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THE FORT MILL TIMES Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, 80UTH CAROLINA. J ,m pr?=3 The Girl of My Dreams r I " zn=\ I tA Novellaatlon of the Play by" I I Wilbur D. Neabit and Otto Hauerbach I I N^cllirdBy WILBUR D. NESBIT I I I IV SYN0P8I8. Harry Swlfton la expecting a vlatt from his llancee, I,ucy Medders. a tjuakoress whom he met In the country, ilia auto craahea Into another machine containing a beautiful woman and a German count. 'The woman'n hat la ruined and Harry scapes. Ills .slater, Caroline, arrlvoB at .Ilia home to play hoateaa. Boer a tea I'rlm.mer, couatn of L<ucy's. arrives with a hat Intended aa a present for Lucy. Harry In trailed to his home by the Count tand Mrs. Gen. Blnzes, who demands her hat, a duplicate of which ahe says lian been delivered at Harrv'a house. 8he Is In great fear lent her husband hear of her escapade. Lucy Madders and her father arrive nnd the count la hidden In one room and Mrs. Ulaxes in another. Harry Is forced to do some fancy lying to keep Lucy from discovering the presence of the woman. The milliner. Daphne Dafflngton, who proves to be nn old flame of Harry's, arrives to truce the missing duplicate hnt and more complications ensue. Daphne Is huatlod Into the room occupied by the fount. The latter, with whom Daphne had flirted at one time, demands the return of a ring he had given her on that occasion. She tells lilni that shu gave the ring to General Hlar.es. A a the Count had also given Mrs. Hlures a 6'upllcate of the ring no becomes somewhat excited. Dnphno leaves the room and seeks refuge In the one occupied by Mrs. Blares. Mr. Medder discovers the Count, who Is Introduced as Harry's German tutor. General Blares arrives and accuses Harry of concealing his wife. Daphne Bteps out and the general Is dumfounded. Lucy gives way to tears. The Count takes tne blame for the whole affnlr upon himself, but the verdict Is reserved until Harry can vindicate himself. General Blnrcs admits to Horry that he has flirted with Daphne, nnd Mrs. Blazes overhears the talk. Mrs. Blazes attempts 'to escape with the aid of the Count and the latter Is mistaken for a burglar. The duplicate hat arrives and Harry solves wiai mess. Liucy overncara n convcrsa;tlon between Harry and Daphne which ' atinfles her of hla Innocence. CHAPTER XIV.?(Continued.) "Give me the hat! Give me the that!" Mrs Blazes exclaimed. "GUT me my ring," the count replied. She slipped hlB ring from licr finger and offered it to him hnBtily. But, with one hand clutching a round of the ladder and the other arm about the halbox, he was hardly in a posl^ tion to take It. "How can I?" he sputtered. "It ise a ring, not der mumps." "Put the hat in the window; then you can take the ring," she advised. "ITnd den you get der hat und gifT me der laugh?" "Nonsense!" she answered. "I nev- ! er want to seo' your ring, or you again!" "Der same to you, und many off dem," he retorted, swinging the hutt>ox around and trying to shove it * ^/Br "Give Me the Hat!" Mrs. Blazes Ex- ! claimed. "Giff Me My Ring," the | Count Replied. through the window. She caught hold of It, also, but it was too wide to go through the opening. In the effort to force it through the count lost his It balance and came perilously near go lng down with a crash. He saved himself by clutching tho window frame, bowever. Mrs. Hln7.es fretfully said "Clumsy! I^et me show you." ^ She untied the string on the box, took off the lid and took out the hat. She let the box drop to the ground, and with a little scream of delight stepped hack into the room and hurriedly donned the hat. "It s a perfect duplicate!" she said, happily. Then, while the count was descending the ladder she started to / ItnxK Anf e\ 9 ?l> a n IwHab W..a a! VIIU4W vui v/? ???v ? (Iiuun , l-?lll 1 lie count stopped her. "My ring, if/ you bleaae!" he aa!d. J. * Kor. pooduess lake! Take It and i kt m? go!" , I She thrust the riu^ into his hand, ar.d be ran down the ladder and steadi?i u >t the bottom. Mrs. Blazes cert fully crept frciv. the window, with fir.;uth c.uuipuTaticn cf her skirts, and iixi-. u: t> let herself down a rung at Up the walk again stormed the general, and Mrs. Blazes at sight of him screamed, and would have climbed the ladder had not the count caught her nrm and restrained her. General Blazes had not found her at home, and had returned to hold counsel with Harry as to tho best way to locate