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’ HOW COME JIMPSON WEED and IT-ARI. TTANDLE live in OMEOMY, fTH10. JIMP makes a million dollars with a new idea for kill inx flies. He paints one fly red, white and blue, and the others cheer themselves.to death. One day while JIMP is think ing about something else, PEARL up and marries him'. They decide to spend their honeymoon together. PEARL'S FATHER,Mr. Han dle, folows them i bout fne coun try and shoots at JI,MP. This leads JIMP to suspect the old man doesn’t like him. DETECTIVE til MSHOE and MRS. CUM SHOE also trail JIMP AND PEARL. They hare been hired by MR. HANDLE bust up the match. JIMP and PEARL become lost rh MAMMOTH CAVE. It's a» moat dinner time and they have n’t had much to eat since lunch. So they stretch out and prepare to die. ANOTHER CHAPTER CHAPTER Xlil rtHelp! T^elp! Help!” shouted Jimp into the darkness of the cave. But hia voice only reverberated from un seen crag to unseen cliff. Ita echo returned mockingly hollow. •“No use, Jimp. No use,” moaned Pearl. ‘We must have strayed into an unexplored part of the cave.” Two small fiery points peered at them now and then, evidently the eyes of a bat. A rattlesnake dislocat ed a rock nearby, and it went bound in* into a bottomless chasm. The air was damp, chilly, moist, slimy. "We mustn’t die, Pearl,”'whispered Jimp. “I still have $800,006 to spend. "If we could offer it for a reward, ’ suggested Pearl, hopefully. “I’ll try,” said Jimp. He shouted into the empty darkness, “Eighi hundred thousand dollars reward to anyone finding us!” The amount was large. There are people in Florida and California who don't, make as much as $800,000 in a week. But ijiinp got no answer. There was no one to hear him. > “Well,” said the dyitig man to his dying wife, “this is the end. We are loet in Mammoth Cave. No one can find us.” Yes, said the dying bride to her dying husband, ‘‘we are lost Ii7"iVFam moth Cgve and no one can find us.” “I wish 1 had some life insurance,’ whispered Jimp.' The dying man and his dying wife , ware startled by a rush of feet. • 'Lights came'bobbing’from every dl .■ rent ion. Mammoth Cave swarmed with iu • suranee agents. “Promise me,” said the first arrival, “that you won’t d*. •,i anything in the way of insurance ' until 1 see you again.” , He was shoved aside by dozens o • others. All had their policies ready made. Jimp and Pearl received ninety • invitations to dinner. v In a few minutes they stood out J side the cave, the blue sky above them once more. It was great to be free. .* BtfT they were broke. Jimp baa >. speht his $KOO,OOfl on insurance. • * * * The hotel at Cave City is a large. ‘l semi-Colonial structure, looking mora like an expensive private..residence. A ' wide, airy porch extends across ihe front and is known as a venguia. Here the guests sit in hickory * chairs and gaze idly at the street of « Cave City. You never can tell when „* someone is going to puss. Very often .* people pass two, and sometimes three ; at a time. The hotel is famed for its southern ' cooking. It specializes in hot biscuits. Jimp and Pearl were seated at break fast, busily engaged in surrounding a plate of these biscuits smeared with butter. $ ‘‘Narrow escape you had,” said the • manager, approaching on foot. “Yes,” said Jimp. “Narrow escape.” “I understand,’ said the manager, [ “that you were saved by a gang of , Insurance agents.’ “lies,’ said Jimp, becoming uncom ’ fortably suspicious. \ “Quite clever," smiled the manager. ' “No matter where you are, if you .want insurance those boys will locate you.'’ j_ “Yes," said Jimp, "I was glad to ’ have the dern insurance,” “Yes," said the manager. “It’s good stuff to have Sp°nt all your money f' for »t. didn’t von?' J “Yes,’ admitted Jimp. “Spent all my , • money for insurance. Broke now. Can’t pay my hotel bill.” ■ “Too bad,' smiled ■ the manager. ® “Hurry up with your break fast. The ' windows need washing. You’ll find a " pail in the lcitche.” I Jimp smiled a trifle sadly, in one • 'nipht he had gone from millionaire to window washer, j ^‘Run along to your room,” said he • to his wife, Pearl. “I must be about J my work.” ' “Your room, said the hotel mana i.ger, “is just through the swinging • door there. You’ll find the wishes need £ • ' • ■' wnwhrnf?. Pearl smiled. but she didn’t mean it. Poor Pearl. In one night, she had gone front a millionaire’s wife to a dish washer. * * « * 1 ife I a- its ups and downs. One day you are upon the mountain tops, and the next day in the valleys. But the valleys are lovely, if you don't •.pend your time sighing for the mountains. And there is no pleasure to be found on the mountains if you are afraid of the surrounding valleys. The Pyrenees have a quaint way of saying, “L.il'e has its up and downs, 1 tut you’ll get along if you are on the level.” * * * Pearl sang as she flung a wicked dishrag in the kitchen. Raising her hand, red from the warm soapy water site gazed upon the wedding ring which sparkled there. “For better or worse,” she mused. "It’s been better. Now it’s pme to the worse. Here I am washing dishes when 1 could he back in the Dirty Pan Bakery selling cookies. Wish 1 had taken up stenography. That's the host thing to protect a girl's hands from dishwater.” Jimp entered the kitchen to fill his pail. How goes it, Jimpy? smiled Pearl, cal'ing her fond husband by his pet name. “N6t so good,” smiled Jimpy. “My baek aches. What a swell honeymoon this turned out to he.