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pjifliPF pr mm\ UiIUSLL ui fctihiki Oid Man's Peculiar Will Develops Good and Bad Traits or Nephews. BY GEORGC ELMER C0D3. "And I hereby bequeath anu devise to iny nephews, Ralph Davis and Jonas Greer, the house on Main street and the house on Railroad street, my trustees to make the choice of awarding the same." The lawyer read this extract from thp will of old Peter Davis in a singsons tone. There was a long sigh of relief from Jonas Greer, and a pleased expression on the face of Ralph Davis. Good old Uncle Peter had not forgotten them, even If he had given a goodly portion or Ms worldly gooas 10 charity. "Further," the lawyer continued his reading, "the first one of said nephews making live thousand dollars, the same shall be received in full payment for the old homestead." There was due speculation among the gossips of Brandon for a week after that, as to which of the fortunate heirs of old Peter Davis would receive the test property award. The place on Main street was the choice of the two residences. The house was modern, the neighbors were of the best social set in the village, the street was puvrd. The Railroad street place held a neat but old-l'hshioned cottage. Main street was a broad tree-fringed thoroughfare. Railroad street had half of its area taken up by tracks, sidings and freight ? houses. Tho Greers hud no children. There were two pretty, curly headed tots in the Davis family. After thinking and debating over the natter at the end of a week the trustees of the Dr-vls estate awarded the Main street property to the Greers. "It's a burning shame, Ralph!" said outspoken Mrs. Davis. "There is no right or justice to it. Everybody knows it, everybody is scandalized." "OK o'?o nrnnortv nu'DCPS nmv and v/u, uc it yi vyvi *.j v.. Mw.? ? shouldn't complain," reminded her husband in a pleasant way. "But think of it?the Greers have no children, and we have. It is dangerous for them so near the railroad B J'hj' ! "Here Is a Little Paper to Sign." tracks. Besides that, this property isn't worth half as much as the Main street place." "Well," rejoined Ralph, "1 understand that John Moore, one of the trustees, is wearing a new diamond pin, and they say that Grocr presented it to him. Let it go. When 1 look around and see how cozy you've made the place here. I feel as if it is a kind of palace." "Oh, Ralph, you are so easily ficd," sighed Mrs. Davis. "That's because I've got. what Greer can't scheme for and get." "What's that?" "You and the children," cried the D:g neariea iemiu\n, i.;iu mo nuc tmned his bouncing kiss with a proud End happy face. "I suppose the next thing we know." she said, "Greer will scheme to get the fifty thousand dollar homestead for that five thousand dollars. He'll raise it among his friends." ' Xo, he can't do that," dissented Ralph. "He has to 'make' it. I'll let >ou into a secret, Madge, dear: I am going to work and s.rimp and save to mise that money. The Crecrs won't. They are going in for society in their pew home. Sort of look down on us buck street folk.-. So, they spend all they get." Ralph's loyal little wife had a good deal of humiliation to subdue for a time. Mrs. Greer began to take tc herself a certain social imi5ortar.ee. lVoph who were cads ignored the back street home. The yards of the two houses adjoined at the rear. First Mrs. Greer pitied her humbler neighbor. Then she was indulgent. Finally she ignored her. Ralph worked hard, llis life was centered In his home, and his stealing, steadfast faith li> the future began to influt nee his wife. One day he came some in the middle of the day. This was an unusual tiling for him. His wife looked alarmed and then curious, for her husband's cheery face was wreathed with smiles. "Well, I reckon we'll have to move," be announced. i "Move! When? Why?" cried hia bewildered helpmate with a gasp. "Right away, and because our house here io sold." "Sold!" "That's right," smiled Ralph, and he acted and looked as if supremely satisfied with the arrangement. "Here is a little paper to sign," and the speaker produced an official looking document. "But why sell It; who is buying it?" stammered the bewildered wife. "The railroad company. If we hold back, the property will be condemned anyway, so we had better close the bargain. They are paying us a big price." "But to tear up, when we are so nicely settled here!" "As well as the Greers?" inquired Ralph archly. "Yes, we arc!" declared the staunch little woman. "It's been just delightful, and we have made it a real home." "Well, the new one may suit you better," predicted the husband. "In fact, Madge, 1 have decided to buy the old homestead." "Why, where, how can you get five thousand dollars?" "The railroad company are giving us