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pit '/'JP Wak< | Don't be a Rip Van. Bi * i Wide awake people say i 1 See us. W&ddiU? HB Insurance and ?#RW(?p(LE ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY. J. N. STRICKLIN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Subscription Rates S-tipo per year in advance. AdverlisiuR Rates on Application oooooapoooooocooooooooocoo jj Folying a Trail. | [CopysJgfit, 1909, by American Pros* Assoelation.] ^ jS Of all the trails I ever followed the longest was in tracing a murderer. Just before taking It I was employed *< to look Into the loss of n $25,000 diamond ring. It belonged to Louis BamT . berger. He missed It oue day, aud I jfe^. 1 was sent to bis bouse incog, to lnves[ bad been taken, since be bad not seen , . It for a fortnight at least before be' S -> missed it. It was kept in a bureau i ; drawer in his bedroom. \For ten days I kept my eyes open, followed up every clew, however 1 ~ slight, but made 110 headway whatever. I told Mr. Bamberger that if any one .in the house had taken the ring I couldn't find out who was the criminal. I gave up the job. A month l^ter I took a murder case. While drh iilg along a country road in the neighbbrhood of the scene of the | murder on/a feneepost I noticed some- . 1 thing that resembled a Masonic sym- : bol. It was a circle and a triangle roughly cut, the circle overlying the triangle,!'one of the angles of the latter being acute. I pulled up beside the J post toi examine It. Any one but u detective would have Hkely considered It 1 the work of some idle boy. I did not regard it so lightly, but I had not then j a knowledge I gained afterward which would have enabled me to decipher It. I drove on much puzzled. Later I came to a point where an- 1 other road Joined the one I was on. Not a hundred yards before reaching the fork I saw a duplicate of the circle and triangle enrved on n tree stand- 1 Ing a short distance from the road. It 1 at once occurred to me that these sym- 1 M A t.. uvio luuitaiuu u iuuic. A^iiiu A mujiped and studied. I noticed that the i1 acute angle of the triangle pointed in ! tlie same direction as the one I lind seen cut on the post, a .direction the j reverse of thnt In which I was driving.* Ten miles farther on the murder had been committed the traces of j which I was looking for. If these 1 signs continued at Intervals to a point ' near the house of the murder I had J made an Important discovery. I drove on, watching for the sign, aud saw 1 , two, each at a road fork or crossing. On the way I passed the Bamberger > house and a mile farther on came to the house of the murder, A mile and !We Trust\ Doctors If you are suffering from impure blood, thin blood, debility, nervousness, exhaustion, you should begin at once with Ayer's Sarsaparilla, the -Sarsaparilla you have known all your life. Your doctor knows it, too. Ask him about it. Union there 1* (telly ertlnn of the bowels, poisonous products nre absorbed, causing headache, biliousness, nausea, dyspepsia, and thus preventing the Harsaperilla from doing Its best work. Ayer's fills ere liver pills. Act gently, nil vegetable. M Made by J. O. A ye* Co.. T.owell, Maae. yi Also manufaoturors of ZJ _ f HAIR VIOOR. / 1 f iOr C CURE. Jl O CHERRY PECTORAL We bare no eeerets I We publish the formulae of ell our asetf ielnee. 3 Up. iy Cheraw real estate. ( now is the tim?. 'r > Lmdsa.y, I X 1 r * 1 I Real Estate. -? f 1 * n half before reaching, tjie latter the road forked, and I found the circle and angle. This was the last signal In that direction. I turned and drove back past the symbols and two miles beyond the first 1 had seen came to another, then another and another, driving till It was too dark to see them. Then I put up at a farmhouse and spent the night. I expected that I might have a chase before me lasting several days, but I never dreamed of what I had really undertaken. Every morning I would start out, drive all day, seldom having to do much hunting for the symbols, and turn In at night, hoping the next day to come to the end of my pilgrimage. 