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i (\~ JYBCoyoitN mWo p WI ANu JCopyright 191- Westero Newspapot IUloQ "Help me to stand," she directed, gripping. his arm. He raisd her. She let her foot touch the ground, wincellaa4 toppled toward him. "There's a wood chopper's cabin just ahead," she groaned. "Could could you carry me there?" blushing. For answer he picked her up la bli; arms. She threw her arms about his neck and clung to him, her hair brushing his cheek. In Nlght of the hut she whispered: "Wait! Let me down . minute." She stood leaning against him, her full, ripe lips teasingly near. For a moment as he looked into her fath omless eyes, Bedight felt thu weak ness of man for woman coming over him. To combat it, he moved farther away, supporting her at arm's length. "It would be well to leave me it thu cottage and go back for help. Look inside, please, while I loan againAt this birch," she directed. "There's probably a burglar in the woodbox or' a man under the bed," he said laughingly, as he started toward the cottage. The mayor stood for a moment upon the threishold and then entered. As his form disappeared within, there appeared around the corner of the cabin a man-the game warden of Lakeville. In a twinkling he had slammed shut the door and thrown a great bar across it from without. "There,' darn ye; I told ye I'd git ye!" he bellowed with radiant pom posity. Bedight turned angrily as the door closed and realized too late that the warning given along the trail had not safeguarded him. He was a prisoner. Peering through the dirty window pane, an aperture not large enough to permit the passing of a man's body, lie saw Miss Farnsworth leave the tree against which she had been lean ing and walk leisurely toward the hotel. With the: realization that the girl had - deliberately led him into the. hands of the enemy, he gritted his teeth and then, at the thought that perhaps Jackie Vining had planned this coup do, main, Bedight felt a queer sinking of certain hopes that heretofore had buoyed up a heart yearning to take high hurdles. No a woman may keep a man in hot wa ter on general principles of love, but to throw him in jail is treachery, and when a woman reaches that point she is like the woman scorned-a perfect fury. The room in which Bedight found himself was big and rough like some of the words the mayor said before his sense of the.Juudireis )r-turued.e then, in fuiI' possession :of the humor of the situation, he sat down on the side of the bunk and grinned. -A man can grin when the joke is on him, but he' seld:;,i becomes boisterous under the circumstances unless he is in pub lic, where it is always good taste to prove his good fellowship by blatant laughter. That the game warden had gone for help there was no doubt Remember ing . the slap which Bedight had ad ministered. on the day of their first meeting, that worthy did not desire to take fugher chances. "But if. Miss Viniiig planned the trap, why did not the warden bring enough help with him to ariet me?" This was the question the mayor asked himself-and gave it up. He had no way of knowing that the war den. had ecpt word to the shiriff to be on hand-but that functionag' was at the moment marooned on an Island five miles from the village with ample food sent by a kind providence in the light of the moon, but with no boat by which he might navigate the inter. vening waters. An hour passed, during which time Bedight had satisfled himself that wood choppers' cabins in general and this one in particular were built with the express purpose of being better jails than those possessed by the or dinary hamlet in the north country. Ue was securely confined-and he was in to stay until some one chose to liberate him. A ':oice from without suddenly gave him hope. It was a voice he knew, well-the voice of Jackle Vining. "Mr. Beldight," queried the voice, "are you there-inside the cabin?" "No, Mitss Conspirator," replied the. mayor, vindlctively, "I'm up on the roof playing sol'taire." "Will you tell me which of the girls was with you last night?" de manded Miss Vlning. "Ift so, I will let