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Nobody's Business Written for Th? Chronicle by Gee McGee, Copyright, 1926. An IB and 92 Fox Hunt Uncle Joe claims to be one of the niodt famous hunters of the game that ever picked up a trail. Various gnd sundry haive been his experiences ^jth all kinds of wild bensts, varmint# anaoforth. He recently told me 0f the following catastrophe: To use Uncle Joe's own words? ?yes, sit' re?? me U'd okl Towsetr and 2 other niggers went fox huntin un Monday" mornin' just before day. Old Towser had the reputation 0f .smelling a fox the furtherest and holding on to his scent the longest of any dog in captivity, and, I never carried no.other dog with me. Old fywser was cayenne for any fox that ever dived into a hole." "Well, folks, old Towser set up a wail about sun-up that I knew meant bizness. It was a red fox, his bfftking proved that, i He had a different bark for every kind of 4-legged animal. It was coarse for a red fox, sorter mediufn for a grey fox, real keen for ,a hear, very unregular fo a rabbit, and growly like for a coon or wildcat." "That old fox had a regular 24'mile circle that he would run around. Hollowed the .chase around that circle so many times, I wore out 3 horses and two mules. Old Towser stayed within 7 and 4 inches of that fox for 3 days and' 3 nights. I would ride till me an the horse both give out and then we'd go home and get some feed, and take out riding again." "Along about 2 o'clock on the 4th afternoon, old Towser gained 2 feet and 9 inches - on did Mr. Fox. Me and that dog and them horses and mules I rode had done wore a regular highway around that circle. That dog and that fox was running so fast, they overtook me and passed me 34 different times by the sixth day. The niggers give out the third day and went back to pulling fodder. "By the seventh day, folks had done built grand-stand seats all a ound that circle and was selling same at 2 dollars per seat, plus war <ix, which is the football rate at preRiik. We could tell that the case winearing itr end. Old Towser had fee stretched out till he was 17 feet Bhl 3 and one-half inches long from :Kp to tip and he wasn't no bigger iBtound than a good-sized well rope." 1 ''Gosh, that was an exciting race. Several folks starved to death watchHiftg us. The red fox showed some *e;ikness and was stretching out too. He looked to be about 9 feet long, I HSnely had to give up using horses Bind mules and got a Ford. I wore Bit plumb out, and about the time I thought we'd better call off thte te'rBrible ordeal, old Towser ketched that fox and befpre I could get to him he Bswallowed him whole, and both of Bthem together weighed oply three Pounds. My, my, boys, that was some fox hunt." (He put a chew of Browns Mule and went on tup the Bfoad, Uncle Joe never lingered af ter a recital of his wonderful experiences. He dreaded questions.) Mike Write* on Farming flat rock, a. C? ockt 22, 1929 door mr, editor: i have been asked by a good many of my Hdmiriiitf friends to rite up my farming experienta and i will do so as followers: i was raised on a farm in georgy till i was grown and then i taken up farming for myself, the first year, 1 had a heap of trouble, the drouth ketqjied me betwixt July and ocktober and i got married in june and the liberty stable taken my mule back in may, so i plowed a yearling the ba 11anee of the time and i didn't, get married early enuff for my wife to be of no help and i made 1 bale of cotton and 2 bu. of corn and some fodder ansoforth and had to pay 2 bales rent. betwixt 1H90 and 1900, i was fair, ly successful onner count of chillun to do most of the work and we, meaning i, owned 2 mules and a waggin on which i hud paid IB dollars and give a crop morgago for same which was carried over from year to year till old beck dide and then i cut down my crop to 1 mule and got along verry well by moving from farm to farm where i could be hope the most by the land lord, but i did not accumulate mutch except the same mule and a good many of my wife's kinfolks who followed us from georgy. i got along very well up to 19 and B when the Republicans set in to ruin the south which they succeeded in doing in 19 and 7 and then i went to work on halvers but me and mr. brown couldn't get along, so i turned the crop over to him and took up publick work, but could not find no job, and returned to a farm in another township that some other feller had left for publick work and i made it o. k. till januwary when the measles set in i had a relapse and my folks done the work for the next 2 yr. while i was limping around with a walking stick ansoforth. i was still holding my on up to 19 and 14, except i was gaining with chillun, but as fast as 1 would get old enuff to work, 1 would marry on the other end of the line, but some of my wife's kinsfolk's had picked up and left; they picked up 1 of my suits once and borried 2 dollars from me to~run off on and he still owes same. mr. jones sold me a farm in 19 and 19 at 150$ per aker with nothing down except a federal landbank mortgage, and about that time, farm relief set in, and i moved again, and then i made up my mind to get m polliticks which i did with much success, and am now kurriner of my home county, and have hell 36 inquests in 34 weeks to the satisfaction of all concerned except a crowd i have put in jail, i suspose i am thru with the farm now as i intend to stand in with the voters ansoforth. rite or foam if you want to print this, and i will let you do so. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. INSTALLMENT SALES More Than Four Billion of Merchandise Sold Annually by that Method More than four and one-half billion dollars' worth of merchandise?comforts, luxuries and essentials?is sold on the installment plan annually. Yet, the head of :one of the largest companies engaged in financing installment selling recently estimated that losses are no more than seventy-five hundredth of one per cent. Naturally this is a favorable consideration to many lines which depend largely on)installment selling to sustain their sales volumes, but it has perhaps broader significance. For one thing, it goes a long way in dispelling the idea that installments purchasing inculcates extravagance and results in a mortgaging of future earning power beyond a capacity to pay. This danger has been stressed by economists and bankers since the inception of time merchandising. Apparently, however, the basic intelligence of the American consumer has not been justly evaluated. With the automobile, furniture, farm equipment and even department store and mail order sales made on time, it vyould seem that a loss of less tha.i one per cent, demonstrates a very sane individual appraisal of future ability to meet obligations. Moreover, the successful payments for this great total of consumer goods also attests to the fundamental prosperity of the country. It shows the practical result of a generally higher earning power, met by a liberal wage scale, which in turn provides the wherewithal for jthe vast consumption demand that is the backbone of industry.?From the Magazine of Wall Street. Thevvisiting card is of Chinese origin, f . ' ' i.., ? -a -.-v?rtir&'iA - . aggwpj?CSgBSSag8SB?B??B3 Take a Wool One Sheep To Make Man's Suit How culling und wise attention to , breeding of farm animals may be expected to produce return# for farmer# ia reflected in eUtistic# gathered , by the Bureau of Animal Industry , and published in the current Yearbook of the United State# Department of Agriculture. "Iq 1840,'' #ay# K. W. Sheets, In , charge of animal husbarhfry investi- | gutions, "the average weight of the fleece sheared from American sheep was less than 2 pounds. By 1000 it had increased to nearly ft 1-2 pounds. Today it is approaching 8 pounds. In other words, an average sheep today grows wool enough each year to make approximately one suit of S clothes. In 1810 it took the wool of four sheep to muke a suit of equal weight and quality." Better breeding and more rigid culling of breeding flocks promise to ruise this average still further. Wool production is similar to such qualities as heavy milk production in dai-1 ry cattle and heavy egg production by hens. The offsprings,f>f heavy producers are likely to bo heavy producers and to transmit to their offspring the capacity of heavy production. In the case of sheep, Mr. Sheet says: "There is still room for improvement. By 'weeding out' the poor producers and .breeding from the heavily fleeced sheep, flock owners can raise the average." The body of Otto Alig, 32, bank cashier, was found in the Little Blue river near Kansas City, Mo., Saturday. Dalzell Man Charged j With Serious Offense' ' I Vernon Dinkins, u prominent farmer of the Dalzell section uf Sumter county, was at liberty Thursday untier $500 Ixmd, charged with malicious mischief in connection with an alleged attempt to pour acid in the machinery of J. M. Kdens' cotton Kin at Dalzell. The alleged offense occurred Wednesday night. According to the allegations of Mr. Kdens, the lubricator of his gin has been damaged twice by acid this sea- . turn, forcing him .to ahut down on * huili occasions.- After the second shut down a watchman was placed ' in the engine room at night., Wednesday night William Edward Scarborough was on watch, according to the story told the officers, when he saw a man come in the cnroom carrying a receptacle of >' m kind. Mr. Scarborough drew ' p -lol on the intruder, who made n. attempt to get away. The man witf. the receptacle was Wrnon Dinbi: The receptacle containing a gai. >n of commercial muriatic acid, which has the property of destroying metal with which it comes in contact. Mr. Dinkins was brought t,o Sumter and turned over to Chief of Rural Police Seale. He was later released under bond of $500. General sessions court will convene in Sumter on November 11, and it is Assumed this case will come up for trial then.? Thursday's Sumter Item. A bee travels 40,000 miles to get a pound of honey. Loyal Convicts Rewarded Denver, Colo.?Convicts who remained loyal and fought the fires during the mutiny that cost thirteen lives will be rewarded by reductions in their sentences, .according to Governor Adams, who, in his three years of office, has not grhnted a pardon, parole, or commutation. Killed by an Elephant At Corsicana, Texas, Mr*. Buck Griffin v^ps killed Saturday ufternoon by un elephant with A. G. Barnes Circus when the unimal ran umuck on tin* show grounds. Several persons, including his trainer, were injured before the elephant was subdued. ?' i"i.?LUJ?i?i .ajuwBege-^gaBgggae^Lj.... ^..-JIUJ-UU i W.IULJ- ~? 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