The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, March 09, 1922, Image 3
?. --
UND>
^W^FRANCIS
(C**ll?u?d from Uit wnk) .
r - 1
gnAPIM A 111.
A Battle and a 8l?ps. i
It wu Daddy Hiram who made the
flrat break. I
"Charley Bullerton, Where's my J
? daughter*" he rapped out, hurling the 1
question at the loafer on our doorstep l
In a sort of deadly rage that you <
wouldn't have thought possible in so i
mild-mannered a man. i
"You needn't worry .about her." was I
the cool response. "Didn't you get the t
note she left for you, saying that you <
needn't ?" Then, as If be had Just seen I
and recognized me: "Hello, Brough- <
ton; we've missed a day, but I'll give I
you the benefit of It and not dock you. i
Are you selling the old water-logged ;
Cinnabar for twenty thousand dollars :
this fine morning? It'll probably save i
you more or less trouble If you are." J
He didn't get the kind of answer he i
wanted; or any relating to the mine, i
Unbuckling Jeanle's gun and handing <
It to Daddy Hiram, I walked across to
where he was sitting, keeping a wary I
ye on the hand which would have to
be the one to go after the weapon he
had once showed me hanging under his
left arm-pit.
"lfr. Twombly has Just asked you
where his daughter Is, and you haven't
told him," I gritted. "You've got about
teu seconds In which to tell him all
you know, and after you've done It,
I'm going to trim you I"
He hud scrambled to his feet when
he saw me coming, and. Just as I expected,
that watched right hand flicked
suddenly under his coat. At that I
rushed him and we mixed It promptly.
* I got hold of the guu hand before It
iui iv me piHioi duic, ana at the clinch i
we were all over the place, each grappling
for the underhold, and neither of
na paying much attention to the rules,
Marquis of Queensberry or other. Bullerton
was a heavyweight; he had
probably fifteen pounds the advantage
af me In that direction; but after I
had got the thumb of my free hand
upon a certain spot In his neck. It was
all aver hut ifce funeral. i
Jehu 1 how he swore when I <runv
pled him, and took his gun away froa- 1
htm, and slammed him down on a bed !
ef broken stone and stuck a knee Into
his breathing machinery. But he
couldn't do anything? the thumb-Jab
bad fixed him. His head was skewed (1
ever to one aide and he couldn't
straighten It. I groped around until 1
J found that other paralyzing nerve
ganglia?the one at the Joint of the
third vertebra.
"Listen to what he saja. Daddy !" I
said to the old man who stood looking
en with the face of a wooden Image.
Then to Hullerton, vrtio was now merely
a wad of flesh gone flaccid under
U>e torturing touch: 'Tell what you
know, and all you know; and tell It
fuick and straight I" and I gave him
Jehul How Ho Sworol
no more little prod on the agony
nerve.
U'ltK ? ?I- - -?- '? -? "
WW atM m inWDUlliat/ RliriVK 110 101 II
at by littles, gasping between the
words and phrases like a man ft the
last stages of lockjaw.
"We were going to Angels?to get
married," he panted. "Ah?oh?I was
to meet her at Atropla?she?she was
afraid tf^rlde all the way with tn??
afraid?the old man?would cothe gunning
I Oh, for God's sake, Broughton,
take your thumb out of my back?
you're killing me by Inches I"
"You need a little killing worse than
^anybody I know," I told him. "Go on;
<jrou were to overtake her at Atrqpla;
<what thonf"
"X didn't see her again!" he howled,
don't know where she went!"
X didn't believe much of what be
eras saying, and I think Daddy Hiram
didn't, though we had proved H true
up to the point where they had separated
on the Atropla road. I would 1
y have gone on, making him talk soma I
more, hot the look that was creeping ;
Into the >old man's eyes made dm let
up. As I reed the look It meant that
Daddy eooldn't aland It to see the
? third-depoe Stoat carried to its finish
| se I got up and pulled Bnllerton to
h> fMtke was pretty badly wrecked.
lDOGj
EVSHN (
rsSHBNijrtrswa^^
- ?... '"? ?*">*. ^ ^"
perhaps "It "Wat.
