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fsiSBEHPSIWS SK9B: VBI ' s . THE FORT MILL TIMES Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL," SOUTH CAROLINA^ ^he Giruf My Dreams . ii ii cA Novelirstlon of the Pity by~ Wilbur D. Nrsblt and Otto Hauerbach By WILBUR D. NESBIT 7 3YNOP8IS. Hurry Swifton la expecting a visit from hla fiancee. Lucy M odder a. a Quakeress whom ho met In the country. His auto crushes Into another machine containing a beautiful woman and a Herman count. The woman'a hat Is ruined and Harry escapes His sister. Caroline, arrives ut his home to play hostess. Socrates I'rlintne-. cousin of Lucy't. arrives with a hat Intended as a present for Lucy. Harry Is trolled to his home hv the Count and Mrs. Hen. Blazes, who demands her hat. a duplicate of which she aavs has been delivered at Harry's house. She Is In great fear lest her husband hear of her escapade. Lucy Muddcrs and her father arrive and the count is hidden In one room nnd Mrs. Blazes In another. Harry Is forced to do some fancy lying to keep Lucy from discovering tho presence of the woman. The milliner. Daphne Daf nngtou. who proven to be in old flamo of Harry's. arrives to trace the missing duplicate hat and more complications ensue. Daphne Is ImstliU Into the room occupied by the Count. The latter, with whom Daphne had ttlrted at one time, demands the return of a ting he had Klven her on that occasion. She tolls him that she gave the ring to General Mares. As the Count hud iilso Rlfcti Mrs. Mures a duplicate of the ring he becomes somewhat excited. Daphne leaves the room and seeks refuge In the one occupied by Mrs. Blares. Mr. Medder discovers the Count, who Is introduced us Harry's Herman tutor, General Blares arrives and accuses Harry of concealing his wfife. Daphne steps out and the general Is dtimfotinded. L?ucy gives way to tears. The Count takes the blame for the whole affair upon himself, but the verdict is reset veil unt'l Hurry ran vindicate himself CHAPTER X (Continued.) "My boy," ho was Baying, "I couldn't help coming back lo assure you that I am deeply sorry." "Say no more about It, General." Harry begged. "Bui. Harry." the General asked, confidentially, "how did that little flirt happen to be In that room?" "Well," Harry explained, "that wan a little affulr concerning her and Count von Fltr.. 1 don't feel at liberty to go Into dctutls ? but It's Just a flirtation, you might say." "She's a charmer, all right enough. Harry, my boy!" the General Bald. "Ah! If my wife only knew?If she f* \fnr f rtn it<) mil lir\n> I ? . V. iWUUU Vllb HUT* J UillC III I It'll Willi somo of these (lushing damsels!" Mrs. Blazes, from the safety of her window, listened intently. "What?" Harry asked. "You flirt. General?" "I'm deep. Marry, devilish deep! 1 say nothing, but 1 saw a lot of wood. Don't worry about any little flirtations of your own. Come to uie for advice If you need It. Everybody must sow his wild oats, you know." "Yes." Marry agreed, "but the wild oats you sow the night before don't make good breakfast food the morning ufter." "Well, anyway," the General said, "w? understand each other. No more tmrd feelings?" "Not a bit. Not a bit," Marry reas mired him. The General waved his hand cordially as he strode down to the street. Mrs. Blazes wntched him disappear In the dusk, nodding her head significantly. "Wild oats, eh?" she said. "Flirta tionn, eh0 Wait until I got borne!" She leaned out of the window and railed to Harry. Ho glanced up at her and smiled wearily. "Ilow in the world am I to get out of here?" she asked, petulantly. "I think I'll have that run as a puzzle In the Sunday papers," Harry answered, grimly. "I'll say this, though: When you do get out you needn't be too punctilious about making your party call." "This is no time for joking?" "It's the only time I've got. You've put me in a pretty mess." "I'm Just as sorry as 1 can he. Mr Swlfton. Hut look at the muddle I am in." "Oh. I've seen worse muddles than this," Harry answers, easily. "Auu I'm simply starving to death,' she said, hungrily. "I'm going to Rllp some sandwiches In there for you, if the blockade doesu't lift pretty soon. Meantime, keep away from that window as much ns possible Some one may happen to see you -and I'm out of explanations." Mrs. Blazes drew back a bit from the wludow, and asked: r-" "Have you heard anything of my hat?" Harry sank down on a luwn bench with a weary air. "Where have I heard of hats?" he raid. "I've ordered a hat. for you. Daphne, the daffy daffodil, la making one for >011. Sho'll have It here hetore long." "That's dear of you!" Mrs. JCa/eK raited, appreciatively. "How do you know what It costs?" be asked, grimly. Mrs. Hln/.cs clasp* d. her hand* melodramatically