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Mann should refuse to be floor leader we would be sorry for the Republicans. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. AIKEN jjs>j © mraoMJ/vcvwJi caw* vy BYNOFBW. CHAPTER I—K. C. Rlekard, an engi neer of the Overland Pacific, 1s called to the office of President Marshall In Tuc son, Arts. "Casey" is an enigma to the office foroe; he wean "dude" clothes, but he had resigned a chair of engineer ing In the East to go on the road as a fireman and hla promotion had been spec tacular. While waiting (or Marshall Rtck ard reads a report on the ravages of the Colorado, despite the efforts of Thomas Hardin of the Desert Reclamation com pany. This Hardin had been a student under Rlckard and had married Gerty Holmes, with whom Rlckard had fancied ha was In love. CHAPTER ll—Marshall tells Rlckard the Overland Pacific has got to step In to save the Imperial Valley and sends him to the break. Rlckard declines be cause he does not want to supplant Har din, but Is won over. "Stop the river; damn the expense," say* Marshall. CHAPTER lll—Rlckard Journeys to Calexlco, sees the Irrigated desert and learns much about Hardin and his work. CHAPTER IV—At the hotel he meet* Mr. and Mrs. Hardin and Innes Hardin, Hardin's half sitter. Disappointed In her 1 husband and an Incorrigible coquette, , Mrs, Hardin sets her cap for her former lover and Invites him to dinner. CHAPTER V—Rlckard visits the com- ! pany's offices and takes control. He finds Che engineers loyal to Hardin and hos tile to him. Estrada, a Mexican, son of the "Father of the Imperial Valley," tella him of the general situation. CHAPTER Vl—Rlckard attends a meeting of the directors and asserts his authority. Hardin rages. Estrada tells Rlckard of his foreboding that his work Will fall. "I can't see It finished." CHAPTER vn— lnnes la discovered In her garden. She tries to cheer up Hardin, who la furious aaalnst Rlckard. CHAPTER VII. A Garden In ■ Desert. His dwelling leaped Into sight us Hardin turned the corner of the street. There was but one street running through the twin towns, flanked by the ditches of running water. The rest were ditches of running water edged by footpaths. Scowling, he passed un der the overhanging bird cages of the Desert hotel without" a greeting for tho loungers, whose chairs were drawn up against the shade of the brick walls. The momentum slackened as Hardin neared the place he called his home. An Inner tenderness diluted the sneer that disfigured his face. He_ could see Innes as she moved around'in the lit tle fenced-in strip that surrounded her desert tent. She Insisted on calling It a garden. In spite of his raillery. "Gerty's In bed, I suppose," thought Tom. He had a sudden vivid picture of her accusing martyrdom. His mouth hardened again. Innes, stooping over a rose, passed^out of his vision. It came to Hardin suddenly that a man has mnde a circle of failure when he dreads going to his office and shrinks from the reproaches at home. "A 'has-been' at forty I" he mused. Where were all his ships drifting? ~ Innes, straightening, waved a gay hand. "She's raising a goodly crop of bar' rels." Bis thought mocked and ca ressed ber. Her garden devotion was H* Loved the Hardin Trait In Her. a tender joke with him. He loved the Hardin trait In her, the persistence which will not be daunted. An occupa tion with a Hardin was a dedication. He would not acknowledge the Innes blood in her. Like that fancy mother of hers? Innes was a Hardin through and through! "It's in the blood," ran hla thought "She can't help It All the Hardlns work that way. The Hardlns always make fools of themselves I" Innes, lifting her eyes from a crip pled rose, saw that the black devils were consuming him again. -Will you look at this wreck r ab« tried. Tho windstorm Ihe previous week had node a sickening devastation of her labors. The m >rnln«Klorles alone were scatheless. A pink oleander drooped many broken branches from wblcb miracle* of perfect flowers were unfolding. The prettiest blossom to Hardin was the gardener herself. She was vivid from eager toll. Hardin looked at her approbatlvely. He liked her klmki salt, simple an a uniform, with lis flowing black tie and leather belt. She looked more like herself to day. She had bleached out, In Tucson. She had been letting herself get too tanned, running around without hats. Sunburn paled the value of those