-’ “Quit your blamed kicking,” snap ped Pearl, who up until now had put up a braye front. “Who’s kicking?” cried Jimpy, his nerves raw. “I’ll kick somebody in somebody’s eye.’ “Meaning me?” asked Pearl, calmly grabbing the pan of dishes and smash ing them over the unfortunate, hus band’s head. “What’s this? What's this?” cried the excited manager, attracted to the scene by the noise of , the falling dishes. “What’s what and who wants to know?” smiled Pearl. “Why did you break those dishes over Jimp’s head?’ “Because he’s my husband.’ “Oh,’ .-aid the manager, apologiz ing. “I forgot.” S6 he departed. Pearl had become a hard boiled egg. But Jimp was only slightly addled. His head buzzed as she went about his window washing. The blow had start ed something. lie was thinking. a voice at “Hello Pearl, ' said Pearl’s elbow. “Dectective (Innishoe,’’ exclaimed Pearl. “What brings you here.’ 1 am with you always,” blushed Hum. “1 have watched you since you married Jimp because I love you. He’s broke. Come, flee with me.” h lee with you? ’ said Pearl, con sidering the proposition. “You mean you want m > to chase you?" No,’ sighed the new lover. “I want to take you away from here. Seeing your beautiful hands in that dish water is like a dagger in my heart.’ Hum was a handsome gentleman, tie was almost as handsome as Jimp. AN ATTRACTIVfe PROPOSITION The consensus of opinion among intelli gent people is that the Penn Mutual is the greatest Life Insur ance Company the world has ever known. It has been doing business at the same stand for 80 years, and its finan ce! strength is great er than the combined strength of all the stock companies re presented in Cleve land County. A Penn Mutual policy, cover ing the double indem nity,. and disability previsions, is the most attractive proposition ever presented to a man, and whoever in sures in any ether company does himself and family a great in justice. C. J. WOODSON, Agent. # T'ntuition (old Pearl he loved Should she flee? e * * her. Jimp, busy washing windows and thinking, was annoyed by someone pinohing his leg. “Stop tint ” said he, looking down fromjiis ladder. It was Mrs. Gumshoe. “Hello, sweetheart,” said the fast worker “('limb down a minute. 1 have a huge hug for you." Jimp climbed to the top of the lad der and sat there, at bay. “Come to me," coaxed Mrs. Gum. “Come Jimpy. Cdme Jimpy. Come flee with me," quoth the she-devil. “Not so loud,” whispered Jimp. “My wife will hear you.” (Author’s. note: Apologies are due for the conclusion of this otherwise perfect chapter. Mr. Handle, Pearls father, was sup posed to dash into the hotel and shoot at Jimp, or at least have Jimp cor nered on top of the ladder. But there is a cobblestone road just outside of Cave City. The old man lost his false teeth on this road, and stopped to hunt them. He finally found the teeth' over in a patch eat ing: watermelons. Too late today, Mr. Handle will be with m next time.) (To Be Continued) Brain* and the Bald Just as the members of the Bald Headed 'association of America are assembling: at. Springfield, Mass.t in annual convention, come cheering cables Irom Oxford University, wher; tlie 'British association for the ad vancement of science is in session. Its combined gigantic intellects have been concentrated on the relation between 1 bald ness and brains. In the opinion of the chief off the anthropological see tion, "it is not far wrong to assume that diminished hair growth liber ates thyroid secretions to exert them selves elsewhere. The relation of thy roid to brain growth is close also, and thus we may view diminishing hpir,growth as an accessory factor in imaii’s braip growth.” K will he encouraging to many laymen, whose craniul foliage is less luxuriant than it once was to "have Jt NORTH CAROLINA POPULAR EXCURSION TO WASHINGTON, D. C. VI'A SOUTHERN railway system FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1926 Three whole days and three, nights in Washington. Round trip fure from Shelby $12.00. Special train leaves Charlotte 8;55 P, M. Set. 3. 1920. Arrives Washington 8:35 A, M. September 4, 1926. 1 ickets on sale Sept. 3rd. Good on all regular trains to junction points, thence special train. Final limit to return leaving Washington on all regular trains (Except 37) so as to reach original starting point prior to midnight September 7, 1926. BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL GAMES. Washington Senators vs Boston Red Sox. One game Sent. 5th—Two games Sept. 6th. Fine opportunity to see Walter Johnson, George Murray and other stars in action. Also to visit Washington’s many public buildings; Arlington National Cemetery and other points of interest Tickets good ;;i pullman sleeping cars and day coaches. No stop-overs. No baggage checked. Make your sleeping ear reservations early. For further information and sleeping' car reservations please.call on any Southern Railway Agent. A. H. MORGAN. Agent, Shelby, N. C. R.