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THE WILMINGTON DISPATCH. MONDAY, MAYfl 1 9 1 8. If THEWI LriiinmsPATGH 'VI s Published DAILY AND SUNDAY BY DISPATCH PUBLISHING CO. i' TELEPHONES: 't General Manager's Oflce 44 Advertising Department 176 V i Circulation Department . .178 ' Managing Editor 44 v i City Editor 205 I FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE. ATE-MBERS Or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusivly entl ;.. t tied to the use for republication of all news . dispatches credited to it or not otherwise ..' credited in this paper and also the local ; news published herein. All rights of re- B: publication of special dispatches herein are t'also referred. BY MAIL: Daily and Sunday $6.00 Daily and Sunday, (Six Months. . .$3.00 Dally and Sunday, 3 Months $1.50 Sunday Only, One Year $2.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER: Dail and Sunday, per. week 15c Or When Paid in Advance at Office Daily and Sunday, One Year -$7.00 Daily and Sunday, Six Months $3.50 Dally and Sunday, 3 Months $1.75 ' Sunday Only, One Year .$2.00 Entered at the Postoffice in Wilming ton, N. C, as Second Class Matter. Foreign Representatives: Frost, Green and Kohn, Inc., 225 Fifth Avenue, New York, Advertising Building, Chicago. MONDAY, MAY 13, 1918. General Maurice is a soldier, so he r knows how it feels to he blown up by .one's own petard. Instead of downing Lloyd-George, General Maurice bias increased the premier's popularity among the Brit ish. i Wilmington has done so well in otbter war measures she must not Vfall down on the Red Cross cain--paign. The colonel thinks he has downed the postmaster general bv his rr.ply to the latter's challenge, but we bet on Mr. Burleson coming out victor. What has become of those many thousand bushels of old potatoes the food commission has been urging the people to eat? It is said none can be bought. Of course Germany will make an apology7-of the usual German kind for sinking the Argentina vessel, -.nd then she will go right on sinking them when opportunity occurs. Now's the time to begin thinking f about paying your federal income tax. That 4s, for those so fortunate as to have an income large enough to come up to the tax limit. li When our soldiers in the trenches -7 heard that they were being backed : by seventeen million people at home they felt all the more anxious to Z- get over the top and grapple the Huns. . This war is teaching the people g many things about the economy of S living that they ought to have known f and been practicing long ago. They T will come out of the war changed in this respect in many ways which will be to their good. Charity and Children does not like the name "Laymen's Movement." It says it is afraid of any religious . movement that excludes the preach- ers. It wants "men's" substituted H for "laymen's." That paper think3 e the preachers must lead or the move ment wilTbe a failure. We thought .. the movement had gotten beyond the . v. experimental stage and had already become a success. -r . Some man who is fond of making abstruse mathematical calculations has figured it out that every time one - of those long range guns is fired at Paris at a cost to the German gov ,t ernment of five thousand dollars it kills, on an average, One French wo 5. man and child by shell-fire and a dozen German mothers and children "f by starvation. That's the way Ger many is trying to win the war and the price she Is paying for hoped for ' victory. The long-range bombardment of Z Paris calls to the mind of a writer in . The Manchester Guardian of the bOmbajdment of Charleston, S. C by a federal battery la 1863. There was great difference though in the range and the size of the two guns. The . federal gun was an eight Inch, two '-. hundred pounder and fired at a range of five an three-quarter miles, which was the record range at that time. " The gun was given an unusual eleva tion and charged with twenty pounds of powder, four pounds in excess of the regulation charge. The gun burst with the firing of the thirty-seventh . shell. Such gun would be of no Ber ne la warfare of the present day. ADDITION TO OUR STATE When the present owners of The Dispatch took over the plant they promised the paper's patrons to make many improvements. One of the step3 in that direction is the increase of the staff. This has been done by adding thereto as telegraph editor Mr. Carey B. Taylor, who comes to us from The Savannah Press. Mr. Taylor is a North Carolina boy, and has done newspaper work on The Raleigh Times and Charlotte Observ er. He takes charge of The Dispatch's telegraph and state news department today. We bespeak for Mr. Taylor that cordial welcome Wilmington people are noted for giving to strangers who come to