Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, July 31, 1912, Page TWO, Image 2
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Hester, looking out upon the whirl
ing flakes, thought of that summei
zooming long ago, when Rex had sung
.to her the old nursery song:
lavender's blue, diddle-diddle,
"Lavender's green,
"When I am king, diddle-diddle,
"You shall be queen!"
She mused' sadly on that p -mise
Somewhere far away, Rex was living
in luxury, but he had forgotten the
.playmate of his boyhood's days
"When I am king, diddle-diddle,
"You shall be queen-"
She found herself humming th?
quaint tune as she prepared her fru
gal supper. She was too x tired tc
\:~*t the bread so she ate it dry, with
a cup of tea. Then she went to bea
und lay awake in the moonlight, won
dering how she should get through the
r.ezt day in the weary workroom
downtown.
Then, mercifully, sleep came to her,
. end dreams.
She waked to find the world sc
white that she seemed in a dream
city and wondered if she still slept
Prom the regions below her land
lady called.
"You can't get downtown. The
cars aren't running. You just wait
and have breakfast with me."
"O, I can't, thank you," Hester an
swered over the stair railing, "I must
go, if I have to walk."
Mrs. Adams came puffing up to the
top floor. "Well you just can't walk,
and Fm going to bring you up some
breakfast. We had griddle cakes this
morning, and I'll bake a plate of pip
ing hot ones, and you stay in bed and
rest for once in your life."
"You are so good," said Hester,
rj/atefully, "but if I don't get down
?this morning I may lose my place, and
\hen what would I dor
"You Itnow you're welcome to keep
your room, honey," said the good
woman, "until you get something else
to do."
"But I couldn't let you lose money
Ule that," cried Hester; "but if ever
good fortune comes to me I'm going
to remember you, and we'll share."
As she said it Rex's words again
r:une back to her. "When I am king,
you shall be queen."
"I had a friend," she said to Mrs.
Adams, who had entered her room
and was sitting on the bed, "and he
always used to say that when he
made his fortune he would come and
find me. And yesterday I heard from
aa old school friend, and she says
that Rex is right here in this city,
and that an invention of his has
brought him half a million, and-and
-he's forgotten me."
"Did you love him, dearie?" asked
the old landlady, softly.
"Yes. We were engaged when we
went to school. But his father and
mine were ancient enemies and they
broke it off. Then Rex went away to
school, and father failed and died and
I had to go to work, and I came to
the . city-and found you, dear Urs.
Adams."
"Well, if that Rex of yours knew
rvhat he was doing," grumbled Mrs.
Adams, "he'd be hunting you up.
You're too frail to work in all kinds
cf weather. He won't be finding you
at all if he don't look out"
"Oh, rm not really ill, Mrs. Adams,"
said Hester, cheerfully, and theft, she
began to dress. "0, I really must
go,", she said when Mrs. Adams ex
postulated.
Through the white drifts Hester
plowed her weary way. Her frail
body, breasting the wind, seemed
' -taten back and. bruised by the heavy
blasts. Her cheeks, pink at first with
the sharpness of the cold, grew while,
and her lips were blue.
'Tm afraid I can't go on," she said
to herself.
A policeman at the corner helped
her over a ditch. "You'd better go
Ii:to a drug store and get something
tot, miss," he advised. "You look as
if you were half frozen."
Hester tried to laugh. "I shall get
te on all right," she said, and was too
mk proud to tell him that she dared not
Wspend 10 cents.
Jr She struggled on for a half donen
blocks, and s?w ahead of her only a
ft eary waste of snow. Far downtown
tiley were probably clearing the side
That's the usual procedure, isn't lt':
we're real trail mates now."
She smiled wistfully.
"1 am hungry. Aren't you. Mr.
Howell?"
"First name is Paul."
"I might have called you hy it li
you had been my brother-in-law,"
she rejoined demurely, Blipping to th?
ground.
"I intend to be Beth's brother-in
law, so you may as well start In."
He was loosening the girths on th6
horse, and spoke with decision
Nita's eyes sparkled with amusement
She seated herself on the ground, and
studied the contour of his head. Al
18 every point in a man tells
its own story. She nad been in love
with Howell for days, as much in love ;
as she ever would be. She was not a
girl like Beth, full of sentiment, anc:
fond of admiration. The man sh?.
loved must be a good pal, a comrade
true, as well as husband and sweet
heart The trail was a long one, sh? |
j knew, with many turnings. Some (
I how, she had thought Paul Howell
was splendidly fitted to be a trat
mate.
