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SYNOPSIS. I* J* I
CHAPTER I-Old Hilary Kingston,
starting with Socialism, drift* Into an
archy, and. gathers round him In the hall
above the village of Wofllngham a band
ot accomplished desperadoes win rob
the rich. Incite seditions and arm the re
bellious. His mothetlsaa daughter, Elinor,
Is raised to fine living and wrong think
ing, to no law and no Christ.
CHAPTER ll—ln an attack on the Ag
rarian bank messenger, old Hilary u
killed, bat Is not suspected of complicity.
Roroaay brings tha body home to the
hall.
CHAPTER lll—Ward, assistant rector
of Bt. Jude's, makes a call of condolence
on Elinor, who consents to have her fath
er burled from St. Jude's In the odor of
sanctity. The chief of police recognises
Boroday and Is suspicious.
CHAPTER IV—After tha fttneral the
band meet at the hall and agree to go on
■a before, Elinor acting In her father's
stead. Huff asks Eilner to marry him
and she consents, though she does not
love him. Bovodar la arrested and threat
ened.
CHAPTER V—Boroday In Jail, Talbot
flans a raid on the Country club: The
rlendshlp between Ward and Elinor
/ripens to something deeper. She envies
him his faith.
CHAPTER Vl—Huff burns St. Jude's
parish house. Elinor offers to help re
build it and is angry with Huff.
CHAPTER Vll—Huff plans to rob
Ward of the money collected to rebuild
the parish house. Elinor objects and Huff
Is Jealoue.
CHAPTER vni— Mrs. Bryant, who has
lost a valuable pear-shaped pearl in the
Country club robbery, tries to poison
Ward's mind against Elinor; 178,000 Is
subscribed toward the rebuilding of the
parish house. Elinor drops the Bryant
pearl Into the almsbox near the church
door.
CHAPTER IX—Talbot tells Elinor that
the chief of police demands of Boroday
the Bryant pearl as the price of his free
dom. By anonymous letter they advise
the chief where to find It. Elinor tries
to dissuade Huff from robbing Ward of
the church money, but only makes Huff
more jealous.
CHAPTER X—Elinor calls Ward to
her and in despair tells him that she is
head of a band of thieves and warns him
of the plot to rob him. As Ward 1s on
his way home from the hall Huff shoots
him down.
CHAPTER X.
Talbot, running out to the country
club that afternoon for his Sunday
game of golf, stopped off at the hall.
He found Elinor lunching alone In
the arbor, which commanded a view
of the valley.
"I brought out a letter from Boro
day," he said, producing It "He wrote
it yesterday morning, but I did not
■top at the Dago's until an hour or so
ago."
The Dago was the owner of a gam
bling-house far downtown—a sort of
underworld clearing house. Its safety
for Talbot and the others lay In the
fact that It drew its clientele from the
upper as well as lower walks of life.
Huff, acting In his taxlcab capacity as
steerer, was able to come and go wltH
out suspicion.
Talbot could not read old Hilary's
cryptic shorthand. Only three had
known It: BoMday, old Hilary him
self, and Elinor.
Elinor ran through It While Talbot
ate a sandwich. She was rather white
when she looked up.
"It's about the Bryant pearl," she In
terpreted. "Boroday says that If the
chief gets It back he will let him go.
The chiefs reputation Is hanging on It.
Tha Bryants are Influential."
She read the last paragraph aloud to
him:
"On yonr Uvea, boys, do what I tell
you. Mall the pearl In a plain box to
police headquarters. Mall it downtown
In the city. If everything Is all right,
FU be able to get out to Wofflngham In
a week, perhaps less. This will make
the church plan unnecessary and re
lieve Elinor's mind. I see you got the
parish house. It was foolhardy and
useless."
Talbot rose and itrefthed himseW.
"Wonderful day for golf," he said.
"Now let's have the pearl and I am
Off."
Elinor's eyes were pitiful.
"Wouldn't any other pearl do?"
He glanced down at her qulzxleally.
