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" ?GIMA xANDA | ' ^^UFRAWCIS *^COTYRIGHT BY CHARLES (Continued from laat week) CHAPTER VIII. The Laboring Pump*. On thg third day after I had tried to brain myself In the old -boiler. I was ! pretty nearly aa Rood as ever, and my two Qood Samaritans reluctantly consented to my going back to work, Jeante renewing Hi? ?? ** broken head, and laying many Injunc- " v. tiona upon Daddy Hiram to send roe right back to the cabin If I didn't be- ( have; "behaving," In her use of the { word, meaning that I was tb^take It easy on the Job. J Thnt sounded mighty good to me, ) the way she said It Most men, T fancy, are only overgrown children ?< the tense that they like to be fussed over by jthelr womankind. Don't mistake A me, please; 1 wasn't In love with her ?then. Candidly, I don't think I knew what a real love was. Hut it was mighty pleasant to live In the same house with her, and to eat-her delicious cooking; to be with her every day, and to have those undisturbed evening linlf-liours with her in front ' of the tire.* If 1 had hud to get out; or If there had been another man . . .. but 1 won't anticipate. Iu due time and after we had oninnletely overhauled the rusted anil guiumed-up machinery, Daddy utul 1 ! happened upon a day when we were j . ready tojnit tire under the hollers and ! we did it. If I should live to be a <i hundred years old. I shall never forget a the tense, suppressed excitement that gripped me as we brought the wood for n the furnaces thai bright, hot, July e morning, l'.y* -eight o'clock we had * t ninety pounds of steam pressure on ! the hollers, but we held oil until It J had climbed to tl e regular working !; pressure of one hundred and twenty, a t1k.ii i 1 - . ihu nit; | centrifugal suctions, mounted on n | platform in the shaft mouth ami so j iirruAged that they could ho lowered I to follow the water level down?if it should go ?lown; pumps' that each thhew a stream six Inches in diameter. After the pumps were started and the indicators showed, or seemed to show, Uint they were working up to full capacity, I ringed up a measuring c gauge; a hit of woimI for a tlont, with a string tied to it, and the string passtng over a pulley In the sliafthouse roof beaming with a weight on the end of it. If the water level should go down, the float'would sink with It. pulling the weight up. A smooth hoard, with feet. Inches and fractions penciled on It, was stood up beside the weight to answer for a measuring scale. At the end of the hour the float | hadn't moved a hair's breadth; not a hundredth pstrt of an Inch, so far as we' ^ could see. "I don't believe the pumps are work- ' lag!" I exploded. "Surely they'd make some little difference in the level unless that shaft's got all the under- j ground water In the world to hack it up. Those Indicators must lie out of J whack in some way. Where docs the 1 discharge water empty Itself?" I Daddy knew this, too. J "Over In the left-hand gulch?Into i the creek." j "Show .me," I directed. We found the discharge from the | pumps a nine way neiow tlie cm! of H the path; a ten-Inch pipe which iuid been laid underground from the shaft- t house. presumably to keep It from ? > freezing In winter. The end of the f pipe stuck out over the stream and It n was projecting pretty nearly a solid j, ten-Inch Jet of water.-The pumps were ( working all right; 'here was no doubt ? about that. I dug: np enough of my v college math to figure that two six- j, Inch streams would Just about" till a p ten-Inch pipe, add here It was. running -full and pouring like another torrent ? Into the gulch. So hack we went to ithe mine buildings to pile more wood v Unto the fnrnaces and to resume our j, matching of the indicator ami Its pen- j cil marked scale. I Noon caught up with lis after a | while?with nothing doing save that ! j we were rapidly diminishing our \v<s>d- ' '] pile. For a solid week we cliopped , ? down trees and split them up. IhnJiLv * nn<M, and kept the fires roaring under ' f the hollers and kept those monster | Humps whirring and grinding away at * the shaft mouth?night and day. mini! t you; watch oy and watch off. And, ? right straight through it all. that little ^ Indlcntor weight I had rigged up stood i *toek still; never moved the width of i one of the pencil marks I had drawn t 4>n Mts gauge hoard. t fly this time my stubbornness was i .