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1 e Trey a Venian Cf the Motion Produced by the By LOUIS J0 - Copyrighas914. by C14APTER XLI11. Camp.forthe-Night. "WA, gents!" the driver observed - l, withdrawing head and hans -from long and intimate com munion with the stubborn genius be ~eath the hood. "I reckon you-al may's wen make up yore minds t( obristen this hyeh salubrious spo Camp.for-the-Night. You won't b( goin' no, fartheh-not just 't present Punng this old wagon through then desert sands back yondeh has jus naturally broke' the heart of that en gine!" "What, precisely, is the trouble? Alan Law Inquired, rousing from anz Jous preoccupation. "Plumb bust' all to hell," the chaut feur explained tersely. "Nothing could be fairer, more ex act and comprehensive than that, JTom Barcus commented. Law nodded a head too weary tc respond to the other's humor. .Hi worried eyes reviewed the scene o1 the breakdown. "What's to be done?" Mr. Law won dered aloud. "Take it calm," the affable chauffew advised. "Frettin' won't get you-all nothin'. If it was me .I'd call It 8 day, make a fire, get them cushiono out of the cyah, and get some rest You can't do nothin' till I get back, anyway, and that won't be much be fore afnip- - . "'Where are you going?" Barcus.de manded. 'Waka', friend; just walkin'-" -T etap-leabsti'ys,I-onless yo've got some kick comin' and 'ud uther stop hyeh permanent - H trnl off and Maidsed himsell 'wtt pratarioaisisthisWtey "agsI sinply things- 1k0 this Mak me beleive this-isn't, after all, noth .ng more nor less than a long-dre a M .are," Barcus obr-.. - Mr T- vriS D sc e-- mstanc !.. ie between th as into the humor 0 Here, ha~ promised himself, was situation to titillate the Comic Mus Itself.. He pointed out In turn the sei eral component parts: the motor ca derelict in the hollow of those awft and silent hills-for all the world lk 4a mouse petrified with fright at findin Itself In the midst of a herd of el4 phants; in the car, that aged monomt niac, Mr. Seneca Trine, author of a their woes and misadventures, gnas] ing his teeth in iQnuotent rageto fin himself in close juxtaposition to ar helpless to injure the man for wbo; Iife he lusted with an insatiate pa slon;. the latter standing outside ti 4 car, In polite conversation with M Trine's mutinous~ Judith-talking i her. In the friendliest fashion Ima ible, precisely as if she had ni No Doubt Which Came First in H Esteem. fallen little short of compassirng h death, niot once, but half a doz4 times; dith herself poised on tl runnng ard and smiling down; 4 her vic with a warmth patent even mo e than the warmth of frien ship; an at some little distance, IRos Mr. Law s fiancee and Judith's siste eatIl h r heart out with jealousy this new sprung intimacy between h sister an her lover! "Bad inmess, my friend!" Barci mentauy apostrophized the unwittii He inth!rrupted himself to nod kno ingly an..~ with profound ccinvictio: "I knew l. Now It begins again!" For Rol had abruptly taken a ha in the affaj~Ir, a gesture of exasperati prefacingr fher call: "Alan!" To hei " Mr. Law turned instant with suc ji alacrity that none w watched snilght doubt which of the t women jme first in his esteem. Nor wqa this wasted upon the und stan ~l~ of Judith. Eyeing her n roythough furtively, Mr. Barc sai' heri handsome face darken om ously., An .er father was as quick '"' h~.~ ese portents of troul to advantage himself Governor Mark the joint resoui ut horribly on to April 1st the time J . pyj ment of taxes without pen After that date a penalty of fik per cent will be attached to un paid taxes. Increase Pensions By a vote of 106tetldiouse 'r passed mith Einicreasino i; the totaL o state pension for Cof . eterans from tw $25.Oa nn a. O' Hearts PtueDrama - o the Same Ph=m1 Jnivsal Flm Co. SEPH VANCE 6s Ba &e.The 86- A.".A . Ifrom the pktur ?aecthe OUIS osph Vance - sibilant whisper for her ears, and hi face in the moonlight seemed to glov with the reflection of that infernc which - smoldered in his evi bosom. . . - But one was silenced, the othej quenched, all in a twinkling. Hil daughter turned on him in a flash o: imperial