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CHAPTER XIV
The scrars Of a Match.

While grooming Graylock in his stall
that evening Jack Warhope thought Of
the face that had appeared for Its
startling instant at the smudged win
dow Of Henry Spencer's unhallowed
cabin. AS a matter Of fact. he had
been thinking of II ever since riding
out Of the Jaws of the hollow.
He hung up the curry comb and
stepped TO the barn door. The sun
glared red through a slit In the cloud
bank. and stIll cleared the trees on the
distant foothills by a yard-enough for
the purpose he contemplated.
A moment later he was climbing the
rough path that led TO the uplands.
Pausing. TO search critically the woods
IN every direction. he then stole away
toward the m-reputed cabin of the
dead woodchopper.
The sun just edged the tree-tops
when he. came opposite the place.
Down in the bottom of the hollow the
shadows lay heavy, but the light still
touched the uncanny howell squatted
against the hillside.
Stealing through the bushes and
brambles. he crept up to the place un-
der cover Of the fallen oak, with Its
festoons of wild cucumber vines. Near
the corner most densely hidden by the
vines a chink had dropped out from
between the logs, leaving a narrow
crevice. Shading his eyes. he peeped
within. The cabin was empty.
Hugging the wall closely. he crept
around to the sagging door; softly
pushed 1t open. His eyes lifted at what
he saw-an old box on end lear what
had nee been the fireplace. an empty
whisky bottle on the box, with a lamp
standing beside II ready to light: 9
blanket ready to hang over the
smudged window.
The dusty floor was covered with
tracks-man tracks-one mans. Step
ping so as carefully to set his feet In
the tracks. he entered the cabin and
closed the door.
GRO RE CONTINUITY
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BY DAVID ANDERSON
Author of "The Blue Moon"

a finger toward them, dropped her
hand to the revolver at her belt and
looked around at the woodsman. He
caught the challenge In her eye,
grinned and nodded.
With a qulckness and skill that
showed her mastery of the weapon,
she plucked the revolver from It's hol-
ster, raised 1t and fired. The first bull
let cut a twig close to a walnut, the
second brought one down.
Every horse there had been trained
10 stand under gun-fire. Rex merely
pointed his ears sharply forward and
stood to his tracks. but, even with
such u firm saddle under him, the
preacher flinched so at the first shot
that he almost lost his balance. The
second brought an ELUSIVE eXclama-
ton from him.
The slow eyes Of the woodsman
livened.
"Goodl" he cried. "Ther' amt an.
other girl in the Flatwoods can do
that"
With a little wisp of a smile In her
eyes she glanced around at him, and
turned to the preacher.
"Now, Mr.. Hopkins, you can try
y'ur new six-gun."
The preacher almost set up a breeze
In the little valley with the gesticula-
lions of his expressive hands made a
heavy draft on his ample stock Of ef-
fuslye EXPLANATIONS, and finally fun
bled the ivory-handled slx-gun out of
It's holster.
He committed the blunder of cock
Ing II with both thumbs-a bit of over
acting that did not escape the man
backing Graylock in apparent stolid-
ness.
After a deal Of coaching from Texie.
the preacher poked the revolver for
ward and pulled the trigger. There
was nothing to indicate that the bull
let even came near the target. He
threw his head back and exploded his
raucous laugh. Rex had stood firm
under the shot; he SHE'D at the laugh.
The preacher brought the horse
back alongside of Brownie and fired
again-the bullet smacked somewhere
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against the opposite blum, hut appar-
emily did not even fan a walnut. He
studied the revolver q moment, fixed
his spectacles tighter on his nose, and
settled seriously to the task held the
weapon in both hands, and aimed a
long time-resuit the same.
Then the girl threw up her revolver
and fred again. The bullet cut a nick
In the rotted outer hull of a walnut,
and she turned TO the woodsman.
snow, Jack, It's your turn
law. I couldn't hit one of EN-"
"Come. on she coaxed, Il amt seer
y'u shoot none since-let's see-'way
b'fore corn plantin'."
He looked at her c~uriously, and
shifted In his saddle. The preacher
had half turned and watched him mar
rowly.
Suddenly the revolver leaped from
the woodsman's side and darted about
over the blighted limb. Three shots
a out three walnuts few into frag-
ments and crumbIed down upon the
leaves.
The preacher had Strengthened In
the saddle and sat watching the won
derful craftsmanship with an eye that
suddenly kind!ed to flint and flame
but as the third walnut shattered 10
dust and crumbs, the stoop came back
10 his shoulders, the air Of tired studi'
BUSINESS to his face.
The girl turned to the woodsman
her fine eyes alive.
"You could "a got three more"
The light In the brown eyes kindled
a response In the gray; a slow smile
crawled acrnss his bold features.
.It's ng'fn the law o. woods 4 be
caught with an empty gun." he said
with q seriousness that ser Der wen
derlng. as he felt for the powder
flask and bullets In his pouch.
In. the dusk * the evening, a she,
rode back to The vfEaxeS 7he-sir
stopped her horse In front OF the OLD
cahin. deserted and glsomy. that
sQuatted against the side-hili . few
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abed and take little extra maps when
ever he feels like it.
80 | must be off now"
And gathering his beautiful robe
about him Mr.. Sun sank slowly be-
hind the hill, down, down to his soft,
soft couch below.
The Sun fairies came out in red
dresses and purple dresses and soft
lavender dresses and dark, dark blue
dresses and others in flame-colored
dresses and some in crimson dresses.
And all along the sky they danced
the most beautiful dancing you eve
saw. -
After a time it was quite dark and
the people had gone to bed saying:
"Lt looked from the sun tonight as
though we'd have a fine day tomorrow,
and the paper says 1t will be fair all
day"
And April chuckled.
The morning came. The. sun was
shining brightly.
And still April chuckled.
For then she began her joking! Al
though everyone had thought there was
no chance Of rain. April sen down to
the earth some of her best Joke-shew-
ers. And then she would let the sun
come out and the people would say:
ut was only a little shower. it had
all cleared off again."
And yet again would April play the
same trick.
All that last day of hers she played
at April showers and Mother Nature
laughed and said:
april is a bit naughty, but dear me,
how / love her!"
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WESTERN PIONEER TELLS
INTERESTING EXPERIENCE

