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? V .-"J ijSjr' ^ '" ^ * >>' - i".' j 'iCSStascsxsgK^xssx^^ytVSiVVi^v^ AT THE RIGHT TIME ~S By FLORENCE LILLIAN HENDER ?UN. "Going. Arnold?" questioned Hal Daniels, as he stood in the suburban real estate office of Young & Co., addressing the manager of that branch of a big city business. "I'll tell you Jn a minute," replied Arnold White?"four, six, eight, nine," And he flipped over the bank bills in his hand and then said definitely and withal qu'te disconsolately?"no." "Why not?" "Can't afford it." "Nonsense! See here, I believe you are showing the white feather. Anyone watching out with half an eye during the past month, can tell where your chief interest is. And Miss Leila Morton is well worthy the attentions of any young man!" "No doubt of that," half sighed Arnold. "In fact, that's the trouble. Others besides myself feel the spell of Iter witching sweetness and beauty. \She has any number of cavaliers and Lliow do I show up with?well, for instance such a suitor as Ray Easttfcrne?" VYes, Eastburr i has some money Afld is a great catch," agreed Hal, "but Ritand the ghost of a show. A is idler is not the style of a fancies. Confidentially, Arsister?" was an interruption. A cusme driving up in an automoalog to look at some houses sale by the oflice and Arnold Irry away at once, you half an hour to spare. Inquired of his friend. -double that time, if I can be * keep the office open until I fill VtMl *" W "I'll do that." responded Hal and setI tied himself back in the comfortable I swivel chair as the machine whirled I away. ' Ilal bad not fully dropped into the luxuriousness of repose when there was a visitor. He was a bronzed faced, brisk framed man with all the marks of an outdoor life upon him. His rug. *1? L_ f Jilt t^> *'He Is the Best Fellow in the World." gednesn, however, wan tempered by a certain Intellectual tinge. H? might have been a professional man. judging from his eye and his manner of speech. "Mr. Arnold White?" he spoke Inquiringly. "No, sir?only his friend." "I was told I would find him here." "Mr. White is temporarily absent with a client," explained Hal. "I expect him back within half an hour." ' * "Ah, then I will wait," snid the stranger, seating himself. "Friend of Mr. White, are you? How is he getting along?" "He is the beBt fellow in the world." declared Hal with unction, "and an upto-date salesman. When he came here he.made a two years' salary contract for a ridiculous sum. That expires soon. He'll get rich on his commissions, if they give him half a chance." "That's promising," commented the trlolfAP T ?~ wuLcutcuf uayy/i * suy pose?" "Well, he's In love!" laughed Hal. "Tell me about that," rather eagerly urged the stranger. "No, I'm talking too much, I guess," dissented Hal, suddenly realizing that he waB discussing hi * absent friend too freely with a Strang"" "See here," said the latter." I'd better tell you something You are a real friend of Mr. White, are you not?" "Arnold thinks so." "Good A little closer, please? I have something confidential to tell you." For nearly five minutes the stranger poured a strange tale into the ears of his amazed auditor. Hal looked startled, then delighted. He slapped his knee with a sounding whack and burst forth into jolly laughter. "Capital! famous! Arnold /deserves It all!" he cried loyally. ' Yes, you need to know ail. You see, my sister?" And this time Hal Daniels found a listener to what his sister, the fast friend of Leila Morton, knew of her i preferences as to her many beaux, I Arnold White especially considered. I . "This gentleman wishes to look over I your property," advised Hal. as Arnold I returned in the automobile and his I first customer drove away. I "Ah. yea," bowed Arnold. "One Iwrord, Hal," he added, stepping to the Hfatlde of his friend and spealr<ug con ' fldentially; "I wish you would got word to Miss Morton through your i sister that I cannot attend the theater party to the city tomorrow evening." "Nonsense!" began Hal stormily. "No. it isn't. I haven't asked Miss Morton?" "No, but I'll bet she expects It." "I can't afford it Just now, Hal," asRPrt Pii Arnnlfl aerfniielv | thing. I can't y ne to keep up the society pace witi. :.er gentleman friends who have nothing to do but spend i their money." As to marriage, he was too much of 1 a man to ask any young lady to share his lot unless he had a comfortable home to ofTer her. "I'll put aside the dream impossible and plug away at business," he told himself, and added aloud briskly to his visitor: "Now then, sir, what can I show you?" "I want you to pick me out the neatest, most convenient house you have ' on your list." was the reply. There were many, all new houses, to see. The customer insisted on Arnold expressing his preference and , Judgment. Finally the stranger said: "I'll take that house?it's a little I palace." "As to the terms." began Arnold, as they proceeded