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The Oxford Democrat. VOLUME 79. SOUTH PARIS, MAINE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1912. NUMBER 35. . i.BEBT D. FARE, Licensed Auctioneer, SOOTH PARIS. · MAINS, l'ora» Moderne. . , L. Bf CK. Surgeon Dentiet, SOCTU PARIS, . MAIS*. *1! mj wort Wlurr*nwd· j)rt. H P JON1S, Dentiet, >ok«taT. · · main*. jdce Κ our»—^ to 13—1 to < fi f. SMITH, Attorney at Law, SORWAY. - · · MAINE. Horno Modt Collection· a Specialty hlllill- Κ Λ PARK. Attorneys at Law, S'ETIIEL, . MAINS. Uon S. Heirlck. Bllfry C. P»r* J. WALDO NASH, Licensed Taxidermist, Temple Street, rur Masonic Block, Telephone Connection. NORWAY. DR. LEONARD J. NEAL. Osteopathic Physician. 0: -* day·», Mondays and Friday», and treatments by appointment. . High Street, Sooth Paris. Me Telephone 106-12 24-36 C. H. Robinson, VETERINARY SURGEON, j South Paris. \\\ kir. i> of work in the line of Veterinary Surgery. - i*, HILLS, Jeweler and Graduate Optician. I NORWAY, MAINE. LONGLEY & BUTTS, Norway. Maine, Plumbing, Heating, Sheet Metal Work, STEEL CEILINGS A SPECIALTY. a m Men Waited. . Be a Chauffeur or I Automobile Knuineer. We nee«l men to | train. In three week», ' for - t!.>iw I'avln* #20 to #.'<<1 weekly. Eaey tiro. Beet Spring position· now. Dr!v·.; an·) oarage work. Klve year» oi eue-! re»· v\rit. D..W PORTLAND ALTO CO.. I'ortlanU. Maine. A Low Price Car with a $12,000,000 Guarantee. re von buv ANY automobile, exam :e the NYHERG 1912 cars now on exhibition by F. B. Fogg, South Paris, Aeeat for Oxford County and Harrison and Bridgton. will pay yon to we tbis car. Also Agent for Brush Cars. Diamond Tires for Sale. I!. W. ( UIUDLER, Builders' Finish ! : wl ?urnl»h DOORS and WINDOWS of any SlM or Style at reasonable prices. Also Window & Door Frames. If In want of any kind of Finish for Inside 01 ouUMe w.irk, send In your orders. Pine Lum i*r and Salnxles on hand Cheap for Cash. Planing, Sawing an >! Job Work. Matched I'lne Sheathing for Sale. 1:. \V. CHODLER, *nt Sumner, .... Maine. CANADIAN unleached hardwood ashe*. the b*»t fertilisers on earth, car lots bulk. twelve Ί" ·λγ ι. itked, thirteen dollars, sixty cent* per tun delivered. (ieorge Steven·), Peterborough, <tattrlu, tana-la. 18 'li-18 ' 13 15 vesrs expert Watch maker with Bigelow. Kennard 4 Co., Boston. All Work Outran teed. A little out of the way but it pays to walk. UK1W, WATCHES. CLOCKS AND JEWELHY. With Optometrist Parmeoter, Norway, Me. Chairs Re-seated Upholstering Done. Η. E. PERKINS, South Paris. SiM EasternSteamsliiDCorDoretion. MAINE STEAMSHIP LINE 'llreet between Portland ami New York teamen leave Frank Un Wharf Tue*lay* Thursdays ami Satur ■lay· U6û0 ρ m., also Mondays, 10 JO a. m "ne Portland and φΙΛ Bound Φθ Way Sew York φΐϋ Ττίρ PORTLAND LINE 3*rvlee to Boston, l£a*ti>ort, Lubec and St John. Portland Line Service Leave Franklin W barf Portland, week days at 7 p. m., Sundays8 p. πι returning leave Boston ■tally at, p. m. steam· 'ships & B. Fuller or Bay State International Line Service. Steamers leave ι ortland fur Boston during July, 7 00 a. m. ••l Aujiurt tu« a. m. Tuesdays, Thurs ''' ami Saturdays, returning leave Hotton l'a. m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. •ÎV.? Portland J p. m. for Eastpurt, Lubec , Jo'>n ""loaruahlp* Governor Llngley and «overnur Cobb. Iftween Portland and Boston $135 *1 W> an t #1 50. PORTLAND AND ROCKLAND LINE Steamer Monbegan leaven Portia ml on Tuesdays, Tbusdaye and Saturdays at 7 a.m. for Rockland and lnter landlngs. *^»Tîas«anee*0Γ *Te,ehti ***** leclu:,e a'a* Γ?®"*110·· 4041 *" Information address J «· a. CLAY, Agent, Franktt· Wharf. Portland. J I Meet dladgurlng skin eruption·, scrofula, ! pimple·, raahes. eu:., are -lue to Impure blood ; Burdock Blood Bittern 1· a cleansing blood , tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear-skinned. Itching pile· provoke profanity, but profanity i won't cure them. Doan's Ointment cure· Itch ing. bleeding or protruding pllea after yean of i suffering. At any drug store. Glorious Hair For Women ΝΟΤΜΗΊ Κ VER DISCOVERED 90 GOOD TO MAKE ΗΛ1Κ LUSTROUS AND FA9CIN A I I.NU Every woman, man or child can easily bave a beautiful head of radiant hair by simply using PARISIAN Sage. It's a wonderfully efficient preparation that stops scalp itch over night, kills all germs at once, banishes dandruff im mediately and stops hair from falling. It's a refreshing, invigorating and pleasant hair tonic and does not contain poisonous lead or any harmful ingredi ent. A large bottle can be obtained for only 50 cents at dealers every wbeie. The girl with the Auburn hair is on every car ton and bottle. See that you get the genuine. You can depend upon getting it at Chas. H. Howard Co.'s. 33,35 Aid the Kidneys. SOUTH PARIS KIDNEY SUFFERER# SHOULD TAKE NO Fl'HTHER RISK. Why will people continue to suffer the agonies of kidney complaint, backache, urinary disorders, lameness, headaches, languor,—why allow themselves to be come chronic invalids, wben a tested remedy is offered them? Doan's Kidney Pills have been used in kidney trouble over 50 years, have been tested in thousands of cases. If you have any, even one, of the sym toms of kidney diseases, act now, for gravel, dropsy or Brigbt's disease may «et in and make neglect daugerous. Can South Paris residents demand more con vu.cing proof than the following? C. E. Bradford, prop, laundry. Main St., Norway, Me., says: "Sometimes I bad a dull pain through the small of my back, together with a tired feeling I couldn't rest well. Wben a friend ad vised me to take Doan's Kidney Pills, I obtained a supply. After I used two boxes the pains and other annoyance* disappeared, and there was a great im provement in every way. I have had no trouble since." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. K.'Ster Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, scle agents for the United States. Kemember the name—Doan's— and take no other. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE No. JOO. 5 ACRE VILLAGE FARM hi South Hurla, Me., under a good state of cultivation and Je voted principally to small fruit : Apple, Fear, Grape. Rasbcrry, Strawberry raising. Cute * tons So. 1 hay, besides other annual crops. Lfrge poultry house for lift hens. House 11-2 sjorlea, 7 rooms, cellar, also spring water. New Stable. 