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1 w itutmmmis gijrjrartwent. '* _____? Short of Flags.?A certain admiral tells an amusing story of an explosive * old seaman under whom he served ' many years ago. During some tactical operations one of the ships of the squadron had made some blunders and at last the admiral lost his temper. He stormed about the quarter-deck and informed his hearers of his opinion of the officer in command of the erring ship. When he paused at last for want of breath he turned to the signal and said: "And you can tell hira that, sir." "I beg your pardon, sir," he ventured. "but I don't think we have enough flags for your message." I : t Benefit Performance.?For sometime the benign old gentleman sat watch.ing the novice in his vain attempts to land" a fish. Finally the angler was reduced to his last worm and still no catch. "Cheer up, son," said the old gentleman. "They're biting well < for you at any rate." "No, they ain't," retorted the other aggrievedly. "They're bitin' for their own personal benefit, that's what they are." i .? A Natural Error.?"How did it come about," a friend of the family asked, "that old. Goldbug's daughter refused Lord " "Well, you see," another friend of the family answered, "Jane Goldbug is slightly deaf, and when the Earl proposed to her she thought he was soliciting for the Red Cross, and so she told him she was very sorry, but she had promised her money in another direction."?London Evening News. Force of "Habit.?"My new cook is simply awful," mourned Mrs. West. "At breakfast this morning she put sugar on the eggs, pepper on the oranges and salt in the coffee." "My dear, she must have had her training as a telephone operator," sympathized Mrs. North. A Secret.?"I was told something today that I promised never to repeat to a living soul," Mrs. Bings remarked impressively. "All right," Mr. Bings responded patiently, putting down his paper. "All right, I'm listening. Go ahead." Correct.?School teacher (to little boy)?"If a farmer raises 3.700 bushels of wheat and sells it for $2.50 per bushel, what will he get?" Little Boy?"An automobile." ? Western Christian Advocate (Cincin nun./ His Way.?"When a friend calls your attention to a fault you at ojtce ' strive to get rid of it, do you not?" questioned Professor Pate, preparatory to uttering a platitude. "No," repUed J. Fuller Gloom. "J strive to get rid of that friend." Convalescing.?"How is the bean soup today?" asked the regular customer of the Rapid Fire Restaurant. "Better than it was yesterday," re plied Heloise, the waitress. "The chef dropped another bean into it this morning." , 0 , The Saving Instinct.?"What gives you the impression Dobson is engaged to Dolly Spendum?" "Well, I notice that lately he's been carefully tucking away the tobacco coupon every time he buys a cigar." Anything to Oblige.?"Are you sure you can prove my client is crazy?" "Why, certainly,' replied the eminent alienist. "And what is more, if you are ever in trouble and need my services I'll do the same thing for you."?Birmingham Age-Herald. The Stagger Toddle.?Algy?"Parker, I'm ruined socially! Last night at the ball I drank too much and staggered into everybody." v?tof__>,Sf?nreelv that. sir. Every one's talking: of you as inventing: a new dance."?Passing Show (London). The Latest Alibi.?The Boss: "Well, what excuse this time? Grandmother dead again. I suppose?" The O. B.: "No, sir! Grandmother wants me to take her to the game and point out al! the best-known players." Her One Opportunity.?Mrs. M.yles ?"Ever catch your husband flirting?" Mrs. Styles?"Yes; once." Mrs. Myles?"What did you do to him ?" Mrs. Styles ? "Married him."? Yonkers Statesman. Good Cause for "Nerves."?"You don't know how nervous I was when I proposed to you." "You don't know how nervous I was until you did."?The American Legion Weekly. Another Chance.?Professor (in the middle of a joke)?"Have I ever told the class this one before?" Class (in a chorus)?"Yes." Professor (proceeding)?"Good! You will probably understand it mis time. ?New York Sun. The Jilt.?Charlotte?"Saw Joe at the movies with Mabel Saturday right. Aren't you keeping' company with him now?" Gladys?"No. I asked him if he liked her better than me, and he said yes?so I threw him over."