"This outfit la my property, and
you've out-atayad your welcome r I
mapped at him. "Climb your horse
ind get off the map 1M
Ho limped over to his horse and
gathered the reins and tried to put a
Foot {into the stirrup. When I saw
that |he couldn't do oven that much, I
grabbed him and heaved him Into the
saddle; did this, and gave the horse a
slap (to set him gdlng. I guess I shall
always be able to recall the picture of
that, brown-bearded pirate riding
acro$? the Cinnabar dump head In the
rarly morning sunshine, screwing hla
body In the saddle?because he
couldn't turn the stiff-necked head by
Itself?to yell back at me with si*sling.
curses, "I'll get you?I'll get you
yet! D?n your eyes?do you think
you ,can make a hobbling cripple of
me gnd get away with it? I'll?" and
then breaking It off short and kicking
the fibs of his nag frantically for more
speed when I made as If I were going
to run after him.
Throughout this bit of belligerent
by-play, which hadn't used up more
than a few minutes, all told, Daddy
Hiram had stood aside, as I have said,
taking the part of the Interested spectator.
Now he remarked: "You can
het all your old clothes, son, that we
hain't seen the last o' Chprley Bullerton,
not by a long chalk. You rtcollect
r told you once he'd got a man, down ,
In one o* the camps on the Saguache? ,
Well, it was for a heap less than what {
ypu done to htm a few minutes ago.
Rut let's go eat."
I passed through the cabin to the ,
out-kltchen and while I was kindling
a Are In the stove I saw Daddy with
an armful of hay and a peck measure
of oats, tolling the little horse down
the path back to the cabin to disappear
wlvji It in the direction of the ,
gulch where the abandoned "Little
Jeanle" claim lay. I had the coffee ,
made and the bacon fried by the time ,
he got back, and after we had eaten ,
he blossomed out In an entirely new
role?thrff of commander In chief. ,
"This Is niovin' day, Stannle," he
announced briefly. "If you'll dig up
all the cliuck and canned stuff you ,
can And and tote it over to the shaftbouse,
1'U fetch the blankets and the (
cook In' tins." (
I obeyed blindly, and antlrely. with- ,
out nrsludlcs to a lively curiosity as ,
to wh*t this new move might mean.
While I was emptying the kitchen and
pantry the old man unearthed another
rifle from the closet under the left lad. i
der, and with It * box of ammunition;
and 1 observed that thle second gun, j
like tha one he had carried en our
pilgrimage of the night, looked as If
It had been freshly oiled and rubbed ,
up ev?*7 day since It had left the fae- ,
tory.
"Teu'U have a lot of talking to do
presently," I warned him. "You seem
to forget that you haven't yet told me
what's biting you."
"Maybe there ain't nothln' bltln' me;
maybe I'm just gettln* sort o' old and
skeery. But It's thla-away, Stannte,
son: Elver since your gran'paw gave '
me this hers watehln' Job, and since I
heard tell how them Cripple Creek
short-card artists socked It to him on
this Cinnabar deal, I been lookln' for
trouble. I hain't been easy about them
Cripple Creek holdups nary a day
since your gran'paw told me to stay
here and hold the fort for Mm."
"You thought perhaps the original
owners might try to grab the property
by forceT'
Daddy looked up at me from under
his bushy eyebrows.
" 'Peers to me like you've got a
mighty short Memory, seme way, StanDie.
Have you done forget that bunch
o' huskies wg saw campln' out In Antelope
gulch as we come along by there
at daybreak this raornln'T I didn't like
the looks o' that camp much at the
lime; and I liked It a whole lot lees
after wa got here and found Charley
BoUerton sunnin' himself 09 the doorstep.