back to the office. "I want no terms?all cash." observed the stranger. "How soon can 1 have the deed?" he inquired, as | they were seated in the ofllce. "First thing in the morning. What name in the deed, please?" inquired Arnold, taking up a pen. j "Arnold White." "What?" exclaimed Arnold. "Why, ' that's my name!" "I know it is," bof-ed the stranger coolly." I am following out my instructions explicitly." "But I don't understand?" "You uoon will 1 am an attorney front Montana. reDr :?sentine Fmpaf j Drake." "What! my old fri ?nd whom I have not heard from for two years?" "The same, and the man you loaned , $200 to. Well, he went west and got I In jail. Stayed there for two years, stubbornly lighting for a valuable land entry he had made. There was a ; technicality and he stood by his guns, j 1 helped him. We beat the land sharks and he is rich today. There is the i money you loaned him with interest." | and the stranger handed the astonished Arnold a check, "and as soon as that deed is made out the money is ready to pay for that house and lot." Arnold was stupefied. Then his first thought was of Leila. Ho was independent now. and a wave of gratitude to the far away friend he had started in life, to be richly rewarded, warmed his heart. "By the way, Mr. White," said the stranger? "about th.s young lady Mr. , Daniels told me about?" Arnold flushed up. He resented this Intrusion upon his personal affairs, but his companion smiled. "Ernest Drake would think of your happiness ahead of anything else," ho said. "As his representative, 1 give you this news, reliably acquired: Miss Morton is only waiting for you to ask her company to that theater party, j j You will ask her and she will go. At I the theater party pop the question and she will accept you." And Leila did. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) SEES WORLD NEAR ITS END j Reverend Gentleman Has Faith in the Famous Vision of Nebuchadnezzar. Before a great audience in Philadelphia, the Rev. Dr. C. I. Schofleld of New York announced that the end of the world is at hand, and at any time we might expect that interesting event. He predicted the destruction of the planets in a mighty catastrophe, and. horrible to relate, the crash i might come in the lifetime of a mai jority of ids hearers. i'pon looking to see on what fact he built this gloomy apprehension, we note it is the vision of Nebuchadnezzar, as interpreted by the prophet Daniel. This prophecy involves the interpretation of many historical events, which has been done a good many times, but in every case the universe survived. So we expect it will j be so again. We never did have much faith in old Nebuchadnezzar, anyhow, and if the good Lord ever communi- I cated the information of when and how the universe would be destroyed, i be would have communicated it to St. Paul or St. Luke or some hero of : the faith. We shall expect that the planets will continue to roll in their respec nve orous. ana tills dear old earth ! will maintain Its beautiful destiny long after mankind has disappeared from Its arid and indurated sphere, and gone off to that happy region where the spirit forever dwells.?Ohio State Journal. Lost Spring Rediscovered. The hot spring at Matlock Bath. England, which was lost 180 years ago, was rediscovered the other day. Ita source is in a lead mine which has not been worked for 100 years. Dr. Short of Sheffield left a record in I 1773 that he visited the mine, and discovered a hot spring manv degrees ! hotter than the present spring at Matlock Bath, which is eight degrees Fahrenheit. Efforts to rediscover the spring have been made for months by Mr. D. Palmer Pearson of Matlock Bath and by Messrs. J. W. Puttrell, Sheffield, and Percival Ashford, the cave explorers, but they did not meet with success until the other day. They have had thrilling adventures in the numerous caves and mines of the district. I i THE FORT MILL TIMES, FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA taitt Many Things the Pages Do to Amuse Themselves WASHINGTON.?As the crowd of sightseers entered the capltot they were surprised to hear shouts of laughter and the scraping of chairs. "Is that congress In session?" one of the party asked the guide. This wise in. dividual Inughed before he answered. GIVE h ? "No. it's too early in the morning for the confttfAL ^ gross men, you couldn't get them out before noon SPFAKE^- ? except on extraordinary occasions. The noise A CHAMCE J C r ? ou hear comes trom the pages frolicking about ^?? ?r' /V* in the chamber of the house of ri prusentatlves. n You'll see them for yourself when we go upstairs." f'.-, ?'\y* The noise increased visibly as the party neared ' chamber. There were loud shouts In boyish ^ \ I voices, shrill laughter and the sounds of falling The guide took his sightseers to the IC<- i ffJ visitors' gallery, for none except members of the W house, their secretaries and house employes are ,?