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CHAPTER I.
1 Back of the massed red-brick and
clapboard buildings forming, in Jones
ville, Conn., the extensive group de
voted to the manufacture of Jones'
Pepsin Gum, was the abandoned power
house, wherein were housed the water
wheels which once had furnished force
to drive the factory's machinery. The
stream's diminishing flow, the in
creaseu neeas ui iuv uuomcDo, auu vuv
economy of steam all had militated to
ward industrial abandonment of the
old building.
Small boys never fished there, for
the sluice-waters were too swift, loaf
ers never idled there, for the watch
men of the mills were too strict in
their guardianship; but lovers some
times wandered there, of moonlight
nights; and in the afternoons, when
the academy sessions had ended.
"Broadway," really named Jackson
Jones, but nicknamed "Broadwky" be
cause of his continual glorification of
New York's great thoroughfare, which
he had seen upon occasion, sometimes
went there "to get away from Jones
ville." This afternoon he was to teach
two Jonesvllle girl friends new dance
steps which he had learned in New
York city. Later, dancing these with
him at the Odd Fellows ball, they
would confound an ouier suio
Jonesvllle.
The gitls came promptly. Clara
Spotswood was the daughter of the lo
cal judge, Josie Richards the daughter
of a recent manager of the gum fac
tory. Her father was now laid up with
rheumatism, and Josie was in training
for a bookkeeper's post in the great
enterprise which swallowed most of
JoneBville's youth of either sex, as
soon as they left school.
"Now this step, girls," Broadway
said in preface,' "was invented on
Broadway for use upon Broadway by
Broadway people. Don't mistake it for
a quiet nap. It's not a sleep-dance. It
was not dreamed out in Jonesville."
"And was everybody dancing it?"
asked Josie.
"Every girl I saw," he answered. He
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JJaa uet'u ItSUUlg Ul a, uan 11c uau at
tended in New York, but not quite all
lie might have told about it. "Every
one I saw, but one."
"And was she dancing old style?"
"No; she was being carried to an
ambulance. She had just sprained an
ankle."
"Oh, Jackson, you're tpo funny!"
"Thanks for those kind words." He
watched them whirl together for a
moment. "No; not quite that way,
Broadway Jones.
Clara- Don't give a Broadway step a
Jonesville twist; you want to give a
Jonesville step a Broadway polish."
Breathless they stopped their ef
forts. "Oh, you and your Broadway!
You're always talking about Broad
way !"
"Clara," said Jackson very seriously,
"ha-ro you ever seen Broadway?"
"You know I haven't"
"Well, if you had, you'd never see
another place you thought worth see
ing."
"Oh,you and your Broadway!" Josie
\ Richaris was an extremely pretty girl,
more serious than Clara, who was fluf
fy. "Nc wonder the boys all call you
Broadwiy!'"
"I supiose a minister is proud when
people c41 him 'doctor,'" was the an
swer. "Vhen people call me 'Broad
way,' I fe4 about like that."
4Td ratter folks would call me An
drew?Jacfeon," remarked Sammy.
"Andrew?Jackson?was a?statesman
?not?a?sreet." ,
PLUTARCHON THE SLIT SKIRT
Garment Is lescribed as Being In
Vogue in Times of Lycurgus
theLaw Giver.
We must rerad Plutarch. We must
reread some of the other so-called
classics?and no for antiqufty'B sake,
either. Thomas )wen of Topeka in
forms us that weire centuries out in
saying the slit skU is only 1,200 years
old. Speaking of lycurgus the Law
giver and his tlmt, Plutarch relates
(so writes Mr. Own):
"The sktrts of th habit which the
virgins wore were ot sewed to the
bottom, but opened athe sides as they
walked, and discoveid the thigh, as
Sophocles very plain! write:
[ ''Still In the light d?s struts Her
mlone,
[Whose opening folds dltfay the naked
thigh.' "
This passage of Plutrfch is well
[wurth looking up for moi than details
of costume?800 or 900-ears before
the Christian era, says a riter in Col
jlier's Weekly. You may lad there of
[the complaint made that^omen hi
WADDMRS
\Y CT GEORGI
"Your?er?little brother," began
Broadway, but, not being eloquent by
nature, he left the sentence incom
plete.
