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The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08

In his fixed resolve not to forget what
had gone before. Why couldn't he be
sensible andatalk to her as If nothing
had happened? AS for herself, she
would die before she begged his for
giveness. And so matters stood when
they reached Fort Harrison, on the
homeward journey.
At Fort Harrison they found Ike
Blackford, sound and strong again.
Toinette had dreaded meeting him. He
came toward her, his face bright with
Joy, but clouded when he realized that
David and she had not yet settled
their silly quarrel. Ike was misera-
BILE; but he kept silence. He knew bet
ter than to thrust his paw into that
fire.
The wounded were transferred to
the boats at Fort Harrison and the
journey to Vincennes was soon accom-
plished. There they found the lady
mule Priscilla, and when the march 20
Corydon was resumed TOinette was
ferried on the jenny's patient back,
while Ike strobe beside her.
And Ike laughed, striving to make
her forget; but strove in vainl
On the twenty-ffth of November
they reached Corydon. Runners had
gone on before with the news of vic
tory; and the whole village came out
to meet them as they neared the town ;
women ran among the men even as
they marched and flung their arms
around the necks of brothers, fathers,
husbands, though some sought in vain
for those who would never return
or threw themselves with weeping be-
side the bodies of those who lay upon
the litters. But hundred hearts were
happy and thanked God; and happiest
of all was a little old man, Patrice
O'Bannon, who strained his daughter
to his breast and kissed her again and
again with tears mingling with his
kisses; for she had been brought back
TO him as from the grave.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08
"CASCARETS' FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a Decent box now.

No odds how bad your liver, stomach
or bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable and uncomfort-
able you are from constipation, indiges-
ton, biliousness and sluggish bowels
you always get the desired results
with Cascarets.
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to the
headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv-
BUSINESS, sick, sour, gassy stomach,
backache and all other distress;
cleanse your inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 10-cent box means health, happi-
ness and a clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
II you will take a Cascaret now and
then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children-their little In
sides need a cleansing. too. Adv.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08
Sunk by Iceberus.

Admittedly the worst danger menac-
ing transatlantic travellers in modern
days, with steamers of such speed as
are plying on the Atlantic, is that Of
collision with icebergs in n dense fog.
1t is morally certain that the mystic
rious disappearance of big steamers
like the Naronic and the Huronian
an more recent years and of many
others previously, is attributable to
this cause, for no other agency is pow
erful enough to work the ruin Of a
modern liner with her cellular bottom
and water-tight bulkheads.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08

knife; but II had fallen out during the
struggle. Clambering up the bank
again, he saw it lying on the ground
and as his fingers closed upon the
handle he thought he heard a sob. he
turned his head quickly.
"Toinettei"
The name burst from him In the
completeness of his establishment In
the reTulsion of his despair, in his
mighty Joy, like the cry Of the soul
itself.
Toinette was leaning against the log
from behind which Girty had risen. ex.
hausted by the effort she had made to
free herself from the thongs mat
bound her feet and hands. A sob had
come frsm lips drawn in utter weeri
uess ana despair.
He was bssiaa her.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08
CHAPTER XV-continued.

