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C., every fourth Tues-::: day and at Dr. Thomas’ office, Sileij:: in each month. Headache relieved::: City, N. C., every fourth Thursday:!: when caused by eye strain. Whet : jj: iihe fits you with glasses you hav#::: jlthe satisfaction of knowing that::: ■ ♦they are correct. Make a note of :: if the date and see him if your eyes :!! it His next visit to Pittsboro will b<::: !are weak. »j ■; on Tuesday, Sept. 28. His next visit to Siler City will be::: on Thursday, Sept. 23. 666 is a prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever It the Genut ELKINS FUNERAL PARLOR Offers Superior Funeral Service * Embalming Caskets - Accessories - Coffins Separate Hearse Service Main tained for Colored Patrons ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having this day qualified as Ad ministrator of the estate of Joseph H. Overby, deceased, late of Chatham County, North Carolina, I do hereby notify all persons having claims a gamst the estate to present them duly pr° v en to the undersigned on or be lore the 9th day of July, 1927, or notice will be pleaded m bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the estate, are requested to- make immediate pay ment. Fiis the Bth day of July, 1926. J. E. HUNEYCUTT, 203 S. Tryon St., Charlotte, N. C. Administrator of the estate of C-. Jones, Atty. for Administrator. Joseph H. Oi erby, deceased. NOTICE . ving qualified this day as admin- of the estate of Mary Rosa 7° nes > late of Chatham county, this >tify all persons having claims £ p: ;a - t said estate to present their £‘ a p- : ' to the undersigned duly veri- i e(i °n or before the. 23rd day of August, 1927, or this notice will be i' vua in bar of their recovery. Persons owing said estate will please f >me forward and make immediate settlement. This the 23rd day of August, 1926. J. D. JONES, Administrator. ” • P. Horton, Atty. Se Pt. 2, 6tp. DR. J. D. GREGG At Bonlee Monday, Tuesday, and Wed nesday of each week. At Liberty Thursday, Friday, and Saturday TT- * ■- THE ; GIRL AT SHEELEY’S By HAROLD CARTER (© by W. G. Chapman.) BIG JIM TURNER had taken It into his mind to come into Bal boa. There was nothing par ticularly admirable *about that little East African coast settlement, which consisted of two dance halls and four gambling establishments, be sides the administrator’s residence; but the mining camp in the interior did not possess apy of these advan tages. Besides, Big Jim had just shot and seriously wounded a thieving partner of his, and he had concluded that Balboa was the best place of tem porary refuge. He had counted the money in his pockets. He had four hundred and twelve pounds—nearly 7 two thousand dollars. It had been his idea to spend that in a month of riotous living, at the end of which time, no doubt, his partner having recovered, there would be room for him at the mining camp again. Slowly he pulled a letter from his pocket and read the writing by the light of the lamp above Sheeley’s saloon. “My dear Sir James,” It ran. “We herewith enclose you the sum of one hundred pounds, which, as we mentioned in our previous letter, was left you by your father, the late baronet. As you are aware, unfor tunately Sir Edwin never relented in his attitude toward you, and, though the title has come to you, the estates, which \vere not entailed, have passed to your younger brother. If we may take the liberty of saying so, there ex ists no reason why you should not re turn to England. While society, un fortunately, is not apt to relent to ward a man who Is a baronet without an income, we have assurance that the parties whom you have affronted are anxious that the affair which led you to expatriate yourself be forgot ten. “Kindly keep 11s advised as to your circumstances, so that, in case there should be a new heir, or in case of your unfortunate demise, we may be in a position to take measures accord ingly.” The letter was signed # by a firm of London attorneys. Big Jim laughed rather hollowly and turned into Sheeley’s. The place was packed with mining men and Portuguese traders from the interior, and all were exuberant. The crowd had money to burn, for no poor man could have had business In that part of the coast on which Balboa was sit uated. “What the —!” Big Jim began, star ing behind the bar. Mechanically his hand went up to his head and came away with his hat in it, a circum stance which surprised him mightily. Behind the bar stood a fair-haired, ruddy-cheeked English girl, polishing glasses, and evidently