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A MYSTERY SOLVED ] Old Uckersted's apartments In the j hotel were nothing like as expensive as Jiiusou's. Jinison knew enough of the man to be sure that he paid the | lowest price possible for them. The , meals were a la carte, If the guests , preferred, or there was a fuir table , d'hote at a reasonable tlxed price. < Jinison Invariably ordered a la carte, , and expensively, being particular in , his eating. Old Uckersted took breakfast a la carte?oatmeal and uillk or , some other gruin preparation and | milk, and hot water. Lunch this man , vi siuwiia nun uonus anu rauroaa , shares ate downtown, generally at the , board of trade counter. It was a light , lunch. Dinner he ate at the hotel, , table d'hote, and It may he said that he made up for his abstemiousness of ] the day and got the worth of his , money. # , In spite of this the proprietor of the hotel bowed to old Uckersted with ab- < solute obsequiousness while he mere- ] ly favored Jiinson with a nod of good- i fellowship. Jlmson drew a big salary from a wholesale house downtown? I and spent It like a prince. He patron- 1 ized a fashionable tailor, wore as i many diamonds as good taste permit- 1 ted, perhaps sometimes more. He was of an eminently sociable dlsposl- 1 tlon and pleasant to everybody. Old I Uckersted had his millions (so It was i reputed), spent no more than was ab- i solutely necessary, was almost shabby I In his attire and morose In his man- 1 ner. ] It nmused Jlmson to see the slavish ' deference paid to Uckersted's wealth. 1 It was the way of the world, he said? natural enough. As for the proprle- ' tor of the hotel. It was quite reasonable that he should kowtow to a man < who could buy hlra out with a few strokes of his pen. Jlmson did not want any man to bend himself double j on his account. The friendly noJ was good enough for him. He found no fault with the humbly respectful demeanor of the clerk toward the millionaire; that was natural, too. But what puzzled him particularly was the behavior of William, the waiter. Very suave was William, cat-footed, low-voiced, deferential, blandly Impassive, bald and neat-whiskered?the Ideal waiter. Jlmson was very fond of him. "Look at him," said Jlmson to a friend who was breakfasting with him one morning. "Mark the reverence In his humbly drooped eyelids, as he feeds old Creosus his crackers and milk; note the anxious assiduity with which he places the hot water at the lnagnate's elbow; get on to the solicitude. And here reposing^ In my trousers pocket ?a u aiivtrhalf dollar and he, knows It will soon be In his. We ' ? want more of these crawfish. but that cute no Ice with William." ^re it np," said the friend. "Be HmSe cause he's got the money, I suppose." "Not at all,'* said Jlmson. "As far as William Is personally concerned it is I who have the money. Moralists give us fits as a nation for dollar worship. They're m'staken. We don't care a hang for ihe coin. It's only the power that It symbolizes that we reverence. William knows that Uckersted Is a power and he bows down before him. It Isn't that he expects to get any of Uckersted's money. In Eu rope the peasant abased himself before the peer. Why? Because the peer had power. lie or his ancestors won It with the sword?by murder and might and leadership. The result is that in Kurope they are getting to be more democratic than we are, in a way. That Is, they respect the aristocrucy less than we do the plutocracy ?see? I. therefore, acquit William of sordid aims. Still?hi! William!" Until more than a year after this conversation Jimson had been abroad looking after his firm's Interests and when he returned William was gone and a James?an altogether inferior being?handed him the hill of fare when he took his old seat. One evening Jimson got into a street car and opposite to him he recognized William ?with some difficulty and doubt, for the model waiter had grown rather 1 portly and was dressed most magnificently. A silk hat William wore; his suit was of superfine black; his cravat was fastened with an undeniable pearl pin and he rested his gloved hands on a gold-knobbed cane. "Come over here and sit by me," in- 1 vlted Jimson. "I want to talk to you. 1 You're looking well, William. Where are you working?" 