Hooker Advance (Hooker, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, November 4, 1910 Page: 2 of 10
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SERIAL
STORY
Archibald's
Agatha=
By
EDITH
HUNTINGTON
MASON
Author o!
"The Real Agatha"
CopjrlRh
Pyright Lu'G r«at Briu
SYNOPSIS.
Archibald Terhune, a popular and in-
dolent young bachelor of London, re-
ceives news that he has been made heir
to the estate of his Aunt Georgriana, with
an Income of $20,000 a year, on condition
that he becomes engaged to be married
within ten days. Falling to do so the
legacy will go to a third cousin In Amer-
ica. The story opens at Castle Wyckoff.
vl-bere Lord Vincent and his wife, friends
of Terlitine, are discussing plans to find
him a wife within the prescribed time. It
•eems that Lady Vincent is one of seven
persons named Agatha, all close girlhood
chums. She decides to Invite two of them
to the castle and have Archie there as
one of the guests. Agatha Sixth strikes
Archie as a handpainted beauty. Agatha
Kirst is a breezy American girl. Lady
Vincent tells her husband that Agatha
Sixth already cares for Archie. He gains
from Agatha Sixth the admission that
■he cares for him, but will require a
month's time fully to make up her mind.
Agatha First, neglected by Terhyne. re-
ceives attentions from Leslie Freer. Four
days of the precious time have passed
when Terhune is called to London on
business. Agatha First, on the plea of
sickness, excuses herself from a motor
trip planned by the Vincents.
,r *nd I looked at Pederson, the chauf-
feur, in dismay.
"What's to be done," I asked, but
received no help from that quarter,
only a dismal shake of the head.
Nevertheless assistance I did re-
ceive, though rather unexpectedly.
The accident had occurred, as I have
said, in the middle of the woods Just
where two roads crossed, and stand-
ing at the entrance to one of these
roads I now observed a small boy, a
little freckle-faced village lad, who
stared at us as if he'd never seen an
automobile before, and they're surely
common enough!
But it appeared that he had, for
when, Freer remarked uselessly and
obviously for the third time, "What
beastly luck to have forgotten the
Jack. Now If only it had happened
out on the main road instead of In
this short-cut, we would have stood
a chance of borrowing one from an-
other car!" the little chap who was
standing by, came forward and in-
formed us in a shrill childish pipe
that if it was another machine we
wanted he'd seen a "big feller" come
through that same wood not a min-
ute ago and it had stopped not far
away. And he pointed a grimy thumb
over his shoulder toward the road
that led to our left.
"O, they stopped, did they?" I asked,
and thought to myself with some sat-
isfaction that they were in trouble,
too. The misery that so often at-
tends an automobilist is especially
fond of company.
"Wonder if they'd lend us a Jack?"
I remarked aloud. "What kind of a
machine was it, kid?"
"A whoppin* big feller, red, like
your lordship's," said the boy. Of
course he Knew me, even if I aiau i
know him. He was probably the
butcher's or baker's boy from Wye
on his way back from the castle.
"Sounds rather promising," said
Dearest. "Do go and see if they
can't help us out. I don't want
Agatha Lawrence to walk all that
way home in this mud!"
"Very well," I said, "but it sounds
as if they were in need of assistance
CHAPTER V.—Continued.
"Why, that's too bad!" said my
wife sincerely, though somewhat sur-
prisedly, "I'm awfully sorry, dear
child, and we shall miss you, of
course. But you mustn't think of
going if your head aches. Go up-
stairs and lie down a while, why
don't you, and I'll have some tea
sent up to you. It's awfully good
for headache." And she spoke to
the footman who waited at the door
of the automobile.
"1 will, thanks. Sorry to miss the
trip," replied the girl. "You're an
angel, Agatha!" And with another
farewell word or two we left her and
had started on our way to Northbury.
