr.. JONES'"
"Yes'm! Just the same, these greas-
ers d vote him into the legislature If
he asked them. Why, he knows who
fetched back Ricardo Guzman's body!
He told me So"
Really" Alaire looked up quickly,
then the smile left her face. After a
moment she said, "Perhaps he could
tell me something I want to know?"
mo, don't you get him started"
Blaze cautioned, hastily, "or he'll put a
spell on you like he did on me"
II want to know what Ed had to do
with the Guzman affair.""
Blaze shook his head slowly. "NNell
he's mixed up somehow with Lewis
Dave thinks Tad was at the bottom
Of the KILN, and he hoped to prove
it on him; but our government won't
do anything, and he's stumped for the
time bein'. I don't know any more
about Eds dealin's than you do, Nil
Austin; all I know is that 1 got a ser
pent in my household and I can't gel
shed Of her. I've got a lapful o.
troubles .of my own"
"This is too occult for me-" she de
clared, rising. "But-I'm interested ii
what you say about Mr.. Strange. Il
the Mexicans tell him so much, perhap:
| he a tell me something. I do hope
you have no more misfortunes."
) "You stay to SUPPER" Blaze urget
: tarantula's gone"
f. But Alaire declined. After a brie
! chat with Paloma, she remountet
Montrose and prepared for the home
I. ward ride. At the gate, however, sh'
met Dave Law on his new mare, an,
when Dave had learned the object o
her visit to J%onesville he insisted upol
accompanying her.
{ 1t vas early dusk when they reached
Las Palmas; it was nearly midnigh
when Dave threw his leg across hi
saddle and started home.
Alaire's parting words rang sweet
l in his ears: "This has been the pleas
1 ATTEST day I can remember"
I The words themselves meant little
but Dave had caught a wistful under
Il tone in the speakers voice, and fancie
he had seen in her eyes a queer, hall
: frightened expression, as Of n JUS
' awakened.
u
u Jose Sanchez had beheld Dave La,
- at the Las Palmas table twice With
u a few days. He spent this evening IL
{ boriously composing a letter to hi
friend and patron, Gen. Luis Longorit
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-06-28
FEED RoUGHAGE TO DRY COWS
Grain to Have Them In Good
Physical Condition.

Dry cows can be maintained or hay
and silage or roots. 1t is profitable
however, to feed COWS a sun cient
amount Of grain during the dry period
to have them in good physical eondi.
ton at calving time.
Cows should be dry for six to eight
weeks prior to calving. 1t does not
pay to have them dry for 9 longer
7eri0d.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-06-28
Conservation.

"Here, sister, play I was m Indian
and shoot an apple on top Of your
head"
"That was William Tell that shot
the apple on top Of somebody's head.
and mamma does not allow me to
waste apples. She does not allow ms
10 waste anything
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-06-28

The Door Of a Harness Closet Opened,
and Out of the BIackness Peered
PaIoma's Father.
harbor crude superstitions, and yet
there was no installing his earnest
ness when he said:
II amt sure whether she's to blame,
or her husband, but misfortune has
folded me to herself"
"How?"
"Well, I'm SICK"
"You don't look it."
II don't exactly feel it, either, but
I am. I don't sleep good, my hearts
actin up, I've got rheumatism, my
stomach feels like I'd swallowed some
thing alive"
you're smoking too MUCH" Alaire
affirmed, with conviction.
But skepticism aroused Blaze's in
dignation. With elaborate sarcasm. he
netorted: II reckon that's why my best
team Of mules ran away and dragged
me through a ten-acre patch of grass
burrs, Ell? It's q wonder I wasn't
killed. 1 reckon I smoked so much
that I give a tobacco heart to the best
three-year-old bull in my pasture !
Well, ] smoked him to death, all right.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-06-28
Cossack Superstition.

Among the numerous superstitions
Of the Cossacks there is a belief that
they will enter heaven in a better state
Of moral purity If they are personally
clean when killed in battle.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-06-28
Style In Emotion.

