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Money and Marriage
By MAUDE PARSONS
(Copyright. 1911. by A d ssnel  t mray Prmws.)
William Douglass, manager of
Thornybrook, strode to the telephone
and rang three times. A lovely
voice, with a little yawn In it, an
swered.
"May I see you a few moments,
Miss Anne?"' queried Douglass. "It's
a matter of importance."
"Yes, William," returned the lovely
voice. "Come right over."
Anne Thornton, owner of Thorny
brook, awaited the manager in a
sun-flooded room in the handsome
old house. Miss Thornton was good
to look upon. In a ruffled, trailing
morning gown, and with dewy eyes
that looked forth contentedly on a
pleasant world, she was ravishing.
Or so thought William Douglass,
anyway. William was in love with
his employer.
His homely, trustworthy face was
pale and his eyes were dark-dinged.
He had not slept much for two
nights trying to decide on Just what
he was going to say. Now he found
his speech curiously hard to deliver.
"Miss Anne," he began.
"Yes," encouraged Miss Anne, in
a tone of voice she reserved for
Douglass alone.
"I am going-I have decided-that
is, we-you have a chance to buy some
more stock of the Du Quoin National
bank."
"Well, what do you think of it?"
"It is a good buy." William, on
familiar ground, was not embarrassed
now. "The bank's well managed and
is making money."
"Then buy it, William. You know I
trust all those things to you, any
way."
The unhappy William perspired.
"That's what I came to see you about
I've-I've been thinking about the
back farm. Shall we pastu' it again
Sr.
"How I've Longed to Call You 'Billy,'
She Said."
this summer, or plow for corn? We'd
better decide, if this weather is go
ing to stay."
Without, the low hills were ta
king on a tender greenery, and two
robins made love under the window.
Miss Anne, being young and whole
some and pretty, was pulsing be
neath the call of spring-and Wil
i1am was talking about plowing!
"Whatever you think best, Wil
iam." And then, suddenly turning
her dark eyes full upon him: "What
did you really want to see me about,
William?"
Douglass gasped and foundered.
Then, rising, he placed a little pack
age of papers in her hand, and said:
"Here's a statement of things--of
your money and stocks and your
farms. I'm going to-to leave, Miss
Anne."
The old clock in the hall tick
tocked off ages of silence. Douglass
kept his stubborn glance on the sun
shiny landscape beyond the broad
window. Miss Anne studied the top
of her little slipper.
"Going away," she said at last, as
If to herself. "You are really going
to leave us! Why. William?"
"It's a private matter. I'd-well,
I'd rather not say, Miss Anne."
"Is it salary, William? You know
I've tried to make you take more."
"No." 'returned Douglass, decided
ly. "I'm paid more than I'm worth,
now."
"But you've done splendidly, Wil
liam. When we hired yon as mana
ger, mother and I had no idea of bur
dening you with our financial affairs.
too. And now we're depending on
yeou to make our investments."
"It's all right, Miss Anne. I've
liked to do it."
"UTncle Robert says you've made us
richer than ever. And a share of
that is yours-"
"No," said Douglass, and he meant
it. "It isn't money."
"''m sorry," said Miss Thornton,
plaintively. "We've been very happy
togeth-" If William had not been
so busy watching the lovemaking
robins he would have noticed a little
blush tinge his employer's cheeks ab
she substituted: "Everything's been
so harmonlous."
"I know, Miss Anne. That's what
makes it hard to go. I never can
thank you for your Mkndness. Those
papers will explain things to the new
man."
"William." interrupted Miss Anne,
"please sit down again. I want your
advice-for a friend. You're not go
ing tb leave us right awayT"
"Oh, no; I can stay for-for a little
time."
"Three months-four months?" The
girl leaned forward eagerly.
"We-ell, I hardly think so. I want
to get established before the summer
is too far advanced."
"Oh." A pause. "So you're going
into business?"
"Ye-es; that is, I think so."