"He thinks he'll be a Caesar. He
wants to kill some boys by strategy,
for he's too fat to fight."
The girls laughed again. Now they
had begun the pleasant homeward
walk along the high road to the border
of the village.
"Can you come to supper?" Clara
asked.
"As long as I can't eat on Broadway
I'd rather go to your house than to any
other place I know," said Jackson.
"But I've got to go home first This
collar's wilted."
He was the only boy in Jonesville
who would have thought of that; he
was the only boy in Jonesville who
owned a pair of patent-leather shoes.
AlS they passed his uncle's residence
tha old man, who was his guardian,
caught a glimpse of him through an
opening in the neglected shrubbery on
the great lawn, and sent a serving
man to bid him enter.
Jackson made a wry face for the
benefit of the girls, as he said good-by
to them, promising to appear for sup
per at the Spotswoods'. He carefully
obeyed the summons, but it irked him.
Hi? uncle always irked him. He be
lieved, and there were others who be
lieved, that his uncle trifed to irk him.
They never had got on very well to
gether; the old man was hard, con
servative to the point of stubbornness
and opposed every young idea, particu
lorlv tr> p?? vftiiritt Man which
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chanced to have originated in his
nephew's brain.
' Weil, Jackson," Baid his nncle sour
ly.
"Well, Uncle Abner."
"Ready to settle down in Jonesville,
are you?"
"Now, uncle," said the youth protest
ingly.
"Your father settled down here, I
settled down here, and you'll have to
settle down here," said the grim, un
lovable old man. "You have obliga
tions here. The Jones Gum factory
has built this town, and is responsible
for it You will have charge of the
factory before long."
Jackson writhed. He didn't wish to
have charge of the factory.
"It's not good business, uncle," he
had once told the man who now sat
a+orino- of him mrwirlHv '"Thov'll think
it was the gum that made him bald.
Poor grandfather was too bareheaded
to be a good advertisement for any
thing, except?an Indian."
"Why an Indian?" his uncle inquired
without suspicion.
"As an after-taking 'ad* of the best
scalper-in the tribe."
This irreverence had abruptly end
ed that day's interview , .
But this evening Abner Jones was
busy with more serious thoughts.
"When are you going to work?" he
crabbediy demanded.
"I don't see?"
"Jackson, every Jones for two gen
erations has learned the sum business
be/ore he was as old as you; but you,
foolishly indulged by your father?I
have never seen such madness as the
way he brought you up?have come to
manhood knowing nothing of -it. Don't
you ever wish to settle down?"
"Not yet," said Jackson, boldly. "I'm
too young." .
"You're twenty-one."
"I'm twenty-one; but I've lived most
of the time in Jonesville. That makes
me just fifteen so far as actual age
goes?and yet the time seems longer
than it is," said the irreverent Jack
son.
"I'm almost discouraged. I'm free to
tell you, Jackson, that, if your father's
will had left me any opportunity for
doing so, I should see to it that, when
I pass to my reward, you would have
no share of the great business which
you hold in such contempt"
"Pass on to your?er?yes, sir," Jack
son murmured. k v
"I have had tales brought to me of
some things you have said about Jones
ville," said the old man bitterly. "You
have compared it most unfavorably
with that modern Babylon, New York."
"Well?er?uncle, you know New
York Is?well, more metropolitan.
"Jonesville is metropolitan enough.
Jonesville is a pleasant little town,
built by the industry and brains of the
members of your family, sir?in both
of which you seem to be most singular
ly lacking; and, while it has fewer
people than New York, It has more vir
tues. You will be the only Jones re
maining after I have gone. I am far
from well. I?"
