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Piano Contest Coupon g^rfoi,i'v': :'r% ? - > ^F- .; * ? Cut out this Coupon and mail to The Chronlcl* which will count 1,000 vot?* for your con tost ant. '?? *.?"?; ? . i S.sS^S^m^ 1 uomM?M> Mfip, , ;^' ? ? ? \-j 1*. O. A(l(lr?MM? ?-. H. K. I>. . \ ,.i ~4V Can now be obtained at wholesale from I. M. Pearlstine & Sons Charleston, S, Cv?%u BUY IHC Wagons (or True Economy YOU cannot farm without a wagon any more than you can keep house without a stove. You work your wagon oftener and harder than anything else on the farm. Buy a wagon that lasts longer than the aver age. It is an easy thing to do, even though all wagons which are painted alike rpay look alike. The difference in wagons is underneath the paint. It is the material and workmanship, entering unto the construction of I H C wagons, Weber New Bettendorf Columbus Steel King which make them the best wagon investment/ We want every purchaser to convince himself before buying, that when IHC wagons are advertised as having oak or birch hubs, hickory axles, and long leaf yellow pine box bottoms, these are the materials actually used. When an I H C wagon reaches a farmer's barn, that farmer has one of the best-wearing, easiest-running farm wagons that skilled labor can make or that money can buy. Thete is no need to speculate in buying a wagon. IHC wagons are made for nation-wide uses, with special features adapted to local conditions. Weber and Columbus have wood gears. New Bettendorf and Steel King have steel gears. The IHC wagon dealer in your town sells ? . the wagon best suited to your neighborhood. Ask him for I H C wagon literature, or, write International Harvester Company of America Columbia S. C. (Incorporated) ??V/ *' r: 1 " V ' ? IHC8mtwB?Ma ? The purpose o< Chi* fiuratu Is to furnish, free of chircft to ell. Um beat Information obtainable on better. unMHW. If you have any wor?hjr ques tiona ooecernlnc Mile, cropa, land drainage. irrl* -?*"? your Inquiries specific Social ' " ? ' , ' Obligations said lira. We.tcoU dramat ically to her husband aa she took the aewepeper out of kit bands to compel bin to give hi* undivided Attention to her, "we'v* got to entertain! T^at'* all there 1# to It!" V(\ "Weil, why have we?" demanded Weetcott. "Why, I'm ilmply sahamal to look our frlende In the face, and actually the Kuggleaea and the Squire* win think we are stingy! They've lived here nearly a year and I've never even had a luncheon in ju that timet Think of It! And I receive Invito* tlona almoet every day! But there** one oomfort? I don't go any more! 80 I really don't owe' n lot of people more than the invitation myaelf." Weetcott listened helple*?ly, tryiag to vain to catch a ? gllmpee of the hendllnea In the newapaper that hi* wife held. "Ye*," he eald, la a moet deeultory manner, feeling to duty bound to make eome remark In the PMUMI. "Ye* thetrn It!" went on Mr*. Weet r oott. "Well entortain! Well do epme tblng Mg, toot Cemeu help me plan!" She beamed eg him an otee threw the newspaper behind her, regardless ef It* landing on the floor. , "But,** remonstrated her husband, weakly, "these big affairs are ? are rather an expense, aren't theyr* "Oh, why didn't X think of H he fore?" Mrs. Weetcott aaked, Ignor ing his remarfc. "There, they'vn been gene only two monthe and Tve owed them eomething ao long! I 00 uM have had It a week, eey after they sailed and " Bbe pensed to rapt contemplation. ? ? "Why, my deer," taterpoeed W?A cott, surprised by the peculiar -treat of hli wife's remarks. "Ton Iuy yon wish you oould here siren It a week sfter they sailed! I assume tkat you mean the Rankins. But why a week after they sailed? Why was that time any better than the present?" "Why, you sea," , Mrs. Westoott cased on him tm pit y for his k&k ef comprehension, "you see, I eould have Invited them!" Westcott look a deep breath. He looked at hla wife earnestly while hla brain tried to fathom , thAmystery. "You wanted to give It early ao yee could Invito the Ranklns to oome is It a week after they sailed! Ah. yes! 80 clear so m shall we call It lucid r "Oh, bother!- lfrs. Weatcott Impa tiently exclaimed. "Why can't yen understand things? 1 always have to explain everything to you! lfHj th vlted them then they'd, owe me an In vitation.- I'd have paid what I Owe them, but- they couldn't oome because they'd be sailing for Europe at the time." Westcott eyed his wife In admira tion. . ????' ' " /'Are you going to ? to run the whole party on . the same principle?" he queried, respectfully. "Well, we'll issue about twice as many Invitations as the house can hold," she explained, the fire of vic tory in her eyes. "There are^ths^ Browns. ~ They're going to Florida this winter. I heard that they leave in about a week. That's Ave, for' I'd have to have the girls, too." $he j looked at her husband exultantly. "Oh, and there are the Warrens and the Smiths. They're going hunting to gether this fall somewhere tip north and they'll be gone a month, I know! J That's seven with Mr. Warren's sis* ters!" Westcott ptilled out an jpa velope and put down the figures." "Then there arte the doctor and hts mother. He told me the other day that she wasn't at -all well and he thought he'd take a run out west w] go with her to his sisters in Call* fornia. I could Invite them!" "And there are the minister and hi* wife and his son and daughter," put In Westcott, with proper pride in his offering. "He's going to accept thai church In Rochester. So we can in vite them!" Mrs. Westcott glanced at her hu*? band to detect any fraud in his air of frankness, but he was adding the names to his list enthusiastically. "There are twenty that can't come," he counted, finally. Mrs. Westpott sighed , a deep sigh of thanksgiving. ' "That's all right. then," she said. "Now, we'll just our own immediate friends in to PUS that night and have a good time. That'll be eight or ten altogether? and, thank goodness, most of my obli gations will be paid!" Then she handed hla newspaper ta him smilingly. 