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I? 'J. (i .??*^!, E A N U ft RICHARDSON looked across the festively decora te<l restaurant table Kl ber husband, who was consuming Indifferently his frozen, nut-sprinkled des? StTt. Ile certainly was not grow ing any younger, while she-well, only Eleanor herself knew the exact num ber of gray hairs 111 ber carefully ar ranged coiffure anil realized the un equal battle being waged between the cold cream of her masseuse and the Insidious crows' wrinkles at the cor ners of her dark-fringed eyes. "Do you know, Fred, this doesn't Interest me a blt?" she said, with xv casual glance at the gay scene about her. "Other years I have enjoyed lt " well enough, but tonight, some how, It seems-stale." 'T suppose," returned her hus band, placidly, "that the people who get the most fun out of this sort of thing, after all, are those who come here from tho backwoods where they douse the kerosene lamp at 8 p. m. ?nd light It again when the roosters crow. The rest of us are used to lt." Hy making reservations long in ad vance tho Richardsons had been able to secure a place In the most desir able location In the dining room not too near the palm-embowered orchestra loudly dispensing Jazz, not too far from the tinsel-draped stage, where ot the moment were twisting and gesticulating Hawaiian beauties In very tropical costumes, which seemed absurdly Inappropriate con sidering that lt was New Year's eve. Eler.nor cupped her chin In white, expensively ringed hands. "Perhaps lt ls the reaction from the season or perhaps I'm merely bored, but I feel out of sorts. As I look back on our ten years of married life they seem happy enough, and yet to look for ward In the future to the same sort of ten years doesn't seem worth while." Fred Richardson looked at her in surprise. Retrospection bad never been one of Eleanor's habits. "What's the matter, old girl?" he asked with unusual solicitude. "Shall we leave ) the rounds? There M iel In the way of exclte ! v. a. . intll midnight." . u. Fred, I'm not look .nt tonight," exclaimed lently ; "strange as it may seem. Foi one thing, I'm worried OP to whether I've done the right thing by Beth. You know that Jim Goddard bas been wild about ber for some time, and warris to marry ber offhand on his ridiculously small salary. Of course Doth, after living with me all these years, asked my advice, and I em phatically advised against lt. Told ber to walt until they hud laid by enough to put them beyond the chance of worry." "Well, that was sensible enough ad vice nowadays, I guess," acquiesced her husband, good-naturedly, flicking the ashes from his cigar. Eleanor looked at him keenly. Timo was when he wouhl Rave spurned such counsel as savoring of too worldly a wisdom. Ten years of money-making in the big city had wrought their changes In him, too. She sighed. Then : "Oh, well," she exclaimed, shrugging her shoulders; "I should worry about that now. Jim was to get his answer this evening, and I Imagine by now Beth has turned him down quite definitely." At that moment a shower of con fetti and colored streamers shot from the balconies and mezzanine, turning the Interior of the restaurant Into a "Well, ? nat Was Sensible Enough Ad vice Nowadays." veritable rainbow-tinted blizzard, de scending in confusion on the bril liantly dressed women and their com panions seated below. Eleanor rose, drawing on ber long white gloves. "Let's go home. Fred," she said. Moved hy one of the many odd impulses which lin fl been stir ring within ber, she tucked Into her huge muff the evening favor-a frail papier macho representation of old Father Time? bearing In his arms a very pink, very undressed baby, pre sumably significant of the old year bringing in the' new. As Eleanor and her husband ap* preached their car, a moderately priced :.cdan walting on a quieter side street, Fred thought with satis faction of thc neat little sum in tba bank, now almost sufflclert for the purchase of . very late very com pletely equipped, high-powered model. Resolving ulso to acquire a chauf feur, he opened the door for his wife who, skirts held high to avoid the I trampled slush, stepped In, At the same Instant. "Fred !" she cried In alarm. "Fred, what in heaven's name Is this?" Fred, equally startled by his wife's tense tones, peered unseeingly Into the dark depths of the ear then un hooked the electric torch from Its socket, and Hashed it on. There, on the luxurious cushioned seat, lay a small, shawl-wrapped | bundle, oddly soft to Eleanor's In? quiring touch. As she parted the In? sufllclont, ragged covering tho bright light disclosed a very plump and quite new baby, with open eyes | maier as yet unlashed lids and very Intriguing