her. And now he found her in the company of the count, in Harry's lawn, with a ladder leading to a window in Harry's house. "Aha!" he shouted. "Merciful heavens! My husband!" sue waned. "Und he only buries nodding of dem but deir hats!" the count reflected, keeping Mrs. Bluzes between him and the general. "So!" the general roared, confronting her. "This hns been your plan, has it?" Ho turned on the count vindictively. "Trying to'inveigle my wife to climb into that house!" "My dear, you nre wrong!" Mrs. Blazes wept.. "Listen a moment, and I can explain." "Wrong? Explain? Woman, I see it all now! You have planned an elopement with this?this pretzel!" "Bretzel! Ach Gott! lTnd I must stand dis!" the count fumed. "What?" Mrs. Bluzes demanded. "I elope with that?" Sho pointed a scornful finger at the count. "Don't try to palaver me!" the gen- ; eral shouted. All this noise and shouting of course was heard by thoso in the house, and first Harry came running out, followed by Lucy and her father. "What in the world is happening?" Harry asked, rushing up to the ex- | cited trio. "I have trapped this wretch!" General Blazes yelled, indicating the count with a gesture of his clenched (1st. Harry, hdplcBB. looked from one to the other. Mrs. Blazes, desperate, glanced at him and Raid: "Mr. Swlftoi) can explain. 1 have nothing more to Bay." She assumed an air of supreme Indifference to whatever fate might hold In abeyance for her. "Well, Harry," the general paid, "if ; it's up to you, tell me how this happened." "Tell you how what happened?" Harry asked, dazedly. "How does it happen that I find my wife trying to climb into your house, assisted by this?noodle." "Noodle! Gott in Himmel! I for iiij m-iiui mu roillll grilled between his teeth. "Oh! What? Trying to climb Into my house?" Harry repeated, brushing his hand over hlB brow. "Why?why? it must have been sonio kind of a Joke, general. Yen?surely it was some kind of a Joke." "Joke!" the general blurted out. "But why Bhould she want to get into thy house, Harry?" Lucy asked, with a bit of inischlevouKiieBB, for now she knew the whole story. "Yes!" the general barked, turning to his wife. "Why should you want to get into his house?" Mrs. Blazes saw light ahead. "My dear, if you will only calm "I will tell you everything. I know you will think 1 am u foolish woman? but, darling. I have been Jealous of you." "Jealous of me?" said lier liege lord. "Forgive me!" she pleaded. "But when 1 heard those reports about you. "Reports? What reports?" HEARD IN A SOI a Little Girl Explains That Young Lady Is "Her Papa's New Stepwife." It Is said to have happened In a southern hotel, where those who seek perpetual spring spend tho winter. The* usual number of idlj and curious old ladies sat upon tho great veranda, discussing everybody but themselves, and attention was suddenly attracted by a handsome couple that passed through the hotel corridor, followed by a llttlo girl, who, small as she was, appeared to be too old to be the daughter of the lady In the case. se handsome couple entered a motor .. r, and, waving an affectionate goo "by to the little girl, sped out of tho hotel grounds with a loud whirr and disappeared up tho distant roadway. The little girl watched them until they were quite out of sight, unit then turning around she sought out a chair not far from the proup of goHBlps. It was not long before her loneliness was noted by I one of the Indies, who called o&t a i pleasant greeting. "I don't think 1 have seen you here J before, my little girl," sho Mid, with a gracious smile. "No, ma'uiu," said the little girl j "We c y got here last night." "And do you like it here?" she was ; asked. "Very much," she replied. "It's love ?/ ut'i C. "And you dldi.'t go motoring with your papa and mamma, did you?" aald ihe good lady, aubtly. "No. I don't Ilk? motor car*." said she child. "It makes me seasick to ride In them." "Your mamma la a very young looking lady to have ao big a child as you are," said the good lady. W^< W. ';:?i - a time. Wlien aha wu half way down she cried: - "Oh! I'm scared! I'm going back!" She started up the ladder again, and the count almost fainted. He shook the ladder violently and threatened: "Iff you go up anudder round, I upset it!" Timorously, she came down, and at last stood on the ground. "Oh! How heavenly it is to be free!" RHA AYPIOIWAH - V:;. . ^ ' "That you were Infatuated wtth a milliner?Mile. Daphne." "1? I infatuated with a milliner?" the