The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 26, 1920, Image 2
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NEIGHBORS f
| By MARIA M. CALLAHAN.
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The sky was a leaden pray and the
rain came down with the quiet per isteney
of a hoplessly wet day. Warwick
Chambers had its gay red and
white awnings tightly furled, presenttog
orderly rows of windows for the
fceavens to wash. Against one of these
windows a childish face was pressed,
.gazing disapprovingly out on the sod
den landscape.
About a month before. May Dutton
had been offered a position in one of
the city's commercial schools. As the
mortgage on the old homestead was
to be foreclosed, the little teacher
gladly accepted and, with her small
sister, had faced the ordeal .of city
life. Today for the first time the little
girl was left alone, for a feverish
?old had kept her from school. Mazie
had promised to come horn? as soon as
-Class was dismissed, but the hours
dragged dreadfully, and after a lonecome
luncheon, Gladys was seized with
the siplrt of wanderlust
An ornamental iron balcony was
utslde the windows and Gladys was
delighted when a fat robin alighted on
the rail and cocked a wary eye at her.
She cautiously opened the window for
clearer view, thrusting out her head
to watch him flirt his wings at her
from the farthest edge. Then her eyee
fall on the next window, also looking
eat on the balcony.
The next suite waa occupied by a
mysterious creature that the Janitor
called a "bookworm," and Gladys bad
die liveliest curiosity concerning him.
There were two long hours yet to wait
for Mazle; the next window was
temptingly near and the balcony bad
? floor of slender Iron bars. In a
twinkle she was out one window and
fazing In at the next at the cocoon,
as it were, of the worm. i
The walls were lined with rows and
rows of books, and near the center,
In front of the fireplace, an tromense
easy chair held out its amis Invitingly.
Among all those books there must
be some fairy stories. If the window
was only unfastened she wouldn't hurt
any thing by just looking. The rain-1
drops began to drip off her curls, Into
her eyes and down her neck. The window
was nntocked and Gladys stepped
Into the room.
Shelf after shelf of celebrated titles
were passed over, but finally, In a low!
comer, she discovered a row of shabby ,
volumes. "Swiss Family Robinson," [
"Gulliver's Travels," "Robinson Crusoe,"
and another book, not quite so
worn, "Treasure? From Fairyland."
Holding It tightly, she tiptoed over
to the armchair for Just a peep. It
seemed the worm liked chairs that
were soft and snuggly, and the perch
an its edge and a peep in the book resulted
In an ecstatic wriggling and
nestling down Into the tobacco-scented
cushions, while the tall clock in the
corner ticked off the minutes.
A rainy day in the city always
, strained John Grayson's patience. It
seemed to draw out all the latent
cossedoe88 In his pupils as well as to
befog their wits.
An hour later M&zie came along
with much the same thoughts In her
Blind, when the wind took her umbrella.
blew her up the steps and In
through the door, which It obligingly
dammed after her. She walked softly
from the elevator to her door to
surprise Gladys and found herself confronted
by a card which read: "Call
Kext Door." The sinking of her heart
Stopped before she knocked, for she
beard Gladys laugh. Then the door
opened and above John Grayson's
bass rose an excited treble.
"Oh. Mazle, I was so lonesome and
1 found the loveliest book and the
worm l? aw-flv nice!"
"We haven't an open fire and I really
am cold," she pleaded. Mazie knelt
down by her instantly, fondling her
bands and touching her cheek anxiously.
"Suppose we have tea here and
toast the kiddle by the fire till bed'
time and then HI carry her home,"
suggested John. "She surely cant
Ottch cold then," be added artfully.
Some way a quiet pipe did not seem
o alluring as it had earlier In the afternoon.
So the table was rolled up
by the fire and John produced crock*
dry and various utensils from soms
most unexpected places. Mazle cams
back after a short absence In her preh
ty house gown, bringing wtth her the
plummy cake she bad brought home
for tea. It was a hilarious evening
and John carried home a very happy
little girl.
