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The They ey A Nove~ed Vesion of the Moti Produced by th By LOUIS. -~ Aus.Tb-.uwan Hm*r, -' copyright, 1914, CHAPTER XLVII, The Last Warning. In the chill, itolet-shadowed du of that clear evening, a chap-fall, motor car crept sluggishly into t] little mountain town of Mesquite the heels of two mutinous mules, dri -n by a chauffeur who steered wi one hand while the other flourish< L crackling whip-lash over the bac of its sole motive power. Its one passenger, a cripple as he] ess as the car itself, huddled in c6rner of the rear seat, saluted Me wuite with a snarl. Though he was J iQri need of such rude comforts I the town stood prepared to afford hir his demeanor toward it was that < one who suffers an Indignity rathE than begs accommodation. And now, as the car crawled to pause before the Mountain house Mesquite's one caravanserai-an Mesquite itself, to the last flea-bitte hound, gathered round to view thl woider, 'Mr. Trine's Indignation an chagrin distined words of poisonou Import. Far from resenting this, Mesquit pipe in-mouth, hands .in pockets, a< mired and applauded, and rather ri sented the change that befell w two, other strangers (who pearance In to thato o s ory) chargei ountain house and inter the elder devil with cries o greeting and jubilation. The Jeader of these answered to th, amne gMarrophat; his companio2 i a1ron wMaa .Tirmmy. Mes Auckling almost mirthfully. whei lfted from the car and carried lut< he hotel. WhAt passed between the trio aftei they disappeared - behind that bed chamber door Mesquite could by nc means- guess. But that a celebration of some sort was in progress was evi denoid by the frequency with which Marrophat and Jimmy called on the bar for more liquid refreshment. And. toward midnight one belated Mesquito paused in the street outside the Mountain house for one last curi ous stare at the lighted windows oi Mr. Tine's quarters. He 'saw, clearly silhouetted against the glowing oblong of the window, the Meptistophelean profile of Seneca Trine, distorted with a -grimace of the cruelest joy that ever heart of man conceived. He saw Marrophat ap. proach his master with a drunken swggg4,speech which, though fndistinguishable to the unseen au ditor, unquestionably afforded both of the ~other wen. ample excuse for eo. static' fee: Toward Its conclusiol Mr. arrohatapparently capped the pea of juibilition by fumbling in his rcoat ocket and bringing forth some thingghblch strongly resembled a sin gle glaying card. Now when he had contrived tc mnaster- his mirth, the cripple made a gesti which eloquently abolished this card, a gesture which said quitE plainy: "All that is finished. The thing bas served its purpore! T( Wheireupon,-with a smart jerk of his Wrist,, Mr. Marrophat sent tecarc spinning and sailing out through thE open Nvidow to lose itself in the night The watcher didn't see It fall, and thuhh spent an unconscionablE tim aerchng orIt in the deep ds It Was a Trey of Hearts. 4 of the roadway, he went his way in the end with curiosity unsated: Fate hac reserved that card for a higher pur pose. Undisturbed, It lay where it had fallen, face upward, not a dozen feel from .the front door of the Mountail house, until another day dawned or Mesquite. Then, in th~ clear light of that dawn four more~ s .rangers straggled intc 4 town--two~ weary and haggard men two too e and bedraggled women One ,of se last was dressed in a ?ufftf 's clothing, much the worsE formi moi e edsihsyposo Proise of fo n rnsadbd Witfli w ri osep h o 'qlkod eo tes --se of udnoeo h oe '-Shw *wor the garnts hofs he S.spiittreoicing inryt fhli. tor, anddik clthng te OWIIei to crthtstedep herou the deir fetep. rore. thearmts. o e d, uttreinaeowe cry tero, adcltcigle man nares 1her pin id th onto crdta sae up fro 'O'Hearts n Pictue Drama of the Same Nme a Universal Film Co. FOSEPH VANCE ,Th Bmw &.gt.""The Mawk BS!G Pha from the Picture Prodseae bei goeephiance CHAPTER XLVIll. Full Flight. 