VOL. XLII
GRAHAM CHUKCH DIRECTORY..
Baptist—N. Main St.—J as. W.
Rose, Pastor.
Preaching services every first
and Third Sundays at li.ua a. m.
and 7.30 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday ai
9.45 a. m.—C. B. Irwin, Superin
tendent.
Graham Christian Church—JS. Main
Street—Kev. J. P. Truifu
tr Preaching services every Sec
r oad and louitii Sundays, at u.uu
a. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
10.00 a. m.—K. L. Henderaou, Super
intendent.
New Providence Christian Churca
—Morth Main Street, near Dtpot—
Rev. J. G. 'l'ruitt, Pastor. Preach
ing every Second and Fourth Sun
day nights at 8.00 o'clock.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9.46 a. m.—J. A. Bayliff, Superin
tendent.
Christian Endeavor Prayer Meet
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o'clock.
Friends—Morth of Graham Pub
lic School—J .Kobert Parker, Pas
tor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11 a.
m. and at 7.30 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
10.00 a. m.—James Crisco, Superin
tendent.
Methodist Episcopal, south—cor.
Main and Maple St „ H. li. Myers
Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11.00
a. m. and at 7.30 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
0.45 a. m.— W. B. Green, Supt.
■ M. P. Church—N. Main Street,
Rev. O. B. Williams, Pastor.
Preaching first and third Sun
days at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9.45 a. m.—J. L. Amick, Supt.
Presbyterian—Wat Elm Street-
Rev. T. M. McConnell, pastor.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9.46 a. m.—Lynn B. Williamson, Su
perintendent.
Presbyterian (Travora Chapel)—
J. W. Clegg, pastor.
Preaching every Second and
Fourth Sundays at 7.30 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
2.30 p. m.—J. Harvey White, Su
perintendent.
Oneida—Sunday School every
Sunday at 2.30 p. m.—J. V. Pome
roy, Superintendent.
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BYNOPSIB.
CHAPTER I—Sheridan's attempt to
make & business man of his son Bibbs by
starting him In the machine shop ends in
Hibbs going to a sanitarium, a nervous
wreck.
CHAPTER 11-On his return Blbb« la
met at the station J>v sister Kdith.
CHAPTER III—He finds himself an in
considerable |nd unconsidered figur* In
the House" of the Sherldans. He
sees Mary Vertrees looking at him from
a summer house next door.
CHAPTER IV—Thv Vertr«*jfees, old town
family rilul impoverished, call on the
Sherldans, newly-rich, and afterward dis
cuss them. Mary puts Into words her
parents' unspoken wish that she marry
one of the Sheridan boys.
CHAPTER V—At the Sheridan house
warming banquet Sheridan spreads him
self. Mary frankly encourages Jim Sheri
dan's attention, and Bibbs hears he U to
be sent baok to the machine shop.
CHAPTER Vl—Mary tells her mother
about the banquet and shocks her moth
er by talking of Jim as a. matrimonial
possibility.
CHAPTER Vll—Jim tells Mary Bibbs
IB not a lunatic—"Jußt queer." He pro
poses to Mary, who half accepts him.
CHAPTER Vlll—Sheridan tells Bibbs
he must go back to the machine shop as
'soon as he Is strong enough. In spite of
Bibbs' plea to be allowed to writs.
CHAPTER DC-Edith and Sibyl, Roscoe
Sheridan's wife, quarrel over Bobby Lam
horn; Sybil goes to Mary for help to keep
Lamhorn from marrying Edith, and Mary
leaves her In the room alone.
CHAPTER X—Bibbs has to break to
his father the news of Jim's sudden death.
CHAPTER XI—AH the rest of the fam
ily helpless In their grief, Bibbs becomes
temporary master of the house. At the
funeral he meets Mary and rides home
with her.
CHAPTER Xll—Mrs. Sheridan pleads
with Bibbs to return to the machine shop
for his father's sake, and h» consents.
CHAPTER Xlll—Bibbs purposely Inter
rupts a tete-a-tete between Edith and
Lamhorn. He tells Edith that he over
heard Lamhorn making love to Koscoe's
wife.
CHAPTER XlV—Mutual love of music
arouses an Intimate friendship between
Bibbs and Mary.
CHAPTER XV—Mary Bells her piano to
help out the finances of the Vertrees fam
ily.
CHAPTER XVl—Roscoe and his wife
quarrel over Lamhorn.
CHAPTER XVll—Sheridan finds Bog
ooe in an Intoxicated condition during of
fice hours and takes him home.
CHAPTER XVlll—Friendship between
Bibbs and Mary ripena into a mure Inti
mate relation, and under Mary's influ
ence BlObs decides to return to the ma
chine shop.