he places on the famous treatment.
II believe Tanlac really saved my
life when ! took 1t after the Flu about
a year ago." continued Mr.. Rikert, "for
the attack left me 20 pounds off In
weight, and unable to turn over In my
bed without assistance. l tell you, I
thought my time bad surely come.
"But, thanks to my wife's insistence,
I kept on taking Tanlac till I was able
to do all my work again, had back all
my lost weight, and I've been feeling
years younger ever since. Tm always
telling my friends about Tanlac, and
can't say toe much for It,"
Tanlac is for sale by all good drug
gists. Accept no substitute. Over Az
million bottles sold.
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Frank Rikert, Who Left ILL
nois for California in Gov
cred Wagon in 1864,
Wouldn't Take 500 for
90 Bottle of Tanlac.

Frank Rikert, well-known resident
of North Sacramento, Cal, who came
to the state from Illinois in a covered
wagon In 1864, along with other hardy
pioneers, recently exhibited a bottle OF
Tanlac, which he had just purchased,
to a friend at his home and remarked:
IF I thought this was the last bottle
Of. Tanlac I would ever be able to buy,
[ wouldn't take n hundred dollars
for it." thus proving the high valuation
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That Was Easy

.Teacher-What's the second letter
Of the alphabet. JOHNNY ).
Jnhnny-Dunno,
Teacher--Myi Wen. what buzzes
and flies around all the time?
Johnny-My ma.
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Musf Be Dali

"He's disappointed in his ~three-year-
old son.
sDlsappointed? WHAT'S the trouhief"
"The kid hasn't said anything clever
enough to repeat for the last two
weess.
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Rr0fherlv Loue

After asking a blessing on various
members of the household the small
boy concluded his prayer as Follows:
"And Lord. don't forget to bless
Brother Edgar and make him as~good
a boy as I am
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The Cuticura Toilet Trio.

Having cleared your skin keep it clear
by making Cuticura your everyday
toilet preparations, The Soap to cleanse
and purify, the Ointment to soothe and
heal, the Talcum to powder and per-
flme. No toilet table is complete
without Observation-Disclosures
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Might Be Worse

observation-disclosures. fear | haven't
written anything that Will live!
Friend--Cheer up! BE thankful you
are alive in spite of what you've writ
ten.-BostOn Evening Transcript.
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Poker Returns

"When my husband plays poker he
always brings me So"
HDoes he always winT"
81 don't know. about that. But he
always brings me S10."-Louisville
Courier-JouTnal. -.-
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Let George Do It

Little Afa-Mother shall run out
and post this letter?
arNo, child, certainly not. It's pour
Ing In torrents and not fit TO rurn a
dog out Of doors. Let your father go.
London Answers.
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Macaws. a kind OF parrot. native 70
South America, a break with theli
beaks nuts which resist attacks with
Il hammer.
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Not the Last of III