splendid eyes of hers. He could alwayf tease her by likening them to topazes. His eyes ran over the pink and pur- pie lines of cord-trained vines wiiiub made floral screens for her tent. Fres of the strings overhead, they rioted over the ramada, the second roof, of living boughs. He acknowledged their beauty. They gave grace to bare ne cessity; they denied the panting, thirsty desert Just beyond. He remembered his own ramada. Qerty had hated It, had complained of It so bitterly when she came horns from New York that he had had 11 pulled down and replaced by a V roof of pine boards, glaring and ugly. Gertj was satisfied, for It was clean; she nc longer felt that she lived In a squaw house. Let the Indians have rnmadas: there was no earthly reason she should J He had urged that the desert dwellers had valuable hints to give them. Bui what was a remada to him, or anything else? Hardin turned to leave. She did not want him to go so soon. She pointed out a new vine to him. She had brought it from Tucson; "Kudzu," they calhsd It; a Japanest vine. And there was another broken rose, quite beyond the help of stripped handkerchiefs and mesqult splints. He followed her around the tent, hei prattle falling from his grim mood. He was not thinking of her flowers except as a mocking parallel. The deserl storm had made a havoc of his garden —a sorry botch of his life. He and Innes had been trying to make a gar den out of a desert; the desert had Routed them. It was not his fault. Something had happened; something juite beyond his power. Luck was turning against him. Innes, why, she was playing as with a toy. -It was the natural instinct of a woman to make things pretty around tier. But he had sacrificed his youth, Ills chances. His domestic life, too— lie should never have carried a dainty little woman like Qerty into the des >rt. He had never reproached her for leaving him, even last time when he thought It was for good. The word nurned his wound. Whose good? His >r Oerty'sJ Somehow, though they wrangled, he always knew It would turn out all right; life would run smoothly when they left the desert. But things were getting worse; his nouth puckered over some recollec tions. Yet he loved Qerty; he couldn't picture llfo without her. He decided that it was because there had never seen anyone else. Most fellows had ind sweethearts before they married; le had not, nor a mistress when she_ eft him, though God knows, It would save been easy enough. His mouth fell Into sardonic lines. Those half ireed woin^n-f"No one, even when a Jlvorce had hung over him. Oh, he mew what their friends made of each >t Gerty's lengthened flights; he knew I But that had been spared him, that ,'ulgar grisly spectacle of modern life when two people who have been lovers Irng the carcass of their love over the frlmy floor of a curious gaping court. He shuddered. Gerty loved him. Else, .vliy had she come back to him? Why Sad she not kept her threat when he •efused to abandon his desert project ind turn his abilities Into a more jrofitable dedication? He could see ler face as she stared flushing up Into lis that nipping cold day when lie had run into her on Broadway. He remcm >ered her coquetry when she suggest ed that there was plenty of room In ler apartment! His wife! She spoke it seeing his pictures In the papers. 'He hod grown to be a great man!" That piquant meeting, the week fol lowing had been the brightest of his life. He was sure then that Gerty oved lilin. The wrangles were only their different ways of looking at things. Of course, they loved each ither. But Gerty couldn't stand pio neer life. She had loved him, or she would not so easily have been per waded to try It over again. She reamed to make him comfortable, she »ahl. So she had gone back, and pulled down his ramada, and put his clothes In the lowest bureau drawer! "It wasn't either of our faults," be ruminated. "It was the fault of the In stitution. Marriage Itsolf is a failure, l-ook at the papers, the divorce courts. A man's Interests are no longer his wife's. Curious that It should be so. But It's a fact. It is the modern dis content. Women wunt different careers from their husbands'." Vet, how could he help throwing his life Into his work? He had committed himself; It was an obligation. If It I were not for that Indefinable some thing, his allegiance to the cause which | mocked at reasons and definitions; oh, he knew! —he