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Page Four RED I MADE A T DISCOVERY By GEORGE PRENTISS, Jr. II (© by W. G. Chapman.) >• * Reformation so * * IJciety!” growled “Red” Lana- I gan, glancing bitterly after th« secretary, Mrs. Hubert, as shq swept majestically away, her silken garments trailing audibly along the floor. “Red” felt aggrieved in his inmost soul. Two weeks before he had come out of state’s prison, after serving a term of two years for grand larceny. He had really meant to run straight after marrying Lizzie, but it was hard for the ex-jailbird to get a position, and harder still to keep it, with the police always hounding one. So “Red” had fallen. The temptation was a strong one, for they were both starv ing. He had gone to the penitentiary, and he had never seen Lizzie since the day he was sentenced. When he came out he realized that all efforts to find her were doomed to disappointment. Lizzie had disap peared, and it was evident that she would never return to him. She had been a servant, but bred in a com munity of decent country people, she had 4po use for a jailbird, even though he had stolen to assist her.. Embittered and hopeless, ‘‘Red” had drifted into the Prisoners’ Reforma tion society rooms on the Bowery, where he had heard Mrs. Hubert, as sisted by a parson, hold forth upon the right of the criminal to redeem himself. The discourse seemed to “Red” so preposterously untrue to life that he could not restrain hte indigna lion. When Mrs. Hubert stepped smiling, down from the platform, he approached her. “Say! That’s fine dope you been giving us,” he sneered. “Maybe L didn’t occur to you that a man can’t get a job, r.or yet hold a job when he’s been in the penitentiary.” Mrs. Hubert, sympathetic, turned “Red” over to the committee. The committee invesigated his case and announcd that lie could get a posi tion of trust, to run errands for a store, at fifteen dollars a week. “What ctcut n rr.L'" 4 ?” sneered “Red” bitterly. 110, who had handler thousands, felt the temptations to boa esty miserab’y inadequate. “Say,” he bawled, “could any of you support r wife on fifteen a week? Honest, could you?’’ They had not known “Red” wa 1 - married. The committee investigated that, delaying as committees do. “Red’ told them that if they could find hi wife he’d try to run straight on fifteen dollars. It was a pathetic oiler and significant of “Red’s” real desire t< reform. fc. Thereafter Hubert took tin -cale in hand and told “Red,” wit? IliUCil Sli.iniig uuvi uijual paUOliUg that when he had proved his manhood the committee would find his wife so him. So for a whole month “Red' worked at his job, gradually losin tl*? fight against embittered loneliness, r One night he fell. Ike Williams, ar <o!d crony, who had himself been ; “victim” b? the society, as he ex pressed it. lured “Red” into an o!c haunt. A favorite stimulant finding its way into the somewhat cramped recesses of the ex-convict, stimulated his imagination. “Find your wife 1” exclaimed Ike ir astonished contempt. “Why. don’t yor know it’s a game with them folks Tied?/” “What’s a game?” demanded “Red’ ferociously. “Why, playing with us and writin reports about us for their clubs. Yo; and me’s just cases to her. SheT never find your jvife. It’s part of tin game, them promises. Rich as r miser, that old woman is, and as so. jewels—say! You been to her house?” “Once —when I first come out,” an* x swered “Red” miserably. “There’s half a million dollars ir diamonds waiting there for anyone what wanted ’em,” said Ike impres sively. And therewith he made : proposition which fell upon “Red’s’ ears as sweetly as manna on *th r patched tongues of the desert wan derers. “Red” went home and thought, and all his angtyr and resentment paved the way for his acceptance. That ricli old woman with the Fifth avenim house and the diamond necklace whib. he, “Red,” worked for fifteen dollars a week! And Lizzie, whom she was to discover for him sis soon as he had made a man of himself! lie would show her what sort of a man he was. He talked the situation over with Ike. During*the course of his single visit to the house “Red” had, with » true craftsman’s eye, summed up the architectural features. To ascend to the second story by means of the ornamental column would not be dif ficult. He could enter one of the French windows, fke knew the uppej floors —he had gone there in the gui,S‘ of a gas inspector. If “Red” could get the necklace, Ike could catch it from his hand in the court, below and hold 'any intruders at bay while “Red’ . made his getaway along the covered courtway. “Red” was at the appointed place He and Ike had worked their wax into the grounds through the base nient of the