He-"But ] thought you'd forgiven
me for that and promised to forget itl'
She-"Yes-bdt 7 didn't promise to let
you forget I'd forgiven IL Punch.
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The kissable girl Is the one who pre-
tends that she doesn't want to bt
kissed.
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from a tut or burn2 Coles CarboIisalve
stops pain instantly and heals quickly
without a scar. Keep II handy. All drug
gists, 30c and 60c. or ]. w. Cole Co, Rock
ford, Ill.-Advertisementl
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Wool II an importan. agriculturai
export OF Iceland. much Of II being
! oven into blankets In America.
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"DANDELIOu BUTTER COLOR

A. harmless vegetable butter coIm
used by millions for 90 years. Drul
stores and general stores sell bottles
of "Dandelion'' for 80 cehts.-Adv.
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Needs of Education

The Wilderness WIS made inhahit.
able by rough but daring mel Educa.
zion needs strong arms and courage an
Its aids.
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"CASCARETS" FOR LIVER
AND B0WELS-1Oc A BOX

Cures Bil%iousness, Constipation, Sicl
Headache Indigestion. Drug stores. Adv
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"Thut man over there is "a wonder.
With one stroke Of Lis pen he can
change a smiling face to a sad one"
my mother does that TO me lots OF
times" said Jimmy.
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Medfatio.s of an Artist

Artist Dubbs Observation-Disclosures
that I've created an immortal Master
piece, would thai I might create a fool
to buy it.
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Strange as 1t may seem, motor tall
makes some people yawn.
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loot SDeaf

Long engagements are not stylish"
"Nelther are long marriages."
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United States navy submarines now
carry sr,all seaplanes for scouting
work.
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Mother KnoUs HoW

Take Tanlac Vegetable Pills.
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-29
Investigations of Graft Dull
Capital Memories on What
Happened at Warrington S
Residence
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
LEASED Wire Service to The Journal.l
Copyright, 1920


WASHINGTON, March 26.-The
now famous little green house on
X street" is still a house of nays-
terry. Strange noises emanate from
it by night. BY day it wears a de-
serted lock. There is a fire engine
house three doors away, and every
now and then a blue-coated fire lad
die walks by to observe that all is
well.
The truth is the little green
house" has become a frat" house,
and the fraternity boys at times seem
to have been inspired by the echoes
of the leftover re. els that went on
there in the days that Roxie Stin-
son has described SO thrillingly on
the witness stand.
The little green house sits on the
corner of an alley, and is on that
part of K street which once was
the most fashionable center of the
city. Fashion has moved out and
beyond the place now so that the
homes of long ago seem modest com
pared to the mansions that have
sprung UP in the capital since the
rich Of the nation began making
their winter homes here.
Color on Inside
The little green house evidently
though was ''some pumpkins" in its
day. Compared to palaces of the
type of Perry Belmonts or Mrs.
Townsend's or the home of Mrs
Tom" Walsh, who is the mother
of Mrs. Ned Mclean, the little green
house falls away in importance until
it is littel better than a garage. 1t
is a quaint little place, of old fash,
Toned architecture. The front and a
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GREEN HOUSE ON K STREET
STILL A PLACE OF MYSTERY

part of the alley side of the dwelling
are constructed of green stone. The
green is the pale apple color Of shall
low water in the tropics. 1t is not
an eXuberant, dashing green, but
rather ali anemic one. The real
color about the place, according 10
Miss Stnson, was on the inside.
No one in Washington recalls now
just who did live at the little green
house except Howard Warrington,
of Ohio, who mas been mentioned in
the Investigations as a "go-between''
in obtaining liquor Withdrawals from
the government. The establishment
must have been an expensive one,
from all accounts, and as Manning
ton was not a rich man, it is sup
posed 4ome one else shared the
heavy upkeep.
The writer has asked dozen or
more of the men who knew Manning
ton well when he first broke upon
Washington Immediately after the in
auguration of President Harding as
to his conferees and companions at
the X street house. but scratch their
heads as they will, they cannot re-
call the name of a single person who
actually lived there. These inyesti-
than any cataclysm Of modern times.
Wrote Harding Speeches
Warrington was very prominent at
the Harding headquarters in Marion
from the time of the nomination.
After the election he let it be pretty
generally known that he had writ.
ten a number of speeches for Mr..
Harding and many hundreds of let
tiers for his signature. Warrington
knew his Ohio thoroughly, and it is.
said now that he handled "Ohio af-
fairs for Mr.. Harding during the
pre-naugural period.
After he was in the White House,
Mr. Harding became exceedingly an
noyed by reports OF the activities
of a number of his friends from
Ohio and former attaches of his suite
at Marion. Warrington was referred
to as particularly active, and just as
he apparently had reached the apex
Of his career at the little green house
at 1926 K street, the blow fell upon
him. A ukase went forth from the
White House and Warrington went
forth from Washington.
He is in Paris now. and all who
know Howard Warrington love OF
life know what grand time he Is
having in the French capital.
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i've Stock Discussions Fea-
ture Program-Channber of
Commerce Provides Fine
Entertainment Program
BY HUNTER BELL

