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.. 1 BvKy^ntfp ^ ^ '^%'i Cbpyriqht by Edwirv Balmer > ? -J (Continued from last wteli) [ CHAPTER XV. A Ghost Ship. Officially, and to chief extent In actuality, navigation now had "closed" lor the winter. Further up the harbor, beyond Number 25, glowed the white lanterns marking two vessels moored and "laid up" till spring; another was still In the active process of "laying up." Marine Insurance, as regards all ordinary craft, had ceased; ' and the government at sunrise, five days before, had taker, the warning lights from the Straits of Mackinaw, from Ile-uux-tJulets, from north Mnnitou, and the Fox islands; and the light at Beaver Island had but Ave nights more to burn. Having no particular duty when the boat was In dock, old Burr hud gone toward the stenmer "laying up," and now was standing watching with absorption the work going on. There was a tug a little farther along, with | team up and biuck smoke pouring from Its short tunnel. Old Burr oh- | erved this boat too and moved up a little nearer. Alan, following the I wheelsman, came opposite the stern of the freighter. "They're crossing," the wheelsman aid aloud, hut more to himself than to Alan. "They're laying her up here," he Jerked his head toward the Stoughton. "Then they're crossing to Manitowoc on the tug." . "What's the matter with that?" Alan cried. \ Burr drew up his shoulders and ducked his head down as a gust blew. It was cold, very cold indeed In thnt wind, but the old man had on a macklnaw and, out on the lake, Alan had een him on deck coatless In weather almost as cold as this. "It's a winter storm," Alan cried, "It's like It that way; hut today's the 15th, not the 5th of December!" "That's right," Burr argeed. "That's right." The reply was absent, as though Alan had stumbled upon what he was thinking and Burr had no thought yet , to wonder at It. "And It's the Stoughton they're lay- ! tag up, not the?" he stopped and | tared at Burr to let him supply the i word and, when the old mau did not, I he repeated again?"not the?" "No," Burr agreed again, as thongh the name had been given. "No." "It was the Martha Corvet you laid up, wasn't It?" Alan cried quickly. **Tell me?that time on the 5th?It was the Martha Corvet?" Burr Jerked away; Alan caught him again and, with physical strength, de "Answer Me; It Was the Martha Corvet?" talned him. "Wasn't it that?" he demanded. "Answer me; It was the Martha Corvet?" The wheelsman struggled ; he seemed suddenly terrified with the terror which, Instead of weakening, supplied infuriated strength. He threw Alan off v. f? i uotaiiv auu Piai mi iu m*e imi'K toward the ferry; and Alan let him go. only following a few steps to make sure that the wheelsman returned to Number 25. - Because of the severe cold, the watches on the ferry had been shortened. Alan would be relieved from time to time to warm himself, and then he would return to duty again. Old Burr at the wheel would be relieved and would go on duty at the same hours as Alan himself. Benjamin Corvet I The fancy reiterated Itself to him. Could he be mistaken? Was that man, whose eyes turned alternately from the compass to the bow of I ho ferry as It shifted and rose and fell, the same who had sat In that lonely chair turned toward the fireplace Ir. the house on Astor street? Were those hands, which held the steamer to her course, the hands which had written to Alan In secret from the little room off his bedroom and which pusted so carefully the newspaper clippings concealed In the library? Alan faced the wind with macklnaw buttoned about his throat; to make certain his heating, his ears were unprotected. They numbed frequently, end he drew e hand out of the glove to rub them. The windows to protect the wheelsmen had been dropped, as |^^WaHHWilM|HWpM illustrations by / ii TSuanycnarncterlzefl the old man's i face had not returned to It since Alan had spoken with hlra on the dock; lta look was Intent and quecrly drawn. Was eld Burr beginning to remember * that he was Benjamin Corvet? Alan n did not believe It could be that; again *' and again he had spoken Corvet's name ' to hkn without effect. Yet there must have been times when, If he was actual- H ly