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I?" ! Hn. The Ethics of Pig BH By O. HENRY the Prank A. Muneoy Co.] N i\n eastbound f vl train I went into 3 t,le xmoker !|n<l ij fouml Jefferson Peters, tbe only ^pH man with a brain . west of the Wav bash river who can use ids cere brum.cerebellum ulluoblongata at the same time. In the lino of unillegal graft, ot to be drended by widows 'lulls; he Is n reducer of surIlis favorite disguise is that irget bird at which the spendIthe reckless Investor may shy [consequential dollars, lie is localized by tobacco; so. with If two thi'-fc- and easy burning I got the story of his latest venture, of business," said Jeff, dc-t thing is to find nn UpHurtwOfthy, strictly honorable HHtfh/k a graft with. Some ^HTnen I ever worked with in JKvould resort to trickery at B-. summer I thinks I will go Kthis section of country where K serpent has not yet entered It ? !!!! find II llill-fllni" ...if.it-r.l_ Irlth a talent for crime, but dominated by success. n village that seemed to light kind of a layout. The I hadn't found out that [been dispossessed and were I along naming the animals nakes Just as if they were ku of Eden. They call this INebo, and it's up near tlio Kentucky and West Virworth Carolina corner to i states don't meet? Well, Ht neighborhood, anyway. H a week proving I B o Iieer I went over to vr(> the rude fourllashers lied, to see if I Could get ^Bklnd of limn I wanted, i.' says I after we rubbed ^Hthered 'round the dried ^ '1 don't suppose there's I^Btuity in tlie whole world ^^ and ehieanery has less ^^Bnu ated than this. I.lfe the women are brave ^^Hniul all the men honest ^B tnilst. indeed. bo Bs mo.' says I. 'of tjold Bl ballad entitled "The which says: B^^wnd. to hastening Ills a ||H^Hlvo Its charms away? I^B^Haiowty down tlie lane, of tho May.' |t\I Vters,sayst lie ekon we air about as i community as tbore il;. according to conI susos of opinion, I but I reckon you I ain't ever mot I ltufo Tatuin.' " \\ by. no.' ft says the town const able, 'lie < n't li a ' *1 1 y B lntvc over. That air Itule is shore the inonstronsest scala was: that ^ft li a s escape <1 ^ft haai'ln' on the ualitisi s. A n ^^ftthat in |Hn j^^ftiimbt to ^^Bitrnnl E^Bf the o Hv before Bjj^^ftrduy. ^^S^ftty he for H^^Hip Sft^Br two ^^Bh: H^HH^ftlho HHBe's WHiis D^Hn|^nHKi talk >a B f<.r tlio stuff that 1 ept Eliza from sinking In o tbo rlvor. ",Ie was :i' .?111 the size r>f a first liiasoniau. and he 11: <l noibig nous i>luc Byes like tlio clilna d<>g on t! e mantel* Bp.'c> e that A tint Harriet ium d to play Bwith when she was a child. His hats B a little bit, like tlio sta toe <?f the Blinkus thrower "n tic Va tat Ion at Btomo. imt tho color of it rem Itided yon if i'k* 'Sunset in the Grand Canyon/ >.v an American artist, that I hey liang ^Avcr tlio stovepipe holes In th sa longs ^Plo was tlio I'on I), without needing n j^Bfu-h. Von'd have known lilt i for one. ^B>n if you'd soon him on tlu> rnude^Bllc> stage with one cotton > tispendcr E^Bd a straw over Ills oar. ^B"I told lilm what I wanted and found Bin ready to Jump at the fob. I^B* 'Overlooking *"? !: u trivial little 9H-< ndiilo as tho habit of tuunfl^flughtcr,' says I, 'what have >'<>u acI^Knpllshed 'n the way of Indirect I^Bgamlnge or nonaetlonable) thrlftl|^B;s that you could point to., with or BHdiout pride, as an evldencd of your J^Bilificntions for tlio position?' H^K'Why,' says he in his kind Of south|M system of procrastinated accents, B^B.n't you heard tell? There iln't any ^^Bn. black w iiito, In 11u* I'.l 10 Itldgc Ml can tote off a slmat hh r isy as I B^Bi without Isdn* heard, seen >'' cotch B^^^^ran lift u'sboat,' he goe< on. 'oui from lyuier u plozz , at tlu I trough, la the woods, diy or night, any- ' ,' where or anyhow, and I guarantee no ! body won't boar a squeal. It's all tn the w^y you grab bold of 'etn and carry 'em afterward. Some day,' goes on this gentle despoller of pigpeus. 