"Not half an hour ago you intended j
to be my brother-in-law," she said ;
naively.
"You have grown up In that hah
hour from a little girl to a woman; '
don't you realize that? I do." Ht
left the horse and threw himsel;
down beside her. "When that pom
broke away and ran with you, anc :
death was a possibility-Nita, look a) '
me-I knew that I should follow yot >
to the end of the new trail, no mattel
where it led. And it has led us-j
here."
He waited for an answer. Nit*
looked past him, out at the splendid j
panorama of mountains that spread i
below them. The Crittenden ranct
looked like a toy block house fat J
down in the valley. The cattle on the I
broad plateau across the valley wen
like Noah's ark animals.
She turned her head after a loni
pause, and smiled down at him.
"Are you really making love to me
*Mr. How-ell?"_?<<
"? ask y??? to be my wife, Nita," hi i
answered steadily. "Oh, I know it1
seems queer to you eastern girls, thc
swift courtship of us men who have ;
lived out here, beating success out o!
newly opened lands. We haven'l ;
time to sorve our ladies fair, deai
heart Some day, some hour, there ;
comes along the girl who is different
from all other girls in the world, and j
we know her then when we see her
Can't you understand? Beth did at !
tract me. I met her up in town, and !
admired her, but this is different J
don't want a pretty goddess to sit ur.
on a pedestal, and keep the dust off .
j I want a sweetheart-pal, who will
fight with me, side by side out her? ;
j to win out. I want a girl with nerv? j
? and pluck, and a happy heart. I just i
! want you."
Down the trail there there came a
long hail. The party had missed them j
and retraced its way. Howell gripped j
both her hands in his, and helped bei j
to rise. They looked at each other |
in dead silence, wondering at this ?
miracle that had changed the world
ia half an hour. Then Nita lifted bei,
face to his. I
'TU stay with you," she said, sim- ]
j FIRST STEP TO WORLD FAURE
- j
l When "Mark Twain," Strong in the
Confidence of Genius, Made His
Advent in Literature.
_ j
In Harper's, Albert Bigelow Paine '
the authorized biographer of Mar!
Twain, tells of the first entrance 6:.
the great humorist into journalism.
"It was the afternoon of a hot, ;
dusty August day in 18G2 when a worn '
travel stained pilgrim drifted lagginglj
into the office of the Territorial Enter
prise, then in its new building on C
street, and, loosening a heavy roll ol
blankets from his shoulders, dropped j
wearily into a chair. Ile wore a rust;
slouch hat, no coat, a faded blue fia?
nel shirt, and a navy revolver. Hi; '
trousers were hanging on his boot
tops. A tangle of reddish-brown hail j
fell on his shoulders, and a mass ol
tawny beard, dingy with alkali' dust,
dropped half way to his waist.
"Aurora lay 130 miles from Virginie !
City-hard, hilly miles. He had walk !
ed that distance, carrying his heavy
load. Editor Goodman was absent al
the moment, but the other proprietor, j
Dennis E. McCarthy, signified that the
caller might state his errand. The I
wanderer regarded him with a far- j
away look, and said, absently and witt ?
leisurely reflection:
" 'My starboard leg sems to be un ?
shipped. I'd like about a hundred
yards of line; I think I'm falling to
pieces.' Then he added: 'I want to see j
Mn Barstow or Mr. Goodman. Mj j
name is Clemens, and I've come tc j
write for the paper.'
"It was the m. oter of the world's J
widest estate, come to claim his king-1
dom."
Cost of Living In Frarce.
France is making just as much fust
as we are o ?-er the cost of living. In
five years at Havre, the great port
where everything is easily aocessible
bread has increased 15 per cent., beef
22, veal 14, mutton 25, butter 14,
cheese 2?, -?oal 34, etc. Official sta
tistics declare that for the ordinary
articles of household consumptior
there has been an average increase ot
25 per cent.-New York Press.
Diseases Spread by tho Fly.
There are 500,000 cases of ty
phoid in this country annually, and
some fifty thousand deaths. There are
sixty thousand deaths annually iron:
cholera infantum. Nearly all would
be prevented if the fly nuisance wai
conquered.
\
mm SCHOOL SYSTEM
Not Keeping Pace With Other So
cial institutions.