rage. Barcus caught matches of the wom an's tirade. "Be silent!" he heard her say. "Bi silent, do you hear? Don't ever speal to me again unless you want me to re place that gag. I say, don't speak t( me! . . - I am finished with yoi once and for all time; never agali shall you pervert my nature to you damnable purposes-never again shal word or wish of yours drive me t< lift my hand against a man who ha: never done you the least harm, thougi your persecution of him would havi acquitted him of a charge of man slaughter in any court-on grounds o self-defense! . . .nderstand me!' -she raged. "I'm through. Henceforti I go my way, and you yours Her voice broke. She clenched he: hands into two tight fists with thi effort at self-control, and lifted 1 writhen face to the moonlight. "God help us both!" she cried. CHAPTER XLIV. As in a Glass, Darkly. Thoughtfully Mr. Barcus returnei his attention to the lovers. If the evidence of his senses did no mislead him, he was witnessing thei first difference of opinion. It was no an argument acute enough to deserv the name of quarrel; but undouWb. the two were at odds upon L tion-Rose Insistent, A! The last gave shrugged - tosto - .nain, ignorin _ Lse is right-eh, Miss T1 Barcus interpolated. Judith nodded darkly. "So I'm-going to see if I can't .b burros from the prospector back ther Rose says he has some-doesn't kno - how many-" "Three will be enough," Judith inte Sposed. "I mean, doni't get one for m I'm stopping here." -"But-" Alan started to protest. rShe gave him pause with a weal gesture. "Please! It's no good arguing, M 1Law: I've made up my mind; I can 1 ~most helpful here, by my father Sside," she asserted, and nodded: 1Tine with a signifiCant smile th maddened him. "He needs me-ar no harm can come to me; I'm pret dwell able to take care of myself!" 'At ~this the innocent .bystand ~'breathed an unheard but fervent litt prayer of thanksgiving, whose spl r he doubted not was shared by Alan. 0For it stuck in the memory of Bh cus that their friend, the prospect t (whose shack had sheltered Rose az Barcus after their transit of the dese and prior to the man-made avalanct which had afforded this temporary 11 munity from pursuit) had mention4 in the hearing of Rose the fact th his string of burros was limited three. This, then, must have been the ni of the lovers' quarrel: Roses insi! ance that Judith be left behind, Alas reluctance to consent to this lest I convict himself of the charge of rat Ingratitude, remembering the gret service his erstwhile antagonist he done him.. If only Judith might not find caui to change her mind! He set himself sedulously to dive Judith with the magic of his convers tional powers-an offering indifferez ly received. He was still blithe! gossiping when Judith flung away her sister's side. The ensuing quarrel seemed but ti more portentous In view of the r straint Imposed upon themselves 1 both parties thereto. - He believed, however, that a cris impended when the tinkle of mu) bells sounded down the canyon roa< and at this he threw discretion to tl winds and ran toward the two wi hands upheld in mock horror and manner of humorous protest. s "Ladies, ladies!" he pleaded. beg of you both, let dogs delight bark and bite-" s5 He got no farther: Judith's ea nwere as quick as his own; she, tc e had caught the sound of bells behiL t the base of the hill. And of a sudde 7 without another word, she turned al - fung away into the heavy thickets 'undergrowth that masked all the ca r, yn, to either side of the wagori-tra of In a twinkling she had lost herself er view in their labyrinthine shadows. The remainder of that business w t transacted rapidly enough. The ig were no pr'eparations to be mad once Alan had ridden up with I . three burros, nothing remained but a: mount and make off without delay. Before morning they were all ri d lg like so many hypnotized subjee m fatigue bearing so heavily on all thE senses that none spoke or cared Ly, speak. o Broad daylight surprised them o this state, still stubbornly travelin and shortly afterward show~ed the r- one place so perilous that ft shoclt -r- them temporarily awake. s This was simply a spot where t in- trail camne abruptly to an end on o side of a cleft in the hills quite thlz to feet wide and several hundred le depth, and was continued on the fi of ther side, the chasm being spanned a bridge of the simplest character is io more than a footway of boax a bound together with ropes none t ~AVE BURNS, F loyd McCullu. o~r u a 's covcd in Pick 4E icatd et te a was r Satnrda st er l Iock. The Diorning at 11. ~ I ce~ro declared he' WI subotannadi in seem-.