had tllfed' with Gerty and been worsted! —he would havo r«- signed from his company, his company which had dishonored him. Why should be stay to get more- stabs, mors wounds? And the last blow, this pet of SlurshuU'*! Hurdln gave a scant ling In his path a vicious kick. The girl's prattle find died. She walked with him silently. At the door of her tent, she stopped, looklbg at him wistfully. She wished be could hide his hurt. If he had only some of Ir,nes' pride I "Ho* are things?" Hie us-,d their fond little formula. "Oh, rotten!" growled Hardin, fling ing away. The gate slammed behind him. CHAPTER VIII. Under the Veneer. An hoor later Innes, blinking from GRAHAM, N. G., THURSDAY. MARCH 27, 1919 the sun, stepped Into the tent', which had been partitioned with rough red wood boards into a bed chamber ou the right, a combination dining room and "parlor" on the left. Her glance Immediately segregated the three stalks of pink geraniums la the center of the Mexican drawn-work cloth that covered the table. Gerty, herself, In a fresh pink gingham frock, was dancing around the table to the tnne of forki and spoons. It was Just like Gerty tc dress np to her setting, even though II were only a pitiful water-starved bou quet She had often tried to analyM her sister-ln-law's hold on her brother I certainly they were not happy. Was 11 because she made him comfortable' Was It the little air of formality, oi mystery, which she drew around her! Her rooms when Innes was allowed t enter them were always flnwlessj Gerty took deep pride In her house keeping. Why was It, Innes wondered that she could never shake oft her sus plclon of an underlying untidiness-' There was always a closed door ot Gerty's processes. "May I help?" The sun was stU yellowing the room to her. "Hello I" Hardin looked up front the couch where he was lying. Innei suspected It of being a frequent r» treat. She had found it tumbled once when she ran over early. It was then that Gerty made It understood that sh» liked more formality. Innes was rare ly In that tent except for meals now or during her alternating week ol bouse chores. "I was afraid I was late," said the girl. "Lunch will be ready In a few min utes," announced Gerty Hardin. "Wont you sit down? There's the new Jour nal. Sam came to clean this morning, and I couldn't get to the lunch until an hour ago." Innes, settling herself by the reading table, caught herself observing that It would not have taken her an hoor to get a cold lunch. Still, It would neYer look so Inviting I It Gerty's domestic machinery was complicated and pri vate, the results always were admir able. The early tomatoes were peeled as well as sliced, and were lying on a bed of cracked ice. The ripe black olives were resting In a lake of Cali fornia olive oil. A bowl of crisp let tuce had been Iced and carefully dried. The bread was cut In precise triangles; the butter had been shaved Into for eign-looking roses. A pitcher of the valley's favorite beverage, Iced tea, stood by Hardin's plate. There was a platter of cold meats. It came home to Innes for the hun dredth time, the surprise of such a meal In that desert. A few years ago, and whnt had a meal been? She threw the credit of the little lunch to sulky Tom Hardin lying on the portiere-cov ered couch, his ugly lower lip out thrust against an unsmiling vision. It was Tom, Tom and his brave men, the sturdy engineers, the dauntless sur veyors, the Indians who had dug the canals, those were the ones who had spread that pretty table, not the buxom little woman darting about In pink gingham. "Is It because I don't like her?" sho mused, her eyes on the pictures In the style book which had Just come in that morning. Certainly Gerty did havo the patience of a saint with Tom's hu mors. If she would only lose that set look of martyrdom i It was not for an outsider to Judge between a husband and wife, even If the man were her own brother. She could not put her linger on the germ of their painful Nothing Had Been Fergotten. scenes; she shrank from the recollec tion of Tom's temper; bis coarse streak,, the Glngg fiber, her own mother called It. Tom wus rough, but she loved him. Why was It she was sure that Gi-rty did not love her husband? Yet there wus the distrust, as fixed and as unjust i»-rlin|is as the suspicion of Gerty's little mysteries. She said aloud: "This Is your Isst day. My week begins tomorrow." Mrs. Hardin adjusted a