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^Frances Bi (Copyright, by Reil 7 CHAPTER XX ?Continued. "Naw, I ain't neither," objected the tnale member of the chain-gang, "I done cut my woman with a razor 'cause I see her racking down the street like a proud coon with another gent, like what Sarah Jane's brother telled me he done at the picnic." The children played happily together for half an hour, Billy and Lina com manding, and the prisoners, entering thoroughly into the spirit of the game, according prompt obedience to their bosses. At last the captives wearied of their role and clamored for an ex change of parts. "All right," agreed Lina. "Get the key, Billy, anq we 'II De tne cnam gang." Billy put his right hand In his pocket but found no key there; he tried the other pocket with the same success; he felt in his blouse, he looked In his cap, he Jumped up and down, he near ly shook himself to pieces all without avail; the key had disappeared as if by magic. "I berlieve y' all done los' that key," concluded ne. "Maybe It dropped on the ground," B&id Frances. They searched the yard over, but the key was not to be found. "Well, If that ain't Just like you, Billy," cried Jimmy, "you all time per posing to play chain-gang and you all time lose the key." Lina grew indignant. "You proposed this yourself, Jimmy Garner," she said; "we never would have thought of playing chain-gang but for you." "It looks like we can't never do any thing at all," moaned Frances, "'thout grown folks 've got to know 'bout it." "Yes, and laugh fit to pop theirselfs ^ open," said her fellow-prisoner. "I can't never pass by Owen Qibbs and ' Len Hamner now 'thout they laugh Just like idjets and grin Just like pole cats." "I ain't never hear tell of a pole-cat grinnin'," corrected Billy, "he jes smell worser 'n what a billy goat do." "It is Chessy cats that grin," ex plained Lina. "Look like folks would get 'em a lot of pole-cats stead o' chillens always hafto be wearing assfetty bags 'round their nakes, so 's they can keep off whooping cough," said Frances. "You can't wear a pole-cat roun' yo' nake," grinned Billy. , "And Len Hamner all time now ask ing me," Jimmy continued, "when I'm going to wear Sarah Jane's co'set to Sunday school. Grown folks 'bout the lunatickest things they is. Ain't you going to unlock this chain, Billy?" he demanded. "What I got to unlock It with?" asked Billy. As Jimmy's father was taking the crestfallen ?;haln-gang to the black smith shop to have their fetters re moved, they had to pass by the livery table; an<} Sam Lamb, bent double *11 "Y* All SfVj?' Is do Outlandlshest Klda With intoxicating mirth at their predic ament, yelled: "Lordee! Lordee! Y" all sho' is de outlandlshest kids 'twixt de Bad Place an'* de mocp." CHAPTER XXII. I A Transaction In Mumps. "Don't come near me," screamed Billy, sauntering slowly and deliberate ly tows/d the dividing fence; "keep way fom me; they's ketchin'." Ji'omy was sitting on his front steps and the proverbial red flag could not have excited a bull to quicker action. He hopped down the steps and ran across his own yard toward Billy as fast as his 6hort, fat legs could carry him. "Git 'way f'om me; you 'II ketch 'em If you teches me," warned Billy; "an* you too little to have 'em," and he waved an authoritative hand at the other child. But Jimmy's curiosity was aroused to the highest pitch. He promptly Jumped the fence and gazed at his chum with critical admiration. "What's the matter,' ne mquireu, Myou got the toothache?" "Toothache!" was the scornful echo, Brand Not in Vrs. Newlywed Had Done Her Best, but Black Coffee Was a Thing Unattainable. After the honeymoon came the cozy flat. Young Mr. Benedict was mighty proud of his wife, even if 6he was from the ccuntry. and eager to show her to his cronies. "Dulcinia, dear." he said one morn ing, "I want to bring dear old Tom up ! mm id GREEN IDE (jyd Calhoun tly & Britton Co.) "well, I reckon not. Git back; don't 'An oln'f a!' 