Instantly the young man was con
trite. He had no wish to hurt his
I uncle's feelings.
"I'm sorry, sir, If you are feeling 111,"
those times were too bold, too mascu
line, to prone to make themselves mis
tresses of the houses they inhabited;
and even "they wanted a share in the
affairs of state." Aristophanes satir
ized feminism in a comedy that is
now 23 centuries old?and still acted!
If you have time to do only "timely"
reading, you would better cut out the
periodicals and read the Greeks. To
them we owe (wrote Wilde) "whatever
is modern in our life"?including the
slit skirt.
Imagination.
An obsolete form of power, at one
time used In making countries, religion
and literature, but now superseded by
the higher psychology. In former
times imagination was employed by
children in playing games, and in the
making of mud pies out of mud and
real soldiers out of wood. It is the
father of many dead heroes, among
whom may be mentioned Theseus,
Jack the Giant Killer, King Arthur.
Caliban, Robinson Crusoe and Santa
Claus. It 'is still discovered In the
extremely young. At one time, when
man was crude, imagination was
HALL wn
:m.Comn ^
he said, respectfully, "but, you see,
you've always lived in Jonesville?a
great drain on a man's vitality. I
didn't mean to say a word to bother
you."
But the old man was not to be paci
fied; his face continued stern. "It is
less your words than what seems to be
your disposition which annoys me," he
burst forth. "Is there nothing serious
in you?"
"I guess I'm pretty young to settle
down. Perhaps that's what's the mat
ter."
"I had settled down and had com
plete charge of the bookkeeping depart
ment of this great enterprise before
I was eighteen. You might begin to
take life Beriously."
"You can't take it any other way in
T ? M
juneBvmc.
"I feel that I should tell you vari
ous details of the business, for my
days here may be numbered."
The youth looked deprecatlngly J
around the dull old library, feeling, in
the earnestness of hjis revolt, that if
his own days in Jonesville were but
numbered it would give him great re
lief. Even death, he thought?
"I'm sorry you're not well, sir."
"We are but shadows cast upon the
stream of life. Mere shadows, Jack
son."
Jackson gazed at him with careful
eyes; that his mouth was also careful
was entirely proven by the fact that
It said nothing. A careless mouth
might have remarked that his old
uncle waB a pretty solid shadow, for
he weighed close upon two hundred
pounds.
"Your father," said this very robust
invalid, "had some tendencies which I
now see in you?exaggerated iii you,
Jackson. He, too, was frivolous; he,
too, longed for the flesh-pots of New
York."
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"I wish I might feel sure of that,"
said Abner Jones. "I should feel Burer
of the safety of the gum."
"I shall never harm the gum, sir."
"You must not only never harm it;
you must help it. Let me tell you,
Jackson?there is a trust in the gum
business?"
( "Yes, sir, I've heard of it."
It would have been remarkable if he
had not. For two years the air of
Jonesville had been full of timid ru
mors of the gum trust. The whole
town was fearful that the great Jones
factory might be sold to it and closed.
"After I am gone they will endeavor
to secure our factory and business,"
Abner Jones went on. "I shall never
let them have it. ' You must never let
them have it. Of your pride in the
Jones gum?"
"It's surely been a handsome little
money matter,' nroaaway graxueu.
"I do not like your language," said
his uncle, "but the meaning of your
words is accurate enough. It has made
money. It still continues to. make
money?as an independent gum. It?"
Broadway was getting fldgetty. The
Spotswoods were waiting supper for
him. Mrs. Spotswood was a plump
and cheerful housewife, who doted on
the recipes he brought back from New
York upon the rare occasions when his
uncle let him go there.
"It would make more, uncle, wouldn't
it, if it lost its independence?" he in
quired.
"The plan of the trust is to take it
from the market. Thev have not
thought of continuing it as an indi
vidual product They merely wish to
eliminate it utterly. This would free
their other products of its competi
tion."
