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BETTY RANSOM'S TEST.

A school girl came hurrying" down .the street towards the Girls' High ...School. It was Betty Ransom, and she held her fingers between the leaves of her Latin book, and now and then she glanced at something, and repeated it to herself with her lips moving. "O, dear,"' she thought, "it always seems as if I bad to work until the last minute when there is a test coming. It's uphill working for your board, but as mother says, "there's a top at last.'" and she set her teeth firmly and went on conning the pages.

A a a stone steps of the High school. She wore a blue tailor suir, and the breeze ruffled her pale yellow hair against the dark fur of her cap. ''O, there's Yucca Shrade,'"thought Betty, "isn't she beautiful? she looks just like a tall white yucca, too."

The young girl came down to meet her. -I' "O, Elizabeth," she said, (Betty's heart leaped), "you have your Latin book. Won't you let me take it a ^-minute? I didn't bring mine. Miss —Douglas always takes them atll up, so I thought I wouldn't bother. I don't know a thing for that old test."' "Why, yes," said Betty, flushing all over her freckled face, "you can have it."

"O, thanks ever so much."

She sat down on the stone abutment, and Betty went happily in. "She spoke to me just like the other girls—me! and she said Elizabeth. I don't mind the hard things now.'"

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school pretty, rich, bright and daring, she was adored and copied by all the girls.

Betty settled down to work on the test with a happy feeling in her heart. It seemed to make the answers come quicker, and she felt she was doing well. In the middle of the last question an accident to her inkstand sent a little rill trickling down into her lap. She had to go to the wash room for a few minutes, and then come back to finish her, work.

When the stacked-up books in front of the teacher's desk were given back hers was not among them. "Yucca's going to fetch it to me herself," thought Betty with joy.

As they filed out into the hall the principal stood there. She looked at each girl sternly, then turned and walked into Miss Douglas' room. "You had a test this morning I believe," she said. "Have any of your girls left the room while it was in progress?" "Why, yes, two did. There was an accident—some ink spilled.' "Who were they?" f, "Betty Ransom and YuccaShrade."

She did not mention that Yucca had had permission several times to leave the room. "I inquired because I think you have a case of cheating, and I am determined that it shall be stopped. As I was coming down the stairs I caught a glimpse of a girl in the toilet room hastily scanning a book, and saw her hide it in a cloak. I did not recognize her and was called away just then. However, I returned and found the volume. Here it is."

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Interesting News South of Town And Around Cowden.

The corn show at Greenfield Saturday was well attended by the farmers from here, many of them having- exhibits, and it is with pleasure we note so many of the prizes were awarded to the corn growers is Brandy wine township. Claude White, one of our young farmers, wpn first prize on white corn, andi George Bottsford, living over the bor der in Sugar Creek township, came in for second prijse. W. D. Dismore, also^-oJLthis township, won second prizerfois-the greatest display of cojjn. Mr. James T. Wilson, of I Center township, was awarded first prize for yellow corn, and J. N. Hoss, also of Center, second. It may seem strange to ttiany who had corn on exhibit in this contest why so many of the prizes went to the same neighborhood. This may be accounted for by the excellent soil, good judgment in selecting seed and the proper cultivation received at the hands of these farmers. 31 v^Mr. Hoss and Mr. Botsford, one of Center and the other of Sugar Creek township, are both good corn growers aad stock raisers, and each owes much of his success to the skillful farmers of Brandywine in which they were schooled. Mr. Wilson, who is now three score and ten, spent many years of his life in Brandywine, and long ago solved the secret of growing corn, and many of the younger men are indebted to him for their success as farmers. Mr. Dismore and Mr. White both have a clear idea of what constitutes a perfect ear of corn, and will endeavor to keep their place in front with the corn growers of Hancock county.

Gladys, the eleven-months-old child of Robert H. Smith and wife, died at the home of Adam T. Brown Thursday and was buried Friday

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book, open at the title page, and said severly: "Miss Douglas, I requested you to see that every book was in front of your desk. This must not occur again. I will leave you to discipline the young lady."

The teacher flushed. "I never knew Betty Ransom to cheat she is very pains-taking, and a hard worker."

She shuffled over the test papers en her desk and read Betty's quickly. "Yes," she said, this paper is better than usual. I am sorry, Miss Blake. I will see that nothing of this kind occurs again." IBS When the class came in Miss Douglas called for attention. Her face was flushed, and she was tingling under the principal's rebuke. She stated the case caustically, and called

Betty to the front. "Now, Miss Ransom, what have you to say for yourself?"