‘ H. GRAHAM, Division Passenger Agent, Charlotte, N. C. ; -n-.--E-uui.-i.nl-UJIXUU--1- ^mmamm^mmmmmmmmmm Luremont— •oil i' On Lake Lure In Chimney Rock Mountains AS SCENIC AS SWITZERLAND, AS SUNNY AS ITALY AND AS BEAUTIFUL AS VENICE. IT HAS THE GRANDEUR OF TflE MOUNTAINS, THE CHARM OF SEQUESTERED COVES AND DALES AND THE SINUOUS BAYS AND RECESSES OF AN INLAND SEA. —SEE— C. L. T. FISHER — PHONE 535 CenlrarHotel Lobby, Shelby, N- C. ... .awi i i ji —l . . CHEAP RAitE EXCURSION SEABOARD A^ LINe4a|LWAY TO Washington, D. C., Richmond, Va., Portsmouth, Virginia Beach Return FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1926. TO Washing From ton, D. C. Ruth’ton, N. C: $12.0tt Shelby, N. C. 12.0if Lincolnt’n, N. C. 12.00 Charlotte, N. C. 11.00 Monroe, N. C. 10.00 Wadesbo’, N. C. 10.00 Ilnmlet, N. C. 10.00 Chester. S. C. 12.00 If? TO Rich mond, Va. >7.26 7.00 ft 7-00 W7.00 7.00 | 7.00 L 7.00 0.75 TO Ports mouth,. Va. $10.25 10.00 0.50 8.00 7.50 7.00 7.00 0.75 TO Va. Beach Va. $10.76 10.50 10.00 8.50 8.00 7.60 7.50 10.25 Tickets on sale .for Friday, September i3rd, 1 LIMIT—Return trip Tuesday, September 7th, BAGGAGE—No bag; trains stopping at your station, t be completed By midnight, ill Ijo checked. Tickets gCod in Sleepwifc Cars upon payment of Pullman fares. For further information and Pullman reservations call on nearest Agent or. J T. WEST. Division Passenger Agent, RALEIGH, N. C. Phone 27*0. E. W. LONG, Division Passenger Agfnt, H'HARLOTTto N. C. Phone 189. V. tlys scientific corroboration of a theory which they have often express ed only to encounter derision. A rc- ! quirement for admission to the Bald Headed association is the possession of a completely denuded patch not less than four inches in length. After this authoritative pronouncement the qualification may be made even more restricted since it will be more of a 1 distinction than ever to lack hirsute adornment. Julius Caesar, Shakes peare, Tennyson and many other dwellers in the hall of fame had little occasion to worry over the high cost of haircuts. The highest authority has deter mined that brains and baldness in men go together. And what of the women ? But that is another ques tion.—Pittsburg (Pa.) Chronicle Tele graph. “KEEP TO THE POINT” “After one of the noted i.jndels had concluded one of his infidel lectures in a village in the North of England, he challenged those present to discus sion. Who should accept the challenge but an old, bent woman in most anti quated attire, who went up to the lecturer and said: “Sir, I have a question to put to you.” Well, n:y good woman, what is it? “Ten years ago,” she said, “I’was left a wido.v with eight children utterly unprovided for and’nothing to call my own bur this Bible. By its direction and look ing to God for strength I have been enabled to feed myself and family., i am now tottering to the grave; but I am perfectly happy, because I Iook forward to a life of immortality with Jesus in heaven. That’s what my re ligion has done for me. What luis your way of thinking done for you? Well, my good lady, repoined the lee turer. "1 don’t want to disturb youi comfort, but—” “Oh, that’s not th« question,” interrupted the woman, “keep to the point, sir,—What has your way of thinking done for you?” Tho infidel endeavored to shirk the matter again. The feeling of the meeting found vent in uproarious ai plause, and the skeptic lecturer had to go away discomfited by an old ( hrht ian woman.”—Sunday School Journal I Summer hint: A practical hot I weather costume is a bath tub full i of water. You can overlook the faults of your friends, but in your enemies they seem terrible. What’s the difference between mow I ing the grass and clipping it with a goli club? The law provides a penalty for runs der but no one ever interferes with the tree killers. “The bootleg King” is another monarch who, it appears, is goiing to be forced to abdicjftc. There should be two so the okl folks can hide from their children’s swell friends. DR. DAVID M. MORRISON Optometrist. EYE SPECIALIST Telephone 585 Eyes examined, glasses fit ted, lenses made and dupli cated. \ I For Sale By New Low Prices usco Less need now than ever before to shop around for “bargain” tires that you know nothing about. Come in and let tell you the New Low Prices of good United States Tires to fit your car. * CHASTE. LAMBETH MOTOR CO. SHELBY BRANCH S. LaFayette Streat* Shelby, N. C, UNITED STATES TIRES ARE GOOD TIRES 9 PASS WORD ‘ IN ANY.TRAmC \ #ne vujrwn BuiirMomrnitl Cartx 5 cento Mon~ Worth It
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