-p~\? yjc&k'. allowed to inter the sacred nrecincts lint at $$ 0^9?^ this time of morning a wild sight was to bo ctiS f ~?s f/ Joyed. Fully 25 or 30 boys were running up and down the aisles of the room, totally forgetful ot their surroundings in the pleasure of their fun. To a person accustomed to gazing on the house when it was tilled with dignified congressmen it was a most unusual sight. Several boys were wrestling, others boxing and still more tossing a piece of paper around the room in imitation of a baseball game. The fact that visitors from all parts of the I'nited States were looking at theiu did not seem to bother them in the least. They kept on with the sport Then suddenly a member of the house entered and walked to his chair. At once thi' levity ceased. The boys walked to the sides of the room and tried to appear dignified?an impossible task, by the way. The page, whether he be employed in the house or senate, holds a iob that makes him envied by almost every youngster in Washing "'.on. besides a number of their old pals "back home." It isn't so tmu h the fart tl at the positions pays ?""? a month to the lucky youngster as long as emigre ?> is in session, but because of the prestige to bo secured through such personal contact with the "big men" of the nation, for the page gets to the place where he can address every congressman by name and also be answered in .1 familiar strain. And what American boy wouldn't give most anything tor such a privilege. It's a treat to sit for a morning and watch the house pages. They arrive about 9 o'clock, then for three heirs there is a continuous performance of tun galore, only e:.dcd when the house chaplain formally opens the day's session. Then for the remainder of the dav the page works hard and earns his salary. Street Car Regulations in the Capital City 'p WO men viae standing under a tree in Farragut square near the west A side one hot afternoon Inst summer. One of tlieni was in the uniform of vho street car service and the other was in plain clothes. Each had a pencil and paper pad and each was making notes of the street cars passing "What are those men doing?" asked the report- \ er of a conductor, expecting the reply "spotters." "Those men are making up'reports as to whoth yy' AJ er the cars are light loaded, inediutn loaded, load ? z-~\ t" 3 e?l or crowded," said the conductor. "One is 111 T"- ' ?'T \ the employ of tlte public utilities commission. If A/\| a dozen or so passengers are on a car it will be -fc' T ??~^\ j marked as 'light,'' if everybody has a seat and ' there is a scattering o< empty seats, it will he ..| marked 'medium;' if all the seats are occupied ? it will be marked loaded.' and if passengers ate wPfrFj I I standing it will be marked crowded. We have $2d 'V cut our schedule that is, the company has re- 'duced the numhei of cars running- because of the number of people out of the city, and those men are aiding in the making up of a report to determine whether the new schedule is providing sulticient accommodations to the public. "Yes," said the conductor, "any rule for the safety and comfort of passengers ought to be a police regulation A regulation made only by the company does not go very far. It is against the rule of the company for passengers to stand on the running board of open cars, but all I can do is to request or persuade a passenger to step inside. Perhaps there is no room inside. 1 have no authority to out him off "If a man spits on tlu* floor of a car I can have hin? arrested and he will have to answer in court. It is a police regulation that a man shall not spit on the tloor. The rule thut smoking is permitted only on the last three seals is a company regulation, and a man can smoke on the from seat or any otner scat if he chooses to be disagreeable about it and I may not put him off "However, a conductor can make nearly all men observe the smoking rule if you handle them right. You can get along better with the public by requesting' than by any other means. If you begin threatening yoti will t>" 'n hot water right away." Was Hurtled Through the Door Like a Catapult f> REPRESENTATIVE ERNEST \V. KOMERTS of Massachusetts t? Ms a story i\ of a bully who lived in his town and whose general demeanor made hint a lit subject for the stocks. Jim Jones was a general, all-roun* good-for-nothing, lazy, fighting idler whose otv work in life I it 1 was an attempt to escape labor, I*-at who was nl pTir- ways boasting of what a "bad man lie was under i jfefcV tl ^ bis ragged coat. \ SkOne day Mr Roberts was strolling dow n the ~ street and stopped to talk to a friend near a ' ~ lamp post which stood outside of a saloon. I'rorj \ . 2^ within came the odor of stale beer and tobacco ^ ^ mingling with the angry tones of a heated conver rjr, - Just then Jim Jones came strolling up proudly. Throwing out his chest and pointing to the swinga^TT"* - ing door from which the noise issued, he de& Iciur,!