Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^HHHHMrabser'] HA Paul B and Fred G. Heam Editors PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Subscription Bites: $1.50 a Year; six nouL, 72 cents.?Invariably in ( * advance. Entered as second-class matter at the postofllce at Chesterfield, South Carolina. A REAL FRIEND OF THE FARMER There are in Congress some theoretical farmers and there are some theoretical friends of farmers and i there are some real friends of farmers. In the latter class Senator W. J. Harris of Georgia, should be incluu-' ed. He has by the measures he has advocated, by the bills he has introduced and by the speeches made in the Sen-' ate shown that he is not a theoretical friend of the farmer but a practical one. Senator Harris was an earnest and persistent advocate of the proposal to put a practical farmer upon the Federal Reserve Board. The Georgia Senator favored the passage of a measure which required that one member of the Board should be an Experienced, practical (farmer. In \ support of this very worthy contention Senator Harris made an able and convincing speech. He said in part: "I have no apologies to offer to th? Senator from Connecticutt or anyone else for the active support I have given all measures to aid agriculture, and by so doing I have been helping 1 1 ! | ?11 every uusmtss iiiuumh y. iuc^ uic an dependent upon agriculture. Except for the farmers of the West and the South the manufacturers of the East would be compelled to go out of business, as they could not sell their products. Since I have been a Member of the Senate, no matter how meritorious and necessary measures may be for the benefit of the farmers of the South and the West, there are certain Senaf^?-s from the East who oppose such measures. Agriculture receives less from the Government in proportion to what it gives than any other industry. "The Federal reserve banks are not banks for bankers to make money out of; it was intended, when created by Congress, and should be, the financial institution that serves every interest, not simply banks and manufacturers alone, but agriculture, live stock, and all other industries alike. If there had been on this board during the past two years a representative of agricultural interests of this country I do not think we would have had the deflation policy of the Federal Reserve Board, which has done such great injury to the farmers and business men of the South and West and from which it will take years to recover. It has destroyed hundreds of millions in values of farm products." Senator Harris called attention to the fact that the Federal Reserve banks were spending millions of the peoples money in constructing bank buildings that showed a most extravagant waste of public money. TwenI ty seven million dollars for one bank I building in New York was given as un I example of this gigantic waste of money. Senator Harris deserves the thanks and the hearty approbation not of the farmers of the country, but of all men who believe in an economical administration of the government and of justice to the men who cultivate r - the soil and who arc the prop and the rfv mainstay of the country. ' Press dispatches tell of a man who ? has lost part of his brain but lives and talks. Is it not a fact that men may be found without much brain who talking apparatus is in good runIning order? GOV. COOPER SIGNS I tO-UrLKAIIVE CONTRACT jy Columbia, Jan. 30.?Governor w Cooper Saturday affixed his signaRl ture to the cotton cooperative market ing contract and gave out a statement expreiring *luj earnest h>p~. that the Bp organization of the South Carolina " Cotton Grower? Cooperative Association would be successfully competed. "Now that the boll weevil is upon us it is going to be neccsary for the farmers of the state to do three t things," said the governor. "First, they must diversify their crops; sec^^ncL thny must cultivate intensively cotton they do plant and third, they must market this crop intelligently so as to get the best possible price for it. "I am convinced after a study of the matter that the solution of thc marketing end of our problem lies in cooperative marketing. It. is our only hope for a stabilized market. "A campaign is now being conduct ed for signatures to the contract in South Carolina and I earnestly hope that the organization committee will be sucessful in securing contracts representing 400,000 bales so that the organization of the association may be sucessfully completed. I would admonish every farmer who expects to ] grow a bale of cotton in 1922 to get a copy of the contract, study it care- i f fully and when he has made up his 1 mind, as I believe he will, sign the contract so that South Carolina will sell her cotton cooperatively next fall as will the farriers of Texas, Okla- > k homa, North Carolina, Mississippi, I L Georgia, Alabama, Arizona and other i ^states of the cotton belt H "I am informed that good progress Hp being mads in the sign up in tbU > ^ nls " . ..j. Jii ^^ARSTATE COTTON IN S By Jam** A. Hollomon < (Staff ^Correspondent Atlanta Consti- ' tution.) * Published by Permission of Atlanta j Constitution Bryan, Texas, Jan. 24?