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. THE FOOT WILL TIW?S Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, 8CUTM CAROLINA. j\ crying Diiny is simply developing i its lungs. On some of the tight skirts one 8. K. O. sign should be hung. Anyway, the grandmothers of the office boys have thus far not died in vain. There would be fewer failures could baseball enthusiasm be carried into business. Germany Is trying to take the tang ! out of the tango by sending those who j dance it to prison. Joy-riding Is one of the things that ought to be done soberly?which, man- i lfestly, Is Impossible. The housemaids having organized, the "copper" will now exchange the back porch for the parlor. It Is always interesting at this time of the year to And out in how many now places the old garden hose leaks j The painted gown is the latest fashion from Paris. It is to be hoped It is not intended to match the face, i At that, no one ever has attempted to describe a girl riding on the aft seat j of n motorcycle as particularly charming. It brgiiiH to look as if the time had arrived when no elopement can be considered complete with out a press agent. A Chicago girl lost two of her teeth in biting a footpad who tried to rob her. Beyond question he was a tough. The prudent Englishman now looks under his chair before sitting down to dinner, and under his bed before going to sleep. According to a college professor, baseball is a nerve Irritant. Still, the homo team can't be expected to win always. | Now there is to be an astronomical trust. If poetical justice is dealt out to it the new combination ought to ee stars. The new British ambassador Is a baseball fnn, which is certainly better thai! devotion to the tonnin cniipl or even golfing. Rroadway, says an intrepid woman pxplorer, is more in need of missionaries than darkest Africa. And yet it has its angels. Orville Wright savs aviating is Just as safe ns motoring. Which assuredly goes a long way toward bolstering up aur motoring nerve. A New Jersey school is to teach the art of milking cows. The pretty girl ao doing is to become a fair fact in life as well ns in song. At last all hazy notions of the value , :>f a Missouri husband and a Missouri mule have been swept aside. A Missouri woman has traded the one for the other. ???-????? Chicago policemen view with peculiar approval the organization of the housemaids' union in that city and '.he subsequent grant of tbo uso of the front parlor. A Pennsylvania husband of ninety was sent to Jail recently for not sup- ) porting his wife. It la terrible the way these youngsters will disregard their responsibilities. - - i JIIV nniun UtJl-II llHUHlUt'Il 111 Lor Angeles schools, the old fogy authorities having an Idea that their pupils should Improve their understandings by other methods. ? They want to know who first used the slang term, "1 should worry?" When they find him they should not be too rough. Many a man if allowed to live learns to repentSome word Is required to denote the place where the aviator keeps his machine, and "hangar" Is objected to as strained. Why not "nest" or "roost," as befits the tribo of aves? It is said that there are enough telephone wires In this country to make 50 lines to the moon. Ilut who wants to talk to the man in the moon, when ho can talk to Venus over a local wire? Countless mothers throughout the country will refuse to accept the report that the perfect baby has been found on the lower East side. New York. They know their baby has never been there. We had supposed that the fly's rharacter had been painted about as black as it could be. but now a physician indicts the fly as a carrier of Infant paralysis. Of what use is a fly anyway? The young man in New York who pleads that ho is so absent-minded that when ho married a young woman recently ho quite forgot that he had another wife living will doubtless be relegated to an institution where seclusion and quiet furnish the beet treatment for such loss of memory. PATIENCE AND WIT' Also Hope, When Employed by Woman in Battle for Love Accomplish Wonders. BY WALTER JAMES DELANEY. When the father of Julia Everly set his foot down as to hie matrimonial plana regarding her, Mrs. Everly meekly submitted to the dictum, and Julia herself bowed her pretty head to hide the tears and said, quietly enough: "Very well, papa." "You see," explained Judge Everly to his wife, "twenty-five or fifty thousand dollars isn't a fortune in the big cities, but here in Brandon it makes < me the leading man of the place. I've got a good deal of pride, Mary, and I would like to see Julia marry some young man whose means would add to the family wealth, instead of one who would use it up." "But young men with fortunes do not seem to be in much evidence around Brandon," suggested Mrs. Everly. "Oh, Borne one will come along. Julia is young yet; plenty of time," declared the judge. "She's pretty well educated. I can give her the biggest wedding Brandon ever had, and