^rcnAY. JANUARY WANT ADS ^rrvrED? For Rawlei? S coo families. Reliabl |t?S should start earning $2 * and increase rapidly H? lav. Rawleigh, Depi ?U.S? Richmond, Va. 1-29 .2 ar,d black gum on t m,,; the creek; thence with 1 JJM courses of the creek to tl tj u;'ati?n. containing 350 acr Hum5 '"e same tract which w the State to John Be St-,,and excepting from sa Sidi.t '? acre. whereon t CSi ip frih stands, dt nf t ct: Situate on the Nor ? ,J Creek and also adjoi He't>J,a 8 formerly belonging * fining at a pi 'ittr?. n i'?ne- running thence h ii-l E'2 poles to a stake 1 fcpcIL r. hSnce w'th his line i ter, v S-.190 Poles to a stak tsvl*, degrees W. 130 poles tr* ,.|.!n .or near Evans' lin i tWmuL hls line s- 2ftn PO'es V*i ,. t containing 100 acre! "tif-rlL0^ ^tnate ? the nor ?ft, i^2 c,reek and -Iso adiol Pott,. formerly belonging L& plan.d beginning at a hir hvy "ans corner in Mont thence with his li' I 166 noles to a stah 5 (1 r thence his line S. ? h'? eu')',"e' his corner, then ? Ms ell,ne K 10? ooles to R iiST ; thence N. 83 d ?' "iTr-J. Vr'es to a pine, On ?line v j, thence with the Ru degrees E. 24 poles f tract2 ther corner of said Ru Ujence with the line h Pound-. P?'PS t0 a plr ?v ]s e comer; thence h '+< p^f^rees W. 104 poles ?.N d .lrs corner: thence h bi-Fis w- "4 noles to kWe, ??ert thence his line ti, P^les to a stall ^ 40 j i1 is an*l ml tot W " W 174 nn1?Q L .. 40 dp* * ?ine: thence h (>' & corner? 1 E' fi0 T>n,e'' ,n il 45 alonsr M#wli W- ooles ' to the >**** B*y ? beginning, contain!i , 8, 1936 What To Expect j In Wool Blanket 5 ' Warmth And Durability Are Two Principal Qualities A Housewife Seeks In A Blanket V Warmth and durability are the > s J two principal qualities a houseIwife seeks in a blanket. But at' ? present she has to go chiefly by c S price, appearance, and feel?not' - sure guides to good value, say | r" .home economists in the United i ' i States Department of Agricult, I ture, who have just finished a * j study of many kinds of blankets. - They say the different properties 'e | of blankets can be compared if . the label carries definite information. In 1932 a group of manufacturers agreed that if the word n*' "wool" appeared on the label the 'c j blanket must contain at least 5 ^ percent wool. Such labeling is not le compulsory, but those who use ;(j j it have agreed to designate blunge kets containing 5 to 25 percent ;(1 wool as "part wool, not less than jr 5 per cent," and to label those j. having more than 25 percent with .* a guaranteed wool content given _ jin percentage. The housewife j would find other information jhelpful. Two or more blankets may be ?! compared by weight if all are , the same in fiber, size and price. a" [But 1 wool and 1 part-wool blann jket cannot be compared in this C. 'way. v. j The ideal blanket label also f | would give length and width, D [breaking strength in the direction m|of filling yarns?a measure of le i durability, and information as to le|wormth and air permeability, i A blanket in which a great j deal of fiber has been raised to n_ form the nap may be warm when .jj used indoors, but it is not suited for outdoors because it does not e" resist wind. r [Safety Pens To j Handle Bad Bulls ,in I I ge Unnecessary To Slaughter at 1 Young Bulls Of High Breeding Simply Because en They Have An Ugly DisPtl position lie | sh j "Never slaughter a high grade N. Iyoung bull just because he has lS6 an ugly disposition. :s- "The indiscriminate slaughterfs ing of young bulls is a great o- hindrance to herd improvement as j in this state," said John A. Arey, on | extension dairyman at State College. ns When a bull has been found to have the ability to transmit good In- type and high milk producing cart parity to his daughters, Arey adth ded, he is a proven asset to the ?j. herd. "a The life of these bulls, which "d take the guess-work out of breedto ing. should be prolonged as long y- as they are active, s. A dairy bull can be handled ay safely, and his period of usefulhe ness extended, by keeping him in a safety bull pen, Arey point~~ jed out. del Such a pen can be built