"Did some one of them chew it?"
his nephew inquired earnestly.
"Jackson, you should be ashamed!
They merely wish to take it from the
m? ' "it so that it no longer will affect
thfcw?"
"Yes, I've heard." He had?a thou
sand times*
"That is the reason I am anxious
that you should begin to show some
vital interest in our splendid enter
prise. It must be protected at all haz
ards. It should be the pride, as it has
been the fortune, of the Jones family."
"Honest, uncle, I don't believe I
know enough to go into the business.
Aren't you afraid that it would spoil
the sale of the gum if anybody should
find out I helped to make It? That
worries me. The gum must be pro
tected. I leave it to you, uncle. I?"
"Jackson, you are frivolous. You
are a tremendous disappointment to
me. You?"
"I don't want to be a disappointment,
but I'd almost rather be a disappoint
ment than a gum-maker. I'd?"
"Go!" said his uncle angrily. "I?"
But Jackson did not hear the re
' mainaer of the sentence. He had
heeded its first word.
I thought to be serviceable. The notion,
I however, along with mythology and
I other follies, has long since been ex
ploded, the greatest efficiency having
been demonstrated to lie along the
lines of least resistance, which in
cludes among other things, playground
supervision, department store tactics
child labor, white slavery and curren
cy reform.?Life.
According to Statistics.
In London they tell of a man with a
serious disease of the throat, who con
sulted a specialist. The surgeon rec
ommended the -emoval of the larynx,
an operation which the patient feared
might prove dangerous.
The surgeon, however, smiled reas
suringly, and said:
"Oh, no! You are quite sure to re
cover."
"But," persisted the patient. "I un
derstand that this sort of operation is
very serious indeed."
"My reason," continued the surgeon,
"for saying that you are sure to re
cover iB this: The mortality is nine
teen out of twenty, and I've had nine
teen deaths already."
1 SCENES IN THE PLA'
)OFy#/GHr, /SG, 0Y G.W. DJUJJMWAM t
CHAPTER II.
"I should enjoy the supper better,"
Broadway said later at the Spotswood
family table, "if everything I chew,
after I've seen uncle, didn't make me
think of gum. I wish there was a way
of eating without chewing."
They all laughed, but not very heart
ily. Gum was a sacred word to them
also. It was to every one in Jones
ville.
"Let's talk things over after sup
per," said the judge. Then, after they
had gone into his/stuffy little study:
"Broadway, I've been talking with your
uncle."
"That's one reason I would never
study law. You have to do such dis
agreeable things. I've been talking
with him, too."
The judge laughed very briefly, very
dryly. "It's not politic for you to
speak that way, my, boy. The old?er
?your Uncle Abner will be sure to
hear of it."
"Must I pretend to love him?"
"Er?It might be better to."
"Judge,"/ said Broadway solemnly.
"I'm a pretty good little amateur actor,
but there are some parts I'd never try
to play. One of them is that of loving
nephew to my Uncle Abner Jones."
Judge Spotswood sighed. know,
my boy, and I don't know that I blame
you. I only wished to say that as a
matter of expediency?"
"I don't know just what expediency
means, but if it has anything to do
with Uncle Abner I don't want to."
'\Well, he said today that he hadn't
any hopes of you. He said he didn't
think you'd ever settle Vdown. He
doesn't seem to know where you get
all your wild ways from. He is shocked
beyond expression to find that your
young friends all call you Broadway.
It's worrying your uncle."
"What will he propose?"
"If you won't go into the business,
he will try to buy you out."
Jackson looked at him in dumb de
light. "For money? Ready money?"
"Yes; it's what I'm afraid of, Jack
son. Be careful how you sell to him."
"I'll be careful that he pays me.
That's all I care about."
"Don't be in a hurry. What I'm
afraid of?but I ought not to talk in
this way. Abner Jones has never
done me an ill turn. Of course your
father was my client?"
"And dear uncle put hia hooka into
my dad whenever he could get them
caught so's he could pull, didn't he?"
