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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
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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
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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.
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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. It will bring y e 'n mch more. :::' it
Anderson Phosphate
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