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only vegetables or Ilow cannot aZgrd to be without e-h fshed fresh and e j h great South and sent ab postage paid, to all who it, .mentioning the name of wspaper. cftalogue we tell you of a rof m o flower *eed..to cdstmdrs, - five - magnifncent es that mean dauity about your ad'a pleasure to wives and rs that nothing else can give. talogue tells you, too, about prize offer to the Corn ydur state. It tells all yielding varieties of e kind we grow on 00 acre farm. It tells st seeds of all kinds for South. It should. be S0ou rn home. Write to t Us send it.to you.-H. G. 0., Atlanta, Ga.-Advt. We WiM Send Down - e.e 0ity (N. C.) Journal, recentlywith 4ftheir chases ! ypes together broken. The sympathize with the Jour ou Over "happen" to an accident, Bro. Westmore send down here and we will ur rubber chase-the only one I is not for sale at any 4 built for just such occasions reland had to deal with, oaned forsuchemergencies. . C.) Sentinel. ouldn't that jar your slats? rubber chase! And the only 1 ca, too! Bro. Hiott, had 1 eniniWted from any state I South Carolina we would be e-Bessemer City Journal. -7;iTerre Haute (Ind.) named Brown married a girl The baby is said to be .-Orlando Sentinel. CU1RE A in the FoHowing Letter a Jackson Man Who ws from Experience. Word Is Good. n, Miss,-"I am a carpenter, grpeleft me not only with a but I was run-down,< eak. I took all kinda of ptso weak I as not able t aywork, and coughed so much I !amdabout mycondition. One -gI read about Vnland decided ~ Sit. Before I had taken aquarter bttle lfeltbetter, and after tai ettles my cough is entirely curd -bad syptmshave diap ad vegandnewvimand energy." Dmons, 11Lynch Street, fesbthe acttme medic. les of cod liver oil contained a wasting tissues and 1b andvigor to the nerves es while the tonic iron and o the red corpuscles of the rb oxygen and distribute and steghto th weaened 51 edorpsfthe body.o Vd '$. t help you, we return o >., Pickens, S. C. a Notice to Old Soldiers . p - a g 'on from the CountyBoard: ~ - a the board will discon a month to old soldiers 13 r notice. Board of County q oners. tice to Pensioners g be in the coust house a y in January, 1915, for e of making out ap- ~ s for soldiers and wid- P o are not getting pen nd wish to apply for same.u >w drawing pensions will nie to draw same without Jr application. J. B. NEWBERY, b -WAIN SAM B. CRAIG Je, S. C. Pickens-SeC. cSwain & Craig ~ e LAWYERS tv in State and Federal Courts )ffice Phone 210 o )ffice Phone 39 t S2YdBURNS, oofing and Hot Air Furnaes' OUTH MAIN STREET, enville, S.C Phone3O Auditor's Notice time for taking i..: returne@ Lora year 1915 will open on January 1, a4.close February 21, 1915. I tndthe time to the first of P ,after which 'time 50 per cent d - will be added, as the law pro- j The Auditor will be at the fol- t: places for the purpose of takin~g -3 r's store, Thursday,Jan- ~ 1:-, Thursday, Jan. 21,~ vine, Frid'ay, Jan. 22, forenoon. C usFriday, Jan. 22, A Novelized Vsio thOe Motion Produced by the E By LOUIS JO. mOVAia V fth ?*pq - osfthI"l byI CHAPTER XXXVI. Across the plain purple shadows were sweeping, close-ranked, like some I ast dark army invading the land,! pouring on over the rampart of moun tans in the east. Within the rim of hills that ringed the -plain like the chipped and broken lange of a titanic saucer, silence )rooded and solitude held sway Iwarfing the town of Detail that oo upied the approximate middle of the iagebrush waste, to proportions even ess significant than might be inferred tom the candor of its christening. A platform, a siding, a water tank, a Vells-Fargo office and a telegraph and icket office, backed by three rough rame buildings; that is Detail Item zed completely. Shortly after nightfall the steel rib >ans of the Santa Fe began to hum. A teadlight peered suspiciously round a oulder of the eastern range, took Leart of courage to find the plain still rapped in peace, and trudged stolid y toward Detail, the engine whose iye It was p\lling after it a string of reight cars, both flat and box. At :Detail the train paused. Its rew alighted ,and engaged in ani nated argument Detail