Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' FIND FIVE DEAD - -'A, IN BCPNED HOUSE. i'.'ltf ' ' '? :M Bristol, Va-Tenn., Nov. 26.?Jam?? 'A". W. Smith, 50, a grocer, his wife, their J '%>> two year old daughter, * Ruby, and fvi'- ther niece, Mrs. Deline Burchfield v: vT. * t v ; , and her son, Charles, 13, were fdtrod dead here early this morning, house In which they lived burned cgjjfcr their heads. *?* .Ben Burchfield, 41, husband of-die : dead woman, was arrested at Johnston A City this afternoon and is being heL3 in connection with the crime. lie protests his innocence but officer^?? v':\ * hila shirt and* trousers wefe covered ~y'- : " - . ' . - -e wth blood when he was taken. r ' The crime was discovered about 4 o clock this morning when the fire department was called to the*combination , residence and grocery store of Smith ?' on State street. When the flames rv , T. . * had been extinguished the charred bodies of the five were found in the . , ruins of the structure. They evidently had been beaten to death with an axe or some other heavy implement and the house set afire to hide any traces of the crime. Burchfield and his wife had been separated,} and he is said to have made threats aganst her. The police say he came to them and said his wife was contemplating a dtvorce and he would ^ rafter see her dead than to have any Jon&else have her. |farchtield was employed in a res-i fl^taurant here He had been in Bristol i; ^about 60 days, coming -here front North Carolnia. The family . previously had lived at Johnson City, 1 VTenp;, jjfhd in West Virginia. Officers are investigating tonight Vf .^reports that Smith had yesreraay soia 'piece of property and was supposed ,v to-have had a large sum of money ,.,d' person. This was not found, Buyr.h, i? field had about $30 on him when arf Vgcestjed. Mrs. Burchfleld's son was by a *" previous marriage. ; .. , Lbeal authorities announcerd tonight that Burchfield would i be brought hei^ for a hearing tomorrow l^efaoon. , He was brought here thif ;.^.ftetoU)on to view the bodies, in a local 1 * ir.'itndprtaking establishment. ^ i * ? A\ The man showed no concern while r ?'IOoK3ng at the charred remains of hie . ' wife": He calmly chewed gum j through the ordeal. From here, t Burchfield was taken to the Sullivan county jail at Blouniville. 1 v As soon as the bodies were disecv.. ered a drag net w?'is thrown about the. , 'city. Every road was guarded by poajnd deputy sheriffs. * When arrested Burchfield said that -planned to go to West Vrsinla a:ad J>e n-er.r ro Johnson City, to sete withbicoil^ <?hief 'of^Poji^e Heaberiin said tonight- that " Burchfield when arrested was wearing i a pair of trousers belonging to Mr. Smith. Other new evdence is said to' have been worked up this evening by ' the police but was not made public. J Funeral services for the five victins -Wfll he held tomorrow afternoon in a , ,local undertaking parlor. The bodier J&ye been claimed by relatives. ' - g|> \ .?<^ristol-Va.-Tenn., Nov. 26.?H. I. vjjirshon, city editor of the Knoxvi'lle ?<|f|irnal and Tribune, and .James Ray, f, were painfully injured here to~t when an airplane in which they^1 ;; n came from Knoxville fell on the golf .course at the local Country cub. The \ wrecked. \ /The newspaper man was hastening j fere to. write for his paper the stosy > oeJT the Sroith-Burchfled killing and Ufe-; machue was believed to have struck a telephone wire. .'Both men . were taken to a hospital, c^t and bruised about the face and head. 4 ;:^. ? ^ PLEASANT HILT DOTS ; ' jr/fl The health of this community is at this writing. # Willard Taylor and family alsc Mr: Kin Black and family vfsited at Mr. J. Z. Taylor's Sunday. Mr. Marion Derrick and family! spent the; week-end his brother! ant! sister, Mr. and Mrs. Capus Burr j rett." Mrs. Reuben Taylor and children spent Saturday afternoon with \ her) sister, Mrs. Jennie Gillion. . m Simpson Taylor, better knownid > as Simp, has moved on the Augusta road, where he and his brotheri Cleve Taylor have opened up a firsl - clVf? auto gara'ge and blacksmith shQp.v Mr. James Long and family dined Stttrday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. .Tom Long. | Bfr.1 and Mrs. Willie E. Taylor and *.