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HOURS’WORK
A DAY
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i By LUCILE WARRINGTON
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(© by W. O. Chap-.iian.)
tOW do we schedule, Mark?*
* | I “Half a meal ticket, lodg
ings paid up to Saturday
night, cash, one penny.”
‘‘Very good,” said Vance Byford,
with somewhat of a serious face, how
ever. “Give me the penny.”
“Going to make an investment?”
*‘Yes”
“‘What In?” queried Mark Early,
whimsically. “Central preferred or
Midland debentures?”
“Neither. I’m going to buy a news
paper and see if there are any want
ads to change our luck.”
Dubious luck it was, for a fact.
Here were two bright fellows who
liad come to the big city to make
their fortunes. They had filled in sev
eral brief positions, had run the
gamut of experience from shipping
clerks to members of a “movie” group.
Now they were stranded completely,
&ut Vance was bright and cheery and
Mark hopeful, and both energetic in
•fighting tile fate of leisure and insolv
ency that had nearly overcome them
like an armored man.
“Hello !*' ejaculated Vance suddenly,
And with some satisfaction, scanning
the “Help Waited” column of the
newspaper he had bought.
“What now?” queried Mark.
“Listen,” and Vance proceeded to
read: “Wanted—A presentable, active
young man of some Imagination and j
■good facial expression. Liberal com
pensation. Mrs. A., 537 Hawthorn
terrace.”
'“Well, I vura!“ exclaimed Mark.
•*Now what in the world does that
mean? W hat has presentableness,
imagination and facial expression to
signify in an every-day, practical Job?’
“It’s odd enough to deserve atten
tion,” said Vance, seriously. “A worn- j
an, too. Can it be a model she
wants?’ 1
“I should say an actor,” suggested
Hark.
-“Well, I shall try for the position,” :
announced Vance.
■“You will?” challenged Mark, some
what dubiously. <
r “Why not?” !
■“lt says ‘presentable*!” and Mark
Early shook his head gloomily, as he
looked up and down his companion,
whose attire, while well fitting, bore
the threadbare marks of long usage. |
* “Oh, I’ll fix that all right!” declared
'Vance lightly. “I’ve saved turning
this last clean collar I’ve got on for
just this occasion. I’ll retire beyond
those bushes in the park yonder, make
my toilet and give things a try. Meet
you at the lodging house tonight and
.report success.”
“Or failure,” supplemented Mark,
Tend went his way. himself scanning 1
the newspaper now.
r The Hawthorn terrace address
proved to be a fine mansion set in a
.charming nest of greenery and flow
ers. Vance adopted his best bearing.
He bad handsome features and a well
modeled form to recommend him to
'the housemaid, who showed him Into !
* a little gem of a reception room, say-
Ung -she would take word to “Mrs. Ar-
Yfrigtoni” at once. Vance appropriated
jan easy chair and took in the warmth
And comfort of the room luxuriously.
It reminded him of home. He arose
Ito inspect a little bijou of a water
color on the wall. He strolled about,
the apartment, taking In the richness,
*nd taste of the hangings. He ran a
♦covetous eye over a well-selected shelf
of books. Then a drapery parted and
am active, nervous lady of perhaps
fifty faeefi him with keen eyes and a
.quizzical smile.
i “You came about the advertise-'
tnent/* she spoke rapidly. “Well, I
think you will do.”
“Why, madam —” began Vance, as
tonished at this speedy decision.
■“Oh, I have been watching you, and
I am sure you will suit. • You know
how to walk and gesture, and I can
see possibilities of expression in your
ey«L I shall need your services from
nine to twelve each day. The com-,
pensatlon will be fifty dollars a
week.” Vance gave a gasp. “First, I,
will introduce you to my aid, my
Adopted daughter, Rilla!” and she
called loudly. -
Vance felt as though he had stum
bled across some scene of enchant
ment. Fifty dollars a week! Three’
lioiirtf’ work a day! A fellow-worker r
one ‘rental** And then “Rilla” camel
Into -the room. She seemed to bring,
with iher the radiance of a rare beauty,!
an atmosphere of roses, smiles and
.kisses commingled. His senses dizzied
as he looked upon this vision of love-!
lines*.