gathered that he excitement was due to the unac ountable disappearance of the ca ioose; none seemed to have any no Ion as to how it could have broken oose; yet missing it conspicuously ras. In the pause that followed, while a eport was +elegraphed to headquar ers and instructions returned to pro eed without delay; one of the train en spied a boyish figure lurking in he open door of an empty box car. ,unningly boarding this car from the ipposite side, the trainman caught he skulker unawares and booted him raingloriously into the night.. As the figure alighted and took to ts heels, losing itself in the darkness, t uttered a cry of pained surprise and orotest which drew a -wrinkle of as onishment between the brows of the rainman. "Sounded like a woman's. voice," he used; then dismissed the suggestion us obviously absurd. It was not. Shortly after the freight train -had ,one on its'way-before, indeed, the ,limmer of Its rear lights had been st among the western hills-a sec nd headlight s~ppeared in the east, wept swiftly across the plain and inI urn stopped at Detail. The second bird-of-passage proved c be a locomotive drawing a single ar--a Pullman. Hardly had It run past the switch, owever, when the brakeman dropped own, ran quickly back to the switch nid threw It open. Promptly the train backed on to the iding. As the Pullman ted ac al between it and the tender, r ased the coupling. By the time that the Pullman had yme to a full stop on the siding, the >comotive 'was swinging westward ke a scared jackrabbit-though no ich milk-and-watery characterization the traitor passed the lips of any ie of the three men who presently ppeared on the Pullman's platform ald shook impotent fists in the direc on taken by the fugitive engine. When the last of these had run tem Drarily out of breath and blasphemy, brief silence fell, punctuated by roans from each, 'and concluded by ie sound of a voice calling from the teror of. the car-a voice as strange sonorous of tone as It was curiously erulous of accent. The three men immediately ran back Lto the car and presented themselves ith countenances variously apolo tic, to one who occupied a corner of ie drawing room: a man wrapped in steamer rug and a cloud of fury. Now when he had drained the tuddy froth of profanity from his tem er t left a clear and effervescent eli of virulent humor: the wrath of ie valetudinarian began to vent Itself pon the hapless heads of the trio who :ood before him. While this was in process, the erson of boyish appearance, who had een kel~gng religiouely aloof and In Dispicuous in the baCkground of De ill ever since that unhappy affair th the trainman, stole quietly up to ie rear of the stalled Pullman, limbed aboard, and creeping down Xe' aisle unceremoniously interrupted 1 conference just as the Invalid was olishing off a rude but honest opinion the intellectual caliber of one of the iree named Marrophat, who figured s his rightehand man and familiar enus. "Amen to that!" the boyish person jaculatedi with candid fervor, loung ig gracelessly in the doorway. There's many a true word spoken in !rath, Mr. Marrophat. Father forgot uly one thing-your masterly way ith a revolver. From what I've seen that, this day, I'll go bail that the nly safe place for a man you pull a un on is right in front of the muzzle. h:se's something downright uncanny 'the way you can hit anything but rhat you aim at!" "Judith!" exclaimed the invalid. Where did you drop from?" "From that freight," Judith ox laed carelessly, neglecting .to eluci ate the exact fashion of her drop. "I idged you'd be along presently, and ought I'd like to learn the news. Her father shrugged with his one ovable shoulder. Mr. Marrophat runted indignantly. The others shuf d uneasily and looked all ways but ne-at the girl In man's clothing. "None?" Judith interpreted. "You on't mean to tell me that after I had ken all thaat troube-cast the ca se loose in the middle of that at the risk of my life-you ethe nerve to go through ess!" uhwith it all right," ensively; "but quick for us. peoff the tthe ca dling UL iJuiatua:lUu for Judith; Judith could no more be trusted faithfully to serve out her vow to bring Alan Law to her father's feet, alive or dead, because-O cruel irony of Fate!