I'm determined to see her well Bettled in life." Mrs. Everly sighed softly tc herself. Her husband hud been a good deal of a disappointment to her, since he hud been elevated from a modest income as a country lawyer to a Judgeship and tho acquisition of twenty-five Forced to Dance -Uvcly. thousand dollars through a legacy. He had become selfish, sordid and scheming. He posed as a magnate and talked like a millionaire. The time was when he had welcomed Dale Martin, the son of his dead law partner, as a fine young man of whom anybody might be proud. With the possession of the money, however, there had come a marked and disagreeable change in , the bearing of the judRe towards the ' only beau Julia had ever had. Today it had culminated in a clear, open opinion and declaration?Dale Martin was not good enough for tlio daughter of a risen and still rising magnate, and Julia must, make up her tnlnd to seek a mate her equal in social position. The banishment of the dearest friend she had ever known naturally affected Julia. She shed some tears and said quito resignedly: "Very well, papa," but she did not mope around after that in any lovesick or complaining way. Julia had too much faith in her lover and herself, and primarily in a kind and equitable providence, to b<* Hove that she was to bo put up on tho markot to tlio highest bidder like some oriental slave girl. She wroto the most comforting letter in the world to Dale, whom business had taken temporarily to tho county seat. Then she wondered what patience, hope and woman's wit could bring about, and set herself at work to employ all three qualities in a battle for love. The Judge came home one afternoon from his ofliee quite brisk and nni| mated. A client was coming to Bran[ don, an important client, he said, lie had brought a letter from another lawyer in Idaho, had an estate to settle up in the county, and had placed his affairs in tho bonds of tho Judge. "Outside of the business standpoint." the Judge told his wife, and Julia heard, I am Interested in Mr. Kalph ; Buston. He is wealthy, and ho is unmarried, I find." Frontier-like and refreshing, indeed, Mr. Balph Buxton turned out to ; be. When he made his appearance that evening, Juliu, dressed up attractively to please her father, saw a tall, I rough-limbed young fellow of about twenty-five, bronzed like tho desert's sun. She winced as he shook her hand, and tho chair ho sank into I groaned. He was Ingenuous, boisterous, whole-hearted all at once. His manners at the table were not altogether in accordance with polito I usages, but he covered these lapse? with remindful stories quite apropos. Eating bear steak at forty degrees below zero, welcoming a sip of muddy : water after two days of thirst tor| meut in the arid Utah desert, riding astride a hogback mule for seventytwo hours at a stretch with hcwling i savagee in pursuit?all these things formed an Interesting recital. The bluff, big cowboy showed a full appreciation of food, drink and a comfortable arm chair under, present strongly contrasting conditions, that somehow opened the hearts of the family. He paid marked attention to Julia. / At first his quite fumillar ways Jarred on her, but finally she noted manly deference under his rude compliments. | The judge chuckled and nudged his wife in a meaning way, as later in the evening he saw Julia and the westerner conversing on a garden seat. "I'm glad I've met you," Bald Buxton to his companion. "I wish I had a sister like you," and then he be came confidential. He told the story of his hard struggle to win a fortune. He told, too, of a dark-eyed Spanish girl waiting for him back In the Rockies. Then Julia breathed more freely, understanding the big blunt J fellow better, while her father was whispering with fatuous self compla- | cency to his wife: E "Must be worth a hundred thou Band? and see the way he has cot- ' toned to Julia!" Within the next week Buxton callod several times at the Everly home. He hired the spickest Bpan In the village and took Julia and her mother for a * drive that nearly took their breath 1 away. In his generous, off-hand way 1 he made them some rich presents. 1 They could not refuse him without of- r fending. The Judge already felicitated ! n himself on the acquisition of a wealthy 11 son-in-law and boasted of it. But one day the business on which Buxton had 1 come was finished. ' r A new phase of his character was * now presented. To this day the judge ^ tells with a reminiscent shudder of the ' wild cowboy who somehow had run across nn old ranche comrade. Both c had appeared at the law office in an 1 automobile, and had insisted on the judge accompanying them "to see the 1 country." ! 