4I hope to become reekernized as the champion shout stealer of the*world.' "'It's proper to 1k? ambitious.' says 1, 'and hog stealing will do very well for Mount Nebo, but In the outside world, Mr. Tatum, It would be considered as crude a piece of business as a bear raid ou Bay State Gas. However, it will do as a guarantee of good faith. We'll go into partnership. I've got $1,000 cash capital, and with that homeward plods atmosphere of yours we ought to be able to win out a few shares of Soon Parted preferred In the ! money market.' * "So I attaches Kufe, and we go away I from Mount Ncbo down Into the lowj lands. And all the way I coach him ' for his part in the grafts I had In mind, i 1 had idled away two months on the Florida coast and was feeling all to the I'once do Leon, besides buving so many new schemes up my sleeve that I had to wear 1<inionos to hold 'em. j "I intended to assume a funnel shape ! and mow a path nine miles wide through the farming belt of the middle west, so we beaded In that direction. Hot when we got as far as Lexington we found Blnkley Bros.' circus there and the blue grass peasantry romping into town and pounding the Belgian blocks with their hand pegged sabots an artless and arbitrary as an extra session of a Dntto Bryan duma. I never pass a circus without pulling i the valve cord and coming down for a i little Key West money, so I engaged a couple of rooms and board for ltufe ; and me at a house near the circus' i grounds run by a widow lady named I I'eevy. Then 1 took ltufe to a cloth- t iug store and gents' outfitted him. He showed up strong, as I knew he would, ] after he was rigged up in the ready- ] made rutabaga regalia. Me and old Misflt/.ky stuffed him into a bright blue miiit with a Nile green visible plaid of- 1 feet and riveted on a fancy vest of a light Tuskcgee normal tan color, a rod i necktie and the yellowest pair of shoes| in town. They were the first clothes,' ltufe had ever worn except the glng- 1 ham layette and the butternut top 1 dressing of his native kraal, and he, 1 looked as self conscious as an Igorrotej with a new nose ring. "That night I went down to the clr ous touts and opened a small slioll game. Uufe was to l?e the capper. I gave him a roll of phony currency to bet with and kept a bunch of It in a special pocket to pay his winnings out of. No, I didn't mistrust him, but I simply can't manipulate the ball to lose when I see real money bet. My lingers go on a strike every time I try it. "I sot up ui.v little table and began to show them how easy it was to guess which shell the little pea was under. The unlettered hinds gathered in a thick semicircle and began to nudge elbows -ind banter one another to bet. Then was when Ihife ought to have singlofooled up and called the turn 011 ' the little joker for a few tons and lives to got them started. Hut no Ittife. I'd seen him two or three times walking about and looking at the sideshow pictures with his mouth full of peanut candy, but be never came nigh. "The crowd piked a little, but trying to work the shells without a capper Is like fishing without bi.it. I closed the game with only $12 of the unearned increment, while I had been counting on yanking the yeomen for .$200 at least. 1 went home at 11 and went t<> ! bed. I supposed that the circus had I aimring r<>r Kufe and that i j in' had succumbed to It, concert and , , ail. hot I meant to give him a lecture j on general business principles in the | morning. ! ".lust after Morpheus had got both , my shoulders to the shuck mattress 1 hears a houseful of unbecoming and s ribald noises, like a youngster screech- 1 lag with green apple colic. I opens my j door ami calls nit in (lie hall for the 1 j widow lady, and when she sticks her j head out I says. 'Mrs. Peevy. ma'am, t j would you mind choking off that kid ' j of yours so that honest people can get ' j their rest?' i " 'Sir.' says she. 'It's no child of mine, j It's the pig squealing that your friend * Mr. Tr.tum brought home to his room a 1 couple of hours ago. And If you are uncle or second cousin or brother to I it I'd appreciate your stopping its t month, sir. yourself if you please.' f "I put on some of the polite outside 1 habiliments of external society and ^ went into Ritfe's room. lie had got 1 up and lit his lamp and was pouring i some milk into a tin pan on the floor i for n dingy white, half grown, squeal- ' lag pig. I < " 'How Is tlds, Kufe?' says I. 'Yon ' lb to ha a,tiled in your part of the work f tonight ami put the game on crutches. * And liov do you explain the pig? It 1 looks like backsliding to inc.' I * " '.Vow don't be too hard on nie. ' Jeff.' says he. 'You know how long 5 I've been used to stealing shouts. It's ( f + * Ji? J?tJi?"-j? -t?i*-* T night, when I see such n fine chance. I couldn't help tnkln' It.' ' 'Well.' sn.v* I. 