you out." "Oh, I like it in here," replied the mayor, enthusiastically. "It's a nice, quiet place, no hooks 'to bait, no mound builders to excavate, no run sway horses to catch, no balsam to ptck, nothing to do but relax and think of the perfidy of one's fellows feminine gender." "I'm glad yeo like it," responded the "judge," with a wholesome flavor in her voice, "and rm sorry to advise you that the warden and reinforce ments are about due. Wouldn't it be wiser to help me protect a thought less girl and go free than to be con trary and go to jail?" " like the jail at Lakeville even bet ter than this," responded the prisoner stahly. "It is light and airy and has easy exits in case of fre or ennut." 'Very Vell," she replied, "repent at lyes or listened. She was go. lI~ away. so Vinng," she crled. en, Mr. Bedight." <tPo know very well you would do spige me I f told you what you are asLing. Iam firm in my resolve not to appear in this light. You may as go now, for I shall not answer question." -, - He watdhed her lithe form as she walked rapidly away, her head erect, - her shoulders back, every inch a splendid woman. Scarcely had she disappeared when Bedight heard the bar thrown back, and voice whispered cautiously: "Walter! Walter! 'rho door is un* barred. Wait until I get away!" From his dingy window Bedight sawv another Feminine form saunter leisurely up the trail-and this one, too, was alim and fair to look upon, a woman that any good man might well desire to win. CHAPTER X. Instead of leaving the vicinity of the cabin after being liberated, Be dight closed the door and replaced the bar. Drifting bacs into the bushes, ie waited. An hour passed and then came voice;; and rustling in the wood. Soon the game warden and two deputies Love into view. T'he warden's face was iushed with ex citement a;l he strode along in ad vance of his men. Approaching the door, he called out: "Will ye surrender peaceable :Ind come out o' there, er ahall I comp in an' git yo?" From within there emanated no an swering voice. Out in the bushes, twenty feet away, Bedight waited, tensely. "Come on out: the door's unlocked," shouted the warden. Still no answer. "Gol darn ye; I'll show ye. Come on in, fellers," bawled the officer, throwing open the door and dashing into the cabin, followed by his depu ties. With an agile spring, Bedight left the clump of bushes and dashed for the door. The warden saw hlp com ing and sprang to meet him-but too late! Slamming the door shut, the: mayor shot the bar home. Ho could hear the strenuous objec tlons of the prisoners as he hurried away, making a detour to a farmer's house, where he hoped to secure something to eat. A ruddy-citee'ed farmer'e wife fed him bountifully and protested at the unnecessary size of the coin he gave her for his dinn'r and a basket of provisions, whh which he set out io; the cabin. Reaching the wood-chopper's hut, in which two hours previous he had been a prisoner, ho rapped on the door. "Whoever's there," cried an excited Voice within, "let us out!" "Break the glass in the window," directed the mayor, his face illumined with smiles, "and eat out of my hand!" A growl of mingled disappointment and relief preceded the,shattering of the glass. Bedight held hil basket on. his left arm and began passing provi :;ons through the aperture.. "Good grub, this, boys," be chuck led. "I serve excellent meals at both. my boarding houses. I'll bring you to bacco tomorrow night. Just you make yourselves comfortable. How would you like a deck of cards?" It was dark when Bedight reached Squirrel Inn and slipped . unobserved to his room.. When Jackie Vining came down at six next morning to take a constitu tional before breakfast the mayor sat in an easy chair on the veranda, smoking his favorite pipe. "Will you kindly tell Miss Mason that I am waiting her commands?" he asked easily, with no trace of re. sentment in his voice. "I was going to liberate you this morning," she said, simply, trying to hide her surprise. "Oh, I got out last night, thank you. I'm particular about my own bed. Never could sleep well in a strange bunk," laughing. - After