1 The papers were full of that riotous visitation a few days later. They told I 11 of a mad trail of shot-up cross roade taverns, of farmers called out. of their ' beds at midnight and forced to dance Si lively to the tune of a fusillade to suit c the tastes of the two original gen- t tlemen from the far west. 1 Ralph Buxton left Brandon the next morning, but the judge did not know 8 it when he sent from the library early in the duy for Julia. ^ "Aboui?er, that young man, Bux- ' ton?" ho said solicitously. "Yes," responded Julia softly. "1 hope, that i??1 have discovered ' that he is scarcely adapted to?to civilized ways, and 1 hope you gave him ' no encouragement?" "But I fancied you liked him," in- * sinuated the artful minx. ' "I did, till last night?ifgli!" shud dered pater familias, and tlicn he 1 kissed the longing face. "It is fortu- ' nato I found out his predilections," he stumbled on. "He actually advised me to come out to his wilderness, and he ^ would have me made justice of the 1 peace of Dead Man's Hollow, or some such outlandish place. Me! Judge Everly of Hrandon! And, by the way, Julia, after such a narrow escape I | have changed my views. How is young Martin getting along?" "Why?1 hard'y know," Btammend Julia. "Suppose you try and And out?" directed the judge, and Julia knew she had won the day. (Copyright, 1913, by W. O. Chapman.) PLAYS WITH SPIRIT CHILD Pretty Denver Tot Claims to Commune Every Day With "Margie" of Cloudland. Travelers from many states continue to coino to see Corinne Alberta MayAeld. flvo years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. U. Mayfield of 1055 Josephine street, Denver, who communes daily with "Margie," an imaginary playmate of the spirit world. "Margie," Corinne says, lives above the clouds. Together they dress their dolls, cut out pictures, and play for hours in childish pastimes. "Margie," whom Corlnn*^ describes as being a mere child lrae herself, . li?ia Kuon tlin pnnelnnf nl'ivmnlu nf tho Denver girl ever since she was one year old, at which time sho llrst began to lisp tho strange name. The parents make no attempt at solving tho mystery, and many students of psychology and local scien- , tists are puzzled over the case and the remarkable psychic powers devel- i oped by the child at such un early ago. Hundreds of letters have poured into the Mayfleld homo since the ease gained publicity, and many persons huvo called either out of curiosity or j to connect the "spirit child" with a j loved one beyond the portals of death. | One woman came recently from Los Angeles to see Corinne/and talk with her. A Modern Knight Errant. < Chivalry is not yet dead, even in these days of motor cars, and in 1 fashionable paiades like Hyde Park, i London, thero ure knights errant ' ready to help fair ladles in diflicul- j ties and then disappear without dls- | closing,their names or seeking even a few words of gratitude. Not long ago, ! says a Hyde Park chair keeper, a pret. ty young lady was driving alone when her horse took fright. A poorly-dressed man jumped over a fence, pulled up the animal, and disappeared. The > young lady gaVo her name to the I chair keeper and told him to tell her I rescuer, if ever ho should see him. | that she wished to thank him. One ' day the keeper found the young man in the park and delivered the mes- j sage; but the latter only replied: j "I know who she was. I used to ! know her once upon a time, but 1 1 cannot meet her now." Hadn't Noticed It. "Shaving at home is different from being ahaved at the' barber's." "Oh, I don't know. My wife eats oniona and talks as much as any bar bar." MIL FUGITIVE IS HOOTEDBY MUTES Members of Gay Little Club Dis like Crude Action. 1E VIOLATED A RULE besides Being Ostracised, He Wai Adorned With a Length of Chair and an Eighteen-Pound Iron Bal to Drag Around. Mineola, N. Y.?Residents of tht Nassau county Jail were so deepli nortified at the conduct of one o heir number that they at once an tounced their intention of sending i ound robin to SherifT DeMott, repudi iting the man and promising to huv< 10 social intercourse with him. Joseph Grella was the object ol heir scorn. He had violated all th< ules of the pleasant retreat, and hac ought to get away from it. When li< vas captured and brought back not t nan would speak to him. It simpl} isn't done," you know, to try to gel >ut of that jail. Only insane persons he guests say, ever wish to get out Grella, who was serving a four nonths' term for the attempted kid taping of Mary Cinello, last Novem >er, took advantage of the siesta lioui ind put a plank up against the fifteen oot wall. He made so much nois? hat he woke several of the other ten mts. They spied him near the toi ?f the plank. "Hey. what're you tryin' to do?' hey called to him. "Make a getaway," was his answer is he bestrode the wall. "Aw, nix, Grella. don't 'do it!" ad rised the others. "What's your kick Vin't the grub all right? Ain't tin Jeeps all right? Ain't we all he litth ials together liavin' a good time am jein' treated square? Don't do it k'ou'll get the sheriff in Dutch am lueer things all around." "That's all right, hut I'm goin'," an iwered Grella, and lie dropped dowi in the other side of the wall. Sheriff DeMwtt's guests weren't go ng to stand anything