< r t * son, Brodle, also Mr.- Claude Taylor \ ? ^ '" wa^J in Columbia on business Thursday. 5 Mrs. J. D. Taylor dined Sunday with her son, Mr. Callie Taylor and x family. Mr. Claude Taylor and family of Batesburg has been visiting in this conjinunlty for a few days recently. Mr. James Long and family of neai Summit have moved in this commun' ity on Mr. T. S. Sease's place,' where he expects to farm. Mr. Callie Taylor and family spenl last Thursday night with Mrs. Taylor's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Bowman Rawl and family. .. ? o ? ^ ?i ? -? i HOLLOW CREEK HONOR ROLL FOR THE MONTH. - rm ^ j Honor roll for the month of No vember of tho-I^llo^rCreek school:: First Grade'.?Sheford Price; .* **" M&gdalene Price; Joffre Kamiirer; Kearney Sease; Harvey Amiek. Advanced First Grade.?Ear] Price; Sarah Belle Kaminer; Vesta Kaminer. , Second Grade.?Pearl Oswald' Grady Lee Price; Jessie Keisler,' Ellease Keisler; Isab; 1 Steele; McCoj Price; Moody Oswald. Third Grade.?Odclle Kaminer. Fourth Grade?Laura Mae -Shealy. Fifth Grade.?Voyt Keisler; Vermel Snelgrove; Verda Mae Kaminer; Marjorie Price. Sixth, Grade.?Rudolph Shealy; Gary Lee Price; Esohal Price; Thelmos Sease; Velma Keisler; Agnes Keisler. Seventh Grade.?J. C. Price; Allen Drafts; Alton Kyzer; Curlee Snelgrove; Lorette Price. I Eighth Grade.?Clarence Snel-! grove 'Gladys ShealyLouise Har* J mon; Laura Belle Price;-Rose Price* j Lola Price; Mary Julia Drafts. Ninth Grade*?-Kay Price; Tura Prici- | J Iii A Tenth "tfr-ade .~Lucile Shealy. Teachers.?Miss Hettie Breedcn, principal; Miss Grace Wyndham; Mrs. Belie Shealy. *v ' * ' V Vv ' COULDN'T* REALLY BLAME BOY. "Out Sixteenth street is one of those massive piles pf stone, bricks, etc:, that they call apartment houses in which lives a /former army officer who spends his Sunday mornings in russihg around his car. Owing to the fact that he is'busypevery day during jche week, he finds no other time irt which to gratify this (to him) recreation . Last Sunday morning he arose ^before the attaches pf the hotel, that is, the day force, had arrived;, he doned a pair of overalls and placed on >> his head a disreputable old green cap, r - * _ and with monkey wrench and oil can he started for the rear of the hotel Where stood his machine. After fussing with the aut&mobile for two or 3. hours he returned to' the apartment house, debaubed with oil and grease. HP-did hot present his usuaiimjpapu.late he si: r r .-3 to enjter Mt held va> his han'd*"1'na emphatically; & remarked that lite freight elevator i was at the other side. The guest was, aonplussed for a moment;, finally he! caught the humor of the situation and spoke to the elevator boy, who*, seeing his mistake, apologized thusly: "Deed sir, I crave your humble pardon*. I didn't recognize you in those most unusual clothes for you to . wear.'v^ 'Washington Star. An Ignorant Bunch A regular reader sends this one, origin unknown:., , The prosecuting attorney had en'^ountered a somewhat difficult witness. Finally, he asked the man if he was acquainted with any of the if . A *$ien on the jury. "Yes, sir," announced the witness. s"More than half of them." * ;V*Are you willing to swear that you know more than'half'of theni," demanded the lawyer. "Why, if it comes to that, I'm willing to swear that -I kRow more than all of them put together/'" was the emphatic reply. , :>vi jfr., . ~? He Heard the Kitten Boil Bobby, aged four, was playing with J-j. y * his kitten before the fireplace when it began to purr contentedly. The boy's mother was surprised presently to see her son grasp his pet by the tail and drag it across the carpet to the accompaniment of agonized protests