"He is a shrewd businesa man. But
don't eell, Jackson." The judge was
clearly ill at ease.
"If I don't sell, will I have to turn
to and make gum?"
"You ought to. A goose that lays
a golden egg should be well cared for."
"Let uncle raise the poultry. I'd
rather sell the eggs."
"But, Jackson?"
"Judge, will you come to see me in
New York?"
The conversation had brought Jack
son Jones to sudden realization of the
fact that in eleven months or less he
would be twenty-two, and that, as soon
&8 he was twenty-two, he would be
free, according to the terms of his
dead father's will, to spend his own
exactly as he pleased.
"I suppose you'll go there just as
soon as you are master of your for
tune."
The boy leaned forward eagerly.
"When will It happen, judge? Will It
be on the midnight that begins my
birthday, or the midnight that It ends
with? Quick! I've got to know."
"Better wait till the next day, Jack
son. That's the safest. Oh, -I know
you'll go! But don't sell to your uncle.
Promise me."
"When will he make me the^ofler?"
"Before your birthday, Jackson."
"Is it as close as that? Is liberty as
close as that? I hadn't realized!
Couldn't we get him to talk to me to
night about it? If I agreed to sell to
him for half, would he agree to let my
birthday come at once Instead of when
it's scheduled? Would?"
The judge was laughing, somewhat
ruefully. Jackson Jones amused him,
always; to some extent he could sym
pathize with his revolt against Jones
ville. He himself had revolted against
Jonesville in his youth, but there had
been no fortune coming to him with
the arrival of his manhood to release
him from the hated village. And, be
sides, he was uncomfortable tonight.
He wondered if he ought to tell Broad
way what he had learned.
"Will you consider me your law
yer?" the judge asked.
"Consider you my lawyer, judge? Of
course you are my lawyer. Weren't
you my father's lawyer?"
"Not always; I did not draw his
PLAYED TRICK ON PARTNER
Neat Way in Which Ikey Secured
Silver Spoons Which His Com
panion Had Purloined.
Two gentlemen of the light-flngered
fraternity, who were in the habit of
visiting dinner parties in hopes of
picking up something, were one even
ing Just in time to see the tableB
cleared; but Ikey, the smarter of the
two, succeeded in purloining five sil
ver forks, which he Immediately pock
eted, to the envy of Moses, his pal,
who asked him to share.
"No, my boy. You should be smart,"
was the answer.
During the evening Moses was ask
ed to sing, but refused, saying he was
no singer; but if they cared for a lit
tle conjuring trick he would entertain
them for a few minutes.
The company was delighted, and
Moses asked for five silver forks,
which were soon brought. He then
placed them in his Inside breast pock
et, and, gently tapping them three
times, he exclaimed: "Presto! Fly!
Change! Gone! Now. if someone
will, for instance. And in other things
your unci#?well, if your father had
but listened, as I hope you'll listen, his
brother Abner never would have?"
"Sure! I know. And you've already
been my lawyer. Didn't you get me
out of jail thee in New Haven? Imag
ine being locked lp In New Haven!
And I'd only dropped a melon from the
window. If the chief of police hap
pened to be going by, was that my
fault? I'd have eaten the melon 11 it
hadn't been so spoiled. And still they
locked me up! They made a criminal
o'f me! It's bad enough to be a crim
inal, but to be a criminal imprisoned
in New Haven?heavens! Suppose a
man should be locked up In Jonesville!
Why, he'd die of shame."
"Well, if you accept me as your law
yer, when your uncle asks you to sell
out your Interest in the Jones Gum
company you will refuse. When you
do that, he'll try to bind you not to
sell out to the trust as long as you
both live. I hope you'll never sell out
to the trust, but don't sign any pa
pers, Jackson, although you know
what the trust purchase of the factory
would mean to Jonesville?and to all
of us."
"I'll not sell out to the trust, Judge,
but If my uncle?"
