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BUILD YOUR MOVIE Here Is the Scenario for a Real Thriler. Being the True and Auth?ntic History of Muggerby Biffgang, With Full Explanation of His Long Stay in Jail. Synopsis of preceding chapters: Muggerby Biffgang is a dangerous criminal?a gambler for high stakes? a man mighty hard to catch because of his uncanny impersonal genius. The ^ I detectives follow him to a restauranr of nnderworld rendezvous, surround the place, put a squad on the roof and two under the cellar. They go in, only to find a waiter and several customers. They search and research the place, arrest the whole bunch, only to find that Muggerby Biffgang had been the very cook who had generously given them each a piece of dried apple pie and whom In gratitude they had left behind. Things are getting desperate for the police force. Several times they have burst into his gambling den only to find nothing; no faro tables, no roulette wheel; not even a deck of Old Maid cards. Dear, dear! Then one day. Chinchilla, the pretty daughter of a Span- J isb sombrero, rushed into headquarters and informed the police of a dangerous counterfeiting den. She has heard the clinking of coins, and curses. But the police fly on the instant and it is only when they have gone 40 1 miles that they remember they had forgotten to ask Chinchilla where the den was. However, they scour and find It and break in upon the counterfeiters with wielded clubs and drawn revolvers. An$ Joy of Jubilations! , Who should , be the leader of the band but the treacherous thug, Muggerby Biff gang, the great and dangerous gambler of millions! Seizing the unlawful paraphernal^ they kick the whole gang Into jail. But mystery of mysteries! j The only things they find in the junk j are double-headed pennies. The plot j Is apparent. In shooting the pennies and by taking heads, the gang always played to win. Very simple. The warden of the jail asks each prisoner the same queer question. "Do you play checkers?" Afraid that this i \ is some sort of a trap they each say "No!" very vehemently. Bat Muggerby. when his turn comes, is so deep in thought that his caution deserts him and he says: "Yes!" The next day all the prisoners are released but Muggerby, who is given a year's sentence with 11 months off for good behavior. , j MDLV. "Dear warden," asked Muggerby, 20 years later, now a white-haired mon "nrhr when mv sentence was AUOUt ** ^ ? a year, have you kept me 20 years?" ' "Because, dear prisoner, you were the only one who could beat me at checkers around here, and I've kept you here until I found out all of your pet moves," answered the warden, wondering why Muggerby had never asked hip before.?Detroit Free Press. . . ' Change in French Marriage Laws. That the age of bride and bride-1 groom need no longer be inscribed on the marriage certificate is a new rule in regard to French marriages. It is sufficient if they are declared of age, or over thirty, a statement of specific age being unnecessary. Hitherto it has been necessary to have the banns posted up on the door of the town hall for ten days, including two Sundays. The latter clause in the rule has been abolished, while, ' if desired, the civic authorities can celebrate the marriage at the house of either the bride or bridegroom, says Lohdon Tit-Bits. Two witnesses instead of four will also in future be sufficient. * i The names of -the respective parents will no longer appear in the official publications. The mother of one of the contracting parties will in future have the right to oppose the marriage, a right which before was only attributed to the father. j ' I Game Laws Working Well. | Wild duck and wild geese, since the federal migratory bird law took full effect under a special treaty with Canada and Great Britain, have been steadily increasing. They have grown more tame, too, and in places where j they have found a welcome and where they have been fed and protected they now flock by the thousands. In the city limits of Oakland, CaL, there is a small lake where wild geese and ducks have been fed, and within a few years that lake, even though it be within the city, has come to be the mecca of thousands upon thousands of ducks which in previous years were unseen there. Tree-Spraying Apparatus. One of the developments of the fight against tree pests Is a mobile power sprayer that is touring the middle west, working In certain localities only so long as Its services are demanded, then moving to another field. A solution containing arsenate of lead is used in the sprayer in warm weather, and one made with lime and sulphur in cold weather.?Popular Science llonthly. Nailed at Last "Aren't you a bit of a profiteer on these eggs?" "No," protested Farmer Corntossel. "It *s th? ben. She insists on the most expensive food In unlimited Quantities." j PROVED THAT COURTESY PAYS New York Business Man Dates Beginning of Success PYcrn Littfe Act That Seemed Insignificant In System Leopold Wertheiraer describes the methods that helped his j business prow from a tiny shop to a j chain of five big department stores in j New York city. Speaking of his start ! in business, he says: "One of the merchandising plans that I learned the first day in my little store is that the unusual courtesies which a merchant gives his customers are often the most appreciated. As a corollary to that, the man or woman who actually spends-the money is not nlwflvs the most Drofitable person to ward whom a merchant can direct his good-will-building efforts. "One of my first customers was a nursemaid who hesitated in front of the door; just what to do with the baby carriage seemed a puzzle. I stepped over, held open the door and said: "Madam, baby carriages are very welcome in my store. Wheel it right inside." '"The girl it turned out was nurse in the family of a successful young lawyer. Soon the lawyer's wife began to buy in my store; a very few days after that her husband stepped up to the men's furnishings department, in-% troduced himself and bought a nice bill of goods. The whole family soon