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' IJErskin ||Pioii ' ^^^cJohni ^^Iliustrafed by (Continued from last week) I" * r CHAWl fcrt II I Old Jerome and Dave and the older men gathered In one corner of the tockade for a council of war. The boy had made It plain that the attacklng party was at least two days be- J hind the three Indiana from whom he had escaped, so that there was no danger that day, and they could wait until night to send messengers to warn the settlers outside to seek safety ' witfcln the fort. Meanwhile, Jerome , would dispatch five men with Dave to acout for the three Indians who might | be near by In the woods, and the boy, . who saw them slip out the rear gate .of the fort, at once knew their pur pose, shook his head, and waved hla (hand to say that his late friends were (gone back to hurry on the big war party to the attack, now thnt the [whites themselves knSw their danger. ! '.Old Jerome nodded that he under- j l stood, und nodded to others his appre- j 'elation of the sense and keenness of j ^ ithe lad, but he let U>e men go Just the 'same. . Mother Sanders appeared and cried iu nun 10 oring tiie "Injun" to her ? , cnbin. She had been unearthing clothes for the "little henthen," and Bud helped to put them on. In a few ;minutes the lad reappeared in fringed hunting shirt and trousers, wriggling In them most uncomfortably, for they made him itch, but at the same time :wearlng them proudly. On the mighty wilderness the sun sank slowly and old Jerome sat in j the western tower to watch alone. The j silence out there was oppressive and significant, for it meant that the boy's 1 theory was right; the three Indians j had gone hack to their fellows, anil when darkness came the old man- sent ! runners to the outlying cabins to warn the Inmates to take refuge within the 1 ' fort. And the gathering was none | (too soon. TJie hooting of owls started 1 before dawn'. A flaming ?rrow3fct*Ki>.' | from the woods, thudded into rjW?root of oik; of the cabins, spattered feebly on a dew-drenched ridge-pole, and . went out. Savage war-whoops rent the air, and the battle was on. All day the fight went on. There were feints of attack In front and rushes from the rear, and there were rushes from all sides. The women loaded rifles and . cooked and cared for the wounded. Thrice an Indian reached the wall of the stockade and set a cabin on fire, i ? but no one of the three got hack to the woods alive. The stranger boy sat stoically In the copter of the enclosure watching everything, nnd making no effort to take part. Late in the after- j noon the ammunition began to run low and tlie muddy discoloration of i * the river showed that the red men had , beituii to tnmtwl unilop tii*? ?...iiio /.c fort. And yet a Inst snll.v was m^ide ( Just before sunset. A body pushed against Dave In the tower and Dave saw the stranger hoy at his side with Ills how and arrow. A few minutes later he heard a yell from the lad whleh rung high over the din, ami he saw the feathered tip of an arrow shaking In the breast of a hlg Indian who staggered and fell behind a bush. Just at that moment there were yells from the woods behind?the yells of white men that were answered by Joyful yells within the fort: "The Virginians! The Virginians!" And as the rescuers dashed Into sight on horse and afoot. Dave saw the lad leap the wall of the stockade and disappear behind the fleeing Indians. "Gone hack to 'em," he grunted to himself. The gates were thrown open. Old Jerome und his men rushed out, and besieged and rescuers poured all their fire after the running Indians, ome of whom turned bravely to empty their rifles once more. "(lit In! Git In. quick!" yelled old ,Joel. He knew another volley would eotne as soon as the Indians reached i the cover of thick woods, and come the volley did. Three men fell?one the lender of the Virginians, whose head flopped forward as he entered the gate and was caught In old Joel's arms. Not another sound came from the woods, but again Dave from the tower saw the cane-brush rustle at the edge of a thicket, saw a hand thrust upward with the pnlm of penca toward the* fort, and again the irnnger Doy emergen?nus time witn a bloody scalp dangling In his left hand. Dave sprang down and met him at the gate. The hoy shook his how and arrow proudly, pointed to a crisscross sear on the scalp, and Dave made out from his explanation that once before the lad had tried to kill .Ms tormentor and that the scar was ifjie sign. In the center of the enclog- j ilire the wounded Virginian lay. and when old Jerome stripped the shirt I from his breast he shook his head ,gravely. The wounded man opened his eyes