CHAPTER XlX—Sierldan finds his son
Roucoe's alTairs In A. muddled condition,
owing to his intemperate habits.
CHAPTER XX—Bibbs, under the Inspi
ration of Mary's frienlshlp, makes good
in the machine shop. Sheridan is Injured
while attempting to show the boy how
to do his work.
CHAPTER XXl—Sibyl, Insanely Jealous
over Lamhorn's attentions to Edith,
makes a scene In tho Sheridan home, and
Lamhom Is ordered out ot the house by
Sheridan.
CHAPTER XXI.
The Sherldans dined on Sundays at
five. Sibyl had taken pains not to ar
rive either before or after the hand
was precisely on the hour, and the
members of the family were all seated
at the table within two minutes after
she and Itosene had entered the house.
It was a glum gathering, overhung
with portents. The air seemed charged,
awaiting any tiny Ignition to explode;
and Mrs. Sherldan'i expression, as
she sat with her eyes fixed almost con
tinually upon her husband, was that
of a person engaged In prayer. Bdlth
was pale and Intent. Hoseoe looked
111; Sibyl looked 111, and Sheridan
looked both ill and explosive. Bibbs
had more color than any of these, and
there -was a strange brightness, like a
light, upon his face. It was curious
to see anything so happy in the t«nse
gloom of that household.
Edith ate little. She never once
looked at Sibyl, though Sibyl now and
then gave her a quick glance, heavily
charged, and then looked away. Itos
coe ate nothing. He did not once look
at his father, though his father gazed
heavily at him most of the time. And
between Edith and Sibyl, and between
Itoscoe and his father, some bitter
wireless communication seemed con
tinually to be taking place throughout
the long silences prevailing during this
enlivening ceremony of ffubbath refec
tion.
"Hldn't you go to church this morn
ing, Bibbs?" his mother asked, in the
effort to break up one of those ghastly
Intervals.
"I think so," he answered, as from
a roseate trance.
"You think so! Don't yon know?"
"Oh, yes. Yes, I went to church!"
"What was the sermon about?"
"What, mother?"
"Can't you hear me?* she cried. "I
asked you what the sermon was
aliout."
lie roused himself. "I think It was
about—" lie frowned, seeming to con
centrate his will to recollect "I think
It was about something in the Bible."
White-jacket George was glad of an
opportunity to leave the room and lean
upon Mist' Jackson's shoulder In the
pantry. "He don't know they was
any suhinon!" he concluded, having
narrated the dining-room dialogue.
"Ail he know Is be was with 'at lady
lives nex* do'!" George was right.
"Did you go to church all by your
self, Bibbs?" Sibyl asked.
"No," he answered. "No, I didn't go
alone."
"Oh?" Sibyl gave the ejaculation
•n upward twist, as of mocking In
quiry, aud follqwed It by another, ex
pressive of hilarious comprehension.
"Oh!" ■ ■ ' ' ''
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1916
Bibbs looked at her studiously, but
she spoke no further. And that com
pleted the conversation at the lugu
brious feast.
Coffee came finally, wss disposed
of quickly, and the party dispersed to
other parts of the house. I?ibbs fol
lowed bis father and Roscoe Into the
library, but was not well received.
"You go and listen to the phono
graph with the women-folks," Sheri
dan commanded.
Bibbs retreated. "Sometimes you do
seem to be a hard sort of man!" be
said.
However, he went'- obediently Into
the gllt-and-brocade room to which Ills
mother and his sister and his slster
ln-lnw had helplessly withdrawn, ac
cording to their Sabbatical custom.
Mrs. Sheridan was looking over a col
lection of records consisting exclu
sively of Caruso and ragtime. She
selected one of the latter, remarking
that she thought It "right pretty," and
followed It with one of the former and
the same remark.
As the second reached Its conclusion,
George appeared In the broad door
way, but he did not speak. Instead,
he favored Edith with a bonevolent
smile, and she Immediately left the
room, George disappearing after her
In the hall with an air of successful
diplomacy. He made It perfectly clear
that Edit}] had given him secret In
structions and that it had been his
pride and pleasure to fulilll them to
the letter.
Sibyl stiffened In her chair; her Hps
parted, and she watched with curious
eyes the vanishing back of the white
Jacket.
"What's that?" she asked, In a low
voice, but sharply.
"Here's another right pretty record,"
said Mrs. Sheridan, affecting—with
patent nervousness—not to hear. And
she unloosed the music.
Sibyl bit her Hp and begnn to tap
her chin with the brooch. After a little
•while siie turned to Bibbs, who reposed
at half length In a gold chair, with his
eyes closed.
"Where did Edith go?" she asked,
"Edith?" he repeated, opening his
eyes blankly. "Is she gone?"