like that. s< hey ran around the jail until the: ound Winfii Id Box, a guard, and toll lini in sorrowed and ashamed tone: vhat had happened. Hex ran outside heered by the cries of "Hope voi j/fiw Turned Their Heads and Cut Hir Dead. ketch hint, Win!" and saw (Jrella let ping it down the road about a quarte mile away. The guard commandeered the bicj cle of an astonished youth, who wa riding by. and started in pursuii Urella turned ofT into a road that le up a bill when Hox got within on hundred yards of him. In his despei ate efforts at a final sprint, the guar bore so heavily on his handlebar that the front tire of his wheel ei Dloded. [tux was piled In a heap upon 111 road. Hut he retained his presenc of mind and his pipe, which he ha stuffed still burning, into his pork* when he started the chase. Seein (Irella turn and lessen speed at th sound of the exploding tire, the quid witted guard grabbed the pipe froi his pocket (it was still smoking), ant pointing it at the runaway, yelled: "Stop, or I'll shoot again!" C.rella, ignorant of the ruses c great detectives, halted and put u his hands. Hox walked up to him an handcuffed him. The prisoner was i a great rage when he found how h had been duped, but his captor merel smiled at him in a superior way an ordered him to march right hack t the juil, the hospitality of which h had violated. "Well, here 1 am again," (Irella ai nounced with a grin, as he was take back within the inelosure. "Don't sp^ak to him, fellows," whi pered one of the most prominei guests. So nobody did. lliR fornn associates simply turned their heat away and cut him dead. "Serves him perfectly well right snld the other. They think he niui be unbalanced anyway, lor his teri would have been up soon. That the only excuse?mental flatwheel ?that would, in their opinion, justil a man in leaving the lovely jail at ac time until he had to do so. 9 $ I ^ Tables Were Turned for I gpis j 35 Is I tU ASHINGTON ? Senator Luke Lea j 1 f If of Tennessee it congratulating : 8 . ; himself upon having turned the tal hies on his colleague. Senator William 1 H. Webb. When Mr. Webb found , himself suddenly lifted from the presi- c dency of a disciplining school for boys 1 f to a seat in the greatest legislative j >' , body In the world he sent for Mr. f j j Lea. who. while still a young man. al- j f , : ready is a veteran in legislation. He 1 t wanted advice from the man of Wash- 1 ^ . ington experience as to how he should j * ^ conduct himself upon his iirst appearance in the senate. j 8 Mr. Lea complied most willingly, j > telling the professor-senator that he t should wear a Prince Albert coat. < fasten his necktie down in the back, i allow himself to be escorted to the pre- 1 . : siding otlicer's desk by his colleague. 1 ? and how, then, he must shake hands i with the president pro tempore. t j "That," said Mr. Lea by way of final 1 remark, "is the formula for becoming I Rolls of the Immortal Ora . ?\ O the hoys still "speak pieces" iJ Friday afternoon^ in school? Do they mill shatter the atmosphere with * such diabolical oratorical dynamics as 1 are created when the schoolboy mind grasps the full power of "Somebody j to the Gladiators?" I >o they still recite "Abou Hen Adhem?" Is "The Helmet of N'avare" still held up as ! the oritltmmc of a host of mailed battle-axe artists upon the pleasant lands _ of France? Is Webster's reply dead? , , Are the rolls of the immortal orators of a silk-hat generation clouded over j with the dust of an unappreciative s schoolboy generation? Or do they , declaim?as we used to?while that j grandest of teachers, Charles Bedford Young, looked en? Because if they do -here's a piece from a real orator. It fell from the lips of one of the most interesting i men in congress. Judge Adamson of Georgia. He is the man who is said to have dressed in a whirlwind and never to have rearranged his toilet, but tile typhoon interfered not a wliit nitli his wit or speech. Just imagine you are a s< hoolboy, the prize spenker of that Friday afternoon class in ora tory, the punch and ginger, couldn't you tear the air if you had this? Tryit. "if maledictions mean hatred the llerce denunciations ot the dual and clamorous minority In this house would destroy every patriot here and Seeing the Wheels of t ONE of the big hotels was crowded with women and girls. It was one r of the numerous excursions which sweep down on Washington in the r- spring, in the summer, in the autumn s and in the winter. These excursions t. are a great educational aid to the exd.1 cursionist. They see the wheels of I e government go round, they exercise r- their proprietary rights in the nail tional city, theyyget a better balanced s idea of the magnitude of the American t- government and of the machinery of government, and they strengthen their e pride in Washington. ? ! But, while one, and also many, of d the hotels were packed tight with these woman excursionists, and while K the clerks behind tlie office counter