•■“You two are to be my special com
panions,” explained Mrs. Arlington,
while Vance grew awkward and the;
young lady blushed, as they Were in- 1
Produced after Vance had murmured
ihis name. *You see, Mr. Byford, I am
an authoress. They call me the im-;
presaionist type. I am well grounded
as to :theories and the plot quantity,
Put deficient as to details. I first
thought of employing an actor and an
actress, but they would be ranters..
Naturalness is what I want. For in-'
stance: fam now at the fourth cbap-|
ter of a novel where the young broker.
Unds himself ruined, comes to his
room td be alone, and spends an un
happy hour deciding what he should
do. You need not speak. Just move
about and act out what you would do
under these circumstances. You can
fee seated, Rilla. You are to appear
* later as his sister endeavoring to
drive away the desperate thoughts
that come into his mind.”
“Oh, excellent! excellent!” went on
the speaker a few moments later, as
Vance began his unique role. “ ’He
snatched close the draperies like a be
ing at last at bay.* A fine line I ‘He
sai pondering deeply at his desk, anon
casting a desolate glance at its rich
surroundings, his no more.’ I knew
I you would do. lam truly fortunate!"
! Within a few days Vance was en
rapport with his peculiar position.
T!:on the experience grew more inter
esting. Rilla had her part In the pan
tomime of suggestion, alone and in
conjunction with Vance. There were
some vivid love scenes to depict. They
became all too real to Vance By ford.
The prosperous times had brought a
vast change In his appearance. He
was able now to dress well. He looked
at his best and Rilla was interested
In him.
j One evening he met his friend Mark,
! who had also found work, Just outside
1 the Arlington grounds. They halted
near the vine-covered wall, little
dreaming that Rilla on the other side
was an auditor.
! “Why so gloomy, Vance?” inquired
Mark, noting the downcast demeanor
of his friend.
! Then Vance told bis troubles. He
was going to give up his position. And
wherefore? Rilla. Every time In their
play acting when their hands met,
Vance confessed to a fervent unre-
I strained Impulse to clasp her in his
arms and confess his undying love.
It was the next morning when
Vance and Rilla sat awaiting prompt
ings as to some scene from Mrs. Ar
[ lington. Something new In the eyes
of Rilla attracted Vance. His hand
stole toward her own, her eyes met
his.
j “Excellent! Maintain that, please,”
spoke the authoress, her pen traveling
. rapidly. “Oh, Indeed I”
I She sat up rigid, staring with cen
soring eyes at the twain. Their atti
tude showed not acting, but real love.
“I think that we will end your serv
ices, Mr. Byford,” she said, icily, but
after he had gone gloomily from the
house Rilla sobbed, brokenly:
! “It was not play acting, mamma—l
love him and I shall die if he goes
away!”
, So, to “save the life” of her cher
ished darling, Mrs. Arlington relented.
' Communist Colony in
Louisiana a Failure
Decaying cabins, the remnants of
what once was a thriving communistic
utopia, may be seen today six miles
north of Minden, I.a. The decrepit
houses squat in a little group on a
slight incline, rubbing elbows in com
, munistic amiableness. No one lives
in them, but on the crest of the hill
, Is the home of C. P. Krolse, a wiry
little man with faraway eyes and gut
tural voice. In the right mood, he
, will tell the story of Germantown.
In 1830 there lived in the duchy
of Darmstadt a count, Maximilian de
Leon, and a beautiful girl who pos
tered more wealth than anyone else
j In all Hesse. But the girl was not of
the aristocracy and when the two
married the families of blood frowned.
The count, stung by the ostracism
that followed, selected 300 German
Socialists determined to set up a
caste-free utopia. They went first to
Pennsylvania and later to Louisiana,
establishing a colony at Trenton-on
the-Rlver.
The spring rains sent their houses
into the river and swamp fever broke
out, so that the colonists moved to
the land near what Is now Minden,
buying the tract for 12% cents an
acre. The count never saw his dreams
fulfilled, for he fell victim to fever,
but Germantown prospered for a time.
Then further attacks of fever reduced
the population and finally the settle
ment was abandoned. —New York
Sun.
Mosquito Bites Costly
In your household budget, along
with the items of grocery and butpher
bills, have you figured on the summer
expense of mosquito bites? Statist!- •
cians who have been following the
train of the buzzing pests, says the
Popular Science Monthly, tell us now
that every man, woman and child of
us paid, on the average, the sum of
91 cents last year Just for the privi
lege of being bitten. The national
mosquito-bite bill was $100,000,000!