1 had started from a point near 1 Cleveland, followed the "blazed" route j across Illinois to St. Louis, thence to i Topeka, thence to Santa Fe, a distance A# a/vmA* 1 iAA mlloa \ilO IUO VIUIT ilivo; VAi DVUiV , *WV III1IVH, On reaching Santa FckI examined every route leading in every direction, finding no symbols on any of them. By this time I had done a good deal j of thinking and had come to the conclusion that some 09c was showing the J route* to'some one else. Had the some one else arrived? I examined the last symbol carefully and saw that It was fresh cut. I had no cl^w to discover the person who had been showing the route, so I .determine^,to look out for whoever rnl&h't be following.:. There !, was a lioustt nfearjwhere the lost symlere^vatehln^Illda^fto^^my^Vln^ dow or while sitting on the porch. I felt confident that I should discover some one who had been engaged In the murder. He would not travel at night, for lie could not see in the dark the signals Intended for him . any better than I could. One morning six days^ after I had begun my watch it tramp came down the road. I wqs in. the. yard, at the lime cleaning my revolver. "As usual, upon seeing any one approach I kept my head bent down, but my eye on the tramp. The moment lie caught sight of the symbol I knfcw that I had found my man. Ho mndc no secret of his In- ' tercst. Why should he? He was some I 1,(100 miles l?y the shortest roads from where the first signal had been cut f near the house of the murder. IIo went up to the circle and angle, looked it It squnreiy and was proceeding on his way when I covered him with my revolver and ordered him to throw up j his hands He turned white, put his hands over .his. head, and I ordered liini to walk on 'ahead of me toward Santa Fo, a few miles distant Taking him to a police station, the first thing I did after getting there j was to search lilm fdr evidence connecting him with the* murder. What did I find?. ,A ring set with a tremen- . dous diamond. J Well, to close up. It turned out that \ dbout n week before the Bamberger diamond was. missed n?couple of tramps .stopped at the ?ousc and wero j fpfl llil>ri> llnlni* l?fl nlnno n obm less servant, one of them found opportunity to go upstairs and took the dla- j inond. After leaving the house he left ' liis pal and weiit ahead with It, cutting i symbols to guide the latter, who fol- ! lowed. At the third signal the advance man burled the diamond, and the follower took itjup. I got $5,000 for t he jje m's-recoy erj. True honor leaves no room for hesl- i tirtlon'ntnl dotftrt.?rtdttrcIL " " 1 mhe Pu I have opened i building, next t Whitley's, and wil Flour, Grain, w and Sh Will sell in orig I invite the patron; F.F. CI at tK? .Th?et<t?.r^L^^| T^abeentmliiitajtiUMU ip from hla paper tA| tbe (^HiH now around. He JusPfelt pocket for hla ticket and ticket to the conductor. The tlekiH however, was a theater coupon. m "Here," spoke up tbe conductor nitB er sharply; "this doesn't go. Come ofl with the right one." I The absentmlnded man glanced dowfl over the top of his paper at the coam pon. 1 "Well," he snapped, "that's the coU'l pon ofT the ticket the man gave ^ne, 1 and I purpose to occupy this act?#N|ht1 through all y^ree acts. You cnu Just"?I Then he c^^e out of the fog anAfl witu a sliet^K lOOK, nsneu out car ticket.?C^^yand Plain Dealer. J "The a scientist, "somfl times steers with bis talj.''-^ "It Is to guldijils wonderful tBiM I suppose." replliBbls friend. Mr. F. G. Fritts, Oneonta.