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1 ' I ' '. ' . ' ? ' , '? \ . ) ? THE EDGEFIELD COUNTY FAIR sf 1911 Wm be Held October 25, 26, 27, and 28. SAVING HER? RECORD ! >..?>.. ft..*.. ?..*..?..?>.. 4 If there is anything Mrs. Jenkinson rides herself on it is being on time, i fact, her superhuman punctuality acorn es as intolerable at times as ie moral courage of the person who ikes cold plunges in the morning and oasts of the fact Her satisfaction ses to its sublimest height when she ui show off before some unfortunate tortal who is invariably late. Therefore she beamed condescend igly upon Mrs. Loffett and said: "Oh, it-tainly, I'll be able to meet you at te Stace street entrance of Long Iota's at 12:30. It will be perfectly asy!" "Well, I didn't know," apologized [rs. Loffett "There are always so lany things to do around the house lornlngs that ttl hard-" "Not if you use tho proper sys-1 ?m," Interrupted Mrs. Jenkinson! rmly. The Jeuklnsons had just taken a nail flat after a long siege of board ig and were not entirely adjusted, he worst trouble was that there were Mir bells which rang and Mrs. Jen lnson's ear had not had time to be rained to the difference between lem. When one rang she invariably nswered all four, as always lt was tie last one she answered. This gave er plenty of exercise. The morning she was to meet Mrs. offett at 12:30 Mrs. Jenkinson was roused from a late slumber by the Inglng of a bell. She sprang up linking and puzzled and then con :iou8ness came. "My packages from downtown!" she urmured. "The back door bell, of turee!" Slipping into a dressing gown, she |shed to the back door. There was body there. She opened the front tr with the same results. Then she icked the speaking tube leading the front entrance downstairs, ire was no response to her hellos. |Oh!" she said shortly a few sec s later, as she gazed from the front dow where she had wandered and a view of the postman sigzagglng ss the street below. "It was his ! I might have known!" 0frs. Jenkinson proceeded to turn faucets in the bathtub and let lt with wa.er. As she splashed a 1 rang. "My goodness!" she aned. It rang again peremptorily, finally some one pounded on the |>nt door. "Well, you Just pound!" she mut ^ed, hysterically. "The idea!" A little later she opened tho door ld stared upon the vacant hall larch lng for a clue. There was no Who on earth could that have ?en?" she asked herself. "Mercy-lt's er ten o'clock!" las she was making coffee a bell lig and lt sounded like the one |w ns tai ra. When she had shrieked Ho" Into the tube till her throat lt rang again and some one nded on the back door. The icy Infuriated individual who stood re snorted as he brushed by her. Telephone c'llection," he explained fly. "I climbed three flights of it stairs once this morning an' I've climbed three flights of back s and lt's no fun, I can tell you! |irs. Jenkinson, wildly searching for purse, found it at last In the shoe where she had hidden it Her Bd w&8 thumping as she ushered out telephone man and hurried back er coffee. It had boiled over. She pped the toast she was making to wer the next bell. Dress from the cleaner's for |lth," announced a voice through tube. Smiths don't live here," called back i. Jenkinson. Presently there was ng at the front door and she found oy holding out the cleaner's box. t isn't mine," Insisted Mrs. Jen Q. he boy regarded her reproachfully, is ls the number an' I've climbed flights of stairs an' lt's two ?Take lt away!" ordered Mrs. Jen on, indignantly. "I don't know .bing about it!" She banged the . on the boy's protests and tore Hfche kitchen, which was full of ke. The toaet was cinders, 'd-I'd like to cry!" moaned Mrs. inson. e discarded her kimono and start 0 dress for downtown, accelerated be last glance at the clock, which 11:15. She had 45 minutes be the suburban train was due. Bigs hld themselves with that mad ng Ingenuity they always develop n one ls in a hurry. In ten min the bedroom and closet looked Culebra cut in the process of ex tion. Then the telephone rang. ie missed her train and raged for Bstnutes walting for the next one. m, breathless and disheveled, she ted into the entrance to Long l's, she was trying to conceal her Illation. To be late with Alice Btt was intolerable. To her unbe ible amazement, Mrs. Loffett was waiting with triumph in her eyes, during the ensuing 15 minutes ; Jenkinson repaired damages to toilet. >h," cried Mr?. Loffett, niBhtng hp ,st, "I'm so sorry! Have yoi been lng all this time?" ie glance Mrs. Jenkinson turned 1 her would have made her for I on the stage. It was calm, re chful, condescending and patient. >h," said Mrs. Jenkinson without quiver of an eyelash, "one gets to walting when one ls sys tlc* li CHANGING j THE SUM "Then I am to understand that you are unwilling to give your consent to my marriage to Rose?" demanded Archer as be rose. "I have told you that I am deter mined that my daughter shall