"Is that so personal that you didn't
want to tell me?" There was an aso
cusing emphasis on the "me."
Douglass did not attempt to answer
"One of my girl friends doesn't
know just what to do, William. You
see, she's-she's-in love."
"Oh!"
"That 'Oh' was dreadfully noncom
mittal, William. Aren't you inter
ested?"
"Why, yes, certainly, Miss Anne."
"Well, she doesn't know whether
the young man is-is in love with
her or not"
"Can't she tell?"
"She isn't sure. She thinks he likes
her, but-"
"Yes?"
"Oh, there are complications, WD
liam. She is rich, and the young man
is poor. She feels he's to proud to
speak."
"Oh."
"Well, what is she going to do?
She's-she's cried herself to sleep
I'm afraid, a good many times; and
yet there doesn't seem to be any way
to make him speak."
William looked up. The dark eyes
gazed innocently and perplexedly into
his own.
"There isn't any way, I'm afraid,"
he said, with an unconscious sigh.
"If the man has self-respect, he can't
be a fortune hunter. He must make
his own way before he can. ask the
girl to be his wife."
"She's thought of that, too. But it
seems so foolish! They may have to
wait years, and grow old and with
ered while he makes a lot of money
they don't need. Isn't marriage an
equal partnership? Why hasn't the
wife the right to bring money to the
union as her husband?"
"From an impersonal standpoint,
she has," replied William, "but it I
were that young man I would feel
as he feels. He cannot in honor
speak while his motives could be
misconstrued. Her friends would
say-"
"Bother her friends!" Miss Anne
looked confused when she realized
the emphasis she had put on the
three-words, but only for a moment.
Then she added: "That's the way
she feels. She says she bas a right
to her own happiness, no matter
what people think or say. She is
satisfied he is not a fortune hunter;
that he is upright and honorable,
and the man nature intended as her
mate. Why can't he be sensible and
speak?"
She leaned forward in her chair,
her lips dropping in childlike per
plexity. Douglass got up hastily and
backed away. He did not want to lose
his carefully acquired grip and make
a fool of himself. That's why he was
leaving Thornybrook-to keep from
making a fool of himself. He fumbled
his hat and turned to the door.
"He can't, that's all," declared
Douglass, when his hand had closed
on the knob. "It's an Impossibility.
Miss Anne. If you were in his place
you'd realise-" He stopped; he
was confusing the other man's case
with his own.
"Don't you want to know who the
girl is?" asked Miss Thornton, un
steadily. She had risen and her fin
gers were intertwined.
"Why, yes." Douglass somehow
felt the name of that girl to be the
most important thing In the world.
The robins had ceased their billing
and cooing to listen. But he feared
Miss Anne's words would be drowned
by the thumping of his heart.
"It's-it's-" Her voice died away.
And then it began again, broke and
went on to a triumphant conclusion:
"Oh, Billy, you stupid, stupid boyl
It's-it's Anne Thornton!"
Dounglass stared unbelievingly, saw
in her face what he had never dared
to hope to see and dropped his hat.
He rushed back.
The next moment she was in his
arms, half-laughing and half-cryling.
"How I've longed to call you 'Bil
ly!'" she said.
"And.'how I've longed to call you
-darling!" said hae.
Expecting Too Much.
"I thought you said that the tfrnace
you sold me would heat every room
in my house," hollered the man with
the blue fingers, as he threw himself
into the tinner's shop.
'1 did. and it will," retorted the
proprietor, who withdrew behind his
counter for safety and grapeed a ham.
mer for defense. "but the trouble with
you is you have been trying to make
the futarnace 'heat all the room at
once."
"The position requires a high de
gree of courage. We must know that
you possess it."
"well, sir, I ran a moving gpletaLre
show for six months a a oellg
town."
ELABORATE STOCK BARN
FOR MISSOURI STOCKMAN
Bather Odd-Shaped Stracture so Bsilt to Have A AnaImls
Under Samne Roof and Keep Each Depart
ment Separate.
a
Floor Plan of Stock Barn.
