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M THE WATCHERS ?K B> HELEN ANDERSON f> Wi*, by ttoCtur* N?wapaptr Syndloat*. The Browns had been married for ten years and nothing had marred their happiness. They had been content with each other's society for 12 months of each of the ten years; that ls, until within the past three or four days. Something, an indescribable some? thing, had crept into the atmosphere heretofore so eulin. l% was that uv fin i tesl und something on which no finger can be laid. Mr. Brown first noticed lt by the scared, wistful glances of his wife. She seemed tp watch him furtively, and when she saw him glance et her, would loos; away quickly. She seemed to have something on her mind. Perhaps she was tired of him. Tho more he thought of that the stronger he was convinced. Well, he'd watch her closely and prove it On the other hand, Mrs. Brown first noticed the chango In Mr. Brown when he started to watch her with that searching, questioning look. The thought entered her mind tfcnt he was comparing her with some one. Who was lt? Perhaps a younger, prettier, woman. Every time she looked at him she caught him just looking away. She decided she would watch him care fully In an attempt to fathom this mys tery. The days went by even as days will. Mr. Brown kept a close, secretive sur vey of his wife. He noticed with alarm the Increasing signs of her nervous-, ness and caught her many times look ing nt him with the same half-scared wistful glances. He felt that he must speak about lt, ask her what she meant, or even suggest a separation anything was better than this under current of mystery. On this particular morning he no ticed that she was even more nervous ? and he decided to learn the truth. "Carrie, er-er," he stuttered. "Yes, John," she answered, rather nervously. "Did the paper come this morning?" he finished lamely. She got the paper for him and he opened lt, giving a semblance of read ing lt, but all the time he kept a close survey of his wife, who in turn, thinking him deep in the paper, watched him more openly than be fore. Nothing of this escaped Mr. Brown. It seemed that things had about reached the climax ?e had come definitely to the conclusion that Mrs. Brown was dissatisfied, had found other interests, but was too timid to say anything to him about lt. Well, he wasn't "Carrie, er-er/' ho started again. "Yes, John." o "Er-have you read about this mur der case?" he finished. For the next five minutes, he re lated the details of tho murder and trial, but his words wero a mero cloak for thoughts far nearer to him. Well, he'd speak about lt tomorrow or perhaps-yes, he'd write a note and leave lt on her dresser Just beforo he left for work. Meanwhile Mrs. Brown had become fully convinced that Jonn wanted to tell her something, but was afraid to, os lt might hurt her. She was now quite sure that he was tired of her and dissatisfied with married life. Per haps he even wanted a divorce. A di vorce! A dry sob come to her throat. And she still loved him. Well, she could prove her love by making things easier for him. She knew that her emotions would overcome her If sue ventured to tell him that she would not stand In his way any longer. Yes, she would send a note to his office by special messenger so that he would receive lt tho first thing this morn ing. So it came about that, when Mr. Brown opened his mall, he found the following note: "My Dear John: .Something strange in your manner recently has convinced me that you are unhappy. Even though my feelings toward you have remained unchanged, I will no longer stand In your way, and (hore a large blot, evi dently a tear, smeared the page) I will let you have a divorce. I want you to be happy. CARRIE." Mr. Brown gasped, read the note again, and still a third time. Then he called the office boy, told him he'd be out for the rest of the doy, and board ed the first homeward bound car. He found Mrs. Brown Just finishing read ing the note he had left. "Carrie 1" "John 1" And he clnsped her in his arms. "What made you look at me so funny?" Mr. Brown asked after they had fully recovered their senses. "Why, I thoiight you were watching me." She looked nt him In surprise. "Oh, John, how near this came to wrecking our happiness." FOR INDIGESTION, GAS, SOUR, ACID STOMACH, TAKE DIAPEPSIN. "Pape's Dlapepsln" ls the quick est, surest relief for indigestion, gases, flatulence, heartburn, sour ness, fermentation or stomach dis tress caused by acidity. A few tab lets give almost immediate stomach relief and shortly the stomach is cor rooted so you can eat favorite foods without fear. Large case costs only few cents at drug store. Millions helpod annually.-adv. Subscribe for The Courier. (Best) 0|^VB.,MB?