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Dover Courier from Dover, Tennessee • 6

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Dover Courieri
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Dover, Tennessee
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6
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vV POTBttOOnBna DOVES TE 7 kissed her hair Her duties about tha house JByOPffiREAD WLDOUGLAS 567 8 SHOES RUB Douglas (hM ore actually la-uuMled year after yrr by more proil Uaa any other aloe in the world mm same Mtpeeeiaslr good ahoae far hredl yaara TUaex peafaaeeet eaarlr half imw tat Making ahoaa auitebie far Maa and Woman la ad walk of life should ion thing to you mhm aaad ahoaa and ara looking lor tha hast ahoa vahiaa far COURT NULLIFIES COMMON LAW RIGHT OF HUSBAND AFFECTS HER PROPERTY WLDOUGLAS gnalitr malarial aad work- a baton anbr-br examining than aaa yn appradato thair topntac guaMBaa No Matter Whan Toe Lira ahoa daalen aaa aapply arlth UDoaglaa ahnaa If at aaoraaiant to call at ona tt ear 110 atom la tha large itiaa aak pour ahoa dealer for Douglaa ahoaa Bra taatloa againat an raa amiable paoAta la guaranteed by tha Rati NH0RI 0400 ttJw IV flmla ii aad perl rai) lAe Nil laiaa ibee n-ada Mark aa IA aarM MaWht ataadard aaai rta eme aaa ynaa it aa tha ahon Inna the fartacy Hat aaa aubatltutto Prleaa rn fa roar (am kmuUm fwdfai) Denial ataafaarna (adarar aaofanarnrfaalaAaadlalfaa 10rmrhMtm eMt aaUag gated fanaaaar ktu MBOWOR BTNOP8IS-fhc tint bUulati Ufa or airly 7(10 and tha scans a Olaamboat on tha Mississippi rivar AU tha types of tha parted ara praaaot and tha floaunc palaoa la dlallnyuhihad by msmiusut dano iff and gallantry Thare ara tha cuatomary drinhlug and gambling also VIrgU Uraca a young north arn man la on hla way auuih on a nilaalon ot revenue Ha maati an acoantflo character- In tha paraon of ona Liberty Bhottle who la eon-atantly tempting tha goddaaa of elianea They agree te a amgular padt Drace aaalng an opportunity to uaa bhottle conlldaa to him that hla mlaalon la to find a certain ox guerrilla Btapho la Vltte who bad murdered Draca'a fatliar It la hla determination to hang La Vltte aa high aa Haman Draco fall In love with a atriklng young beauty on tha boat Tha ataamar reaehea New Orlaana at that time in tha aomawhat turbulent throaa of car patbag government Tha young man attend tha French ball and Draco unexpectedly meeta tha glrL Qhe la accompanied by one Boycfa apparently her Banco Bhottle laarna that tba name of the girl la Nadine la Vltte Draco paaaee an unaaay night torn by tha nueplclon Nadine la the daughter of old Stepho la Vltte now ah admitted outlaw Now more than aver la ha raaolvad to find where tha girl llvaa and to find Btephp Draco and Shottla begin a search of the city Draco takea a band In a carpetbagger riot Ho catehea a gllmpeo of ona ho la aura la Nadine Draco and Bhottla gat Into bad atandlng with tba authorltlaa and ara given until the next day to board a ataamar bound north Bo turning to the houao where ha thought bo bad gllmpaed tha girl Draco finda tha place abandoned Bhottla dlacovera that a caae of wine on the ataamar la addraaaed to Btapho la- Vltte at Farnum'a Landing MlaalaalppL It la the next atop below Beth page's Landing and Oenernl Bath page la Liberty Bhpt undo They decide to vialt him Liberty goes broke again and awears off again on batting They ara cordially received by tha General and hla wife Draco pene-trataa Into the wilderness dlacovera Periwinkle Ho uaa and finda Nadine alone- Bhels much alarmed and warns hint her father will ahoot him Ha tnakaa love to bar and to gat him to go aha agroea to moat blm again tha following 'Thursday On hla way homo Draco la accosted by three who ask to bo aat across the river They overpower him and bind him with ropes Lad by Tony they throw Draco Into an old cabin Tony taunts Draco and avows hla lovo for Na1Ino while the others collect fueL Tony aats Bra to the cabin and the three go off laughing: Nadlna rescuaa him and agrees to meat blm again Wife Controls Pergonal Belongings Just the Sams Aa If She Ware Husband Cannot In Any Manner Control (Nashville The married emancipation statute of 1919 was con-itrued by the supreme court so as to intlrely abrogate and nullify the common law right of a husband to appropriate to his own use the personal property of his wife without her content and to reduce to hla own posses-lion her choses In action Slnie the enactment of the statute the supreme court held a married holds her own property Just as