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aT i . >. w ^ UU \rt If Copyright by* Littlei Jr ? v Polly l#s^ the rest of his sentence. Back and yet farther hack she slipped over the roof. ShOwd never heard anything- so dreadful as this. In fact, dii ho<? plr.-avfi #1111 to likod oics. hut she had never thought of comparing the shanty or Cranny Hope and Padd.v Hopkins to a barnyard and Its occupnnts. ~ ? She heard the men ride away; and once more she sat up. By raising tier body a little. she could see them walking their horses along the road ttiat led Its crooked way through Hie set? tleiuent. MucKenzie's straight, thick-set figure made tier shudder, hut tlye slim, boyish one beside him brought a queer little thrill to her heart. "He's a beautiful ^ngel himself," she murmured, and taking up the ur, she slipped down the tree and dropped to the wet ground. Cranny Hope straightened up as Polly entered the kitchen. Swiftly the girl crawled out <?? her father's trousers and tossed buck her curls. "What's the matter, pretty brat?" queried the woman drowsily. "I got to find Daddy," replied Tolly, her voice shaking.- "Old Marc's back an' lie's after us sqtlatters a llyin*, au', Granny?" She paused, her face softened, and she smiled. "Yep, honey?" prompted ill's. Hope. "Old Marc had a beautiful angel with him," went on the girl, "nil* he likes us squatters. He stood right up to that rotten MacKenzie. I heard him, I did." She crossed to the old woman's side. "Love's able to send a angel slapbav.g down to this old earth to help us, huh, (Jrunny Hope?" "Yep, sure?sure, honey-girl," murmured Granuy, and once more her head bobbed forward, and she slept. Polly Hopkins crept out of the hut and sped away uiong the shore toward Had Map's ravine, t . CHAPTER II. About the time I'olly Hopkins began to n-pair the shack roof, Evelyn Robertson cume into the room where her mother sat reading. The girl was dressed to go out and was drawing n pair of gloves over her ringed fingers. "Where are you going, Eve?" inquired the lady. "It seems to me thnt you're running, out P altogether too much. There's your piano! You haven't practiced in months. Now don't blame me, Eve, (t, when Marcus asks you to pluy, you fall Hat." A dull red ran into the girl's cheeks, but she made no ryply as she smoothed the wrinkles from her gloves. "The good Lord knows," continued the mother irritably, "that'I've kept at you enough. Now Mare'and Robert are home, how are you going to entertain tliem? Men demand so much." The experiences of the past two years had taught Evelyn that lesson. it una neon uenianu, ueniunu nnu more demanding over since, on- girlish imjiulse, she hud secretly- married Oscar Bennett. "And you heard what Marcus said last night about the Silent City folks," "And You Heard What Marcus Said Last Night About the Silent City Foiks," Went on Mrs. Robertson. went on Mrs. llobertson. "What you want of that Hopkins gli'J I don't understand. Maieus says her father is the most dangerous man among the lot of them, and the girl herself Is queer." * "Oh, don't talk about the squatters all the time," eried Evelyn. "I hate the very sound of the word. What's Polly Hopkins, anyway? . . . Now Marcus is home?" "l>arliny," the mother interrupted Sfl filler White ^RHLivin^st^^^^ SBrgwn. and'Compaiy J i eagerly, "it has always been my nope that you and Marc would grow to care ! for each other. He is so rich and so j handsome! Now, isn't.he?" * A groan almost leapt from Evelyn's : lips. What a fool she had been! Here ; she was married to u man she loathed, ' a man she was ashamed of! The j realization that another man, rich, ; good-looking und in every way deslra, hie. had turned his serious eyes upon j her, almost made her blurt out the 1 whole story to her mother; but having kept silent so long, she dared not speak now. All through the night she IIHU lOSSl'U Mini luiut'u, iiuming nuiuc I way to get Oscar Bennett out of her Hfe without Marcus MacKenzie know- , lng anything alxwt it. She dared not ; go to Oscar himself; Polly Hopkins ( was the only hope she had. All B?n, nett cared for was money. He was as 1 tired of her as she was of him. Per' haps he would go away quietly and I set her free If she gave him money enough. Would her mother give it to her? "Mother, do you honestly wont me to many Marc?" she