Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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t || READJUSTMENT |f i|| B> ALICE WEBBER. ij; Ann Morgan was trying to get hold of herself and tinding It the hardest proposition she had ever attempted. It was u struggle to reach out for common sense after the blind unreason of affection, and there was nothing to help except the newness of the life about her. It was as If she had gone back to the very beginning of things. In a way she had. She and her father were living outside a French village in a ??vuluci-uchicu iiuusc m:rus? uie uuider from New Brunswick, with a cook stove, two beds, a rough table and a couple of chairs. Her father was like a boy In this environment and did the cooking, while Ann made a determined effort to find a glimmer of light, otherwise called sanity, In the darkness that encompassed her. When she reached St. Attogat, during the early days of June, she had been too Indifferent to care for the qualntness of her surroundings. Her father had been alarmed about her health, and the family physician, unable to discover cause for her Illness, had sent her where he knew the air was sweet and pure. As she sat listless under the shadow of a sugar maple, Ann thought of bis words. She had honestly tried to bring herself into touch with the life about her, but health was as yet too far away for her to have any other feeling than one of Indifference. Her life u-?? nrtmlHvo In the treme. She was miles from a railroad and the mall came but once a month. She and her father were dependent upon a neighbor, Mr. Chandler, for that and he had brought It for the first time that evening. There were no letters. She had expected none, but the longing of the spirit cannot always be subjected to pride and there were times, like the present, when It seemed as If nothing mattered but the sight of the man she cared for. And she had given him up. The cruelty of it was that she had learned she was but the means to an end, had stumbled upon the knowledge within a week of hhP troHHIncr /Inn UOJ. In the Corcoran art gallery she had paused beside the entrance to one of the rooms when the murmur of voices caught and held her attention. "No, I do not love her." she heard. "Fortunately 1 am Interested In no other woman, else It might go hard with me. Her father is wealthy. She is rich In her own right and I will be able to gratify ambitions hitherto merely dreams." As he finished speaking two men came face to face with Ann and she looked directly into the' eyes of the man she hud expected to marry. Pride came to her aid in her effort to adjust herself to her new outlook upon life, but In the end she was bundled off to St. Attigat. and here she met Mr. Chandler, with whom her father found congenial companionship. He had a way of watching her that was disconcerting, and this. In time, made her conscious she was not good to look at She became oversensitive ubout her lack of color and one day rummaged through her trunk for her vanity box and was cliagrlndd not to find It, This Incident marked a change. Imperceptibly the outdoor life was making a difference in Ann. She took long walks and would stroll off for hours alone. One evening she did not return. Chandler, with her father, found her on the edge of the river with a twisted ankle and dislocated shoulder. She had slipped from the rock where she had been fishing, she told them Inter. When they discovered her Mr. Morgan promptly went to pieces. She was all he had, and If anything happened to her he was of no more use than a nahy. Mr. Chandler carried her home with about as much feeling as ii' she had been a bundle of rags, she thought, in the moment when a glimmer of reuson made her try to recover her dignity and slip from his arms. It was then he gave her a little shake and told her to lie still. . Just the merest Jingle, but it sent needles of flame all over her. and she knew nothing more until she was on her bed with the two hending over her. Between them she was made comfortable ; yet she was not comfortable In her mind. She could not understand the odd look in Mr. Chandler's eyes when she had first opened her own, and now, after a month of Inactivity, she was still puzzled. She had not seen it since. He gave her understanding and pleasant friendship, but that was all. And she had begun to care. The thought troubled her. Was she lacking in constancy that she could so soon forget one man for another? But ns she looked back upon those feverish days, she told herself she had been in love with love. That, she knew, was not the real tiling, and she had discovered this, here in the midst of nature?had learned to distinguish between the false and the true, and with all her heart she prayed that the thing that make,s life perfect would come to her. And It came unexpectedly, as so often happens. She was alone, trying for the first time to walk about the house, clinging to whatever offered support. when she heard footsteps. Turning hastily, she saw Mr. Chandler standing In the doorway with arms outstretched. He said no word and she did not speak, but with shining eyes and heightened color she limped straight Into them and hid her face against his coat sleeve. (Copyright. 