- .. anotner rope, breast-high, to scrie as'a hand rail. Alan tested the bridge cautiously. It bore him. He returned, helped Rose to cross, and with her once safely landed on the other side, took his life in his hands and, aided by a Barcus unaffectedly afflicted with qualms, somehow or other (neither of them knew precisely how) persuaded the burros to cross. After that, though the way grew more broad and easy and even showed symptoms of a decline, they had not enough strength left to sustain through another hour. And what they thought good for tune, opportunely at this pass, brought them to a clearing dotted with the buildings of an abandoned copper mine. Not a soul was in evidence there, but the rude structures offered shelter for beast as well as man. Barely had they made Rose as com fortable as might be upon- the rough plank flooring of one of the sheds and tethered the burros out of sight, when Alan collapsed as if drugged, while Barcus, who had elected himself to keep the first watch and purposed doing it in a sitting position, with his back against the door-jamb, felt sleep overcoming him like a dense, dark cloud. CHAPTER XLV. The Bowels of the Earth. Awaking befell Mr. Barcus in 8 fashion sufficiently sharp and startling to render him indifferent to the beneft cial effects of some eight hours ol dreamless slumber. He discovered himself lying flat or his face, with somebody's inconsider ate, heavy hand purposely grinding the said face into the aged and splinter3 planks of the shed flooring. At thE s t t a aturlifsmwhtsasmiceffo t sam imwee salheampere but fac bindin his onleshear'ady be smalcouhsedc by means o f a enh: pase handatneto his ded whie toekecksere Promply hampefted by t fsayed th hisl an effor aredere abecrie by tea ofhaf asze thra bew hith s d th squae nt n Haws opendtenddth. edw hesdn Popl he a liftedh, aco mhessydt chclae ffr.edr an boiv (or the thoughtitwa dt;hi betwens teetuh the sant thn Fo jaw s pene a lae ait laugh heha heard a laugh o icNoe helo of SenecasTrine He ranicold r he adh to did; shi an ancing longuc the flosae hnot n lau he halha. Twaste the ath nose Mr. Mefropht head-depail in the sd Icoer of se Trnei lih i his Heowistedris ad tonnesiu ad lninoth algain-theor swdt th she butteenl.Twe them.t Theay ahert of ar splinte check moseterily;r heashu hepid byte ad shicvered of Ros Trnonlabligh sei gaggedntormte bganth wdtha ieb the her bee thfem. otesf e-Bu of Afrin Law bgno riggle rl is shired line a cnrll snaepa fully inching his way across the fib "[ toward Rose--with what design, he~ ts to en alone knows! Dimly his m~ tal vision comprehended the bare pc , isibility of his being able, with his fa onumbing fingers, to work loose t iknots at Rose's wrists; but deep nhis heart he knew this to be nothi: ibut forlornest hope.. ofWith infinite pains he had cc .- trived to bridge the distance by ha Ior possibly not quite so much, wh ta dark body put the sunlight of t open doorway into temporary eclip g Another followed It. Boots clump re heavily on the flooring. The lau e; sounded again, apparently In iromnic s preciation of Mr. Barcus' efforts. T' to pairs of hands seized him, one 1 neath the shoulders, the other 1 to ItIsGa ds . ~ PIokenlS Ni= n at3' IX :K-:X .ieath the knees, and he waS lugged Laboriously out into the sunlight, car 1 ried a considerable distance, and de- . posited unceremoniously within a few feet of the mouth of the abandoned mine just at the moment when he had satisfied himself that the purpose of his captors. was simply to throW hm Into tjE black well. - He wasted a look of appeal on the frozen mask 6f vyany that was Mar rophat's (who bore the burden of Bar