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M ('HULLS
(Special Correspondence)
Miss Miriam Kirkland who has been
visiting friends and relatives in Doug
las for several days returned home
Thursday.
Willie D. Thompson, who has been
attending the Southern School of
Pharmacy in Atlanta, returned home
Thursday.
Mayor J. A. Davis spent Friday in
Waycross on business.
A. J. Meeks spent Thursday in Am
brose on business.
E. D. Douglas spent a few days last
week in Savannah on business.
Col. J. H. Williams, of Douglas, was
in Nicholls Friday, in the interest 01
his candidacy for Solicitor.
Messrs. W. B, Barksdale and War
ren Wilcox attended to business in
Waycross Monday night.
Prof. J. Gordon Floyd, the County
School Superintendent, was in Nichols
Thursday.
We regret to say that Mr. J. W
Prince and family have moved to Al
ma. They have lived in Nicholls for
a number of years and leave many
friends here who regret to see them
go.
Several Nichols boys, who are at
tending the Piedmont College at Way
cross, spent Easter with homefoiks.
The quarterly Conference .of the
Waycross district was held at Nicholls
Tuesday. Rev. I. P. Tyson delivered
a splendid sermon at the auditorium
in the morning and the conference
was held at the Methodist church in
the afternoon. Quite a crowd attend
ed.
Miss Daisy Howard, of Alma, visit
ed friends here Tuesday and Wednes
day.
Rev. Patterson, of Alma, attended
the Quarterly Conference here Tues
day.
Miss Vienna Douglas, of Alma, vis
ited friends and relatives here Satur
day.
0. W. Meeks stood the rural car
riers examination at Douglas Satur
day.
Mr. E. S. Sapp, of Douglas, spent
Saturday in Nicholls on business.
An Easter Egg Hunt was given by
the Baptist Church on Saturday after
noon. Quite a large crowd partici
pated in hunting eggs. The affair was
enjoyed by all.
Rev. J. S. Funderburk preached at
the Nicholls Methodist Church Sunday
morning.
singing at Elam Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. S. M. Meeks and little daugh
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ter, \\ anme, spent Sunday in Douglas
visiting friends and relatives.
Dr. S. L. Vinson and Mr. Bud Meeks
spent Monday in Douglas attending to
business matters.
An interesting Easter program was
rendered at the Methodist Church
Sunday afternoon.
A missionary service was held at
the Baptist Church Sunday evening. A
large congregation was present and a
nice sum vyas collected for missions.
LELIATON
(Special Correspondence''
Miss Ida Cady, who has been attend
ing The Georgia Normal College at
Douglas, is at home for a few days af
ter which she will return to school.
Mr. Frank Fielding of Douglas, is
visiting relatives near Leiiaton.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Cady, of AVilla
coochee, spent the day last Thursday
with Mr. F. P. Cady.
Misses Ciaudie Wall, Kate Wilcox.
Gussie Roberts, Lilia Cady, and Ada
Fielding attended a school closing at
Vickers Chapel Saturday.
Miss Nina Starling, of Rays Mill,
visited Miss Ida Cady last week.
The Holiness people held prayer
meeting in Leiiaton Saturday night.
Mr. joe McDonald -called on Miss
Ciaudie Wall Sunday.
The fine rain Thursday has put the
farmers to planting cotton. It was
too dry before.
Rev. G. T. West filled his regular
appointment at Chatterton Sunday.
Mr. Leon Andrews went to Bannock
burn Sunday.
Mr. Virgle Sutton, who is attending
school in Pearson, was in Leiiaton
Sunday.
Mr. Moore, of Bannockburn, visited
relatives in Leiiaton Sunday.
Mr. Tom King of Willaeoochee, call
ed on Miss Lilia Cady Sunday.
Miss Viola Merrier has been sick
with mumps but is improving.
Messrs. Ben Sawyer and Charlie
Moore attended an egg hunt at Rob
erts Church Sunday.
