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\ THE FORT MILL TIMESli Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA. ?i r?' 1?1 r~ The Girl of My Dreams cA Noveliiation of the PUy by J Wilbur D. Neebit ur.J Otto Hauerbach f WILBUR D. NESBIT I I SYNOPSIS. ' Harry Swiften Is expecting a visit from ' his fiancee. Lucy Mcdders, a Quakeress whom he met In the country. His auto j crashes Into another machine containing a beautiful woman and a German count. The woman's hat Is ruined and Harry , escapes. His sister. Caroline, arrives at his home to play hostess. Socrates Primmer. cousin of Lucy's, arrives with a hat intended as a present for Lucy. CHAPTER II,?(Continued.) ' "Make yourself at horre, old chap." Harry said. "What's that? Your baggage r "This?" Primmer slgh?d, Indicating the hatbox. "This is a present I bought for Lucy. I happened to see It In the window of a store near here, and I purchased It and nad It 6ent to this address It Just came, so I want to put it away and later give it to her with my own hands. Alas, my poor, poor Lucy!" "Why?what's happened? What's so sad about Lucy?" "She?she?oh. my poor, poor i Lucy!" Primmer walled, going slow- i ly from the room. I "Well, wouldn't that bumb you!" Harry soliloquized. "Cousin Socrates la evidently allowing his blighted affections to act on his lachrymal glands. Now. looking about the room. < I expect I'd better seid Venus and the ballet girls to the attic for a muchneeded rest." He was Just about to take the ballet girl picture from the wall, when he , was startled by an ang:-y argument in the hallway. One voice was that of a woman, another that of the butler, and the third the broken accents of the German Into whose auto Harry had Emaehed. "Great guns!" h* exclaimed. "They've trailed me down." Into the room rushed the pair. "You!" both cried. CHAPTER III. I ~~~ For a moment the couple looked at Harry and Harry looked at them. It would be difficult to say whether they or he felt the greater surprise. "I want that hat!" spoke the lady, in determined tones. "Yess. Ve vant dot hat!" said the gentleman. "I haven't a hat," Hurry explained. The German was about to explode f in a few belligerent remarks, but the lady put her hand on his arm to restrain him, and said In milder tones: "You can help me cut of a most distressing situation, sir." "How so. madam?" Harry asked. "We have Just come from the new milliner's around the corner. I recog nlze you as the gentleman who figured In that unfortunate accident this morning, and strangely enough the milliner 6ays that 6he sent to this house within an hour the perfect duplicate of try hat. which your auto ruined." "Yellow It vas," Interrupted the Oerman. "Yellow, mit red puppies on It." "Poppies, not puppies, count," said the lady. "Now, sir," to Harry, "I must have the hat which was sent here. Mine was an imported model and the milliner had but this one duplicate." i "There has be^n no hat delivered here," Harry replied "But it was." the lady argued. "And I must have It." ' "1 vlll go now, Iff you please," said the German, who had been growing I more and more nervous, evidently be- j lng anxious to be well out of the scrape as soon as possible. "No," Harry said, sternly. "Walt a minute. If the hat was sent here. 1 should know It. There may be a mistake. Ring up this milliner per son and find out Just what there Is to It. Use Nie phone there, madam." The lady smiled with relief, went to the phone and called for a number. "Hello," she 6ald. "Is Ma'niBelle Daphne Dafflngton there? Is this you. Ma'meelle?" "Daphne Dafflngton!" Harry muttered. "Can't be little Daphne I used to flirt with!" "This Is Mrs. Rlnzes," the lady Bald Into the phone. Harry started at that. "Mrs. Blazes!" he 6aid In a hoarse whisper to the German. "Not Mrs. General Diazes?" "Exactly!" the German assured him. "Where did you deliver that duplicate of my hat?" Mrs. Diazes asked. After the reply, still ho!ding the receiver to her ear. she turned and asked Harry: "What's the number of this house?" "Three hundred and ten." "They say It didn't reach here." Mrs. Bla7.es said into the phone, j "What? You are sure It did? You j will come over yourself? Thank you." | She hung up the receiver and turned to Htrry with: "She is positive that the hat was delivered here, and to make sure she eayt she will come herself. Now. that ' 4. y Hat to bar*. evidently. And I molt bare It" "Yees." the German belligerently added "Va must haff It" But Harry bad by this time divined who the German