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HIf Daddy's $4 Evei\ii\$ Fairy Tale ^sy/AARY GJ^HAM BONNER. U&HiCnl *' Ot'.lUUV MV?>a UK'OW? - ? LIZARDS "It's so nice," said the Australian Moaitor, "to soun^ rather important 'at first. I believe IP" ' - they have moniL < tors ir schools and thiit fhey ars trusted and all of "But while they may think I sound S& they may not be ^ disappointed when x a curious creature I even if I'm not ' important in any "A Curious Crea- school way. ture." "I've never been to school. No one ever asked me to go. aud no one ever sent me. They didn't care If I didn't go to school and by 'they' I mean my family. "For an Australian Monitor learns nil hf> tr> Ipflrn onr of school tUSt as well as lie world In school. Perhaps he learns his lessons out of school better and what he should do and eat uud so forth. "An Australian Monitor might be iu school filling ink-wells when he could be making himself a stronger awl a better animal or reptile by being out of doors and catching a small rabbit or something like that. "An Australian Monitor, of course, is a lizard?and a.good strong lizard, too. We can eat small animais whole. We are very large and very big and grow to be eight feet long. f "We can run very fast and we live in the dark jungles. We are fond of i meats in the way of food, or rather, jwe don't care about vegetables. "We are from India and we have relatives in Africa and in Australia, i "But one of the most imporraut I+liino-o ahrmf tie ic that TVP " wti P!lt eggs whole and that the sells dissolve themselves just like capsules or pills do. "Yes, eggshells are alright for us, and I'll tell you the reason. "We have fine digestions. We don't have our tummies getting upset the way so many creatures do. "Gracious, we don't have to go to bed and take bad medicines and say: V ' ' "'Oh dear, oh dear,.why did I eat ithnt!' "Yes, we have superior digestion* and they are important." "We are beautiful," said i the Green Lizard. "And our family came over tlrom Europe. That is, we didn't com* of our own accord. You know what 1 mean." "We didn't go down to the pier with our luggage and put our mimes on the passenger list and then come across in cabins on tie big boat or anything like that. "But we were brought over. "And when you speak about diges* tions we agree with you.' ' "It is most important and very pleasant to have a good digestion. It makes a creature feel better and bap pier and all of such things. I always enjoy my meals and I always feel happy. I feel so pleased v.i;h myself that I show off and folks coming' to the zoo quite enjoy seeing me." ;And I," said the Chameleon, "have been brought over here to jozn the , lizard family, for I have such a lot of interesting colors which I show at different times." "I am a curious creature,") said the Gila Monster, uand I am real^ stupid. I came from the desert an<A I move slowly and awkwardly along^for my body is fat and brown. !"I look as though I werei covered with hiack and brown and /tan and yellow heads, but I'm not. Itjs just because oi the kind of a suit Ifwcur that I look that way. "I give" a good hard bite ai>d I raaka anyone suffer whom I bite., tout I don't kill them. Xo, I'm , not mean enough r T yTl for that. I'm sat- ^ V !j\ jtt/J isfied to make tnem suffer, that's n "Well," said I lie would like to have I " ' , ' ' a word to say, or Lr^S-i' a hiss to make, I'm really a lizard !?3SS**^ mil fshnnlrl fflllr ! with all of you, I though I look so much like a snake thai creatures call me a snake by mistake very often and my "Really aj Lizard." name, as you know, is (.ilass Snake. "I'm a real lizard, but I loak like rsnake. That's pretty interesting. Now that is more than any child I ejver saw, could do. I've seen a lot ofi them a? the zoo, too. "I'm sure none could look 1?U<? r?;;ssy cats and yet be children, ,or 4 be pussy cats and loot likejc. ;k.a, J'm an interesting creature, ilan. ! ' THERE IS A LITTLE HOUSt . J i The little ho:;so: It