^M Y., writes: ' ''My little girl^^H greatly benefitted by t a k iw^J Foley's Orino Laxative, and T think it is the beA|tffedy*for constipation and Foley's Orino LaxatiwHjVw^ women and children, as itxSJBihi, pleasant, and effective, and is m splendid spring medicine, as if cleanses the system and clears the complexion. W. G. O'Neaf. Old Author?Have courage, my boM I tried for twenty years to sell manuscripts, and finally? Ifl Young Literary Aspirant?You soM ceeded V * Old Author?No. I was the means of raising the local postoffice from the third to the second class. I , i You should not delay under any circumstances in cases of Kidney and Bladder trouble. You should take something promptly tnat you know is reliable, something like DeWitt's Kidney and Bladdei Pills. They are unequaled foi weak back, backache, inflammation of the bladder, rheumatid pains, etc. When you ask foi DeWitt's Kidney and Bladdei Pills, be sure you get them. They are antiseptic. Accept no substitutes; insist upon getting the right kind. Sold by all Drug gists. \ What is Income Insurance? It is, as the name implies, insurance which will protect you against loss of ^icome, doctor's from following your regular occupation. Costs little?be n e fi t s paid promptly. No physical examination required. The best policy ever offered. W.J. STRICKLIN. Real Estate & Insurance, Cheraw, S. C. The Implement Co., RICHMOND, VA. It is very important both for effective and economical work to procure *Pre best of FARM IMflEStiTS S' Our New Desciipiive Catalog just issued tells all about tlie best tiinj and labor-saving machinery. < It is one of the best and most interesting Implement Catalogs issued. Ma.led free on request. We are also headquarters for Farm " Vavons, Buggies, Ba-b Wire, Ferning, V-Crim> and other Roofing, Gasoline Engines, Saw and Planing Mills. Write for prices and catalogs. The Implement Co., 1302 Main St., - Richmond, Va. blie up in the Trotti to McMillan & | 1 handle ? j Hay, Meal, jpstuff w inal package and age of the public. Mulloy, heraw, S. C, ^ J K. Her lirfmiiM. : "Now. 1 suppose," remarked Mrs. Jum "that the surgeons of the army are attached to the medical corps." : "Your supposition does you great Mpdlt," replied Mr. Snaggs sarcastically. "It's a wonder you didn't Imagine that doctors joined the army for the parpjpe of building bridges or going up In a balloon. Where should army surgeons be except in the medical corps?" "Well, 1 thought that they might possibly belong to the lancers."?LonIon Mail. All old people can remember when lmes were so hard that chlckory was lubstltuted for coffee, lard for butter Hind the principal diet was bread and Borghum, bit does any one remember Brhen times were so hard that n bride Bad to be married In her old clothes?? Bichlson ffiobe. During the spring every one Hpnld be.benefitted by taking Baley'd Kidney Remedy. It furn^Hies n needed tonio to the kid^ys aftefyihe extra strain of winHr, and it//purifies the blood by ^Kmulating the kidneys, and to eleminate the ^ purities from it. Foley's KidWfcr Remedy imparts new life and Pleasant to take. W. O. Hpare Opportunity : ^^Tis hereby offered CK1 SUFFERING jflof our Community. mi Reflect IAct Blly thoroughly accordingly : ^TING SPECIALISTS ' from the fteland Institute of jedicine andl Surgery Really chartered and ; incorporated ^MLVLLAWU, UriiO, their first visit to oomposed of a group of ^^^^^^^Buatetf physicians and our* of Ohfll^HB at Its own oxpenso these eminent aBWleel spec'allsts In order to Introduce the neweat .