Just In time to see and he ! smiled. "I know It." he said faintly, and then his eyes caught the hoy with the sculp, were fixed steadily and began to widen. "Who Is that hoy?' he asked sharply. "Never mind now," said old Joel E soothingly, "you must keep still 1" MPL The hoy's eyes had begun to shift under the scrutiny and he started away, "Come hack here!" commanded the wounded man, and still searching the lad he said sharply again: "Who Is that boy?" Nor would ht have his wound dressed or even take ths cup of. water hamled ta him until SNifiTi i'i r. i II flTi\ ftTlfrr m "* teei^yi Fox, drf^H RJt "Who Is That Boy?" Ho Asked Sharply. watcher kept his eyes strained toward the black silent woods. The dying man was laid on a rude bed within one cabin, and old Joel lay on the tloor of It close to the door. The stranger lad refused t<v sleep indoors and huddled hliflself In a blanket on the pround In one corner of the stockade. Men. women and childreu fell to a deep and weary sleep. An houi later the hoy In the corner threw aside his blanket, and when, a moment later, Lydla Noe, feverish nnd thirsty, rose from her bed to pet o drink of water outside her door. sh? stopped short on the threshold. Th? lad, stark naked but for his breech clout and swinplnp his bloody sea It over his bead, was staniplnp around the fire?dancing the scalp-dance oi the savage to a low, fierce, puttura song. The boy saw her. saw her fact In the blaze, stricken white with fright and horror, saw her too paralyzed to move and he stopped, staring at her a moment with savage rape, and went on apnin. Old Joel's body filled the next doorway. He called out with a harsh oath, and again the hoy stopped. With another oath and a threatening gesture Joel motioned to the corner of the stockade, and with a fiare of defiance in his black eyes the lad stalked slowly and proudly umi). r rum iK'iumi mill 111*' voice OI llie wounded man called, and old Joel turned. There was a ghastly smile on the Virginian's pallid face. "1 saw It," he said painfully. "That's ?that's my son !" CHAPTER III From the sundial on the edge of the high hank, straight above the hrlm of the majestic yellow James, a noble path of thick grass as broad as a modern highway ran hundreds of yurds between hedges of roses straight to tin? open door of the great manor-house with Its wide veranuas i and mighty pillars set deep hack I from the river in a grove of ancient ' oaks. Behind the house spread a little kingdom, divided Into fiejds of grass, wheat, tobacco, and corn, and dotted with white-washed cabins tilled with slaves. Already the house had been built a hundred years of brick brought from England In the builder's own ships, It was said, and the second son of the reigning generation, one Colonel Dale, sat In the veranda alone. He was a royalist oflicer. this second son, but his elder brother had the spirit of daring and adventure that should have been his, and he hnd been sitting there four years before when that elder brother came home from his first pioneering trfp into the wlhls, to tell that his wife was dead and their only son was a captive among the Indians Two years later still, word came that the father, too, had met death from the savages, and the little kingdom passed Into Colonel Dale's hands. Indentured servants, as well as blacks front Africa, had labored on I tllJlf Iifltli In fr/n? I nf o?wl nn It had onco stalked n deputation of the groat Powhatan's red tribes. Up flint path had come members of the worshipful House of Burgesses; bluff planters in silk coats, the governor and members of the council; distinguished visitors from England, colonial gentlemen and ladies. And all was English still ? books, clothes, plates, knives, and forks; the church, tlie Church of England; the Governor, the representative of the King; his Council, the English Parliament?socially aristocratic, politically republican. For ancient usage held that all "freemen" should have a voice In the elections, have eqjunl right to say who the lawmakers and what the law. The way was open ns now. Any man nuild get two thousand acres by 1 rcrvlce to the colony, could build, i plow, reap, save, buy servants, and I roll in his own conch to sit ns burgess. ; There was but one seat of learning? at Williamsburg. What culture they had they brought from England or I got from parents or minister. And always they had seemed to prefer sword and stump to the pen. They hated town*. At every wharf a long shaky in 1 m ! , ii i, . .iggBMaegggBgBgg-? I was enough. in towns men Jostled and Individual freedom was lost, so, | Hot for the great sweeps of land and the sway of a territorial lord! Englishmen they