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?nr ' ? n 1111 ^rt!?DirOO OOQJKIJDHC Ai;xKOij ?/ nrmri BE cwrfi/fffff wo orjf c. PART ONE.' CHAPTER I. I found my wife and told her all about it. "You see. Agatha," I said, ; "It's going to be rough on old Arch if he doesn't. After all, she's always promised him the property; it should *o to him." The secretary, that is. my wife?I sometimes refer to her in that way | In memory of a certain six weeks I , and my friend Terhune once spent at Castle Wyckho-ff, during which she bore that title and I fell in love with hex?my wife put down her sewing to answer me. She was doing me a knitted tie, by the way. green, with at least six different stitches in it. Awfully clever at that sort of thing, my wife. "Yes, I see," she said; "but, Wilfred, Isn't it a little?a little sudden? How can he expect to get married in so short a time as ten days?" It was sudden, surely, and unusual. But for the matter of that, the whole thing was out of the ordinary. You see the point was that nn eccentric old aunt of my friend Archibald Terhune, a Mrs. Georgiana James of Esfen f r\ oormnfnf bpf OCA, 11UU " I HU t,V uvvjuu>uv ? ? nephew with the fact that she intended to leave a certain piece of property wh?ch she had long ago promised him to "a third cousin of hers who lived in America if Archibald did not immediately get married. In fact, she gave him exactly and only ten days from the receipt of her letter in which to accomplish the holy estate, or. rather, in which to get himself engaged. The actual ceremony she would leave to u follow as soon as possible when the rroper order of things should permit. Arch, when I saw him in London that morning, was in the wildest state of mind imaginable. He had only just received the letter, and he'd be bless- | ed if he'd take unto himself a wife at all, merely to humor the impossible whims of his Aunt Georgy, much less accomplish the deed with any such in* decorous haste. She had always badgered him to death on the subject of getting married, and now he supposed this was her way of punishing him for his systematic disregard of her wishes. "Wants to Jolly well push me to the wall and force my hand!" he told me Indignantly. "She'd do anything to get her own way, that old woman! And the reason she says she's bringing things to a climax now is Just because I'm forty years old today! She says that if I don't get married soon, I'll be so old no one will have me! Fancy that!" His tone was positively shrill with spleen and disgust. "Just as if that were so very old!" he went on, twitching about on his chair and plucking angrily at his eye-glass string. "Why, lots of men don't even begin to think of marrying till they're forty-five!" I sml.'ed. The old boy's weak spot Is his love of admiration, and I often feel convinced that If it were not for his delight in being considered one of London's most eligible bachelors, and hi3 pride in being one of the most popular dinner guests in town, he would long ago have entered the bonds of matrimony. "She savs." he continued. Jerking over a page of the closely written letter that he held in his hand and glancing down it as he spoke, "that although she has always looked forward with pleasure to leaving that piece of property which represents the bulk of her fortune, to her nephew, that she cannot allow herself to do so unless he complies with her wishes and becomes a married man. To bestow so rich an Inheritance upon a single man, she says. Is like putting a premium on selfishness!" Terhune snorted with Impatience when he had read that last sentence, but I couldn't help but admire the old lady for it I thought she must have been something of a character to express herself so forcibly. "She goes on to explain," said Arch, resuming his reading after letting his eye skim down the page to the close of the letter, "that the reason she limits the days of grace in which I am supposed to persuade a girl to prom- 1 * Ise to marry me, to ten, is because ! she thinks I deserve to have to hurry, having thwarted her wishes so long, 1 and that a little anxiety will do me no harm." His face was a picture as he i read this, and his voice trembled so with a sense of outrage that he could hardly go on. "She concludes by saying that I will i be mAe likely to achieve the result ; she desires, if I am put under a certain amount of pressure. She knows my procrastinating habits only too ! well!" i His glare was so vindictive by this 1 time that 1 could hardly keep from ) laughing at him. "It's no laughirg matter!" he growl- i ed. "She means every word of it. 1 She's gone and notified the third cousin in America about it, so there'll < be no possibility of changing her mind!r "Is ho married?" 