-yielding something to tlie still more I stubborn tact. If all this pumping 'hadn't even started the flood toward r Its diminution, truly all the waters un- t der the earth must he hacking the un- I .falling well of that drowned shaft. t Toward the last I think we kept t *on more from forcd of hahlt than any- ? S tthlng else, hut at the end of the week ? ?t ........ i.. .1 i..1? .. hn,c mm ? Wlinl ll>ru 111 <Vl 111!" flrcK ?11o down, though it was like pull- t fng teeth to do It. Something, indeed, t I brought out of tlie overtime work, * dithrfx '.ding a* It had neen in the | major nenxe; I wn? muBcled up as J hard ns a keg of nulla; aa str< ng as < .. mule, and the fierce toll of woodchopping and holler-firing Ind given 1 me an appetite for real work that t'Hlr- ? Jy made me ache when I thougl t of * ^ stopping. W* thrashed It out that eve- t * nlli^. the three of ua before the living i iv " rooip fire, after Daddy and I had final- | l.v stopped the pumps and let th? h tea in run down. j I , "I reckon you hain't no call to take < It ao hard, Stannle," Daddy said, filter HORSE ] lDO^j rSCRI BN E R V~SONfif 1 \ ' ' ? Vv \ wi<gviiti.u \-j uci me rircs uie uown, i!d <'i111int>:ii stays right whore she is nil Mirks till kingdom come."' "N<> -Vt>' "ll nut?" I yclpwl, with sort <f w?l?I laugh. "T,'steii?both >f you." iiit?! then I told them the enIre )i<-ii; l breaking vtory of Cousin ercy's -toitoi mid my grandfather's i olcp; i.f my starting out tin tlx; fan- ' 11vti?* soareh for the girl, ;i horse ttnil do#?tt senreh wit if It would doubtless ( mve 1'jillfMl before It had ftiirly begun f I hadn't happened to ride In a l'ullmtn smoker with tin* man. Charles lullerten. I remembered afterward that T luid ot Jin t that fur?to tin* naming of | hdler, on?when Ihirney. the pie faced , fillle. trot tip from Ids rumor of the earth. Ma'l ed to the floor and began n growl. The n<*M ni'nnto we heard horse's slt-r-r-, ami Paddy Iliram ose. pushed the dot: aside and opened he floor. Then Jennie and I. stillItflng het'fire the lire, heard him say i ratify: '"Well, hello, Charley Tluller on! What In Sam Hill are you dnln' ip in this neck o' woods?" I turned tfi look at Jennie?and nissed. In the moment when 1 had Inneed as'de she had vanished. When Bullerton eame In. which was fter Daddy Iliram had llirhteil the iintern and shown him where to put , Is horse, he didn't seem Imlf as numb ' urprlsed to find me sitting hefore the rwonihly house tire as I thought lie light have been. "Well, well!?look who's here!" he nntered. "How are you, Ilroutrhton? I'lils old world Isn't so infernally big s it might be. after nil. Is It? Who , irotild have thought that our m*xt , fleet I UK would be in such an out-oflie-wny corner of the universe as this! hope you've been well and chipper, ,11 these weeks." I suhl what I was obliged to, and | Liisn't any too confoundedly cordial | limit It. .either, I guess. Bullerton drew up n chair and began o talk, much as If we'd invited lilni to, j 1,1.111 I.la. lw-.? * ' ...o iniii-miriiiiiK year in isoutn inierlcn; about the fabulously rtfli allies in that far-away Utopia of the old-diggers; uhout Ills voyage up from he Isthmus; about the oddness of his neetlng me 011 the train, ennihinedrlth the mope excruciating oddne.Rs of lis meeting irte again, here in the Kastrn Tlmanyonls; things like that. He was Just eomfortuhly surging ( ilong in the swing of it when a door ipened behind us and he jumped up villi another "Well, well, look who's lere!" and w hen I turned, he was mldlng .leanle'a two hands in his and waving over her like a wild ass of the ilains. "And, If you'll believe me. that ;irl had gone and changed her dress! kjhat is what she weift to do when she dipped out and left me to stare at iter >mpt\ 1 liair. after she had heard Uer ather say, "Well, hello, Charley Ilulerton!" It was all o(T with iuo from that ime on. For what was left of the veiling, Ityllerton played a solo. I ;ot full-up on the performance about tine o'clock, and climbed my ladder ind went to lied, inulltlng my head ill lie blankets >^tluit I wouldn't have o lie there and" listen to the bagpipe Irene of Hullerton's voice in the room lehwv. I hoped?without the lenst ahatlownf enson for the hope, of coarse?that he next morning would show me a mle in the atmosphere in the space hat lliillerton had occupied. Ihlt 11 eye was no such luck, lie was pies 111 .hi iiu- iirt'iiHiiini nunc, itotrge in Iif?