asked, trembling. Mrs. Robertson caught at the outflung hand. "I do, I do indeed, darling," she answered. "And he'll ask you too, I'm sure. Perhaps not today or tomorrow, i fur he's just renewing his acquuintI ance with you. By the way he looked (last night I could tell he' was consid! cring It." A handkerchief dropped from Evelyn's fingers, and she stooped to pick I It up. "If I lead Marcus on," she suggested, rising, "and?und get him to ask :ne to inurrv him. will you give ine any i sum of money I want?" Her voice shook with emotion, and j her young face -seemed suddenly old and haggard. Mrs. Robertson had ; never seen her daughter In such a stute. "Sit down a minute, Evelyn," she , commanded. "Now tell me what you' i want money for. I know very well F , I that you huven't spent what I've al. lowed you upon yourself. That's why I I've refused you so much lately. No more secrets or mystery! I want the facts. Now tell me this minute." < The girl dropped Into a chair and ; hurled her face In her hands. "I can't," she whispered. For some time she remained In the 1 rt *4 If whHn mAfhflP j ^UIIIC uiiuuuv;, "H?IC ?uvnivi I studied her silently. At length the j girl lifted herself erect ] "I can't explain," she broke out "and I suppose you're thinking all , kinds of things. I can't help it If you do. You'll have to give rae the money , I need, if you want me to marry Marc. There's no 'ifs' und 'ands' about that. , ! If you'll give me the money"?she faltered, wiped her lips and concluded j slowly, "I'll marry Marcus MacKen- , zie." i "You must be crazy, Eve," Mrs. Robj ertson said in a cold voice, "to talk to me like that. If you have any secrets from me, it's time you told them." , "Well?" shot from Evelyn sharply, i "suppose I have? It's my secret, isn't i ! it? Are you going to heJp me or not, i j that's the question." It was evident to Mrs. Robertson ; that the situation was not to be trifled j with. In a twinkling her duughter i had changed from a meek and timid I girl to an aggressive woman. To try I to bully her any more would be a mere j waste of effort. "Heavens," she began, "this Is a pretty how to do, I must say. I can't 1 | imagine why you should want money. ! It doesn't make much difference, nnyI way. There are more reusons than ' one why you can't get It from me." "What ure they?" fell from the girl's lips. "The first Is," returned the mother, ; tartly, "I don't like being held up In (Ills high-handed manner by my own daughter." j She paused; and Evelyn caught her i breath. If that were all, she would I row and rage until she got what she | wanted. j Mother and daughter were staring I at one another, each demanding an exi planatlon. Evelyn did not Intend to | make any! Mrs. Robertson weakened , before the steely-blue in the girl's j eyes. "But the main reason Is," she went i on, "I haven't got It. I don't own this house, nor?nor?M Evelyn sprang to her feet and eonfronted her mother, ller face was , drawn into cruel lines, and her hands \ were gripped spasmodically, j "You lie," she burst forth. "You've j always lied to me about money." A bitter smile drew down the cor- i ners of the older woman's mouth. She I knew how true the accusation was. "Well, this time," she answered, ! i "I'm telling you the simple truth. I not only do not own this house, but?" "Then who does own It?" interject- j ed the girl. "Your cousin, Robert Perclval," was ! the quick response; "and he's supplied [ all the money we have used. Now j j perhaps yoji won't try to get- Some- I ,. v-v, t ' j" J ' ^ thing out of nie I haven't got.""Mother!" cried the girl, in agony. I "I to*?l you, FJve, thnt yoU should ' know the truth," Mrs. Robertson con- ' tlnued! "You've nuked for it, and here it is. When Robert's father and ' mother died, I catne here to take care of him. I had nothing then and have 1 nothing now. You were oniya nnny, t and I've always kept the facts from I yon.- When Robert wqnt to war, he arranged that if he didn't corae back, I should have the home and cnotigh money to keep ns." Evelyn's eyes widened. Of a surety this was the truth. "Then we aren't rich?" she demanded huskily. "No, that we're not!? responded the lady, "and what's more, we are dependent upon Robert for everything." With a quick gesture Evelyn caught, her mother's arm, despair changing the lines on her face. "Oh, you needn't be so theatrical, my dear," said the woman. "Robert's j never given me the slightest reason to feel he thought us a burden. I'm quite like his mother, ns I should be. The only thing necessary is that you shoild feather your own nest before Bob makes up his mind to get married. 