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^ |Erskir fePior llffojohri. R^Oiystrafed by (Co?tlau?4 from last weak) CHAPTER XII The sun was close to the uneven weep of the wilderness. Through Its slanting rays the river poured like a flood of gold. The negroes were op the way singing from the fields. Cries, chaffing, and the musical clanking of trace-chains came from the barnyard. Hungry cattle were mooing and fulluddered mothers were mooing answers to bawling chives. A peacock screamed from a distant tree and sailed forth, full-spread?a great gleaming winged Jewel of the air. In crises the nerves tighten like violin strings, the memoryplates turn abnormally sensitive?and Ersklne was not to forget that hour. The house was still and not a soul was In sight as the three, still silent, walked up the great path. When they were near the portico Harry came out. He looked worried and anxious. "Where's Barbara V asked her father. -"Locked In her room." "Let her alone," said Colonel Dale gently. Like brother and cousin, Harry and?Hugh were merely Irritated by the late revelation, but the father was shocked that his child was no longer a child. Ersklne remembered the girl as she waited for Grey's coming at the sundial, her face as she walked with him up t^e path. For a moment the ? two boys stood In moody silence. Harry took the rapiers In and jwP them In their place on the wall. Hugh quietly disappeared. Ersklne, with n word of apology, went* to his room, and Colonel Dale sat down on the porch alone. As the dusk gathered, Ersklne, lookIns eloomllv thrnncrVi Ma ww the girl flutter like n white moth past the hox-hedge and down the path. A moment later he saw the tall form of Colonel Dale follow her?and both passed from sight. On the thick turf the colonel's feet too were noiseless, and when Barbara stopped at the sundial he too paused. She wns unhappy, and the colonel's heart nched aorely, for any unhapplness of hers always trebled his own. "Little Klrl !w he called, and no lover's voice could have been more gentle. "Come here 1" She turned and saw him, with arms outstretched, the low moon lighting all the tenderness In his fine old face, and she flew to him and fell to weeping on his breast. In wise silence be stroked her heir until she grew a little calmer. "What's the matter, little daughter ?" "I?I?don't know." "I understand. Tou were quite tight to send him away, but you did pot want him harmed." "I?I?didn't want anybody banned." "I know. It's too bad, hnt none of us seem quite to trust him." That's It," she sobbed; T don't, either, and yet?" "I know. I know. My little girl must be wise and brave, and maybe It will all pass and she will be glad. But she must be brave. Mother Is not well and she must not be made unhappy too. She must not know. Can't my little girl come back to the house now? Sfce must be hostess and tills Is Brsklne's last night." She looked up, brushing away her tears. "His last night?" Ah, wise old colonel! "Yes?he goes tomorrow to Join Captain Clark at Williamsburg on his foolish campaign In the Northwest. We might never see him again." "Oh, father 1" "Well, It Isnt that bad, but my little girl must be very nice to him. He seems to be very unhappy, too." Barbara looked thoughtful, but there wak no pretense of not understanding. "I'm sorry," she said. She took her father's arm, and when they reached the steps Ersklne saw her smiling. And (smiling, almost gay, nc wns nt Buppnf mu^iik wiiii n* qulslte dignity In her mother's place. Of Krsklne, who sat at her right, she asked many questions about the eomIng campaign. Captain Clnrk had said he would go with a hundred inen if he could get no more. The rallying point would be the fort in Kentucky where he had first come back to his own people, and Dave Yandell would be captain of a company. He himself was going as guide, though he hoped to act as soldier as well. Perhaps they might bring back the TlalrBuyer, General Hamilton, a prisoner to Williamsburg, and then ho would join Harry and Hugh In the militia rf the war came sonth and Virginia were Invaded, as some prophesied, by Tarleton's White Rangers, wl^o had ""* been ravaging the Caroling**' After supper the little lady excused herself with a smiling courtesy to go to her > mother, and Flrsklne found himself In the moonlight on the