* nml twin* ns talkative. I made my escape from the cnhln is Boon its I could ami tramped over o the mine. A glimce into the shaft ihowed the hlaek pool in its depths us ilaeid and untroubled as IT we hadn't uat lifted a million or so ruble feet if wuter^out of it by hnrd labor. In morose discouragement I recalled lie few fining* I liad learned about irow'el miner while 1 was knocking * ihout in the Cripple Crvek district rylng to trace Bulferton. J'urtl-.'ular. ly I remembered my talk with Hilton, ihe man who tool dually put me-tipon what had proved to hi* the right track In the tracing Jot*. He had talked unite freely. Sometimes ttu? flood was only the tapping of an underground > . ' In a buried lake or reservoir, large 01 not so lurge, as the 'rucklQnight lmvi It. If tho-source \Vere a Inl^e?so Hll ton had said?there was little use h trying to puuip the mine dry. Mulling ewer these discouraging hit: of Information, I was naturally le< hack to'tl?"e I'ullmaii smoking-room tall with Rullerton. 1 remembered, with t -diurp little flick of the memory whip that he hud given an expert opinion which, as it seemed, he had backed ui a jour earlier with a thousand, dol lurs real money?the deposit in tin -Omaha bank made to cover my grand father's bargain binder. What he hai said wns, "I'm reasonably certain tba 1 discovered u way in which that niim can lie drained at comparatively smal expense." Had he really discovered a way?? uml with no better data than a stud; of the maps? Staring down 'at tin black pool which 1 biddy ami I hadn' been able to lower by so much us i fraction of Sin Inch In ? _ ...... m t? vv n o |ruili)) lilt;. I doubtcd it. I wns stumbling out toward the en gine room with my lieud down ant my hands in my pockets when I heart footsteps coming from the direction o the cabin beyond llie dump. I,ooklti| out. 1 saw Hullertoii. sauntering ovei toward the .shul t-housp.}... Though ] knew that some sort of ^.wrangle wit I him was Inevitable, I was perf?ctlj willing to postpone It.^o I edged in to the blucksmlth simp1 and sat dowr on the anvil. Imping hehilglit miss nu ami go away. Hut there was nothing Coming to me on that het. "I saw your lead when you left tin 'house," lie began, after lie liml fount tile and hud dusted olT all empty dynu hilte box for a seat. "Don't you tirfnk you've played it rather low down oc ineV" "How so?" "l'.y taking in my story of this mint when I told it to you without giving me a hint thai you were the persoi; most deeply interested?since my old gentleman was your grandfather." "It didn't strike mo that way, and il doesn't yet," I shot back. "I nutlet you were mighty careful not to tel ine the name of your old gentleman? or rather, 1 should say. y?>u lied about it when 1 wired you." "An ordinary business precaution,' he chuckled. "Hut we needn't wasit our time bickering over what might have been?and wasn't. I have a con tract \\;Uli your grandfather which it legally binding upon you as his ladi to itus particular piece of property? always presided you <nn prove that you are his heir. What I'm here t?. say is that I'm ready to earry eat mj pifrt of the contrail; to unwnter this pi inc. What do you ssry?" "How are you going to do ft?" "That, my young friend, is part lew lurly my own affair." I felt pretty scrappy that morning; there is no use In denying ii. "You're not tlie only pebble on the bench, Uullerton," l said, looking bin s.inn rely in the eye. "What you can do with tliis mine, another mining en gimer can do quite as well; and the other man will probably be willing tc do It without asking the fenced-in muhiI. r.... 1.1.. ?* m in ioi iiiw rovurii, ' "Humph!" lie grunted; "so thnt'i your piny, U It?" Then, after n scowl ing pause: "You're licked before yon begin. You're lighting without aniinu nil ion, Itrougliton. You haven't anj money, and you'll look a long time hefore you'll lind an engineer able tc finance his own experiment oh youi drowned proposition." "That may he," I retorted. "Iiut it you toJd me the story straight that night in the l'ullman, you can't turn "If You Want to Go to Lav/ ? Sul In.' 11 wheel until I tot! you 10 nliert'il So your ronlrurl. If yt.n'xe tr<?t one ilocsii't junoniit to it hill <>l Li .ms." "Tlml |it ii>l limy iniikc n nice lit tit (|ilcstioti for llic coui w". to decide," In Kttai| i ?>?!. "Itut I don't want to co jt law aliciil this thing, mid neither d? yon. Ah a. inn Iter ??f fact yon Inivoi any money to tino\v away In a lo: Mi-rap. Yen make me a deed to ti' one a -vnt of tlie f'innabar |?r??| just as It stands, and then ym. nit hack F.uat and enjoy yourself )0. marbles, or pit ell ami loss, or rol do, ?whatever your pet diversion ma; happen to he. Fifty-one per cent am you give me a clear Held?not silel around, I mean. That goes as it lies.' "Huhl" I Hcoffed. "A while Intel you were talking a hunt pulling the lav on me. Ytai can't make anything liki that stand in the courts and you knov it mighty well." "Maybe not; hut I can make it stunt wttli you?which la much more to thi purpose. You suid a minute ago thu I couldn't turn u wheel without youi consent. You can't turn a wheel ai nil?without money.'* His rubbing the poverty gibe Into nit made me 'madder than ever and thought It was about time to tell hlu where he got off. "Then, by Jove, the wheels niedn'i turn!" 1 countered* "And that leti you out. If you want to go to luv about that contruct?sail In. That'i aU I've got to any." "Oh, hold on!" he protested, wltl r , region. "I've had time, to look you up, 5 you ffTTow! YoU'tO engaged to a girl .J back Hast. nml you can't marry her i because you haven't money enough. Half a loaf is better than no bread; * ntul.I'm o.iering you very nearly the I half loaf. Take a day or so to ill nk c it oxer. I'm in no hurry." And with i that he went hack to the cabin across i, the dump and left Am Warming the t ' anvil. i I guess It will *i\y Itself that the - next fexv days stacked up about as 9 wretched an Interval as 1 had ever - been called upon to put over. 1 llallcrton had a 'masterful sort of t grip that seemed to give him a xtran? glc-hobl upon everything he tackled. 1 At table and In the evenings before I the fire he monopolized the talk and - ( the rest of us sat around like stough- J yr t'on-hottles and let him do it. ? J It didn't help matters out much t when Daddy Hiram, elm ing me yp on ? ' one of the days when I was dodging Itullerton, gave me the sealed enve- | I lope which my grandfather had left - with hltu. As xvlll he remembered, 1t 1 was on the night of Hullertoi\'s arrival 1 at the Cinnabar that I had told Daddy f and his daughter who I was, nml the 1 ( subject hadn't been again referred to r by any of us. Hut now Daddy, having I overtaken me on one ofr the trails i above the mine, sat-besideHue on a > a..* ...... ? ?? - ..... ..Ml. <i mi we itIIU II out UKCUlOr. - I "You knew wlio I was fromthe first, j i DwMyT" T asked. -4 j | "Not right plumb nt flfslf ito," he j I qualified. "You see. I didn't know who 1 was looking for. Always ,,reckoned j soinehody'd he along, 'f course, but I j I hadn't had any. Idea who "r when." - I "t'ui ufrald I've been a pretty sorry ; ""disappointment to you," I muttered. "I I have no money and I don't know enough to he any good nt the mining 1 game. And that reminds me: my I ! grandfather paid you a regular salary ' for the caretaklng, didn't he?" i "T'h-huh." I "That has been discontinued since his death?" t "I reckon so." . "I have a little Income of my own; I not much, but enough for the way I - j we're living hero. It must be undert stood that I share It with you and Jennie, so long as I stay with you." ! "Ain't no need o' your doin' that, Stannie. I got a little stake hid out t ) for a pinch." I