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PURSUED CLOSELY BY A GREAT BIG UGLY FISH "If your girl doesn't know how to fish," enthusiastically declared the young fellow who clerks in a bank, "take her out fishing some day if you want to have some real fun. If she ?knows how to fish it won't be half so much fun, and it will be all the more lun if you don't know how to Ssh your self." Then the enthusiastic young man proceeded to explain his proposition. "A friend and I," said he, "got our girls to go to Greenwood lake last Sunday. We hadn't any Idea what we were going to do or see when we got there, and we didn't seem to care, only so we ran against a good time. "On the way up I asked the conduc tor of the train what we were likely to Und at the lake to sort of round out a day with some fun mixed up with it ( *"Do you folks dance?' said ho. : " 'Sure thing,' said I. j "'Can you fish?' said he. I "'No.' said I, positively. "'Then go flshin',' said he, and passed on. "We thought it was kind of queer ?advice, but the conductor seemed to know what he was talking about, and we made up our minds to take his ad vice and go fishing. When we got to the lake we-found a man who had boats and fishing things to hire, got a couple of boats, a fish pole apiece and some bait, and prepared to go fish ing. '"Where's the hest place to fish?' I asked the man we hired the outfit from. "'Know much abcut fishing?' he asked. "i told him we didn't kuow a thing about fishing. '"Don't make no difference, then, oald he, 'where you fish.' "This seemed to bear out the advice the conductor had handed us, and I considered that we were following the right path to overhaul fun, so after the man had told us how to bait our hooka .we rowed out on the lake and went to fishing. Our boats drifted about for a while, and as the situation was all to the restful and dreamy I was pass ing quite a few over to Sue in the line of soft nothings, and Sue was taking 'em for all they were worth and now and then murmuring one or two back to me, the fishing stunt kind o' slipped my mind and hers, too. Then all of a sudden she gave a scream that almost lifted my hat and hollered: " 'Oh, Charlie, something ls trying tc take my fishpole away from me!' "I looked, and sure enough, her fish pole was being jerked down in the wa ter and she was trying to keep it up. "'Hold on to it, Sue!' I shouted "Maybe it's a bite.' "Just then about twenty feet from one side of the boat a big fish jumped out of the water with Sue's hook in its mouth. It shook itself like a dog shaking a rat and glared at us the maddest kind. Sue screamed loudei than ever and hollered^ "'It's jumping at me, Charlie; why don't you kill the horrid thing?' "I put my pole on the seat and sat on it while I rowed fast to the spot where the fish had jumped out, intend ing to slaughter it with an oar if it sprang out again, but when I got there the ugly critter had moved and came leaping out twenty feet in another di rection and madder than ever." '"Oh, it's chasing UB, Charlie!' she hollered. 'Pull for shore and call foi help!' "I don't know just what I would have set myself to work at doing il Sue hadn't screamed again right OD the heels of her last yell: " 'Oh, now it's heading us off, Char, lie!' she hollered. "I turned and looked in that direc tion just in time to see the big fish glaring at us off our bow and shaking itself in the air till everything rattled. At least I thought lt was that big fish until out of the water astern of us it came again and then I discovered that two fish were after us, the one on Sue's line and now one on mine. "Then I certainly did yell for my friend to get in there on the double quick with that gun of his. Seems to me that those two big and ugly fish must have caught on to the meaning of that hurry call, for while my friend was on his way in answer to it the fish, on my line gave one other great jump In the air and with a tremendous lunge tore loose from the hook and didn't come for us again. Following its example. Sue's fish did the same act. Sue gave one shriek of joy and exclaimed: '"Oh, thank goodness, Charlie. He's gone at last!' "When my friend came up and we told him our adventure he didn't seem to have worda to make any comment on it for a while, then he said: " 'Wonder why it wouldn't have been the proper thing to yank them fish in and land 'era In your boat?' "'Why of course lt would, Charlie!' said Sue reproachfully. 'Why in the world didn't'you think of that? The very idea!' "I wondered a little at lt myself and ?declared that we would try for 'em again. We did, and it wasn't long be fore Sue yelled that the fish was after her pole again. Whether lt was the same one or not I don't know, but it looked exactly like it when lt Jumped and we got It in the boat and killed it with an oar. A lot more fish tackled us before the day was over and most cf 'em we didn't yank in and iland, but we had heaps of fun seeing ?'em get away. "That conductor sure did know what he was talking about. Yes, yes. 