big portico with Colonel Dale alone. "Erskine," he said, "you make It very difficult for me to keep your aecret. Hugh alone seems to suspect ?he must have got the Iden from Grey, but I have warned him to snv nothing. The_others seem not to hnvr thought of the mntter at all. It wnr g boyish Impulse of generosity whlcli fuu iimj?np?r "Never," Interrupted the boy. "1 have no use?less than ever now." "Nevertheless," the colonel went on "I regard myself as merely yooi steward, and I must tell you one thing Hf- Jefferson, m you kpowv Is alwgji US > \ 1 ' " te Dale ieerM| Fox, RJi Llvt ngst^e^^. af open war with people like us. tils hand la against coach and four, sllvei plate, and aristocrat. He Is fighting | now against the lnw that (fives prop erty to the ehlest son, and he will past I the bill. His argument Is ruther amusing. He says If you will show him that the eldest son eats more, wears more and does more work than his brother* he will gi;ant that that son Is en titled to more. He wants to blot out all distinctions of class. He can't do that, but he will pass this bill." "I hope he will," muttered Ersklne. "Burbara would not accept your sacrifice nor would any of us, and It Is only fair that I %hould warn you that some day. If you should change your mind, and I were no longer living, you might be too late." "Please don't, Uncle Hnrry. It If done?done. Of course, It wasn't full for mo to consider Barbara alone, but she will be fair and you understand I) wish you would regard the whole matter us though I didn't exist." "I can't do that, my boy. I am your steward and when you want anything you hove only to let me know!" Ersklne shook his head. "I don't want anything?I need very little, and when I'm In the woods, as "I'd Like to Go?to Learn to Fence." I expect to be most of the time, I need nothing nt nil." Colonel Dale rose. "I Wish you would go to college nt Williamsburg for a year or two to better fit yourself?In case?" "I'd Ilk* to go?to learn to fence," smiled the boy, and the colonel smiled too. "You'll certainly need to know that, if you arc going to be as reckless as you were today." Erskfne's eyoi darkened. "Uncle Hu'ry, you may think ntr foolish, hut I don't like or trust drey What was he doing with those itritisl traders out In the Northwest??he was not buying fur?. Tt> nbrurfl. Wi? was he hand in glove with Lord Dun niftro?'1 "Lord Dunnu>re lind a daughter," was the dry reply, and Krsklne flunj! out a gesture that made wohls un necessary. Colonel Dale crossed the porch and put his hand on the lad's shoulders. "Ersklne," he said, "don't worry? and?don't give up hope. Be patient wait, come back to us. Clo to Wllllair and Mary. Fit yourself to be one ol ai8 In all ways. Then everything mnj yet come out In the only way that would be fitting and right." The bo> blushed, and the colonel went or earnestly: "1 can think of nothing In the world that would muke me quite so happy.' "It's no use," the boy sifid trembling ly, "but Til never forget what you have just said as long as I live, and no matter what becomes of me, I'll love Barbara as long as I live. But even If things were otherwise, I'd never risk making her unhappy ever by trying. I'm not fit for her nm for this life. I can't get over my life Ir the woods and among the Indians SHERIFF'S SALE Jessie C. Brown V8. A. L. Carter. EXECUTION By virtue 'of an Execution to m< directed, in the above stated case will sell to the highest bidder, at Pub ' lie Auction, within the legal hours o, sale, at Chesterfield Court House on Monday, the 2nd day of Octobei A. D., 1922, the following describe* property to. wit: All that tract o parcl of land, situate, lying and be ing in the county of Chesterfield i South Carolinn,and known as the Jes sic C. Bown land and containinj ' 100 acres, more or less, and bounde< ' by lands of J. P. Morrison and W. T 1 Brown and others levied on and to b< [ sold as the property of A. L. Carte and others. Terms?Cash to satisfy the afore ' I said Execution and costs. nli ml nm. frm?