With a bound he reached the bank
Of the stream, leaped down beneath
Its friendly shelter, and ran on noise
less moccasins along the shelving
edge, back toward the quarter from
which the shot had come; if he were
pursued, it would be better to let the
chase pass him than to try TO out
distance the Indian runners. At last
he stopped and inch by inch crawled
up to the top of the bank until he
could lift his head with infinite eau
ton and peer through the tufts of
weeds. No sound broke the stiffness.
For an eternity of time he lay, clutch
ing his rifle in readiness; but the only
sound was the querulous calling of the
little woodpecker, high overhead. He
waited waited waited.
Fifty yards away a twig snapped
under slow-moving foot. David
scarcely breathed. A head rose above
fallen giant of the forest, and a
crouching shadow fitted from tree to
tree, nearer, nearer David
raised his rifle ever so little
He saw the face of the dread hunter,
peering with quick motions of the
head from side TO side, watchful as
the brown water-snake. Nearer he
came; the garb was that of an Indian,
the face a white mans! David was
about 20 cry out with relief when the
glittering eyes were turned full toward
him, though they failed to pierce the
sheltering covert, and with a sickening
horror David recognized the face of
Simon Girty, the renegade!
On the instant, David lifted his rife
and fred full at the crouching figure.
From Girty's lips broke the roar of
an Infatuated animal; he staggered
back with the impact of the shot, but
he did not fall nor yet did he lift his
weapon to his shoulder; and David
saw that his shot had struck only the
lock of Girtys rife, rendering it use
less but leaving the man unframed
With q below of rage, Girty bounded
toward him, swinging the broken
weapon like a club. There was no t1me
to reload. David leaped to the top OF
the bank and braced himself for the
onset. As the dubbed rifle of the out
law rose above his head, David swung
his own upward to meet it. They
crashed together and splintered with
q shock; and in the same second, fling
ing the broken stock away, the mighty
arms of Simon Girty flung themselves
around David.
With the strength Of desperation
David strove to oppose the terrible
sinews. Back and forth over the
frozen grass the two men fought like
! beasts, heaVing, struggling, stumbling
over roots, locked in an embrace as
deadly as that of the cougar. But Il
could not last long; David felt his
strength ebbing under the terrific
strain and his breath grew short anC
gasping; when suddenly the earth gave
way beneath their feet and with las
despairing effort David twisted him
self above as they toppled over the low
bluff, and the fight was over. Girty
falling underneath, had struck his heaC
upon a stone; and his arms relaxed
their hold.
David stood up, painting.
Girty lay very still. But Davit
knew that he must make sure that thu
man was dead before he could be SAT-
himself. He felt in his girdle for hi
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08

He passed swiftly from house to house,
inquiring from each if there the young
doctor from Louisville, young Doctor
Elliott, was within; and, though sever
al had seen him that day, none knew
where he might be found. 1t was late
when someone he questioned recalled
that he thought he had seen Elliott
that night at Conrod's tavern outside
the village.
He set out on the road that led to the
east. The storm had reached its
height.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08
81 Don't Know"

There is always hope for the girl
who is not afraid to say, 81 don't
know" provided. of course, that she
wants to know. If this avOwal of ig-
norance is also an expression of indif-
ference, she is no better off than the
girl who tries to look intelligent when
a subject is being discussed Of which
she is entirely ignorant. No one will
attempt TO enlighten the girl who pre-
tends to know it all. The wisest way
TO find out about the mysteries which
puzzle you is to be ready to say, 81
don't know."-Girrs Companion.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08
Auainst women,s Hlah Shoes.

There Is a great cry in England
against the high shoes Of fashion, be-
cause of the leather they consume, UNI
necessarily. One manufacturer an
nounces publicly that although he 10
not in sympathy with the style he
must make them because women insist
upon having them.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08
CARE FOR YOUR SKIN
And Keep II Clear by Daily Use o.
cutlcura-Trial Free.

A hot bath with Cuticura Soap fol-
lowed by a gentle amounting with Cuti-
cura Ointment clears the skin or scalp
in most cases of eczemas, rashes and
itching of children and adults. Maks
Cuticura your everyday toilet prepara-
tons and prevent such troubles.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08

forced to use a
cane. For these
disorders I am
glad to say 1 used
d o d d. s Kidney
Pills, which proved
to be the proper
remedy. / am GA
years young, feel
Fl n e a d once
again stand as
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08

straight as an arrow. Dodd's Kid
ney Pills deserve great credit" Get a
Doc box at your dealers to-day.
A generous free trial box will be
mailed If you send the coupon.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08
81 YEARS YOUNG!

Mr.. S. P. Benton, Kerrville, Texas,
writes: For several years prior to
1906 1 suffered from kidney and rheu-
matte troubles. Was bent over and
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08
Substantial Token.

"Have you anything on hand to
make your engagement practical?"
"Sure pa. A diamond ring"
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08

The fonder a man is Of a woman
the less he likes the bother Of telling
her so.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08

A postal card to Garfield Tea Co., Brook.
Ign, N. Y, asking for a sample will re-
pay you.-Adv.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08

Most of these friends in need always
seem to need us.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08

II is noticed that some breadwinner'
provide larger loaves than others.
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08

All may do what has by man been
dOna
The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08

Natural Conclusion.
"Smlth called Jones a toad"
"What happenedT
"Jones got hopping mad"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10
II PULLED ME OUT OF TROUBLE" SAYS FARMER bRANTLEY Thought He Was All In, But Tanlac Brought Back
 Health

I don't believe I would have ever gotten well again if it hadn't been for Tanlac" declared w. F. Brantley, a well Known farmer on R. F. D. out of May field, Hancock county Ga. Tt pulled me out of trouble all right, and I weigh 30 pounds more than I did before I started taking it.
 Stomach trouble and nervousness pulled me down so I was so weak in the back and knees I could hardly get about. Lots of times I was so run down couldn't get out of bed without my wife helping me up. 1 couldn't eat thing that didn't sour on my stomach and give me no end of misery I got so I didn't want to eat bite and had no strength to go on at all, and kept losing weight all the time.
 A friend told me about Tanlac and 1 got a bottle and began on it. I hadn't finished the first bottle before began to pick up and I've been on the mend ever since. Soon I got so could hardly wait for breakfast was so hungry. My pains have all gone and I am feeling better than I have in many day. The fact is Tanlac has done wonders for me.
 Tanlac is sold in Birmingham exclu- sively by Eugene Jacobs drug store and Patton-Pope Drug company; in Ensley by D. w. Morris Drug company; in Bessemer by Pegram- Patton Drug company; in Pratt City by Gale Drug company; and in North Birmingham by Walker Drug company.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10
GERMAN NOb[EMAN SAID AUSTRALIANS KIND IN HOSPITAL Prince Friedrich, Nephew of Wilhelm, Told Minister
 Hospital Attendants
 Were COnsiderate

London. May 20.-(Correspondence or the Associated Press)-An interesting ac- count of the last days of Prince Karl Friedrich. nephew of the German En- peror who was wounded when flying and taken prisoner by the Australians. is slven in letter received here from the Rev Caldwell. Baptist minister who Is official chaplain to the German pris- oners in the general hospital in France.
 IT am anything the minister quoted the prince as saying to him, T am a sport. l have played tennis with Wilding and other first class players I shall never forget the good times I had in England when I played them all. The kindness which has surrounded me since became prisoner has brought back the memory of those days.
 The Australians were good to me. the officers and soldiers who attended me coming down the line were very consid- crate and the whole atmosphere of this hospital is kindness. I am grateful to you and all who wish me well.
 I lie here helpless prisoner, but have no regrets. I did my best for my country, and I am not sorry I am fin- ished with the war. I want to live. am young and when the war is over I shall go back and help to build up my nation again.
 'He shook hands with me each time I came and went" said MT. Caldwell An hour or so before he died prayed with him. He was very weak and i'll.
 When I finished he opened his eyes and with smile said: Thank you, thank you very much. He soon fell into un- consciousness from which he never re- covered"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10
UNCLE SAINTS NEW RICE FIELDS Frank Carpenter