1 "I'm occupyiug a responsible position in Mr. Uckersted'a household, 1 sir," replied William. "I am his but- ' ler, In fact?major domo, you mlgflt ' say, sir. He married, you know, sir." "T ,11.1 I,.... - .! ? - 1 uau cut ouiiiciuiug or it," said ' Jimson. "Well, well. You seem to be . prospering, certainly." "Pretty well, sir, thank you," ad- , mitted Wllliain. "The salary isn't ( very large. Mr. Dckersted is a very careful gentleman In some respects, j hut?" William ullowed one eyelid to , flutter down?"there is something In ( the commissions. Mrs. Uckersted entertains a good deal. And then," add- . ed William, "through Mr. Uckersted's kind suggestions I have been able to make some lucrative investments. Yes, sir. In fact, sir. If it were not for the opportunities I have for obtaining hints In that direction, I think I y should resign my position. I have . really no occasion to work for any- ( body." "I think 1 understand William and the general attitude toward moneyed men better now," said Jimson to him- 1 elf be sot off the car, I ?S3SSSS$SSSS$S3$S$S$S3C33SSSSSSS5$3S$gl |i| THE BLUE STOCKING || ;$ By OSBORN JONES. ;|; "You know President Wilson began tils cnreer ns an Instructor In a woman's college," said Justine Craddock, Jean of Jones' College for Women, ivhen Alan Kllby went to her office to consult her regarding his acceptance it n position Just offered him as the new professor of economics. Alan had gone to see her, partly becnuse he had known her several years before when they were both students at a co-educatlonal college In the West, aud partly because the offer at Jones college was distinctly better than the assistant professorship he held In a man's college. "It doesn't seem like a man's job," be told her frankly, and she had looked at him not with the amusement he expected. "Hang It all, Justine, It's Just ttant 1 :an't stand this blue-stocking atmosphere. I think It's that as much as anything else." "There are very few blue-stockings bere," said Justine. "In fact, sometimes 1 wish there were more. Bluestockings have their good points, you know." "From a woman's point of view, perhaps. But I'm primitive enough to tike a feminine woman, and it goes against the grain to see these girls, some of them pretty, almost all of them healthy and happy, being fed Into this mill, to have the woman aud the femininity ground out. They ought to be marrying, most of them?marrying and making men what they ought to be, and having children and keeping house." "Of course you have never married yourself," suggested Justine. "No, and when I do I shall not look to a woman's college for a wife. I'm not educated up to that yet" "From all of which, I suppose, I am to Infer that you do not accept the position 7" "No. The fact Is, I think I do. It's too good to turn down." So Alan Kllby became professor of economics at Jones. The flrst lecture was more uncomfortable than he had expected it to be. As time went on the lectures were easier and Alan had time to look about him. Sometimes there were suppressed giggles, and sometimes three whispering heads bent together In the back rows of seats, onmindful of a word of the lecture?unmindful, too, that from the vantage A# hi- il^b SU- ? IA ywmt Vk uu UCM uia |UUl?MW CUUIU not only see th^ip t>at could catch natchm of their whispered conversation. **tf 1 do any it, 1 look awfully well In yellow," said one whisper. "Not that lemon shade?more of a salmon, don't you think T "How long Is the skirt? They are getting longer." "I know, but my Tom likes them short. Have you learned the new steps. No, that new wlggly waltz step. I mean. He doesn't see us, and we can get the notes from Ida." "Isn't he a perfect dear?" "Ida's quite crazy about him. That's why she sits In front and takes such long notes." And later: "Well, anyway, Kilby's a dear. Did you ever see such eyes?" doing down the corridor later in the day he chanced the meet the denn. "Good morning, Mr. Kilby," she said, always with the same serenity. "How are the blue stockings?" "Blue stockings," muttered Kllby. "If there are any they haven't elected economics." Kilby fled from the building to bis own study In his boarding house. There as he puffed at his comforting pipe he took a leather picture case from Ills pocket and opened it. It contained a picture of the dean that he had clipped from the magazine article on "The Youngest College Dean." The picture showed her in cap and gown, with none of the graciousness and almost motherly largo heartedness that Kllby had come to appreciate within the few weeks he had been at Jones. Still, he found satisfaction in looking at the picture?just as a reminder, he said, of the ulleginnce he owed to his chief. This day he looked at the picture longer than usual. "I've got to get n better picture," he I old himself as he rose from his chair n nd hurried through the campus to the dean's oflice. Hut when he reached there he forgot tlie picture aud thougiit only of the original." "How are the blue stockings?" asked the dean, as she closed the papers she was working over at Iter desk and prepared to take an easier chair by the upen fireplace, where she might chat in comfort witli Alan. "Blue stockings?there aren't any," groaned Alan. "You're a blue stocking, and they're?they're Just girls. Listen, Justine. I've decided that the inly type of woman I truly admire is i blue stocking. 