precise nap kin before she spoke. "I think I will keep the reins for a n#nth this time." Her words were re flect! ve, as though the thought were new. "I get my baud In Just as I stop. s wll! be running out for my visit In a few weeks. It will lie only fair for me to do It as long as I can." Again the girl had a sense of subtle ty. Whenever Gerty put on that sir of childish confidential deliberation, she hunted for the plot. This wss not fsr to seek. Her slster-in-lsw was pasaing out the hot season to her. "It's all ready." Gerty's glance was winging, birdlike, over the table. Noth ing had been forgotten. Khe gave a little sigh of elastic satisfaction. Har din misinterpreted IL "I ought to tie able to keep a serv ant for her." It wss like him to hsve forgotten the Lawrence days; be was never free of the sense of obligation to the dainty little woman who was born, he felt, for the purple. There wss nothing too good for Gerty. He felt her unspoken disappointments; her deprivations. "Of course, she can have no respect for me. Fin a failure." "Doesn't this give you an appetite?" demanded Innes heartily. "And I'm to be a lady for three more weeks." The remark was thoughtless. A bright flush spread over Gerty's face. She caught an allusion to her origin. Innes saw the blush and remem bered the boarding bouse. She could think of nothing to say. The three relatives sat down to that most uncom fortable travesty, a social meal where sociability Is lacking. Innes said It had been a pleasant morning. Gerty thought It had been hot. And then there was silence again. Innes began to tell them of her Tuc son visit, when Gerty laid down her fork. "I've meant to ask you n hun dred times. Did you attend to my commission In Los Angeles?" "I forgot to tell you. I raked the town, really I did, Gerty." For there was a cloud on Gerty's pretty brow. "I could have got you the other kind, but you sold you did not want It." "I should think not." The childish chin was lifted.* "Those complicated things are always getting out of order. Besides, If I had an adjustable form, everybody'd be borrowing It." "What are you talking about?" de manded Tom, waking up. "Who'd bor row your what, Qertf' "Please don't call me Gort, Tom," besought his wife plaintively. "A fig ure. I wanted Innes to try to get one for me In Los Angeles." "I did try," began Innes. "Yours Is good enough for anyone. Why should you get another?" Ho was openly admiring the ample bust swelling under the pink glnghnm. "Don't, Tom." Innes tried to explain tho sincerity of her search. She had visited every store "which might be suspected of having a figure." She could not bring a smile to her sister's face. "There was none yeur size. They offered to order one from Chicago. They have to be made to order, If they are special sizes. Tou are not stock size, did you know that?" "I should think not," cried Gerty, bridling. "My waist Is absurdly small for the size of my hips and shoulders." Innes wondered If It would bo safe to agree with her. "When will It be here?" "You'll be disappointed." Innes found herself stammering. "But not for six weeks. I did not know whether to order It or not." "And I in Los Angeles with my sum mer sewing nil done! What good will It do me then? 1 * The pretty eyes looked ready for childish tears. "I know. That Is, I didn't know whnt to do," apologized Innes Ilardln. "I decided to order It as I'd found tho place, and was right there, but I made sure that I could countermand the or der by telegram. So I can this very afternoon. I knew you would be dis appointed. I was sorry." "I'll need It next winter," admitted Gerty, helping herself to some of the chilled tomatoes. "I'm sure I'm much obliged to you. I hope It did not put you to much trouble." Tho words raised the wall of for mality again. Innes bent over her plate. "What made you change your plans?" suddenly demanded his wife of ilardln. "When Sam came In with your bag, he surprised me so." "My boss kept me." Hardin's face looked coarse, roughened by his ugly passion. "Itlckard, your old friend. He served a subpoena on me at the station." "Oh," cried Gerty. "Surely, be did not do that, Tom I" "Sure he did." Hardin's face was black with his evil mood. "I'm only an underling, a disgraced underling. He's my boss. He's going to make me re member It." "You mustn't say such things," pout ed his wife. "If It does not hurt you, If you do not care, think how I