by any nd dairyman at low cost from mated erials usually found around a w] farm, he added. During the winis | ter months, when farm work is a! not pressing, is a good time to or build the pen. ck A complete set of plans showing the details of construction may be secured free by writing of the agricultural editor at State !S" College, Raleigh, N. C. th he 250 acres, more or less, es Saving and excepting from the foreDn going description of the three several e; tracts of land a tract of 100 acres, 90 more or less, heretofore conveyed by of Lindsey Walker to his brother, and lis 10 acres heretofore conveyed by him a to one Peter Eichorn. ce Fourth Tract: Lying in Town Creek e; Township, adjoining the lands of a i Locke on the east side, and being a he part of the Sullivan land, beginning he i at a stake on the west side of Still he Branch; runs S. 16 degrees W. 120 es poles to a spruce pine; thence N. 74 as degrees W. 40 poles to a spruce pine, n- thence N. 16 degrees E. 120 poles to id a dead pine; thence S. 74 degrees E. he 40 poles to the Beginning. This 28th day of December. 1935. th FRED ANDERSON, Mortgagee, n- By John D. Bellamy & Sons, to Attorneys. 1-22-c ne S. CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION in To all to whom these presents may N. come?Greeting: e: j Whereas, it appears to my satisfacto tion, by duly authenticated record of e; the proceedings for the voluntary disto solution thereof by the unanimous i. consent of all the stockholders, depoth ! sited in my office, that the James B. n- Church Company, a corporation or to this State, whose principal office is ie. situated in the town of Southport, is' I County of Brunswick, State of North ne Carolina (J. B. Church being the re. | agent therein and in charge thereof, 201 upon whom process may be served) ee has complied with the requirements a of Chapter 22, Consolidated Statutes, e- entitled "Corporations," preliminary to s- the issuing of this Certificate of Diss solution : to j Now therefore, I Stacey W. Wade. ?- ) Secretary of State of the State of S North Carolina, do hereby certify that le, the said corporation did, on the 17th day of December, 1935, file in my to office a duly executed and attested Is j consent in writing to the dissolution a 'of said corporation, executed by all S. the stockholders thereof, which said :e, j consent and the record of the proi's I ceedings aforesaid are now on file in o | my said office as provided by law. lis | In testimony whereof, I have herea j to set my hand and affixed my offir's cial seal at Raleigh, this 17tk day of to December, A. D? 1936. id STACEY W. WADE, tg l-22c Secretary of State. THE I ' THE'"sTORY' PROLOGUE.?At a gathering of cronies In the village of Liberty. Halne. Jim Saladlne listen* to the history of the neighboring Hostile Valley?Its past tragedies, Its superb fishing streams, and, above all, the mysterious, enticing "Huldy." wife of Will Ferrin. Interested, he drives . to the Valley for a day's fishing. I though admitting to himself his j chief desire is to see the reputedly glamorous Huldy Ferrin. CHAPTER 1?"Old Marm" Pierce : and her nineteen-year-old granddaughter Jenny live In the Valley. 8ince little more than a child Jenny has at first admired and then deeply loved young Will Ferrin, neighbor- j ing farmer, older than she, and who regards her still as merely a child. I Will leaves the farm?his father's 1 ?and takes employment In nearby I Augusta. Jenny, despite her grandmother's comforting, is disconsolate. CHAPTER II?His father's death brings Will back to the Valley, but i ha returns to Augusta, still unconI sclous of Jenny's womanhood, and love. Neighbors of the Pierces are Bart and Amy Carey, brother and elster. Bart, unmarried and something of a ne'er-do-well. Is attracted by Jenny, but the girl repulses him definitely. Learning that Will Is coming home, Jenny, exulting, sets his long-empty house "to rights," and has dinner ready for him. He oomes ?bringing his wife. Huldy. The girl's world collapses. CHAPTER m.?Huldy. at once perceiving Jenny's secret, mercilessly mocks her