1 asked. < "Nine children," returned my friend 1 glooniily. "And she's even instructed ! her solicitor," he added, "Old Barnes ' of Barnes, Willoughby & Sons to call upon me and be with me ai one n'nlooir t r>r> Hove: from -nnw nrVion tVio period expires, to see that everything's fair and square about the pro- i ceediugs and that I do not overstep the prescribed time by so much as a t minute.'" "Capital!" I cried unguardedly, full ] of an ill-timed. 1 fear, enthusiasm for j the business-like methods of Mrs. i Jamer.. ' ] j "You'll have to invite him to lunch! Why, It's as good as a play! What ! an o:d sport your Aunt Georgy must i be!" I "O, hang iry Aunt (it-orgy!" exclaimed Arch pervishly. not appreciating my point of view. "Meddlesome old busybody!" "And that reminds mo," 1 said alertly, "how old is she, anyway, Arch?" I ^ mium BTODK MAS?W vv sm/\$A A59 t CAA/YM/r CQf>mf//r/.r cmr &t/M//r "Eighty-two," he snapped; "old enough to know better!" "Old enough to be thinking about making her will, at any rate," I said meaningly. And of course Arch had in reality too keen an interest in his awn welfare not to appreciate that fact without needing me to emphasize It. He was not the boy?I thought?if [ knew him at all, to sit sulking in a corner when there was only a little thing like getting a wife in ten days between him and a chance at a fortune! If he did, he could not certainly be the same Terhune that had proved so earnest an aspirant for the ? ;n!??? X-Tn-n Acrathn a sum LLIliilVlia KJk (.UC X4VU. ? mer ago. And I was right. It was not long before he'd forgotten his disapproval of Aunt Georgy's methods and was excitedly discussing ways and means of obeying her behest I thought myself the thing didn't sound so harfl. I thought at any rate that It would be a regular larlc to have a try at it. But he was much less optimistic, much more downhearted. Not because he doubted his ability to get some girl to marry him, for he felt quite sure on the contrary that his only trouble would be in making a selection. But It was the shortness of tho time that stumped him. He couldn't seem to see himself an engaged man in ten days, his Imagination somehow failed to sum up the picture. I did iny best to cheer him up and pointed out that the property, which was a sheep farm in Australia, formerly belonging to Aunt Georgy's brother, now deceased, and yielding a yearly income of about $20,000, was worth having a try for. And as I said, it might have been much worse. Aunt Georgy might have Insisted on his aHoinltur thp mnrrlfiri state in ten days' time, instead of merely getting engaged, and that I thought would have been well nigh impossible. Girls are so queer about that sort of thing. They must have a trousseau, and bridesmaids and churches and fuss and feathers of one kind or another. He would certainly have had ?w|f^ x W&JM I?. if i "A Nephew Is Much Nearer Tha ? trouble in pulling off the wedding in such short order. He was inclined to agree with me. He thought it more than likely his bride would balk at such unceremonious haste. But, by Jove! 1 know a girl who has no such foolishness about her? When I married Dearest?who had been the Hon. Agatha Wyckhoff, you know?she did not make me wait for anything. We were married at the unfashionable hour of seven in the morning in a certain little well-remembered chapel in the village of Wye. with Mrs. Armistead. her aunt, as our only attendant. And then? but I forgot?I am not telling our story, but Terhune's. Poor old chap! "If you could have seen nlm!" I said to Dearest, throwing myself on the terrace at her feet. "Never saw him in such a