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r “THE GOOD BAD GIRL” —HY— WINIFRED VAN DUZEN Chapter 32 But Mimsi did not telephone 51 eric* an she had intended. She felt, sud denly, that there was no use draggii g him in. “He is too clean,” ■ she thought, “He’d only be soiled in this mess with Wallie. No, I can’t t.ilk with Merle new. I’ll think out something first. Then I’ll go and see him. He’;l surely understand-—” There was a pattering; something cold and wet pressed against tv r. cheek. Luck was standie:; wi.h Ids forepawn braced against h g shouhle*', whimpering. Mimoi hugged him, laughing and crying e little. “You derliag dog-pei r.onl I thought 1 hadn’t a friiml! I’ve neglected you, but I didn’t mean to, dear,’AVe’li go out now; we’ll ike, a wall?'and think it out.” The nurse protested, "but Mine-i dressed and led the while collie down the Stairs. She turned tearfully into a side street, wishing to .avoid a chance encounter with Nita. The curb was lined with ears. in advertently she had come by Lt e garage where Pi^ry kept: his roadster. He’d asked her to use it. ' A tun ihto the country,” he'd said. With a flutter of excitement she went through the wide floors, skirl.i’g pools of oil and gasoline. A mechnoc nodded wh^ she asked for the car. “Wait here, miss; I'll back it out for you." He explained one or tw< tricks in the driving mqchanism, and she *dii ped behind the wheel. The road'-t r glided through traffic as on ily, grace fully, as a fish swimming downstream, the first lights of evening sliding backward over the long, gray hood. Mimsi felt the heart-throb of the engine on the wheel under her palnvt and thrilled to the sure knowledge < f power. Luck curled m> on the seat beside her; she settVd back. “This is freedom," she chattered to the dog. "This is freedom, Lucky, dearest!” At Seventy-second street the swn g westward to the Drive, then north, into the wind. She was happier than she had been for weeks. "We could run away, old boy," she rambled on. “We could start out some evening like this and ride and ■ride. Up to Albany, west to any where! Some place they'd never find us. None of them. We could just for get them all. “Forget the women with the “wait ing loc.k.’ Forget Perry. When he comes l wouldn't be.there. Client do,. tiny. Forget Merle. Tint would no tWb hest way. Forget Merle and Con nie Duer—” Far up Broadway she stopped f* r cross traffic. A mah* youth, stand ing on the curb, regarded her with :• killing g'ance. finally rni<ed his hc.t and atanped forward. “Hadn't T met yon " ho began, and fell back in disorder as lack bared his fangs. Mimsi laughed and waved mock ingly as the cop set the "(Jo" signal and she mov»*d ahead. Yorkers. She turned into a side street; beaded the car down a country road. The Hurt bungalow was just ahead. She ran by the big Yard slow ly. The windows wore lighted ard the shsdcs drawn. She could See Aloe nnd Tom. Someone else was ttm'o. Two others. Merle perhaps. Prob ably Connie Duer. Jealousy stabbed hc~ like a poisoned blade. She jerked about sharply, teeth sot. “I didn’t think I’d mind so!” she was thinking. “I’ll never come this way again. He had no right—— Then Luck yelped and threw him self against her as the car jarred on a bank. She jammed down the emcr srenev hut the back wheel slid over the brink and the great bulk be gan to settle, listing tipsily. Mimsi sprang out and looked it over. There was only a shallow ditch at the side of the road. It was a \ perilous position, however, for a iur. might crumble the bank and send tie' heavy car turning turtle down the j “Punb-bell.” she told herself, j “Guess you'll watch tlv road next time. If there is a next time. Him to wait till someone tomes along But she soon realized that there was small chance of anyone coming befnv • morning. The road was o'f the mam line of travel ami the Hart bungalow the only bouse within sigh. “I could walk back there," she thought. “And telephone for a wreck er. But—oh, no! Perry’s car! How cold I expain? Merle would think . • .And Connie Puer . She felt again the fierce stab of jealousy. * “No, that’s what got me into trou ble in the first place, that feeling. 1 mustn’t mind so. What right have I ? After all he was kind to me. Perhaps he was fair*” But a spirit of recklessness tool: possession of her. ‘I’ll do it myself.’’ she cried. ‘TU get the car out. Take a chance! What do I care? “Why, nothing worse can happen to me than has happened already. Mayk« the police are looking for me now! ! I’ll (ramble with destiny. Come on, Destiny—I’ll play!” Chapter 33 After her high moment of bravado, Mirftsi sensibly set about gatherum j field stones and forcing them under [ the wheel thm swung clear of the i banks She felt imporant and im sponsible and exulted in the feeling, I even though she knew it to be child i ish and false. "You, back there—you Connie Durr | ” raced her thoughts. “You wouldn't ; dare do this. You’d call someone to help you! You’re too cold; afraid and I COitl—” •She felt superior to Connie Dues for | once. She had a sneaking wish that 1 Merle might see her walk up to dan ger and slap ii in the face. “Oh that’s silly!" She laughed and called Luck. "No use your getting hurt,” she tcdd him, making him lie down out of the way. She bent over; kissed his ear.i. ThCn she climbed buck behind the wheel; listened to the motor. It was singing smoothly, with a pleasant throaty rumble. ' I've got you to help me—you darn ! old beautiful thing! Come on n »w, outine—ft’s un to vou—” ishti opened the throttle and the j back wheel slipped a'armingly as she slotted gears. ‘ Now!" the cried. Gravel Hew. There was a noise like shallow breakers as the bank col lapsed, liut the wheel tore through loosened earth, caught at the track. The long car tipped, righted itself, ns the engine roared. Then it seemed to make a tremendous effort and shot down the road. Mimsi stopped it, heady with tri umph, and Luck came bounding over! the side, lapping her fare and hands, j "1 did it, old fellow!” she kept! telling him. ‘‘Why I did it, old dug- | person! 1 never thought—why, may be . . They drove on, under the stars. I Through little towns, past little homes lighted windows. People lived be hind the lighted windows. Contented people. } “I never believed I could do that,' back there,” Mimsi thought over and over. “Perhaps I have something. Some courage, f miglu do something; pull out of other things. Would it be fair? I owe Perry so much . , I must find a way . it was neariy morning when the ran into the garage. She led the white collie home and moved his cush ion to the floor beside her bed. “Life is so mixed up, Luck," rho told him. "So terribly mixed tin!'’ After the first night ride ia .he country there began for Mimsi a curi ous life. It was a life oddly like that of the Mimsi for whom she was named. An exie.cn;c of blank days and vivid, ex citing nights. Throughout those days she rested behind lowered shades, sleeping ai she had not slept since she left Tranquil tty, "i’i Ward evening, Luck would pur. his small, white forepaws on Hie bed i and nuzzle her awake. Within an | hour she would he leading him toward ' the garage; threading uptown traffic in Perry k car; striking out for the open country. Throughout the long night holies the listened to the suing of the en gine’s; watched lights dropped back and back toward the city.; thrilled to the rush of Spring winds : gainst her face. And always she kept thinking; planning her way old. She’ 1 heard no more of Waii - ; gradually she lost her fear of prs j sib'e consequences of that sordid con I .art. Thinking, planning . . ; “There is a way,” she would tell : herself. “I’ve only to find it Mow 1 know I have some courage. I could n’t have pulled the car over the bank I if t hadn’t. There a way that will be , fair tb Perry; fair to me, too—” I She had said she never would pass j the Hart home again. But she did. It grew to be sort of ceremony; the high spot in the night run. bh' would drive into the count v road and park in the shadow of trees across .he rend from the bungalow. Then she’d watch Alice upstaits in the nursery on the south side of the house. She would peer at the child 1 ron kneeling for their evening prayer; i almost she could hear the sleepy iiule I “Now I lay me—” She would see Alice tuck ^hcm m and kins them, then come down to Tom, reading1 beside the table in the living room. He'd place a chair for his ■wWor-sometimes he’d kiss her . . “They don't seem to 'iSImT'tRSCHWtr nmrriage hasn’t kept pace with pro gress,” Mimsi would thin*, as she'd start her motor softly. “Th"ir love hasn't been worn out by ‘legal fellers.’ “Thai’s because they dream true. Perry is wrong. His theory is wrong. He doesn’t dream true!” She wondered what happens, in Perry’s sort of mating when there are children. “Even if you can take a chance with your own life,” she decided, "y« n can't jeopardise another life, is* t your child’s. You can wreck vi-ur own if you wish. But yon haven’t the right to wreck your baby's. You ou t bring your child into a world already wrecked f«r him—” Perry didn’t like children. Perry would lose interest in the woman he loved if children came. He was like j that. To Be Continued j Copyright 1026-Kings Features Syn dicate. Ine. A middle class atmosphere has ad vantages. It isn’t saturated with the smoke of those smelly cigarettes. Evidently the critics have been un just to those birds in Washington One has laid an ei$g worth $750. New Marker Over Grave Of Allens Inscription Charging “Judicial iVlur d< r” Finally Has Been Removed Mount Airy— The release of Sidra Allen and VVestly Kilwards from the Virginia penitentiary by the (lovertww of Virginia recalled very vividly the If ills vil !