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THETORT MlinFMES
Published Every Thursday.
PORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA.
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The Girl of
Ny Dreams
T Ml
tA Nov?llr?tlon of the Pley by 1
Wilbur D. Nesbit and Otto Hauerbach
?"??'?? WILBUR D. NESBIT
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CHAPTER I.
Harry Swlfton bummed a song to
hlmseJ and threw a little more speed
Into his roadster.
He had every reason to be happy.
Long regarded as a settled bachelor,
though young enough to be the 6ort
of chap all the girls were setting their
capa for, he felt that this was to be
the really great day of his life. Lucy
Medders and her father were coming
to visit him; his sister Carolyn was
coming home from boarding school
especially to play the hostess, the
home had been made spick and1 span
for the occasion, the sun was shining,
the little birds were singing in the
trees of the park, his roadster was
running smoothly and?well, he hadn't
a care In the world.
As he took corners In the driveways
without slackening speed he murmured
:
"Good little buzz wagon! You're
the cupld that started all this."
In memory, he could see again that
day of the summer before when In the
Eame machine he was whizzing along
a country road. Something happened,
the machine skidded, with the usual
result.
When Harry came to his senses he
was lying on an old-fashioned hair
sofa, in an old-fashioned Quaker
home?but he thought be was in
heaven.
Above him bent a Quaker damsel,
demurely beautiful and distractlngly
**nlnn Cho troo HntMncr hfe hrnur v/tth
a cloth wrung out of co!d water to
which some camphor had been added.
"Do thee feel better?" she asked, In
the softest of tones.
"It depends," he managed to say.
"If you're going to stop this because
I'm better, I'm going to have a relapse."
Then into the room came a stalwart
old Quaker.
"Has the young man recovered,
Lucy?" he asked.
"Yes, father," she Bald. Harry Bat
up, with an effort.
"I don't know how to thank you,
6lr," he 6aid. "It was lucky that 1
went Into the ditch right in front of
your house."
With the word "lucky"' he looked
meaningly at Lucy, but that self-possessed
maiden did not seem to catch
his double meaning.
The result of the accident Is not
hard to guess. Harry found himself
bo bumped and bruised that It took a
fortnight for him to be well enough to '
return to his home. And in that fortnight
he and Lucy became sfl well acquainted
that it then became necessary
for blra to run up to see her?
a mere matter of a hundred miles?
once every week. And now he had
Induced her father to b:?g her to visit
him and his sister.
He reviewed in his mind the events
of the days since the accident. Pleasant
thoughts, those, for a young man.
They take his mind off the immediate
surroundings, however.
Automatically he whirled around
another corner?then began doing
things with the brake, but too late.
Twenty yards before him approached
another auto. In it sat a couple ob- (
Ilvlous to their danger. There was a
smash and a crash, a shriek and a
yell. And then the three people picked
themselves up.
The man in the other auto leaped
to his feet first and shook his fists
at Harry. The lady gathered her hair
Into a coll again and exclaimed:
"My bat! My beautiful hat!"
Harry followed the direction of her
glance, and saw the object of ber dismay.
A handsome hat of yellow
Btraw. adorned with large red flowers. '
was hopelessly entangled In the steering
gear of his machine.
He extricated It?or what he could
of It?and offered It to her. Itut with 1
a tear!ul exclamation of despair she
refuted It.
"Scoundrel!" shouted her friend
"Yy do you go running around killing
peeples. und ruining dcir hats?"
"My dear count!" cried the lady.
"Not so loud!"
But the court was not to be calmed. |
In spite of Harry's efforts to explain
matters, he continued his staccato expressions
of wrath and vengeance, un- ,
til. giving up the idea of strnlghter.lng j
matters cut, Harry pepped into his ,
own rnacMne, skilfully ran j ast the
other auto, and resumed his homeward
rice. In a moment the count
and the lady were In their seat again.
% the count wheeled his machine a! out. '
.an^j the pursuit beg^n. By some do t |
turnings and twhtirg? Harry m n- )
aged to evade them and at last
reached home.
He dashed Into the house onecr to
charge his c'othes and le ready to
go to the station to met- Mr. Medders
and Lucy. "Pigeon" WTliams rn t
him. Pigeon, as he was affectionately
called, was a young man who tried
his tcrt to be a chum of Harry?for
the reason that he vac unusually at- j
f
traded by Harry's sister Carolyn, ft
was natural that Pigeon should be at
Swlfton's that morning. He wanted
to help Harry have things ready to i
entertain Lucy and her father, and
besides he thought it would cheer j:
Carolyn up to see one of her old
friends on her own arrival.
"Is Carolyn here?" Harry asked, as i
he came in.
"Sure," replied Pigeon. "She got
here half an hour ago?mad as the ' :
dickens because you didn't meet her
at the train. Why didn't you? If I'd Ji
known you weren't going to, of course
I could have gone." i
"I meant to," Harry replied. "But i
I had a bit of a 6mash up In the park."
"Smash-up? Again?" 1
"Nothing that amounted to much, i
Head-on bump Into one of these run- i
about things?run about a day and
then blow up. German dignitary In
It, with a dashing brunette. No wen- j
i der he couldn't 6ee me coming. He i
had to look at her."
"Didn't hurt them?"
"No. Just knocked the breath out 1
of all of us. And her hat fell off. I
and my machine chewed It up. Look."
Harry dug Into his pocket and pro- I
duced the hrlm of the lady's hat. with
a trailing string of red popples. Pi- t
geon laughed.
"Keep it for a souvenir?" he asked. <
"Don't know. The German fellow t
got mad. and I came away in such a
hurry I forgot what I was doing. <
Stuck the thing in my pocket absent- j
mindedly. I guess."
"He got mad! So wonder."
"I think he's real peeved. When I
made my get-away he got his old cook
stove into action and tried to fellow
me. But I escaped."
Harry went into his room and
Pigeon sat down.
"How's Carolyn looking?" Harry
called to him.
"Fine and dandy. Say, Harry,"
Pigeon went on. maliciously, "the fellows
have it in for you."
"In for me! Why?" asked Harry, in
muffled tones, tugging at a collar button.
"They say you're a quitter. You
used to be strong for stag parties, and
all that, and now you don't care tor
anything but the country?and a coun
try girl."
"That so?" Harry raid, coming out..
"Well, let 'em Bay what they please.
I'm for the country?that's where you
go for pure air, green fields, natural
flowers, and natural girls. Pigeon, I'm
through with all this bachelor stuff.
No more of the stag suppers and poker
parties for yours tru'y. I'm ready
to quit and be good?if my plans
work."
"I think you're dead right, Harry,"
Pigeon replied, solemnly, "Judging
from my own experience. There's
nothing in this bachelor life."
"Your experience? Here, Methuse- ,
lah! Take a cigar. Why, you're not
even old enough to use a safety razor,
boy!"
Pigeon blushed boyishly and felt of f
his tender mustache with an erabar- I
rassedly guilty expression. . I
"You're always rubbing it La on a
fellow," he complained.
t
?ua or CP, ll j
unnntn II. Harry
laughed BarcasticaPy, and In
the midst of his laugh Carolyn dashed
Into the room. A Jolly, romping girl.
Just at the age when a girl doesn't
know whether to keep on being a girl
or to consider herself a woman, sho
paused for a moment at sight of
Pigeon, then lost her forma ity and
ran to Harry to greet hira.
"Isn't she some girl, though?" Harry
cried to Pigeon, with his arms around
harry Swifton. i t
hiB Bister. "Have to keep my eyes on ^
you, from row on. young lady! j v
You're getting to be too big and c
pretty." j ,
"I'm not too big!" pouted Carolyn. I g
"Not a bit?and you couldn't be too l
pretty." Pigeon earnestly declared.