unoccupied house next door. Ike was waiting below, and “Red” had shinned up the column an stood irresolutely upon the porch out side the j-lurd-story window. v He know that window communicated with passage, and, once- inside he must turc 1 { to the right to reach the old woman’s I bedroom. But ,his head had never been very good for second story work, and he hesitated an instant before he threw up the window and stepped in side. As he did so the burglar Marm rang loudly through the house. “Red” was half along the passage. To go back to that window would be fatal. The unexpected alarm struck terror into “Red’s”’ heart, but he kept ills head well enough not to yield to the instinct to run for safety and be caught. An open closet with a lot of , clothing hanging in it attracted his notice. He plunged inside and pulled the door tight after him. There he crouched minute after minute, trem bfing in fear of capture. He could hear nothing inside, for as the door fitted tightly, he did not know whether he was being pursued; but it was growing uncomfortably hot. Perhaps “Red” waited there twenty minutes. At last, when he could en sure the heat no longer, he opened the door cautiously. Instantly a cloud of smoke rushed In. “Red” plunged into the passage, to find the smoke whirl ing down it. He heard confusedly the cries of people in the street below. He rushed to the window through which he had climbed. Looking down into the street across the garden, he saw that fire line had been formed. He saw the men aiiixing ladders; he saw the smoke-shrouded building. Flames were bursting from win dow, except those of the wing in which be was trapped, and he did not know the way out. In mad terror he broke along the corridor, plunging into room after room, only to recoil, baffled, before the forty feet of vertical wall that overlooked the garden. “Red” tried to collect .his thoughts. Yes, he saw the situation now. He must reach the front of the house, where the firemen lord erected the ladders, lie turned back and raced toward a swing door, which seemed to shut off the residential section from the servants’ quarters. He passed an open door —somebody stood there in \ the curling smoke, with arms out- j stretched, reeling, groping, sob-, bing. . . “Red” did not hesitate an instant. He tore off his coat and wrapped It a'bout the girl. He snatched a blanket from the bed and placed it about her, covering her from head to foot. Then, carrying her in his arms without much difficulty, he turned to find that the whole wing had grown a fiery hell. And “Red” burst into the furnace. Tongues of flame caught at him, the blinding smoke seemed a contrivance to drive him into that seething, mol ten clufos of fallen timbers and cor roded metal, which had once been an elevator shaft, up .which the fire tongues burst with yellow and red banners. They drew at “Red” like beasts with hungry maws. But he evaded them. And now, lie was pant ing under his burden at a window, looking down into the street, and be hind him the tongues were uncoiling. The mob saw him. They yelled. The firemen had left the wall, for it was thought all tlfo inmates were res cued. The hose was playing upon the buildings right and left —no chance to save that one. A brawny fireman leaped for the ladder, followed by two more. The structure was within “Red’s” grasp, but lie was too faint to feel for it, too weak to use it. fte clung to the win dow frume and held the girl out to ward the mob. “For God’s sake!” he babbled. “I didn’t get the necklace. Lenmie die, but—” The safety of this girl seemed the My thing in life to “Red.” He had forgotten all about his fears. Death vas imminent now, the tongues of fire were licking hungrily at 1 iis face. ‘Red” passed bis hand over his singed pate and laugh. ’ *w:r.kly. “I guess they’ve—copped me again,” he muttered, and, handing the girl to the nearest fireman, fell fainting hack toward the flames. It was in the very nick of time that the second fireman dragged “Red” out and down the lad der to the cheering crowd below. “Who.is he?” the people asked each other, as they pressed round him.' “My husband,” were tjie words that fell upon “Red’s” ears. He opened his eyes. Over him kneeled the girl he had saved, and he recognized Lizzie looking at him with a new tenderness in her eyes. Teaching a Salesman Just what should a salesman be taught? “One of my assistants has a pet expression,” writes Herbert M. Maxwell in System, the Magazine of Business. ‘“We don’t want machines out on the road for us. We want hu man beings that are right up on their toes and tingle all over while they are selling—who enjoy the buyer-and-sell er But we want them to have their feet squarely on the earth, even in the heat of battle, and the finger that trembles over the order pencil, deadly accurate in recording exactly what the buyer wants. Don’t show that you are nervous or you’ll make the other fellow nervous, too.’ ” Quotations Pope is the fullest of all English poets, Shakespeare on’- excepted, of “quotations”—lines or phrases which have become part of nr Common speech and incorporated in the struc ture of our common‘thought. This is itself high praise; but It is not the praise of poetry, which Is a subtler thing. The whole of “Paradise Lost” 1 has contributed only some half-dozen such. Young, a poet only of the sec ond or third rank and now almost for gotten, comes. I think, next after Pope In their abundance.—J. W. Mackall, in : “Studies of English Poets.” i TICE OF SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of the power f sale contained in that certain Trust Deed executed on the 28th day of July, 1924, by Leon T. Lane and wife to the undersigned Trustees, said Deed of Trust being recorded in th'e regis try of Chatham County, in Book GH, page 425,et seq (default having been made in the payment of the bond and interest secured by said Trust deed) the undersigned Trustees will, on Sat urday the „ „„„ 25TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1926, at 12:00 o’clock noon, in front of the Courthouse door, at Pittsboro, N. C., offer for sale at public outcry, to the highest bidder for cash, all those cer tain tracts or lots of land lying and being in Chatham County, North Car olina, and being more fully described and defined as follows, viz: FIRST TRACT: Lying and being situate in Matthews Township, Chat ham County, North Carolina, bounded as follows: Beginning at a gum on the waters of Brush Creek, C. R. Lam bert’s and Lane’s corner (17 poles west of Brush Creek) and running thence south 2 1-4 degrees west 9 1-2 poles to a walnut tree; thence south 25 degrees east 14 1-2 poles to said creek; thence down the creek as fol-v lows: South 7 poles, south 15 1-4 de grees west 13 poles, south 17 degrees cast 12 poles, south 56 1-2 degrees west 10 poles, south 29 degrees west 8 poles to a hickory on south bank of said Creek; thence south 3 degrees west 52 poles to Lane’s line; thence north 84 degrees west 117 poles to a stone, Eli M. Bray’s corner; thence north 5 1-4 degrees east 117 poles to \ stone, thence south 85 degrees east 113 poles to the beginning, and con taining 94 acres, more or less. SECOND TRACT: Lying and be •ng situate in Bear Creek Township, Chatham County, N. C., Beginning at a pine stump, William Andrews’ cor ner; and running thence south 98 poles.to J. Y. White’s corner; Chence west with said line 42 poles to a post aak; thence north ICO poles to a stake, John Andrew’s corner; thence east 42 poles to the Beginning, containing 24 acres, more or less, further ref -1 crence being hereby made to the deed J which is registered in the office of the Register of Deeds of Chatham “ County, North Caroliina in Book ‘FB” page 254. THIRD TRACT: Lying ';.:d being situate in Matthews Township, Chat ham County, North Carolina, adjoin ing the lands of G. W. Brot’ , W. N. Fields, and Wilton Fields, and con taining 112 acres, known as Brooks Farm old Home Tract of the late John M. Brooks, and being the same tract conveyed by J. H. Bray and wife, Emily Bray to John R. Lane, by deed dated August 26, 1896, and con veyed by said J. R. Lane and wife, Mary Lane, to Leon T. Lane, said tract adjoining Tract No. One above described in this conveyance, and ref erence is hereby made to the title deeds by which they held the same. FOURTH TRACT: Lying and be ing situate in Bear Creek Township, Chatham County, North Carolina, and Beginning at a hickory formerly the Old Henry Dorsctt corner; thence north 194 poles to a black jack; thence west 130 poles to a post oak; thence south 194 poles to a black jack; thence east 130 poles to the Beginning, containing 155 acres, more or less. FIFTH TRACT: Lying and being situate in Bear Creek Township, Chat ham County, North Carolina, bounded j as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a> post oak Lane’s corner and running! north 230 poles to a post oak Henry M. Bray’s old corner; thence west 174 poles to a stake in old field, Henry M. Bray’s old corner; thence south 44 1-2 thence north 89 1-2 degrees west 42 4-5 poles to a dogwood cor ner; thence south 1-2 degree west 37 1-3 poles to red oak corner; thence south 88 1-2 degrees east 42 1-3 poles; thence south 1 degree west 148 poles to pine stump, corner with poiinter; thence cast to the Beginning, contain ing 245 acres, more or less. An ob lo7ig Square (rectangle) 55 poles from east to west and 28 1-2 poles from north to south has been deeded off