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THE NEWS-RECORD, MARSHALL, N. C. The Custard Gup By Florence Bingham Livingston CaarricM bf Oaycg B. D Coapaaf CHAPTER X-Continued. 12 "I didn't know about her her helplessness," begun Sirs. Penfleld rently. "Know about It!" He turned and ttnfronted her In swift Indignation. 'Nobody knew about It till two doys ago. She claims she hasn't been feel Ing well for a long time, but she's en dured In silence. We've been trying to have her consult a doctor, but she won't listen to It says we've no right , to annoy an afflicted woman when she can do her own diagnosing." , "But you think there's no doubt ' insinuated Mrs. Penfleld slowly. "I think there's no doubt but that she's making the whole thing up," ex ploded the young man. "What I thought maybe you'd do, Mrs. Penzle, Is to look us over from the stand point of an outsider and tell us how to act." She smiled. "I cant tell you on the minute, but I'll see If I can think out anything. I'll go over tomorrow, and mebbe I'll get a line on it Tou come around sometime soon, and I'll re port" He held out his hand. "Thank you. Tou're my mother, Mrs. Penzle, but I'll bet you didn't know It. I never had one that I could remember till now." Before she could speak, he was gone. The next day Mrs. Penfleld crowded her work as much as possible, that there might be time In the afternoon for a call on Mrs. Percy. "Lettle," she called Into the back yard, "won't you please pick me "bout three of them pretty caterpillars olTn the willow tree? Put 'em In this here envelope, and be careful you don't squeeze 'em." A little later Mrs. Penfleld set forth, gingerly concealing under her worn Jacket the envelope which contained the three scraps of furry life. She ' stopped first at Mrs. Sanders'. "Don't you want to run in to Mrs. Percy's with me?" she Inquired. "I understand she ain't well, and seems s if we'd oughter be a mite neigh borly." "Oh, I hadn't heard," cried Mrs. Sanders, with Instant solicitude. "Yes, ure I'll go." The two ladles and the three cater pillars proceeded on their way. When they had rung, they could hear Mrs. Percy coming along the nar row ball with a Jerky, shuffling sound. he opened the door with ber left band. - "Good afternoon," she greeted them laconically. "Come in." She ushered her guests Into the tiny living-room and laboriously re moved a litter, of magazines from one chair, a piece of sewing from another. An awkward toss with her left hand sent a white crocheted shawl from a third chair to a small table. The three ladles were thus enabled to be seated. . "How are you feeling today?" in quired Mrs. Penfleld briskly. Mrs. Percy shook her head. "I've got my warning," she replied lugubri ously. ' "Warning !" echoed Mrs. Penfleld. "Good land, what do you mean?" Mrs. Percy's eyelids drooped mourn fully. "I mean the forerunner of the the end." "Oh, nonsense, I don't believe It," cheered Mrs. Penfleld. "What's wrong?" "You couldn't have been using your eyes," returned ner hostess, in an ag grieved tone. "Maybe it doesn't show in my face yet, but it's strange if you didn't notice the way I walked. My right fut drags. I can't scarcely use my right arm at all." "How long have you had it?" "Three days. It came on sudden one morning." ' , "I s'pose you've seen a doctor," sug gested Mrs. Penfleld. Mrs. Percy sighed' heavily. "No need. He couldn't tell me moren I know. I've Just got to wait and grow steadily more helpless. The hardest part of it Is Lorene's leaving.. I shall be alone, and I can't do for myself bow. Troubles always ,come together. Fve been set against Lorene's mar rying from the 'first. She might wait a while before she plunges; probably he'd marry better if she did." - Mrs. Penfleld appeared to be pon dering the situation. "I thought you felt that way, Mrs. Percy, but that's a light trouble compared with your sickness, ain't It?" , "Yes, of course, but " Til Just bet," exclaimed Mrs. Pen Held with conviction, "that If you could use both your arms and legs' all right, you'd feel that was the main thing. What Lorene done would be so small a point you wouldn't scarcely care which way It went, would you?" Mrs. . Percy