Made me sort o' perk up my
ears."
"But, see here. Daddy," I thrust 1^
"If he's got nay deed, or has destroyed
It, why?"
"Why. ha has as mood a rtrht to th?
Cinnabar a* the next one that cornea
along, la what you're goto' to say. I
ain't dlsputln' yon for a minute. But
afore he can have It, he's got to take
It, hain't he? And we're got two mighty
good 11T pieces of artillery that says
he's goln' to have one Joyful old time
a-takln' It; that is, if you're of the
same mind that 1 am."
By Jove! I wanted to put my arms
around the old Spartan and hug him I
As I've said, there were ten or a dozen
men In that bunch we'd seen In the
gulcb, and he was calmly proposing to
stand up to them, as confidently as If
It were all In the day's work.
"I get you now. Daddy," I said, "and
If there's a flgl* coming to us, your
mind is mine. Wall give them the best
we're got"
I thought the two old-fashioned guns
and Jeanie's pistol promised a poor
chance for an effectlre defense; but
Daddy Hiram proceeded to show me
that we had at least one ether resource.
In the mine stores left behind
by the former operating company were
two boxes of slxty-per-ceot dynamite,
with fuse and caps, and Daddy pointed |
out that there were good possibilities
wrapped up In the greasy brown-paper
cartridges if the enemy should come ,
sloes enough to let us use them.
"I believe yon had this all doped est ,
In adrance, Daddy," I said, when he
had s aeat little rew of the cartridges
i - ? - ' " H 1 ' * "* * *' * T .7]
1 lAjpwr^wwpjWBiWHjpw^
rm you oar
"Me and Jeanle," he said simply.
*W**d 'a' done oar level beat; and the
angels couldn't do no more than that."
Here, unless the old man was sadly
Btlgtaken In bis daughter, was another
and wholly unsuspecter side of the blue yedi
maiden displayed for me. 1 tried
to Imagine Lisette helping her father,
or me, -or any lone man, to defend a beleaguered
mine against an armed attack.
It was so funny that I shouted.
"Do you mean to say that Jeanle would
shut herself up In here and load the
guns for you against a mob of mine
Jumpers 7"
. He looked up with a prldeful sparkle
In his mild blue eyes.
MYou don't half know that Utile girl
o' mine, yet, Stannle, son," he said
earnestly. And then: "She's the only
boy I aver had, you see; and she hain't
had gny mother since she can remember.
Maybe I hadn't ort to taught her
to ride hawsses and shoot, and them
things; but it seemed Uke I had to."
"You haven't made her one lota less
womanly?or lovable," I hastened to
say. Then I blurted out the thing that
had been weighing on me ever since
we had found Bullerton loafing on the
door-step: "Do you suppose they could
?Is there any way they could have
been married yesterday, Daddy?"
"Uh-huh; I reckon there was. They
might 'a' gone on down to Angels.
There's a Justice o* the peace down
there."
It still lacked a full hour of noon
when we got our preparations made
and "were ready to stand a siege. Then
we waited, and waited some more; and
after a while I began to grin. What
If WP hnil Htxmnpduil allrm.lvna nuarl.
lessly? After all, the men we ha?l seen
In the deep gulch might really have
been trumps, and not a Bullerton army.
Would the mining engineer, unprincipled
as he doubtless was, go to the
length of trying to dispossess us by
force? The more I thought of it, the
more unlikely It seemed.
"I guess maybe we were scared of
a shudow, after all, Daddy," I said.
"Bullerton has had time enough to
bring up his army, if he has one,"
"I ain't countjn* much on his backln*
down," was the drawling rejoinder.
"Ye see, 1 know Charley Bullerton of
old; keen knowln' him ever since he
tlrst bu'sted into the mlnln' game.
That was over In the 8aganche. He's
en all-'round cuss, but he's a stayer. Bolides,
you roughed him up sort o' hurtful
thlc mornin', and he's got that to
make him spltey. We'll be heatin'
from him as soon as be gets things
yanked 'round Into shape to unit him."