1917, by the McClura Newapu per Syndicate.) | CUPID'S NEW WEAPON || ij! By LOIS CRAYTON. ^ %$$S$S$$3$S3$$$SS33SS$$$$S$$S3$SS3S^' All day he had watched her on the trail as the horses wound around high, rocky cliffs, across tracts of shale and through deep valleys. Hedgeman. the leader, who knew the country well, went ahead; then came the venturesome spirits, ready to take risks of slides and places on narrow ledges, where pieces of rock might have fallen away since the last ranger passed on his lonely patrol. But the mountain ponies were surefooted?too sure-footed, for they went close to the edge sometimes. The horse the girl rode Insisted on walking as far away from the cliff as possible. The man kept his eye on the girl. Most of the time her left foot was dnngling over space, but she gave no sign that she was afraid. When night came they camped In a valley, and after supper most of the weary souls crawled Into bed. A few still lingered, however, around the great fire. The man and the girl sat apart talking. "You are not afraid of anything, are you?" he said. She laughed. "Goodness, yes?spiders and mice, measles and burglars." "I doubt It 1" "What did I do to make you think I was?brave?" "Most girls would have screamed or Liuiiit'u wneo mat norse went so ciose to the edge." "And I kept quiet. That was only the instinct of self-preservation. 1 didn't want to scare him." "That isn't true. I'm afraid. I insist on Riving you the palm of courage." "And I insist that 1 am as much of a coward as anybody." "What are you afraid of, then?" "I told j*ou?burglars for one thing." "And ?" "You for another." "Me?" "Yes. You Insist on dragging my failings out into daylight and analyzing tliotn. I suppose you'll soon discover that I'm fond of vegetable soup and hate to use semicolons, and that incidentally these riding boots have rubbed my stockings into tatters." "I'd forgotten. You must be dead tired." He got up instantly and helped her to her feet. "Go to lied now and be fresh for new worlds tomorrow." He pressed her hand warmly and was gone. They were together a great deal after that; they rode side by side when possible, sat together at meals, and had splendid cumpflre talks. He insisted on calling her brave as each day brought new risks which she took without flinching. The trip came to an end; the man took train for Seattle, the girl went east, and the party scattered In all directions. The girl's family had not come home from Cunada and she undertook the opening of the townhouse. She had long, quiet evenings alone after busy days, and she lived over her wonderful time In the mountains. There were camera views to go over, some of the man. "He's so dif^rent from most men." she mused, "so big. He's been ail over the world, he say-" I suppose he builds bridges and tunnels mountains and constructs dams and aqueducts, for he would never be content to spend his time doing little things." One evening, after looking through her travel book again, she decided to go to bed. Hulda, the cook, had gone to her room on the third floor, and she was alone. She made a round of the rooms, fastened windows, snapping on locks and turning out lights. Then she returned to the library to switch off the table light before going ttpstairs. And there stood a man with a black munn uver ins ince and iid automatic ready for action. "Oh!" said the girl, standing quite still. "Keep quiet," said the Intruder, "and I won't hurt you." And the girl kept very quiet: in truth, she slipped in a heap to the floor, for she had fainted. "I'm n fool!" A man's voice was* the first tiling she heard when her senses came back. She was on a couch and Hulda was rubbing her face and hands. She thought she knew the voice. The girj sat up. "You!" she cried. "Yes, I!" said the man grimly, the man with whom shu hnH ?.. ??i~.i i?h\j ti It T ciru UVIT 300 miles of mountains. "And here I've been thinking you did big, wonderful things to help the world, and you're 11?a?" "A burglar? No, I'm not really. Listen. I Just got back from the West today?this evening?nnd I couldn't go to sleep until I had located your house. It was too late to come In, hut I Just wanted to know where you lived. When I was passing I saw a man working nt the side window, so I got the corner policeman and we nabbed him. Then I thought of something. Just a fool notion of mine to test your courage further, for I didn't believe you when you said you were nfraid of burglars. You know what It was. 1 played burglar. Forgive me!" "And I played baby," she said, ashamed. "You are adorable, and I love you." said the man. "Then It's all right," sighed the girl happily, "but It's the first time I ever knew Cupid to use a gun." (Copyright. 