and went on: "And I'm so worried about my hua band!" "You are? You ought to be." Harrj to'.d Iter. "And he's worried about you -and I'm worried about both or you. Shut the window, and let me She closed her window, a no be resumed bis meditation*. "Sometimes."' be muttered, "It's against a follow to be innocent I could have straightened this out in two minutes tf 1 had been guilty." The -front door opened, and Lucy appeared. She glanced down at Harry and smiled. "May I come out with thee awhile?" out) ajtmeu. it bo peact lui out Dore , ?everything Beemeth so calm." "This Is the headquarters for peace 1 and calm," Harry observed, pleasant- j ly, rising. Lucy camo down the steps i and sat on the lawn seat while Harry leaned over the table beside her, looking down at her. "Well," Lucy asked, "what can thee say ?" "I can't say anything yet." he*answered. "I can only ask you to trust me until I can explain everything." "But surely thee can explain everything now." "No. Not yet. I don't understand it tnVRplf VPt " Lucy's face changed, and Harry went on: "Later, I'll tell you everything. I J can't now, Lucy, because some one else is Involved." "I euw her," Lucy said, coldly. "I don't mean that way. Lucy," he protested. "What you saw may have | a peculiar look?" 1 "Indeed, she had!" Lucy asserted. ' "But > u must remember that often | there is an unsuspected skeleton In ' the closet," Harry continued, manful ly. Lucy pursed her lips scornfully. "Skeleton, Indeed!" she said. "That skeleton weigbeth at least a hundred and thirty pounds!" Harry laughed nervously. and pleaded: "Now. listen. Lucy. Won't you take my word that everything is all right, so far as 1 am concerned?" "I might take thy word, but thee | cannot explain so easily to Cousin ! Socrates nor to father." "Cousin Socrates has been In the attic writing sonnets about you all evening, and I have talked with your father, bless his good old heart! lie believes in me, and he Is willing to trust me." "So do 1 believe In thee, Harry?but theo cannot know how sorry I am that this hns happened. I regret It." With an earnest effort to turn her mind to a lighter view of things, liar- , ry asked: "So you regret It?" "I do?very, very much." "Then. If you regret it very, very much. I'll forgive you this time," he laughed, seating himself and taking . her hand. She took her hand away quickly and Jumped to her feet In Indignation. "How can thee jest at such a moment?" she cried. He rose and followed her "I shouldn't have jested," he said, humbly. "Lucy, you are not a cltv , girl?and I'm glad of It but you are apt to judge things too much on ap pearances." Lucy turned and looked at hini with a pathetic seriousness In her eyes. "lTntil this morning, Marry," she said, "I wanted to he a city girl. I j I jjr ny * , ffi i ~ j btft km: III IIMHUMIIM ~ 4* ( "My Boy," the General Said. "I Couldn't Help Coming Back to Assure You That I Am Deeply Sorry." thought the little town where 1 have lived was a pitiful place." "Iiut it had you in it." Harry reminded her, gently. "I am beginning to understand," i Lucy said, "that here appearances are everything- hut there isn't any i everything. In the country, there Is ; everything- and that takes the deceit from the appearances." "Why, you're a genuine little phiiosopher," Harry said. "We have the blue sky In the daytime back there," Lucy continued. , "and here thee have elouds and smoke, j The*e we liave the stars at night, here tlioe have electric signs. There 1 we get up at sunrise and ttic little birds sing us a welcome from 'he trees, but here?" "Here the folks stay up until sunrise and eat the little birds before that." Harry finished for her. "You tiont want a city home. then, L.ucy7 "I want a home whore the Heart does not have to be biddeu." she told biro. "And so do I. I want a real home, with the best little girl in the world as my wife." There was no mistaking his meaning. Lucy looked at him for half a minute, then said: "When thee Uave explained. Harry." CHAPTER XI. Fifteen minutes later Count von Fit* cautiously crept beneath the window and whistled. Mrs. Hla*< did not answer. He wistled louder, still no an war. V "If you are gone. rm glad," be raM "Cheer me by not replying." But no such cheer was in store lot him. Mrs. Blazes noiselessly opened the window and whispered: "Shi Be careful! Did you get "-ay hat?" "Noi yet," the Count told her. "Dey haft to make him. I vouldn't trust dot Daffie roman. I veiit to anudder hat place. Der name Is T'erese." "But they won't know the model," Mrs. Blazes feared. "I eggsplaln him perfectly. I tell her a shape like a smashed balloon, yellow on der outside mlt a garden or red puppies." "Red poppies, you silly man!" "Puppies or poppies?dey look chust as bad to me from now on." "You'd best go rlgnt back and stay j there until it is finished," Mrs. Blazes suggested. "No. I told dcm to sent it here, so I make sure I get it." "That's good," she said, with a tune of relief. "Now you coine right otid und ven der hat comes I giff it to you, und avay you go." "Come out?" she asked sarcastically. "Am 1 an aeroplane?" "Lissen. Make a rope yet, und 1 pull you oud." "An idea!" she exclaimed with de- j light. "I'll tear up the sheets and MI. ? I "Well," Lucy Asked. "What Can They Say?" things In here, tie (hem together In a rope, and let myself down." "Splendid! 