(Special). . The purpose of this tour of the cotton 1 belt of Texas is to place before the readers of The Constitution the plain, unvarnished facts regarding cotton production under boll weevil conditions. My investigations, therefore. are not to be confined alone to the experiment stations, where government and state scientists have been for fifteen years warring against the menace, and are even yet bar raging the pest with every new implement of warfare that skill and persistence can develop, but are to extend to the very lields and cotton plantations, where I may hear from the man whose every interest is at stake the plain, practical story of just how he has mastered the most serious problem that has ever confronted him?a problem that is shaking Georgia and the southeast today as none since the civil war. The Boll Weevil Mastered in Texa? And the boll weevil has been mastered in Texas?unqualifiedly so?by every cotton farmer in the state who has had both the intelligence and the energy to apply, in a business-like systematic manner, the methods of control that experience has taught to be effective. Indeed, not only has the weevil been mastered here, but methods of cotton cultivation, from the preparation of the seed bed to the harvesting of the stnple, have been of late so improved, where painstaking care and business intelligence in farming have prevailed, that in many instances production of the staple has been actually increased over pre-weevil days ?this resulting from the intense cultural lessons burned into the very souls of men who once saw their only money crop vanish like snow in the tropics and who set about with fixed jaws and gritted teeth to meet the enemy and to conquor him; and they did. I have in mind a farmer at Mercedes, Texas, who told me that he j produced 05 bales on 65 acres in ii)2i, with 'boll weevils as thick as bees in a swarm." and the best he ev- I or did before the be!! weevil appeared was 58 bales. He "sweated blood" ?to use a homely expression?however, while he was learning the les son. I have signed a statement from this farmer that I shall publish later on in this series. Weevil In Texas Prevalent As Ever It must be borne in mind that the boll weevil is just as prevalent in Texas today as he ever was. When he became a serious menace ; in 1907 along the Rio Grande valley. : most pronotlnced in the Brownville j area, and swept more than a million , teres of boiling plants as clean as a fire that sweeps through a sun-baked j prairie, the farmers became panicstricken, just as they are in many sections of Georgia today. The weevil hud been noticed in negligible quantities in the Corpus Cristi territory for yea-s before, but little attention had been paid to him. Procastination, a human frailty, had permitted the pest to gradually increase the area of infestion until all at once, before anybody seemed to seriously realize the consequences, he had become a plague that left ruin and desolation in his wake and struck terror to the hearts of thousands of planters. With increased momentum the 1 ?i?i;? - ..wii lumiuvicii iiuuiuns oi acres ot now territory in 1908, and again in 1909?and continued his inarch of invasion until he covered every acre of available ground in Texas cotton belt in which cjimatic conditions would permit of winter hibernation? and that is 90 per cent of the cottonproducing area of the state He then crossed over into Louisiana and into Mississippi and Arkansas and Alabama, shooting across the Misissippi river as unconcernedly as if he had been a first-class possenger on the Southern Pacific's ferryboat at New Orleans In 1915 he appeared in Georgia? and the story is a sad one Gradually working his way up from the southern end of the ;tate, where the winters were at first more inviting, he has within the past year, swarmed upon middle Georgia like an unconquerable army of devastation, to illustrate, just one country with a normal production of 15,000 bales heretofore, in that section, fell at his feet wrth a production of only I7T. hulno i" 100I - . .., o ... iai,i?a siHiement oil .'act that is almost inconceivable. Can Be Conquered fn Ga. A? In Tex. But the boll wevil can be conquered in Georgia just as he has been conjuered in Texas. He will never be ' xterminated. That has been fully 'ested out in Texas. He will increase n numbers. He will spread to every eclion of the state where he can find i cotton plant to feed upon in the pring and summer, if the winter temperature does not get below 15 decrees Karenheit, which is necessaary n order to kill him in his winter quarters. Extermination is therefore out of he question. The proposition is to grow cotton ;uccessfully?just as successfully as before his advent?in spite of the voevil. Texas farmers are doing this. It is just as practicable for Geor-j ria as it is practicable to ' 1 GROWING PITE OF WEEVIL' f? : b tl ia. It is purely a matter of control, Q by soil preparation and methods of tj cultivation, and when infestion is particularly heavy by the intelligent ap- ? plication, three or four proper times, v of a tested preparation of calcium ar- ^ senate, which will not cost in labor Q and material more than $5 an acre, at the prevailing prices of the poison. Cultural methods, however, are far t( more important than the poisoning t process, and all the poisoning imaginable can avail nothing without the proper cultural methods I shall analyze in detail the system of the Texas cotton planter who has u mastered the boll weevil in a subse- t quent article 0 Conditions That Prevail in Texas t Someone may suggest that if Texas l! has mastered the boll weevil why has ^ not the state gotten back to her old 0 time production when a four-million c bale crop for Lone Star state was al- & most as certain cacn year a* me ngni ' that fj11 >ws the t'awn 0 In 1920 Texas did produce 3,602,105 bales?almost her pre-weevil normal s In 1921 the acreage was reduced e approximately 50 per cent and the gross production compared with 1920 ' about 60 per cent?ndue entirely to generally bad crop conditions inde- I pendent of weevil conditions In 1920 the lint yield per acre was j about 160 pounds, as compared to an average of 125 before the weevils had been controlled. It was an unusually bad cotton producing year on the wholo, 1 gm told?th|e warm and ^ seasoning spring forcing cotton to heavy foliage and shallow rooting. This was followed by a drouth that began just as the squares began to form, and millions of acres of cotton ? n were thus literally parched in the * fields, 1 ^ Agin it must be remembered there' t are thousands of improvident, care- ^ less, hit-or-miss so-called farmers in Texas, as everywhere else, who will not, more from the lack of energy j than brains, fight to win anything. : They choose the path of least re-! sistance, so long as they get some- j thing to eat. These "farmers," who put in, in some kind of fashion, a re- j corded acreage in cotton, set down and deliberately let the weevils run away with them. That same class can j never win in Georgia. Again, there are several hundred * thousands of acres of Rio Grande valley lands, that once produced cotton like the Mississippi delta, at the rate of a bale or more an acre each year, that are now planted to citrus fruits, , while cotton acreage has accordingly been extended to less fertile areas. Again, Texas is an empire. Th"re are a dozen different grades of normal climates in the state's cotton belt. A good season in one area does not mean necessarilly a good season in any other. One section may be ruined by drouth; another ruined by floods. 1 Stories of By Elmo I Great Scouts V a turn I ?, Western Newspaper Union. TOM HIGC.INS* GREATEST FIGHT WITH THE INDIANS Tom Iliggins was a noted Illinois , ranger during the War of 1812. One t morning near Fort Hills the Indians ambushed Tom's company and killed several of them. As they fled to the fort, Iliggins stayed behind, vowing that he would get at least one Indian before he retreated. He got his Indian, but Just as he was preparing to mount tils horse, Ranger Burgess, who was lying on the ground wounded, called out to him: "You won't leave me to the Indians, will you. Tom?" Iliggins stopped and attempted to lift Burgess onto his horse, but the frightened animal Jerked the reins . from Tom's hand and dashed madly j away. "You'll have to try to crawl to the i fort. Burgess," said Tom, "and 1 will ! stay behind and keep redskins off." As Burgess crawled away, iliggins j ran In another direction to lend the ! approaching Indians away from his wounded comrade. In a few minutes lie was surrounded by the savages and ihey wounded hlia in the leg as he fled i into a deep ravine. He wus nearlng j the fort when three Indians rose up 1 before him. One of them tired and the ranger fell, wounded for the second time. I i With a wild yell the Indians rushed j i at him with uplifted tomahawks, but Hlgglns rose once more ami shot one < of them dead. The other two then at- ; i tacked him with spears and toma- ! i hawks. Tom defended himself with his knife until he was knocked to the ground by a blow from a tomahawk < which cut ofT one of his ears. j < Finally the ranger tore a spear from the grasp of one of the Indians and 1 thrust It through the body of the oth- i 1 er. He was pulled to his feet ns the 1 savage fell. The surviving warrior re ' treated toward his rifle and Tom. un- ' daunted by his wounds, staggered aft- 1 er hlin. The unequal combat had been 1 seen by the people In the fort, but they , ' were afraid to come to his assistance 1 ' until a brave woman, named Mrs | ' Pursley, cried out: "I will not see j ' such a brave man die!" ' She sprang upon a horse and started * to lligglns' aid. Shamed by her ex- ' ample, several men galloped after her. ! ' They reached the ranger Just ns a * large party of Indians were ready to 1 swoop down upon him. They threw * Hlgglns, fainting from loss of blond, ' across a horse and carried him back * to the fort In safety. Hlgglns did not recover from his v wounds for many years, but in his old * age t-f .as given a pension for bis heroic set and was madfr^^mckeepef ^ m [utertBg th? W?