Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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w.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.vv.v A MYSTERY SOLVED Old Uckersted's npartuients In the hotel were nothing like as expensive as .liaison's. Jiiusuu knew enough of the 1111111 to be sure that lie paid the lowest price possible for them. The inenis were u la carte, if the guests preferred, or there was n fair table d'hote at a reasonable tixed price. Jimson invariably ordered a la carte, and expensively, being particular in his eating. Old Uckersted took breakfast a la carte?oatmeal and tuilk or some other grain preparation and milk, and hot water. Lunch this man of stocks and bonds and railroad shares ate downtown, generally at the board of trade counter. It was a light lunch. Dinner he ate at tlie hotel, table d'hote, and It may be said that he lllllde on fnr Hla the day and got the worth of his money. In spite of this the proprietor of the hotel bowed to old Uekerstod with absolute obsequiousness while he merely favored Jimson with a nod of goodfellowship. Jim son drew a big salary from a wholesale house downtown? and spent It like a prince. lie patronized a fashionable tailor, wore as many diamonds as good taste permitted, perhaps sometimes more. lie was of an eminently sociable disposition and pleasant to everybody. Old Uckersted had his millions (so it was reputed), spent no more than was absolutely necessary, was almost shabby in his attire and morose in his man- [ ner. It amused Jimson to see the slavish deference paid to Uckorsted's wealth. It was the way of the world, he said? natural enough. As for the proprietor of the hotel, it was quite reasonable that he should kowtow to a man who could buy him out with a few strokes of Ids pen. Jimson did not want any man to bend himself double on his account. The friendly nod was COOd enoil!'ti for him II" fault with the humbly respectful demeanor of the clerk toward the millionaire; that was natural, too. Hut what puzzled him particularly was the behavior of William, the waiter. Very suave was William, cat-footed, low-voiced, deferential, blandly lmpnsslve, bald and neat-whiskered?the Ideal waiter. Jintson 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 plac -s the hot water at the magnate's elbov; get on to the solicitude. And here n ;a>slng in my trousers pocket is k o iver half dollar and he. knows it will soon be in his. We - want mo'rf of these crawfish, but that Pcuta '~o Ice with WIHlam." ;,OIre It up." said the friend. "Because he's got the money, 1 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 ir'Maken. We don't care a hang for the coin. It's only the power that it symbolizes that we reverence. William knows that Uckersted is a power and he bows down before htm. It isn't that he expects to get any of Uckcrsted's money. In Europe the peasant abased himself before the peer. Why? Because the peer had power. He or his ancestors won It with the sword?by murder ami might and leadership. The result is that in Europe they are getting to be more democratic than we are, in a way. That Is, tln-y respect the aristocracy less than we do the plutocracy ?see? I, therefore, acquit William of sordid alms. Still?hi! William!" Until more than a venr ?ftcr fhtu conversation Jlnison had been abroad looking ufter liis firm's interests and when he returned William wus gone and n James?an altogether inferiorbeing?handed itiin the bill of fare when he took iris old seat. One evening Jitnson got into a street car and opposite to him lie recognizor! William ?with some difficulty and doubt, for the model waiter had grown rather portly and was dressed most mngnifi- I ceiitly. A silk bat William wore; his suit was of superfine black ; bis cravat was fastened with an undeniable pearl pin and he rested bis gloved hands on a gold-knobbed cane. "Come over here and sit by me," invited Jitnson. "I want to talk to you. You're looking well, William. Where are you working?" "I'm occupying a responsible position in Mr. Uckorsted's household, sir," replied William. "I am his butler, in fact?major