was?be could be no one else than the dapper Count von Fits, whose flirtatious escapades were discussed on all sides. And, this being Mrs. Blazes, and the General being worried because his wife had not yet come home. Harry could put two and two together and reason that the Count and the dashing Mrs. Blazes had gone for a jolly little ride through the park, which ride had been spoiled by the untoward accident tthlch destroyed her hat. "Why don't you go and get a hat? any kind of a hat?" he asked. "I'll be glad to pay for It, as I was par- i tlally at fault when your bat was ruined." "Oh, sir," Mrs. Blazes answered "I wouldn't dare to go home without that particular hat, or Its exact duplicate. My husband Is very Jealous. He wcuid be sure to want to know where the original hat had gone?In fact. It Is bis favorite hat. Please, please give me the hat." "But I tell you I haven't It. I'd give It to you In a minute If I had It." "Vat a nonsense!! the Count cried. Mrs. Blazes was about to say something, when a strange voicb was heard outside. "Right up here? Thank thee." It was the voice of Amos Medders. * 1 II "Ureal neavenB. narrj uim . "They've come. My future father-inlaw, and my future fiancee!" "Aha!" the Count said, malevolently. "Unless you glf us der hat ve vlll make some trouble." "Please go!" Harry begged. "Please! I haven't the hat. I'll get you a whole hat store, If you'll only go!" But they were adamant. Mrs. Blazes, nerved to desperation because she knew she simply could not go home without her bat, planked herBelf Into a chair and announced that she would stay right there until he gave her her own hat. An inspiration came to Harry. Taking Mrs. Blazes by the arm he said: "I'll send out and get you the hat I'll get that milliner to rush another duplicate for you. Here, bide In here for a while. You understand there'd be no end of talk If you were found ut:i c. He rushed Mrs. Blazes to the door of bis own room and pushed her In and slammed the door, then turned to the count. "Now you may go," he said. The Count was only too willing, but Lucy and her father could be heard coming nearer. 'Bewildered. Harry grabbed the Count by the arm and shoved him into the library on the other side from his own room. "1 can't meet them while 1 am In this condition," he eald, looking about the room. "I'm so nervous they'd think I was guilty of something terrible or that I didn't want them here. If I were guilty I could carry It off easily. Thus does Innocence get the hooks!" And as Lucy and her father came Into the room he slipped out the door leading to the back hallway. Wonderjngly. Lucy Medders and her father parted the hangings and entered Harry's den. They gazed about them, at the steins; the boxing gloves, the pipe racks, the pictures and all the other fittings of a bachelor's den. On the table lay a deck of cards. & half smoked cigar, an opened box ol cigarettes, and some scattered red white and blue chips. "Oh-h-!" Lucy gasped. "Isn't it lovely, father?" "And this"?Mr. Medders said? "this Is Harry's home?" "it seemetn amereui irum uui home, doth it not?" Lucy asked, shyly. "Verily, daughter," Medders remarked. coming to a stop before the Count Von Fltz, Whose Flirtatious Escapades Were Discussed on All Sides. , highly colored picture of the ballet girls, **there be nothing like this at home." "Why," Lucy said, looking at the picture, "see the ladles In the rainy day skirts!" "I see the ladles." Medders said, drily, "but where are the skirts? . Verily, daughter, they must have feared a flood." "Perhaps," Lucy offered, seeing that her father viewed the picture with disapproval, "perhaps it Is a biblical scene." "Nay, daughter. If It were, more people would be buying Bibles." Medders turned from the picture, and his attention was caught by the statuette of the Venus de Mllo. He looked at It intently. "This is a sad sight, daughter," ha remarked. "Because her arms are broken, father?" Lucy asked. Innocently, not understanding that her father was expressing a dislike to such works of art. "Peradyentilrw ?ha tnroke them off trying to hook her dress In the back." she continued, merrily. "She hath no "dress to hook," Medders said, solemnly. "But, aside from these, the place hath a seemly look." CHAPTER IV. From the hallway came gilding In the sorrowful figure of Socrates Primmer. He caught his breath sharply *t 6fght of Lucy, and then advanced, with his hands outstretched. "Ah, my poor, poor cousin Lucy!" he walled. "Oh, cousin Socrates!" Lucy cried. "How