If she were not married and the only way the husband 1 can acquire her property during coverture is by purchase or gift Just as he may ao-lulre the property of a stranger This holding of the aupreme court aas rendered In the case of Telllco Bank and Trust Company vs Loomis from Loudon county In a written pplnlon prepared by Justice Green The bank undertook to subject to the payment of debts certain money in his hands as the proceeds pf a sale of valuable farm belonging to his wife and waa defeated In the effort on proof that the husband had been permitted by his wife to hold and manage her property for her hut aad not given it to him The dobt In question was created prior to the acquisition of the property by Loomis otherwise the court Dbserved the wife might have been itopped from asserting her ownership afthe property if Loomis hid been ixtended credit on the facts of his session of her property and appar-int ownership of It i Sold at all first-class Drugstores Cut this out and send for FREE SAMPLE to VACHEX lac Naw OrLaaa La When Rome people tell the truth It Is only for the purpose of creating trouble softly and then was his wont he light but be helped her and when their queer assortment of plates and dishes gold-rimmed china Crockery stoneware and tin plate had been washed and put sway they sat In the shade of the houaa the girl anxious and wondering have sent Tony back to the ceety as I tell you I he snld to her dope the good work to burn the spy tha cnrpctbnggnlr Now he have spree with the red wine the white: When the time come he be back I have need of heem with the rattle that I buy lie drive them Up to the town Natrhes I have trouble The of Beth pa gel I go In tlm tav an' he Is -there sing laugh eat an' look at the darky dance I wait Then I go up We have words He Jump up1' Then the young man big he grab my wrist like this He squeeze I say: 'Monsieur you was ver strong see you when I da: I keel heem I hear 'old Bethpnge call him Verged The old man keel too ehr nol" she cried us go sway somewhere They will never let you' alone It will be better to be In the city than 'Just a little while longer prt sty In this place eh? Then we mct Mon sleur Boyce In Memphis an' you marry him he take you away for the honeymoon per'aps to France An' he buy yon the silk dresses an many beautiful things An' then I come and Join you sn we all live ehT but I do not like Monsieur Boyce 1" Tou learn soon ne Is a fine man Walt till we see him In Memphis an' you know him better Ton will love him then an' be happy go now An revotr ma p'tlta" Stepho went down to his boat feeling that he hnd outwitted her Impatience of the swamp and she ran back to her room to gaze through the window But soon she came out with a big leatherbound book of plays and put It on the ground beneath the oaks Then with a broom made of stiff twigs she swept the ground unstrung a cat erplllar swinging down end carried It away out of the range of her stage From the house she brought a narrow strip of rush matting spread It beneath a tree raising one edge as If to form of It a sort of back a sofa From the house she brought a box to serve for a table: and from out beyond the palisade of cane she gathered lilies plucking from the bank a great bloom that looked like a pet These she hung on the low-sway-lng branches of her playhouse trees: or with sharp thorns pinned them to the rugged back a curtain to drape the wall above her divan She aat down and waited a long time The cane stirred and she seized her book opened where a lily-stem marked her fuvorlts play and made herself believe that aha was reading It was only a breeze that rnstled In the enne She could hear It now lisp- lng 'amid the glosay leaves shove her Why should she be Impatient? She could wait Had she not waited night after night for her footstep? nad alia not sat In the -house alone and not afraid when the storm tingled the tops of the cypress trees and lashed the bayou mad? -She had not heard a sound but looking by chance she saw Drace coming through the cane and she sprang up to meet him the play-book pressed against her bosom "Monsieur call me Monsieur Call me Virgil" She dropped her book ne bent to pick It up but she snatched It from beneath hla reaching hand and stood back from him It wps yon then! It was yon the ao strong man that would break my wrist It was yon I It was not to (hurt him' With a knife ne would hare klllfed an old man and then they would have hanged him Nadine my other hand held yours to protect rtqst be true I will believe you Vlrglliknow