discomfiture. Huldy soon becomes the subject of unfavorable gossip in the Valley, though Will apparently is blind to the fact. CHAPTER IV?Entering his home, unlooked for, Will has found seemingly damning evidence of his wife's unfaithfulness, as a man who he knows Is Seth Humphreys breaks from the house. With the echo of his wife's derisive laughter In his ears. Will pursues Humphreys. He overtakes him, and after a struggle chokes him to death, though Humphreys shatters his leg, with a bullet. At Marm Piercrs house the leg Is amputated. Jenny goes to break the news to Huldy. She finds Bart Carey with the woman. When he leaves. Huldy makes a mock of Jenny's sympathy, declaring she has no use for "half a man" and Is leaving at once She does so. "Didn't come to?" "No," Marm Pierce told him. "No." "You look her over, did you?" the I sheriff urged. He explained: "I J guess likely I'll want a doctor to | see her, but you might have noticed some special hurt on her." The old woman told him: "Why, she was hurt cruel. Sheriff. Looked like she'd fell on her head and side. There was scratches and cuts all over her; and a deep bad cut on her neck. And her face was banged where she'd hit a tree, or a rock or . the like." "I mean to say," he persisted, I "nothing to show. . . The old woman shook her head. I "Nothing that she couldn't have got j from falling the way she did." The sheriff sighed as though dlscouraged, and Marm Pierce asked: | "You didn't know Huldy, did you, Sheriff?" "I've heard tell of her," he answered. "Guess the whole county has, if i it comes to that." the old woman ! assented. "But you can see for yourself, a lot of things might have happened to a woman like her." j "It was account of her," Bart reminded them, "that Will killed Seth Humphreys. I dunno as I blame him. I dunno as he went to kill Seth; but Seth had a gun. and \Vill, with his leg shot to pieces, he had honn nn trt Soth's noplr nr 0P>t IV uaug t'U vv Wkai V , another bullet in him. But Huldy was back of that." "I heard she'd left Will, sence," j the sheriff reflected. I "She come back," Bart explained, i "She took a shine to Zeke and de- ' elded to stay." j "Will take her back, did he?" "Dunno as he could help It," Bart confessed; and he said slowly: "Will, he always stood a lot from her. Sheriff! No matter what she did, I dunno as he'd?harm her." He added harshly: "But If he did, j I wouldn't blame him!" The old woman's sharp eyes fixed on him. "You trying to let on that j Will killed her, Bart?" she asked, in 1 a matter-of-fact tone. "Speak out ! No sense in talking around corners." I "I'm not letting on a thing about It," Bart assured her. "I'm trying to see through it Granny, the same as you." "I can see a-plenty," she said crisply. The sheriff said, floundering: "I'd like to talk to this Zeke. Might be he'd know something. Maybe Will, he'll fetch him. Looks like I'd have to talk to that man." But when Will and Jenny presently did return, they were alone. This hour she spent with Will was for Jenny deeply comforting. Huldy's accusation had faded into a ! cloudy unreality, like the substance i of a dream. But Jenny now, more j than any other emotion, felt a ' grievous sympathy for Will, for the remorse she knew he must endure; and she strove in small ways to reassure and comfort him, not by words, but by her steady supportlng presence at his side. STATE PORT PILOT, SOUT1 They crossed the brook, and I climbed the steep trail, and came up through the orchard to the barn; and while Jenny held the lantern, Jenny Stood Silently By. Will let the cows into the tie-up and secured them there. He pulled down hay for them, and went to the kitchen for the pail and returned to milk. Jenny stood silently by. He spoke only once of that which j filled both their minds. "I'd like to know where Zeke's gone to," he I i saiu. "He'll be around by and by," Jen' ny promised him. "It's all right, ' Will" But her own words faintly startled her; since clearly, if Will must live j with the secret knowledge that he i ' had killed Huldy, the world could I never be all right for him again; and she wished suddenly to take him in her arms, and tell him that she knew, and held him blameless. 