nice of thee to come." Medders looked on with kindly amusement. He had long known of Priminer's unrequited attachment for Lucy, and to him it seemed that the best course to pursue was to allow Primmer to weep it out. Primmer looked mournfully at Lucy and said: "As PJley might have written: "Now my heart Is full of sorrow and my soul would fain repine For another fellow's courting that old j sweetheart or mine. "But," Lucy smiled, "I am not old, and I am not thy sweetheart, cousin Socrates." "Verily, Socrates," Medders ?ald, "thou wouldst make a poor sort of husband, weeping continually about the house. Thou mlghtst dampen the clothes on Ironing day, though." "Don't mind father, cousin Socra* tes," Lucy said. "He doth but Jest" "Harry said for me to ask thee to allow me to show thee to thy room," Uncia Medders." Socrates observed. : it JmS> 8 IBSfil J atK^gWa^EH^HI ur^BwJB j* flp?'flK|^^^^Ej|^H / ^ -pj^lft r|/-^@^. B 1 t Lucy, In Her Plain Gray Dreaa, Wan a Marked Contrast to the uasnmg u Beauties He Knew. 0 lugubriously. "And his sister will come { this moment to greet poor, poor e Cousin Lucy." 8 Primmer led Medders out. Luc)' a looked about her, wonderlngly, for it c moment, but whatever her thoughts may have been, they were ended sud- j] denly when Harry hurried in. a "I'm so sorry not to have met you c when you arrived." he said, seizing Y both her hands, while she drew her- Y self away In shyness. s "I am truly glad to see thee, Harry.' t she told him. "Thy house Is mosV r seemly." s Harry looked quickly at her. Thers r seemed to be an undercurrent of hid ^ den meaning In her words. But * glance at her lovely face, framed la 8 the sunny hair escaping from be- B neath the simple Quaker bonnet, was ' enough to convince him that thers 0 had been no guile in her remark. 11 o Lucy, In her plain, almost severo, gray dress, with Just the touch ol ^ white at neck and throat, and th? y soft gray ribbons tying her bonnet " beneath her chin, was a marked con- 8 trast to the dashing beauties he knew. * But with all her simplicity of manner she had that indefinable quality called c "charm." which may not be acquired j; through the donning of gaudy raiment and the heightening of the color of the cheeks, nor by any of the extran* eous aids to beauty which need not be particularized here. And such charm, also, may not be lost at any moment by the one possessing it. Charm In ? . woman is like magnetism in a man It manifests itself unconsciously an^ naturally, so that others measure the- . possessor by it and not by his or her . appearance. Harry drew her toward him. stilt holding her hands. There was nc. mistaking his wish. Lucy, unsophistl cated though she was. understood him "Nay, Harry," Lucy said. "The* know I do not think a girl should be kissed before she is wedded." (TO HE CONTINUED.) Open to Engagement*. "Miss Gwendolen, they say you hare won high honors In golf. Do you rep , resent any ladies' sthletic club or as- r sociation?" . "No. Mr. Ketchley; I am entirely? { er?unattached." Then there w-?* a timid, faltering question, a soft voiced answer, and tie . status was changed. , . ADJUSTING TH TAil FI3MLR. ROLLUT 3, 3HAI These are the men who are eni must be done by January 1, when tl Wood, superintendent of division of general; Robert S. Sharp, chief pos general, and John C. Koons. super! VISION O ireat Disaster Pictured by W. T, Stead in 1886. inormous Lots of Life Predicted by the Distinguished English Journalist In His Own Newspaper. London.?An Investigator, searching or material for a biography of W. T Itead, the Englishman who went down rtth the Titanic, has discovered a trange prediction of his own doom aade by Mr. Stead In the Pall Mall larette on March 22, 1886. j This article, written by Mr. Stead, ras headed, "How the Mall Steamer Vent Down In Mid-Atlantic." The article appeared a couple of ays after the Oregon was lost, and mrported to give a description of he scene of horror that ensued on the hen biggest Atlantic liner, when at ?VI*. ist the passengers realized me ?ui|< ras doomed. In a footnote. Stead rrote: "This Is exactly what might take dace and what will take place II he liners are sent to sea short ol oats." Here are some extracts from Stead's rim prediction: "From below there came a queer ucklng sound, with an occasional long urgle. and I saw that the ship seemed o 'hang* as the seas met her. "The boats were made fast to stand leavy weather, and only skilled sail rs could launch them "I calculated that, by loading all he eight boats down to the water's dge and by packing the children long the bottom boards, we might ccommodate 300 pepole. We were arrylng 916 altogether. "A loud crack, followed by a wallow^ ng noise like a thunder, rendered 11 other Bounds Insignificant, and a aptaln who was going out to New rork, said: The bulkhead's gone Ve must take our chance.' The shir topped nearly dead, and began tc remble curiously, but It was only the lver of water pouring aft, and we oon saw the firemen driven up like ats from a burrow. 