breakfast Alice Mason, the girl appointed by the court to defend Bedight on the occasion of his trial, called him aside. "As your attorney, I am led to offer you your freedom today. I want to go to Lakeville for spme cold cream, and if you will ride to the Four Cor ners with me, I will let you escape to your own devices. It is not always that an attorney can vouch for his client, but I am willing 'to take a II -, UflI Bring Voo Tobacco Tomorrow Night." chance on you," confidently. "And be. aides, these girls have been badgering the life out of you. tt's time somebody took pity," laughing. The mayor put his lips close to the girl's rosy ear. "Honest," he said, "hope jo die, .'ve never bad so much fun in all miri life -but that bill business is dangerous, and I'd like to gei through with the ordeal bonorably. I can use today, and saa -a snail expression of my gratitude, I'll send you theo jolliest b box ou candy in Chicago as I pass through." "Thank you," she said, her eyes dancing. "I'll leave the selection to you." An hour later Bedight, astride a good horse, was galloping toward IBordeau, a railroad crossing ten miles t: the north. Arriving at the station he sent a telegram, ate a typical meal at a typical country hotel, and started bacl:. Ho reached the cross roads at ..... ..::..} Cleo Summers. dusk and let his tired mount plod leisurely homeward. Saturday morning broke cear and tense after a sweltering night. The sun was copper colored and the leaves upon the crest, where they were wont to bow and curtsey to the zephyr's breath, hung listless in the shimmer ing heat. At breakfast, none looked -efreshed and Mine Host complained of drought. Pauline, the cook, whose eggs were always soft-boiled to a creamy elasticity and whose toast was ever golden brown and delicious, fretted the former into blue-black! globules surrounded by leathery gela- I tine, while the latter was burned and 1desiccated to a hard-tack condition de I cidedly disappointing to her usually ,delighted followers. The thermometer, to all intents and purposes, was so basely ambitious as to seemingly have no other desire than to climb higher and higher in its relentless rise. "Come on, Mr. Bedight," exclaimed Molly McConnell, "row me over to Waxelbaum's Point. I want to sketch Iai. Veck's cabin, the remaining relic of what was once the oldest trading post in the state. It is tumbledown and ramshackle and will make a fine study. I was by there a week ago on a calm day and the reflection in the placid water was almost as realistic as the old log-pile itself. A photo graph taken when I saw the cabin' would puzzle the beholder to tel which was the cabin and which the reflection. Today promifcs to be still and bids fair to afford me an oppor tunity to get just the right atmos p ere. I'll be ready in ten minutes." She came down to the dock, her black eyes dancing in anticipation. fl~dight packed her outfit in the prow of the boat along with the lunch basket, held the boat firmly against the dock as she put her dainty foot upon the stern seat, and dipped grace fully into position, a magazine under her arm and a camera slung atross her shoulder. As the mayor took the oars he look ed at her-bareheaded, her lustrous black locks defying the sun; her full tempting lips shaping d perfect cupid's bow, a saucy little dimple on each side of a well-rounded cheek, a1d teeth as white as milk-coral through which the laughter trilled and rippled like a singing spring across its minty way. Surely a man might well be sen tenced for life to such a woman's whim, while but a day's service were as an hour in Naples after a hard papsage! Molly McConnell had one of those daring, unconventional temperaments that bespo]ke a woman of full blood and spirit, a being of beauty and grace and voluptuous constancy. To THE man she would be all in all, rein ing queen of his heart, laughing at afilnities, scorning jealousies, holding him secure with her mental and phys ical charms. The lake was calm and through its mirrored depths long strands of weed and marsh grass could be seen stream ing upward in the shallow places. Not