domo. you migflt say, sir. He married, you know, sir." "I- did hear something of it," said Jitnson. "Well, well. You seem to be prospering, certainly." "Pretty well, sir, thank you," admitted William. "The salary Isn't very large. Mr. Uckersted Is a very <-;treiin genuemnn in some respects, but?" William allowed one eyelid to flutter down?"there is something in the commissions. Mrs. Dckersteti entertnlns a good denl. And then," folded Willintn, "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, | think I should resign my position. I have really no occasion to work for anybody." "I think I understand William and tlie general attitude toward moneyed men better now," said .ilinson to himself *a tie gut off the car. I THE BLUE STOCKING II ;] By OSBORN JONES. $;rrrr,r,srrr,rrrrrrrrrrrr,ss,s,ss,}*j' "You know President Wilson began his career ns an instructor in n woman's college." said Justine Crnddock, denn of Jones' College for Women, when Alan Kllby went to her office to consult lier regarding his acceptance of u position Just offered him as the new professor of economics. Alan had gone to see her, partly hecnuse he had known her several years I before when they were both students at a co-educational college In the West, and 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 n 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 that 1 can't stand this blue-stocking atmosphere. I think It's that as much as anything else." "There are very few blue-stockings here," said Justine. "In fact, sometimes I 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 like a feminine woraun, and It goes against the grain to see these girls, some of them pretty, almost ull of them healthy and happy, being fed Into this mill, to have the woman and 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 ull of which, I suppose, I am to Infer that you do not accept the position?" "No. The fact Is, I think 1 do. It's too good to turn down." So Alan Kllby became professor of economics at Jones. The first lecture wns 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, unmindful of a word of the lecture?unmiudful, too, that from the vantage point of his desk the professor could not only see thyp but could catch snatcnep ci tneir wnispered conversation. "If 1 do My It, 1 look awfully well In yellow," said one whisper. "Not that lemon shade?more of a salmon, don't you think?" "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. 1 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?" (Joing down the corridor later in the day he chanced the meet the dean. "flood morning. Mr. Kilby," she said, always with the same serenity. "How are the blue stockings?" "Blue stockings," muttered Kilby. "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 I lis pocket and opened it. It contained a picture of the dean that ho b:oi olillliofl frmil tlio inunnvino ?. on "The Youngest College L>enn." The picture showed her In cup and gown, with uone of tin* graciousness and almost motherly large heartedness that Kilby 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, ho said, of the allegiance lie owed to his chief. This day lie looked at the picture longer than usual. "I've got to got a better picture," lie told himself as In; rose from his chair and hurried through the campus to the dean's oflice. But when lie reached there he forgot the picture and thought only of the original." I "IIo* are the blue stockings?" asked the dean, as she closed the papers she was working over at her desk and prepared to taae an easier chair by the I open fireplace, where she might chat in comfort with 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 tin* only type of woman I truly admire is a blue stocking. 1 usetl to think that that was the trait in you that kept us apart, back In the college days when i t.. i i.? - . .t.,.