3i)vj5, tie-up and general storage. Tbls place will appeal to one wanting light farming and to enjoy living near a prosperous vll age. Frlee $1SUU Come soon. Vo 238 A NICE ONE AND ONE HALF STORY SINGLE TENEMENT, 8-room reel ■ lonoe In line repair. Also a stable 23x30 feet, with stalls for horse·; split stone cellar, ben house. Also two water services to dwelling or best spring water. There are three acres of land Included which can lie utilized for several very de-lrable house lots. This will appeal to one wanting a home In South Farls. Price #-\U0D. The Dennis Pike Real Estate Agency, Tel. 35-3 NORWAY, ME. Pianos AND Organs Second hand Pianos and Organs for sale at a bargain. Two square pianos I will sell at low price. A lot of second hand organs that I will »ell at any old price. Come in and ice them. New Pianos, Stools, Scarfs, [nstruction Books, Playerpia qos always in stock at prices that are right. Send for catalog. W.J.Wheeler, Billings' Block, South Paris, transportation of Paris Scholars. I ΜΙ» (or the transportation of tchol&ra In thu own of Parle for the fall term will be receive·! ip to Wedaesday, Auk- Λ. The route» are a« υ How* : 1 . Bolster to the village. t. Hall Pon<l to the village. I. Hooper to the village. ι. Webber to the village. ι. Tub be to King. L Weet I'arte trip. AdtlreM, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCBOOI.8, 4„'5 South Parle, Maine. J Hebron Academy Founded 1804. Hebron, Maine. For Girls and Buys. Send for Catalogue. 34-39 For Sale. House and lot, situated in Sooth Parie {Tillage, on High Street, and known as :be Sarah A. Penley homestead. Inquire of James S. Wright, South Parie, Maine. 19tf| Grass for Sale. Eleven acres on land that can be cut j with a machine. Enquire of V. K. PARRIS, Pari·, Maine. For Sale. Green gray birch cord wood. B. M. GREELY, R. F. D. a, South Paris, Me. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Patents Dc«mim Γη>ν·ΐαΜΤ« Ac. irtctly eonBdeatûd. HANDBOOK larawi H. Oldest inner forMntlMMUBU. rsieats taken through Muua * Co. receive ivtcial notict, without cosine, In tee Scientific American. A bandeotneJy lllaetrated weekly. jUneet cir culation of any ecienttfle Journal. Terma. 9* a year : four montas, 91. Bowl by all sewedealere. ■gtECSSiB»' Stirkrr* for tepteabe* IlecUoa. willnCrj Send five le stampe for three assort· ed sets] $1.00 for hrcaaasorted supply. Give full aameeof all Candida tea jroo want stickers for. AUcorreepoodeocestr leUyeoefidential. Our despotic ballot does no t Coktkl you to vote far unfit candidates ; eend for stickers; do it sow. WMMHMfHttlMpa P. Ο. Box 171. ~ Portland. Ma. AMONG THE FABMEBS. '« trsKo τ in plow.*' Correspondence on practical agricultural topke la solicited. Address all communication» In tended for this department to Hksby D Hammond. Agricultural Editor Oxford Dem ocrat, Pari·, Me. Pioneer Maine Hog Farm. C. w. HUSSEY PKEPABING TO PRODUCE POBK ON ▲ LAHUE SCALE. C. W. Hussey, the proprietor of a large farm in the town of Albion, is the first man in Maine to undertake the pro duction of pork on a large scale, except as an adjunct to a dairy. He believes that the present era of high prices for farm products has come to stay and is making plans for the future accordingly. His methods are something new for this part of the country, and the whole enter prise had attracted considerable atten tion from the farmers near and far. The fundamental idea behind Mr. Huesey's enterprise is that the pork sold shall represent to a large extent the prod ucts of his soil rather than the purchased ration, which has been the undoing of swine husbandry in Maine. To this end he plans for a series of palatable and nu tritious forage crops to maintain the herd from early spring until the corn for fattening them has been harvested in the faii. To keep the labor involved' down to a minimum, he also makes the porkers do the greater part of the har vesting. The building in which the brood sows are made comfortable for the winter is the largest and fioeet thing of its kind in the state. This is 28 by 48 feet, two and a half stories high, and is situated in the center of a two acre lot, fenced with heavy wire. The center of the ground floor is devoted to a large root cellar, with cook room adjoining. Clear around the outside of the building is the row of pens, with convenient arrange ments for feeding. The second floor is a duplicate of the first, except that the center space is for the storage of the corn raised. The half story uader the roof has been arranged for keeping poul try during the winter. Cultivated flelds surround the hog lot on three sides, while the big orchard across the road is reached by means of the "nubway." The first crop rei»dy for the pigs in the spring is hairy vetch, sown late in the summer before between the corn rows at the final cultivation. The brood sows and pigs are given the run of the field several weeks before the little fellows are weaned, so that the starting of their independent careers is a very gradual process. By the time that the vetch begins to thin out a big field of alfalfa is ready, and that lasts until time for the pigs to begin on the rape. This latter is the backbone of the forage crops on the Bussey farm, and from the time the pigs begin on it there is all they can eat until the ground freezes. Then comes the finishing process with roots and corn. Mangels and rutabagas »re the root crops growo, and with euch success that Mr. Hussey sees no occasion for any chauge. This present fall Mr. Hussey will turn off about one hundred bogs finished for the market. From year to year he plans to increase this number two or three times. As yet they have all been marketed through ordinary trade chan nels, and the demands of the work on the farm have made anything else out }f the question. Within a year or bo, however, Mr. Hussey will see what can t>e done in the way of cutting out the middleman. One of the men on his farm Formerly worked where a big retail busi iess in sausages kept a good sized crew lusy right through the winter. As Albion is conveniently near to the thriv ng cities of Waterville, Augusta and Ban jor, Mr. Hussey looks to the future of lis bog ranch with confidence.