"He'll not offer you a fair price. He'll
want to get a bargain. And remem
ber that the company will get richer
every year."
"But the trust may bust it"
"I hope you'll take that chance, my
boy, rather than ever be a party to
ruining the old home town."
"All right, Judge. I won't Bell to
Uncle Abner?anyway, Just now. I
won't need the money. There's enough
uuimiig 10 iiiw lu tievy m? dubj xui a
while."
"Jackson, I wish you might feel dif
ferently about the itarting of your life
as a grown man. If you oould culti
vate a feeling of responsibility?"
"It bores me. I could never even
spell It" K |
"I'm afraid it does, Jackson,' and
that worries me. But?"
"You'll come to New York, some
time, and?and?"
"Jackson, I'm afraid I shall."
"And keep It secret that we're either
one of us from Jonesvllle."
"Jackson," said the judge, reproving
ly, "you'd better get along toward
home. And don't think too much about
those lights. Broadway, .like every
other Btreet, is safer in the daytime
before the lights are lit"
"The lights are Broadway's eye*/1
Judge Spotswood.
said the young man. "Until they're
lighted, Broadway is asleep, and you
see only men and women on it."
"And what do you see later?"
"You can search me for the name.
But they're several degrees beyond
mere men and women."
After he had left the judge, Jackson
found It quite impossible to go sedate
ly home, as he might possibly have
done on almost any other night He
often went to bed in Jonesville, he ox
plained upon occasion, because he
could not bear to stay awake there. He
said it made him feel ashamed.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Some 280 British cities
miinininQl m o T?lrof Hahooo
muuivi^ui uiai not uvuouoi
will kindly look iDto my friend Ikey'8
inside breast pocket he will find them
there."
A gentleman obliged, and Ikey, ex
tremely flustered, produced the forks,
to the great delight of the company
and Moses.
Emigration From Scotland.
The tide of emigration continues un
abated. Thousands every week con
tinue to leave London, Liverpool and
Glasgow for Canada and Australia.
There is every indication that the year
1913 will beat every record in the re
cent history of emigration, and that
before the end of the year 300,000 will
have left these shores. And what Is
even more ominous than the quantity
of the emigration is its quality. It Is
the young men, the enterprising and
the energetic that are leaving, rt Is
the old men, the women and children
that are left behind. Some of the most
beautiful districts of Scotland are be
ing depleted. Whole cities, like the
old country town of Jedburgh, are left
desolate, and houses are crumbling
even in -he main streets.?London Ev
eryman,
SOUTH CAROLINA ESTIMATES
FOR RUNNING EXPENSES EX
CEEDS REVENUE.
CONSIDER THE TAX QUESTION
if All Estimates Asked For Are Allow
ed Taxes Will Have to Be Raised
Two Mills to Prevent Deficit in the
Treasury.
Columbia. ? South Carolina faces
a grave problem, acordlng to the
estimates of expenses made by the
various state officials and heads of
departments In the matter of ap
propriations and income for the year
1914. According to the comptrolei
general If the general assembly manes
all the appropriations asked for, the
tax levy will have to be seven and
threetenths mills as against five and
one-fourth last year.
Comptoller General Jones says
that the state's revenue for 1914 from
taxes estimated and based upon the
present assesment of $296,441,120, at a
rate of five and one-fourth mills on
the dollar would be $1,556,315.88. To
this he adds the ' estimated income
from sources other than taxes such as
insurance license fees, fees of ; the
secretary of state, corporation license
fees, income tax, support of the rail
road comlssioner, etc., to the amount
of (310,925. Mr. Jones says: "And
we have a total estimated revenue for
ordinary expenses for 1914 of $1,867,-"
240.8.