5k "Oh, what can it mean?" Rose whis ,I pered brokenly, clinging to her lover's ie arm. "Surely you don't think at Surely, it must be accidental . v. Surely it can't mean-" I "I'm afraid it does," Alan Law re d sponded gravely, eyeing the front of K the Mountain house. "Our luck holds consistently-that's all. It wouldn't p- be us if we didn't pick out the one a place where Marrophat and Jimmy s- chose to stop over night. Fortunate n I ly, it's early; I doubt they're up. s With half a show we ought to be able , to find some way of putting a good f distance between us and this town r before they waken . . . Tom!" But Mr. Barcus was already at his a elbow, in thorough sympathy with - Alan's interpretation of the signifi d cance to be attached to the card that a trembled in Rose's hand. s "Sharp's the word!" he agreed. d "And there's a motor car over there, a In front of the blacksmith's. Prob ably we can hire her-" "Trine's car!" Alan ejaculated. I- swinging round and recognizing the automobile at a glance. "Then he's ieh "ho bett . MMer.W'1 ut M.W .~.i@ daarn' thing off bls hands, and I'll bet a dotuar taertr '1"" another car within a radius of fifty miles! We'll be well out of these giddy mountains long before he finds anything to chase us with." But his confidence was demon - strated to be premature by the dis which rewarded the first cur imination, that the car was roughly out of commission. ainutes later, however, their inquiries elicited the fact Lough Barcus was justified in mise- that the neighboring was poverty-stricken in re spect of motor cars, Mesquite itself boasted two motorcycles whose own ers were not indifferent to a chance to sell them second-hand at a con siderable advance on the retail list price of the machines, when new. And thus it was that, within ten minutes from Rose's discovery of that chance-flung warning in the dust, the party was again In rapid motion. His beauty sleep disturbed by the departur'e of the machine bearing Barcus and Judith, Seneca Trine roused on an elbow and looked out of the window just in time to see the second motorcycle gathering momen tum, Alan steering, Rose in the seat behind. Sixty seconds later a flaunting ban-C ner of dust was all that remained to remind Mesquite that romance had passed that way-that, and a series of passionate screams emanatingt from the bedchamber of Seneca Trine, where the cripple lay posses- ~ sed by seven devils of Insensate rage. Fits screams brought attendance; but it was a matter of many precious a minutes before his demands could be t met and Marroplyat and Jimmy roused from their crapulous slumbers in ad- l joining chambers; and half an hour ~ elapsed before the chauffeur, roused from his own well-earned rest, suc ceeded in convincing the pair that pursuit with the motor car was out of the question. But the devil takes care of his own: within another half hour what seemed to be sheer, bull-headed, dumb luck brought a casual automobile to Mes quite-a two-seated, high-power racing machine of the latest and speediest pattern, driven by two irre sponsible wayfarers who proved only ~ too susceptible to Marrophat's offer ofr double the cost of the car-f. o. b. Detroit-for its immediate surrender.t The two piled out promptly enough; ~ Marrophat and Jimmy jumped in; c Tine from his bedroom window sped ~ them on their murderous mission witha a blast of blasphemy. t It must have been an hour later when Alan, checking his motorcycler as it surmounted the summit of a long upgrade, looked back and dis- - covered, several miles distant on the i far-flung windings of the mountain ~ road, a small crimson shape that ran b like a mad thing tirelessly pursued by a cloud of tawny dust like a gold- t en ghost. A motor car, beyond all question, and one of uncommon road-devouring 5 quality; It might or might not con- D tai Marrophat and Jimmy, once moreb in pursuit. Whether or not,- bitter c experience had long since educated a Alan in the gentle art of taking no t chances.c Though It was his life that they U sought so pertinaciously, no later than Y yesterday (and then by no means for 5 the first time), they had proved that 1 if Rose were with Alan they would include her ruthlessly in whatsoever ' scheme they might contemplate for r his personal extermination. d Nor would Tom Barcus be exempt, If they- were caught in company though Judith mighlt be, in view of C Marrophat's infatuation for the girl. These two were far ahead, out of k sight, Indeed; and must somehow be ~ overtaken and warned-no easy mat- 6 ter, since the machine which bore them was, if anything, faster than Alan's, just as the racing automobile was faster than either. Alan kept his gaze steadfast to the road before them, daring not once to look up and round or back. 5' So sinuous and meandering was its Si course. Indeed, that Alan seldom could q see a hundred yards of it ahead, but si must pelt on in panic flight, hoping si for the best-that Judith and Barcus C would soon show up In front, that something might happen to hinder theO pursuit-never knowing whether the 0 latter lost or gained. 