^^Hn E?oa|h Again, masterin^^M boll weevil oca not produce cotton. Let me imrexs that point Hundreds of farmers in Texas have ought valiantly and well in meeting oil weevil conditions, and have met iiem; but in doing so have neglected ther things essential to the producon successfully of the staple Again, there is yet in Texas the experimenting farmer' who is never rilling to accept proven results until e has run the gamut of his own theries and ideas Useless, reckless and uncalled-for xperiments have destroyed more coton bolls in the past few years than he boll weevil Let the government do the experilenting! Concluding this first article of the! eries on "How to farm successfully inder boll weevil conditions, as illusrated by Texas and other states west f the. Mississippi," let me impress j nis one iact?tne Texas larmer who 9 intelligent and industrious and who arms first, hand?and not by proxy? >n any ground capable under normal onditions of making even a third of , bale of cotton average to the acre,j las long since stopped losing sleep ver the boll weevil. And the same type of farmer in | leorgia and the Carolinas can do the ame this year by profiting by costly xperience already established. I shall later go simply and concisey into detail. IAD BLOOD RUINS COMPLEXION 'epto-Mangan Makes Rich, Keel I Blood?Liquid or Tablets The woman whose complexion is nuddy and almost sallow has blood hat is clogged with poisons. She .wakenR in the morning with a lanruijl feeling. She seems to have no nergy at all. Her blood is weak and thin and she leeds to take Gude's Pepto-Mangan or a while, as thousands of women 10 when they feel run down. It makes ich, red blood Where bloood was hin and weak it becomes rich and ed. Then that woman who has had uch a bad complexion and has ' 'ound it so hard to do things, begins o look a lot rosier. She doesn't look :o droopy and tired. In a little while | he look on hdV face brightens, her | omplexion clears up, and she feels ' lappier. The druggist in your neighborhood lells Gude's Pepto-Mangan. It has ( jeen recommended by doctors for, fears. There is the liquid and tablet j 'orm. Take your choice because the j nedicinal value is the same. The j lam, "Gude's Pepto-Mangan," is on :ach package. adv. iVE GUARANTEE $3d.OO per week for full time or 75c. an hour for spare time selling guaranteed Hosiery. Agents making $75.00 to $100.00 per week. Good hosiery is an absolute necessity, you can sell it easily. Free samples to our woiking agents. Eagle Hosiery Mills, Darby, Penn. i "VAMPS" WHO MADE HISTORY I (S By JAMES C. YOUNG. 8 v? by McClura Newapapar Syndicate.) THE WOMAN WHO RULED A PHILOSOPHER. TO ANY ONE who has read the "Philosophical Dictionary" of Voltaire, with its caustic humor at the expense of humanity, It pcrhups seems strange that the author should have been completely dominated by a woman throughout many years of his life. When Voltaire was forty he met the Marquise Gabrlelle du Chatelet. She was 28 and moved In a society where hundsome blades were the rule, In the eurly days of the Eighteenth century. Voltaire certainly was not handsome, although a tine head surmounted his misshapen body. The marquise was more than a beauty, for she attained a scholarship of high degree. Anyway, the two soon loved. Voltaire already was famous, and the husband of the marquise would not seem to have Interposed strenuous objections. She was Intensely Jealous of him. Ills fame and Inscrutable smile captivated many women. She decided that her chateau in Lorraine would be a better place of safe-keeping than Paris. So she carried the great philosopher off. What Is more astonishing, she kept him there?fifteen jrrm s. ?