In all this, yoti will notice, there I | was no word said about llullertoii. We sal in silence for a while, I>addy chewing a spear of grass. After a time he t called attention to the envelope which ! > I still held unopened in my hnhds. I : ' "Don't ye want to know what your i grati'paw says?" he asked mildly. I At this I slit the end of the envelope. I I Its contents were a <leed In fee simple t<> the Cinnabar and a note to nie, j written In Grandfather Javier's .clamped, old-fashioned handwriting, j I** the note lu> merely said that he was , leaving me u property which had cost , him pretty well tip to halt' a inilljon [ and that he hoped I'd brace up and go . j to work and make something out of It, ! , i adding that If 1 hadn't been such a I , hopeless idler nil my life he might | i : have considered the propriety of adding an experimental fund to the gift, j As it was, I must wolk out my own salvation?If.I Aero nnxlofis to possess any of that commodity, j I think It wAs on the fourth day after ] his arrival that Hullerton cornered me i again and again It was In the deserted I blacksmith slum [ "Well, Broughton," he begun abruptly, seating himself once more upon , the empty dynamite box, "I've glyen I you plenty of time to think It over. .Where do you stnnd now?" "Illghl exactly where I did In the beginning," I snapped. "I don't want uny forty-iiino-flfty-one per cent partnership with you; neither that nor any other khid." "All right," he rejoined, hrusqncly; "we'll call that phase of It a hack number and go on to something else, I'll buy your mine, Just as It stands, water and all?and that's whnt nobody else would do, you'd better believe." "For, lyrw- much?" , "For fifty thousand dollars?cash." "No," I grated. "I don't need u little money that badly." "Fifty thousand Isn't a little; at a good, safe, investment Interest It will give you an Income of three thousand a -year. And that's more than you're getting now out of whnt your father left you." "You seem to know a good htj.about my- private affairs," I growled., ' ''You said a mouthful, then. I've made It my business to find nub about their. There's nothing much to you, 1 It fought on. when you come right down , to hr ?" tacks. You hud a .good educa! 'tlon, vjt you haven't had get upund-get ! ?nml "h tn "? it t ' ? u " I ... >? nuj U.T VI IL i "The i'hs j\m dig in my prlval garden pni'ii. the better %??* slutil jrft along." I told lit id. ! He xvns silent for h moment. lie t lui'l I up it hit of Iron rod and xvns tni -in? hieroglyphic figures with | it in the ilnst of the shop floor, l'res j 1*1111y In* looked iij? with a sort of muck Int; leer. , "P..vn trying to carry sentimental water i.ti I><>tI shoulders, hnxVn't you? I'm telling you iglit now, Itroiightmi | it's no ivt>. | filed oil tin' little lllue j eyes claim oxer yonder in Txvoinhly's j cuhin a long, long time before you ever | saw or heard of it." , | Tl at remark of his carried things , ever the edge for lite. I ( "See here, ltullei'toli," I strid. and 1 y j suppose I stuck out my jaw at him as I people say I Mo wlcn I'm beginning i I to feel ugly, "there are limits, and | t'll i>:iv you (In- compliment of nssutlt ( Ing tlnit you are not ?jiift?* a horn fool. v We' are going to leave Miss Twotnbly 2 | out of. U,; completely ami ahselutcly J out of It.". ' You litny ; hut I shan't," Im grinned I bats at me. "In point of fn< t, my s (h nf follow, now that I come to think t of It, you'll have to leave her out." r "Not for anything you may say or t do, or leave unsaid or undone." ! "Yes, you will; And for somethingi thut I infty say. And I guess this Is I as good u time as any to mention It. i Have, you forgotten that you have advertised yourself In this out-of-the-way I corner of the \forld rather successful * ly as one .'of two- things: a pretty f dangerous siart of lunatic, or?a crlm inal? As a matter of fact, the railrood detectives have been looking high. "JiTF- * " ? . / .ey wouldn't give you away, of course; In a eertnln sense you are Twoiubly'K guest, and In another you're hhi; employer. Hut you'll notice that neither of these nrtrirtioiis apply to lae. No