-nethods and dls* t coverlet ,n medicine and surgery, such as ( the system of treatment under X ray, Violet iv, Flnsen ray, Hydrotherapy, Etc., toaglve to those who call on the above consultation, examination, advice vd all medicines required to complete a pure, absolutely free. These spe- | clallsts pi" diagnose your case and give \ you the benefit of their skill and med leal knfieage. Therwls In this case no experimenting or guew work at your expense. You will be told Whether you can be cured or not. If yousfease la curable they will put you under^eatmer.t Immediately! If inuirable th#f will give you such advice as may prolong your life. Their treatment always^fllves quick relief, and ultimately posltlvjy cures. Being prepared to cope with ef h Individual case the human systern Iwthoroughiy cleansed of the disease InTa natural and direct manner, and Improvement Is noticed at once; even the wcrst cases are treated without any Inconvlnlence to the patient or the pursuing m his or her dally vocation. If yW are Improving under your family physWn, do not come and take up their valuaJe time, as they absolutely refuse to trelt any one who Is under the care of th J local physicians. They wish besides^ give each patient plenty of time and^fielr undivided attention, but can not iftten to long stories not pertaining to your trouble. They have discarded the old rdsthods and remedies used tor ages by tj4 medical world, and which It would be Mfy to depend upon any longer, for tha^lre not known to cure, as thousands die, lependlng on them for relief. The folloJlng list of diseases only are taken undeb treatment, to-wlt: Diseases of the Nervlus System, Heart, Stomach, Lungs. V (rl niua Cafarrh (nnrnlant n r HrwV Consumption, Epilepsy, Deafness, DIs- 1 easetjof Women,Tumors,Fseudo Cancers, < Piles] Of a Chronic Nature only. They I treat Deafness by an entirely new moth- ; od, add hearing In many cases Is restored at ofce. Catarrh In all Its varied forms, Ilka other diseases If once taken under ' treatment, Is cured permanently to re- ' malr~so and to never return. It matters not whom you have seen, or with whom \ treated, do not fall to call, as a visit will . cost you nothing, and may restore you to heaUn, or even save or prolong your life, ' as thousands of persona will testify by ' unassailable testimonials In all parts of | thAcountry. If you suspect Kidney TroublS bring a two ounce bottle of your for chemical and microscopical anREMEMBER:?The free offer Is during %nls visit only, and will not be repeated. Persons commencing treatment upon their future visits will be required to pay, but not one cent will be asked from those commencing treatment during this visit for any medicine necessary to offset a cure, Irrespective of your position In )lfe, or the number of those who come on'above date. Whensoever, or by whom wanted, a positive guarantee to cure will be given under their system of treatment. Those having long standing and caanpllca^ed disease, who have fa!??d to 09 welf and become dlscoura;- are pfrtleularly Invited to call. MOTICSi ?? Married ladles without tklr HUIIAND8, and minora without tllotr FATHERS, will positively not be almltted to consultation unless accompanied by one of their local physlolans. 1 Offlee Hours: 9 A. M. to 7 '0 P. M. . DON'T FORGET THE >ATE. Tuesday. April 6th f . ONE DAY ONLY. i 1 1 "' * 1 ?" ' " 1 1 How to Increase tl Increased fruit crops are more < ment than of good luck. Fruit treei supply of Virg-< Fertii The trees absorb plant foods? and potash?from the soil just the a ence has shown this over and over s well recognized that " return to the 1 would expect the best results " has growers. Apple, pear, peach, orange and careful fertilization. But be sure to - i maac a icsi wim oincr tump Lowry, of Manatee County, Fla., "a The yield where I used V?rginla-Ca much as where the other two c Hundreds of users say Virginla-( because of their good qualities?giv results. Many facts of great interest ant lished in the new 1001) Farmers' Yea sent free on application to any of ou Virginia- Carolim Richmond, Va. Savannah. Ga. Memphis, Tenn. CLASSIFIED ADS. Advertisements issued under < this head at the rate of one cent per word?minimum 25 cents. For Sale. 150 Acres of Yellow Pine Timber, kuown as the D. C. Campbell limber, 4 miles from Patrick. Price reasonable. For information write, W. A. Wooley. Troy, NO. i Collars 2 cents eacb. 1 Cuffs 4 cents per pair. All laundry for people living in town called for every Monday and delivered every Friday. Stricklin, agent. Phone 139. ? Wanted?To rent several small houses in town. W. J. Stricklin. H The Charlotte Steam^aujulrj^ Oldest. Largest. Strickliu, agent. \M E vjWPrrlTTo oinv?