Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, June 19, 1913, Image 2
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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