'nnncrh tn yuu LtTLU CUI, J\J u UIU w v. have 'em." Billy's head was swathed in a huge, white cloth; his usually lean little cheeks were puffed out till he resem bled a young hippopotamus, and his pretty gray eyes were almost Invisible. "You better git 'way f'om me an' don't tech 'em, like I tells you," he re iterated. "Aunt Minerva say you ain't never had 'em an' she say fer me to make you keep 'way f'om me 'cause you ain't a oP chile like what I is." "You ain't but six," retorted angry Jimmy, "and I'll be six next mouth: you all time trying to 'suade litle boys to think you're 'boift a million years old. You 'bout the funniest looking kid they is." Billy theatrically touched a distend ed cheek. "These here is mumps," he said impressively; "an' when you got 'em you can make grown folks do per zactly what you want 'em to. Aunt Minerva 's in the kitchen right now makin' me 'laeses custard if I'll be good an' Btay right In the house an* don't come out here in the yard an' don't give you the mumps. Course i can't tech that custard now "cause I done come out here an' it ain't honer hio* hut Rhfi'9 makln' it 1es* the same. You better git 'way fom me an' not tech 'em; you too little to have 'em." "Are they easy to ketch?" asked the other little boy eagerly; "lemme Jest tech 'em one time, Billy." "Git 'way, I tell you," warned the latter with a superior air. To Increase Jimmy's envy he continued: "Grown folks tries to see how nice they can be to chlllens what's got the mumps. Aunt Aynerva ain't been lmpedeqt to me to day; she lemme do jest 'bout like I please; it sho' is one time you can make grown folks step lively." He looked at Jimmy meditatively. "It sho' is a plumb pity you ain't a ol' chile like what I is an' can't have the mumps. Don't you come anp closter to me," he again warned, "you too little to have 'em." "I'll give you Ave peweea If ? you'll lemme tecli 'em so's I can get "em," pleaded the younger boy. Billy hesitated. "You mighty lit tle?" he began. "And my stoney," satd the other child eagerly. "If you was a ol' boy," said Billy, "It wouldn't make no dlfTunce; I don't want to make yo' ma mad an' Aunt Minerva say for me to keep 'way f'om you any how, though I didn't make her no promises." Jimmy grew angry. "You're the stingiest Peter they la, William Hill," he cried; "won't let no body tech your old mups. My cousin in Memphis 's got the measles; you Just wait till I git 'em." Billy eyed him critically. "If you was ol?" he was beginning. Jimmy thought he saw signs of his yielding. "And I'll give you my china egg, too," he quickly proposed. "Well, jest one tech," agreed Billy; & i 'Twlxt de Bad Place an' de Moon." "an' I ain't a-goin' to be 'sponsible neither," and be poked out a swollen jaw for Jimmy to touch. Ikey Rosensteln at this moment was spied by the two little boys as he was walking jauntily by the gate. "You better keep 'way fom here, Goose-Grease," Jimmy yelled at him; "you better get on the other side the street. Hilly here 's got the mumps an' he lemme tech 'em so's I can get em, so's my papa and mama '11 lemme do Just perzactly like I want to; but you're a Jew and Jews ain't got no business to have the mumps, so you better get 'way. I paid Billy 'bout a million dollars' worth to lemme tech his mumps," he said proudly. "Get way; you can l uave eiu. Ikey had promptly stopped at the gate. "What'll,you take, Billy, to lemme get 'era?" he asked, his commercial spirit at once aroused. . "What'll you gimme?" asked he of the salable commodity, with an eye to a bargain. Ikey pulled out a piece of twine and a blue glass bead from his pocket and offered them to the child with the mumps. These received a contemptu ous rejection. i the Market for dinner and good old Dick and nice old Harry. Want 'em to see you and taste your cookery. I've told them all about your dishes. There's just one special thing I don't want you to for get. It's the black coffee to wind up with. Tom's particularly fond of good black coffee, and for that matter so am I." Promptly at 6 came M.r. Benedict and cronies Aree. Mr. B. showed hlB I "You can do perzactly Ifke you please when you got the mumps," in sinuated Jimmy, who had seemingly allied himself with Billy as a partner in business; "grown folks bound to do what little boys want 'em to when you got the mumps." Ikey increased his bid by the stub of a lead pencil, but it was not until he had parted with his most cherished pocket possessions that he was at last allowed to place a gentle finger on the protuberant cheek. Two little girls with their baby-bug gies were seen approaching. "G" 'way from here, Frances, you and Lina," howled Jimmy. "Don't you come In here; me and Billy "s got the mumps and you-all 'r* little girls and ought n' to have 'em. Don't you come near us; they 're ketching." The two little girls immediately opened the gate, crossed