make this city their home. WANE OF SUBMARINES. French official statistics show that the submarine menace has greatly decreased of late. Not near so many vessels now become victims of the once so greatly dreaded U-boats. It begins to look as if submarine war fare had reached its senith of suc cess and was now rapidly on the de cline. While the submarines have done a vast amount of damage to the allied and neutral maritime service and have been responsible for the loss of many lives, till from a Gor man standpoint they have been a failure. They have not accomplished what was intended and what was ex pected of them. When the merciless submarine warfare was Inaugurated February of last year it was the boast of the Germans that Great Britain would be starved out in a few months and the war would soon be brought to a close. We have no doubt of the Germans' full belief that such would be the case. They had perfect confidence in the ability of these boats to put an end to trans- Atlantic commerce. The French official report shows how different the facts are from Gor man expectation. It states that the losses at sea of allied and neutral ships for the month of April this year were approximately only one-half of those for April of last year. The re port says that submarine attacks are now more costly to the enemy be cause now made chiefly with torpe does instead of gun-fire as was the case before merchant ships were ef fectually armed. Formerly they would attack any sized merchant ship openly, but now they are afraid to show themselves above water in most instances, but have to rely on slip ping under water close enough to make the torpedo effective. The American depth bomb has also be came a menace to them. The effectiveness of submarines has been greatly reduced by the ingenui ty of the allies in inventing plans and appliances for resisting their at tacks and destroying them either on the surface or under the water till now they have become far less dan gerous to transportation. CONTEST IN THE NINTH Indications are that the third Is not the only congressional district in this state in which there is to be a con test for the democratic nomination. There 'are indications, judging by an editorial in The Hickory Record, that there are going to be hot times in the ninth district. That paper says of Congressman Webb: "Those men in the ninth congres sional district who placed the inter ests of their country above the inter- sts of Germany will have an opportut nity in the June primary to nominate a man for congress who will not need to have his backbone stiffened by hundreds of telegrams, sent by his constituents at great expense. Shrewd politician that he is, Mr. Webb made a wrong guess when he thought vthe people of his district were not Intensely loyal and that they would be won over to his side the minute he started franking stereo typed letters to them. He will not find this to be true." Mr. Webb has been elected to con gress eight times. There are several large counties in this district, Meck lenburg among them. The people in these think it is time there was a shifting of the representation of the district. i Farmers' county unions continue to adopt resolutions condemning the course of Dr. -H. Q. Alexander, presi dent of the state union, but the doc tor pursuesnot the even, nut the thorny tenor of his way. We suppose his hide Is so thick that none of the morns can penetrate to the quick . He got votes enough in the state convention to re-elect him crest- I dent, and that was sufficient for him. - - - r . GENERAL MAURICE. Nothing during the four years of the war haB caused so much excite ment as the General Maurice episode. The London Times says it still be- believes in the general's patriotic mo tives, "but it seems charitable now to assume that he nas been made the instrument of abler and less honora ble men." Commenting on this phase of the case The New York Times Bays: "General Maurice began, by insult ing France and General Foch, and his subsequent course leads to the belief that he did this for the purpose of injuring the Lloyd -George ministry. He blamed that ministry for putting British troops under the command of a Frenchman, and he sought to prove that he was right by calling atten tion in a spectacular way to what he supposed was the sacrifice of British troops by that Frenchman. 