ius' head and shoulders) and got laughed at for all his pains. - Then he was left to himself once more, but only for a few moments; the interval 'ended when the two ap peared again, this time bringing Rose in similar fashion. Not until she had been put down be side him did he discover that Alan was likewise a captive-trussed to a tree at some distance. The remaining arrangements of their captors were swiftly and deftly 1consummated, though their design re .nained obscure to Mr. Barcus until he, after Rose, was dumped like a bale Into a huge- bucket, and therein by means of rope and windlass lowered to the bottom of the shaft-a descent, he estimated shrewdly, of something like a hundred feet. A hideous screeching followed, the . protests of rusty and greaseless ma chinery. Twisting his neck, Barcus saw the dim opening of the shaft slowly closing, as If a curtain were being drawn down over it. Jimmy was closing the bulkhead door, leav ing them definitely prisoners, beyond human aid, there In that everlasting black hole. . . . With a final squeal and thump the bulkhead settled into place. A con fusion of remote sounds thereafter in dicated that Jimmy (with erhaps, Marrophat's assistance" taking the bulkhead fast -don e Tes1 csed-ndthesi e B broken by Alan's voice. d "Barcus!" is The latter grunted soulfully by way s5 of answer: he could do no more. Le "'ve worked my gag loose," Alan l pursued In a hurried whisper, "but my -hands are tied behind my back. Are yours? Grunt once for 'yes'." ,s Dutifully Bracus grunted a solitary Ld grunt. d "Then roll over on your face and St give me a chance to work them free s .that way, given time ... "Time!" was the mirthless thought d of Barcus. "Haven't we got all eter nity?" s For all that, he wasted no time a whatever in obeying Alan's suggestion . -then lay for upward of ten minutes e.with his face in the mold of the tunnel f while Alan chewcd and spat and chewed and spat and chewed again at the ropes round the wrists of his e friend. . If it were In truth no more than ten er minutes it seemed upward of an hour i before the bonds grew slack and Bar s-cus with an effort that cost him much e of the skin *on one wrist worried a d, hand free, then loosed the other, re f moved and spat out his gag, and set hastily about freeing his friend. That took but a few Instants-little more dd than was needed to rid Rose of her dd bonds. re That much accomplished, a pause of profound consternation followed. ee The darkness was absolute in the tun ty nel, Jimmy having taken the candle dd away with him; and its silence was n- rendered uncanny by the sobs and mur >r murs of the lovers, that sounded some *v- how fearfully remote and inhuman to Barcus-who had turned immediately s-- to the bulkhead and was, without the t-- slightest hope, groping about Its joints te and crevices in search of some way in of forcing it.... tg "Barcus-old man!" "Yes ?" "Have you any idea-" f, "Devil a one!" n A pause... le "Did you notice what that black e.. guard had fixed up?" id "hatdo you mean?" ;h "h-at the bottom of the shaft p- I got' only a glimpse coming in-the v door of the powder room was open. e-- and I saw a fuse set to the top of a e- keg of blasting powder ... rden Time Everybody who has a garden is now tending it, or ought to be doing so. And it is time to look up your garden tools and see if they are all in order and in shape Sfor work. Maybe you are shy just one article, or maybe you want a whole new set. Here you will find a big variety of Hoes, Rakes, Spades, Trowels, Water - ing Cans and other tools-all of. the best make and at very moo . erate prices. yaPOO aronlna -wnat's the good of that- We're ast enough as It is:" "Simply to make assurance d5b17i ure by causing a cave-in - . - "I seem to remember hearing or eading, some place, that tunnels have wo ends. If that's true, tho far end f this ought to be about the safest lace when that explosion happens f it ever does." "Something in that!" "Got any matches?" Barcus in uired, as Alan hurriedly helped Rose o her feet. "Never one." "Nor I. We'll have to feel our way Llong. Let me lead. If I step over the brink of a pit