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KiUu>> t0 61, Ik After ' luvw i4 ****** M iii,-l?laii?l rouiity. luis !U' KIV fuurlU <**? ' , fr,.u(i vartiw" iwrt* uf BU?u1 KoiHiiuuitt's Military Ktmiclli. I'artn AuiniHt :iK. ? ir l* ostluiateU ' that tin* N(rt>mrth t>f tlu? ariui 1 which rnn t)(> iin.l?Ui/.?'4i l>\ Itnuuiuiila Is ulxait 1MH ?.?MH > HUU1. iutludlliu ton ' rojilmiMits of Itril lliiw&U'K im?l l??n uf llla<k Hu.mmii'h, w'ith artllHtfy atw !'<>?} gHttllK 88U 75 Willi lurUV m?ns, i(M? Hold KUtip lu'lonuhiK the remove and a muiiiIht of heavy uuns. "Summer? I Don't Dread It!" "/BOOKING will be a real pleasure ^this summer on my New Perfec tion Oil Cook Stove ? for the kitchen will be cool!" Why cook over a hot range in a hot kitchen when you can. be cool and comfortable. The New Perfection Oil Cook Stove , the stove with the long blue chimney, works like a gas stove. The long blue chimney gives a perfect draft, assures a clean, odorless heat and lasting satisfaction. The fuel cost is only two cents for a meal for six. ? 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The swim out to t lit* sand bur am! buck six 1 1 in os repeated hud made Tod tired. Add to that u scorching .luly sun, ili?? inviting shade. of u , boil oil chttir, uiid a natural propensity for sleep at ayy time and undor all condi tions, tiud yuu i.'tto roadlly understand why morpheas found lilia an ea*y vie tlm that eventful morning. Suddenly something hit blni with sickening force in the solar plexus. Then something saijj softly: "('loo!" i<?d, With u few <je)lghted gurgles, "(loo!" again. A baby looked up lit lil m with placid bUte e>vos and twisted ' the corners of lis little rosvbud mouth into u thousand smiles. "Hello, there, mister or miss or wlmtever you are!" Ted exclaimed. "Where did you come from?" Baby gurgled an answer. "You don't say so! NVell, if >011 had only sent word .1 might have been bet ter prepared to receive you. 1 sup pose ? " Ted looked around and saw no one who appeared to have lost a baby recently, or who might in any way be associated with one. "I sup pose,'' lie said, "that you fell out of the chair, seeing that you had such n nice soft thing to laud ou!" "Win 11 you smile at 1110 so sweetly, I think yoU're a girl. The girls all like me to pieces, lienor bright!" The wide-open blue eyes searched liliu In quiringly. "All except one, and she doesn't think I'm worth two for 11 cent. Hut It's all because she doesn't know pie. We have never been Introduced. Ily Jove, here she comes now!" A variety of reasons caused htm to pick the baby up just then ? either to hide the confusion which he always felt when the girl caiue near, or be cause It looked heartless to let a beau tiful, embroidered, shell-pink baby lie unprotected on the sand. The gli?l passed, but not before she had taken in the stage setting and the chief performers of the little act. To go back, Ted and the girl were staying at the same hotel. He had tried to meet her ? as he had explained to the baby ? but no mutuul friend had so far appeared. The girl walked aloug with her com panion', l)ut turned back as she saw something lying on the sand. Ted's heart nearly stopped when he saw her coming, and he almost dropped the baby, but he clutched It tightly, desper ately, when she picked up the toy and handed It to him, with : "Here Is your baby's rattle!" arid, half-stopping, add ed : "Cute little thing ? looks like you I" She wuS pone with that, and Ted suddenly Wished the sailds would swal low lii iti up and spare him any further torment of living. Ills baby ! Merci ful heaven? ! He laid baby In Its soft nest, gave It the rattle and tried t*? collect his scattered senses by another swim to the bar. When he returned baby was gone. He breathed more freely then. Another day Ted came out of a movie just as a woman passed wheel ing a baby perambulator. Something flew out of the carriage and landed at his feet. He recognized the blue rattle of his friend, the baby, and handed it over. "Oh. thank you I" beamed the mother "She's always throwing It out." She was young and pretty ? scarcely more than a girl. It occurred to Ted to re late the episode of the baby's fall, and he did so, suiting Ids step to her own. OC course, the girl passed Just then, as the young mother was listening with all attention to Ted. "Darn !" he exclaimed, ?topping. "I beg your pardon !" He apologized profusely. "I forgot something, and must go back If you will excuse me," he said, as he lifted his hat and turned In the direction the girl had taken. He followed, unabashed, desperate! Ted came up beside her, and after an irresolute minute