is so small . ' i 1 I havd not found it yet at all, ; And a* year follows patient year, Strange towns of countries far and neSJt I Return the answer: "Nay, not here!" i And yet 1 know the lamplight fails Caressingly upon its walls, i And I would touch them if I could, ; To know if they are stone or wood. ! There is a chair for you. and thsre The light falls golden on your hair. But?with y graying lips unklsE?4 J The spiral shadows coil and twist About you as you turn to mist. i Our little house: Its window panes j Stung by a thousand passionate rain* ; i Are. blind with ivv. and the moss ; Creeps on the sill that we must cro&a, I ; { It would not be so hard to wait, ' If I were sure ai>out the gate. ! A broken latch were trivial now, I To dazzled eyes, that marveled how j The sunrise rested on your brow. But dawn is terrible unless i Love soothes its awful loveliness, i Ah, love, what tierce dawns storm and j dare j The little house that waits somewhere! i I ?Mary Brent Whiteside, in Leslie'# j ! Weekly. i SHRINE LOOTED OF TREASURE ! ( Russia's Soviet Government Has A;v ; propriated Riches of Famous Church of Saint Sergius. St. Sereins' treasure of $300,000,000 | j has disappeared, tied soldiers now ; | use as a barricade the buildings of ; | what was once regarded as the rich- i j est and most famous convent of all: I ?r. ~ +Uo*- a*! | llltf JLiUSSlUIlS \ t*, pwsxui.i, uiiifc ?-? V t j Kiev. There are but five monks left , in the monastery. Fifteen others have i | removed a mile and a half distant to j j the Church of Gethsemane, at Cher- j j tiigovskaya where they have founded a I | humble community and ; ill the soil. 1 ; The other monks who Irrd at this vast j ! religious mecca, tu which yearly went j . 100.000 pilgrims, have been scattered. I ; There are but few pilgrims now to ! [ pray'before the ikon of St. Sergius, i I the miraculous powers of whfich was j | supposed by Russians to hare saved I I the monastery from destruction by the j French army of invasion in 1812. The ' very jewels of the open silver sarcophagus of St. Sergius have been re moved or replaced with false ones, it I j Is claimed. Many of the vast treasure ! ; of church vessels, mitres and croziers, j made of solid gold and inlaid with ! precious stones of-immense value are i j missing. It is claimed that the loot j from the monastery equaled in value ; | the treasure of gold and silver and j I precious stones of St. PeterTs. Rome. I I The monastery is now classed as a na- i i tional soviet museum and no services ! are held within the church. nprT35^ I II j A CREDIT RATING Mr. Everbroke: I want a good diamond ring on credit. I've just ; become engaged to the rich Mis3 i Goldenbonds." The Jeweler: I am sorry to have 'j to refuse you. Our credit man re- : ports that it's difficult to Qet Miss . ! "Goldenbonds to return her engage- 1 j rnent rings. Call and see us when i i you need wedding rings. ^ Thirty j i davs time?five per cent, off for ; ! cash. Piano Box Shoe Store. Have you ever been in an oil boom | town? The hope of striking oil >s -as 1 ; great an excitement as the finding of ; j gold in '49. From the preliminary ; leasing of the land, the promotion of : stock, to the setting up of a drill it h.*:s : all the glamor and glory of specuiui tion. Once oil is hit, the gusher opens j j up not only wealth for* the prospector, ; ! but some measure of opportunity \ j the alert merchant. In the Arkansas ' [ fields almost overnight-a line of stoves j j appeared. They were nothing more j I than shanties at the best, but the shoe ! 1 } j store took the prize of the entire t j main street. It consisted of four pi. ro | ! boxes font'.uuii!? the best grade b< ' 1 and the best calfskin shoes at a pr:? e I reminiscent of the war period?Boo; , j and Shoe Recorder, j New York Woman's Fool Idea. Because she dyed her cat a beautiful j ' blue to harmonize with #he furniture ! i of her apartment. a young" woman in j 1 New York/ who says She is a singer, I ' was arrested on a cruelty charge by J j the Humane society. A probation ofJ ficer who waf sent to inve tigate the , case told the ^ agistrate that the singer : j had a three-room a parti, "i:' all done in j : Alice blue and had an Alice blue wurd* ! robe. She wanted <?