state! He was in the wild rst hurry to begin his record-breaking campaign for a wife, but didn't know how to go about it at all. And I couldn't blame him really. Twenty thousand dollars a year would make all the difference in the worJd to him!" CHAPTER II. "And to the cousin in America, with nine children!" said Agatha. "Not so very much," I said. "He's very well off. they say. All those Americans are. Besides that, Terhune's really got more right to the stuff than be has! A nephew is much nearer than a third cousin, you I know!" "Not if he isn't married, apparent- | ly," remarked Dearest, but I knew she \ unly said it to tt-a?* me. "O, come, now!" I expostulated; ! "you know you aren't going to stick j up for a wild westerner from the American backwoods." "Wherever they may be," put in my wife, who has spent the greater part of her life in the states and is londer of that country than I third Fhe should be. "From the American backwoods," repeated, "that you've never evei seen, against, poor old Terhune! Why lie probably wears a scalp lock an< brandishes a tomahawk, for all yoi know!" She smiled pityingly at my primitive notions of American civilization. "Which?" she said, "Terhune or th< third cousin? You're very ambigu pus, Wilfred. Besides, you know lot: better than that!" I hung my head in well-affected con fusion and admitted that I did. "Don't be a silly!" she admonished though I could see she thought my at titude a good one, and tapped me oi the head with her thimble. It hurt i little and I pretended to be very angr; at the liberty. "Just you stop that!" I cried, sud denly flinging my arms around he and pinning her so tight to her chai she couldn't speak. "And don't pre tend you're not going to agree wit! me about Terhune! It's a serious mat ter, and you know it! The old boy' in a hole and I want to help him out!' "And you expect me to provide th' method of exit, isn't that it?" askei my prisoner as soon as she could ge her breath. "Exactly!" I said, setting*her frei and settling myself in another chai that was conveniently close to her. "Pitch in and tell us how to g' about it!" And I leaned back and li a favorite pipe of mine for which had long ago gained permanent pai don from Lady Vincent. Which title by the way, explains the fact that m; older brother Edmund had died shoii ly after our wedding trip, making m Lord Vincent instead of Lord Wilfrec and at the same time my father, th duke of Totten's, heir. At length.m; oracle ceased puckering her prett brows and spoke. "I think," she sale "we might manage It if we gave i small house party and had two of th Agathas who stayed with me a yea ago during the time when I was cai rying out the conditions of my fs ther's will and friend Terhune as th only guests." I withdrew my pipe from my mout! and my gaze from the broken roo! line of WyckhofT castle and the top of our famous WyckhofT oaks, whlc was all my lazy line of vision helt and sat up. "I know ifs an idea," I remarkec "but I can't seem to get the lnne Q hnnoD PQrtv ffl OI5UIUUUUV& U1 AW W - ? a week with just two Agathas an Terhune for guests. How?" m fpM n a Third Cousin, You Know!" But she interrupted me. "Yes," sh said, "so far you're quite right. Bi don't you see, Freddy, dear, that th Agathas I meant to invite are Agath First and Agatha Sixth. In the firs place, they are the only Agathas of a the six yet unmarried, and in the se< ond place, they just happen to be th two girls Archibald showed the mos interest in at the time you two me were guests at Castle Wyckhoff fo the first time." "Of coursc," I cried, "I see it now And you think he'll have more of chance with them than with Strang girls he's never seen before?" The secretary, I mean my wifeas I say the other name will slip ou occasionally sometimes when I'r talking of old times?smiled indulgem lv "\-5 I nre'iip it" eVir> sniH "it wil be his only chance. He couldn't hop to s.ccomplish anything in ten days in regard to a girl he doesn't know and if you will remember, Agath Sixrh showed a marked liking for hir at that tune! A most important poin in favor cf his speedy marriage!" "Then why not ask just Agath Sixth? Why have Agatha First, too? I inquired innocently. Dearest allowed the most deligbtfi: little expression of pity for my lin: ited masculine intelligence to dim th brightness of her eves. <YO BE CONTINUED.) He Had Reason. In Illustrating a point he wished t make at a political gathering in th west, a noted politician told of an ep taph which an Indiana man had cause to ce Inscribed upon the monument c Iris wife, who had died after a som< what tempestuous married life. Thi legend read: "Here lies a wife. Tears cannc bring her hack. Therefore her hu: band weeps."