-she herself had fallen in love with that same man whose death she had pledged -herself to compass. Only when, as now, half mad with jealousy, determined to see Alan dead rather than yield him to the woman he loved, her sister, might Judith be counted upoti to serve her father in his lust for vengeance as he would be served-and even so not without Mar rophat at her elbow to egg her on through her resentment of his surveil lance. Neither could be trusted, in deed, to work alone to the desired con summation; for Trine had secret rea son to fear lest Marrophat might, given opportunity, connive at Alan's escape in order that he might marry Rose and so throw Judith back into his, Marrophat's, aims. Poor, deluded fool! Such was the private comment of Marrophat's master. For all-that, it was the man and not his daughter, whom Trine designated to lead the expedition, cunningly counting on Judith's chagrin to work -.pon her passions and excite her to one last, mad, blind attempt that should prove successful. Smiling his secret smile, Trine an nounced his decision at the last mo ment, whle Hopi Jim waited with lis horses and an assistant-one Texas for whose utter Innocence of scruples Mr. Slade unhesitatingly vouched. Sullenly submissive, at least in out ward seeming, Judith bowed to this de cision, marched out of the car, and suffered Marrophat to help ber mount her horse. Now, deliberately, as the little caval cade rode through the moonlit desert night, the girl maneuvered her liorse to the side of Hopi Jim, and then dropped back, permitting Marrophat to lead the way with Texas. As deliberately she set herself to work upon the bandit's susceptibility to her charms. Within an hour -she had him ready to do anything to win her smile. In that first rush of golden day a thwart the land, the party came quietly Into the town of lMesa, riding slowly in order that the noise of their approach might not warn the fugitives, who Hopi asserted confidently would still be sound asleep in the accommoda tions offered by the town's one hotel. It was to be termed a town only in courtesy, this Mesa: a straggling street of shacks, ramshackle relics of what had once been a promising com munity. the half-way station between the railroad and the mining camps secreted in the fastnesses of the Paint ed hills-camps now abandoned, their very hames almost faded out of the memory of mankind. Midway in this string of edifices the hotel stood--a rough, unpainted, wood en edifice, mainly veranda and bar room as to its lower floor. Jealously Judith watched the win dows of the second floor: and she alone of the four detected the face that showed for one brief instant well back In the shadows beyond one of the bed room windows-a face that glimmered momentarily with the pallor of a ghost's againc t ebackground of that obscurity,' and thenmacg. Her eyes alone, indeed, couma9ave recognized the features of Alan I~Qw in that fugitive glimpse. Two sentences exchanged between Hopi Jim and a blear-eyed' fellow whom he roused from sodden slumbers behind the bar sealed their confidence with conviction: the three fugitives were in fact guests of the house, oc cupying two of the three rooms that composed its upper story. In the rush that followed up the narrow stairway, Judith led with such spirit that not even Marrophat sus pected her revolver was poised solely with Intent to shoot from his hand his' own revolver the instant he leveled it at a human target. Closed and ic-ked f--~'fronted them; and .their suna-.4 .luced no response; while the fit. -2 r, when broken In by a whole-soil kick, dis covered nothing more satisfactory than an empty~ room, Its bed bearing the imprint of, a woman's body, but that woman gone. From the one window, looking down the side of the house, Texas announced that the woman had not escaped by imping out. - \So It seemed that the three must 'ive had warning of their arrival, fte' all; and presumably were now ierd' together in the adjoining room, which' looked out over the. veranda -oof, whiting in tear and trembling or the a\ault that must soon come md in fac* mediatelf did. But it with