v. perhaps * u can tlnderstaind I ju*t why you are obliged, in ordinary 1 prudence, to leave l-'1' tili"I oat of It? and why I am not s > obliged." * "Miss Twonddy. herself, has the ??cn sting vote <ui that." Is what I Hung at liiin. i "She has already voted." lie said | coolly. Then: "You're not In the game. I'.roughtnn : yon don't hold anything higher than a seven-spot, and , you are bucking a straight fltisli. I in ( you take fifty thousand and vanish? I That is the one live question of the moment." "No." "Very well ; I'll give you am ther day to think it over; hut I'm warning you here and now that the price will shrink. It is fifty thousand today, sayup to sunset' tomorrow it will he forty thousand." i hum irnm tlie imvil ami half unconsciously picked up the blacksmith's haml-hammcr. "You go straight to h?I," I said ; and at that ho left me. ' I sat down to try once more to think thitigs out to some sort of an action focus. Should I take Hullcrton's fif ty thousand and <juit? Common sense said Yes, spelling it with a capital and underscoring It far emphasis. What was the use In hanging on? Hadn't | we proved that the mine was undrain able, save, perhaps, at the enormous cost of driving an underruuning tunnel from a lower slype of the mountain': Then there was Jennie. Then, again. I there was Usotto. Fifty thousand ! | dollars at six 1%-r cent would buy tier j hats?but it wouldn't buy tnueh else j I could picture the calm and collected way In which she would say, "Yes. I Stannic; you're succeeded nicely In t financing the hats. Itut you know as , I well as I do that we couldn't buy hats t and keep "a ear on three thousand n ; yea r." I had just climbed down to this hot toni round of the ladder of dejection when I heard a hit of noise and looked up to see a small, trim figure darken , S '' .v- 1, f v P . . m\ \ fa?*,.,.. > . ^ ?\ f V ' is l & / y t: <\U \ K \ fflh < -vrfS'-: v - V- \ W)h}i ' " : fV M . V v\ j tmm u p i j "Mr. Broughton?Stannie, Are You Here?" Ing the engine-room door. TIumi a I voire tl at I would have recognized in ! u thousand voices all speaking at once, j said : "Mr. Itroughtnn?Stannie, are you here?" CHAPTER IX. To Fish or Cut Fait. It Is i othing short of \v< nderfu\ how the sourc^l grouch can sometimes h# banished l?y a single word. Tin t word "Stannie," you know; she had never culled me that before; though her father laid been using the familiar ban die, western-wise, right along, almost 'from the day 1 lauded on the t'lunahar reservation. "Yes," r said, and Jumped up and went to her. "Did you ever hear of such a thing ns a hear with a sore head?" she asked, in the tone of a school ma'am (Continued on last page) WOOD ON SUBSCRIPTION?The Advertiser will accept wood in ' payment for subscription ' i WEAK, NERVOUS, ALL RUN-DOWN Missouri Lady Suffered Until She . Tried Cardoi.?Says "Result Was Surprising."?Got Along Fine, Bccarqp Normal and Healthy. Rnrlnrfidlfl Mn?"\f? K?>/>V ??" ^j- - .Mn. .v..x? ?<*vi * ?/ uava mv0 r\ weak I could hardly stand up, and 1 , would hnvo bearing-down pains and was not wall at any time," savs Mtb B. V. Williams, wife of a well-knowi farmer on Uouto 6, this placo. "I i kept getting headaches and having (o go to bed," continues Mrs. Williams ! describing the troubles from which she obtained relief through the use ol Cardui. "My husbund, having heard of Cardui, proposed getting it for rne. "I saw after taking some Cardui! . . . that I was improving. The result I was surprising. I felt like a different | person. "I .a tor I suffered from weakness and weak back, and felt all run-down.1 I did not rest well at night, I was so nervous and cross. My husband said ha would get me some Cardui, which he did. It strengthened ma ... My doctor said I got along flna I was In good healthy condition. I cannot aay too much for it." Thousands of women hare suffered as Mrs. Williams describes, until they 1 found relief from the nse of Cardui. Since ft has helped so many, you GREAT SUCCESS IN MARKETING ASSOCIATION Columbia, Feb. 13.? Members of the organisation lonimittej of the . o o Carolina Cotton Growers* Coop* ialive Association at a meeting held