And now comes the very strangest
part of this rather strange or at least
unusual attempt to make a match and
win a fortune for a friend at one and
the same time on the part of Dearest
and myself. By Jove, It certainly
did give me a starf when I discovered
—but this was the way it happened
—not to get ahead of my story.
We had made a pretty quick run
to Northbury and had been
spectators at an exhibition of some
rather fast cricket which I had been
pretty keen about. The two teams
had played even until the second half,
■when Corcoran who was guarding the
•wicket for the Ix>wshires—but I don't
suppose the details of the game are
of very general interest, after all.
Odd thing, but I've never been able
to make Dearest understand it at
all—I gave up trying years ago. It's
the only thing In the world we aren't
equally enthusiastic about. She won't
admit it, but sometimes I'm afraid it's
because she prefers the American
game of baseball! Fancy! But of
ronrte If she does it's all the fault
of that American stepfather of hers
for bringing her up in the States. But
then, naturally, he couldn't help
being an American—I try to remem- |
ber that!
As I was saying, however, we had
seen the match played to the end in
spite of the languid Interest dis-
mayed by the feminine members of
our party, and had lunched at the
Northbury inn. a Jolly little den of
• place, and at about half after two
were speeding towards home again.
The roads were fairly decent,
though there had been a good deal
of rain lately, and the machine had
been running along so Binoothly that
It did my heart good to see her We
had left the main road when we had
passed Wye village, for one that led
more directly to the castle, and had
slowed down as the road turned out
to be rougher than I thought—when
the worst happened. I was driving
mr«elf, and in steering to clear a
jutting tree I ran the big car straight
Into the dickens of a rut and our hind
wheel went in to stay I killed the
engine at once and Jumped out to
r«e what was to be done, disgusted
enough. I can tell you. though of
rtnn* 1 couldn't possibly have known
the thing was so deep, for It was half
filled with water. This short cut Is
• favorite one of mine, though my
chacffwara have often warned me
•calnat taking a big car through the
woods that cover Wyckoff rise at this
point The trees are so thick and
the road so narrow
The worst of the business now. as
I soon found out. was that there was
m Jack to be found In the car's kit
of tools with which to raise her. and
I remembered with hxgrtn that I
bad Uken It oat myself In hunting
for something else and had left It In
the range Even the satisfaction of
turning some one else «ss denied me
Agatha First Rose in the Machine.
themselves! Why else should they
want to stop in the middle of the
woods? However, I'll make the at-
tempt. Freer, you stay by the la-
dies, and I'll go and see what I can
do!" And just stopping to give the
little boy a shilling or two for his
information. I strode down the wood
road in the direction he had pointed
out
I hadn't gone far and was Just
wondering again what in the world
would possess any one to push down
so narrow a road in a big machine,
when the machine In question came
in sight. It was a big touring car,
red like mine, to be sure, but an en
tirely different make, and I stopped
and stared at It in an overwhelming
surprise. But not for any reason in
connection with the automobile Itself.
It was the girl who was its sole pas-
senger that held my attention and
caused my surprise. Sitting In the
front seat, a light pongee ;oat about
her, with an air of expectancy, as If
she awaited the coming of some one
not far off. sat Agatha First. Yes,
the very same. As cheerful and as
much herself as if she had not plead-
ed a headache as an excuse for not
automobiling with us that morning.
I stood stock still in the road as
my unwilling eyes took in this amaz-
ing sight, and It was a full minute
before my routed wits apprehended
the significance of a man's checked
automobile coat that hung over the
back of the seat beside her. Evi-
dently she was with some one. which
somehow seemed less extraodinary
at the moment than that she should
be alone. Her escort though not
visible was apparently not far dis-
tant. for even as I stared. Agatha
First rose in the machine displaying
a huge bunch of wild flowers in her
hands as she did so. and hallooed to
him. "Don't pick any- more!" she
called. "I don't want any more flow-
ers. I want you!" A laugh quite near at
hand sounded for a response and I hur-
riedly started back down the road.