Still, as time passed and nothing
happened, It looked less and leas likely
that we were going to have to fight
for our holding ground. ( don't know
to this good day what made Bullerton
10 slow In bringing up his army, but
t was high noon, and Daddy and I
were eating a cold luncheon, with the
shaft-house door^s!'.! for a seat, when
we saw the army coming. It was a
straggling gang of perhaps a dozen
men; we couldn't count them accurately
because the road on the bench
wound In and out among the trees.
They came up within easy rifle shot
md pitched their camp, if you could
call it that, In a little glade. At that
distance we could see that they were
rmeti. hut. ef course, we couldn't tell
what kind ef guns they had. After
they had taken possession of the small
open apace, two of them set to work
to build a cooking fire.
At the halt in the glade one of the
party?Bullerton, we guessed It was?
broke a branch from a pine, atrlpped
the twigs from it. and made it a flagstaff
for his white handkerchief. Under
this flag of truce he and two of his
Daddy and I War* Eating Whan Wa
Saw tha Army Coming*
men came on, leaving their guns behind.
There was a climb of about
thirty feet, maybe, coming ap from
the bench to the mn-.n ?ht?h tha
mine buildings stood, so we got a fairly
good look at the peace party before
It came within talking distance. Bullerton
still bad a slight touch of the
wry-neck, and the devil-may-care
Jauntlness which had been his chief
characteristic as a guest of the Twomblys
had been wiped from his face and
manner like a picture from a blackboard.
As the thrpe of them topped the rise
in the ore rood I reached behind me
and got one of theMVinchesters.
"That's near enough I" I called out
"Do your talking from there, If you've
anything to say."
The delegation halted and Bullerton
took a paper from his pocket.
"I'm serving legal notice upon you,
Rroughton," he said, waving the paper
at me, "and I have two witnesses here,
as the law requires. I represent the
Cinnabar Mining company of Cripple
Creek. Ton are trespassing on our
property and I am making a formal
demand -for possession."
*80 that's the new wrinkle, is It!" I
laughed. "I was hoping you might
spring something a little more original.
Bow are yon going to prove ownership!"
"The burden of proof isn't en us;
It's 00 yeor he ripped out. "Tee
. . A . % , ?
4Tt|s a forgery; a clumsy, childish 1
forgery that wouldn't Impose upon a I (
blind man t We can send you to the I '
rock pile on the strength of It If we I
want to 1"
Since he had stolen the deed out of .
my pocket, I thought, of course, that
he was Just bluffing about Its being a ,
forgery. Me must have known per- .
fectly well that It wasn't. But Daddy
waB whispering In my ear as he sat
behind me. Something like this: '
"Oosh-all-Friday, Stannle, he's got you
goin'l He's made a copy o' the deed
and throwed the 'rlglnal away?burnt
It up, *r somethln' !"
"You have It all your own way, Bullerton?or
you think you have," I told
him; and If I didn't get all of the self- 1
confidence Into the words that I tried '
to, 1 am persuaded that he didn't know
the difference. "I might even concede _
that you have everything but the mine
Itself. If you want that, you may 1
come and take It; but you'll permtt me
to say that when you break Into this
shaft-house there will be fewer people
alive on Cinnabar mountain than there
are at the present moment I shall
quite possibly be one of the dead ones,
but before I go out I shall do my best (
to make you another." J
"All right" be snapped back; *
"you're speaking for yourself, and
that's your privilege, e: But J?ow about
you, Twombly? This la no qnarrei of
youre. Suppose you gotover yonder to
your cabin and stay out of the fight.
Nobody wauls to hurt you."
That put It pretty squarely up to (
me, too, so I turned to the old man at
my side.
"It's good advice, Daddy," I said;
"and this Isn't your quarrel. You'd
better duck while you can."
rt?#),( ? . ?- ?- -* 1
....j uiioiu umuo uu rvyiy ll ail
to me; didn't pay any attention to me.