* > to be of the ! i-ame shade and so diived him. Two | . other oats that she luid dyed had been j : poisoned by licking oil* the dye. The I magistrate gave her a suspended sen- | tence and ordered the Humane society i to keep the cat until its soft fur is j ! once more clean a:id there is no further j danger to its health. Easy to Start. "I notice that some young women j ! have started a movement to teach the | youi.g men of th^r town how to taik ' when paying a call." j "A waste of time." i "Eh?" , 1 "All that is necessary when the young j chap gets his hat parked and himself ! seated ou the eilge of a choir .s to say, | 'Oh, Augusti::;,' Mojitmor?- Percival, j or whatever l:is name is to be, | *do tell me about yours "- -Llrinia?> i Suuu Age-Herald. j BANDITMAKES ! DARING ESCAPE! j Roy Gardner. Bold Pacific Coast ;( Holdup Man, Breaks Away , From Island Prison. ] t FLEES DURING GAME; i ] Leaps for Liberty Through Gap in '] Barbed-Wire Fence Cut While Bullets Whistle About ! i His Head. ! Seattle, Wash.?I toy Gardner, west- |1 ern holdup man and bold mail robber, j1 known all along the Pacific coast as ; the cleverest and most slippery prison- J er ever piaced under arrest, is again ; q free man. He escaped from the . government prison on McXe'Vs island, . ?n I'uget Sound. amid a fusillade of |' bullets. |] Twice In his criminal career, before ;; he was finally placed behind the bars ij on s:ii>i?osed impregnable McNeil's ^ isla;i:;. <"-'! '.ier had escaped from the jj shrc-v.-i'.ps: men the government could j set t- guard him on the way to his ; nrlsnn. Twice he icked with the man |J hunters on whom he turned the tables :' and made prisoners in his place. And !, twk'c he laughed when lie was recap- 1' tur?> 1. . Water Races by Prison fele. , < So Gardner came l/ be the most 11 elosely watched prisoner in Uncle j Sam's most closely guarded jail? guarded not by'stone walls, and steel j, bars, and armed guards alone, but by j, the very conspiracy of natural forces, j It is set on a desolate isle in Puget J Sound with a wide stretch of wafer jrunning at mill race speed between j1 island and mainland. ' .^v. 1w/I Knf.n in nricnn fr>r? sflt ! " UiU Uljn iiuu ijizk;ii m , weeks when, on Labor day, the prison- j 1 ers turned out to watch a bisebali |1 game between two teams of fellow j prisoners. They were In the prison :, yard, cut off from liberty by a high j' barbed-wire fence, with towers at the , | corners, in which sat watchful men j with loaded rifles and orders to shoot ; to kill. i J The game went on and the guards j became interested in the play. Sud- j 'i""1" rs-f t-,1 qrora hit thp hflll 8 ! UtTUft J kJLlKZ Ui ?f ? ' |v I Gardner Kept on Going. ! I terrific wallop for a home run, attracting all eyes to the play. The next 1 instant Gardner and two others leaped , for the fence. Gardner, In the lead, ! whipped out a pair of wire cutters nnd snapped through the strands of the barbed wire. _ I Two Companions Were Shot As he leaped through the gap the guards in the towers began shooting. Bullets were whistling around the three fugitives. Gardner's companions, j both former soldier^ serving sentences for vicious crimes committed while in j the army, fell, one dead and the other | seriously wounded. Gardner kept on j croing. The hre?tk by Gardner and the sight j of the in the barbed-wire fence i turned the 250 convicts in the prison j yard wild animals, frantic for i lihf."'