1 But she perceived that to do this, | to confess her knowledge of his | j guilt, would be to open between j them a gulf never to be bridged, j So she was silent; and later, j j when they came back through the ; wet woods together, she decided I that this was a matter none should j ever know. And thus resolving, she found strength for the task before her, and was at peace again. Huldy was dead. Let it be by accl- I dent. The world would presently | forget that Huldy had ever lived. When with Will she came back to j the little house in the Valley, she had somehow stilled her fears. Till she saw the sheriff there. When they came In, she felt her strength drain away. But then, and by Will himself, her foreboding was turned Into fearful certainty; for Will said to this man: "Why, Sheriff, what fetched you | [ here?" The sheriff hesitated. "I kind of j hoped you'd bring this Zeke Dace j i back with you," he said, evasively. Will shook his head. "I dunno [ | where Zeke's got to," he admitted in I troubled tones. "He wa'n't to I home." And he persisted: "But j Sheriff, what fetched you?" Jenny was breathless, waiting for 1 the answer. Then Saladlne said ' gravely: "1 sent for him. Will." Will stared at Saladine. "What for?" he protested, bewildered. And then the sheriff said: "Why ' Will, the thing Is, It looks to every- I body as If maybe Mis' Ferrin didn't just fall off of that ledge. They ! ' think some one maybe throwed her off." j Jenny's throat constricted stran- j I gllngly. The hounds were on the j | trail. I As though from far away she heard Will stammer: "Killed her, you mean?" "Something like that." wttiii j Ma honri howed. VY Hi OLUUu nnu u.? | "I guess not," he said firmly at last "Who'd do that?" "I was thinking maybe this Zeke ! Dace," Sohler suggested. But Will shook his head. "No Sheriff," he insisted. "Whatever did happen, It wa'n't Zeke. He wouldn't go to hurt her." And he continued, half to himself: "There might have been some to hurt Huldy; but not j Zeke! Why, I'd as soon think I did it myself," he said. Jenny felt the shock of a great blow. Then Bart chuckled. "That's a joke, Will. I mean, to think you'd hurt Huldy," he explaimed, and he added hotly: "Not that anybody'd blame you! She needed It" He spoke to the sheriff. "Anyone around here will say the same!" Will moved a little toward him. "I don't take that kindly, Bart," he said. "I don't want that Idnd * KPORT, N. C of talk from yon or anybody. Not | bout Huldy. Not now." There was, briefly, silence; but after a moment the sheriff said, half to himself, in almo3t querulous tones: "It's a pity she didn't come to long enough to tell what happened to her!" And it seemed to Jenny suddenly that this familiar kitchen was very small, and crowded, and stifling hot. She felt strangled, and her hand flew to her lips, and stark terror choked her. Then she saw Marm Pierce watching her with eyes suddenly keen and shrewd; and 1 she felt smothered, and shrank J back into the corner by the door. After the sheriff spoke, there was j silence for a moment; then Jenny j had a respite, for Joe Matthews, j the undertaker, came out of the dining room. He spoke to Will. I "There, Will," he said. "I've j done all that needs doing tonight; | and if you want, I'll carry her home." He hesitated, added: "But if you take my advice, let her lay here tonight. I can 'tend to everything a sight better in the morn- \ lng." Marm Pierce said: "She's welcome to stay, Will!" Will nodded. "Well, likely that's sensible," he agreed. Jenny, while their attention was thus turned away from her, opened the door and stepped out on the porch, grateful for the taste of cool, moist air. In the kitchen she heard the sheriff say doubtfully; "I guess, Joe, you'll want to go along home now. I don't know as I ought to leave yet, though. I'd like to see this Zeke Dace, first. But I wish't you'd bring Doc Harris in the morning. I want him to look her over." When presently the undertaker came out to depart, Jenny