'maybe you've really got kleptoplgln. And maybe wlieu fi RttVaiag Eases Pain Rubbing senile tbe liniment 1 tineb"3 through the flesh and j ciuirklv rilnns nnin. Demanrl ? liniment that you con rub with. I he bc?t rubbing liniment is MUSTANG LINIMENT f? , Good for the Ailments of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Qood for your own A ches. Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Burns, Etc. 25c. 50c. $1. At all Dealers. 'J II we get. out of tin pig belt you'll torn your mind to higher and more remunerative misconduct. Why you should want to slain your soul with such a distasteful, feeble minded, perverted, roaring beast as that 1 can't understand.' " 'Why. Jeff,' says he, 'you ain't in sympathy with slioats. You don't understand 'em like I do. This here seems to me to be an animal of more than common powers of ration and intelligence. He walked half across tbe room 011 his bind legs awhile ago.' " 'Well, I'm going back to bed,' says I. "See If you can impress It upon your friend's ideas of Intelligence that he's not to make so much noise.' " 'lie was hungry,' says Rufe. 'He'll go to sleep mul keep quiet now.' "I always get up before breakfast and read the morning paper whenever I happen to be within tbe radius of a Hoe cylinder or a Washington band press. The next morning 1 got up early and found the Lexington dally on the front porch where the carrier had thrown it. The first thing I saw in it wns n double column nd. on the front page that rend like this: FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD. The ahove amount will bo paid, and no questions asked, for the return, nlivo and uninjured, of Beppo, the famous European educated pig, that strayeil or was stolen from tho side show tents of Blnkley Bros.' circus last night. GEO. B. TAPLEY. Business Manager, ut tho Circus Grounds. "I folded up the paper fist, put it Into my inside pocket and went to Itufe's room. He wns nearly dressed and was feeding the pig the rest of the milk and some apple peelings. " Well, well, well, good morning all,' [ says, hearty and amlnble. 'So we are up? And piggy is having his breakfast. What hnd you intended doing with tlint pig. Rufe?* " 'I'm going to crate him up.' says itufe, 'and express him to ma in Mount N'ebo. He'll bo company for her while I am away.' " 'He's a mighty fine pig,' says I, scratching him on the back. " 'You called him a lot of names last night,' says Itufe. " 'Oh. well.' says I, 'he looks better to me this morning. I was raised on a farm, and I'm very fond of pigs. I used to go to bed at sundown, so I never saw one by Inmpllfcht before. 1H if* ' 'Why, Jeff, you ain't in sympathy with shoats." L'ell you what I'll do, Itufe,' I snyp. I'll irive von ?10 for thn? nlor " 'I reckon I wouldn't sell this slioat,' says he. 'If it was any other one I night.' " 'Why not this one?' I asked, fcarrul that he might know something. "'Why, because," says he. 'it was he grandest achievement of my life, ['here ain't airy other man that could lave done It. If I ever have a lireside ind children I'll sit beside it and tell em how their daddy toted off a slui.it "rom a whole circus full of people. \iul maybe my grandchildren too. They'll certainly be proud a whole >assel. Why.' says he, 'there was two ents, one openiu' into the other. This ihote was on a platform tied with a ittle chain. I seen a giant and a lady vith a fine chance of bushy white inir in the other tent. I got the shout ind crawled out from under the canas again without him squeakiu' as oud as a mouse. I put him under my oat, and I must have passed a hun; I red folks before I got out where JJfo itreets was dark. I reckon I wou|Qn't sell that shote. Jeff. I'd war^?fna to ieep It, so there'd lie a wltiur^ tQ what r done.' " 'The pig wonTlljpfgionjj enough.' I ?ays. 'to use JKffan exhibit in your senile ,iro"!4|pCiendnclty. Your grnndhave to take your word for. it. I'll give you $100 for the anl* mnli' '.'(ufe looked ?t me astonished. .... V1"' sllont cnn t be wwrth anything '"""that to you,' ho any*. 'What do *?!Vv*uit him for?' ,|f|VlinvIng me casulHtlcally,* says I, jv. J a rare smile, 'you -wouldn't think ' ' : I've got an artistic side to my 7U. But I have. I'm a collector ' igv. I've scoured the world for jUl pigs. Over In the Wabash valt>y iVe pot a hog ranch with most , x,:r* specimen on It. from a Merino m 1 Poland Clilna. This looks llko a ' ?J*cd pig to me. Ilufe,' says I.. '1 ""'f/o It's a genuine Berkshire. That'* W.,jl'd like lo have It' Til shore like to accommodate you. "n*yJ h?