1917, by the MoClure Newspaper Syndicate.) I One machine has a capacity of cutting a thousand celluloid combs a day, ? TALKED TOO MUCH. ^ -4? P *?- ^ a, d "I always sez right out what 1 , thinks." " J' "Dat's no lie, but youse needn't overt'ink yourself on my uccounL I'm tired g, hearin' yer already." p His Experience. Peckem who had loved and won, 1 Once let this sentence fall: "'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have lost at all." Wont Burn. b "Do you ever lose your temper?" o "Not often," answered the ultimate j_ consumer, "hut I would like to lay my hands on the dealer who sold me fite tons of Indestructible coal!" e n What He Had Missed. "Darling," he said tenderly, "you are the only girl I ever loved." "Well," she rejoined, "all I got to .. say Is you have missed a lot of fun." Just So. The Maid?Is marriage a failure? The Grass Widow?Well, I think It Is better to have bossed once than , never to have been married at all. fj Gorilla Closely Resembles Man. i] The gorilla Is man's nearest rela- q tlve on the earth today. He Is so much like a man that In all likelihood, according to Doctor Gregory, he would in the course of ages develop into a F very "human sort of creature. If his fs species were permitted to survive. Unfortunately, he will not enjoy the ^ opportunity, because his race Is being rapidly exterminated. ll Shs Had Had Experience of Him. He?"My motto Is, 'Always think S! before you speak.'" She?"You must s: find It very hard to carry on an anl- _ mated conversation." ^ r Two Groups. Some fellows divide their frlenrti Into assets and liabilities. 1 E Better Farming ORDER FALL FER' # 1 Railroad Service is a Serious Pi Be Required to Accumulate Or Only Shall Be Shipped?Ite Fertilizers Car lie Handlec Cars Ordinarily Used ? Farm Service Burea C. A. W1 The world is hungry. To get more t food is an alarming problem. f How can the farms produce more a food when labor is so scarce? t How can more acres be planted to food crops or how can more work be given the acres usually planted with- s out more labor? t Increase of labor is hardly to be t expected, but there is one important r means of help which the Southern e farmer has been utilizing in the past and that is Fertilizer. But this . too is beset with difficulties. 1 Fertilizer can increase production ii without increasing labor except at t harvest time. The warring nations appreciate this fact, and are giving t all the encouragement they can to the t use of fertilizers. ji The railroads can't do the busi- c ness expected of them unless every t freight car is leaded to full ca pacity. To load them to full capacity the fertilizer dealer must have enough t orders in to make up a full car load 1 before he can reasonably hope to get < a shipment. The earlier the carload < orders are placed the better chance, of course, of getting a shipment. Be- r cause of the shortage of equipment, i the railroads should have as much ' I More Wheat and Oe Farm Service Bureau, Atlanta, Ga. < The South will be expected to take v are of it* share of wheat and oat production. Discouragement from the ' winter kill of the last season and la bor conditions make the task of keep- j ing up production no small one, but t the country needs more of these crops t If It ia to take care of Its allies. The t prices wmcn tney are Dringing, of r course, do not discourage production. Even if the acreage cannot be in- 1 creased the prices which the small s grains are bringing Justify the very f hint seed bed preparation and the p maximum use of fertilizer. v Grow'r.g cereals, of course, do not () require as much labor as growing com I and cotton, it la true, but corn and r IJni >n Mooting Program 1 The Chesterfield Baptist U n >n will meet with the McBee aptist church* July 28tti and hh. , Saturday the 28th 10 a. m. nrollment of delegates and re orts from the churches. 11 'clock. Missionary sermon, Rev. ; I. L. Baggot. Recess for dinner. 2 p. m. Duties and Opportuities of Missionary work during far times, I. K. Hair. , Duty of the Christian to suport the cause of the Kingdom s well as that of his country uring the present crisis, Rev. , D. Purvis. Sundav 10 a. m. Sunday chool Mass Meeting led by 'rof. L. E. Cogburn. -11 a. m. Sermon, Rev. B. D. Tames. Recess for dinner ? p m. How can the church est promote the social interests f the community? Rev. J. K. lair. How can the church assist the conomic interests of the com lunity? Rev. J. C. Lawson. W. P. Coker, B. S. Funderburg. For Sale 116 1-2 acre farm 112 miles rom Marshville. Three horse arm in cultivation, good build ags, good water. Price $3000. "enns reasonable. 31 1-2 Acres 3 miles east ol 'ageland. Splendid one horse arm, good buildings. A bar ay} at $1800 00. Good house and lot in Page and at a bargain. Ginning outfit complete, con isting of gasoline engine, 70 aw gin, box press. A fine reposition for plantation use. 