"I'll hove to keep my eye on you. 1 j
Harry " Carolyn giggled. "Walt until ^
Lucy comes. Do you call her 'thee?' " j
"1 haven't turned Into a whole c
Quaker yet." Harry answered. "Now
you run n!ong and see that this bouse c
looks like something." c
"You'd tetter get some one to ex- a
purgate this den of yours." Carolyn }
fiahhtd at him as (he left the rocm. v
"Lucy and her father may be shocked l;
at some of the things here " . f
"I'd like to know what there Is In >
here to shock anyone." Harry said to h
Pigeon. t
"Oh. no'hlng much." Pigeon "
chuckled "Put maybe that picture of
the ballet g!rl and that fgire of the
Venus de .Vi o. and ecme of the cth'r ]
highly decorative effects are not quite
what Lucy has at hone" t
"Why. those are works of a-t." r
"ilesc's General Plazes to seo you. l
Harry," called Carolyn from Hie fca.i
way.
"Come right In, general!** Harry
Bald. General Blares, pompous. Irascible
and dignified, was Harry's attorney
In several matters having to do
with the estate left him by his father.
He entered the room as gravely
and as Impressively as though he
were approaching the bench of the
United States Supreme court, and
said:
"Good morning, boy. Here"?taking
a packet from his Inside pocket?
"hese are the deeds, all duly signed j
and sealed. I believe you will need
no further advice from me."
"Thank you. general," Harry said,
taking the documents. "That's mighty
good of ycu. I appreciate your kind- j
ness In bringing them In yourself."
"So trouble at all, I assure you. I
was pasting on my way to my offices."
"Won't you have a little nip of
something to strengthen you for the
walk?"
"No, thank you. I am rather In
haste. I am slightly worried about
Mrs. Blares."
"Worried? Why, I trust she Is not
III "
"Not at all. 8he left early today, to
shop for a sick friend."
"Shopping for a sick friend." 1
:huckled Harry. "Are they having
special sales of sick friends?"
The general Ignored the Jest, as, lnJeed.
he Ignored all Jests.
"After that," he continued, "she was
Jocrates Primmer Was a School
Teacher Who Considered Himself a
Poet.
;olng to attend a lurichoon where tn?
adles were to meet this Count von
Mtz, who is such a social lion now."
"I've heard of hlni."
"Well," the general remarked. "I am
lallylng here when I should be hastenng
on. My wife should have teen at
lome by this time. By the way, I
lon't believe you have met Mrs.
Hazes."
"I met two of your wives at dlf*er>
nt times." Hnrry smiled; for the matImonial
experiments of the general
vere subjects of much comment.
"She's rot one of the two," the g9n>ral
replied. "They left me by wrjr
if Reno long ago. I'm not a bam d.t
orry."
Harry laughed again, for when the
jeneral became excited it was nis
lablt to get his words twisted, Eorueimes
with ludicrous effect.
The general regarded Harry's
imueement with calm disapproval.
"My boy," he said, dropping his,
land on Harry'e 6houlder, ".et me give
ou one bit of good advice?not legal.
Vhen you marry for the third time?"
"But I haven't married my first
et." Harry protested.
"You will, however. And when you
narry for the third time, don't marry
t young, beautiful woman."
"Don't?"
"No. Don't. Half the time she's
inve you making a fam dool of your
elf."
Having delivered himself of this
age observation, the general stalked
o the door, turned and hade Hariy
arewell, and started out, to bump
igalnst a woe begone person, who was
omlng In at the same moment.
"I?I beg your pardon, humbly!"
xclaimed the newcomer, In a thlu
ligh. weepy voice.
"Br-r-r-r!" grumb'ed the generic
crushing by him.
The newcomer glided In. His long
lank hair hung down to his collar. h:?
vhlte, thin hands plucked with melanholy
grace at the roycroft tie he was
vearing, and his eyes, which wer#
et deep in his head, gleamed weirdly
"Alas!" he said, "it is you!"
"You're a good guesser, Primmer,
farry said, graspii?s his hand. "I'a.
;lad you could come to see us."
Socrates Primmer, a distant cousin
if Lucy, and a school teacher who
onsidered himself a poet, had ao
epted Hurry's off-hand invitation to
ome.and visit him at the same time
,s Lucy and her father were to come, j i
iarry had not dreamed that Primmer !
rould come, for he knew Primmer (
lad long coneiden-d himself a suitor (
or the hand of the demure Quakeress,
(everthekss, here he was, and in the
land that was not adjusting his neck ,
ie was held a large hatbox, labeled.