\ *bat I've got the artistic tene In,,,f- too. I don't see why It ain't arl 5&tarrh Cannot Be Cured r.nl LOC'Ali APPLICATIONS, as they ??"5ot reach the seat of the disease. Jf**3rrh Is a local disease, greatly InLnSTccd by constitutional conditions tnwJ^n order to cure It you must |:?Tan Internal remedy. Hall's CaCure Is taV^n Internally an<5 #?J.^hru the blood on the mucous surof the system. Hall's Catarrt nhv.n*'1" prescribed by one of the bee! i? J-nJclans In this country for years. I' u??.Jnposed of some of the best tonlci C.\"Y'tn- combined with some of th< plood purifiers. The perfect com ?? th* Ingredients In Hali'i nnVrrh Cure Is whet produces sucl JTrJ.jerful results In catarrhal condl I ,1 Send for testimonials, free. afi'/CHBNET tk CO., Prope., Toledo, C J*IlPTufKlik, 76c. , when you can steal a a boat better than anybody else can. Shoata la a kind of I Inspiration and genius with me. Specially tbls one. I wouldn't take two hundred and fifty for that anlmaL' " 'Now listen,' says I, wiping off my forehead. 'It's not so much a matter t of business with me as it Is art, and not so much art as it is philanthropy. Being a connoisseur and disseminator ' of pigs, 1 wouldn't feel like I'd done ' my duty to the world unless I added that Berkshire to my collection. Not ' intrinsically, but according to the ethics of pigs as friends and coadjutors of 1 mankind, I offer you $500 for the anl| mnl.' " 'Jeff,' says this pork esthete, 'it ain't money; it's sentimout with ine.' " 'Seven hundred,' says I. '"Make it eight hundred,' says Rufe. and I'll crush the sentiment out of my heart' "I went under my elothes for my money belt and counted him out forty twenty-dollar gold certificates. " 'I'll just take him into my own room.' says I, 'and lock him up till after breakfast' "I took the pig by the hind leg. lie turned on a squeal liko the steam calliope at the circus. " 'Let me tote him in for you,' says Ilufe, and he picks up the beast under one arm, holding his snout with the other hand, and packs him into my room like a sleeping baby. "After breakfast Itufe, who had a chronic case of haberdashery ever since I got his trousseau, says he believes he will amble down to Misfitzky's and look over some royal purple socks. And then I got as busy as a one armed man with the nettle rash pasting on wallpaper. I found an old negro man with on express wagon to hire, and we tied the pig in a sr.ck and drove down to the circus grounds. "I found George B. Tnpley in a little tent with a window (lap open. He was a fattish man, with an immediate eye. lu a black skullcap, with a four ounce diamond screwed into the bosom of his red sweater. " 'Are you George B. Tapley ?' I asks. " 'I swcnr it," says he. " 'Well. I've got it.' says I. " 'Designate.' says he. 'Are you the guinea pigs for the Asiatic python or the alfalfa for the sacred buffalo?' " 'Neither,' says I. 'I've got Beppo, the educated hog, in a sack in that wagon. I found him rooting up the flowers in my front yard this morning. I'll take the $5,000 in large bills if it's handy.' "George B. hustles out of his tent and asks me to follow. We got into one of the side shows. In there was a Jet black pig. with a pink ribbon around bis neck, lying on some hay and eating carrots that a mnn was feeding to hiin. " 'Iley, Mac,' calls G. B. 'Nothing wrong with the worldwide this morning, Is there?' "'Him? No,' says the man. 'He's got an appetite like a chorus girl at 1 ft. in.' "'How'd did you get this pipe?'says Tapley to me. 'Eating too many pork chops last night?" "I pulls out the paper and shows him the ad. " 'Fake.' says he. 'Don't know anything ubout It You've beheld with your own eyes the marvelous, worldwide porcine wonder of our four footed kingdom eating with preternatural sagnclty his matutinal meal, unstrayed and unstole. Good morning.' "1 was beginning to see. I got In the wagon and told Uncle Ned to drive to the most adjacent orifice of the nearest alley. There 1 took out my pig. gat the range carefully for the other opening. set his sights and gave him such a kick that he went out the other end of ! the alley twenty feet ahead of his squeal. "Then I paid Uncle Ned his HO cents and walked down to the newspaper office. I wanted to hear it In cold syl, lables. I got the advertising man to | his window. i " 'To deckle n bet,' says I, 'wasn't 1 the man who had this ad. put in last night short and fat, with long whiskers nnd a club foot?' " 'He was not,' says the man. 