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THE CAROLINA WATCIAN, SALISBUBY, R. Cl
I
The Real Man
By FRANCIS LYNDE
(Copyright by Chas.
J. MONTAGUE SMITH, LATE OF LAWRENCEVILLE, DISCOV
ERS THAT AS "JOHN SMITH," A CONSTRUCTION CAMP
WORKER, HE CAN T CONCEAL HIS PAST LIFE "
Synopsis J. Montague Smith, cashier of the Lawrenceville Bank
and Trust company, bachelor society leader engaged to marry Verda
Richlander, heiress, is wrongfully accused of dishonesty by Watrous
Dunham, his employer, and urged to be a scapegoat for the crooked
accuser. Smith strikes Dunham, leaves him for dead and flees the
state. Het turns up a tramp some time later at anirrigation dam con
struction camp in the Rocky mountains and as John Smith gets a rough
job. -
CHAPTER IV Continued.
"I'm afraid he'd have to loosen up
on his record a little before we could
bring him In here. Badly as we're
needing a money man, we can hardly
afford to put a 'John Smith' into the
saddle at least not without knowing
what his other name used to be."
"No ; of course not. I guess, after
all, he's only a 'lame duck,' like a good
many, of the rest of them. Day before
yesterday, Burdell, the deputy sheriff,
was out at the camp looking the gangs
over for the fellow who broke into
Lannigan's place last Saturday night.
When he came into the office Smith
was busy with an estimate, and Bur
dell went up and touched him on the
shoulder, just to let him know that it
was time to wake up. Suffering cats!
It took three of us to keep him from
breaking Burdell in two and throwing
him out of the window I"
"That looks rather bad." was the
president's comment. Col. Dexter Bald
win had been the first regularly elect
ed sheriff of Timanyoni county in the
early days and he knew the symptoms.
"Was Burdell wearing his star where
it could be seen?"
The engineer nodded.
"What explanation did Smith make?"
"Oh, he apologized like a gentleman,
and said he was subject to little nerv
ous attacks like that when anybody
touched him unexpectedly. He took
Burdell over to Pete .SImm's shack sa
loon and bought him a drink. Perkins,
the timekeeper, says he's going to get
a megaphone so he can give due notice
in advance when he wants to call
Smith's attention".
The colonel pulled out a drawer in
the desk, found his box of diplomatic
cigars and passed it to the engineer,
saying: "Light up a sure-enough good
one, and tell me what you think Smith
has been doing back yonder in the
other country."
Williams toolP the cigar but he shied
at the conundrum.
"Ask me something easy," he said,
"I've stacked up a few guesses. He's
from the middle West as the Bible
says, his 'speech betrayeth' him and
he's had a good job of some kind; the
kind that required himo keep abreast
of things. If there's anything in looks,
you'd say he wasn't a thief or an em
bezzler,, and yet it's pretty apparent
that he's been used to handling money
In chunks and making it work for Its
living. I've put it up that there's a
woman in It. Perhaps the other fel
low got In his way, or came up behind
him and touched him unexpectedly, or
something of that sort. Anyway, I'm
not going to believe he's a crooked
crook until I have to."
Colonel Baldwin helped himself to
one of his own cigars, and the talk
went back to -business. In the. irri
gation project, Williams was a stock
holder as well as chief of construction,
and Baldwin had more than once
found' him a safe adviser. There was
need for counsel The Timanyoni
Ditch company was in a rather hazard
ous condition financially, and the presi
dent and Williams rarely met without
coming sooner or later to a threshing
out of the situation.
The difficulties were those which are
apt to confront a small and local enter
prise when It is so unfortunate as to
get In the way of larger undertakings.
Colonel Baldwin, and a group of his
neighbors on the north side of the
river, were reformed cattlemen and
horse breeders. Instead of drifting
farther west In advance of the incom
ing tide of population following the
coming oi he railroad, they had
availed thomselves of their homestead
rights and had taken up much of the
grass land in the favorable valleys, Ir
rigating it at first with water taken
out of the river In private or neighbor
hood ditches.
, Later on came the sheep-feeding
period, and after that the utilization
of larger crop-raising areas. The small
Her "Boy" Was Not Lost.
- The last good-by kiss and the home
coming embrace must be given on the
upper platform Of the Pennsylvania
station In New York. The company
refuses to allow people without a
ticket to pass the entrance and exit
gates to the train platform. The war
Is the excuse given for the new rule.
Until recently anyone who wanted to
see a friend off or meet one was not
refused. Now ho one is given permis
sion. The new rule Is all right, but
the particular exits from the incoming
Scribner's Sons)
ditches proving inadequate for these,
Colonel Baldwin had formed a stock
company among his neighbors In the
grass lands and his friends In Brewster
for the building of a substantial dam
in the eastern hills. The project had
seemed simple enough In the beginning.
The stock was sold for cash and each
stockholder would be a participating
user of the water. Williams, who had
been a United States reclamation man
before he came to the Timanyoni, had
made careful estimates, and the stock
subscription provided money enough
to cover the cost of the dam and the
main ditch.
After some little bargaining, the
dam site and the overflow land for the
reservoir lake had been secured, and
the work was begun. Out of a clear
sky, however, came trouble and harass
ment. Alien holders of mining claims
in the reservoir areaturned up and
demanded damages. Some few home
steaders who had -premised to sign
quitclaims chanced their minds and
sued for relief, and after the work was
well under way it appeared that there
was a cloud on the "title of the dam site
itself. All of these clashings were car
ried into court, and the rancher pro
moters found themselves confronting
invisible" enemies and obstacle-raisers
at every turn.
"We've got to go in deeper, colonel ;
there is nothing else to do." was the
engineer's summing up of the matter al
the close of' the conference. "The snow
is melting pretty rapidly on the range
now, and when we get the June rise
well stand to lose everything we have
if we can't keep every wheel turning
to get ready for the high water."
Baldwin was holding his cigar be
tween his fingers and scowling at It as
if It had mortally offended him.
"Assessments on the stock, you
mean?" he said. "I'm afraid our crowd
won't stand for that. A good part of it
1st ready to lie down in the harness
right now."
"How about a bond Issue?" asked
the engineer.
"What do we, or any of us, know
about bond Issues? Why. we knew
barely enough about the business at
the start to chip In together and buy us
a charter and go to work on a plan a
little bit bigger than the neighborhood
ditch idea. You couldn't float bonds in
Timanyoni Park, and we're none of us
foxy enough to go East and float 'em."
"T guess that's right, too," admitted
Williams. "Besides, with the stock
gone off the way It has, It would take
a mighty fine-haired financial sharp to
sell bonds."
"What's that?" demanded the presi
dent. "Who's been selling any stock?"
"Buck Gardner, for one; and that
man Boiling, up at the head of Little
creek, for another. Maxwell, the rail
road superintendent, told me about it,
and he says that the price offered, and
accepted, was thirty-nine."
"Dad burn a cuss with a yellow
streak in him!" rasped the Missouri
colonel. "We had a fair and square
agreement among ourselves that If any
body got scared he was to give the rest
of us a chance to buy him out. Who
bought from these "welshers?"
"Maxwell didn't know that. He said
it was done through Klnzle's bank.
From what I've heard on the outside,
I'm inclined to suspect that Crawford
Stanton was the buyer."
"Stanton, the real-estate man?"
"The same."
Again the president stared thought
fully at the glowing end of his cigar.
"There's another of the confounded
mysteries," he growled. "Who is Craw
ford Stanton, and what Is he here for?
I know what he advertises, but every
body in Brewster 'knows that he hasn't
made a living dollar in real estate
since he came here last summer. Wil
liams, do you know, I'm beginning to
suspect that there Is a mighty big
nigger In our little wood pile?"
"You mean that all these stubborn
holdups have been bought and paid
trains are so arranged that unless one
wears a reflector the persons they
are to meet will escape them. There
are two stairs from each track and an
elevator between. Yesterday a little
old lady who had been waiting to
meet her boy, was horror-stricken be
cause he had been swallowed up In
the arriving throng without seeing her.
A policeman and several guards began
a search for the lost one. He was
found on the outside of the station.
The "boy," however, could not have
lost himself very well, for he was
for? Tooll remember that is whaf
oiujr oiuruucs tneu to ten us when
the first of the missing mining-claim
owners began to shout at us."
"Starbuck has a long headr and what
he doesn't know about ininlng.clalms in
this part of the country wouldn't fill a
very big book. I remember he said
there had never been any prospecting
! done in the upper Timanyoni gulches
and nowyou'd think half the people in
the United States- had been noting
arouna up mere with a pick and shovel
at one time or another. But it was a
thing that Starbuck told me no longer
ago than yesterday that set me - to
thinking," Baldwin went on. "As you
know, the old Escal ante Spanish. grant
corners over in the western part of this
park. When the old grants were made.
they were ruled off on the map with
out reference to mountain ranges or
other natural barriers.
Williams nodded. '
"Well, as I say, one corner of the Es
calante reaches over the Hophras and
out into the park, covering about eight
or ten - square miles of the territory
just beyond us on our side of the river.
Starbuck told me yesterday that a big
TT - A 1 A.
eastern colonization company had got
a bill through congress alienating that
tract." . ,
The chief of construction- bounded
out of his chair and began to walk the
floor. "By George!" he said; and
again: "By George! That's what
we're. up against, colonel! Where will
those fellows get the wafer for. their
land? There Is no site for a dam lower
down than ours, and, anyway, that land
lies too high to be watered by any
thing but a high-line ditch !" ,
"Nice little brace game, isn't it?"
growled Baldwin. "If we hadn't been
a lot of hayseed amateurs, we might
have found out long ago that someone
was running in a cold deck on us.
What's your notion? Are we done up,
world without end?"
Williams laugh was grim.
"What we need, colonel, is to go out
on the street and yell for a doctor," he
said. "It's beginning to look as if we
had acquired a pretty bad case of ma
lignant strangle-itis." x
Baldwin ran his fingers through his
hair and admitted that he had lost, his
sense of humor.
"This Eastern crowd Is trying to
freeze us out, to ge'our dam and reser-f
voir and ditch rights for their Esca
lante scheme. When they do, they'll
turn around and sell us water at fifty
dollars an inch, or something like
that!"
"What breaks my heart is that we
haven't been able to surround the sure
enough fact while there was still time
to do something." lamented the ex
reclamation man. "The first thing we
know, Stanton will own a majority of
the stock and be voting us all out 'of
a job. You'll have to come around to.
my suggestion, after all, and advertise
for a doctor." .It was said of the chief
of construction that he would have
joked on his death-bed, and, as a fol
lower for the joke, he added: "Why
don't you call Smith in and give him
the Job?"
"You don't really mean that. Wil
liams, do you?" growled the colonel.
"No. I didn't mean it when I .said It,"
was the engineer's admission ; "I. was
only trying to get a rise out of you. But
really, colonel, on second thought I J
don't know but It Is .worth considering.
As I say, Smith seems to know the
money game from start to finish. What
is better still, he is a fighter from the
word go what you might call a joyous
fighter. Suppose you drive out tomor
row or nextv day and pry into him a
little."
The rancher-president had relapsed
once more into the slough of discour
agement. "You are merely gmhbing for hand
holds, Bartley as I was a minute a'go.
We are in a bad row of stumps when
we can sit here and talk seriously
about roping down a young hobo and
putting him into the financial harness.