Corvet, he had remembered who he <1 was. He must have remembered that when he had written directions to some '' one to send those things to Constance P Sherrlll; or, a strange thought had come to Alan, had he written those In- 11 structlons himself? This certainly * would account for the package having 11 been inaHed at Manitowoc and for * Alan's failure to And out by whom It f had been mailed. It would account, ^ too. for the unknown handwriting upon a the wrapper, if some one on the ferry ^ had addressed the package for the old man. e What could have brought back that moment of recollection to Corvet, Alan r wondered; the finding of the things h which he had sent? What might bring another such moment? Would his seeing the Sherrllls again?or Spearman? tl act to restore him? c For half an hour Alun paced steadily- a at the bow. The storm was Increasing n noticeably In fierceness; the wind- v driven snowflakes had changed t<r hard pellets which, like little bullets, cut ri and stung the face; and It was growing a colder. From a cabin window caine the ei blue flash of the wireless, which had c been silent after notifying the shore ^ stations of their departure. It had P commenced again; this was unusual, a Something still more unusnal followed si at once; the direction of the gale J seemed slowly to shift, and with It e< the wash of the water; Instead of the r< wind and the waves coming from dead ? ahead now, they moved to the port h beam, and Number 25, still pitching c with the thrust through the seas, also n began to roll. This meant, of course, n that the steamer had changed Hs b course and was making almost due tl north. It seemed to Alan to force Its engines faster; the deck vibrated more, tc Alan had not heard the orders fer this t< change and could only speculate as to si what It might mean. ai His relief came after a few minutes more. v< ."Where are we heading?" Alan asked. "Radio," the relief announced. "The n, H. O. Richardson calling; she's up by the Manltous." ai "What sort of trouble?" C| "She's not In trouble; It's another s1 ship." h, "What ship?" n( "No word as to that." Alan, not delaying to question fur- lt] tber, went hack to the cabins. These stretched aft, behind the w undue, aioug Trie upper aecu, some ' . score on each side of the ship; they had accommodations for almost a hundred passengers; hut 011 this crossing only a few were occupied. Alan had noticed some half-dozen unJn?business men, no doubt, forced to make the crossing, and one of them, a Catholtc priest, returning probably to some mission In the north; he had seen no women among them. A.iiiiie KioUp of passengers were gathered now In the door of or Just outside the wireless f cabin, which was one of the row on the starboard side. Stewards stood with them and the cabin niald; within, and bending over the table with the radio Instrument, was the operator with the second officer beside him. The violet < spark was rasping, and the operator, ^ his receivers strap|>ed over his ears, 4 strained to listen, lie got no reply, 3 evidently, and he struck his key again; jg now, as he listened, he wrote slowly on a pad. "What la It?" Alan asked the officer. 3 "The Richardson heard four blasts of a steam whistle about an hour ago < when she was opposite the Mauitous. j SOUR STOMACH ' INDIGESTION fhedford's Black-Draught Highly " Recommended by a Tennessee u Grocer for Troubles Re* salting from Torpid ti b"T. > Beat Nashville, Tennj? The efflo 8 tency of Thedfori** Black-Draught, th? tl genuine, herb, liver medicine, li ?i Touched for by Mr. W. N. Parsons, a n grocer of this city. "It la without " doubt the beat liver medicine, and I 81 don't believe I oould get along without f< It I take It for sour stomach, head- j " ache, bed liver. Indigestion, and all n other troubles that are the result o! (< a torpid liver. | w "I have known and used ft for pears, b and can and do highly recommend It ? to every one. I won't go to bed with- " out It In the house. It win do all It b claims to do. I can't say enough for ft" | ? Many other men and women through- (|' out the country have found Black* 0 Draught Just as Mr Parsons describes i( ?valuable in regulating the liver to e Its normal functions, and In cleansing H lbs bowels of impurities. j in iMTihMinif i l T ' I he answered with the "WhIsTI?