The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 132, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1936 Page: 3 of 4
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PATTERNS OF WOLFPEN
By HARLAN HATCHER
By DR. GBORGB M.
WNU Sarvios
CHAPTER IX—Continued
Why do you say
and
go back
and
you been ail along Gannon
be
CHAPTER X
other
Sunflower Put to Work
Farm Gleanings
"Well cut in
the
during 1TH, owing largely to lack of
with nobody around to hear him but
the mule and It drowsing like a sleepy
Clear down to the Big Sandy,
about right Yon can take
up
in
men
their
the rock,
through
•he Was Fascinated by Hie Zeal
and the Reality of the Performance.
and
the
and
•P-
san sunflower these* days. Th
tamed It and put It to work. Pit
In gardens along with beans, the
planting of
States.
in moat cases have taken the place of
the heavy horse.
On the farm mechanical power has
relieved the horse of the heaviest op-
erations—such as pigwing and harvest-
ing—that usually have to be done
quickly and In hot weather. The gen-
eral farm work that remains, the
lighter draft horse handles more easily
and quickly, meanwhile keeping ia
good condition on lees feed. A greater
increase in prices for light draft horses
in comparison with other types at the
big markets, reflects the new demand
Cor the light types.
The fact that mules from lighter draft
mares usually are a little more active
and better suited for both farm work
and most markets, is another factor in
the trend toward lighter work horses.
Corn is grown on 91 per cent of
farms of North Carolina.
of Julia, with her grace and quiet com-
petence, as the beautiful portent of the
future years of Cynthia. And so think-
ing, he came through the barnyard
gate. His eyes were on the house, try-
ing to see through It the kind of men
whose foresight and energy bad built
It In this removed place.
Julia had just come to the porch os
her way to her flower-beds.
“You are back early, Reuben."
"Yes. I wanted to have a look at
the last lines we ran yesterday. Tbo
others all went to Dry Creek."
He Mt at the table plotting tbo lines
and sketching In the creeks they had
were to begin. Reuben excused him-
self with the plea that he wanted to go
over his notes on the last lines of the
survey and check them against the
deeds to see where be was going be-
fore the party proceeded on Monday.
He went back toward the house, leis-
urely, thinking of thia place into which
be had come, of the native refinement
of the people who lived here, and of
Institution scientists
how to make wheat
Its yield without add-
the soil, notes Path-
They fertilise the air
Then he journeyed In bls mind over
the course he had run, contracting It
again to the scale of the map and
thinking how oddly the mind can get
turned around, and be unhappy until
Its map and the one on paper coincide.
He examined the yellowing deeds and
drew lightly the course for the next
day.
It was part of the fun to »ry to de-
termine the lines first from the old
deeds, and then plot them in as they
actually were on the ground. Some-
times they would coincide.
Cynthia came into the kitchen. She
was surprised to find herself looking
immediately into his eyes.
“Oh I Excuse me," she Mid.
“Not at all."
"Surveying? And on Sunday?"
“There are so many things to be sur-
veyed here, you have to use every day
one means of destroying the American
credit; a shipload of counterfeit Con-
tinental money coming from Britain
was captured by an American priva-
teer, and persons accompanying flags
of truce made use of the occasion ta
disseminate counterfeit money.
Dewey’s “Financial History of the
United States" also refers to the fad
that notes were counterfeited both by
the bean vines to climb up on.
sunflowers grow tall enough, so
picking bean pods Isn’t any trie
all and the sunflower seeds are 1
good chicken feed, too.
no record as to which mills supplied
this paper, states tbo Detroit News,
Long before the Revolution, some ot
tko colonies, such as Massochusottg
and Pennsylvania, had Issued pepos
money which depreciated. The Coo-
freestng cherries
greater
United
time," Spsrfel said.
So the talk went on while Shellen-
treated into herself a little way in de-
fense, "I think he's right nice.”
“You’re in love with him. You’ve
been different since that night be came
and you put flowers and a white cloth
on the table."
“Why, Jesse, X
that?”
“Oh, Reuben is a nice fellow. I don’t
blame you any."
Cynthia had not meant to speak to
Jesse about Reuben. She had merely
Mt there with her own thoughts blit
they had moved so quietly and rapid-
ly that the pressure of the undersurge
bad suddenly escaped into words.
With «, _____....
setts Horticultural society Is sees
only to the Royal Horticultural sod
in England.
“What do you do or say about It to an-
other person, anyway? Would even
Jesse understand? A body doesn’t do
or My anything but lets It have Its
own way. It sparkles In yrur heart
where no one sees, and It lights up the
soul and changes the look of the whole
world. You hold It there like it was
star vapor from another world or the
first green mist of leaves sifting be-
tween the willow limbs on Wolfpen
and It trembles inside of you with
wonder. Maybe if you let it alone and
believe In It . . ." .
Cynthia changed the subject skilfully
back to Jesse.
"You’ve sure read a right gmart In
such a hard book.”
“I gueM I’ve been getting along right
well."
“I came out to lay some of the pota-
to vines up on the ridges for you."
“You don’t need to do that; you got
plenty to do. It don’t look like we’d
have much time for House Field this
evening, anyway”
“There’s never enough time In the
day any mere. Can I carry your book
back with me If you’re not going to
use It?"
She took the book, and Jesse roused
the mule. It was too late for Cynthia
to help In the sweet-potato vines. She
went on to the bouse and got the water
Counterfeiting General
Among the Old Colonies
Hepburn’s "History of Currency in
the United States’* says that counter-
feiting was very general among the
colonies; the currency was counter-
and grace at night; and of the num
her of wedges and wooden mauls and
cross-cut mws and axes and spike
poles and adses and peaveys required;
and of blacksmithing and the«haMrds
of logging and the carelesaneM .of men
even where their necks are In danger.
Cynthia had finished the dishes and
was moving the lamp from the table.
It flashed against the polished brass of
Reuben’s compass. ' "That was the
first time he ever called me anything.
Cynthia. He Myo It so nice. *1 hope
we haven’t put you out Cynthia . . .’
1 don’t reckon many a man would My
-it about keeping a supper waning for
them. ‘It was slow going and made
us late.* You're In love with him.
You’ve been different since that night
he came and you put on flowers and a
white cloth ... I guess things just
happen to a body. They happen deep
tn you when you don’t know It
then one day, tike this, suddenly they
come out and there they are."
Lighter Work Horae Is
Likely in Near Future
Lighter draft horses are tn the pic-
ture for "the future, believes J. O. Wil-
liams, in charge of horse Investigations
The days were easier at the house
when the men carried their lunch with
them to fhe hills. The rush of the
breakfast hour passed, and the middle
of the day was left In some peace and
without hurry to Julia and Cynthia.
They could have a simple dinner alone
with Jesse. Cynthls brought In the
milk cold from the spring-house. Julie
made the corn bread and gathered a
dishpan of lettuce from her garden to
wilt in hot bacon grease and flavor
with new onions because Jesse liked it
that way.
“How is the corn up In Barn
Branch?” Julia asked.
“I believe It’s ebout the best on the
place this year."
“Will you get it finished up today?"
"I’ll be done with It about three
o'clock."
“The sweet-potato patch ta ruining
for the plow.” Julia said.
“I plan on getting to them yet today."
** Cynthia mw him slip the Cooley’s
Blackstone Into his shirt as be went
out "1 gueM Jesse likes to be by him-
self to think about Jthe law that he’s
so wrspped up tn. It seems such a long
time ago that we set out the sweet-
potato plants and be spoke about It
Maybe I can get time to go up to the
patch and lay some of the vines up on
the ridges for him.”
She tftok time and tn the mid-after-
noon. when the work that was never
done was almost doni, she started up
to the House Field. Jesse had not
come. She waited, looking down upon
the matted vlnea. When be did not
come, ahe went on up to Barn Hollow
by the cowpath over the ridge against
the line of trees. The corn was plowed,
but Jesse was not In sight She won-
dered where he could be, thinking she
had missed him by going up over the
ridge.