Instead, he stood np on the door-sin
and shook his fist at Bullerton.
"I been lookln' for you and your
kind o a crowd for a year back,
Charley Bullerton, and drawln' pay .
fox doln' It I" he shrilled. "Stannle,
here, says If you want this mine yen
can coine and take It, and, by yuramies,
I say them same Identical
words 1"
"All right," said Bullerton again,
"But It's only fair to say that we outnumber
you six to one, and we've got
the law, and a few deputy sheriffs, oq
our side. You two haven't as much
show as a cat In hell without claws,
and when the circus Is over, you'll
both go to jail, If there's enough left
of you to stand the trip." Then, as he
was turning to go he flipped the deed
Into the air so that It fell at our feet.
"You may have that," he sneered.
> "We'd like nothing better than to have
you produce It In court."
It didn't seem Just fitting to let him
have the last word, so I pitched a
small ultimatum of my own after him
as he herded his two scoundrelly looking
"witnesses" Into the downward
roud.
"One thing more. Bullerton," I called
out. "Your flag of truce holds only
until you get back to your army. If
you or any of your men are In sight of
Cinnabar property ten minutes after
you reach your camp, we open fire."
Since the truce was thus definitely
ended, we retired Into our fortress and
put up the bars. As we were closing
the door? ?*"! rr?oHnjr ?vervthlng snug
I asked Daddy what kind of human
timber Bullerton was likely to have
In his army, and if there were any
chance that his boast about having
deputy sheriffs In the crowd was to be
taken at Its face value.
"There's nothln' to the deputy brag.
Ike Beasley Is the chief deputy for
this end o' the county, and he'd be
here himself If that was a posse commytaters
down yonder. As for what he
has got, there's no tellln*. Most likely
he's picked up a fistful o' toughs and
out-o'-works down In Angels. There's
always plenty o' drift o' that kind
hangln' 'round a mlnin' camp."
"Fighters?" I queried.
"Oh, yes; I reckon so?If fightln' i
ivuica euaivr intu WorKlQ ." I
With the doom shut and barred I \
climbed up on our breastwork to bring t
my ayes on a level with one of the high ]
window holes. The ten-minute ultima- i
turn Interval had come ta an end, but <
the raiders were making no move to t
vacate the premises. On the contrary, <
their cooking fire was now burning <
briskly and they were apparently mak- i
lng leisurely preparations to eat. It \
fairly made me schoolboy furious to <
see those fellows calmly getting their (
noon meal ready and Ignoring my
warning. i
"Hand me up one of those dynamite y
cartridges!" I barked at Daddy HI- \
ram; and when he complied, I lighted i
a match and stuck It to the split end |
of the fuse. There was a fizz, a cloud ]
of acrid smoke to make me turn my
fuce away and cough, and then a
frenzied yell from the old man.
"Throw It ? good-gosh-to-Frlday ?
throw It 1"
I * - ?- -- - -
i luuiiivtrij hi k*?i ? our mrougn the
window opening In some way, and lost
my balance on the earth bags doing It,
"Throw Itl Good-Goah-to. Friday I
: Thro^ltl"
PockJd*^rTh^',cra8hTl>f au Explosion
tliat was stlil echoing from the cliffs
af the mountain above when the sour
fumes of the dynamite rose to float In
at the window holes.
"G-good gizzards!' stuttered Daddy
illratu. "did you reckon I cut them
fuses long enough so *t you could hold
em In your hands and watch 'em
Sum?"
"What do I know about fuses:" I
lsked, grinning at htm. Then I mountsd
the breastwork agnln and looked
>ut, prepared to see the entire landicape
blown Into shreds.
Aside from a few sheets of corrurated
Iron torn from the roof of the
uljacent ore shed, the landscape ap eared
to be fairly intact and still
vlth us. But down on the bench beow,
the lately kindled cooking fire
vns burning In solitary confinement.