here Friday heard the most encouraging reports as to the* progress of the campaign over the state, heard C. (). Moscr, secretary of the American Cotton Growers Exchange tell of the wonderful success of the Texas association which is handling the 1U21 crop for its members and laid plans for an intensive drive during the next two and a half months. Darlington county is now leading all counties in South Carolina with a total of 17,200 bales signed. Dillon county is second. .vir. Moser told the members of th commit ee that the members of the lt .sas association had gotten an average of $13 a bale more for their cot.. ton than had the farmers who are not members. lie said he could furnish proof of this if any one doubts it. The growers are dttjjghtcd with the result they are getting and the bankers and business men are also highly L. H. TROTTI, Dental Surgeon Chesterfield, S. C. Ofiice on second floor in Ross J. AK I HUH KNIGHT At torn?y-?t-L*? Office in Courtnouse Jhotterfield. S C. R. L. McMANUS Dentist Cheraw, S. C. At Chestoreld, Monday A Pageland, Tuesday. At Alt. Croghan, W ednesday morning Ruby, Wednesday afternoon Society llill, Thursday Cheraw, Friday and Saturday THE UNIVERSAL CAR CARS, TRUCKS, TRACTORS SERVICE PARTS LUCAS AUTO CO. COUNTY TA State Ordinary County Koaus Bridges Total Cheraw Marburg Orange Hill l'ats Branch l'ee Hue Stafford Bethel Center Point Chesterfield Parker . Pine Grove ltuby hiloh Snuw liill Stafford Vaughan Wamble llill lilack Creek Center Center Grove Cross lloails Ml. Croglum Ruby Wexford Wmzo Zion Buffalo Dudley Five Forks Manguin l'ugehuul l'lains Zion Angel us Center Grove C larks Jefferson Macedonia Plains Bay Springs Green Hill . Leland Middctidorf . MeBee Providence bandy Kun Union liny Springs Bear Creek Belhcsda Juniper Muldeiulorf Patrick Pats Branch Branch Shiloh Stafford White Ouk Cat Pond Juniper Ousley Patrick . ?f?J pleased because it is cotnributing to the prosperity of Texas. Mr. Moser spent Thursday in Raleigh, N. C., he said the organization of the North Carolina association, the campaign to sign up 200,000 bales having recently been completed in that state. It was found after all of the tabulations hud been completed that the total number signed had reached approximately -100,000 bales, or almost double the quota. The very best men in North Carolina were elected oftiecrs and directors of the association, Mr. Moser said. The campaign for the formation of the as. x iation m Georgia is progressing \ r\ satisfactorily. The Arkan sas as <i< iaiton has already successfully eonciuded its campaign. The." was much enthusiasm at the meet in-.', of the organization commitli... ! '. a... i ^ . . ....... vn i j iiiuii present arose .ml promised to go home, take off his coat am, work until the close of the campaign on May 1. I OK KENT?Good, Five-horse farm; plenty of buildings; about three i miles from Ghoserfield; known as F. 11. Pnatw right plantation. 2t-4 Rank of Chesterfield. Stall- of South Carolina, Couny of Chesterfield, Couit of Common Pleas. Dank of Chesterfield, piaintilF. against .John V. Drown, defendant. CO Pi SUM: IONS FOR RELIEF ; To the Dele dant above named: You .re her by summoned and re* j quired to ana. or the complaint in ibis action wha.li is I led in the office j of file Clerk of Court of Common i Pleas, and to serve a copy of your j answer to the said Complaint on the | subscrihi r at hi ofiice in Chesterfield, j Soutn Carolina, within twenty days latter tie service hereof; exclusive ' of the d y of , li -ervicc; and if you fail ..o nn.swer tile complaint within the time ai'or< aid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the r< lief deninnded in the complaint. I M. Hough, Plaintiff's Attorney} To John V. Drown, the above nam* ' ed defendant: Yuu will please take notice that the Summon , Complaint and all other papers in tj.e above case are on file in the office of the Clerk of Court, for ( lie. terlield County, South Carolina. M. J. Hough, ' lit-S Plaintiff's Attorney X LEVY 1921 12 mills G mills . G mills 1 mill 28 mills ^ E/2 ! ! j?J M ^ C ' C c P < n ? 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