I wanted awf'illy to aee who the man
I that belonged to ths checked coat
was. but I wanted still more to es-
I cape being seen either by him or by
my eccentric guest. Miss Endlcott
The possibility that I might fall in
with the former returning from his
little ramble, fl*wers In hand, almost
made me run. and the fear that In
looking for blm. the latter wss al-
ready on the point of discovering my
retreating form <aa ed me to stick
close to the roadside and the shelter
of the trees like any thief or tree-
passer And. by Jove! I didn't
breathe freely till I'd sighted my own
machine standing In the sunlight at
the cross-roads It's a nasty poal
tjon for a chap to be caught In,
eavesdropping, and if they bad seen
me they would never have believed
I had not been spying on them.
"Did you get a Jack?" Inquired
Freer as I came up. He could see
perfectly well that I was empty-
handed.
"No," I said shortly, too absorbed
In conjecturing the meaning of the
strange discovery I had Just stum-
bled upon to invent any excuse for
the failure of my errand
"We'll JuBt have to walk home." I
said. "Pederson can wait with the
car and I'll send him help from the
castle."
And all the way home I pondered
upon my queer adventure What
could Agatha First be doing in a
strange automobile in the middle of
the woods when she was supposed to
be 111 at home, and who was the man
who was with her, the owner of the
checked coat? That was the most
mysterious part of the whole business
to me, and though I racked by brain
I could not possibly think who he
might be!
PART TWO.
CHAPTER VI.
It wasn't until later that same aft
ernoon of our Northbury trip, when
Lady Vincent and I had ascended to
our rooms to dress for dinner, that
I found a chance to tell her the news
I can always be sure of an uninter
rupted chat with her then.
"And so you saw her sitting in the
automobile alone In the middle of the
woods?" asked Dearest, when 1 had
finished my breathless recital.
"Yes, that is as far as I could see,
she was alone," I replied. "But you
forget the man's laugh and the
checked coat. There was a man with
her right enough, and though I didn't
think so at the time, I think now that
makes the thing much more mysteri-
ous."
"Of course there was a man with
her," remarked Dearest. "It was a
lover's tryst, as plain as plain can
be!" Dearest is so romantic. But
then at the same time I'll have to
admit she's nearly always right.
"But who under high heaven
could it have been?" I cried, never
more puzzled in my life.
"We know it wasn't Freer; he was
with us all the time, and Terhune has
been in London all day!"
"He said he was going to be In
London," remarked my wife with the
slightest possible emphasis on the
"said." I gaped at her a moment,
then seized her shoulder.
"Do you mean to say it was Archi-
bald?" I cried, "who was the owner
of the checked coat?"
"I didn't say," she replied, "only
it does look a little like it, doesn't it? |
You see he couldn't go to the cricket |
with us because he had to go up to
London, and she, because she had a
headache. Voila tout!"
"But we saw the wire." I objected. ,
"Oh, as to that!" she said, " a tele-
gram's easily enough cooked up! He
had only to write one himself and tell
the station-master to send it over.
We none of us examined it closely.
It's an old dodge, you know."
"So it is!" I cried, "and you're
right. It must have been old Ter-
hune! What a dunderhead I've been
not to 6ee it before! But I say," I
added, less exuberantly as a thought
struck me, "if that's the case, what
does he mean by it. Dearest? What
do they both mean by it, he and she?
And what does it portend in regard
to the match we're trying to make be-
tween Arch and Miss Lawrence? An-
swer any of those questions if you
can! Wiseacre that you are, I be-
lieve you'll have to let me count ten
on that!"
"I'm afraid I will," she admitted, as
puzzled as I was. "You see I never
knew Agatha Endicott as well as I
did the other five Agathas—as well !
as I do Agatha Sixth, and then you
know Agatha Sixth has visited me
before, and this is the first time I've
seen Agatha First since we parted
on the occasion of my marriage."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Burlesque Wedding Guests.