from the unfortunate animal. "Bobby," she cried reproacfhfplly, "you must not hurt your kitty." "I've got to get him away from this fire," repfc&f excitedly^ "He was beginning to boi-1!" AT nOME FOll WEEK. S. J. Leaphart, United States marshal for the Eastern district of South Carolina, is spending the week in Lexington with his familv. ? m Qi * - - CARD OF THANKS. We wish to take this ' means of thanking our friends and neighbors for the many acts of kindness rendered and the many words of comfort given during the illness and death of our daughter and sister. May God bless each and every one. Geo. W. Corley, Sr., and Family. AUCTION* SAUET, 1 Several Ford automo^Hte "*: > sole at pubHc*fcttction on*1" t!v-: :<r>( Monday, December 4, in front or' '.no cou' t house after the legal -sates i. iV*b)^t?i completed. The'cars can lirImre the sale at the Di,: \ Company, Lexington, S. C. j j ,vs. ' NOTICE TO OUR CCSTt *W:?S. The Home National Ban * vv-n aa- j , oept for deposit War Savine"' Ccv; rates due January 1. 1923. 'Vh- ' j posit will not bo subject to r.neck ' -til that date, but the deptsa let the .-avings department wiJ terest from date of deposf THE HOME NATIONAL. L/VU i CITATION NOTIC;: State of South Carolina, C^r/. Lexington.?By W. F. K ' quire, Probate Judge. Whereas, A. Harper Shub F. Shull made suit to me to /a:-" them Letters of Administration r.t :i-Estate of and effects of Shull. These are Therefore to c. an.. rnonish all and snigqJar tr kind/vv and Creditors of the said J . 71 r . Shull, deceased, that {hey be an.! > pear, before me, in the Court o: Probate, to be held at Lexingt-m, C I i.. S. C., on 11th day December. if/:* next, after publication her-'.;f il o'clock in the forenoon, to show c.v.-'if any they have, why thr said Ad' *?' i,. I wrtf Ka r {nirusirituuii ?iuuiu uut y^ - .. .. Given under my Hand', tbi.s 2?*"n .. of November, Anno Domin ^9--. . W. F. HOOfc (L. s.i Probate Judge Lexington Co.. ?. C Published on the 29th --day of ."November, 1922, in the Lexington p.?in-r 2 weeks. ^ ft NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMER*. 1 The Home National Ba-.1: wil. v cept for deposit War Savi .Cor ideates due January 1, 1923. T posit will not be subject to < i.. -j;.til that date, but the deposi > ; the savings department will : terest from date of deposit. rJ, THE HOME NATIONAL .*Ci.\%. * 5 v is*, SUMMONS FOR HE : U >1 . State of South Carolina, r v r.y Lexington.?Court of ; .-mmI PlftM., H. H. Leysath, Plaintiff v- G<>ov%> W I ; Salley, Green Livingston. J,. ' ' Wise, Bank of Western Carol:r.:. and A. J. Sturkie, Defendant;-. To the Defendants above iia:v.*u: You are hereby summoned and r." Ve quired to answer the c^ip*laint : > ' :u: -i action, which is u!ed tott. .,>ii - . ' Ciori: (.f : for 1^-.:^ F in "iStitT Stave. an it ";V? V.-ra: a f v . 4 ry-ur ranstver to -the sXiiS ^nipVsw& on i ' V j the subscriber at his office a*- X??: th i | South Careen.a, wi-hiri tv??aty ;tiay ~.al- > ' ter the service hereof, exclusive of' thc day of such service^ and if you fajl to answer the Complaiht within the .time aforesaid, the plaintiff ih this aCfior will apply to the Court for the relief i f demanded in the complaint. ' E. B. FRIDAY?;#* Plaintiffs Attorney. November 23rd, 1922. , H. L. HARM AN, v it Clerk of Court of Common Pleas I. "j ; -r/^ Vf ?? Lexington County, S. C. *. Tjj ? * JT ' To George N. Salley, absentdefendant: ... ...' .. 5*' The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to the order of the -Clerk of this' Cocurt dated the 23rd? day of November 1922, and filed with the complaint ir the office of the Clerk of thiYCWh a*. i Lexington, S. C. i&r ' Ai*: E. B. FEIBAYvI Plaintiff's Attorney. (.- November 23rd, A. D., 1922. 