'Where Is Bluecher?' he sneered. What he meant was that Bluecher that is Foch was letting the British bleed to death rather than risk his own men by sending reinforcements; but the sneer was meant not for Foch but for Lloyd-George, who had put Foch where he was. "The arrival of the French rein forcements on the very heels of the sneer would have discomfited another man and reduced him to blushing, stammering pleas for forgiveness. In stead, Maurice went a step further. He charged the Lloyd-George govern ment with lying to the nation, and did so for the open purpose of pulling it down in the face of the foe. When he said that he was 'at Versailles' when the war council reached a de cision which Boner-Law has said it did not reach, he must have intended everybody to believe that he was present at the session of the council and spoke as a witness. He was thus trying to prove Bonar-Law untruth ful by a state of facts which did not exist; for he was not at the council and was not a witness." SHOULD NOT BE SO. The results of the activities of fed 3ral officers in this state in bringing to light cases of seditious talk are un pleasant features of current events. They show that there are a . number of people in this state who are dis loyal to their country; or if not act ually disloyal are so little in accord with the government that they do not hesitate to express sentiments cal culated to hinder the officials in the proper conduct of war preparations. There have been many such cases of late. There was the man from Pender county convicted in the fed eral court last week. About the same time a merchant of Newton was bound over to court under a heavy bond. A ' commissioner of Surry county was heavily fined and required to resign his office. These were men of such position and standing in their communities that they could not plead ignorance of the effect of their conduct or that they intended no harm by it. Then there was the employe of the state hospital at Mor wanton who was dismissed because of his seditious language. In Char lotte a preacher was arrested for se ditious talk, and in Wake county a deacon of a country church has had similar charges preferred against him. There may be other cases which we cannot now call to mind. These instances are a small propor tion of the number that occur iiijEie state. Naturally the. officers get hold of only a few of the cases, while thera are many others which are not brought to their "attention. This goes to show that there is unfriendliness toward the govern ment if not actual disloyalty in this state. It should be put down. Other wise the German propagandists and the pro-Germans will grow bolder till they become a menace to the government. The government agents cannot do . this rork alone. $To be effective they , must have the aid of the people. It is tis duty of every loyal citizen to report to the authorities, either state or fed eral, any case of seditious talk comi Ing within his knowledge. Statfc pride if not loyalty to the govern ment should prompt such course. N true North Carolinian should want his state to gain the reputation of ortt n. hnthftd nf Rfidltlnn Notwithstanding the heavy -call that has been made on the people in the war bond campaign and the pres ent drive for war stamp sales, the people are doing as much as ever in he way of church contributions. This s lllustratel by the Baptists of Ral lgh, who have set about raising fifty thousand dollars for their church's million dollar educational fund, and the Indications are that they will succeed. This is only one of many in stances of this kind among church people, - " " State News . No Parchment for Diplomas. The graduating class of Oxford col lege this year will receive their di plomas on printed paper such as is being used in all the colleges of the rand, and the government department. President Hobgood .read a letter to the class from the engraving house that for 25 years has furnished parch ment for" the diplomas for this col lege, saying that it is not possible for them this year'to furnish the parch ment. The class graciously accepted the situation, making a virtue of nec essity. Charity, and Children. Soja Beans for Planting. The county farm demonstrator an nounces that a solid carload of soja beans has arrived here for distribu tion among Rowan farmers, these coming, from Pasquotank county, North Carolina. There is no limit to the amount allowed each farmer, this depending on the size of his farm and the amount of land he desires to put down in these beans. The soja bean Is a great food producer, as well as a feed bean and the amount received V3 sufficient to plant 1,200 acres. Salisbury Post. Annual Session of Scottish Society. The annual meeting of the Scottish Society of America will be held at Pinehurst, May 16, in the auditorium of the club house, the opening ses sion to be at 11 o'clock in the morn- ine. The addi-eas will hp rialivared by Dr. Archibald Henderson, of the,lutie8 for the coming week if there University of North Carolina, who one of the most widely known of the Carolina Scots. Dr. Henderson will discuss some contributions, almost unknown to the majority of the peo pie, made