the yard, and stood in front of Billy. They inspected him with admiration; he bore their cnucBi aui vt;j wiiu um.uui.v.?? and indifference, as befitted one who had attained sueh prominence. , "Don't tech 'em," he commanded, waving them off as he leaned grace fully against the fence. "I teched 'em,' boasted the younger boy. "What'll you all give us If we *11 let you put your finger on "em?" "I ain't a-goin' to charge little girls nothin'" said the gallant Billy, as he proffered his swollen Jowl to each in turn. A little darkey riding a big black "Me and Billy's Go horse was galloping by; Jimmy hailed and baited him. "You better go fast," he shrieked. "Me and Billy and Frances and Llna's got the mumps and you ain't got no business to have 'em 'cause you 're a nigger, and you better take your horse to the lib'ry stable 'cause he might ketch 'em, too." The negro boy dismounted and hitched the horse to the fence. "I gotter little tarrapim?" he began In sinuatingly. \ And thus It came to pass that there was an epidemic of mumps In the lit tle town of Covington, and William Green Hill grew rich In marbles, In tops, In strings, In toads, In chewing gum, and In many other things which comprise the pocket treasures of little boys. CHAPTER XXIII. The Infant Mind Shoots. Miss Minerva had bought a book for Billy entitled "Stories of Great and Good Men," which she frequently read to him for his education and Improve ment. These stories related the prin cipal events in the lives of the heroes but never mentioned any names, al ways asking at the end, "Can you tell me who this man was?' V Her nephew heard the stories so often that he had some expression or incident by which he could identify each, without paying much attention while she was reading. He and his aunt had just settled themselves on the porch for a reading. Jimmy was on his own porch cutting up funny capers, and making faces for the other child's amusement. "Lemme go over to Jimmy's, Aunt Minerva," pleaded her nephew, "an" you can read to me tonight. I'd a heap ruther not hear you read right now. It '11 make my belly ache." Miss Minerva looked at him severe ly. "William," she enjoined, "don't you want to be a smart man when you grow up?" "Yes, lm," he replied, without much enthusiasm. "Well, jes' lemme ask Jimmy to come over here an' set on the other sider you whils' you read. He ain't never hear 'bout them tales, an' I s'pec' he'd like to come." "Very well," replied his flattered and gratified relative, "call him over." Billy went to the fence, where he signaled Jimmy to meet him. "Aunt Minerva say you come over an' listen to her read some er the pret ties' tales you ever hear," he said, an if conferring a great favor. "Naw, sirree-bob!" was the impolite response across the fence, "them 'bout the measliest tales they is. IH come if sbe '11 read my Uncle Remus boob." "Please come on," begged Billy, drop ping the patronizing manner that he had assumed, in hope of inducing his chum to share his martyrdom. "You know Aunt Minerva 'd die in her tracks 'fore she 'd read Uncle Remus. You '11 like these-here tales 'nother sight better anyway. I *11 give you my stoney if you'll come." "Naw; you ain't going to get me In no such box as that. If she 'd Just read seven or eight hours I would n't mind; but she 111 get you where she wants you and read 'bout a million hours. I know Miss Minerva." Billy's aunt was growing impatient. guests into the parlor, while he made hasty tracks for the gas range neigh borhood and kissed the cook again, privately. "Well, how about everything, little woman. Got all the stuff together?" "Ye?yes, dear," replied small Mrs. B. with just a shade of reservation In her voice. "I've got the crown of chops and the peas and a salad?oh, a beeee autiful salad?and I've baked some little biscuits! There's only one thing I simply couldn't get (I do hope you aren't too disaDDolnted). for I went "Come, William," she called. "I am waiting for you." Jimmy went back to his own porch and the other boy joined Ms kinswo man. "Why wouldn't Jimmy come?" she asked. "He?he ain't feeling very well," was the considerate rejoinder. "Once there was a little boy who was born in Virginia?" began Miss Minerva. "Born in a manger," repeated the inattentive little boy to himself, "1 knows who that was." So, this impor tant question settled in his mind, he gave himself up to the full enjoyment of his chum and to