Wll \T HAI'I'KNKI ? HKFORK . hn I >ran?-. prosperous* W?>sU-otf> ni:.n of ? ? v. i* visi I ?hI by William 1 ? ir? ,r..l ? . ! churn. Simon |u?M. Aw Ii.- >j? ,ks tl-tn. a yi.unK K|rl. Amy I'r.. no. :i|.pr.-;i< h him. NOW C.O OX WITH TIIR STORY. W hen Simon Judd returned to onseiousness it was largely because f the pain in the ear and when he tried to move his head he could not ii so. For a moment or two he was unable to remember where he was o how he came there for. close to his eyes, was what seemed to he an enormous black pillar. It seemed to be. as his senses returned, a most unaccountable thing ? a low black shoe out of which arose a phenome-j nally large ankle, and when he put his hand to his ear he was no longer, in doubt, a foot was standing on his Someone was standing with ? ?ne'TIeH*?l*siiiI^t ^'s nose aI,d *he toe ,.f the other?SoN?4uS<2J^and he tried to push the latter foot away "Lave be! Sthop it. you!" a hoarse voice whispered, but the foot removed itself from his ear and Si mon Judd sat up. He found him self encompassed by skirts and he, barked out from among them and | got to his feet. He was in a group! at the door of John Drane's room; {evidently he had been unconscious : but a moment or two, for Amy I Drane was still standing in horror (?on the threshhold. The maid Josie w| i 1 1 lay where she had fallen, but |th.re were now others peering into the room. Norbert, the colored i [houseman, was there, and the big ?l that had been pressed against Ninon Judd's nose was that of the ?k. a woman almost as enormous Simon Judd himself. Behind the I ook was a second maid. Zella, with] hands pressed against herl feheeks. and Drane's chauffeur was ] running up the stairs. To him Si-! >n Judd turned. lohn Drane's been murdered," limon Judd said to the chauffeur. [1 can't look at him: 1 faint off at sight of blood. Always did and (are say I always will. This here rl's fainted, too. Help me get her (nlo a bed somewhere and out of way or she's like to be trompled. |ere, you!" He touched Zella on the shoulder. "You come and get this girl out her faint," he said. '"Where we >in' to put her?" "Here ? this way,*' Zella said, *sing the hall and opening a >r. "Miss Amy's room. Let me pip you George. You and me take r shoulders and he can take her ?t. Go easy, George, she's got fart trouble." They carried Josie to the bed in liny's room and Simon Judd fol Dwed the chauffeur into the hall. "If you know who the family ctor is you better send for him," add said. "You better send for police, too; this ain't my bali Jick." "Yes, I 11 do that," the chauffeur lid. He, at least, was efficiently suncsslike. "You better not let ?a touch anything in there, unless - alive yet." "I know al! that, young man," dd said. "I'll take hold here; >u get a move on. ["I'll telephone," the chauffeur Tf?< and he started for the stairs, gMht *-ook took his arm. BROADCASTS GOOD NEWS Columbia, S. C. ? "Las' spring I got so 1 was almost beyond going. Know ing of Dr. Pierce's medicines and their reputation I decided to take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and befc?e I had taken all t>f one bot tle I was gaining in health an3 by the time I had taVen three I bottles I was in fine condition, my m.u i nerves becarflf quiet, *wJd sleep, my appetite retuW*. I I 2r? g?'? ,n we&t and felt well ' ,/?,n5' 1 have never taken al?d' o '"at O'd me SO much good."-J{Mra P- Carter, 2123 Bull St. \ ti?u?r,d"1KP?t is out of the Pre4",I> & 3<("d,6S? to Dr. Pierce. P., for a package of tablets. | ILLUSTRATIONS BY F.E.WATSON 1 ! "George! Ain't it awful? Ain't it I just awful?" she cried. I "Might} bad. Maggie,'* lie said. I "but don't you get ex< itf*d about; , it. You keep calm * you don't want to fetc h on another of those spells j of yours. ^ ou better go down andj lake a ? take a drink of water or something." es. I ll be doin* just that." she said. "It's turrible. George: a mur der right in the house. Who done it. d* ye think?" "We can't tell tha? yet," he said. "Come on, if you want me to help you down. I got to 'phone the