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OF THE
GEORGIA-CAROLINA FAIR
Association
WILL BE HELD AT
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
NOVEMBER 8-13,1909.
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When the
Cyclone
Struck
By A. F. RANSOM
INCLUSIVE
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PRESIDENT TAFT will again visit ‘‘his
winter home” and make the opening ad
dress at the Fair Grounds Monday, Nov.
8th, at 12 o’clock, and all Georgia and South
Carolina will be there to do him honcr on
this occasion. If ycu are interested in Agri
culture, Horticulture, Live Stock and Poultry,
you cannct afford to miss a visit to these
exhibits.
Do You Love to See Good Races?
Copyright, 1909. by American Frets Airo-
ci.lien
m HE keen Kray eyes of the elilei
mini searched the blue ones on
rue opposite side of the gate
lu them was a certain honesty
Btrungly tinctured with a look of re
lief.
"I can’t tell you how much obliged
I am. Mr. Iteame.” the youiiK man
aald. "I couldn’t help but feel that
now tills trouble bus come you wouldn’
want me around.* 1 •
••I’ve lived right hero on this farn
for tifty-slx years," replied Iteame
•’and there’s no one above Around wli
cun say that I ever naked m.tu. wnmuir
or child to take part In any of in;
quarrels."
The young man nodded. "There Isn’t
many men who can say that.” •
"It Isn’t that I’ve anything against
your father in this affair." continual.
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If you do, you will not be disappointed when you see them this
year, for they willl be the best ever seen South.
wilt make all the difference In the
world. Those trees are ours. They
shall not be cnt down. Until yon are
willing to say that they are ours and
not yours I will never speak to you
again—that la. In the way you have
aaked me to."
“See here, little girl," Interposed her
father, turning her face upward with
bis hand; “1 have told you that this la
my quarrel. I don’t want you young
folks to mix In. Mr. ETolcolm and I
can settle It without help." .
’That doesn’t make any difference,"
she persisted. “I’ll never marry Ben
or meet him except as a stranger until
he says that those trees nre on our
land. He’s got to say so before the
lawsuit comes off. or I never will.**
She did not wait for an answer, but
with head high In air and a poor at
tempt at a dignity which bad no exist
ence she turned and left them. They
watched until the shrubbery hid her
from sight, and then Iteame turned to
Ben, with a smile.
“I didn’t think she’d take It quite so
much to heart," be said, “but she’s
pretty hard hit. Those trees have
been her playmates for a good many
years now.”
"If we had only known.” said Ben.
“perhaps It might have been avoided,
but father Is set In his way and thinks
he has a right to do as be pleases with
his own. It’s making It pretty hard
for me, though. 1 didn’t think Vlnnie
would turn me down as she has.”
"And she’ll persist. You're between
two fires now." Ilea me paused, glanc
ed around and continued:
“The air is hotter than boiling oil,
and unless I’m mistaken we'll get a
regular northwester before dark.
There's some tools down at the ex
press office 1 must get up before it
reaches here, so I’ll go along to your
place with you, Ben."
They walked slowly on In the after
noon sunshine. The air was hot and
the sun boat down with a fervor
which was almost overpowering. Away
to the west a cloud was banging, low,
black and ominous. Not a breuth of
wind was stirring, and the leaves of
the maples hung wilted from their
stems. The birds barely skimmed the
earth In their flight, and the crows
were keeping up uu lncpssant cawing,
while a peacock on the rail fence
which separated the Uolcolm garden
from the barnyard was tilling the air
with Us dlscordunt cry.
"We are to have a storm, and ££■'-
before Iteame gets home again." m
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Hue [uiiiul null lull ilium.
Iteame. "But for nearly sixty years
I’ve watched the birds build their _ — „— ,.
nests In those trees. 1 climbed those tered Ben after his companion lit |
The Foot Ball Game Nov. 10th
Will be exciting from start to finish. Both Clemson and Geor
gia are very strong this year and may expect to see some sensa
tional plays.
The Air Ship VI Fly Night and Day
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«I THE FIREWORKS will be grand. «J THE MIDWAY THE
BEST. €J THE DIVING HORSES, just from N. Y. Hippodrome, |
| “Ford’s Original Trotting Ostriches.” The big happy crowd will all '
be there. <1 TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CHEAP RAILROAD
1 RATES ON ALL ROADS entering the city. For full information ,.
1 address, • I
/Ipplint, Dots.
Mis. .1.1) Howell is much improv
ed, v. hi eh is gratifying to lur many
i muds
Mr. A, VY. smith visited Statesboro,
(his week.
Mr. Felix Kelly lias bought the
Bl'.uai place, and will reside in Ap
pling soon.
v. Item Crawford, wife and sen
visit. J Vigusia th ; .s week.
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Av>. -Ti »*«£•■
Judge !H. Callaway is erecting
tist Fnd,
some Mil staneial improvements oil his
Trine uosk.