'rice $500.00 complete. PAGELAN D INSU R ANCE & REALTY CO. in the South I riLlZERS EARLY oblem?Fertilizer Dealers Will ders So That Full Carloads lilway Authorities Say 1 in Half Number of - A War Measure. iu, Atlanta, Ga. ilttle. ime as possible to plan for moylng the eruuzer. uariy orders win give mem i knowledge of the number of cars hat will he needed. Government Authorities Backing It The National Council of Defense has ent out a bulletin on this very subject, irging fanners to order their fall ferilizers early so full carload shipments night be made and the largest amount ?f human food produced. The United States Department of Agriculture through the States Reations Service and Bureau of Soils; ind agricultural colleges and couny agents, are advising the same. The railroads are very urgent about he matter. The fertilizer manufacurers are offering to help the dealers ind farmers as much as possible to ivercome the transportation difflculies. Half Cars Can Be Saved Railway authorises have. statistics o show that half of the cars ordinariy used for hauliug fertilizers could lo the business, if only they are loads(l to their maximum capacity. Where a full car load can not be nade up for one destination, then it s to be filled with orders for neighjoring stations along a railroad. its From the South otton will take tl.eir turn in every veil planned farm. The scant oat csop should be hus>anded for seed this year. No oats ire as good for planting in the South is those grown in. the South, especially f they are grown in the region where hey are to he planted. The same is juo ui wimai uniMR in a given secIon the best variety for that section las not yet been used. Good seed should be ordered early. Jnless fertilizers are ordered early, o that dealers can ship only in full arload lots it is i|uite probable that armors will i>o disappointed when ceding time comes. The railroads vlll probably have more than they can lo even with full carload shipments, t Is a national necessity to see that 10 freight car spaoa la waited. Program of the Chesterfield Baptist Sunday School Convention The convention mce(s with the Chesterfield Baptist church Friday and Saturday the 20th and 21st of July. General sub ject, "The Efficient Sunday School." Friday the 20th 10 a. m. The Convention assembles. Organization, Enrollment and^eports of Delegates. The Standard Sunday School, Rev. Thomas J. Watts. Relation of the Sunday School to the Church, Rev. B. D. Thames. Dinner 12:30 to 2 P. M. Afternoon Session, The Effi cient Teacher, Supt. J. Arthur Knight. * The Laws of Teaching, Rev. Thomas J. Watts. 8:30 p. m. An address on Sunday school work by Rev. Chas. A. Jones. Saturday 10 a. m. How to Hold Boys in the Sunday school, L. E. Cogburn. Good Records, Rev. J. K. Hair. How to Get Good Teachers in Sunday School, Rev. Thomas J. Watts. Delivery of Diplomas to the graduates of Normal Class. Dinner 12:20 to 2 P. M. The Value of the Organized Class in the Sunday School, Rev. B. S. Funderburg. TIlP ClraAffi Slinrlor in Principle and Practice, Rev. Thomas J. Watts. v B. S. Funderburg, J. K- Hair, W. P. Coker. Two Ways i Yoi 1st. Be ready to rend< sistance the Government 2nd. Give all your ti; work which provides for in your purchases you judgement. It is necessary that bi in order *o wage a succe MUNGO Mccl nil! al Mungo Bros. I X n* n n financing i o \ The farmer's business N financial backing if it is t Q That is one reason wh] Q and willing bank behind JJ It is an important func J| temporary assistance to t q of us, and who have dem< rl repay obligations when d Q The best way to have < 0 an account with us, and V only the farmer but even \ ground financially to do s q S The Bank c | feooooososcccc Land Wanted! ? Land owners, executors, administrators, managers of estates, have you land, residence lots or farms for sale? We have a tiained organization, specializing in subdividing and selling land at public auction. By cur method we quickly turn\ your property into cash and interest bearing notes. We obtain satisfactory results where usual methods fail. Write us, our repre- I sentative will inspect your property and explain our methods without expense to you. Atlantic Coast Realty Co, 'The numi' th.it ju.itifie? your confidence" Petersburg, Virginia For Sale?1014 model Ford I tnii rinor r?cir in <rr\r\i 1 r?r>n/lit?r\n I*/VII 111^ VIII 111 VVfllVllllVH, tires nearly new. Guy Watts at the Redfearn Auto Co. Veterinary Surgeon Calls answered dav or nixht. Phone No. 48 two rings. Full stock of horse and cattle powders on hand at all times. L. P. GRAVES to Serve I iir Country I mr ix any service or asmay ask of you. me and energy to that your household. And should use your best t i sin^ss go on as usual sslull war. RDAQ mwa? I Mfft me at Mungo Bros. I? ihc Farmer h often needs a little extra & :o grow and prosper. 7 he should have strong fc J him. tion of this bank to give V he farmers who seek it V onstrated their ability to ue. N a credit here is to carry Q we cordially invite not ? / one who wants to gain V ft >f Pageland . ^ ?