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The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-03-05

up with a jar to find that il is
huntfy. -Ana l Tor one siucere,,
nope mat some means Will lie q,
vised to save these same tAoayht-
, iess' p'easiie seeking pople from the
pangs 81 desperate hunger for the
farmer Will nav enough to eat at
ali events.
Yes, that. is Just the case. The
Ihlte" s'a'cs as a whole could be
IIkeneu TO my farm. When | came
mere: II was raw land. It needed to
De cleared and irrigated. roads buil1.
iences' honsesand sheds. etc. did
the most essential things first as far
as my capital woni permit me to
go. l didn't build that gravel road
out there because l would have been
pnttng my capital into dead prop
| erty. Ihat is something that would
not tT'ng large immediate returns.
But l could take my pencil and
prove 10 you that it would have
paid some interest on the investment
TO nave done SO. didn't buy that
player piano and these other fur
nlshings or build large house but
put all time, energy and capital into
PRODUCTION OF wheat and livestock.
something that brought money to
the bank. l didn't work eight hours
per day and don't vet. work ~
to 16 hours.
mo, the real farmer. has not got
time to think he is abused because
he works overtime. or to try to get
what he does not earn. He and his
wife and family haven't the time to
get so busy with the latest frills Of
fashion. and trying to find some ex
pensive way to amuse themselves
that they forget the essential things
OF life. He is TOO busy with honest
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-03-05

labor to try TO hatch ont some
scheine to live without labor Or to
take from others the results OF theis
labor. He edncates his children vnA
has reason to be proud OF their rec
ord in all walks cY life. He reads
good literature aud is fully posted
on the news of the day. and / think
he sees what is wrong in the nation
today but feels powerless to change
it swiftly but is going ahead in full
confidence that it will right itself
through the law Of supply, and de-
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-03-05

manu.'
After retiring l pondered on the
things | had heard for some time
and asoke in the morning 10 ind
the SUN shining, gasoline plentiful
and man on the ranch who soon
brought efficiency into MY mechanic
Cal speed wagon. and I completed
my Journey without mishap.
At the club repeated what had
heard and mast OF my friends looked
surprised and said, II never thought
about it in that way Have you?
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-03-05
Taking Things Easy

Reporter And was, he excited
when the burglars entered his house?
detective sergeant--Well. in q
way, he was. He bawied them out
for waking up the baby.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-03-05