looking 1 with horror and dread upon the motley crew assembled In the resort, who, to do them justice, appeared in no way malevolently inclined, though one or two of the Portuguese were eyeing her in a passion which she might have found the reverse of pleasant. The barmaid was an institution all along the East African littoral. Just 1 as in the home country; but the type of woman who was to be found in these places was strikingly the reverse of the delicate, refined-looking girl who was serving at Sheeley’s. “Present me, Mr. Sheeley,” muttered Big Jim with mock courtesy. But as his eyes continued to dwell on the girl’s face he recoiled a pace or two and stared at her In dawning remem brance, and he saw the answering rec ognition in her own eyes. “She’s my new attendant,” said Sheeley, grinning. “Got her through an advertisement in the London pa pers. I didn’t tell you fellows —I want ed It to be a surprise. I guess she hasn’t seen much of the trade and thought Balboa was a shade bigger and quieter than it is. She —” “I didn’t ask the lady’s history. I want to know her name,” growled Big Jim Turner. “Now, Jim, don’t get ugly and I’ll tell you,” answered the keeper. But Big Jim pushed him away with a sense of physical nausea. No need to.ask further. He looked at the girl again and saw that the recognition was complete. Her face was deathly white, and she was clinging to the counter with both hands, whose knuckles were whiter than her face. “I suppose you wasn’t here when she arrived,” said Sheeley. I thought I’d got a rare ’un when I caught sight of her pretty face, but she ain’t no sport at all. I made a mistake, that’s all. She drew some trade at' first,, hut she thought she was coining out to be a waitress in a nice, quiet family hotel. Naturally she was surprised, and she’s so standoffish—well, it’s just a matter of letting her turn to and work out her passage money before she goes.” Big Jim heard the words only vague ly. He had turned, and stridden out of the plpce, and now, outside, he was seeing the past six years of his life in review before him. Behind him he heard the voices of men he knew call ing after him in invitation. Six years before James Turner, the eldest son of Sir Edwin Turner, ninth baronet and a rich landed proprietor, had befen one of the most sought-after heirs in England. He had just come home from the university; he was en gaged to 1 Lady Mary Hamilton, v charming girl, and the only daughter of his father’s oldest friend, whose estates adjoined his own. James THE CHATHAM RECORD ■ Turner had never loved Lady Mary; he haa drifted into the engagement at his father’s wish, and thought him self happy enough until Kitty Munroe appeared upon the scene. Kitty was a girl of good birth, reduced circum stances; she was Lady Mary’s com panion. It was the old story of a love unhal lowed by the sanction of church or law, or of society. When the discov ery came about Sir Edwin was furi ous. He cut liis son out of his will, except for a hundred pounds, “with which to go to the devil,” as he tersely expressed himself. James Turner packed his belongings and started for Capetown. He worked his way up the coast, and there were few frontier set tlements in that vast land that did not know him either by sight or else by reputation as a brawler and a ne’er-' do-well. ; James Turner had “gone to the devil,” indeed, but Kitty Munroe had been a mighty factor in that event. He had sought her everywhere before he sailed. But the girl, cast off and dis owned, like himself, and not wishing to become a drag upon him, had hid den herself from prying eyes. Nobody knew what had become of her. She had not become submerged, but she had quietly effaced herself and set herself to earn her living as a waitress in a London restaurant. Bearing the indelible stigma of her shame, but car rying in her heart also the unforgotten memory of her love, she had lived in London alone until the lure of Shee ley’s lying advertisement induced her to venture in Balboa, which she imag ined to be a flourishing and settled town. Her tw6 weeks there had been a terrible nightmare. But there was no refuge for her until she had worked out the passage money. . A year after Jim’s departure Lady Mary had married his younger brother, and she now held rule over the estates which should have been Jim’s. Big Jim stood outside, remembering mournfully the past. What an ass he had made of himself! And now the girl he had sought so long had stood face to face with him once more, and they had looked into each other’s