doc and the police." Simon Judd turned toward the murdered man's room. He put his hand over his eyes to hide the dead' man from his sight. "Now, you see here. Miss Amy.") Tie's&y* "You better go downstairs j awhile \iRlU l*lc doctor comes; that j man of yours" is -sending for him ? i I man with the whisker-. What did | Julin say hi** name was? Hart? i The housekeeper turned. ! "Mi. Dart? ^ es. sir. Wh\. I don't [know where Mr. Dart is. I made up the blue guest room for him. Mr. Drane said he was going to stay the night." "I left him down there in the par lor. or whatever you call it, when I come up to bed/" Simon Judd said, i They had something t officers into the house. ami for the police. Then* ain't nothin' to be done until they come." "No. nothing to he done." she said and turned, and then, suddenly, she broke into sobs and threw her self against Simon Judd, weeping tempestuously on his shoulder. "He was all I had!" she sobbed. j"He was so good to me; he was so I kind to me!" "There, there!" Simon judd com forted her. "I know just how you | feel, girl. You cry all you want to, | it won't do you no mite of harm. All of you keep out of that room!" I he ordered, and then !o the weeping sirl again ! "I don't feel right com fortable about that hired girl we put ! in your room; the other one said how she has heart trouble. I don't jknow but what you might help in there some, if you feel up to it." "Josie?" Amy asked. "In my room? Yes, 1*11 go to her." She wiped her eyes and hurried across the hall, and Simon Judd looked after her. "There's a real kid," he said to 'himself. "If that's a flapper she ain't flapped none of the common sense out of her yet, anyhow!" He looked at those remaining at John Drane's door. "Say, look here!" he said sudden ly. "Where's that other feller; the i Hemstitching and Picot Edging done at SINGER SEWING MACHINE CO. Mail Orders Given PROMPT ATTENTION Trick Laxatives I II "-II ? !>???? l?r tiMt, LANE'5 PILL5 Sold by R. S. Parker ? RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW! mean mad. What I mean is I've pot1 this cough on my chest ami I been! takin' medicine for it. The doc: give me a medicine for to alleviate the cough, and he says take a swal ler whenever the cough comes upon I ime, and last night I leaves the bottle! I down there. So when I starts to! eough 1 go down to get my bottle. I I Yes sir!" i "What lime was it?" Simon Judd J | asked. "Well, I don' rightly know. 'Maybe, one o'clock, maybe two' (o'clock. I ain' look at no timepiece, I jus' starts down. And when I getj on the steps here I hear Mist' Dranei and Mist' Dart talkin' together, and Mist' Dart he surely is mighty mad I about it. Yes sir! swearin* and cus isin': yes, sir! Mighy mad! So I don't ? go down. I comes up." "What were they talking about?" Simon Judd asked. "Now, that I don't know," said Norbert. 4*I am' listen; it ain' none of my busii\*ss what gentlemans /talk about. I jus' comes up." The chauffeur George came up the stairs. ? "I got Doctor Blessington," he j told Simon Judd. "He'll be right out And I got the police station, they're sending men." In fact the police officers arrived almost immediately, the local head quarters having telephoned to the sat ion nearby. They came, wo of them, on popping motorcycles which they parked alongside the veranda, and entered the house together. From the top of the stairs Simon Judd bade them to come up. "No one been in the room," one of the officers asked as he saw the group at the door. "No one," Simon Judd told them. "Not that I know of, anyway." and lie told of having heard the scream of the girl Josie and of coming at once from his room. The officers entered the room. "Looks like murder, Joe," one said. ? "Sure is murcfer," the other re plied. "Looks tojme like a case for Brcnny." es: lie ought to get on it rijiht| awa\. too. ^ on better po down and phone headquarters: I'll stay here. I his mail'- dead, all right. \n\-i bod\ sent for a doctor?" "One's coming."* Simon Judd said. "We're going to have Brennen on j this cas e. most likely.