|f ^ 1: II cant explain, f>nf 1 get choked and r can't breathe?such a longing for thg woods cornea over me j and I can't help me. I must go?and ! nothing can hold me." I "Your father was that way," said I Colonel Dale sadly. "Yon may get j over It, but he never did. And It most j he harder for you because of your [ early associations. Good night, and God bless you." Aud the kindly gentleman was gone. Ersklne sat where he was. The house was still and there were no noises from the horses and cattle In the barn?none from roosting peacock, turkey, tfnd hen. From the far-away quarters came faintly the merry mellow notes of a fiddle, and farther still the song of some courting negro returning home. A drowsy bird twittered In an ancient elm at the corner of the house. The flowers drooped In the moonlight which bathed the great path, streamed across the great river, and on up to Its source In the great yellow disk float' Ing In majestic serenity high In the r cloudless sky. And that path, those > flowers, that house, the barn, the cattle, sheep, and hogs, those graln-jflelds ' i and grassy acres, even those singing " | black folk, were all?all his If be but ^ j said the words. The thought was no ; temptation?It was a mighty wonder > j that such a thing could be. And that was all it was?a wonder?to him, but : to them It was the world. Without ft all. what would they do? Perhaps Mr. Jefferson might soon solve the problem for him. Perhaps he might not return from that wtld campaign against the British and the Indians? 1 he might get killed. And then a ' thought gripped him and held him fast?he need not come hack. Thnt mighty wilderness heyond the moun1 tains was his renl home?out there was his real life. He need not come hack, and they would never know. Then came a thought thnt almost f mnde him groan. There was a light step In the hall, and Barbara came swiftly out and dropped on the top; most step with her chin in both hands. Almost ut once she seemed to feel his presence, for she turned her head quickly. 1 "Krsklne!" As quickly he rose, emharawsed beyond speech. "Come here! Why, you look guilty ?what have you been thinking?" He was startled by her Intuition, but he recovered himself swiftly. "I suppose I will always feel guilty if I have made you unhappy." "You haven't mnde me unhappy. I don't know what you have mode me. You saw how I felt If you had killed him, but you don't know how I would have felt If he had killed you. I don't myself." She began patting her hands gently and helplessly together, and again she dropped her chin Into them with her eyes Ufted to the moon. "I shall he very unhnppy when you are gone. I wish you were not going, but I know that you are?you can't help It." Again he was startled. "Whenever you look at that moon over In that dark wilderness, I wish you would please think of your little cousin?will you?" She turned eagerly and he was too moved to speak?he only bowed his head ns for a prayer or a benediction. "You don't kno$ how often our thoughts will cross, and that will be a great comfort to me. Sometimes I um afraid. There Is a wild strain on my mother's side, and It Is In me. Puna known H ami ho lu ...loo? wise?I am afraid I may sometimes do i something very foolish, and it won't he me at all. It will he somebody I that died long ago." She put hotli her hands over both his and held (lieiu tight, i "I waut you to make me a promise." "Anything," said the hoy huskily, "I want you to promise me that, no ! matter when, no matter where you are. If I need you and send for yon , you will come." And Indian-like he i put his forehead on both her little i hands. "Thank you. I must go now." Rewlldered and dazed, the boy rose and awkwardly put out his hand. 1 "Kiss me good-by." She put her arms about his neck, and for the first l. time in his life the boy's lips met u woman's For a moment she put her face against his and at his ear was a ' whisper. ; "Good-by, Krsklnel" And she was gone?swiftly?leaving the boy In a ; dizzy world of falling stars through i which a white light leaped to heights his soul had never dreamed. i CHAPTER XIII with rue n.?nci or that column ot stalwart backwoodsmen went Dave 1 Vandell and Ersklne Dale. A hunting ( Dartj of four Hhawnces heard theb coming through the woods, and, lying like snakes in the undergrowth, peered t out and saw them pass. Then they rose, and Crooked Lightning looked I at Mlnck Wolf and. with a grunt of ang.'y satisfaction, led the way homeI ward. And to the village they bore , the news that White Arrow had made good ids word and. side by side with , the big chief of tlie Long Knives, was