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THE FORT MILL TIMESli
Published Every Thursday.
FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA.
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The Girl of
My Dreams
cA Noveliiation of the PUy by J
Wilbur D. Neebit ur.J Otto Hauerbach f
WILBUR D. NESBIT
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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a Marked Contrast to the uasnmg u
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.