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.......................... ! A COMMON LAN6UA6E I 4 Z By F. H. MASON. J ' 4 04 "For goodness sake*I If that ol< ! Mexican cow ain't been and gone an< et my glory-de-John rose." I looked up from my gardening an< aw my next door neighbor?usual 1 the most aimiable of women?llterall r shaking with Indignation, on her fron porch, while a cow was on the graa plot below, contentedly munching th last of tho Glolre de Dijon. Mrs. Farlelgh took a pot cont&inin a small, withered palm from the porcl rail, heaved It at the cow, and ei claimed: urat tne Deast!" The pot broke innocently some vi from the cow, and the animal wen orer to it and examined the palm. 1 waa too dry (or her taste, howevei She evidently preferred sweet, succi lent rose bushes. "Shoo!" Mrs. F&rleiffh followed th exclamation down the steps, sbakln her apron vigorously as she went. Th cow walked leisurely away, notwltl standing the pieces of broken flowe N pot that my neighbor sent after 1 -Ain't that the limit?" I had Intended to keep out of th controversy, and had busied myself b< hind a hakea, but a hakea forms a poc sneiier, and this last remark was ev dently intended for me. "It's hard," I replied sympathetica ly. Of course 1 said Just the wron thing. Anything I might have replie would have been wrong to one in Mr Farleigh's mood. "Hard! Hard!" she shouted in dii Suet. "I wasn't thinking of the cow digestion. It's my glory-de-John roe tha^ worries me. I've tended it a winter, like a mother, and It was Jui coming into bloom. Them Mexican have no right to keep cows in a r pecCkble neighborhood." The Mexican was a bete nolr to th neighbors. He had arrived recentl; and bought four lots. On these b was keeping half a doaen cows, an running a small dairy farm. He aeemc to be circumventing the city ord nance, which prohibited one perao keeping more than one cow, by dl trlbutlng the ownership of the anlmai among his children. The bad featui hnn( tha #?<> <1 wwvm. - vtm uwi uio lamn were casual about letting the con roam off the premiaea. They ha owned a large ranch in Mexico, befoi _ the revolution, and did not understai -It's ufc bid. W^y don't~v&n - ever and see them about it?" I an gested mischievously, tor I knew tl Mexicans understood little or no En Meh. "1 will," Mrs. Farleigh said decide ly. "1 have Juet cause for complaint "You surely have," I agreed. "It the proper thing to do." Mrs. Farleigh trotted across tt street, her anger rising as she wen and pushed the button beside tfc Mexican's front door. I was bad enough to take up a poii of vantage behind a large leptospe mum, to watch the burlesque, for Imagined my neighbor had not tt Spanish. The Mexican woman appeared, ar my neighbor started the attack. "Yo? old COW has hftpn onH at mu rrlnmiM John rose," Mrs. Farleigh shouted. "Gloria de Juan, eenora!" the Mei can woman, exclaimed, in surpris Juan was her eldest son. "De waun seniors nothing. Yoi cow, cow, cow," each time she spol the word, Mrs. Farleigh pointed a fi ger viciously at the offending animc which was contentedly ruminating ov< the flavor of rose bushes near b "your cow has been et my glory-d John rose." The Mexican woman was clear puzzled. "La vaca gloria de Juai No, no. Ordena la vaca." "Can't you savvy English?" Mr Farleigh asked indignantly. "No hablo ingles." "You have no English, eh?" Mr Farleigh resorted to pigeon Englls Tapping the Mexican woman on tt chest with a finger, Mrs. Farleigh d uicuiuwj. lbu uu savvy f "No sabe." "For the land's Bake. And I've bee and left my housework to come ov? here and give you a bit of my mind The humor of the situation dawned c Mrs. Farleigh. She placed her han< on her hips, and, with arms akimb laughed uproariously. The Mexican woman stared in as to Ishment; then she caught the infe tion, and Joined in the laugh. Ther on the Mexican's porch, the two woe en stood, each seeming to try to outd the other in her hilariousness. Aft< a time, they became week-kneed fro: the effort, and sat on the top step an continued to laugh, wiping the teai that ran down their cheeks with ti corners of their aprons. They ha found a common language. Subscribe to The Chronicle 1 * S * ' ^ * . r ? , I THE UNDERSTANDING : ? J By BLANCHE Q. BOBBINS. X 3 The room was strangely familiar to fl her, yet she knew she had never before seen even the ? dim light of the log lire of the ^ *^3 * grate she could /g) b see the dark green /&s* l' walls, hung wKh (flffyf /rtpf pictures done in f y sepia and dull ^KJp; 1 J gray tones. I 1 The bookcases 1 4 r* were filled with bodies, richly bound. '* She was struck with the simplicity of the furnishings. 