Mile. Dr.nhne." I
tTO nn CONTINUED.)
Llntrr.ent.
One cup vinegar, one cup turp?-t>
me. one raw egg, put In bott e and
bake well A most excellent llnim^o)
or nrau or beast.
MAY SOLVE MYSTERY
English Expedition Soon to Start
For Easter Island.
Theory of Lo?t Continent Which le
Believed to Have Joined Asia
With America?Trace of
Glanta Found.
Victoria, B. C.?As a result of a report
made by the officers of H. M. S.
Algerine regarding the visit the gunboat
(now overhauling at Esquimalt)
made not long ago to Easter Island, a
250 ton auxiliary schooner has been
launched at Whitestable. England, to
carry a party of scientists who will
Investigate reports of remains found
of a lost race of giants.
The vessel has been christened the I
Mana-Polynesian, for good luck, and
the party, headed by W. S. Routledge, ;
M. A., will proceed in her to the south |
sea island as soon as she is placed in |
commission. The island is the most j
eastern of the Polynesians, being (
about 2,COO miles from the coast of i
South America.
Immense platformB formed of stone \
fitted together with cement are found {
to have been erected?on the island fac- r
ing the Bea. Some of the stones weigh t
live tons, and in places tneae mysterious
sea walls are thirty feet high and
200 feet long.
On the land side of these platforms
there are broa^l terraces, alBO of
stone, bearing the pedestals on which
stood huge figures carved out of lava
from an extinct crater eight miles
away. Most of these Images have
been thrown down, but there are 555
of them In the forty-five square miles
of the lBland. The figures extend
down to the hips, and the faces represent
a receding forehead, a broad,
adzelike nose, thin lips and a powerful (
chin. k
One of the smaller statues of Eas- 1
ter island?eight feet high?is now in '
the British Museum, having been 1
brought back by H. M. S. Topaze. (
which visited the island In 1868. Oth- 1
er British warships have also visited j
the island, the last being H. M. S.
Algerine, which went from Esquimau
last year. I
No metal is found on Easter Island, <
and the only ancient tool found is a I
stone chisel, with which it would have *
been impossible to execute such co- I
lfcssal work. To drag the . statues ^
from the crater workshop over hill (
and dale to the platform must have
required a far larger population than t
this Island, with very scanty supplies t
of fresh water, could support. Some e
of the platforms weigh 250 tons and ?i
Picturesque Shore of Easter Island.
It would need modern engineering appliances
to move them.
There Is ample evidence that the
making of these huge Images was
suddenly stopped and the theory has
been advanced that the Island Is the <
last pinnacle of a submerged contl
nent which occupied the greater part \
of the South Pacific and possibly a
joined Asia with America. Ruined n
temples of the same style are found r
on the mainland of America, In Indo c
Cliina and Java. t(
T'nder the platforms are vast num- t
hora nf alrolcfnro rtHclnnllv tt m?V
- - o * ? 5
be presumed they were the victims ^
of human sacrifices, but in modern j
times the Kanaka inhabitants, although
Christianized by the Jesuits, f
have continued to bury their dead in
these sacred places. t
Mr. Routledge's expedition will find p
a great field for excavation in this F
mystery island of the Southern Pa- j,
cific, and the revelation of its secret n
m&y solve the whole mystery of the j
Incas of Peru.
CAR CRASHES INTO GARAGE
I
Motorman Fatally Hurt ? Grocer's
Skull Is Fractured When Coach t
Fails to Take Curve. r
t<
Omaha. Neb.?A westbound Farnam n
street car ran Into a garage at 40th ?
and Farnam streets, fatally Injuring u
the motorman. William Triver, and d
seriously Injuring five or six others.