1 go mid vuteh for der uicssencher uiit. der hat." The Count strolled away, while she j closed her window. A young couple came walking slow ly through the flower garden. It wae Pigeon and Carolyn. The twilight spell had been cast upon them. Arm In arm, silently they strolled unti' | they neared the bench. Suddenly Pigeon said: "Let's sit down here. I've got to I see Harry through his racket, you know"?evidently continuing a convcr- ' sat ion which had lapsed some mo- ! inents before?"but after that?" He looked down Into Carolyn's eyes. ; "After that?" she asked, softly. For Carolyn had all a woman's tntul- : tioti, in spite of her young years, and she diagnosed the symptoms of an'np j preaching proposal. She did not in- * tend to accept him. hut no woman will ' allow a proposal to get away from her. ] Proposals to a woman are as the sculps the Indian brave ties to his war belt. "After that," said Pigeon, beginning to sit down. "I can look after my own affairs. And I?" An ominous, ripping sound came. Mrs. Rlaxes was beginning to make her rope, but the young couple, of course, knew nothing of that. Pigeon straightened up with a Jerk and tried to look unconscious. He did not know what had given away. Carolyn tried to smooih over his embarrassment b* saying: iTO nK COXTINTKn.) Taking a Big Risk. It was well known In Mayvlllo that when Cyrus Fanning lent anything from a hammer to a plow, he expected a good return for the favor It was a matter for astonishment to Wilson Green, however, when, on Inquiring of Mr. Fanning how much It would cost to rent his long ladder for an afternoon, Cyrus replied promptly: "One dollar fifty." "Now, look "here, Cy," remonstrated his neighbor, "you know I've got to borrow It, for mine Isn't long enough to reach whore I'm obliged to climb to search out that chimney leak for the Widow Sears. Can't >ou make it less?" "No, 1 can't," and Mr Fanning shook his small head and closed tils obstinate mouth. "Why can't you?" demanded Wilson Green. "Because there's a weak place In It two-thirds the way up," snapped Mr Fanning. "It'll hear mv weight all right, but you re a good thutty pound* heavier. If it gave way under you 'twould cost mo n dollnr to get it mended. Considering the risk. I call a dollar n" half cheap."?Youth's Companion Something in Oil. She had been married a week, but | she wasn't going to show It. She had spent half the morning in scrubbing the newness off her shopping bag and ' the other hnlf In practicing a super| clllous droop of the eyelids before her I mirror. Ann she was quite sure of ' herself as she sailed Into the local doI partment store. "Yes. madam ?" asked the floor walk! er. In a voice of milk and honey. "And ' what car. 1 show you?" "I want?something In oil," she do i mntided. "suitable for my dining room.' "Quite so. madam, quite so," said j the floor walker, gazing meditative)} at her wedding ring. "Would you ore ' fer salad oil, oil cloth, oil pulntiiig* _ or sardines?" . LISTENIN Among the numerous adjuncts o machine, which the natives look upo does the voice come from?" is their u the ground beneath the box. Our ph comic song. GIRL AS A ( Barrack Training Is Advocated in! Germany. . Adoption of Female Conscription School Urged as Remedy for Dc- ! cay of the Empire?Will Meet a Social Need in EmpireBerlin. Germany.?Conscription for j women?or rather for girls?is the ' latest of the great reforms which Germany promises the world. A heated debate has been raging on t the subject. Scores of distinguished Germans like Field-Marshal Von dor ! Gollz. ex-Miuister of Education Von i Mueller, I'rof. O. Witzel. the woman } novelist; Dr. Martha Guutbe, all fa-| vor the project, while it is opposed ! by a great many others, including the j whole social democratic purty. The problem is well within the i tango o' practical politics, and were | it not for the unceasing financial need of Germany it would probably ! be carried out within ft few years. j What? form exactly conscription for ; women will take is still under dispute. . A few zealous?mostly suffragettes? scriouslv nrot?r*??. I Sot -?. I