Phdll correspondence Oh lHe dOuFHai.
|. GRIFFIN, Ga, March 27.-The
Georgia Swine Growers association
opened a two-day convention We'd
hesday in the city hall auditorium
With representatives of the industry
rom all over Georgia in attendance.
6essions are being devoted to the dis
fussion of problems. peculiar to the
live stock industry. while a royal en-
|erfainment program has been pre-
barred by the Griffin and Spalding
county Chamber of Commerce.
David j. Bailey, president of the
chamber of commerce, and chairman
pc the entertainment committee, well
tomed the visitors to the city and
outlined the program to mark their
IWo-day stay here. The response was
lnade by w. H. Peacock, prominent
livestock grower Of Cochran, and 9TH
! r addresses during the morning SEES
Eion were by Edward N. Wentworth,
BE Chicago, director Of Armours live
ftoelx bureau, and J. W. Vaughn,
president of the Bank Of Carriers
~ Beating Boil WeeviI
Mr.. Bailey, speaking in an op-
timistic vein. recited how the Spald.
ing, county farmers had dug down
hnd gone to work when the boil
|weevil hit here. and he pointed with
pride to the fact that his county had
made the highest per centage per
here yield of cotton in Georgia last
wear. He said, however, the impor-
lance of the livestock industry has
b correlated factor in the farming
business.
MFR. Peacock congratulated Griffin
Rnd Spalding county for its diversi-
fled interests, declaring that it was
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OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS

take them. If there are few eggs
that have not Matched surely you
have another hen that can take
them. Have a floored. warm coop
that is we'll away from the other
poultry and keep them housed till
the young can get over a four-inch
board. then let them out little
while in the middle of the day, still
keeping the hen in the coop. She
will call them in and out and teach
them the place of entrance and exit.
Right here | want to state that
there is nothing on the face OF the
earth so far IS my experience goes
that is as hard to show a hole in
the fence as young turkey, SO let
the hen teach them. / give them
nothing but the buttermilk till they
are three weeks old, and when they
are ten days old / begin to grease
them for lice. Right here let me
again repeat that they must not
be handled even as firmly as a chick
OF that age. And the main place to
grease them is where their flight
feathers grow. A little on the top
Of the head, under their wings.
that has the flight feathers, and
grease them again, and continue
this until they are as large as a
Leghorn hen, after greasing them
three times it is not necessary to
do this job oftener than every two
weeks. But the lice can kill them
after they are as large as frying
sized chick. Carholized Xaseline is
what | use, but if you have none
and have some other good stuff
that you know is harmless to young
chicks, you might use it. But re-
member, L never have used anything
but the vaseline. Your druggist viii
sell you pound for fifty cents, and
it will come in handy" all the year.
1t comes in the one-pound tin boxes,
and is so much cheaper than the
little bottles.
Have plenty of onions planted
from the time that they are week
old you may cut the tops fine and
give them all that they will clean
up. Any chick feed, as we'll as stale
bread crumbled fine, is good for
them. When it looks like rain you
must be on the alert-they must not
get wet. II such a calamity should
occur, mean if they appear drown
ed when you find them, dip them in
water as hot as you can bear your
hand and that will warm them
They are already wet, so the warm
water takes the chill off, then put
them before a hot fire, or wherever
you can to dry them right away.
L have brought back little chicks
as well as turks with the hot water.
Nux vomica, a level teaspoon full
to pint of meal mixed with water
Feed night and morning once, then
every morning for three times. 1t
kills dogs, cats and sparrows. Does
not hurt people who eat the eggs
or chickens.
Crooke breast bones usually
come from too small roosting poles.
They have to cling too tight. Some
times from ~~--o ozing through a
crack under the feed coop or other
outlet.
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and Faculty
Subscribe sol, 900 to
Greater Wesleyan Fund

MACON, Ca, March 27.-Students
and faculty of Wesleyan college have
subscribed ,9O6 toward the million
dollar Greater Wesleyan fund. it was
announced at headquarters today, the
opening date of the campaign. The
senior class went over it's quota with
total subscriptions of $20,279, every
one of the 70 girls in the class MAX
ing a pledge. The Individual quota
Of the seniors was 500 each, the
same as is being asked of the alum
nae of the college.
The sophomore and junior classes
also reported 100 per cent subscrip-
tons of $9,502 and $3.50 respective
ly. Freshmen pledged a total of
$9.961. Members of the faculty and
officers of the college have sub
scribed $13,225 as their contribution
to the cause. These figures are ex-
pected to be considerably augmented
when complete returns are available,
several reports not vet having been
made to headquarters.