were of Shakespeare's time hut living In Virginia, and that Is all they were?save that the flower of liberty was growing faster In the n?w-world soli. Englishmen called It the "Good Land," and found It "most plentiful, eweet, wholesome, and fruitful of all others." The eait was the ocean; Florida was the south ; the north was Nova Francla, and the west unknown. Only the shores touched the Interior, which was an untraveled realm of fairer fruits and (lowers than in England ; green shores, majestic forests, and blue mountains filled with gold and Jewels. And the feet of all who had made history had trod that broad path to the owner's hearr and home. Down It now came a little girl?the flower of all those dead and gone? and her coming was Just as though one of the flowers about her had stepped from Its gay company on one or the other side of the path to make through them a dainty, triumphal march as the fairest of them nil. At the dial she paused and her Impatient blue eyes turned to a bend of the yellow river for the first glimpse of a gay barge that soon must come. At the whnrf the song of negroes rose as they unloaded the hoat Just from Richmond. She would go and see h there was not a pncknge for her mother and perhaps a present for herself, so with another look to the river bend she turned, hut she moved no farther. Instead, she gave a little gasp, In which there was no fear, though what she saw was surely startling enough to have made her wheel In flight. Instead. she gazed steadily Into a pair of grave black eyes that were fixed on her from under a preen branch that overhung the footpath, and steadily she searched the figure standing there, from the coonskln cap down the fringed hunting-slilrt and fringed breeches to the nioccasined feet. And still the strange figure stood arms folded, motionless and silent. Neither the attitude nor the silence was quite pleasing, and the girl's supple slenderness stiffened, her arms went rigidly to her sides, and a haughty little snap sent her undltnpled chin upward. "Who nre you and what do you want?" It was a new way for a woman to apeak to a man; he In turn waa not pleased, and a gleam In hU eyea showed it. "I am the son of a king." She started to laugh, but grew puzsled, for she had the blood of Pocahontas herself. "You are an Ii^llan?" He shook his head, scorning to explnln, dropped his rifle to the hollow of his arm, and, reaching for his belt where she saw the buekhorn handle of n hunting-knife, came toward her, j but she did not flinch. Drawing a letter from the belt, he handed it to her. It was so worn and soiled that she took it daintily and saw on It her father's name. The hoy waved hia hand toward the house far up the puth. "He live here?" "You wish to see him?" The boy grunted assent, and with a shock of resentment the little lady started up the path with her head very high indeed. The boy slipped Jtner ner, his race unmoved, but his eyoR were darting right arid left to the flowers, trees, and bushes, to every flirting, strange bird, the gray streak of a scampering squirrel, and what he could not see, his ears took in?the clanking chains of work-horses, the whir of a quail, the ] screech of a peacock, the songs of negroes from far-off fields. On the porch sat a gentleman In , powdered wig and knee-breeches, who, lifting his eyes from a copy of The Spectator to give an order to a negro 1 servant, saw the two coming, and the first look nf bewilderment on his fine face gave way to a tolerant smile. He asked no question, for a purpose very decided and definite was plainly bringing the little lady on, and he would not have to question. Swiftly she ran up the steps, her mouth prim- ' ly set. and handed him a letter. , j "The messenger is the son of a I I king." "A what?" | 666 Cure* Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever, It kills th? germs. 37 The State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Summons for Relief R. A. Griffith, Plaintiff, against E. L. McGuigan and Frank L. McGuigan co-opartners ;n trade under the name of E. L. McGuigan and Comvto n i> n v\ /I oil o*l? " |/?* 11 y <* ii\4 <III tuifi pcrsuii'4 wiiu may be partners in said firm to the plaintifT unknown, defendants. To the defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and re-, quired to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office, Chester weld, South Carolina, within twenty days after service hereof exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintifT in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. H June 19th, 1922. i M. J. Hough, Plaintiff s Attorney 'lo the defendants above named: Vou will please take no Met that the Summons and Camplaint in the above stated case, and all papers connected therewith are on file with the Clerk of Court of Chesterfield County,South Carolina, and that said Summons and Complaint were so ' filed with said Clerk of Court on 8th July, 1922. M. J. Hough, PlaintifT s Attorney. 