by Scots of the colony of North Carolina to the national his tory. This is in line with one of the objects of the society, whose purpose it is to rescue from oblivion and pre serve the history of the Scottish peo ple In America. Greensboro News. Greensboro Wants the Cade Company. The chamber of commerce has in vited the Cade Manufacturing com pany, makers of the Cade typesetting machine, to locate the factory here. The company is impressed with the local advantages and the likelihood uiB ""v? mf wu.y,lo ihe boot publish accounts in tne aai discussed in the meeting of directors ly pregj ut up money for the J,CD'ua'- tummui,:o "00 "" to prosecute the negotiations. Greensboro News. The Travels of an Auto. -Messrs. Alex. Sprunt and Son to the A Kings Mountain man bought an jaiifax sufferers, and $33.80 for sale automobile from a Methodist preach- cf trinkets, which amount was turned er for $325 cash, and as it was used over to the trinket fund of the Na for transporting blockade whiskey, itjtional Special Aid society in New was confiscated by Recorder Falls ,York and did not pass through our and sold , Saturday for $304, this han(js at all. The Special Aid treas amount to go to the public school Ury Cf which Mrs. Prince is treas fund of Cleveland county. Shelby urer. reports $38 and the grand total News. for the year lis $4,177.64. Two Pictures. The Record man took a little trip the other afternoon and ooservea many teams in the fields, mere boys being seen driving two-horse disc harrows. At a railroad crossing the dbserver noted an automobile carry- ing nine or ten boys dressed in base- ball uniforms and that was a picture ...x - i 4w Ath.n out 01 naruiuiiy wiuu mo uujdi Hickory Record. New Freight Route. The new Ford truck recently nur- -hocA tnv TMrirw-tTtflt1rm mimriAAR between Shaloltte and Wilmington .a iMitai rr loot waaIt haul- ing $35 worth of freight and making, the trip in about six hours. Shallotte News. A Landmark Passes. News that the city council had con - demned the old Jarrell hotel building on South Main street was received with mingled emotions by the people OI tllgn roini, particularly iuo uiuci inhabitants who remember - it js one: h tar !.; J.mr trom Fayettevnie to Sale by stage coacn. ine iamuus um uunums o older than High Point itself. It has been here since the surveyors 'first maid ouu.tne route ior me um iwn-u Carolina railroad High Point Enter- prise. ' 1 . . CONFIDENCE IN ARTILLERY. All that afternoon and during sue- ceeding days our artillery shelled vil- J II! I- A riATV1 Ov lages ana positions m wu. lmaa qyi1 trta fiornHTH flont A deSUl- iiUvvy tuiu i-HVJ r tory fire against ours. The American artillery was far more active. Some of us who tried to keep a tally on the oh olio tmMnr nvflrhoad fleured that " " , , " ' , r" we gave about three back for every one the boches sent over Indeed the minute xaeinie iiinga a. i "" our positions tne auiciiwu guuucia go back at him with three or four for his one. "Fine business!" say the doughboys, Yet they grumble a lot at the artil- lery. For everything will be peaceful and lovely, and then out of complete silence the Amrican batteries will start something. There they go again!" cry the in- try. "Stirring him up! First thing . i . . ... . i . fantrv you know, Heinje'll be puttin' 'em over onus. What do you know about those guys? They don't care what happens to the infantry. And if you'd let 'em they'd stick their doggoned guns right in pur dugouts." But the Infantry has immense con fidence In our artillery. Every time they call for a barriage the American ,he,a? ch?gf except and last h!ttH'rnnn4 iiir floei, f u-Jwinter that was negligible owina: to ning. Their protecting fire is almost the fneroslty of Mr- Oscar Pearaall. perfect. One battery of three-inch '7h? ?0TUsed temporarily In the Co guns is said to have fired 380 8hells In'JJ.5f. IiVUPPlle? 7"h twenty minutes during a raid alarm.-,5ff h"5r .3??. Trk. r?om. 18 te.P- george Pattullo in Saturday Evening W phone is contributed by a lady. A Wo n.Tri, nA.A.. v - i- 'great deal of work goes on here. The Ji6 Dodgers have had a block messengers report, the mone? toiigh time trying to get started thisU, nnnrA Br,A t v.,? helped the Dodgers, the absensce of ziacK oemg a. JMg5ct: In the team's L REPORT OF THE PATRIOTIC PENNY First Year's Work of This Branch of National Special Aid. The year which closed the end cf April, 1918, was the first year's ex periment with the patriotic penny and we present the following report: Block Messengers. Our block messengers have paid approximately. 