"Where's your mind, Elinor? If you
lose a dog and want It back, will any
other dog do? Why? Do you want the
thing yourself?"
"I have given it away," said Elinor.
Under his golf tan Talbot turned
rather gray.
"To whom?"
"The Jewels were always mint," pro
tested Elinor, defending herself. "You
have always told me that I thought I
had a right—"
"To whom?"
"I put It In the almsbox at Saint
Jude's this morning."
"Then It may still be there?"
"I don't know."
"In the name of Ood!" Talbot broke
out. "What possessed you to give the
thing away? Whim or no whim, you
have no right to risk the rest of us. If
that thing Is traced bade to you, you
know what It means."
"Nobody saw me—"
But Talbot was paciag op hnd down.
"There's only one chance," he said.
"IH send a Special delivery to the
chief, telling him the thing is In the
almsbox. If it's still there, hell get It
and return It If It's already been dis
covered, at least be can claim to have
known Its hiding-place."
Talljot dlngiiKtedly relinquished hi*
golf, and In tbe library of the hall
wrote the anonymona letter to the
chief. Then, In hi* gray car, he Bet off
for the city to mall the letter.
When he waa In the car, the engine
throbbing easily, Elinor Ten tared to
put her hand on his arm.
"Laat night" she aalt rapidly, "Wal
ter threatened aU aorta of things; that
he would get the morning collection at
Saint Jude'a, that he would kill Mr.
Ward. lam frightened, TaUle."
Talbot patted her band.
"We will get this fixed jip ao It won't
be necessary; and aa for the other, yoa
know Walter. He waa mad with
Jealousy last night. Thafa all talk."
On that wild ride Talbot had Uttle
i« «.Mc —l> -■ »«-»»
his thougEta were "oTlfciuor ...ji/her
eaprice. j
"It's the preocher, after nil, The sall
to himself. "It's enough to-Ainke old
Hilary tern over." V
From that his mind wondered '
Walter. He knew Huff, the violence of
Ms temper, the madness of his p.issloi
for the girl. Taibot was uneasy.
Elinor hud an unexpected visitoi
that afternoon. It was the Bryunl
woman.
White, but very dignified, Elinor
came Into the drawing room. But Mrs.
Bryant had not come about the pearl.
"You must forgive a Sunday visit,"
"she said. "But I have taken Mr. Bry
ant to the country club, and I wanted
so much to come to see you."
Elinor's color returned.
"It Is very kind of you to come."
Mrs. Bryant's small, birdlike eyes
darted over the room. The house was
distinctly good form. Perhaps the jiirf
might be an acquisition to the social life
of the village. After all, religion was
becoming very broad. Even the best
people—
"The country club," said Mrs. Bry
ant aloud, "is full of disagreeable
memories to me Just now. It was less
than a week ago fhat I was robbed."
"Ah 1" said Elinor. "Robbed I How
Interesting 1"
"All my Jewels, everything I pos
sessed that was really worth while."
"But surely the police—"
Mrs. Bryant flushed with anger.
"The police I" she said. "It wouldn't
surprise me at all to discover that the
police are In with the thieves. Look
at the condition of this country! It
has been terror-ridden for the last two
or three years. You yourself are a
victim. Your poor father!"
Actually she had detested old Hilary.
She sat forward on the edge of her
chair and spoke with great unction.
"There Is a bnnd of organized, in
telligent bandits working In'thls neigh
borhood, Miss Kingston, a band of mur
derers. In these days of feminism, it
wouldn't astonish me at all to discover
that some woman Is at the head of It.
The things that have been planned
have been so fiendishly clever!"
Mrs. Bryant rose.
"It shows how demoralizing such
things are," she said. "I assure you
that I never look at a woman's throat
these days without expecting to see
my pearl."
From that dangerous ground she
stepped quickly to Mie burning of the
parish house, which she believed was
the work of militant suffragettes.