the giving and re ceiving Secret signttiB, iue pieusuie u> which was decidedly enhanced by the fear of Imminent detection. "Father, I cannot tell a lie, I did It with my little hatchet?" read the thin, monotonous voice at his elbow. Billy laughed aloud?at that minute Jimmy was standing on his head wav ing two chubby feet In the air. "William," said his aunt reprovingly, peering at him over her spectacles, "I don't see anything to laugh at,"?and she did not, but then she was in ignor ance of the little conspiracy. "He was a good and dutiful son and he studied his lessons so well that when he was only seventeen years old he was employed to survey vast tracts of land in Virginia?" Miss Minerva emphasized every (l\: word, hoping thus to impress her nephew. But'he was so busy keeping one eye on her and one on the little boy on the other porch, that he did not have time to use his ears at all and so did not hear one word. "Leaving his camp fires burning to deceive the enemy, he stole around by a circuitous route, fell upon the Brit ish and captured?" Billy held up his hands to catch a ball which Jimmy made believe to throw. Miss Minerva still read on, uhcon sclous of her nephew's inattention: "The suffering at Valley Forge had been Intense during the winter?" Billy made a pretense behind his aunt's upright back of throwing a ball while the other cnna neia up two iai ^ lUtle hands to receive It. Again he laughed aloud as Jimmy spat on his ^ hands and ground the imaginary ball T into his hip. fl( She looked at him sternly over her glasses: "What cqakea you so silly?" she in quired, add without waiting for a reply went on with her rea^'ng; she was nearlng the close now and she read carefully and deliberately. "And he was chosen the first presi dent of the United States?" Billy put his hands to his ears and wriggled his fingers at Jimmy, who promptly returned the compliment. "He had no children of his own, so he is called the Father of his Coun try." Miss Minerva closed the book, turned to the little boy at her side, and asked: "Who was this great and good man, William?" "Jesus," was his ready answer, In an appropriately solemn little voice. "Why, William Green Hill!" she ex claimed in disgust. "What are you thinking of? I don't believe you heard one word that I read." Billy was puzzled; he was sure she had said "Born in a manger." "I djdn't hear her say nothln' 'bout bulrushes," he thought, "bo 't ain't Moses; she didn't say 'log cabin,' bo 't ain't Ab'a ham Lincoln; she didn't say 'Thirty cents look down upon you,' so 't ain't Napolyon. I sho' wish I'd paid 'ten tion." "JeBus!" his aunt was saying, "born in Virginia and first president of the United States!" "George WaBhln'ton, I aimed to say," triumphantly screamed the little boy, who had received his cue. CHAPTER XXIV. A Flaw In the Title. "Come on over!" invited Jimmy. "All right; I believe I will," respond ed Billy, running to the fence. His aunt's peremptory voice arrested his footsteps. "William, come here!" she called from the porch. d He reluctantly retraced his steps. s' "I am going back to the kitchen to J bake a cake and I want you to prom- e Ise me not to leave the yard." - s "Lemme jes' go over to Jimmy's a little while," he begged. tl "No; you and Jimmy can not be k trusted together; you are sure to get into mischief, and his mother and I e have decided to keep the fence be- a tween you for a while. Now, promise me that you will stay right in mv ] yard." to every store in the neighborhood It's black coffee, deur. I hunted and hunted, truly. Not a single shop has anything but brown!" Exercise. Exercise in its general significance is a glorious thing. It is not, how ever, anything much in its purely physical sense. Thus, a person with large muscles and not very big wits is of almost no value to society, whereas a person who has exercised both is often indlsnensable. Exercises ,ri ". Billy sullenly gave her the promise id she went back to her baking. "That 's always the way now," he lid, meeting his little neighbor at the ;nce, "ever since Aunt Minerva got ito this-here promisin' business, I Dn' have no freedom 't all. It 's 'Wil am, promise me this,' an' It 's 'Wil am, don't ferget yo' promise now,' (11 I 's Jes' plumb sick 'n tired of It. he know I ain't goin' back on my ord an' she Jes' nachelly gits the antage of me; she 'bout the hardest man to manage I ever seen sence 's born." "I can nearly