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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-13
Breeding Places.

Every cotton stalk left in the field
with a boil or square upon it means
an additional feeding and breeding
place for boil weevils. 1t means that
there will be just that many more Of
the insects to go into winter quarters
under trash and stubble and particu-
larly under Spanish moss on the bor-
ders of the fields 1t means further
that there will be just that many more
weeyils to begin breeding and multi
plying and destroying the new crop
next season
1t is for these reasons that the de-
partment is urging every cotton plant
er in infested territory to root out
and burn every cotton stalk, or to
plow them under on October 1st. With
comparatively few of the weevils car
ried over to next year, it will require
longer time for them to multiply in
sufficient numbers to do serious dam,
age.
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MUST DESTROY
ALL INFESTED
COTTON STALKS
PLAN OF CAMPAIGN AGAINST BOIL.
WEEYIL.

The particular object of the boil Wee
vii meeting which has been called in
Thomasville on Friday, September IT,
is to stress the importance of thor
oughly cleaning up all cotton fields by
October /. The meeting has been call.
ed by the Georgia Board of Entomology
in conjunction with the Board of Trade
of Thomasville, and it is being widely
advertised throughout south and south
west Georgia in the hope that every
county in the southern section of het
safe will be well represented.
Destroy Stalks.
The most important thing to do
right at this time, according to State
Entomologist E. Lee Worsham and
those associated with him, is to de-
stroy every cotton stalk in the in
tested territory and in territory con-
tigious to it by the first of October.
There are many farmers who will not
understand the Importance of this step
unless it is forcibly impressed upon
them. The trouble in many cases is
that they will have left a small top
crop, which at present prices they will
hesitate to destroy.
AS a matter of fact, however, this
years cotton crop was unusually early
and, with the exception of the very
small top crop which really will prove
almost negligible, all the cotton viii
have been picked by or before Oc-
tober l.
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time q mighty gust OF wind swept
athwart the waste. hot as a furnace.
blast. In a trice dust enveloped man
and horse. a sitting cloud Of super.
heated particles that stung the flesh
like a myriad needles. And then dark.
ness fell. the twilight OF hades. q cop.
percolored pail. Nothing remained
visible beyond arms length.
Blinded. half ~suffocated. unspeak.
ably dismayed and b%ewildered. the
broncho swung round. back TO the
blast, and refused to bulge another
inch.
Himself more than half-dazed. but
still bounded by his nightmare vision
OF Judith. Alan dismounted to escape
being torn bodily from the saddle by
that hellish s%and.blast. and Selling
the bride sought 70 draw the horse
on with him.
He wasted his strength In that en-.
deavor: the animal balked, planted
It's hoofs deep In the sand, stifiened
It's legs and resisted with the stub.
bornness OF a rock: then. of a sudden,
jerked his head smartly. snapped the
bride from his grasp and flung away.
scudding before the storm.
Pursuit was out OF the question::
indeed. the bride was barely torn
from his hand before Alan lost sight
OF the broncho.
For a mcment he stood rooted In
CONSERVATION as In a bog-wtth an
arm u%pthrown across his face.
Then the thought OF Judith re-
Head Bonded and shoulders rounded.
he began TO forge a way into the teeth
OF the sandstone.
How long he fought on. pitting his
strength against the elements, cannot
DO reckoned.
In the end he stumbled blindly down
a slight decline and was abruptly
conscious hat he had In some way
found shelter from the full force OF the
wind.
He staggered on another yard or
two. breathing more freely. and blum.
dered into a rough.ribbed wall OF rock
some sporadic outcrop. he under.
stood. whose bulk stood between him
and the storm.
He thought 10 rest for a time, until
the storm had spent It's greatest
strength; but as he laid his shoulder
gratefully against the rock and
scrubbed the dust from his smarting
eyes he Jaw what he at first conceived
10 be a Authorization: Judith Urine
standing within q gst6 ct him. alive.
strong. free.
He stared increduiously. saw her
recognize him. open her mouth 70
utter u wondering cry that was maud.
BILE. and come quickly nearer.
Alan You came for me-. You fol.
lowed me, through all this!"
He threw on her hand with a bitter
iaugh-that was like the croakinE OF n
raven as II issued from his bone dry
throat-and In momentary possession
OF hysteric madness. reeled away from
the woman and the shelter Of the rock
and delivered himself anew 10 the
mercy OF the dust-storm.