'There's a heap more fun If you don't know how to fish and if your girl don't know how than there is in knowing how." HENRY HAS GOOD TIME AT THE VILLAGE CIRCUS "Even my elster Chryssie, who looks upon men as mere cumberers of the earth and creatures to be taught their place," Bald the elder Miss Simp Bon, "was moved to speak with com miseration of Mrs. Dulster's husband, j Nobody at our summer resort ever spoke of him as Mr. Dulster-he was always described as the property of als wife. "Mrs. Dulster was what ls called a forceful woman and in settling the affairs of the universe she Incidentally settled Henry's. If he opened his mouth to express an opinion Mrs. Dul ster would immediately Interrupt and say: 'Now, Henry, you don't know anything about It, and anyhow your Idea is not at all what you think lt is!' She decided every question In the Dulster family and Henry never did anything he wanted to. It was positively pathetic one night to see him watch the other men having blue berry pie in addition to their ice cream when his wife would not let him. "Henry had sort of brightened up when the Taylor girls and some others of the young crowd swooped down cn our corner with the announcement that a special launch was going to take all who wanted to go to the cir cus in the village the next day and didn't we want to come along? "I saw Chryssie stiffen, as did Mrs. Dulster. Chryssie has the notion that because she and I are near 40 we should hobble with canes and take Bnuff in the chimney corner-that ia what is always making trouble be tween us-but I like a circus just as much as I did when I was ten years old. From the flaBh In Henry's eye lt appeared that he did, too. " 'No, thank you/ said Mrs. Dulster, grimly. 4I hope we have outgrown such foolishness! Circus, Indeed! Pack of nonsense!' " 'I agree with you, Mrs. Dulster/ said-Chryssie, glaring at me. "'How much it looks like rain!' I remarked, absently. Henry appeared disappointed. I had defended him on several occasions and my weak ac quiescence in the ultimatum of Mrs. Dulster and Chryssie seemed to sur prise him "'It would be like old times to go to that circus, Miss Simpson/ Henry murmured in my ear a little later. 'I wish Mrs. Dulster cared about such things.' He sighed. "Then and there I made up my mind to take Henry Dulster to the circus! People take other folks' small boys and if he wasn't a hectored, disap pointed small boy I never saw one! Besides, I wanted to go myself. "Mrs. Dulster did not appear to mind the next morning when I asked her husband to row me down the lake to the place where they got water lilies. Henry enjoyed rowing and we had a good time as we went along. The village at the other end of the lake was in sight before he remem bered to ask me just where the lilies were. "'My goodness!' said I, gazing about blankly. 'We must have missed the turn into the bayou! What a shame! Never mind; we're almost to town. I've got a little shopping to do and-' " 'And I'd like some cigars/ said Henry, eagerly. Mrs. Dulster allows him only one a day. "The way he beached that rowboat was a caution. We found the streets full of people from the country and the different resorts close by and caught a glimpse of the elephants in the street parade. Henry sniffed the atmosphere like a hound after a rab bit. 'It's a great circus, judging from the bills," he said, wistfully. '"Mr. Dulster/ I said breathlessly, 'I dare you to go to the circus! We're here-and we might as well! Let's do it!' "Henry stared at me. Then he gulped and the color flew to hie face. Tm with you!' he said, with deter mination. "Well, Henry and I did that circus up properly. We got there early and 1 we ate sticky popcorn balls and cheap j candy and had pink lemonade, and j we fed peanuts to the animals and j went to every single sideshow and . tried to watch four rings at once and scolded because we couldn't and kept squealing at each other, 'Oh, look at that!' and had a perfectly glorious time. "After it was all over and we were drifting out with the crowd we re membered that we had to go back to the hotel. I was twice as afraid of \ Chryssie as he was of his wife and I was right in the middle of imagining the most scathing things she could say to me when we ran straight into ihe hotel crowd. There loomed Mrs. Dulster and Chryssie trying their best to act aB though they had had a miser able time, but they couldn't do lt "I do have inspirations sometimes. I Bpoke up sternly. 'Well/ I snapped, .you two here! I certainly am sur prised!' "Both of them tried to explain at once how it happened and how they couldn't help themselves and I got them so upset that they never thought to ask how Henry and I got there." Chicago ?ally Newe. Prescription For Him. "Life Is a burden to me." "Take an interest in something. Have an avocation. Take up golf." "Aw, life isn't worth living." "Then take up aviation."-Louisville Courier-Journal. By Contrast. Hewitt-How do you like your new flat? Jewett-It's so small that every time I get home I feel like the great est living American.