spoke: "I should like to talk with you just a minute, If you don't object !" She looked up. "Object? Well, I'll have to listen, I suppose. Go ahead." "That baby Isn't mlqe !" "I know it isn't." \ "What ! Excuse me ? l\lldn't under stand. I thought you thobgJil? "He thought, we thought, thought, they thought," she finished mockingly. > Ted was very red in the fnco by this timer "Now listen," said the girl. "I am that baby's aunt. I was only teasing you, so don't worry about it any more." He digested this. "Why don't you like me?" he went on. . "It's been so evident in a hundred ways that you don't. I'm really curious about it. Do you mind telling me?" * "Mercy 1" she cried. "I halve cer tainly developed into a regular bureau of information. But I'll tell you tliat, too ! It's bemuse you are here having a good time tor a month while George Bronson, jroixr prirtner, who happens to be my brother-in-law and that ba by's father, is at home working his head off in a hot office when he is dying to be here with his family. He can't leave as long as you are away!" Ted was speechless. "But I'd have gone a week ago If ? If ? It hadn't been > for you!" he declared suddenly. Then the girl smiled, the very sort of a smile he wanted to see. "It's wicked for me to keep George away from May and the baby. Isn't It?" she said. "Ill go home tomorrow.** "Then 111 go, too," smiled Ted. (Copyright, lfML by tJhg-McClure New?pa? FEDERAL INQUIRY IN WAGE DISPUTE Railruaa Managers Submit Plans to Avoid Great Strike, * ? ARBITRATION IS OFFERED. Ayroc to Rotor Demand* of Men For M ore Pay to the Interstate Commerce j Commission or to Accopt Settlement lender Newlaruis Act. New York. The anuouueetnont thai the strike vote which has been it* prog ress an^ng (ho train servlco employes of Auu rlt nn railroad* for the past sev eral weeks has been completed, ami that t he liual demands by the union leaders. are soon to be presented to the railroad niuuaia-rs here, indleutes that the pulilir will soon know whother the controversy between the railroad work ers and their employers is to be settled peaceably, or whether a nation wide strike Is to be Inflicted upon tho coun try. Thus far the leaders of tho four unions? the It rosier hood of Locomo tive Engineers. t lie Brotherhood of Lo comotive Firemen and lCnglnemen, tho Order of Hallway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Itallroad Trainmen? have refused to consider any proposal for an arbitration of tho questions In dispute, or for settlement of tho con troversy by tho Interstate Commerce Commission. Would Cost $100,000,000. The demands of tho train service men for an Increase in wages, which, It Is estimated, would cost tho railroads of tho country $100,000,000 a year, were originally presented last March. At that time tho representatives of the unions asked for a conference with a committee of railroad managers repre-. sentlug the various railroad lines of tho country. This conference began here In New York on June 1st. and continued for two weeks. The railroads were repre sented by a committee of nineteen managers, iiud the brotherhoods by the heads of their various national and lo cal organizations? some eight hundred men In all. Choice of Method* Offered. The conference failed to reach a decl slon owing to the refusal of the union leaders to consider r.ny modification' of their demands, or uuy proposal for ?r bltratlon. At the conclusion of the meetings the railroad managers sub milted a proposal to refer the whole question to the Interstate Commerce Commission, or to arbitration under the provision of the federal statute cover ing tills matter. The alternative suggestions which they advanced for adjusting the con troversy were as follows: "1. Preferably by submission to the Interstate Commerce Commission, the only tribunal which, by reason of its accumulated information bearing on railway conditions and its . control of the revenues of the railways, is in a position to consider and profoct the rights and equities of all the interests affected, and to provide additional rev enne necessary to meet the added cost of operation in case your pro[>osals are found by the Commission to be just and < reasonable; or, In the event the Inter state Commerce Commission cannot, under existing laws, act in the prem ises, that we Jointly request. Congress to take such action as may Ik? neces gary to enable the Commission to con sider and promptly dispose of the questions involved; or "2. By arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Federal law, cntl tied. "An Act Providing for Mediation. Conciliation and Arbitration in Contro versies between Certain Employers and their Employees," approved July 15. 