yon brave and not wish to hart sn old man No yon could not do that Ton will forgive me yes?" i She held forth her band and taking tenderly he touched It with his lips and like a princess she accepted the homage due her rank and her beauty now we play" she sold sweetly laughing must ba free: Ska the boy and the girl Bnt first you alt down hero and tell me" Is General Betbpogs hehT rThatJs my name yes What do you want with I want heh? I corns to pol ogtze to think them mule be "Well go on sway I don't wimt any apology from you" "No? Tou put platol at ma That was In Louisiana Tills la MIsslsslp' I tell you here you bafturn' carpetbagger" If General Andrew Jack-son should arise out of hla grave and tell me that do you know what I would say to him would beg hees pardop as you will mine hehl" would aay to him as I now any to you Tou ara an Infamous Brace sprang between them and seised the man by this wrist a dirk fell from bis hand4 back cried Drace la not -going to be a fight hen Stand back Tobe The dark-faced man looked Drace In the rye was veri strong: I see him some other Turning the fellow mgde off "Now who the devil was thstr asked Drace my dear Draw" replied the General "was the fellow you asked about the other Stepho la To Drace this encounter with 8tepho la Vltte the1 father of the girl he and the outlaw upon whom he had sworn to wreak was disturbing Indeed The General how ever -was not at all upset bythe fact that he had been barely savgd from knife and when a sfiert time later they boarded the Bumblebee on their return he gripped Major Pewltfs hand and said: Mr Drace and I have In our precious possession three quarts of old Tobe's wild which Is as much as to say that yon have three quarts stewed out of the heart of Venus find Haw kina and the four of ns will gather In the Texas and and flatter the stars by gad I But Tobe said he didn't have any of the old stock a wine Is sweet my dear Major Come Virgil my boy put all brooding ont of yonr mind Brooding Is for the poet when the nag Is tired and not for usl have a night of It and then we'll return to respectable servitude and slow moral depay My dear Major lead on We The remainder of the trip back to Betbpage was a matter of moral freedom at the gaming table for the General For Drace It was occupied with the hot struggle between thoughts of bis grim mlunon against Stepho and his longing for Nadine For the time being however the beautiful girl who had rescued him jEom the burning hut triumphed She hnd promised to see him once more on Thursday He would keep the tryst Presently the Bumblebee made Beth-page Landing And the General's hospitality was at once so warm and so gracious that Drace felt no hesitancy In remaining for the time being under his until Shottles return at least That night after dinner when his wife Tycle had left the old geo-AlemBn lit a cigar and for a long time sat smoking In silence and Drace wss silent too looking through the lattice at the moon slow timepiece stopped sBd stagnant In the sky you a pistol sir had one but I lost "Welt provide yourself with another In saving me from deadly assault you have mortally offended- old La Vltte Ha Is In no wise afraid bnt neither Is he gallant and would ahoot you wlthout( warning Tou told me you remember of your appointment to meet old Snence tomorrow I haven't any tdo much confidence In him he might play you Into the hands of Stepho' and I advise you not to go fishing with No thafs not the imm of the old fellow I'm going with IUs name' Splllera I know a man of that name In the neighborhood Bnt anyway arm yourself and keep a sharp And then they aat and smoked In silence Inhaling tha dewy breath of the night CHAfTER IX it H-- I s- Va CORNS Lift "Off with Fingers CASH YOUR WAR 8TAMP81 Former Stats Director Urges Holders to Start Turning Thom In Chattanooga Preston former Tennessee- director for war I tarings has addressed a letter to the holders of securities throughout-the state -to tho effect that they would stature January 1 and that payment Of Interest would cease at the tlme Mr Preston says that it will be necessary for people to begin at once to turn their stamps Into the banks which have arranged for their redemption otherwise there will prob- ibly be congestion in January MU8T BE PROGRE88IVE on Now Doesn't hurt a bltl Drop'B little I on an aching corn Instantly that corn stops hurting then short ly yon lift It right off with fingers -TYulyl Tour druggist sells a tiny bottle of I for a few cents: sufficient to remove every hard corn soft corn or com