even a ripple stirred the surface and the sun reflected from the sheening waters, glowed heatedly upon the faces of the two in the boat-the girl with hair like the night and eyes of liquid velvet, the man with a sentence to serve in the Garden of Eden with a pippin as the iorbldden 4ruit. The mayor rested on his oars and mopped his sweating brow. The girl's' eyes danced: "And now," she babbled, "you are in a position to appreciate the arduous . lifo of the galley slave. Row on, my man!" "0, that this were the river or Life!" countered Bedight, matching the woman's frippery. "One of the obligations imposed upon you by the 'Judge,"' solemnly, "was not to.propose marriage or play the role of Lothario. I trust your in tentions toward me are like the Christ. mas snow-simply another layer of white purity!" "Pray do not tempt me, Eve," he said; "a boat is fully as perilous for loving as a flat for matrimony." Her merry laughter rippled out across the water from a throat as shapely as an artist's model. Her neck, browned from the life at Squir rel Inn, was full and moulded free of hollow dips. "0, you old Adam!" she giggled, "don't you know that the price of ap ples has gone up-away up-since our mothers quit sewing carpet-rags and spinning flax. It takes a man with a head these days to keep my lady gratified." "Apples, say the physicians, are nec. essary to the human system. And I may point also to a higher authority who has said it is not good for man to dwell alone! As for the price, wan there ever an Adam who thought or this?" "Not until the baby needed shoe!" agreed the woman, letting her han'd ripple the water over the rail. "Many an Adam has asked his Eve to fly with him and after the flight couldn't buy a curry of chicken wings in a Boston restaurant!" The mayor smiled. "Marriage as it is practiced," he commented, "is a bigger gamble than the board of trade-and twice as in teresting." The .boat glided onward across the sleeping waters, leaving a V-shaped ripple in its wake. Traversing the lake, Bedight pulled through a narrow neck that connected Goose Lake with the main body of Sylvan. The view was enchanting-pine, cedar and hem lock, birch and maple varied the shores and green bushes trailed their drooping tendrils in the cool waters. La Veck's cabin came into view, sit tated upon a knoll beside the lake, a picturesque pile of the lumber-jack days. About its tumbled sides the wild ampelopsis scrambled, and rag-weed flourished in the clearing. The mayor drew the skiff upon the shore, carried the girl's easel, box and camp chair to a spot designated and stood by for or ders. "Can gu make coffee?" asked Miss McConnmt, as she got out the canvas and prepared to begin the sketch. "In these days of the new woman," he said, banteringly, "man has come to recognize in a kindlier light the ladylike art of cooking. Fair enchant ress, I can make coffee fit for the gods, but woman's dainty hand must pour, else it loses its flavor." "Very well," she said, "now run away and forget, me until the coffee is boiling in the pot." Bedight turned to the forest's fringe: "Your Diplomacy Is Admirable." and began gathering firewood. When he called, she came promptly. "Man," she said, "has caused many a divorce by not coming to dinner when he- is called. Nothing so net tles a woman as to wait meals. Know ing this, I make haste." "Your diplomacy is admirable," he congratulated, passing hes the coffee' pot. Lunch over, l3edight packed the cooking outfit and replaced it in the boat. The sky was vmoky, if the west, smoky with heatz that generated a strange restlessneam among the quiv ering trees, while the air was sur-i charged with a portentous quietude that presaged a clash of elemental fury.. A black cloud stood upon the rim of the lake and caused a look of! cuncern in Bedight's eyes. A glance in Miss McConiell's direction showed the girl absorbed in her work. The mayor picked up a magazine and stretched himself upon the sward be neath a huge yellow bireh. He was attracted from his story a hall hour later by a shadow across the sun. Hurriedly springing to his feet, he scanned the