Then she heard his voice pitched to
the oratorical tones of tbo Pikeville
lawyers and redting:
■ ’All children born before matri-
mony are bastards by our taw: and so
It la of all children born so long after
< the death of the husband, that, by the
usual course of gestation, they could
not be begotten by him. But thia be-
ing a matter of some uncertainty, the
Urw la not exact as to a few days, for-
ty weeks begin the time allowed. . .
that all fertilisers dissolve rapidly and
are dispersed throughout the feeding
sone of the plant roots, but this la not
true in many cases.
There Is a decided difference tn the
way two common types of nitrogen
carriers react after they are applied
to the soil. Nitrate of soda goes Into
solution quite rapidly and if It is
plied in the fall In orchards or ph
grains, it may be carried below
xone where the roots feed before
growth begins in the spring. Sulphate
of ammonia reacts with the soil con-
stituents and does not go into solution
rapidly so it can be applied In the fall
without 'loss.
Potash salts also react with the soli
and are not readily lost by leaching.
The fact that they are slowly soluble
Indicates that potash fertilisers must
be distributed rather thoroughly
through the soli by ths method of ap-
plication if the crop la to get the maxi-
mum benefit from them. Phosphorus
also should be worked into the soil to
make it available for use of the plants.
When phosphate fertilisers are used
on grass crops, the application should
be broadcast and then worked deeply
into the soil with a disk. When used
with row crops, such as corn, the phos-
phate should be applied in the rows
or hills a few inches from the peed.
The phosphates used for fertilisers re-
act with the soil and this type of fer-
tiliser may not move more than an
inch from Its point of application in
several years.
bucket and went to the well as the
sun slipped off of Saul's beadstone,
drawing after it a veil of dark. She
mw Shellenberger and Mullens coming
down the path from the Pinnacle.
It was almost dark when the
men came in. Cynthia could aee them
from the kitchen, a bustie of
around the wMh rock rolling up
sleeves, opening their shirts, soaping
and splashing and sputtering; thinking
bow funny menfolk were when they
washed. Reuben bad coma into the
kitchen.
“1 hope we haven't put you out. Cyn-
thia. being so late. 1 had this Instru-
ment set up and I wanted to finish off
a line before I pulled it up.”
“It isn't any trouble at all,” she Mid.
"it was slow going and made us late”
The men were unusually talkathe at
the table and on the porch after sup-
per. Cynthia sometimes listened.
“Yes, we got around ali right,” Shel-
lenberger wm Mylng.
through Dry creek and work back. We
may have to put in a splash dam to
give them a start down Gannon."
"Are you actually going to float logs
down Gannon?" Abral asked.
“We certainly are."
“In rafts?”
"Ye£ Small ones.”
"Can 1 take ona down?" Abral de-
manded.
"You dertalniy can." Shellenberger
Mid. “But we bavo to cut tbo logs
first. Do you think we can get good
men along the creeks here?”
"There’ll be plenty out of these hol-
lows,” Sparrel Mid. "The country is
filling'up fast and plenty of them have
not land enough to keep them busy."
"We’ll have to put up a eamp there.
If you’d rig up a mw on your mill ire
could rip out boards pretty quick."
Use Fertilizers AKhere R
Can Reach Them or Va
Is Wasted.
It’s just
Yorty-foot logs down it in the spring.'
“What about men?"
“We’ll try the natives. They*!!
cheap, and a lot of them can board
home. We’ll get Pattern to draw
a list of good men, and Tve ordered
tools. We just as well get to work. He
says go right ahead, and I’ll fix up
money matters later on,"
They took the path that led down
the hill from the Pinnacle to the house
as they day began to withdraw from
the western slopes.
Air Fertilization
Smithsonian
have discovered
greatly Increase
ing anything to
finder Magaxlne.
Instead. Since plants use atmosphe
carbon dioxide and -water in the pc
ence of light to manufacture their st
stance. Dr. Earl S. Johnston, of the
vision of radiation and organlama,
creased experimentally the amount
thia heavy gas In the atmospiu
around a miniature wheat field ui
the carbon dioxide content was fc
times that of ordinary air. As a
■tilt the wheat showed marked
creases In growth.
farm profits.