?Life. But Not Rattled.?Bessie: "Did you notice that Russell came to the ball grounds in his flivver today?" Percy: "That accounts for his pitching such a rattling good game." "Hi. thar, Bill, old boy!" ne greeteu cordially. "My gosh, but ye've com< at the right 1 line, shore. We're a-goln* to have young squirrels fo' dinner, und a b'iled humsliank with string beans, and eawnbread made with the yeller o' hen aigs. Live whilst ye do live, says I. Come right in, Bill, old boy." "La, la, la!" cried Granny Heck, looking over the brass rims of her spectacles. "How glad I am to see ye, Mr. Bill! Come right in and tell us the news." Bill Dale crossed the threshold and accepted a creaking chair. His eyes took in at a sweeping glance the homemade dining table with its cover of red oilcloth, the broken cast-iron stove, the strings of dried peppers hanging on the log walls, the broken still worm lying in the corner. "The Littiefords," said Dale, "have declared war." "Suites!" laughed the old woman. "We kaowed that lust night when we heered them ten shots." ? "And ull the Moreluml rides are missing." Dale watched the effect of his words. "Whatl" the Hecks cried In one during the night I John More hind called Duie aside and said to him: "You're high on the good side o' them thar triflin* Hecks, and.^so fer aa they know, you ain't fnt'rested it. i the feud. I wisht you'd go down rhai and see By and his mother, and set ef ye can find out whar our rifles went." When Dale had gone ofT down the dusty oxwagon road, Caleb Moreland climbed a tall ash that grew behind his father's cabin and kept a watch toward the Littleford side of the river He saw a group of men standing in Ben Llttieford's cabin yard, and noth ing else. A little more than a quarter of an hour after Dale left John Moreland he entered by.the_gate|ess gateway at the" cabin of"tne Hecks, it was a en lapidated place, and It stood not fni from the river. By sat In the front doorway; he was lazily cutting a new midday sun mark in the place of tin worn old one. Behind him sat his mother, who was busily knitting a gray yarn stocking. The moonshiner looked up and started quickly to his feet "All right What do you Know aDout ray gun?" , "About as much as you know of the left hind wheel of Ben Hur's chariot What's wrong with It?" Moreland's eyes were steady and cold. He thrust his hands into the pockets of his corduroy trousers. Then his fuce softened a tritle. "I reckon I ought to ax yore pardon," he said In a low voice; "Ye see. my gun's plumb gone!" "You had It only last night," Dole said. "Did Jt disappear?" "Whilst I slept," cut in the hlllman. "Both o' my guns Is gone. And Luke's repeater Is goue, and so is Cale's, and we hain't got nothin' at all to tight them d?d I.lttlefords with!" "Gone!" Dale exclaimed wonderingly and?It seemed to him?asininely. "It must ha' been the Llttlefords, 1 guess," frowned Moreland. "Fo' because who else would hu' done It? But to suve the life o' me I cuin't see how they got in and took my rifle without wakin' me up, Bill Dale. I slept twlcet as light as a sick mouse." Within ten more minutes, every man of the Morelands was gathered there at the house of their chief?and every man of them had lost their weapons W' Wf'&k CHAPTER IV I The Mystery of the Rifle9. An hour ufter John Moreland had sent his ten rifle bullets whining over the head of Ben Llttleford, every Moreland and every Llttleford In the valley knew of the declaration of war. And each man of them oiled his weapons and put them in better working order. ' 1 When Dale went to Ned, there was too much on his mind tv render sleeplog easy for him. Tomorrow he would have to help In the fight against the Lit tieiurus, Kinsmen ui me ^uuu^ nviuuu who hud saved him, without doubt, from death by the murderous rifle of the mountaineer GoIlatH?or break his word flatly. It was a poor return for such a favor! The longer he thought over the dilemma, tJie more perplexed he became. * . He thought, too, of the everlasting wonder, the tail of John Moreland's bedtime prayer. How a man could go down on his knees and ask the blessings of the Almighty upon men whom he meiint to tight the next day was a thing tftnt Bill Dale could not understand. It was after midnight before he slept. He woke at the break of day, arose and dressed himself, and went out. Going toward the flower-fllled front yard, he found himself facing a very angry John Moreland. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Matter enough," clipped the mountaineer. "BUI Dale, I'm a-goln' to ax you a question, and I want the truth. I -Will I git It?" e "You'll get the truth If you get anything. Shoot the question." 1apshttrgjLtehe , Illustrations by rli-wift M&eiw _-aS g h t by Do ubladoy . Poge? & Co> voice. ' Their surprise seemed- genuine. Dale pressed the subject further and learned only thut if they knew anything Concerning the disappearance of the rifles they were not going to tell. Then he sturted homeward by way of the pool above the blown-down sycamore. There was a chance that Ben Littleford's daughter would be there fishing, Dale told himself, and it was barely possible that she could throw some 11 ~U?. ^ ? t-Urv moL*.fntnf fhd r!Hf>Q liglll UU LIIU UJJOICi J Ui UA*W 4 He crossed the river by meaus of the prostrate tree. Babe was there; she sat on the stone on which she had been sitting the morning before; her back was to him, and her bare feet were in the water to her ankles. Dale went up close, stopped and gathered a handful of violets and dropped them 'over her shoulder and into her lapBabe looked around and smiled. "What luck, Miss Llttleford?" "JNothln'. 1 don't much want to ketch anything," she said slowly, a spirit of sadness in her musical voice. "I?I Jest come off down here to be whar It's quiet. You ought to hear the noise 'at pap and the rest of 'em is a-makin I" Dale narrowed his eyes. "Are they? er, making a noise? And what about?" "My goodness gracious alive! You'd, think so ef ye could hear 'em! Y'ought to hear pap cuss John Moreland J"' She shrugged her pretty shoulders, lifted the small end of her rod to Its proper place, and went on, "f never did see pap half as mad as he was when he got home, last night from n-foilerln' me." "Ma^d at you?" asked Dale. "Wo; but he would ha' been'ef he hadn't ha' had all his madness turned ng'ln them Alorelands. You koowed about pap's trouble on yan side o' the river last night?" "Yes, 1 knew about that," Dale answered slowly. "But John Moreland thought your father was my antagonist of yesterny." "An?antagonist?" Babe muttered Inquiringly. "What's that?" "I mean Adam Ball, y'know." "Oh. That's what 1 told pap. Bui .pap he wouldn't believe It, arid he won't never .believe It?'onuse he don't want to believe It. i toJd him 'at John Moreland wasn't a-shootln' to hit, and he wouldn't believe that, neither. Pap's as hard-headed as a brindle cow, when he gits a fool notion on him. What? what did them Morelands suy about their guns a-bein' gone?" Dule straightened. Li ,. Hid vaii Hnrl thnt nut?" "Don't matter how!" She smiled almost saucily. "1 knowed about li ufore you did, Mr. lilll Dale. Don'! you think whoever done It done a kluj" \ thing?" "To disarm the Morelnnds so thui when the enemy comes they will haw nothing with which to defend them selves?" Dale didn't know much ubout these hill feuds. "No. Miss Littlel'ord, I can't say that I think It wa> a kind thing to do." Miss Littleford arose and faced Dale. Her cheeks were flushed. "Has the Inemy come?" she de manded Icily. "No, but?" "All right," the young woman brolK In sharply. "If the Inemy hain't come what're you a-klckln' about?" iter brown eyes were fu'I of Are An/4 wrffhnphfl nn(l -HIVJ UCUCU, tl IIVJ LUCJ niiiivi v.%., Hill L'ale suddenly felt that he was smaller and of less account In the scheme of things than that uneducated, wildly superb creature that stood before hlra. ? "1 beg pardon," Dale said evenly. "1 didn't mean to offend, y'know." His quick contrition struck the girl. Her mouth quivered. She dropped her fishing-rod, and began to toy ubsently with the end of her long, thick plait of brown hair. "I've seed so much o' this flghtln'," she murmured tremulously, "that it makes me go to pieces. 