^ttH?. TWNKS CAPTAIN Ballenger Want? to Begin at Wrong Place-County Agents Needed. Westminster, Feb. .27, 1922. Editor Koo woo Co ur lor: (Please allow me space in your pa per to express my thoughts. I can not endorse every word that Capt. J. J. Ballon ger said, nor the other articles, but am glad that something has started/' though 'I think Capt. > Ballenger wants to start that some thing Wrong. It would be all right to return to pre-war salaries. The farmer has already returned and is working just like he had never lost anything. It ls true that each one has had to reduce expenses and must keep on at Lt. But don't take away from us the most helpful thing we have-the agents who have done so much for our county. Of course, some of the communities are getting, along, in a way, without their help such a pity, too, for they are losing every day. I wish that I were able to say in exact figures how much lt ? would mean to the county for every community to have a well organ ized club and make a standard grade of butter; had pure-bred hogs, cat tle and poultry, and good truck patches for market. Talk about cutting taxes! How much doeB our demonstrator cost? ! Just the small sum of ton cents for j each tax-payer. Well, the man who j cuts our agents out will not feel very good at the next election, should he 1 desire office again, for the farm wo-' men aro not all sleeping. We want to get tuo best for our communities, try to lift them to a higher plane by co-operating and bringing our prob- , lems together for consideration. The rural woman needs all the help she can get, and a new day is certainly dawning for the farm woman who tries and makes use of tho help that has been and ls being given us. We want to havo cultured homes for cul tured farmers. The agents want to help every one who wants their help. And how could we have a market for our produots'tf we did not have them to help us? Our club has been selling butter up to Jan. 1, 1922, for 46 cents a pound, while others got 20 cents in trade, and the mer chants do not even want it at that price. We have sold hens for 29 cents a pound when the market here was 12% cents. Of course I don't reckon these little things count with Capt. Ballenger. He lives at Seneca, 1 and they don't seem to be interested in the county very much. I wonder if he was at the fair last fall when the club boys and girls went across the county, over muddy roads, to carry their exhibits to Seneca. Didn't they give us a welcome, though? We were not expecting the towri to stop business, or go to any expense for us, but one thing we did expect, and that was a welcome to the visitors from other counties. Not even a cup of cold water! There was, appar ently, a lady in the town who knew that tho county fair was to bo at Seneca. One little woman saw a lot of "country people" going up the steps of tho Chamber of Commerce and thought she would step over and see what they had to sell. (My! what if wo did not pay any more attention to their advertisements! Where would their trade come from? And where does the food, come from?) The boys and girls had some real nice exhibits, and we spent a very pleasant day looking at each other's things, won the prizes and spent the money before leaving town. Now, if Capt. Ballengor will just look around a little I am sure he will see that if ever we did need help now is tho time. Wo have no town in our county large enough to handle our produce. Therefore, we cannot have a curb market; but we can grow anything. If we .plant the popular varioties of vegetables and make a standard product, we can sell it by the help of our county agents, when we could do nothing absolutely nothing-without them. So let's all work together to make our county one of the best-and the only way to do this ls for overybody to co-operate, and then our efforts and our homes will be a success. Great progress has been made and we must not fall. For years the farmers have been complaining that they had no voice in putting a price upon anything that they produce. And this is true, because we market ed all our. products under a system arranged and handled by middle men. The Farm Bureau and the able corps of demonstration agon ts are offering us direct assistance and will help us operate any co-operative as sociation to sell our products. In stead of complaining and crying that there is no market, all we have to do is to get busy and learn to handle our products in a business way owing to stagnation in business this is not an ensy Job)-and to soil at good prices is almost impossible. .Still wo must make the best of it, and as wo have wide-awake county ! agents we feel sure that if we only act, COOK OK>V?MO sctiooii System-Not Opposed to Education. Something Wrong with System. -- Editor Keowoe Courier: We have read the article of A. F. Tannery in your recant ls&ue. He seems to want to leave the impres sion on the minds of the people that I am against public schools and the education of the children. But he; is very much mistaken. I am most heartily in favor of education, but I am against extravagance in any way or form. If a man has money of his own to squander that ls no concern of mine,, but if he happens to be a State or county official and squanders the tax-payers' money, then that is a matter Of concern to all the tax payers. What I said about the sal aries of the teachers being too high was not saying anything against edu cation or the schools, but against the extravagant methods of the school system. Fifty or sixty years ago the best teachers could be had at $25 per month. The children learned more then in one year than they now learn in five. After they have gone to school for five years now to the $100~a-monih teachers a majority of the pupils cannot spell. When we see a teacher sitting in a school room four or Ave hours per. day at $100 per' month and the father of the children she is teaching working in sight of the school house ten hours per day, at hard physical labor, for one dollar per day, wo cannot see the Justice of it, nor do we think that it is at all fair. On one occa sion we heard of a teacher who was getting $100 per month for her work when ono of the children went to the teacher and asked foe instructions about its lessons, and the answer the child got was about as follows: "Go to your mother and get her to learn you your lessons. I am not here to learn you your lessons.. I