opened her mouth ; dosed It again. v;: v . Mrs. Penfleld's brown ' eyes grew jrlde la a star of Innocent surprise. "Why, land, yon don't ..mean to tell mefor goodness sakes, Mrs.. Percy, If your body was all right again, wouldn't you be so thankful that you'd be more'a willing Lorene should leare you for a life of her ownf A slight flush colored her hostess' heavy cheeks. "Why, yes, of course," she acknowledged stiffly. "I should feel very different In thst esse." Mrs. Penfleld nodded condoltngly. "Yes, I guess you would.. Health's the main thing. Little troubles don't tvtm n blrgerti specks when a big t " ccaes long to measure 'em Mrs. Percy grabbed this statement with vehemence. "1 don't know much about little troubles, myself. I've had big ones, one right after another. I haven't never been reconciled to Mr, Percy's going. Doesn't seem right for a man to die because he was brave, way he did. He was a police offlcer, and he was shot while making an ar rest. It was reckless, the chance he took. It wouldn't seem so hard If he'd Just been sick and died of It" "Oh, you'd have felt It Just as much," begun Mrs. Sanders. "Yes," echoed Mrs. Penfleld; "and as 'tis, you've got something to be proud of. I've always thouglit I'd rather mourn for a man thai was brave than cook for a man that's a coward." Mrs. Percy, repudiating this conso lation, tossed her head In some of fense. "I didn't mean It would '-are been easy In aay event. The 'Kng, after all, that makes me mlsero' i is my broken life. When you've had ten years of married happiness, you don't get reconciled to giving it. up." Mrs. Penfleld gazed at her dream ily. "No, not reconciled! Being re signed to ev'rythlng Is a pretty good sign of moral prostration. But there's one thing you got to remember: If you had ten years of happy married life, you had exactly ten years more than a lot of women have, and you'd oughter be thankful for it, 'long with your mourning." Mrs.. Percy's Hps came together with a snap. An uncomfortable si lence spread over the room, pressing conversation out of existence. Mrs. Penfleld, fearing that she had been too outspoken, sprang up briskly, with the thought of breaking the tension. "You mustn't Imagine -I'm unsympa thetic, 'cause underneath I been study ing on how we could help you. I can see one thing we'd better do that Is, look out that you don't take cold, entertaining us in a room that don't get any sun. Here, let me put this lttle shawl 'round your shoulders. You mustn't take any chances, you know." Without waiting for assent, she snatched the crocheted shawl from the table and proffered it to her hostess. And Mrs. Percy, the spoiled, the waited-on, was Instantly mollified. She accepted the sen-ice with mur mured gratitude. No sooner had Mrs. Penfleld re sumed her seat, however, than It was Mrs. Percy who did the springing. Mrs. Percy's Eyelids Droopad Mourn fully. ' She came to her feet with a ponder ous agility very different from her previous manner. v " "Ugh! Ugh! The nasty thing!" she screamed. "Oh 1 Oh! Take It off! Oh! There's two of It! Take It" Mrs. Sanders plunged to the rescue. With a careless gesture, Mrs. Penfleld swung In ahead of her. "I'll do it," she announced In a tone of renuncia tion with which one takes the initia tive in a perilous enterprise. "Help me!" cried Mrs. Percy. "They stick. Take the shawl." . , With her left hand she was trying to disengage from the fuzzy shawl first one and then the other of two small caterpillars. : . ' "Well, I declare to goodness!" ex, claimed Mrs. Penfleld safely. Her hands were busy with the shawl, but In some way, not explained, It had become entangled la the buttons of the green sweater, and It was not easily freed. Mrs. Percy's agitation steadily grew. . . , "They must have come la the win dow. I can't stand the nasty little things. Oh-oh. take It off. Tear It anything I Oboh, good heavens, look,, look I" . Her shaking linger pointed at Mrs. Penfleld herself, and two curious things at once became evident One was that Mrs. Percy was using her right baud; the other, that aa active caterpillar was excurslontng up tbe front of Mrs. Penfleld's dress. - "Well, did you ever!" Interjected