1 ought to beg yore pardon, mebbe, and 1 d do. . . . I've seed a good many fine, strong men brought home dead or a-dyin' from the Aloreland bullets. And the Littlefords has killed Morelauds, too. Una side about as many as t'other, I . reckon. I'd be glad to give xny life to stop It I" "I'll help you, If I can," Dale told her. "Perhaps we cun make friends of the Morelands and your people." "l'ou don't know what a hard thing it'd be," she replied tearfully. "The two sets has hated each other ever sence 1 eau rickollect. And you won't be here very long, 1 reckon." "1 may be here for the rest of iny life." said Dule. "is it the coal?" Inquired Babe. "Partiy?yes, it's the coal. I'm going to develop it for the Morelands." Babe looked at him with a tiny herald of hope in her eyes. Before she could speak again there came from somewhere back in the meadow the sound of her father's voice? "Babe! O-oh, Bube I" "Comin'i" cried the girl, half tuthIng. "We'll try to make 'em friends; we'll try. Old Major Bradley, he'll be up here afore long to spend the summer, and he'll help us. He's a mighty good manj you're shore to, like him. BUY YOUR GASOLINE and OIL from US and SAVE MONEY. J. H. CARROLL I I " Things to Eat? IT IS ALWAYS a song in ever> home, "What Shall We Have to Eat?' Visit our store and look over our well stocked shelves and counters and you will find something that will appea to your appetite. Let us suggest? Good quality Preserved Peaches. Appricots and Pears?delicious stuff. CANNED?HONEY?Put up in 2 lb tins. Strained, Pure, and extra good flavor?50 Cts. a can. Also have Strained Honey in glass. COFFEES? See us for Coffee?if you want th( BEST Coffee to be had, you will find it here, and in varying grades down tc the lowest priced Barrel Coffee, bui ihis is good Coffee too. As good as you can find. SEE US FOR FLOUR. UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE This Store will be Closed at 12 o'clocl Noon, on THURSDAYS. . SHERER & QUINN FARM HARDWARE Our Farmer Friends will do well to see us for Farm Hardware. Heavy Trace Chains, 90 Cts. Pair; Have Cow Chains, Shovels, Forks, Hoes and Plow Steele. Have a few Shop Forges. If you can use one of these?Just make us a reasonable offer. You'll buy it. Have Early Amber and Orange Cane Seed. Let us supply you. J. F. CARROLL SERVICEIs Our Watch Word JUJLJA1 JU V VJJiJll J SOCIAL. MEMBERSHIP HAS G 600,000 IN A : LOPGE NOW BEING I^ook for the organiz Y. White or J as. D. Gris1 Special Charter BE A IV DEL MONTE ~~~~ CANNED GOODS WE WANT YOU TO KNOW that we have these popular Canned GoodsPeaches. Pineapple, Corn, Tomatoes, Beets and. Plmentoes, and we want you to know that DEL) MONTE products are the highest quality put in cansSee Us or Phone for Prices on the Better Kind of Canned Goods. Inaleside Syrup?100 per cent Cane. I / STUDIES I NATURAL HISTORY I By JAMES HENRY RICE, Jr. THE MEADOW LARK. Order?Passeres; Genus, Sturnella; Family, Icteridae; Species, Magna. The Meadow Lark, or Field, Lark, as he is known, is not a Lark at all, but a Starling. The generic name, Sturnella, means Litt'e Starling. Magna is Latin for great. . By nature, an Insect eater, the Lark is at times',a destructive bird. The damage done to small corn fields is often 100 per cent. But for the entire year the Lark's diet is more than 80 per cent animal matter, chiefly insects. As a rule oat fields are not injured to an appreciable extent, and the damage is worse in spring oats. Lark a Problem. How to deal with the Lark is a problem. One thing and another has been tried. The remedy used in some quarters for preventing injury to corn is to tar the grains, then rub in graphite, so He gerTalTy stays wltE ois when lie's here., you go easy with John Moreland ! But when ye^git him, ye'U have 'em all. I'll work on pap. The' ain't no danger o' trouble right now, anyways. Goodby, Bill Dale I" "One moment, Allss Littleford," and be took a step after her. "Are you sure there's no danger right now?" Babe halted, faced about nervously, and smiled a little. "Don't