Sibyl got up and stood In the door
way. She leaned against the easing,
still tapping her chin with the brooch.
Iler eyes were dilating; she wag sud
denly at high tension, and her expres
sion had become one of sharp excite
ment. She listened intently.
When the record was spun out she
could hear Sheridan rumbling In the
library, during the ensuing silence,
and Itoscoe's voice, querulous and
husky: "I won't say anything at all.
1 tell you, you might Just as well let
me alone!"
But there were other sounds: a rus
tling and murmur, whispering, low,
protesting cadences In a male voice.
And as Mrs. Sheridan started another
record, a sudden, vital renolve~leapod
like fire In the eyes of Sibyl. She
walked down the hall ami straight Into
the smoking room. "
Lamhorn and Edith both sprang to
their feet, separating. Edith became
Instantly deathly white with a rage
thot set her shaking from head to foot,
and Lamhorn stuttered as he tried to
speak.
But Edith's shaking was not so vio
lent as Sibyl's, nor was her face so
white. At sight of them and of their
embrace, all possible, consequences be
came nothing to Sibyl. She curtsied,
holding up her skirts and contorting
her Hps to the semblance of a smile.
"Sit Just as you were—both of you!"
she said. And then to Edith: "Did-you
tell my husband I had been telephon
ing to Lamhorn?"
"You march out of here!" said Edith,
fiercely. "March straight out of here!"
Sibyl leveled a forefinger at Lam
horn.
"Did yon tell her I'd been telephon
ing you X wanted you to come?"
"Oh, good God!" Lamhorn said.
"Hush!"
"You knew she'd tell my husimnd,
didn't you?" she cried. "You kifew
that!"
"Hush!" he begged, panic-stricken.
"That was a manly thing to do! Oh,
It was like a gentleman! Yon wouldn't
come—you wouldn't even come for Ave
minutes to bear what I had to say!
You were tired of what I had to say!
You'd heard It all a thousand time*
before, and yon wouldn't even come!
No! No! Nor she stormed, "you
wouldn't even come for five minute#,
but you could tell that little cat! And
she told my husband! You're a man!"
I Edith saw In a flash that the con
sequences of battle would lie ruinous
to Sibyl, and the furlou* girl needed
no further temptation to give way to
her feeling*. "Get out of this house!"
she shrieked/ "This Is my father'*
bouse. Don't yon dare speak to Rob
ert like that!"
"No! No! I mustn't speak—"
"Don't you dare!"
Edith and Sibyl began to scream In
sults at each other simultaneously,
fronting each other, their furious faces
close. Their voice* shrilled and rose
and cracked—they screeched. They
could be heard over the noise of the
phonograph, which was playing a
brass-band selection. They could be
heard all over the house. They were
heard In the kitchen; they could have
been heard In the cellar. Neither of
them c .red for that.
"Yon told my husband!" screamed
Sibyl, bringing her face still closer to
Edith's. "You told my husband! This
man pot that In your hands to strike
me with! He did!"
'Til tell your husband again! I'll
tell him everything I know! It's time
your husband—"
They were rwept asunder by a ban
daged hand. "Do you want the neigh
bors In?" Sheridan thundered.
There fell a shocking silence. Fren
zied Sibyl saw her husband and his
mother In the doorway, and she under
stood what she had done. She moved
slowly toward the door; then suddenly
she began to run. She ran into the
ball, and through It, and out of the
bouse. Roscoe followed her heavily,
his eyes on the ground.
"Now then!" said Sheridan to Lam
born.
The words were Indefinite, but tho
voice was not. Neither was the vicious
gesture of the bandaged hand, which
concluded Its orbit In the direction of
the door In a manner sufficient for the
swift dispersal of George and Jackson
and several female servants who hov
ered behind Mrs. Sheridan. They fled
llfhtly.
•'Papa, papa!" walled Mrs. Sheridan.
"Look at your hand I You oughtn't to
t>een so rough with Edle; you hnrt
four hand on her shoulder. Look!"
There was, In fact, a spreading red
italn upon the bandages at the tips
it the Angers, and Sheridan put his
ttand back In the sling. "Now then!"
»ie repeated. "You goln' to leave my
tiouse?"
"lie will not," sobbed Edith. "Don't
fou dare order him out!"
"Don't you bother, dear," said Lam
born, quietly. "He doesn't undor-
"Now Then," Bald Sheridan to Lam
horn.
stand. You mustn't he troubled."
Tailor was becoming to him; he looked
very handsome, nnd an he left the
room he seemed In the girl's distraught
eyes a persecuted noble, indifferent to
the rabble yawping Insult at his heels
—the rabble being enacted by her fa
ther. *
"Don't come back, either!" said
Sheridan, realistic In this impersona
tion. "Keep off the premised!" he
called savagely Into the hall. "Tills
family's through with you!"