.. There was a howl from 250 j i I rhr< ::s 1 the convicts started for j the '(*?i e. Tlie guards had their hands j full controlling them, so Gardner made good his escape. DO3 WINS OWN PAROLE PLEA ? ? j So--', to Refuge at Kansas City, Tc:ddy Cries Till He is Sent Home. Kansas City.?Teddy, a young 0>Me ; dog, made his own plea to Police! Judge West, Kansas City, Kas., over ! parole. In Kansas City, Kas., doga ' charged with misbehavior are sen-j j fenced to confinement at the Wyan-j! done County Humane society animal j] refuge for from one to three weeks, j j Teddy was sent up for two weeks, I! ?.? nevnr liocr- uwav from llOIlltV ' uuii * ?"e> -*? ? ? and friends befoiv. lie passed butt 1 days -and nights In dismal wailing. The maii-c.h, 3Irs. Whitford, brought l.ini into her own rooms and did every- j thing lo comfort him, but the wailing continued. Finally she called up Judge West and asked for Teddy's i parole. While she was talking Teddy i rushed o lier side and quite silenced [ her vo with his own. 'Vest, having heard the ergu! merit, decided Teddy might go home i and reinaJn there during good behayior, I Cures Malaria, Chills and Fev-I er, Dengue or Bilious Fever. It kills the germs. I i NOTICE OF ASSIGNEE'S SALE ! By virtue of a deed of assignment I made and executed to me on the i JOth day of May, 1922, :=aia deed of assignment being of record in the Dlerk of Courts office for Newberry j County, S. C.. in Mortgage ?ook Xo. i 20 at page 206; the undersigned will j ell all the stock of goods and fix- j tures of T. S. Hudson, Assignor, on j the 29th day of June, 1922, at the; iour of eleven o'clock, a. in., to the | highest bidder or bidders for cash.; An inventory of same having been; uaken which shows a stock of goods in ihe sum of $649.80 and the fixtures ?.t $1000.65 aggregating a total of SI709.91. The stock of goods will be sold and then the fixtures separ-; itely and then the entire stock of J ;>nd fixture will be ?old as a I tvhole and whichever sale amounts to j :he greater sum will be considered, j Fhe terms of sale are for cash. The j right.to reject any and all bids is! reserved. If the bid or bids are ac- j ;-epted the purchaser or puchasers must immediately comply with same ind if not complied with it will be immediately resold at the risk of the former purchaser or purchasers. The sale will be at the store building formerly occupied by T. S. Hudson on West Main Street. B. V. CHAPMAN, Assignee and Agent. 5-16-3t ESTATE NOTICE The creditors of the estate of E. P. Matthews, deceased, are hereby notified to render an account of their iemands against said estate, duly at:ested, to the undersigned by July 1st, 1922, and ail persons indebted to .he deceased will make payment to the undersigned. MRS. EDITH MATTHEWS, Executrix. 3-26-3t ltaw UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH TAROLI NA Scholarship and Entrance Examinations The examination for the award of /acant scholar^ips in the- University :>f South Carolina and for admission jf new students will be held at the :*ounty court house July 14, 1922, at ) a. m. Applicants must not be 4ess j ;han sixteen years of age. When! cholarships are vacant after July 14. i MMMMridi MiinMMnaMaMgmj.i *aamum turn WEEK-E1V FROM ALL PRINCIPAL S MOUNTAIN AND S ANNOU? SOUTHERN R?! T>'flFpr*V?vo \Tuv 9ftHi +r> be sold for all trains Saturdays ing Tuesdays following date of s ; i*, Following low fares will app' Asheville, N. C. $6.90 Brevard, N. C. .) $G.90 Charleston, S. C .$7.50 Flatt Rock, N. C ?5.S5 Hendersonville, N. C SC.00 Lake Toxaway, N: C ?7.80 Mountain Home, N. C ?C.15 Skyland, N. C $6.55 Tryon, N. C ?5.05 Waynesville, N. C ,.$3.15 ror iuriner mxormat:on an: Ticket Agents. The po diden' 1 It all too frequently ha wrecked, or stolen, or the a suit, only to find that h< that particular contingency buy insurance and that is tion. Mak a memo now to te James A. Insurance? 