must feel—" "Oh, rot I" exclaimed Hardin. Tho veneer was rubbed down to the rough wood. Innes saw the coarseness her mother had romplnlned of, the Glngg fiber. "I suppose you think I like lo take ordi-rs, lo Jump nt the snitp of the whip?" He was deliberately beating up his anger Into a froth. "Oh, sure, I do. That's a Hardin, through und through." Again the angry blood flooded his wife's cheeks. He, too, was throwing the boarding house at her. "You did It yourself." Gerty with difficulty wus withholding tho angry tears. "I told you how It would be. You would do It." "Oh, hell 1" cried Tom, pushing back his plate. His sister looked drearily out tho wire-screened door. Her view was a dusty street. Ilardln got up, scraping I his chair over the board floor. "Arid to keep It from me," persisted the wlf& "To let me ask him to dia ler —" "Does thrt dismsl farce bsve to g« on?" domseded Marilln, turning back to tlie table. "You'll have to hflve It without me, then. I'll not stay and make a fool of myself. Ask him to dinner. Mel I'll see myself." Innes wished she wss In the neigh boring tent. Tom wrs lashing himself Into a coarse fury. To her dlsinaf. Gerty burst Into tears. It was killing her, the disgrace, she cried. Bhe couldn't endure It. Hbe couldn't stsnd It there; she had not the courage to go to Los Angeles, where her friends would pity her. It was crushing her. Hhe was not a ilar dln; she was sensitive; she could not Justify everything a Ilardln did as right, no matter what the consequences. The pretty eyes obscured, she rushed, s streaming Niobe, from the room. The brother and sister avoided each other's eye*. Innes rose srid cleared the table of the dishes. Hhe made a loud noise with the running water In the shed, racketing the pans to drown the insistence of Gerty's sobbing. Hhe kept listening for Tom's step. She wsnted to go with hirn when he left; he must not reach tbe office In the blackness of thst mood. Hhe wished he would not betray bis feel ings; yet she knew it was not he who was to klsfne. To be continued. ATMOSPHERE ME AND APPREHENSIVE POLAND BONE OF CONTENTION AND IMMEDIATE SUBJECT OF CONFERENCE DISCUSSION. NEWS IRE WIDELY DIVERGENT Lloyd Qeorgs Fears Denatlonixatlon of So Many Germans Would Cause Another War. Paris.—When the cowcil of great powers met it was in an atmosphere of considerable apprehension over Pol and, which Is the chief subject of die- | cuss lon. This Is not on account of Poland Itself but because of differences which have arisen affecting the funda mental question of nationality, to which President Wilson has given his strong approval and also his thir teenth "point" which called for an in dependent Polish state with access to the sea. This last cause has Introduced an Issue on fhich there Is a wide diverg enceof views. A committee under the chairmanship of Jules Camlbon, with Sir William Tyrell as the British mem ber and Dr. Robert . Lorlld as the American, has reported tho plan giv ing Poland this access to the soa by means of a "corridor" SO miles wide running across east the effect of this concession is to place about 1,600,000 Germans within the new Poland and to detach the eastern most part of Prussia from Gormany. Premier Lloyd George has taken the ▼lew that this denationalization of targe body of Oermans would cause such discontent as wouM be likely to hrlng on another war and It Is under stood that Prosldent Wilson also Is not entirely satisfied with the pro posal. OFFICES OF POSTAL BYBTEM ARE REMOVED DY BURLESON Washington.—Differences between the management of the Postal Tele graph ft Cable Co., and Postmaster General Burleson culminated In an or der by the post'.naster general sum marily relieving the chief officers, di rectors and ownerr. of the Postal com pany from all duties In connection with government operation of their system. An announcement by tho postoffice department says that tho order re moving Messrs. Mnckay, Cook and Deegan from the operation of the Poetal company's lines under govern ment control was "mado necessary by tho fact that since tho pontofTice department refused to grant the com pensation asked for by Ihem. those officials have refusod or failed to fol low out the Instructions of the depart ment Is the management of the prop erties and failed to put Into operation promptly the wage schedule and Hie eight hour dny; and In various ways endeavored to embarrass and discredit the