Paper shortage is explained by re-
printing one senatorial speech as a
Dnhlic document and sending out
broadcast millions Of copies-it tobk
trty- eight tons of paper =
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er squatted by one spoor and then an
other. He held up three fingers.
"AIl malesr said Msungo.
The tracker nodded.
"Blg ones?" said Msungo. with that
half-smile Of exaltation.
The boy grinned.
M'sungo touched the edge OF the
mighty spoor with his toe. "M'culoT
"Stalecka r. murmured the tracker.
and rolled his eyes up into the trees.
"He says it's whopper," whispered
M'sungo, and promptly went into ac-
ton. He took off his jacket and jer-
sey, rolled up his sleeves and frightened
his belt The tracker stripped to his
breeeh-clout and took from one of the
wizened a slender-shafted assegai.
The three old hunters laid aside the
rifles they had been carrying and the
gunbearers quietly picked them up.
M'sungo turned to Andrea. Get on
the donkey" he ordered. When she
was mounted her eyes were on level
with his own. "Listen." he raid.
"You'll ride now, because when we
strike the bush you can't. Please lis
ten, because from now until the kill
nobody is going to speak to you and
If you should say word out loud you
might get six inches Of spear in the
excitement of the moment"
go ahead; I won't speak" said An
drea, and pressed her lips together.
when you begin to get hot" con-
tinued Msungo, "just take OFF what
you don't want and drop 1t. We peO-
pie ahead can't lose anything If we
try. The boys used to pick up my
dead matches until l stopped them.
When you come to the bush, shed your
skirt, get off Marguerite and leave
him. Walk lightly and hang on till
you drop. If you last long enough,
you'll see me take the big gun. That's
the beginning Of the end and when 1t
happens you are to do just one thing.
Look around you. Somewhere near
you are bound to see big tree loom
ing out of the bush. Go to 1t, hug 1t,
stay with it whatever happens till ]
call YOU
A moment later. they were Off at a
terrific pace. the tracker in the lead,
M'sungo next, then the gunbearers
Andrea, and after her the tagging rest
For hours they kept on with
out a break or pause
Andrea watched M'sungo's long stride
fascinated by its unvarying pendulum
swing. The gunbearers took shorter
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steps. They walked pivoting on the
ball of the foot; Just before each step,
their heels jerked inward sharply for
the thrust back. She leaned forward !;
Marguerite had his eyes wide open.
He seemed to be breathing softly, as
though he. too. were bent on playing
the game.
Quite suddenly they came out Of the
forest into broken NANCY space. The
heat and glare was terrific. Here and
there were scraggy groups Of thorn,
apparently burnt up by the sun. but In
reality very much alive. To one side,
an enormous acacia cast Its grateful
blot of shade. The tracker. pausing
at last. looked straight up. transfixed
In an eloquent pose.
Andrea followed his gaze. At an
incredible height she saw branch,
freshly broken. Her reason battled
with Incredibly; 1t told her that only
one thing could have reached the
branch and snapped 1.-THE up-fiung
trunk Of the rearing beast they were
following. For the first time in her
life. measuring again that height, she
felt actual awe. Msungo scast glance
over his shoulder. His face was alight
HIS eyes shone with a swimming bril-
lance.
A few minutes later they came to
the ragged edge Of the elephant bush.
The tracker cast left and right with
quick. jerky steps. Here the three
bulls had separated; joyful sign. for II
showed intention to feed. The tracker
came to a halt dropped the tip Of bis
assegai shaft to chosen spoor.
Msungo looked back at Andrea impa-
tientiy. She threw herself from Mar
guerite's back snd hastily stripped OF
her Jersey. unhuttoned her skirt and
let Il fall. She stood In helmet. khaki
shirt and breeches. puttees and tight
" laced boots-an adorable study In
brown. But Msungo had no time for
artistic effects: he turned from her
with : nod and plunged INTO the bush
In the wake Of The tracksF.
Fortunately FER Andrea the COINS
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CHAPTER VII.--cOntlnued.