came to be listed as perhaps my best customers?all as a result of my courtesy to a maid. "Soon I put a sign in the window: "Baby carriages welcome." My baby carriage trade increased so much that there was not room in my store for the carriages at times. I hired a girl, dressed her up as a maid and had her take bare of the carriages that were standing outside on the sidewalk. The mothers and nurses did not have to worry about them, you see. "Special courtesy to maids and children?that is now one of my big important ^policies. For I have been shown time and again by experience that when a store controls the trade of the children and the servants the whole trade of the family is likely to go there." . t Waltzing Mouse Going. And what about waltzing mice? There was a time when they were as common as goldfish, the Minneapolis Journal states. Pet lovers would house dizzy families of them. They would whir! around, in pairs, on any small space, such as an inverted tumbler, till they looked like sp^es in a black and white wheel. \ But nowadays, if you decided to male a jolly present to your youngest nephew, you couldn't find a Japanese waltzing mouse in the country. It is true that their dervish dance <r" out of date in this age of shimmy shakers. But that doesn't account for their extinction. The war, which took so many lives, reached even to the mouse world. Breeders no longer raise these eccentric little creatures, according to Eld Hooey, the bird and fish man. Perhaps they still live In Japan, where they are Kept tnrougn immigration laws. But as far as this country goes, thes?e busy pets of children are now but a memory, v Animals With Third Eyelid. Sir .John Bland-Sutton, senior surgeon of Middlesex Hospital Medical school in London, is authority for the statement that all animals, except men and monkeys, possess a third eyelid. Many people have noticed how birds, notably the turkey, operates this third lid by means of special muscles. The turkey is constantly winking without knowing that it does so. The third lid in this case is an opaque white curtain, but in certain birds and animals, and in some fishes, the third lid is a transparent covering. The lizard of trans-Caspian deserts uses its transparent lid as a protection against sand, while the American fish known as the star-gazer uses it effectively for watching its prey. It is interesting to note that the prey is secured through the operation of powerful electrical muscles, and considerably over 50 small swimming fish so caught have been found in the interior of a star-gazer. Proof Positive. Twelve-year-old Ted's family recently moved to town and as yet the city's ways are foreign to him. But lie is learning. He is devoted to his school teacher and often walks part of the way home with her. The other night fn th? hrvvs who were ac SUC IU1ULU vv ? companying her and told them she was too tired to take her usual walk. "But you can go around this way, boys," she ended. "I want to get ray shoes pol| ished." I Ted watched her and after she had 1 left them he told the other boys that she was not fooling them this time about her weariness. "Didn't you hear her say she wasn't able even to black her own shoes?" he asked amazedly. Invaluable Relics Unearthed. Invaluable relics were brought to i light by excavations made In Greek 1 Macedonia for military reasons by the allied armies in the East. The collection includes neolithic Instruments, ? vases of all forms known in ancient Greece, as well as jewels, bronze, silver and gold of great historical value. Tombs dating from the fifth and sixth centuries before Christ were j also discovered. The objects uni rtofohu?h thp identltv of the | 6UI IHCU soiuu.? ! ancient civilization of Macedonlo with that ft tl?e rest of ancient Greece, j They have been taken over by the f Greek curator of antiquities. - - ? NOTICE OP PINAL DISCHARGE. I ton, W. Harry Wroton, and Lula Bess | Wroton, infants, on the 19th day of x- .. . v,^ i January, 1920, at 11 o'clock, with 1S hereb> glven that the ; the Judge of probate of Bamberg undersigned will file his final ac- ! county, and will at the same time counting as guardian of the persons apply to the said Judge of Probate and estate of Hatt:e R. Wroton and for letters dismissory as such guarEd.th Genevera Wroton, infants, al- dian. W. H. WROTON, JR. so as guardian of the persons and es- Guardian as Above Stated, tate of Hattie R. Wroton, Edith Wro- Dec. 17, 1919. 1-8 j lestedandfitted Correctly BY A GRADUATE OPTICIAN Reid's Jewelry Store . f T T Y " ^ We have just sold a large Reo Truck and an ^ j? Oldsmobile to the Barnwell Chero Cola people, and i y Y ? received in trade their ? 7 X I New Ford Truck 1 x y X J X ? * y not run thirty days. This truck is equipped with ^ big 32 x 4 1-2 Cord Tires on the rear. It cost them $719.50. 4 T T I Our Price $619.50 f t I X PHONE NO. 18 OR NO. 71 YOU ARE COMING. | J. K. & W. D. Mayfield | 4 DENMARK, S. C. *4 ; " T II Take a good look at your old, soil- I ed straw "Bonnet" and then come B take a peep at our good looking new 1 I fall "lids." I You will find just the hat you I want at a price you can afford to pay. Our new fall furnishings are here I also?Shirts, Ties, Hose, Underwear, B and everything you need to make you B a well dressed man on good terms B with himself. B Prices? Just as low as can be put B on good quality. S H. C. Folk Co. I ? BAMBERG, S. C. 1 Figaro Liquid * _ 1 Smoke j Get Your Supply From PHONE 15 / ,i . Tom Ducker j BAMBERG, S. C. A^A A^A A^A A^t. A^k A^A A^A A^fc, i^A A^A A^A A^fc. A^A A^A A^A i^k f f DO TOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AT J ' WWm | Macks Drug Store ||| <? Parker Pens. i ? Kodaks. o V*S^ .,. -X ', ;>* V Perfumery, imported and domestic. O V Ivory combs, brushes and toilet sets. , ^0. ? Sterling silver card and vanity cases. ^ A yjr Xv//^'| $ Whitman's and Norris's Candy. A < ;- ^ & '?v ^ ?BBI 1^ ___ . - H JB ^1 H HZT ,: iMH BJyBIB QUI Hi ^jlii I11 II , 1W V | I) A because If Is supreme I \ If IhA lo quality. I llllrbe Flavor Lasts Ir " - . . - .,-j. r'lSir , jf