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; CHAPTER IV.
Good and Bad Men.
' TOLD Mrs. Clark all about what'
I . had happened. She looked at jne
queerly, and said:.'
. : "'.'""It's too bad, but I am afraid you
will find plenty of such ; men in. New
. York, Of course, there is plenty of
.good men, too," she hastened to say;
"so don't get scared."
"I'm not frightened a bit," I told
her. Nevertheless, I did not look for
work all the next. day. I hadn't slept,
and I felt nervous and disinclined to
talk to any: one So I brushed my
own suit thoroughly, washed out, in
the washbowl, any soiled "clothes I
had; then took a long walk. I found
a lovely park and sat on a bench and
watched the children playing. When
I went hack I felt better. My cour
age, had returned. I think it was "the
. sight pf the children.
Once more . I started out bright and
early to look forwork. once more
luck was with me. Before night I
had a place. ,s This time with a con
cern that employed' several girls. I
felt that I should be safe here. I
" think I should have been afraid to
go into another office like the one I
. had left. My experience with Mr.
. Barrett had made' me cautious, it had
5 also given, me the idea, a very wrong
Si "one I now know,: that most men were
- had, and were ready to tav advan-
tage of any girl.
I have to laugh when . recall how I
used to put all-men into two classes.
Business men, I mean. They were
i. -)ther plain good or pia?i badt The
;ood ones I decided were either very
i old or very .young.
I worked Very hard in this place,
jr we all did. I soon found that here
a girl was as safe as in her own
- home. But she must work and work
hard.
i 5" "Regular slave-drivers'" one girl
'. said to me in speaking of the firm.
"It doesn't make any difference to
me how hard I work if they treat
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"When It Pours, Xt Reigns
me right," I replied, "and they cer
tainly are square here."
"Yes, they're square enough, 'but
they work you to death. You'll find
it out if you stay here, long enough
Most of the girls get siek-and 7 have
to quit."
I - only lauged. I was strong and
well: Hard Worfe. couldn't? frighten
me; neither could, her warning.
At the end of a year in this place
I was getting $8.50 a week. I had
paid mother, and was saving for
a fall suit." The clothes r had brought
from home were about all gone, and I
was beginning to look shabby. -
I had met and became friendly with
a girl who lunched in the same cheap
place that I did. She urged me to
change my' rooming house and live
where she did. It was nearer the sub
way, and in other respects a little
more desirable, so I finally consented
and took a little room across the hall
from her. This house, too, was pa-t
tronized principally by working girls
and those out of work. The land
lady's name was Fagin.
Carrie Newton was getting $10 a
week, but she had been working for
nearly five years, although she was
no older than I was. We were both
just 20 when we met.
One day Carrie brought another
girl home with her. They were at
one .time in the same office for a cou
ple of weeks -and had met in the
street. Betty Conners was younger, (
uniy a.1. ner muue j vv guue.
Carrie explained, and she had been
unable to get work. She had lost her
position about two weeks before.
We were, very busy at the office. It
was late when I got home. I was al
ways tired, too, and after doing the
little things necessary if I were to
look neat, cooking my supper and
clearing it away. I was so tired I
usually went directly to bed.
My room at Mrs. Fagin's was a
little brighter than the one at Mrs.
Clark's had been, and was only up
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'AM -AND -EGGS end a am
of steaminer. stimulating"
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bo Pee? mm
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Luzianne. -What better start could
anybody have for the day's workl
The sanitary, air-tight tin locks
the flavor in! Buy a can of
Luzianne today.
Ii you don't agree it's the best
hot beverage that ever passed your
lips, your'grdcer will give you back
what you paid for it, and ask no
questions. So, there,
$
three flights, fused to wonder" if -I
wouldn't have had to sleeps on tne'.
Stairs if I had to go up that other
flight. Yet I was as well as I was
when, I left home. I never had head
aches or complained as did many of
the girls. i ,
. Just as soon as I had paid mother
backi.'t rented a typewriter and no
matter how tired I was I worked an
hour every night. Carrie understood
that I would not be disturbed when I
was working, so I saw very little of
her after Betty came; as they went
out together and spent many of the
long summer evenings in the park.
But-what little I had seen of Betty
interested me. I had liked her at
once; and I know she was good for
Carrie,. who was inclined to be. a lit
tle moody if things weren't to her
liking.