between the toes and the calluses without soreness or Irritation Republicans Insist Idsas In Party Declaring the republican party- In New York to have lost contact with the Representative Lather Mott and Hamilton Fish Jr of that state announced they would request George Morris republican state chairman to mil a conference with a view to lining It up behind progressive measures" younger element in the party will not follow or remain In If tha old reactionary leaders and policies said a statement by the two representatives SOLD BO YEARS A FINE GENERAL TONIC WILL CHAPTER Continued -10- The General roared hip delight said that he would go on the stand to swear against Sour Socrates In favor of tha fiddler's dialogue he shouted fetch In the bqrk-nnd-wlng dancers1 Tobe went to the dpor yelled as If calling hogs and In came two big negroes a throng of Idlers following them At It they went linking the house and when weariness threatened to seize them for refreshment they drew off and leaping butted their heads together like goats After a lime the General gave them a dollar apiece dismissed gave the fiddler five with an oider to play that old tune again Old Tobe was now lighting hla evening lamps The General called to him what have yon for supper The old follow closed one eye What have I got? he says Ah thsfs II HI tell you got hofrcake and roasted doves you don't mean It Hoe-cake end masted doves I by Gideon's Band Fetch us Tobias And toark you along with It all bring about a trowel full of that wild plum Jelly The doves and the strips of bacon and the hoe-cake add the Jelly came on and arising the General saluted the rcpqat about quail I Quail sir is Insipid white dry and tasteless compared with the dark richness of the dove And look at this bread made of mealed pearl Tou never tasted any bacon like that my son fed on acorns showered down from Olympus The sweet of the night They had finished the meal and were sitting back smoking sipping wine when Draco noticed a sudden change ip the General's countenance a tightening a grimnesa and turning about he saw standing against the wall a strange a mnn not tall but broad of ahouider his body sloping llthely down to feet expressively of sinewy restlessness Hls nais of hair was like tangled flax straw dark and yet gray Like the bristles of a wild boar his short mustache stuck put and his heavy eyebrows looked like great hairy caterpillars crawling across his lower forehead In his dress there was' wild touch barbaric aspect 8lowly ho come forward 1 "77 Uses "Cutter's" Scrums and Vaednas bail doiosbie beat to oanacnc pour litfnrata Uyon Will IF YOUR VETERINARIANS The Cutter Laboratory iitrttrj fa) Imtmt Mtm" Berkeley (ULAUbcmc) CallAmli Goodrich Thinks Nation Emerge From Bolehevlem A gradual change through the orderly processes of evo- lutlon and not by counter revolution will Russia merge- from her present condition declared former Oov of Indiana speaking here before the Conference on Public Opinion and World Peace An official government investigation of conditions In that country was made by Mr Goodrich last year do you know what I said to myself? I said: are to 'bs my Sven A litde i tofresyoa from thaS cold ms the OMgHog Boa dfawcttoneoa bowls fnnsMevtn with the first gleam 'of Thursday)! light Nadine arose and stood looking ont from the window Her father had come In late and was to depart again early for the hills bnt she was afraid est he might have changed his mind She heard him moving about but she waited a long time before she went to meet him so sweet It was to stand there at tne window to catch the first ray of the sun The old man hammed a Jagged tune In a garden of melody It would have been a briar- Nadine came out andf gallantly he kissed her handlsughlng Catches Hawk With Hands: eummervOle Grappling with a I huge chicken hawk as It was making sway with one ot the barnyard Hooka Mrs Albert Bister beat tbe feathered thief to death with a club- Hard Luck Follows King Rome A member of the court of I ex-King Constantine la authority for the statement that the Greek ruler lost 85000 playing poker the day alter he abdicated 7 ecnrtchy throasa Banish that sold dohY it leaves through (TO BB CONTUTOBD) Land of 8tone Trass Rock Impressions of palm have been uncovered near Florissant CoL tbe stem of an exgen oua tree mined In a chunk of coal at Leyden and petrified stamps lif trees found in the streets of Denver DAKINGiS i1 a -fi A- ii''- S'-.

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Pages Available:
68
Years Available:
1886-1923