The stock barn herewith illustrated
was planned for a Missouri stockman,
writes J. E. Brdgmman in the Orange
Judd Farmer.- The rather odd shape
was adopted for several reasons:
irst, to have all the stock under one
roof; second, to keep each department
separate from the other departments;
third, to reduce to the minimum the
amount of labor required for feeding
the stock; fourth, to save and eco
nomically use every pound of manure.
The floor plan of the structure is
54x160 feet from east to west, and
34x134 feet from north to south, and
the two ells for hogs and sheep are
each 30x66 feet. The walls are 10
feet to the eaves, and the roof is self
supporting, which leaves a clear
space through the entire loft for
storing hay, etc. All partitions are
eight feet, except over the south front,
where they are 10 feet from the feed
rooms to the south front. This is
done to allow for driving in a load
of hay in stormy weather. There are
45 cow stalls, three bull stalls, two
hospital stalls and three calf pens.
The horse barn has eight single stalls
and five large box stalls; the sheep
barn has six sheep pens 1121 feet
each, and two lamb pens; the hog
house has 12 pens 8x11 feet each, also
a feed and killing room 15x29 feet.
The south front has a tool room,
engine room and a watchman's room.
Stairways are located in both north
and south ends of the barn. The feed
rooms .for horses and cows are so at
ranged that the silage may be dropped
down the small chute in front of the
silos. The door of this chute is al
ways closed, so that no odors may en
ter the cow barn. A small gas en
gine is used for elevating the ground
feed to six hopper-shaped bins, lo
cated over the feed rooms. The feed
is drawn from the bins through small
spouts as wanted.
Bins for storing feed for hogs and
sheep are located over the sheep and
hog barns. All feed is handled with
feed carriers, and the tracks run
through all parts of the barn. All
manure and litter is also handled with
carriers, and when not spread at once,
is stored in a cement manure house.
CHAMPION JERSEY FOR MILK
Another world's record has been
broken. The new queen of the dairy
Is a beautiful Jersey cow named Sophie
Nineteenth of Hood Farm, owned and
tested at Hood farm. Lowell, Mass. She
Is the champion Jersey for milk and
butter fat production of cows between
four and five years of age.
During the 12 months ending
December 31. 1910, on a test authenti
cated by the Massachusetts Agricul
tural college, under the rules of the
American Jersey Cattle club, Sophie
Nineteenth of Hood farm gave 14,373
pounds 3 ounces milk, testing 1.011
pounds 6 ounces butter or over half a
ton. An eaccurate account was kept
of her feed, and her milk sold it ten
cents per quart made a profit of
$566.3!.
The United States department of
agriculture's estimate nt round sum
bars of bhe wealth produced each year
by the 000.000 cows In the United
All gutters are drained to this manure
pit
The exterior and interior are covw
ered with matched sheathing, which
is stripped with 1z24nch strips. The
strips are in turn covered with metal
lath, and the lath covered with two
coats of portland cement All cell
ings are treated in the same manner,
except the sheathing is not used.
The roof is covered with the best
grade of asbestos felt roofing, which
makes it practically a fireproof barn.
The foundation is of native limestone,
for the reason that stone can be se
cured on the farm at a very slight
cost.
The silos, set on cement pits four
feet deep, are built with 2x4-inch
studs, set 12 Inches on centers; %x6
inch wooden hoops are bent around
the outside, and are doubled, one be
tween each door and one in the )tn
ter of each door. The doors are 24i30
inches square, with 12-Inch Spaces be
tween. The hoops are covered with
1x2-inch strips, and treated in the
same manner as the was of the barn.
The inside walls of the silos are lined
with hard-burned paving brick laid In
a thin cement.