"The dear rector Is not n feminist,"
she said. "His assistant, I fear, has a
strong tendency In that direction. But
he is a wonderful person, really. Just
Imagine, seventy-eight thousand dol
lars was collected In Saint
church this morning for rebuilding the
pnrlsh house!"
She turned at the doorway.
"He's single nnd very attractive,
my dear. The entire village is trying
to marry him. There l« talk of the
doctor's daughter, a common little
thing."
When she had gone, Elinor, a little
faint and dizzy, went out on the ter
race. She realized that the harrier be
tween Ward and herself wns not only
of his faith against her unlSellef. There
was the Insurmountable gulf between
his world nnd her world. She did not
lit Into his life. Into his arm, perhaps;
into his life—never.
Walter would try to get the money.
She must get word to him somehow,
j for If the Bryant pearl wns recovered
and Boroday given his freedom, mon
ey would not be an Immediate neces
| sity.
She paced the terrace anil tried to
think It out. For Talbot to go back
to tbe city, an hour; for the delivery of
the special delivery, another hour.
Then the police would hove to come
j out by train or motor. With the best
of luck, it would be four o'clock before
the pearl could be recovered.
There were a dozen possibilities;
the chief might be out of toft-n; the
pearl might be recovered from the
box without his assistance. In that
case be would not hold to his agree
ment with Boroday.
| She tried to head Walter off, but she
could not locate him. At none of his
various haunts could she find him by
telephone; he was not at the Dago's;
at the taxlcab office he was said to
1 be laid off for the day. As the white
bloods of the afternoon turned to
, flame In the sunset, Elinor's face grew
| set and hard.
"I'm not blind. m get him for
this!"
That was what he had said. He
would go after the money that night,
and there was murder In his heart.
Old Henrlette, watching Elinor's set
face, grew fretful. She squealed If
a door slammed; brought food that
Elinor could not eat, nnd finally, divin
ing a crisis, tried stealthily by tele
phone to locate Talbot or Lethbrldge
and failed. '
"Ypu'd better eat a bite or two,"
she entreated.
i Elinor's nerves, too, were On edge.
"I don't want It." she said,
j "Just a little soup I"
I "If you bring that tray here again
I shall throw It out of the window."
Henrlette was cheered. Elinor,
whltellpped and speechless, was alarm
ing. Elinor in one of her rare rages
was reassuring.
By seven o'clock Elinor knew what
she must do; go to Ward, tell him
what she feared, and how she knew.
She was not craven, but her very soul
was sick. She sought about for some
way to evade the Issue or to postpone
It, and Anally she struck on one. On
plain note paper she scrawled a little
note In a feigned hand:
"An attempt will be made tonight to
aecure the fund-raised at the morning
service. Be advised and give It to
•9fneone. rise fo keen OT ernl-rht."
GRAHAM, N. C„ THURSDAY,. AUGUST 23, 1917
Mr she~ri»ains«r before sue had fliv- '
i shell It the uselessness of such S7i at
tempt. Ward would not transfer a
danger.
The night had fallen. A line of cars
from the country club was carrying
town people end villagers home to the j
lute dinners of the golf season. Grouu*
of girls and men In summer garments, '
chatting gayly, passed under the wall
of her garden. Down In the valley
straggling lines of evening church
goers moved decorously toward the
"CTrtrrehesf A ragged child stood In the_
road below her garden and wept.'
Elinor ran down to him, anil took him
up lu her arms. When she had soothed
him -she felt quieter. She went Into
the house and put on her hat. There
was no message fretn Talbot, no word
of Huff.
Evening- service was over when she
reached Saint Jude's. The last Btrag
gler had gone, and Ward was not In
sight. She avoided the street lights.
She felt quite sure that Walter was
in the vicinity, his keen eyes missing
nothing. ,
He had put his hand on her before
she knew he wns near.
"Worshiping again!" he Jeered.
"I have not been In the church."
Her quick mind wits scheming desper
ately ahead. "I have been alone this
evening. When you did not come,
I—"
He swung her a'round.
"You were lonkltig for me?"