-, on imi: wnii you hii me time. But now I know that's what is drawing ine to you." So it was all because of Alan Kllby that the youngest dean terminated her deanship mi soon, and gave up that career to be a professor's wife. "Who would ever have dreamed." j said one of the girls, the day the announcement was made, "that a man with eyes like that would care for a blue ^locking?" (Cr*i>> right, 1917. by the Media-* Kewapa per 8yn<ll<*t? ) The Brazilian coconut palm lives from six hundred to seven hundred yoarR. Remarkable Tibetan Building. "The only building in Lhasa (Tibet! that is at all imposing Is the Potaln,' writes Edmund Candler. "It is not i pnlace on a hill, but a hill?that is nisi a palace. Its massive walls, its ter rat es and bastions stretch upward fron the plain to the crest as If the grea bluff rock were merely a fouudutioi stone planted there." Felt Sorry for Grandmother. A little boy. whose grandmother hn< recently died, came sobbing to hi mother one day and said: "What wil poor granny do. mummy? She's gon< to heaven without her knitting. I'v Just found it In a drawer, and she al was said she couldn't bear to b idlel" Quite Unprofitable. We suppose there's nothing less pro! (table than indulging In vain regrets but still we often wonder In our melnn clmly way how much we'd be wortl now if we had never spilled any gusc line on the garage lloor, our clothing and our person.?Ohio State Journal. His Idea of Being Even. First Poker Player ? "Let's qui while we're even." Second Ditto"Itut we're not even. How do yoi make that out?" "Why, you had al my money a while ago, and now I'v got all of yours."?The Lamb. Touchy Gentleman. In 1S31 the limes referred to th Earl of Limerick as "a tliiiik with hi man pretensions;" and for the llbi the printer was fined ?100 and cor fined for an indefinite period in New gate.?London Observer. Posdibl* Method. Miss Withers?"I presume Mr. Flip made his usual weekly call on you la? night?" Miss Callow?"Yes; and must say that Ije made a fool of hin self," Miss Withers?"Proposed t you, eh?" Pressing Invitation. Tie?"You have a very bad cold. She?"Yes; and I'm glad of it." He"Wliy, pray?" She?"Because I'm to hoarse to scream if you should a tempt to kiss me." 8urely He Couldn't Have Mean^? Justice?'Til let you off this tlm< but In future keep away from bad con pany." Satirist?"Thanks, yer honor You'll never see me here agaln."Judge. Trial Balance. When Jonah's fellow passenget tossed him overboard, they evidently r< garded him as neither prophet nor los ?Christian Herald. Earned Twice. But the penny which is said to t earned when it's saved has to t earned first.?Albany Journal. Optimistic Thought. What you learn to your cost you ri member. Thought It Personal. Hobart?The prettiest pirls alwaj marry-the biggest fools, you know. Abnee?Am I to consider that In th nature of a proposal V I Fight t I We have a li Doors, Screen Fly Killers, Fly ! Flag. Destroy the F I vent disease. I II ? . j Pageland II k? Notice to Overseers \ Notice is hereby given t rat , all overseers who have not 5 worked their respective sections n are asked to do so at once. 1 Please do not delay this matter a as some of the roads are in very bad condition. Respectlully, i G. H. Gulledge, j Commissioner for Mt. Crogn han township. a He Got it, Bless Him 0 ' Among the passengers on a Western train recently, says The Boston Journal, was a wo man very much overdressed, accompanied by a bright look ii ing nursegirl and a self-willed, tyrannical boy of about three " years. The boy aroused the indignation of the passengers by his t continued shrieks and kicks and - screams, and his viciousness lj toward his patient nurse. He e tore her bonnet, scratched her hands, and finally spat in lur face without a word of remon strance from the mother. e When the nurse manifested >i any firmness the mother chided ?