eyes again with shame and terror, and yet not unforgetful of those days of pas sion and self-sacrifice so long ago. I A hideous tumult in the place be hind him recalled Big Jim to his sur roundings. A woman’s scream rang out. He turned and hurried back. As he entered the door he perceived one of the Portuguese traders standing with one arm around the waist of the struggling girl, while with his free hand he flourished an ugly-looking re volver and defied qyery Englishman In the place to take her from him. They were easy-going, good-natured men enough; they pitied the girl, but nobody was going to risk his life to save her from a Portuguese. The ideal of womanhood was high among them, as among all frontiersmen, but it con cerned those nebulous and half-forgot ! ten women at home, not the kind that came voluntarily out to Balboa. As Big Jim strode in at the door there was a sudden hush; they had seen him look at the girl and realized that if he had taken a fancy to her Dom Pedro Dominguez would find his match. Jim strode up to the man and struck him in the face, knocking the revolver to the floor. Dominguez fell forward, half 'stunned, but the trigger of the falling weapon struck the corner of the counter and exploded the charge. Big Jim felt a stinging sensation in | his shoulder. Next moment, with a , wild cry, In which were contained ail the hatreds and all the despair of the past years, he had leaped forward into the group of threatening Portuguese, knocking their knives aside and deal ing mighty blows with his big fists. A general melee arose immediately. Lamps were overturned and the strug gling mob fought and hacked at each other in the darkness until a smoldar of smoke and the flicker of flames an nounced the end of Sheeley’s. It was pitch dark, save where the lurid rays of the burning building cast a glow upon the demon-like forms that fought and battled. All the evil ele ments in Balboa seemed to have rushed to pluuder and destroy. Half castes, - with swarthy, abominable faces, crept In among the struggling men, reaching out and dealing stealthy blows. Big-Jim wAs in the thick of it, j but he no longer knew friend from foe. He was bleeding from three knife wounds, he was stunned and reeling back against a door, and they were leaping at him like hounds at a noble ; stag. Suddenly'The door opened be hind him. A soft hand reached out ; and groped for his. Jim plunged for ward blindly into the darkness, and the door slammed to behind him. The girl’s hand was in Lis. “Come this way!” she was whispering. She led him through a narrow passage, along a path among a maze of out buildings, until at last rtliey found themselves in the darkness under the palms, with the scrub brush of the impenetrable forests not fifty feet away and the plashing sea near by. There they stopped. He could just see her face in the starlight. “Jim !” she whispered. !” he answered, hoarsely. “What is it to be?” “I don’t know,” she cried, passion ately. “Let me go, Jim.” “Back there?” he exclaimed. “Kit ty Kitty, you are mine now. Our lives must never part again. Wher- ( ever .we go you are mine always.” Their lips met in the darkness; he drew her into his arms a moment, and then, together, they plunged into the j mighty forest. Worse arid Worse Sinnick—Men ate so deceitful now adays that you can’t trust your best friends. Sinnieker —And what’s far worse, you can’t get your best friends to trust you. SEARCH OF FOURTEEN YEARS BRINGS GOLD i \ I ! Pncspector Stakes Out the Stanislaus River Bed, J Oakland, Calif.—Lee Silver and ! Bert Warrington hold the secret. Lee [ is a hard-bitten prospector who wan- I dered around 14 years before he could ; get anyone to listen to his story. Old legends clustered about him. The tale of the Mexicans’ mine was ascribed to him. Chinese cooks in the gold country who had walked with Bret Harte and fed Mark Twain shook j their ancient heads in honorable dis- I dain. Bert Warrington of this city took a chance. Craftily, cannily, he .md Silver made their survey. Now the 1 whole region of Brightman’s fiats j ! bristles with their claim stakes. They t believe there is gold in the Stanis- j laus river gravel. They have posted their notices and filed their papers. Even now the shafts are being sunk that will tell them if their dreams are to come true. How He Discovered It. Silver says It all started 14 years ago. He was wandering around in the Higli Sierra of Tuolumne county when there came a call for help from his brother in San Jose. Silver and his partner started out