1103 Caldwell St. Member Newberry C they will be awarded to those making the highest average at examination, provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Appli-: cants tor scholarships should write to j President Currell for scholarship! i blanks. These blanks properly filled j out l>y the applicant should be filed;) with President Currell by July 10. || Scholarships are worth $100, free tu- ji ition and fees. For further infornia-j tion write President W. S. Currell University of S. C. Columbia, S. C. G-G-31 1 taw NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF! PARTNERSHIP || Notice :g hereby given that the partnership heretofore existing between H. 0. Long, 0. W. Long, and J. <W. Britt, has this day been dissolved so far as relates to the said J. W. Britt,?the said H. 0. Long and 0. W. Long having purchased the interest of said J. W. Britt in said partnership. All debts due to said partnership must be paid to the said remaining partners, namely H. 0. Long and 0. W. Long, and all debts due by said parturship will ;je settled by said remaining partners. (Signed) H. 0. LONG, 0. W. LONG, J. W. BRITT, Newberry, S. C. June 1st, 1922. j Winthrop College SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop college and for admission of new stu-l dents will be held at the county court j | house on Friday, July 7, at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less than sixteen years of age. When scholarships are vacant after July 1 they will be awarded to those making the highest 'average at this examination, provided they meet the conditions governing i the award. Applicants for scholar-! ships should write t<j> President John-! son before the examination for senol- s arship examination blanks. Scholarships are cworth $100 and free'tuition. The next session will I open September 20th, 1922. For further information and catalogue, address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. 4-28-tf NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT j I will make a final settlement of the | j estate of Julia D. Brown in the Pro-11 bate Court for Newberry County, S.jj P r.n TTvwlov thn 93rrl H.nv nf Jnnp I 1922, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon) and Aviil immediately thereafter ask j for my discharge as Administrator of j tsaid estate. All persons having claims against i the estate of Julia D. Brown, deceased, are': hereby notified to file the, same, duly verified, with the iiriderj signed, and thr.Ge indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. [ ? GUY BROWN, Administrator. Newberry, S. C., May 24, 1922.;ID FARES TATIONS TO PRINCIPAL EASHORE RESORTS ' sICED BY [LWAY, SYSTEM / ; " * j. nber 30th, round trip tickets will and Sundays limited for return:ale. ^ :1 ly from .Newberry: .'! ;* i Arden, N. C So.45 Black Mountain $7.60 Campo'bello, -S. C $4.70 Fletcher, N. C $6,35 Hot Springs, N. C >.$8.55 Lake Junaluska, N. C $8.05 Saluda, N. C $5.45 Tybee, Ga .$8.95 Tuxedo, N. C $5.70 Walhalla, S. C $5.00 :1 Pullman reservations apply to f licy he t have ppens that a car burns or is owner becomes involved in 3 has no insurance covering r. There is only one way to to ask for complete protecilephone. l Burton -Real Estate. Newberry, S. C. Chamber of Commerce I I For Edison Records for u have been sli * f* records for se be ready for bers July 3 P. If voti are not of Club come 1 . . l and get tne { playing twent son Recreat month at no ( I > . /* / QDUQir 11 up ii' i %' * imarr. tf>w r.Tyry--.-Ti ;t: 7jrr~?ng%r^ ?yi nrnrr^iiMi isa S"'" ' / . f' - " X 1 . : t I- . r - ' . , ! I hi time of sickn medicine must get well again, i: depend upon tl the medicine the Bring your doct tion here and yc what his order c up of the purest I drugs, with cons I s* n A slnih vpt rh; W??*? ^ ^ reasonably., Proi v Mayes Dn Newberry, Member Newbarry Chan Owners $ I se of Clubs tipped and election will Club MemM. : a Member 1 , in ana join jrivilege of y New Edi % ions each 2ost to you. \ w ^ \ i t - \ I [EWBER?Y>^^?^j # | ' apBtBOi' i n mi Ninri n 11 11 ncaaa? ,. / ,*"** y v / . ,, V . - . ; v / / "'I ; ' - I i ,#f , - -i .1 n the spoon ;ss. Doses of %r be taken to >ut a lot. will ae quality of I ' f spoon holds. , or's pjfescripiu will get just 11 ^ * 1 alis tor, maae and freshest urnmate care , f- . 1 arged for most mpt service. 4 ii? Store -zj South Carolina 4 aber of Commerce