—Christo pher M. Gallup, Skowhegan, Me., in rribune Farmer. Silage and Beets for Dairy Cows. In discussing this subject, Valancey E. fuller, the well-known dairyman, in a contribution to the Practical Dairyman lays: The chemist cannot tell us why the water that is contained in all these suc julent feeds plays such an important ?art in the well doing of the cow. He irill tell us that pasture grass is 80 percent water; that corn silage has 79.1 percent; lugar beets 86.5 percent; mangel beets, R).9 percent; carrots S8.6 percent; cab bage and pumpkin, over 90 percent each, ret this very water as we find it in the rarions succulents, plays a very impor tant part in the digestion of other food :aken in conjunction with the buccu ents. It seems to act directly on the lowels and kidueys of the cows, and naintains the cattle in the healthy con lition which is essential to the best pro We know that apples contain 80 per lent water, yet we know also bow bene· Icial that "juice," as we call it, is to as is a regulator of the bowels, and bow if *re eat an apple or two each day it con iributes to our good health. Corn silage is the cheapest of all sue :ulentH, except pasture grass. Roots ire expensive to grow. They cost more >er pound of digestible dry matter tbau ;orn silage. Although I had all the lilage that I required to feed my cows η winter and in the dry season of sum ner, I used to grow all the roots I pos tibly could on my own place and con tacted for 12.000 bushels a year, to feed he cows. My experience showed me hat cows would do better when they iad corn silage if they were fed root», ►specially mangels and sugar beets, than ;hey did without them, and what the MHjts cost me extra was more than iaved in the lessened grain feed each lay. It every dairyman would put up inough corn silage in the fall to feed lia cows in the winter and carry over mougb to feed them in the dry spell :bat comes in the lata summer, hie bank iccuunt would be materially added to each year. Watering the Horse. One cannot intelligently discuss the jrder of giving the feed without con iidering the time of watering. Many feeders believe that the horse should be watered before feeding while others are squally certain that feeding should pre side watering. Kach of these methods is probably equally good for the horse, and the one employed will be determined by oircumstances. Certain conditions make it necessary to adopt one, other condi tions the other. For example, after tevere losa of water, suob as occurs in consequenoe of long continued, severe ex· ertion, the animal may perhaps be allow ed to drink before he is fed; otherwise he will not feed well. On the other hand, it is said that this method of watering affects the appetite, and the horse will not consume as much food as he otherwise would. Again, it has been very clearly demonstrated that if a horse is fed his grain first and then watered mtcb of the food is carried into the in testines by the water. Since the grain of the ration is rich in digestible nutri ent·, it should stay in the stomach as long as possible, for the digestion of one of tbe most important of the nutrient· la more complete there. A middle ground should be taken by watering first, feed lag the grain sprinkled with a small amount of moistened, obopped hay, If possible, and watering again after the ration bas been oonsnmed. If this prao tioe is followed It will satisfy tbe desire· of tbe borse by supplying the most pala table part of his food early and yet In sure the retention of tbe grain in the stomach for a considerable period of time.—lferritt W. Harper. Tbe constant talk about keeping the boys on the farm i· worth just about ai much as the repetition of the call of •'back to the farm" for every one.—J. S. Cale·. A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST By GENE SmTTON-PORTER Copyright 1909, by Doubleday, Pafe & Co. ι I CONTINUED. J Wesley Sinton walked down the rond a half mile nnd turned In at the In ne leading to his home. His heart was hot and Ailed with Indignation. He had told EInora he did not blame her moth er. but he did. His wife met him at the Joor. "Did you see anything of EInora. Wesley?" she questioned. "Most too mneh. Maggie." he an swered. "What do yon say to going to town? There's η few things has to be got right awn .v." "Where did you see her. Wesley?" "Along the old Llmberlost trail, my girl, torn to piece» sobbing. Her cour age always has been flue, but the thing she met today was too much for her We ought to have known better than to let her go that way. 1 ought to have gone in and seen about this school business. I'm no mnn to let a fatherless girl run Into euch trouble. Don't cry, Maggie. Get me some sup per and I'll hitch up aud see what we can do now." "What can we do. Wesley?" "I don't Just know. But we've got to do something. Kate Comstoek will be a handful, while EInora will be two. but between us we must see that the girl Is not too hard pressed about money and that she is dressed so she I is not ridiculous. She's saved us the I wages of α woman many α day. Can't I you make her some decent dresses. Maggie?" "Well, I'm not Just what you call expert, but 1 could beat Kate Corn stock all to pieces. I know that skirts should be plaited to the band Instead I of gathered and full enough to sit in I and short enough to walk In. I could I try. There's patterns for sale. Let's I go right away. Wesley." j "Well, set me α bite of supper while I hitch up." They drove toward the city through I the beautiful September evening, and ! as they went they planned for EInora. The only trouble was not whether they were generous enough to get what she needed, but whether she would ac-1 cept what they got and what her moth er would say. > They went to u large dry goods store, and when a clerk asked what they wanted to see neither of them knew, so they stepped to one side and held a whispered consultation. : "What had we better get, Wesley?" "Blest if I know!" exclaimed Wes ley. "I thought you would manage that. I know about some things I'm going to get." At thai lustant several schoolgirls I came into the store and approached I them. "There!" exclaimed Wesley breath-1 lessly. "There, Maggie! Like them! I That's what she ueeds! Buy like they have!" ! Hefore she knew it Margaret was I among them. ' "1 beg your pardon, girls, but won't I you wait a minute?" she asked. ; The girls stopped with wondering faces ; "It's your clothes," explained Mrs I SInton. "You look Just beautiful tol me. You look exactly ns I should have! wauted to see my t'irls. They both I died of diphtheria when they were ^t-1 tie. If they "had lived they'd been near I your age u< w. ami I'd want them tol look like you 1 know a girl who I would be Ju<t ns pretty aH any of you if she had the dot lien. but her mother docs not thl:.k about her. so 1 got tol mother her some myself." ! "She must be α lucky girl." said one girl. vu, sur iv » cr. mjvi ·*·..