drew aside out of his way. Sohier and Saladine crossed with him to where his truck stood, spoke with him there. Then Bart came out, and ? J /.natiollv men sue saiu; nc int. uici The girl was silent for an lnstai before she could go on. "Her mouth was still kind < j laughing," she finished. "And she soi J of coughed. I guess that was whe j she died." A deep tremor shoo I her, but her voice was firm. "SI {laid there, looking at me. and hei |mouth grinning at me; but I guess she was dead by then. Anyway I she didn't say any more." She finished and was still, wait Ing. And suddenly she was ver.i {tired, dreading what was to come Yet for a while no one spoke ai jta chapter x ! JENNY'S disclosure for a momen J hushed them all. Mann Plerc< jwas the first to speak. "Whew!" she exclaimed. "I de clare, "it's hot as love in hay time j here !* [ Bart opened the door into th< Jshed, to admit some air. { The sheriff crossed his feet ant (sat in a deep embarrassment Hh shoes scraped on the floor; anc [Marm Pierce said: "I smell a lamp smoking." The lamps here were all in or der; but when she opened the dooi into the dining-room where Huld; lay, a reek of soot and smok< emerged. The old woman bustlet In there, complaining, scolding th< absent Joe Matthews. 'Takes a man to make a mess o +Vifri-! Will any way It come, and no mat1 ter what he done 1" 3> "Well, that ain't telling me how n you know he didn't do It?" the sher:e Iff repeated doggedly. "What made ,g you sure, all of a sudden, now?" n "Just?coming to my senses," * 1,' Jenny decided. "I was kind of :o numb for a while; but then after I'd been with Will for a spell, X ft was sure 1" r-1 The sheriff, surprisingly, chuck:h ' led. "I'd admire to hear you testify id j like that in court," he declared. "Fd I j like to see what the Judge would ill' say." He became grave again, and II looked at last at Will. "How about s' I it, Will?" he suggested sobeny . e. j "Anything you've got to say?" te' Will, with all their eyes upon I him, stood futabllng for words. "If It was anyone but Jenny told me, I :e j wouldn't believe Huldy said It," be n- J declared. "'Tain't true, I guess you'll say.". ' Id j "No. No, It ain't true." The sheriff frowned. "How come k,! Mis' Ferrln to say a thing like 131 that, then?" he protested. "Don't ;k J seem as If a woman would tell a st straight-out lie, the minute before to she died 1" Hi | "She was out of her head, I I j reckon," Will offered. But Jenny said: "No, Will, she was same as always. She knowed a- J me, knowed every word she said." w [ The man Insisted almost pleadingly: "Jenny, she wouldn't tell a id thing like that only If she was crazy, or out of her head, or someit thing." Marm Pierce had been silent longj: >f but now she spoke, In sharp angryrt tones. in "Will Ferrln, you're a fool!" sheik exclaimed. "I guess most men are, ie where a woman's concerned; but f yo're a bigger fool than most. Tow , know as well as anyone that Huldy was no gooa i~ HJa head lifted as though he would apeak, bat her voice rose. ' "Now don't try to shut me up, Will Ferrin!" she cried. "For I'm going ' to have my sayl Land knows why Huldy married yon; but everybody knows she was a bad wife to you. She was bad from her toes up. Dead as she is, I'll say so, if it's the last ' word I do say. She'd have drove 1 any man that wa'n't a saint or ? tool to kill her long ago; but yo? ' didn't kill her. Yoo always would" speak soft to Huldy, and stand anything from her, and come down 5 hard on anyone that tried to tell' you the truth about ber!" She turned as though on a sud' deD thought to the sheriff. "Will ' didn't hit her." she insisted. "He wouldn't have the spunk to! He always did treat Huldy like a lady, j no matter how she behaved. Maybe If he'd took a hoop-pole to her long ago . . ." But she checked the word, swung to Will again. (Continued next week) Since a crop cover is important to protect soil against erosion, plant the roughest land to timber, use more of the. rougherland now in crop for pasture; introduce more legumes into roB tation; practice strip-cropping oa 6 long slopes.