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speakabie and TO think OF Alan as a
mortal enemy and AZ one whose death
alone could properly roQuite the cruel
injury that had been done her father;
and though the nan himself had
laughed Il scorn her first involuntary
confession OF that love for him which
now consumed her being with It's In.
satiable fires. she swallowed her
chagrin and followed him with the
solicitude OF one whose love can recos-
nizo no wrong in It's object. Through
all the remainder OF that day OF terror
she was never far from his side.
With the meekness OF the strong,
she made herself his shadow. And
she n now the stronger. for she had
had more than an hours rest beside
tho waterhole, which he had missed
on the way OF that rocky windbreak.
Sooner or later his strength must fail
him and he would need her: Till then
she was content 10 bide her hour.
II befell presently In startling fash.
ion; she was not a yard behind him
when he vanished abruptly.
But the next moment Judith herself
was trembling on the orumbling brink
OF an arroyo OF depth and width in.
determinable In the %obscurity Of the
duststorm. Down this. evidently,
Alan had fallen in his dizzy blindness.
She found him insensible. lying with
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two trails Joined and struck out across
the desert. And here he discovered
what he thought indisputable indica-
ton that the fright OF Judith's horse
had persisted.
Abandoning Immediately all notion
OF returning through the hills by the
ridge-trail, he turned and swung away
at the best pace he could spur from
his broncho, delivering himself into
the pitiless embrace OF that implaca.
bio wilderness Of sun and sand.
AT long intervals he would check
the broncho and. Keeling In his saddle,
endeavor to sweep tho desert with his
binoculars.
And toward the middle OF the after.
o he fancied that something re-
warded one such effort; something
for an instant swan athwart the field
OF the glasses: something that seemed
to o like a weary horse with a
human figure bound to its back.
But now the phenomena were dis
cernible which, had he been more des.
ert wise. would have made him pause
and think before he ventured farther
from those hills. already beyond
reach as they were.
His FIRST appreciated warning came
when the surface Of the Desert seemed
TO lit and shake like the top OF a
canvas tent in a gale. At the same
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CHAPTER xL.
The Man In the Shadow.

Two hundred feet, II one. Hopi Jim
fell from the lip OF the cliff. Then sud.
denly the thing that had been Hopi
Jim slade was checked In It's headlong
descent by the outstanding trunk OF a
tree. over which II remained, doubled
no. limp. horrible
The miniature landslide that had
been caused by his fall went on,
settling gradually as the slope be.
care less sheer. Only part OF II. a
double handful OF pebbles. gained the
bottom OF the canyon.
lts mufied impact on the ground
round his feet reused the man who
had comprised the bandits death from
the pose he had unconsciously as
sumed on the instant OF firing.
He stepped back. and snatched up
q case containing binoculars.
Not before the glasses were adjusted
TO bis vision did he find time to re-
spopa absently TO the alarmed and in.
sistant inquiries OF his two compan-
ions. a man OF his own < and a girl
OF some years less. who had been
Weakened from their sleep by the re.
port OF the rifle.
Now the latter plucked his sleeve,
m~omentarily DETECTING the glasses
from the object which they were fol.
lowing so sedulously as II moved
along the heights: q wildly running
horse with q womaa bound helpless
upon its back. both sharply In sill.
houstte against the burning blue.
Alan the girl demanded. what
10 ~ Why did you fire? Why won't
you answer me7 What is IT."
Judith" Alan replied tersely, again
picking up with the glasses the run.
away horse that fed so madly along
the perilous and narrow track OF the
hill trail.
The name was echoed from two
! hroats as Alan swung sharply and
thrust the glasses into the hands OF
the girl.
Judith" he affirmed with a look OF
poignant solicitude. shes roped to
the back OF that crazy broncho-help.
less See for yourself: one false step
suppose a stone turns beneath Il,
hoot-shen be killed."
While the girl focused her glasses
upon that speck that flew against the
sky Alan turned TO the two horses
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CHAPTER XII.
The Trail Of Flying Hoot.Prlnts.

WV fffNhss
In the st'll air OF that young day the
chill OF night fingered stubhornly-
and would until the shadow OF the
eastern rampant had crept slowly
down the canyons western wall, tele.
scoped upon itself and vanished. let
ting In the sun TO make the place a
pit OF torment and OF burning.
Refreshed from RESI- and exhilarated
by this grateful GOODNESS. his horse
responded willingly TO the first light
touch OF Alan's spur. In a twinkling
the overnight camp dropped from view
behind the rounded shoulder OF a hill.
side, mesquitecloaked.