^ By virtue of a decree of foreclosure ( rigned by His Honor G. W. Gigs, Clr- ^ suit Judge, in the cose of Merchants A Farmers Bank v. W. A. McQueen, 1 svill offer for sule at Chesterfield Court ^ House, within the legal hours of sule, on lie first Monday in April. 1900, the fol- ' owing tracts of land in Cln stertleld 1 bounty, to wit: All those pieces, parcels or lots of and, situate, lying and being in above ( 3tate and County, and described as folows: 1st. That lot in the town of Jlieraw fronting one hundred feet on Kershaw street and running South on Huger street the sume width u die- t :ance of Three iluudred feet, bounded ( S'orth by Kershaw street; Eust b.v said f. 11. \V. Stevens' lot; South b.v E. L. 3tubbs lot; und West by linger street. 2nd. Also that tract known as the V. B. Smith home place contuiiiiug One Hundred und Forty acres, inoru or less, u two tracts, one containing ninety icres, more or le s, being the bind conveyed to a. It. Smith by Calvin Smith ay deed dated the 25tl).day of October, LM02. recorded in Vol. 12, pages 20 /. OM II \l C UllH ll.l.ttllUH I K.>..? tuiuiiig fifty acres, more or less, con ?ey>d to suid A. H. Smith l?>* K. H. Stafford Jii December MO, 1895, by deed, record d in Hook 1M, pages 492-495, und both tracts conveyed by baid A. It. Smith to Jhernw B A L. Co. by deed dated July 10, 1907, recorded .Hook 25, page M5, and by said t'heraw B. & L. Co. to ine 5y deed of even date herewith. This mortgage being given to secure a part if the purchase money of both of said two tracts numbered herein No 1. nnd No. 2." The terms of sale are one-tlrrd cash and the other two-thirds in one aud t\Vi. vears in equal aiiDiial installments, with legul interest from the date of sale to be secured by the bond or note of the purchaser, nnd a mortgage of the premises, with an insurance clause in the mortgage with the option to the pu chaser to pay all cash. D. 1\ DOUli LAS, Sheriff of'Cheeterfleld County. i Fortune Telling Does not take into consideration the on an's happiness?womanly health. The woman who neglects her healtl very foundation of all good fortune. 1 love loses its lustre and gold is but droi Womsnly health when lost or impair* regained by the use of Dr. Pierce's Pav This Prescription has, for ore been cmrlni delicate, weak, pt women, by the hmmdredm of and this too la the privacy of i aaffgkAM# fkalo fkwsrfmst osakma emf Queatlonlnfm and offtMj nant xamlnatlonm. Siok women ere invited to consult Dr. F All correspondence held es sacredly 001 Medical Association, R. V. Pierce, M. Da. Piaaca's Gsbat Family Docto Medical Adviser, newly revised up-to Plain English hosts of delioete questioai ought to know about. Seat frtt, in pis 21 one-cent stamps to eover mailing o m1 * " ' ' '' he Yield of Fruit ften the result of good manage ? and fruit plants need a liberal Carolina izers that is, nitrogen, phosphoric acid ante as any other crop. Experiigain. This truth has become so and what the tree removes if you become an axiom with the best other fruit trees soon respond to use the best fertilizers, anies' fertilizers," says Mr. H. O. ind vours proved to "be the best. rolin'a Fertilizer, was just twice as ompanies' fertilizer was used." Carolina Fertilizers are cheapest e better satisfaction and quicker i value to fruit growers are pubx Book, a copy of which will be ir sales offices. t Chemical Co. a Durham, N. C. Columbus, Ga. M Ontgomery, Ala. Shrove port, La. No. 9342 Treasury Department. Office of Comptroller of thi Currency. Washington, D. C., Feby 13th, 1908. Whereas, by satisfactory evidence presented to the undersigned it has