1 used, to think thnt hat was the trait in you that kept us ipurt, buck in the college days when I was half in love with you all the time. Hut now I know that's what is irawing me to you." So it waB all because of Alan Kllhy hat the youngest dean terminated her leanshlp ho soon, nnd gave up that *areer to he a professor's wife. "Who would ever have dreamed," yild one of the girls, the day the anloum-cment was made, "that a man vlth eyes like that would care for a due stocking?" Copyright, 1917. by tha McClilf* Newspaper Syndicate.) The Brazilian coconut palm lives 'rom six hundred to seven hundred tears. Remarkable Tibetan Building. "The only building in Lhasa (Tibet) that Is at all imposing is the Potnlu," writes Edmund Cumller. "It is not a palace on u bill, but a hill?that is also a palace. Its massive walls, its terraces and bastions stretch upward from the plain to the crest as if the great bluff rock were merely a foundation stone planted there." Felt Sorry for Qrandmother. A little boy. whose grandmother had recently died, came sobbing to his mother one day and said: "What will poor granny do, mummy? She's gono to heaven without her knitting. I've Just found it In a drawer, and she alwas said she couldn't bear to be idle I" Quite Unprofitable. We suppose there's nothing less profitable than indulging In vain regrets, but still we often wonder in our melancholy way how much we'd be worth now if \fe had never spilled any gasoline on the garage floor, our clothing, and our person.?Ohio State Journal. His Idea of Being Even. First Poker Player ? "Let's quit while we're even." Second Ditto? "But we're not even. How do you make that out?" "Why, you hnd all my money a while ago. and now I've got all of yours."?The Lamb. Touchy Gentleman. In 1831 the Times referred to the Earl of Limerick as "a thing with human pretensions;" and for the libel the printer was fined ?100 and confined for an Indefinite period In Newgate.?London Observer. Possible Method. Miss Withers?"I presume Mr. Fllpp made his usual weekly call on you last night?" Miss Callow?"Yes; and I must say that he made a fool of himself," Miss Withers?"Proposed to you, eh?" Pressing Invitation. He?"You have a very bad cold." She?"Yes; and I'm glad of it." He? "Why, pray?" She?"Because Pm too hoarse to scream if you should attempt to kiss me." urely Ha Couldn't Have Meant? Justice?"Fll let you off this time, but in future keep away from bad company.'* Satirist?"Thanks, yer honor I You'll never see me here again."? Judge. -? Trial Balance. When Jonah's fellow passengers tossed him overboard, they evidently regarded him as neither prophet nor loss. ?Christian Herald. Earned Twice. But the penny which Is said to be earned when it's saved has to be earned first.?Albany Journal. Optimistic Thought. What you learn to your cost you re member. Thought It Personal. Hobart?The prettiest girls always aaarry-tfce biggest fools, you know. Almee?Am I to consider that in the nature of a proposal? Fight tl We have a (ul Doors, Screen V Fly Killers, Fly S Flag. .1-. t?i uesiroy me i 1 vent disease. Pageland H< L= "Why do you lease that chil so, Mary? Let him havd whi he wants at once.** "But, ma'am, it,s a " "Let him have it, I say." Thus encouraged, Harr clutched at the bug and caugt it. Thf screams of pain thu followed brought tears of joy t the passengers* eyes. The moiher awoke again. "Mary," she cried, "let hir have it." Mary turned in her seat an< said confusedly: "He's got it ma'am!" "What is it?