"I thought you might be here. You
said last night—"
The memory of the night before
stung him. He her wrist.
"Walter, I am afraid! I tried to
muke £ou understand lust night, but
you wouldn't listen. If he were roused,
"I Can Take Care of Myself."
he might bo dangerous. Don't take
chances; don't think, becuuso he Is a
churchman—"
She wus tulking against time. Sho
had her plan now.
"I can take care of myself," said
Huff sullenly. But he kept his place
beside her ns sho started back. Her
solicitude was for lilm, then. Sho
enred, after nil. But It wouldn't do to
unbend too much. Elinor had treated
lilm with a high hand. Ills very pulse
lulled with her nearness, but he did
not touch her.
He left lier without even n hand
clusp.
"You might wish me luck."
"I wish you safety," she replied. He
stood down In the roiul, and watched
hi*r shadowy flgtire threading Its way
along the garden paths, lie had u
wild Impulse to run after her, to kneel
In the earth ut her feet and cry out
for her old tenderness, for her wist
ful-eyed caresses. Then, Into his sus
picious young heart crept the vision
of Elinor's face when be hnd planned
his new coup.
"I shalU'wnrn him," she hnd said.
Huff's mouth was hard as he turned
and wulked down the bill.
CHAPTER X.
Into and through her garden Elinor
walked quietly until she wus safe from
surveillance. Then she ran swiftly,
ruthlessly across the flower beds,
through the roses. The terrace was
lighted. Sho avoided It, making a do
tour that led by a side entrance Into
old Hilary's library. For obvious rea
sons, old Hilary's private telephone
was In a sound proof closet.
Before Walter hud taken a hundred
wotcliful paces down the roud she
hud Ward at the other end the
line. What with running and terror,
sho could hardly speak. Once, long
ugo, she hud heard u discussion be
tween Boroday and her father about
the use of the telephone. Its sub
stance wus that when the transmitter
Is held to the chest n cHhai' message
may be s™t, but with the effect of dis
tance. Sho held the transmitter to her
breast then, and It seemed to her that
Ward must hear the throbbing of
lier heart.
"Hello, htdlo!" came bis quick re
sponse.
N'o need to ask who It was. She
knew every Inflection of his voice.
"This is—a friend," Elinor punted.
"I want to tell you something."
"Yes?" Very Incisive now.
"Tonight—very soon—an nltcmpt—"
She stopped. What wus she doing?
She, her father's daughter, the bead
of the band! liy warning Ward she
might be sending Walter to hi* death,
A vision of old Hilary, gray-headed,
keen-eyed, at this very telephone,
flashed inlo her mind, old Hilary,
whose religion had been of keeping the
faith, not with his God, but with his
men.
"Who are you?'.' The Impatient
voice was saying In her ears. "Are you
sure you want me? Tills Is Wurd, of
Saint Jude's."
Elinor quietly hnng up the telephone
and stood in the durkness,
[her hands to her throat.
" Old Ilenrlette, ever watchful, came
Into the library beyond. Elinor coulii
hear lit wandering about, knew tho
moment when she discovered her wrap
ou a chair, heard her plaintive voice
speaking through a window to ths
empty terrace.
"Miss EUnor," she called. "Miss
Elinor 1"
Elinor let her go. When her shuf
fling footsteps hud died away, Elinor
iook -tntnToefVer iiown TTgftin. and
called the assltKant rector's house. But
this time she spoke directly Into the
transmitter.
"This Is Elinor Kingston. Mr. Ward.
I wonder If you are very tired to
njght?"
VI? Tired? I'm never tired."
I am thinking of asking
you to come up, I—there are some
things I want to talk about, questions
that are troubling me. I know it Is
late, but —"
"I saw you at the early service. Of
course I'll come up."
He had seen her then I
"I'll do my best," he was saying. "Of
course, you know i may disappoint
you. These questions, that come from
within, must be answered in the same
way. But I'm coming at once."