Lampkin place near Appling. He is
The farmers in this section a r e about
perhaps the largest land owners in
(’olumbia countv.
through picking cotton and arc getting
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ready to sow their wheat and oat crop, j
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i Rev. J. M. Atkinson has been called
Mrs. T. J. Carlin is spending this j
: as pastor, by Kiokee Church for next
week in August2.
i year. Mr Atkinson is a faithful and
Mr. Rob Graves, Mr. Xamon Ed-.
* ellleienl minister and is highly esteem-
.
moods; Misses Mela Edmonds and j
Kathleen Graves, all of Lincoln county ;
Monday.
- Mr. and Mrs. Konnedy Rhoden and
Mr. John Cox attended preacliinc
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar I,. Williams
attended the Centennial at Union
The little Mind son of Mrs. Cora
ed by all our people.
J attended the Robinson Show here! the past two weeks with his eyes.
hickories for nuts when 1 wasn't big
ger than a pint of eider, and It's been
to those maples that I've looked for
the first situs of sap. Maybe they’re
not mine. 1 don't Uuow. I've always
supposed they were, and they shan't
be cut down without u tight to save
them."
Out from tln> house down to the gate
Where the men were talking came a
girl, dressed all in pink, a soft, fluffy
pink which reminded one of a cloud
at sunrise, while her hair lay piled
above her head In a great mass of
golden light. She gave the young man
a simple nod of greeting while passing
a hand through her father’s arm. Her
presence seemed to bring a constraint
upon the recipient of the nod. for he
spoke with a diffidence not noticeable
before.
‘ We supposed when we bought our
place that the irees belonged lo us.
and when you said they were your
property father had the land surveyed.
The decision was that the trees were
on our land or. of course, father would
never have touched them. They are
grown so large that the field is practi
cally useless because of their shade.
Nothing wili ripen there.”
"I’ve had surveys made myself.”
came Ilcauie's ready response. "It has
been done three times to my certain
knowledge and each time In my favqf.
Besides. I offered to buy I he field of
your father, not because 1 eared for
the land, but to preserve the trees."
"He doesn't want to sell"—the eyes
of the young man were on the girl In
pink—"and I presume the only way
out Is to let the courts decide. Father
says just what you do—that the
quarrel need not In any way Interfere
with us young folks. I'm sorry that
it can't he settled In some other way.
but it won't make any difference with
the friendship of our families."
"Do vial think those trees are on
your father's land. Ben Holcoltu?" de
manded the girl suddenly.
"I should not have cut one of them
down if 1 did not, Ylnuie," ho replied
in surprise.
"It's just like killing an old friend”
Tier :a <> was cold, but tears were in
the voice which held so much of pro-
tes:. “l used to build my playhouse
under that no, and I've spent many
an hour in the crotch where the tree
branched. !t was there 1 used ti study
m> lessons, and now you've cut it
down."
"Wo did not- know how you felt
about tlvm. YVe supposed that they
wore ours, and if they are father In
tends to have the rx t them all. Now
that your father has arrested mine for
trespass and destroying property the
only thing 1 d't is to light it out. But.
Yitiiiie. it wo:.'- make any difference
with us. will it?"
She turned resolutely from him.
left him. "No matter. It can’t be any
worse than the one we stirred up.
when we chopped that maple down.
Who’d have thought it would have
brought on all this trouble? Who do
those trees belong to, anyway? Iteame
Is honest us sunshine and wouldn’t
put up such a light If be didn’t think
he was standing on sure ground."
lie stopped at the fence and looked
at the sky. The cloud In the west
was no nearer, the air was stifling,
while a muffled grumbling kept sound
ing away off where the cloud hung.
"I’ll get the cattle under cover,” he
said to himself. "When that cloud
gets to moving there’ll be something
doing, or I’m no Judge."
A half hour later the cows were
housed, the chores well under way,
and he was in the mow of the barn
throwing down bay, when there came
a sound like the roar of a breaking
dam, n crash that deafened, and all
Was black as roid-
r~ ~ —““• night. The rain
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came in torrents,
beating upon the
roof like pebbles
thrown from a
thousand slings.
The wind whis
tled and rumbled
while he stood
quiet, not daring
to move until the
darkness less
ened. Thus five
minutes went by.
*;T>* 51 \ 1 and then he slow-
jS/f I j ly. carefully grop-
"ffl Zyi I to the little
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arc to have a
sinrin.”
It
against the side
of the nearest
stall, down that
atxl then to the
door to look out.
Of the great
s 11- a w stack
which had been
standing beside
the barn not a spear was left, the car
riage bouse was piled; a chaotic heap.
n/Most the hern. other outbuildings
b id disappeared, half the ti in the
orchard were unrooted, the smoke
house of the Malcolms was reposing
very nicely against the Iteame kit' her.
door, and for yards around nothing
could be seen but devastation.
While be stood there a thought came
which made his check grow white.
When bringing up the cows lie had
noticed away over In the Berime pas
ture a pink robed figure. Had 7 lnnie
re:o■!(,<(] home hef tv the storm struck?
Whore was she now? Begnrdless of
the rain, which still fell ns though the
heavenly faucet had been turned on
full f c • !•" started on a run up tlio
road. ’> to the Ron mo house lie dashed.
No one n a i here hut Mrs. Iteame, ..d
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