am here to hear you recite your lessons and see if you have them correct." Wonder what <Mr. Tannery thinks of this kind of bigotry and ignorance. We think if the mother docs the teaching she ought to have the pay. About nineteen years ago we had a teacher at our place. He was a Walhalla man, and was among the best teachers we ever had, and one of the best preachers we ever had at this place. <He received only $30 per month for his teaching. The cost of living was Just as high then as It ls now, 'I think. Our friend Tannery speaks of the teacher having to spend years of i his or her life in preparing to be a teacher, and that he or she must .? i j pass very rigid examinations to got ! a certificate to teach in the public j schools, and he also speaks of letting ; the world slip back into ignorance ; and slavery. Now we can very easily ' remember some 6 5 years ago when i there was no such thing as a free I school. It cost a man a thousand i dollars or more to educate and pre ; pare his boy to teach school, and ; when he was prepared to teach he j charged only $25 per month for his j work. But in this day and time their their education does not cost them anything. The tax-payers pay the whole account. The teacher wants, $100 per month for his work, and the tax-payers have to pay that after they have educated him free of any charge whatever. About the biggest thing that I can see that our boasted free school system has done seems to be that they have turned out a generation of ingrates. But those cheap schools of which we have spoken were way back in the days of ignorance and slavery, of which Mr. Tannery* has spoken. Yes, in the days of John C. Calhoun,. Abraham (Lincoln, Alexan der Stephens, Robert Toomba, Jos eph Brown, iHenry Clay and all the rest of the Ignorant people. Every once in awhile I meet up with a boy who has been educated in the public schools, dressed in what they call the latest style, strutting around like a turkey gobbler, a big bundle of agricultural' literature un der his arm. The first thing he will begin to tell me is how to farm and how to sell what little I havo already made, when perhaps he never did a hard day's work on the farm In his life, nor earnod an honest dollar. This seems to be in keeping with our free school system. J. A. Cook. Madison, S. C. Now Director of Mint Named. Washington, March 1.-F. E. Sco bey, of San Antonio, Texas, was nom inated to-day by President Harding to be director of the mint upon the expiration, March 19th, of the term of Ray T. Baker, who has directed the mint since February^ 1917. co-operate with them much good work can bo done for Oconee during the' year 1922. Yours for a better county, Rural Club Member. MANX* USES FOB MOB CORN COB. . . -1-rr Pto bo M.u*e Into Syrup and Nitro? Olycerino-Not an Experiment, stalks now going to waste annually In tko United States can be made in to syrup, cattle feed, turned into ab solutely fast dyes, made into motion picture film, sound proofing, or the base for nitro-glycerine, was the statement of Elton R. Darling, Ph. D., professor of chemistry at Willl klh University, at Decatur, before the Kiwanis Club here a few days ago. Prof. Darling only recently caused nation-wide comment by his an nouncement that he had been able to obtain alcohol from illuminating gas. Tho alcohol was obtained In a laboratory test. To-day in his ad dress he declared that alcohol is the fuel 'of the future; that the supply is inexhaustible, while petroleum will grow scarce, gasoline high in price, and the coal situation and sup uly doubtful. "I am Intensely interested in the products to be derived from the corn cob," said Prof. Darling. "The pro duction of syrup or xylose 1B the sugar In the corn. It is what the cat tle and Btock want when they eat cornv By eating the cob they get but five per cent of the xylose. The syrup, which is for animals and made by treating the cob, gives 26 per cent more. It seems practical to me that this added syrup should be used when the cobs are at present going to waste. "I expect to simplify the process of extracting this syrup so that the farmer can make it on his farm. I have carried my experiments far enough to know that the cattle like It and'want lt." (Referring to the production of dyes from corn cobs, Prof. Darling exhibited a black dye that he had obtained from fur foll, a chemical ob tained from cobs. It is a sulphur .dye, deep and, fast, and he said that it can be made profitably. He has obtained other colors, but has not as yet developed them to the degree of stability which he has reached with the black dye. That corn cobs have many other uses was shown In his statement that the cellulose from them can be made into a material that will serve as a filler for phonograph records, can bo treated and used In tho making of .incition picture films or used be tween wood as sound proofing, ar well as its use SB a baso for tho man ufacture of nitro-glycerine. Name '-Bayer" on Genuine Tako Aspirin only as told in each package of genuine Bayer Tablets ol Aspirin. Then you will be following the directions and dosage worked out by physicians during 21 years, am1 proved safe by millions. Take nc chances with substitutes. If you see the Bayer Cross on tablets, you car take them without fear for colds headache, neuralgia, rheumatism earache, toothache, lumbago and foi pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve tab lets cost few cents. Druggists alsc sell larger packages. Aspirin ls the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture ol Monoacetlcacldester of Salioylicactd -adv. Homo of Robert E. I iee Bought. Cape May, N. J., March 1.