-Woman's Home Companion. HANDUNG OF PEANUTS One of Most Excellent Crops Farmer Can Raise. Has Many Bird Enemies and Tender Plant Affords Dainty Rabbits Are Partciularly Fond Of-Plan for Harvesting. In my opinion peanuts are one ot the best crops a farmer can raise. They excel corn for feed, especially on poor land. Like peas, they will flourish on thin land, and Improve lt. They will grow on any kind of soil but sandy land is best as the nuts are cleaner, brighter and smoother.' They have great drouth resisting qualities. In this part of Texas pea nuts may bc planted any time from the last of March to the first of July, writes W. P. Kloster of Sunset, Tex., in the Missouri Valley Farmer. The ground should be prepared by plowing deeply and harrowing thoroughly. Lay off the rows, drop the nuts and cover two or three inches deep. 1 take off the front part of my single row planter and use it when covering the seed. The hills should be about a foot apart in the drill and the rows three feet apart Put In plenty of seed, for the mice and moles will get some and some may not be good. It ls best to plant the whole nut. Soak them for 24 hours before plant ing, to soften the hull. After drain ing off the water. Just before planting, pour kerosene oil over them to keep away the moles. The peanut has many enemies, and no wonder. AB soon as the tender plant appears the crow Is apt to pull lt up. It ls beBt to protect the nut? by fence from the rabbits. The tender plant is a dainty they like. At harvest time, when you turn the nuts up to the sun to dry, the crows come once more. Since the vines ire as valuable as the nuts, great care should be given to , the harvest. If there ls plenty of barn room they may be hauled In at once and scattered thinly over the floor, leaving doors and windows open so the air can cir WORKING EROSION I Model Showing the Effects of Rain Covered With Forest Growth and the (By D. C. ELLIS.) ^. working model showing the pro cess of erosion on deforested slopes has been a feature of exhibits by thf forest service at recent expositions It shows the working out of the natur al phenomena BO well, and is so sim ple and inexpensive to construct, that a similar model might be erected in schools for the use of classes in nature study, elementary agriculture and physical geography. The model consists of two hills slop ing down Into two valleys through which two streams wind in and out through farm land and lead Into two lakes at the front of the landscape. Both hills are made of the same kind of soil, that of the region In which the model is erected, but one ls cov ered with twigs, young trees, or shrubs, to simulate a forest, under neath which is a heavy carpet of moss representing the layer of leaves and twigs which covera the ground in thc real forest, while the other hill 1B bare of all vegetation. By meanB of a suitable sprinkling device water in the form of rain 1B made to fall with equal force upon the two hills. On the forested slope ita fall 1B broken by the foliage and it drops gently upon the moss-covered surface of the ground. The moss and the soil beneath, which la kept soft and porous by the protective cover, quickly absorb tho rain and allow lt to seep out ae clear water farther down the slope, thus forming a moun tain stream which flows through a green and fertile valley into a clear lake at the lower end of the model. On the other slope the rain beating down upon thp "nprotected and- hard ened surfar washeB deep gullies in the hillside, carries the soil Into- the turbid stream which drains the val ley below, and thence Into a muddy lake. The erosion on the slope loos ens stones, which are carried down upon the valley farms; the silt depos ited in the channel of the stream di verts the water, which opens up gul lies through the dry land; the main stream ls made shallower and wider and often overflows Into the fields; Islands and silt bars rise in the stream; and deltas are built up In characteristic form at the entrance to the lake. .\ ?) erosion processes which work themselves out In this model, the wearing down of the hill, the silting up of the stream bed, the gradual shifting of the course of the stream, the formation of deltas and sand bara jai&le freely. Some haul and put OD a flat topped shed or barn to cure: then they are out of the way of all depredators, and they can quickly be pu Into the barn on the approach of rain. But for a large crop the best way is to set up poles in the held about six feet tall and shock the vines loosely about two feet in diameter Don't press the vines down. It is best to let the vines cure a day or two before shocking if the weather will permit As soon as they are thor oughly cured hurry them to the bran. Rain rapidly destroys their feeding value. To plow them up take off the mold board from an ordinary turning plow. The dirt will fall through, and the vines together with the nuts will be turned to the side. They should then be shaken and turned up to the .mn. Avoid all the dirt possible, as It will cling to the vines and lessen their | value as feed. A small crop may be How the Peanut Grows. The Vine Blossoms Along the Stem. ' After the Flowers