«· — "und I love lier I want her to look just like you ιΐυ (Mease tell me about your clothes. Are these the dresses :iud huts you wear to school? Whut ulnd of goods are they aod where do jrou buy them?" The girls began to laugh and cluster around Margaret Wesley Sinton strode down the store with his head high in pride of her. but bis heart was sore over the memory of two little faces under Brushwood sod. He Inquired his way,to the shoe department "Why, every one of us have on glng· ham or liuen dresses," they said, "and they ore our school clothes." For a few moments there was a babel of laughing voices explaining to the delighted Margaret that school dresses should be bright and pretty, but simple and plain and until cold weather they should wash. ••I'll tell you." said Ellen Brownlee, "my father owns this store. I know all the clerks. I'll take you to Miss Hartley. You tell her Just how much you want to spend and what you waut to buy. and she will know bow to get the most for your money." 'That's the very thing," agreed Mar garet "But before you go tell me about your balr. Elnora's hair Is bright and wavy, but yours is silky as buckled flax. How do you do It?" "Elnora?" asked four girls In con cert. "Yes; Elnora Is the name of the girl I want these things for." "Did she come to the high school to day?" questioned one of them. "Was she In your classes?" demand ed Margaret without reply. Four girls stood silent and thought fast. Had there been a strange girl among them, and had she been over looked nnd passed by with Indiffer ence because she was so very shabby? If she bad appeared as much better than they as she had looked worse would her reception have been the same? "There was a strange girl from the country In the freshman class today," ■aid Ellen Brownlee. "and her name was Elnora." "That was the girl." said Margaret "Are her people eo very poor?" ques tioned Ellen. "No, not poor at all. come to think of It" answered Margaret "It's a pe culiar case. Mrs. Oomstock bad a great trouble, and she let It change ber whole life and make a different woman of her. She used to be lovely, but all she doea now Is droop all day and walk the edge of the swamp half the nlxbt and neglect Elnora. If you girls would make life Jeat^ § U$tty ensTer tor her It would be tne nneet thing you ever did." All of tbem promised they would. "Now tell me about your hair," per sisted Margaret Sinton. So they took ber to a toilet counter, nnd she- bought tbe proper hair soap, also a urII flle and cold cream for use after windy days. Then tbey left ber with the experienced clerk, and when at last Wesley found ber ahe waa load ed with bundles, and tbe glint of oth er days was in her beautiful eyes. Wesley carried some packagea also. "Come on, now. let's get home," he said. CHAPTER III. Wherein Elnora Procure· Her Books and Finds Means of Earning Money. LL tbe way home Wesley and Margaret Sinton discussed how they should give Elnora their purchases and what Mrs. Com stock would say. "1 am afraid she will be awful mud," said Margaret Sinton tremu lously. "She'll Just rip," replied Wesley graphically. "But if she wants to leave the raising of her girl to the neighbors she needn't get fractious If they take some pride in doing a good Job. From now on 1 calculate Elnora shall ffo to school, and she shall bave all the clothes and books she needs, if I go around on tbe back of Kate Com stock's lund uud cut a tree or drive off a calf to pay for them. Why I know one tree she owns that would put El nora in heaven for a year. Just think of It. Margaret! It'· not fair. One third of what is there belonge to El nora by law, and if Kate Comstock raises a row I'll tell her so and see that the girl gets It. You go to see Kate iu the morning, and I'll go with you. Tell her you want Elnora's pat tern. that you are going to make ber a dress for helping us. And sort of bint ut a few mort things. If Kute balks I'll take a band and settle her. I'll go to law for Elnora's share of that and then she can take her share." "Why. Wesley Sinton. you're perfect ly wild." "I'm not! Did you ever stop to think that such cases ure so frequent there huve been laws made to provide for tbem? I can bring it up in court and force Kate to educate Elnora an<l board and clothe her till she's of nge. and then she can take her own share." "Wesley. Kate would go crazy!" "She's cruny now. The idea of any mother living with us sweet a girl ns Elnora and letting her suffer till 1 iiud ber crying like a funeral! It makes me lighting mad!" When Wesley came from the burn Margaret hud four pieces of crisp ging hum. a pale blue, a pink, a gray with green stripes and a rich brown and blue plaid. On each of thein lay u yard and a half of wide ribbon to match. There were handkerchiefs and u brown leather belt In her hands she held u wide brimmed tan straw hat having a high crown banded with vel vet strips. each of which fastened with a tiny gold buckle. "It* looks kind of bare now." she ex plained. "It had three quills on It here. The price was two and a hnlf for the hat. and those things were a dollar and u dollar and a half apiece I couldn't pay that" "It does seem considerable." admit ted Wesley, "but will it look right without them?" "No. it won't!" suid Margaret. "It's going to have quills on it. Γ)ο you re member those beautiful peacock wing feathers that Phoebe Slmius gave me: Three of them go ou just where those came off. and nobody will ever know the difference. They match the hat to β moral, aud they are Just a little longer and richer than the ones that 1 had taken off. I was wondering whether I better sew them on tonight while 1 remember bow they set or wuit till morning." "Dou't risk it!" exclaimed Wesley anxiously. "Don't you risk It! Sew tbem on right now!" "Opeu yonr bundles, while I get the thread." said Margaret. Wesley set out α pair of shoes. Mar garet took tbem up aud pinched the leather and stroked tbem. "My, but they are pretty!" Bhe cried "What else did you get?" "Well, sir." said Wesley. "I saw something today. You