Elinor's battle was only half fought,
hut she hud a great sense of relief.
Let him meet Walter on the way. So
much the better. Let Huff know that
Ward was out, and the offering pre
sumably unguarded. He might hate
the man, hut no hope of a running
fight with him would deter him from
his main object, the money.
I'o Save Ward, she was willing, even
anxious, to let"Walter succeed.
Women sometimes meet large crises
with small vanities. But Elinor had
no vanity. Without so much as a
glunce at the mirror she went out in
to the garden to listen for Ward's step
on the road. She knew his walk al
ready j the forceful, cvrjaln step of an
energetic nnd purposeful man.
The Illuminated dial on the steeple
of the Baptist church, showed some
thing after ten when Ward Anally
came up the hill. The relief of seeing
him unharmed sent Elinor down the
terrace steps with both hands out.
Before he could take them, Ward was
obliged to stoop and deposit on the
ground at her feet a smull box that
he carried.
"The morning collection," he said
smiling, and took her hands In his.
Her quick alarm showed In her face.
"Hut you ure reckless 1 To go about
with bo much money—"
Ward was following her up the
steps.
"I dare say It Is safer with me than
any place else in the world. Did any
ono ever hear of an assistant rector
going about with a fortune in his
hand?"
He followed her Into the library and
placed tho box on the great table
where old Hilary had been wont tb
divide the ntiuual earnings of the band.
Ward pointed to It with bis humorous
smile.
"Would anyone suspect," he said,
"that In that box there Is a stone par-
Ish house, a new church organ, and a
children's playground?" ,
Then, glancing at her keen
eyes, ho was struck by her pallor.
"You to ask me If I am tired I" he
cried. "Why, yeu poor child, It Is you
who are worn out. Wouldn't It bo bet
ter to huve uie come tomorrow and go
over the things you—spoke about?"
"I think we had better talk about
them now," said Elinor, desperately
calm.
At a quarter before eleven that Sun
day night, old Ilenrlette, bent on her
evening tusk of sending Elinor to bed,
wandered Into tho library. Jihe found
Ward, his earnest face glowing, ex
poumflßg tho tenets of his faith from
tho edgo of his chair; and Elinor ly
ing buck with her face drawn, watch
ing the clock on tho mantel.
Old Ilenrlette, astounded, withdraw,
not to sleep, but with the wakeful
alertness of old age, to wander up and
down the garden paths until such time
ns Elinor's visitor might leave.
Ward suddenly realized that be was
making small headway. When at last
he caught Elinor's eyes on the clock
lie flushed nnd rose.
"I've done It all very badly," be
suld. "I seem to wander all about
nnd not get anywhere. You aee it's
all so real to me—"
Elinor had leaned back with cloacd
eyes.
"It Is all very terrible to me," she
replied. "This God of vengeance—"
"Tills Ood of tenderness and mercy,'*
Ward supplemented. "Don't you see
what It all means? How terrible this
life would be if this were all 1 Obr
little lives, full of Jealousies and
hatreds and crimes; I bringing that
box. over there on the table, up here
with me tonight, becuuso I dare not
trust It to'my fellow men; I who could
not sleep ltfst night for thinking of
you, who are all that Is good and sweet
and tender, up here alone In litis great
house, with Ood kuows what danger
jurklng about."
Elinor had reached her limit. The
band of her self-control snapped. She
could not hold hlin much longer, and
before he went ho must know.
"When I sent for you." she said, "I
had two rensons. I wanted t« see you.
Please!" As he took u step toward
her. "And I wunted to save you from
something that I know of."
Something In her thinly drawn voice
wus fuuiiilur.
"I see," Ward said slowly. "It was
you w ho telephoned me awl then rang
off. ' '
"When you say that I am good and
tender," Elinor went on, "you shamo
me. lam all that Is bad ami wicked.
Everything. You were to have been
robbed tonight. I brought you here
under false pretense."
Ward was as white as she. His fig
ure straightened.
"Then all the time that I have been
telling you—"
"I »*ld Sot bear. I was watching the
time."