leading a war party against his tribe and kinsmen. And Knrly Morn carried the news to her mother, who lay siek in a wigwam. The miracle went swiftly, and Kasknskia fell. Stealthily a cordoft of hunters surrounded the little town. The rest stole to the walls of the fort. Lights flickered from within, the e sounds of violins and dancing feet I came through crevice and wlprtoW. * linn ?? imi ngiire sioie noiselessly into " the great hall, where the Creoles were ' .innking merry ami leaned silently with ? folded arms against the doorpost, lookIng on at the revels with a grave smile, i The light from the torches flickered r across his face, and an Indian lying on the floor sprang to his feet with a curdling war-whoop. Women screamed ' and men rushed toward the door. The " stranger stood motionless and his grim ?; smile was unchanged. ^ 1 "Dance on 1" he commanded courteously, "but remember," he added B sternly, "you dance under Virginia and r not Great Britain I" rere was a great nolae behind him. dashed Into the fort, and ltoche*. blave and his officers were prisoners. I By daylight Clark had the town dis to ThS republic, ~or Popart with their , families In peace. As for their church, he had nothing to do w th any church save to protect It from insult. So that ' the people who had heard terrible sto- j rles of the wild woodsmen and who ' expected to he killed or made slaves. Joyfully became Americans. They even gave Clark a volunteer company to march with him upon Cahokla, and that village, too, soon became American. Father Glhault volunteered to go to Vlncennes. Vlnceanes gathered In the church to hear him, and then flung the Stars and Stripes to the winds of freedom above the fort. Clark sent one cuptain there to take command. With a handful of hardy men who conld have been controlled only ; by him, the dauntless one had conquered a land aa big as any Guropeun kingdom. Now he b"d to govern ahd protect It. He had to keep loyal an alien race and hold his own against " the British and numerous tribes of In- | dlans, bloodthirsty, treacherous and deeply embittered against all Amerl- : cans. ||e was hundreds of miles from I any American troops; farther still from the seat of government, and ; could get no advice or help for perhaps a year, i And those Indians poured Into Cahokla?a horde of them from every tribe between the-Qrent Cakes and the Mississippi?chiefs ami warriors of j every Importance; but not before , Clurl/ li.wl < .. I ? - v....n ?uu luinicu ii 1111 uruieu rour companies of volunteer Creoles. "Watch him!" sfild Dave, and Ersklne did, marveling sit the man's knowledge of the Indian. He did not live In the fort, but always on guard, always seemingly confident, stayed openly In town while the savages, sullen and grotesque, strutted In full war panoply through the straggling streets, Inquisitive and Insolent, their eyes burning with the lust of plunder and murder. For days he sat In the midst of the ringed warriors and listened. On the second day Erskine saw Kahtoo In the throng and Crooked Lightning and Black Wolf. After dusk that day he felt the fringe of his hunting*, shirt plucked, and an Indian, with face , hidden In a blnnket, whispered as he ' passed: I "Tell the big chief." he said In 8hawnee, "to be on guard tomorrow "Tell the Big unief," He Said in Shawnee, "to Be on Guard Tomorrow Night.". night." He knew It wns some kindly j tribesman, nnd he wheeled and went to Clerk, who smiled. Already the big , chief had guards concealed in his little house, who seized the attacking , Indians, while two minutes later the j townspeople were under arms. 'Hie captives were put In 4rons, and Krsklno saw among them the crestfallen faces i?f Rlack Wolf and Crooked j Lightning. The Indians pleaded that they were trying to lest the friendship of the French for Clark, hut Clark. | refusing all requests for their release, remained silent, haughty, indifferent. , fearless. He still refused to take ref i uge in tlie fort, and called in a numbei of ladies and gentlemen to his house, 1 where they danced all night amid tlie i council-tires of the bewildered sav- 1 ages. rsext morning he stood In the i center of their ringed warriors with ] the tasselcd shirts of his rlllemen I massed behind hlrn, released the cap- I tive chiefs and hunded them the bloody war belt of wampum. "I scorn your hostility nnrt treachery. You deserve death, but you shall I leave In safety. In three days I shall begin war on you. If you Indians do i not want your women and children i killed?stop killing ours. We shall see i who can mnke that war belt the most ] bloody. While you have been in my 1 camp you have had food and fire- 1 water, but now that I have finished, i you must depart speedily." The captive chief spoke and so did old Kahtoo, with his eyes fixed sadly but proudly on his adopted son. They had listened to had birds and been led 1 astray by the Hrltish?henceforth they ' would be friendly with the Americans. 