?Harper's Magazine. Xext to a lecture, advice Is abou the most useless tiling. '' * : SOLDIERS ARE Hp l . . ' Do i Texas Sergeant Sent to Life Imprisonment 3 t BAYONETTED A MAN TO DEATH i . ne 5 vh Officers Resign?Companies Ask to ^ be Mustered Out?Whole State do on Guard Demoralized?Man's Fami Ily Destitute.?U. S. Invetigatind. [ir a he r CO! Dallas, Texas.?With three line of- ga [. fleers and four company officers ca r having tendered their resignations faH r and three companies urgently re- W l. questing the Governor to muster 17 i them out, the Texas National Guard is practically demoralized, as the re- pr 3 suit of the recent conviction of Ser- inj - geant Manley of Company K, who tin e bayonetted and killed a spectator thi 3 during President Taft's visit to Dal- lat t las last year. Manley was given a tei life sentence in the penitentiary. His ed e own company promptly asked to be lit - J * * 11 Air r relieved irom luruier uniiuuy uui; and this action was immediately an 0 followed by the crack Kirby rifle bri t company of Austin __ and Captain a 1 Grees' company at Beaumont. Other Tl: - companies are expected to take sim- ch , ilar action. Much speculation has He y been aroused by the report that an go t- agent of the judge advocate general ha e of the United States army has been tu: I, in Dallas to investigate the Manley ch e case. It is said by some that the of y Federal government may interfere ' 7 in behalf of the convicte.d soldier, re: I, Manley is a rug-maker and his fam- co a ily is practically destitute. National ur e guardsmen are contributing to the Mf r support of his wife and baby and dr paying his lawyers. . fu t- Several officers have been induced sti ? to hold up their resignations tem- uc porarily by the adjutant general. m< h f* Is She Doinn Like Cook? *a' h New York.?To back his belief j that Belle Elmore, the wife of Dr. 10 Hawley H. Crippen, still lives, Dr. J. j M. Munyon, of Philadelphia, has ofj fered a reward of $50,000 to anyone r who will produce her. " d "I believe," continued Dr. Mun- ? yon, who formerly employed Crippen, "that either the woman is hidIing to carry out one of the most consummate revenges in the annals er of jealousy or else that she has car- ? t ried an advertising game too far. I ] have received several letters from aS % persons who knew Mrs. Crippen, co f telling me that they had seen her Hi alive in this country within the w; > last few weeks." W . . ab 3 A Noble Lad. Brockton, Mass.?Sixteen-year-old . Roy Baker has been given the pus- jj I tody of his three younger sisters by f ' Judge Reed, of the Police Court. r This is the first time in this city I that a minor has been intrusted , ' with such responsibility. hp Young Baker's mother was last v_ i week sentenced to Sherborn. The Court intended :o send the three j sisters to a charitable institution, but Roy pleaded that he be allowed. . to support them. He works in a local department store. He is a very ? ' energetic boy. 36 President's Panama Trip. Washington. ? President Taft's i Panama trip will occupy only 12 days according to present plans. Returning from the isthmus the Rresi- a dent will come ashore at Charleston -j. the night of November 22. He will proceed to Richmond, Va., by train ^ . and make an address before the Yir- sc ' ginia School Teachers' Association gL in that city November 23. The Pres- co k ident will be back in Washington the y evening of the twenty-third. f0 China's First Imperial Parliament. Pekin. ?An official decree has s been issued announcing that an im- oc perial parliament, the first in the history of China, would be conviked 49 in 1913. JJ This is a concession