Mrs. Penfleld. But at this point Mrs. Percy de cided that caterpniars were after her; sad her serves gave way. With a slirlek.'she wrenched sad tore at thai shawl, using both hands maiscn nu ns tely. Fairly beside herself, aha stormed about the room, forgetful of feet that dragged, of legs that refused to be supple. She shivered and screamed and fought the air with nervous lashing of both nrrr.s. Her dark eyes shot mad glances In every direction, searching for more cater pillars. "I know what 'tis." she howled. "It's a pest. We're going to be over run. They'll come In the doors and windows. And I hate the crawling things. Oh, what shall we do? What shall we" suaueniy sue stopped. Her arms dropped. She had become conscious of the Interested, significant gaze of her guests a gaze that reminded ier of many things. "Ugh!" she cried. "Ain't this aw- ful? I'll uffer for it later." ' Mrs. Sunders clasped her hands fer ''itly. "Oh, I'm so glad it happened, 'i here ain't no more caterpillars here; I've looked. And they they've orougiit you out of it" Mrs. Percy gasped. "It was It was only a superhuman " "No, Mrs. Pefcy," broke In Mrs. Penfleld brightly. "I been watching how you did It, and It was Just as natural as could be. You'll find ItH be permanent mark my words. It's plain as can be that the whole trouble was nerves getting wound up, on ac count of worrying, mebbe; and they're unwound now. Any doctord tell yon that you've timbered up to stay. Why. don't yon b'Heve It? Well, then, m tell you what: well have a doctor la to tell you himself. We ain't going to have you fretting over something that don't really all you." Mrs. Percy looked at her helplessly, with a smoldering fire In her blstfc eyes. "Much yo know about It I expect It'll come back" "No, It won't." said Mrs. Penltold firmly. "If It does, we'll have the doctor, 'cause The Custard Cup ain't going to see you suffer 'thout helping you out We're your friends." "Oh oh, yes, I" A bright look flashed across Mrs. Penfleld's face. "Oh, won't Lorene be happy? I can't wait to tell her. And now there ain't nothing standing In her way. Doesn't It seem like a pro rl dence that you said you wouldn't ob ject any more if" "I I didn't say" Interposed Mrs, Percy hotly. Mrs. Sanders' eyes were very wile. "Oh, yes, you did, Mrs. Percy. I heard you." ' Mrs. Penfleld extended her hand with a genial smile. "I am so truly glad," she said lo a low. deep volt, "so glad that It wasn't anything seri ous. Folks are likely to think the worst, but you mustn't do It again. Come over and see us both real soon. It'll do you good to get out, and wT both be awful glad to see you." " CHAPTER XI Due to tho Neighbors. "Mis' Penfleld, be you there? Tva brong back that half a yeast cake I owed you." "Come right In, Mrs. Wopple. How are things going with you?" "Pretty fair." Mrs. Wopple smoothed her afternoon gown complacently. "I had a heavy day. I been cleaning the best silver. I got so much. It makes my arm ache." Mrs. Penfleld could not decide whether It was good to have these many riches or bad to suffer for them, so she made no comment. "I don't clean the kltclten silver reg'lar," continued her caller. "I jurt keep the sandsoap handy. But tha other gets cleaned once a month. I keep house methodical." . "Ain't It fine you can!" remarked Mrs. Penfleld genially. "It's 'cause I plan," sniffed Mr. Wopple. " A shrewd gleam came Into her eyes. "I understand the Bosleya had a quarrel this mornin. I was toll you was there. Mis' Penfleld." "Oh, Mrs. Bosley called me In U see 'bout the kitchen chimney. I don't draw. She thought mebbe "Mis' Catterbox says they fit Ilk wild animals. She beard 'em. Wasit'l you there when It happened?" "Mr. Bosley came In while I wnu there," admitted Mrs. Penfleld. "Well, I must say they got nen to fight Yore outsiders," snapped Mia, Wopple, who had rigid ideas' about the privacy of this domestic privilege "I s'pose you tried to Interfere, Mia' Penfleld." v "Me? Land, no. I never Interfere. I believe that all family fights are private, even If they're held In pub lic. I don't acurcely tblnk they knew I was there and I wasn't, very long." "I'll bet It was int'rastln'," said Mrs. Wopple enviously. "But you needn't " tell anything -If yon don't Want to. Mis' Bosley told Mis Catter box a lot; said he struck her and she wouldn't stand It forever. Son) say they're talkln' of goln' to Seattle." "Ob. are they?" Mrs. Wopple, highly dissatisfied with- the outcome of this excursion Into neighborhood news, tried once more. "Mis' Percy run tn this mor nin'. She's awful low la tbe dumps. She says she'll break up here If Lo rene gets married." 