1 Hut Clark was not satisfied. "I come as a warrior," he said 1 haughtily; "I shall be a friend to the i friendly. If you choose war I shall send so muny warriors from the Tliir teen Council-Fires that your land shall be darkened and you shall hear no sounds but that of the birds who liva an " A -i ..... .... ...... 'u. null >11.-11 111- llil IHM'U forth two bolls of peace ami war, and they eagerly took the belt of peace. The treaty followed next day and Clark Insisted that two of the prisoner^ should he put to death; and as the two selected came forward Ersklne saw Illack Wolf was one. lie whispered with Clark and Knhtoo, and Crooked Lightning saw the big chief with his hand on Krsklne's shoulder I and heard hint forgive the two am! " tell them to depart. And thus pence , was won. StralgUt way old Kahtoo pushed through the warriors and, plucking the btg chief by the sleeve, pointed to Ers j klne. "That Is my son," he psid, "and 1 want him to go home with me." "lie shall go," saWl Clark quickly, "but he shall return, j whenever It < V _ ?--- * < And so TTrakTne went forth ont morning at dawn, and hlg coming Into the Shawnee camp was like the coming of a king. Karly Morn greeted him with glowing eyes, his fostermother brought him food, looking proudly upon him, and old Kalitoo harangued his braves around the council-pole, while the prophet and Crooked Lightning sulked in their tents. "My son spoke words of truth," he proclaimed sonorously, "lie warned us against the king over the waters and told us to make friends with the Americans. We did not heed his words, and so he brought the great chief of the Long Knives, who stood without fear among wurrlors more numerous than leaves and spoke the same words to all. We are friends of the Long Knives. My son Is the true prophet. Bring out the false one and Crooked Lightning und Black Wolf, whose life my son saved though the two were eueinies. My son shall do with thein as he pleases." Many young braves sprang wllllngly forward and the three were haled before Krskine. Old Kuhtoo waved his hand toward them and sat down. Erskine rose and fixed his eyes sternly on the cowering prophet: "He shall go forth from the vlllage and shull never return. For his words work mischief, he does foolish things, and his drumming frightens the game, lie lsja false prophet and he must gu." He turned to Crooked Lightning: "The Indians have made peace with the Long Knives and White Arrow would make peace with auy Indiun, though an enemy. Crooked Lightning shall go or stay, us he pleases. Black Wolf shall stay, for the trlhe will need him as a hunter and u warrior against me r.ngnsn IW8 or the Long Knives. White Arrow does not ask another to spare an enemy's life and then take It away himself." The braves grunted approval. Black Wolf and Crooked Lightning averted tlieir faces and the prophet shambled uneasily away. Again old Kahtoo proclaimed sonorously, "It Is well 1" and went hack with Erskine to his tent. There he sank wearily on a buffaloskin and pleaded with the hoy to stay with them as chief in his stead. He was very old, and now that peace was made with the Long Knives he was willing to die. If Erskine would but give his promise, he would never rise again from where he lay. Erskine shook his head and the old man sorrowfully turned his face. And yet Erskine lingered on and on at the village. Of the white woman he had learned little other than that she had been bought from another tribe and adopted by old Kahtoo; lint it was plain that since the threatened burning of her she had been held in high respect by the whole tribe, lie began to wonder about her uud whether she might not wish to go back