Michael Welch, a wholesale grocery 1
man. received a fractured skull from l
a falling brick. (
Motorman Triver says the control- ji
ler failed to work and that he was i
unable to shut off the current. The n
car failed to take the curve, crashing e
Instead Into the garage. The front end
of the building was ..r.ved in and sev- ;i
eral automobiles were smashed. ?:
The car carried twenty passengers, x
many of whom had attended the opera,
and were in evening dress. Two worn- *
en were removed from the car in a :1
faint, but were revived. i
. . il
Some Catfish! .1
New York.?Cuthbert A. Everett, '.I
seventeen, of Richfield, had a narrow
escape from drowning while fishing
in Greenwood lake when a large cat- 3'
fish pulled him out of his boat. b
Odd Callings Are Found
(tn\ (fiftAKf BuaiHtJa is I
? yl j9/ FiriE Bu3ine'SS 1
HAvb to wbftftY s
fiUKClARSj c
\
Iff ASHINGTON.?Oftentimes a man ,
if doesn't do as well at his own oc- ,
:upation as he ought to?thinks he j
las made a misfit and believes he can j
>etter himself. Here are a few sug- f
jestlons for anyone thus dissatisfied
rom the thirteenth United States cenius:
There is a snake merchant who has
l ranch out in Texas and has for
nore than seven years made a busliess
of handling snakes. In one year
le sold over 150,000 rattlers and
dacksnakes, getting from a quarter
x> two dollars each.
Formerly all the parts of a shoe
vere made by a shoemaker; today s
his industry employs Judges, fakirs, c
jlowers, sluggers, busters-out, cripple i
;hasers and pancake-makers?all en- t
taged one way or another In the v
naking of shoes or parts of them. g
rests Confirm Danger ol
J URGEON JOHN F. ANDERSON
J and Past Assistant Surgeon Wade
ft. Frost of the United States public
lealth service have completed experments
which confirm the contention ,
)f Dr. Milton J. Roseneau of the Har- I
.'ard Medical school, that infantile
jaralysis is communicated by the
liable fly.
ai me iniernaiiouiii v>uubicm v/i
iyglene and Demography here re- (
:ently Dr. Rosenau described his ex- c
ierlments. He Infected several monteys
with Infantile paraysls, and ex- t
x>sed them dally from the time of In- i
jculatlon till death to the bites of sev;ral
hundred stable flies. t
Twelve other monkeys were then I
jxposed to the bites of these flies. At e
he time that Dr. Rosenau made his c
mncuncement six of the twelve had c
leveloped symptoms characteristic of t
nfantlle paralysis. Of the six, two c
lied, three were paralyzed and one c
ecovered. In the cord of one of the k
nonkeys were found the cbaracteris- v
ic lesion of Infantile paralysis. The d
:ord of the other dead monkey 6howed
.hanges less characteristic of the dis r
iase. At the time of the announce- t
nent a sufficient interval had not f
(lapsed to determine the result of the r
ittempt to transmit the Infection of 1
?ther monkeys by Inoculation with e
Fair Sex Drinks More Th;
^ c
ITOMEN, especially young girls, are (
ff rapidly becoming more and more t
ddicted to intoxicating liquor in the t
ational capital, while the men are t
apidly growing more abstemious, ac- t
ording to Albert E. Shoemaker, at- v
orney for the Anti-Saloon league of j,
he District of Columbia. His accusa- c
ation has aroused women generally
ere, and it is a subject of agitated j
iscussion. f
Mr. Shoemaker made his charge be- 8
ore the Women's Christian Temper- 0
nee union, attributing the increasing c
hirst among women to the heavy com- n
letition among proprietors of hand- b
omeiy furnished cafes and their will- e
ngness to "take a chance" in per- \
flitting women and young girls to b
rink. I u
He also declared that under the ex- | t
Capital Society Girls Abe
l GROl"P of Washington society ?