Personal fear Ward had none. Ile
did not even follow Elinor"* eyes a*
they glanced once more at the clock.
Mrs. Bryant's venomous Inslnustlons
came buck to him, all the village talk
of the girl's strange rearing. Fearful
thoughts flashed Into his mind, to b«
dismissed, shaken off doggedly,
"I shall never believe anything that
you do not tell me yourself. -But It
Is only fair to me that now at last
there be frankness between us."
"There are others," Elinor said, with
dry lips.
"Your father?"
"He Is dead. I cannot talk of him.
This milch I can tell you. The parish
house was burned deliberately; It was
planned and carefully carried out."
"And you knew?"
"I had forbidden it" *" * : |
"You had forbidden It?" _ J 'T I
ne went to her ana caught her by
the shoulders, forcing her to look up
Into his face. *
"You? Then, all tills time that you j
have seen what" you must have seen In
my eyes, you have been—"
" —At the head of a band of thieves,"
Elinor said slowly.
Ward released her, and turning took
a slow survey of the room.
"Then I suppose this Is a trap?" he
said.
"it Is not a trap." Her voice was
dead. "I opposed this—tilts plan from
the start. That Is the reason one of
the men—of my friends —suspected
that I—"
"Go on. What did he suspect?"
"That X—but that doesn't matter.
He burned the psrlsh house and
planned all this. Tonight he meant
to get the money from you, and I—was
desperate. I could think of no other
way."
Ward's faith In her was slow to die.
He took a step toward her, his hands
out, then dropped them at his sides.
"Then —the night the parish house
burned, when I came down In the dawn
and found you* there"—he
clenched his hands—"all the time you
knew. You knew I And I had
thought—"
He went to the table and, opening
the box, slipped the notes and money
It contained into his pocket. Then he
buttoned his coat about him. Elinor*
watched him stonily, ,
"You are going back down the hill?"
"I am going home." He did not even
look at her.
V •"If you would only go some place
else," she said pitifully. "To the club,
or to Mrs. Bryant's. Please believe
me. Whatever I am, and I havo told
you the worst, I am trying to think ot
you tonight, not of myself." '
"I am going back to my house," paid
the assistant rector of Saint Jude's.
He got as far as the door on to the ter
race, and there he turned. It was as ,
If he dared not look at her, as If he j
meant to carry away with him some I
tenderer memory than of this white
lipped, guilty woman before him. I
"If I seem hard," be ssld unstead
ily, "It Is because lam suffering. You
are quite safe, of course. I shall not
go to the police." Had he cared less
he would have been more merciful.
Old Henrietta watched his figure as
he went down the garden steps and
into the road.
"Strange things In this house!" she
mumbled, shaking her head, "l'reach
ers coming and going at all hours, and
Elinor In a church this morning.
Strange things, Hilary Kingston, since
you went away."
She shuffled along the terrace and
Into the house, her thin black shawl
drawn about her shoulders. In the
library Elinor lay face down on the
floor. Old Henrlette'bent over her.
"My lamb, my pet," she soothed her.
"He's u fine man, but there are many
others. And when one Is young and
lovely—"
Since Elinor madfe no response but
only moaned, old Henrlette roae from
her knees and shuffled out of the room,
but cautiously, as rile passad, aba took
from a table drawer old Hilary's re
volver and carried It out under her
shawl.
She was very wise, wns wrinkled
Henrlette, nnd she knew the Kingston
blood.
Ward came down the road rapidly.
There was u faint moon. On« part of
his mind had ceased to work; M* high
er faculties were dormant with mis
ery, with the anesthesia that comes
for a time after great grief or shock.
Physically he wns entirely alert; his
keen eyes searched eu»ii cluntp of
shruliis-ry before he reached It. Not
that he feared attack for himself; his
cup of life was bitter to his taste that
night, but he carried a trust In bis
pockets, that he would deliver.
