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Auctioneer Sell your TOBACCO and he will make MONEY For You at the ' . - , ; Farmers Warehouse i We have led in Prices since the opening sale, and by hard work on our floors will continue to do so. Come and see uaday or night, always open and ready to work for your interest and see that you get a good price for every pound of your tobacco. \ Yours truly, Gurganus Fishel :[ " The BENTHAL 1 PEANUT PICKER —• Will Cost Vsu Only _. • _ji; $350.00 Let Me Sell You One | Also am Agent for Gasolene or Steam Engines to Mtch Gasolene Engines, $l5O Steam Engines Mounted $235 Soliciting your orders, I am respectfully, J. PAUL SIMPSON, Williamston, IV. C. V 1 " Take Your Clothing To Octavius Price . . When you want them cleaned or presed. ' Ladies Skirts cleaned and preaaed at a reasonable price. Work Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction. ■ Roanqfce Pressing Club in Mobley Building J ) J \L lH -• •: .. . * ' ' -1 Sk (Sntftprise. WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1907 Hiram Perkins* Cure. %y r. A. Mitch*!. Copyright. tWT. by F. A. Mltohel. i (I THKRE are two pictures extant of Timothy Portley, tbe one lu which he stand* among a group of packing house employees In hiffe boots, trousers and woolen shirt the other In which he la dressed In the height of fashion, his natural florid complexion subdued by the artist. The first was Tim Portley, butcher. The second Ur Timothy Portley, mtilttmll llonalre. He would glTe a thousand dollars for each of the group pictures to burn them. Portley lived most of the year In hit country place twenty miles from th« city. Time wns when he hadn't t nickel to take him, tired and hungry, home from his work In the evening. Now there are express trains running MIR WAS KNOCK U) TO A DISTANCE OF Ttwti varr. past his place to the city, but they are not good enough, certainly not fast enough, for him. He has his own au tomobile, capable of making u mile a minute, and It has often taken him from his house to his office In half an hour. The Arlington turnpike furnished n direct line between Mr. Portley 's house and his office, and on that pike Is a straight piece of road over which he gave his chauffeur orders to make fifty miles an hour. At a quarter past 10 every week day morning and a quar ter past 4 In the evening, the hours of Mr. Portley'a passage, the farmers liv ing on this stretch of road were oblig ed to stop work to see that there were no children or stock In the way. Amos Green lost a horse and Joseph Rrlggs a cow. In both these cases Mr. Portley sat in his car, was handed a check book by his secretary, filled out checks for double the amount claimed by the owners of the stock, tossed them at the farmers, and as the papers fluttered to the ground to be picked up by the pay ees the payer dashed away. The next thing to fall under Mr. Portley's juggernaut was something that could not be paid for In money. Daisy Burton, fourteen years old, was crossing the road when she heard tbe squawk of a horn and saw Mr. Tort lay's automobile coming. Bbe turned I back, but, seeing the automobile turn ing In the same dlrectldnrstarted again to cross. Tbe automobile changed its coarse at the same time. It had slow ed down, but could not lie stopped In time to prevent a collision. Daisy wns knocked to a distance of twenty feet, where she lay In a heap. Mr. I'ortley took In the altuatlon and ordered bin chauffeur to drive on. A cloud of dust marked his going, and a crowd of in dignant countrymen, among wbotu Stood tbe father of tbe cblld, shaking his flst at tbe retreating automoblliat, marked the scene of the accident. Hiram Perkins, a middle aged, weather beaten farmer, whose skin hung loose In grooves on his face and neck, lived on the next farm to tbe Burtons. Jfhe only thing in the world be loved was Daisy, From the time she could toddle across the fields be-i tween his and her father's house be had made a pet of her. While her fa ther was shaking his flst at Portley Parkins picked up tbe girl, covered with dust and blood, and carried her Into her home. There he bent over ber and groaned. When she opened ber eyea and looked at him with' a faint attempt at a smile be dasbed out of' tbe bouse, mounted a horse and gal loped away for a doctor. The only Inconvenience It occasioned Mr. Portley was having to take the train every morning to the city lnatead of his automobile. He dared not »6 over the Arlington pike till tbe dam age bad been paid, and there was no other direct road to town. Farmer Burton did not come at once to a frame of mind to accept money for the injury to his child, and It was some tlltae be fore the matter was settled. Meanwhile tbe farmers living on tbe pike discussed the situation. Daisy would be crippled for life. Must tbey continue to risk ths same misfortune or worse for their children? There was a state law regulating the speed of automobiles, but .there was no one i what* duty it was to enforce It, nor' ««• there any hope of Its belnft en forced. While the others talked there trtu one man who thought Hiram Perklus did not recover from having seen his little pet made a cripple. Me resolved that Portley's automobile should iM>vcr pass his place again. But how was ho to prevent itT By mentis of the law? Portle.v's pocketbook was mightier than the law. Dig n trench across the road and mask It?, That would be murder. One day lllrnm rend an ad vertisement of the sale of government rondemned goods. This gave him on I Idea, and his Idea grew to n plan. At a quarter past 10 on the morning ' after Kariner Burton had signed an t Instrument acknowledging full ludem nlty for the Injury done his daughter and had received his check Mr. Port \ ley's automobile came drtwn the road at Its accustomed speed. As It ap ! proached Hlram Parkins' farm Mr. ! Portley heard a cruckling noise and saw smoke ahead. "What's that?" he asked of his , chauffeur. "Looks as If soldlcrs were firing across the road," replied the chauf feur, slowing up. At reduced sliced they approached the firing. It was oa lllrnm Perkins* ground. He had mounted a rapid lire gun of an obsolete pattern on a pile of stones four feet from the ground, with Its muizle pointed at a target set up acroM the road. Ilirum was lazily turning the crunk. "Hey, you old fool! Are you craayf yelled Mr. Portley. Illram ceased turning his crunk and looked nt the automolilllst. "Why, uo; I reckon not," he replied. 