all time make my lama do anything 'most if I Jus' eep on trying and keep on a-begging," ragged the other boy; "I Just say lay I, mama?' aiid she '11 all time ly, 'No, go 'way from me and lemme one,' and I Just keep on, 'May I lama? May I, mama? May I, mama?' ad toreckly she '11 say, 'Yes, go on ad lemme read in peace.' " "Aunt Minerva won't give in much," lid Billy. "When she say 'No, Wil am,' 't ain't no use't all to beg her; ou Jest wastln' yo' breath. When she ut her foot down It got to go just like tie say; she sho' do like to have her wn way better 'n any 'oman I ever 2e." "She 'bout the manirishest woman ley Is," agreed Jimmy. "She got ou under her thumb, Billy. I don' se what womans 're made fo' If you an't beg 'em into things. I would n't it no old spunky Miss Minerva get ie best of me that 'way. Come on, nyhow." / "Naw, I can't come," was the loomy reply; "if she 'd jest tol' me ot to, I couldn'er went, but she made ie promise, an' I ain't never goin' ack on my word. You come over to >e me." "I can't," came the answer across ie fence; "I "m earning me a baseball task. I done already earnt me a mitt, [v mama don't never make me prom ie her nothing, she just pays me to e good. That Tj buccome I 'm 'bout > get 'ligion and go to the mourner's ench. She 's gone up town now and ' I don't go outside the yard while he 's gone, she 's going to gimme a asebail mask. You got a ball what ou bringed from the plantation, and '11 have a bat and mitt and mask ad we can play ball some. Come on ver Just a little while; you ain't earn lg you nothing like what I'm do lg." "Naw; I promis' her not to an' I In't ever goin' to break my promise." "Well, then, Mr. Promiser," said immy, "go get your ball and we'll i'ow 'cross the fence. I can't find line." Billy kept his few toys and play lings in a closet, which was full of Id plunder. As he reached for his all something fell at his feet from a helf above. He picked it up, and ran xcitedly into the yard. "Look, Jimmy," he yelled, "here's a asebail mask I found in the closet" Jimmy, forgetful of the fact that he ras to be paid for staying at home, nmedlately rolled over the fence and in eagerly toward his friend. They samined the article in question with reat care. "It looks perzactly like a mask," nnounced Jimmy after a thorough in pection, "and yet it don't" He tried , on. "It don't seem to fit your face ight," he said. Sarah Jane was bearing down upon lem. "Come back home dis minute, Immy!" she shrieked, "want to ketch sme mo' contagwous 'seases, don't A Black Little Negro Went uh? What dat y' all got now?" As ] he drew nearer a smile of recognition nd appreciation overspread her Dig ood.-natured face. Then Bhe burst lto a loud, derisive laugh. "What y* 11 gwine to do wid Miss Minerva's old ustle?" she inquired. "Y* all sho' am e contaritest chiliens in dis here cop eratlon." "Bustle?" echoed Billy. "What 's a ustle?" "Dat-ar 's a bustle?dat 's what's a ustle. Ladies useto wear 'em 'cause ey so stylish to make they dresses Lick out in the back. Come on home, Immy, 'fore yuh ketch de yaller jandis r de epizootics; yo' ma tol' yuh to tay right at home." "Well, I'm coming, ain't I?" scowled le little boy. "Mama need n't to now nothing 'thout you tell." "Would you take yo' mama's pres nt now, Jimmy?" asked Billy; "you ln't earnt it. "Would n't you?" asked Jimmy, oubtfully. "Naw, I would n't, 'thout I tol' her." or the wits are very difficult There 3 nothing to do 100 times, or 50 times, t is not something to which ono can ive 20 minutes the first thing in the lorning and then go the rest of the ay. Socrates, who was the Sandow f mental exercise, kept his pupils at : pretty much of the time. There Is ne phase of it which is especially ard. This is the exercise of one's Ights. Unexercised rights are much orse than unexercised muscles, 'lius, after voting, we are ordinarily lentally stiff and sore for several ? r-- ; > "Well, I '11 tell her I Just corned " over a minute to Bee 'bout MIbs Mi nerva's bustle," be agreed as be again tumbled over the fence. A little negro boy, followed by * tiny, white dog, was passing by Miss ' Minerva's gate. Billy promptly flew to the gate and hailed him. Jimmy, looking around to see that Sarah Jane had gone back to the kitchen, as promptly rolled over the fence and joined him. | "Lemme see yo' dog," said the for mer. "Ain't he cute?" said the latter. The little darkey picked up the dog and passed It across the gate. "I wish he was mine," said the smaller child, as he took the soft, fluffy little ball in his arms; "what '11 you kike for him?" ? The negro boy had never Been the dog before, but he immediately accept ed tbe ownership thrust upon him and 1 answered, without hesitation, "111 take ( a dollar for her." "I ain't got but a nickel. Billy, ain't ' you got 'nough money to put with my nickel to make a dollar?" 