Whep be came back the room
earned very empty. Reaching for
bis pipe be sat before the fire a long
time, picturing Mazle opposite him
again In her soft bine gown.
It was, of coarse, necessary to Inquire
after the invalid's health next
day. From that it was easy to slip
Into intimate neighborly relations, especlally
as Gladys appropriated hlro
as her own particular property. Then
John's evenings at home began to be
given more to reverie than to study
and he developed also a carious In-,
ability to pass a florist shop.
One late afternoon he stopped at
Marie's door with a tall sheaf of roses
and found her alone, playing softly In
the twilight Such propitious circumstances
were immediately Improved
by John and the "blessed little word"i
was his answer. When Gladys cams
romping In latar John's roses were
Woor-lr?g sedately on the piano, but
tweeter roses bloomed la Maxie't
dutt&A. i
Little Maids in tl
Symb
Giniing College, at Nanking, Is Girls' 8
tion of 111,000,000?Interchureh \
The way to all things at Giniing lies
through the moon door. And through'
thA mmn Hoor on the vav to wisdom I
pass and repass, every day, the 70
Chinese maidens of the "gung-gwan."
The moon door at Ginling is round
as the full moon, whence It has its
name. And the Chinese maiden, as
she steps over Its high sill, may spread
wide her arms and still not touch Its
rim with the tips of her fingers.
Sometimes across the court yard is
another moon door, and beyond it, like
a smaller concentric circle, still another,
leading on through that Chinese
puzzle of a house, the "gung-gwan" or
official residence at Nanking. China.i
which is now the home of Ginling College
for Chinese girls?one of the'
three women's colleges in all China.
The moon door is but a single feature
of the old place. Once inside the
high stone walls that enclose it one is
lost in a maze of courts and galleries
and covered passages and isolated
rooms.
The whole is China, old China and
new. The moon doors and the :irchitecture
as a whole lend the dignity
and the greatness of old China. But
the laboratories and dormitories, libraries
an! studies made from the old
rooms r' date and ceremony ur? mod-|
i as the force of America is!
behind ?' all, repi-e^ented by the fire!
Anient, a missionary organizations'
HELD IN MOCKERY;
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"Kangaroo Courts" Instituted by
Australian Convicts.
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Wwniw at Botany Bay Said to Have
Invented Idea to Relieve the Ma- j
no tony of Their Ex latencySpread
to United States.
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Kangaroo court la an expreaalon
which, however strange It may be to
the layman, la familiar to moat United
States marshals, post office inspectors
and the police forces of large dties,
remarks a writer In the Detroit News,
What it really stands for is explained
by a poet office inspector who has had
much experience with offenderi and
criminals.
It appears that In a number of the i
larger prisons In this country 'the prisoners,
from time to time, are accustomed
to hold what they call kangaroo
court, and that every notorious criminal
in the United States Is probably
not only familiar with the term, but
has no doubt presided often enough
as judge or prosecuting attorney in
this relation, or perhaps has been tried
for some of the numerous mock
charges that are preferred against
those who have the misfortune to be
haled before such a tribunal.
8uch a court is held only In the
great prisons of the country, being
entirely unknown In the country jails.
The institution of kangaroo court
seems to date back some 40 years In
the United States.
In the days when Australia was a
penal colony the convicts at Botany
Bay, by way of atnuslng themselves
and relieving the monotony of prison
life, used to organize a sort of mock
court at which the shrewdest and often
the worst criminals of the lot presided
as judge, while others acted as
jurymen, prosecuting attorneys, bailiffs.
criers and the like.
AC sucn ina;s tne prisoners were
wont to take on recent arrivals from
England on all manner of mock
charges, such as snoring too loudly,
washing their faces with soap, and so
on. If it was found that among the
batch of new-comers, convicts Just
from the old country, there were several
who possessed money, court was |
immediately convened and the ones
suspected of having funds were haled j
up on the charge of having red hair or j
wearing box-toed shoes.