Then from Its first spirited flight
the horse settled down to steady 20.
ing, heightened Its stride. and ran for
leagues with the long, apparently et.
fortress and ~tireless lope OF the plains.
bred ~broncho. ~ventre-a-terre.
Alan's departure from camp had an.
ticipated by a round Quarter.hour the
appearance on the upper trail OF
friends OF the slain bandit. to the
number OF four or Ave. who had both
discovered and recovered his body.
called his death murder ard pledged
themselves TO its avengement-laylng
responsibility for the putative crime
at the door OF the man and woman
TO be seen in the canyon. Immediately
below the scene OF Hopi Jim's fall.
Between the moment when discov.
cry OF the men on the ridge trail in.
terrupted their simple and hurried
breakfast and that which found Rose
and Barcus mounted on the back OF
their own horse and making the best
OF their way down the canyon In pur.
suit OF Alan. but little time had
elapsed.
And even with It's double burden
their horse made better time upon
the broad lower level than those who
followed the ridge trail by mid morn.
ing, when they approached the foot.
hills that ran down 10 the desert. the
pursuit vas more than a mile In he
rear and shut on 10 boot by a mono.
lithic hill. while Alan was many a
weary mile In advance.
He sat upon his horse. Just then. NJ
standstill upon the summit OF a round.
ed knoll. the Painted hills lifting up
behind him. the desert before unfold.
ing like a map-but like a map all
blurred.
Was Judith out there. somewhere,
lost. defenseless. %torlorn. impotent TO
lift q hand to shield her face from the
blast OF that savage sum-
No rest for Alan I'LL he knew .
Descending the knoll he refined his
tagging o back into the trail, fol.
lowing its winding course through the
foothills and round the base OF that
monolithic mountain toward the juno.
ton with the ridge trail. miles away.
II approached the hour OF noon be-
fore he gained the point whore the
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try to stick q knife into you-like as
not. What's she been chasing you for.
all over this land OF the brave and
home Of the free. but to take your fool
lief And now you want TO sacrifice
yourself TO her. out of sheer. down.
right foolishness In the head! l sup
pose you'll like me to call II chivalry:
Ill tell you what I call i~t-iunacy!"
Don't be mn asst" Alan responded
temperately. gathering the reins to-
gether and instinctively lifting a foot
to the stirrup. who warned us yes
terday in time TO prevent being
crushed by that rock7 Judith! Why
was she separated from Marrophat
and the others-alone up there when
that beast sneaked up behind hero.
] saw him saw II ali-and grabbed
her and roped her to that bronco-if
II wasn't because she had broken with
them for good and all and started to
fight on our side7"
You're raving." Barcus commented
in q hopeless tone. lie looked to the
girl. "Rose-Miss Trine-reason with
this madman-"
Dropping the glasses. the girl came
swiftly and confidently TO her lovers
side. lifting her lips TO his.
Go. sweetheart" she told him.
Save her II you cant"
Did you dream for an instant Rose
would see her own sister carried to
her death II anything could be done
TO svert it-no matter what we may
have suffered at Judith's hands3"
With IN indignant grunt. but con.
siderate none the less, Mr.. Barcus
caught up the glasses and turned his
back.
Go on" he grumbled. pretending
TO ignore the hand Alan offered him
from the saddle. i've got no patience
with you But got" he insisted.
OF n sudden seizing the hand and
pressing IL f~ervently. And God go
with you, my friend"
Then hoofbeats drumming on the
h~ard-packed earth OF the canyon trail
rugged. rocky walls.
Mr.. Barcus showed Rose Urine a
face almost ludicrous with It's an.
guished smile that was intended 10
seem r~eassaring.
Let's look sharp and follow him
as quick as may be-" he urged. Light.
ming will never strike US so long as
we stick to Mr.. Law OF the charmed
life-but ! don't mind telling you. once
out OF his company. I'm just naturally
afraid OF the dark"
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hobbled near by and Selling a saddle
threw II over the back OF one.
AZ this the other man turned to his
side and dropping a OBTAINING hand
upon kis arm asked:
VIVA, are you going 10 dor
Alan shook the hand OF and went
on with his self-appointed task.