** the officer i said. '"The hand him most of these murders these days. He's a good one: he'll clear this up in no time if there's any clear up to it. He's the best man we've got on Long Island. Who's that?" It was Dr. Blessington entering the house. He came up the stairs, a small black case in his hand. "In here?" he said and entered John Drane's room. Below, the second officer was telephoning headquarters. "Ah, good morning officer!" he said to the man in John Jrane's room. "Murder, is it? Too bad! This sort of thing is getting altogether too common. You might ask these folks to go downstairs. We'll just close this door." "And all of you hang around down there, see?" said the officer. "There'll be questions to be asked." "Come! We'll go down," said Si mon Judd and. as Amy Drane came (com the room where the maid Josie lay. Vie stood back to make way for her. "She <*oin* all right?" he ask ed. "That's good. The cop wants us to go down ami wait: the doctor's in there. They went down. The servants went into the dining room oft the hall and waited there, and Simon Judd and Amy went onto the veran da. The girl sat twisting her hands, saying nothing, now and again wip ing her eyes, and when the loctoi came dow the stairs did not arise.' She held her handkerchief over herj quivering mouth. Dr. Blessington came out onto| the veranda and set down his black1 case. His face was drawn into ser-i ious lines and he was frowning. | "You are Mr. Drane's niece ? his grand niece. I believe?" he said. "And this gentleman?" "Why. I'm just a feller that knew John when he was a boy," explained Simon Judd. "Him and me used to play together back in Riverbank, Iowa, long in-fore he ever came Lastl ? sixty years ago. anyway. I'm east on a sort of business and I telephon ed old John yesterday, and he says to come out and see him a day or to." SOUTHERN FlELl PRICE CHAN] TO Atlanta. Ua. ? 1 commodity prices ai freight rates is shown b^ published in the latest Southern Field, issued by il opment Service of th> s?-utf way System. One of thetfel dealing: with cotton prices period from 1922 to 1927. ?. rinp_ freight rates were substantial' tionary, shows tha* price: .av tuated up and down inverse!; world supply of cotton. It is pointed out tha consideration of rs valu<* it usual expense of haudli; . handled more cheaply than ail agricultural crop that th? ...-<3 ton carrier in the world o' tj average of only .272c per an average haul of 27.P n freight rates do rot affeC.' ( the price of cotton receive f inner. It is shown thai there is . no other commodity.ithe price o? is affected by so maliy factors j of wheat. During thn peslqdT^j of 1923 to 1926. in- luslve. f: were substantially uachans % the same date in d!tte?vont mark having the same freight rate, th were frequently differences in pri amounting to more than the fret rate. j Another article in the Field i cusses the market movement of fr and vegetables in the United Sti and points out opportunities Southern producers to take advan of periods when markets are not f ted by the products of other lo ties. \ M The second herd improve sociation has been organ in eastern Carolina with 22 uaifl owning 625 cows as members! is the eighth such orp inizati(^ the State. "How long is it since you saw | last, before yesterday?" Dr. sington asked. "Thirtv-five years," said SJ Judd. 1 "That is a long time: lie is sir ly changed since then, isn?t he?11 "Well, yes." Simon Judd ad ted ?'S, John had change^ Just as bony as eve oi ul a lot older." "W ? i.i Id you have kno^ you had not known he 1,' mr? Would you have . ed him, f?.r example, if you him mi the street by chance?" Simon JticU rubbed the bad his head thoughtfully. "Now. that's ^ hard one. d(j he said at length.f and 1 might not It's been so blamel John last. Why, ting at anyway?" Dr. Blessington turfl "I wanted to tell vr M iss Drane," he said. it will be a shock to| 'man' up there in ihe tiered 'man' the "nian'j known as John Drane. is at all. 'He' is a woman. TRAVEL BY TRAII THE MOST RELIABLE ! ffl SAFEST THE MOST COMFORTABLE