The trial was held with mrck gravi-!
ty and decorum, and In the end the j
prisoner would be found guilty and ,
fined whatever amount ^ie was known |
to have on his person for the offense ,
charged. The money &us obtained
te "Moon Door''
pe of New China
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chool In Five Provinces With Popula*
Yorld Movement to Aid Institution. .
and the American Smith Collegi
which maintain Ginling, la modern.
One pnshea ajar the halves of s
moon door, latticed over .paper ix
plum blossom and honeycomb design
and. enters a chemical laboratory sel
up in a room with 20 windows, each
framed in dragon tracery. And from
the flagstones of the laboratory floor
often is scraped fungi and mould fot
use under the microscope.
These are typical contrasts of Oin
ling College, revealed through thf
survey of the Chinese field now beini'
made by the Interchurch Wort (
Movement, which seeks to promote tha
closer co-operation of Protestam
Churches of America in attaining theii
world aims.
Qinling College, the survey shows
is at the heart of five Chinese prow
inces, with a total population of 110/
000,000?and is the only woman's col
lege in that great area.
Ginllng owns 37 acres of land on
the hills beside the Yangtze river. Id
the Interchurch World Movement survey
of China, there is a budget item
of $500,000. It is there to show the
churches of America how they can
place upon that land on the hill the
librcy, administration building, reel
tat ion buildings, chapel?all that ar?
njeded (or a modern college
would be divided among the old, longterm
convict*, who would buy tobacco
and other luxuries with It, while the
victim of this form of extortion would
have no recourse except to await- the
time when he himself got a chance to
preside as judge or sit on the Jury
at the trial of some new arrival.
It was called kangaroo court because
in those days the Botany Bay convicts
spoke of themselves as kangaroos, an
animal very abundant, as everybody
knows, in Australia.
The Institution, as well as the term,
traveled from Australia to England,
whither it was brought by returning
Botany Bay convicts, whose terms had
expired. It had a short life in England,
however, where It was speedily
discovered by the jailers and turnkeys
and broken op; but It was not long
afterward that it foond Its way Into
the prisons of the United States, where
it has remained ever since.
Girl Advertises for "Dates.*
Ac advertisement which, the advertising
department of Columb'a university's
daily newspaper, Spectator. Rays
is the legtironte appeal of a young
woman, appeared recently in the publication
as follows:
"Are you bound by convention? A
Columbia girl from out of town, cultured,
well bred and fairly good looking,
wishes to make the acquaintance
of several men In order to be introduced
at Columbia functions. She Is
entirely unconventional and Is willing
to meet the men half way by paying
all expenses. Strictly confidential.
Address B 36, Spectator."
The students who publish Spectator,
the New York World says, profess lg
norance of the identity of the young
woman or whether the number 36 had
any reference to the age or figure of
the advertiser.
Hundreds of masculine students are
awaiting replies from her, the advertisement
having been well answered.
Tree-Spraying Apparatus.
One of the developments of the fight
against tree pests is a mobile power
sprayer that Is touring the middle
west, working in certain localities
only so long as its services are demanded.
then moving to another field.
A solution containing arsenate of lead
1 ? "or In ornrm urOfi fh.
IB useu iu me b|/iu,ici >u .. ? ? ..
er, and one made with lime and sul?
phur In cold weather.?Popular Science
Monthly.
Nailed at Last
"Aren't you a bit of a profiteer on
these epgsr
"No," protested Farmer CorntosseL
"It's the hen. She insists on the most
expensive food In unlimited quantt*
ties."
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ITS UNWISE I
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FOR SALE
Seventy-Four (74) acre tract of
land in Hope Township, adjoining
Estate T. A. McDaniel, deceased, now
being advertised for sale. 47 acres
cleared and in good state of cultivation.
One 4-room dwelling and one
corn barn with sheds situated thereon.
For information, apply to Lee &
Shuler, Attorneys, Kingstree, S. C.,
or J. W. Kirby, pwner, Greelyville,
S. C., Route 2. 2-12-3t.
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Avery's combination corn and cott
planters. Also a full line of fana^H
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