1 girls have forsaken outdoor Bports l
or the line arts. In previous years "
m^mh..r-K nf the smart set
ould be found almost any morning
iking a "beauty ride" In the parks j
r on the speedway. I
Three mornings each week the
aughters of cabinet ministers, soliers
and diplomats may be found
>anlng over easels, with brushes,
:udying oil painting under the tf
itclage cf E. C. Messer. head of the : di
rt school of the Corcoran art gal- j M
(ry. j M
The embryo artists do not seem to j it
et any special attention from their
rofessor Just because they happen a
> be daughters of notables. cl
When Professor Messer was asked K
hat progress the members of his ' fc
lass were making he replied that it
ley were all showing some talent, ai
Ithough he did not seem to realize
lat there was anything unusual in d
le late additions to his class role. m
"Miss Nagel. the daughter of a tl
ibinet officer?" he asked. "Why, it n,
ever occurred to me to ask who her gi
ttho? U. Girls are Just girls when e<
in Uncle Sam's Census
Another man seems to be tn * class
3y himself. In Kansas City he botles
the 6moke of hickory logs. He
says that when It Is let loose In an
iir-tight compartment where meat
las been hung It will produce the
same results as though the meat had
)een cured In an old-fashioned smo.celouse.
There Is a man out Seattle way g
ivhose business It Is to secure the
nustaches from walrus killed In Being
Strait. These stout bristles are
>lucked from the nose of the walrus
)v Indians, tied into small bur-dies
md sold by the Seattle citizen (who
nade $1,000 by this traffic In 1911) to
igents on tho Pacific coast. The
igents ship them to China, where
hey are In demand as toothpicks,
n an aged bull walrus the bristles
ire about a foot long and nearly as
hick as a lead pencil. They are
ough, and when made into picks can
>e pushed between the teeth without
njury to the enamel.
Then there are also the vhltler
md the pouncer In a hat factory; a
lock walloper is a kind of longshorenan;
a vibrator works in a clock facory;
a tonger works in connection
vith oysters; a teaser works In a
;lass factory.
f Common Stable Flies
he cord of one of the two that had
lied.
Dr. Anderson and Dr. Frost sought
o repeat the conditions of Dr. Ros
IttU S CA^CUMICUIO.
Their report made public the other
lay states that on October 3 monkey
Co. 242 was Inoculated with an emulilon
of the cord of the monkey which
lied of Infantile paralyBls. Until Its
leath from the disease on October 8.
he animal was exposed for two hours
tally to the bites of 300 stable flies,
?llected In Washington. Another moncey
similarly Inoculated on October 5
vas, beginning October 7, exposed
laily to the bites of the same flies.
Beginning October 4 two other
nonkeys were exposed daily for about
wo hours to the bites of these same
lies, and, beginning October 5, a third
tew monkey was similarly exposed.
U1 three subsequently developed
lyrptoms of Infantile paralysis.
in Men in the Capital $
sting laws It was Impossible to secure
he conviction of those who sold liquor
o minors.
Insanity sHzes upon the bachelor
i-lth greater ease than upon the bene
lict, despite the worry the latter Is
tupposed to undergo, according to
he report of t he government ho?dtal
for the insane, Just submitted to
lecretary of the Interior Fisher. Anither
fact brought out by the report
s that out of nearly 3,000 patients in
he institution only three are being
reated for insanity brought on by
he use of alcohol. This is contrary
o the generally accepted theory,
rhich contributes to alcoholism a
arge proportion of the unfortulates.
A significant feature of the report
les in the statement that there are a
ar greater proportion of foreign inane
patirnts than American, and thta
f the foreigners the majority are
lermans. Thtat insanity, in a large
aeasure, is hereditary, is evidenced
iy the statement that the asylum scintists
have discovered one family in
Vest Virginia whose pedigree has
c-en traced back through C75 Individals,
of whom 54 were mentally defecIve.
indon Sports for Art
um&t o
len come to the school. But she Is
olng fine work. .Miss Meyer and
[iss Townsend are doing well also,
[iss Townsend already has gone
ito the 'life class.'"
Miss Townsend is the daughter of
former minister to Portugal. As a
hild she played with the deposed
ing Manuel. Several years ago the
irmer playmates met in London, and
was reported that the king had
3ked her to marry him.
Miss Hildegarde Nagel Is the eldest
aughter of the secretary of comlerce
and labor and Miss Meyer is
le daughter of the secretary of the
avy. There are about a dozen alto- M
ether in the class who were recruit- ?
1 from Washington's smart set.
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