e wore boutonniers and happy smiles. talked their sweetest and showed 11 their best manners and their best J 1. clothes, the young man at the cigar Capital Wayside Signs I '' /"v NE of the changes that lias come ' n Vf over the roads around Washing e ton is the decline in the number of waysiciP hikuk?iiit* ;iuverupfiii?iji? m '' tobacco, clothing, lumber, etc., which ? it was once the custom to tack on ir fences and trees. t)nce upon a time . roadside trees were tapped with tin n' signs announcing that it was ten II miles to John Doe's store, the best place to buy hats, caps, shoes, shawls, s overnlis, lumber, lime and hardware. Coming into the city a mile farther on 'r you would see the same character of sign announcing that it was now nine ^inlles to John Doe's store. Of course ' ! John Doe's store was not the only at store advertised by these mile signs on III the trees and fences. Many other 1f stores were thus advertised, and then 's a great deal of general advertising? that is. of non local establishments? occupied the trees and fences, and urged investment in many kinds of pa- J mm ? I. S. Senator Luke Lea senator?after you get to Washingan." Mr. Webb was profuse In his hanks. Indeed his thanks partook of he nature of an apology. "You would not apologize to me if ou only knew waht delight you have Iven me," responded the younger aa#.. Then he told his new colleague ow during all the years of his school ife he had lived in dread of being ent to the Webb school. "It is one of the best schools in he Bouth." he said In explanation, and the professor has the reputation if being the finest disciplinarian in he country for boys. When I was a oungster I was not looking especially or discipline, but my father had diferent views, and many times was on he verge of sending me to Professor .Vebb to be straightened out. This ate was the dread of my life. 'And that," he added, "is the rea1011 why 1 felt so delighted to aid him vlth u bit ot advice about his initiaion into the senate. When it realiy :ame to the point of his sending for Tie and asking me to instruct him I tnew that at lust 1 had reached the jeriod of life where I need not longer stand in fear of being sent to Professor Webb for discipline. 1 had the best of him. and 1 felt really meanly riumphant." tors Are Still Unclouded permit the return to po-.er of that horde which has held high carnival of misrule discrimination and robbery with short intermissions and slight hindrance for fifty years That gallant old king, warrior, priest and poet, the Psalmist David, said in his wrath, All men are liars.' As it was easy for him to get forgiveness, I have! no doubt he was forgiven for that un- . kind r? mark, but if he had lived in \ this day and familiarized himself with \ the jargon of protection apologists he would have been able to conclude in his sober judgment that some men in high places are careless about their information and reckless about their statements, lie might have been tempted to sing in the sweetest strains of sacred verse his religious opinions about the heterophemy of discredited politicians, the dissensions of divided political camps quarreling over the method of their destruction while railing at the victors and indulglng in the wildest flights of hyper bolical language, Selah." :he Government Go Round and newsstand looked penalve and unoccupied. "You don't seem to be soiling many nickel cigars for 10 cents this even- V ing? ' said the Rambler. \ "'.Man. the ladies may have adopted ^ ^ many manly traits and notions, hut they have not yet as a class become heavy smokers. 1 have some sensatunal newspapers on my stand which publish Sunday articles about how women have become enslaved to the cig aretto and to Lady Nicotine and nil that, but if I depended on their trade J would be as hard up as! those gentlemen who sit around this hotel otTice every evening and discuss mlllion-dol- . lar deals. With this house full of fair guests my trade is confined to the sale of I'nited States postage stamps - and one-cent stamps, at that. You perhaps know that the profit on the sale of postage stamps is not large. "The Indies?Clod bless 'em?do not even buy from me the post cards on which they put the stamps. These ex: curslonists get loaded up with Washington post cards on the trains coming into Washington. When they reach here they have nothing to do but write on these cards '1 wish you were here.' address a hunch of them, buy the stamps from me. and Incidentally get all my small change." \re Fast Disappearing tent medicines, ehc-wing and smoking tobacco and red liquors. It used to be quite a business, the tacking up of these signs. Men and wagons traveled up and down the country roads carrying on this work. They not only tacked up signs for one business concern, but would carry "side lines," as it were, or a wagon load of tin signs advertising other. I though not competing, wares. This 1 work is going on today, but in a much I smaller way. J I