marry one who is able to support her in the style to which she is accustomed. You have told me that you have an Income slightly less than my daughter's dress allowance. I presume you are capable of making the simple arithmetical computation that two and two malee four." "I suppose I could/' assented Arch er. "The trouble is that there ls another example on my mental slate. That is that one taken from one leaves nothing." "I fall to see the application," was the cold response. It's this way," explained Archer, taking his seat again. "If you take Rose from me you leave me nothing to hope for. Now do you get the idea?" "Mere romantic nonsense," was the impatient reply. "You will soon find some young woman in your own sta tion of life who will occupy your thoughts to the exclusion of my daugh ter." "Station in life," echoed Archer with a laugh. "It seems to me that your father and my grandfather were In the same station of life. You happened, to make money and my father didn't That's all. Rose ls willing to get along on what I earn. We are not asking you to support us. Her happiness should mean something to you." "It does," agreed Sidney Wright'"It 1B for that reason that I insist that she shall not have to go through the in* ferne of economy that was necessary to my own younger days." "I think that she'd rather have me than a red automobile and Paris frocks," said Archer, rising again. "Just think over that example. Mr. Wright One minus one equals naught You can't forget it" Archer slipped out of the office and W'right turned once more to his desk. He was doing what was best for his daughter. Rose would thank him some day, when she knew life better. He picked up a paper but he could not concentrate his attention upon lt be' use that absurd example kept ringing through his brain. It was later than usual when he left the office, be cause the Jingle would cling to his memory and keep him back in his work. He thought the ride home in the open air would drive it from his brain, but the horses seemed to tread out the sum with their hoof beats on the macadam. It was like the old "Puncb, brothers, punch with care," that he recalled back in the '70s. Rose's red eyes told that she had seen or heard from Archer, but she said nothing and Wright did not open the subject More than ever the girl reminded him of her mother and he remembered how happy they had been In those early days before the sudden growth of the city had taken within its limits the Wright farm and rendered building lots as valuable as acres had been before. They had been happy enough with each other, but the times were changing. Money was necessary to comfort and he would see that Rose married some one who could support her In the style to which she waa accustomed. A four room fiat was the best Archer could offer. Still the example kept flashing through his mind. "One minus one equals naught" It danced before bis eyes as he read the evening paper and the more he tried to put the memory away the more insistent lt became. It was the last thing in his thoughts that night and the first thing he re called the next morning. In his sleep he had dreamed of gigantic figures, huge ones and monster ciphers. He took a trolley to the office but the flatted wheels ground out the same monotonous refrain and when he we t to lunch he called first upon his physician. "Just a little tired feeling," ex plained the doctor when the trouble was explained with no reference to the origin of the sum. "If I were you I'd run out of town for a few days and forget business worries tor a while." He pocketed the fee and escorted Wright to the door, watching him go down the street with a heavy tread that was very unlike Sidney Wright "Some business worry," he sala to himself ss be turned back to his own neglected lunch. "Wright needs to be careful or he will have a breakdown." Wright hailed the idea of & trip with pleasure. It would take him out of sight of Rose's reproachful eyes, but that night In the Bleeper the grinding of the wheels beat time to the Incessant repetition of the one minus one nor was lt any better next day at the winter resort Wright waa thoroughly scared. Change of scene brought him no relief and rest was out of the Question. For two days he grew worse and worse and at last his tired nerves broke under the strain. For monthB his worry over certain pending deals had weakened his nervous system. T?lB was the last straw. As a last resort he went over to the telegraph office in the lobby of the hotel and filled out a form. The clerk looked puszled as he read the message for lt ran: "Change your Infernal formula to read one plus one makes one. You have my consent" Then Sidney Wright went upstairs to get the first night's rest he had en joyed since Archer had left his office* Paint Kitchen Floors Don't Scrub Them Avoid the backache and sore knees caused by scrubbing bare floors. 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