** languidly aske the mother as the screams ir creased. "A wasp, r.ia'am," said ill nurse. le Flies 1 stock of Screen /ire, Fly Traps, watters, and Black ies now and pre irdware Co. Ji K | M. L. Davis : Davis & Fv ; NEW CASI We are adding daily Merchandise, such Dry our trade demands and a ey will buy them. I Our expenses are c doing business in the 1 own work. We thank our frieiit liberal patronage given \ ance of same on the b< to one and all. j Davis & Fi d Monuments d ,r .Now is the time to buy that d monument you expect to buy. d See me and save time and e money. e G. R. Knight. e d Veterinary Surgeon or Calls answered day or night, j Phone No. 48 two rings, e Full stock of horse and cattle powders on hand at all times. f, L. P. GRAVES 1 GOT SOMETHING | y | YOU | u | WANT TO SELL? I B Most people have a piece of & n I furniture, a farm implement, or I something else which they have a j uiscaraea and which they no ^ I longer want. & B These things are put in the I* I attic, or stored away in the barn, w j. I or 'eft lying about, getting of less P and less value each year. ? I [ WHY NOT SELL I THEM K Somebody wants those very things which have become of no use to you. Why not try to find I that somebody by putting a want advertisement in ? THIS NEWSPAPER? ? 11 J jpooeeooceoQ* x ? b Financing 1 ? W The farmer's business X financial backing if it is 1 X That is one reason whi O and willing bank behind Q It is an important func V temporary assistance to t k of us, and who have derm X repay obligations when d Q The best way to have < I Q an account with us, and I O ?nly the farmer hut ever5 8 ground nnanciauy to do s 8 The Bank c If H. U . Funderburk I inderburk m H STORE H to our stock of general S goods and Groceries as t prices as low as mon- g^H ut to the minimum by 3H hitch lot and doing our 9^ Is and customers for the is and solicit a continu- I isis of square dealing inderburk jl Church Service Directoy J. W. Rlkins, M. K.: Pagclnnd, 1 si Sunday at S: p.^H m. and 3rd Sunday 3:30 p. m. Zion, 3rd and 4th Sundays i.t^H 11 o'clock. Antioch. 2nd Sunday at 11. V Mt. Croghan, 2nd Sunday at 3:30 p. m. and 4th at 8. p. m. 7 ' <iUuiti?ounaav,nt 11 o'clock. Sunday school at all the above 1 churches at 10 o'clock. 1 R. W. Cato, Raptist. 1 Mt. Moriah, 1st Saturday at 3 p. m. and Sunday at 11. Sunday school at 10. Bethel, 2nd Saturday at 3. p. m and Sunday at 11 o'clock. Sunday school at 3 except on 2nd Sunday. B. S. Funderbunr, Baptist: Pageland, 2nd Sunday at 11 and 8, and the 4th at 8. Sunday school at 10. Dudley, 2nd Sunday at 4 and l the 4th at 11. Sunday school at j 3 except on the 4th when it is J at 10. 1 R. M. tlaiglcr, Baptist: I Liberty Mill. 1st Saturday at 11 I anil Sunday at 3. Sunday H school at 2:30 except on the 1st H Sunday at 2. V Mt. Pisgah, 4th Sunday at 3, and Saturday at 4 . 1 J. W- Quick, M. P: ' Pageland. 3rd Sunday at II and 2nd at 3:30. Sunday school at 10 except on the 2nd Sunday. New Hope 1st Sunday at 11. Bethesda 4th Sunday at 11. Bear Creek 4th Sunday at 4 p. m. J. F. Hammond. Baptist: TTnJrm 11511 1*? C 11 w?ivi> >1111 aoi L^uuuqj ill 11 and Saturday at 3 o'clock. Sunday school at 10. Prayer meeting every Saturday n ght K. S. Latimer, Presbyterian, Pageland, 1st Sunday at 1 p. m. and 3rd Sunday at 7:30 p. m. and 4th Sunday at 11 a. in. Bulah, 1st Sunday at 11 a. m. 3rd Sunday at 3 p. m. Salem, 2nd Sunday at 3:30 p. m. 4th Sunday at 3:30 p. m i rhe Farmer ? ? often needs a little extra X :o grow and prosper. ^ / he should have strong him. ? tion of this bank to give 0 he farmers who se^k it X onstrated their ability to X lie. X i credit here is to carry Q we cordially invite not 0 r one who wants to gain V o. X ?f Pageland 8 ??eoo?oeeej Notice to Overseers Notice is hereby given tlia all overseers who have no worked their respective section; are asked to do so at once Please do not delay this mattei as some of the roads are in ven bad condition. Respectlully, G. H. Gulledge, Commissioner for Mt. Crog han townshio. He Got it, Bless Him Among the passengers on i Western train recently, say: The Boston Journal, was a wo man very much overdressed accompanied by a bright look ing nursegirl and a self-willed tyrannical boy of about threi years. The boy aroused the indigna tion of the passengers by hi continued shrieks and kicks am screams, and his viciousnes toward his patient nurse. Hi tore her bonnet, scratched he hands, and finally spat in hc face without a word of remor strance from the mother. When the nurse manifestei any firmness the mother chidct her sharply. Finally the molhe composed herself for a nap, an about the time the boy ha slapped the nurse for about th fifth time a bug came sailing i and flew on the window of thi nurse's seat. The boy at one tried to catch it. The nurse caught his ham and said coaxingly: "Harry musn't touch. Bu; will bite Harry." Harry screamed savagely an began to kick and pound th nurse. The mother without openin her eyes or lifting her heat cried out sharply: