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A EFFERENT MAN By SARA HOLT. Morton's two Hhort VlHltH to New York with I ??;r parents hud shown her only (tit* Now York of hotels ami department store*. When she went thero uione^ to HluUy noeial service hIim discovered muny phases of lif** of which Mho know nothing, One night Hho Hat far Into the night rending u book called "(J reed unct (bind," This hook hud been the mean* of enuslnjf |nany changes In the fac buy management where girls hud heen < overwork oil In bad ftjr and unsafe sur roundings. It inmlo I^?-t 1 1 ?* feel (lint nlie lulist do something to help glliu whose dully work held them In i< vise stronger limn the social customs of Mnrvliville hiid h< Id her so Mho begun to Ntiel) ! heir |>t ohleinH. She went to lectures ii 1 1 < I even to eourt Menus to hem trial*. W illi lite eii ( tnjslu-iin of u now win >erl, .she enleied Into the question 1 1 1 ? i.inri* /??'ii I Hum Judgment. One f I iii i' ?< 'i when mi open meeting In Union > ijini re w as over, she sal still after ti.e croud scattered anil looked u t * i ? 1 1 1 lier. On a heiK-lt near her Hat a young nui ii ho had seen at nearly all such meetings alio had attended. Ho wan always In the crowd, hut nppareniy not of It, and Htio had wuno to think of him iim "the different man." Ho was perhaps thirty, with dark eyes and hair. I>eop (ii speculation about "the dif ferent man," l?ettlo did not notice that auotlier Hurt of man had aat down on the. same honch with her. Ah who turned her eyen from tint Mlowly de- j parting flguro of "the different man" she met tiie confidently familiar wmllo of the man who had sat down beHlde her. Ue wan a fut and florid blond, dressed in a loud Hult of brown tweed. "Never mind, girlie," lie Hald, with a leering Hinile. "lie's gone, but I'm here, and wouldn't it be a fulr bargain to take me In his place?" I.ettlo turned pale and, with her chin in the air, quickly arose without taking any apparent notice of the speaker. She h tar tod away In a fast walk and was surprised to see that "the different man" had turned aiul wan wulklug toward her. She failed to ?oe that a wobbly beginner on roller skates was close behind her, and the next moment her feel were kuooket! from under her and she landed on top of a frightened llLtle girl. When Lottie was unco more on Iter feet she started forward and almost humped Into "the different man." Sho was holding her right wrist as If in pain and Iho whiteness of her face arrested the eyes of Iho man. "I'm afruld you're Hurt," ho began/1 his dark fuce glowing with * confused "Won t you let ]?| t?t gf-lCCfc As Lettle looked Into his klpd eyea | she <11(1 the very thing she didn't wmit to do- she let the tearii that hud been burning her eye* roll down her now crimson cheeks. 'Thank you." who said simply. 'There's it drug store right over here where you run have this properly ban? duged." said the man, iih lie exuinlued the Injured wrist. An they oinergod from the drug Mtore h little lu tor, it seemed quite nulurul for them to contluue walking to get her. "I>ld you get on overdone of 'local color' this time?" the inuu's gray eyes were laughing a little now. "'Local color'? I don't uuderMtaud." "Why 1 thought ? " the man heal* tated nod looked puzzled. "You may think 1 wan presuming to think about you at all. hut I've supposed that you w?nt to sll these queer meetings to gel 'local color' for your Mtorles, an I do." "Oh, ho that's what you do? I've wondered and wondered who you were!" This unconscious admission made the man smile, and he drt-w a curd from Ills pocket. "I'll tell you what we'd better do I" lie smiled usseiit to her enthuHluHtlc of fer, and she continued: "You give mo your card and I'll give you mine, hut we won't look at the names until we gel home !" A few moments later they were In a taxlcab and helng whirled ulong to ward - Let tle'u lodging. "Suppose we look at our cards now 1" Lettlo ? became suddenly piquant. 'Miss Lot it la Pembroke Morton," read the man Impressively. "What a big name for a mnnll girl." "Never mind, ?ir ; now I shall see how big a name you have I" She drew his card fnnn her purse, cleared her throat affectedly, and turned her head critically to one Hide, but when who pronounced the name. It was an ex clamation. "John Wood Thompson. ()h-h-hl Not really the author of 'Greed and Grind'?" She looked straight Into his eyes as she asked for this confirmation of her discovery, and the man nodded alHrinatlvcly. "How perfectly splendid ! Why, It's you who have achieved such wonder ful things to help people!" ? John was thinking that one thing more must be .achieved to help him self before the world would be right again, but he feared it was