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"humpy" skinner;1 ' i - Starts on His Mother's Orders to j i Deliver a Jug cf Dye. I SKEPTICS ALONG THE ROAD. Carpenter, Old woman, Italian and i Tramp Pull the Cork and Sample the V [ Contents ? Jug Collapses ? Humpy's . Penalty In the Home Woodshed. By M. QUAD. ^Copyright, 1910. by Associated Literary Press.J *?f yUMPY," said Mrs. Skinner to : fl her eldest aDd only the oth A A cr ^rday morning, "Mrs. Pond, who used to live next floor to us and moved over on Glover ?treet last summer, is making a rag carpet She is going to have five different colors in it Ked is one of them, but she hasn't had good luck with her dye. I told her the other day I'd make her some. I've got it made and ia a jug, and I want you to carry it (? I'M H I INI f NEITHER ABTY NOR BBOTHER. I over there this morning. Her number Is 221. It's right next to an old graveyard, and you can't uiiss it" "But I don't want to carry a jug through the streets." protested Humpy, "i d JiRe to Know wnyr j "Folks will think I'm carrying whis- 1 fey" I "Folks won't think any such thing, j Ftc written a label and pasted it on i the jug. It says 'Dye.' Anybody that I can read won't take it for whisky.'' "If 1 meet a policeman he won't be- j ??m?b?????a ^===== 9 (r \ \' jaMyriUW n il iim?h i i 11 ^ || v-? i i' V- * ; : ffW<>i-to-io .- .iAKj; ??W ?v ?V1S rV7^ vv < ,; feji ? <" 'b 1 :k?Y. . VI '' $r> &'! i?:> )4?iJ b?*#? to :?c; ?.., . j' &2 :'l -?iA ?r? }{ ? VJ . vt.^o ;?*c%ry?y.zoy.i .H .1 & f ?f * ? *>; ex: g? $J W , f ^ ' 5? yt* : t <? ^*1 ? f 4ir ib*^ * i ? ^ 1 j:*xc T* JW.'. %<** V, I iUi. a: se2?H-{'-v* ^ .*?< 10 ?5VO'8 ^a;jlo;0 .qi*l tqiiSi .iioi?:';:?^A L;:?i .2iibner4 eriW ,8$oh* I iiJfiJ" \ iiii Oj 1 *jj tea ,&9Diiq jd^if is sicav .iH9' V ? ^ . . . , , ( ii *?; - ' * * * lanill? believe it's dye." "Thru lie can tnste and see. Don't make any further excuses, but run right along. She wants to get the carpet done on her birthday." "Can J go skating when I come borne;" "1*11 see about it. Tell Mrs. Pond it's cherry red and she'll have to use soft soap to get it off her hands afterward." It was a gallon jug and quite full. Humpy started out in a doubtful way, and he had gone just two blocks when a carpenter with n board on his shoulder halted hlrn to say: "Toung man. who are you. and what have you got in that jug?" "I'm carrying it somewhere." was the reply. "Yes. you are carrying it somewhere, but I want to know where and all oV>/~int TVd hnri n in** stnlnn "But this can't be the one." "I don't know about that. I had a gallon of stuff for my rheumatism put up nt the drug store, but left it at the door while I talked with a man. and when I turned around it was gone. What's that label there?" "It says dye, and it is dye. Mother made it." The Carpenter Tastes It. The man took the jug, shook it, pulled the cork and tasted the contents and then said: "It may be as yot\ say, but if you are lying to me I shall find it out scorer or Inter. A boy who will steal a man's rheumatic cure will break into a house and murder a whole family in their beds. If you have a guilty conscience beware of me!" Just around the next corner was an o!d woman at her gate. She grinned as she saw Humpy coming, and when he had come up she reached out her hand for the jug and said: "Thank you, bub. 1 see that you haven't stopped to play by the way." "You can't have this jug," replied Humpy as he twisted it away. "What! What! Can't have my own blessed jug that I left at the grocery to be filled with molasses not half an hour ago?" "It's my jug, and it's full of red dye. Bead the label." "Yes, it says dye, but how do I know? I'm going to call for a police.. man. "If you think it's molasses touch ] your tongue to it" 'T thought you wouldn't be so bold j when I talked about the police. Yes. | I'll touch my tongue to it, and if it ! isn't ray molasses"? Site did more than touch her tCDgue I to it. She took two good swallows, j and as she began to spit and sputter \ Humpy grabbed the jug and fled. She ' leaned up against the gate and called ' after him: We have in we have eve our prices. ^jj^LMrZuw ww mmv? w i 11 We have th< shown on th rows, gram used on the] 1 ?ji??i iwwtii hi 111 pi * a as ?ttf?" r-1 aLtXINGTOS ? iflfi J^v'V ?I im: '.?ii cir ,-.L ? t i'.i ? rrM i'i .^nr l*i L'9*;3 ^ f'fU7 4iJG ^ i?:i tlf;0 wol -i?! V?Ol ^T'^Tr .yT-^W' fffliajio raw*?..; f-n/qprv rar^ignwif -Yf ri??yw? "Boy. I'm a dyed dead woman, and you'll be shocked to death for it I" Things went well with the jug for the licxt fiv-e mimiVs. Then it encountered an Italian with a snow shovel on bis shoulder. lie save Humpy a suspicions look us he passed and then turned and rnn after him and demanded: Italian Takes It Fcr a Bomba. "Boy. whatta you gotta in dat jug?" "What is that to you?" "He was uiucha to me. You tella me quick!" "It's dye for carpet rags." "He was diea, was he? Den you was some Black Hand, eh? You lika blowa me uppa with a bomba!" "Don't you know what dye is?" asked Humpy Id contempt. "It was Black Hand. You lighta de frt?a nr/1 ?he? ve\ hnnmn m Tbe man was getting ready to swipe the jug with bis snow shore! when a teamster .lumped down and came running np and said: "Here, you banana peeler, you get along or I'll roll you in tbe snow! What's in tbe jug, boy?" "Ited dye for carpet rags." "Don't joke with your uncle. It's a cold day, and a drink of red eye will do me good?just a little touch, sonny, a little touch." He rook the jug. removed tbe cork and sipped of the dye and said: "Anybody that sold that stuff to your father for A1 ought to be prosecuted, but one can't be too particular such hard times as these." Thereupon he lifted the jug higher, threw back his head and took a long drink. ; "If it kills you I shan't be to blame." said Humpy as he received the jug. "Don't fear for me. sonny. Tastes kinder queer, but the dye was never made that can down me. Why, I drink carbolic acid when I can Gnd nothing else." Two blocks farther on a tramp had been thrown out of a saloon into a snowdrift He had just picked himself up and was looking around him in a discouraged way when his eyes lighted on Ilumpy and the jug, and be smiled and said: ^ "If it hain't my little brother Arthur then 1'iit a goal!" "lint I'm not your brother Arthur," proles ted lluinpy. "Arty, don't go back on your brother Napoleon. Just a iittle taste of that claret." "It's dye for carpet rags." "What color?" "lied." "Glory! That's what T've been waiting for a whole year?a long, guzzling drink of red dye. I think my vitals are changing to blue, and I want to dye item back to red. Just one drink, Brother Arty." ???W??? stock the best lim >r carried, includii am # m am * m Eta j? 5j n SffMj P KftWWMOVZJr: fc Ml fl ffi I I! Sf 3| (T 3 most complete li e market. Incluc drills, stalk cutte: farm. ? i p> mi m ij? <?n ,t " 1 k?.4. *?* - - F"> * j m iimiit?tema*tmmmma? mmmrf' "It'll poison you. for sure!" sr.L Humpy. "Then wolcoiu? poison?-welcoint death' I shall die a martyr to dye Yes. Arty, it's my old favorite Lever age. the drink I've longed for. and here go ok."' And the man lifted up the jug ami seemed to swallow n full pint cf tht contents before he stopped to breathe, Uuinpy grabbed for the jug and preparer! io run, but at that moment a policeman turned the comer and sa^ and exclaimed: Up Against the Cop. "Doing o saloon business out in tht street, are yonV TVe'il see about this.*1 "It's dye for carpet rags/' explained the boy. "It's the gOvd old charcpa.gne of my halcyon days," added the tramp. "Oh, it is, is it? Boy, band over that"? He mane a dive for the jug. and Humpy made a jump to got away with it. and it fell to the walk and broke, and a great red spot began to spread over the snow. The officer shouted, the tramp cried out at the waste, ar.d Humpy took to his beels. Half an hour later he had told his mother all about it. and she was replying: "Humpy, dear, you wanted to go j skating after doing your errand.'* j "And can I go?" "Oh. yes. I have a nice little rink out here in the woodshed. Come out and do your skating while I put on the gad." For Real My place known as the "'Sim Kyzer place" on Beach creek. Good onehorse farm with good well of water in yard. Apply to John Bneigrove, Lexington, S. C. 3? 9 Final Mse&arge. Ail parties concerned will take police that we, the undersigned, wi'l apply to Geo. S. Drafts, Judge of Probate for Lexington county, S. 0., on the 1st dav of January, 1911, for a final discharge as admini.-traiors of t he estate or Mrs. Man ha C'. Meetze, deceased. TII03. P. MEKTZE. J. B. Pw. MEETZE. Dec. 6, 1910?iv. 0 Debtors and Creditors, This is to notify all parties indebted to the estate of Alfred Sharpe, deceased, that they in ?ke payment; on or before January, 1. 1911, aud those having: claims will file same properly attested to th<- undersigned as administratrix of fa:d estate. CORA SFfARPE, Admix. Nov. 30, 1910?3w7p ???n?aPWf Mil IIMMU I1IW??! ???? II ? I\mu* II 1WI 111 !! liwmiii ?f 11 i quwii I?n II i?wapryin? b of Buggies and "V ig all the leding n % ^ >'v I'-f.yi :?? ine of farm iniple ling plows, harrow rs and everything + ? ? * ? ? u nj?ir? GENERAL MB bb n HMSaDVPflMMMMM' aMtC' wwn??? ?u mm ??m? wnw?n? nr ? n i I i WANTED?immediately a f e v; j | bnsht Is of native hca;e grown rye yteu | ? | by Dr. Winward. Trespass Notice. 1 | | This is to notify ail persona not to [ j hunt, fis-h or trespass m any manner . > i whatsoever on the lands of the under- , j signed. The law will be enforced rig- . ' | idiv against all persons violating this . j notice. f>. J. Oaugbman. 1 | w7p C. W (Jaughmaii. ^ Notice, Trespassers. ! This is to notify all persons not to ( , hnnt, fish, haul wood or straw, or g 1 trespass in any manner whatever, ( upon our lands, as the law will poei- t tively be enforced against all trespass- t ers. f J. W. Conner, P. 0. Price, g Mrs.JB. I. Hayes, F. W. Wilson. Dec. 3, 1910?4w9p. j ? PROPERTY FOR SALE J 2 70 saw cotton gins, 1 double * scraw boss pr?"-s, ! shingle mill 1 Luydell saw mill, 1 grist mill, 1 boiier, Lombard. 25 horsepower, 1 20 horsepower engine, 1 wheat thracher, 2 j f head of males, 32 acres of land all j $ about one half a mile of Gaston, S. G. I ^ and very good buildings and a good j location jor business. jv ! Fcr prices write or call on, t B. F. TAYLOR, 1 J R. F. D. 1., Box 2. Gaston, S. C. S? thehowienat 1 OK j =- ??^ |? , HOW WE fj|t Organized Nov. 13,1903, trill) : i ftevamiier 13,1909, Wa Had I im Rcvsm&er 13, 1910, We Had I Our PVSotio:" " DDMHIIUOnaaBaHHHHHHHMBBHMMnManMHMi I s in rrn 7 agons that lakes. Get c * * [r?MmaBOBMRIMUHDBMlNi uoa%*niaimiMW p^nga??QWH? ments ever is, disc harthat can be i IRCHANDISE s. c. STATE OF SOUTH CAI:TTjHH County of LexingVon.^^^H In Court of Common PPaBfl^H Mrs. Sarah R. Shuler, against R. L. Shuier, DefendantflHH Foreclosure. In obedience to the decree Dourt herein, signed by the HoflHfl IV. Gage, Presiding Judge. dut^^^fl L8th day of November 1910, I vflHB 3efore the Court House door. ngron, S. C., to the highest bitBBH public outcry, on the first M^^H| she 2nd day of January, 1911, tHH owing described real estate, to^H^Ba "All that certain lot of land n the town of New Brookland, fl^H bounty of Lexington and State^^^fl said, measuring 106 feet on the^^H >n lands of R. L. Shuler; 71 f^^^B she east by State street; 106 he south on Augusta street, ^B^fl eet on the west on lands at shuler." BHB Terms of sale: Cash, purcha^^H )ay for papers. fl^fl FRANK W. SHEALflH C. C. C. P. & ( Lexington, S. C., Deo. 6, lOIQ^JB^B EQrd & Dreher, Attorney^^^B Plaintiff. ^^^B FOR RENT?My place abouj l^D rom Columbia, near Diziana, fljfl i0 acres open land, good for cori^^H on, rice, etc. Will sell two cagon and harness. Terms rcasiHH[ 0 right partj\ fl^B T. H. SH Gaston, Route 2. 1 A L BANK a|B : crow Deposit Of - $45,914.44 Safety Before Profit." oH x&h&sus? / H / sB H II i'f