government operation of the wires. NUMBER OF RETURNED TROOP 3 EXCEED ONE-HALF MILLION Washington—The total number of members of the American expedltion ary forces returned to the United Males has passed the half million mark. Tho war department an nounced the actual figure March 19 was 500,#34, including 27.940 officers, >,l4 nurses, *,«83 civilians and 44*,- 241 men of the army. 1J.600 navy per sonnel and 4.474 marines. The strengli of the expeditionary forces March 20 was 1,470,678. DREADED SEVEN-YEAR LOCUST HAS AFPEARED IN VIRGINIA Richmond. Vs. —Reports received by mat* authorities from Bpottsylvasia county indicate that many of the sev en-year locusts which are reported as due to sweep that soctlon of the Btate this year, hnve been plowed up by farmer*. Th» situation has reached a stage where the agricultural depart ment at Washington has detailed en tomologists to that section to study conditions TO FORM ARMED ALLIANCE AGAINST THE ARISTOCRACY Paris—The proclamation of the new Hungsrlsn government Invite* the workmen and peasants of Bohe mia, Ftumapla, Serbia and Croatia to form an armed alliance agnlnot the aristocracy, landowners nsd dynasties It requests nlso that lh- workmen of Austria and Germany follow the of Hungary In hr'-aklng ofr relations with the Paris peace conference. Thoy are requested to rally wllh yio Mos sow government SECRETARY DANIELB HA9 REACHED PORT OF BREST BresL— The American transport Le vlathon. with Secretary of tk« Navy Jesepkus Daniel* on board, arrived hi Brest. Secretary Dasiels was re ceived by the l American naval attache. Admiral Moreau, maritime prefect, sad Hear Admiral Alexander H Hal stead. L' 8 N , district commander at BresL A.detachment of marines with a be*. I acted aa a guard of honor for the secretary, who west to the prefec ture. | Chapel-Hill.—Thai a unit of the Re serve Officers' Training Corps will be estshllsbed at the f?nlverslty of North ! Csrolina at an early date, now ap pears to be a certainty. A total of 114 men have made application for the coureo. 14 more than the necessary quota, and MaJ. 51 Crawford has made formal application to the war depart ment for a unit her*, which he thinks will be organised within tbe neit two or three weeks. The course will be volsnUry. and will osly require three hours a week YELLOW PERIL IN LOWER CALIFORNIA ATTENTION OF JAPANESE M CALLED TO OUR ATTITUDE ON ALIEN LAND HOLDINO. ONE MILLION ACRES SOUGHT No Land din to Foreigner* Which Might Un for Military er Naval Purpoaaa Favored. Washington.—Aa a result of tale grams from Sanator Phelan, of Cali fornia, (Ivlac Information of a pro posal by Japanese Interests to acquire a large tract of land In Lower Cali fornia owged by Americana, the state department baa called the attention of the owning corporation, the Cali fornia-Mexico Land Company, of Loa Angeles, to the attitude of the United States government toward such aalea of property which might be uaed for military or naval purposes. It was said at the atate department the land in question waa reported to comprise nearly a million acres. The use to which the prospective purchas ers propose to put It is not knows here. Documents indicating the attitude of the government to which the de partment called the Loa Angelea ocm pany's attention included the Lodge resolution In the 62nd Congreas and a message by President TafL The Lodge resolution declares the sales of property by Americans to any nation which might uae the alt* as a base to threaten the United States could not be seen without grave concern by the government of the United States. The meaaage of President Taft transmitted a report by Secretary Knox In response to a senate resolution, and conveyed cor respondence between the office of tha secretary of state and a New Yorlt lawyer who represented a Japanese syndicate which sought to purchase land on Magdulona bay. SITUATION IN EGYPT IS DISTINCTLY ORAVI linden.