'Stand by the >oats.' 'The order was given, and the host wain's call rose in s long, tremulous creech. One of the starboard boats ras successfully launched, and the Ulcer stood, revolver In hand. 'Wo tien first here. Thompson, you will teer her. Take four men and nc ore.' The young English lady was owered down, although she clung tc ler father and begged him to let hei tay. 'No, darling, goodbye. Be hap iy,' he said, and then stood composed y amid the hurly-burly." By an extraordinary coincident 5tead describes the girl as "a darb leauty, about eighteen years of age' )ne could almost fancy that he saw a* n a glass darkly the then yet unborr drs. John Jacob Astor. "At last only one light boat re nained. and 6till there were over 7(K >f us Jammed In the narrow space lefi >y the awful list. The captain has Iropped his hands?he could do nr nore. One sailor Bald: 'We've stooc t long enough, Tom Let's have oui urn." "And he, with three sturdy Swedes nanaged to get at the davits. The) vere Just in time, for the steamer he ;an to sway as they floated, and the) vere all but swamped by the charg< ind leap of a crowd who flung them lelves into the water. Then I wa? eft with a great multitude. whos< igonlzed clamor stunned me. "I felt a mighty convulsive move nent, then the sea seemed to flast lown on me in one mass, as If tb< ivall of water fell from a high crag rhen I heard a humming noise In m) jars, and with a gasp I was up amii i blackened, wriggling Bheet of drown ng creatures. "A boat came past me and I stmci >ut lustily. 1 raised myself to th< gunwale. 'Shall I hit his AngersT sale E PARCELS POST RATE ; j'v -uSvh. mS^Ka'v WHBHk * gaged In figuring out the rates and rulei he parcels post goes Into effect They a: rural mail; A. A. Fisher, chief clerk to it office Inspector; C. B. Hurrey. chief cl ntendent of division of salaries and allow FTITANIC # * I a man. 'No. let him come.' end I laid, sick and dizzy, on the bottom I boards of a crowded boat. You know that we were picked up after a nasty time." ' The great Journalist's friends would have wished that last sentence of his vivid forecast could have applied to his own case, when the mammoth White Star liner's "great multitude" , were hurled to their ocean tomb. PRUSSIA TO TAX BACHELORS aii ueixing vou rear up win oe Specially Assessed for Remaining Single. Berlin.?The Prussian diet Is now giving Its formal official consideration ' to a project for taxing bachelors. The original bill has been amended so as > to rnalte the tax effective only In the j case of unmarried men whose Income exceeds $750 a year, i Such men will be called upon In case the bill passes to pay a tax of from ten to twenty per cent higher . than married men with correspond> lng Incomes. ' The bachelor tax will take the form of an Income sur tax. The idea of the i legislators who are backing the bill Is that men who have have to support wives or children ought not. In Justice, be compelled to pay as much toward the support of the state as men who are leading the care-free. Irresponsible lives of bachelors. The project Is fathered by the conservatives of the diet and has every I prospect of becoming a law. CLEARS CHESTNUT MYSTERY Worm Girdles Tree and Stops Flow of bap, bays tirower at Meetwood, Pa. Fleetwood, Pa.?William D. Recker. an extensive grower of chestnuts and peaches, of this town, says there Is no i such a thing as the chestnut blight, i but that the chestnut trees are being 1 : CREWCOMMr # Six Japanese Sailors on British Bark | Helpmate End Lives When Mikado Dies. I Rehavana. Java.?The British bark ( Helpmate. Captain Steers, arrived here , from the north Borneo coast manned , by an Island crew of natives picked . up by the skipper after his former crew, six Japanese, had committed hara kiri upon the deck of the vessel after learning of the death and burial nf the mikado. Captain Steers sayg that he was proceeding from Pelori Island to , Zamara on the Borneo coast to com i plete his cargo of copra when he