Strong Factor In Causing Young Poo
pie to Dislike Rural Life and Re
sponsible for Slow Progresa
of Farm Communities.
(By JEANNETTE PIERSON.)
Country schools in America are not
rising to the great opportunities which
confront them. They are not keeping
pace with other social institutions.
Some of them occupy an exceedingly
low plane, with faults as flagrant as
Dould have been pointed out twenty or
ihirty years ago.
The faults of the country school
system are a strong factor in causing
roung people !" ?t=!ike rural life. Log
ically, then, they are responsible in a
treat degree for the slow progress of
>ur farming communities.
An experience of 12 years aa a
teacher of rural schools has left a
:lear impression on my mind of de
lects and of possible remedies in edu
cational methods and conditions. >
If the more promising boys and girls
n every neighborhood, or a large pro
portion of them, grow up dissatisfied
with their environment and leave for
fee cities as soon as possible, an in
:alculab!e Injury has been wrought
X ?6 a damage to the agricultural
'eglons and in many cases, to the
roung people concerned.
The schools and the system which
jove rn s them, must accept a large
ihare of the blame in this matter. It
s a painful truth, but they cannot
tide nor minimize it. In fact, they
lave too long tried to evade their re
iponsibilities and secrete their faults.
One of the striking defects of our
-ural schools is the youthfulness of
Chance
he teachers. Coupled with in exper
ence in many cases, there is a lack
if Interest. Assuming, however, that
.very teacher has a proper amount of i
merest in her school, and a devotion !
c the cause of education, it is rank
olly to loo!; for practical results on I
?n extensive scale, from an instructor
tot ween sixteen and twenty years of
?ge?
Thousands are teaching all over the
pest and middle west who are still in i
heir teens, and who have no,broader :
lews of li fi? than they .imbibed while !
lUrryln? through a lush school or
.cademy course. In the nature of
hin?s, such teachers cannot impart,
ftsuect and love for agriculture, a
Bfty public spirit, a taste for home
making, or a skill which will enable
he young people of the farms to ??ft |
hemselves out of fhe nit in which j
heir fathers and grandfathers have
iloddcd year after year.
What can these young teachers, boys i
jid girls just out of school, know i
.bout one of the greatest problems j i
onl'ronting American society today? i
This problem is. as suggested by f.ir- ? i
aer President Roosevelt, to bring the j <
Some feeders prefer silage that is j
iix months to a year old.
The silo is the best solution or the
problem bf short pastures.
Shoot the rabbits if you want to
lave the young apple trees.
Rhubarb should he grown much
nore largely as a forcing crop.
. Great care should be exercised In
:hoosing the corn fed to horses.
Turnips are generally considered to
De a very valuable eed for swine.
A stitch in the winter time saves a
Droken harness and delay during seed
ing.
Liberal feeding means feeding all
that the cows will eat and digest thor
oughly.
Humus, the decajdng vegetable mat
ter of the soil, tends to prevent soil
erosion.
The gospel of clean milk is the gos
pel of prevention, not the gospel of
straining.
The. ill-tempered man or the mac
who cannot control his temper ls a
misfit for tlie dairy.
Salt and fresh water should be kept
where they are available to the 3teers
at will at all hours.
Owing to two successive dry years
strawberry plants are scarcer and
higher than for a long time.
people of ene rural districts Into a
happier and more prosperous state. It
1B hi our rural schools that children
must be taught to love nature, to be
lieve in progressive agriculture, to dig
nify labor, to develop the home-mak
ing Instinct, and to set out with high
Ideals for a career of honor and use
fulness in the country.
How can we expect the ten thousand
young teachers to grasp and compre
hend these vital essentials, and theo
to show the boys and girls in their
schools how they can be the most
manly of men and most womanly of
women, without leaving their country
homes ?
Country schools, as a rule, pay too
small salaries to secure broadly cul
tured and capable teachers. As a gen
eral thing, also, they are cursed, or at
least hampered, by a system of petty
politics, which not only enters into the
hiring of teachers, but is felt in all
matters of management and discipline.
Society in the country fails to re
ceive from its schools the results
which it needs. This deficiency is rec
ognized by all of the larger Bchools
and the farmers' institutes, which to
day are giving a great deal of atten
tion to thc social life of our agricul
tural communities. In fact, the gov
ment Itself has recognized the menace
to the nation in the conditions here
outlined and is inquiring for a remedy.
