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r -mJ m-n ^ . ? . " . >y ? T ;? ?? *???? KIoitimt ?J?U Km |*y. l !??? lirsl time ill I went \ .venrs J^lorcin-e <i>uiit.v jit il Is empty. ,\'ot ,, (iiImMH'I Is lloUKetl within lis wh)ls. |s a most unusual condition even fit (hi-- hh'sMHl county, and .luiu-r nryrtMl svtlivcl.v knows how to <x\nij>^ vis tluK'i Mo ha* taken UdvuntuKo of i |ii< o|?|H>rt unity, however, to haw a ^tiirral cleaning ULusuid has had every .'II scrubbed from V?vlllnj; to Hqm\ The ?*oM4ilTtn? tmvo at?<? tavn uiwu thorough attention, tiiut whon ho gets through, tho Jail will I^iH cMii as new Jailor Itrvant hU.vs tho emnMiifxti of iho Jail at Mil* time t* duo In i u?*l> t<? (lit* -? ? ? ? it \ .?f ll(|ii<M'N Klorrlirc IMlHt'M ThO Huoooxsor tt? i h?? la to Kov. \V. It. Wharton ax suinMlntontk'ni of Kp worth Oiphaiutco will not lx> cIihUmI until NovoinVair. "Summer? I Don't Dread It!" "/BOOKING will be a real pleasure ^^this su primer on my New Perfec tion Oil Cook Stove ? for the kitchen will be cool!" Why cook over a hot range in a hot kitchen when yon can be cool and comfortable. The New Perfection Oil Cook Stove , the stove with the long blue chimney, works like a gas stove. The long blue chimney gives a perfect draft, assures a clean, odorless heat and lasting satisfaction. The fuel cost is only two cents for a meal for six. New Perfection Oil Cook Stoves are made in many styles and sizes. They are sold by most good dealers who will gladly show them. Look for The Long Slue Chimney Use Aladdin Security Oil to obtain the best results in Oil Stoves, Heaters and Lamps STANDARD OIL COMPANY Washington, D. C. Norfolk, V?. Richmond, Va. (New Jersey) BALUMORH MD. i Charlotte, N. C. Charleston, W. Va. Charleston, S. C. ''its thelong BLUE CHIMNEY** Wake up - i *?s? miff Ben of Buslfl?w? I The Bell Telephone 1? the Big ?e iRing up on the BelL ,tfU you i08e I You may talk about save your pour breath but it wo? it^rjanhone. I breath to talk into your Bell Te fresh Hit t Ring up old customer, then "tart ? c that lof prospects, the** is no jg I ?aves more time jg? exp****?~- ~ now I If you haven't iiBett Telephone, get I Call the Tlniiin w offto# war retel I SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAM COMPANY Hakvespng on ac.hilc island T LAST we came where the road ended and stood opposite the seldom visited Island of Acliill Beg. There was only one thing for us to do ? that was to shout and shout until someone on the island heard us and launched a boat to ferry us across, writes a traveler to the Emerald Isle. In Ireland. Wo talked whilp we waited about the ul tra-nationalism of the friend we were going to visit. There had been a projoct to build a causeway from this peninsula of the mainland to the is land of his sojourn. Our friend ob jected because he did not want tho 2f> families he lived amongst to be cor rupted by an alien culture. We shout ed again. Then we saw a stir on tho island and know that a boat was being launched. Another wayfarer had come up and was waiting to cross over with us. This was a young woman who thought little of nursing her baby while she waited. She had taken the child to some far-away dispensary upon tho peninsula and had received a pronouncement upon its sickness. Now she held It and talked to it as If it was a treasure ? as if it was won derful she had got the child back so far. This young woman took our phrases in Gaelic as good conversa tional coin. Most native speakers talk to learners either scornfully or patronizingly, but she talked trusting ly, as if we had the Gaelic "like the flowing sea," as they say. It was evi dently that our friend on the island J had brought no hint of paucity in Gaelic speech. He lived with one of the island families in the utmost discomfort. Meat the people seldom saw. and they burnt it when they undertook to took it. They boiled potatoes well enough. But no amount of repetition could get them to make drinkable tea. Our friend had a room that had no catch on its door and he was waited upon by a barefooted girl. His mental nour ishment seemed as zestless as his physical fare. There were books on his shelf, but they were dictionaries, grammars, textbooks, handbooks, ex ercises in translation, volumes of propagandist journals. There was one thing in the room that promised some delight ? our friend's fiddle. We knew how well he could play the music of fishers and shepherds of Gae lic Scotland and Ireland. A Stronghold of Gaelic. He held this remote Island as a lonely post In a battle that seemed long lost ? a battle of languages civilization. Gaelic might be surren dered or sold on the mainland or in the big islands, but hero 25 families would be drilled to hold and keep it. Actually ho had made this island the one spot in the British Islands whore English is a decaying language. Fie had found it flourishing here and Hae lic weak and ready to give out. He bad restored Gaelic. The young men and young women who would spend six months of the year in the fields of England and East Scotland sj?uke no English here. We saw him fling the door open and dart out like a weasel when he heard an English phrase used by someone in the main room. But the harvester was speak ing of "The Midland Great Western