Huff Wns waiting at the-foot of the
Kingston place, crouched behind u
wall. If the boy had been Jealous be
fore, ho was maddened now. Ward
had been with Elinor. Huff, coming
up the hill had heard tils short good
night to Henrlette In the garden, had
heard him come down the hill. There
were only two explanations. Either tha
man was Ui love with her and had
gone up that night of his own volition,
or Elinor hnd sent for him. One was
us had as the other.
Ward did not have a chance. As
he came abreast ef the wall, the boy
flred and he pltAed forward on his
face. With the re-echoing of the shot
among the hlHs, Huff's madness died
away. Murder was not his game; vio
lent and sudden denlh perhaps, but
never, before, a shot from behind. Hud
tho wealth of a city been In Ward's
pockety, he could not have touched It.
Ho thrust Ills revolver Into his
pocket, and breaking away through
tho shrubbery commenced a swift but
noiseless ascent of tha hill.
The assistant rector of Saint Jude's
lay on hl'i fine In the road, with the
tnornlng offering of his congregation
sufa In his |K«kets.
To be continued.
SEPARATE CALF FEED BOXES
Oraln Should Be Placed Where It Is
Handy, but Out of Danger ef
Being Spelled.
Grain for cslves should be furnished
In separate feed boxes placed so that
It cannot be skilled by the droppings
of the calf, but at the same tlmo
where the calf can get at It readily.
There should be no corners In which
wet feed* may ferment, and the ut
most csre should lie taken to keep the
grain fresh and clean st all timea.
|lOC—Dr. B. Detchon's Anti-Diu
retic may be worth more to you
—more to you than 1100 if you
have a child who soils the bed
ding from Incontinence of water
during sleep. Cures old and voun/
•like It arrests the trouole at
once. 91.00. *old by Graham Drug
Company. ««v.
The ph.vticians of today believe
in using the knife in tr?atin.{ all
ailments, and consequently no mod
ern soldier should fear a ba.vonet
attack by the enemy.
WHERE OILED HIGHWAYS PAY
Better on Band Than on Clay or Loam
Solla—Oil Bometlmea More Sat-
I (factory Than Water.
Oiled earth roada ahould not be re
garded as a permanent Improvement
but are much better than common
earth roads, In the opinion of W. S.
Gearhart, professor ot highway engi
neering.
"Oiled roads do not require so much
dragging as ordinary earth roads,"
lil Professor Gearhart. "They shed |
water better and do not become so
dusty. Although oiled roads are not
so satisfactory as gravel roads, they
may be a help in developing good
roads sentiment."
The best results from ollfug are to
be obtained by applying the oil when
-f- -~y -v -
Macadam Treated With Oil.
the road Is hard, smooth, dustless, and
without any ruts or pockets, according
to Professor Gearhart.
Where there Is a pocket in the road,
water will gather after every storm.
Oil works better on sandy soils than
on clay or heavy loams. Loam soils
may be helped by sprinkling a light
coating of sand over the oiled surface.
After the first year It is better to ap
ply from one-quarter to one-third of a
gallon of oil to each square yard of
surface in the spring and the same
amount again in the fall.
For laying the dust on city street*,
oiling msy be as economical and more
satisfactory than water, particularly
if the soli Is sundy. When city streets
ure oiled it is best to cover the cross
walks with dust or dirt so that they
will not be covered with oil. When
the oiling process Is finished the dust
or .dirt may be swept away, Surface
oiled streets are not satisfactory if the
soli is clay or loafn, fpr the oily dust
blows about and Is carried into build
ings and upon walks.
MOISTURE FOR ROAD MAKING
Thsrs Is C.rtsln Wstsr Content at
Which Soli Packs Hard—Remove
All Qrsss and Weeds.
Rond milking Is largely a matter of
moisture control. When soil contains
too much water It becomes mud, and
when It has too little moisture It be
comes dust. Rut there Is a certain
moisture content at which soil packs
hard. And this Is Just about the
amount-of moisturo that a soil wilt
hold readily. This usually can be
maintained In a road that has good
drainage, that Is well crowned so tlio
water will run oft when it rains and
that Is free from grass and weeds.