1 (TO BE CONTINUED.) Electricity and Brains. A London dispatch announces tnt Dr. Bernard Holtander In a public ad dress has advanced the claim that brain power and tbe capacity for mental work may be increased and stimulated by the application of elec tricity (galvanic treatments) to cer tain regions of the head. Tests have been made, he stated, on a number ef backward or Indolent students, whe through this method had been success ful in passing examinations la wti.i they had previously fsHed. PIromi Labor Union Runs In eastern Kentucky the miners are not they want to. We pay the prevull'ng to compel the men either to stay out of .The Coul River Colliery company Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. ''I during the conl strike of 1022, the mines purchased, and in the announcement of policy It was stated thut the company, unlike other corporations, "bad a soul." Mrs. Stillman Shares in the Limelight Mrs. Anne U. ("Fifl") Stillman (portrait herewith) Is back In the pub lic eye In connection with the famous divorce case. "Flo" Leeds started' the' present excitement by coming bflck from a European trip and announcing that Stillman had transferred his af fections, leaving her broke. She also had an Idea that It might be necessary for her to sue Stillman for funds wherewith to support her boy, Jay Leeds. Thereupon Mrs. Stillman declared her willingness to adopt Jay provid ed, of course, his mother made herself scarce. "Nay, nay," said Mrs. Leeds, 'my boy needs a mother's love." And that settled that. However, It does look as If the two women may get to gether on some basis In an effort to make it uncomfortable for the man In the case. Reporters found Mrs. Stillman at Grand Anse, P. Q., where she Is re cuperating. "Affinity No. whatever It is." she remarked, "is being provided for on the same lavish scale us the others. But she will be thrown over like the rest." she added with a mirthless laugh. "First It was 1 then It was Flo Leeds, and now It this new one. They will all go the same way." World War Vet Will Hr 1 in the police department. Rice Williams Means was born In 1877 at St Jo seph) Mo., is a college man and began law practice In Denver In 1901. He was county Judge of Adams county, Colorado, 1902-4. He enlisted In the Colorado N. O. In 1895 and served with distinction as an officer in Ahe Philippines. In the World war he commanded the Fourth United States infantry In the Meuse Argonne campaign and later the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Infantry. . Heads Both Illinois Roger Sherman of Chicago (por trait herewith) Is the new president of the Illinois State Bar association. The other officers elected at the forty-seventh annual convention at -Peoria are first vice president, C. M. Clay Bun tain, Kankakee ; second vice president, John R. Montgomery, Chicago ; third vice president, George H. Wilson, Qulncy; secretary, R. Allen Stephens, Springfield; treasurer. Franklin, L. Velde. Pekln. Mr. Sherman was also president of the Chicago Bar association at the time of bis election a situation ob taining for the first time In the his tory of the state. He Is the youngest of the five sons of Penoyer L. and Louise Dickinson Sherman. His fa ther wss a lawyer .and master In chancery In Chicago from 1S63 to his death In 1911.' Roger Sherman was, born January 4, 1872, In the old Sher man homestead In Hyde Park, built In 1859. He got his academic arid legal education In the Hyde Park high school. University of Michigan C94) and Northwestern University Law school C95). Michigan has him enrolled in its football records as one of the best of its quarterbacks.' In 1905 he married Grace Traesdale Buttolpb of Chicago, daughter of Albert C and Louise Fuller Buttolpb. He has two daughters and lives at Wlnnetks, I1L Mr. Sherman Is a ninth-generation American, the direct descendant of Rev. John Sherman of Watertown, Muss., noted theologian, astronomer, pulpit orator snd founder of early New England cities, . He is named for his famous collateral relutlve, Roger Sherman, one of tbe committee of five to draw up the Declaration of Independence and ope of the makers of the Constitution. - . . . , -Y '-.." ' .