on the part ge of the throne to the demands of the recently constituted delegations of ar the provincial assembly twhich re- ca cently memorialized the government ie, 6 in behalf of the early construction j9i of a general representative legisla- qi, I tive body., w. Afjed Bridegroom Cut Himself. II Dresden, Tenn.?Despondent be3" cause he had been forced by the e sheriff, at the instance of the girl's tic father, to surrender his 18-year-old* 77 n bride, Thomas Gaskins, 75 years old, jn ir a wealthy planter, stabbed himself a ur Walks 800 Miles to Wed. cr a Tacoma, Wash.?Allan Rowe, of 57; e Fairbanks, Alaska, walked 800 miles jn to Forty Mile, after navigation clos- Ce ed, to wed Mrs. Lawrence. He weigh- jjr lt ed 203 pounds at the sLart, losing 30 aK " pounds. w 11 Rigid Test For Assistant P. M.'s. e Washington.? Assistant postmas ' ters who hope to bo transferred in- e-j r> to the permanent service of the Co a United Stales under the civil ser- W( Q vice order recently issued by Presi- ed 1 dent Taft must first stand a rigid So examination as to I heir efficiency. Mi * Mr. Hitchcock had an extended con- in; forence with I he President and the T1 Civil Service Commission regarding (a; the promulgation of regulation on th l" the subject. No drones or favored mi 6 relatives who are not up to the stan- on dard of efficiency can pass. an A Child's Danger. ? Washington?Tolally ignorant of 0 the danger that surrounded her and on under the impression that she was br <1 carrying water, it-year-old Mil- Co >f dred Anderson tripped along, in |_b J- each hand a pail of nitro-glycerine, s which liad been prepared for shoot- ih I ing an oil well on the Cameron farm of ?t ' near liere. As she carelessly swung! |j( s- j the pails half a dozen oil drillers:' on stood breathless 100 yards away, | oa fearing every moment to see the i i-e, it chi'd hurled into eternity. Her fafii- ?!? er asked her quietly to put it down. j re: (ETCH OF JOHN A. DIX j inocralic Governor-Elcct of >fc\v t k'ork a Conservative Business ^ Man?Born Gliristnras Day. t i New York.?John Alden. Dix is a phow of the famous John A Dix, to sent the stirring message of t 51, "If any man attempts to haul t wn the American (lag shoot him 1 the spot." ; \ new comer in politics he was i st heard of six years .ago wljen a went to the National Democratic a nvcution in St. Louis as a dele- c te. Two years latev he was a $ ndidate for Governor in the Buf- g k> convention that nominated a illiam R. Hearst. He received only c votes and boiled the ticket. c rhis parly irregularity did not t event the Democrats of Wash- c jton, his home county, from elec- c ig him their chairman and when ( a next convention came two years ,er he was nominated for Lieulant Governor and again defeat- ( . His candidacy had brought him ? tie attention but out of his two ' periences with State campaigns d State conventions he bad ( ought an idea?the formation of < county chairman organization. < ie idea found favor and he was < osen chairman of the chairman. ( > widened his acquaintance and < t a working knowledge at first < nd of practical politics that in m IpH him t.n the office of State > airmen When William J. Conners Buffalo resigned. ' > The path seemed clear enough in j trospect, but when the Rochester nvention came this year the fige overshadowing all others was lyor Gay nor. Mr. Gaynor withew his name and out of the con- , sion that followed Mr. Dix grew , 'onger after each elimination itil he was nominated unani- ( jusly. A. banker, merchant and manu- j oturer first and a politician after- ( irds, Mr. Dix has always inclined i wards conservatism. . He was born on Christmas day ! 50 and is a graduate of Cornell. 