The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 27, 1924 Page: 5 of 6
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Protect Your Health
With PETERS Solid Leather Shoes.
They keep your feet dry. Big
line to select from.
It Was Better Than
Gold
By CHARLES E. BAXTER
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Everything in Shoes
Wo Have Them at the Right Prices, and
Stand Squarely Behind Each Sale
R. W. PITTMAN
SEMINOLE, TEXAS
Buying Power of the Farmer
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TT A VINO hobbled his burro, old
•Tl Kptj went out to Inspect his mine
In the valley below. A moving fig-
ure attracted his attention. Spurred
on by his fears, be hastened his foot-
steps, only to And those fears con-
ti rnied.
The claim which he had omitted to
mark, so sure was he that no one
would come upon It, had been Jumped
In his absence.
And by a woman! Advancing to-
ward the figure with clenched fists, he
saw a girl of about twenty, with yel-
low bobbed hair and a pair of Inno-
cent gray eyes smiling at him.
"You’re Mr. Eph SamsonT"
"1 am. and this is my claim I”
“Pardon me. I’ve registered it, and
you can see the markers I’ve put
up—"
"It’s my claim," repeated Eph vio-
lently. “1 found this here mine last
month. Had to go hack to town fer
more pervislons, and didn't think any
one’d he so dern mean as to Jump
another man’s claim.”
"I don’t know anything about that.
This Is my claim, tind registered, and
I’m going to work It.’’
“You ain’t!”
”1 am!”
If it had been a man Eph would
have fought to the death there and
then. But after a moment's hesita-
tion he knew that he was beaten. He
turned away. The claim was hers,
: by mining law and custom, too. Shs
must have followed him, spied on him,
nd seized the opportunity of Ills ab-
sence to Jump the claim for herself.
Eph went sullenly up to Ills camp.
Beaten—and by a woman 1 Beaten-
after he had discovered the richest
deposit of gold In twenty years—the
mine of whose existence he had al
ways b Men credulous; the mine which
was to have made him rich for his
declining years. *
And by a woman I Old Eph was
known as a woman hater. He had
had his experiences—years before,
when Elsie had run away from him,
taking with her the baby girl whom
he worshiped. She had simply left
him—there was no other man in the
ease because she had ceased to care
fur him. Later she had died, hut he
had i ever been nblq> to trace his
child. 1
So Eph had gone farther west, and
developed Into the dour, dogged old
Min' that he was. with a secret ten-
' rncs- fur children and a secret soft-
. *s lur anything In trouble or pain,
't 1 •• tried his best to conceal
Buy Your
Winter Coal
Now
Why wait until cold weather hits be-
fore having vour coal bin filled. Do
you know that you can buy coal
cheaper now than at any other time
this winter? We have a large supply
of Colorado Lump and Nut Coal at
our yard now, and it is pricee right.
Higginbotham - Bartlett Company
Seagraves, Texas
from the eyes of the world
And now n woneiti Itnd pltiyed him
this wretched trick. And there wns
nothing to do Old Eph was n man
of quick decisions. Knowing that he
was beaten, and unwilling to remain
a single night on the field of this dis-
aster, he rolled tip his puck and went
for Ills burro, In order to move on.
Maybe there was more gold In the
district.
He was Just strapping on Ids pack
when he saw the girl coming up the
slope toward him. Thunder 1 He
didn’t want to speak to her. He trlt‘d
to complete the squaw-hitch, lint his
fingers trembled so from his agitation
that he was unable to complete the
work before the girl was standing In
front Of him.
“Yon going away?”
Eph wheeled on her fiercely. “See
here, young woman.'' he snarled, “you
got nt.v mine, and I guess you nln’t
come hero to say you’re sorry, so I
don’t want to have no palaver with
yon Oit hack and work It and may
the gold turn to Dead sen fruit In
yore month I mean- "
A nterry rippling laugh broke from
the girl’s lips, “Can't we settle this
somehow?"