-."" '" - i ' - . - Peopl "Open Shop" Mine "1 "We ask no man's union affllla ' tlons." Some humorous people will doubt less get a laugh out of this utterance. Anyway, It's Warren S. Stone who Is speaking and Warren S. Stone Is grand thief of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers, one of the oldest and strongest labor unions In the United States. It Is his answer, as chairman of the board of directors of the Coal River Colliery company, operating mines In West Virginia and eastern Kentucky to the statement of Fred Mooney, secretary of District 17, Unit ed Mine Workers of America, that the International Miners' union had called a strike at these mines because of the adoption of the "open shop" pol icy. i "At our workings in West Virginia we pay the union scale," Stone ex plained at his offices In Cleveland, O. "Men may Join the union or stay out. organized. They can form a union If rute of wages, and we have not Sought the union or go Into It." is largely owned by members of the A 12.000,000 corporation was organized Keep Denver Clean .. uoiorr.tjo and uenver nave been mucn in the limelight of late. For one thing the Centennial State elected a Democratic governor of radical ten dencies, who appointed a Progressive United States senator to succeed the late Senator Nicholson. For another, Denver staged a long and bitterly- fought prosecution of Its notorious "million dollar bunko ring," securing 20 convictions and sentences ranging from one to ten years In the peniten tiary. A third sensation ' was a red- hot mayoralty election, ( fought out on a "clean-the-clty" Issue, In which a "dark horse" third candidate, unsup ported by the press, won handily. Mayor Stapleton Is a good man, how ever, and he has now appointed Col. Rice W. Means (portrait herewith) as commissioner of safety and excise, Colonel Means Is a lawyer, jurist and soldier. The appointment Is taken to mean that discipline will be restored and Chicago Bars f 1 - V V ' ' Ctir.:dclC:stc:r;n ... . - II W aamaro. w 7 . -A aonla luatir ! dirart and PKMikmrnnl tha rallabla traatmaat f or riddinc tha of all catarrhal It aid dlcaaMoa. atimn. lataa ua unr ana ma action, nXcbaa tha blood, tooaa tip tha an out ays. tarn and aoothaa tha In&anv ad aad anosaatad sauoaas Honaat aad expandable k tha vardlot al thouarMa, fell Evorrwhtrt T.bl.Uof LUiVl GREAT BENEFIT FROM CARDUI Georgia Lady Says She Has Avoided Much Suffering by Taking This Weil-Known Tonio Medicine. Clyattvllle, Oa. In a statement which she ga t her home on R. F. Z. 1, here, Mrs. T. A. Copeland said! "I have, I believe, avoided a good deal of suffering by the use of CarduL and am thoroughly convinced that It has been of great benefit to me. "Before the birth of two of my chil dren, I grew so weak and nervous I could hardly go and suffered...! had a friend who told me of Cardul, so the next time when I grew so weak and run down I began to use It. I used it three months. I grew stronger and less nervous. The baby was stronger and a better baby, and I really believe It was because I built up my strength with this splendid tonic." Cardul has been In successful use for more than forty years. Thousands of women have written to tell of tbe ben eficial results obtained by taking Cardul, and to recommend It to others. It is a mild, harmless, purely vege table medicinal preparation a product of practical experience, scientific In vestigation and pharmaceutical skill. HmmIiii .ml. - Cailana't tank iaraaia aa r UaL fiairaliri aai aiwrtk. aaa.alraa.at. Tk, lahaar- aaj CUaraVa latakaar CbUdran grow haalthjr and fraa nm Mill Ji L - - - aotutipatlon and othar trouble If' I fina n at taatams uma. 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