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I j§ AMBULANCE SERVICE Bl BELL & HARRIS I m FUNERAL HOME Hpm Day and Nighl Phone 640 I Sesqui-Centennial I Exposition I t PHILADELPHIA, PA., ■P June 1-November 30, 1926 llf Special Excursion Fares B.Southern Railway System ■HiTickets on sale daily from all HgQßthern Railway stations up ■to and including September RBQth, final return limit all tick- Pets fifteen days including date ■Stop-overs permitted at Wash ■iogton and Baltimore in each ■Erection within final limit of ■ Fine trains, excellent sched- Bttles, pullman sleeping cars, ■daycoaches and dining car ■ For further information and Hmlmati sleeping car reserva ■ tions call on any Southern ■Railway agent or address: Bl h. graham, d. p. a. I Charlotte, N. C WHO’LL COOL VbU OFF 1 1 will help you keep up your physical and mental tempera iture at the efficiency point. Our Pure syrup sodas will sat isfy your thirst. The sanitary care that is employed at our jgoda fountain will give you an appetite for the- proper cooling gfarnk. Folks are talking about ' the rich creamy goodness of bur ice cream. H “We give S. & H. Green dis count stamps.” [PEARL DRUG CO. ■k K I g; Our policy is one of j| .candor and respectful ser vice. Fairness is a requi -1 | consideration. And we PHONE 9 Ip “Par nmkv < ®^ <o 1 1 W X»A%£»Jl#*VAirfHAMniOK JL Author | finished by arrangement with Hat liaiionol Picture* IL ‘lt’s not true that you’re going to play the cornet in street, is it?" Tony turned at i.h* abrupt question, bisliking funerals, post-mortems and long-drawn-out good-byes he had been the first man to hurry from the room and the restaurant It was Sherwood who followed him into Shaftesbury Avenue and tapped him aharply on the arm. "Its not true that you're going to play a cornet in the street, is it!“ “Ob, hullo, Teddy,” he sang out, flashing the well-known smile. “How toes it, old son?” “That d>cza’t matter. I want f’t answer to my question.” - “Oi course it’s true,” said Tor.y. “And if I hadn’t learned to play the good old cornet while 1 was hangin’ about tho hospital in T7, I should now be signing cn with a little gang of burglars who are very good friends of mine. As a single man, 1 should have enjoyed that sort of out door sport enormously, but, y’see, Chrissie’s been brought up on rather narrow lines and so—” He waved •the thing away with a half-regretful eloquence. Ah expression of horror spread over Sherwood’s ill-assorted features and the ugly scar on his left cheek bone, an everlasting memento of Contalmaison, turned a dull red. As .the man who had, as he considered, stolen Chrissie, he hated Tony in the selfpnnishing manner of a religious fanatic who makes an all-day-long ecstasy of his detestation of the ideviL As the officer under whom he had served for several years, he admired and respected him for his humanity and imagination, efficiency and courage to the extent of hero worship. Regarding him at that mo ment, as he had had no difficulty in doing while on active service, not as Tony, the pre-war rotter, the loose fish and glib cadger of peace times, hut as Wing Commander Stirling- Fortescue, the finest officer in the R. A. F., he was shocked and ap palled at the idea of his falling from nis dizzy height to the ignominy of a street musician. * “Look here,” he said, trying to keep his place at Tony’s side, as they dodged through the people who poured out of the theatres into Picca dilly Circus, “I can’t stand it There must be something else that you can do.” “What, for instance, with Army, Navy and Air Force all lined tip for jobs?” Quaint old thing, Teddy. What, after all, did it matter to him? "Can't you go to the Earl of Stir ling and get him to wangle you something?” Tony laughed. "My dear old man, my brother, like my- father before him, is a most exemplary person. He wouldn’t touch me with the end of • six-foot pole.” “Why? Doesn’t he know your re cord in the R. A. F.?" The question was not answered. Tony’s attention was draw* awhy from _ Sherwood’s nagging cross examination by a sight that stopped his heart. Tilted against a wall like * sack of potatoes was an ex-soldier without his arms and legs. A greasy cap gaped hungrily at passers-by, and two arresting eyes in a young and well-cut face asked with hitter -sarcasm for charity. Tony’s silver coin, but better still his quick salute, won a smile of gratitude that must have made the pen of the recording angel tremble in her hand. Sherwood’s aim was bad. His cor 6 hit the wall and rolled among tire .eet of hurrying people. A woman stopped it, picked it up, and having seen the actions of the two officers, dropped it in the cap, adding six pence of her own. The incident camp under the notice of others, one! or two of whom, with a certain sbw-pish ness, followed the example ]#. the woman who had held them up by her sudden scramble. The rest, cast ing a callous glance at what had long become a familiar and even tiresome sight, passed on. - ■ cellent little fellow’s loyalty and friendship. "11l make a place for you in the advertising department of my head, office and pay you five hundred a' year.” “My God, Teddy V he said, putting his arm round Sherwood’s muscular shoulders in his winning way, “what the dickens can I say to that?” “Nothing. Just take the job and carry on. That’s all you’re asked to do.’’ He didn’t want to be tussed over by this man. Nor did he want to be .oucked, which made hkr shudder.! !n making this offer, he wa| not at tempting to do something in a round about way for Chrissie, who was al ways in his thoughts,—deeply, wholly and rather terribly loved. His one desire was to put his late chief into dignified work on a living wage as a tribute to his gallantry. That was all. And having done that, he could c.atinue to hate with all his curious soul as he was damned well going to do. All this was perfectly clear to Tony. His uncanny knowledge of human nature, greatly euchanced by his close association with so many men under the primeval influence:, of war, made it easy for him to see the workings of Teddy Sherwood's elemental mind. Being in uniform and not yet having fallen back into his pre-war carelessness, the self respect that he had acquired offered a barrier against the acceptance of what was obviously a charitable act. If he had lost his arms and legs like that poor devil propped against tne wall, he would, with Chrissie to keep, have been forced thankfully to live on Sherwood’s coins. As it was his ruck had held and he was sound in wind and limb. What might happen in the future to weaken his war-acquired morale who could tell. In his present mood he shied at 'he idea of taking Sherwood's money home to pay for Chrissie’s bread. He would do ’.hat job himscli and start the new life dean. So he said, “It’s foolish for me to attempt to thank you for what you want to do. But you know me. I could no more knuckle down to the pent-up routine of an office than be a parson. Your manager would give me the order of the boot before the end of my first week. Besides, I’m signed up to the joker who runs the band and I'm joining up to-morrow, So there it is.” "You mean that?" “Yes, old boy, I mean it, though I’m enormously grateful to you for your kindness.” “You prefer to blow a cursed cor net and rattle a box in. the face of people who want to forget the war to honest work in a decent ottice? Yout" He was not thinking of the tall, slight, graceful man in front of him as the son of an Earl when he shot out this shrill incredulous question, but as Wing Commander Stirling-Fortescue, whose deplorable career had been brought to an end by a war for Which he had been bom, who had been raised out of the gutter and put on his feet by the kind of work for which he had had the same vocation as writing is to somf men, the Church, surgery, or discovering the South Pole to other 3; who couldn't have been so excellent in the air if he had been any good on earth. “Oddly enough, I do.” said Tony, "Thanks very much, all the same" “God Almighty,” cried Sherwood, and after a pause during which he found it utterty impossible to find words suitable- to express his disgust, irritation and grief, flung up his hands, turned on his heels and dived into the crowd headfirst. HI Whereupon, eager to join up again i with Chrissie, from whom, except 1 for occasional week-ends, he had \ been separated during the period of the war, Tony turned his face to' wards—where? Home? That hardly seemed the right word for those two dingy little rooms that he hqd taken that morning in the shabbiest of the houses in Paitton Street, — rooms which once had belonged to a young actor whose last part had been finely played in the forward sweep of the Allied armies and which were fur nished with an odd assortment of bits and pieces resulting from his various engagements upon the London stage. They were, however, the best that Tony could afford, having saved no more than fifty pqunds from his pay. and he was thankful to have found them unoccupied. How long he would be able to hold them on what he might earn as a performer on the cursed comet was'the new problem to be faced. The old optimism which had carried him through the daily adventure of pre-war times still bubbled in his vein* and the Mi rawber spirit of waiting hopefully for something to turn tip was more alive in him than ever. He was not worried about Chrissie. He never worried about Chrissie. H« knew het for a sportsman. He knew with what .amazing courage and gorgeous cheer ier came'her ’way. If*sheoouldn’t mow white, she would suow brown fts she had always done. She had a avnius for makiag the best of things, for showing no surprise at the in evitable. Hadn’t she nude their bed sitting room in Brewer Street gleam he had”wailed so eagerly for*the THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE New Trudy Ruth Kitchen, fourteen, is shown leaving the water after swimming the* Chesapeake from Annapolis to Bloody Point She entered the water at 10 a.m. and finished at 6:45 p.m. Untanuttau] Bevo-wU A "Master Cleaner” LOOKS FAR INTO THE FUTURE! 