Let's go around to Frascati's and eat
before you go back to camp. It's bread
time, anywayt"
The chief of construction said no
more about his joking. suggestion at the
moment, but when they wTere walking
around the square to the Brewster Dei
monlco's he went back to the dropped
subject in all seriousness, saying :
"Just the same, I wish you could know
Smith and size him up as I have. I
can't help believing, some way, that
he's all to the good."
CHAPTER V.
The Specialist.
Though the matter of calling in an
expert doctor of finance to diagnose
the alarming symptoms in Timanyoni !
ditch had been left indeterminate In the f
talk between Colonel Baldwin and him
self, Williams did not let it go entirely
by default. On the day following the
Brewster office conference the engineer
sent for Smith, who was checking the
output of the crushers at the quarry,
anil n Hfla laai V c K4-rt4-
uuu n ..niv, luiw mc ucuci 111 all i
presented himself at the door of the I
corrugated-iron shack which served as
a field offlce'for thp hif I
Williams looked the cost-cutter over
as he stood In the doorway. Smith was
thriving and. expanding handsomely in
the new environment. He had let his
beard grow and it was now long enough
to be trimmed to a point. The travel-
fifty, and carried considerable avoir
dupois tissue.
Guanches.
The early inhabitants of the Canary
Islands, known as the Guanches, had
attained some progress in civilization,
as shown by remains still extant.. No
doubt they were of Berber stock. The
present inhabitants of the islands are
mainly of Spanish blood, though it is
said the dunnche element may be de
frertpl Tli.i fni.-fi.K. i .
" Known to I
the ancients bm Hit y fell out of the
ifen Uoj hes had bee 5aed ft
working khaklt with lace-boots and lag
gings, and the campaign hat of the en
gineers. Though he had been less than
a sfionth on the Job, he was already be
giaiiing to tan arid toughen' under the
heathy outdoor work-? to roughen, as
wJ, his late fellow members of the
Ljgtyrenceville Cotillon club might have
sa, since he had fought three pitched
battles. with as many of the camp bul:
lie and had In each of them proved
himself a man of his hands' who could
np only take punishment, but could
hammer an opponent swiftly and neat
ly Jjiito any desired state of subjection.
, ; fcorae in here and sit down ; I want
to&ilk to you,", was the way -Williams
befijan It; and after SmiLSi had, found
aijhalr the chief went on; '"Say, Smith,
yoji're too good a man for anything I've
goffer you here. Haven't y'04 realized
thWt?" -
iinith pulled a memorandum book
frrn his hip pocket, and ran his eye
ovp the private record he had been
keeping.
la've shown you how to effect a lew
lle savings which total up something
lllf 15 per cent of your cost of produc
tion afTd operation," he said. '"Don't
yo-l think I'm earning, my wages?"
That's all right; I've been keeping
tarn too, -and I know what you're do
In But you are not beginning to earn
wR3t you ought to. either for vourself
01: the company," put in the chief
shrewdly. And then: "Loosen up,
.Sih, anil tell me something about
yourself. Who are you, and where do
yo come from, and what sort, of a job
hae you been holding down?"
.iifmlth's reply was. as surprising as It
w$s seemingly Irrelevant.
fIf you're not too busy, Mr. Williams,
I oess ou'd better make out my tlme
cjck," he said quietly.
dfl suppose1 by that you mean that
y9k'll 4iuit before you will consent to
on up on your record ?" he assumed.
I'You'v guessed it," said the man
wo had sealed the book of his past.
Ikgain Williams took a little time. It
ws discouraging to have his own and
tlfe colonel's preflgurings as to Smith's
p6t?bablestate and standing so prompt
lyiverifled. 'I suppose you know the plain infer-.
enKe you're leaving, when you say a
tiabg like that?" .
- Umlth made the sign? of assent. "It
lej;ves you entirely at liberty to finish
o the story to suit yourself,' he ad
mted, adding: "The , back numbeis
-Tiny back numbers are my own, Mr.