told me about Kate getting that tin pall for Elnora to carry to high school, and you said you told her It was a shame. So 1 Just Inquired around till I found this, aud l think It's about the ticket. Decent looking and bandy us you please Sec here, now!" wesiey Up«Ut!U ιικ· immufcu uuu iuiu a brown leather lunch box ou the table. Inside was a space for sandwiches, a little porcelain box for cold meat or fried chicken, another for salad, u glass with a lid which screwed on, held by a ring in a corner, for custard or Jelly, η flask for tea or milk, a beautiful lit tle knife, fork and spoon fastened In holders and u place for a napkin. Margaret was almost crying over it "How I'd lore to fill it!" she exclaim ed. "Do it the first time Just to show Kate Comstock what love Is!" said Wesley. "Get up early In the morning and make one of those dresses tomor row. Can't you make a plain ging ham dress in a day? I'll pick a chick en, and you fry it and fix a little cus tard for the cup, and do it up brown Go on, Maggie, you do it!" "I never can," said Margaret "I am Blow as the itch about sewing, and tbese are not going to be plain dresses when it comes to making them. There are going to be edgings of plain green, pink and brown to the bias strips and tucks and pleats about the hips, fancy belts and collars, and all of it takes time." "Then Kate Comstock's got to help," said Wesley. "Can the two of you make one and get that luncb tomor row?" "Easy, but she'll never do itr "Tou see If she doesn't!" snld Wesley. "Ton get np and cut It out, and soon as Elnora is gone I'll go after Kate my self. She'll take what I'll say better alone. But she'll come, and she'll help make the dress. These other things are our ennstmas girts to minora. Shell'no doubt need them more now than she will then, and we can five them Just as well. Thaf· yours, and this Is mine, or whichever way you choose." Wesley untied a good brown ombrel le and shook out the folds of a long brown raincoat Margaret dropped the hat arose and took the coat She tried it on, felt It cooed over it and matched It wlth^he umbrella. "Did It look anything like rain to night?" she Inquired so anxiously that Wesley laughed. "And this last bundle?" ahe said, dropping back In her chair, the coat still over her shoulders. "I couldn't buy this much stuff for any other woman and nothing for my own," said Wesley. "Its Christmas for you, too, Margaret!" He shook oat fold after fold of soft gray satiny goods that would look lovely against Marga ret's pink cheeks and whitening hair. "Oh, you old darling!" she exclaimed and fied sobbing Into hla arms. At 4 o'clock next morning Elnora was shelling beans. At 6 she fed chickens and pigs, swept two of the rooms of the cabin, built a fire and put on the kettle for breakfast Then she climbed the narrow stairs to the attic she had occupied since a very small child and dressed in the hated shoes and brown calico, plastered down her crisp curls, ale what breakfast she could and, pio uing on her hat. started for town. "There Is no sense in your going for an hour yet," said her mother. "I must try to discover some way to earn those books," replied Elnora. M1 am perfectly positive I shall not find them lying along the road wrapped lu tissue paper and tagged with my name." She went toward the city a* on yes terday. Her perplexity aa to where tuition and books were to come from was worse, but she did not feel quite so badly. Bbe never again would have to fuce all of It for the first time. She had been through it once and was yet living. There had been times yester day when she bad prayed to be hid den or to drop dead, and neither had happened. "I guess the best way to get an answer to prayer la to work for It." muttered Elnora grimly. In an Onabnsha book store she ask ed the prices of the list of books that she needed and learned that $6 would not quite supply them. She anxiously Inquired for second band books, but was told thut the only way to secure them was from the last year's fresh men. "Do you wish these7" asked the clerk hurriedly, for the store was rapidly filling with school children wanting anything from a dictionary to a pen. "Yes," gasped Elnora, "oh, yes! But I cannot pay for them Just now. Please let me take them, and I will pay for them on Friday or return them as per fect as they are. Please trust me for them a few days." The clerk looked at her doubtfully and took her name. "I'll ask the proprietor," he said. When he came back Elnora knew the answer before he spoke. "I'm sorry." he said, "but Mr. Hann doesn't recognize your name. Tou are not α customer of ours, and he feels that he can't take the risk. You'll have to bring the money." Elnora clumped out of the store, the thump of her heavy shoes beating as α hammer on her brain. She tried two other houses with the same result and then In sick despair enme Into the street. What could she do? She was too frlghteued to think. There it stood in a baak window In big black letters s:r.rln«? straight at her: Wanted. — Caterpillar·, cocoons, chrysalides, pupae cases, butter flies, moths. Indian relics of all kinds. Highest scale of price· paid In cash. Elnora caupht the wicket at the cashier'β desk with both hands to brace herself against disappointment "Who Is It wan ta to buy cocoons. butterCies and moths?" she panted. "The Bird Woman," answered the cashier. "Hare you some for sale?" 'T have some, but I do not know if they are what she would want" "Well, you had better see her," said the cashier. "Do you know where she lives?" "Yes," said Elnora. "Would you tell me the time?" "Twenty-one after 8," woe the an swer. She had nine minutes to reach the auditorium or be late. Should she go to school or to the Bird Woman? Sev eral girls passed her walking swiftly and she remembered their faces. They were hurrying to school. Elnora caught the Infection. She would see the Bird Woman at noon. Algebra came first and that professor was kind. Perhaps she could slip to the superintendent and ask him for a book for the next lesson. As she went down the long hall she noticed the professor of mathematics standing in the door of his recitation room. When she came up to him he smiled and spoke to her. •T have been watching for you," he said, and Elnora stopped, bewildered. "For me?" she questioned. "Yes," said Professor Henley. "Step Inside." Elnora followed him into the room, and