MEMORIAL
Whereas it has pleased our Hea
venly Father to call our beloved broth
er, Lawrence Nevvbern, from earth to
dwell with the Heavenly host forever
and as Brother Nevvbern was a great
and good , man, doing good at every
opportunity that presented itself and
as he was a devoted husband and fath
er and was ever looking after the in
COr’FEE COUNTY PROGRESS, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
terest and welfare of the poor; and as
there was never made to him an ap
peal for help that he did not respond
to quickly; and as he was in sympa
thy with the distressed; and as he was
the principal support to our grant
order, Knights of Pythias, being dis
trict deputy and representing lodge
No. 92 at the grand lodge of Georgia
in the month of May in 1912 and 1913;
and as he was on the sympathetic
side of all initiatory work, was loyal
to the order and respected by every
member of his lodge
THEREFORE: Be it resolved that
in the death of our brother our lodge
has sustained an irreparable loss.
For he was ever at his place of duty
and the Brotherhood feels keenly the
loss of his ready helpfulness, his wise
counsels and his unfailing sympathy.
His place can never be filled as he
filled it. He had a never tiring en
ergy in everything that he did and it«
was always well done.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
That a copy of these resolutions be
spread upon our minutes; a copy giv
en to his bereaved family, and a copy
furnished each paper in Douglas for
publication.
Rev. C. L. Wall
W. L. Dubberly
David Kirkland
Rev. C. L. Wall
W. L. Dubberly
David Kirkland
Committee.
SITS UP AT MORGUE.
2,300 Voits Fail to Kill Hartfor«
Man.
Half an hour after bis companiom
had carried him to an undertaker’s
morgue as dead, after touching a win
carrying 2,300 volts. Carl Lundell, ol
Hartford, Conn., suddenly sat up
rubbed his eyes, and when he saw
where he was he got down from th<
slab and hurried out of the place.
Lundell was at work on the Mid
dletown bridge across the Connecti
cut river. When he touched the naked
electric wire he plunged forward am
fell to the floor of the structure
While he was being straightened out
on the undertaker’s slab, Lundell
moved a leg and then sat up. He had
been stunned only, and after a few
moments he had recovered sufficient
ly to leave the place and walk Iroirn
unaided. He carried no marks of hi?
experience except a burn on one hand
Democrats Lose Seat.
Republicans gained and Democrat?
lost a seat in the house of representa
tives as the result of a special elec
tion in the seventh New jersey dis
trict. Dow H. Ilrukker, a Passaic
j contractor, was elected congressmar
! to succeed the late Robert L. Brem
ner, by more than 5,000 plurality ovei
James J. O’Byrne, a Democrat, per
sonally indorsed by President Wilson
and aided by some of the foremost
speakers at the call of tin' adminis
tration.
Raine to Become a Broker.
C. Hunter Raine, former president
of the defunct Mercantile bank ol
Memphis, has been released on a $25,-
000 bond. He will probably go tc
New York to engage in the brokerage
business. Raine’s defalcation when
president of the bank amounted tc
$750,000. His trial has been indefi
nitely postponed.
A TALE OF VANISHING PEOPLE
(Continued form page 3)
wise. But sbe was as well poised “and
self contained as on that Thanksgiving
morning in New York when she and
old Henry Lind picked me up iu their
automobile—a trifie more stunning and
a bit more determined perhaps. Oh,
she was a splendid creature, in the
first glory of her womanhood, a per
fectly groomed, pulsating, spoiled god
dess. She greeted me graciously, with
that queenly air of all great ladies.
•’ ‘Where is your father?’ 1 asked as
I laid off her dust coat.
" Tie is in New York,’ said she. T
am traveling alone.’
“ ‘Why have you come out here, Ali
cia?’ 1 inquired slowly, being far more
ill at ease than she.
"‘Do you need to ask?’ she answer
ed. T respected father’s wishes when
I was in my minority. 1 traveled and
studied and did all the tiresome things
he wished me to as long as he had the
right to ask them df me. ‘But when
1 became my own mistress I took my
full freedom. He made his life to
suit himself, and I am very sorry 1
cannot build mine to suit him. But
we don’t seem to see tilings the same,
and 1 dare say he lias accepted tiie in
evitable.’
“ ‘Then you consider this inevita
ble?-
•‘She lifted lier dainty brows, ‘in
evitable is not a good word. 1 wish it.
I have wished it from the* first, i
have never ceased to wish it for an
instant. 1 feel 1 must have it. There
fore. to all intents and purposes, it is
inevitable, 1 suppose.'
“ ‘You have—er—been in communi
cation with”—
“ ‘Never. Father did not wish it.'