Wftliams. I've kept a file of them, as
erybody does, but I don't have to
pduce it on request."
fOf course, there's nothing compul
sory about your producing it. But un-i
1 you -are. what they call In thisj
country a 'crooked' crook, you are
striding in your own light. You have
supi a staving good head for figures
ai33 finances that it seems a pity for
3TGa to U wasting it here on an under
graduate's job in cost-cutting. Any
ycing fellow just out pf a technical
sqgool could do what you're doing in
tht way of paring down expenses."
p"he cost-cutter's -smile was mildly
insgredulous.
Nobdy seemed to be doing it be-
lye I came,'1 he offered.
no," Williams allowed,' "that's the
fawt. To tell the Dlaln truth, we've had
blpjer things to wrestle wyIth ; and we
nae tnem yer, ior tnat matter enougn
ofrjhem to go all around the. job twice
e In a bowknot."
gFinances?' queried Smith, feeling
ojgie of the back-number instincts stir-
ri wi,thin hlni.
jThe chief engineer nodded ; then he
locked up with a twinkle in his closely,
self gray eyes. "If you'll tell me why
ym tried to kill Burdell the other day,
mjybe I'll ,open up the record our
refidrd for you."
Jrhis time the cost-cutter's smile was
g)d-naturedly derisive, and it ignored
tia reference to Burdell.
jjSYou don't have to open up your
prd for me; It's the talk of the
ami). You people are undercapltal
tzgd t,o boil it down into one word.
Isfl't that about the way jit sizes up?"
That is the way it has turned out;
though we had capital enough" to begin
wfih. We've been bled to death by
dhage. suits."
mith shook his head. "Why haven't
yy &Ired- a first-class . attorney," Mr.
Iiams?"
iWe've had the best we could find,
btft'the ottier fellows have beaten us
tovjt, every time. But the legal end of
itfjiasri't been the whole thing or the
biggest part of it. What we are need
ing most is a man who knows a little
something about corporation fights and
hIMi finance." And at this the engi-
ner forgot J:he Smith disabilities, real
orjnferential, and went on to explain
indetail the peculiar helplessness of
th Timanyoni company as the antag
dnjs'tjOf the as yeft unnamed land and
lrjpgation trust. '
Irlr
i Some real opportunities come
o "John Smith," but the fear
pf detection and capture worries
rhim deeply. Some big develop
jrments are given in the next in
ifstallment. (TO BE CONTINUED.)
knowledge qf the Europeans until the
twelfth or thirteenth century. The
wre claimed by the Spanish In the
fourteenth centry. By the end of the
fifteenth century the Spaniards had
sbdued the islands entirely, and they
agnost- extirpated them at a later
period.
;pme-saving is the chief feature of
yiew. ironing board cover that can be
dSckly strapped . to clamps penna
tly attached to the underside
a board. - ..
1:1
jflBGNEK
SHEEP PROFITABLE ON FARM
More Can Well Be Maintained in Addi
tion to Live Stock That Are
Already Kept Thereon.
(By W. F. BAIRD.)
While It is not my purpose to try
tn induce stockmen to abandon cattle
and pork production and engage ex
j clusively in sheep raising, I do claim
that from ten to one hundred more
sheep could be profitably maintained
on a very large portion of our farms
Well-Bred Specimen.
in addition to the live stock that are
already kept thereon. For a period of
23 years I have been engaged in gen
eral farming and stockraising where I
now reside. I have been raising
horses, cattle and hogs , during this en
tire period, and for the last 16 years
I have kept from 100 to 125 breeding
ewes of the mutton type. I have en
deavored to produce as good stock of
all kinds as I could, and to keep them
in the most profitable manner. I have
found no other class of live stock more
profitable In dollars and cents than
the sheep. Aside from this fact, I find
that I can now keep as much other
stock as formerly in addition to the
sheep. , ,
Some of my fields produce twlce-'.a&
much grain as formerly, and my grass
lands are much more productive than
they were. There Is no great mystery
connected with the care of the farm
flock, but there Is more to do than to
purchase a flock and turn them out to
shift for themselves without proper at
tention' and shelter, if one expects to
add to his bank account, Costly barns
are not a necessity, but some sort of
a shed that will keep them dry Is
needed. Let your roofs be constructed
of shingles, boards, iron or any mate
rial that will keep off cold rains, sleet,
etc. I prefer a shed extending east
and west, open or partly so on the
south side, so arranged that h can be
Prize Mutton and Wool Sheep.
closed If bad storms occur.