he swung tLe door behind them. "At teachers' meeting last evening one of the professors mentioned that a pupil had betrayed in class that she had expected her books to be furnish ed by the city. I thought possibly it was you. Was it?" "Yes," breathed Elnora. •That being the - case." said Pro feesor Henley, "it Just occurred to me as you had expected that you might require a little time to secure them, and you are too tine a matnematician to fall behind for want of supplies. So I telephoned one of our sopho mores to bring her last year's books this morning. I am sorry to say they are somewhat abused, but the text Is all here. You can have them for $2 and pay when you get ready. Would you care to take them?" Elnora sat suddenly, because she could not stand another Instant She reached both hands for the books and said never a word. The professor was silent also. At last Elnora arose, hugging those books to her heart as α mother grasps a lost baby. "One thing more," said the professor. "You can pay your tuition quarterly. You need not bother about the first Installment this month. Any time In October will do." 8o Elnora entered the auditorium a second time. Her face was like the brightest dawn that ever broke over the Limberlost No matter about the lumbering shoes and skimpy dress Just now—no matter about anything, she had the books. She could take them home. In her garret she could commit them to memory If need be. She could show that clothes were not all If the Bird Woman did not want any of the many different kinds of specimens she had collected she was quite sure now she could sell ferns. nuts and a great many things. Then, too, some one moved over this morn ing. and several girls smiled and bow ed. Elnora forgot everything save her books and that she was where she could use them intelligently—every thing except one little thing away back In her head. Her mother had known about the books and the tui tion and had not told her when she •greed to her coming. - *■ CHAPTER IV. Wherein Elnora Mot· th· Bird Waman and th· Sinton· Ar· Diaappointed. t - IT noon Elnora took her little I Λ I P*>rt-el of lanch and started to Ι/ΛΙ tlie home of the Bird Woman. ' 8h<· mast kaow about theapec lmens first, and then she would go oat to the suburbs somewhere and eat a few bltee. She dropped the heavy Iron knocker ou the door of the big red log cabin, and her heart thumped at the re sounding stroke. "Is the Bird Woman at homer she asked of the maid. "She la at lunch,1* waa the anrwer. "Please ask her If ahe will m· a girl from the Llmberloat about aome moths?" Inquired Elnora. "I never Deed ask If lfa moths," laughed the girl. "Orders are to bring any one with specimens right in. Come this way." Elnora followed down the hall and entered a long room with high paneled wainscoting, old English fireplace with an overmantel and cloeeta of peculiar china filling the corners. At a bare ta ble of oak, yellow aa gold, sat a woman Elnora often had watched and followed covertly around the Llmberloat The Bird Woman waa holding out a hand of welcome. "I heard!" she laughed. MA little pasteboard box or Just the bare word 'specimen' passes you at my door. If it is moths I hope you have hundrede. I've been very busy all summer and unable to collect, and I need so many. Sit down and lunch with me while we talk It over. From the Llmberloat, did you say?" "I live neur the swamp,** replied El nora. "Since it's so cleared I dare go around the edge In daytime, though we are still afraid at night" "What hnve you collected?" asked the Bird Woman as she helped Elnora to luncheon." "I am afraid I am bothering you for nothing and Imposing on you," Elnora said. "That 'collected' frightens me. I've only gathered. I always loved everything outdoors, and so I made friends and playmates of them. When 1 learned that the moths die so soon, I saved them especially, because there seemed no wickedness in it" "I have thought the same thing," said the Bird Woman encouragingly. Then because the girl could not eat until she learned about the moths the Bird Wo man asked Elnora If ahe knew what kinds she had. "Not all of them." answered Elnora. "Before Mr. Duncan moved away he often saw me near the edge of the swamp, and he showed me the box he bed fixed for Freckles and gave me the —— "Who is it want· to buy cocoon·, but terflies and mothaf" aha panted, key. There were some books and things, so fro-n thnt time on I studied and tried to take moth* right, but I am afraid they are not what yon want" "Are they the big one* that fly most ly June nights?" asked the Bird Wo man. "Yes," said Elnora. "Great gray ones with reddlah markings, pale blue, green, yellow with lavender and red I and yellow." "What do you mean by 'red and yel low?'" nsked the Bird Woman ao quickly that the girl almost Jumped. "Not exactly red," explained Elnora, with tremulous voice. "A reddish, yel lowish brown, with canary colored spots and gray lines on their winga." "How many of them?" It was the same quick question. "Well, I had over 200 eggs," said El nora. "but some of them didn't batch, and some of the caterpillars died, but there must be at least a hundred per fect ones." "Perfect! How, perfect?" cried the Bird Woman. "I mean whole wlnga, no down gone and all their legs and antennae," fal tered Elnora. "Young woman, that*· the rarest moth In America," said tbe Bird Wo man solemnly. "If you have 100 of them they are worth $100, according ' to my list I can use all that are wtiolo." 