<i "I'm going In there and throw every *- N " durned one of them fellows out Just watch iiim. suro an<* count them as I throw." ' jjni sailed within the mystic precincts, while outside Mr. Roberts and his friend awaited the outcome of the onslaught. In a few moments the uproar Increased. There were wild yells and smashing of chairs. The door jerked open and a kicking flvure was hurtled through it like a catapult and fell into the gutter. "One," counted out the friend aloud, determined to keep the score right. "Stop counting!" yelled the prostrate form in the gutter. "Ain't you got no sense?this is rue!" it was Jim. Judge's Stern Warning to Desperate Prisoner TH^RE is a good story going around the capitol about Congressman Small, wno hails from North Carolina In prehistoric days, when Small wnn young in the law, he was prosecuting a town bully who bore a desperate character. This desperado was supposed to have added greatly to the population of the village cem- ^ oiery aim iu up reauy iu itui 1113 man ui me urop ^ of an acorn. Cv^-V-. So when Small stood him up at the bar before uEk . a country justice of the peace the embryo con- Mf/*' V3' jW gressnian paipted the prisoner in such dark col(is tliat his own mother would never hav? recog- ? r?;Tr^ */fk? nl7.od him at llva !iaces. In the very height of his flCxM. eloquence Small pointed a Jong linger at the f fl jiyM trembling man and shouted: | 1 "Why, that man at the bar would Just as soon jfa 'ffjf' kill me as not right here before your face, judge." J^flE lljn|1 II The Judge leaned thoughtfully over, took off his specs und glowered at the ofTending criminal ? Nrji "John Smith." he thundered, if you dare kill Small here before me I will fine you a dollar and "}*4 1 . ' tlfty cents for contempt of co'te; duru my soul, if 1 don't!" - - - - f, . ^ . "CARLSBAD AS HEALTH RESORT Humorous Resume of One Pilgram'a Visit to the Famous Watering Place. . London.?It Is not necessary to have a map to find a health resort. Just jump on a train and look steadily out of the window, "V ou may ride a day and you may ride a week, i Eventually you will come to a place J where every person looks the picture i of health. You will see streets crowd- ! ed with men with thick necks and broad backs, and women whose shapes could be revised ad Jib. The glow of health is in their cheek's and im;ir ciomes are expensive. Immediately you will recognize this place to be Carlsbad. All these people have i ip^nsn . &k.- i' Principal Carlsbad Sprinj. come to take the cure. Absolutely you are looked upon as being a perfect heathen if you are not considering the cure, for a poor man gets sick and takes the cure and a rich man takes the cure and gets sick. i itnivi-u m v arisuau auoui tour o'clock in the afternoon and after having been comfortably established in one of the hotel apartments 1 happened out on my balconv and there ; witnessed streams of people, all bound in the same direction and each and every one carrying little red bags. ! My llrst thought was that an American circus was in town, but then why ; on earth was everybody carrying their own refreshments Instantly I caught up my hat. dashed out on the street ; and said: "Declare me in. I'm a sure-enough." Nobody In the irowdod ; thoroughfare heard ine, so I declared myself In. 1 walked and walked tin- i til finally I reached a place called Kaiser Park. There hundreds of these supposed to he invalids, instead of keeping to their strict diet of about 1 o?; glasses of water u day and merely eujeying the music, were gratifying th? n?selves with coffee and a superabundance of cake, which constituted tin1 contents of the little red hags. Well, it was worth the long walk to hear such wonderful music, ( the time fairly Hew. but the orchestra , leader did bent it. You go through the same routine about four times a day. or first walking yourself to death, then eating everything in sight. Then first thing you find yourself tipping the scales far beyond your own approval and instantly you wish to make a quick get away befor you increase another inch In diameter. The only thing that detn inc vnn tVoio 1 n 4 ?. : .. ...... ..iniu^ int- mm ii mil out of town is you must report to the constable of vour intentions to leave, then gently slip him the lower half of your letter of credit for taxes on the water and music. Then you may j leave with a light pocketbook, but plenty of excess weight. 'Twas over thus. ALCOHOL MAKES MARE FIGHT Seeking Cause of Racket in Barn, Owner Expostulates and Gets the Worst of It. Bremerton. Wash.?William Braken. a Colby farmer, placed a quart of alcohol intended for hoise liniment above a fe?