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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
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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
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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 _
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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.)
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1 0
far anything of the kind held in the
I South will be on.
The Exposition building itself' is
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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
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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