100,000 patriotic visits during th year and have distributed about 60,000 pieces of literature as follows: Food cards for-the food com mission, registration cards for the women's department of the state council of defense, our goal for the National Special Aid, tHe (patriotic record for war work, information about thrift stamps. They have ex plained the bonds, have preached food' conservation, pleaded for war stamp purchases, urge women to work in the war relief organizations, obtained reports on the amount of food put up during the summer of 1917, and canvassed the whole town for rooms and houses available for the purpose of the shipping board. They collected $2,856.95 in pennies. There are about 200 block messen gers. Miss J. D. rVood is chairman and Mrs. W. S. Bunting is vice-chairman, and Mrs. Gerken, assistant. Mrs. Bunting looks up delinquents and helps place new messengers; Mrs. Gerken interviews the messen gers at 1e hall and explains their is.13 anyuimg unusuai 10 uo Patriotic Penny Bottles. Mrs. W. S. Bunting is responsible the patriotic penny jars placed in the stores. We have about 100 and they are kept in good condition by her and serve the useful . purpose of not only catching the pennies, but of reminding people continually of the need for help in war work. Treasurers. We have two treasuries. The spec Iil Ai treasurly, of which Mrs. H. C. Prince is treasurer, consists of the dues of members. It is necessary to keep it distinct because a per capita tax is paid out of it to the national so ciety. Mrs. M. J. Dauer is treasurer Margaret H. Wood and Miss Irene Price are tellers They receive tue CQunt verif it record it in bank in envelopes and keep tne aona tions separate from the penny col lections. They report $1,182.44 in in dnnfttlnns and $50 sent through us by Canning. Our first expenditure of the patri- ? PT,Ze8M . tion exhibited one for several weeks at! I the high school last spring, paying ell expenses and making us cans 01 food. Mrs. D. D. Cameron gave her services free, but there were rather , large expenses connected with tne ! t,iDQ tny fnftd was scarce ana cutciyi ,. dear, we bought 1,000 cans (600 of which we still have on hand), and purchased an entire equipment. We irave lessons u me uuiuieu Und CaVe them One OI OUr lillCO aia ners, and we gave another ' canner to Tlelarado. When tne iooq cuiumissiuu went into the field we movea "u canning outfit to Fifth ana and operated, it there all summer ior the benefit of the neighbors. I ;;rR w jt 1 Our "es.' g""' "SJL2? chaw? o "the Mrs- Tom Moore is ir i charge of tne JUing ne lo pairs of bocks -- - , Pje -. making 240 knitted have been sent to h"S"SS. Je'" and to 'Fort Oaenthrouch . r.rn chanter Educatior1a, and Publicity Committee ty ommiwcc. This committee is jIeares The work 0f education has -ten undertaken through the schools and has been in the nature of a.pa- ntP, misade. informing the pupils on the i3SUes at stake, the causes and pr0gre3S Df the war and the princi- ... r m t ml . J3 . fles for Wuicn we ngnx. ine eauca- i , 1, ha. Kaon n j LlUiJ.CH YV Ui XV U.CLQ UVOU v li' inuv-w gtrengthened by a weeklyecture in tie work room on the war situation t 0m week to week. TThis feature of -orftT-V fa mnst sspntlal bena.nsp ,!r r . , we are committed to a vigorous earn- paign against German propaganda -iu mrousii tue iiieuium ui uui uiy j ossensers auu wui&cis wc vaii urai vith any false statement or rumor I'-ejudicial to the cause of our coun- t-y. nce a week we write a report c" thtXvork and try to keep the cause c" patriotism ever before the public, V'e make an especial effort to bring luo our circle 01 inriuence tne people ,vho live too remote from the heart of the city to keep in touch with the Jfork room at headquarters. We also loratii-ra r mi-n unit, urnem lnvitort it .lecture to our unit when invited to 1 uu ou ttUU esumttLC wiat wc have rsacnea o.uuu persons The .Vork Room Our work room contains 5,000 square feet of space, is beautifully lighted and is giveM us rent free by Mr. James Woolvin. We have no over faM V a gLZ tX- distributing of materials sent in by friends goes on, articles are packed, ne jpodj.axe stored and dressirgsj ANNUA j::::::n:t:i::;jB:;KHK'l"i .jiiny- CHAPTER X. A Girl from Home. a NE day as I was hurrying to the subway I heard some one call my name. I turned around and a girl, whom I did not at first recognize, came up to me and said: "Have you forgotten me, Mllly Jones ?? Then I remembered. She was a girl from our town, three or four years older than I was. She had left a not very happy home, to go on the stage, I recalled hearing, but, as she had never returned, I had almost for gotten her. I asked if she had been home, and she said: "No. Father (ne was a widower) married again about a year ago, a girl no older than me. Ella Robbins was her name." Sadie had written nothing about it, and as she was almost the only one I heard from It wasn't strange that I should know very little