One suggestion tiat I can make with
confidence, is that for each distinctly
rural school, the teacher be recom
mended by the h-?ad of a state agri
cultural college, the qualifications to
be a large knowledge of human nature
as weil as an intimate acquaintance
ship with agriculture.] conditions,
from the worst to the best. I put
these essentials above the rule of
three.
Give a community such a teacher as
that, and I venture to say the mere
book-learning will be taken care of.
Teachers of this class are available, if
the district will pay the price.
A little concentrated effort on the
part of the parents most concerned
at Good School.
would enable directors to hire and
maintain m-on and women teachers
who could ar.d would grapple intelli
gently and effective'." with the prob
lems confronting them.
Where districts are not iarge enough
to support higher-priced teachers
without unduly burdening the tax
payers, consolidation is the solution of
the problem.
It is only in a comparatively few
cases that this would be necessary,
and when the consolidation ot' dis
tricts involves too much travel for pu
pils. a public ennvryance should be
prcvirlcd by the officials.
It i? ono cf tLe bad aspects in every
rr.nmnit district that there are many
pe."!?!? who aro Indifferent about hav
ing their children attend school reg
uia-iy.
Il' lhere !> any little duty about the
[arm where the !;oys and girls can be
worked *o advantage, the parents do
not hesitate to keep them from their
school work, for as long a period as
they cnn be profitably used. This bi
two cf :ho most important reforms
seeded in the country school system
~ii America.
WATER FOR THE GRINDSTONE
Tv.o Boards, Three Inches Thick and
Four Feet Long, May Be Arranged
in Satisfactory Manner.
Take two three-Inch boards four
feel six Inches long, fasten together
at one end with a three-inch board
eight Inches long and about twelve
inches irom top nail a 2x4 to plac?;
keg on. A three-inch board three feet
nine inches long serves as a brace,
For the Grindstone.
pays a writer in the Missouri Valiej
Funner. Water is put in a one-gallon
paint heg with a 6mall faucet near
the bottom. Flow can be regulated tc
the desired amount, and the water is
always ready for use when needed.
Benefits of Telephone.
Telephonic communication with tb?
market is a great advantage.
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Drs. J. S. & F. P, BYRD,
Dental Surgeons^
Edgefield and Trenton
Edgefield Office over Postoffice
Office 'Phone 3 Residence 17-R
H. CORLEY, Surgeon
Dentist. Appointments
at Trenton on Wednesdays.
Crown and Bridge werk a
specialty.
James A. Dobey,
DENTAL SURGEON,
Johnston, S. C.
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DETAILS
The difference between a peni
tentiary and a palace is largely a
?nailer of detail.
Both ?ire designed for human hab
itation and serve equally well to
protect the inmates from the ele
ments.
but ont. is a vastly more comfort
able place of abode than the other.
SO IT IS WITH GLA ES
Crudely fitted glasses MAY help
your vi.-ion, but great care in ever;;
detail of adjustment is essential to
sa foi v a tid comfort.
y orri EYES ARE WORTH A
CORRECTLY FITTED PAIE
OF GLASSES.
GEO. F. MI MS,
Optician, Edpciield, S- C
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isfaction guaranteed,
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PROP.
u&R (SOCOLATE SODA
The same aa used st tho founhlns :
ihsir Fifty Retail Stores and kse?n ft
world over for it3 rieliciousaessefilay:
" Huy!cr" quality 6fts -"' rj
of soda that spurts from our fountain.
The flavor you liles bent is har -
all the old favorites and a li >si??;
new ones.
Frozen Daictiesof nt.r: Excc!!3n5*
w
f?CM fr rn
jrjWV
Miss Myrtle Ccihrt'.m, lilt
lassen ville, Aia., says: I fl J fi
y W
Of fa:
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iered willi terrible back
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and my head ached nearly 11 S S
all the time. Our family C t '' S
doctor treated me, but
only gave me temporary
relief. I wai. certainly in
bad health. My school
teacher advised me to
TAKE
I took two bottles, in all,
and was cured. I shall
always praise Cardui to
sick and suffering wo
men." If you suffer from
pains peculiar to weak
women, such as head
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symptoms of womanly
trouble, or if you merely
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ing, try Cardui. E-65
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It's Machine Oil
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Have you seen the super
ior A o Cameras that
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