"Now some scientific sharp says
there are styles in emotions" II be-
lieve 1t. I know some women who al
ways yea their dignity rufled."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-02
THE BUNK PATRIOT.

l prefer the Stacker TO the bunk pa
triOt, says Berton Bradley.
For at least the Stacker is frankly
lodging his duty, while the bunk pat.
riot is trying to get by with loud
promise and no performance.
Who is the bunk patriot?
He is the corner grocer who Grapes
the flag all over the front of his shop
and puts up his prices so per cent con
account of the war"
The restaurant keeper who serves
lloover's rations at enhanced shced-
ulcs
The business man who subscribes
to two liberty bonds and gets it back
Immediately with 200 per cent. add
cd from the public he is supposed to
serve.
The landlord who sends out notices
of increased rents on paper with an
embossed flag in the corner.
lie is the employer WHO talks ,.bc ut
the "dislOyal ard unpatriot;c workmcn
who strikes for another dollar to
meet increased cost of living due to
the activities of other bunk patriots
and III the next breath denounccs the
conliscatory and socialigtic policy of
taking ten per cent of his extra war
profits to carry on the war.
He is the banker, the financier, the
money lender who cheers for our
boys in khaki and forecloses notes
and mortgages on the families they
have behind.
lie is any and every member of the
tribe and "I'll Get Mine"-and when
the real patriots who are suffering
and sacrificing and toiling and fight
ing To win this war for democracy
and decency find time to attend to
him he's going to 'get his" with COM
pound interest and bonus. When
that glad period arrives the rest of
us will be present to look on approx
ingly and TO yell "Hit him again. He
has no friends" Quyan Valley Thun-
dercr.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-02
A YEAR OF CHEER.

A lot of good fortune is in store
for those families who are in on the
Youths Companion subscription list
of 1918-a year of cheer.
There will be twelve glorious serial
or group stories, ranging from a
girls war story by Grace S. Richmond
and Indian adventures by James w.
Schultz, to the unrivaled tales of
former days by G. A. Stephens.
The charm of Companion stories
lies in the fact that whether they are
especially written for boys or for
girls, everyone enjoys them to the
full. Then there are special pages
for the Family, Boys, Girls, and ev-
en- for childrcn-while the editorial
page, Current Events and Doctors
Corner supply all the requirements
of the family for good reading. And
this particular feast can come from
no other source.
The Companion alone is 200, but
by special arrangement new subscrib-
ers for the Companion can also, by
adding 25c have McCalPs Magazine
for 1918 both publications for only
$2.25.
This two-in-one- price offer includes
l. The Youths Compaion, So issues
in 1918.
2. All remaining 1917 issues of The
Companion free.
3. The Companion Home Calendar
for 1918.
a. McCalrs Magazine-12 fashion
numbers in 1918. All for 1925.
THE YOUTHS COMPANION,
Commonwealth Ave, Boston, Mass.
New subscriptions received at this
office.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-02
sLACKERs OF 1862.

petroleum v. Nasby," d. r. Locke
editor of the Toledo, (Ohio) Blade,
wrote of the slackers of 1862, when
Lincoln issued his first draft
81 see in the papers last mite that
the government heZ institooted draft
and that in few weeks sum hun
drcds NV thousands of peecable citi-
zcns will be dragged to the tented
field. know not what others may do,
but ez for me, can't go. Upon a
rigid eggsaminishum NV my fizzickle
man, find it wood bewus nor madnis
for me to undertake campane, to-
wit:
"I'm bald hcadid, and heb bin oblig-
ed to wear wig these % years.
81 hcv dandruff in wat scanty hair
still hangs round my venerable tenn
pies.
81 have Il kronic gataar.
81 hev lost, since Stanton's order
to draft, the use NV wun eye and hev
kronic inflammashun in the other.
"My teeth is all unsound, by plat
amt eggsactly rite, and l have bron-
kcetis 81 years last Joon. AT pres
ent l hcv koff the proxixisms us
witch is fritcful to behold.
"I'm boiler chcstid, am short wind
cd and hcv allus had pains in my
back and sides.
"Im afflicted with verrykose vanes,
hcv white swelli' on wun leg and a
fever sore on the luther; also wun leg
is shorter than tother, tho | handle
it so expert that nobody ever notices
it.
81 hev korns and bunyons on both
feet, which wood prevent me from
marchin'.
81 don't suppose that my political
opinions which are against the pros
sekushun NV this unconstitutional war
wood hev any waite with a draftin or
fisher; but the above reasons why l
can't go will, I axe no doubt. be suf-
iishunt."-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-02
SCHOOL FAIR AND CONSERVA-
TION AT RADFORD NORMAL.

One of the most interesting fea-
lures of the fall quarter was the Fair
and Food Conservation program held
at the Normal Thursday.
The stage of auditorium was at
tractively decorated with food post
ers and potted plants which formed
the background for the exhibits of
the canned fruits and vegetables of
the Household Arts Department. The
Senior exhibit in this department
was very creditable. 1t contained n
display of canned peas, corn, beans,
tb.eets, tomatoes. fruits. berries. jel,
mes, pickles; and preserves. The ac-
ademic students competed for priz-
e es in canned tomatoes and ieilies.
The winners for tomatoes were Miss
Tressis Hudson, of Halifax county.
ana Miss Elizabeth Hicks. Of Taze-
well county. The Jelly prize went to
Miss Mary Lucy Bowman, of Tenn.
essee.
In addition to the exhibits of the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-02
AMERICAS BILLIONS.