<d box in Ills barn. Short- 1 lv after midnight Mr. Hraken heard a commotion indicating that somebody was pulling the barn apart. When i lie peered into the stall and gently in- ] quired "What's the matter. Molly?" that spirited animal kicked him. Mr. Bra ken returned with scantling and slipped into the stall. The first I kick missed Mr. Hraken's head, but knocked the scantling out of his ; hands. Then Molly kicked him heI hind the door and kicked the door on top of him. When Mrs. Rraken arrived and removed the door Mr. Rraken announced that he would call the battle a draw fnr f niolif Ill thn morning It waa learned that i Molly's indiscretion waa dno to the , spilling of the alcohol in the feed box. I Aside from exhibiting somo engnrnes? j to get to the pump. Molly'a "morning j after" was uneventful. Senior Ducked for Shaving Mustache. ! i Chicago.?John Green, senior at tho University of Chicago, was ducked In the gymnasium tank because he vio- j lated the rule prohibiting the shaving j of mustaches. - Runaway Horee Demolishes Saloon. Chicago.?Detectives In a saloon set- i tling the matter of a stolen overcoat, , were suddenly Interrupted "by Hie I hasty entrance of a runaway horse, j Several persons wero injured and the | saloon demolished. Won't Make Chicago "Dry" Town. Chicago.?By a vote of 34 to 32 the temperance societies of the city have decided not to attempt to make Chicago a "dry" city In the spring campaign of 1914. 'WM FLUTTER OF EYE " SAMS MAN Optic of Supposed Dead Man Came Open With Wide Stare of Terror. NEARLY BURIED ALIVE | Arizona Undertaker Finds Signs of Life When He Went After the Body of a Bisbee Citizen?Negro Causes Panicky Flight of Mexicans. Bisbee. Ariz. ? A dead wagon backed up to the door of the house in which Francisco Cor.astllla lives on Naco road, and an undertaker got down to get the body of the man. As lie was about to pick it up, with the assistance of others in the room, Conastilla's right eye tiuttered a moment and then came open in a wide stare of terror. The other eye a little later followed suit. The undertaker looked around and found himself aloue. A negro man, who had come in to assie*, caused panicky liighi of the half dozen Mexican people who had been there, the negro leaving abruptly at the very lirst tlutter of that right eyelid. The undertaker felt for the heartbeat of the man upon entering the room, and failed to find .* Irnno Pr? viously t'onastilla had been reported as dead at the O. K. Undertaking parlors and Proprietor llennessy had tilled out the necessary blanks to arrange for burial as a county charge, for those who brought the news of the death had convinced him that neither Conastillu. his family nor his friends had the means to pay for a funeral. More than that. It was known that Couaatilla hail been dangerously sick for more than a week and that in delirium attending his Illness he had walked out of the door of his room and fallen 20 feet. Those who picked him up and carried him back to his room believed his neck broken. Under all these circumstances. Conastilla should in all reason have been dead. Certain it Is that he opened that right eye not one minute too soon to save himself a trip to the morgue. Nevertheless, escapes from burial 'ilive may have been made, but probably net many, for in this case all the circumstantial evidence was hard against the unfortunate man. Not only had he been sufficiently sick to Cri Eyes Came Open. warrant death, hut on top of this had ho not, in general belief of those about him, broken his neck; and then hud they not found hint cold in his bed, his limits set iu rigor nnd no trace of heart beat nor of breathing, nnd hud not the undertaker determined him dead after the practiced feel of his profession for the pulsation of the heart, that- was not there? Couastilla is still unable to discuss ?v>., K..? .1? ? ? uiaixn , uul uuiiuiicoh i eail7.es SUIflcientiy by this time to be very glad that he is In his bed In his humble quarters?for a while yet, anyhow? rather than under his allotted portion of sod. It Is now thought he will posslbly recover. Ills original complaint was due to kidney trouble, growing from strain in overlifting at his work. His fall when he walked over the embankment at the house he lives in below the big iron blow-out alongside the railroad track down Naco road, was a terrible one, being more than 20 feet, with lighting place on the singballasted. iron-hard railroad roadbed at that point. He landed on the back of his neck, and it is presumed that the terrible Jolt to brain and spinal column put him in a coma, from which he has not yet recovered, and which nil but landed him in a premature grave, arranged for him by his sorrowing friends. The phenomena of lifelessnesB which his body displayed is held to have been due to partial extension over the body of the paralysis which affected his spine. :M Denied His "Hash"?Starts Troub? Worcester, Mass.? Denied his favor ite dish, hash, George Lapard, on in- -.Jjrai mate of the Southbridge poor farm, ^ raved and threatened t/y "burn the barn." A few minutes later the fire brigade had a bard time saving the barn from destruction by Are. Lapard was caught enroute to a restaurant.