"The estimated levy of five and
one-fourth mills is the sa^ne as lqst
year. It will he seen by reference to
the amounts of appropriations asked
for, $2,478,440.32, that they will ex
ceed the estimated revenue oi the
state under a levy of five and one'
fourth mills by $611,^99.44. If you
made all the appropriations asked for,
it would be necessary to make a rate
of seven and three-tenths mills on
the dollar to raise them. This does
not take into consideration the one
mill state tax, which will raise $296,
441.12."
The amounts asked for In the va
rious ptate departments for 1914 are
as fol/ows:
Governor's office I
Secretary of state
Comptroller general ....
Insurance commissioner..
State treasurer
Supt. of education..
Adjutant general
Attorney general
Railroad commission ....
Chief game warden
State Librarian
Public buildings
State electrician 19,005.00
State Geologist 5,000.00
Department of agriculture 15,920.00
Judicial department ..... 100,895.00
Board medical examiners 3,000.00
Health department ...... 31,720.00
Tax department ' 88,319.82
University of S. C 183,582.19
Winthrop Colleger 193,848.00
The Citade 37,600.00
Institution Deaf, Dumb and
Blind - ' 75,046.98
S. C. Industrial and Me- ,
chanical College .... 15,000.00
Hospital for Insane 386,424.28
S. C. Industrial school.... 68,000.00
State penitentiary 6,750.00
Other charitable and penal
purposes .... 2,805.00
Pensions ' 250,000.00
'Historical commission ... 5,270.00
Interest on bonded debt.. 266,658.38
Elections 45,785.00
Catwaba Indians 9,750.00
Expenses general asembly 61,814.73
Confederate / Infirmary .. 25,000.00
Board of fisheries 9,400.00
State hospital commission 125,000.00
State house and grounds
commission 6,350.00
Med. al College of South
Caroina 36,300.00
Miscellaneous 259,175.19
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Some New Enterprises.
A commission has been Issued to
che Rodman-Brown Company of Ches
ter, with a capital of $50,000, to do a
general mercantile business. Peti
tioners are J. L. Rodman and L. E.
Brown.
A charter has been issued to the
Black-Frasier Motor Car Company of
Columbia, with a capital of $2i>,00G.
Officers are J. M. Black, president,
and J. G. Frasier, secretary and treas
urer.
A commission has been issued to
the Reeder-Newton Furniture Com
pany of Greenville, with a capital of
$6,000. Petitioners are W. J. Reeder,
L. H. Wod and R. L. Newton.
A charter has been issued to the
Sowell Grocery Company of Kershaw,
with a capital of $12,000. Officers are
R. L. Sowell, president, and John R.
Faile, secretary and treasurer.
Wilkerson Mercantile Company of
Hickory Grove has been chartered
with a capital of $12,500.
A commission has been issued to J.
W. Baughman Company of Wagener,
with a capital of $15,000. Petitioners
om t w naufhmnii and O. L. Baueh
man.
Columbia.?The Columbia Chair
Company has been chartered by the
secretary of state, with a capital of
$50,000, to manufacture and sell Turai
rure. Officers are Logan C. Murray,
l.iesident; It. F. Warfteld, vice presi
dent, and E L. Augustus, treasurer
lad secretary.
Killed When Buggies Collide.
Greenville, S. C.?A htadon collis
ion ot fwo buggies a few evenings
ago just beyond the city limits re
sulted in the death of W. A. Griffin, a
prominent Greenville man, and in the
serious injury of an unknown negro
who was driving for Mr. Griffin. The
other buggy contained three negroes,
said to be drunk and drivtojj at a
rapid rate. Mr. Griffin was well
known in this city and had many
prominent connections in this part of
the state. He is survived by hi*
sridow and four children.
HEN LOVE
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick chiid.
Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the "dose" mother insisted
on?castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.'
With our children It's different
Mothers who cling to the old form of'
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt ls?well-found
ed. Their tender Uttle "insides" are
Injured by them, y x
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious "California Syrup of Tigs." Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless "fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that It never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet*,
en the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor
row.
Ask at the store for a 60-cent bottle
of "California Syrup of Figs/' which
has fall directions fot babies,.children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adr.