to her own people. He had never talked with her, but he never moved about the camp that he did not feel her eyes 'upon him. And Early Morn's big soft eyes, too, never seemed to leave him. She brought him food, she sat at the door of hi* tent, she followed him about the village und bore herself openly as his slave. At last old Kahtoo. who would not give up his great hope, pleaded with him to marry her, and while he was talking the girl stood at the door of the lent and interrupted them. Her mother's eyes were growing dim. she said. Her mother wanted to talk with White Arrow and look upon his face before Iter sight should altogether pass. Nor could Erskine know thai the white woman wanted to look iht< the eyes of the man she hoped woulf become her daughter's husband, bu Kahtoo did. and he bane wrskme go Llis foster mother, coining uix?n the scene, scowled, but Erskine rose and went to the white woman's tent. She Sat lust inside the ooeninir with u blanket across the lower half of her face, nor did she look at him. Instead she piled him with questions, ind listened eagerly to hfs every word, ind drew from him every detail of liis life as far hack as ae could reiiemher. I'oor soul, it was the tirst ?pportunity for many years that she liad had to talk with any white perBon who had been in the eastern world, and freely and frankly he held lothlng hack. All the while the girl had crouched near, looking at Erskine with doglike eyes, and when he rose to go the woman dropped the blanket from her face and got to her feet. Shyly she lifted her hands, took his face between them, bent close, and studied It searchlngly: "What Is your name?" "Erskine Dale." Without a word she turned back Into her tent. At dusk Erskine stood by the river's brim, with bis eyes lifted to a rising moon and Ids thoughts witk Barbara on the hank of the James Behind him he heard a rustle and. turning, he saw the girl, her breast throbbing and her eyes burning with n light he had never seen before. "Black Wolf will kill you," she whispered. "Black Wolf wants Early Horn and he knows that Early Morn wants White Arrow." Erskine put both hands on her shoulders and looked down into her eyes. She trembled, and when his arms went nlgmt her she surged closer to hlin rind the touch of her warm,^supple body went through him like tire. And then with a triumphant smile she sprang hack. "Black Wolf will see," she whispered. and fled. Erskine sank to the ground, with his head in his hands. The girl ran hack to her tent, and the mother, peering at the flushed face and shining eyes, clove to the frntli Khn uAlKlnw I-*..* ...U/vw the plrl was asleep and faintly smiling, the white woman sat staring ont Into the moonlit woods, softly heating her breast. (To be continued next week.) VHE UNIVERSAL CAR CARS, TRUCKS, TRACTORS SERVICE PARTS tesasasse i' '!"y M'j 1 J. I'agg ' CAROLINA EXPOSITION Charlotte, N. C. ? On Monday I September 25th, the doors of the "Made In Carolina" Exposition will be thrown open and a show excelling by 1 0 far anything of the kind held in the I South will be on. The Exposition building itself' is ideally adapted to the purpose for which it is to be used. Built of brick I and stone, 100x300 feet of floor 1' space on each of the two floors, three1 fifths of which is devoted exclusively to the display of manufactures' exhibits. In the neighborhood of 200 manufactures are represented in the list of exhibitors and the comparatively small remaining space is being applied for rapidly. The auditorium on the second floor of the Exposition building, in which the concerts, afternoon and evening, will be held, has a seating capacity of 3,000. The stage is unusually well adapted to the purposes for which it will be used, and might easly be employed^for any kind of road show or theatrical perfomance. The location of the building is in ,vi.. nir ,.