more stubborn re sistance/' than had been anticipated. I'he door had been barricaded from within -re-enforced by 'furniture p~laced 'against it. Four minutes and. he united efforts of four men (includ [ng the bleary loafer of the barroom) were required to overcome its Inert re seance. But even when It was down, he room was found to be as empty as the first. Only the fingers of two hands grip ping the edge of the veranda roof showed the way the fugitives bad fown; and these vanished instantly as the room was invaded. Followed a swift rush of hoofs down the dusty street, and a chorus of blas phemy-in the hotel hallway: for Ju ith had headed the concerted rush for the staircase and contrived to block it for a full half minute by pre tending to stumble and twist her inkle. In spite of that alleged injury, she ever limped, and wasn't a yard be hind the first who broke from the hotel to the open, nor yet appreciably behind him In vaulting tC? saddle. Well up the road a cloud of smoky ust hale obscured the shapes of three who rode for their very lives. The pursuit was off in a twinkling mnd well bunched-Marrophat's mount eading by a nose, Judith second, Hopi Jim and Texas but little In the rear. And in the first rush they seemed to ain; moment by moment they drew up on the flying cloud of dust. Judith heard an oath muttered be side her and saw Marrophat jerking a revolver from its holster. The weapon swept up and to a level; but as the hammer fell, Judith's horse caromed heavily against the other, swinging it alf a dozen feet aside, and deflecting the bullet hopelessly. The shock of collision was so great hat Marrophat kept his seat with1 dif fculty. He turned toward Ju th a race livid with rage. Simultaneously, as If taking th shot s the signal for a fusillade, dith JANUARY 18th t An Event of Sul Every Housef About the Prices DAINTY U BEAUTIF The low price of cotton bene- NEW EMI fits vou in this sale. Because they were able to buy the raw TABLE product at rock bottom prices SHEETS, P1 the manufacturers have been able to give us the lowest prices TO' in history. This price-advant age we shall turn over to you WHITE Y intact As a result you can r make purchases at prices that DOMES. will justify you in laying in a ' supply for future as . well as present use. We strongly ad- PRICES Tl vise you to improye this bargain RIES T] opportunity to the limits of your purse. IN I Meyers-Arnold R. Mi. BAKE-R 0 General Merchandise, Norris, S. C. i wish to inform~the buying. public that I Skeep on hand at all times one of the best lines of SGeneral Merchandise to be found in this section. SI handle good goods and sell them as cheap as Sthey can be bought anywhere. A few of the lines T handle: 4,Dittman Shces, made in St. Louis, for men wo men and children. They are as good as you can buy anywhere for the money. Stetson and other makes of Hats. Calicoes, Outings, Ginghams, Percales, Ser 4ges,iBleachings, Underwear for men, women and children. Men's ready made Shirts e~ T. - ailor made clothing as good as can b, ~We Ta'ke '-our measure and guarantee I han e < ne of Groceries. . SCoffees, Canned Goo s, cos, e ~Capito a, a good patent flour, an ' +of the best self-rising flours. *I also sell meal and hulls and buy cotton and cotton seed, and pay highest -market price ior same .You will find a gasoline filling station at my store c Swith plenty of Gasoline at 1 8c per gallon. Give me a call and I will treat you right. A Ssquare deal to all is my motto. R. M. BAKER, .- Norris 4 Phillips Building. 4'I handle caskets, coffi: s and burial robes. Friends of Pickens County FOR twenty-three years we have done business to gether, I have tried to give you good service and Full Value for Your Money. I have enjoyed a good patronage from you and appreciate it, and ask a con tinuance of same. My stock is full 'and -complete with all seasonable Dry Goods, Underwear, Hosiery and Shoes, Blankets. etc., at as low prices as dependable goods can be sold. We Do Not Talk War. Europe -will take care ot its war. We war against High Prices and try to give values and service. Notwithstanding prices on Shoes have advanced, we still sell at Old Prices. .