1LACK CRIME OF GEORGIANS. )b Takes Negro Charged With Murder and Lynch Him. Macon, Ga.?A negro named Walk- | , who killed Marshal Charles Bush Montezuma, Ga., over two weeks o, was taken from the Macon *- 1 1 .U.J I unty jail Dy a moo ana lyuuncu s body was strung up over .the j iter from the Flint river bridge, alker had only been captured out two hours. ' Walker, after killing Bush, was 1 e prey of a man hunt which lastthree days. The mob overpower- ; 1 the jailer and draugged the negro : the bridge, which is but a few mdred yards away. The noose is tied, one end fastened to the idge, and the negro, with both inds bound, was shoved off. The op broke his neck instantly. ' Grandfather at 86. Dalton, Ga.?Ben Durham, a pLum:r, is one of, if not the youngest andfather in the State. He heme a grandfather at the age of . He is extremely proud of his andchild and is being congratulati by his friends here. Neck Broke and Will Live. Atlanta, Ga.?With the removal of splintered bone from the fifth and Kth servical vertebrae, J. R. Fort sr. a truck farmer whose neck was oken in a runaway, regained coniousness at the Grady Hospital, irgeons say he has a chance to reiver. Fortner was in a dying contion when the operation was perrmed. Eleven Die in Mine Explosion. Seattle, Wash?Two explosions, curring within a few miiutes of ch other, resulted in the death of men in the Lawson mine at Black amond, 30 miles southeast of attle. Eleven men going down on shift . id five men coming up were ught between the first and sixth /els and it is certain that all perled Natuual gas combustion is as?ned as the cause. All the men 3re foreigners. Iowa Decreases in Population. Washington, D. C.?The populam of the State of Iowa is 2,224,1, according to the enumeration j the Thirteenth Census.. This is decrease of 7,082 or 0.3 per cent, ider 2,231,853 in 1900. The ineaso form 1890 to 1900 was 319,2, or 16.7 per cent. Tho decrease the population did not surprise nsus Bureau officials, as it was in le with what was expected in the ricultural regions of the Middle est. Alabama Mine Explosion. Birmingham.?A gas explosion ocrrod in the mines of (lie Yolande < ?al & Coke Company and five men i )ro killed. The mines are local- | in Tuskaloosa county, 30 miles i uth of Birmingham. Chief Stale ? ine Inspector James Hillbouse and i j a Kvr> nssislnnls arc on llic scene. I: io bodies of Uie victims have been ^ ken out of fhe mine. This is not i e first explosion of gas in these ines, sixty-five men being killed j ce before; three a few months ago ( d several badly burned recently. j Want Express Strike Settled. , New York.?Strong pressure to d the express strike has been . ought fo bear upon the six trans- J ntinental express companies by j . e Merchants' AssociaI ion of New ' irk. The association in a lei lor to \ e companies quotes the statement 1 Mayor Oaynor I hat the negolia- J ms for a settlement "failed on ' i' point only, namely the com- 1 nies would not acquiesce in lb quest of i.lie inon Hint none, r, ( cm should he discharynd for thi ason that he had joined uaion,u i | SOUTH CAROLINA j JIWIPION BOY CORN GROWER. i'lorcncc Lad Makes 228 Bushels on One Acre. Jerry Moore, of Florence county, he champion boy corn grower of he world has written a story of low he produced over 228 bush:1s of corn on one acre of land. He s fifteen years oldj and the son of i preacher. The yield is substanti- n ited by affidavits. He made a profit )f $130.70 on the acre. It cost him ? >128.05 to secure the yield. The t itory gives a complete description i ind full account of the care of the ? :orn. He is a memoer or tne Doys B :orn club and was under the direc- c ion of the'United States farm dem)nstration work and A. H. Gasque, :ounty superintendent of education >f Florence county. Value of Crop. At the market value, $1 per bushil, the corn from the acre is worth 3228.75; 300 pounds of fodder, $30. rotal value crop, $258.75 Expenses. Cost of rent $ 500 dost of preparation of seed 4.00 Cost of planting 2.00 . Cost of Manure 25.00 ] Cost commercial fertilizer.. 66.55 Cost of cultivation 11.50 Cost,of gathering corn 6.00 I rotal Cost $128.05 Balance Sheet. rotal Value $258.75 Less all expenses 128.05 < Net profit .$130.70 '< Remarks. . "The stable manure used was 1 very trashy (much straw in it) and . 