~~knd , arned toward the blasts. She couldn't ] nd any ship." The officer's reply was , nterrupted by some of the others. Then . . . that was a few minutes go . . . they heard the four long . gain. . . . They'd tried to pick up , he other ship with radio before. . . Yes; we got that here. . . . Yled again and got no answer. . . . i tut they heard the blasts for half an our. . . . They said they seemed ( 9 be almost beside the ship once. , . . But they didn't see anything. , 'hen the blasts stopped . . . sud* len, cut off short In the middle as hough something happened. . , the was blowing distress all right, i The Richardson's searching < gain now. . . . Yes, she's search- | ig for boats." i "Anyone else answered?" Alan i sked. i "Shore stations on both sides." "Do they know what ship It Is?" I "No." 1 "What ship might be there now:" i The officer could not answer that, le had known where the Richardson i mist he; he knew of no other likely t> he there at this season. The spray I rom the waves had frozen upon Alan; \ re gleamed and glinted from the rnll ' ncl frijsr the deck. Alan's shoulders I rew up In a spasm. The Richardson, I hey said, was looking for boats; how < could men live in little hc-its ) OflOd to that gale and cold? I He turned back to the others about i lie radio cabin; the glow from within i bowed him faces us gray as his; It < Iglited a fuee on the opposite aide of 1 l*e door?a face haggard with dread- < ul fright. Old Burr Jerked about as 1 J nil spoke to him and moved away I lone; Alan followed him niul seized | I is arm. "What's the matter?" Alan dcuiund(1, holding to him. "The four blasts!" the wheelsman epefited. "They heard the four lasts!" He lteruted It once more. "Yey." Alan urged. "Why not?" "But where no ship ought to be; so tiey couldn't find the ship?they ouldn't find the ship!" Terror, of wful abjectness, came over the old inn. He freed himself from Alan and 'ent forward. Alan went aft to the car deck. The aar and echoing tumult of the Ice gainst the hull here drowned all othr sounds. The thirty-two freight ttrs, In their four long lines, stood 'edged and chained and blocked In lace; they tipped and tilted, rolled nd swayed like the stanchions and Ides of the ship, fixed and secure, aeks on the steel deck under the dges of the cars, kept them from ocklng on their trucks. Men paced 'fttchfully between the tracks, observlg the movement of the cars. The ars creaked and groaned, as they orked a little this way and that; the len sprang with sledges and drove (he locks tight again or took an addional turn upon the Jacks. Alan saw old Burr who, on his way > the wheel house, had halted to Usui. For several minutes the old man tood motionless; he came on again ad stopped to listen. "You hear 'em?" Burr's voice quaered In Alan's ear. "You hear 'em?" "What?" asked Alun. "The four Wasts! You hear 'em ow? The four blasts!" Burr was straining as he listened, ad Alan stood still too; no sound line to hlra but the noise of the torm. "No," he replied. "I don't ear anything. Do you hear them ow ?" Burr stood beside him without makig reply; the searchlight, which had ran pointed abeam, shot Its glare foraru, and Ainu could see Burr's face i the dancing reflection of the flare, he man hud never more plainly re 1 he Man Had Never More Plainly Resembled the Picture of Benjamin , Corvet. iinbled the picture of Benjamin Coret; that which had been In the pic- ' ire, that strange sensation of someilng haunting him, was upon this < mn's face, h thousand times Intenst- ' ed; hut instead of distorting the fenires away from all likeness to the i Icture, it made it grotesquely iden- * cal. 1 And Burr was hearing something? iimethlng distinct and terrifying; hut P flppmpfl imt RiirnHflorl Kit# itlsfled that Alan had not heard. He odded hlK head at Alan's denlHl, and, a Ithout reply to Alan's demand, he tood listening. Something bent him >rward; he straightened; again the t omethlng came; again he straight* ned. Four times Alan counted the lotions. Burr was hearing again the iur long blasts of distress! But there 'as no noise but the gale. "The four ( lasts!" He recalled old Burr's