'Tin only Hhootln' at u mark." "Go on, Pete," said Mr. Portley to his chauffeur. The automobile gave a few prelimi nary puffs, and Perkins lieguu again to turn his crank, sending u storm of bullets across the road. The chauffeur (hut off in u hurry. "Whut do you mean," roared Port ley, "by monopolizing the road In that fashion?" "Who's mouopollxlir the road?" usk ed Hlram, ceuslng to turn the crank. "You; tiring thut tiling across It." "I'm shootlu' at a mark peaceable. I own twenty acres on this side and eighty on the other side. Beckon I've got a right to do what I plcuse on my own property." "You haven't a right to obstruct tho road." "I ain't touchln' the road." Portley was pußßled, but'only for a moment. He wus sure of the fnrincr's motive. "How much do you want to stop your practicing when I want to pass your farm?" There wus a world of calm Intensity In Hiram's tone and manner as he re plied: "You hain't got money enough to atop my practlcln' nt any time." Mr. Portley refrained from further argument. Ho felt sure that If he couldn't buy his way from the farmer he could buy It through n luwyer. Ho gave orders to his chauffeur to turn nnil hurried back In no good humor to tnke nuothcr road, doubling the dis tance to tho city. On reaching It ho went straight to Ills lawyer's office, told how Hlram Perkins was monopo lizing the highway and asked how ho ■hould proceed. "There's oo law," said the lawyer, "to prevent a innn llrlng on his own property, even If tho highway runs through It." "What! No law to keep him from shooting me as I pass his farm?" "IfcJie shoots you Intentionally, It's mtfrdcr; If unintentionally, you have an action for damages." "I don't want no damages nftcr I'm dead!" exclaimed Mr Portley, In his Irritation dropping Into the double negative of his earlier yenrs. "The only way I see out of It," the lawyer went on, looking nt the celling thoughtfully, "la to meet whut I nm "wxr, Ton OLD FOOL, AIIK VOW OKAZY?" - AHKI£I> ULL. I'OKTLKV. satisfied Is a bluff with a bluff. When you come to this niun's farm again go right on very slowly. He won't dare ~£ltl you." "If any man can bluff Tim Portley," said the multimillionaire, rising, with a scowl and • firmly set Jaw, "lie's welcome to do so/' When Portley returned In the after noon on his accustomed route, ap proachlng Perkins' farm he aguln heard the rattle of rapid fire. He ordered his chauffeur .to slow down and when within a hundred feet of the line of fire to creep. Hlram was turning the crank of hi* gun. "If you kill me," cried Portley, "you'-il be hanged for murder-." I "1 hain't a-try In' to kill nobody. The taw dqirt hold me responsible for them as commits suicide by runnln 1 up ag'ln 1 a guti n man's practlcln' at a mnrk 1 with." ' The machine crept on. lllrnm pulled ' his broipj brimmed hut over the eye nearest the comer so as to obstruct his ' view toward the automobile nnd went ' »n turning. When It crept *®o view be turned Ills back so that lie couldn't see. ' The automobile came to within a few ' yards of the passing bullets and ' stopped. • "Uo on!" roared Portley to his chauf ' feur. The chauffeur climbed over to tho ' back seat, leaving the wheel for his ' employer. Portley took It and moved roIITLBV UACKKL) IIIH MACHINE. • to within n few feet of the dead line. : lllrnm wus looking uwuy from him ut an angle of IK) negroes. A shot n • trifle out of line whistled ominously near Portley's nose. It wus the will of n multimillionaire ngnlnst a simple farmer. Tho farmer won. Portley I backed his machine, turned aliout and > disappeared In a cloud of dust. lllrnm looked after him. There was the sumo quiescence In his outward appearance, > but n close observer would hnve no ticed n light lu his eye uiul n slightly quicker breathing. "Perkins' method," us It was called, spread among the farmers, uml wher ever n man owned property on both sides of the roud he stutloned himself lief ore Ills house with u weapon, Homo with repeating rltlcs, some with re volvers, uiul one Ingenious farmer con structed u cutupult to throw stones at the rnto of one every live seconds. No tices were put-up nlong the foild that ten miles'An hour WIIH tho limit of speed allowed. All automobiles run ning fa'ster were sure -to tlml somo farmer who, apparently realizing thut Uncle Sum needed to produce u nation of marksmen, 1 liuil set up n target across the road nnd was sure to lie practicing when the biggest ami fast est machine passed. Some nutomobll- Ists drove fnsterjlian ever, slowing up tit the danger point, but they were re ported by the farmers to those doing the practicing and on tho next trip were obliged to turn buck, losing the right to use the road altogether. No low wus violated; no automohillst was Injured. Persons driving their ma chines on the rond at a moderate rate never heard or saw any firing, mid many of them wondered while passing Perkins' farm to wlint use he could possibly put Ills old rnpld fire gun. Daisy Burtyn will lltup nil her life nnd will llml It liurd If she tins to make her own living. There lire those among the farmers' wives -women can see further ahead In such matters than men—who declare that the duy will cotue when she will hnve a strong, level headed husband to work for her In Hlram Perkins. Whit He Needed. Employed In one of the largest Iron foundries In Baltimore there Is a man who tins u wooden leg. None of Ills fellow workers, however, knew of tills until recently, so perfectly did the nr tlflclul support lake the place of the missing member. One duy not very long ngo something happened to the belting lu the mnchine shop. 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