was hailed bv the British barkentine Clyde . Town, from the master of which he ) received a number of items of news. I among them being the information of , the Japanese emperor's death and , burial. I Without realizing what It might . r mean. Captain Steer? gave the tidings to the men. and immediately th * were as stricken, raving about the ship and engaging in loud lamenta. tions. When he remonstrated with r | them for allowing the bark to drift > aimlessly they threatened his life and . he said no more to them until he saw i 5 them gathered on the.deck, each with j ? a knife in his hand and stomach bared. The captain thereupon realized what j . was about to happen and came forth i from his cabin with a repeating rifle, ? but the men paid no heed to him and upon a signal each killed himself. f The Helpmate, the captain alone 1 alive on board, drifted helplessly, but . finally made Hadgona bay without serious Injury; and here Captain c Steers succeeded, after some days, in > prevailing upon enough natives to man ] his ship and sail It to this port. S AND RULES SvK-, \ . v . - 'cSf^ . r ' ' ' ' ' ; ^ JOUN C KOONS c. B.HURRTY mama Ck ivttft 3 of* the parcels post Their work re, from left to right: George L. the second assistant postmasterirk to third assistant postmasterances. killed by a small white worm, ranging In length from one-half to threefourths of an inch and about oneeighth of an inch thick. This bores beneath the bark of the tree, leaving Its excrement, which, when the limb or sapling Is girdled, prevents the sap from ascending, and then the tree dies Becker says he has been a close observer for a number of years and finds that this destructive worm nearly always begins Its work at the trunk of the tree. He also claims that the reason so many die is the killing of woodpeckers by boys. who. as soon as they get a gun. begin to exterminate , the most useful bird-guardian of tne forest. He claims to know dozens of trees In his neighborhood where he can show how this worm does its ravases. U. S. HORSE DECLARED FIRST Flco, Ridden by Lieutenant Adair, Leads Big Field in Broad Water Jump. New York.?The United States won the International broad water Jump at the horse show and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbllt won the Nafa challenge cup contest for the third year In succession with his Sir James, thereby taking possession of the trophy, valued at $SoO. The latter event was confined to amateurs driving their own horses attached to rigs William P Keamev. driving his splendid black stallion. Triumph, waj given second prize, the reserve ribbon. Fico, ridden by IJeut. H. R. Adair ^ of the Tenth United States cavalry, outclassed thirty-five other horses. Including several foreign entries, in thp first-name.! event by jumping eighteen feet. Second prize went to Spes. ridden by Lieut. C. H. I.abouchere of th" Royal Holland Huzars. and the third to Deceive, exhibited by the United States Mounted Service school. Mayor Elated by Gift. Roston.?Mayor Fitzgerald, basehal fan extraordinary, is as happy as s school boy over the possession of tli* last ball used in the world series games. rS HARA-KIRI WANT TO REBUILD TRAII Young Mormons Will Ask Utah Legi lature to Appropriate Fund to Improve Old Highway. Salt Lake City. Utah.?A movement has been started here by the Mutual Improvement association, a youn? people's organization of the Mormon ch.irch, to induce the state lepisiaturi to appropriate sufficient money to Im prove the "old Mormon trail" from the point where It enters Utah to Salt Lrke Citv and make It a part of the proposed trans-continental automobile highway. The route which the young Mormon people are seeking to have made into an automobile highway was the trail over which Brigham Young led his followers when they entered the Great Salt Lake valley in 1574. THROWS OUT RED HOT STOVE Philadelphia Resident Also Whip: His Wife and Spanks Two Sisters. Philadelphia ? John F.epls, of 8^4 Buttonwood street, doesn't .ike to have his wife ask him for money en pay ?lav. Just because Mrs. Lepis asked him for mones he gave her a beating, then spanked his two sisters who went to the assistance of Mrs Lepis. after which he proceeded to throw a red hot stove into the 6treet He was finishing his house wrecking Job by breaking the last whole window in the house when Policemen Nonamaker and Lukweine took him to the police station where he was locked up after the police had sepa- + rated him from his pay envelope ao4 given it to Mrw. Lepis.