terror t utslde the radio cabin. The old man 'as hearing blasts which were not t lown ! He moved on and took the wheel, [e was a good wheelsman; the vessel s pemed to be steadier on her course nd, somehow, to steer easier when the Id man steered. Ills Illusions of hearig could do no harm, Alan consldred; they were of concern only to iurr and to him. Alan fought to keep his thought all I less. With ?ight even along the searchlight's beam shortened to a few hundred yards, only accident could bring Number 25 up for rescue, only chance could carry the ship where the shouts ?or the blasts of distress if the wreck still floated and had steam?would be heard. They were meeting frequent and heavy floes, and Alan gave warning of these by halls to the bridge; the bridge answered and when possible the steamer avoided the floes when it could not do that it cut through them. The windrowed Ice beating and crashing under the bows took strange, distorted, glistening shapes. Now another such shape appeared before them; wl ere tho glare dissipated to a bare glow in the swirling snow, he ta\v a vague shadow. The man movtug the searchlight failed to Bee it, for he awung the beam on. The Bhadow was so dim. so ghostly, that Alan sought for it again before he hailed; he could see nothing now, yet he was surer, somehow, that lie had een. "Something dead ahead, sir I" he Bhouted back to the bridge. The bridge answered the hall as the searchlight pointed forward again. A I gust carried the snow In a fierce llurry which the light failed to pierce; from the flurry suddenly, silently, spar by spar, a shudow emerged?the shadow i of a ship. It was a steamer, Alan saw, : i long, low-lying old vessel without lights and without smoke from the funlel slanting up Just forward of the ifter deckhouse; It rolled in the trough af the sea. The sides and. all the lower works gleamed In ghostly phosphores- j ^nce, It was refraction of the search- ! light beam from the Ice sheathing all ihe ship, Alan's brain told him; but :he sight of that soundless, shimmering , ihip materializing front behind the tcreen of snow struck a tremor through dim. "Ship!" he hailed. "AheadI Dead thead, sir! Ship!" The shout of quick commands jchoed to him from the bridge. tJnlerfoot he could feel a new tumult of :he deck; the engines. Instantly ttopped, were being set full speed astern. But Number 25, Instead of theerlng off to right or left to avoid the ^tlllslon, steered straight on. The struggle of the engines against the momentum of the ferry told that ithers had seen the gleaming ship, or, it least, had heard the hall. The skipper's Instant decision had been to put to starboard; he had bawled that to the wheelsman, "Hard over!" But, though the screws turned full astern, Vumber 25 steered straight on. The lurry wus blowing before the bow igaln; back through the snow the lceihrouded shimmer ahead retreated. Man leaped away and up to the wheellouse. Men were struggling there?the skipper, a mate, and old Burr, who had leld the wheel. He clung to It yet, as me In a trance, fixed, Muring ahead; ds arms, stiff, had been holding Number 25 to her course. The skipper itruck him and beat him away, while he mate tugged at the wheel. Burr vas torn from the wheel now, and he nade no resistance to th? ?idnnop'. ?-?F|/V? o ilows; but the skipper, in his frenzy, it ruck him again and knocked him to lie deck. Slowly, steadily, Number 26 was reipondlng to her helm. The bow point* >d away, and the beam of the ferry :ame beside the beam of the silent itenmer; they were very close now, so lose that the searchlight, which had urned to keep on the other vessel, ihot above Its shimmering deck and lghted only the spars; and, as the waer rose and fell between them, the ihlps sucked closer. Number 25 shook vith an effort; It seemed opposing with ill the povyer of Its screws some force atuily drawing It on?opposing with he last resistance before giving way. Then, as the water fell again, the ferry ieemed to slip and be drawn toward he other vessel; they mounted, side >y side . . . crashed . . . recoiled . . crashed aguln. That second crash brew all who had nothing to hold by, lut upon the deck; then Number 25 noved by; astern her now the silent iteanier