5 And thus catastrophe befell . . . Round the swelling bosom of a wood- ii C She--" There's still half an efore the polls close, and won't let me change my -Judge. opening~ here e ress rtive Co~t $1 eltering trees and, Judith at his els, pelted headlong down the slope the spot where the others had van .ed. 'o - find them not only alive but tctically unscathed affected that 'al soul almost to tears. 3ut when congratulations had been tually eichanged, there fell an kward pause. The eyes of the four ight one another's ruefully, each r quick with .the unuttered but In )rable inquiry: What next? n the outcome, it was Mr. Barcus o advanced the suggestion which. s adopted-though this was its re >tion more through lack of a better n for any actual appeal intrinsic the proposition. 'When we broke down, I saw," he itured, with a backward jerk of thumb to indicate the road, "a can L branching off from this one about uarter of a mile over yonder. 'If it's the same to you people, we might Dll round that way and see what its :ural attractions may be-if any. t it's sure a mighty poor sort of a Lyon that doesn't lead anywhere [ nothing could possibly be more iguing to our mercurial and rest s tempers than to squat down here I fold our hands in our laps and t for something to turn up-and -way we can't be worse off than we -and-" Sufficient!" Mr. Law interrupted h a bleak smile. 'rooking a deferential arm, Barcus red it to Judith. Everything Is lovely in the formal Id Carried Into the Hotel. -den," he insisted-"so sweetly ro tic. Are you game for an Idle mter, just to while the Idle hours ay?' 'he woman found spirit enough for ran smile as she tucked her hand ttefully beneath his arm. 'You're the cheerfulest soul I ever t," she said demurely. "What I'm [ng to do without you when-'f ever w'e get out of this awful business, >dness only knows." 'Let's talk of something else," bs igested hastily. 'Unless, of course," she pursued :h unbroken gravity, "I marry 1. . .. 'Heaven," the young man prayed vently, "forfend!" 'That is hardly gallant-" 'I mean-heaven forfend that you )ld throw yourself away!" 'Humph!" she mused. "Perhaps i're right." ['heir banter was not without a tle object, namely, to reassure the I who followed, supported by her er's arm. the course of the last 24 hours se's jealousy of her sister's new nd friendliness with Alan had iome acutely evident. The least rtesy which circumstances now I again demanded that he show ith or seem a boor, was enough cloud the countenance of Alan's rothed. or, indeed, was Rose altogether titute of plausible excuse for this ling. It was undeniable that be sen Alan and Judith a bond of sym hy had grown out of the trials and -dships they had of late suffered common. It was undeniable-but m in his most private thoughts in denied It fiercely. Judith, on other hand, not only acknowledged freely to herself, but secretly de ed a strangely sweet and poignant asure from the knowledge that she ed so madly and hopelessly. ['hat her love yvas hopeless she w but too well. Even though Alan ;ht not be altogether indifferent to , after all that had passed between n, his loyalty to Rose was un kable. And not for worlds would se's rival have had it otherwise. could not have loved him as she had he not been so unmovably e. As It was, since she could not ye her love might be returned, she s content to love and to promise 'self that, if 'opportunity ever of ed, she would not prove unready to rifice herself for her love. knd at times she caught herself ying that such opportunity would Call the w. k. Porter !very time the cold seeps too idly into our well-cushioned ies and we yearn for spring, think of the miserable mos toes, the ghastly gnats, the npant redbugs and the fiend flies. Hold your holt, Colo Winter, hold your holt! lumbia State. Proffered Help 'What! Ye can't hear that sayin'? Well, thin, repeat Lt ye didn't hear an' I' tell re again."