8 Suddenly the fire flickered into life, * and the picture hanging over the firee place caught her attention. It was obl" viously a snapshot, enlarged but exir qulsitely finished. It was a picture of a woman, her motherhood stamped distinctly on her e beautiful face. 8he sat before an open fire, the firelight radiating the laugh* ter in her eyes. *" At her knee stood a small boy, his bright eyes revealing the love of his own little soul as he smiled respons?j ively. Suddenly she roused herself; she B- had been dreaming. She was not preparing an answer for the man waiting outside in the darkness. Dennv 8 Brown had asked her to marry him >e and she had promised her answer to 11 night !t They had been running swiftly, 18 smoothly through the exhilarating air of the suburbs In Denny's car. Suddenly something had gone wrong. It e had happened at the very moment when she should have been answering 8 Denny. He had brought her to this bunga"f low, asking permission for her to wait there. n He had telephoned to a neighboring T* garage for a man. They were now repairing the machine. In a few mo * menta he would return for her. y How strongly at this monent all r* Denny could give her appealed to her! BhS was *o tired?so nervously tired jT of W own life. Bat the other man! Somehow Denny ^ ?had guessed that the other man had ^ >be?n something So her. For tonight ^ he/had told her, quietly, that the other man had failed again. Unconsciously, ene had been waiting for "the other tn win sitflnasa man's step sounded on the veran*, da?Denny had come for her and her ' i answer was not ready. She heard the lQ click of the telephone receiver in the . hall. A man's voice?not Denny's? io called Woodstock, N. H.t on the longdistance. lt It was Phil Berkley?the other man! ^ She was wafting in his bungalow?to . night of all nights, but she had to listen. "Hello, that you Mater?44 ld "Oh, I'm?I'm all right U* 44 ft ?" "Yes?a bit blue tonight how did you know?" ^ "I hate to tell you, mamsy; but It's another failure.'* ir .. ,, te "No, I'm going to try again. Third 1* time's trying, you know." ilt II ft 0r "You're so comforting, Mamsy, yes y' I'll succeed?some day." $4 |? "I wouldn't care so much if it 'y weren't for you and?that little girL" 1! <> M "Yes, she's waiting for me." S. <i tt "Yes, there's Just the understanding between us. Yet I trust her to wait. * Sometimes I think I must have dreamed It all." le .. .. "Good-night, dearest?" In a moment the man would ring !n off. She must either hide or run. By the light of the flame she saw a door leading from the room to the ve,n ran da. 18 Rising quickly, she stepped softly ?* across the room and out onto the veranda. n* Stumbling over the low steps, she ?" ran breathlessly across the damp lawn e? toward the lights shining dimly In a' the road. lo Pausing within the shelter of the ir shrubbery, she called softly, "Den? nyf' ld The man left the machine and came 111 quickly to the lawn. "Denny, won't you take me home 1 now? Send the man with the car to the garage. I want to go now." "What?" he asked perplexedly. "Tired of waiting, Beth? It won't be more than twenty minutes. It's too far to walk. There's no other way hat the trolley, and that's so crowded." "Yes, yes; that's what I want," she Interrupted; "the trolley?the crowds s?the lights." "But, Beth, we want to he alone tonight, dear; Just you and I?your answer?^you promised me your answer tonight." "Hush, Denny! I ought to hare told you. I can't marry you. I'm waiting for the other man. I've promInorl ?- ? ?? , .v o uvv au tuiBttgomeaL There's?there's?just an understanding." (Copyright. 1914. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.J The Tapestry Mode. The Millionaire (declining to purchase post-impression creation)? Noth'n' doin'! Why, my maiden a'nt cud darrn a better picture ** that.?Punch. Danger of Too Much Talk. Don't talk too much. Just after you hare talked a man into buying, if you keep on talking you will talk him out ^ of buying.?Atchison Globe. Defined. A literary genius is one whom na? ture'lets in on the ground floor, and whom the publishers force to live in an attic. Costly English Port. More than $100,000,000 has been spent in bringing and keeping the port of Liverpool up to date. At the Top and Bottom. Of all the people in Europe the French have the fewest children and me Irish the most Motive Power In Norway. The greatest single factor in the possible industrial development of Norway lies undoubtedly in its cheap and abundant hydroelectric power. The country having practically no coal resources, the Norwegian industries are coming to depend more and more upon the utilisation of waterfalls aa a primary motive power source. Double Work. "Why la it that a man won't wash &is face with a washcloth?" demanded Mrs. Wombat. "Men havent lime for all that foolishness," said Mr. Wombat. "First you have to wash you face ami-then you have to wash the Trnshrlnth " TonllTIHii - flonaiarnlfmr naL Lost Opportunity. First Jew?"Dwenty years ago Goldstein Bold shoestrings on the cornet und today he owns the corner on which he stood." Second Jew (excitedly)?"Und if he had valked up und down he might have owned the whole block."?Life. 8old!er's Most Trying Position. i The average soldier finds the most terrifying position to be that of standing motionless in the front rank, exposed to the enemy's fire without be ing able to reply. The order to advance or to charge with fixed bayonets is then received as a kIpjuia from agony. Movement, even into greatei peril, distracts the mind and greatly reduces the mental anguish. No Chances for Him. A dealer selling cloth in a small town asked an Irishman who wae passing if he would buy a suit length, and added: "You can have it for ten bob." To which Pat replied: "Begob, sir, if tuppence would buy the makingi of a topcoat for an elephant I couldn'l buy the makings of a pair of legging! for a canary this minute." 8hrewd Elopement Trick. The newest elopement trick was recently worked in Switzerland, where the parents of the couple went on a trip to the top of a mountain. While they were there the couple got a bobsled, coasted down the mountainside and were away on an express before the parents could get down the mountain on the railway. Too Much for Him. A colored porter for a local druggist was told to go to another pharmacy to get some clmcif'tgo raaiemoses. He stood, open-mouthed, and gased at hli "boss," then asked: "Ain't thar any other name for d&t?" Loses Its Charm. It's difficult for a newly married man to generate much enthusiasm over his bride's beautiful hair after he has seen her pile it on the bureau for the night ? 1 A greenest Reached * la Mexleaa Crisis. , Mexico City, August 5.?Provisional President Carbajal and Gen. Venustiano Carranza, bead of the Constitutionalist movement, today reached a full agreement concerning the turning over of .the Government to the Constitutionalists. It is expected a general amnesty will be declared soon. Hostilities were suspended today. All Europe Is la Arms. On the one hand Austri-Hungary and Germany are opposed by Russia. France, (Great Brltabf. Servia, and Montenegro. Italy has declared her neutrality, but is mobolizing. Belgium, Holland and Switzerland have mobolized. The German demand that the eBlgian goveitament should; ermit the free passage of German troops through Belgium was answered bv hasty preparation to resist such an advance across Belgian territory. Sweeden has made no answer to Inquiries from R-fssia and Germany regarding her attitude, but is prearing to defend her neutrality. Japan is making ready to live up to her alliance with Great Britain in case of certain eventualities. Spain is reported to be preparing a proclamation of neutrality. Austria-Hungary for the moment has retired from her campaign against Servia for thp purpose of holding back RusBia, and Servia has mobolized with the reported intention of invading Bosnia. Latest News from the Front. Brussels, via Paris, August 6?1.38 a. m.?Several thousand dead and wounded is the toll paid by the German army of the Meuse for its attack on Liege. The Belgians made a heroic rpnnlalnff fVim ? ** ? - WAV* mci iiinun tuier (heavy and continuous fighting. The fortified positions of Liege had to support on Wednesday the general shock of the German attack. The Belgian forts resisted the advance fiercely and did not suffer. One Belgian squadron attacke dand drove back six German squadrons. Eight hundred wounded Germans are be ng transferred to the city of Liefe where they will be cared for. Prior to the attack on Liege Gen. Von Emmich, commanding the German army of the Meuse, issued a proclamation calling for an open road through Belgium for the advance of his forces, and, suggesting that pru, dence would show it the duty of the avo The Germans committed repressions against the civil population of the town of Vise, eight miles north of Liege, burning the city and shooting , many residents. i I * Odd-Looking Shark's Egg. A shark's egg is one of the oddest loosing inings imaginaDle. It Mi unprovided with shell, but the contents : are protected by a thick, leathery covering, almost as elastic as India rubber. The average size is 2 b7 2% Inches, and It is almost Jet black. Quite Right. Teacher of Botany in Girls' School r ?"Now for a little review. What can you tell me. Miss Smith,' of the longevity of bacteria?" Miss Smith?"I? I don't remember exactly, but I think they are longer than they are wide." I Wise Johnny 8mlth. | "Mother, you know the way me and Johnny Smith play I'm Indians an' ne e BoiaiersT" "res, dear; whet of 1 it?" "Well, If I don't let him lick me every time we play, he eaya 1 aren't 1 Mtrlntln ??, C.PTlturV Dog Had Appetite for Chicken. A chicken-stealing dog. In the Dumbarton (Scotland) district, recently oo, casioned some anxiety to a number of hen keepers. On a thorough search , being made a number of fowls were recovered buried in a field. Some , fowls were eaten, and those not re, quired for immediate use were hidden. , It was discovered that the cause of the trouble was a large black Labr* dor dog, which has been roaming the district at will for several weeks. .i Explanation of Potlateh. The word potlatch Is a corruption of an Indian word common among the 1 Pacific coast tribes, meaning fes tival of gifts. At s patshstl (potlatch) celebration tbe more personal property an Indian gives away, blast kets, ornaments, etc., tbe higher s?e stands In the estimation of his neighbors, and the more he expects to reoelve In return at the next potlatch. The festival Is also accompanied by music, dancing and feasting. I4' N V V I _ \ * Wanted every automobile owner In Cheraw, Cole Hill and Steerpen townships to ahow his love (or "Good Roads" by sending Prank Kins, County* Supervisor, FIVE DOLLARS sa his free-will offering to the National Cap to Cap Juniper Valley Highway. Do it now, for Ave dollars worth of labor and clay looks like a mountain' to the eople Who are trying to build ( this route. Summer Coughs Are Dangerous Summer colds are dangerous. They indicate low vitality and often lead to serious Throat and Long Troubles, Including Consumption. Dr. King's New Discovery will relieve the eoq?h or cold promptly and prevent com- ^ plications. It is soothing and antis- ^ epttc and makes you feel better at once . To delay is dangerous?get a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery 50c. and $1.00 bottles at your Drug50c. and fl.OObottles at your Druggist. vnAPrall XIV. ? . *N Journey's End. Handgun dined alone. Ho was ia disgrace; be was sore, mentally as well as physically; and he ate his dinner without relish, in simple obedience to those well-regulated periods of hunger that assailed him three times a day. in spring, summer, an tumn and winter. By the time the waiter had cleared away the dishes, Harrlgan bad a perfect? between his teeth (along with a certain matrimonlal bit), and smoked as if he had . \ wagered to finish the cigar in half the V usual stretch. He then began to walk the floor, much after the fashion of a man who has the toothache, or the earache, which would be more to the point. To his direct mind no diplomacy was needed; all that eras necessary was a few blunt questions. Nora I could answer them as she chose. 'Nora, his baby, his little girl that used to run around barefooted and laugh h? V- ? - Ul? 11UU4M1 ranH How children grew And never grew too old tor tbe birch^^^^H^^^H oertalnly never did. They heard him from the room; tramp, tramp, tramp. -Let him be. Noca," said gam, wisely. in something. And your the easiest man to approe^^^^^^^^^^^^^H mad. he fought Mr. believed he had some -Mother, there a believe yon are *T am always only because I that 1 your -Srfl