<■ tragedy of 1912 when the so-called Allen elan shot up the-court at Mlillsville, Va., and from which Floyd Allen and his son Claude paid the supreme penalty in March, 1918. It also recalled the inscription which niemlx ris or friends of the Allen fam ily had placed on the tombstone m Virginia a few miles above the state line on the Fancy (Jap road leading from this city to Hillsville, Va. This inscription read “.Sacred to the mem ory of Claude Allen and his father who were judicially murdered in the Virginia penitentiary March 28, 1918, by order ef the Governor of Virginia over the protest of 100,000 oitizers of the state of Virginia.” The in scription has stood through years with occasional talk of official action to have it changed. Last week a re pre . 'illative of a Roanoke marble yard visited the little burying ground and removed the marbl- slab with iCs offensive inscription and in its place put a new marble slab on the granite base. The new slut) hears the simple inscription: “In memory of Floyd and Claude Allen, horn 3857, i/ern 1889. died March 28, 1918. Asleep in Jesus.” Preache" Advocates Flogging For Some Says Such Should Be Given Rohhors, Bootleggers, Wife-Heaters. And Others Boston, May 28. -••FlojrjjinK for youthful robbers, patrons of bootleg gers, wif e-hen tors anil sinners again t children is recommended by Rev, William Harman Van Aden. The famous clergyman does rot believe bobbed hair is responsible for fVn | im crime as reprc-s< nted hy bobbed haired girl bandits. Dr. Van Alien believe^; in the ease of young banoit ' that flogging would be much more beneficial than to im prison them with older, more harden'd criminals. lie is against capital j unishment because the sentence ranrot. be r: s e:,'.<k<l in rase of discovery of new evidence after execution of sentence. He favors placing under restraint any person posses < • 1 of homicidal tend encies, even though in prison, rather than to be free to attack innocent per sons. Dr. Van Alien denounced emotional women who show warm interest »n criminal who are clearly unworthy ef sympathy. „ __ Great indignation was expressed by | the preacher at the charge that pi'o j hibitioxi had irfereased crime. The only possible way this could be true, he : said, was in the sense that criminals would show more intelligence in fhe:r nefarious work when without wi»!vy. Time For Cutting Grasses In County The best time to cut grasses is ns soon as they are well headed. The millets and Johnson grass should be cut as soon as the heads begin 10 show from the root, hut it is best for winter grains to stand until ilia i seed is in the milk stage. Legumes i like cowpeas and soy beans, in which the seed is an important part of the forage, should not be cut until the earliest pods begin to mature, but perennial legumes, such as alfalfa and the clovers, may be cut as soon is they are well in bloom. The best hay made from any crop is always that which is made the most quick ly and with the least exposure to the son and air. Too much exposure to | the sun bleaches the hay, making it less! attractive when placed on the market and ulso less palatable and less digestible. County Agent, ALVIN HARDIN, Vale Young People Win School Honors Lincoln Times. Erwin White of Vale, Route 1 who 1 has been a ministerial student at Rutherford College is at the home of his father, Mr. Ed White for the summer. George Ilood, who graduated at Rutherford College last week is at home with his parents at Vale. M". Hood while in college won two gold medals, one last year for the best debate and another this year for the best declamation. Miss Sadie Weaver of Bessemer City m spending the week end with M’ss EfFie Jonas of Vale. Mr. Charlie Parker and family, Air. H. F. Jonas and family and Mr. and Mrs. Z. B. Cauble have gone to the mountains this week. They expect io visit Chimney Rock, Blowing Rock, Boone., Table Rock and Asheville be fore returning home. He’s a normal kid if ho could swear the book didn’t mention ‘he things referred to in the examina tion questions. Dealers are wonderful. They can drive a car 5,000 nilrs in demonstra ting it and rot dent it enough t'> keep it from being “new.” Correct this sentence: “I paid a big price to see the show,” said he, ‘ nut I’M confess it wasTottcn.” FOR COUNTY SOLICITOR Chas. A. Burrus The subject of this sketch was born in a North Carolina Methodist parsonage, and was .raised in as many sections of Western North Carolina as the vicissitudes of a Methodis preacher’s life demand. He ha : had all the good times and ; j the hard time; that the son of the average country preacher and circuit rider has experienc ed. Having been tutored in various public schools of his native state, he entered Trinity College (now Duke University) in Sep tember, 1910, and was graduated from that institution in June, i 1911. with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For five years there-, after he was engaged in public school teaching in North Carolina and Virginia. In the meantime he studied law and obtained his ; license to practice in this state in August, 1919, since which time he has been located in Shelby as the associate of Hon. O. Max Gardner in his law office. His father. Rev. Andrew