1 not worth more than 50 cents a 1 load. As the dirt has no commercial value I did not count it in the ' list of expenses and the land has 1 been improved at least $50100 by the ' dirt and stable manure. What I have done has been more of an experiment than doing what I knew to be wise." > FERTILIZERS AT $20,000,000. j Farmers Used in 1910 975,039 Tons Guano for Crops. During the past year there were 834,334 tons of ertilizer and 140,705 , tons of cottonseed meal -used by the farmers of the State, according to a report submitted by Clemson college to the department of agriculture. This is a total tonnage of 975,039 tons, which is valued at approximately $20,000,000, takitfg the average price per ton for last year as a basis. Clemson college derives a tax of 25 cents on every ton of fertilizer sold in the State and will receive approximately $250,000 this year. It is expected that there will be a measure introduced in the general assembly asking that the number^ of scholarships be increased for the" institution. * The State Farmers' union placed itself on record as favr?T>ino? tfio inproaoo nf ephnlnrahina. I Wheat Crop for d910. The wheat crop for South Carolina for the year 1910 has broken all records in this State. The figares on the crop were given out by Commissioner Watson. During 1910 the wheat crop was 4,756,000 bushels, while for the 1909 the number of bushels was 3,810,000. ; Calculating the value at 95 cents a bushel, the 1910 crop showed an increase of $723,000 in valuer over the 1909 crop. "The increase in wheat production," said Col. Waton "goes to show that we are raising our own foodstuffs in this State now," Arthur Phillips, a barber of Spartanburg, was seriously stabbed by George Padgett a 16-year-old boy, i who was selling programs of the ' races at th.e county fair. Padgett is subject to epileptic fitsi and it is ' thought that he was suffering with this malady when he committed the deed. Phillips was cut across the back. The Sheriff of Saluda county says the jail door was not left unlocked ' when three prisoners escaped. He , asserts that they received aid from the outside. A f o rononf mnnlinc r\f IllA Hor rvu a i iiiv/vhwq v* i>>v lington Business Men's Club plans were adopted for having a trade week in Darlington every year, commencing November 14, and running for six days, the object being to draw large crowds to Darlington for trade by means of special inducements offered by the local business men. Charlie Jones, the Gaffney boy who was injured at WofTord College at Spartanburg while playing fool ball some days ago, is recovering somewhat and is now able to be up. Summary. Statistics furnished by the secretary of the board of trade on the financial status of the working people of Greenville are bolh illuminating and interesting. The average salary drawn by the working man n Greenville is $760 a year. The aggregate daily pay rnol in Greenville is .912.066, monthly $380,900, annually $1,500,000. The Abbeville fair association is n n vArv Tmnlfhv rnrulilinn hnvinr* %arned 18 per ronf. above all ox- ( senses on fho recent fair. Burglars entered tlio depot at St. ] \Iatlhcws and looted il. c Clyde Rogers, flic d<*af and dumb 1 loy who was run over by a freight J rain between the Spartanburg c riinction and FairTorest after run- * ling away from school at Cedar * Springs, died ill I be Springs he.spilal 5 ifler sutTerins for over a week. The ' loy's skull was fractured and be' J ,vas otherwise injured. At Spartanburg the agricultural T exhibits of 13 rural schools of Spartanburg county attracted much * mention. ( j 3URETHATGOLD TODAY *'/ would rather preserve the health of ? ? ation than be Us ruler."?MUNYON. Thousands of people who are suffering g rith colds are about today. Tomorrow /, hey may be prostrated with pneumonia. In ounce of prevention is worth a pound *2 f cure. Get a 25 cent bottle of Mutton's Cold Cure at the nearest drug tore. This bottle may be conveniently arried in the vest pocket. If you art /;* lot satisfied with the effects of the rem* \ dy, send us your empty bottle *and w? fill refund your monev. Munvon's Cold Jure will" speedily break up all forma el :olds and prevent grippe and pneumonia. t checks discharges of the nose and eyes. ' itops sneezing, allays inflammation ana ever, and tones up the system. If you need Medical Advice, write to . { Hunyon's Doctors. They will carefully ' - -iliagnose your case and advise you by nail, absolutely ,-frce. You are under no ibligation. / <;?j8 Address Munyon's Doctors, Munyoa'e '* Laboratory, 53d and Jefferson streets, Phi)' idelphia. Pa. , . vVvri ? THOUGHT SHE HAD PRACTISED 1 >'jj Frenchman^ Suspicions Really Something of a Compliment to the ';i; Men of America Claude Orahame White, the English |. ' iviator, praised, at a dinner in New Fork, the good fellowship of Ameri* m sans. "The American woman is regarded $ abroad as an angel," he said. "Th* ^ man is admittedly a good fellow, but, , Js in angel he Is far from being. "You've heard of the Frenchman, perhaps, whose sweetheart spent the J lummer In America? After her return ;yU the poor Frenchman seemed quit* blue. . > . ' .v " 'What's the matter with youf ? friend asked. '' 'T !?A A^Vah A,-; X tuu KVlilCUl UIO VU1U UIUVWIVUI . ~i-.a about my fiancee. Y.ou see, 'since her ! return from America she kisses so much better than she used to.'" ^Jj He Was a Boston Boy. >'?g "Your little boy must be very Intel- cjj ligent," said a visitor to a Boston . school teacher whose five-year-old son ? was forming Greek words with build- > ? Ing blocks. 'Intelligent!" exclaimed the proud, ;j parent "He is phenomenally gifted. . ''? As an example of his early erudition, . jj what do you suppose was the first words he ever spoke?" "'Papa' and 'mamma'?" "Stuff and nonsense!" ejaculated 'i.J the father In a tone of disgust. "Why, rSH the day he was 12 months old he suddenly laid down his algebra and said to me: "Father^ the longer I live the more Indubitable proofs I perceive m that there Is in Boston as much cttf- \.f ture to the square Inch as there ever was in the ambient area of ancient $ Athens!'" Strong Preaching. The minister's ,eight-year-old daugh- ; ter was returning with her parents from church, where the district superintendent had that morning occupied the pulpit "Oh, father," asked the little gli% her face alive with enthusiasm. "Don't jj you think Brother C. is a very strong preacher? I do." Gratified by this evidence of un- [i usual intelligence on the part of his * offspring, the minister eagerly in- ; quired into her reasons for ber state- v ' .'.^s , i ? ; a ment. . i "Oh," replied the little miss, art- . .'If lessly, "didn't you see how the dust rose when he stamped his feet?"? Judge. 1 : J V3 A Realiit on Hop#. j V.f William Dean Howells, discussing realism at one of his Sunday afternoons in New York, let fall a neat j epigram on hope'. . ' "Hope," said the famous novelist. "is not, really, an angel in a diaphanous robe of white, but only the wisp of hay held before a donkey's nose to make him go." . vj vij Silence may give consent or it may give offense. But it doesn't take long to tame ft social lion. " 'SB STOPPED SHORT Taking Tonics, and Built Up on Right Food. (j The mistake is frequently made of drying to build up a worn-out nervous system on so-called tonics?drugs. New material from which to rebuild wasted nerve cells is what should be supplied, and this can be obtained Dnly from proper food. "Two years ago I found myself on the verge of a complete nervous collapse, due to overwork and study, at \ to illness in the family," writes a Wisconsin young mother. "My friends became alarmed because I grew pale and thin and could not sleep nights. I took various tonics prescribed by physicians, but their effects wore off shortly after I j fnnA Hid jiupycil Uin.1115 IUCU1. 41LJ WUU v.? lot seem to nourish me and I gained 10 flesh nor blood. "Reading of Grape-Nuts, I de:ermined to stop the tonics and see ;vhat a change of diet would do. I ate Grape-Nuts four times a day, vith cream and drank milk also, went :o bed early after eating a dish of Jrape-mits. "In about two weeks I was sleeping soundly. In a short time gained 20 pounds in weight and felt like a iifferent woman. My little daughter yhom I was obliged to k^ep out of ichool last spring or. account of :hronic catarrh lias changed from a hin, pale, nervous child to a rosy, leaithy sirl and has gono back to ' ichool this fall. "Grape-Xuls and fresh air were the >nly agents used to accomplish the iapi>y results." Read "Tho Road 'o Wellville," in ikes. "Thoic's a Reason." kvpp rvvtl fetter? \ r'cvr me u firearm from tl*>ie to' time. ''"n-y ire fieimlne, true, acJ fi;U of buiaan oterritt.