Poulbot, a Paris caricaturist, having
determined upon so commonplace a
step as getting married, decided that
he would be married in no common-
place way. He asked all his friends
to the wedding, but there was a sine
qua non condition attached to the In
I vestlgatlon. You had to go with a
"made-up head." or you would not be ;
I admitted. Preferably you were re 1
guested to make up as a country
cousin at a village wedding. Some |
I guests arrived as ancient .peasants,
| others as village idiots. There were j
| several bluff squires and rural elderly |
gentlemen with means, a uumber of
retired officers and exuberant uncles I
from the south, besides fierce military
i gentlemen from the hottest stations 1
| of Algeria The only persons who
, wore their natural physiognomies were
the couple most concerne-1 They had
drawn the line at making up them
selves as a burlesque bride and a
comic bridegroom.
PRACTICAL PRESS FOR
NAILING APPLE BOXES
Illustration of Almost Indispensable Device for Orchardist
and Minute Details for Its Erection
at a Small Cost.
The Illustration shown herewith is
that of a practical press for nailing
apple boxes, and a convenient device
for any orchardist. The details of the
plan are as follows.
1. Cover boards to table, extending
about half over cross pieces (20) on
each side. Length of table, 64 inches.
2. Side board to table. The part
between the cross pieces (20) is cut
down to allow a box with bulged bot-
tom to slide off the press.
3. Uprights for attachment of
levers (5 and 9).
4. Legs of table, 28% inches long,
1% inches square. (All the arms, legs
and levers of the press may be made
of l^xl^-inch stuff.)
6. Levers, 24 inches long.
G. Upright arms, 30 inches long.
7. Steel springs, % inch inside
diameter. The two attached to the
levers (5) are fastened at the upper
end to spanner (19). The center
attached to arms (6). Center pulley
is attached to center spring (7). The
other two pulleys are attached to
Spanner (10).
18. Strong %-inch cord that will
not stretch. Runs across from arm
to arm (6), passing through the three
pulleys (17).
19. Spanner running parallel with
side, back about 10 inches from front
side and directly under center of box.
20. Cross pieces (end view), pro-
viding support for box. Attached to it
is spanner (19).
21. Grooves for holding box in
place. They are a trifle over 18 inches
apart. To accommodate the special
box, which is 20 Inches long, strips
•may be nailed to the table top one
inch back from the opening on either
side.
The top of the table must have
slots cut in it to allow working of
arms. Tables may be of any width
Sprains
Gave
Me
Instant
Relief"
ETrrrr.
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Practical Press for Nailing Apple Boxes.
"I fell and sprained my arm
and was in terrible pain. I
could not use my hand or arm
without intense suffering until
a neighbor told me to use
Sloan's Liniment The first
application gave me instant
relief and I can now use my
arm as well as ever."—Mrs. H.
B. Springer, 921 Flora St,
Elizabeth, N. J.
SLOANS
LINIMENT
is an excellent antiseptic and germ
killer — heals cuts,
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contusions, and will
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from sting of poi-
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2Be., 6O0. and $1.00
Sloan's book on
fconei, cattle, sheep
and poultry sent free.
Addrell
Dr. Earl S. Sloan,
Boston, Haas., U.S.A.
spring is attached to the foot lever
(9) and a pulley (17). All springs are
shown relaxed.
8. Spring attached to upright arm
(6) and support (3). These springs
should be long and light, such as are
often used on screen doors.
9. Foot lever, bolted to uprights
(3) at back, and working with catch
plate and ratchet in front. It is fast-
ened to plate (13).
10. Brace for legs and lower sup-
port for uprights. Three inches from
ground.
11. Horseshoe plate for gripping
box cleats and cover. It Is attached
to arm (6) with flat-headed stove
bolts, and must be made very true.
12. Iron plates bolted to levers
(5), with large holes in projecting
ends, allowing the bolts (16) to slide
freely.
13. Lower plate under lever (9),
to which it is bolted loosely, with
large holes in each end for free play
of bolts (16).