immediately.. Down the Stanislaus river they went, along the trail that leads over Sonora pass, to Brightman’s flats, 50 miles east of Sonora. Here they camped for the night. While the partner was saddling the pack mules in the morning Silver, in true pros pector fashion, panned a little gravel in the river bed. Tiny and scattered 1 but unmistakable was the gleam of gold. Silver’s great dream w 7 as born. He pushed on to San Jose, helped his brother and started back for the gold country. To his dismay, there was none to believe him. He knew that gold could be wrested from that 'river bed, but the experts smiled. Engineer Takes a Chance. Warrington, a civil with some knowledge of mining, finally de cided to ri.«k it. Painfully, almost inch b., Inch, they w ? ent over the terri tory, digging and panning. They pros pected the side streams, Eagle creek. Cow creek, Niagara creek, and others, / but found no gold. It existed only in the main valley of the Stanislaus. After months of labor, they filed their claims in Sonora. Graybeards of the gold country link their venture with the legend of the Mexicans’ mine. The story comes down from the days when the jumping frog of Calaveras was still a gay young blade and had never tasted buckshot In his life. Two lowly Mexican sheep herders wandered into Sonora one morning with nuggets valued at $15,000. Peo ple tried to vain to solve the mystery of where they had discovered them. , Come to Our SHU-FIXERY and have your shoes renewed. Pittsboro, N. C. DR. LUTHER C. ROLLINS DENTIST Siler City, N. C. Office over Siler Drug Store. Hours 8 a. m.. !o 5 p. m. BOM FOR YEARS NOW ALL GONE Alabamian Says Dodson’s Liver Tone Gave Him Brand New Liver worth Fortune Experience seems to indicate that people store up in their systems cer tain poisons that break out all at once in a series of boils. Sometimes they are fatal. Willie Hapes says: “Ever since I] grew up boils broke out on me just when the planting season began, and I had to lay up. Blood remedies were worthless. The .only remedy was calomel, but it to turn my stomach inside out. This spring I got a bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone and I feel sure it put a new liver in to me worth a fortune, for it cleared off the boils and for the first time j in years they didn’t come back.” * The reason for this is the fact .that j a spooonful of Dodson’s Liver Tone .loosens up the liver, lets go. .of a gorge of impurities, sour b'le. merited food-and gas and breaks up the most obstinate constipation. And yet it never makes you sick-*—no gripe, 110 pain—even though it may 1 drive out quarts of sour bile as black as ink. And this result is absolutely guaranteed. j Ask your dihaggist for a bottle of J Dodson’s Liver Tone and take a spoon- j r ull tonight. If it doesn’t start your ] liver and straighten you right up bet- | ter than calomel did- in all your life, j and without griping or making you j sick, go back to the store and get | your money.” j ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE j -pu su payipcnb Aup spil Suiabtt ! 1 ministrator of the estate of ADELAIDE THRAILKILL, deceased, late of Chatham county, N. i C., I hereby notify all persons hav- j i ing claims against the estate to pre- ! sent them duly proven to the under- j signed on or before the 11th day of ; August, 1927, or this notice will be ; pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate pay ment. - This the 11th day of August, 192 b. L. F. THRAILKILL, Administrator. W. P. 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Every farmer, particularly, should feel that we are his friends, and ready to assist him in anyway in accord with is! safe banking. CONSULT US We feel that the people of the county must econo- Isi mize, must spend wisely, and work hard, in face of the jj: effects -of the past two difficult years. Two heads are. :: better than one. Consult your banker before making investments. We shall be glad to give you the benefit :: of whatever knowledge and experience we have. There jjj fore do not hesitate to consult us at any time. ::: Beware of buying on time. Better cut expendi tures now than suffer consequences of another bad crop season, if one should come, upon those overloaded with time accounts. _ .. . I BANK OF PITTSBORO I ' | Sweeping Redutions in Laßor Rates By J; The Chatham Motor Company* I NO LESS THAN 40% CUT FROM STANDARD LABOR CHARGES Printed schedules of authorized labor charges are posted in our Service Departments. 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