"It Is not!" Edith cried, breaking
from her mother. "You'll And out
what'll happen! What's he done? You
don't know anything about it. Don't
you a'pose he told me? She was crazy
about him soon as he began going
there, and he flirted with her a little
before he met me! After that he
wouldn't. She was bound she wouldn't
give him up. lie told her long ago be
cured al>out me, but she kept perse
cuting him and—"
"Yes," said Sheridan, sternly; "that's
his side of it! That'll do! lie doesn't
come in tills bouse again!"
"You look out!" Kdlth cried.
"Yes, I'll look out! I'd 'a' told you
todny he wasn't to be allowed on the
premises, hut I had other things In my
mind. I had Ahercrornble look up this
young man privately, and he's no
'count. He's no 'count on eartb! He's
no good! He's nothin'! Rut It wouldn't
matter If be was George Washington,
after what's happened and what I've
heard tonight!"
"Ilut, papa," Mrs. Rherldan began,
"If Edle says It was all Hlbyl's fault,
makln' up to him, and he never encour
aged her much, nor—"
"'8 enough!" he roared. "He keeps
off these premises! And If any of you
so much as ever sjicak Ills name to me
again—"
Ilut Edith screamed, clapping her
hands over her ears to shut out the
sound of his voice, anil rnn upstairs,
sobbing loudly, followed by her mother.
However, Mrs. Sheridan descended n
few minutes later and Joined her hns
. tin III! In the library. IIIIIIH), still sit
ting In his gold chair, saw her pass,
roased hlrnself from reverie, and
strolled In after her.
"She locked the door," sold Mrs
Sheridan, shaking her hind woefully.
"Hhe wouldn't even answer me.- They
wasn't a sound from her room."
"Well," said her husband, "she can
settle her mind to It. Hhe never
■peakN to that fellow agafti, and If be
tries to telephone her tomorrow —
Here! You tell the help If he calls up
to ring off and say It's my orders So,
you needn't. I'll tell 'ein myself."
"Better not," said Bibbs, gently.
His father glared at him.
"It's no good." said Bibbs. "Mother,
when you were In love with father—"
"My goodness!" she cried. "You
ain't a-goln' to compare your father
to that—"
"Edith feels about him Just what
you did about father," snlil Bibbs.
"And If your father had told you—"
"I won\ listen to such silly talk!"
she declared, angrily.
"So you're handln' out your advice,
are you, Bibbs?" said Sheridan. "What
Is, It?"
"Let her see blm all she wants."
"You're a—" Sheridan gave It up.
"I don't know what to call you."
"Let her see blm all she wants,"
Bibbs re|»eaU*l, thoughtfully. "You're
up ngnlnst something too strong for
you. If Edith were a weakling you'd
have u chance this way. but she Isn't.
She's got a lot of your determination,
father, and with what's going on In
side of her she'll beat you. You can't
keep her from seeing him, as long as
she feels about him the way she does
now. You can't make her think less
of him, either. Nobody can. Your
only chance Is that she'll do It herself,
and If you give lier time and go easy
she probably will. Marriage would
do it for her quickest, but that's Just
what you don't want, and as you don't
want It, you'd better—"
"1 cunt stand any more!" Khertrtan
burst out. "If It's come to Bibbs ad
vlsln' me how to ran this house I bet
ter resign. Mamma, Where's that nlit
ger George? Maybe lie's got some plan
ho*? I better manage my family.
Bibbs, for God's sake go and lay down!
Let her see hlin all she wants!' Oh,
I.ord! Here's wisdom; hcrtijt—"
"Bibbs," said Mrs. Sheridan, "If you
haven't got anything to do, you might
step over and take Sibyl's wraps
home—she left 'em In the hall. I don't
think you seem to quiet your poor fa
ther very much Just now."
"All right." And iybbs bore Sibyl's
wraps across the street and delivered
them to Boacoe, who met him at the
door. Bibbs suld only, "Forgot these,"
and, "Good night, Uoscoe," cordially
and cheerfully, and returned to the
new house, nis mother and father
were still talking In the library, but
with discretion he passed rapidly on
and upward to his own room, and there
be proceeded to write in his notebook.
There seoniH to bo another curious thing
aliout love (Bibbs wrote). Lovo Is blind
while It lives anil only opens Its eyes and
becomes very wide awake when It dies.
Let It alone until then.
You cannot reason with love or with
any other passion. The wise will not wish
for love—nor for ambition. These are pas
sions and bring others In their train
hatreds and Jealousies—all blind. Friend
ship and a quiet heart for the wine.