1 "What if they are not pinned right?" quavered Elnora. "If they are perfect that does not J make the slightest difference. I know ; how to soften them ao that I can put ' them Into any shape I choose. Where 1 are they? When may I see them?" "They are In Freckles' old case In the Llmberlost," said Elnora. "I could ' not carry many for fear of breaking them, but 1 could bring a few after school." "You come here at 4," said the Bird Woman, "and we will drive out with some specimen bo$ea and a prie· list and see what yon have to eelL" "Oh, I do need tbe money Γ aald El uora. "Do you live in that t>eautlful cabin at the uorthwest end of the awamp?" linked the Bird Woman. "Yes," said Elnora. "I remember the place and ο story about it now. You entered the high school yesterday?" "Yes." "It was pretty bud?" "Pretty bad!" echoed Elnora. The Bird Woman toughed. "You run't tell me anything about that." she said. "I once entered a city school straight from tbe country. Mj 1res s was brown calico and my shoe· tvere quite heavy. What la your nam·, my girl?" "Elnora Comatock," answered El nora. " "Yesterday on tl>· board It ^banged to Corns toe k, and for a min ât· I thought I'd die, but I can laugh vtet thai alreadj." The Bird Woman aroae and kissed her. MI"lnlsh your lunch." she said, "and I will get my price lift» and take down a memorandum of what yon think you have, so 1 will know bow many boxes to prepare. Νβτβτ mind the calico dress and the coarse shoes Dig Into the books, and before long you will bear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were ooce class mates of yoursΓ She laughingly left the room and Elnora sat thinking, until she remem bered bow hungry she was, so she ate the food, drank the bot chocolate and began the process of getting a grip on herself. Then the Bird Woman came back and showed Elnora a long printed slip giving a list of graduated price* for moths, butterflies and dragon flies. "Oh, do you want tbemT* exulted El nora. "I hare a few and 1 can get more by the thousand, with every color in the world on their wings." "Yes," said the Bird Woman, "I will buy them, also the big moth caterpil lars that are creeping everywhere now. and the cocoons that they will spin Just about this time. I bave a sneak ing impression that the mystery, wou der and the urge of their pure beauty are going to force me to picture and paint our moths and put them Into a book for all the world to see aud know We Llmberlost people must not be self lsh with the wonders God has given to us. I will pay good prices for all the moths you can find, because. you nee. I exchange them with foreign collec tors. The banker will buy stone axe», arrow points and Indian pipes. There was a tear her from the city grade schools here today for speclmeu* There Is a fund to supply the ward buildings. I'll help you get In touch with that They want leaves of dlf ferent trees, flowers, grasses, moths. Insects, birds' nests end anytblnp about birds." Elnora's eyee were blazing "Had I best go back to sc hool or open a bank account nnd begin being a mllllonuiiv Uncle Wesley and I have a bushel oi arrow points gathered, a stack of axes, pipes, skiu dressing tools, tubes and mortara I don't know how 1 ever will wait three hours." "You must go. or you will be late,' said the Bird Woman. "1 will be ready at 4." After school closed Elnoru, seated by tho Bird Woman, drove to Freckles old room in the Llmberlost. One at u time the beautiful big moths were tak rn from the Interior of the old black cose. Not a fourth of them could Im moved that night, and It was nltnos' jnrk when the last box was closed, tb· list figured and Into Elnora's tremblln; tinkers were paid Elnora clasp pd the money closely. "Oh. you beautiful stufT!" she «rled 'You are going to buy the books. pa> the tuition and take me to high school!* Then because she was a woman sbt int on a log and looked ut h«T shoes Long after the Bird Woman dnm iway Elnora remained, sne had be problem, and It was a Ι»1μ »«>·' lf *'»· told her mother would »iie take th. money to pay the taxes'; li site dl« not tell her how could she account fo the books uud tblugs for which sh. would spend It? At last she counts out what she needed for the next duj placed the rest In the farthest corn.·· of the case aud locked the door. SI· then filled the front of bi>r skirt Iro:; » heap of arrow pointa beueutb tb« case and started home. »······ With the first streak of red «hove th< | Llmberlost Margaret Siuton wus bu*.> I with the gingham and the intriuit»· pu I t>er pattern she had purchased. Wesle.\ I •ooked the brenkfust and worked null. I be thought Elnorn would be gone, then I be started to bring her mother. I "Now you be mlylity cureful." cun I tloned Murguret "I dou t kuow How I ibe will take It" j "I don't either." said Wesley phlloeo I [>hlcally, "but she's got to take it »om. I tvuy. That dress has to be finished ι>\ I ichool time in the morning." Wesley bad not slept well that nl^hr I By the time be reached the front gat* I ind started down the walk between I the rows of asters and lady slippers b»· I was perspiring, and every plausible! ind convincing speech had fled hl> I 3rain. Mrs. Comstock helped him I She met him at the door. f "Good morning." she said. "Did Mar I raret send you for something?" I "Tes." said Wesley. "8he sent m<· I for you. She's got a Job that'· too bl- I for her. and she wants you to help." I "Of course 1 will," said Mrs. Com itock. It was no one's affair how lone I y the previous duy had been, or how l· Ae endless hours of the present wouh! I Irag. "What is she doing In such ιι I uihr Γ Now was hie chance. j "She's making α dress for Elnora." I insured Wesley. He saw Mrs. Com I itock's form straighten, and her fac t' I îarden, so he continued hastily. "Yon I lee Blnora has been helping us at I îarvest time, butchering, and with un· I ixpectod visitors for years. We've I nade out that she'· saved ui a con· I ilderable sum, and as she wouldn't ever [ touch any pay for anything we Just I vent to town and got a few clothes I ve thought would flx her up a little I 'or the high scbooL We want to get I ι dress done today mighty bad. but I Margaret is slow about sewing, and I 'he never can finish alone, so I came I for you." I "And if· such a simple little matter. I to dead easy; and all so between old I Mends like, that you can't look above I rour boota while you explain It." sneer-1 k1 Mrs. Comstock. "Wesley Sinton. I vhat put the Idea Into your bead that I Slnora would take things bought with I noney when she wouldn't take thel noneyT \ Then Sinton'· eye· came up straight· I IJ. J "Finding her on the trail last night I, jobbing as hard aa I ever law any on«» 11 it a funeraL She wasn't complaining I it all, but she's come to me all her life 11 fvith her little hurts, and she couldn't 11 ilde bow she'd been laughed at. twlt-l ed and run fftce to face against tbel fact that there wa· books and tuition 11 mexpected. and nothing will ever I make me believe you didn't know that. 11 Kate Comstock," | "If any donbta are troubling you on 11 that subject, sur» I knew It! She woe I » anxlou· to try the world I thouglit f'd Just let her take a few knocks and lee how she liked It." I "Aa If ibe'd ever taken anything but I (nocks all her lifer cried