twelve thousand dollars. It is three times the value of this place, but they must have it. That leaves us seven thousand dollars and what I've saved . ? - 1:' IU UC'^IU 11 Bl'W 1UV ill gtdiiu ov IU. The delighted little . woman broke down and cried tor sheer joy. About all the family did that evening was to scan the prospect before them and plan out tho goldr-n life offered ahead. The old Davis homestead was a regal place?a roomy, comfortable house with beautiful gardens and a small farm area behind it sufTlclent to pay tho expenses of living. The next morning Mrs. Greer met her neighbor on the street. The latter noticed that she scanned her last season's dress rather keenly. Then, when she heard that tho Grcers were giving a large party and she was not invited Mrs. Davis realized that tho upstart Greer family were ashamed of their supposedly humble friends of former times. 1(19 VVIIUJK IUHU MIC? Ul ?< uul- iuii/ called their good luck, one morning. The sale of the little house on Railroad street was the gossip of the village. Jonas Greer hoard of it with a sense of indignation. He felt wronged. Then he suddenly recalled a certain scheme ending in a bribe, and kept his conclusion to himself. Glum and sullen Mrs. Greer grew sharp voiced and thin over "the freak 6f chance" that had placed her despised neighbor in affluence. She suffered worse when a new humiliation faced her. The railroad people proceeded to build their noisy, smoke producing shops within fifty feet of the Greer residence. In the meantime the social strivings of the Grecrs had led them to mortgage their home. Then came the crisis. They sold their equity in the place for a song, and went to live in a rented flat. Ralph Davis had too good a heart to neglect a relative and he placed the Greers again on their feet in a substantial way. His pensioners, however, never failed to exploit "the advantage taken of them" by the whole sotiled fellow who understood how to enjoy prosperity because he had lcr.own adversity. (Copyright. 191-. hy W. O. Chapman.) He Pleaded Beth Ways. Sheridan Master, former speaker ot the Michigan house of representatives. tells the following story of one of his early cases as a lawyer: A negro was arrested for stealing a calf and the court appointed Mr. Master to defend him. The colored nan had never talked to a lawyer before and didn't fancy the idea very much, preferring to try the case himself. After a short conference between Mr. Master and the negro the court i.skid the negro how he would plead. The latter rose slowly and said: "Jcdge, your honoh. I pleads not guilty on advice of my attorney, but I ain't got no faith in any attorney; so. I'll tell you. jcdge. dat 1 done stole do calf and I throws myself on de mercy of de court.'?Richmond Times Dispatch. Had All Kinds of Money. Literally Black dropped into White's ofhet ar.d invited him to dinner, stating thai he had "all kinds of money.". White accepted the invitation, and they dined well?so well that when the check .vas presented to Black ho gasped, and in a hoarse whisper requested a Itfan of White. "This check amounts to $4.50." he explained, "and I've got only $1.91." "You said you had all kinds of money!" White replied disgustedly. "So 1 have." Black replied, withdrawing his possessions from h'3 pocket. "I've got a dollar bill, a ",ieent piece, a quarter, s dirnp. a nickf 1 and a penny. Now. how many more kinds could you expect a fellow to have?" Morning After. "Dearest," says the bonny bride, "l Just can't get a bit of heat from that gas range. and the kitchen is lull of the most disagreeable smeli." The gentle bridegroom goer, to the kitchen, shuts off the gas. opens the doors and windows and after a while explains slowly and patiently: "You know, dar'ing, the has to be lighted b"fore it will produce heat." Fashion's Slants. "Ma." said Kthelinda, "is my hat c straight?" "Perfectly, my dear." "Then it's wrong. It ought to be c:i one side of my head and down over my loft eye."?Washington Star. i tttf* ttf f'fftf f f 3 tf f f f tf ti if if ijfii'f f iff twww * ? ? 'WwwWwww p* > j (???