1 "Naw; I ain't got a red cent." i "I 11 tell you what we'll do," sug^ , gested Jimmy; "we'll trade you a base ball mask for him. My mama's going to gimme a new mask 'cause I all time stay at home, so we'll trade you our old one. Go get it, Billy." Thus commanded Billy ran and picked up tbe btistle where it lay neg lected on the 'grass, and handed it to the quael-owner or tbe puppy, me aeai was promptly closed and a black little negro went grinning down the street with Miss Minerva's ancient bustle tied across his face, leaving behind him a curly-haired dog. ' "Ain't he sweet?" said Jimmy, hug ging the fluffy white ball close to his breast, "we %ot to name him, Billy." "Le's name her Peruny PearMne," was the suggestion of the other joint owner. , "He ain't going to be name' nothing at all like that," declared Jimmy; "you all time got to name our ' dogs the scalawaggest name tbey is. He's go ing to be name' 'Sam Lamb' 'cause he's my partner." "She's a girl dog," argued Billy, "an' she can't be nam' no man's *name. If she could I'd call her Major." "I don't care what sort o' dog he is. gin or DO J, D8 B gums w UC uaiuc '3am Lamb.' Pretty Sam! Pretty Sam!" and be fondly stroked the little animal's soft bead. "Here, peruny! Here, Peruny!" and Billy tried to snatch her away. The boys heard a whistle; the dog heard it, too. Springing from the little boy's arms Sam Lamb Peruny Pearllne ran under the gate and flew to meet her master, who was looking for her. CHAPTER XXV. Education and Its Perils. It was a warm day in early August and the four children were sitting con tentedly in the swing. They met al most every afternoon now, but were generally kept under strict surveil lance by Miss Minerva. "T won't be long 'fore we '11 all bafto go to school," remarked Frances, "and I '11 be mighty Borry; I wish we did n't ever bafto go to any old school." "I wisht we knowed how to read an' write when we's born," said Bil ly. "If I was God I 'd make all my babies so's they Is already eddlcated when they gits born. Reckon if w? Grinning Down the Street. ' 'd pray ev'y night an' ask God, he'd learn them babies what he 's makin' on now how to read an' write?" "I don' care nothing at all 'bout them babies," put In Jimmy, "t' aint going to do us no good if all the new babies what Doctor Sanford finds can read and write; it 'd jes' make 'em the easEiest things ever was. 'Sides, I got plenty things to ask God for 'thout fooling long other folks' brats, and I ain't going to meddle with God's business nohow." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Usual Result. Husband?Everything in this housfc is out of place. Been having an i earthquake? Wife?I've been putting things in order. 1 We measure success by accumula tion. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who ! loves most has most.?Henry van Dyke. days. This is because, unaccustomed to exercising our rights, we strain them. l The secret of it all is to exercise your muscles a little, your wits a lit tle and your rights a little. As the i Greeks said, "Nothing too much." Heard In School. < "Why rt1d Atlas have to support i the earth?" I "He didn't have to; he was Just practicing his physical culture left- , son." i -V I STATE CHAMBER S A UVE ORGANIZATION?IS FOB THE UPBUILDING OF THE ^ STATE. MEXT MEETING AUGUST 15 rhe Temporary Chairman Gives Rea- , eons Why Everybody Should Talc* , Interest in It.?Meeting of the Board >v-M of Directors Called. Columbia. ? R! G. Brueschwlelef, temporary secretary of the South Car olina chamber of commerce, recently organized in Columbia, Is active with ? the members of the organization and her lust issued that Interest must be * the press, calling attention'to a let maintained in order for the plans for upbuilding the state might be success fuL t It has been deemed wise to defer j the next meeting of the board of di rectors of the South Carolina cham ber of commerce from August 7, at Columbia, to August 15th, at Spartan burg. . This latter