call me 'Miss'!no more,'/ said she. "It makes me feel old. Call me what everybody else calls me, ef ye don't mind.,' Why, every one o' the Llttlefords lost their rifles last night the same as the Alorelands did! Meet rae here at sundown, and I'll tell ye about It. Goodby, Bill Dale I" "Goodby, Babel" he,smiled. (To be Continued.) Loyal Orde PROTECTIVE 13 TP XT-TP Trot "PATH that it will go through a corn planter The secretary of agriculture last year gave permission to shoot the birdjs; but this often fails, for the birds are very persistent. . In a community where a great deal of corn is planted, the injury is often not noticed, for depredations are scattered over a wide area. Where fields are small and surrounded by woods Larks do most damage. There is no use to deny the plain facts of the case. With this exception the Lark is 'one of the most useful of al! birds. Iheir usefulness is of a special character on account of their habit of boring into the ground, thereby getting at pests that most other birds cannot reach. The range of the birds is the United States, east of the Great Plains, where its p.'ace . is taken by the Western Meadow Lark (Sturnella Magna NegT'Vipv hropri thrnno'hniif Lhpn range. Careful About Nests. The nest, with its speckled eggs, is a model, being arched over and concealed with utmost care. There are two things the young observer may note about the Lark. First, the bird walk's and does not hop. This shows it to be a ground bird, for treedwellers usually hop, for the simple reason that their legs are joined fast with a tendon and .must be moved together, The Blue Jay, for example, jumps into the air and scratches with both feet. Adds to Beauty of Fields. The second point to note is that the Lark has enlargement of the gullet, or craw,, (or crop), as it is called. This shows it to be an insect eate^ by nature; for birds whose food is grain or weed seeds, have a crop. The fields would not be the same without the Meadow Lark. He adds to the beauty of nature; but a wise care will see that he keeps out of mischief. The bird is too well known to require description. The sexes are colored alike, except that the female is a shade .paler. A Necessity.?Rub: "Solomon had a thousand wives and was the wisest man on earth." Dub: "He needed to be." 666 cures Malaria, Chills and Fever, Bilious Fever, Colds and LaGrippe, or money refunded. ir of Moose L \ rROWN FROM 1,500 TO FEW YEARS. I 5- FORMED IN YORK ;er, or ask Davis Boyd, C. i ' b about it. Member Fee $10. IOOSE. THE BRIDGE You probably remember the incident. It happened a few months' ugo. A bridge 'in the middle west collapsed. And down went a passenger train, carrying with it death and destruction into the water below, mho invostiention which followed showed that the bridge, from an engineering standpoint, was constructed along the right lines. The wreck was due to a defective cable?poor quality of material. The doctor's' proscription is the bridge that carries the patient from sickness to good health. The materials that go into the prescription arc the cables of the* bridge. This is why we use only the best qua'ity of products in filling prescriptions?the drug products of Parke, Davis & Co., and Squibb & Co. CLOVER DRUG STORE R. L. WYLIE, PROP. Clover, S. C. BUY IT HEREWE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR VISITING OUR STORE ON THE FOURTH. COME AGAIN. No matter what you may want or need in the way of FURNITURE or HOUSE FURNISHINGS come and set what we have to offer you.. If our goods and prices do not appeal to your sense of good values and good qualities. why of course we'll not expect you to buy of us. ' BUT WE BELIEVE THAT WE CAN PLEASE YOU IN THE QUALITY and THE PRICE. GIVE US A CALL ANY WAY. peoples furniture company The saving habit j .. BUY YOUR GROCERIES AT THE.. 1 cash & carry store WHERE YOU SAVE MONEY ON EVERY THING. JUST RECEIVED A LOT OF ARMY CANNED GOODS? / : 12 Lb. Can Breakfast Bacon $2.2!: , 2 Lb. Can Roast Beef 25 CTS t 1 Lb. Can Roast Beef 14 CTS i BRING YOUR BOTTLES AND JUGS And Get Vinegar at 48 CTS. 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