vanished In the snow. Gongs boomed below; through the lew confusion and the cries of men, trders begun to become audible. Alan, icramhllng to his knees, put an arm inder old Burr, half raising hlui; the 'orm encircled by bis arm struggled ip. The skipper, who had knocked ilurr fi\vhv frimi th? u'hiuil i?nni-u,i Him low. The old man, dragging himself lp and holding to Alan, was staring with terror at the snow screen behind which the vessel had disappeared. His lps moved. "It was a ship!" he said; he seemed ipeaking more to himself than to Alan. "Yes," Alan said. "It was a ship; ind you thought?" "It wasn't there!" the wheelsman ?rled. "It's-?It's been there all the ilme all night, and I'd?I'd steered hrough It ten times, twenty times, ?very few minutes; and then?that .lme it was a ship 1" Alan's excitement grew greater; he ?elzed the old man again. "You thought t was the Mlwaka!" Alan exclaimed. 'The Mlwaka! And you tried to steer :hrough it again." "Hie JliwHku !" old Murr'H lips relt?rated the word. "Yon; yes?the Mlvaka !" He struggled, writhing with some tgony not physical. Alan tried to hold JNIVERSITY OF S. C. ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS Entrance examinations to the University of South Carolina will be held >y the County Superintendent of Eduration at zhe County Court House 4 rdav, July 14'h, 1922, at 9 a. m. The University offers varied courses >f study in science, literature, his,ory, law and business. The expenses ire moderate and many oportunities for self-support are afforded. Scholarships arc available. For particulars write to President W. S. Currell, University of South Carolina, It-24 Columbia, S. C. " ~ w t?i????? a mm, oat now toe old man was beside himself with dismay. He broke away and started aft. The captain's voice recalled Alan to himself, as he was about to follow, and he turned back to the wheel house. The second otllcer, who had gone bej low to ascertain the damage done to the ferry, cunie up to report. Two of the compartments, those which had taken the crush of the collision^ had ; flooded instantly; the bulkheads were holding?only leaklhg a little, the ofllj cer declared. Water was coming Into a third compartment, that at the stern; | the pumps were lighting this water. The shock had sprung seams elsewhere; but If the ufter compartment did not flit, the pumps might handle the rest. Alan was ut the bow again on lookout duty, ordered to listen and to look (or the little boats, lie gave to that duty ull his conscious uttention; but through his thought, whether he willed It or not, ran a riotous exultation. As he paced froui side to side and hnlled and answered halls trom the bridge, and rddle he strained (or sight and hearing through the gale-swept snow, i the leaping pulse within repeated. Tve found him I I've found him 1" : Alan held no longer possibility of doubt of old Burr's Identity with Beni jam In Corvet, since the old man had i made plain to him that he was haunt- [ d by the Mlwaka. Since that night in jhe house on Astor street, when Spearman shouted to Alan that name, everything having to do with the secret of Benjamin Corvet's life hnd led, so far as Alan could follow It, to the Mlwaka; all the change, which Sherrlll described but could not account for, Alan had laid to that. Corvet only could have been so haunted by that ghostly ship, and there hud been guilt of some awful sort In the old man's cry. Alan hnd found the man who had sent him away to Kansas when he was a child, who had supported him there and then, at last, sent for him; who hnd disappeared at his coming and left him nil his possessions and his heritage of disgrace, who I had pnld blackmail to Luke, and who had sent, lost, Captain Stafford's watch and the ring which came with It?the wedding ring. Alan pulled his hand from his glove and felt In his pocket for the little band of gold. What would that mean to him now; what of that was he to lenrn? And. as he thought of that, Constance Sherrlll came more Insistently before him. What was he to learn for her, for his friend and BenJainln Corvet's friend, whom he, Uncle Benny, had warned not to care for Henry Spearmnn, and then had gone j away to leave her to marry him? For I she was to marry him, Alon