The Second Liberty Loan has been
even more heartily and largely sub
scribed than the first one The ama2-
ing sum of of perhaps six billion dol
lars! Some Apprehension was folt in
certain quarters that this second loan
following so closely upon the heels
of the first, with millions called for
and subscribed for the Red Cross in
between, would drag and perhaps
fail. Even the most sanguinc scarce
ly expected such splendid result.
The American people are behind this
war to sec it through.
If all the people who could have
have done so, had aubaci bed, Ike
amount would have been dt ubled or
nearly SO. 1t is clairc!d taat The far
mers of the country laid d.vn {, TIE
job-the very class OF people WHO are
protiting most now by wai' pieces and
conditions.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-02

There Is more Catarrh In this section OF
the country than all other diseases put
together. and until The last few years
was supposed TO be incurablc. For a
local disease and prescribed local rene
dies. and by constantly failing TO cure
with local treatment. pronounced Il incur
able. Science has proven Catarrh to be n
constitutional disease. and therefore re-
quires constitutional treatment Halls
Catarrh Cure. manufactured by +. ].
Cheney S Co. Toledo. Ohio, ia the only
constitutional cure on the market. 1t Is
taken internally. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces OF the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any
case II fails Ia cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials
Address: t. }. CHENEY c co. Toledo. o.
Sold by Dr.SEIatR .bc
Take IIaIrs Family pills for constipation
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DICKENsoN COUNTY NOTES.

Freezing, Va, October 24-Nearly
the whole of the cane crop in this
section was bitten by the early frosts,
having been planted late. There was a
general rush to work the cane before
1T soured, but this demand for mills
created shortage, with the result that
much of the crop has been lost. Con-
siderable corn was just in the roast
ing ear stage when the frosts came.
This corn will be worthless, except
so much of it as can be fed to the
stock at once.
Politics, it appears, has been rele-
gated to the backward by the war,
with its dire possibilities. Amidst
speculations as to the outcome of the
great world-war for supremacy of
principles, there is apparently little
room for the wrangle and turmoil of
political campaign.
Juts now. while Helen Hunt Jack
sons beautiful poem, "Octobcr's
Bright, Blue Weather." is going the
rounds of the press, we of the noun
tains are impressed by the grandeur
of the season in its natural aspects.
The bright, blue weather." just suf-
iiciently cool for comfort from the
sweltering summer, and the varie-
S"StiS NOioi IilC Hills nave AIKEN on,
render the season worthy of the
praise of that poem.
Delman Hanover, who has been an
inmate of hospital at jenkins, KY,
mining town across the border,
confined with typhoid, has just been
brought back here, much the worse
for his illness but apparently on the
road to recovery.
Thomas T. Hawkins, deputy sher-
if of Darwin, was in this vicinity on
Official business during the week
Claude F. Beverly has gone to Lo-
gan, w. Va, to look at newspaper
plant with view of going into the
business there.
James X. Damron, of Clintwood,
representing the Ritter Lumber Co.,
was here during the week. This cor
poration holds considerable interest
along Pound River and in the Cum
berland mountains.
Leonard Stewards. of Clintwood, was
seeing friends here before his de-
parture for Camp Lee, he having
been selected for military service.
He has many friends hereabouts who
regret to see him go.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-02

Normal school children Of the Train,
ing School had an exhibit of toma-.
toes and jelly. Miss Emma Peter
man won on canned tomatoes and
Miss Nina Graham on apple jelly.
The students of the school garden
ing class, under the direction Of
Miss Denny, had a splendid exhib-
it of their products, which was very
unique in that it showed a collec-.
ton of vegetables high in food val
ue, but not commonly raised in our
gardens, such as Brussels Sprouts,
Satisfy, Carrots, Kohl,rabi, ctc.
The chapel period YVES taken by the
Senior Household Art Students WHO
have u food conservatism program.
The work of Mr.. Hoover End how
foods can be saved YVES the theme.
This program is only one of of the
many activities of the household arts
department which is rapidly grow
ing, all the classes being full. Miss
Moffett, who is head of this dep: TT
ment, has as her assistant Miss Ell
RIGA Shelburne, who has completed
the Household Arts Course here.
This year there is a large number Of
students who are taking the full
course with an eye toward the pro-
fcssion of home making rather than
teaching. This indicates that, at least
we are realizing the need of scien-
tific training for the home as well as
for any other profession followed by
women.