or anything, I'll try to yell and warn you in time." Alan caught his friend's hand in passing and pressed it warmly-a ca ress eloquent of his gratitude to Bar cus for taling their peril lightly, or pretending to, for the sake of Rose. A ticklish business, that-groping their way through blackness so opaque that it seemed as palpable as a pool of ink. And haste was indi cated; they stumbled on with what caution was possible against pitfalls a gingerly scramble. Then an elbow In the tunnel-sensed rather than felt or seen-cut them off from direct communication with the bulkhead, and at the same time opened up a shaft of daylight, striking down through that pitchy darkness like a column of fine gold. Cries of joy, amazement, Incredulity choking in their throats, they stum bled forward, gained the spot Immedi ately below the shaft, looked upward, dazzled, to see blue sky like a coin of heaven's minting far above them, at the end of a long and almost perpendi cular tunnel, wide enough to nermit the passage of a man's body, and lined with wooden ladders. The end of the lowermost ladder hung within easy reach from the fl001 of the tunnel. But even as Alan lifted his hands to grasp the bottom rung the opening a1 the top of the shaft was temporaril3 obscured. Thrilled with apprehension, he hesi tated: Marrophat was up there, he lit tle doubted; hardly like that one t< overlook the ladder-shaft in preparing the tunnel to be a living tomb. "What is it?" Rose demanded at h elbow, In a shaken whisper. "Nothing," he lied instantly, and seizing the bottom rung, swung him self up. "But wait for me till I signa the coast's clear," he warned beforf committing himself finally to the as cent. Marrophat or no Marrophat at thi top. there was nothing for him to dc but to grasp the nettle danger with : steady hand, unfinehing. Even thougl he were shot dead on emerging frn the shaft, it were better than to di down there, like a rat in a trap. . - He had climbed not more than ha a dozen rungs when a voice haile from above: "Law-Oh, Mister Law. I say-don come up-here's a present for you." Pausing without answer, he looke up. A few drops of water splatterE his face, like heavy rain. Almost ii mediately the ..blue sky was pe manently eclipsed: a heavy cascade wate;, almost a solid column, shi down the shaft with terrific force. Half-drowned and wholly dazed, 1 felt himself picked up and dragge away from the waterfall. ecleared, he cox the tunn was a the stood it was already the water continued to f hint of letup. CH ARTER XLVI. Flood and Fie Screaming to make htniaef heal above the roar of the deluge, HSYC!1 yammered in Alan's ear: "hat devil! He's found the rese voir-opened the sluicegates-turne it Into that shaft! We're done for! Alan had no argument with which 1 gainsay him. Silently getting on h feet, silently he groped for Rose in tI darkness, momentarily becoming moi dense as the fall of water shut 01 the light, and drew her away with hil up the slight incline that led back the bulkhead.. The hour that followed lived evt in his memory as an hour in hell. I" ray of hope lightened its impenetrab blackness. He could say nothing1 omfort the girl; bravely though sl strove to keep up her heart, time ax again she shook in his arms like a me thing, when panic dread caught hi by the neck as a terrier catches a rs To die there, In the darkness, like many noxious animals trapped in well! . - The water mounted rapidly. Wit in five minutes It drove them back* the elbow In the tunnel; within ten lapped their ankles as they lingere there, doubting which was the great peril, to advance or to stand fast at let the flooding tide snuff out the fir' of life. To return to the neighbc hood of the bulkhead was to court ti death indicated by the fuse and tl keg of blasting powder. Of a sudden the thought cross' Alan's mind that Marrophat had i ranged the latter solely to keep the aawy from the bulkhead. Now that I thought of it, he felt certain that tl powder room had been deliberate disclosed to him by Jimmy. Probably, then, the keg and fu: were but stage properties-Or PC Whether or no. was death in 01 form preferable to the