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The Starkville News
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
STARKVILLE. : : : MISSISSIPPI.
I WHAT BOBBY Biol
I NOT KNOW je |
| By Sara Ltndaay Coleman.
(Copyright, I*o3, by Dally Story Pub. Cos.
BOBBY met the little princess one
summer of his boyhood as he
strolled on the beach in an out of the
way place on the Atlantic coast. A
tiny, dark creature, with tangled locks,
the didn’t seem much of a princess as
the quivered under the brutal epithets
hurled at her by a small male tor
mentor. It was positive!}’ wicked to be
a snub-nosed, knock-kneed fraid-cat.
She wept under the piled-up agony of
it.
Bobby, some years old, thrashed the
young bully, climbed up beside the
child lying on a wet rock that pushed
itself into the sea, and restored her
celf-respect by declaring that she
didn't have a snub nose, and that she
would be the finest there is when she
grew up to her bully eyes.
They became famous friends in the
long happy days that followed. Bobby
went to college resolved that he would
seek his princess when school days
were done, and ask her to make the
world beautiful for him.
Some years later he met her, a much
photographed and much paragraphed
young beauty, grown Tip to her bully
eyes, and he smiled somewhat cynical
ly as he thought of that brave young
resolve.
Rumor associated her name with
Maj. Davis, a man of wealth, old
enough to be her father, and it seemed
that for once rumor might be relied
upon.
Finding the major always there,
Bobby flung himself from the girl’s
presence and into the service of his
country. On the day he sailed from
’Frisco he read the announcement of
the approaching marriage of Carolyn
Nicholson to Ma j. Davis, and not with
out bitterness of soul closed that sweet
chapter of his life.
A graver Bobby, and pale with the
weakness of an old fever in his blood,
he hesitated in the hallway of a south
ern house. A promise to a friend, and a
••I HAVE NEWS OF A PRODICAL SON
FOR A WHITE-HAIRED OLD LADY.”
telegram from that friend’s mot her ac
counted for his presence there.
He had hardly got his land legs, and
as he stood looking into the drawing
room and the bright rooms beyond
from which the murmur of laughter
and many voices came, he drew his
hand across his brow’ with a quick, odd
jesture, as though he brushed cobwebs
from his brain. It wasn’t in the least
what he had been led to expect.
In the brilliant room one face, a deli
cate face framed in masses dark
hair, paled at the old familiar sweep of
Bobby’s hand across his brow .
There was a swift swish of silken
ckirts, and at his elbow a voice that
had a delicious quaver in it, saying:
“How —when —where ?”
“Steam —not an hour ago —home.”
Bobby was making a desperate attempt
at his old jauntiness. “I’ve brought
THE OLD CRAB-APPLE TREE.
Little old crab apple tree
Down beside the stream that goes
“Winding onward lazily,
Nhver caring where it flows.
Are you standing there to-day
As you did long, long ago
Wafting fragrance far away
When your sweet pink blossoms blow ?
Do the cows, sedate, sad-eyed
Come to rub against you there.
Polishing your gnarly side.
Leaving little tufts of hair?
Does the blackbird, with his wings
Crimson-splashed, still come and go.
As if charmed with earthly things.
When your sweet pink blossoms blow?
( Little old crab apple tree,
I am going back some day
To lie down and lazily
Hear the water sing away;
X am going back to dream
Glad old dreams of long ago
Where the cows wade in the stream
* And your sweet pink blossoms blow,
j £. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.
news of a prodigal iod to a white
haired old lady—l guess she’s white
haired—and I’ve been telegraphed to
atop and deliver it, and drink a cup of
tea —a quiet cupful of tea, he said.
Have you seen her in this giddy
throng?”
The curving lips parted in a w'ny that
to Bobby was the dearest way in the
world. With a sudden tightening in
an organ he had been trying to dis
pense with, he remembered the major,
and rushed into conversation again
without waiting an answer to bisques>-
tion
"How’s the major?” he said.