So Kind!
MIa she good to the children?**
"Very; she lets them do everything
their father doesn't want them to do."
y"
BAD CASE OF DANDRUFF
_____
Else ell, Ala.?"I bad a very bad cas?
of dandruff on my head. I was to*>$
mented by itching and my l^air began
to come out by the combftds. I al- '
most became frantic, fearful . that I
would lose all of my hair which was
my pride. There were some pimples
on my scalp and I scratched them un?
til they made sores. My hair was dry
and lifeless.
'7 saw the advertisement of Cuticura
Soap and Ointment and sent to ,my
druggist for. three cakes of Cuticura
Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment
I washed my scalp with warm water
strong with the Cuticura 'Soap and
dried, afterwards applying the Cutl
cura Ointment, working It In the scalp
slowly with my fingers. After using
them for several days my hair began
to stop coming out The dandruff all
disappeared and in less than four
weeks a cure was accomplished per
manently." (Signed) Miss Lucy May.. ,
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post>
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."?Adv.
The girl who persists In doing more
than her share of the' courting Is apt
to break into the spinster class.
mm
Dr. Pierce's Pellets, *111011. sugar-coated,
easy to take as candy, regulate and invig
orate stomach, liver and no web. Do not
gripe. Adv.
It's the unexpected that often hap* ' ;
pens, even when we bring it qn tmr*
selve8. \'
Trapped.
His Wife?I met our maid Anna '
Just now on the street and she pre
tended not to see me.
Her Husband?Tou ought to poipt
out to Anna the impropriety of such
conduct
His Wife?But how can I? Yon see,
she had another girl with her, and it
was quite evident Bhe didn't want her
friend to know she was working for a
woman who wore a two-dollar-and-a- j
half hat."
What It Coming?
Whitney Warren, at the recent New
York horse show, nodded toward a i
Tjm
jV-.i'f
L i
young man in tight! morning coat and y ;
rakishly tilted top hat, and said:
"That young millionaire has already , vjj
had three wives. Yet he is received, ':.ri;
yet he is even lionized, everywhere.
What is the world coming to?' * .i c
"What is the world coming to?" Mr. --f '-:'5
Warren pursued. "As I look abont me
at the tolerant, the too tolerant so
ciety of today. I think of the horse
thief.
" 'Yours ifl a very serious crime, my
man,' a judge said sternly to a horse
thief. 'Fifty years ago it was a hang
ing matter.' *
" "Well, your honor,' said the horse
thief, calmly, 'fifty years hqpce it
mayn't be a crime at all.'"
WONDERED WHY.
FnimH tho Anawnr Wax "Coflss,"
? '
Many pale, sickly persons wonder
for years why they have to suffer so, '
and eventually discover that the drag
?caffeine?in coffee is the main cans?
of the trouble.
"I was always very fond of coffe9 '
and drank it every day. I never had
much flesh and often wondered why I
was always .so pale, thin and weak. -
"About five years ago my health
completely broke down and I was con
fined to my bed. My stomach was in
such condition that I could hardly take
sufficient irouriBhment to sustain life.
"During this time I was drinking
coffee, didn't think I could do without
it
"After awhile I came to the conclu
eion that coffee "was Hurting me, ana
decided to give it up and try Postum.
When It was made right?dark and
rich?I soon became very fond of it
"In one week I began to feel better.
I could eat more and sleep better. My
sick headaches were less frequent, and
within five months I looked and felt
like a now being, headache spells en
tirely gone.
"My health continued to Improve
and today I em well and strong, weigh
148 lbs. I attribute my present health
to the life-giving qualities of Postum."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well*
ville," in pkgs.
Postum now comes In two forms:
Regular Postum?must be well
boiled.
Instant Postum?is a soluble pow
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
In a cup of hot water and, with cream
and sugar, makes a delicious beverage
Instantly. Grocers sell both kinds.
"There's a Reason" for Postum. . ^