-. Our Underwtear and Blankets will keep you warm. .-. All goods as advertised. .-. I ,pay cash for my goods, so when there are bargains on the market I get them, And Sell Them. - A. K.PARK, West End S GREENViLLE, SOUTH CAROLINA PPP THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. Asuccessful remedy for Rheumatism, Blood Poison an all Blood Diseases. At all Druggists $1.00. F. V. IlPPMAN CO.. Savannah, Ga. rump and open fire. . * g An instant later his companion, Bar- r .e cus, imitated his example. In immediate consequence, Texas dropped reins, slumped forward over10aceoflnadingodev the pommel, wabbled weakly In his Ml apgonna ikn;w saddle for a moment, then losing thetibrdadlyexpiolywe stirrups, pitched headlong to thepaticuivio;kwnsolLoe ground; while Hopi Jim's horse bfr.Wl eleceigyrao stopped short, precipitating his riderabendmktrstouipucse overead anddroped eadSoebod anmakedne on ths; wan For further informition write to G.E Mceskey1 1~ gnolia street, Spai r 30th INCLUSIVE - )reme Inter told Economist. [DERMUSLINS All Fresh Gd UL LACES 3ROIDERIES No job lots, pick-ups orso merchandise in this sale. LINENS erything is bright, fresh and new and reflectslhe a LLOW CASES ion tendencies. Utoqa they are. fully -in--keepi' YELS the high standardset by store.: Whildwe have provid ARD GOODS a liberal supply ofeve we urge an early attendance ['IS ETC. you would have first Pick assortmt. AT Evrv .failit o ples shopple. wi be v r d d 1E LOW EST1 expect is to be tb greste Whit, e the N Green (EARS___ ji ance to Mone MAR The management of The Pickens Sentinel hasdei& inaugurate a r'eW profit-sharing plan of getting rene* new subscriptions to this paper, and beiv received by some of 'er ' rs who awih a de 1:.. suuscrrprion mofJ thos secure subscriptions for us. It will prove the - ~way to make t money you evertred. During -the next fe eeks m of subscrpboo our books will expire, and as we will be unable to those subscribers, and not wishing to lose them, we to pay somebody well to see them for us. des whose time to The Sentinel will soon expire, ere ar who do not take the paper, bu.t ii o wou d subscrbe4&f6 asking. In some communities 'it will be an easy m r sc from twenty to fifty subscribers in a* day. -o~a body can secure from five to twenty subscribers a day a time. The following table explains the plan and proft to securing subscriptions: To anyone sending or bringing us 2 yearly sub' scriptions at one time we will give.....---2~ ) For 4 Subscriptions-.--..- - I For 5 " ....... ~' For 6-- -- - :For 7 For 8 For 9 - . - For 10- - Forl15 " - For Z20- - - -- - - - - - - For 25 ---..------------------9 For 50 Q ------ For10O- - - -- - - -- - - And so on in proportion. -. S' The price of The Sentinel is ne~ subscriptions must be paid in advance. su bkcriptionls count same'as one yearly subscrip A ny man, boy, woman or girl who can read -* enter into this plan with us. Go to work today and get a lot of su somebody else gets ahead of you. The ones whop early will be the ones to reap the best harvest.2 .This proposition will not be open for a greatI rso write us today for a receipt book and go to w For further information write KThe Pickens So b - Picture pra of the Same Name niv-ram CO. EPH VANCE ra tho Pitr PrddimJ aufstoeephvace we had stopped and niImeE do'wn ne engineer-well, it was dark and no way of telling which way they had run." The girl started to speak, but merely dropped limp hands at her sides and rolled her eyes helplessly. "We do our best," Marrophat ob served. "We can't be blamed If something - somehow - always hap pens to tip the others off." The girl swung to face him with blazing eyes. "Just what does that mean?" she demanded in a dangerous voice. Marrophat lifted his shoulders. "Nothing-much," he allowed. "I am only thinking how strange it is that Mr. Law can't be caught by any sort of stratagem-when you are on the job, Miss Judith!" The girl's hands were clenched into fists, white knuckles sliowing through the flesh. "You contemptible puppy!" she snapped. . . . But on this her voice failed; for her tyes traveled past the person of Mr. Marrophat to the doorway of the draw ing room and found it framing a stranger. "Excuse