-Th? former home of Gen. Robert E. Lee, commander of tho Confederate army was purchased to-day by Leonard H, Davis, president of the Progressive League of this city. Mr. Davis announced that he would leave Intact tho war relics and antiques in the old mansion, but that ho would restore parts of tho build ing to conform with tho architecture of the period in which it was built more than a hundred years ago. The property was purchased from the estate of the late Albert Hughes. 50,043 Births in S. C. in 1021. Columbia, March 3.-The stork was a friendly and consistent visltoi in South Carolina during the entire year of 1921, as shown by a roporl of the vit?l statistical section of the fltato Board of Health, which wat given out to-ddy. There were 60,048 births In th< State during the entire twelve-montl period of 1021, or at the rate of 20J per thousand population, as com pared to 20,808 deaths, or at th? rate of 11.8 per thousand. The In crease of births In proportion to th< doaths for the period was very mark ed, being woll over 50 por cent. ASPIRIN I ... n ?n?sual ? <L Large automobile n wire mercliant ixl thi C The line comprises ta all over the world, able, economical, lo\ try; the other a ci motoring at a mediu <t The sales of both t increase from mont j right for a record ye CL The right type of bu teing, ability aiul m this an unusual op] profitable business. WILLYS-OV Snloa Promotion D ??S3 DU. J. W. BABCOCK IS DEAD. Noted Physician mid Alienist Passed Away Friday lu Columbia. Columbia, March 3.-Dr. J. W. 1 Babcock, who for thirty years was superintendent of the State Hospital here, died at 6 o'clock this morning, . The end came very suddenly. He ! had been suffering with an ailment. for several weeks, but his condition | was not thought to be of a serious nature, and the announcement of his death was a shook te his friends and ? family. He ls survived by bis wife I and three daughters. The funeral will be held in Chester on Sunday, Dr. Babcock having been a native of that place. Dr. Babcock was one of the na tion's leading experts on pellagra, and was one of the first of the great experts to recognize this disease. For the past several years he had operat ed a private sanitarium here. Narrow Escape Pupils and Teachers. Aiken, March 3.-Three teachers and twenty pupils had a narrow es cape when fire destroyed a three story boys' dormitory of the Soho-, field Normal and Industrial School here at 10.16 o'clock this morning. The men and boys wero forced to Jump from the building. A sprained ankle by one of the boys was the only casualty. The monetary loss ls estimated at $40,000. The Schofield School was estab lished by Quakers hore in 1889 for the education of tho negro youth. About throe hundred students are attending the school this year, but only twenty were in the dormitory that was destroyed. The boys are being housed in a building across the street. AU of them lost their clothing and other personal effects. Dr. Work Will Succeed Hays. Washington, March 3.-Postmas ter General 'Hays to-day attended his last cabinet meeting. He will bo suc ceeded as Postmaster General by Dr. Iubert Work, of iPueblo, Colo., who served as first apslstant postmaster general under Mr. Hays, and whose nomination as Postmaster General waa confirmed yestorday by the Sen ate. Dr. Work was busy to-day with the affairs of his department prepar atory to taking over his new duties. He will bo sworn in at Tl o'clock to morrow at the Postofflce Department. Philippin? Schools Need Teachers. Washington, March 3.-The bu reau of insular affairs in tho War Department is keeping sixty high school teachers qualified to take po sitions in the English departments of the Philippine high schools. Trans portation will be furnished by the government to Manila, and entrance salaries of from 3,000 to 3,200 pesos nominally $1,500 to $1,600-will be paid successful applicants. Eggs Fr There ls no excuse ?nd real money-makora essy*? The wonderful poultry makes early layers of produces fast growth In young chicks. 2 1 We carry a complete line of Coro-Vet St How and Poultry. We will gladly refund : results from the use of any Caro-Vet rome AUTHORIZED DEALERS J. H. Alley.West Union, 8. C. Tho City rharmacy . Seneca, 8. C. C. L. Callahan....Seneca, 8. C., Route 3. h. V. Graham . Seneca, 8. O. Shirley'? Pharmacy . Seneca, 8. C. F. 8. Hutchins a Co. .. Westminster, 8. C. 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Washington-, ?March 1.-The Houso by a vote of 2<U io 20 to-day passod the Senate bill extending indefinitely the time during which draft evader? and deserters from tho army and navy during the World War may be prosecuted, by continuing the mili tary status of deserters. The meas ure also extends for another three years tho time during which draft dodgers can be brought to trial In civil courts. Secretary Weeks, In a letter ,to Chairman Kahn, of the military com mittee, urged the prompt passage of the bill. om Every Hen for a loafing hen. You can make layers out of every solitary hen you own. Egg Producer tonio, develops the egg-producing organs: foung pullets; keeps poultry healthy and lb. box, 09 cento, andar? Remedies for Horse?, Mules, Cunio, rour money if you fall to get satisfactory ay. IN O00NEE COUNTY T. B. Able.Westminster, S. C. D. D. Elrod ......... Westminster, B.V.D. W N Barton. Walhalla, fl. 0. W. D. Tally. Salem. 8. 0. Cn sh Grocery Co.Walhalla, 8. 0. W. M. Murphreo .. 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