What a turbulence la love! It la dan
gerous for a bllnl thing to bo turbulent;
there are preclplcea In life. On© would not
cross a mountaln-paHB with a thick cloth
over his eyes. Lovers do. Friendship
walks gently and with open eyes.
To walk to church with a friend I To
nit beside her there! To rlso when she
rifles, and to touch with one's thumb and
flngera tho other half of the hymn book
that ahe holds! What lover, with his
fierce ways, could know this transcendent
happiness?
Friendship brings everything that heav
en could bring. There Is no labor that
cannot become a living rapture If you
know that a friend Is thinking of you as
you labor. Bo you ling at your work. For
the work In part of the thoughts of your
frlond; so you love It!
I>ove Is demanding and clalnsJng and In
sistent. Friendship is all klndnens—lt
makes the world glorious with kindness.
What color you see when you walk with
a friend! You see that the gray aky Is
brilliant and shimmering, you aoe that
the smoke has warm browns and Is mnr
vclously sculptured—the air becomes Iri
descent. You see the gold In brown hair.
Light floods everything.
When you wnlk to church with a friend
you know that life enn give you nothing
rleher. You pray that there will be no
change In anything forever.
What an adorable thing It la to dis
cover a little foible In your friend, a bit
of vanity that gives you one thing more
about her to adore! On a cold morning
■he will perhaj i walk to church with you
without her furs, and ahe will blush and
return an evasive answer when you ask
her why ahe does not wear them. You
will say no more, because you understand.
She looks beautiful In her furs; you love
their darkness against her cheek; but you
comprehend that they conceal the loveli
ness of her throat and the fine lino of her
chin, and that she also has comprehend
ed this, and. wishing to look still more
bewitching, discards her fura at the risk
of taking cold. Bo you hold your peace,
and try to look as If you had not thought
It out.
This theory Is satisfactory except that
It iloes not urcount for the absence of the
muff. Ah, well, there must always lie il
mystery somewhere! Mystery Is a part of
enchantrnept.
Manual labor Is best, your heart ran
sing anil your mind can dream while your
hands are working You could not have a
pinging heart anil a dreaming mind all
day If gnu had to scheme out dollars, or
If you had !o mid columns of figures
Those things take your Attention. You
cannot he thinking or your friend while
you w rite letters beginning, "Yours of the
17th Inst, received, and contents duly
noted." Ihit to work with your hands all
day, thinking and singing, and then, af
ter nightfall, to hear the Ineffable kind
ness of your friend's greeting—always
thero—for you! Who would wake from
such a ilream as this?
Dawn and the sea—music In moonlit
gardens— nightingales serenading through
almond groves In bloom—what could bring
such things Into the city's turmoil? Yet
they am here, and roses blossom In the
soot. That Is what It means not to be
alone! That Is what a friend gives you!
CHAPTER XXII.
Minns was the only Hberldan to sleep
soundly through the nlgnt ann to wage
at (lawn with a light heart. Ills cheer
fulness was vaguely diminished by the
troublous state of affairs In bis family
Bibbs was a sympathetic person, eas
ily touched, but he was Indeed living
In a dream, and uii things outside of
it were veiled and remote —for that Is
the way of youth In a dremn. And
Bibbs, who had never before been of
any age, either old or yoting, bad conn
to his youth at last.
He went whistling from the house
before even his father had come up
stair*. There was a fog outdoor*, sat
urated with a fine powder of soot, and
though Bibbs noticed absently the dim
shape of an automobile at the curb
before Hoscoe's house, he did not rec
ognize It ns I»octor Ourncy's but went
cheerily on his woy through the dlrigy
mist. And when he was once more In
stalled beside his faithful zinc eater
he whistled and sang to It. as other
workmen did to their own machines
sometimes, when things went well
His comrades In the shop glanced at
him amusedly now nnd then. They
liked blm, and he ate his lunch at noon
with a group of soda lists who ap
proved of his Ideas nnd talked of elect
ing him to their association.
The short days of the year bad come,
and it was dark before the whistle*
blew When the signal came, Bibbs
went to his office, where he divested
himself of his overalls—his single di
vergence from the routine of bis fel
low workmen—and afler that he used
soap and water copiously. This was
hi* transformation scene: he passed
Into the office a rather frail young
working mnn noticeably liegrimed, anil
passed out of It to the pavement a
cheerfully preoccupied sample of gen
try, fastidious to the point of elegance.
The aldewnlk Rm crowded with the
Jfrearera of dinner pall*, men ami boya
and women and Klrla "from the work
rooma that -eloaed at five. Many hur
ried and Mine loitered; they went both
uat »nd west, Jostling one - another,
tnd Bibbs, turning his face homeward,,
was forced to go slowly.