much too soon to mention It. Just then the taxlcab stopped at Let tie's number and the conventional good-hy laid to be said, but their acquaintance contin ued afterward and culminated In what John termed his really great achieve ment ? " t wlnnlnu of a wonderful wife." ? ("V.nv-lf I ; :y|{5 bv flip Module Ncwiinq. PO*ER OF THE HUMORIST Tt# <*Men?ry of CffVirnfeiRecitrft# Headers of History Memory of Other Satirist*. ?The British u re not the only people who this yciir inuy celebrate the ter centenary of u great writer. Madrid Is erecting a monument to the author of "I>on Quixote/' Cervuutes wan more than a man of letters; he was more than a grout humorist ; ho was an epoch. Blaster of ridicule, he laughed ! the defunct age of chivalry out of ex- , lsteuce. j People often forget the social func tion of the humorist, a New York Tribune writer mutes. He restores Hunity. lit* chars the atmosphere of extravagance ami hutnbug. Borgson says that laughter itas "survival vulue" as a corrective of woclui uhuses. Cer tainly Home of the world's moat ef fective reformers have been Its mas ters of ridicule and satire. There are humorists, like Murk Twain, In whose luughler there I* no sting, and there have Jteen hitler satirists, like Jona than &vlft and I, a ttochefoucuuld, who have simply mocked the "all too hu iniitiness'' of mankind at Its noblest. But In almost every age there hus been some hold nonconformist spirit whose laughter In the face of some traditional scarecrow has ended the ty runny of a truth which hud out lived its usefulness and become u lie. KOTjipf hood in the days of Chaucer had still its noble aspects, but knight hood after Cervantes wrote "Don Quixote" could never quite escupe n touch of the burlesque. Therefore, tneu turned to less antiquated and more real avenues of human service. Similarly, the laughter of Aristo phanes wrought confusion among the undent Greek sophists. Luclan's mock ery corrected much of the sentlmental Ism of the effete Oreco-Koman so ciety. The sound laughter of Eras j mus, the humanist, spread the . Influ ence of the Renaissance In northern Europe. Butler's "Hudlbras" helped correct the extravagances of early English purltanism Voltulre laughed the last remnants of medievalism out of the eighteenth-century France and cleared (he ground for modern democ- , racy. Cnrlyle's "Sartor Resartus" j made nineteenth century romanticism : ridiculous. The sly humor of Thack eray brought common sense Into early Vlctorlunism, and the sardonic spirit of Bernard Shaw In these times hus left little 1ft modern commercial so ciety unchallenged. May the Cervantes monument stand as a reminder to moderns that there have been reformers with a sense- of humor ! I Their Fear Not Realized. The great fear of those whose act here In Philadelphia 140 years ago made this a nation was that the state wnuirt not remain a nation, n writer lu the Philadelphia Public Lodger say*. History ha n proved Id their caee the IHiilty ox the epigram : ?The thin* you fear will fet y<m.wv What they feared never happened. We are a young country, but a very old government, an governmenta go. Cull the roll of the nation* and you will see that a majority of them are bahleH beside the United Htatea. Ju* pan'n present Imperial regimen Is not hnlf a century old. 'I*he house of llohenzollerii Is fairly ancient, hut the German empire Is not yet fifty and the French republic Is no older. Austria and Hungary were yoked together long after Franklin told the signers of the declaration of Independ ence they, must all hang together or be hanged separately.. Italy's kingdom Is not half so old as the United States. Portugal's republic is a thing too young to vote, and the Chinese republic has not yet been weaned. All the score of Central and South American republics are much younger than is this greatest of world repub lics. Nearly half the human race has now copied that lesson which was an nounced by the Lib' rty bell. Bluffed the New Conductor. He stood at the corner waiting for a car. Several curs had stopped to let him get on hut he made no move to get aboard. Finally one stopped and a man got off. "Did you pay your fare to the end of the line?" Inquired the waiting man. "Yes," said the man who got off. "Can I have your seat?" ho asked. "Sure, It's the In?' one on the right hand side, cross. seat." I The man cltfmbcrcd aboard and hur ried to the seat Just left vacant. I "Fare please," said the conductor shortly afterwards. i "Fare nothing," responded the man. I "I just took the other fellow's place who got off and he said he paid to the end of the line and said that I could have his seat." The Response evidently was a stun ner for the new conductor and he was so surprised he passed up the fare. New Life Preserver. A novel life preserver has been de- I vised to supplement the ordinary cork Jacket in rough water. I*y its use the Ijerson in distrtyss is able to breathe, even when tho waves sweep over his head. The appliance adds to the cork jacket a light metal chamber which floats high, a spout leading from it r I. fiing two or .three feet above the water level. A tube leads from this chamber to u face m.isk, through which the wearer of the jacket breathes. lOven if the water sweeps over his head the spout of the air chamber is j still clear and the air supply unim paired. There are various brands of this much article. The vain person finds it in display, praved person finds it in dissipation. But the good common sense finds it in the solid comfort good cheer of himself and his family. Chief i this cheer is A Tempting Christmas When you ?0 to'" prepare it Come to Us for ings. * For i^tance Mince Meat All kinds of- Nuts and Raisins and Currants Celery, Cranberries Sauces of all Kinds Everything You Can Use It Will be a Fine Christmas dinner if you use A Commcn Cause o* Failure. "What happened to Flivver? IK was always full of ambition and Just a Lull t to accomplish groat things, but somehow be bus failed to achieve any thing In particular." "Oh. ho hitched hlj wagon to a star and forgot to fasten the rear end I gate."? Kansas City Star. All Dopen^jn "What shall 1 charge for Uxing up whiskers?" "All deiJends," answered the boss bar ber. "Some I give a bit of a clip for nothing. Others you want to charge the same rates a laundry gets for laeo curtains." ? Louisville Courier-Journal. Why It Worried Him. "What are you looking so glum about, old man?" "Somebody stole Dawson's umbrella." . "But why should that worry you?" "It was stolen from me." j No Strange Exporiments. "Did you have a homily when youi minister came to dinner, Mrs. Jlmps?" "Dear me. no, mem. I don't never try them strange dishes."? Baltimore American. Seek to learn what is best rather than to learn much. j Strange CotaeMew* About twenty-live yean uq attending ecu rt as a wltt**, In lotte, Sheriff Hunter heard tie John P. Hunter called and ly answered, only to find to wTt, sternatlon that the man called fori another of that name, one J* Hunter, of Derlta, Meckeobwg _ a justice of the peace. The sberiui the Mecklenburg man metonUMl and had a photograph taken togeftl which many visitors at the shefl otllee will recall having seen. At 9 time, the sheriff, as well as 8m Hunter, had a long beard and tbt] was a marked similarity toeachofl In their appearance. . '?;% The acquaintance made by of this singular coincidence soooiM ed Into a friendship, wtlch has grid and strengthened with the yeanii the popular Lancaster officer has \ an his guest this week, Squire Join Hunter, his ?pn, L. P. Hunter and I brother, T. M. Hunter, all of DeH Mecklenburg county, N. 0. * "Sheriff Hunter and his friends hi both been officers of the peace fori ny ypflrs .The AJfoklonburg iua* * held office for 32 years and John, Hunter of Lancaster county for years.? Lancaster News. Beverly Bryan, five years old, di from l>eiug rpn over by a South railway train Monday at Oo/nail Both tans ^ tart irwte mangla 1 Of alKthe precious metals, gold has not advanced in price. Not diminished, in beauty in use ful ness. 1 his year you can make gifts of jewelry, without placing a war premium on your gift, for of all merchandise appropriate for the holiday remembrance, jewelry alone has not ack vanced in price because of the war. And what is more cherished, more lasting, more adored than an exquisite piece of jewelry? Our display is now brilliant with magnificent pieces superb designs; and the stock offers an immense choice and price range. ? C A M EO li ROO : H ES JEWELRY BOX ;.:acelet watches STUDS HAT PINS TH ARMS COAT CHAINS PICTURE FRAMES ? KINGS? EVERY KIND CROOCHES ? ALL KINDS AND PRICE TIE CLASPS VEST CHAINS BIB HOLDERS SOLID SILVER SETS COLLAR BUTTONS WALDEMAR CHAINS SCARF PINS SILVER and GOLD WATCHES ? ALL KINDS AND PRICE SILVER WARM- IN SU PERB DESIGNS POCKET KNIVES Open 'Evenings Until Christmas Jewelry i A Few Suggestions: CAMEO RINGS SILVER AND GOLD THIMBLES CARD CASES TOILET SETS, COMB, BRUSH AND MIRROR CLOTHES BRUSHES LINK BUTTONS MANICURE SETS SILVER PLATED" CKSARETTE CASES J MERCANTILE FOUNTAIN PENS . PARISIAN IVORY TOftfS SETS . I ROPE CHAINS HAIR BRUSHES EMBLEMS? Gold and SiM UMBRELLAS, GOLD FILL-SILVfeR AND PARISIAN ED and STERLING SIL- IVORY MILITARY VER BRUSHES * - ?**-?? ? ^ V -*? . ''t Bracelet Watches are extremely popular this sc**08. We have a big assortment from $3.00 to $5W?J PHONE 69 G. L. BLACKWELL CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA * r ?;