Hie raiders, to a man, had disap>eared.
CHAPTER XIV.
Applied Hydraulics.
"They've skipped." I reported to
>addy, as I climbed down 'from the
arth sncks. "and that showr us the
lunllty of the humanity stuff we have
o deal with. Bullerton will never get
hat bunch to rush us In the open."
"That's something gained, anyway."
sahl the old man; "and ever' 1IT bit
helps. But If they ain't goln' to take
it standin' up, we got to look out for
Inlln J-'-'- - " "
uviua; me snaKe-in-the-grass?
triad. Charley Bullerton ain't goto' to
quit none so easy,"
Nerertheless, (or an hour or more,
It looked as if the jumpers had quit,
to due time the cooking fire in the little
glade burned out, and no one
came to rekindle it. Aronnd and about
the solemn silence of the mountain
wilderness ringed us In, and it was
hard to realize that the siege had not
Seen abandoned?though we knew well
enough It hadn't
We put In the time as best we could,
tinkering up our defenses and trying
to provide for all the contingencies.
For one thing, Daddy found a big
auger and used It to bore loopholes at
rarlous places through the wall, by
neans of which we could command the
approaches to the shaft-house on two
)f the three exposed sides. Eastwardy,
the blacksmith shop Intervened between
us and the boiler shed?It was
>ullt as a lean-to against that side of
the shaft-house?and In that direction
ve were necessarily blind. The fourth
?lde, as I have snW, faced an abrupt
'liff of the mountain, a rocky wall
Islng to maybe twice the height of
the buildings and almost overhanging
them. At Its summit this clifT
npered off Into a steep upward slope.
)are of timber; hence we were comparatively
secure from attack In that
luarter.
As to provisioning we were not so
padly off. Daddy Hiram, well used In
lis long experience as a prospector to
lgurlng upon the longevity of "grubstakes,"
estimated that, what with the
aimed stuff, part of a sack of flour,
ind another of cornmeal, we could live
'or a week, though the cooking was
colng to he rather Inconvenient. For
t fire we should have to resort to the
'orge In the blacksmith shop, and the
ihop was nothing hut an open-crnckod
ihed, as I have described it entirely
ndefenslble If the raiders siiiiiiiii conclude
to rush It.
In the fulness of time the period of
suspense came to an end, and we were
jlven audible proof that Bullerton bad
Inally made his "dispositions," as an
trmy man would say. The announcement
came In the form of a rifle bullet
ripping through the roof of the shaftlouse
as If the stoat Iron roofing had
>een so much paper.
"The fun's a-beglnnln'," said Daddy;
tnd the words were hardly out of his
month before another bullet came, this
time from the opposite direction, and
It, al^o, tore through the roof.
"Got u? surrounded," Daddy grlmtced,
when a third shot came from still
mother point of the compass; and
vlthln the next fifteen minutes Bullerlon's
demonstration was made complete.
The shots, fired one at a time,
ind at Intervals of a minute or so,
ame from all three of the exposed
fides of the building, and the time
dapalng between the ripping crashes
?n the roof and the crack of the guns
;old us that the marksmen were all
srell beyond the range of our Winchesters,
even If we could have seeu
iiem?which we couldn't.
Bullerton had evidently .given his
men orders to aim at the roof, for It
aras only a stray bullet now and then
chat came through the walls. After a
:lme the purpose of the bombardment
>ecame obvious. Bullerton seemed to
lave absorbed the Idea that he could
(Continued on last page)
8 Tired |
kw "I was weak and run-down," Wk
M relates Mrs. Eula Burnett, ot 4
A Dal ton, Qa. "I was thin and
9 just felt tired, all the time, 9
9 t didn't rest well. I wasnt U
fA erer hungry. J know, by N
9 this, X needed a tonic, and 9
9 as there Is none better than? Rj
SCARDUI!