of the home gossip. I had been studying Milly as she talked. She had a tired, hopeless look in her eyes and great purple shadows beneath. But her clothes were beau tiful, of fine material and fashionable cut. A little sigh of envy fluttered between my lips as I compared my own cheap tailored suit with the stylish one she wore. "Do come home with me," I said, and Milly came along readily enough. "Oh, how nice," she exclaimed, as I opened the door of my little room. "Do you have It all to yourself? And what are you doing in New York?" "Yes. I have it alone, and l am a stenographer in Peters & Co." "Is it a good position?" "Not very. But there are a lot of drip employed there, and I like it bet ter than being In an office alone." "That's right. Stay where there Is a crowd. You won't attract so much notice," she said, bitterly. "Now, Milly, take off your things and while I make some tea tell me all about yourself," I replied, pretend ing not to notice. ... "Oh, Mary, it is so hard. I just get well fixed when something hap pens and I lose my position. Usually I don't care very much. But " "This last time?" I interrupted. "Yes; this last time It was awful. I had been in my place about three months. I liked the man I worked for very much. He had been good and kind. Not fresh, like some of the others. Not until then. Oh, Mary, ain't it hard for a girl who wants to be good to earn any kind of a decent living?" "Not as hard as some other things," I replied. It seemed strange to be talking to a girl so mucn older than I was in such a way, and I blushed as she looked inquiringly at me. Then are made. We have 20 large tables. neariy au loaned by citizens, a large iT - bis ecuipmeat of Perhaps six dozen pairs of scissors, 50 pairs of cotton cards, several sew ing machine, one knitting machine, The Card Index. We are gradually tabulating the citizens in our card index, which is furnished by the block messengers. Mrs. Thomas Strange is chairman of this work and we expect to have 12, 000 members on the list before we have finished. We are making an 1 ppnrf x UQVa nvorv mo rAmo cMM Jn cJty a woir tn i there are perhaps 9,000 who do this, jt is difficult to tell the exact number ,because Qur nieg partly frnm tVo ora nnA "Krt,, - tlemen and some ladies contribute more than n. nrmv a mrooV Articles Made During the Yar. Including the canned goods and the Knitted articles we have made and snipped 87,847 articles during the year. As we had about $1,000 worth c materials on hand at the heeiTiTiinB- ,!" the second patriotic penny ye ve estimate that our articles cost on an average of three cents apiace. ney range in value from 3-5 of a Cint to 50 cents and the largest num v' "v " " w w ma, aw pauo, VL,LX osting abov 6 cents, making a total f ibmit $ nn fnr that Our ncontinent pads, of which we made ,324, cost 25 cents each, makincr thiUni utiIpsr we can send them cu nt.ll mat ohnuf tQrtft TV, oopers cost about $200 and the car- i el cushions, 1,372 in number, esti -jv atetl at an avoras-A rnt nf ox lso cost about $200. Amone the oth- er more expensive articles were lings and body binders, 2,634, costing , .. ' Vi""" wwui. ui. culo cauii, auu pillow tises oi various sizes, many costing 3 v2 cents each w hayey J oint of buying our materials in town -rienever We could find what we needed, the merchants help us so plendidly with the patriotic jars, and wane we sometimes pay more for tno National Surgical utbs articles than we would if we bought tee. hem from the dealers, we think our j - Classes in French. gfi olicy is right and just. Madame Hatchell gives ne.ht, We have paid as much as ten cents , vices free to the soldiers vino -cl5, a yard for gauze, seventy cents a! learn French and che has Tni! 11 1 fft-. rnt.n J .11 . materials of muslin and outing ' are h'gh and increasing in cost from day j - a v ij If iu V.UILUU. oru. ui uuuisb. an io day. We seldom have raw ma'. terials given us. Messrs. Alex. Sprunt and Son have donated non absorbent cotton very . generously. i-ul as a ruie we rjy our materials ut and out. We eave 10.825 articles o the Red Cross in April and th?y yere made from our own goods. We nave nad heavy exnress charees. have paid hich. nrices for dravaee nd for boxes, printing and work oom supplies, but every penny given hrough the patriotic penny plan has one. into surgical dressings. Dona ions have taken care, and far more nan taken care of the other expen es. c Units. We have a'ut 15 units, three of which are self supporting, one Is iven a little help from time to time, and the others depend entirely upon nr TAonnrxaa " wa ,0 ions of garments made by units from Tlfin'f iti-i. us "i fc J UU III in K Vfti, T to tell me anvthlno- t.,,' UdVe don't." ' um' Yon "I want to, Mary. Maybe it make things easier