Go after her. Tom. OF course" he
replied. What slse' That animal il
crazy. l tell you"
Even so" Tom Barcus argued. you
can't climb that hillside on horseback
snd II you could. you'd be- too late 20
catch up. much less prevent an ac.
sidsnt-"
Il know H. But suppose Il doesn't
fall You know what's beyond
these hiiis-desertsi And the girl IA
helpless. I tel you. bound hand and
foot. Think OF her being carried that
way-all day. perhaps-fAce up to this
brutal SUM She'll 60 mad II some-
thing isn't done"
you've some mad yourself already"
Mr.. Barcus contended darkly. What's
81 TO you II she doesl Suppose you do
succeed In rescuins her: what them
AZ soon M she gets on her pins she'll
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synopsis.

fneIs Of Hearts II the death sign en-
plotca by Seneca Trins In tho private war
os vengeance which, through the agency
o. MS daughter Judith. he wages against
Alen Law, son Of the man, now dead. who
wa innocently responsible for the acct
sent which rendered Urine q helpless GRIP.
Ps.. Alan loves and 10 loved by Rose,
suoith's twin ana double. Judith vows g.
fompsss his death. but under dramatic
circumstances Alan saves her life and 80,
gnEilingiy. WIN hor love. Thereafter
{seith. 10 by turns animated by the new
nyn. the old hatred, and jealousy, OF her
eisser In escaping her persecution. Alan
Rose and their friend nRrcus take
refuge In the Painted Hills-a range VI
frfd mountains bordering the Arizona
deeertn. Judith, while pursuing. suffers n
cnanGe OF heart and warns them In time
20 avert an attempt upon their lives. In
return for this she II seized by an outlaw
secompliee n bound helpless to the
BACK or a horse. Alan shoots the accom-
plice and the horse runs away, following
a perilous mountain trail.
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an arm bent under him In a pose
lrlshtfully suggestive OF d%islocation.
Yet when she turned him on hts back
ana release the arm. he made no
sign 10 indicate that the movement
mad caused him the slightest pain.
mere was a slight u upon his
brow, a bruise about his left emple.
n tore linen from hcr bosom, be.
meath her coarse flannel shirt. and with
sparing aid from the canteen, washed
the cut clean and bandaged Il.
Then. seeing that the storm held
with fury undated. she rose. recon.
noitered and returned 10 exert all her
strength and drag the unconscious
man across the dry bed OF that ancient
water-course and under the lee OF It's
farther bank.
There. sitting. she pIllowcd his
head upon her lap. and bending over
him made her body an additional shell.
ter TO him from the swirling clouds
OF dust.
And for hours on end Judith nursad
MIN there, scarce daring 10 move
save to minister to his needs. bathing
his fevered brow and molstenlng his
parched lips and throat.
In the course OF the first hour she
was once startled by the spectral Wis.
Ion through the driving sheets OF dust
OF a horse that plodded up the arroyo.
bearing two riders on It's back.
Weary with the weight OF its double
burden. II went slowly and passed go
near TO Judith that she was able 10
recognize 'he features OF her sister
and Tom Barcus.
BE sure she made never a sign 10
catch their attention.
Within the next succeeding hour
the coppery light lost something q,
It's hot ~brillance, took on n d,rker
shade. and then one darker still Twt.
light stole athwart the desert. turning
It's heat TO chill, It's light to violet.
Growing more intense, the cold
eventually reused the sleeping Il
And hardly had HIS eyes Enclosed
and looked up into the eyes OF Ju dlth
bending owe him than he started m
and out OF her embrace. got INSTEAD.
lily upon his feet and after a mop,en,
OF pause. watching her rise in turn
STROBE away-or. rather, staggered
with the gesture OF exorcism.
UncomplaininE hugging her new.
born humility TO her with the ecstasy
OF the anchorite his horse.hair shIrt.
Judith followed him patiently. at a
little distance.
Not far from where he had restcd
there was q break in the overhanging
wall OF the arroyo. Through this he
scrambled painfully. reaching the leye,
OF the desert only after cruel effort.
the unheeded woman at his heels.
A brief pause there afforded both
time 10 regain their breath and survey
the desert for signs OF assistance. II
offered none, other than what thew
might accomplish through their own
exertions. For leagues In any quarter
II stretched without a break other than
the black cleft OF the arroyo, cleaning
a bleached and deathly white In the
moonshine-like the face OF a frozen
world.
With tacit consent both turned tina,
way. Alan leading, Judith his pestina.
cious shadow. with never a word or
sign between them 10 prove that either
was aware OF the otherD company.
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XIII.
Open Mutiny.

Open Mutiny.