other? He was decidedly of the opini' that It were better to be extinguish< one and for all time, in the space a second, annihilated by an explosic thn to die thus lingeringly. J. w.HM Men's Overcoats to go ait a t Men's Heavy Undershirts at 4 riht price. A special price o: Shirts to go at 45c. A full lin Yours J.W. I-I Un tMs consideration, he drew Rose *ith him back to the bulkhead. When they had been some fifteen minutes beside the bulkhead, the wa ter mounted the head of a slight rise perhaps ten feet behind them, and poured down in ever deeper volume to back up against the barrier: It was waist deep, however, before they retreated to the head of that rise. Half an hour. later it was waist deep there, on the highest spot in the tunnel. In fifteen minutes more it had reached their chins. And they stood with head against the roof of the tun nel. Holding Rose close to him, Alan kissed her lips, that were as cold as death. Then, fumbling under - water, he found the hand of the man at his side. The water lapped his lips like a blind hand - - - , , .9-** In the tunnel that branched off from the main shaft, beyond the bulkhead, some thirty minutes before this junc ture, a candle had guttered in its stick, Alan Negotiates for the Burros. left carelessly thrust into the wall by Marrophat's lieutenant, and guttering, had dropped a flaming wick into a lit tle heap of bone-dry debris. This last flamed, licked hungrily at the timber ing that upheld the falls of the tunnel. The timbering caught fire without de lay. In a space of time Incredibly brief the flames were spreading right and left, the tunnel was a vault of blistering fury. L As Alan said his last mute farewell to Rose and Barcus, the fire spread i out in the bottom of the shaft and in a Taded the powder room. Alan had guessed aright at Marro phat's design, the keg of blasting pow d der was less than an eighth full; its explosion could not possibly have ef 't fected the cave-in Alan had at first feared. d But what Marrophat had overlooked d was the proximity to the keg of some 1- several sticks of dynamite, masked by r- a film of earth that had fallen from f the crumbling walls. t When the blazing fuse dropped sparks into the blasting powder this e last exploded right willngly and the dynamite took its cue without the least delay. 1- The resultant detonation was ters 1 rinic. The bulkhead was crushed in Y like an eggshell barrier. Part of the e walls fell in, but the tunnels and abaft ed intact. The released flood ed out and spread swiftly to the fa es- of the burning tuin fal Dof steam filled that plce of terro e fires were extin guished. tpue d Swept with the e itroued he tunnel, Alan unvd throughout to !- the waist of Rose. Barcu d him unseen in the darkness. It w 'not until Alan had contrived to catch .0 an unburned timber and stay himself La and his almost witless burden beneath Le the mouth of the shaft that he discov 'e ered Barcus alive, if almost unrecog it nizable in his mask of mold and soot, a, battling back toward the shaft against :0 the kneedeep tide. Half-blinded and stinled as he was by r the reek of steam and powder fumes, Alan struggled with himself until his e wits were passably clear. Immediately before him dangled the a hoisting bucket and rope. Surrendering the care of Rose to i Barcus, Alan climbed into the bucket r and stared upward, examining the walls of the shaft for a way to the '~top. There was none other than the most difficult; gaps too great to be bridged Sby climbing showed in the. wooden 30 ladders. t The one feasible route was via the rope. And there was nobody at the r top to work the windlass-and Alan Ldhoped there would be nobody to op s pose his essay. He addressed himself to the task iewithout murmuring-lifted himself up ieon the rope, wound it round one leg, and bc an that heartbreaking climb. How he accomplished it he never r-knew. That it must be accomplished was his one, all-absorbing thought. SAnd somehow, by some almost super e human effort, it was eventually accom Lyplished. He arrived at the top of the shaft afar too exhausted to show bd-prise e-when, falling in half-fainting