Coming toward him, as slowly,
through the crowd, a tall girl caught
sight of his long, thin figure and stood
still until he bad almost passed her,
for In the thick crowd and the thicker
gloom he did not recognize her, though
Ills shoulder actually touched hers. He
would have gone by, but she laughed
delightedly, and he stopped short,
startled. Two boys, one chasing the
other, swept between them, and Bibbs*
stood still, peering about him In deep
perplexity. She leaned toward him.
"I knew you!" Bbe said.
"Good heavens!" cried Bibbs. "I
thought It was your voice coming out
of a star!"
"There's only smoke overhead." snld
Mary, and laughed agulu. "There
aren't any stift-H."
"Oh, yes, there were—when you
laughed!"
She took his arm, and they
"I've come to walk home with you,
Bibbs. I wanted to."
"But were you here In the—"
"In the dark? Vis! Waiting? Yes!"
Bibbs was radiant; he felt suffocat
ed with happiness. He began to scold
her.
"But It's hot safe, and I'tn not worth
It. You sbonWn't have— You ought
to know What did—"
"I was In this part of town already,"
she sal/1. "At least, I was only seven
or eight blocks away, and It was dark
when I came out, and I'd have bad to
go home alone—and I preferred going
home with you."
"It's pretty beautiful for me," said
Bibbs, with a deep breath. "You'll
never know what it was to hear your
laugh In the darkness—and then to —
to see you standing there! Oh, It was
like—lt WBH like— How can I tell you
what It was like?" They had passed
beyond the crowd now, and a crossing
lamp shone upon them, which revealed
the fact that die was without her furs.
Here was a puzzle. However, allow
ing It to stand, bis solicitude for her
took another turn. "I think you ought
to have a car," he said, "especially
when you want to be out after dark.
You need one In winter, anyhow. IW>'e
you over asked your father for ifi/'"
"No," said Mary. "I don't thlnk*'d
care for one particularly."
"But my mother tried to Insist on
sending one over here every after
noon for me. I wouldn't .let her, lie
cause I like to wnlk, but a girl—"
"A girl likes to walk, too," said
Mary. "Let me tell you where I've
been tills afternoon and how I hap
pened to be i*ar enough to make yon
take me home. I've been to see a little
old man who makes pictures of the
smoke. He has a sort of warehouse
for n studio, and he lives with
Ills mother and his wife and their
seven children, and he's gloriously
happy. I'd seen one of tils pictures at
an exhibition, and I wanted to see
more of them, so he showed them to
me. He has almost everything he ever
painted; I don't suppose he's sold
more than four or five pictures In bis
life. He gives drawing lessons to keep
alive."
"How ilo you mean he paints the
smoke?" IllbhH asked.
"Literally. II«» paints from bin stu
dlo window and from the street—any
where. lie Just pnlnt* what's nround
him—niul It's benutlfui."
"Tlit l mnokc V"
"Wonderful! lie nee* the Hky through
It, somehow. Hi' dneii tlie ugly roofs
of cheap houses through ft haze of
smoke, /iml fie iloeH smoky sunsets nnd
smoky sunrises, and lie IIIIH other
things with the heavy, solid, slow col
uinnii of Hiuoke going fur out mid grow
ing more etherenl and mixing with the
hazy light 111 the distance; mid In- linn
others with the broken skyline of
downtown, nil mlstt-il with the smoke
and wllli pufT* and jits of vapor that
"I've Come to Walk Home With You,
Bibbs."
have colors like an orchard hi mid-
April. I'm going to take you there
some Sunday nfteriwoh. Ilibbs."
t "You're showing me the town." he
said I didn't know whifl was In It
si all "
"There are workers In lieauty here,"
■lie tohl blm, gently "There are /jther
painters more prosperous than my
friend. There are all sorts of th^igs."
"I dldn'l know."
"No. Since the town began growing
m> great that It called Itself 'greater,'
ore could live here nil one's life and
know only the side of It that straw*."
1 '"The beauty workers seem burled
▼cry deep," said Bibbs. "And I Imag
ine that your friend w?io makes the
smoke la-antlful must be burled deep
est of all. My father loves the smoke,
but' I can't imagine bis buying one of
your friend's pictures. He'd buy the
'Bay of Naples,' but be wouldn't get
one of those. Ile'd tblnk smoke in a
picture was horrible—unless be could
use It for an advertisement."
"Yen," ahe aald. thoughtfully. "And
really he'a the town. They are hurled
l>retty deep, it aeeuia, aotnetluiea,
111 1,1.u '•
"And yet It's all wonderful," he said.
"It's wonderful to me."
"You mean the town Is wonderful
to you?"
"Yes, because everything Is, since
you called me your friend. The city
Is only a rumble on the horizon for me.
