The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, August 30, 1923, Image 2
The
Custard
Florence Binfham Livingston
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UNCLE JERRY
aTNOPSia.-UvInf? In a bam,
cdnverted Into a dwelling, Mrs.
Penfleld Is manager of KVf apart
ment building known as "The Cus
tard Cup,” originally “Clustar
Court." Her Income Is derived
from laundry work, her chief pa
tron being a Mrs. Horatlus Weath-
erstone, whom she has never seen.
Living with her are "Crlnk" and
"Thad," homeless small boys whom
she has adopted. They call her
‘Penile." Thad tells Penile a
strange man was Inquiring for her
under tier maiden name. A tenant,
Mra Ouesle Hoeley, Induces Penile
to take charge of a package, which
she daes with some misgivings
Searching a refuss dump for things
which might be of value. Crlnk.
veteran at the game, encounters a
email girl, l^ttlk. who proves a
foe man worthy of h»e ete#| He
takes her to Penile and Isttle gets
an tavitattog to join the family.
Cm AST l * III —CPAttniM*.
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* CHAPTER IV
Urtelg Jkrry.
Many tlmea Mrs. I'enfleld had npecu-
la tod about the Identity of the man
who hud boon iteurcldnjf far her-—who
had even traced her to The Cuaturd
Cup and then failed to find her. Sev
eral days hud passed since Thad’s re
port, and she had neurd nothlriK fur
ther; neither hud she the slightest
clue, except that it must have been
someone out of her girlhood, «ut of
the past from vyhlch^she had sup
posed herself cut off by the severing
of all close ties. That past was filled
Hvlth painful memories.
It was not an unmixed Joy to know
that a previous acquaintance might
he near and that at any moment she
might be called upon to talk casually
of those years which were burled
deep In her heart. The very sound of
her maiden name had stirred lethar
gic recollections Into renewed life,
Into the power of shooting like darts
of agony through ths commonplaces
of dally routine.
Inevitably, since Imagination Is a
more vivid artist than reality, she had
exaggerated the posalbllltlea of the
encounter, antlciiwtlng them with a
dread which ahe was far from feeling
when that encounter actually or
rurrrd. She even answered the ring
of the hell with the arrrne conviction
that a neighbor waa railing.
nsssmlng.* ahe railed bright'
ly, a* *he rolled aafcle the Mg door.
A nwa afnssd an (he warped hsmnf
that !•«•* the pla«w a# frwM atepa. lie
• aa aMmd t#Vf yearn oM. ragged
nenther Wwi*a. gKIng (he igaprwaanMk
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-Ten
t gnd • lod* Mm iWnley
1>n Ml •
Mir. telling anybody that
bnm-
A
••e •* the alana 4 John J.
of heottle. an attlvn new.hm of tho
Aner;-aa legbiA Ha haa Joined
i " ade Klllefer. fornserly manager of
rnrd on a;
caiia tn ea
"All r1fht. M j ^ Angelea rluh of the raclAc
"And If anybody dua^mme, trtll ( leagie. and tltarlea J. IxK'kard,
you please aay Tve gone same- w *‘ 11 kno * n Waahlngtoo hu«lneaa man
inento and won't l»a back for a coupla i ^ ,p P urr haae of the 'club. Harry
daya?" - - ' Wolverton, ace-of-nianngers of pen-
Mr>. I'enfield's eyea grew wide. ® nn I* < 'haslng hall Cluha In the West,
"Sure I will," . she said slowly, "If wn " B ‘*l«‘ r ted to lend the club.
you’ll do your part.
"My part! What do you mean?"
“I moan If you’ll go to Sacramento."
"Ain’t you smart?" snapped Mrs.
Bosley, "I ain't asking you to do a
crime. Ain’t no harm in your saving
me a little bother.”
"Ain’t no bother saved by doing a
little harm, either," retorted Mrs.
Penfleld pleasantly. “I’m always glad
to help out, hut I can’t go so far’i
that. I’m sorry."
“Very well.” (tussle tossed her head
angrily. "All I got to say Is. you'll
trip over something bigger, holding
your head so stiff.” She turned with
a wrathful flourish and clicked off,
her high heels pounding out echoes
from the sides of the narrow alley.
"Some little lady!" commented Jerry ,
Winston, with a laugh. “Hot and pep
pery like a Spanish sauce!" Ills face
straightened; his merry eyes grew
keen and c»4<I. "You don’t like Mrs.
Bosley, do you?*’
She stared at hint. “How did you
know who 'twaaf
He shrugged. "Oh. I've met hat
Imoltend. Saw 'em together ogee."
-Where r
" TN.wat.ora*" he tniralrked. "Nj*
la yarmmratn."
Sullivan was born In Massachusetts,
but preferred the thrilling environ
ment of the West to the classic sur
roundings of Cape Cod. He arrived
In Seattle In 1904 and set about to
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Why He Called
It “Portland”
Cement
. In 1824s an English mason wantd to
produce a better cement than any thn in
use. To do this he burned finely grand
clay and limestone together at a fcgh
heat. The hard balls [called clinker] hat
resulted were ground to a fine powler.
When a mixture of this dull gray poWer
with water had hardened, it was the ccor
of a popular building stone quarried »n
- the Isle of Portland off the coast of £15'
land. So/this mason, Joseph Aspdii,
called his discovery “portland” cement.
That was less than one hundred yea*
ago. >
Portland cement was not made in the
United States until fifty years ago. The
average annual production for the ten
years following was only 36,000 sacks.
Last year the country used over 470,000,*
000 sacks of portland cement. Capacity
to manufacture was nearly 600,000,000
sacks.
Cement cannot be made everywhere
because raw materials of the necessary
chemical composition are not found in
sufficient quantities in every part of the
country- But it is now manufactured in
27 sutn by 120 plants. There is at least
one of these plant* within shipping dis
tance of any community in this country*
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ih*>rt by ih** ••ntrnniv of llu* n»*'v n«|»- |
Itallitt. (>n<* cl.in«M» at tho occupant i
of the wash bench reduced hi* high j
enthusiasm to 11 round, double stare,
framed in amber eyelashes.
“Thad,” said Mrs. I'enfleld for
mally, “look what we b'ot while, you
were cone." With the n^ate ladle she
pointed toward Lottie with the air of
nn entomologist who indicates a par
ticularly fantastic hup. "This here's
Lettle. And Lottie, this here’s Thad,"
Havlnp thus separated their person
alities with the convenient ladle, she
reached for another bowl.
The sotting of the table had not
been a difficult thlnp for Crlnk to
learn. On a cloth composed uf^fonr
flour sacks, united by hand, were four
plates, four howls, four tumblers of
Sinter, four spoons, and, In front of
Mrs. I'enfleld, a plate of cornhread,
a small piece of butter, and a knife.
"Now, boys," signaled Mrs. I’enfleld.
"And mind you go alow and mean
what you *ay,’ You know (tod can t
hear /lofting unless you mean It."
Then the mixed rhorua said slowly:
’i.ard. we thank Thf# 'cause we fnt
big appetite* and good thing* to —t
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fW r»torse that WWWa all wagderera
as Whigd a vwrtalg «sf tacit rrtttet—a
Jerry W Igsfng cleared hta thr—t
"It • mighty little I g— to (HI y**u I
"Vnit raytolf," be began It
makea me b>ncsa>nke to think of the
life |\e had to giro np. Se«-ma like
1 can smell the wimnU In my dreams.
I could smell 'em when 1 was a young
ster. and finally I couldn't stand it
any longer. That's why I ran away.
But that wasn’t why I didn't keep in
ioUeh," he added qulekly. "No, sir,
that was 'cause the family didn't for
give me for not 'staying home and
going Into the store, us they’d planned.
So naturally' I—’’ He finished the
sentence with a wave of his hand.
“And now you’re living near here?"
He TresTFated.
over,’!