666 quickly relieves Colds, Con* 1 ,. I i i? I 1 1 t I'1 H I ' "Tlit? son of a king," she repeated gravely. "Ah." said the gentler an. humoring her, "ask his highness to lie seated." His highness was loo' ing from one to the other gravely and keenly, lie did not quite understand, but he knew gentle fun was being p iked at him, and he dropped sullenly on the edge of the porch and stared In front of him. The little girl saw that his moccasins were much worn and that In one was a hole with the edge bloodstained. And then she began to watch her father's face, which showed that the contents of the letter were astounding him. lie rose quickly when he had finished and put out his hand to the stranger. "I am glad to see you. my boy," he said with great kindness. "Barbara, this is a little kinsman of ours from Kentucky. He wus the adopted son of an Indlnn chief, but by blood he Is your cousin. His name Is Ersklne Dale." (To Be Continued N.*xt Week) HOME DEMONSTRATION DEP'T. How to Have Cle.- n Milk Many C. Haynie 1. Keep the cow's flanks and udder free from dirt, for more dirt gets into milk from this sonje than from any other. Clipping the flanks and udder makes this easier and more certain. 2. Wipe the udder with a moist cloth, for tViic Irnnno U?:_ - * f iujac imir, cic., from dropping into the pail. 3. Use a small top n-.ilk pail, for it is added protection against dirt and has proven its worth. 4. Use outing flannel or a cloth pad strainer, for wire or cheese cloth strainers are a delusion. 5. Pails, cans, and bottles should be rinsed with cold uatcr, washed with hot water and a washing powder, sterilized with boiling water or steam, and then thoroughly and immediately dried, 6. Rinse each utensil before using, preferably with hot water, for this will remove any dirt that may have entered since washing. 7. Milk with clean, dry hands, for wet hand milking is filthy and injurious. 8. Cool the milk to GO degrees or below immediately after milking am' keep cool, for this is one of the best methods for keep bacteria from multiplying. When delivering milk in hot weather, cover the cans with a wet blanket to keep off the direct heat of the sun and the evaporation of the moisture helps to keep the milk cool. 10. Drive disease from the herd and keep the barn clean and whitewashed. If you want good prices for healthful and palatable dairy products, keep in mind the motto, "Clean and Cold." A clean herd, a clean barn, clean udders, clean hands, clean utensils, immediate cooling and keeping cold are the strategy of the good milk general. Changing Skirt* Date* Back to Egyptian* Paris, July 22.?That fashion is as old as humanity has once more been proved by some recent discoveries made in Egypt. In the time of the Pharaohs the battle of the skirts was as hotly foill"ht sie < " *- ' ?, ... v..c ^ic-ociiL nay. unarming statuettes of Egyptian women lately sold at a great sale show skirts of knee-length and others that sweep the ground. One is a draped model caught on thu hip by a large buckle ornament. Another has a scarf forming the belt, with ends flying and terminating in large tassels, a model which one might easily believe came from the Rue de la Paix this season.' After forty centuries of discussions and differences of opinion, the question of the length of the skirt is just about where it always was. BB SB g Indigestion g O Many persona, otherwise H D vigorous and healthy, are B B bothered occasionally with Q g indigestion. The effects of a g H disordered stomach on the 5? system are dangerous, and "j H prompt treatment of lndlges- O B tlon 1b Important "The only B D medicine I have needed has m been something to aid diges- r~ "3 tlon and clean the liver," B D writes Mr. Fred Ashby, a M McKlnney, Texas, fanner, gg B "My medicine Is C9 B Thedlord's S ri apormirut ubnuu uunuuii I Q for Indigestion and stomach M trouble of any kind. 1 hare 25 D never found anything that D U touches the spot, like Black- gf Draught. I take it In broken 22 H doses after meals. For a long D Q time I tried pills, which grip- H Ded and didn't give the, good n results. Black-Draught" liver H Q medicine Is easy to take, easy Q to keep, inexpensive." ? Het a package from your 55 druggist today?Ask for and D Insist upon Thedford's?the D D only genulnei Q d Q?t It today. Q OB inDB onnnnonnnqnoD A a A Cure? Malaria, Chills, laftala Fev?r, Bilious Fev?r V V Colds ano LaGrippo. 