| The Woman's Tonic I
^ . 1 began using Cardul," *M
continues Mrs. Burnett
R "After my first bottle, I slept U
jA better and ate better. I took Bd
9 four bottlea Now I'm well, R
9 feel Just fine, eat and sleep, R
II my skin Is clear and I hare M
fip gained and sure feel that A*
S Cardul la the best tonic erer ^
Wt Thousands of other women ||
Jm hare found Oardui Just as R
9 Mrs. Burnett did. Xt should R
V At all druggists. 9
I 11 'V >
PERTINENCES
If a hen lays for you she doesn't
moan any harm by It.
Silence "gives" consent Is an old
saying, Jut It generally means dissent.
To grow old gracefully, a man has
to keep as sharp an eye on his clothes
as ever.
The fellow who thinks the world
owes him a living usuully has a hard
time collecting.
One man's loss is another man's
gain. Brown lost his temper and
Green gained an enemy.
"Man Is the only animal that blushes
?and the only one that has occasion
to blush."?Mark Twain.
What Is the most useful artlcft on
the farm? Now all together, we mjght
as well admit It: "Baling wire."
v
DIDN'T SEE END OF INCIDENT
Qap Johnson Had More Important
Thing to Attond to Than Witnessing
a Hanging.
"While I was In Tumllnvllle yesterday,"
relates Gap Johnson of Rumpus
Ridge, Ark., "a mob came r'arln' around
a corner hauling along a gent with a
rope around his neck, and flung the
end of It over a limb within forty feet
of me."
"Did (hey hong him?" interestedly
asked an acquaintance.
"Dogged If I know I You see, Just
then n feller buntered me for a hoss
swap and drug me off to look at his
nag, and I didn't leurn how the anecdote
cnnie out."
"What lmd the gent done?"
"Well, I heered somebody say that
he'd either been sclllug,boue dry llcker
to the mob ok else ne'd refused to do
so; 1 to ask which."?Kansas
City Star.
HIS BATHS COSTLY AFFAIRS
Marine Sergeant Major Evidently an
Excellent Patron of the
Jewelry Store.
"Doggone the luck!" said the gob as
he flopped Into a chair In the lobby of
the Y. M. C. A.
"What's the matter?" Inquired the
marine sergeant major who was ?fijoylng
his afternoon smoke.
"I was taking a bath this morning
over at the Waldorf-Astoria, and I left
my ring In the bathroom. Of course,
when I went back for It, the darn ring
had disappeared."
"Tough luck!" said the sergeant ma- 1
Jor. "Tough luck! You know I leave I
a ring In the but broom every time I
take a bath. I lost 14 of 'etn In the
last eoupla weeks."?The Leutherneck.
EGGS?Golden laced Wyandottes,
White Wyandottes $1.50 per set- ,
ting of 15 eggs. (
ltp J. H. Rivers, Chesterfield 4
COUNTY TA>
State
Ordinary County
Roads
Bridges
Total
Cheraw
Marburg
Orange Hill
: Pats Branch
Pee Dee
Stafford
Bethel
| Center Point
Chestertkdd
Parker .
i Pine Grove
ltuby
hiloh
Snow Hill
Stafford *
Vaughan
Wamble Hill
Black Creek
Center
Center Grove
Cross Roads
Mt. Croghan
Rubv
Wexford
Winzo
Zion
Buffalo
Dudley
Five Forks
Mangum
Pageland
Plains
Zion
Angelus
Center Grove
C larks
Jefferson
Macedonia
Plains
Bay Springs
Green Hill
Leland
Middcndorf
McBee
Providence
Sandy Run
Union
Bay Springs
i Bear Creek
i Belhesda
| Juniper
I Middendorf
Patrick
Pats Branch Branch
Shiloh
Stafford
White Oak
Cat Pond
Juniper
Ousley
not r: ^
Friendly Traveler Meant Wall, but Ha
Rather Mlaunderatood tha Claroyman'e
Statement.