Three- million sheep died during
drouth In Queensland.
when they become dissolved In the
film of water that coats the tlay soil
particles which are in contact with ,
WNU S«rvtM.
The time when fertiliMrs are applied
and the position they are placed tn
relation to the roots of the plants may
have considerable effect upon the value
obtained from the use of fertiliser.
"It’s a good day for surveying."
“It’s too good to be long Indoors.' I
have tinlahed, anyway. I waa trying
to get yesterday atralght In my mind,
and projecting tomorrow."
. Cynthia stood by the table looking
at him and at his map, with an art-
leM and unconfused silence, more be-
coming than speech. She had a way
of lifting her head and offering a aim-
pie smile that flushed delicately over
her face and into her eyes. and be-
came radiant under the coll ot rich
dark hair.
In thia isolated privacy he felt that
he was seeing her for the first time.
He thought quickly over the weeks he
had been here. Always there bad been
other people, putting strains on rela-
tionships simply hecanse they were
physically present When be bad seen
her and been affected by her. the con-,
aclntisnees of Sparrel, or Jnlla, or the
brothers, or the other men, had been
there, too, and there waa no telling
what part of the completed effect was
provoked by the graceful and sensitive
young girl. Now. Julia was In the gar-
den. beyond this new aura, and all the
men were far away on Drv Creek,
leaving this moment to Cynthia.
"Do you like it up here?" ahe asked.
But even before she spoke, she felt
how irrelevant to the rich and power-
ful underflow of feeling between them
was the convention that nothing really
exists until It has been dragged forth
from Its privacy and trimmed, distort-
ed and then sewn up Into words
And there began two movements
through time; the significant but un-
voiced nnderatandlngs and the eom-
monplace of talk.
“I never liked a place better," he
Mid. “Do you like It?"
“It’s my home. A body just naturally
likes home." •
"Well, not always. People do a
lot of moving about Do you ever wish
to go out In the world?" .
"I’ve been to Pikeville. And I'm go-
ing over there this fall to the Institute
for the winter. Some day I’m to go
down the rt -er to the Ohio."
“My people live right on the Ohio
river. You can see the mouth of Sandy
and the hlg bend In the Ohio from our
porch. And see the hlg steamboats
come sround IL In the night-time,
when there Is a moon, they look like a
great swan with a black neck and a
string of red and green beads around
It. I guess that sounds kind of funny."
“Oh. no. I like to think that way
about things."
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Mullens took the corn knife and Shel-
lenberger followed him,climbing around
the cliff to the back of the ridge and
then plunging again into the woods.
Mullens was a different man among
the trees. He picked the way through
the giant poplars, pine, white oak.
chnetnnL ash, hickory, easily with the
complete surety of long experience.
Shellenberger followed. .Wild game
started up from their approach and
allpped deeper I. to the timber.
Slowly they went ou through the for-
eat. examining the stand of the tim-
ber, the distribution of the species,
the adaptability of the hollows for
skidding or driving the logi into Gan-
non creek, -and noting the beat meth-
od of attack. When, toward late aft-
ernooon, they finally came out on the
ridge tn alght of the Pinnacle. Mullens
Mid to Shellenberger:
“About ten tbouMnd feet of long-
leaf pine to the acre, and'maybe two
thousand to three thouMnd short-leaf
in that second hollow."
“How much poplar?"
“Maybe average two thousand feet"
"And the other etuff?"
“About the Mme for white oak,
chestnut and ash. Maybe five hundred
feet of pignut and shellbark blckury."
“What do you think of it?” Shellen-
terger asked.
"Never mw a finer lot of atnmpage
for a loggin* gang In myHfe. JiMt
made right for cuttln’.”
Shellenberger Mt down and began to
sketch in a drawing on the back of an
■envelope.
“You’ll have to build a camp tn the
hollow down there below that rock.