1 know very well -you've turned down many a yoting man In Ithafa. Now your chance has come. Marc MacKenzle's rich. He loves you?" Without waiting to hear anything more, Evelyn ran out of the room. Mrs. Robertson sank back with a sigh, partly of relief that at last Evelyn knew Just the situation th&y were In, partly of anxiety as to her daughter's secret. > t' (To be Continued.) AFTER PINK ROLL WEEVIL. Cotton Post from .Egypt Threatens Texas, Says Commissioner. An investigation of the ravages of the pink cottdn boll worm in the Laguna agricultural district of Mexico and the almost certain spread of the Rest to Texas and other states cf the South has been made by W. D. Farris of Ennis, vice president of the Texas farm bureau and member of the State Pink Boll Worm commission, and Lea Bcaty of Lockhart, representatlng the Texas state department of agriculture. The Laguna district embraces the valley of the Natas river, in the states of Durango and Coahuila, with Torreon as Its commercial centre. "The people of Texas can hardly realize the enormity or me menace, Mr. Karris said. . "Starting- in the delta region of the Nile a few years agp the pink boll worm has spread over the cotton growing districts of the world with- appalling rapidity. "In spite of all we can do, the South will be invaded by thi.a pest, and we must be prepared to fig it it. Its appearance ip four or f[vt isolated districts of the BtntelJn . the last three years must serve as a warning. Through quarantine measures and noncotton zones, we have been able to hold the insect in check, but Texas has yet to feel the effects of a real invasion. When it comes it will cost the state millions of dollars, and we must be prepared to fight for our economic existence as a cotton growing section." Mr. Farria described the Laguna district as an alluvial basin with an area of 2,000 square miles built up through the ages by the Nazas river which starts in the mountains and gradually disappears as it passes through the cotton district. Normally the production of the area is 000,000 bales of long staple cotton a year, but owing to the pink boll worm the'Crop last year was 80,000 bales. The entire crop was consumed in Mexico. The land is divided Into tracts of 250 acres each, each tract surrounded by irrigation ditches bor-. dered with cottonwood trees. The tract is planted every second year. In the rest period it is flooded with from Ave to six feet of water, which remains on the land five-months, gradually soaking in. The one crop produced every two years averages a bale to the acre. In the district Messrs. Farris and Beaty witnessed six tests of a machine invented recently to exterminate the pink boll worm by subjecting infested seed to a high temperature thus destroying the worm, but not the germi A' ? ?e *u*. .nA/wl Mr T7V? rric uaimg power ui me ?cw, ata.. gave it as his opinion that the machine was a preventative only, and that noncotton areas were the only cure. In the tests seeds were subjected for five minutes to a heat of from 138 to 145 decrees. At the lower temperature but one out of every 100 worms survived. At 145 degrees not a live worm was found. Seed from the district was taken at random for the tests, aYid afterward each seed was cut open. This showed 100 worms to every 215.seeds. In germination tests the treated seed sprouted and grew better than nontreated seeds. The machine consists of a revolving drum ten feet long, containing pipes carrying 135 pounds of steam pressure. Seed is put in at one end and after a five-minute interval comes out sterilized at the other end. CLAIMS VAGRANCY TROPHY Man at Lynn, Mass., Is Sentenced for Fiftieth Time. Arthur P. Wetherbee claims the championship of being the "vag," so far as appearance in the District Court in Lynn. Mass., is concerned. Three times during the last week he had applied to Police Headquarters for lodging and today Judge Ralph \V. Reeves sentenced him to two months in the house of correction. "It is cold weather and I would like a place to sleep," said Weatherbee. "T have not been able to got any work." Judge Reeves said: "I do not think that you would work if you had the opportunity. I will give you a chance to work in the House of Correction and you may begin today your fiftieth commitment service as a vagrarjt." 