The girl frowned in a puzzled way—
there was a faint reproach in her an
swer. After an absence of two years
his first thought was of the major.
“Where is he?”
, “Abroad,” carelessly. She wasn’t
thinking of the major, but she had
thought a good deal of Bobby Harris
in the two years.
“Whatever made you doit?”
“Do what?” in astonishment.
“Enlist, of course.”
The lines of Bobby's face settled into
bitterness. He laughed. “If you were
a writer, I’d tell you, and there’d be
another war story on a worn-out
theme.”
With a quick, curious little intake the
girl caught her breath. “I didn’t know.
Forgive me.”
“It’s just that my viewpoint is
wrong,*’ apologized the man, “and that
I have the misfortune to love another
man’s wife.”
The pretty color left the girl’s face.
“I’m sorry,” she said, in a low' voice.
“That helps,” said Bobby, simply.
Then abruptly: “Why is the major
abroad?”
“Still sightseeing.” listlessly.
“What has come between yon?”
“Distance,” with a little smile.
“Don’t you care for him?”
“I adore him.” This with an attempt
at gayety.
“Then why—”
“Oh, Bobby, you’ve grown tiresome,”
petulantly.
A quick stain flushed the man’s brow.
“Pardon m#,” he said, stiffly.
It would be metaphorical to say that
the young woman swept Bobby into a
quiet littie room out of the hubbub of
tilings, but something like that hap
pened. She stood in front of him,
straight and tall and severe.
“You’re an idiot or I am,” she de
clared. “You’ve got to explain your in
terest in the major.”
“In his wife.” gloomily.
The girl’s laughter rang through the
room. Bobby stiffened at the sound.
“I—I —I never heard of anything
quite so funny.” She went off into a
staccato peal of mirth.
"Perhaps the major’s wife’s merri
ment will hasten my recovery,” sug
gested Bobby, who wasn’t enjoying
himself.
The girl, suddenly sobered, came
nearer and looked at him with eyes he
could not fathom.
If a man in liis blindness went frt m
you because he was a coward and
thought he saw the end of all things,”
said Bobby, developing symptoms nf
mental delirium under that long look
and quite forgetting the major, “if—
if —” Remembering the other man he
set his teeth hard —his words trailed
off into silence, a painful silence.
The beautiful face came nearer —her
voice trembled through his brain.
“If he went in his blindness,” she
said, “he’d come back for- —for the be
-of things.” *
“Good Lord,” groaned Bobby, “why
didn’t a. bullet —”
“Bobby dear.” said a choked voice.
Carolyn had turned her back on him,
“nobody noticed me at the wedding,
although I looked beautiful, was as gay
as a butterfly and threw rice. Why
weren’t you there? I—” Bobby didn’t
know’ it was laughter that affected her
voice, and his face was set —“I wanted
you, Bobby, The world turned gray,
and there was dust on my heart,” plain
tively.
Silence.
“Couldn’t you come to the wedding?”
“Whose wedding?” in an agonized
whisper.
“My dear Aunt Caro’s to the Major,
whose else, pray?”
Bobby swept her into his hungry
arms’ %
Her taunting, tender, half-smoth
ered voice still readied him. It said:
“You’re not so rnauj’, you dear
stupid. There’s lots you don’t know.
Why, you’re even in the w rong house.”
Test for 'French Submarines.
A fresh exploit of French sub
marine boats look place at Cherbour g
the other day. As the Bretagne was
nearing Havre the submarine Espador
lay in wait and came to the surface
200 yards from the liner us it was pass
ing. The submarine Silure did better
still. It placed itself so it was right
between the Bretagne and the liner
Champagne as they crossed one an
other, torpedoed them .from stem
simultaneously, and then suddenly ap
peared on the surface to the intense
surprise of the passengers.
Hare Learned How to Live.