Jackson Burrus, served the Shelby circuit and the Cliffside circuit for several years, during which time he preached in all sections of Cleveland and Rutherford counties. Mr. Burrus has been active in church and Sunday School affairs since coming to Shelby; has taken a keen interest in all movements for civic betterment in the community; and has serv ed as secretary of the Shelby Kiwanis Club, of which he is a charter member, since its organization in May, 192?. | As solicitor for the Recorder’s Court of Cleveland County I during his tenure of same, he has discharged the duties of that j trying office with a degree of fairness, impartiality, fearlessness, [and conformity to his oath that has made for him a host of I friends—both among the bar and the laity. In a recent inter view he said: “1 have never hounded or needlessy abused any vic tim of circumstances so unfortunate as to become entangled in the meshes oi the law, nor have I hesitated to vigorously prose cute the flagrant violator; but have always endeavored to do my i duty according to my oath and governed by my conscience.” If I re-elected, he promises to continue this practice; and upon this record of service he asks the support of the voters of Cleveland County at the polls on June 5. (Political Advertisement.) gives Eioran IITEI Ml Rev. ('. .1. Woodson Asks At I Alliance, Prayer and Co-operation, llnpini' For Old Time Revival. I - ! To Editor of The Star. My heart’s desire and prayer to Cod is that i., may be a {Treat meet ing—{Treat in power, great in per manent results; and I can conceive of no reason why it should not be if -ill j who profess to be followers of our blessed Lord will do their duty. Duty I is the suldimest word in 1he Chris tian’s vocabulary, and Cod forbid ! ..hat it should be said of any of us ! when the meeting closes ,“Ye knew your duty and ye did it not.” It is certainly our duty to attend the meetings and get others to do o. If we wan. people saved we must put them witom reach of the Gospel, which is the power of Cod unto the salvation of every one who believeth it. “I .vi , glad when they said unto me. Let ns go into the house of the Lord.” We must not only attend the meet ings, hut work and pray for its suc cess. We must endeavor to realize our individual obligations aru] responsi bilities, and the importance of cornier? up to the help of the Lord against the mighty. There are three things absolutely essential to the success of a revival meeting, and this is what they are: Earnest prayer, a firm reliance on the promised aid of the Holy Spirit, and personal Conversation with the unsav ed. “Words fitly spoken are like ap ples of gold in pictures of silver.” The best way to get people interested in themselves is to show them that, we are interested in them. “Whoso winneth souls is wise,” “They tha„ be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they chat turn many to righteousness as the, stars fore v r ami ever.” I hope we will not make the fatal mistake of looking to the preacher rather than to God for results. Broth er Wall is a good preacher, but he cannot save any one. Paul, with all his magic and learning, could not save any one. Appollos, -with all of his elo quence, could not -ave any one. The salvation of souls i- the exclusive pre rogative of the Divine Spin.. My un derstanding i that God the Father conceived the plan ' f redemption, .Christ executed it, and the Spirit ap plies it. So each person of .he God head has his separate and distinct of fice ty perform. Let us not think of the Holy Spirit as a mer1 influence, or emanation from God, the Father, or God the Son, hut as i to third per son of the adorable trinity. And 1 will .now call your prayer ful attention to a few appropriate passages of Scripture which 1 pray may be firmly impressed upon your minds and hearts during the pro gress of this meeting. “It is the Spir it that uuickeneth.” “Paul may plant and Appollos water, hut God giveidi th: increase,” “It is not by might nor by power, but by my Spiro, aaye'.n the Lord.” And yet we are eo-worker; with God, because in His infinite wis dom and condescension he has v e« fit to accomplish his purposes of grace through human instrumental ity. I devoted ten years of my life to evangelistic work, aril I can say that I have never known a meeting to fail of good results when the people of God were earnest and importun ate in their prayers and supplication for the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. There never has been a genuine revival of religion which did not originate in Jie' hearts of God’s people and oome down from heaven in answer to prayer. Let us all pray for a revival of the old time religion, which alone can stand the'test of time and eternity I want us to have it meeting that will stir Shelby from center to circum ference. We all need an awakening, to be aroused from our spiritual leth argy—if >'e would fight the good fight of faith and lay hold on eternal life. So i'av as religious