This sum represents the damage done
by malaria mosquitoes in bringing on
some 3,000,000 cases of chills and
fever. ~-
New Electric Fan Idea
An electric fan in which the arma
ture, or rotating coil, Is replaced by
a simple piece of rock, is the novel
device recently exhibited before the
' Royal society in London. The rock
was a piece of magnetic mineral called
pyrrhotite, which when placed In the
field of the magnet rapidly revolves.
When loose powders of pyrrhotite
, were placed in such a field the par
i tides revolved in a direction oppo
site to that taken by solid particles
1 of the material because of a rolling
; action on the part of the particles
1 themselves. "
Italy*s Population Dense
Italy has. one of the heaviest ratios
i of population in all Europe. It is sur- |
passed only by Great Britain and Bel
j gium. It is calculated to be 40,000,000
• at this time and each year about 1,000,-
000 Italians leave Italy to seek their
homes elsewhere. These emigrants
travel two lanes, one to America and
one to central western Europe. Many
i of them, after having saved their earn
i ings, return to live in comfort in Italy
■ in their declining years. j
Snakes Kill 19,308 in
British India in Year
London.—Snakes were responsible
for the deaths of 19,308 people out of
21,841 who were killed by wild ani
uiais in British India during 1925.
According to annual returns the
number of deaths attributed to acci
dents by wild beasts is 1,974, of
which 975 are accounted for y by
tigers and the rest by wolves, bears,
leopards, elephants, wild pigs, croco
diles and hyenas.
The number of snakes destroyed
totaled 41,004 and wild animals, 21,-
OGS, the latter including 4,600 leopards
and 1,600 tigers.
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8 Ananias Unknown as g
0 Liar in Home Land 8
0 Damascus. Every American X
8 who comes to Damascus Is told: x
v “Don’t fall to visit the house of O
Q Ananias.” Q
X One feels that he cannot leave O
8 Damascus without calling on the X
8 patron of prevaricators. 0
O He occupied a fine house, as X
8 houses in Damascus go, and 0
v must have been a prosperous X
8 old gentleman. X
O “Did he have any other pro- n
8 session besides that of a liar?” Q
5 a guide was asked. Q
8 “Lawyer? He was not a x
X lawyer; there were no lawyers O
8 In those days,” the guide who X
X learned his English in England O
O replied reprovingly. X
X “Liar! Liar!” was the em- 0
O phatieally repeated query. X
X “Aoh! a fibber, you mean,” Cj
0 came back the Anglo-Syrian X
8 with a look of Intense surprise. O
x “Why, this roan Is not known X
8 because he was a liar, but he Q
X is the man who converted Saint <5
8 Paul.” 8
x They never have heard of Q
8 Ananias, the liar, In this part of X
x the world.
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flatulence, heartburn, sourness, fer
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caused by acidity. A few tablets
give almost immediate stomach re
lief. Correct your stomach and di
gestion now for a few cents. Drug-
NOTICE OF LAND SALE
Under virtue and by the power of
sale contained in that certain judg
ment rendered in an action pending in
the Superior Court of Chatham
County, North' Carolina, entitled “J.
A. Woody vs G. F. Perry et als” the
undersigned Commissioner will, on
Saturday the 23rd. day of October,
1926, at 12:30 o’clock noon in front of
the Court House Door in Pittsboro,
North Carolina, offer for sale to the
highest bidder for cash, all that cer
tain tract or parcel of land lying and
being in Hadley Township, Chatham
County, North Carolina, and being
described as follows, viz:
Beginning at a stake in Elling
ton’s line and east bank of branch or
ditch, northwest cornor of lot number
2; thence north 79 degrees east 80
poles to a hickory in pointers, cornor
of lot number 2, thence south 2 de
grees west 24 poles to a hickory and
hickory pointers, cornor of lot number
2; thence north 89 degrees east 36
poles to Luttherloh’s line; thence with
said line about north 23 degrees west
36 poles to a branch and post oak;
thence down said branch or drain to
Dry Creek about 80 poles; thence up
said Creek its various courses about
112 poles to the mouth of branch,
Ellington’s line; thence up said branch
Ellington’s line to the beginning, con
taining 38 acres, more or less. It be
ing the tract alloted to G. F. Perry
by agreement of Alton Perry and
Maggie Farrell.
This 22nd. day of September, 1926.