sky. A mass of black with livid green patches an'd scurrying fore runners of white froth lay like a monstrous curtain across the west, through which shot veins of gold like roots of mammoth trees. A deep rum ble, bass in Its intonation, rolled across the sky, warning the creatures of the earth that soon their master would be abroad in the land to wreck and destroy. The woman, too, aware of the dan ger, sat gazing apprehensively at the disturbed sky. "Oh, Mr. Bedlght," she cried,, with the veriest trifle of anxiety in her voice, 'We must be going. The sky looks like a storm." The mayor came over to Miss Mc Connell and, standing 'beside her, gazed analytically into the west. "I think we will be safer here," he advised, quietly. "The storm will break before we can reach the Inn." "But we cannot stay in this ruined hut. It leaks and the doors are gone," objected Miss McConnelL "Come on, let's be of." The man hesitated. "Don't you think it wiser to remain here until the storm is over? We are a long ways from Squirrel Inn," coun :jai- the mayor. Mark Twain in Satirical Humor. "Even the cleverest and mcst per. feet circumstantial evidence is lik"ly to be at fault, after all, and- therceore ought -to be received :vith great (Enu' tion," said the- late Mark TwCala. '"Take the case of asy pencil sl: rp. ened by any womar:. I yocu haye rlt" nesscs. you will fiuei slie is it. i a knife; but if yoiu sil ty ::, te .h aspect of thia pencil. yor .E:F 4 did it iW"h: aer tee;th." Sympathetic Judw . A middle aged woman, who was charged at Marylebone -(Eng.) with being drunk, was said to have been found lying fast asleep in a garden on a quantity of cut flowers. "I must say fI eel a little sorry for you," said Mr. Plowden. "Asleep on a bed of flow. ers-wakened up and brought back 4to this, wicked world. It must have caused' you a shock. You may .go with a caution. Charter of the Pointe a la iaz:b Oak River Canal a:nd Deve. opernent Company. February, 13, 1913. United States of Amer.cas, State of Louisiana, Parish of St. Barnard. Be it known, that on this thirteenth day of the month of February, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirteen (1913) Before me, William F. Roy, a No tary Public, duly commissioned and qualified in and for the Parish of St. Bernard, therein residing, and in the presence of the witnesses hereinafter named and undersigned, personally came and appeared the several partis whose names ere hereunto subscribed who severally declared, that availing themseoies of the provisions of the laws of the State of Louisiana, relativ· i:o corporations, they have covenanted and agret d by these presents, do cov enaut and agree and bind themselves, as well as all such other persona as may become essociated with them. to form a.-d constitute a corporation aro4 body politic in law, for the objects and purposes and under the articles and s.ipjulations hereinafter set forth, viz: ARTICLE I. The name and title of this corpora tion shall be the Piointe a la HIache Oak River Canal and Development Company and by that name it shall have and en joy corporate existence and succession for a per:od of Twenty-five (23) years from date hereof, tith full power in the prosecution of and for the purposes of its buo iness as hereinafter set forth; to sue and be sued; to acquire property both real and personal by purchase, lease or otherwise and the seine to alienate, mortgage, pledge, hypothe cate or otherwise dispose of; to appoint or elect such directors, officers, man agers or other rg, its or cmployees as! its business may require; to make and use a corporate seal and the same to alter at pleasure; and in general to do all things necessary and proper,' per mitted by law to corporations of this character. ARTICLE II. 