me, friends," he offered in a. lazy, semi-humorous drawl. "It pains me considerable to butt in on this happy family gathering, but business Is business, same as Vsual, and I got to ast you-all to please put up your bands!" "What do-fou want?" the invalid de manded. "Why," drawled the bandit, "nothing in particular-only your cash. Shell out, if you please-gents all and the lady, too." He ran an, appreciative glance down the figure which Judith's iisguise revealed rather than con 'ealed. "If you'll pardon my takin' notice," he amended. "PN,' I wouldn't if the lady's clothes di't fit her so all-fired quick!" "Keep a civil tongue in your head, my man!" Judith counseled, without aiy show of fear. At the same time her father's voice brought her to her senses. "Judith! Be quiet. Let me deal with .this gentleman. I am sure we can come to some arrangement." "You betyour life," agreed the gen tleman as-the girl mutinously stepped back. "I know what I want, and you all know you got it: so the name of the said arrangement is just 'shell out.' " "One minute," the in'vaid inter posed.' "Don't misunderstand me: 1 guarantee you shall be amply satis fied. I give you my word-the word of Seneca Trine." The eyes of the bandit widened. "No? Is that so? Seneca Trine, the railroad king? Sure's you're born you're him: I've seen your picture in .the papa dozen times.' Well, no like I'd drawn a full tthis pair of deuces, don't it? 'ou ought to be able to'pay something handsome-" "rn~h pay you far more handsomely than you dream of If you'll do as I wish," Trine interrupted quickly. "Do me the service I wish-and name y' ur price: whatever It is, you shall da e it!" ' S thing could be fairer'n that!" :he t gun man admitted suspicious y. "Bu hat's the number of this iere servic .ike you call It?" "Listen to m " Trine bent his head ~orward and jab d the air with an amphatic forefinger. "What's the life :f a man .worth in neck of the "How much you got?'~ "I'll pay you ten thc usand dollars ~or the life of the man I wiglnamie." The eyes of the bandit ni2irowed. 'Hold on, my friend: Is that wha' ou 3all my naming my own price?" "Name It, then,".said Trine. "Give me a thousand on account," sal the other, "and a paper saying you'll pay me nineteen thousand more -in ex change for It and one dead man, prop erly identified as the one you want signed by you-and your man's as good as dead this minute, providing he's in riding distance of this here car." Trine waved his hand at his secre tary. "Jimmy, find a thousand dollars for this gentleman. Make out the paper he indicates for the balance, and I'll sign It." "Ain't you powerful trustful, Mr. Tine? How do you know I'll do any thing more'n pocket that thousand and fade delicately away." "My daughter and this gentleman, Mr. Marrophat, will accompany you." "Oh, that's the way of It, Is It?" "Name?" interjected the secretary, writing busily with the top of his at tche case for a desk. "Slade," said the bandit, "Jamer' Slade." Again Trine punctured the at mosphere with his index finger. "The man whose life I want Is named Alan Law. He Is running away with my daughter, Rose, accompanied by a per son named Barcus, disguised as a Pull man porter "The three of them having recent' escaped from a train wreck up yond'er on the trestle?" Hop! Jim interposed. "You've met them?" Judith demand ed, whirling round. "About an hour ago, or maybe an hour and a half," Hopi Jri replied, "a good ways down the road. They stopped and ast where they could get put up fer the night. I kindly directed them on to Mesa, down In the Painted hills yonder.' C HAPTE R XXXVI I. Fireplay. Contented with the promise of a thousand dollars advance on his con tract, providing he returned with horses within a stipulated time, Mr. Hopi James Slade drifted quietly away into the desert night. Well content, persuaded that the morrow's sun would never set upon a world tenanted by one Alan Law, that monomaniac, Seneca Trine, forgot his ecent ill temper and set himself diplo No'th Caliny ould be happy, now haf the Virgina ~peme court has de :ided that they cRget their booze car ied over the rioads, provided it is for "perronal" u~.There's where the