'He would measure about six feet by four and a half inches, with eomstlk hair and dressed like the pansies of the conservatory.* "At dinner time I went back to Mrs. Pecvy's. " 'Shall I keep some soup hot for Mr. Tatum till he comes back?' sho asks. j "'If you do, ma'ain,' says I. 'you'll more than exhaust for firewood all the coal in the bosom of the earth and all the forests on the outside of IL' ' "So tliere, you see." said JelTersop ?Pefei\ in conclusion, "how hard it is ever t<^ find a fair minded and honest business partner." "But," I began, with the freedom of long acquaintance, "tho rule should work both .ways. If you had offered I to divide the reward you would not I have lost"? \ Jeff's look ot dignified reproach stop1 !>ed me. \ "That don't Involve the same prinei! pies at all," sal\ he. "Mine was a ! legitimate nnd nuAnl attemnt at snee I illation. Buy low nfcd sell high. Don't Wall street ImloretV It? Bulls and beurs and pigs?what\ the difference? Why not bristles as wiL as horns and fur?" ' A A Monorail Ridk Ruttlnsky. who heard sonk traveling men talking about the monovl, adopted his usual tactics. \ ( | "I rode on one of those o)ke," he piped In. s "Rod" on what?" , "A single rail." "I'll bet you did." replied one oAjie ? drummers, "and I'll also bet there a man carrying each end of the ralff t ?Judge. Registration Eooks Open Registration books will b< l. open every firet Monday at th< ! Auditor'11 cffice until 80 days be ' (ore the general election. \ t>. B. Timmons, Ohm. ? K. T. White, Olerk, W. M. Belk.? ; FOLEY KIDNEY PIIX5 'TO* BACKACHE KIDNEYS AND ffLAOOil .? * lilMU 'OLl -.V. if 'iS-2. ;-n.l State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield. In Con?mon Pleas. ' The Bank of Pageland, Plaintiff, vs. i Ella Gulledge, et al, , Defendants. Foreclosure In obedience to an order of Court made in the above stated case by His Honor, S. W. G. Shipp, Judge Presiding in t.h#? 4th Circuit, dated 14th day of March 191(5, I will ofTCr for sale to the highest bidder for cash before the Court House door at V Chesterfield, South Carolina, within the legal hours, on the first Monday of April 1910 (same being the 3rd) the following tracts of land in Chesterfield County, South Carolina: "All that piece, parcel or tract of land in the County and State aforesaid, bounded on the North by the Estate lands of Eli Johns, on the East by laud" of A. I. .Johnson, on the S nth by lands of Albert Johnson and others and on the West by lands of Kobert Tucker and being divided from said lands on West by a line commencing at a stake in tbe C. Maples line and runs thence N. 15 chains to a stake, thence N. 72M E. 24.95, ehs. to n pine, thence N. 20J4 E. 9 41 chains to a mulberry on McMuiius b.anch, thence with said orancti to the i?li Johns' line, containing 158 acres. The aforesaid land conved to me by R ibert. Tucker by deed dateo cembor 80tli., 1012 and tiiled for record November 22nd 1918 "Also one other tract containing 51 acres, more or less, of Oro or Sowell tract (commission land) known as lot No. 3, having such shape, metes and bounds as shown by record in the Secretary of States office. The said 51 acres, more or less, having been this day conveyed tome ov Stephen Brewer.'' Purchaser or pu hasers to pav for all necessary papers. 1'. A. Murray, Jr. Master ol Chesterfield County. March 14th, 1910. * Cut This Out?It Is Worth Money DON'T MISS THIS. Cutout this slip, enclose with 5c arid mail it, to Foley & Co., Chicago, Illinois, writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return a trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for lagrippe, coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills, for lame back. weak kidneys, rheumatism, bladder troubles, ami Foley Cathartic Tablets, a wholesome and thoroughly cleansing cathartic, for constipation, biliousness, headache and sluggish bowels.? Square Deal Drug Store. i i If , \ Oo IIm iUt *4 fVb^Hj >1 gj INSURANCE?FIRE, LIFE. ACCIDENT, HEALTH S J EE We Represent the Strongest and Best ?5 ^ EE: Old-LiDe insurance Companies EE =? in the World. = H CHESTERFIELD LOAN & INSURANCE CO. EE EE Perry M Therreil, Manager EE Hj Mt. Croghan. 55 Sllllllllllllllllllllllinillllllllllllllllllll! Illlllllllllllt J The Peoples Bank 'SffmS CHESTERFIELD, S. C. C. P. 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