“How you mean, settle It?”
“As partners, tnayhe."
"You mean—no I” shouted Eph. "It’s
my mine, and I'm going to have It all
or none of It."
"Why, falher!"
"Why—what?" shouted Epu.
Suddenly her spns were round him.
“I'm Nancy. Don't you remember nte’
I've been trying to trace you ever
since I grew up, and when I found
you they told me you were so cress,
and I wus afraid, and—and I came out
to ask you to be partners—"
“Nan!" ejaculated Eph huskily.
And as his arms went round her
he, knew that he had found
hotter than a gold mine.
"Indigestion often affects the heart,"
a doctor writes. Itlghto! The bride's
bad cooking lias knocked many a love
affair for a row of tall striped loops
mates show an average of 4.8 points higher for the first eleven months of ibis
year tlmn during the corresponding months of 1923, according to a report of
the Sears-Hoebuck Agricultural Foundation, based on the new Index numbers
of farm prices prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Farm prices show a combined value of 134 on November 1, 1924, as com-
pared with 100 In 1913. This combined Index number Includes 30 farm com-
modities which represent more than 90 per cent of the value of products sold
by farms, the Foundation points out. Using August, 1909. to July, 1914, as 100,
the purchasing power of these products stood at 87 on November 1 of this year.
In 1918 the purchasing power was 100, decreasing to 09 In 1921. In 1922 It rose
to 74 and by 1923 the average slocd at 78. During the first eleven months of
this year the purchasing power of farm commodities averaged 82.3 as compared
with 77.5 in the same period a year ago
Advances in grain, which averages about 22 per cent of the total value
of farm products sold, and in price <>f meat animals, which averages 27 per
ceni, have been the largest factors Ui_t.be-increase of the farmer’s purchasing
power since 1921. The grain farmer received during the early part of this
yeur prices about 10 per cent above the pre war five-year average. This had
risen to 30 per cent Increase by July. At the same time the general price
level of commodities the farmer lias to buy ranges 30 to 80 per cent above the
1018 level.
Where U. S. Farm Products Go
Products of the Americun farm go to every civilized country of the world.
Out of the United States each year Is sent approximately one-half of the total
,<•011011 crop, one-fourth of the yield of ihe wheat fields, one fifth of the porkers
and huge quantities of corn and tobacco, dried fruits and other products of
field and feed lot.
The accompanying chart, prepared by the Sears-ltoebuck Agricultural
Foundation, shows where the principal exports go.
In the United Kingdom more of America’s farm exports are consumed
'than In any other nation. The United Kingdom uses more American cotton
than any other country, her annual consumption averaging around 1,580.916
bales, (iermnny Is in the market for almost as much cotton, using 1,011.614
pounds last year The United Kingdom is the first market for American wheat
and flour, tobacco, corn sirup und condensed milk. She also takes large quan
titles of dried fi•nits, otl cake. meat, meat products und corn.
More Comfort
for Less Moisey
The Coupe
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O mi o
For dor Sedan $685
Tudor Sedan 590
Touring Car 295
Runabout • 265
On oprri model* drmount-
• bl* rim* and *Urt« *n
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AU price* f.o.P. Detroit
The Ford Coupe is the lowest
priced closed car on the market—
yet one of the most satisfactory.
CosCng less to buy and maintain, every dollar invested
brings greatest returns in comfortable, dependable
travel
Sturdy, long-lived and adapted to all conditions
ol roads and weather—it meets every need oi a two
passenger car.
Steadily growing demand and theresourcesandfacilities
of the Ford Motor Company have made possible a
closed car, at a price millions can afford, rightly de-
signed, carefully built and backed by an efficient service
organization in every neighborhood of the nation.
SEE THE NEAREST AUTHORIZED FORD DEALER
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Stone, Harry N. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 27, 1924, newspaper, November 27, 1924; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth576996/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.