It can't oome any closer than the hori
zon so long as you let me see you
standing by my old zinc eater all day
long, helping me. Mary—" He stopped
with a gusp. "That's the first time
I've called you 'Maryl'"
"Yes." She laughed, a little trem
ulously.- "Though I wanted you to!"
"1 said It without thinking. It mußt
be because you came thero to wulk
home with me. That must be It"
"Women like to have things said,"
Mary Informal him, her tremulous
laughter continuing. "Were you glad
I came for you?"
"No—not 'glad.' I felt as If I were
being carried straight up and up and
ui> —over the clouds. I feel like that
still. I think I'm that wuy most of
the time. I wonder what I was like
before I knew you. The person I was
then seems to have been somebody
else, not Blbhg Sheridan at all. It
seems long, long ago. I was gloomy
and sickly—somebody else—somebody
1 don't understand now, a coward
afraid of shadows—afraid of things
that didn't exist—afraid of my old
zinc enter! And now I'm only afraid
of what might change anything."
She was silent n moment, and -then,
"You're happy, lilhbs?" she asked.
"Ah. don't you see?" he cried. "I
want It to last for a thousand, thou
sand yeurs, Just as It Is! You've made
me so rich, I'm a miser. I wouldn't
have one tiling different—nothing,
nothing!"
"Dear Itlbbs!" she said, and laughed
happily.
TO BE CONTINUED.
LAND LOAN ASSOCIATION
Vary Little Chang* la Required *•
Adapt Building and Loan Associa
tions to Suit ths Parmer.
Very Itttle change Is required to
adapt building and loan associations
U operated In this country to the IIM
of tlie tanner. When organized and
worked In the clllea and towna the
payment* are weekly or monthly, gen
erally 25 cent* each week on each
shore of Block. Worked In thla way
thfey p-ovlde* a moda of ayatamatio
saving for the shareholder. and uiual
ly mature tho sharers, when of the
par value of SISO In a Utile loes than
all and a half year*. The par value
of stock can lie put at 1200, SBOO or
even more, and thus extend the time
and make tho time of maturing about
eleven years, fifteen yara, and ao on.
The association l« made up of and
owned by It* shareholders, who receive
all of the proflu thereof. These aaao
clatlonn are run at tho lowest coat of
any business In the country; and In
thla State, where the legal rata of In
terest la fl per ce..t, generally make
a profit of 6 per cent, and In aome
cases over 7 per cent.
The change necossary to be made to
adopt these associations and thct*
working to the use of the farmer la
the mode of payment for aharea. The
farmers cannot afford to agree to pay
for their sharea weekly, except In
crises where they have a variety of
crops, such as give returna practical
ly every month In the year, as dairy
ing, trucking, etc , but tlio payments
on shares must bo called for and rnado
during tho time In which the farmer*
harvest and market their money
crops. An example of this I* shown in
the statement of condition* whore the
money crop Is tobacco or cotton, aa It
1« In a large portion of this Btate. In
sections like thl* It la probably hotter
for the payment* to be made during
the month of November, rxieombSr.
and Januury. or possibly beginning a
month earlier. The payments would
t>e f4 50 for each of the threo months,
or sl3 50 a year on each share. Thl*
would give the money ready for loan
lug by tho first of February generally
the time when loans are desired by
farmer* A thousand share* In any
association would give
year Tho association can bo"~ruh for
not more than SSOO, which would t*avs
a net amount for loaning of SIB,OOO
This money would lis loaned upon re«l
estate mortgage*, and thl* amount for
loaning purpose* could bs Increased
by using the notes »o secured for get
ting an additional sum If tho addi
tional amount obtained ahould be a*
much then the association
would Hvs for loaning each year
$20,000, or. In five years SIOO,OOO. Of
course one unsettled problem In the
proposed business I* how the addition
al amount may be oMalned for loan
ing purpose*, and at such a rate of
Interest as will tie satisfactory to the
farmer and posslblo In the work of
the association. - H-port of Insurance
Commissioner Young.
SOME BAFETY "DON'TS"
FOR MOTHERS.
Don't dry-clean In the house
Don't get off a oar backwards
Don't touch an electric light with wet
hands
Don't lock up the children alone in
the house
Don't Imve broken glass, crockery,
nor tin scattered aroind
Don't allow children t coast down In
cllnes Into the street.
Don't allow children to hold onto
moving vehicles.
Don't allow children to Jump on mov-
Dtreet.
Don't put pencils, money nor pins In
th" mouth.
Don't use '© carts without springs
and badi supports.
Don't uSo a thermos bottls for the
baby's milk.
Don't rely on others to observe traf
fic rules: us* your head.
Don't value your time more than your
Ufa at crossings.
Do label all medlcinas. Keep poisons
out of children's reach.
Avoid unsanitary soda fountains.