—The situation In Egypt Is becomiag worse and at the preseat time Is distinctly crave, a Beuter dis patch from Cairo snys. General Al lenhy, tha commnnder In Palestine, will reach Cairo Tuesday. The large forces t! troops already In Egypt are being reinforced. A large number of armed bedouins have entered Behlra province, lower Egypt, from the west and are robbing towns and villages. The situation Is not regarded as presenting any mili tary danger. The Turkish flag Is reported to be flying in some villages of Behelra province. There are no reports of any ossualtles having been suffered by the military, but some prominent native officials and several Egyptian police have been killed 90 MISSOURI LEGISLATORS CHALLENGE REED TO RESIQN Jefferson City, Mo. —Fifty Demo oral Ic mmebnrs of the Mossouri legis lature offered to resign If Senator Jas. A. Reed. Democrat, from Missouri, would resign from the United States senate The leglslaters then propose to run for re-election," aa they enggeet Reed shoeld do. to force a popular vote In Mlssoari on the league of na tions. The bouse of representatives re cently passed resolutions demanding that Senator need realgn because of his opposition to Preeldent Wilson's program. HYDRO AIRPLANE FALLS! TWO FLIERS ARE KILLED Pensaeola, rta—Two stndent offi cers of the naval station here were killed this afternoon when their hy droalrplane fell Into the hay. They were J A. Cate and K. J. Hammond. The authorities did not give the home addresses of the men. The cause of the accident lias not been determined. FIRST GREAT RESULT TO BE OBTAINED IS PEACI Paris —"The flrst result to be ob tslned Is peace, and the quickest peace possible," said David Lloyd George. the British premier. In a statement. "All Internal events In everv country, allied or enemy, are de pendent upon that peace, which we expect und desire to come at the earliest possible moment. Pending fhln. everyone Is living In a state of •expectation »n?l uncertainty. Com mer" and Industry are strntnajed. SO TRAINING CAMPS ARE TO BE RETAINED BY GOVERNMENT Washington—Decision of the war department to proceed with the pur chase of the sites of IB army camps and 13 balloon and flying flelds ovar the country was announced by Acting Secretary Crowell. !e*s than $15,- OOfl 000 will be Involved, Mr. Crowell said, and it will not be necasstry to await action by Congress as the de partmest now has the necessary funds With these purchases the army frill have 30 training camps. ' Memphis, Tenn.—Reports submit (ed to the conference here of Southern planters, bankers and State officials, railed to perfect details of the cotton acreage reduction movement inaugu rated at a meeting held !n New Or leans last month, were declared In resolutions adopted at the final ses sion of the conference to be "eml nentlji,. satisfactory" and plans Were perfected for making the organisation permanent. NO. 7 Graham Cfiurch Directory Graham Baptist Church—Rev. L. U. Weston, Paator. Preaching, every first and third Sundays at 11.00 a. m. und 7,00 p, ;> Sunday School every Sunday at 8.4# a. n». W. I. Ward, Supt Prayer meeting every Tuesday at 7.30 p. m. Graham Christian Church—N. Mala Street—Bev. F. C. Lester. f Preaching services every Sec ond and fourth Sundays, at 11.04 a. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 10.00 a. IS..— W, 8. Harden, Super- I in ten dan t, Mew Providence Christian Church —North Main Street, near Depot— Bev. P. C. Lester, Pastor. Preach ing every Second and fourth Sun day nights at 8.00 o'clock. Sunday School every Sunday at 8.46 a. m.—J. A. BayliH, Superin tendent Christian Bndeavor Prayer Meet ing every Thursday night at T.4S. o'clock. it Wends—North of Graham Pub lic School, Rev. John M. Permar, Pastor. Preaching Ist, 2nd and Srd Sun days at 11.00 a. m. and 7.00 p. m, | Sunday School every Sunday at 8.45 a. m.—Belie Zachary, Superin tendent Prayer meeting every Thursday 7i evening at 7.50 o'clock. Methodist Episcopal, couth—cor, Main and Maple Streets, Rov. J. ' B. Edwards, Paator. Preaching every Sunday at ILM a. m. and at 7.30 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 8.46 a. m.—W. B. Green, Supt *£■ Church-N. Main Street, Bev. K. 8. Troxler, Paator. Preaching first and third Hu»- days at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 8.46 a. m.—J. L, A mica, Supt Presbyterian—Wst Bin Street— Bev. T, M. McConnell, pastor, Sunday School every Sunday at *■ *- Sunday School every Sunday at M 0 p. m.-J. Harvey WhiU, Su perintendent " ■■ ja| PROFESSIONAL CABDS JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorn cy-al-Law .. J". - S. O O OK, Atterney-at-Law, * UAH AM, N. OL OflJoe Patterson Boltdlng Second Fleor. DR. WILLS.LONG,JR. . . ; DENTIST ; ; . Ireham, . - ■ - NeHIl Csrslls* OFFICE imHJHMONB BUILDING * COB A. LOIS. J, gr.OTB m|| LONG * LONG, attorneys and Oonnselors at Law GRAHAM, X. O. 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