2 mxmsmms r : mg fc AX IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SundaySchool ' Lesson' (By REV. P. B. FITZWAT1SK. D. D.. Teacher of English Bible In the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) Copyright, l'<lf2. Weet'ern~"Newapa.por tlnlon. LESSON FOR MARCH 5 JEHOVAH'S MERCY TO A HEATH. CITY LESSON TE^CT?Jonah. 3:1-4;1L GOLDEN TEXT-Let the wicked for ake his way,vand the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him rOturtf unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, tor he will abundantly pardon.?lea. 65:7. ' ' REFERENCE MATERIAL?lea. 4G:3>25; 4^:5-7; Jonah l:l-2:l0? M&L 1:10, 11; John 3:16. PRIMARY TOPIC?God Sends Jonah on an Ehrahd. JUNIOR TOPIC?How God Spared a tVicked City. >' INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC -Jonah's Missionary Adventure. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC ?The Missionary Teaching ol the Book of Jonah. That the book of Jonnh Is historical ^ve believe for the following reasons : ' First, Its reco.rd and use In the Scriptures. That the writers of roe oioie' mienuea uie impression or Its historicity Is without the shadow Of a doubt. The suggestion that It Is a parable Is- absolutely gratuitous. Second; the uhbroken testimony of tradition among the Jews Is that ft Is historic. Thirst, the testimony of Jesus Christ (Matt. 12:3941). The words of Jesus Christ are final. 1/ Jonah's Second Commission (w. 1, 2). i When called the first time to go to Nineveh, he found the task too great for him. For his unfaithfulness, he was chastised. He repented and God restored his commission. The Lord said to him, "Preach the preaching that I-bld thee" (v. 2). God knows how lie wants Hfs work done. Hqppy is the missionary, minister, Sundayschool teacher, who preaches God's Word Just as He gave It. II. Jonah's Preaching (vv. 3, 4). 1. His field (v. 8). "Nineveh was an exceeding great city." Not only was the city large, *but its Inhabitants were noted for their cruelty, 2. His message (v. 4). "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown." This means that forty days were glve?* by God for repentance ere the Judginent would falL God Is long-suffering, not willing that any should perish* but thnt all should repent (II Pet. 3:9). ITiough lie Is merciful, yet there Is a limitation to It. He says, "Yet forty days." > ' III. The Repentance of Nineveh (w. 5-10). 1. They believed God (t. 5). They believed tliat God whs speaking to thera through the prophet about their sifts and Impending Judgment 2. They proclaimed a fast (vv. 5-8). The klpg and people joined sincerely in this niovement. The call was for them to turn away from their sins. Their penitence was genuine, for they not merely put on sackcloth, the vis ible sign of mourning, but they cried to God (v. 8). 8. They reasoned that God would repent (v; 9). Though they had no assurance that God would have mercy, yet they reasoned that the Sending of a prophet and the giving of a time before the fall of doom Implied thut God would be merciful if they repented. They Were wise In so doing. We today know that God will have mercy If we repent (Acts 8:19). What utter folly to go on In sin In the face of the assurance that God will Judge. 5. God's mercy shown (v. 10). "God saw their works that they turned from their evJl way." God's eye is omniscient. Wherever there Is a soul who Is turning ffom sin In penitence, He sees. No one has ever wept over sin unnoticed by God. God rejoices when a sinner repents (Luke 15:10). In the Book of Jonah wc have portrayed the typical history of Israel: "1. Jonah was called to a world mission, and so was Israel. (2) . Jonah at first refused compliance with the divine purpose and plan, and so did Israel. (8) Jonah was punished by rtn of t)\f% nan on/1 CA 1D9Q UUlUj? tUOfc 1>MV k?v uvu, M..W WW .. V... Israel by being dispersed tuhong the nations. (4) Jonah was not lost, but rather especially preserved during this purt of his experience, and Israel 19 not being assimilated by the nutlons, but being kept for God. (5) Jonah, repentant and cast