There la a certain good minister of
the gospel who does not make a parade
of his piety or even mention bis calling
unnecessarily, particularly where
such an announcement might tend to
dampen the spirits of a gathering. Recently.
In the smoking compartment of
a Pullman, he fell Into conversation
with u friendly traveling man, who
presently observed:
"I'm In the hardware line. What's
yours?" . J
"Well," the minister responded with _
a twinkle In his eye, "I might say that
I'rti In the spiritual line."
The other looked about hastily, and
laid a cautioning hand upon the minister's
knee.
"You know, I kind of suspected you
were keeping something under cover,"
he said. "It's all right with me, of
course, hut you want to be a little
more careful with strangers, old man.
Why, for all you knew, I might have
been a federal agent."?Philadelphia
Ledger.
L. H. TROTTI,
Dentil Surgeon
Chesterfield, S. C.
Office on second floor in Ross
J. ARTHUR KNIGHT
Attorney-at-Law
Office in CoorthouM
Chesterfield, S. C.
R. L. McMANUS
Dentist
Cheraw, S. C.
At Chestereld, Monday
A Pageland, Tuesday. . ,
\.t Mt. Croghan, Wednesday morning
Ruby, Wednesday afternoon *
Society Hill, Thursday
Cheraw, Friday and Saturday
THE UNIV^ISAl CAR
CARS, TRUCKS, TRACTORS
SERVICE
PARTS
LUCAS AUTO CO.
DISCHARGE NOTICE
On 15th March, 1922, at 11 o'clock
M., 1 will apply to the Probate .
Hourt for a discharge as Administra.or
of the estate of E. 0- Adams, de:eased.
J. F. Campbell, Administrator.
( LEVY 1921 :
12 mills
6 mills
6 mills
1 mill
28 mills |
w [ T7. o3 F H I
o c* n o O ,
i & n zr zr n r* i J
' J? p o o ? p
I ? ? o o ? ~ 1
t? CO ~ ~ S3 r J
3 ? to W o 5 1
* r s. ? s. 4 . - '
? ~ g! 8" ? ^
CO"
11 I I I
j 28 12 4 1% 4t>%
... 28 8 1% 37%
... 28 6 1% 34%
... 28 8 1% 37%
28 3 4 1% 36%
... 28 8 21 1% 39%
...28 8 5 41
... 28 8 86
... 28 16 4% * 48%
...28 83 89
... 28 8 86
... 28 16 6 4% 63%
... 28 8 2 88
... 28 8 6 42
... 28 8 2 88
... 28 8 2 88
... 28 8 86
... 28 10 6 48
... 28 10 g 48
... 28 8 6 6 47
... 28 8 6 6 46
... 28 16 6 4 6 68
...| 28 16 6 4% 6 68
... 28 8 6 6 46
... 28 8 8 6 49
... 28 8 7% 6 48%
... 28 8 4 40
... 28 8 86
... 23 8 86
... 28 8 86
... 28 16 7% 61%
... 28 8 8 44
... 28 8 7% 43%
... 28 8 7 6 48
... 28 8 6 6 47
....| 2 8 6 6 46
. ..| 28 | IG 91 6 68
I zs | aj 3| | 6 44
.....| 28 | 8| 8j I 48
28 8 6, 6 4g
. ... 28 8 10 6 62
.... 28 8 10 6 62
.... 28 8 6 6 47
| 28 118 | | 4%| 67
28 2 6 86
..28 8 6 42
... 28 8 6 6 48
... 28 8 6 43
... 28 8 38
... 28 11 88
....|28 3 31
... 28 8 6 41 4
... 28 15 4 47
... 28 8 gjj'
... 28 8 2
? 28 8 2 ' la
... 28 86 42
... 28 8 6.13
...28 8 en
... 28 12 6 46
? 26 8' ''*t8 ' M' k.?>i