'i i | CITATION NOTICE.. . f ,s : .j ; I 1 1 , ; , (t ' ^ W State of South Carolina, County^ ol Lfexington.?By W. F. Hook, esquire, Probate Judge, i Whereas, L. B. Shealy and J. A. Bouknight made suit to me, to gran' n him Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of J. D. Frick. These are Therefore to cite and ,ad: monish all and singular the kinared and Creditors of the said J, *D. Frick, deceased, that they be and ap pear, before me, in the Court of Pre-* _t"> t bate, to be held at Lexington, C. H. S. C., on 9th day December, 1922 next, after publication hereof at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause. if any they have, why the said AdI ministration should not be granted.- } Gven under my Hand, this 25th day of November, Anno Domini 1922. W. F.. HOOK, (L. S.) Probate Judge Lexington Co., S. Q.. Published on the 29th day of November, 19 22, in the Lexington pajneis, 2 weeks. Blissful Ignorance. "A bachelor is but half a man and doesn't know it." remhrks an exchange. A married man is reminded j of it often. j , - ? t - r* * YOUTHFUL WORK Rff BEST Few Writers Whe Have Attained In* mortality Were at Their Great, est in Early Years. Home years ago Sir William Robertson Nicoll wrote a book entitled "The j Round of the Clock: the Story of Our j Lives from' Year to Year." He divided life, into 12 lustrums?that is to say periods of five years?and likened 12 lustrums, GO years to the round of the clock. j Sir William endeavors to describe the characteristics of growth, drawing on a very wide knowledge of hi- | ography and a prodigious memory. He brings together a great number of illuminating facts. Sir William does , not believe in the comparative uselessncss of men over forty. He quotes son.e words of Lord Macaulay in one of his speeches, "No great work of im- i agination has ever been produced uno(ta f-hirf-v at- thirtV-fivO Uf,V "x wj v. v.... -- years, and the instances are few in which any have been produced under the age of forty." Cervantes was fifty-two when he pub- ! lished the first part of "Don Quixote," Bunyan fifty when "The* Pilgrim's Progress" appeared. Defoe fifty eight when he wrote "Robinson Crusoe," ; Scott forty-three when the first of ail his Waverly novels was launched, and Milton fifty-eight at the date of "Par- j adise Lost." At forty-one Dumas wrote "The Three Musketeers." At forty-two Bacon set to. work: on his "Novum Orgauum." At forty-four Newton began to issue his "Principia," .and at forty-five Chaucer to write his "Canterbury Tales." At forty-seven Montaigne published his essays, and at ?oity-eightXnmb bis "fessays of Elia." i Pabelais launched his gigantic medieval masterpiece at forty-nine. Edward Fitzgerald was fifty , when his "Omar Khayyam" _ began to waft for recognition. Adam Smith published his epoch-making work, "Th.e Wealth of Nations," at fifty-three, John Locke bis "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" at fifty-eight, Jonathan Swift his "Gulliver's Travels" at fifty-nine and izaaK wairon nis "uompieat angler" at sixty.?North China Herald. The Woes of the Bachelors. In Belgium the bachelors have begun to tremble. The provincial council of Hainaut has voted for a bill imposing a surtax of 25 per cent on all the provincial taxes, to be paid by male celibates. This does not prevent the incorrigible bachelors from persisting in celibacy. They Invoke a legendary example. ' It was in the time* when certain men condemned to death were pardoned if thev consented to wed a maiden desirous to marry; who thus in her hand brought them to life. ^.JNow, one of these, at the hour when he was to be hanged, wanted to see first his future wife. ^.Shc was of a age, una i hardly a beauty. i ' Hang me V he cried, and stepped to j the gallows. Many of The Hainan? celibates will therefore?annoyed or not--pay Life per cent surtax. Return to Land of Their Fathers. For 167 years the Acadian people have carried with them the memory of the fateful August in 1755, which witnessed the deportation of the Acadians from the shores of Minas Basin. August 16,1922, in the village of Grand Pre, a host of Acadian descendants gathered on the very site of the