They call It Dry creek. This man baa
• steam-mill and be is getting a circu-
lar mw, ao that will be eaay. You can
dear out that flat there at the month
of the creek for a collecting point You
can look at It again tomorrow. I don't
think we’ll need a dam In Gannon.
Maybe one in the smaller creek."
“Have
•creek?"
The coming of Shellenberger had not
yet destroyed the singular distinction
of mood the Sabbath brought to Wolf-
pen. Since the days of Saul Pattern
it had been set apart by the ceremo-
nial of peace and rent from dally toil
and elevated above the other days by a
touch of aolemnlty. Church services
were rare. PoMibly for that reason
the Patterns had been at pains to keep
alive in their Isolation the sense of Its
difference. This weekly pausu between
periods of labor, when the mill wm si-
lent and the churn and the loom were
still, gave to their life some of the
ancient dignity which the religions of
quiet self-dlscipllne have always con-
ferred upon pastoral peoples.
Sparrel would read In his books and
ponder a pasMge from the Bible. He
would go to the barn to book over his
stock, or walk Into hla fields and lean
over the topmost bar looking off Into
the hills which seemed to be affected
by the day. Sometimes he would ride
in the afternoon to another bottpouto
see a neighbor or visit the aiirtr. Or
be would go to hla mill and alt by the
pond above the wheel. -
But today the thought of hie new
mw, which he had just brought over
from the river on a mule’s back, filled
the place of a more quiet contempla-
tion. He took Reuben and the boys
down to the mill to look over the plan
for the circular mw.
“You have aeen them work?" he
asked of Reuben.
“Yes. Many of them.” Reuoen Mid.
Sparrel'a pride In his improvement
was stimulated by the days of absence
from it In the woods. He told Reu-
ben of the earlier Pattern mills and
of their gradual transformation Into
this modern power unlL Reuben lis-
tened with the attention of one who
found In the recreation of earlier
modes of life sn enthralling reallMtlon
of the continuity of ths generations
and the growth of a culture.
The sight of the old water-wheel and
of the two small rough stones which
Saul had hewn affected him, for hla
own people had moved about too often
to accumulate these Intimate remind-
era of a family tradition.
“There Is something about a mill
wheel that I like,” he Mid. “But steam
Is coming In fast”
“Steam is quicker and works in dry
weather," Sparrel paid.
They examined the new mw and the
shaft which turned the millstones.
"Why don’t you put In a separate
one for the mw?“ Reuben said. "It
would be simpler. Then you could just
shift the belt over to its wheel and be
ready to mw. And it ought to be
smaller than the one for the mill be-
cause the mw should turn faster.” He
sketched his Idea for the mill, complete
from the smaller pulley -to the loca-
tion of the mw and the shuttle for
the logs.
“That’s IL" Sparrel Mid. ‘That’i
It to a T. And I’ve got just the block
of wood In the shop hers," Although
It was the Sabbath, they'went to the
shop and Sparrel marked witn his pen-
cil the dimensions for the new pulley.
They talked it over and over for a
long time, adding nothing to IL but
savoring It to the foil by making and
exchanging words about IL
Then, the boys proposed that they go
on into Dry Creek Hollow where Shel-
lenberger and Mullens bad gone, and
see where the lumbering operations felted by the British and sent here M
“'But, If a man dies, and bls widow
soon after marries again, and a child
la born within such a timi, as that by
the course of nature It might have
been the child of either husband; tn
this case be Is Mid to be more than
ordinarily legitimate; for be may, when
he arrives to years of discretion.choose
which of the fathers he pleases.*"
She could not see Jesse from where
she ML What would he look like in
the role of orator? The impulse to
lay eyes upon him overcame her. She
went a little farther up the ridge ov-
erlooking the hollow and climbed down
Uj® rock behind a clMlp of redbud.