been made to appear that "THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP CHERAW" in the town of Cheraw, in the COUNTY OF CHETERFIELD and STATE of SOUTH CAROTvr. NA, has complied with all the provisions of the StAtutes of the United Stales, required to be complied with before an association shall be autboi ized to commence the business of Banking Now therefore I, Thomas P Kane, Deputy and acting Comp troller of tb^^orrenoy, do hefco by certif^^^B^^^NATIO (Ik ope hundred mud eUpy nine of the Revised Statutes of ihe United States. _ - -?e lu testimony whereof witness my hand and seal of office :his thirteenth day of February 190(J. (Seal) Thos. P. Kane. Deputy and acting Comptroller )f the Currency. Clerk's Sale. 3outh 1'aroliiin, Jheaterfleld Comity. Hat tic S. McKay, Adu'X. Kntntc of Ilobert M. McKay. VM. W. A. McQueen. Id obedience to au order of .lodge R. Z. Wat tn in the abore stated caae I will for aale to the highest bidder before >V.? If .1 s- r>i ??~ Luc vwuii nuuw uviir in lyut-Birrotfiu, 3. C.f ou Monday 5th day of April A. D. 11)09, during ths legal hours of sals the following described tract of land. "All that certaiu tract of laud, situated lying and being in the Stat* of Sonth Carolina, Connty of Chesterfield West if the town of McBre, and containing Kive Hundred and eighteen (510)acres, known an the Dolin place." Term* of sale cash. Purchaser oi porchnxcis to pn.v for all necessary paper.-. It. K. R1VERK. Clerk ??f Conrt. Mnrrh lflili 1009. Hw As my photographic atudic will not be open all the time da ring the coming summer and may be closed all the summer ] will offer special inducements U all wishing bo secure work in mj line before May 1st J C Patrick gOLTOMOWCTylAB V ?rre essential to worn- A Mgi|j I is neglecting the For without health d may generally be orite Prescription. f 40 years, tln-wrmcketl ' thouaandm their homem ? ? ^v, II to Imdelb If \wely repug. Bj ' 'ierce by letter free. iftdential. Address World's Dispense^ D., President, Buffalo, N. Y. a Boot, The People's Common Sense date edition?1000 pages, answers he i which every woman, single or married. In wrapper to aay address on receipt el aly, or in cloth binding for 31 etnmpe. . . ? Mi > a. 1 tt 1 ?i assBseemm Wa&ft&naker'S Column, Seasonable Hints. ; l| Cabbage Plants. Cabbage Plants. 1 am receiving frost prpof Cabbage plants from near the Sea Coast fresh eyery few - > days. They will make fine heads early in spring. ^ - i Garden Seed. Garden Seed. 1 keep only those varieties that 1 have found to surf tw* ? climate. You cannot go far wrong if you buy any variety 1 have. I will also take pleas, ure in helping you with sug1 gestions as to cultivation, etc ! Onion Sets. , - - > < > Onion Sets. Silver Skin and Yellow Dan-' * * . vers. The price is advancing" ~ v *land will likely'be much hfgfa- / K i Flower Seeds. * 1 have a nice assortment. Plant a few papers just for looks. | Chicken Feed. I Chicken Feed. A mixed feed for Hens or young Chickens.. Makes the | hens lay and the young ones grow fast. I have it in 5 or 10 1 cent packages or larger quani ties. Also Crushed Oyster , shells?a good size package | for five cents. Horse Powders. Worm ! D J i u r owaers ior norses. E/og > Remedies, etc. Ifl. L IMMIMffi DR.J. E. rUNDERBlIRK, j Dentist. Office o|ti>(wilc Kvtjn* Ydluw Slur*. over Waltem* Cneli (Jrocrr.v Store ? Office phone 188. Iter id in: S1*. ? ? STEVENSON & -MATHESON. ATTOIINBY8.AT-LAW i'raclnv in nil Cnnrte of Cheeterflwld mid eurroondinj; conutire and in United 8t?tee Coort. One of the firm will lie at Cli*et?rfl?td vrrv Mondnv. -?? Office of County Superintendent of Education. The Coiiuty Superintendent of Education given notice that hie office will be open every Saturday and the drat Mondnv of each month. j J. C. Branson, Ctvtl Engineering. Arehtteeture. Land Kunming eng MunMfel Engineering. Office over McKinnon Ac McNair** .1 -U