* in-n ne grpw restive bne agreed to 8 yearly trip to l'arls. and tiie time of their coining was the sign for gay days In the capital. Tne marqulse was rich and their stay was marked hy lavish entertainment. Then Rhe would pa**k her philosopher uway for another year in quiet Lorraine. At last Voltaire tired of her. lie t'omptaiiied that he was growing older, that love must give way to friendship. J'here were stormy scenes, and we nuiy conceive of Heauty wailing at the dirlne of Philosophy. Hut tills did not last a great while, for we find St. Uamliert, then a rising figure lu the iterury world, coming upon the scene, tie still was young, much younger :Iimi even the marquise, and it would tppear that he was flattered by the nterest of a woman who had been oved by the greatest literary man hen in the world. When Voltaire 'eallzed that the marqalse really had urned to this young scholar he was ndlgn&nt. Hut she reminded him that t had been he who sought to break he dream of the past. And Voltaire's ihllosophy enabled hlin to see the lolnt, for he continued to live In plaonlc friendship with the wocnan whom ie had loved. As for 8t. Lambert, be ind the marquise became deeply Inolved. If you would understand Just rhat kind of womap she must have State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield, Court of Common Pleas. W. M. Mangum, et al, plaintiffs, vs. B. L. Mangum, defendant. NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of a judgment and order of sale made in the above entitled action on the 11th day of January, 1922, the subscriber, Clerk of Court for Chesterfield, will sell before the Court House door in said county and state, at 12 o'clock, M., on February 6th, 1922, the real estate directed by said order to be sold, and therein described as follows: All that certain tract of land containg 118 acres, more or less and bounded as follows, on the North by lands of Mrs. M. J. Turner, on the East by the lands of J. N. Gathings, on the South by lands of Mrs. M. J. Turner and on the West by the lands of Mrs. M. J. Turner and the Wallace lands. W. J. Douglass, Clerk of Court. Dated at Chestereld, January 11, 1922. J. A. K. and G. K. L. A. F. DAVIS MARKET The Finest Fresh Meats The Best Fancy Groceries HlffK Oradft fallnffrl flnnrla Tha Beat of Everything for the Table A.F. DAVIS MARKET SURVEYING See me for your land surveying, Platting and Blue Prnting. Ofllce in P. J. Zounis' Cafe. Open every Saturday afternoon and at other times when not out of town, t f Kirby Melton. THE RE Not what you get by chance or ii in life, but what you gain by hoi successful. What are you doing t II funds for future ne-ds by slartii THE FARMERS 1 I M. L. RALEY. J. S. McGRE i President Vice-j ' DIRE ' F. D. Seller, J. S. T. H. Burch, j She S'eepi OF CHES r/ill Appreciate Your Busii $200,1 Our customers and friends h need of accommodation or yo to see us", Guaranteed bur I Let us show you this wonder. R. B. LANEY, President ICHAS. P. MANGUM, Cashier flank ef X The Oldest, Lat*^ Bank in Ghe,s 4 Par Cent. Paid on Savings Di San 1C. C. Doug R. E. Rivars, Prasidant. M. J. Hough, Vtea-Prasidant. I | The Best Family Rei Because it no remedies have c IsL 4 Chesterfield 1 D. H. DOUGLASS, President W. J. DOUGLASS, Vice- Pres. ALSO FIRE, ACCIDENT, 1 w.,? HHHHPS7 State of Sooth Carolina, \ County of ChesterftelJ, ; Court of Common Pleas, Pee Dee Horse & Mule Company, a ; corporation, Plaintiff. vs J. H. Johnson, Jr., Defendant. SUMMONS < To the defendant above named: You arc hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this , action of which a copy is herewith i served upon you and to serve a copy of your answer to said complaint on the subscribers at their office in Hartsville, S. C? within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Hartsville, S. C? Nov. 23, 1921. Miller&Lawson, Plaintiff's Attorneys. To the defendant above named: TAKE NOTICE that the complaint " in this action has been filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Chesterfield county, S. C. January 9, 1922. Miller & Lawson, tf , Plaintiff's Attorneys^ FOR RENT?Good, Five-horse farm; plenty of buildings; about three miles frbm Cheserfield; known as F. H. Boatwright plantation. 2t-4 Bank of Chesterfield. I WOOD ON SUBSCRIPTION?The I Advertiser will accept wood in I payment for subscription. Oak cut f I 12 to 14 inches long. AL TEST I nheritance, not what you start with nesty is what will make you truly o better conditions? Accumulate ng a savings account HERE NOW. SANK, RUBY,S.C. IGOR, MISS ALICE BURCH President Asristant Cashier ICTORS Smith, J. S. McGregor M. L. Raley, i les' $$ank 1TERFIELD ness. Total Resources Over j| 300.00 | eiped us to do this. When tn u have money to deposit, come I j glar proof and fire proof safe. j A cordial welcome awaits you G. K. LANEY, V.-President J. A. CAMPBELL, Assist. Cashier Ihejterfield lest and Strongest terf.eld, S. G. eposits. $1.00 Starts As Account u. I lass, Cashiar. D. L. Smith, Assist. Cashiar j j R. T. Redfearn, Tiller = == { j nedy rb when all 'other eased to work ife Insurance Loan 8 Ins. Co. C. G. DOUGLASS, Sec y A Mgr. GEO. W. EDDINS, Treasurer. / ^ True Detective Stories: BROKEN GLASS Boprrtsht by Th? Whi?l?r BrndJost*. lac. WHEN Sergt. John F. Brennan of New York's police force reached Sixty-ninth street and Park avenue shortly after the accident which caused the death of John McHbgh, he found practically nothing which could eon>e under the head of "evidence." McHugh, it appeared, had been drlvIng along in a light buggy, shortly after dark. An automobile, speeding from behind, had struck tjie buggy