out by the fish, Is restored to life and action again, and Israel, repentant and cast out by the nutlons, shull be restored to her former nntlonal position. (6) Jonnb, obedient, goes upon his mission to Nineveh, .and Israel obedient, shall ultimately engage. In her original mission to the world. (7) Jonah Is successful In that his message Is acted upon to the salvation of Nineveh, so Israel shall be blessed In that she shull be used to the conversion of the whole world." ?Dr. Cray's Commentary. SHEEP FOR HORSES. Team of Former a Common Sight on Stroets of Washington Town. A common sight on the streets in Dayton. Wash., is a team of four sheep which Horace DeLong, an 11-year-old r?M?.. i?,i .li-lvoe tn tnwn for sunnlies. itu im-i icivi, ui i*vw .... ri Horace started to train the sheep for the harness last summer when they v. ere playful lambs. lie succeeded well, for the animals obediently respond to the command of their youthful master whether hitched as a four sheep tandem singly or side by side. They are good travelers and made the two-mile trip to town in half nn hour, mostly fast walking and a continual- bluit. /. 1 fi . ui ? ,1* OLD SI IS DEAD He Never Did Any Work and Yot He Never Miseed a Meal. The recent death of Si Lewis in his house on Loyaisock Creek in this (Sullivan) county, caused neither great sorrow hor undue gratification among his relatives and neighbors, says a LaPor'te, Pa., dispatch to'the New York World: There was little in his gaunt ? rt n 1 1... . J. ImbhUA MfPflAHhn ' , ' ,1 f tn pui auuaiiv-jf ti/ c tmcv.wivu, ^ vw w one who knows the Loyalsock the' passing of this quaint figure is a real loss.' In a dbrintry where "queOr sticks" abound he was invatihbly referred to as1 a "chameter,"" and he Aid' everything possible td merit thlif role. ! fearly lri life Si decided that work wis bo?h distasteful and v Unnecessary. Beyond eUtttng firewddd, rciMtlrlnfr his shingle roof wheh the leaks became really bad, dnd milking his cow, he never stirred a flriger so far as his oWn place was concenVed. He' raised bumper crops of weeds oh his farm, which he inherited from his father, and which was once the finest'along the creek. His fences fell down, so did his barn and the kitchen roof. He neVer e^en bothered with the wreckage, except to niove the kitchtsn stove into the sitting room. Cooking was as abhorent to him as an? other form of Work. Making cbffee was as far as he ever got in the culinary'line. He poured' the cbffee into a bowl and sopped It up tvlth bread. He very sefdom had any other' food in the house. Tall, Thin and Gaunt. Any one who fever saw Si will never forget hirti. He Was unbelievably ' tali, and,' despite an ejflieilfent appetite,..thin as a reed. His fitragjjilngr, ' brownish-gray beard and peaked face gave him the appearance of an ancient faun, strayed far from the scenes of forest revelry and getting rather out at elbowri in the process. He' walked with a shambling, awkward stride which seemed slow until you'tried to keep up with him for an hour or two. Brown overalls, hickory shirt and an antique felt hat of uncertain shape and color represented his wardr e, with the addition of a coat in cold weather. Sitting up until 9 o'clock or 9:30, he regarded as a rank extravagance, and1 he often deplored the fact that his nnloUVinMiunaKxi mnnpv on coal oil. "When It gets dark I go to bed," he ' said. An Always Welcome "Grafter." His custom was to get, up at daybreak and stare off either up or down jthe creek, according to his schedule. He always contrived to arrive at the house of a neighbor shortly before break and start off either up or down could do some work to pay for a meal. The task set for him was usually a mere pretext, such as picking up some chips, cutting a few sticks of wood or milking a cow, He was then ready to do ample Justice to the hot cakes and fried eggs of the housewife. Breakfast over, he would take the road again, and obtain his dinner and supper by similar tactics. He always carried a small tin bucket in case scraps were given him. Sometimes he started out with this filled with mine to swap ifor a meal. Year after year; he, in the country phrase, "walked the roads." Yet the fact thai he lived off his neighbors stirred no racor, and no one ever thought of refusing to feed him. The most any one ever said was that "it