trained to light in war. A much larger class?among them Von der Goltz ?want women organized into compa!?i< s and battalions, and drilled and disciplined on military principles, but I confined, as far as duties go. to army ' tailoring, army cooking and sick nur- | | fi?B. The women's army would be an ad j Junct 'o the men army, and all the | males of the nation would be free to ! ! fight their country's battles. Neither of these schemes Is likely | to win. The proposal most seriously I backed is that women shall be drilled j and disciplined on military lines for I the sake of physique and character j formation, but that they shall learn I i nothing except purely domestic du- I tins. x ' Just as men are trained to serve ! In time of war, women would be I millfrl tn kopiV. I" ? ?' ?? tuuv vi ^/ruvct trained to make better wives, belter mothers, better housekeepers, citizens and social workers They would be taken at the ape of eighteen or twenty. drafted into barracks, and for a ! year or perhaps two taught by the j I state on scientific lines all the func i tions of womankind. Women's consortption would thus i meet a social need. The need is i I proven by the decline in the birth rate, which has fallen in thirty-five years from 42 per 1,000 16 only 20. "That," says Von dor Gollz. "is ; ! proof of the decay of Germany " The female conscription school ar- ' gue that in Germany the state always ! thinks its function is to fight nation- [ j al evils; therefore, the state must not I shrink from attacking the evil of "the ( ! dowomanlzing of womanhood." if the natural woman is dying out, , the state must replace iter with the ; I state made woman. "The woman eon- j j script is the ideal of modern CerI many " So far the most detailed scheme of female conscription lias been worked out hv Dr. Kurt l.omann. an ex-olllcial i and privy councilor. Lornann is a competent authority on organization, lie standi strongly for the barracks I system Lvery girl of eighteen. If not an ac- ' I tual invalid, is to enter the barracks J for a year. Good character should be ! the only qualification, because the ! ulca should be circulated that train- i lug by the state is an honor, not a punishment. The barracks would cost JL L'2.000.000 This would house lite 360,000 girls wh< would reach conscript are j every year. Probably "TO barracks, j each housing 1,000, would be the best j distribution Conscription barracks | would be under tin- charge of ma- | :rons; no men would be employed Mso there would be no servants All work, including gardening and I he dis j posal of rubbish, as well as the secre arlal and accountancy work, would >e performed by the girls themselves G TO "HIS MASTER'S \ t f civilization introduced to the I'hilipr u as a supernatural afTalr that is bey nvarying question. and some of ther otograph pictures a sub-chief of one of "ON^rRIPT a A CALLS HER DEARIE; ARRESTED Husband Pleads Guilty. Blaming Christmas Spirit, but Spouse Insists It Must Have Been "Spirits." New York.? When a man noes 80 far aw to hail his own wife on the street as "dearie" or "sweetheart." the offending husband ought to bo haled to eourt. Whatever other women's opinions may be about this. Mrs. Anna .McDonald considered it her duty to do bo. with the result that John S. McDonald found himself trembling before a polie* magistrate. lb-hind liim stood a policeman and the complaining wife determined to sec justice done. "He ought to know better," she declared, "lie Is fortyone years old." "I don't know why 1 did It." the husband pleaded. The magistrate could not see that the husband's greeting was a crime. DR. ELIOT DECRIES CREEDS For llslu.se;*.. LJ . 0_. . ......... vr ncju oays ine ncath- ] en World Is Not Interested In Trinity or Atonement. Hot-:ton ?I)r. Charles \V Eliot. former president of Harvard, addressed the ('banning club of I'nitarian Ministers. telling them of the religion which he believed the world wants. He said he did not believe that man was altogether born in sin. as the English church prayer book stated it. That he called "a most horrible doctrine " "I believe in good works." he said "Work along the lines of the Provident Society of Uoston and associated charities constitutes my belief in personal salvation. To do work along | social lines is necessary. We want to i SECRET O Hale Scotchman Tells How to; Pass Century Mark. Leslie Fraser Duncan, Age Ninetytwo. a Resident of London. Declares People Eat Too Much?He Lives on Two Meals a Day. London.? The secret of health and long life is two meals a day. That lias always been rny rule, and"?as If to clinch the matter?"I'm the tallest Scotchman in London?six feet six inches in my socks!" "Leslie Fraser Duncan, ninety-two. with flowing