37 RESIDENCE PROPERTY FOR SALE Very desirable residence property on Qreew Sirest for BANK3 OF STATE ENDORSE CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING Columbia, July 31.?Assurances from the banks of the state that they will support the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association to the limit are being received daily, officials of the association said today. Letters were received yesterday from over 100 banks, they said, stating their desire to cooperate with the organization in every way possible. Many of the banks have signified their intention of launching vigorous advertising campaigns in behalf of the assoiation and of doing everything in their power to enouragt; I those farmers who have not yet done so to sign the contract. The Commercial Bank, of Newberry, of which John M. Kinard is president, has already begun a campaign of this nature in Newberry, the Newberry papers having carried in their last issues large advertisements by their bank endorsing the movement and urging the farmers to join. "After a thorough investigation of the cooperative marketing plan," says j the statement by the bank, "we wish i to state that we heartily endorse it' and wihout hesitating further, advise j every cotton grower in this and ad-1 joining counties to join if they have not already done so. "If the plan wasn't a good one, our government would not have agreed to loan the assoiation $10,000,000 for South Carolina. "We are going to back the association to our limit, and in doing so, we feel that it means a long step forward in bringing independence and prosperity to the farming industry and putting it upon a more secure and sol1/1 f/?iin/luf "We believe the farmers need to adopt more modern and more business-like methods, and unless they do this there can be no hopes of lifting their occupation from its present depression and putting it upon the organized and systematic basis that other enterprises rest upon. We see in cooperative marketing the first and most solid hope for accomplishing this. We look pon it as sensible, business-like effort to increase agricultural prosperity and think that farmers should join each other in this enterprise. If you haven't joined, don't stand back and let your neighbor do this work for you. Cooperative marketing in our opinion is here to stay, and we are all I going to benefit by it. Therefore,don't i wait until the last drive is made but join in now with your neighbors and friends and sign. "It has been reported that the credit of farmers might be injured if they joined the marketing contract. Don't j be afraid of this, for if you have ex-^ isted under the old plan, which has caused so many to lose their credit, j we assure our customers and friends that their credit will not be injured with us in the least account of sign; ing the marketing contract, nor do I we believe their credit will be injured with any other business institution. "Cooperative marketing spells prosperity to all of us, and we want to see the county sign up 100 per cent. strong." ! | She?I hear that you lost your valuable dog, Mr. Dudley. t He?Ya-as, in a railway accident. I | was saved, but the bawg was killed. I a pity.?Chicago Journal. | I f r*> ^ j 7 =Uj How Hi Became jh IN 1903, driving the car, Barney Oldfie career of victorie earned him the title Driver of The Worlc come the tire weaknes racing difficult and ( studied tires?specifie supervised constructio Today, Barney Oldf as the "Master T Starting with the cruc carried the "999" one seconds, Oldfield g veloped his famous G which covered 500 mi eight miles an hou change. In three years Oldf won every important ican speedways. The * THE HOIN How to Make and Use It VII. AERIALS AND H< One of the greatest advantages of wireless telephone receivers is that tin elaborate or expensive aerial Is not required. Although good sets with vadium bulb detectors may he used with an indoor aerial, or even with a bedstead or wire springs as an aerial, yet an outside aerial will tilways give better results. As I have already mentioned, a single wire will do as well as several, the main thing being to get the aerial long and high in order to catch waves which j \ are not Interrupted or f \ Interfered with by sur- / \ rounding buildings, / w \ steel bridges, electric A < wires and similar oh- r A > Jects. Next, or rather J most important, is to V have the aerial and lead-in thoroughly insulated from all surrounding objects, for even wood, when damp, Is an excellent conductor. The best material for an amnteur aerial for receiving is a stranded phosphor | bronze or copper wire. about No. 14, although msvh solid