it is plowed just as for wheat and oats, and inc crop is cultivated after much the same manner a s grain in the north On the larger plantations the blowing is done with gang blows, each drawn by a team of four horses or mules. or by steam or gasoline tractors rive or six inches is the average depth of the fur rows. The rice is put in with drills as in ordinary seeding, and there Is none of the back breaking work of setting out the sprouts in the mud with the hand as is done in Japan
 The water is not let into the fields until after the rice has Sprouted and come up so that it partially shades the ground. After that the country seems like a great series of lakes with the green stalks ris- ing above them. The roots of the plants are embedded in the water to a depth of two or three inches, and the ground is a great sponge with the water, wash ing the lower parts of the plants. In some sections each acre has to have 15 900 gallons of water every "A hours to pro- vide for the plant growth and evapora- tion, and keep the supply where it should be.
 Two or three weeSs before the crop ripens, which here is in late August the water is turned off to allow the land to become dry before harvesting. Then the reapers are turned in and the grain is reaped and bound by machinery made for the purpose. A single machine will reap and bind from six to twelve acres per day. The laborers follow the binders and shock up the rice. It remains in the shock about three weeks before threshing.
 The harvesting scenes are similar to those of the wheat regions of our north- western states. The rice turns yellow and the sheaves look like wheat The threshing is done in about the same way. The machines go from farm to farm and a single thresher will handle as much as 2000 acres per day. In the threshing the paddy, or rice grain in the husk, flows forth at the side of the machine, while the straw is blown out through a pipe at one end. The paddy is caught in bags, each of which holds about 200 pounds, and it Is in this shape that it is carried on wagons or boats to the ware house or mill.
 Nearly every town in this part of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

The grain is cut by hand and threshed by pulling it through iron teeth like those of saw. In Japan the labor needed is such that one man can do little more than take care of an acre of rice. It costs the Japanese something like $3O per acre to raise his crop, or more than a dollar bushel. Tn Arkansas they are now raising rice at a little over 25 cents bushel, or about one-fourth of its cost in Japan.
 In the United States everything is done by machinery; and in irrgatng, plant ing, harvesting and preparing the grain for the market the labor item is kept down to the minimum. The holdings are large. In Houston there is one company that controls S0,000 acres, and many os the rice farms of Texas have a thou sand acres or more. It is the same in Arkansas, and also in California.
 In travelling through southern Louisiana you can see how machinery is doing the work Rice canals have been built all over the country. which are kept full from the bayous and rivers by pumping stations These canals are built on the top of the ground by throwing up two emb ankments from 50 to 100 feet apart. The dirt is taken from the middle. The water is thus carried above the surface of the ground. It is let ont through fumes Hedr tHe top or the banks into the neldS or lateral canals. and gravity does the work These canals are often from 20 to 30 miles long, 100 feet wide. and five or six feet in depth. Including the lat erals, there are enough canals already built, if placed end to end, to reach from Boston to San Francisco.
 The pumps used are of the most mod ern make. They are driven by compound Corliss engines which lift tens of thou sands of gallons per hour. In Vermilion parish Louisiana. there is a single pump ing station which has a total capacity of 324, 900 gallons in "A hours, or about as much as the water supply of New York city. The canal which carries that water feeds more than 25,000 acres of land, said to be worth S60 an acre.
 The rice fields here are easily made. The country Is flat, and all that is neces- sary Is to take a ditching blow and throw up low bank of earth around the field in the shape of a wall The bank is then tamped on the inside with spade and shovel to keep it from leaking.
 In preparing the ground for the crop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

world has it's rice mill. l visited one in Beaumont. Tex. which has a capacity of 5,000O coo pounds of cleaned rice year The mill covers an acre or so and 1t has five floors. through which the rice drops from one process to another on its way to the market.
 The machinery is much like that of flour mill. It takes the paddy as it comes from the fields and tears off the outer husk. Machines remove the coat of bran, which is next to the husk and grind off what is known as the polish. and others sort the grain and take out the broken pieces and grade them. There is also machinery to give the rice the pearly white gloss which it has in the stores. This gloss s made by coating each grain with glucose, which comes off in washing the rice before cooking. The coating is of no value ex- cept to make the rice please the eye or the customer. I give this on the authority of MT. w. r. McFadden, the president of the company owning the mill He says that the glucose may have sanitary value in that it dramatically seals each rice grain and keeps out the germs, but that the statement often made that unpublished rice contains more nutri- ment and is more healthfu than polished rice is not true They both have the same food value It may be different with rice which has some of the bran or polish left on or that which is eaten just as it comes from the hulls as is done in some faraway places.
 In this letter I have said nothing of the rice fields of the south Atlantic coast. It was there that rice was first planted and until within a very short time ago North Carolina and South Caro- lima were looked upon as among our chief rice-raising states. Today these two states and Florida Alabama and Mississippi altogether produce only about 30 900 bags of rice per annum out of total of almost 100000 bags Their i'm portance has been swallowed up by this new rice country of Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, and lastly by California, which in 1916 produced almost half again as much as the states above mentioned
 The first rice of the United States was planted in 1894. In that year ship from Madagascar was driven by storm into the harbor of Charleston. The captain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