general asked, with a look of ter> ribly injured innocence. "I? Ridiculous!" "And I saw her ent^r this house this afternoon," Mrs. Blazes continued, "and then I heard that you were here?and oh, darling, forgive me!? 1 came to spy on you!" "Perfectly amazing!" Harry said to himself. "I'm in the primary class, compared to her." "Why," the general said. "My own little pet!" He took his wife into his arms, "t?1 forgive you! I want you to forgive me. The idea of my giving you even a moment's unliappiness of that kind!" "T-take me ho-home!" pleaded Mrs. BlazeB, from the shelter of his shoulder. The twain, reunited, went slowly down the walk and into the street. Mr. Medders observed that Harry nuu uutj iuuhcu n? inougn iney nau something to say to each other, and said to the count: "The young man whom they call Pigeon 1b sitting in the summer house with Carolyn, and CouBln Socrates is again in the attic writing a Bonnet. Wilt thou come In with me and see if tlice can find a cigar?" "I thank you. from my heart," tho count replied. "But I haft some writing to do?und iff you excuse me, I go down to der hotel now." "Then 1 will Bay farewell, until we meet again." Medders observed, shaking the count's hand and returning to the house. Count von Fit* stood before Hnrry and Bucy a moment. "I vant to say choost dlsB," he spoke. "I vant to sav 'Bless you, my "Now," He Srid, "I'm Ready to Explain." children!' Und I can't malto a present ofl' u hat. but iff you vlll honor me, Mr. Swlfton, by allowing MIp? Lucy to accent a llddlo token of mw good vishoftv I vlll gifT lior diss." He slipped his Angers into hifi poi fret and produced a little case, which he opened and then took out a ringnot such a ring ns either of the ones he had recovered?but u beautiful cluster of diamonds surrounding a ruby. "Diss," he said, "is a ring I vaa keeping to glff to der most beautiful, der ftweetest. der truest girl I should! And in America. I hafT found her? und now I lose her. because you found her. Mr. Swifton." He dropped the ring into Lucy's hand, und was gone. Harry led Lucy to n seat. "Now," he said, "I'm ready to explain." "Nay," Lucy said, happily. "Thee need not explain now, Harry, dear. 1 1 know nil thee would tell me of that. Tell me something else." ? And he told her. THE END. JTHERN HOTEL one i?n i iny rem mamma.*' said the child "Oh. indeed." said (he good lady. "No." eald the little one, gravely. "She's my pupa's new stepwifc."?Horace DodJ Gastit. in Judge. He Snored into Safety. Wllkcshnrre. Pa., Is In the field with , this story: Michael llenner of Plains | owes hfa life to the fact that he can snore loud enough to be heard somo distance away. Early one morning Po- j llceinan Schneider of North Wilkes- j barre heard snores coming from the , direction of the Lehigh Valley rail- ' road tracks, and fearing that come one might he asleep on the tracks, and knowing that an express train was about due, he investigated. Guided by the snoring ho came upon lien- i ner asleep, just in time to pull hlra from tlio track before the train thun- 1 dored by. llenner can thank his snora for saving his life, and Wilkesbarre can congratulate herself that she has a policeman who knows a more w hen < he hears It Fashion the Cour&e. "I understand Brlndle and his wife hnve quarrelled. What was the , caur.e?" "Why, Brlndle lost his wife in the crowd and went about peeking under all the peach basket hats that looked like hers -and she saw him and got mad." Mean Scheme. "Yes, I'm saving for a house." "I can't save any money. How do you inauage it?" "Ry getting my wife to go without things. Sho thinks we are saving for an automobile." SOUTH IS NEW CORN BELT The Southern Railway Exploit* the Southern State* a* the Corn Growing Country.?Folder Issued. Columbia, S. C., February 2.?''The New Corn Belt" is the title which ias been accorded the nine Southern dates east of the Mississippi and louth of the Potomac. This honor is given the Suth in an attractive fbld;r Just issued by the Southern Railway Company which is being distribltcd among visitors to the National Corn Exposition here. Figures in the 'older, compiled from latest official sources, give new proof of the iruJ ^reusing importance of the South as a lorn growing section and fully subjtantiate the claim given this wonderful section as the "New Corn Belt." "Figures in the December nungfcer if the Crop Reporter issued by the federal department of agriculture, show that the nine