‘‘Yes. a Tew blocks
* ■ y
be' replied vaguely. “I dtopf
know whether I shall hang-’rompt or
Depends!" :
not.
Her line eyes grew deep with sym
pathy. "Do you mean you can’t find
anything to—to do?” ^
—"Pm try Ing but o
*SJMw fmm, mi mrntm *
f 1 *—* sassawHa—
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TW4 tofiltod to tfmm «W EMrW—
“My tltowp* - —W4 Jerry Wta—.to
"IW that lit I to sKasto ho>»togs »• »•—
do— W? | dhte t kgto* yog had agy
jo«gg»icrs
"I ha« e two—three—by adnpttsag."
"Queer you ain't sure of the oum-
l>er." hg eonuiientrst «lyljr.
•rige of them la brand new," she
smllesl. "I Imven't bnd her hut u day.
Thud, dear, this Is your Uncic Jerry.
\ t tb.it ftfegf
While they were getting gcquninted,
Mrs. IVnlield went into the kltelien.
"We’ll have luneh pretty soon," sbw
calbsl hack. ‘Tve got some cornhread
warming in the oven, and I’m making
dried-beef gravy. I*ve been saving a
Jar of strawberries hoping we’d have
company, and now I can open it for
one of my very own family. Ain't it
Wonderful?”. ,
Mrs. Penlield circled around by the
front door. "It’s time for Crink," slm
saiiL looking out into-tho driveway"
•"(lobd inorning, Lorene. Ev’rything
going smooth Ii’
tt# 1*4
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l-rgb 11 |n hrhalf of the laboring man
was tolresl by I'rrsUtont John Walker
of the Illinois Federation of !.ahor at
a recent state conference of legion
couninndeni and udjutunts of Illinois.
"Unloniam Is indebtetl to the Legion
for the fight you waged against unre
stricted immigration which prevented
the dumping of foreign hordes upon
our shores to destroy the standard of
living and of wages," he said. “No
union man can help hut feel grateful
• to you for this."
President Walker showed how much
a part of one another the Legion and
Federation are by quoting some fig
ures :
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1» Ws*t ?-tb St v.w Tork
* ! union men coujd not help but -stand
, sltl """ S ”““ 1 ' f ™- for the Sam. |,rin, lp l m ,h«
was unmLs. ttires. and masses of -sunny brown
or two things,’’
he answered .shortly.
Tills time
takable. Mrs. Penfleld was sorry, she
had pressed the matter. “I do ho/»e,
you’ll'St ay,” ahe Bald. “It has been
lonely, 'fhm? afu’t nobody left—
nobody.”
He hkoked at her kei-nly, pityingly.
-Nobod) r
fthe shook her h—d. “Neither of pl^hlo, and be can’t—be wo®*t
my family »oc— I had * few year* ■ "Wbf. thgt*« (•* ttod. Loeee
“In the last war,” he said, “there
were <380,000 American fighters bear-
_ ,, , t ln K union cards. But if there had not
Lorene Percy paused on her way . — . . . . ,—r. .
—... / been a trade unionist In that war,
past .Number 47. -She was a pretty „ . „ ., ^ . ,
* union nipn rouln nnt h**ln hnt ^fltnnfl
hair. She had an excellent business
position, besides singing in a choir,
and Jdie whs frankly a favorite with
.Mr*. Penlield.
“No, not .everythin*." smiled the
girl. "Dick (*hsee end I have been
Invited on a lovely trip to M»uat
*•.“
, I
of happtws and tb— ■
• lab ym csoebl
tained in your constitution.
“You have pledged your co-operation
In two endeavors of unionism to wIjkj
out Illiteracy fr«>m this country, and In
the campaign for Americanism. A bill
lias recently gone through the legisla
ture raising the educational require
ments of children who have to aorfc
from the sixth to the eighth grade*
Another low provide* kindergarten* f«e
pore rhtldrv a*d atodbor
I tom fto mfpMM rfteMrasL Tboro le a 1
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