-.1 ,K- /> ha imnrmroil mum on Park avenue in Dilworth, it may be reached both by way of South Boulevard and by the way of South Tryon Street. Parking of automobiles will be up and down both of these main thoroughfares; but Park Avenue itself will be open to traffic lfotli ways and consquently parking on this street will not be allowed. There is no additional parking space available except one lot in the rear of the building, and this is held exclusively for the use of exhibitors. Every effort has been made to provided in advance for the safety and convenience of the crowd which will attend the Exposition. There are five large exits from the upper floor, rest rooms for gentleman and ladies, ample telephone and wire conveniences?in a word, modern facilities inevery respect. Mayor James O. Walker and Chief of Police Walter B. Orr have cooperated most heartily with the officials of the Carolinas Exposition Company in arranging for the proper management and control of traffic as well as for the preservation of order and the protection of the public. The fares charged at the Exposition will be twenty cents for ehilden-and forty cents for adults throughout the entire Exposition, with the exception of Society Nipht, which will be fifty cents and the charge for adults on dollar. Special days already aranged for or in process of planning are as follows : September 26th, Kiwanis Day; September 27th, Gaston County Day; September 29th,Cabarrus County Day; October 3d, Merchants' Day; October 4th, Iredell County Day; October 5th, Lincoln County Day; and October Gth, Winston-Salem Day. With every railroad in the entire South offering a fare and a half rate for the round trip during the entire Exposition peroid, and with an enthusiasm for the "Buy At Home" Mov ment and for the "Made In Carolinas" n. ia.1 l: .1. 11 / !i - r 1 4 rjX|M>siLiuii, which is wic iruu ui time movement, spreading throughout this entire section of the boutheusi., it it. being freely predicted that more than 100,000 people will visit and learn from the "Made In Carolinas" Exposition of 1922. MILLIONS WASTED WITH NO RETURN Washington, Sept. 14.?To the general* public, the boll weevil is a pestiferous insect which does somehing to the cotton crop. To the cotton grower the boll weevil is a cataclysm, a disaster, a night mare of terror. To the country as a whole boll weevil is the cause of an economic oss of unguessed proportions. According to statistics of the Department of Agriculture, in the year 1921 the crop of cotton harvested vas 7,964,000 bales. It should have been 18,606,000, but 10,712,000 were mined by natnral causes, and of this normous quantity so destroyed the poll weevil alone accounted for 6,277,000 bales, worth with the seed vhich would have ginned, $610,341,000. For the thirteen-year period 1909-1921 the damage done by the noli weevil reached the enormous toal of $3,1*02,162,000. It is obvious that science can, if it ill. eradicate the boll weevil, iust as t eradicated the mosquito and mania and yellow fever from the Canal Zone. At one time one of the most deadly spots on the face of the globe, Jie Canal Zone, is now one of the icalthiest. The job was done because here was urgent need, real American determination, and no lack of money. The boll weevil can be eradicated, >r at least, controlled, and will be. when the Government spends enough money at one time to do it, and not before. It is pointed out in Congress hat had one-half of the damage done >y the boll weevil been spent in fightng it, it would now be gone forever, 'otton is a necessary of life, and the "outh, the great source of world cot011. Not to pro'tect the product and Is growers by ample appropriation: o stamp out the insect which is enemy not only of Americans but of all mankind, is to refrain from spending money in home defense as truly as if it were a human enemy instend of an nsect one, which menaces prosperity. 666 Cur** Malaria, Chill* and Faver, Dengue or Biliov* Fever, It kill* th? llttbatfiiMiMMh " ^Bj| UNUSUAL PRISONER AT ||9 | SPARTANBURG COUNTY JAIL Z3 Spartanburg Herald: 2 An unusual prisoner in the Spartanburg county jail is Rev. S. O. . | Whitman, of Oconee county, who is serving a six month's "Sentence imi posed by the federal court in Green- -fl j ville on the charge of violating the SPi national prohibition law. Sheriff Miller and Jailer Lancaster say Mr. Whitman has been a model prisoner and has given them no trouble. Mr. Whitman claims he is a victim of a conspiracy, a "frameup," by "-3 moonshiners of Oconee county, who "??i took this method of getting revenge on him because he had reported some of them for operating moonshine | j still'. According to the minister's >. j story, most of his neighbors in Ocoinee county had been engaged in the i manufacture of whiskey, and after he i had begged them to desist and they I had refus?rl to .in ?n ho v,.r?ort.wi of thorn to the* officers. The officers asked him to get futher evidence, and he then toid some of his neighbors that he had a curiosity to see a still in operation. They told him they would be y.l id to gratify his wish, and told him to come to a certain place on c? rt.ile ni-rhf. lie did so. and found ;j| what he supposed to !