tragedy of expulsion and took possession of their heritage?historic ground on which they consecrated to the memory of their fathers the Acadian Memorial chapel. Exiled for nearly 170 years, their wanderings in strange, far-off villages and cities, the race scattered to the four corners of the continent, it seemed almost incredible that the Acadians should again be restored to that fertile Gaspereau valley, cleared, tilled and enriched by the farms which they had In.mesteaded in the early settlement of Acadia. & , i j i > Manhattan Bft'jflht sman Knee. ; The three-hundredth Anniversary of the founding of New York will be celebrated in 1926. L. Wittert van Iloogland, in an article,. "Holland and Her Connies," just published, retells.in! an interesting way the story of. Peter Minuit's purchase of the island of Manhattan, 24,000 acres, for $26, the assessed valuation of which is $3,000,000,000. Minuit, who later became first governor of Manhattan, represented the chartered West India company of Amsterdam. . Up to half a dozen years ago it was generally believed, and in many circles that belief persists, that New Amsterdam was founded, not in 1626, hut in 1624. Recent investigation and discoveries point to the fallacy of this con <entient says -Mr. JTan Uoo^a, ^Sl;a Butrtr or Beauty? A young woman of I'etrograd, re* lates a Russian paper, recently received from her brother, a farmer in the suburbs, a pound of butter. Now, in Petrograd a pound of butter, at the present time, is a royal present, and It is no wonder that the most seductive offers were made to the happy woman; millions and millions of rubles being thrown at her feet. She disdained them, however, preferring to keep her butter. But at last there came a man who, being an expert psychologist, offered her a?pot of cold cream! Immediately the lady accepted the barter, demonstrating that the desire for beautj Is stronger than?t lie taste for butter I i'* * WISE OLD SHIPS I Believed to Guard the Safety of j Crews at Sea. j! ' ' - 'j "It is not wise to scoff or to laugh j In one's sleeve at such notions as that of the 'knowingness' of ships," says | a writer in the Nautical Magazine, the I organ cf the mercantile marine offl* ! cers, quoted by the London Daily ; News. "Men have sailed in vessels and have come ashore swearing that they are possessed of an evil spirit. "There are ships which are more j ~ tlipv seem to look I liUUI lillil/i iuuuv\. , v.. ? for trouble on their own initiative and ! often succeed in finding it. "I>ut there are few sailors who do | not believe, lit tie as they care to die- i cuss these matters, that a ship is im- \ hued with a something' which makes | her almost a sentient being. "I think it is Conrad who tells the j story of the. ship which never failed I to answer the slightest touch of her helm, save on one occasion. "Ar.d on that particular one, had the course been changed as Intended, she would have run at a good ten knots into a huge chunk of ice, detached from some disintegrating berg and floating a few feet beneath the surface. ..."As it was, she slid by, with the j deadly menace a biscuit's throw from her, and then answered her helm as... anticipated. "I have in , mind a very popular liner that sails out of the Mersey and across the Western oc?an. ''-j "Captain and officers cherish a real j affection for her and passengers are j loud in praise of her.. ''There was a cyclone on the east-, em side of the Atlantic. A Trench boat arrived at Le Havre wfth superstructure and boats damaged and wireless antennae blown j away, after running oerore winu ana sea for 18 hours. "Another passenger vessel from America arrived in Plymouth sound buffeted and battered, reporting that the weather had 'brought her to a standstill, for a day and a night, what time heavy seas had caused considerable damage. "But ourfXiverpool friend Is a wise old craft $5he evaded the cyclone? almost. She just caught the tail end of It and got