hud road. I More serious damage than first reported! The pumps certainly must be losing their fight with the water In the port compartment uft; for the bow steadily was lifting, the stern sinking. The sturbourd rail too was raised, and the list had become so sharp that water washed the deck nbuft the forecastle to port. And the ferry was pointed straight Into the gule now; long ago she had censed to circle and steam slowly In search for boats; she struggled with all her power against the wind and the sens, a desperate Insistence throbbing In the thrusts of the engines; for Number 25 was fleeing?fleeing for the western shore. She dared not turn to tbe nearer eastern shore to expose that shattered stern to the sens. Four bells beat behind Alan; It was two o'clock. Relief should have come long before; but no one cunie. lie was numbed now; ice from the spray crackled upon his clothing when he moved, and It fell In flakes upon the deck. The stark tigure on the bridge was that of the second officer; so the thing which was happening below? the thing which was sending strange, violent, wanton tremors through the ship?was serious enough to call the skipper below, to make liliu abandon the bridge at this time! The tremors, quite distinct from the steady tremble of the engines and the thudding of the pumps, came again. Alan, feeling them, Jerked up and stamped and beat his arms to regain sensation. Some one stumbled toward him from the cabins now, a short figure In a great coat. It was a woman, he saw as she hailed him?the cabin maid. "I'm taking your place!" she shouted to Alan. "You're wanted?every one's wanted on the cnr deck! The curs?" The gale and her fright stopped her voice as she struggled for speech, "The dors?the cars are loose!" (To be continued next wt*k) An Athlete. "Although you considerably out- | weigh your antagonist, you seem to have had the worst of the light," said nit? syiiipuiui'iic oiq gentleman. "I was out of luck when I struck him," replied the man who was nursing a broken face. "Nobody told nie he'd been playing for years in a Jazz orchestra."?Itirmlnghnm Age-Herald. The Bridge of Sighs. Wife (awakened)?Why so grumpy, Tom? Didn't your host have a congenial gathering? Tom (sighing)?Yeah; there wore several men present with rather winning personalities.?Judge. Another Plea for Marriage. The Hushftnd?Nearly all great men are married. The Bachelor?It Is struggle and opposition that develop latent genius. -?London Answers. In Dry U. 8. A.? First student?Teacher, If two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen form water, why Isn't wuter Inflammable? Second student?Because It'a weL? Science and Invention. Not Active. "Is she married?" asked the Inquisitive man. 1 "Oh, yes," replied the native. "What sort of man is her huaband?" "Well, he took up golf some years ago and now I think he Is merely a tradition." Modernized. Flrat Writer?I want a newer expression for* "between the devil and - * ?r--f' * f m WM SHALL I POISON THE WEEVILS? Clemson College, Muy 24.?Farmery who have not yet made up their minds definitely whether or not they want to poison will have to decide ti iimatter without delay, as the season for poisoning is rapidly approaching and it requires time to secure machines and calcium arsenate. Before deciding one should carefully weigl the following considerations, advised Prof. A. F. Conradi, Entomologist. 1. High yielding land. It is regarded that any land not yielding one-half a bale of cotton per acre in the absence of the weevil is poor land and that poisoning 011 such land may not be .expected to prove profitable. 2. Heavy weevil infestation. Unless checked by unfavorable weather conditions we may expect heavy weevil infestation over the greater portion of the State. 