WADE BARBER, Commissioner
SILER & BARBER, Attorneys
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
conferred upon me in a certain deed
of trust, executed to me by A:?h
Minner and wife, Ann Minner, dated
April 28, 1919, recorded in the Office
of the Register of Deeds of Chatham
County, N. C., in Book F.J., Pages
598-9, to secure the indebtedness
therein described, and default having
been made in the payment of said
indebtedness, and having been request
ed to do so by the holder of the note
evidencing said indebtedness, I will
offer for sale at public auction, to
the highest bidder for cash at the
Court House door in Pittsboro, N. C.,
at 12:00 o’clock M., on
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1926,
the following described land, to-wit:
Lying and being in Riggsbee Town
ship, Chatham County, N. C., adjoin
ing the lands of John A. Oldham and
others, one /tract containing about
fifty acres and bounded on the North
by the lands of John A. Oldham; on
the South by G. W. Riggsbee; on the
West by Nat Riggsbee; and on the
East by Julia Alston, and being the
same land conveyed to Alph Minner
Iby deed of Atlas Durham and wife
' Sarah Durham, by deed dated Novem
ber 11, 1916, recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds of Chatham
County in Book F H, Page 461.
Sale will be held open for ten da vs'
to receive increased bids. ,
19™ 8 the 7th dßy of Se P‘e™ber,J
Sent. 16 4tc. J
?HE CHATHAM RECORD
NOTICE OF LAND SALE
Under and by virtue of the pow
ers contained in a certain mortgage
deed executed by Anderson Dowdy
and wife, Cathrine Dowdy to Joe
Rieves, on the 17th day of Novem
ber, 1919, which mortgarrn :s
registered in t>r of the x.2gis
ter of Deeds for Chatham County
in Book FN at page 327, and an
order of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Chatham County, the un
dersigned will on
OCTOBER THE 9TH, 1926,
offer for sale at the courthouse door
in Pittsboro, North Carolina, at pub
lic auction, to the highest bidder for
cash, the following described land,
to-wit: , . . i
Beginning at a stake and pointers
T. B. Rieve’s corner in Mrs. Field’s
line; thence North Rieve’s line 36
poles to a stone and cedar pointers;
thence South 72 degrees west 28
poles to a stake and pointers; thence
South 26 1-2 poles to a stake and
pointers in Field’s line; thence 27
poles to the beginning, containing by
estimation 5 1-4 acres, more or less.
Time of Sale: 12 o’clock, Noon.
Place of Sale: Pittsboro, N. C.
Terms of Sale: CASH.
This the 7th day of September, 1926.
JOE E. RIEVES,
Mortgagee.
Sept. 16, 4tc.
NOTICE OF LAND SALE
Under and by virtue of an order (
of the Clerk of the Superior Court,
of Chatham County, North Carolina
in the special proceeding therein
pending entitled, W. G. Fields vs.
Thomas Kirby et als, the undersigned
Commissioners, will on
SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 9th, 1926,
offer for sale at the Courthouse door
in Pittsboro, North Carolina, at pub
lic auction, to the highest bidder for
cash, the following described land,
to-wit: . . , ~. -c
Beginning at the fork of the hay
etteville and Pittsboro Road; thence
with the Fayetteville road in a
Southernly direction 80 chains to the
corner of the public school lot; thence
West with said school lot 3 chains;
thence with said School lot South
23 degrees East 3 1-3 chains; thence
with said lot East 3 chains to the
Fayetteville road; thence with said
road in a Southernly direction 21
chains to a stake; thence East
28 1-2 chains to a stake; thence
South 10 1-2 chains to a stump;
thence West 45 chains to a Sourwood;
thence North 28 chains to a Poplar
on the bank of branch; thence down
said branch as it meanders 13
chains; thence South 80 degrees
West 3 1-2 chains; thence South 70
degrees West 10 chains; thence
North 5 degrees West 5 1-2 chains to
a pine on Pittsboro road; thence
with said road 33 1-2 chains to the
first station, containing 100 acres
more or less.
Time of Sale: 12 o’clock, Noon.
Terms of Sale: CASH.
Place of Sale: Pittsboro, N. C.
This the 7th day of Sept., 1926.
W. P. HORTON
A. C. RAY,
Commissioners.
Sept. 16, 4tc.
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, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery. All !
persons owing said estate will please
come forward and make immediate
settlement. J
This the 23rd day of August, 1926. 1
J. D. JONES, j
Administrator.
W. P. Horton, Atty. *
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