was Si's way," and let it go at that. The real secret of the man's success lay deeper than the good natured tolerance of his neighbors, and possibly they never realised it themselves. Si was a perfect storehouse of gossip. He never missed a tld bit in his journeyB, and he never failed to outline the latest happenings ^fter he had eaten. In the sparsely settled country he was a newspaper with an infinite number of daily editions. He formed a link between the scattered farms and hamlets, and he carried messages and the mail. He helped along many a budding romance in his day, and he always turned up for the wedding whether invited or not. ' A Walking Newspaper. Here are a few of the gems which fell from Si's lips and they are a fair sample of his daily output: "Sallie Barbour went to Montoursville this morning by the stage to stay for a spell with her brother and his folks." "There's a party campin' along Sandy Bottom. One man got a fourteen-inch bass Wednesday, and the wimmen got in the creek with 'most nothln' on at all." "Victor Bedford, over to Proctor, got a FoAi tractor last week." "Sam Schafe cut his leg peeljn' bark up in the mountain back of his place. If Susan hadn't a heard him holler, he might of bled to death. She had an awful time getting him back to the house, do you know it?" A Reporter's "Nose for News." Si fairly reveled in rattlesnake bites, death-beds and Interments. No citytrained reporter ever had a keener nose for news, or had greater persistence in getting a story, and his bulletins will be sorely missed in the lonely I farm houses along the creek. Si lived alone until the?last few years of his life. When he found himself at last unable "to walk the roads" he deeded his farm to his niece and her husband on the ugreement that they were to provide a home for him as long as he lived. The husband came very near repenting his bargain when he first tried to raise crops orr the long-neglected fields, but they stuck and carried out their side of the agreement faithfully. Beginning of the End. "Yes, Si has left us," Jim Davis, the nephew?who reminds one of a drawing by A. B. Frost?drawled to a camper of many seasons who had stopped to "pass the time of day" one evening a few weeks ufter Si's death. ... There was just a little regret In Jim's tonep. "The trouble with Si," he continued reflectively, "was that he was alwayB a hearty eater and never did enough work 4.0 let off steam. It was like keeping a horse in the barn an the t'.me and feedin' him oats three times a day. Last July St told me he thought he'd hoe' a row of potatoes every day. Said he believed it would do him good. And every day he did hoe a row, some days two. He didn't do it very well, but the funny thing was his doin' it at all. , It wasn't like him, and I thought at the time'he was breakin' up. Sure enough, it wasn't long before he took to his bed, and the end soon came. Yes, if he hadn't of eat so much and had done some work he rilight have lived longer and he'd have been a heap better off," Jim concluded. feut Jim Ignored two important facts ?that St got along very well without doing" aiiy real xfrork, and was Just ' short olf eighty when he died. ' JAPS AVE OIL SUPPLY y ' i . v ^ i Enough for 300 Years While American Supply is Very Sniaff! Japan's oS resources are vastly greater than she has led the world' to believe, according to reports prepared after months of exhaustive study for presentation before the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. " ' The conclusion reached by the American engineers Is that ' "Japan lias three centuries of supply at the present rate of consumption, while the United fetates has only twenty years of probable oil reserve." jThe engineers are urging the adoption of an International mineral policy by congress to meet the situation with which America is threatened. . Oil has been known in Japan since 668 A. D., when- the Emperor Tenchl was presented with "burning water" by his subjects in Echigo Province. From that day to this considerable oil has been ' obtained from hand-dug wells. In 1891 American "standard" drilling machinery and drillers were Imported. Production then rapidly climbed from insignificant amounts to over 2,000,000 barrels in 1903. After this a slight decline set in, but In 1912 rotary tools were introduced, raising the