I heard only occasionally from
home. They were i all too busy to
write, so Sadie told me on a postcard.
Then one day she sent me a paper.
The banker's son had married. It
aeemedr he had been rengaged a long
time to some rich man's daughter he
had met when he- wask in college. My
face burned as I realized afresh that
never, even at first, had he intended
to be honest with me. Then a wave
of thankfulness ' went" over me as I
thought that he at any rate knew I
was trying to do what, was right, that
I was a good girl.
I had the paper In my hand when
Carrie called me, to step in her room.
Betty' also added her plea, and so
without waiting to take off my things
I joined the girls.
(Copyright, 1918, by Dale Drummnd)
CONTINUED TOMORROW.
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STATE NEWS.
Why He Served on Jury.
Dr. Bridges, editor of the Presby
terian Standard, published in Char
lotte, has had his first experience on
a jury and in his paper he gives this
reason for serving. "We have just
served for the first time on a jury.
We were disposed to plead legal ex
emption, but the judge asked us to
waive the exemption, and use the op
portunity to serve ' the community.
This seemed a reasonable request and
feeling indebted to the community,
we consented." Winston Sentinel.
Patent Medicine Man Fined.
The case in federal court against
the officers, directors and stockhold
ers of the Bristol Chemical company
and the Southern Root and Herb
company, which bid fair to consume
several days, ended rather suddenly
when an agreed verdict of not guilty
of conspiracy was" returned. The
charge was that the defendants had
conspired a ship in interstate ship
ments adulterated birch oil. As a
result of the agreed verdict six of
the defendants pleaded guilty of a
misdemeanor in adulterating birch oil.
These six defendants paid In $2,000
in settlement of their cases. Salis
bury Post.
Death of Editor Underwood.
The town regrets to learn of the
death of W. I. Underwood, editor of
the Greensboro Patriot. For many
months this sad news has been ex
pected, yet when it comes it causes
regret. Mr. Underwood was one of
the well-known newspaper men of
North Carolina and had it not been
for the ravages of tuberculosis would
have been much stronger. He was
! cut down in his early manhood and
to his sorrowing relatives the sym
pathy of the town goes out.
Growing More Wheat.
A trip through Union county ' re
veals the fact that mere wheat is
growing in this section than has been
known for many years. The scarcity
of ftejtjr has aroused Union farmers
to" action along the Tvheat-growiiig line
and this county i3 destined to develop
into a noted wheat country. Marsh
vilel Times.
Telephone Bugs at Work.
After remaining idle for several
weeks the telephone "bug" has again
made its appearance. .As usual the
operations of the bug were far frcm
a practical joke, being instead trou
blesome and causing a great deal of
worry. Recently ladies of thesdlJ
weiw lu prepare a mncneon ror cam
paign committees. The "bug" called
up Mrs. E. R. L.eyburn, who waa in
charge, saying it was Mrs. Q. K.
Rawls. The "bug" advised Mrs.
Leybum that she (Mrs. Rawls) would
be on hand to make the coffee. At
the time Mrs. Rawls was ill and
could not be present. The "bug"
also called other ladies of the city
during the ensuing week. Manager
J. L. Conrad, of the telephone com
pany, is renewing his efforts to as
certain the guilty party or parties.
Durham Sun.
Rich in Hotels.
With one hotel undergoing S4O.000
in repairs, another costing $300,000
getting ready for occupancy bl fall,
and a $150,000 one on blue print, why
should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Greensboro Record.
Oppose Court House Repairs.
At "the October term of Superior
court the grand jury recommended
some very extensive repairs to the
court house building at Southport A
new front was recommended to be put
on the building, colonial style, with
steps to the Jront from all sides, a
single front stairway, and taking out
the present gallery. The woodwork
and plastering was to be renewed and
painted, new seats were to be put in,
and several minor details carried out
which would practically give South
port a modern court house. It ap
pears that the board oi county com
misisoners has asked for bids to have
work done to the building along this
line, and now the people out in the
counts are kicking, as petitions large
ly signed are being circulated, afk-
Je ?ard to with&old for an in
definite time any remodeling,- eta
Brunswick County News
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A Concord .Tribune: : lt'naHitv-'."VHnis
possible that prospective rar garden
ers need to, be framed again thl& year
against flennan( propaganda -altned at
their back yard gardens. Yet the
government - ta tsauing warnings to
combat this very' evil. Any one la
miliar . with American - government
methods knows: that his own little
vegetable patch is not going 4.6 be
confiscated. His peas and beans and
carrots and other garden triumphs
will help to "win the war by furnish
ing his own family 'with some of the
necessaries of life through the com
ing summer? and winter, too, Jf his
wife- cans some of the garden prod
ucts. But still the rumor that the
food administration if" going tc conns
cate home vegetables spreads and
really alarm? some people and dis
courages others, among our foreign
born population
High Point Telegram: U. S. District
Judge Van Fleet, of San Francisco,
has trimmed three German whelps to
suit our taste. There never was a
viler nest of conspirators than the
German consulate at San Francisco.
Not only was revolution in India seri
ously promoted but there's no ques
ttdn but in that office plans were, pro
moted for dynamiting of public and
private works, and other schemes for
wholesale murder. Judge Van Fleet
gave Bopp, von Brinckman and von
Shack, the leaders, all the law allows
two years in prison and $10,000
fine. The punishment hardly fits the
crime, but there's some cheer in see
ing our internal enemies get the lim
it, even if the limit is too low.
Asheville Times: The enemies of
the Germans in this country knew
that the Germans would be given the
credit for the disloyal Socialist votes
in Wisconsin and elsewhere, so they
went and voted the Socialist ticket,
and thus brought dishonor on the
thoroughly loyal Germans Chicago
Abendpost. Let the loyal Germans
show their colors. Americans will
meet them in the open.
Greensboro News: Evidence of Ger
many's pressing need for man power
to replace the fearful losses in the
present offensive is seen in the send
ing to the battlefront, as reported in
an Associated Press dispatch, of boys
of the classes of 1919 and 1920 with
only eight weeks training. The Ger
man high command may yet literally
rob the cradle and the grave before
it is brought to a realization of the
futility of trying to crush the allied
armies.
New Bern Sun-Journal: The govern
ment has fixed the price on hides,
says a dispatch from Washington.
That being the case, a lot of fol?
now know exactly what they are
worth.
The New Bernian: The New York
Times usually speaks with authority
when it discusses . business,, affairs.
Now it records the encouraging
thought that prices 'seemed to have
reached the apex in their advance!
and from now on they must come
down. There have been reasons for
some price increases. But too gener-j
ally the large producing agencies have .
been making profits out of all propor-j
tion to capital invested, cost of" raw j
material or demand of labor. Uncle :
Sam has felt the pinch of the high
prices. And it is because he objects :
to paying, them that there is hope forj
the rest of us. j
Greensboro Record: This seems now
to be the only solution. Men, and
then men, and then more men. The'
Germans never believed we would en- j
ter the war in earnest, and to let them
know for a fact that five million j
American soldiers were coming would ,
do more to secure the lasting peace !
we want than anything else. Be-
cause those five, million men would 1
annihilate Germany, and complete an
nihilation is necessary to destroy mil
itarism. Asheville Times: Not the record of'
the state, even though it is acknowl-j
edged that the history of the state)
is a magnificent record, but this time ,
it is the record of the University of
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North Carolina. Last week in tri
angular debates, one with Virginia,
and the other with Johns Hopkins,
the debaters from North Carolina Ujii-versity-
won in both instances. This
double victory starts a .train . of
thought. Intercollegiate - debating
dates back 21 years to. 1897. During
those years Carolina has 32 out of 47
debates. Great Is Carolina's record.
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Change of Industrial - Center.
Grafters are said to have made at
least $500,000,000 in New York-City
during the past year. We had pre
viously thought that Bethlehem. Pa.,
was the center of the steal industry.
Charlotte News.
Bob Bes cher refused tn slsm wSJh
Milwaukee for the salary offered, de
$1.50
S5.00
O -
oaivict
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rearing ae couia nidkp m,v
1 .1 t 1 m
! driving a. sprinkling cart" i
i finally outbid the sprink-Hn.T11
I Bob signed with the Colog n H
With the exception of ?0
of the Braves" regulars are J ."1
and therefore be It said the
pastimlng proves tha trutn 0f
saying that married life 'i
thing. . d!1 av'W
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