| j ! Mature I I 1 B n M JJ M I g H ?J ? Hu:r.::::::::t^:::u::::unn::jn::n:::u::::; BIRD SLAUGHTER IS COSTLY Direct Connection Between Increase cf Insect Pest and Killing Off of Little Songsters. Dr. William T. Hornaday, director of (ho New York Zoological park, estimates that if the bird population of this country was as large today as it was G9 years ago. it would mean a saving of $230,000,000 to American farmers. There is a direct connection, in his opinion, between the multiplication of insect pests, which are among the gravest problems of modern agriculture, and the slaughter of migratory birds. The most common orchard visitant of the woodpecker tribe is the red headed woodpecker (Melanerprs ervthrocephalU3). Generally speaking he is the most sociable of all the bird ! V/VGolden-Winged Woodpecker. folks, frequenting orchards, parks, shade trees, and the wooded districts near farms. This tree surgeon makes n npsf near the summit of som? dead I topped tree where ho and his wife rear their brood of ten to twelve healthy, hungry youngsters, each of them requiring, nay, demanding to be fed. Practically all this bird's food is obtained by boring. It Is impossible to even guess at the number of noxious insects destroyed by them In a season. A pair of them nested in a dead cottonwood near my uncle'j orchard in Yakima valley one year, and I watched t hem one day through a pair of glasses when the young were about half grown, says a writer in an exchange. The two birds made ninety-six trips in one hour to the tree, each time carrying a worm. It is pretty safe to calculate that ninety-six apples were saved in that hour, practically a box. wortli .say, one dollar. If the birds : worked ten hours per day they wer worth to my uncle ten dollars, or in three weeks the young were in tin nest $210. Can you afford to kill a woodpecker? HANDLING THE FLOWER POTS Box With Castors Attached Will Be Found of Great Convenience When Cleaning Room. (By I. M. SIIEPCER.) A box for plants resting on castors may easily be drawn away from th 4 window on cool nights in winter, and pushed back the next morning. These castors are also a convenience when sweeping about the window. Any woman who keeps house-plants in her rooms can. herself. make two or three window-boxes, legs and all, picked up from where carpenters are building. These boxes, of course, are used mainly in windows that are kept for the saving of plants for spring, and yet they can contain an assortment of flowers, which, banked back of a window, give an effective picture of beauty to the passer-by as well as to the inmates of the room. For a small window, and one from which you must get light for the room, be sparing of the plants. There is noin'.ng prenv m u uurit ?uum, mv * ' K ' ' ""l A . -*Vv Removing Flnnt From Fot. eause of which is the? window literally j hung and placed full of all manner of I foliage. It is such a mistake to fill up .\ window so full of plant- and vir.es !: the winter that one can neither - i light for reading nor sight cf tieprettier world outside. .\ fev. plant:* a small window, artistically ar-, ranged, is a much happier scheme. : \ ;d is there anything more dismal; i' an a window stuck full from fop to I i 'cm of little green cuttings in f!r. I e ns or any old pot? Where is th l uty? LATE WORK IN THE ORCHARD ; Thorough Spraying After . Rotten Fruit and Other Refuse Is Cleaned Up is Recommended. i Ry R. G. WEATHERSTONE.) After all rotten apples, prunec limbs and other refuse have been cleaned up about the orchard, the trees should be given a thorough r praying. if possible, one should choose a warm Jay for this operation, bo most of the insect pests, crawling out to lie in the sunlight, will be exposed to the action of the spraying solution. Special attention should bo given old knots, ro ;gh and rotten spots ibout the tre?s. as in these places is where the fruit pests deposit their eggs for next season's crop and at the same time many of these pests themselves are harboring in these safe retreats till winter is over. There are several reasons for this fall spra\ing. It not only destroys the insect pests, but their eggs also, which have been laid. After the spraying the trees will be left healthy and clean and free from the pests while they are developing their next season's fruit crop. Another light spraying next spring will not come amiss, but this fall enoni'lnw "*il! tncMirn f I16 tt'nrlr Kotnfr done? not neglected next spring xvhen tlie rush season is on and the field turns the farmer's attention from tho orchard. STRAWBERRY IS VERY HARDY Plant Will Stand Severe Weather, but ' la Injured by Alternate Thaw, ing and Freezing. Thf? strawberry plant is very hard} stand' :g severe and continued freezing weather, but is often injured by alternating freezing and thawing, therefore we must cover to prevent this injury. Any coarse, strawy ma- ' terial, like old hay, straw, leaves, pine needles or strawy stable manure can he used for this purpose. Only a thin covering is needed, just enough to prevent thawing until the warm weather of spring. Most growers of strawberries delay covering until the ground becomes frozen so | that a team may be driven over the ground without cutting it; but it Is better in the home garden to cover the bed as soon as the ground begins ^ to freeze. MlacKDerry canes may u? iiruia.m In the same manner, but the roots must be started with a fork so that the bending shall not come upon the canes, which