if I talk themS to some one. You know that in had lots of ftmhitinTi k ... I Trrr.. " . l years 0id wu uut v money. I was pretty, too, tn , wanted to go on the stage For 'v a year I tried, tried hard, often W gry, always tired. Climbing waiting to see managers; and walkiS always walking to save carfare Sometimes I would have something do for a little while, perhaps a weeks. But I was always in deht always behind in the rent of the mii erable little room way over on , avenue, in a dirty, smelly house, ru iwui. noo ucoi iub 1 uui, or course n I got the benefit of all the bad odors I had no friends, no decent girl J companion. If I had had I miRh! have gone on trying. One dav ate a particularly brutal manager had told me I never would succeed on the stage, and had intimated broadly that I needn't suffer because of that as he was willing to look out for rae the brute! I drifted into a broker office in answer to an advertisement I could typewrite a little and vrots a good hand. But now I know he never would have looked at me nor given me the job if I hadn't been 'rood to look at" 6 "You were are very pretty, Milly" "Were is right! Never mind that, though. It don't make any difference now. He was one of the partners in the firm, and I was in his private of fice. I heard afterward that he used to have an- expert stenographer do my work after I had gone home-do it over. Perhaps he did. He was very t clever. , as well as a very hand some man. It wasn't quite three months after he hired me that I left his office. He rented an apartment for me. And well, that was over two years ago." She hesitated a min ute, and I supposed I showed the her ror I felt In my face, for she said very low, "Remember, I loved him, Mary. Loved him from the moment he took poor half-starved little me into his sumptuous office and mide a square meal and a decent dress po sible. He never said a word until h6 had made me care for him. I think he loved me then a little. We vere seldom out together, but I was hap py because I 'loved him. I always thought he meant to marry me. bout two months ago he told me te was going to be married. He made no ex cuses. That wasn't his way. But he had told me he never would marry unless he married me. And, Mary, I believed him." CONTINTD5D TOMORROW. (Copyright, 1918,' by Dale Drummnl) their own funds and brought in, wjl the exception of three small uin and the colored chapter. Even So? set and Brooklyn turn their money and afterwards draw on the treasury for funds to tne amount of their cred it, and our figures for the grand total represent their financial contributions also. Liberty Bond Committee. Our Liberty bond chairman, Mrs. J. W. West, reports the sale of $5,000 for the third liberty loan and as -her district was largely the ex- reme northern part of town, we are very pleased with her results. Lavatorv. Not counted In our financial re port, at all, because the money aw i not go through our bank account, ttto c Vi nntrihntPfl hv Dl SpfUIl- i and the workers of the Special Aia frr a la.vfl.tnrv. Mr. Woolvin COntnD' iuted $75 also, and we have every convenience for comfort ana sami tion. Scrap Book. xkt moVa ocran honks for COflvar a cn as through our 'chairman, Mr5: Walker Taylor. National Special Aid, which repui iiian iuau, amid. - ..f- the greatest benefit from tnem. Tranrh TnrcheS. Madam Hatchell learned the art j the trench torch and we have sen hiindrfid of these useful articles w facili- -Italy. Lack of transportauou ties forbid the exportation or w i Anrnn4 cthin 33 We have been able to do, we cannot gei - i across at all. We have seni x surgical dressings i w ' eit- nf Ttalv and one to France on tne of Wilmington, owsd in this . Unfortunately the second lot was it bba, uui oo ,cllrp. at Sea, DUl as It vaa i" be recompensea m a 1 Jave made clothes ior refugee ;dren and sent them to the American I CiirU Aid society, all ings except those which we"1 tj,e i local Red Cross were pent " it. ii 1 at th ft 1. -1 V ' LWlCB x wcca a.. - .11.. i This is an activity "Pf1! ft I dorsed by the National Special , uv j society. Fon. Tr.;irs Gloves and Tin ru ... Wo save trinkets to helPtDe. ,Vn. fnA. loathPT for the Slvn . nrini' LUO A unt ". - .1-o man s war xvenci - seE nroof iackets, and un tn be .to government collecting Pi" used for ammuninon 11 mm Mrs. J. Walter Williamson J & man of the hospitality cornmi ja aronaH th soldiers ana jf our midst four times during w it. spring months. TV e nave ts!l tie desultory entertaining and hope to do moru. Spiritual Service. We inaugurated divine sen our work room, recognizing , - uipotent hand of uoa iu vxP issues of the great war, ana our workers to pray for country (Continued on Page EighO added :
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