'Ihe domicile of this corporation shall be at Pa into a la Hache, in the Parish of Plaqu mines, State of Louisiana. and all c.tations and other legal pro cesses shall be served upon the presi dent, or in his absence upon the vice president, or in the absence of both up on the secretary-treasurer. ARTICLE III. The cbjects and purposes for which this : rpcration ih org .nized, and the b in sk cLrrit d (n ly it are declared to be; the 'ig ing of canals, drainage dite a an ,ol, r water courses for irk own use andi that of others,. and for tiis I urpose to purchase, lease and otherwise acquire real estate, dredges, boats., machinery and cth: r apparatus for the building, operating and, uja'n taining of the said canals, ditches and w t:r cour.tes; with full authority t charge toils and r nt for the use oti said canals, diltces, water courses and their bank , for drainage, navigation and other purposes To acquire, erect and uperate ice and canning factories. To construct and er.ct electrical plants for the manufac ture and sale of vketiicity :or lighting. power and other purrores. ARTICLE IV. The capital stock of thi.i corporation is hereby fixed at Twenty-five Thous and Dollars ($25,000.00) divided into and represented by Two Hundred and Fifty Shares of the par value of One Hundred iDollars ($100.00) each, which shall be paid for in cash, or may be is sued in payment of- or for rights or property actually received by this cor poration. This corporation shall be a going concern a; soon as Seventy-five Hundred Dollars ($7500.00) of the Cap ital Stock shall hav. been suoscribed for. ARTICLE V. All the corporate powers of this cor poration shall b· vested in and exer cised by a Board of five Directors, a maijority of whom shall ;constitute a qucram for the transaction of btiainess. Said directors shall be elected at a general meeting of the stockholders to be held on the second Tuesday in Jan uary of each year. Notice of such meetings and of all other mcetings, not otherwise provided for by law, shall be given in writing te esch stockholder by mailing same to such stock holder's last known address ten days Lefore each meeting. At the fhrst meeting of the board of dir etonr after its elecn i it s'iall elect irnm its number a president, a vice preridont and a secri-.tary-treasurer; and all vacaircies ac'curring shall be fliccd by the remaining directors, for the v:wxpired term. Until the second Tuesday in January, 1P14, the following shall constitute the fir. t Boiard of Director.:, namely: Frank C. Mevers, Leon L. Vilere, Bntrnard F:xret, John H.' Meyer aad )iivcr S. I ivauadis, with the said iFrank C. i'!c-vors as President, the *aid Leon L. Viskre as Vice-President, and the said Be-rr.ard Favr('t as Secre tary.-Tcaurer, arid they shall serve mntil their £uccesCors are elected. At al. of the rmectings of the stock /holder. each stoclidlvder shall be en :itled te oire vote- fcr each share of itrCio o~vnd hy him and such. shares try be voted in person er by proxy. ARTITCLE V;I. Thi.? act of ineerporation :nay be -mend.c c' th-s cr.,r.tlfn tissolv(d ,y o.d wi'th the consent of tw--thirds .t t'e tntire capital Etohk rc'resented 1a per 'uor Oi- by proxy at a general .ming £... e firi the piurp .e aftei' Iii Ccn if ' e i~sl"l -,n f this cor orst'an, itm I h ir t ': l be liquidated y two cimmi.:sijo ers elected from nrrog the stelc .B kzrs at a meeting or that purppne or at the meeting at I'icn the dissolution i voted, and they .a'l str7 ki-lttil tile affairs of the cor-1l poration shall have been liquidate. Should either of the commissioners he unable to act for mny reason, the re mairing ccmc.issioner shall fill the va cancy. ARTICLE VII. No stockholder of this corporation shall be held liable for the contracts or faults of this corporation beyond the unpaid balance due on the st:.'k sub scribed far by him; nor shall ar:v infor mality =n organization have the effect of renrler:ng this charter null or of ex posing any stockholder to any liability bcyynd the unpaid balance due on his stock. Thus done and passed before me, notary in my office at the Parish of St. Bernard, on th2 day, month and yearl first hereinbefore written in the pres ence of A. Laburre and Jean Sarragn acq, compeant witnesses who have hereunto signed together with said ar pearers and me, notary, after reading ef the whole. (Signed) Jos. Maumis 0 Shares Beina:d Favret 3 " Fran: C. Mevers 35 Oliver S Livi:udais 5 ' Pierre Senae 2 " A. P. Perrin 2 " L. Leon