Watch traffic signs.
Cross the street st crossings only.
Avoid crowded and poorly ventilated
places of amusement
NO. 50
- ■: 7 mm
£rVi Rid of Tan,
S~JL+;.n an J Freckles
by ufcii.j HACAN'3
Magnolia I
Ba!m.
Acts inolantly. Stop# the burning.
Clears your complexion of Tan and
Blemishes. You cannot know how
good it is until you try it. Thous
ands of women say it is berftof all
beautifiers and heals Sunburn
quickest. Don't be without it a
day longer. Get a bottle now. At
your Druggist or by mail direcft.
75 cents for either color. White.
Pink, Rose-Red.
SAMPLE FREE.
LYON MFG. CO., 40 So. sth St.. BrooUra. N.T.
SOME LESSONS FROM 1
AUGUSTA'S BIG HRE
SPECIAL REPORT OP THE NA»
TIONAL FIRE PROTECTION
ABBOCIATION.
1.-
f
Mtny Lessons Learned by Closs Study
Sf Burned Area Accompanied by
Msps and Photographs Should
Prevsnt Plrss In Other
Towns and Cltlee.
The special report of the National
Fire Protection Association on tho rs
cent Augusta, Oa . conflagration give*
a complete description of the Are, ao
oomponied with nutpa and photographs
of the burned area, and concludes with
the toUowing aa ths leesons to b*
learned from the flrat
"I'ractlcaMy the only lesaons to bo
learned from tho conflagration besides
that open streot cotton storage is haz
ardous are those taught by every other
conflagration of the past half-century.
They may bo summarised as follows:
"The utter Inability of the flre de
partment to control a Are In a bulldlnc
of large area and height In which flre
can spread from cedar to toot In tf
period of time shorter than that In
which the flre department oan respond
and get Into effective operation.
"Tho neceosity for eliminating frame
additions to brick buildings, protecting
Interior and exterior wall openings,
enclosing vertical openings, as well as
the necessity tor proper oonstruotlon
of parapets, skylights and dormer win
dow*
"The need of an ample water supply
and a preesure giving affaotlre hy
drant stream* under maxhnom ra>
qulremetvU. or of ha ring all CH* oom
panlo* equipped with an ample •apply
of pumping engine*.
"Tho danger arising from tha etor
aga of cotton In tha atreata whtoh not
only spread* the Are, but preventa
engine companlee from forking at
advantageou* polnta.
"The Inability of a (Ire-proof build
ing to act as a fire barrier when Ma
eiterlor openlnga are not protected.
"Tlie danger of tha wooden shlngla,
and the manner In which M apraada
Are beyond the ability of a lira depart
ment to control, aren whan a fair pro
portion of tha building* are of brick
and hava non combustible roofa, and
are not congested. ,
"Tha furUier fact that wide atraata
do not form a lire-break whan woodan
■hlngle roof oonstruotlon Is present."
—lnsurance Index. .
MAKING THE BLUE-SKY
LAW EFFECTIVE.
The recent action of the State Su
preme Court In upholding the North
Carolina Blue-Sky Law in the noted
Agev case from Alamance county will
greatly aid In freeing tha citizenship
of North Carolina from imposition
through the eale of itooki and N other
Investment* In achemee of nonraal
dent concern* whoa* promoter* hare
fleeced good and careful cttiaena In
many *ection* of the atate la tha paat.
Th* decree of tha court mike* effect-
Ire the power of the State Department
of Insurance to rigidly investigate cor
poration* that propoaa to sell Inreat
ment* of th* kind In thl* State, refuse
to llconae those found to be unworthy
and to effectively prosecute and pun
ish those promoters who make aalea
without the SUta license. Cltlcaaa
who are approached with propoaltlooa
to aall these atocki and lnraatmanta
to them should by all means oall tha
agent to ihow hi* license from tka
State and. If it la not forthconlas,
have nothing to do with tha proposi
tion. BO matter how attractive It may
•eem.
TROPICAL BTORM IN TEXAB
DID MILLIONS IN DAMAGE
Corpus Chrlstl, Texas.—The lom of
life (iom the tropical storm which
struck Corpus Chrlstl and 10 adjacent
Texas counties was placed at IS, In
cluding nine members of the crew of
the small freighter Pilot Boy, which
foundered off Arkansas Pass. The
total damage in this section of which
Corpus Christi bore the heaviest part
was estimated at J2.000.000. This In
cludes devastation of a large portion
of the lower coast's cotton crop.
Itch relieved in SO minutes by
Woodford's Sanitary Lotion. Never
fails. Sold by Q rah am Drug Co.
. "Chance for Hughes to Win in
Texas," reads a headline, but for
tunately, Wilson's Maine chance
is better,