date la the time for the big "Charleeton-Panama" meeting in Spartanburg, which will undoubtedly attract a large number of business men from every section of >'[ the state. Among them will be many of the directors of the state chamber. Holding both the meetings of the board of directors of the State cham- j 'M ber, and the "Charleston-Panama" meeting at the same date, will save many considerable railroad fares, and will also enlarge the attendance at, both sessions. . ' j '' Some Notes. If you want to go ahead?say some- ; tVi4n<r Ha onmofhinc ho RAXIAtMnr. ' ? Peep once 1b a while. Many a peep has been heard around the world. Any state that expects to grow, has to work for that growth. Opportuni ties are not known unless you adver tise them. Only adequate publicity will make them known. Tell the truth and build up a firm foundation. There is good enough In the truth without being compelled to misrepresent Checks for $5 have been received by the temporary secretary for the defraying of office expenses until a definite financial plan has been adopted, from the following citlee: Columbia, Branchyllle, Charleston. Bishopville, Chester, Greenville, Bel m ?'-SL mf m 'A ton and Sumter. This amount .will be credited to the respective organiza- > , f tions as a preliminary contribution to the state chamber. Politics In Darlington County. Jw Darlington.?Time for filing pledges for county offices will expire on Aug ust 1 at 12 o'clock noon. This rtile wjL. in the past has been rigidly adhered \ to, and this year will be no exception. There will be a number of contest' ants for almost every office in the county. There are few, if any, issues, .';.2 outside of the legislative position*. ,V<:? One of the issues in the latter, doubt less will be whether or not the coun ty is to have a dispensary, s / .<< Aiken County Hospital Association.. Aiken.?The Aiken County Hospital Association has been formed by 50 ..t women of Aiken whose names are put down as the charter members. The < ; > purpose of this organization Is to raise money with, which to erect at Aiken a modern hospital, and it is the _ aim of those who have banded to gether for this purpose to enroll as .y members of the association every woi man in the county. , & ,:: .. Enrollment Is Far Too Large. < / ,;'4; Charleston.?At a meeting of the *7$ Charleston county Democratic execu tive committee the rejport of the sub committee on th^ examination of the club rolls submitted, showing an en-' rollment far in excess of the proper number in proportion to the white population of Charleston. According . ; ^ to Chairman Grimball of the subcom mittee, there are 540 ^duplicate names on the rolls, 154 aliens who are barred from participating in the primary by m the new state law ana aooui z.ouu names in excess of the duplicates, which it is figured should not have been enrolled. ' '* / ' Second Week Orangeburg Campaign. Orangeburg.?The second week of the Orangeburg county Democratic campaign ended with the meeting at Cope. Thtf meeting was well at tended and was notable in some ways. Until recently the candidates for the legislature had not been catechized as to how they stood in regard to the candidates for gover nor. It was rumored some days ago that Cope was to be the "finding out point." Some candidates have been ready to speak out while others hoped the questioqf would not be popped. Study Method of Tick Eradication. Spartanburg.?Members of the Aus tralian tick commission, accompanied by Dr. E. M. Neighbert of the United States department of agriculture, have spent a day in Spartanburg studying the methds of tick eradication ap plied in this country. The visiting commission is composed of Percy ( Cowley of Sidney, supervisor inspec tor of agriculture of New South Wales; P. H. Chauvel, a large live stock owner and C. J. Pound of Bris bane, bacteriologist. They will be in. the South until January. Adopt Rules and Regulations. Columbia. ? The State board of health met and adopted the rules and regulations recently drawn up to gov ern the sanitary condition of restau rants, cafes, hotels and passenger trains. It was decided to communi cate with the Travelers' Protective Association and the United Commer cial Travelers to request their assist ance in pushing the good work. A rep resentative of the Pullman company was present and promised the co-oiv eration of the company in seeing that the rules were carried out. i