- her sharply. Finally the mother composed herself for a nap, and oHnn t tlio ftmo tlio KA\T Vwwl slapped the nurse for about the fifth time a bug came sailing in it and flew on the window of the 1 nurse's seat. The boy at once ^ tried to catch it. The nurse caught his hand and said coaxingly: "Harry musn't touch. Bug " will bite Harry." Harry screamed savagely and t- began to kick and pound the nurse. The mother without opening her eyes or lifting her head, cried out sharpljr: "Why do you lease that child - so, Mary? Let him have what he wants at once." "But, ma'am, it,s a " "Let him have it, I say." Thus encouraged, Harry s. clutched at the bug and caughl it. The screams of pain that followed brought tears of joy tc the passengers' eyes. ,e The mother awoke again. "Mary," she cried, "let him have it." Mary turned in her seat and e- said confusedly: "lie's not it ma'am!" "What is it?'' languidly asked the mother as the screams in rs creased. "A wasp, ma'am," said the l* nurse. he Flies ill stock ol Screen i Wire, Fly Traps, Swatters, and Black 'lit'S now ;inrl nrf> - - ^ ^ m. m. vf v ? Vt JL ? V* ^/1 5 lardware Co. Ji . I M. L. Davis \l Davis & Fi J NEW CAS I We are adding dail} 1 Merchandise, such Dry | our trade demands and i | ey will buy them. 3 Our expenses are < 1 doing business in the 1 own work. | We thank our friein | liberal patronage given I ance of same on the b ? to one and all. I Davis & Fi MBMnnnaBimK Monuments .Now is the time to buy that monument you expect to buy. See me and save time and money. G. R. Knight. Veterinary Surgeon Calls answered day or night. I Phone No. 48 two rings. Full stock of horse and cattle powders on hand at all times. L. P. GRAVES ! GOT SOMETHING 1 YOU | WANT TO SELL? j Most people have a piece of B ! furniture, a farm implement, or H \ something else which they have i discarded and which they no ! longer want. v ; These things are put in the *' [ attic, or stored away in the barn, ^ ' or left lying about, getting of less 9 I ntlfi Ince 1 - 1 ? - T..HH- i-iiui year. | B WHY NOT SELLS THEM I Somebody wauls those very f| things which have become of no I use to you. Why not try to find B that somebody by putting a want K advertisement in THIS NEWSPAPER? foooccaoow.> 8 V S Financingr b The farmer's business N financial backing if it is O That is one reason wh Q and willing bank behind ? It is an important func IX temporary assistance to i \ of us, and who have dem ^ repay obligations when c Q The best way to have Q an account with us, and V only the farmer but ever X ground financially to do j 8 The Bank < L_ Funrierburk | inderburk H STORF I r to our stock of general goods and Groceri< s as it prices as low as mon- I I :ut to the minimum by hitch lot and doing our Is and customers for the 9H us and solicit a continu- I asis of square dealing n^B inderburk jl ess^B Church Service Direct!>y S^B J. \Y. ins, M. Pageland, 1st Sunday at S: p.^^B ni. and 3rd Sunday 3:30 p. in. /ion, 3rd and 1th Sundays; t^B Antiocli. 2nd Sunday at 11. V Ml. Croghan? 2nd Sunday at B 3:30 p. in. and 1th at 8. p. m. fl Zoar, 1st Sunday, at 11 o'clock. B Sunday school at all the above 1 churches at Io o'clock. 1 K. W. Cato, Baptist. Mt. Moriah, 1st Saturday at 3 p.m. and Sunday at 11. Sun day school at 10. Bethel, 2iul Saturday at 3. p. m and Sunday at 11 o'clock. Sunday school at 5 except on 2nd Sunday. B. S. 1- underlain;. Baptist: Pagcland, 2nd Sunday at 11 and 8, and the 4th at 8. Sunday school at 10. Dudley, 2nd Sunday at 4 and J the 4th at 11. Sunday school at j 3 except on the 4lh when it is k at 10. fl R. M. Ilaiglcr, Baptist: fl Liberty Hill. 1st Saturday at 11 I and Sunday at 3. Sunday H school at 2:30 except on the 1st fl Sunday at 2. Mt. Pisgah, 4th Sunday at 3, 1 and Saturday at 4 . 1 J. W. Quick, M. P: ' Pugcland. 3rd Sunday at 11 and 2nd at 3:30. Sunday school at 10 except on the 2nd Sunday. Ne\?- Hope 1st Sunday at 11. Beihesda 4th Sunday at 11. Bear Creek 4th Sunday at 4 p. m. i I. F 1 Iamnioml R-.u.tke Union Hill 1st Sunday at 11 anil Saturday at 3 o'clock. Sunday school at 10. i'raver meetjina: everv Saturday n pht ! H. S. 1/.itinter, Preshvteri in, Papeland, 1st Sunday it 1 |>. in. j and 3rd Sunday at 7:30 p. ni. and 1th Sunday at 11 a. in. Bulah, 1 si Sunday at 11 a.m. ; 3rd Sunday at 3 p. m. Salem, 2nd Sunday at 3:30 p. | m. 1th Sumho. at 3:30 p. in 1 Hie Fanner 8 s often needs a little extra jJ to grow and prosper. y lie should have strong him. Q tion of this bank to give V the farmers who seek it ^ onsiraiea tlieir ability to 1 ne. N a credit here is to carry Q we cordially invite not ? y one who wants to ^ain J? so. K 8 >t Pageland o