dimples in his fat knees. Fred gasped to his wife: "What shall we do with it?" "Why. I stippo.se drive to the po lice station. There ls evidently not a clew ns to Its parents." While Fred drove with unusual Care through the trafile which here and there practically blocked the slippery Street, his wife sat holding the un sought package In a lap quite unused to such an'occupant. She was thinking that possibly life would not have become so drably mo notonous and the bond between her self and Fred so frayed at times If children had come to their home. At first she had been thankful, seeing no j i opportunity in their meager budget t for bills for nurses and doctors mid < certified milk. Later, the advent of a child Into her well-ordered ?lays ! j Carrying Some+hing In His Arma. I would have seemed a catastrophe she | would not have known how to meet. j As the car stopped In front of tho , station, the baby stirred. Fred, get ting down, held out his arms. "Walt," she said, a strange note In her voice. "It seems so healthy-you ; don't suppose-perhaps a child around the house-" Fred, who had long ceased to speak his regret that he hnd no children, looked at her at first without compre- | hrnslon, then with a great light in his tired eyes. Rut lt died out as suddenly j as lt had come. "Nell, you must'be j crazy. Why, we're lucky if we're al lowed to have a lap dog In our flat, I much less a baby. Hand lt over." j "But, Fred," Eleanor went on, strangely relieved of the boredom she j had complained of, "there's that money I In the bank-this car Is good enough for anybody-bow much would a little 1 place of our own cost-not too far out, but with grass around lt-and a porch-" "Nell," he said huskily, "you're- ' you're wonderful. It would be like j getting another chance at life. Let's go home." A few minutes later than this con versation, a well-set-up young man and a slim, piquantly pretty girl were gaz ing at each other with miserably defi ant eyes. "No-no-no. Jim," cried Beth. "I do want to. But Eleanor says I'd be crazy. She tried lt and she knows." "Then lt's good-by for keeps, Beth," returned the other, grimly. "Heaven knows I want you badly enough, but not at the expense of walting for years and wasting our young lives, all for the whim of a third party who doesn't count." Jim turned to go, and Beth stood twisting and untwisting a damp little ball of handkerchief. Why didn't she dare follow the dictates of her own heart, not the bidding of a cynical sis ter, however good that sister had been to her? As Jim opened the door, the eleva tor Stopped across tho hall. Out ; stepped Beth's brother-in-law, carrying something In his arms. Behind fol lowed a strangely alive-looking woman, '?. whoso first words struck most Incom I prebenslbly on the younger girl's ear. j "Beth, dear, please telephone at once to the nurse's bureau and ask : them to send up the best graduate j nurse they cnn get hold of, with the formula for feeding a very young baby, j nnd-bow do you do, Jim? I hope Beth's beeii nice to you I Forget what I sahl about not getting married. It doesn't pay to walt too long!" She hurried after her husband who had gone Into an Inner room. Jim held out his arms once more, ' and Beth went Into them. When she I raised ber bead to meet bis Mps the \ hells of thc city were breaking forth In Joyous peal : "Hing ont the oin, ring In the new!" "For us." murmured Jim, fatuously. "For us," murmured Eleanor and Fred, theil pyes meeting across the wide expanse of white lace spread where Fred had laid the baby. "The old year bas gone," said ? Eleanor; then added whimsically, "but I we brought the new one home with i us!" (Copyright by th? McClure Newspaper I _ Byndlcute.) ECONOMIC CROP YIELDS NECESS? RY CHEAPEST YIELDS AC : MB LARGEST YIELDS PER A( . SAYS SOUTHERN AGRICU TURAL AUTHORITY lt Take a Greater Amount of Crop Ra turna to Cover Production Coat Now; Therefore High ^Yields Per Acre Are Necessary If { the Farmer la to Ob tain Profita Director J. N. Harper of the j Southern Soil Improve mont Comm! ttee, a widely known agricultural au thority, speaking of the situation brought about by the low price of crops, recent ly said that de J. N. HARPER nation of prices j had hurt the farmer more than any other class, and that on this account the farmer Is entitled to evory consid eration within reason. At such a time &B this when the 1 farmer is facing the problem of which < orops to grow, and how much he can renture to Bpend In their production, Mr. Harper says, that he, as a fanner ilmeelf, knows that lt is the moat dif ficult situation of the kind he has ever confronted. This is the way this agricultural authority figures out the proposition of profitable crop production in 1921: "Grow enough food and feed crops to supply as far as possible the needs Of the family, the tenants and live- ! Btock. Then pick out the kind of cash 1 crops that seem to offer the best pros- ! pects. "Cotton will always be one of the best cash crops that a Southern farm er can grow. No cotton farmer can afford to throw cotton aside alto gether. "But cotton should not bo the only cash crop. It would only be another case of carrying all the eggs in one basket. It Is bettor to go to market with more than one crop. Among these other crops are peanuts, legume hays, tobacco, sweet potatoes^ sugar cane, sorghum, ric- i tl riv lin >ll! iv crops. In addlth ? ? \dJ be . gradual,adding, ' all >./ of more livestock preferably and lakh b mala as soon as po > "In facing the problem of profitable j crop production for tho year 1921, two | facts must bo considered. (1) Crop ; prices are low, (2) Crop producing expenses have not fallen correspond ingly, j "The farmer must remember that when crop prices are low, it takes more of the crops to cover the pro duction cost. This narrows the mar gin of profits. Therefore, if a farjner does not look well to keeping up his acre yields, there will be no margin left above the cost of production. "Always, the most expensive yteldB are the low yields and the most re munerative are the high yields. If there aro losses to be sustained, as was the case in .1920, thc farmer who grow tho greatest yields per acre lost least. "A safe and aa.no policy that needs especial emphasis for 1921, ia: 'Guard your profits with high acre yields.' This involves good preparation of the soed bed, the uso of high producing ?oed, liberal fertilization and thorough cultivation. A neglect to employ any one of theae to the proper extent may moan that the farmer will find him self poorer at tho end of the season than at tho beginning. "Labor is tho greatest item of coat in producing a crop yield. It must be used to the extent of thorough cul tivation. Fertilizers aro next in the Hst of cost items. Simo high yields per aero are so essential in times of low prices of crops, and since fertiliz ers increaso aero yields moro than any thing oise, thoy cannot bo reduced in 1921. In fact, lt may be that thoy will have to bo depended upon more than ever, K> make acre yields that will be profitable. "An investment in good sood is ono of the bunt that a farmer can make at any timo. "In a word, this is a time for farm efficiency, faith and courage. These virtues exorcised, tho farmer will emerge from tho post-war struggle vic toriously." Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL. APPLICATIONS, ?. thar cannot reach the teni of the dlaeaae. Catarrh la a locnl disease, greatly in fluenced by constitutione! < onditions, and in order to cure lt yon must take an internal remedy. Hair.-- catarrh Medi cine ls taken internally ?ind acts thru the blood on the mucour surface? of th* system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was prescribed by ont- of Ihe best physicians In this country for yours. It ia com posed of some of the heal t?nica known, combined with nome of the beat blood puriners. The perfect <omblnatlon of the Ingredients In Hall's Catarrh Medi cine Ia what produces such wonderful results in catarrhnl conditions Sand for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Props., Toledo, O. All Druggists, 76r. Hall's Family Pilla for constipation. The hair of the Chinese ls uni formly black, although there havo been occasions, where Chinese have been red-headed. YOU LOVE LIFE MORE. Takes on a Different Color When Vom ithxxl ls Rieh ami i Free from l'oison. TRY TAKING PEPTO-MANOAX. ? li You Feel Listless and Depressed, ! Your Mood is Clogged and Sluggish. Without knowing why, you find yourself feeling unhappy. You go , around day after day half asleep. In terest in what is goiug on around you lags and life becomes dull. The i beauty of radiant sunshine, lovely j flowers and tlie entrancing miracles of life you miss entirely. Living, eat ing, sleeping, become more or less of a bore. That is what clogged, sluggish blood does to you. It poisons your thoughts. You are only half alive. You need a good blood-enriching tonic. Take Pepto-Mangan for a few weeks and notice the big improve ment. I'epto-Mangan is an agreea ble tonic and Is heartily endorsed by physicians. Your druggist has Pepto-Mangan in both liquid and tablet form. Buy whichever you prefer; one has ex actly the same effect as the other. Make sure j ou get genuine Pepto Mangan. Ask for "Glide's" and look for the full namo, "Glide's Pepto Mangan," on the package.-adv. fy ?fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy .fy ?fy fy fy fy GO FROWARD. fy (Manufacturers' Record.) Forgetting the thing? that are be hind us in war and peace, and busi ness and losses, let us press for ward that we may regain business, recoup losses-that we may recreate prosperity ifnd emplojyment; lhat we may bring happiness where there ts now poverty, and sorrow, and pro fitable employment for the millions now seeking work. The task before us is big enough to stir the heroic in American man hood, but the prizes to be won are great enough to stimulate all the latent ambitions of every man and woman. Here nre 105,000,000 people, ta ken as a whole the most virile, euer-j getic and resourceful in the world, living under one Hag, unvexed by the arbitrary dividing lines of European I nationalities, occupying as trustees I the most richly endowed and su perbly located country (known to man. Our resources are beyond the power of our minds to grasp or of I words to portray. e in almost endless abundance j . e resources on which to build ': istrial and agricultural wealth i than that of all the world j io- : .. ! \ six per cent of the world's p . .'..on and six per cent of the world's land area, wo already pro duce from 10 to 6 0 per cent or over of nearly all the greatest products of the world"; have nearly half the world's railroad mileage and a third of tho world's accumulated wealth,: and this wealth is more evenly dis tributed than in any other country on earth through all the ages of the past or present. And yet we have scarcely begun to develop our natural resources as measured by their vast extent. Let us, therefore, forgetting the blunders of the Federal Reserve Board and the losses which it has brought, go forward. Let us build n mighty network of highways, so badly needed; let us modernize and extend our rail and water transportation facilities, build the million or more dwellings eo badly needed, build the schools, ho tels and churches required to keep up with our growing population. Thero is enough work which needs to bo done, and the doing of which would enrich our country, to keep fully employed every laborer In the country. Down, then, with pessimism and inactivity, and up with optimism and progress! Forward! To Stop a Cough Quick take HAYES' HEALING HONEY, a cough medicine which stops the cough by healing the inflamed and irritated tissues. A box of GROVE'S O-PEN-TRATE SALVE for Chest ( olds, Head Colds and Croup is enclosed with every bottle of HAYES' HEALING HONEY. The solve should be rubbed on the chest and throat of children suffering from a Cold or Croup. Tho healing effect of Hayes' Healing Honey io dide the throat coinhlncd with the healing effect ot Crovi-'s O-Pen-Trate Salve through the pores of thc skin soon stops a cough. Both remedies are packed in one carton and the cost of the comhlned treatment is 35c. Just ask your druggist for HAYES' HEALING HONEY. Express Truck Robbed of $1 (1,000. Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 22.-Three armed mon early to-night held up an American Railway Express Company truck on which was a safe contain ing about $1(!,000 In cash and Liber ty Bonds, seized the safe, loaded it on to an automobile and escaped. All available policemen in the city have been armed with shotguns and are in search of the bandits. Two automobiles resembling those used by the bandits aro said to have ljeen seen in thc vicinity of Point Place, four miles north of Toledo. MtFliilfffiNl) For Expectant Mothers USED BY THREE GENERATIONS Vim to? BOOKLET ON MOTHERHOOD AMD TIM BAOT, flt* BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Din. 0-D, ATLANTA, GA. Here's You Progressive Farme $1.00 year, rhe Keowee Oourie $1.00 year, Either paper well v Price of Both. C _ Colds Should Ba Oared For. ? As soon as a cold is contracted the system becomes disordered. | This may develop into any ono ? of several serious diseases. ! You can't afford to take the chance of incurring a severe pen alty for neglect. For years physicians have prescribed medicine containing horehound, mullein and tar. Compounded with a few other elements you have a medicine that will chock a cold immedi ately. To satisfy the demand for this prescription in quickly obtain able form, Dr. Murray has his chemists prepare quantities and . supply druggists. Ask your drug gist for Murray's Horehound Mullein and Tar Children enjoy taking it. Your druggist will refund your money if your satisfaction is not complete. Colds and influenza are suc cessfully treated by using Dr. Hilton's Life in conjunction with Murray's Horehound, Mul lein and Tar. Manufactured by Murray Drug Company, COLUMBIA, S. C. CALCIUM ARSENATE TREATMENT An idea of tho benefit gained by application of the calcium arsenate treatment developed and recommend ed by tho United States Department of Agriculture ugainst tho cotton-boll weevil ls found in tho experience of a largo planter at Tallulah, IJ?. With the exception of certain test plats, this man's entire acreage was dusted with calcium arsenate, the cost being $9.20 an acre. He obtained an average yield of 1,215 pounds of seed cotton to the acre on tho land surrounding the test plats, while these unpoisoned test plats averaged only 300 pounds, or about 25 per cent of the yield on the poisoned cotton. Thus his net profit from poisoning on these areas on sales made before declining prloea ol cotton was about $120 an aero. "Pape's Cold Compound" Breaks any Cold in Few Hours Instant relief! Don't stay stuffed up'. Quit blowing and snuffling! A dose of "Rape's Cold Compound" taken every two hours until three doses are taken usually breaks up any cold. The very first dose opens clogged nostrils and the air passages of the head; stops nose-running: relieves the headache, dullness, feverishness. "Papo's Cold Compound" acts quick, sure, and costs only a few cents at drug stores. It acts without assistance, tastes nice, contains no quinine. Insist on Pape's!-adv. Advertised for Help-Stampede. Philadelphia, Dec. 16-A contract ing firm advertised for 27? men to day, and such a large crowd respond ed that a detail of police had to be summoned to maintain order. Ap plicants for work were asked to call at 7.30 a. m., but they began to as semble at I o'clock. Those chosen were sent to Lakehurst, X. .1., where a hangar for the navy i.s being con structed. No Worms In a Healthy Child All children troubled with Worms have aa un healthy color, which indicates poor blood, and as a rule, there is more or less stomach disturbance GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC given regu larly for two or thrco weeks will enrich thc blood. Improve the digestion, and act as a generalStren?th enlnrt Tonic to tho whole system. Nature will then throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child will bo In perfect health. Pleasant to take. 76c per bottle. Dresses in .Japan are frequently sold by weight. Chan Foi Bot For 12 Monti* vorth Combination. >rder yours now. MASTER'S SALE. STATE OE SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF OCONEE. In Court of Common Pleas. Pursuant to decrees of the afore said Court In the cases named b^elow,. I will offer for sale, to the highest bidder, In front of the Court House door, at Walhalla, South Carolina, on MONDAY, the 3d day of JANUARY, ' 19 21, between tho legal hours of sale, the tracts of land below de scribed : Mrs. Jannie Sisk and Lee Slsk, Plaintiffs, against Annie (Sisk) Chapman, Agnes Sis : and S. M. Littleton, Defendants. All that certain piece, parcel ot tract of land, situate, lying and ht lng in the County and State afore said, containing 53 acres, more o less, near Salem, adjoining lands o Janie Sisk, J. A. Robertson, J. F Fowler, L. M. Drown and others, an? being the same tract of land con veyed to H. L. Slsk by his wi te, Jan nie Sisk. Terms of Sale.-Cash. That ir event of the failure of the purchaser, or purchasers, to comply with the terms of sale within five days from day of salo, the Master do re-adver tise and re-sell said premises on tho following Salesday, < on some con venient' Salesday thereafter, at the risk of tho former purchaser, or pur chasers, and that he continue so to do until he shall have found a pur chaser, or purchasers, who shall com ply with the terms of sale. Purchaser to pay extra for papers and stamps. W. O. WHITE, Master for Oconee County, S. C. Minnie Durriss, Plaintiff, against Purvous Burrlss e' al, Defendants. All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land containing one-fourth of ono acre, more or loss, situate, lying and being in the town of Seneca, County of Oconee, State of South Carolina, fronting on the west side of ' Onk street, adjoining lots of Annoky Har bin on the North, estate of Lewis Choice on the West, and Henry Wil liams on the South, and known in the plan of said town as tho southern portion of Lot No. 250, and being the same lot convoyed to John Purvous Durriss by Harrison Wiggins by deed bearing date the 2d day of January, 1012, and recorded 1/ Clerks's office, Oconee County, S. C., In Deed Book PP, page 46. Terms of Sale-Cash. Purchaser to pay extra for deed and stamps. W. O. WHITE, Mastor for Oconee County, S. C. Dec. 15, 1920. 50-52 ?j? ?j. ?J? ?J? .j? ?j? .j. .j? ?j? ?j? ?j? ?|? .J. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. .J. ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? c-j* ??. ?J? ?J? ?J? *|? ?|? ?J? ?J. ?J? ?*. ?J? ??..{*.?. ?'<, 4? DR. W. R. CRAIG, .?? Dental Surgeon, .{. 4? WALHALLA, S. 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