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THE FORT MILL TIMES
Published Every Thursday.
FORT MILL," SOUTH CAROLINA^
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My Dreams
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cA Novelirstlon of the Pity by~
Wilbur D. Nrsblt and Otto Hauerbach
By WILBUR D. NESBIT
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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
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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"
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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 *