- Londo nch. Obiijection is Rail WVe don't like the :kens Sentinel spells' brough." They s p 3rt way, like Roo lO Tribune. least wan'ing came upon Barcus and shi 3udith, dismounted, Barcus bending he )ver his cycle and tinkering with Its to motor. Ist For one horripilating instant colli dion seemed unavoidable. Barcus and prg rudith and the motorcycle occupied lo3 nost of the width of the road; there ] ;Vas little room between them and the int leclivity, less between them and the av 'orest. To try to pass them on the soi atter side would be only to dash his pal )rains out against the trees; while to ex nake the attempt on the outside would I JG to risk leaving the road altogether wh tnd dashing off into space . . wa And it was impossible to stop the ce ycle-so brief was all his warning. thz :n desperation Alan chose the outside in >f the road; and for the space of a ingle heartbeat thought that he might vei >ossibly make it, but with the next his ealized that he would not-seeing the yoi ront wheel swing off over the lip of a q he slope. all At this he acted sharply and upon str heer instinct. As the cycle left the nal -oad altogether he risked a broken Bu mee by releasing his grasp of the car tandlebars and straightening out his an< eg and driving it down forcibly fat .gainst the roadbed. The effect of thisJ les ras to lift him bodily from the sad- an< le: the machine shot from beneath wa Lim like some strange projectile an: Lurled from the bore of a great gun; are ad Rose crashed against him in the ' ame fraction of a second. wit Headlong they plunged as one down he hillside, struck its shelving sur- off ace a good twenty feet from the brink . . . . .... ...... Trine Was Lifted From the Ca r ai f the road, and flying apart tumbled gai eir separate ways down the re- .ma ainder of the drop and into the sai iendly shelter of the underbrush. aw Something nearly miraculous saved dem whole. Beyond a few scratches a nd bruises and a severe shaking up, grn key escaped unharmed. And they rere picking themselves up and re- me aning their breath and re-collecting gol ieir scattered wits when, with im- - etus no less terriffic than their own go, ad been, the pursuing motor car wung round the bend and hurled it- su, elf directly at the two who remained pon the road above. w yoi CHAPTER XLIX. fer Sacrifice. But Tom Barcus hadn't failed to rofit by the warning implicit in Alan's shi ccident. Alan, he told himself shrewdly, yoi ould never have run his cycle at so' olhardy a pace without good rea- sul n; and under the circumstances good gir eason was synonymous solely with lov ursut. He was therefore on the alert, quick Ro see the racing automobile when it foil ame hurtling round the bend, and in be< ie very nick of time grasped Judith's cot rm and swung her bodily with him and ack out of harm's way, amid the Juc rees that bordered the inside of the to yad. bet Of necessity his motorcycle suffered. bandoned in the middle of the road, det was struck by the buffers of the fee otor car and flung aside as If it had tw< een nothing more ponderable than a pat -ss of straw-landing half-way down ha; ie embankment, a hopeless tangle of in dattered tubing and twisted wire. evi A. first blush the circumstance Alt emed surprising, that the car did the t stop. But then Barcus reminded it imself that Marrophat and Jimmy riv auld not possibly have witnessed the ple Dcident involving Alan and Rose, who, lov gether with the wreck of their ma ine, remained well-cloaked by the 1 kn nderbrush at the bottom of the can- mil on. In all probability, then, the as- he: a,ssins had assumed that Alan had :the urried on; and since their own first she usiness was concerned exclusivelyi RO ith them, they had done likewise, Sh aasoning that they could return and did eal with his unfortunate friend at tru ieir convenience after overhauling ho] ieir quarry, whose life they most wa aveted.he As for Rose and Alan-heaven alone j er new what had happened to them. So sac arcus set himself to find out what yen Providence knew without more jpr~ Good Dodge It looks like the general as mbly has about decided to ra Ive the compulsory educationbo estion by leaving it to each E hool district in the state to qu lve the matter for itself. Of rai urse everybody understands ne] mat this is a complete evasion C E the issue that has been made C prominent in the state during e past several years; but then is about as good a dodge asI uld have been devised.