The river was a treacherous-looking
stream, deep. sluggish, bordered for
the most part by flat-topped banks.
Where its shores were broken into
shelving slopes these were covered
with towering growth Of reeds and
matted elephant grass. There was a
sand-spit here and there and on each
were lying what appeared to be logs
cast up by flood.
As the expedition reached the crest
of the bank, thereby coming into full
view of the river, the logs, one by one,
elevated themselves a foot into the
air through all their length and moved
silently, swiftly, horribly into the wa
ter. Andrea caught her breath. She
had seen crocodlles In captivity, but
never like this, never free to scurry
on distorted legs, to sink silently into
murky depths and Turk.
"White Man." she whispered, "are
they as awful as they look?"
''They are" he answered. ut Is
pretty generally accepted that more
natives succumb to crocs In Africa an
nually than to any other one cause
not excepting famine and smallpox. II
sounds unbelievable until you know
the native mind. A man will be taker
at certain crossing and half an hour
later you may see his companions
leisurely wadlng the stream the same
place. The explanation is that they
consider that the victim lost his life
solely by reason of the cheap brand o.
medicine he carried. Each one II
convinced that his own bit Of stone
rag or twisted wood is the real thinl
and nothing can dissuade him until thu
moment when he too Is snatched un
der"
"How CHASTITY" said Andrea, "an'
how pitiful."
Eyes, it Is" said M'sungo, and add
ed: "Sort OF knockout to faith, ism
It'll But even crocs have character
There are certain crossings swarmin
with them where they are known Z
be friendly and where no one has eve
been attacked"
by the time he finished speaking tn
natives had baled out wide. clums
scow and M'sungo nodded to Andre
to slide down the Glippery landin
chute and climb In. She was worrie
as to how Marguerite was to be mar
aged when, to her delight, four black
picked him up bodily and deposlte
hifn In the center Of the leaky Graf
He did not delgn to more than hal
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and quiverins, As 1eat waves culver
steadily in the air arising from
parched soil.
Not forty PAGES from where Andrea
Rugged her protecting trunk and
scarcely twenty in advance of MsungO,
the domes of two trees topped the
even mass OF the saplings about them
Into the shadows beneath these trees
he was peering with an intensity that
communicated itself to Andrea. She
too stared desperately as though by
an effort she might send light into
darkness with her gaze.
Presently she was rewarded; three
shadows within the shadow slowly
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tmmotdple.
took form. Once seen, they advanced
in distinction until theF stood out to
vision as does the Coal Pit on starry,
moonless night. They were three
clouds, ominous, dusky, thunderous.
Suddenly from one of them came a
rumble that rolled ponderously away
through the silent world. Andrea,
ignorant Of the majesty OF the iptes-
final connections of the inightiest Of
beasts, snatcbed fleeting impression
that somewhere beyond the brazeu
sky, q storm was brewing.
The white man still stood, tense bat
immovable. Gradually Andrea's senses
gathered to the fact that this was no
pause. He was waiting de-
liberately or was 1t as one who stands
fatally fascinated and paralyzed on
the threshold of disasterf Her heart
was beating with a deafening throb.
She was sure the natives about her
could hear the equal tumult In their
own breasts.
Then her eyes, glued 10 the three
black clouds, saw one of the lesser OF
them move, raise vast blankets OF ears
and flap them, starting an audible gust
of wind. A great trunk wound and
unwound, rose lazIly to incredible
heights, reached a limb and tore II
with a scream Of rending fibers from
the parent tree. The beast turned
slightly to avoid the avalanche Of
boughs. Instantly the white mans
arms swept into motion. He leveled
the big gun at an upward slant upon
the still immovable central cloud and
fred.
All the silence In the world waa rent
asunder by that shot. With rendihs
crash as of thousand gatling guns
one, two, twenty elephants swept
through the sea Of saplings and away
It was as though an angry god had
snatched up the forest like sheet and
ripped 1t apart. In the terrific whiri'
wind of sound gone mad. the second
bark of the rife was quite lost to the
ear.
Msungo turned and automatically
seized his supporting gun. His eyes
swept the back trail, looking for An
drea. She was gone. "Bathtub" III
roared.
The boy ran to him, his face work
ing with every emotion known to the
black breast-joy, triumph, greed
cupidity and fear. The last was pre-
dominant and with reason. for MsuDso
dropped his gun. shot out both hands
to the blacks throat and lifted him
strangling into the air. damn you,'
he growled, where's your missis'
Where Is sher The boys eyebails
protruded farther and farther from
his contorted face.
aHere l am" painted Andrea.
Msungo relaxed his grip: Bathtut
dropped to the ground like a nervelest
sack but bounced up again. all hia
emotions except fear once more In ful
cry across his grinning face.
Andrea laid both hands on Msungc's
arm. at wasn't his fault" she gasped
Il started to do just what you told
me. White Man. You know you saw
me hugging the tree. But when l heard
the Day Of Judgment right on top Of
me II just had to give II q run fo'
Its money!"
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sustained by q spiritual force. She had
not seen him. take II and there was
something ghostly 10 the mere fact Of
his possession of II. Her mind was In
turmoil; she knew that upon the
taking over Of the big gun had hung
some vital instructiofkfo herself but in
that primal moment Of suspense, mem
ory was an agonlzing blank and moth
ing more. She followed blindly In the
cautiously pausing footsteps of the
single gunbearer that crept before her,
close on the heels Of his master.
Infnity seemed to come and 60 be
fore they had advanced twenty PAGES,
She came to the bare trunk Of Q bic
tree whose top had been felled by
lightning and at that moment M'sungo
looked back. terrible frown on his
face. without taking her eyes from
his she leaned against the stump Of
the tree and put her arms around IL
Memory came to her. She remembered
what he had told her to do. She
Rugged the tree In q great relief while
her eyes still followed the white man
and the two black shadows that he
seemed to throw. one before. one be
hind.
Suddenly the tracker paused with an
unmisfakable flnality. His hands went
up IN IN even. swift gesture Of warn
ing. His body sank gradually lower
and lower TIL Il stretched nat and still
as a log at the side Of the narrow
tran. With longstudled. cautious
movements the white man passed over
him and stood erect. 81 once steady
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angeiS, those nuiy
messengers who
at sundry times
and In divers
manners appeared
TO their fathers.
but the author OF
this salvation,
the Son Of God, Is
so much greater
than the angels
that he is wor-
SHIPPED by them.
Not only this, but
he Is the eternal
One who created
all things, ana
inhering in him
self are all the
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I. Why This Salvation ls Great
1. Because its author is great The
Jews had great reverence for the
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-02-20
ANDREA WITNESSES AN EXCITING ELEPHANT HUNT.