>e a still in operation. Just after he appeared on the scene, he said th owners of the plant ran off and officers c: me up and arrested him. llis trial and conviction followed, the court sentencing him to s< rve six months in the Spartanburg jail. His sentence will expire about the last of October. HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN LAURENS COUNTY Laurens, Sept. 1 A fatal family quarrel occurred five miles southwest of Cs > 11 i 1'. ' ur. in county, this afternoon, uh n -lohn Boyd, aged 23, was probably merlally wounded by his father, William Boyd, and in turn the sou killed his father, shooting him three t i .. s with a pistol, lohn Boyd, t' e son, w.i shot in the abdomen with a heavy charge of shot according to the l.'unns officers who returned from i.hc scene of the tragedy at 7 o'clock, .lohn Boyd is not expected to live through the night, according to attending physicians. The shooting took place in the public road in front of the Boyd home. Officer.- state that .lohn Boyd was still conscious when they left the scene at 0 o'cb !< and that the young man said his father shot first and was attempting to reload his gun when he opened fire on the father. The officers say that one of the Boyd hoys stated that the father was nunishing some < f the smaller children when dohn Boyd interferred. The elder Boyd then turned his wrath on the son; get his gun and invited John [ into the yard or roa 1 for a settle* | inont. Within a few minutes the hooting oceun\ 1, it is alleged. The coroner is holding an inciuest for William Boyd tonijvht. lie was about ISO years old and had a wife and 12 children, John, who is fatally shot, bcinp ih< i ld?-i child. Boyed *va; a f an . and lived on Crock. AIDING FARM WOMEN TO V.ARsET HOME PRODUCE Th? Demonstration Agents >f South Carolina Inst week assembled at Winthiop College, Rook Hill, S. C., for a ^necia! meeting. For five lays they had iwive training in studying a : st of making a great r profit in i oultry. The call to h !p the farm woman market her pr-dm is sounding louder in the ears of the Home Demonstration Departnu i.t than any other prol.km Fvvv etl'ort is being made to train the 1! ?me Demonstration A pent that sh" may he of greatest value to the women in the oonnt.v vvhcvv she b 1 <> i:?* i. She is helping the farm women pass through this present valley and nproach the upIniuls of th< I'ntun i>\ making money "vom the sale of food j roducts. Special omphasi- is being given to canning the products of ih" Home Demonstration IV due i ' A socinlion. The Pine t) rk 1' h Stew, as madt by tln< eoa.-l counties of our . late, is bentr used by tb.is association. This recipe was I've ntly completed by the; * State Con rrvation -Vceialist. The . lab m: .'.ets that are being successfully on t.' liy t! " farm women of civ ! . a c still prosperous in is ounce . 'I his is splendid that so m . survived the long dry summer er. on. \*ew inspiration .vas given the cc.vnt; l\\ the excellent address given on "Woman's Part in Our Future V riciiltural Program," by Assistant Director, D. W. Watkins. Many counties which are unable to have a club market are shipping produce to Char'i vton which is sold there by Miss Carolina Alston, the County ilone Demonstration Agent of Charleston County. This is particularly tru of poultry products. This ne-? cessitated giving to the agents the special work in packing and shipping <?l poultry, caponizing, killing poultry f >r market, hou inj^- and feeding of poultry, and grading of eggs. This instruction \\*ns given by poultry specialists, Miss Juanita Neely, Mr. N. R. Merhof and Mi Gladys Tappiui. Cutting and curing meat was a practical and opportune lesson given the agents by Mr. I). T. Herrman, of ' Clemson College. After this beneficial training, the agents will return to their counties with ft much greater detrree o* : fiiiiliiiiiaiiftaiiHMiaMM