-York-! ille Enquirer. I'~ Fame and Otherwise it' "Every time I see gran Ps sword I want to go to ar." "Well." "But every - notice Pi randfather's den leg I cool "t own'-L ou ville Courier- sh - -'-'pal.T t '-I nerve enough to resume tne CmD. It was true, when he found courage to look and see for himself; she lay r within three yards of the brink su pine, her face uplifted to the sun, un stirring; she dared not stir; a single His Screarns Brought Attendance. -movement was calculated to set the ) shale bed again In motion. Painfully he realized that if, as Bar. I cus asserted, she had deliberately cut athe rope herself, Judith had offered Sup her life to spare his own. 3 CHAPTER . Retribution. 1 And yet the very consciousness of >the girl's danger was all the stimu I lant that Alan needed to recall him to r himself. I Once arrived with Barcus at the top -of the cliff, he. lost no time in setting -about preparations to effect her res Scue. - - In this business Fortune smiled upon him, as it were, by predisposition. tA broad roadway ran along the top of the precipice, turning off at *a Slittle distance to the right, to descend the mountainside. And just beyond this turning Providence had chosen *to locate the camp of a hydraulic min ing outfit. Alan's appearance at the top, in fact, was coincident with the arrival at that point of half a dozen excited, miners; and he had no more than voiced his demands than three of their number were hastening back to the camp to procure rope and more hands. Within five minutes Alan, egainst the protests of Rose and Barcus, was ~being lowered over the edge and down to the shale roof on which he land> Sed at a spot far to one side of Judith, sto escape all danger of sending a sec ond landslide down upon her. Picking his way carefully down to 1the very brink, Alan edged along this,' smore than once saved a fall to death only by the rope, until he stood im *mediately below Judith. Then pausing, he Instructed her ~carefully, tossed the end of the rope into her hands, and when she had~ wound it twice round her arm, crept L up to her side and helped her make It rfast about her body. His signal to the miners that all was well educed prompt 75 % There was a giddy interv in uhc the two swung perilously Mae *heaven and earth. Thei. u. a * Lonce more in safety. Supported by sympati :.J:. the quartet staggered . l their story, as condened: and breathlessly confirmed by as an1.a winning them enthusiastic champion. And this was* -- well for them. For they had no more th0a- oa*gd themselves and begun to appreciate what perils they had escaped, when the rumble of a motor car sounded be yond the shoulder of the hill. Startled by this alarm once more Into -full command of his flagging fac ulties, Alan rose and stumbled out into the roadway, taking cognizance of such facilities for defense as the camp afforded and issuing instructions with a voice vibrant with fear, not for his own safety, but for the safety of those whom he loved. Not far from the point where the road swung from the cliff to thread the camp the hydraulic nozzle was in action, Its terrific force of water melt *Ing the mountainside away ton by ton. - Toward this.Barcus ran at top speed, -gaining the man in charge of the noz zle just as the car swung round the bend. Pausing only long enough to make certain that there could be no mis take-and having this certainty made doubly sure by Jimmy's action in ris ing from his seat and firing over the windshield pointblank at Alan as this last stood waiting in the roadway Barcus and the miner swung the noz zle round untbil it bore directly on the car. The power of its stream was such that the car was checked instantly in its tracks; and before the water ceuld have been shut off or the stream d verted, the machine was driven back to the ery lipof thecliff and over completely, taking with it those twain upon whose efforts all the hopes of Seneca Trine of late had been cen tered. A deathat tat was merciful, in that it was instantaneous, awaited them at the foot of the clin (Gontinued Next week) EAT BLOOD PURIFIER. medy for Rheumatism, Blood Poison and At all Druggists $1.00. PPMAN CO., Savannah. Ga. M'RCOA TS idershirts at 40c. Men and Boys' . All 12 1-2c A. F. (. Ginghams hams at 8c. 12 values at $1.25; $1.50 values at per pound for hams, 16c in trade. ows and points for same. for trade NO RICKS 'to ocat thecampof ahydrulicmin would be complete. Now. prayers are sometimes an swered when the boon craved is goo, for the soul. . . . Slowly and painfully these fou toiled along an obscure trail