arstocrat
mddleaged
In
Impulvy imagining that the
although him. He somewhat unwngy agrees and they
desperation tries choke him with of her stockings He thwas her and
Landing immense An
finds the natives bow worship to her mysterious companion While
eadng be restored to her friends She
days hunting trip with White Man and thorough enjoys the e
sable bull and she fast becoming econced her fate after eight days
which mounted
made ridiculous White Man
wife purchase "obolo" She Mortified
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-02-20
The Great
Salvation
By REV. P. B. FITZWATER
Teacher OF English Bible. Moody
Bible Institute. Chicago

TEXT.-How shall we escape II We neg.
lect so great salvatlon7-Heb. 2;S.
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ero BE coNTINuED.,


Mss Antiaue-Don't you think sais
age Ia corrupt
He-Doubtless. How does II com
pare. in your opinion with prsst
sgesl-LifA
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open his eyes- Propelled laboriously
upstream By poles and then across By
clumsy paddles. It took them the best
part Of half IN hour 20 make the op-
nozlfs lsndlHz. Andrea vas Enrnrised
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27
DOES 1T PAY?

A Chicago mail order firm sent to
Piedmont this week 20 bags of cata-
Iogues advertising their twelfth annu-
al white sale These catalogues have
18l pages exclusively of specially de-
signed three color covers. This is a
specially limited sale of one class of
merchandise only and the sale is sup
Elemental to the general business done
by that firm. The regular catalogues
issued at stated periods are much
larger and carry the prices of every
item sold by the firm. The latest
available figures from the local post
office are to the effect that $4,2S7.23
were sent away from here in money
orders during October. That is only
one Of the methods of remittance. A
white goods sale conducted in Chicago
and which it is profitable to advertise
SO extensively in Piedmont must be a
wise investment or it would not be an
annual affair for IL years. Can it be
that advertising does attract the buy
ing public of Wayne county? Does
it pay?-Piedmont Banner.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27
THE GET-RICK- QUICK LINE

This story of the operations of get
rick-quick promoters who are selling
oil stocks to the farmers of the mid
die West, comes from job printer of
that section:
These promoters came to him to get
their circulars printed. We have no
money, now" they say, "but we are
going to sell a hundred thousand
shares of this stock at dollar a
share, and your printing bill will be
but small item for us to pay in a
week or two" Frequently they Of
fered him stock in payment for his
work. If he is sure they are going
to make market for the stock in
order to entice prospective buyers with
advancing quotations, he takes the
stock and then sells it back to them
through the market as soon as they
start their manipulations.
One of these promoters told him
how they got the farmers money:
ave ask him if he owns any Liber-
ty Bonds. How much did you pay
for them? Do you know what they
are selling for now? What rate of
interest do they pay you? Only ii
per cent. How would you like to ex-
change them for stock that pays
more than twice as much and which
will advance in price? Those prices
you see quoted in the papers for Lib
erty Bonds are for outsiders like you;
we can do much better than that and
we are willing to take your bonds and
give you the same price you paid for
them"
The crop of Liberty Bonds that
these pirates of promotion have har-
vested has been an enormous one; and
now that many farmers have sold
their farms at fancy prices, there is
still more juicy fruit on the trees that
these stock takers are going after. A
banker from Louisiana writes:
"This section is rural one and we
are visited all the time by slick talk
ing statesmen who drive way back in
the woods to tell the poor farmer that
they have come way out there just to
give him a chance to get some of the
wealth of the world rather than to let
Rockefeller have it all. All they have
to do is to buy few shares of the
particular stock this benevolent sales
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27