Villere 4 " Geo. R. Fisk 2 " L. H. ae vat 1 " Sebastian Roy 1 " E. C. Glen 1 " (Signed) WM. F. ROY, Notary Public. Witnesses: (Signed) A. Laburre, Jean Sarragnacq. Recorded Parish of. Plaquemines on Feby. 19th, 1913, in M. O. B. 4 folio 708 of this Parish. ERNEST ALBERTI, Clerk of Court. Notice. Whereas, it has been reported to this Board that cattle and other live stock are permitted to roam st large on the pi biic levees by a r:umbtr of citizens in the (istr;ct, that fences ,r.d wood piles are imaintaintd thereon, emd that ctr tain parties make it a p:act c", to ride or drive on the kvees, and Wher.:as, the c:.ing of these things is contrary to the rolicy of this Board and detriniental to the maintenarce of the kevee system at the high standard of JRelX.acy necersary to properly protect :t greatt intervsls irxolved, therefCrc, b:: it r.slh'cd, by tL:e Bonoa of Com( ,n:ssiens rs for the Lake Borgne Basin Levec Listrwt, that t.e ine;ectua cif this Board are hereby inwtructed :.otd emnpowered to huve lemuvel, from the public levees iu; this District, it oh atrucuio. s of whatever r.ature which m y is, any nua.nrt r wtrrtsoever i!nter fer2 wi h the proper inspection or .iiaintenance of the levees. Be it -W, thur re)ivecd, ;hay the In : ectors shI -p l r-h end and inpou:.d all live tock round roamrnut large oni the kv or, i.n.i that. thny s.:al not per mit na.none to r.cd or dijve thereon, -p. ze;:t fv.r pirposes of insl'ectir: o01 A rue copy. FERNANDO~U~ ESTOP"G~rINAL,, Sceterry. Knew i-ifs Mani. ribbs-"That's a pretty rocky-look. ing umbrella yont have there; old man. I wouldn't carr:' one like that," Dibbs-"I inow you w;ouldn't; that's the reason I carry :t when :ron'rc abont.: TEXAS INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS Prize Crop Contest, 1911. as (ýflllfillll{{aaaaaa . 11\{a. ata·(~.· ···· .··.·(iaii\\ a 167% BUSHELS PER ACPE ). U r . n . D *.. ., , . . .I 7 LARGEST PRIZE-'kV/NIVG Y/1u . . .:: . E .:Ac . E", /0 tA AV RAE ' a P thy 19 629 BU. PsAR E .e .o~~~~a~ri;` cpfa LOWESTPRlZE-N,//NG NEW O I sioo BA LES PER ACE N..:.:..6tNERAL, AV AOW Or-ALL (DVTI37A T CUA*AACLRAOFO4LL 00E5Z4 / \, , 1 BU. P APe $· pf ''i1 GENrERALAvERAFFIFALLOP 37irES7At/I~D \~,B4g '2o9o A ALES PER ACRE C19 am P ý?62i 10:VEAR MVERAGE r TENAS OWVE St Z INN/HvG E & 3 2 0oo BALES I 'I PER ACRE ARGEST PRIZE-'w/ING YELD COMPARISON OF CORN AND COTTON YIELDS. SOawtng what the loalng couniestants have .on? In ti r 1912 comelliol for $16,000 in go01 Wri Mfor pwtlcalart eaonf:lirnirg t e 1913 110,000 contest to Texas Industrial Ccra s3. Dlla, WONDER ENGINES Some p rsonr.s in this paris eem h to have the impression that i Wonder Engine is a cheap engine. Nothing could be further from the truth. We do claim, how ever, that you can pay a higher price and get no better machine for your nmoney. The reason for thes Isthat there i3 no better en gine on the market today than the Wonder, as far as the ma terial, finish, workmanship is concerned, while every Wonder Engine sold in this parish has demonstrated their wonderful endurance, power and reliability, even in the hands of an amateur. Wonder Engines do not sell for an exorbitant price because: 1. The Wonder Manufacturing Co. is composed of people who actually work in their own fac tory and there is no heavy over head expense for high salaried officers. SWesell you an engine and 4 at is necessary to operate it and all other attachments that pt may wish added can be put on at cost. With other machines you have to tal.e the attachments whether y;u want them or not and thit adds greatly to the cc t of the engine-in srome cases as much as the engine itself. Ask our ag nt to pirove the state m:nts we have made. We sellou eas!;y terms-thereby showing you that our engines are as standard and reliable as sewing machines. JEAN L, LEMONS, Agent SPte.-a-la-Hache, Louisiana. Whether you de or not yoiu will enjoy reading every cb hptcr of the new serial we have arranged to print The Women Candidate 1? A tale with situations as ridiculous as they are daring, but wbole somb and up to the minute. : year is, a Jood asoo don't dse t.l. Gau.