Thcso If allowed to grow, will soon
draw the molsturo out of tho soil and
so remove tho binding material.
CONVICTS ON PUBLIC WORKS
Proportion on Road Improvement In
creased From 1.3 Nearly to 13
Per Cent Since 1889.
Ttio proportion of convict* employed
on public work* Instead of on loaxe or
contract hut Increased alnce 1883 from
83 to fWJ [K-r cent ami the proportion
on road work alone from 1.3 to nearly
13 [K-r cent, according to u report by
tho federal public roads office bused
on a iiurvcy of many prison*. Slate
ratlier than county supervision of con
vict labor on road* la recommended.
Easily Converted.
It I* not at all difficult to convert
tile owner of a new automobile to the
good-roads theory, If he la caught at
tho moment when ho la trying to
worm hla way through a frcnh nod
Improvement, two rid lea and n half
long and running from fence to fence.
New Position for Qoethals.
Major Oeueral Goetbals has accept
ed the newly created post of slate en
gineer of New Jersey. New Jersey la
about to expend (1,900,000 on a new
highway system.
Evangel of Good Roads.
The automobile ia the evangel of
the good rouda movement. Kvery aale
of a five*passenger touring car with
lire* subject to sudfleu and disheart
ening puncture means better road* and
more of them. Therefore, everyone
should buy touring cars because be
will then become u good roads advo
cate.
Wanted for Nothing.
Good loads, according to Howard
Itann, are something which everybody
want* for nothing.
Relief In Mix Hours
Distressing Kidney aud Bladdei
Disease relieved in six hours by
the "NRW GREAT BOUTU AMER
ICAN KIDNEY CURE." It ti a
great surprise on accouot of ila
exceeding oromiitness in relieving
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Id male or female. Relieves reten
tion of water almost immediately
If you want quick relief and cure
this ia the remedy. Sold by Gra
ham Drug Co. adv.
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Preaching every first and thlr®9B
Sundays ac 11.00 a. m. and 1.00 AM
Sunday School every Sunday ainfl
9.43 a. m. A. P. Williams hapuH
l'rayer meeting every i uesday iH
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[buiiii-IMV. u. t/. Trait*.
Pleaching services every Seo-J>3
oad auu couria bundaya. at IXM
Sunday School every Sunday a&U
10.U0 a. ui.— K. L. Henderson, Supew3®
intendent.
New Providence Christian Church
—fvorth Main Street, near Depot—
He v. J. G. Iruitt, Pastor. Preach-*
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day nights at ti.GO o'clock.
Sunday School every Sunday ac i l
M6^a.^m.- J, A. Bayliff, Superin- Jj
Christian Endeavor Prayer Meet* 'I
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lie Scliool—Rev. Healing Martin.
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Preaching Ist, 2nd and 3rd Sun
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Methodist Episcopal sou in—cor,
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Preaching every Sunday at lI.M
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Sunaay bcliool every Sunday at
H. 44 a. m.-W, B. Greeu, Supt.
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Rev. it. 8. I'roxler, Pastor.
Preaching first and third Huo
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Sunday School every buuday at '
9.44 a. in.—J. L. Amick, Supt.
Presbyterian-Wst Bla Street—
Rev. T. M. McConnell, pastor. is
Sunday School every Sundsjr at
».« a. m.—Lynn B. Williamson,Su
perintendent.
, P , r .?* b /?, terUD 'Travora Chapel)-
f. W. Clegg, pastor.
Preaching every Second and
Fourth Sundays at 7.M p. no.
Sunday School every Sunday at '
i.M p. m.-J. llarvey White, Su
perintendent.
Oneida—Sunday School every
Sunday at 3.30 p. m—J. V. Pome- -
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Times change and men change b
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.yard Kipling got in. bad
George's grandmother by refer—-,
ring to her with his usual '&>"
science, as "the Widow of