14. Side plate joining lever (5)
and arm (6). Two bolts to arm, and
one, fitted loosely, to lever.
15. Iron ratchet to engage plate on
the front lever (9).
16. Half-inch bolts, 2V6 Inches long,
working loosely in the holes in the
plates (12 and 13).
17. Three small pulleys for rope
desired, but arms should be con\ s-
niently near the front.
GETTING EGGS
DURING WINTER
Good Layinar Hens Are Stronsr,
Lursce-Bodied, Vigorous Birds
—E urly Moiling Is
Necessary.
The par excellence of all razors
KNOWN THE
WORLD OVER
Where eggs are desired in the win-
ter it is important that the layers
shed their feathers early so that the
new plumage will be grown before
cold weather begins. Some birds,
however, begin to molt late, others
early, this depending on the time
when they are hatched, and as a re-
sult they are not in condition or seem
disinclined to lay eggs when the high-
est prices are obtainable. It is possi-
ble to cause a flock of fowls to pass
through the molting period early and
uniformly. This method consists In i
withholding part of the feed for about
two weeks, which stops egg produc-
tion and reduces the weight of the
fowls, and then feeding heavily on a
ration suitable for the formation of
feathers and the general building lip
of the system.
we wnpn hve hundred boys
Wfc NfcfcD to learn Telegraph,
and Railroad work. Positions ar«
wai ting as soon as the course is com.
pleted. Write for our new catalog,
ARKANSAS CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE and SCH001
of TELEGRAPHY, Arkansas City. Kan.. Box 2003
Thompson's Eyo Wator
Wichita Directory
ECONOMIC VALUE OF GUINEAS
Caught!
"Do you remember me buying a hair
mattress from you the other day?"
asked the lady.
i "Perfectly well, ma'am." was the re-
| ply of the dealer.
"Well. I've discovered that only
j about one-quartrr of th« filling la hair ."
J "Then you certainly do seem to haw
I roe where the hair la abort ma'am."
A Fe
Toe will find all aorta of people la
I tb« world. locl '*log a few who pre
tend to like mineral water.—Atcblaoa
Globe
Why take chances when you om make aat
Inflection a certainty by having us do ywul
Cleaning and Dyeing
WorkT Our service make® ths clothes weal
lonyer and they look (food as long as they ars
waarabla. SO competent employees to give yoni
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The Jones ^ch^iqb
Ford Cars. Second hand and used car*
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118-122 N.Topeka St., Wichita, Kan.
JAMES O. SMITH HIDE OO.
BOA E. Om—ptmm Ara., Wichita, Kmm.
WE WANT
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I Direct all shipments to us. Sams wlU reoeWs per-
sonal slbtniloo bstlifsoUon Kuarantaed. WaaMas
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I Writ* now.
GALVANIZED TANKS, All Kinds
Galvanized Corrugatsd Culverts
GALVANIZED STACK COVER
METAL R00FIN6, All Kinds
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The resource* with which any coja
try la to maintain It* Industrial an«
commercial supremacy are. put afcjit
ly, brains."
The Guineas are natives of Africa.
In color of plumage there la more or
lets variation. their peculiar beauty,
with a rich blue evident In every
feather, has a fascination for the fan-
exercise,! with the >oong. as they
are tender, and even slight neglect
may carry off a whole brood.
Outside of their beauty of feather
and grotesque appearance, the guinea
also possesses economic values. Game
breeders claim for them a use as
watch doga in the poultry yards when
| with other fowl. They are very alert.
and on the slightest approach of dan-
I ger. be In from hawks or quadruped
enemies, they at once Issue their
shrill and piercing cry. which can be
heard at a cr®aMerabIe dtstaacr The
carcaas also presents a palatable
| meat, being of a delicate- wlhl flavor
I suggestive of pheasant- The eggs also
! are good eating Birds for the table
ahould be fattened before killing by
placing several together In a pen for
| a couple of weeks, feeding liberally,
when they will be ready fur Uia Mock
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