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Graham, head of agriculture at Ra leigh. del vexed an able address. 1 I am sure we shall profit by the ad dressf- the two speakers delivered. We extent: our nearly appreciation to .those that spread together their dinner and helped ns out in giving the speakers a well prepared diniier. Awhile after dinner was served the Gilyood ball team played Cornelius lin a speedy game. Allison, for Gil wood. did nice work, botti sides play ing hard. The hard-to-beat Gilwood team won by a margin of one score. Gilwood hns a game scheduled with Gibsou next Saturday at Gilwood. TfIIAIM TflHirC By Fctzer &. Yorke luiiMiuriiJ / jtfsr • . MB* ro<veo!urj^Z\ EsOHKli i I Don’t Wait for the fire || J and take your bitter med i icine—take out fire in- i ] | surance at once and let us i | pay your loss in full when \ i t the fire visits you. HznUYiKK IeMNCT CABAPPUS JWNGS*iA/1K BLOC. We will show you what you need in the way of electric fix tures if you will call. Our as sortment is a pleasing one and we will be able to advise with yo>B as to what you need for -carious rooms and purposes. Let us furnish you with esti mates. atlfottn sotvice '~rA Live. W. J. HETHCOX Jim Morrison *» drilling a well for S. J. Hart sell at his tenant house. NO. NINE TOWNSHIP We sure are baring some good seasons along now. Henry Burris and family, of No. 8, visited Mrs. Burris' mother, Mrs. W. F. Layton, of No. 0. Sunday. Bobert Host made a special trip to Mt. Pleasant Sunday, Rev. Mr. Maxwell' and Rev. Mr. Scott have* been holding a two weeks meeting at Cold Sphing Church. It has been a glorious meeting and we feel that God has blessed them with their work. I Paul Wetters and Martin Ross spent Sunday evening with Adolphus La y ton. There was a large crowd present at the home of Mr. ai.d Mrs. Adolphus Layton last Saturday night at a birthda.v party in honor of Miss Lu cile and Eunice Layton. Those pres ent were: Reece nnd Sam Barringer, Frank Scott. Richard Garmon. 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We are listening for the wedding bells to ring soon. ) GRASS HOPPER. ROBINSON. W. H. Porter, of Matthews, visited his daughter, Mrs. M. L. Eudy, one day last week. , Clear Creek high school has op-; Sned with a .large attendance. The I rat day 251 pupils were present. Mrs. tViiys Hugh, of Moore county, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Biggerg Monday night and Tuesday. Dowd Diggers is attending school at Long Creek ’.iigh school this year. Mrs. M. L. Eudy and son, Robert, visited Mr.' and Mrs. John Sutton, of I'nion county, Monday. NO. SEVEN TOWNSHIP. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Dry, of Salis bury, spent the week-end with Mr. Dry's parents, Mr. nnd Mrs. R, B. Dry. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Honeycutt spent the day* lit KannapAlis Monday with Mrs. Honeycutt’s sister, Mrs. J. Davis. 1 Quite a niunber of our young peo- Friday, September 10, 1926 pV enjoyed the evening by motoring to Ritchie's Lake last Thursday, where they had a regular ptculC.' I Included in the party were George Smith, of Goncord; Emmit Barringer, Salisbury; Paul Petrea, Mt. Pleasant; Buford Peeler, Salisbury; Jean Ban gle nßd Walter Wagoner, of Salis jbury, and Misses Vera and Maud Dry, Callie- and Opal Arey, Ethel and Ruth Barrier. Miss Luci’e Hammill has returned home after, spending a Week in Con cord with her aunts, Mrs. Griffin and Moose. Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Lentz and Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Arey attended the | funeral Monday afternoon of one of I,lower Rowan’s moss prominent farm- I ere and church workers, Paul B. Park er. which was conducted by Rev. C. P. Fisher at I.nther’s Chapel. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dry. of Salis bury, were t'.:e guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Honeycutt. 1 Mrs. S. J. Barringer is visiting for a few days her daughter, Mrs. E. D. Honeycutt. Mrs. S. J. Ritehie and daughter. Miss Temperance Ritchie, of Alt. Pleasant, were the houseguests over the week-end of Mr, and Mrs. W. R. Arey. ' Misses Charlotte Honeycutt, Opal Arey and Dixie Honeycutt are expect ed to leave Thursday for 'Pleas ant where tbev will enter school at M. A. 8. and M. P. C. I. for the following term. <

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