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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
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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?"
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"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
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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
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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
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a week with just two Agathas an
Terhune for guests. How?"
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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.
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: SOLDIERS ARE Hp
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i Texas Sergeant Sent to Life
Imprisonment
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BAYONETTED A MAN TO DEATH i
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Officers Resign?Companies Ask to ^
be Mustered Out?Whole State do
on
Guard Demoralized?Man's Fami
Ily Destitute.?U. S. Invetigatind. [ir
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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<
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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
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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.
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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
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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.