Give
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down, and all the sunshine possible,
thereby adding to the comfort and
thrift of the flock and the profits of
the owner. -
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Results Given of Experiment Conduct
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In tests made by the Ohio station
three lots of pigs were fed 30 days
as follows : Lot 1, ear corn and clov
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rye, and lot 3, ear corn and rape pas
ture. In addition all lots were fed
approximately one-fourth pound of
tankage daily per pig. The respective
lots made average daily gains of 0.82,
0.57 and 0.75 pounds per pig, and con
sumed, aside from pasture, 2.66, 6.34,
and 2.91 pounds of feed per pound of
gain. Lot 2 was then put in with lot
1 on clover and lot 3 remained on the
rape, where the pigs were fed for 26
days. The pigs on clover made an av
erage daily gain per pig of 0.75 pounds,
consuming 3.64 pounds of feed aside
from pasture per pound of gain, and
the lot on clover, 0.87 pounds gain,
consuming 3.16 pounds of feed per
pound of gain.
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Gives Record of Ancestors of Animals
for Five or Six Generations
"Like Produces Like.M
The pedigree Qf an animal Is a rec
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ordinary pedigree usually shows the
ancestors for five or six generations.
The Value of the pedigree lies in the
fundamental iaw of nature that "like
produces like"
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Fancy Prices Offered for Brood Sow or
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Don't let the temptation of high
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A New Place for Orderlies.
There is evidence that life in the
army has Its humorous side even in
war time. In a story that- recently
went the rounds of the English press,
a newly appointed officer who was
making his first visit to the mess, with
the usual inquiry of "any complaints?"
arrived at one mess somewhat earlier
than he was expected, and the order
ly of the day, being taken by surprise,
and in his shirt sleeves, dived uuder
the table to save a reprimand.
"Any complaints?" asked the offi
cer. The corporal, grasping the situation
at once, answered for the absent or
derly. "None, sir."
"Who is this?" askd the officer,, sud
denly catching sight of the. orderly un
der the table.
The corporal again rose to the situa
tion. :
"Orderly of the day, sir," he an
swered. "Oh !" said the officer, and passed
on.
The next mess were quite prepared,
with the orderly, spick and span,
standing at attention at the head of
the table.
"Any complaints?"
"None, sir," answered the orderly.
The officer looked him well over.
"And who are you?" he asked.
"Orderly of the day, sir."
"Then why the dickens aren't you
under the table?" was the unexpected
retort.
Idleness Makes a Fortune.
"If you sit idly you will lose money
every minute," is a liberal paraphrase
of a well-known Japanese proverb and
serves as a protest against idleness,
but the Tokyo Hochi cites the case of
the great Buddha at Nara, which,
despite Inaction, Is reaping a fortune.
During the year ending June 25 the
Buddha received 351,000 visitors, who
paid admission fees aggregating $9,350.
The exaction of a fee to visit the big
Buddha began .In 1911, since which
time $127,500 gate money has been re
ceived. Horse Chestnuts as Food.
An effort is being made to adapt the
horse chestnuts to the human dietary.
The nuts are more than half starch
and sugar, with some protein and fat,
and are nutritious. Their value chiefly
depends on the elimination of the bit
ter elements and the irritating saponi
Hke glucosides.
South African railways in 1918 will
expend $50,815,000, It is estimated.
Portugal this year produces 376,831,
577 quarts of grape wine.
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big when it holds
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