a bit of a dusting. "You may argue that the captain received wireless messages telling him of the progress and anticipated course of the storm. "Of course he did. But so did the masters of the other two ships; yet they encountered the full force of It. "It must be that our ship from the Mersey is one of those good craft that one hears of occasionally?one of fitosc ships that know how to 'col; ! after themselves." Tte writer, denies that sailors a-v romantic, bur admits that all rants j and grades arc superstitious and fatalistic. "But," he adds, "no one shall say that it Is harmful to any man that the sailor has a profound faith In his superstitions. There may be - something in them after all, for one gets very near to Nature in mldocean." Hairs Help Unravel Mysteries. In the consideration of many police rases, such as mysterious murders, there is often present evidence in the shape of hair In the wounds, or in the fingers of, victims. Heretofore there has been made little use of this for the lack of knowledge concerning It. The importance of this subject thrust itself upon the notice of John A. Ford of the police department of Berkeley. Lai., ana ne nas maae a ve^y rnorougn investigation Into the characteristics of hair of human beings and the lower animals. He has hundreds of specimens. many of which have been examined under the microscope and their characteristics noted. Rabbit hair on j a .hatchei with which a murder has been, done was the means of tracing the crime to d man who owned; the implement and who had used it to kill a rabbit with shortly before the murder. ; < Whales on English Farm. Farm hands digging celery on a farm near Peterborough, England, recently came upon the skeletons of two whales, dating back, it is supposed. 10.000 to 12,000 years. The whales were lying side by side under the peat, and just embedded in the clay. It is conjectured that many thousand years ago these whales, and perhaps others, swam up a creek, when the wash came further inland, and got caught at the top of a spring tide in a place where they were unable to turn. Another ^Ijeory hasiheen adyn???di tljtpngh itiis rather far-fetched: Some years ago a prehistoric boat was dug up in the same field, and the suggestion has been made that the crew oi' the boat was hunting the whales at that particular period. Longer Experience. "Now, looky yur, Gloriosa !" grumbled old man Dodder to Fiddle Creek. "Don't you be sending for young Doc Prattle to come and see me. He can't do me no good." "Oh, yes; lie can. Grampaw!" returned the invalid's youthful relative. "He's been practicing medicine for 'most two years now, and? "Well, I've been In this 'ere fix for mighty nigh ten years, and I reckon ] know more about it than he does."? Kansas City Star. Men and Women Aiikq, Ready.to Ad? mit That They ld?1d and Cling to Pet Beliefs. 'X 1 A I Professor Conklin, a well-known English expert, has Just finished a series of inquiries among hundreds of educated men and women with a view, to discovering how many are superstitious and what their pet superstitions were. The most commod superstition ia "touching wood." More than a third of the people asked admitted that if thev didn't "touch wood" they Avere unlucky! The next favorite stkp|rstition on the list, both for men and women, is the belief in the luck brought by finding a four-leaf clover. After that come in order, lucky dreams, bau luck brought by the number 13, bad luck from opening an umbrella in the house and belief in fortune telling. Twice as many men as women worried over liuymg 13 guests at table, but nearly four times as many women ? as men believed it had luck to open an umbrella in the house. 