Wesley Bin· I ion. "Kate Comstock, yoo are a heart· I eas. selfish woman. You're never al I owed Blnora any real love In ber life. I If ever she finds out that thing you'll I loee her. and It will serve you right" "She know· It now," said Mr* Com I itock Idly, "and «bel! be home tonight I lust as usual." "Well, you are a brure woman if yoo I J«red put a girl of Elnora'· make! ) through what she suffered yesterday and will suffer again today tod let her know 70a did It on parpoM. ! η dmire your nerve. Bat I're watched thla since Elnora wn bora, and I got enough. Thing· bare com4 to a pase where they go better for bar or I In terfere." "▲a If you'd ever dooe anything bol interfere all ber Ufa! Think I haven't watched you? Think I. with my heart raw in my breast and too numb to re· sent it openly, baren't seen you and Mag Sin ton trying to turn Elnor* against me day after day? Whan did you ever tell her what ber father meant to me? Whan did yoa ever try to make her see the wrack of my 1111» and what I've suffered? No. Indeed!" "Kate Cometock, that*a unjust Γ eried Slnton. "Only last night I tried to ■bow her the picture I saw the day ab· was born. I begged ber to come to you and tell you pleaaant what ah* needed and ask you for what 1 happen to know you can well afford to girt her.r "1 can't!" ciled Mrs. Cometock "Too know I cant.·" "Then get to you can!" aald Wesley ttnton. "Any day you aay the ward you can sell 96.000 worth of rare timber off this place easy. I'll eee te clearing and working the fields cheap as dirt for Rlnora'a aake I'll bay yoa more cattle to fatten. All you're gel to do la sign a lease to pull tbouaiind» from the ground in oil. as tbe rest of us are doing all around you." "Cut down Robert's trees!" shrieked Mrs. Cometock. "Tear up his land! Cover everything with horrid, greasy oil! Ill die flrstr "You mean you'll let Elnora go like a beggar and hurt and mortify ber peal bearing. I've got to the place where f tell you plain wbat I am going to do. Maggie and I went to town last night, and we got wbat things Elnora need· most urgent to make her look a little like the reat of the high school girl·. Now here it la in plain Eugllab. You can help get these things ready and let ua give them to her aa we want"— "She won't touch them!" cried Mrs. Comstock. "Then you can pay us, and she can take them as her right"— "I won't!" "Then I will tell Elnora Just what you are worth, wbat you can afford and how much of this she owns. I'll loun her the money to buy books and decent clothes, and when she Is of age she cun sell her share and pay me." Mrs. Comstock grlpi>ed a chair back and opened her llpa, but no words came. "And," 8inton continued, "If ahe la so much like you that she won't do that I'll go to tbe county seat and lay com pliant against you as her guardian be fore the judge. I'll aweur to what you are worth and how you are ralalng her uud have you discharged or have tbe Judge appoint some man who will see that she is comfortable, educated and decent looking!" "You—you wouldn".!" gasped Mrs. Comstock. A nvu k UtCU W| bis heurt softening the Instant the bard words were said. "Ton won't «bow It, but you do love Elaora! You cau't belp It! You must see bow she needs things. Come, help ua fix tbem and be friends. Maggie and I couldn't live without her, and you couldn't either. You've got to love such a fine girl aa she is. Let It show a little!" "You can hardly expect me to love her," said Mrs. Comstock coldly. "But for her a man would atand back of me now who would beat tbe breath out of your sneaking body for the cowardly thing with which you threaten me. After all I've suffered you'd drag me to court and compel me to tear up Robert's property. If I ever go they carry me. If they touch one tree or put down one greasy old oil well It will be over all I can shoot before they begin. Now, see bow quick yoa can clear out of here!" "You won't come and belp Maggie with the dress?" For answer Mrs. Comstock looked about swiftly for tome object on which to lay her banda. Knowing her tem per, Wesley Sinton left with all the luiHte consistent with dignity. But lie did not go home. He crossed a field ind in an hour brought another nelgb l>or who was skillful with her needle. With sinking heart Margaret saw tbem :oming. "Kate la too busy to help today. She ïon't sew before tomorrow," said W— ey cheerfully as they entered. That quieted Margaret's apprehen iion a little, though she bad aome loubts. Wesley prepared the lunch, ind by 4 o'clock tbe pretty dreaa waa luiabed us far as it possibly could b· intil It was fitted on Elnora. [to bi corrmm.] Extra Buttona. "It takes stout people to break all rules regulating tbe number of button· sn a coat or waistcoat," said tbe tailor. "Tbey can't follow the fashion; their lire won't let tbem. " Three buttona on a coat this year,' tailors' conventions may decree, or two ur four or five, or whatever number tbey tblnk proper, but the man with ι figure that la constantly trying to racape Its environment does not car· ibout convention^. What be want· la buttona enough to keep hla clothe· la ibape. "'Put 'em closer together,' be aaya, so tbe strain won't all com· on two :>r three buttona.' *80 we put them closer together, ind the result is tbat stout people fre quently have twice aa many buttons )D their clotbea a· fashion call· for.* -New York Time·. An Able Manager, A western senator waa telling a ato 7 about an able campaign manager. "He la a remarkably economical :hap,M aald tbe senator. "H· can make ι dollar go further In a campaign than iny man I know. They tell a story ι bout him—a story that shows what ι manager he la. It see ma b· wen· nto a dgar store one day to got a Igbt Well, as be was lighting np a nan entered and bought three At»· rent clears. Aa soon aa th· man left >ur friend aald quickly: " Tbo·· cigars are stz for a quarter, iln't they Τ ** 'Yea, sir,' aald tbe a·I—man "Our friend laid down a dim·.# •"Gimme.' be said, th· other thr— :heo.' "—New York Tribune. A Qheat Story. A London dally tell· a abort modem Γ boat etory. A man waa traveling on ι northbound train oat of London. Op> poelte him waa a silent stranger, bis only companion. Batw—η London and Derby no word pas—d Ttua. aa th· train drew oat of Derby, b· —Id pi—» intly. "Good tin·, this, sir, eh Γ Ti lt ranger replied: "I tblnk lfa ■ beastly bad linn. I wis kitted on It two 7—if m