that fo] lowed the windlhgs of the little rivei until a branch struck into the mail stream and so discovered to them ye another trail leading into the west ward canyon. - Then again slowly and painfull: they plodded on following blindly am other trail blazed by Fates as blind a: they. Above them, on the road they hal abandoned, the crimson racer double' back to the point where it had passe' Judith and Barcus; its occupants de scended, explored, and came present ly upon the trail of the fugitives. Bloodhounds could not have set tled down upon a scent with mor' good will and eagerness than Mr. Mai rophat and his faithful aide. The sun was high and blazing abovi the canyon when the pursuit cam, within rifle shot of the chase. A spiteful shot roused the qual tot from a pause of lethargic disma: due to tardy appreciation of the fac that they had penetrated witlessly al most to the end of a blind alley. A hasty council of war armed Alai with Judith's revolver and posted hin behind a bowlder commanding the ai proaches to the chasm. The weapoE a powerful .45, had a range sufficlen to numb the impetuosity of the as sassins and keep them under cove and out of sight of the desperate eE says the fugitives were making t compass an escape. For in the shed behind an abandone log cabin-souvenir, no doubt, of somi forgotten prospector-Barcus had ut earthed a length of stout hempen ropE With the aid of a rusty shovel h, had hacked this into two equal lengthE One of these lengths he proceeded t, make fast around his own waist, the around Rose's. The other he left ti be similarly employed by Alan ani Judith. For It was agreed that the: must climb, and while the cliff offere' no problem to. daunt a mountain climt er of any pretensions, It was consid ered best that the fugitives should b, hitched up In pairs against any poE sibility of a slip. The pairing ha' been determined by the fact tha Barcus boasted some slight experienci in mountaineering, while Rose wa plainly the most exhausted of the tw' women, the least able to help hersel in an emergency. He had worked his cautious waY with the girl in tow, to a point mid way up the face of the cliff, followini a long diagonal that provided the eas test climbing, when Alan stole bac to Judith and reported that, on th4 evidence of observation and belief, hi was convinced that the pursuit hai turned back-perhaps for want of arc munition, perhaps to execute som less hazardous attempt upon the live of the fugitives. Without delay, then, he made th free end of the rope fast around hi own waist, and, following the way Bai cus had chosen, began the ascent. Two-thirds of the climb had bee: accomplished, and Rose and Barcu had arrived In safety at the top, be fore the temptation to look dowl proved irresistible. Immediately beneath his heels tal face of the cliff was deeply hollowei out, leaving a drop of 50 feet to; shelving ledge of shale as steep as roof, whose eaves-perhaps anothe fifty feet below-jutted out over at other fall of a hundred feet. Alan shuddered and swallowed hara before resuming the ascent. Another 20 feet brought him tV Sledge quite six feet wide, offering broaQ - -4 easy path to the summil He gainedh2,.Af a prayer of heari felt relief'I SB :. Doint o rising to his feet when a'-ofcng-e from Barcus and a scream of terro: from Rose, watching over the uppel edge, warned him barely In time t< enable him to snatch at and grasp knob of rock before Judith's weigh tautened the rope between them anm jerked' Alan's legs from under him. HIs feet and legs kicked the empt: air beyond the lip of the ledge, h' lay face downward, clutching desper ately the knob of rock, praying that I might not come away in his grasp that his grasp might hold, that Barcui might arrive In time to save then both. The rope was cutting into hi! waist like a duli knife. The drag o Judith's body was frightful. He could feel her swinging like a pendulum a1 the end of Its 80) feet, and coul( Imagine but too vividly what woul. happen if the rope should prov< faulty. . . . The fall of 20 feet to the shalt roof was nothing. What would fol low would, however, spell death. The impact of her body would set thi shale In motion, like an avalanche and beyond the eaves was only empti ness -and' the bowlder-strewn bed o: the chasm, a hundred feet below! The sweat poured from his face liki rain. His eyes started in their sock et, the blood drummed in his