1 yM Out of all the inquiries made among i men by Professor (Jonkiin not one believed it was lucky to sleep with a piece of wedding cake under the pillow, while most women believed in it 1 Not a man either believed in pulling a wishbone for luck, or that opals were unlucky, or that a knife cuts friendship. Women believed in all of these thiugs. (lurlnnslv enough file things one might expect to be popular are apparently believed in by few people only. Only one person out of every hundred, for instance, has any belief that horseshoes are lucky, and only one mah In 50 is superstitious about lighting a third cigarette with the same match. Professor Conklin found that picking up pins for luck, walking under ladders for bad luck, breaking mirrors, and the bad luck of seeing the moon through trees were all popular beliefs among educated men and women.? Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. <2 Names. "George Harvey turning Anglophile? Not on your life!" said a New York editor who had worked as a reporter with the ambassador-journalist in the old days. I "George," hie went on, "at a fashionable dinner at the embassy while I was visiting him poked fun at English names. "He said that one of the aristocratic Cave-Brown-Caves went over to New York and made there the acquaintance of a man named Home. . i; \ "Home, as he talked to his new friend, kept calling him Mr. Cave. The Englishman winced every time this lionnnnarl hnt Hnmo Hirtn'f an v.: uo^^uvu, ^~ ?? 'r-ft thing amiss, so finally he said ^ . ? V : "'I say, call me Cave-Browri-Ca?^ there's a good chap, won't you? "Hcnc acepted the correction But hi was biding his t .me. -E.<B B a while th:; Englishman. ?;clied him '.lB fl Hoire, and he :-aid: <^^H| " 'I'll !sk yon to call me Hozr** V Sweei'Uosi&.u. you uon't inino,'" In Blank Verse. > % A New York writer who comes frojqsr; Mississippi went back to his old home-' this summer for a visit He was pairticularly anxious to see a darky named Prince, wfco had formerly worked for v the family He was informed thai-,' V Prince was running a barber shop for the negro trade. The writer called at the barber shop /, and Prince met him at the door witp/a big welcome, saying that his bush? ness was doing wonderful. "But Mr. Al, you bein' a writin' man, f I wants to ast you sump'n. I want* ; you to tell nic what's the matter wid 'at sign hangin' On de wall?bow come all de white gemmun laughs when dey sees it?" The writer looked. On the wall hung 4 a sign in a pretty gold frame, lettered by the hand of the proprietor, reading: Roses Is Red, and Violets is Blue, V - . i But don't ask me for no credit. For I'll have to say No. ?Saturday Evening Post I ' < *..?* c Flower of Tea Garden. ? - * AL,. lA?MAI1tf The garden 01 uiayu, uie iam?w>K Japanese tea master of the Sixteenth century, blossomed with morning glor1 ies at the time when the flower was a new wonder just brought over from \j China. To see these flowers Taiko, the great warrior prince, decided to-' visit Rikyu early in the morning. On the appointed day, however, the great tea master ordered his men to pluck and throw away all the flowers with | "the rapturous face of the summer I dawn" before sweeping and washing 1 the roji, or stepping stones, of the garden path The prince, approaching the tea room with a frowning face, asked Rikyu where he had planted the flowers, but the latter made no reply. With an ill grace, the warrior .pntered djj the -room, end lo2 he was welcomed there by ore glad face of morning * ? *- - ? * 1- ~ glory gazing at turn out ot uie yuiei dusk. r i A Little Margin of Time. I James A. Garfield used to tell how, I as n student in college, he managed to get ahead of a rival classmate. The- i rival was the future President's only comr>etitor for first place in mathe* matics. One night Garfield chanced to look out his window after lie had gone to bed and saw the light still burning in the rival's room. lie determined that thereafter his light would be the last to go out. The resolution was kept and the riva' outdistanced. "I smile at the old rivalry." Garfitld said later* "but I am* thankful for the way my attenth n was called to the valve of * | little margin < f time, well employed." r i