white beard and a face glowing with health, thus pave the secret of his vigor. "1 began it as a boy," he said. "From when 1 was five years old. at my birthpluce near Klgin. I used to walk six miles to school and six miles back, every day for twelve years? ] just 4(i(),0(?o miles in all ? and that was on two meals a day. At eight in the muming i breakfasted on porridge, milk and barley scones Then I had nothing till about eight in the evening. when I had more porridge or brose. On that fare I gr? w to be six teet tall at sixteen, strong and hearty, and now I am six feet six inches "In 1845 I came to London, and all through n busy career of fifty years I worked twelve and fifteen hours a day. Now I get up at noon, and my invariable diet, on which I' hone to pass (lie* century, for 1 am well and Imppy, is: "One o'clock ?Breakfast, three boiled eggs. tea, and three slices of thin bread and butter "Two o'clock?Glass of milk. "Four o'clock?Glass of milk. "Five o'clock?Tea, one boiled egg tea and thin bread and butter. "Right o'clock?Dinner, one boiled egg and thin bread and butter "1 have not touched meat for seven I years, and I did not eat it until I was twenty. 1 never smoked, except for a | ; voice" *. 't# ' ->i j BBBBflBBBBnESBBS lines by the Americans is tlio talking ond their understanding. "Where 11 declare its owner must be buried in the most savage tribes listening to a get more vigor and vitality in good works I do not believe in hell. or. at the Haptlsts are now calling it. *th? underworld.' "You cannot go to the Chinese 01 Japanese with your doctrines that are tnere traditions. Take the doc trine of justification hv faith, or the atonement, or the doctrine of the Trinity, etc. These are not acceptable to the Chinese or Japanese minds Thrv find more In Confucianism 01 i Buddhism than in this teaching. But toll the hoathorn Chinese that you bo licve in good works, and that you dc I not accept the inferiority of women and ho then listens to you. "The heathen world does not want :i creed. The Apostles Creed is gooc 1 as far as it goes, hut it does not g< ! far enough, say many Chinese nut Japanese teachers." PATRICK MEETS HIS CHILE Greets Daunhter. Now 16, from Whom He Was Parted by Prison Sentence. St. Louis.?For the first time since % she was a child i years old. Miss Lillian Patrick and her father, Albert T. Patrick, recently pardoned by Gov. Pix of New York, met here. The young woman, now 16 years old. arrived from Denver, Colo., with Patrick's mother. Mrs. Edward T. Patrick They are at the home of John T. Milliken. Patrick's brother-inlaw. Patrick's plans for the near future are still unforme?l. lie said It la probable that within a week he will either return tt> New York or be joined here by his wife, he believes. Girl Saved by Fur Boa. Montelnir, N. J.?Miaa Florence C. Sheldon, who fell through the thin ice covering Inverness lake, threw an end of her fur boa to rescuers who dared not venture upon the ice, and they used it for a life line and pulled her to safety. F HEALTH year when 1 was a young man in Edinburgh. and 1 have rarely touched alcohol For years my drinking has been confined to four glasses of champagne a year?one on my birthday, one on my wife's birthday, one on Christmas day, and one on New Year's day. "it Is true that my business career was confined to the days before modern rush, and 1 have never used a telj eplione; but it is over-eating, not. rush. I that ages men. They tell me that | they feel old at fifty?and then 1 find ' they eat five meals a day!" PALACES ON PERU PLATEAU Explorer Tells of Buried Inca City Uncovered In Juno'j?Wad Trouble with Officials. New York?Professor Hiram Bingham. head of the Yaln Peruvian expedition, which has been conducting archaelogical exploration work in the interior of Peru, reached New York i with other members of the party from , r?^i ? I l UIU1I. Professor Bingham said the exploration was conducted chiefly at Machu Picchu. the buried Inca city, discovered on the previous expedition, which stands on a plateau surrounded by precipices two thousand feet in height. ^ The jungle was cleared away and more than one hundred burial caves were discovered Ruins of baths. ' houses and palaces also were laid bare, and practically the entire city uncovered. Professor Bingham added that the jungle will soon cover them again, unless steps are ta:,en hv th?Prruvian government to keep them !open. % "On this trip.' said Professor Ring ham "uo ViM/t o ?? -? ... .. ? umm f>uuu urni IMJUUM* ( with the Peruvian government On the two expeditions I had prevloustv made into Peru I had no trouble at alt , but the minlstery had changed nn?l those in power at present were not at ill friendlv to Amerlran Avn'nration *