ear! with a roar resembling distant thun der. His fingers grew numb, his throal Be felt that he could not hold or another instant when, abruptly, thai torture was no more. The rope has been relieved of Its burden. He hears a scream from below echoed by ont 'rom above, then the thump of Judith's body falling on the shale, then th4 slithering rumble of the landsli gathering momentum.... Barcus, at length arrived, assistet him to a place of security. Spen and faint and sick with horror, he laa prone and shuddering. Only the assurance of Barcus t.tia A successful r all Blood Diseases MEN'S 01 'o go at a bargain. Heavy U1 Suits at a bargain, sizes 38 to 4 at 0c. All 10c Amoskeag Gin A nice line of sample bats-s $1; $1.25 values at 75c. 1c per pound for hens. 15c 5c per pound for nice butter. A full line of Chattanooga P] Yours .WM.HIt T RY a sack of our Majestic and None Such Flour you will forget high prices. It is as good as can buy. We carry a complete line of groceries-all f are anxious to serve you. We are always in the market for your chickens hams, butter, potatoes and other produe. Best pices paid for same. H A R DW AR See the Covington Hill Planter. an time please place your order early, as we willon as we get orders for them. We have our spring line of hardware now -e r your inspeation. ... Be sure and see the Walter A. Wood Disc Harrows - fore you buy. Perfection Turn Plows and Stocksda you don't have to ride to keep in the rund. Haye your meals cooked on time by using one of Aen's Princess Ranges, the best range on earth for the Call and let us show them to you. Stoves from $12.50 up. Get your barbed wire, hog wire and poultry wiren Our prices are right. Come and see us and we will treat you right. PICKENS HARDWARE A ROCERY COMPAN T D2' Top- Dressing ITi bu iefryut ei otiksotgrain. And we want to suggest to youth4t you use goods instead of soda, as we believe it wifliprove and'is much cheaper. When crops are topiresself with - 5ey take on a quick, rapid growth, which mnasthem very . anyhn that grows rapidly is necessarily nethr itis a child, a calf. a pig, a colt or a plan. And w,. r'af?y and is tedr- eoe andu is esbi'- to sv' aa3vorable wether or ard we i:. c-N. ths ix'ed good wichfe. too your gram go -slowve:r the" .>da wi and whea1t - will fill out better and will have better h and we believeswill give better resul ..4r.ow, we are making a9-6-0 good~ A~!dn~of Amonia a~o Potash,.whi for $30 a t lln 'rapid growth as a consistent with saey. i then we are making.2-a ' a 8-3-3 goods, both of which will mnakeeyou-a-~ .top grain. If you knew weather and climatic conditions what grain needs, then soda would bethe thing for you to ~' the seasons when the weather and climatic conditi -: w- ~ 4 lesour memoihopelesslyt falt,have benfmar ar A good grain crop this year will help out a condi>'n :tatm wipe be alittle close with some of us. - ~ecan sell you this fertilizer for fall payment oneksroye And while we will be delighted'to sell it to'you for-llishw( quire that from prompt paying customers. But-we wRil selr for fail payment and then you can sell your surplus gramn in mer for cash, and this will tide you over until yourteotton-crop in. In times like this some of us will have to learn tom nu -We believe it willi pay you to side dresa your cotton and mixed goods rather than soda, for the same reasonw pay you better to top dress your grain with mixed gbods iatr with soda. Soda makes it take on the condition of aho It is weak and watery and sappy and can't stand. winds or any adverse conditions that it could stronger. Soda is not a complete fertilizer. Amna by not a complete plant food. It is-not a well-balanefriie.Yo horse or mule or cow does better orra well-balaid ration, ~-laborers do better on a well-balanced ration and you do better - self on aswell-balanced ration than you ifififou liveeon gstop gle article~of diet-and so will your grain 'and your and other crops. Some doctors say eating an unpeeietly diet is one cause of pellagra. An imperfectly baaned may be the cause of your crops taking rust and blight troubles which crops have. We believe it is safer to use mixed goods than it ist taking it one year after another. These mixed goods should be applied early, in orderf to get full benefit from them. We have them on and dry, and ready for shi- me'. Te earneyou Ye~iM the better. 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