production to 2,942,722 barrels In 1916. Since that time there has been another small decline to approximately 2,200,000 barrels in 1921. This production satisfies about twothirds of the demand of Japan, the remainder being Imported. The producBAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS A I ? ..... - , J MAM DAV/6 treed A WILDI CAT LAS' N16HT, EN KON'L , BOB WANTER KNOW HOW COME AH ,AIN' FETC0 '|M HOME Wlt> ME - - HUH? ' AH'S ^ES' MO' FAS'ER'N HE wyz ON MAH FEET J QUSNN, 1921 by McOun Wwn?p>r SyufcMfc .j . ' ? ' * . I : :.. !? THE CASH GARAGE IS IN POSITION TO DO. YOUR ' AUTOMOBILE REPAIR AND WELDING WORK AT MOST REASONABLE PRICh'8. " YOU SAVE MONEY BY PAYING CASH. Expert Workmen REPAIR your car when you bring it to this Garage for Repairs. WE CARRY A full line of Automobile Accessories. THE CASH GARAGE J. S. JOINER, MANAGER AT THE OLD CITY HALL EAST LIBERTY STREET -"itnT^iTMitu rmnifliiatii ? ' GIVE US YOUR PB J FOR PROMPTNESS AND AC i PHARMACY WITH THAT PRES (J DOCTOR CALL US. J WE CARRY everything that i L Carry. Bring Your Wants to This ITHORREEXALL CITY PH L Prompt and Accurate 8ervic J nw uum nam in mw : S. L. CO jl Sa'? I | THE UNIVE | 48 S. Main St. ,A.f ' ? f ? ,?.*'. ? / / ' - . ; . r tion of the United States satisfies roughly four-fifths of our needs, the remainder coming from Mexico, J. Morgan Clements, mining engineer ^nd'geologist of New York, has recently Investigated the Japanese oil flolrln is nrohahlv the best in- 'I formed foreign geologist, on the oil fields of that country. Mr. Clements estimates the future oil reserves of Japan in barrels us folfows: Qi1! from "proven" ground, 90,000,000; oil from "piobable" ground, 300,000,000; oil "? from "possible" ground, 700,000,000: Interpreting these figures, in terms of * present annual consumption, which is around 4,000,000 per year, it is evident t that the "proven" and '"probable" oil ; lands of Japan alone will provide her with future requirements nt present rate of consumption for nearly 100 years. If Mr. Clements' guess of "possible" oil lands proves correct, Jt^pan has three centuries of supply at." present rate of consumption. In contrast to this, the United States has only twenty years of prob'au. j oil reserves, { measured at present rates of consump CALHOUN DRUGSME YORK, - - 8. c. IF THERE IS ANYBODY In this vicinity carrying: a larger, better, more complete or varied stock of goods than we are carrying, we don't know It THERE IS CERTAINLY NOBODY who finds mor pleasure in giving the BEST possible Service. BUT AGAIN we desire it known that our.goods are CASH over the counter. We keep no charge books. We .doaft'i; want any. We give you the BEST POSSIBLE VALUE FOR THE LEAST < MONEY. So, if y?u are wise you will see us when desiring anything In our line. But do not embarrass us oj? yourself by asking us to "Charge It." We are not doing that any more. CALHOUN DRUG STORE GOODRICH TIRES ftwmRiru nmrc i UVUV1UV11 A VI/JUU WE HAVE A FULL LINE OE '; TIFFS AND TUBES'A&D THE NAME OF TftEM IS A GUA&AN TEE OF SUPERIOR QUALITY? * - SEE US FOR.'NEXT TIRE NEED. SOLD OUR FORD CAR The car 'advertised last week to be Junked, has been sold, so we'll have no second-hand parte. t i ' f'VJ J. H. CARROLL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE BEGINNING NEXT MQNDAY, Feb. 2Qth, We Will Close Our 8tore at Six O'clock P. m., Except on Saturdays. Our Policy Continue? * <3j The 8ame?Maximum Value* at Minimum Price*. OUR ENTIRE LINE Of Furniture, Stoves, rnd Ranges Is second to none. We are pleased, with our Reds, Springs J and Mattresses, which are built for sleep. You will be, too. Lot us show * you. OUR PURE PAINT8 AND OILS Continue to figure as cheap as any . ' other. When' Better Goods are Sold for f.ower Prices We Will 8ell Them. . J PEOPLES FURNITURE : COMPANY ? I TAKE NOTICE 1 The Sanitary Market ! j Has moved from Congress ' Street to Madison Street And we are now ready to 1 promptly fill all orders. 1 Just continue to Call No. 6 i For your wants in all kinds of meats.' SANITARY MARKET LEWIS G. FERGUSON. Mgr. itm ! n niiimii mi Mini m -? ?? ASCRIPTION WORE ^CURACY COME TO THE CITY 5 CRIPTION. IF YOU NEED THE J in Up-to-Date Drug Store Should 3 Drug Store. A ' ARMACY J- e-brison, Proprietor a e CLOVER, 8. C. J immw m imim w wwiii hi mm* j IT R TN F Y i I Service 1 IRSAL CARYORK, S. C< J J