8sroastlc Man. ? "Well, ', said the sarcaatio man, a> he walked out of the concert between numbers, 'Tm ever so much obliged to the girl who sits in front of me. I don't knew what her name Is, but I'm obliged to her." "You mean the on* with the fright? fully high coiffure?" "That's the girl. Atfd she's got a bow on top of that" "I don't see what you're obliged te her for." ? "For not carrying an um ? ? ' ' f7.in? * His Nature. ?That informer la a pig!" "Which explains how ha tc p 1 ? DATES FROM THE ROMt'4 ERA World Conquers Mad Whit Corrt> ?ponded to Daily Newsptpetv? Th# First English Publ'w^tio/jiivi f ? .???:?? ' ' ?? ? -'.Vf *? y- \ 77 ~ r~t Tbe first dally newspaper in IJsb appeared In JU>ndou March II, 1702, 210 years ago. N'rw* letters and pamph'ets print 4 from time to time when now? or po'i tlc? warranted had teen ccjuuk-h ruough during tbe latter half of the preceding century, but these were Ju, no sense newapapers. The first "dally" was called The Dally Courant.. and was published JL-y K. Mallet, "against the Ditch at KVeT bridge**? -close by the site of the p t s ent Isondon Times office. The paper wss only a single aheet of two co'* uipni. It professed to give only Icr* elgn news with tbe name of the for eign source. So keen was the publisher to stcor clear of any responsibility for his news, and to hide himself and fcly ?lews In tbe background, that he say* In hla first issue in so many wont- he will make no comments of bla own. "supposing other people to have sense enougn to make reflections for them selves." The Dally Courant, which lasted until 17SI. may In; said to be the first dsily newspaper in anything like the modern seme. Yet the Romans b?d a publication called Daily Happening! (Acta Diurna) which noted the move ments of the armies and elections, games, aaerlflces or wonders of the towa. These were written out by special officers, d* Ported in the state archives, and copies posted about the city. , ? few circulated prifately. A Roman eatlrlst describes a lady look lag over the news in the morning. ? V . , _ TASK FINDS THEM PREPAREC Mea Who Do Great Things, It Will B? Plseovarcd, Have Looked For ward 'to the Work. There are * great number of storle? of men who have seemed to do a great Ukllf In a casual way. It will invar iably be found that they have no! oaly been making ample preparations br study, discipline, and experience Vet they have constantly tested theli capacity, as a wrestler tests his, hy beat* with all the strong men he cat OMMt ' When a men does a great thin* there are some people who always will eel It down^ luck rather than to hie capacity, but K la in interesting thing that a man may have suc]^ s stand-in, as It were, with this flckh and tricky thing. It le quite commot to hoar capable people say: "O, J (mm always luohy." They are reall) la a measure unconscious of the cer talotles of their cspabtlitles. ? - fte world to just beginning to wak? up to the fact that natural resources la the way of ability have been waBt od er monopolized he Meat natural physical resources have been. Tin psychologist and the sociologist arc doing what thtfjr can to make this fact understood. The lesson that men witt all sorts of handicaps have a.ttair>ec greatness has not until recently Leer read aright. Wo haver seen nothing but the phenomenal In these exam pies. As a matter of fact, the hantfl cap has in many cases brought to tlu front the grit of the man or woman at nothing else could have done, yet w< are prone to believe that such excep tional ability will out. Minute Men. The Bo-called organization of Min ute Men came into existence shortlj before the outbreak of the Revolution The patriots of Massachusetts and Other New England colonies bande<! themselves together, obtained arms and pledged themselves to the de tense of the colonies "at a minute's notice." From this pledge to take ui arms "at a minute's notice" they got their name. The Minute Men were enrolled iu pursuance of the act of the Provin cial congress, which was passed or November 23, 1774. Many names that were destined to become famous th<> Revolution appeared in this rostei of patriots. In the beginning the; were expeoted to serve only In th? New England colonies, but when the Conflict came no thought was taken ol this. The Massachusetts Historical society has a list of the patriots who were enrolled as Minute Men. ? * . ?i) . The Word "8trlke." The earliest use of - the word "strike" in the sense of stopping worli occurs In the London Chronicle for September, ,J765, in connection with a cool strike. This publication reports a great suspension of labor in the Northumberland ' coalfields, and the colliers are stated to have "struck out" for a higher bounty before enter ing Into their usual yearly "bond." -The time-honored Illustration of profit less labor, "carrying coals to New* eaoile,M> appears to have received Its ?first slap in the face during this btrlke. The Chronicle reports that "several pokes of cool wore brought from Durham to Newcastle by one of the common carriers, and sold on the sandhill for 9d a poke, by which ho cleared ?d a poke*"- v Misunderstood. 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