activity is concerned, we are ail like the man whose little hoy v. as asked if his father was a Christian, and he said in reply: “I tyjess he is, but he hasn’t worked much at it lately.” All fir the lent. C. J. WOODSON. Those who drive fastest to save time en route just have more to kill when they get- there—--— Woman's intuition is wonderful, but in the case of a stenographer it does n’t always agree with the diction ary. The word “hanged” refers to the ancient method of lessening crime. “Hung” is the word that describes the state of the jury. Coming To The Webb Theatre Thursday And Friday. STATE DOES LESS North Carolina Did More For Educa tion 11 Years Ago, Declares Warren : News and Observer “The State of North Carolina is j a state is not doing as much for ! education now as it did 11 years ago,” | declared Jule 15. Warren, Secretary | of the North Carolina Education As sociation, commenting: on the current issue of State School Facts. Mr. Warren pointed out that the I appropriation by the legislature for 1913 was $1,457,646. The appropria tion of the legislature for the main tenance of the public schools for 1925 was $3,757,500. “This is an apparent, increase of a little over 2 1-2 times the 1013 ap propriation,” declared Mr. Warren, “This, however, does not take into consideration a number of important items which go imo the maintenance of the schools. In the lirst place, the term is 80 percent longer now than it was 12 years ago. In the sec ond place, there are 73 no- cent nn ' C children enrolled now than in 1013. A third important item must be taken into consideration in considering the monetary increase in the difference in the value of a dollar. National or ganizations, the accuracy of whoso investigation is not questioned, mad? companion of the value of a dollar now and in 1913. Taking 3013 as the basis and the dollar worth 100 cents these organizations have found that it takes $1.71 now to buy what $1.00 would buy in 1913. This represents a decrease in the purchasing power of a dollar of 58 percent. “It will be seen, therefore, that the increase in 1925 over 1918 is not e 'en 'sufficient to take care of the decrease in the value- of a dollar, he added. Taking the 1913 appropriations as the basis, the statr would have found it necessary to have increased this ap propriation 80 percent in order to pay for the lengthened school term, 78 percent in order to take care of the larger number of children and 58 per cel in order to lake care of the de crease in the value of a dollar, said Mr. Warren. “On this basks the state,” he point ed out, “in order to merely hold it:: own in helping, educate the children of North Carolina, would have had to appropriate $1,166,168 to help bear 4ts part of the expense of a lengthen ed-term; it would have taken $1,064, 081 in order to take care of the nor mal increase in the number of child ren in the public schools, and it would have had to appropriate $845,434 to take care of the decrease in the pur chasing power of the dollar. In other words, the ,‘ucjje of North Caro lina, in order to keep its appropriation to the public schools on a par with those of 1613, should have apent thns year $1,533,329 for the maintenance of the public schools. Donate Old Cotton Planter To Museum The first contribution to the- agri cultural museum now being stalled at State College is an ancient cotton planter used in Chowan county, ac cording to authentic records, back in 1S08. The implement was donated by M. VV. Smith, of Tyner, and in sending it to Dean I. O. Schaub, Mr. Smith mate.; that one old gentleman in his community knew it to be used during that year. The machine is built to be drawn by one mule or horse and apparently home-made throughout with the ex ception of the iron bolts used in hold ing it together. The seed container is an old keg bolted between two side beams and the seed are dropped through auger holes bored in the cen ter circumference. A small wooden peg fa hu md like a small bull tongue plow- i- in iVcrit for opening the fur row while the seed are covered with , a roller made from the trunk of a tree. This roller is about 14 inches in diameter and was evidently smooth ed with a hard axe or adz. On i ach erd of the keg are sn ail pieces.; cf timber placed there to give (he seed the note, ary jolt as the keg turns over, thus forcing them through the auger lades. The planter has attracted consid erable attention among students and faculty members. At the present time it is in charge of D. S. Weaver of the department of agricultural engineer ing. Later it will he placed in a suitable hall with other contributions arid v.i'l become the nucleus of an agricultural museum which Dean Stdau’.b hopes to a ■sGtnble at the col lege. Married people usually are happy if they agree about which one is a wonder. WHERE SAVINGS ARE GREATEST /7 NATIONWIDE INSTITUTION enney DEPARTMENT STORES -MASONIC TEMPLE BUILDJNG SHELBY. N. C. 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