Southern states ast of the Mississippi and south of ! the Potomac produced in 1912 a corn -r??p 01 ;>ut>,i3t>,uiHt bushels, worth t:u4.740,000 at. prices paid farmers in I that territory," says the folder. "Com- ! pared with the report of the 1000 cen- i sus. when the crop of 342,464,737 bush- i ?!s in the same states was worth J 1187,079,608, the latest figures show an Increase of 162,670,263 bushels, worth practically $178,000,000 more than the earlier production. "The greater yield in the Southeast I | has followed an increased acreage given to corn and steadily increasing ! acre-yield. The general development ' ; of 'his agricultural region, aided by ; federal and state demonstration work ! and further helped by the educational : efforts of such railroads as the South- ; era, which maintains a cJirps of agri- j cultural experts whose services are at the command of all the farmers along I i its 7,000-odd miles of territory, has I 1 had a large share in stimulating attention given to corn. Prominent | among the reason for the increased acre-yield lias been the organization j of boys' corn clubs and annual corn auunn in cucn oi uicse nine states i I Comparative figures show that the in- ! I crease in the average yield per acre i ' over the 19lr) record in 1912 alone j 1 amounted to $103,981,221. Pour hun- ! dred and fifty-four members of boys' ! corn clubs in the South in 1912 made j over 100 bushels to the acre." In addition to the wide circulation | it is being given at the Corn Expnst! tlon, the folder will be distributed ! among farmers of tlie North and West in an effort to attract desirable j settlers to the "New Corn Belt." For Better Army and Navy. 1 Washington.?To work for a lnrget , Navy, an adequate Army, the improve- : nient of the National Guard and for j all things that will better tit the UnitI ed States for war, the United States Defense League was organized here recently. Representative Julius Kahu 1 of California was elected chairman of ; the executive committee and the board j of directors. The board of directors i include prominent persons throughout the country. While the dengue will | work to strengthen all forces which would make the country better prepared for war, it states in its constitution thai it believes in "universe peace but it firmly believes that prepration for war is the best guarantee ' <?f neai>? " I " In Defense of Irrigation Work. Washington.?Secretary Fisher, In defense of the Covernment irrigation : work and in reply to the recent declaj ration before n House committee by I Dr. B. T. Calloway, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, that "there has ! never been any long-continued successj ful irrigation agriculture in an arid I region anywhere in the world," has ! written to Chairman Moss, of the coin- ' : mittee, denying Doctor Calloway's as ' sertlon. The secretary also lias writ- j j ten to Secretary Wilson asking how | to prepare an official statement to : show "the necessity of irrigation." For Safety of Miners. Washington.?H. M. Wilson, the engineer in charge cf the experiment station of the Bureau of Mines at Pittsburg, lias become chairman of the. * [j executive committee of the American II Minos Safety Commission and will work for tho reduction of deaths in mines and quarries throughout the county and the relief of more than 160,000 injuried each year. Much Trade With Orient. Washington.? Never was trade between the United States and the Orient or great as it was during 1912 Imports from Asia and Oceania com bincd amounted to $280,000,000 in 1912 j and the export to Asia and Oreania I for the last year aggregated $190,- ! 900,000. One feature was the sending j of raw cotton to India and China. Despite the fact that both these conn tries are producers of cotton the Uni ted States sent to India 25,000,000 nounds of raw cotton and to China 14,000,000 pounds. Planninn For Washington.?Details of n celebra- j Hon of the 50th anniversary of nation I al unity* were determined upon at a I meeting of the committee of which Dr. R. A. Alderman, president of the University'of Virginia, is chairman The coumitteo proposed to have a national memorial in the shape of v bridge over the 1'otomne here, and urged upon eong-ess and dedieation exorcis*s In 1015. under direetlon of t (J. A. It. and United Uonfederate vet [ erans which will be a reunion of sur vivors of the two gre.at armies. 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