would be broken if bent over. METHOD OF PULLING TREES Cood Team of Horses and Three-Quar ter Inch Rope and Tackle Will Do Job Eacily. When we transplant trees taker, from our nursery we use the method shown in the sketch for taking up large shade trees. A three-fourths inch rope, eight or ten feet long, is doused, the ends tied together and looped around with an extra hitch, writes P. E. Dougan of Pawnee, Okla., in the Popular Mechanics. The tree trunk should be well protected from C vjTI V J Pulling Trees. the chafing of the rope with burlap wrapped around it. The next requisite is a roller. We use a hollow log about eighteen inches in diametet over which an ordinary block and tackle is plac-d as shown. A good team of horses will easily pull a tree three or four inches in di- , anoeter, with all ijs roots. ' HORTJCULTURAL"1 When did you raanuro the orchard lust? Fix up the ladders before putting them away. Cover strawberries two inches deep with hay or straw. Grape vines may be trimmed as soon as tli1 leaves have fallen. Got after the black knot on plum and cherry trees. Cut off and burn. i'uy a pair cf pruning shears. They can be usi <1 any month in the year. Th ea.-ii st way to get r'd of ter.l ?ar;>iilars is to cut down wild cherry trees. Pro: ct newly planted fruit tree* 'r- m mice and rabbits by a strip of tar pa per. Plow up the vegetable garden before freezing weather and let frcst act on the soil. Oath, r up all rubbish in the orchard and burn it. 1*3" rake and pruning knife fr ly. Many a desirable tree has been rui::.-:i because tu wire or label was not it moved. I. tivg wormy and diseased apples t cn the ground is bad business. Bvtt'. r 1 t the hogs in to thein. if you ha v. net already done so, covt r rhododendrons to prott et them from alternate freezing and thawing. K- p on the lookout constantly to d< 'I y ir.sect eg s and cocoa nuts cn the bark or trees and in rubbish oiks. GIRL CLIP/IBS TREE TU ESCAPE ENRAGED ELK California Lass Has Exciting Experience While Photographing Animals at Boulder, Coio. Boulder. Cclo.?While attempting to photograph animals In the zoo at Chautauqua Park, Miss Myrtle Webb, a beaut'ful society girl of Pasadena. Cal., narrowly escaped being gored to death by the large bull elk kept there, which has been vicious of late owing to the loss of its mate. Miss Webb had tbe presence of mind to run for a large tree near by, and. being an athlete, was able to climb beyond the reach of the maddened beaBt. After she had scratched her hands and face and been badly brnised about the body, she succeeded Was Able to Climb Beyond Its Reach. in reaching a limb where she could sit and wait for rescue. She was in the act of photographing the elk when it made r. rush for her. Realizing that escape b>" the gate was .mpossible, she took the only alternative and climbed the tree. Miss Webb was forced to remarfi in her uncomfortable position nearly U ? Ua.i mh tnliAn Krti* erinfl U'PPP lllltft; UUUIO, HHCII IIM \.??vw "WW heard by students, who managed to coax the elk to the fence by throwing hay inside the inclofure. Miss Webb then, as she explained later, "beat it" ' as fast as she could for th?= gate. Although nervous, she remained long enough to secure a good photo of her enemy. When asked about her experience, she said: "I don't know how it all happened I was so excited. 1 guess I learned art of tree climbing when pick- I ing oranges in ray father's grove, where I wa6 considered as good as the men. Then I have always ridden horses and enjoyed all outdoor sportr like swimming, tennis and golf." IS STRANGER THAN FICTION Wisconsin Woman Reunited With Parent Mourned as Lost in Iroquois Theater Disaster. Chicago.?That truth is Strang'-; than fiction was demonstrated once more the other day when the story mine out of how a family, disrupted by the Iroquois theater tire nine years ago. has become reunited at rirarid Rapids. Wis. The heroines of the romance are .Mrs. Ella Mavhew and her daughter. Mrs. Sidney Hurrows of West Grand ifapids. ' For nine years It had been believed Mrs. Mayhev.