of northeast corner of this tract, but after taking oft’ same leaves approxi mately 245 acres. SIXTH TRACT: Lying and be ing situate in Bear Creek township, Chatham County, North Carolina, and bounded as follows, Viz: Begin ning at a post oak and running thence south 70 poles to a stake, J. I. Lane’s corner; thence west 72 poles to a post oak, his corner (originally Ger ra Lane’s corner); thence south 36 degrees west 57 poles to red oak; thence north with his line 66 degrees west 89 poles to red oak; thenCe west 86 poles to a post oak; thence north 93 poles to a post oak (original Gerra Lane corner) ; thence west 43 poles to a white oak; thence north with the !ate J. R. Lane line to the James Scott corner (now John R. Lane’s heirs) ; thence east with said Lane line about 140 poles to Lane’s cor ner, in original line; thence south 45 degrees east with the old line to a stone pile, with gum pointers; thence east 91 poles to a post oak; thence south 36 degrees west 15 poles to a red oak; thence east 26 poles to the Beginning, containing 211 acres, more or less, and known as the Hadley Johnson land, and being the same tract as conveyed by J. R. Lane, Mort gagee to Leon T. Lane, by deed dated September 9, 1899, and registered in office of the Register of Deeds Chat ham County, North Carolina in Book DP, page 237. This August the 23rd, 1926. WALTER D. SILER, * WADE BARBER, Trustees. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified this day as admin istrator of the estate of Mary Rosa Jones, late of Chatham county, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present their claims to the undersigned duly veri- . fied on or before the 23rd day of -August, 1927, on this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. AH persons owing said estate will please l come forward and make immediate f settlement. This the 23rd day of August 1926 * ( - . j. d. Jones’, 1 ! W. P. Horton, ktty: Admini stratar. 1 Sept. 2, 6tp. JHE CHATHAM RECORD I find Tiger Head, Hewn by Aztecs, in Palace Mexico tfity.—The most recent ar geological discovery made here is the Artistic stone head of a tiger, said to have been part of the picturesque teniple of Tezcatilpoca, destroyed by the Spanish conquerors. The tiger head was found by workmen inside one of the walls of the national palace, where President Calles has his office. Prof. Miguel Mena,,head of the archeological department of the national museum, describes the dis covery as follows: “Near the presidential door of the f palace a stone, blackened by time, stood for centuries. And only now has It been discovered. It is a beautiful and highly artistic head of a tiger. In all the priceless archeological col lections at the national museum of Mexico City there is no other similar stone figure, which makes this one of the utmost importance. I “It is a daring example of primitive cubist art, which clearly shows that the Aztecs already were highly versed in the new-fangled artistic notions.” To Make Dome Center of Capitol Building Washington. —After more than half a century of lopsided existence, im- ! provements are to be made on the Cap itol to complete the structure in a manner which will bring the stately dome which towers over Washington into the center of the building where it belongs. Millions of persons have looked at the . capitol and millions have gone through it without realizing that the great dome was not in the center where it should be and that the build ing was unbalanced. Senator Dale of Vermont, and Rep resentative Montague of Virginia, are engaged on a campaign to have the necessary work authorized and ap propriated for next session and they have enlisted sufficient support to ge£ a bill passed. The work will be prose cuted with the general public build ing program, which calls for the ex penditure of $50,000,000 for depart mental buildings. Vienna Bachelors to Pay 65 Cents Monthly Rent Vienna, Austria. —The socialist mu nicipal government of Vienna has come to the rescue of bachelors. Hereafter it is declared that ail single men shall be entitled to special bach elors’ quarters in each of the 25,000 apartments constructed by the mu nicipality at a rental of 65 cents a month. Such quarters, it is stipulated, shall consist of one living room and a kitchen. Bachelors in the past were j obliged to pay the same rates as a whole family. “Yellows” Barred Elizabeth, N. J.-r City officials have issued a fiat against any saffron-hued vehicles for public conveyances. ‘‘Any color but yellow,” was the reply to license seekers. The lemon color doesn’t blend with the municipal scheme of harmonics, it was intimated. W. B. CHAPIN, M. D. PITTSBORO, N. C. 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