1013, and commonly known as the JNewlands Acti" Unions Refuse Offer. The union leaders declined to con sider the suggestion of the railroad managers, and announced that they ! would seek a vote of the members of ; the unions asking that they bo given authority to. declare a strike on all the railroad lines of the country. This strike vote has been in progress for the past six weeks, and, according to re ports which have been received here from time to time, will result in giving the four union leaders the authority which they naked for to halt every railroad train from one end of the country to the other. : Meanwhile a resolution has been in troduced Into Congress at the request of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate the whole question of railway wages and their relation to railway earnings. The commercial interests, the newspa pers, and public men of the nation have Rone on record as demanding that the dispute be settled peaceably. What the Pdblic Pays. Out of every dollar the public p ays the railroad* for transports Ion the rail* road employes receive 44 cents. The traveler who spends $100 s yesr for his tickets Is paying $44 for railroad labor. The merchant whose freight bills amount to llvOOO contributes 9440 to the railroad payroll. The merchant gets the money from his customers la the prlosa ha charges for his wares. The pubile pays arsry dollar of the railroad MIL 1 1 mi i v roiNTK.its row TOtf IIVKI) \M> 4i \HI>l N ritMiiNon folliHJe. Aim. tllxe fall Irish potatoes frequent shallow e?|('t* vathiu. Tr> mowing caulilloxvet' thl* tail. To do hest ii 1 1 1 1 1 t he | ou soil i Imt l> .moist, fertile ami \> *?l 4 tli'MliiwI.' it is not too Into t?? make a planting i I snap At least a fexx rows should he i ? 1 1 1 lit ed for canning purposes. There are xxa.xs in pioittahlx mil tx?* ?ill surplus fruit and \ egei ahle.s. Sot* 1 ? ll thai none vil llnwi' priuluei*. ijt? to u ast?* on x our fai in ll pays to set i clcrx In xx Ide di*ep furrows in ortlcr that tin- -.oil max ho radnally worked to tin* plant* iik they grow. An' ,\oii planting xogetalde> fof. fall jihI w intor use? There are nianx We light fill vegetables (hat max lie had ."ro^h from the gaidoit durinu these reasons. The rheapesl. and one of the host met liods of fcrtillxtng the orchard Is to Mailt It to a xx Inter eover erop. If pos slide, use for this purpose xeleli or one of the clovers ; otherxx ise plant rxe or ?ats. Make up a 1. 1 >*t of I lie i.lilVerent kinds ind varieties of fruits you xx isli to or del* for plant Inn tills fall, and place xuur order xxitli a reliable nurserx man. I >o not lu> tempted t<> purchase trees from the tree accent. In luealltles xx here Held erop* have heei i destroyed hy tlooil. farmers will do xv el I to consider the planting of fall - f>>i nnH'krt. CVihtumo uml oTiTrnrr jhv to uso tor tutu j?> lioth ?lo nicely on well tlniliunl ItoMom Itlud. just issued, tells all about Crimson Clover, Alfalfa and all Grass and Clover Seeds for Fall Planting. Wood's Fall Seed Catalog also gives full uiul complete Infor mation about Vegetable Seeds that can bo planted to advantage and profit in tho late Summer and Fall. It Is altogether the most use ful and valuable FaM Seed Cutulog issued. . Mailed free to Gardeners, Market (?rowers and Farmers on request. Write for It.* T.W.WOOD & SONS. SHEDSKEN, ? Richmond, Va. COTTON We are actually in the market for cotton this season, and will pay highest prices the market will permit. Show us your samples before you sell- -it will pay you to do so. -: SPRINGS & SHANNON The Store That Carries The Stock. United States Tires "R" Tread AT REDUCED PRICES 30x3 PLAIN TKEAI) 8.55 NON SKID $8.95 30x3*6 PLAIN TKEAI) 11.10 NON >SKII) 11.65 32 x3*6 PLAIN TKEAI) 12.75 NON SKID 13.40 33x4 PLAIN TKEAI) .......18.20 NON SKID 19.15 34x4 PLAIN TKEAI) 18.60 NON SKID 19.50 WE HAVE ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER AT THE ABOVE PRICE. ACT QUICK BEFORE THEY AKE ALL CJONE. Lewis & Christmas, cash grocers A watch is intended to tell you the time of day. Ujiless it does this accurately it is worse than useless, for it is like the man you Cannot depend upon. Many a man has twenty-five or thirty dollars tied up in a watch which is worthless when if he would invest a dollar or two for having it repaired he would get the full value of it. Often a watch which does not keep proper time needs regulating: for which we make no charge. If it needs re pairing our prices are more than reasonable, and our work is guaranteed. 1 ?" G. L. BLACKWELL Jo welcr and QptkUn Cmmdtm, S. C