Railway" and how contd a name like that be put Into Gaelic? He was giving a lecture that night, and we followed him as be went. Ian" tern in hand, To the sch'oolhouse. We passed closed houses before which geese seemed to sleep standing. We walked amongst ^ucks that gave one the Impression that they were truants from school ? they slipped Into pools of water and pushed out. "They'll say nothing about it; they'll say nothing about it," they- told each other in quacking undertones. We crossed the gtepplng stones and came to the scbooTfiouse. Inside we lighted lamps and waited. Hare you aeen a herd of mountain ponle* break down a road? So they rushed in, the inland girls who came to our friend's lecture. No one else came. They flupg> themselves about the room until tbey were winded. Then they became less disorderly. At last, having trepanned then between school desks, oar frletti begun lilt leo-. ture. When he whb three-quarters through they showed some disposition to break away. But the power of tho human eye held them for a space long or. Then It became necessary to ap ply the voice threateningly: "Now Ilrighld," "Now Oona," "Now Slav." At last, by opening wide the door, ho signified that the lecture was over. Brighid, Oona. Slav. Oauth and the others bolted out. Comfort of Pent Fire?. The peat fires make it possible to live in houses that are drenched with constant rain. On tho outside walls where the thatch drips down you see the green of the damp. But Inside, with the pile of burning peat on the ( hearth, everything is dry and warm. Naturally, the people do not keep their good friends tjie horse or the cow from the kindly warmth. T}ie family sits about the fire, and at. the end of tho room the horse stands as quiet and as well-behaved as a guest could be. From infam y tho children are in timate with the animals; at three one can drive the cow whore it should go, at five ono rides on a pony behind hampers of sea wood. Tho people have a fuller life than those who have no friendliness with horses or cattle. And yet we have heard II. Q. Wells speak of such people as parasites liv ing upon animals. Wo suppose it would bo impossible for the groat pro phot of machinery to understand that people may live with animMs, and be better human beings for tho expert ence. In the house where my friend stays, around the fire in the living room, a few young men are seated. They are not dressed Jn the flannels of the is land. nor in the ready-mades one might buy in a town on the mainland, but in ragged elothes that suggest Lanca shire. They are returned harvesters. Prom April until October the young men and women of the island work for the farmers of England and East Scotland, crossing over with the gangs that go from the west of Ireland. For the rest of the year the young men atay on the island, putting in their time working on fields on which the plow cannot be put or fishing in boats that do not go miles out to sea. The main income of the island is earned abroad. The young men and women come back with from ?12 to ?20 in their pockets. This goes to pay the rent, the shop debts, or buys tea and the bag of flour or meal. The English that the young men can speak is scanty and is eked out with a good many oaths. Abroad they have the name of being good workers. Music of Crickets and Sea. In our friend's room the peat fire is lighted also. He takes up his fiddle and sits down on his bed until the barefooted girl comes into the room with an apron full of peat. The fire is Renewed, and it Is time to go to bed. .A mattress is laid on the floor, and our friend shows us how to make a sailor's bed, folding the blanket into a .sleeping bag, into which we insert ourselves. Then we lie down at the fire. The visitors have left the room above and the people of the house have gone to bed. It Is now the hour of the crickets. They riot about the fire in the living room, making a continuous noise. And the noise of the crickets bas for a background the noise of the sea ? a score of yards from the house it dashes upon the island. But at last comes sleep, and we hear no more un til a sea bird cries in the silence of the morning. Then a young harvester comes into the room with another arm ful of peat, and the fire, which was slumbering down In the ashes, breaks up again. Hread and tea and eggs soop come our way, and our friend talks of taking us to shoot wild goats on the high places of the peninsula. iyjr ? ? ? ^ Eighteen of One Family Killed In War. Court Chamberlain Count Carl von -Wedel-Plesdorf, the head of one of the most distinguished aristocratic fam ilies in Germany, reports that since the beginning of the war five counts and thirteen barons Von Wed el have given their lives for their country. Seventeen other members of the fam ily hare bees badly wounded aad five slightly wounded. I loth I 'rtMH N?mo CHIy. ' ImhnnaitolM. I ml, Juno 1(i. Kor tin* tilXt luno in l lir hlsttu ,\ of Auu ii. iii imlMh's, (h?* oan?lMMto* for tho vhv jovsMomw of luitli t In* luuMH iailo ami Ui<|iiil>|)ciia |?artlos mo N'om I ho *aim\ oil \ v I lli|ltllMI|H>)l>4. V loo I -roKUlout ^lai*hall. w lu? wa* rononiiiuiiotl l?\ aoolaniMtlon hI I lit* ^ l.ouU voiivontioii lust nl?hf, and I'harf. 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