condi tion within two feet of the brink, he esaw .Tudith Trine running like mad across the clearing. nBut without her aid he would not within hours have been able to work the wind lass and lift Rose and Ba'. us to the surface. I (Continued Next week) ENRICKS again. Men's Wool Shirts at 80c. c. Men's and Boys' Suits to go at all Light Colored Goods. All 50c f Chattanoogo Plows and Points. for trade endrics is food or tfougot as wef as or cropsj this year. When shipments were interrupted by the war, it was estinmied that there was enough Potash on hand in the United States topl vide two and three per cent Potash in mixed ftilizefrs for-leis spring's trade. Some manufacturers had more than enoughIcr these percentages. Since then minor sources of Potash have been filly ilized, ar. additional shipments from the usual source are stil being re c The supply is below normal, but this need not prevent farme securing some Potash in their fertilizers, nor should it lead farme to decide not to use fertilizers. There is no reason to return to the out-of-date goods without Potash, although some authorities may try to "wish" them on u. We have not used enough Potash in the past. The largest anmu: import of Potash was only one-seventieth of the Potash sak from the soil by our 1914 corn crop and only one-fifteenth of- the Potasblos every year in drainage water. Spring crops use from two to ten times as much Potash as-Phos phoric Acid. Get as much Potash in the fertilizer as possible A few firms are offering to furnish from four to ten per cent. There is no substitute for Potash. It may be now, but POTASH PAYS. GERMAN KAU WORKS, Inc, 42'Broadway, NwYec Chicago. McCormick Block San Franciscos 25 C . Alanta, Empire Bldg. Sa:annah Bn&.... New Orleans. Whibn Coutra Bank Bldg. Telephones on Low' If there is no tel e ilY07: 7'I Y fGan' write for our Free Bocket telinghoway ay et Service at 50 cents per d A pgstal will do!? Addess: Farmers' Line Department SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Box 129, Greenville, S. C. ft THE GREAT BLOO~fURI aU main rmdy fo h aim/lo DIVERSIFIED CROPS AND INDEP e Battle to Kill The All Cotton Pais Ths hen a one crop state, was poor wit NS hr gaged. Today, with widely hrfas, . the richest states in theUn rmers rich and happy. "nCn - TheSuth fo 5Oyra sggering-hundreds of thousands of her ood or homes-not knowing which way to rbe 'ndition and it is going to take heroicoeffort and yes, eal battle to bring about Diversifted Farming d ndence for Our Southland. We need great Generas-great leaders to'help usrlL eat battle-but thank God, our Great* Euler-there 1' as a just and righteous cause to fight for thul thie eaders In this Great Cause-this great battle for the ture prosperity, happiness and agricultural grea ve a truly great leader-one, who has prov wo his spurs by past achievement-One ye can all We have enlisted with the Army muider the lead tis Tried and True Leader and ask and unplore ou nd readers to join with us-that we 'can fight Sth's Greatest Battle, with the assurance of an earl Under the Leadership of The Progressive wth a battle cry of Diversified Farming nd Ide lt us all shoulder arms and forward march-and we eback-Living at Home-Out of Debt-with sMoney Crops and not worrying about what cotton et fall. Talk won't accomplish anything thfliig mething won't get us anywhere-Only intelligent riniug our rewards. So Act Today fill out bei ankri nfow,3 'a . ,, -~ ,y General-ThProt g Of course, ye -'.c onS~ ighborhod, you .~ eed your old Reliab County Paper more lnk offers you both at "A War Time - Both these Great Pape Only $1-50. Yoi slf-your family and your atet enter fr the South's Independenec, .Act Now atives near 0 astain,- of. say night UBLISHERS PICKENS SENTINEL, ), Mrs.& Pickens, 8.0 C.--- section Dear Sirs: There never was anyone In our famtiy who ountry's cal.l and I now enlist in this Great War for the ad will fight with you to the last ditch. Enclosed find $1.50 for which send me THE Pt oe full year and THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER Svery yar. - Name ..................... * P.O0................... ___ - -21' r ~ ~;