3. Proper preparation for poisoning and full determination to apply the poison correctly. By this is meant properly constructed machines, thoroughly prosecution of the poisoning schedule, and a determination to give 1*. A 1 ii, me necessary personal attention. Under these conditions, poisoning properly carried out may be expected to give profitable results if the weather is not so unfavorable as to make it impossible to apply the poison correctly. Of course, weather condition is always a serious factor in farming, and one that has to be reckoned with every season. Whenever poisoning isdecided upon, we confine our recommendations to dusting, because in every case when profitable results were secured in carefully conducted tests, they were secured by dusting. Directions for making infestation counts as well as for poisoning are furnished upon application to the Extension Service. FOR FIGHTING THE WEEVIL Policy Adopted by Extension Service' Conferences Clemson College, May 27.?At meetings of Extension workers held recently at the district offices at Spartanburg, Florence and Aiken, full discussions of the boll weevil problems were entered into with a view of arriving at a policy by which to fight the boll weevil during the present season. After full discussion of various phases of the subject the conferences drew up policies upon which all agree for the present year. In addition to a continuation of the policies and measCOUNTY TAJ State Ordinary County Roads Bridges Total Cheraw Marburg Orange Hill Pats Branch Pee Dee , Stafford Bethel Center Point Chesterfield Parker .. Pine Grove Ruby hiloh Snow Hill Stafford Vaughan Wamble Hill Black Creek Center Center Grove Cross Roads Mt. Croghan Ruby Wexford Winzo Zion iJUliUIU Dudley Five Forks Mangum Pageland Plains Zion Angelus Center Grove Clarks Jefferson Macedonia Plains Bay Springs | Green Hill . Lcland Middendorf McBee Providence Sandy Run Union Bay Springs Bear Creek Bethesda Juniper Middendorf Patrick Pats Branch Branch Shiloh Stafford White Oak Cat Pond Juniper I Oualey * I Luttton k, ^ i 1 "I*- * Ihrf -m ures advocated heretofore (right varieties, small acreage, putting farm on self-supporting basis, soil improvement, proper fertilization*,- fall plowing under of stalks, etc.,) the following points were emphasized as measures for immediate execution: 1. Rapid, thorough, cultivation (once per week). 2. No late side dressing with nitrate of soda. * 3. Picking of weevils and squares luring June and July provided labor is cheap and cultivation is not sacrificed. 4. Opposition to the use of all weevil traps and patented devices until they have been tested and endorsed by the College or the Delta Laboratory, Tallulah, La. 5. The use of liquid or sweetened poisons, in the light of available information ,to be discouraged rather than otherwise. 6. The use of the calcium arsenate method of noisnnirnr 1?? -- - r - h v.. i/t icnaiUCU ItS holding more hope than any other method or direct' control, but to be undertaken very conservatively with the most intelligent farmers, and to be regarded as experimental for the present. One year's results in poisoning could hardly be regarded as conclusive. 7. Each county agent to have several demonstrations in growing cotton under weevil conditions upon which a special report will be made at the end of the season, setting forth methods and results obtained. 8. Farmers may not expect much results from a partial application of the above measures. 9. The free use of Extension Bulletin 48 and Farmers Bulletin 1262 among reading farmers. Just the Person. I was tuking Junior for a walk one afternoon, and he was playing with a little football which neither of us had been able to Inflate. I was watching Junior when a neighbor came along. She sat down beside me. After a little while Junior came up and asked Miss Jones if she would blow up his football for him. She asked him why he thought that she would be able to do so after I bad already failed. His answer was, "Cos my dad says 'at you is the longested winded woman 'at ever breuthed."?Exchange. Macaw Made Trouble. Columbia. I'a.?When a Peruvian macaw bit a Pomeranian puppy on tlie ear at the home of Clifton Shutter In Wrightsvllle, the dog ran between Shutter's legs and upset him as he was taking a tray of half-hutched prize Minorca eggs from an Incubator to turn them. Shutter's body flew in one direction and the tray of eggs In another. The man sustained painful wounds to his head, und every egg sue talned Internal injuries. < LEVY 1921 12 mills 6 mills . 6 mills 1 mill 28 mills 03 F 03 Th F Hf ft ? o n c o to o a- cr n gST w o o * to ?" o o ? P 02 ? 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