Betty stood there, burning red with shame and grief, but her eyes I looked steadily at her teacher. ^"I did not do it," she said. "You expect me to believe that?"

Your paper is distinctly better than usual. It convicts you. And, pray, how do you account for your book being found there9

Betty was silent. She glanced at Yucca, but that young lady was polishing her pretty manicured nails with her handkerchief. '"I cannot tell," said Betty simply. "You gaiu no more by lying than you have by cheating."

Betty burst into tears. "I cannot tell," she said again. :Very well, then, hereafter you" will occupy this table in front of the

Morgan Caraway, of Indian Territory. He reports tiis family as being well, and says they are having some frost and fine sunshiny weather.:^

Saturday night the friends of Julian Strahl, to the number of thirty, planned a hasty surprise on him.J||Oysters and fruits were served in abundance. The evening was spent socially and in games. Those attending report a royal time.

The freezing and thawing of last week was beginning to have its effect on the young clover and growing w^eat. However it is now covered with a nice blanket of snow. It is to be hoped that the snow will remain for some time, as the wheat crop is at the present the most promising we have had for a number of years.

Mrs. Claude White was num bered with the sick

School, where you cannot communicate with anyone." Betty, sobbing and ashamed, slid into the chair by the table. She could feel the girls' eyes upon her, and see their covert glances. She,

Betty Ransom, branded as a cheat —she who had so prided herself on

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honest, and worked early and

late rather than seek help! O, if Yucca would only say that she borrowed the book before school! Then "with a great shock it came to her, perhaps Yucca had been the one'

Bright, beautiful Yucca had planned to leave her book at home, and made her the victim—Betty Ransom, Mrs. Hughing's work girl.

At times her burning indignation got the better of her loyalty. She wanted to cry out to the girls, who said in her hearing Look at Betty Ransom, always pretending to be too good to touch 'a pony for her translations. Didn' she get come up with!"

Sometimes her misery seemed greater than she could bear, those eyes looking at her all day, and Mrs. Hughing's sharp tongue and hard work. She wanted to give up trying for an education, and run away to the mountains, where mother was, and the people who believed in her. Then she would shut her teeth and think of her mother's words. "It's going to be a stiff climb, dearie, but there's a top to the hill at last."

All hope that she might sometime be righted went out when she heard *the girls say, "Yucca Shrade's going to Paris next week to a finishing school. Isn't it grand, she's the luckiest girl in the world."

Yucca going away—then she would never tell! That afternoon there were to be

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Marion Liming and wife, of Blue River township, took dinaer and spent the evening with John H. Dobbins Sunday.

Opal Wood is quite sick with aa attack of scarlet fever. The house has been quarantined, and it is hoped the disease will be confined to this single home.

Edward Bennett and wife, of Brown's Chapel, were guests of J. R. Parish and wife. Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas Vetters spent a pleasant day tha first of the week with Charles Shider and wife, ot Hominy Ridge.

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Yucca came in a soft white wool1 gown, that brought out her fair beauty. She was on the program for a three-minute speech. Shecameswiftly up and stood close to Betty's-, table. The pretty color flushed intoher cheeks. "Miss Douglas and girls," she said"it was I who cheated in the Latin: test, not Betty Ransom. I have been^ sneak enough to let her suffer all this. week. Don't you think I was afraid to tell. I've had to make myself' keep still. I wanted to see if a girl, could be like a boy, and never tell on. a schoolmate. Now I know, but I think," she added with a nervous littie laugh, "the test has been pretty hard on me, too. It was like seeing" a scared wild bird suffer. Betty, I. humbly ask you to forgive me, though I don't see how you can. Miss Douglas, I borrowed Betty's book before.school and hid it out there."

Tears were running down Betty's, cheeks. "O, Yucca, she cried, "I_ do forgive you. What made you tell?" I could have borne it.

Yucca slipped her arms around her* and led her down to her old place, then she took the chair by the table-

That night a note came to Betty. It said: DEAR ELIZABETH: There is a bighouse on the hill that is going to be very lonely next week, a girl's room that wants a girl to sleep in it and a^. piano that wants to sing. And most of ail there's a grandmother,., the dearest old lady in the world,, who wants a girl to tell her school, stories every night. Will you come-, and live with them and help them tabe less lonesome for another girl faraway across the. sea?

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