The famous chef of a closed fashion
able resort at Paris says kings no long
er know how to dine. His occupation’s
gone. Which, says the Chicago Chron
icle, may account for the improved
health of royalty.
STRONG HOG SCAFFOLD.
Its Dmißner Consider* It an Good and
Handy a Thing a Has Err
Been Devlaed.
In my visits to many farm houses
in this country 1 noted many home
made scaffolds on which to hang hogs
after they are killed and scalded, but
the one shown in accompanying figure,
and which I use myself, I consider as
handy and practical as any. It can be
moved anywhere, even in tffe smoke
house, and if made out of good sea
soned timber and painted it will last
a lifetime. It will hold five hogs weigh
ing 300 pounds each.
One can buy five large hooks, or have
a blacksmith make them, at a very
small cost; these are to hook over the
beam. A, on which to hang the hogs.
The lop piece, A, is a chestnut scant
ling, 2x4 inches and 6 feet 10 inches
long; this piece has two mortises, three
inches from center, as shown in the
cut. The two upright pieces, B, are
hardwood scantlings 2x4 inches
and five feet eight inches long. These
have a mortise at top two inches
STRONG AND EASILY MADE.
wide and four inches deep; alsc
a mortise at bottom one incl.
deep and four inches long. Thest
pieces also have a mortise
li/j inches, two feet, five inches from
center to tlie upper end, for the tenon
of brace, 1), to go into. These pieces
also have a mortise two feet from low
er end for brace, E, to set in. The sills,
C, are 2x4 inches and two feet four
inches long. They have a mortise in
center four inches wide and one inch
deep: also a mortise nine inches from
center, for brace. E, to set into. D is
a brace inches and three fact
four inches long, including tenon which
is iy 2 x \\'<2 inches square and four inches
long. E is a brace 2x3 inches and one
foot 11 indies long.
All that is required to put this scaf
fold together are two one-fourth-inclt
bolts, five inches long, to bolt the beam.
A. to the upright pieces, B, and 16 six
penny nails and two bolts three inches
long to hold B to Cat bottom. T have
found it very handy on a bad day, for
one can set it in some building to hang
the hogs on; it is also handy to hang
sheep on to butcher. —Charles E.Cum
mins. in Ohio Farmer.
Xew PnekinK Ilon*e Product.
Anew packing house product has
been placed on the market at a whole
sale price said to be $7,000 1 lie pound.
This medical substance is derived from
a small gland in meat-making ma
terials, located in the region of the kid
neys. It is possessed of most wonder
ful astringent properties and in very
minute quantities diluted with water
is used in operating on the eye, nose,
throat and ear. So powerful is this
substance that one part dissolved in
100,000 parts of water may be quickly
and readily detected by a simple test.
The solution being applied to the deli
cate structures of the parts named en
tirely prevents bleeding. The active
principle of this new drug is called
suprerenaline. —Breeders’ Gazette.
Danger In Close Pastnr.ini;.
The leaves are the laboratories in
which the plant food is elaborated and
from which the plant substance is sent
to all parts of the plant. The roots of
grass store substances which prepare
the plant for a vigorous growth the
following year. If the leaves are de
stroyed by pasturing too closely dur
ing the early growing season when
this transfer of substance from leaves
to roots takes place then the plant,is
temporarily weakened'. The most pro
ductive pastures I have ever seen have
invariably been those that have not
been too closely pastured. Many of the
best pastures are not used at all until
September, but this method is not prac
ticable in all cases. —Farmer’s Voice.
It is estimated that to equal one
pound of honey from clover, 62,000
heads of clover must be deprived of
nectar, and 3,500,000 visits from bees
must be made.
Most farmers can raise young
colts and develop them into mature
and thoroughly broken horses.
The beekeeper will ordinarily derive
all his profits from a stock strong
and healthy in early spring.
In normal colonies the queen ceasei
to lay in autumn.
j J. L Martin. ]
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