Jesse waa standing under a pine
tree before a moss-covered rock which
bad broken away from the cliff. He
held the yellow bound Blackstone tn
hls left hand, pointing with his right
forefinger at the page, tapping It for
emphasis, and making hls voice vibrate
with hla Imitation of. a mountain law-
yer citing a point of law:
“*. . . restraints upon marriage, es-
pecially among the lower classes, are
evidently detriments! to the public oy
hinder!ag the Increase of the people;
and to religion and morality, by en-
couraging licentlousnera and debauch-
ery among the single of both sexes;
snd thereby destroying one end of so-
ciety and government, which la con-
cubltu prohlbere vago.’ •
She-was fascinated by hls seal and
the reality of the performance, but aft-
er he had halted In the passage, stum-
bling seriously over the Latin words,
the Illusion was broken and ahe felt
ashamed at the thought of spying on
Jesse from behind a bush and listen-
ing to something not meant for her
ears. She would go down to him at once.
“But then be will see by my face and
the direction 1 come from that I have
been listening. I will
come across the field."
She climbed back up
went down the gully
cleared apace to the plowed field,
came down the young corn rows
proaching Jesse directly face to face.
He mw her coming, not displeased,
snd be Mt on the rock \. Itti the book
open face down over hls knee. When
she came up, he waA composed.
“I looked for you at the sweet-po-
tato patch,” ahe Mid as a greeting.
“I was just giving the mule a rest
and I got to looking at the picture of
Blackstone here ..."
He showed her the yellow-tinged en-
graving of the enormous ■ appearing
man, solid and legal behind the ample
contours of hls ermine robe; under the
careful twistings of the curled fleece
wig stood out the bushy black eye-
brows. the big - eyes that bad faced
with the confidence of knowledge and
experience, judges and juries.
"They wear funny clothes In Eng-
land,** Cynthia Mid.
He still sept his finger ta ths psge
where he waa reading.
“Have you read clear over there?”
“Well, not exactly. Only 1 got tired
of the chapters on the King’s Titles,
and the King’s Prerogative, and bis
Revenue, and of the Clergy. It didn't
seep like It meant anything In this
country. So I kind of skipped to this
part. *Of Husband and Wife* and It’s
right interesting. It says a c*an baa
to stand good for his wife's debts as
long as she buys necessary common
supplies, but not Tor anything besides
necessaries.”
“Is that what law Is?” Cynthia asked.
“Well, that’s just one little part.
There are so many things here. It
makes a body wonder if people really
do all the things this book says they
mustn't do. and how many people had
to do an evil before a law was made
about IL It takes a lot of study, and
a man needs help on some of IL”
"You're going to read with Tandy
Morgan. Jesse?"
“That's what I alm to do this fall."
“We'll have ready money, too, and I
can go to Pikeville, Mother Mys."
“The book lays down law on that.
It Mys here, ’The last duty of parents
to their children fs that of giving them
an education suitable to their station
In life; a duty pointed out by reason,
and of far the greatest Importance of
any. For ... It Is not easy to Imag-
ine or allow, that a parent has con-
ferred any considerable benefit- upon
hls child by bringing ' him Into the
world; If he afterwards entirely neg-
lects hls culture and education, and
suffers him to grow up like a mere
beast, to lead a life useleM to others
snd shameful tn himself.' This fel-
low talks straight words like a law-
yer ought." . .
“You’ll be a great lawyer yourself
some day." Cynthia Mid.
“I alm to If I can."
They Mt, each with hla own thoughts,
for a minute tn silence.
"Is Reuben a great surveyor?" ahe
asked. Interrupting the alienee.
“Why, yes. He seems to know a
right smsrL"
“Is he m nice out In the woods as
he Is about the house r*
“T don’t see any change tn him."
“I like hls way of talking about the
Ohio river and things." she Mid.
Then, rousing from the dresns in
which be was still partly submerged.
the fair-skinned girl who had weeks the English and Americans. We find
ago made him welcome under condi-
tions so embarrassing to herself. He
bad Mid little to her, and she had said
perhaps even less to film. But her
few words were adequate symbols for
revealing to him a dream-touched soul
who clothed the commonplace with
tbs radiance of poetry. He had seen
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The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 132, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1936, newspaper, August 7, 1936; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1207029/m1/3/?q=music: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.