Though she had been schooled 10 hold
The very nams OF Law In loathing un.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-17
SPANISH COMMISSION BUSY HERE

Philadelphia, Pa, April II. - The
Spanish commercial commission to the
United States, the five members of
which are now in the country studying
its manufactures, agricultural and
commercial organization and engineer
ing development with view to in
creasing Spanish American commerce
and developing improvements at home,
has established its headquarters here.
During their four months stay the
Spaniards will visit almost every
state. To each of the commissioners
appointed by King Alfonso has been
assigned a special field of investiga-
ton. The reports will be submitted
to the Spanish Minister of Public
Works, who will transmit its recon-
mendations to the chambers of com
merce of the Spanish cities.
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SCHOOL CONTESTS
ATTRACT HUNDREDS
Continued from Page One.l

Continued from Page One,
Ellisville: Meredith Robb. of Perkins
ton; R. Collins. Of the Jones county.
A. H. 8.
Following this contest. four quar-
tettes We'd with each other for an
hour. This was one of the most pop
ular contests Of the entire meet, and
the silver trophy cup Of the CONNER.
cial Club went to the Meridian four,
with second honors to the Perkinston
team, and third to Hattiesburg.
The personnel Of the various quar-
tettes was as follows:
Meridian-McDonald Stone, Covert
and Dunn. serp
Perkinston-Davis Nehlson, Khron,
and Taylor.
Hattiesburg = Limbaugh, Wilder,
Terrell and McMullen.
Ellisville-Sumrall, Bush, Bankston
and Bautwell.
At the High School Auditorium at
II o'clock, the spelling contest was
given. The team from the Hatties-
burg High School literally "mopped''
up with its competitors, mis-spelling
only words in the entire list. The
Jones county A. H. s. team received
second honors, with mis-spelled, and
the Forrest county A. H. s. was third
with 35 mis-spelled.
The other teams records were:
Poplarville A. H. s., 70; Ellisville
High School, 104
ATHLETIC EVENTS.
At Hamper Park this afternoon, a
score of events are being run off. The
biggest crowd the park has seen in
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months Is that which Is Witnessing
the various contests.
There are three classes. the first
for entrants Of lao pounds and more;
the second. 12e to LAO pounds, and
third, 120 pounds and less-
The entrants are as follows:
First ciass.
H. McLnnis, Hattiesburg High
school; Burl welburn. Roy Hare. H.
Jefcoat, Rufus Burch. Floyd Jordan. ].
Simmons, e. Reaves. G. Rich. II. Dout
well, ]. Hilburn. v. Bankston. F. Dun
agan, all Of the Jones County A. H. s.;
E. Bethea, Hattiesburg High School;
NJ. Schillings. Meridian, L. Dunn. Me.
ridian; W. Limbaugh, Hattiesburs
High School. ~ ~
Second Class.
Eugene Phelps, John Montgomery
Guy Fuller, Robert Rawls, Skies Spen-
Ger, all of the Hattiesburg High
School; Lex Brame. Leonard Smith,
William Landrurn, vester knight, Carl
Graves, all of Jones County A. H. s.;
Grady McRaney Cranky school; w. w
Hood. Williams Consolidated School;
Sedgie Rayburn, Lamar County A. H
s.; Victor Bruce, Petal school; Leland
Dennis. R. Pigford, G. Corney, Percy
Farmer and Frank Williams. Meridian
High School.
Third Glass.
Glenn Allsup, Sturgeon Turner, VII
liam Cubley, w. B. Carr, George Mel
son, Dan Kelly. Otis Eure. Chester
McMullen, Hattiesburg High School;
Johi Brent, Will McSwain, Dick Girls
son, Melmoth Atwood, Marsh viii
Iiams, A. w. Kelly, and Charles Hus
band, Ellisville, A. H. S.; Joe Frost
Petal: NJ. McWilliams, G.. Clark, Bot
Noble l.. Rush, Herbert Levin and 5
Hawkes., Meridian; Henry Williams
Brooklyn A. H. s.; Tom Evans, Petal
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H. S. Lilius, formerly a resident OF
Hattiesburg, was the highest bidder
at the sale in Columbia, Tenn, recent.
ly, of the bankrupt stock OF goods OF
Gotham Bros. The Columbia Herald
of yesterday, says that Mr.. illus bid
was 401a cents on the dollar, which
was the largest submitted. If the sale
is confirmed by the court, Mr.. Lilius
will open the jewelry store in Column
bia. He already has leased the build
ing in which Gotham Bros. operated
for five years.