Hash is not made; it accumulates.
4. Is it all right to feed hogs corn
in the ear? G. X.
No, put it in a trough and let them
feed themselves.
). I'm in love with a lovely girl
who works for us but she doesn't
seem to care for me, while a pretty
girl with lots of money wants to
marry me. What shall do? Will NJ.
Marry the one you love, and send
me the name and address of the other
one.
6. My hair is beginning to come
out. What can | get to keep it in?
A sack.
7. Please tell me how to raise a
nice fat hog of about 500 pounds. z.
Get a derrick.
8. How can | tell when the water
is the right temperature for bathing
baby? Young mother.
If the kid gets red and hollers, the
water is too hot. If he gets blue and
shivvers, it's too cold.
9. | am 40 years old, have a nice
little farm, and am thinking of TAX
ing a wife. What would you advise
Old Batch.
would advise you to be careful,
about whose wife you take.
( 10. Our red bull is chasing me
around forty-acre field. What shall
| do? Mike +.
! | don't know, but don't give up; the
editor will be back in a week.-L. /
LcBram, in Successful Farming"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27
USE SONS OF REST
LAYERS TO HEAD
POULTRY BREEDING FLOCK

The most certain methods of i'm
proving the egg production through
breeding is to use only males that are
the sons of known high-producers.
Males from hens which have laid
more than two hundred eggs in one
year are of special value in trans
hitting the high producing character
to the pullets. Since the male furnish
es half Of the blood for the flock,
much care should be used in choosing
him. Farm poultry keepers can afford
to pay good price for a vigorous
male from heavy laying strain. Un-
fortunately, not nearly enough males
from trap-nested stock are available
to supply the demand for such birds.
Where a pedigreed male cannot he
obtained the next best plan is to
choose from a good producing flock an
outstanding, scrappy male with strong
vitality. No proven method of pick
ing out by physical tests the male
which will transmit high egg produc-
ton has yet been perfected, but vital
ity and egg production are closely
linked and no male showing a weak
constitution should be tolerated as a
breeder. The strongest males can be
easily detected by the marked evidence
es of masculnity such as gallantry to-
ward the hens, fearlessness in fight
ing, and persistent tendency to crow
Justify. The boss of the hen yard is
usually the best breeding male.
A well-matured cockerel usually
gives better breeding service than am
older male, though good results can
be obtained with strong yearling
cocks. Many breeders use the same
males to head the breeding flock for
two successive years.
Where a valuable male is secured
for the breeding flock it is desirable
that he be mated to the maximum
number of females. The number Of
hens that can safely be allotted to
each male depends to a certain extent
upon the breed and the vigor Of the
male. A strong, fully matured cooke
rel Of the medium weight breeds such
as the Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes,
and Rhode Island Reds can safely be
mated with from twenty to twenty five
hens, while with the lighter breeds
such as Lcghorns. one male will fur
nish good fertility when mated with
from twenty-five to forty hens.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27
RUNNING A NEWSPAPER

Deer folks Now | know why edi
tors go mad. been trying to run
this paper while the editor is on his
vakashun. For three (3) days and
mites l been reading questions and
trying to answer them, and if | don't
quit I'll be around talking to muself.
/ am going to answer a few more
and go to the ball game.-Jimmy, the
office boy.
/. What is a limberneck? j. Jones.
Limberneck in the country is a
stronge disease of fowls and chick
ems. In the city it is disease of hui
man persons caused by watching fouls
and chickens.
.. Do small cows give condensed
milk? Mabel B.
No, Mabel condensed milk is made
by trying to get quart of milk into
a pint bottle.
g. Please tell me how hash is made
W. W.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27

man is offering and the farmer sudden
ly becomes one of the idle rich"
Worlds Work.