copper wire, cop- % per-covorcd steel wire | or even Insulated cop| per wire will serve every piirpose. For Insulators, use porcelain ! cleats. These may he used both where the lead-iu is attached to walls or other objects, and where the aerial wire is attached to the supports or guys. The accompanying figures,, No. 0 and No. lb. Illustrate I aerials Installed, the first showing the wire attached to a chimney or similar structure and to a wall ; the other, an aerial which is designed for a tin or slute roof and which obviates making holes for attachment. Where the Lad is Attacked By Rattlesnake Near Charleston Trenholm Boykin, son of Mr. N. C. Boykin, living near Summerville, was brought to Charleston for treatment after having been bitten by a rattlesnake. It appears that he and Erenst Chinners were squirrel hunting when the rattlesnake attacked young Boykin. While out squirrel hunting with a friend Ernest Chinners, a huge rattlesnake bit Trenholm, of the New Hope section, near Summerville, on Tuesday afternoon. The sn..ko was five feet lung, eight incites in diameter and had fifteen rattles, acocrdlng to the boy's father, who relates the story. The two men were walking, young Chinners in the lead. lie stepped over the snake unharmed and before the warning could bo given, young Boykin was bitten on the leg. They were about two and a half miles front home. | As quickly as possible the wound was cut out with a pocket knife and the log tightly corded. Two cat squirrels which they had killed were cut open and hound around the wound until they reached home. After reaching' home he was rushed to Summerville by atuomobile. Ater remaining in the q, - ? ^uiHHiuviiiv nun nutry a day or so ne Le Master D laster Tire I "999" racing American tires tha Id started his first place in the Fr :s that later They have won fc : ??* "Master tive years in the 1. To over- apolis Sweepstakes ses that made oidfields have low, dnr,e?.s- seven The Wichita Te ield is known dence ?! Oldfield si ire Builder." when a set oi le tires which 34.525 miles o mile in sixty winter roads?a radually de- tested by the May< ords?a set of iles at eighty- See your dealer ir without a these rugged tires field has develop! through a lifetime ield tires have experience. Their race on Amer- convince you tha y are the only Most Trust worth} - r?i- m'IT p- if 4E RADIO 1 (Co By A. HYATT VERRILL Vy bnrkMkfl^atlMkM 3W TO INSTALL THEM lead-in wire enters the building it should be of rubber Insulated wire and umy be brought In at the corner of a window, either by cutting s small , groove or by jamming the window ' down until the wire flattens and is burled partly In the wood. All Joints In the aerial and lead-In should be scraped bright, tightly twisted -and soldered. Anally being wrapped with Insulating or adhesive tape or covered r<f /o r ' ! af/t/al. . r+a$ lfao in g / w** -r,} 9 with "spaghetti" tubing. For the best results. be sure to run your lend-In from the end of aerials towards the station which you most frequently wish to hear or towards the most distant station which you desire to pick tip. Very often, this will make h vast difference in results, especially with a small receiving set. Care In following directions will Insure good results. was taken home, but later was taken to Charleston for treatment. At last accoutns the patient was doing well. A total of 1." 10,441 boys and girls were enrolled in agricultural extension clubs, in 1921, for training in ' various phase of live stock work. | These junior farmers owned, last j year, 70,148 head of farm animals and 554,286 fowls, representing a total | value of $3,605,176. | "I am glad that you find my sermons instructive, Mrs. Goodley," the young minister declared with deep appreciation. "Indeed I do, sir," the old lady replied enthusiastically. "Why, we never really knew what sin was in this pl^.ce until you came among us, sir." ?Country Gentleman, The mother took her baby to be christened. The rh>v<rvtv?.?? ? r> ??* ?!, ? u\j ivncw her personally, dipped his pen in the i ink, and prepared to fill the necessary papers. When he came to the space reserved for the date, he said genially, "Let me see?this is the eighth, isn't it?" "Certainly not!' said the indignant mother. "We've only been married three years." 1 i . * ' 4 \\ 4 . \ " (I river Guilder t have ever taken ench Grand Prix. >r three consecu500-mile IndianSo far in 1922. ;red four World's track records. st Run gave eviaperiority in tourf four Cords covver rutted, frozen, performance atar of Wichita. ! and get a set of that Barney Oldid and perfected : of practical tire performance will t thev are "TK? ' Tires Built." i . ? s'. ' *