and smashed it to bits, killing MeHugh instantly. Apparently the only living witness to the tragedy was the horse, hut, as Brennan said, "there's no way of makin' a horse talk." So the sergeant set to work to col* - - " - - a. ..1^ leer wnat oils or evidence ne cvuiu gather from the surrounding street. Caught on one of the spokes of the buggy wheel, where It had evidently been torn off by the force of-the collision, was a nickel-plated lamp rim bearing the name of the "Ham Lamp Company, Rochester, N. Y." That, and a small fragment of automobile tire about three Inches In length, appeared to be the only results of the damage which the automobile had suffered. But Brennan figured that, as the lamp rim had been torn from Its socket, the lens of the lamp would naturally have been shattered, so he set to work to pick up the bits of glass. When he returned to headquarters that night he brought with him an envelope containing twenty-one pieces of glass, together with the nickeled rim, the buggy spoke op which It had caught and the jagged piece torn from the automobile tire. "What are you going to do with that junk?" Inquired his associates on the force. "If Sherlock Holmes had had those he could huve told you the make of the car, the complexion of the man who was driving It, the license number and how tnnny gallons of gas there was In the tunk?but,, outside of a book, what good are. they ?" "Maybe none at all," admitted1 Brendan, "but If you'll use some brains, when you look at 'em you'll note several things that may he of help. In loentln' ihe ear that killed Mcliugh and! then drove off into the night.-* I neverdid take much stock In the Sherlock; Holmes stories?It's easy ehovfeli to* tlx it so that your hero can solve a. problem that you know the answer of ?but here's one case In which I think, that his deductn* theories will come In* pretty lmndy. "See that smudge?" and the sen., geant held up the buggy spoke and pointed to what appeared to l>e a worn place on the wood toward the. end which had been nearest the wheel. "At first I thought It was merely where the paint had worn off and the wood showed through. But th'e rest of the buggy was spick and span. Only a few days out of the shop. So I examined It more carefully 'and found '. Imt It was h bit of grny paint, scratched off the body of the death car Its; If I * ? Ni. "Take that lamp rim, now. There arc fourteen cars on the market that are equipped with lamps made by that company. So that reduces the number of suspects that much more. We've got to look for a grny car of one of those fourteen makes, which eliminates more than 70 per cent of the cars In the elty." "lJUi what about those pieces ofglass? Wliat are they goln' to telli you?" "Eventually, the name of the mara who owned the car," replied Brennan.. "There are three kinds of glass there?one plain glass, one mirror lens and! one concave-convex lens. If you'll fit 'em together you'll see that the car carried eight-Inch gas headlights and six-Inch oil sidelights. Therefore It was an old model. The bit of rubber was very evidently ripped off a fourInch tire. Now, you members of tho traffic squad, what kind of a car answers those specifications?" "A 15109 Packard, model 18," came In a chorus from several of the men who had been trained to recognise the make and model of an automobile from the uppearunce of Its headlights. "Right!" snapped Brennan. "Old Sherlock Holmes wasn't so far out of the way after all. Now all we have to look for Is a 1009 model Packard, painted gray, with at least one gash along the paint on the right side and badly In peed of repairs. The headlights are gone, to the car couldn't have traveled very far. (let after thegarages around Sixty-ninth street audi we ought to have our man beforemorning. I've done enough work for one night nnd I'm perfectly wlllln" that one of you hoys should have the? credit _^or the arrest!" It wan less than an hour later that the headquarters' phone .rang and' Rrennnn was notified that the owner1 and driver of the oar had heen arrested and had confessed, giving as: an excuse the fact that he. hadn't seem McIIugh's huggy until he had heet* right on top of 1t and then It was toolate to stop the machine. But the fact that he had driven on, without stopping to see what damage he had! caused, was enough to honvlct him of manslaughter and send him to the penitentiary for an extended visit?all on account of a few pieces of glass, a hit of ruhher and a smudge of paint, plus the 'ngenulty of the detective who ?i -.essfolly wove these object# Into the strongest k'nd of a ohnln of evidence. Cruel J art. "L have something on the hip," r#. mitlied Joker, Insinuatingly. "Nobody know# how dry I am," sang hi# friend. "This wont help you," retorted Joker. "It I# a bruise I got when I fell down the front steps.Brooklyn Eagle, ut Now? Rntwpy Robinson?Yea, lady, once for a whole pear I turned me back en ^ tod^d^^h^n^ noble