IT AXE CHARLES is one of the cen
 ters of a new industry that can
 do much toward increasing our food supply in this great war with Ger many. It is surrounded by thousands of acres of rice fields. and the territory to it is now growing more than million sacks of rice every year Just now the rice is standing high out of the water, like countless emeralds sprouting out of basin of silver. There are great beds of these emeralds all the way from here to the Mississippi river, and they extend westward and Southward along the Gulf of Mexico to below the Brazos river in Texas. They are part of the great rice farm which runs along the fiat Louisiana prairies above the Gulf of Mexico and extends far down into Texas.
 The gulf strip of rice land is four or five hundred miles long and from 20 to 50 miles wide. and it is now producing a large part of the crop of the United States. It's area can be greatly extended and can be made to include much of the land running northward from here to Arkansas
 Tn the Arkansas prairies there are other rice lands which yield even more to the acre than those of the gulf; and within
 
 has sprung up in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys in California. In 1912 the rice of California had not yet come into the market. During that year a strip of 400 acres was planted near Biggs, in the Sacramento valley. It suc- ceeded so well that in 1913 6000 acres were planted, and they yielded more than 5000 pounds of rice to the acre. In 1914 the area jumped to 16,000 acres, and last year 1t covered 69000 acres In 1916 the rice crop of California alone was more than 100, 000000 pounds. It was equal to one pound for every man, woman and child in the United States, or enough to supply F meals for each of our citizens.
 To show that this is not an extrava- gant estimate, I here give you some figures supplied by the Manual for Army Cooks" gotten up by the war department for the troops in the field. It contains directions for the rations to be supplied to the soldiers, and how te cook them. Among the recipes are several for rice. One of them tells how to prepare a meal of boiled rice for 60 men. The ingredients are five pounds of rice and three gallons of water The recipe reads When the water comes to boil add the rice. When the rice has grown soft enough to be mashed with the fingers pour into a colander and drai'' well. After that each rice grain should be whole and separate" The dish should, of course. be salted to taste.
 Five pounds of rice for 50 mt
 means S1s pounds for 02 men. It means that S5 pounds would furnish a meal for 1000 soldiers. At that rate our new army of 5o0,000 could be fed on less than 1000 pounds of rice, an amount that could easily be stored in a single box car Four such cars would supply a meal of rice for 100000 men, and the food would form the best nourishment we could supply.
 This brings me to the food value of rice. How warm will it keep the soldiers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

had some rough rice on board and he gave some of 1t to one of the farmers, who found 1t grew well. A few years later Carolina rice was being grown In large quantities and was shipped to oth- CT parts of the worid. Later the plant CTS began to raise patches of rice along the Mississippi river. and after the Civil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10
The Discarded Rubaiyat

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
 "A loaf of bread-a jug of wine"- began the young man who quotes poetry
 Cayenne. that bread is becomins more expensive every day and tha; this Is prohibition community. any howl"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

war the people commenced to plant rice , in the delta The war had shown them it's value as a foodstuff and jt may be
 that the present war will so increase our consumption of rice that 1t will become one of the staple foods of the people. Copyright, 1917. by Frank G. Carpenter) Lake Charles. La.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

Nearly every town in this part of the