All floors of the barn are of cement,
with wood slats for the horses. The
horses have cast-iron gutters, but the
cows have both the gutters and the
mangers made of cement, and the
mangers so arranged that theq may
be flooded with water. The floors are
all trapped with drain traps, and the
entire barn may be washed with a
hose in a short time. The horses are
watered at the cement trough located
north of the east feed room, and the
hogs and sheep are watered with a
hose. The barn loft is supported on
three-inch gas pipe, and all cow stalls
are of wood, with wire guards on top.
This barn is doubtless too large for
many of us, but there are many thtngs
to be learned from it.
Ensilage.
Enasilage is one of the cheapest sue
culent feeds that can be supplied fo
farm animals during the winter. It is
good feed, handy to deaL. out and very
much relished by all classes of stock.
States is $800,000,000, or an average
profit of $36.36 per cow. If more at,
tention was paid to feeding and breed.
Ing it should be easy to inrea the
average profit per cow to at onet ce
tenth of the profit made by Sophie
Nineteenth of Hood farm, which would
raise the total to $1,240,000,000, an i.
crease of $440,000,000.
Customers for Farmers.
It pays to go down to the city sad
work up a trade for the farm prodee.
Hunt up customers for the butte
eggs apples potatoes, cabbage mad a
such stag. Have > regular mariet
day when you can always be found
there. Folks will expect pe atd de
pend on.yo. They will pay ymo eas
and as good prices as they would have
to pay at the store, becmse they gee
better weight and mesure sad fesh
or produce.
WHEN IT REALLY WAS WARM
Ineident Related by Mr. SIngs Put
an End, to the Hot Weather
Stories.
"Hot in Brasll" said the young
man who had aust returned from a
trip to South America, according to
the Chicago Daily News. "Well, I
should say so. Do you know. for days
at a time we couldn't take our after
dinner siesta on aecount of the pe
oullar noises." "What noises?" asked
the blonde stenographer, innocently.
"Why, the coffee popping on the trees.
You see, the sun was so hot the grains
just roasted before they were picked."
The old traveler yawned. "Rather
warm down there, bub," he rejoined,
laconically, "but when I was down
there you couldn't sleep at night.
Every once in a while there would
sound the most extraordinary crack
ling noise that ever fell upon the hu
man ear." "What were the sounds,
Mr. Bingo?" And Mr. Binga yawned
again and replied: "The rubber trees
stretchipg themselves."
ONE OF THE EARLY BIRDS.
Mrs. Jskls--That last leg of mut
ton was beastly tough.
Mr. Timmin-You surprise me,
mum. Why, it was quite a young
lamb.
Mrs. Josklns-Um. Must have kept
late hours, then!
Shillalah Still Useful.
The shallalah, which showed at
Loath that it has not entirely lost its
old importance as a factor In decid
ing elections, is no raw limb of a
tree. It is almost as much a work of
art as a well-balaneod cricket bat.
The old shillalahl were as arefully
looked after by their loving owners
as is a rife in the wilds. Cut from
the sturdiest of young blackthoma,
and showing as little taper as an
ebony ruler, it was weighted with
lead or Iron at the end nearest the
grip, so that its center of gravity was
about four-fifths o the way from the
hitting end. When properly seasoned
by being kept in the neghborhbood of
the farm oven for a few months, it
became a thing of supple steel. And
the proper pronunciation of the name
of this fearsome weapon Is the melo
dious one of "shill-ally," with the a-'
cent on the "alL"-Loadon Chronicle.
DISTEMPER
In all its forms among all e of horses,
as well as do, eared"and other in same
stable prevented from ha the dimsas
with PON'S TEM CURE.
Evey bottle guaranteed Over O0010a
bttles old lat year AM ad $1.00. Ayo
I draggist, or sal to mnuacturers.
swastae. Spoka YMedlal Co, Spes.
Cet Dieasase Gash. Ind.
Toe Ceetly.
"When I want to flatter a was I
ask him for advice."
"I take it for granted that ton ane
er want to flatter a lawyer."
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Gerad-Verdlct set agide
Town criers wore abolished when
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Body: "As a man esteth so is he."
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