* perished in the Iroquois fire. Or. the day of the disaster Mrs. Mayhew, or Mrs. Maxfield. as her name was at that time, attended the matinee at the Iroquois theater with a fri"nd. When the fire broke out the two became separated. The friend escaped uninjured, but no traee could be found of Mrs. Maxfield until a charred skeleton by which lay a ring bearing her initials was taken out of the fire ruins. She was mourned as lost. Mrs. Maxfield was not dead, how ever. She was badly injured in the fire and on escaping front the theater was taken to a hospital where for fourteen months her life hung by a throad and her inlnd was a blank. I'pon her recovery she learned that, supposing her' to be dead, her husband had married again and her only child. Mrs. Rurrowg. had changed her residence. T'nder the circumstances Mrs. .Maxfield though' it best to conceal her identity mid' r an assumed name. She became connected as a nurse with the hospital where she had been re stcr d to health. Her existence would probably never hav been discovered had it no' been for th" settlement of an estate In which she was interested. Her rpal name was mentioned in the newspapers and was seen by the daughter. A long-distance telephone eall followed and the voice of the moth* r answered Mrs. Hurrowg. The mother went at. once to Grand Rapids, where she and her daughter have 'men reunited. Important D:scoverv. S' Imuis.? From one of the loeal vaudt ville houses conies a story that r as it for a shortage in their k('s is that n goat got into the h r .7' e r.n 1 ate 1 000 of the paste b ard.-. identified. Doctor?Are you anaemic, Pat? Pat?No, doctor?Irish.?I-lfe. As a summer tonic there i? no medici le that oui'e compares with OXIDf N*R. It not ontv builds tip the sv<tem. but taken reeul.wlv. prevents Mnlnria. Rejnilar or Tasteless formula at Druggists. Adv. Her Dancing Nights. "If your wife fond of dancing?" "Yes, especially the nights I prefer to stay at heme."?Detroit Free fress. A Household Remedy. Which works from outside. CHUSTOL (Chest Ointment) will relievo quickly croup, coughs, colds, pnepmonla and all affections of chest and throat. Use freely and RUB! RUB! RUB! Now sold by all medicine dealers. Should be in every home. Burwell & Dunn Co., Mfrs., Charlotte, N. C. Adv THE CASE. L'ronson?You're hot looking well, old fellow. Woodson?No, indeed. I'm always feeling poorly before Christmas. SCALES ON SCALP ITCHED Muskogee, Okla.?"For more than a year I was afflicted with scalp disease. There were large white flakes or scales which caused the painful itching and my scratching would Wring blood and cause sores. My hair came out in largo quantities and what remained was thin, dry and lifeless My temples were completely bare. During this time I tried everything that I thought would help me but nothing j?M seemed to do any good. A friend ad- rafl vised mo to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment. "I bathed with Cuticura Soap and applied Cuticura Ointment. At the ? end of about four weeks my scalp was sound and well and my hair had thick- wa ened up and grown wonderfully in Wfl such a shor time."' (Signed) Mrs. D. W. McClclIan, Dec. 16, 1911. ? Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Hook. Address V post-card "Caticura, Dept. L, Boston." fl Lucky Star. ' "This is th third time you have been here for food," said the woman at the kitchen door to the tramp. Are you always out of work?" "Yos'm," replied the itinerant. "I guess I was born und^r a lucky star." Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOHIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants aud children, and see that it SlSureof In Use For Over 3G Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Locked Like a Strike. t'rimsonbeak ? Are you against strikes? Yeast?I certainly am. Hut how much were you going to ask me for? Regular practicing phv?ieiano recommend and prescribe OXIDIN'K for Malaria. cau-c it is a proven remedy by years of ex pericnce. Keep a bottle in the medicinet and administer at tirst sign of Chill# tnd Fever. Adv. Liberal. He- I haven't the h? ?rt to kiss vou. She?Well, take mine.?Ulk. TO DRIVK OCT M \I. \KI V AM) III II.1) I r 1 IIK SVSTKM Take the Old Standard OKoVKS TASTKI.KSH nill.L TONIC. Vmi know what yon an- taking. Tito tortuula Is plainly printed on every bottle, sb >w!fiit it i? simply t/ninim- and Iron In .1 luii'lcv. form an t the most effectual form, lor thrown pnop.e and children, MJ cents. Adv. Best Kind. Do you like creepers about the house?" "Yes. if they're fat babies." IJOF.S VOL'II IIKAI? ACMKf Try Hicks' TAPUDISE. It'* Il<|tii<l ? plena.int to take -etTectBimmediav?/ood to prevent fjick lli'iiilai'hisnnd Nervous Headaehes aim. Your money l>ael< if not satii-tled. JOc., inc. and SQc. ai medicine stores. Adv. Probably. "People sometimes travel miles in heir dreams." "Do they do it on night mares7" T? prevent Malaria if far hotter thin to euro it. In malaria! countries take a dov,. < t OXIDINK regularly one each week and -ivo yourself from Chills and Fever an 1 other malaria! troubles Adv. Hi- Sant.mie majesty grins v/hen he - a man say ho will reform?tomorrow . FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS A-- Richest in Curative Qualities FOR BACKACHE. RHEUM AT ISM. K'ONEYS and BLADDER ^ S/vl El fl K# ? and High Grade Xf KOOaKS assess it t' Attention r -.i - reaMHiaWe. ? ' 2~f > vice prompt, s.-rni for Ln?t. -' {jl u i iht mou:. tiuousios, ?. n. V.\ N. U., CHARLOTTE. NO. 52-1512.