Fall, the Ovaries of the Plant Enter the Ground . Where the Pods Are Matured. harvested by running a common spad- : lng fork under each vine and turning j out vine and all. In soft ground they can be pulled by hand. The feeding is a small problem. The stock only ask a chance. Cows : and horseB will eat first the nuts, then the vines. The dry vines are not good for hogs, but they will fatten on the nuts. The vines and nuts together form almost a balanced ration. I knew one man who fed his hones pea nuts and bran, and he claimed ic was better than corn. At all evencs, his horses were fat. MODEL FOR SCHOOLS -Fall Upon Two Adjacent Hills, One Other Devoid of Such Protection. in tha. lake, and the gradual opening up of watercourses through them, are all typical of the processes constantly going on In nature and show striking ly the close relationship between for ests and surface formation. It is tho same process of erosion on a larger scale which, after the destruction of our forests, causes the removal of the top soil from our slopes, cuts them up into gullies, and deposits sand and gravel upon the fertile alluvial soil of the bottom lands, In storage reser voirs, or In the channels of streams, where lt impedes navigation and causes overflow. HARDY QUALITIES OF MULES Horses Cost More to Mature and Also Command Lower Prices-Farmers Should Co-Operate. A mule costs less to mature than a horse. It will out-sell a horse from $5 to $15, depending on the section of the country where you are in business. The average price paid for mules is 59 above the average price paid for horseB in 1911, according to the year book cf the United States department of agriculture. A mule will earn its board after It is two years old if handled carefully. Up to the weaning time the mule will coat little more than $10 or $15. The next eighteen months of the mule's keep will be the most costly. Figur ing the cost of hay at $20 a ton and the cost of oats at 40 cents a bushel, it will cost about $90 to grow the mule to maturity. Yet when lt ls sold it will bring from $150 to $300. It IB not necessary for one to own or buy pure-bred mares to grow the best mules. Any mare that will rear a good colt will rear a good mule. Tet the better the grade of mares the bet ter will be the offspring. In most communities there is a breeder who owns a good jack. If not, lt will be possible for a few Interested farmers to co-operate and buy a good jack. They should be able to buy an excel lent Jack for from $1,000 to $1,500. Pasturing Too Closely. If the sheep are compelled to dig In the pasture for their food they are irery likely to eat the roots of the jrass. It is a. far better plan to have :wo pastures and allow them to graze n one while the other is allowed to :atch up and make a good growth. When the ere the profits of be counted in time to star count is ripe; you may cond as every goo? conducted. OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, pres.; E. J. Mims, Cashier: J. H. DIRECTORS: J. C. Sheppai Thurmond, Thos. H. Rainsford, S. Tompkins, C. C. Fuller, W. E Round Trip Excursio S. C. am -VJ Southern Premier Carr it -ACCC Fif National Coi Jan. 27- Fi Account of this occasion, nounces very low round trip f return, tickets on sale January 3, 5, 7, 1913 with t?nal limit starting point not later than m as follows : Aiken, Leesville $2.45 Ba tes bur g $1.20 Proportionately reduced fi tractive side trip fares from C mation call on nearest ticket n? A. H. Acker, TPA., W. Augusta, Ga. H. F. Cary, GPA., i Washington, D. C. "Whose If you do not get value re you get inferior goods for v we charge you for the good yourself. Our 20 years e business and our ''square d< thing to the prospective buy "We can deliver the goods, man and beast. ARLINGTON I Augusts Office and salesroom 863 Brc trac P.S. Mr. M. Gary Satcher is with u H _ ?BBBBBBBBBBHnmSBOt German Soldiers Are Swimmers. All German soldiers must learn to swim. Some of them are so expert that, with their clothing on their heads and carrying guns and ammuni tion, they can swim rivers several hu?dred yards in width. TIAE rr 5OA\E yin OUR, MK Zimmerman Co.~Vo. 36.-*tf )ps are in,and the farm can . money, the t a bank ac hy doing so uct your farm 1 business is Pres.; W. W. Adams, Vice Allen, assistant Cashier. -d, VT. W. Adams, J. Wm. J. M. Cobb, B. E. Nicholson, A. !. Prescott. n Fares to Columbia, i Return [A Railway ir of the South >UNT th TI Exposition sb. 9,1913 the Southern Railway a? ares to Columbia. S. C. and 23. 25, 27 and 31, February returning to reach original idnight February 12, 1913, Edgefield, $2.10 $1.20 Johnston, 1.70 ares from other points. At olumbia. For further infor ment, or^ E. McGhce, AGFA Columbia, S. C. S. IL Hardwick PTM Washington, D. C. ceived for your money. If fhich you pay as much as kind, you can blame only xperience in the grocery sal" policy is worth some er and all we ask is a trial. ." Groceries and feed for IROS. & CO. i, Ga. .ad Warehouse Ga. Railroad ks. s and will be glad to see his friends In Touch, Always. 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