“ ‘Then how did you know he is
here?”
“ ‘He wrote me when he left Yale
that he was coming here. 1 have
heard nothing since. He is here, is he
not?’
“ ’So I believe. I haven't seen Tiim
yet. You know I’ve been away my
self.’
“ ’Will you take me to him at onee?
If you are too busy I will ask'—
“ ‘Very well,’ said 1. • We’ll drive
out to the eucampment.’ And I tele
phoned for my buck board.
“There was little said on our fifteen
mile drive, for 1 was apprehensive,
aud she was oddly torn between fear
and exultation. We left the French
maid behind. 1 don’t know that any
woman ever went to her lover under
stranger circumstances or in greater
perturbation than did this girl, behind
whom lay tile selfishness of spoiled
womanhood and a generation of unre
straint.
"It was well along in the evening
when we came over the ridge and saw
the encampment below us. You can
imagine the fairy picture it made, with
its myriad of winking tires, the soft
effulgence of a thousand glowing tents
and the wonderful magic of the night
over all. As we drew nearer the
unusual sounds of a strange merry
making came to us. the soft thudding
of drums, the weird melody of the
dances, the stir and confusion - of dense
animal life. In the daylight it would
have been picturesque, but under the
wizard hand of the darkness it be
came ten times more so.
“When I finally tied my horses and
led the girl into the heart of it 1 think
she became a bit frightened, for these
Indians were the Sioux of a bygone
day. all barbaric and primitive in hab
it and dress and coloring—an atavistic
race which had shaken off some three
score years, or some thirtyscore for all
we knew.
••I guided her through the tangle of
eanva o habitations, through glaring
fire lu circles and through black
voids, where we stumbled and felt our
way. rubbing shoulders with fierce
warriors or sullen squaws. At every
group I asked for Running Elk. but he
was one of the shifting thousands, and
nobody knew his whereabouts.
"At one time we came upon a sight
I would gladly have spared her, the
spectacle of some wrinkled hags
strangling a dog. The girl at my side
stifled a cry at the vision.
" ‘What are they doing?’ she gasped
“’Preparing the feast," 1 told her.
“ ’Do they—really’—
“ - Y’es,’ said 1. 'They eat them.
Come!’ I tried to force her onward,
but she would not stir until’ the sacri
fice had been dragged to the flames,
where other carcasses were singeing
among the pots and kettles. From
every side came the smell of cooking
mingled with the odor of burning hair
and flesh. 1 could hear Miss Harman
panting as we went on. •
“After an endless search, during
which we circled half the great hoop,
we came upon the trail of our man
and were directed to a nearby tepee.
I lifted the flap and peered within,
clearing a view for Miss Harman.
"We beheld a circle of half naked
braves in full regalia, squattiug
haunch to haunch, listening to a story
teller, in front of them was a con
fusion of blackened pail 3 and vessels
filled with something steaming, into
which they dipped their uaked Ungers.
Their faces were streaked and foal
with traces of the dieb; the air of the
place was dead and reeking from their
breaths. My eyes were slower than
Alicia’s, and so I did not distinguish
our quarry at first, although a slow
sigh at my ear and a convulsive clutch
at my arm told me that he was there.
"And then 1, too, saw him. It was he
who was talking and to whom the oth
ers listened, but what a change two
years had wrought: His voice was
harsh; his face through the painted
daubs and streaks was coarser und
duller than when I knew him; his very
!”> J v was more thin and shrunken than
in tne past.
"He finished his tale while we were
staring at him. the circle broke into !
commendatory grunts, aud be smiled (
in childlike satisfaction at the Im
pression he had made, ne leaned for
ward and, scrutinizing the litter of
sooty pots, plunged his hand into the
mess.
“Miss Harman stumbled back into
the crowd a pace or two, and her
place was taken by a squaw.
’•‘Running Elk!’ I called over the
beads of those next the entrance, and.
seeing my face against the night, lie
arose and catne out. stepping over the
others.
“‘How do you do?’ 1 said. ‘You
haven’t forgotten me, have you?’
“He towered head and shoulders
above me, his feather headdress add
ing to his stature, the beaded patterns
of his war harness bright in the light.
” ‘No, no! I will never forget you.
doctor. You—you have been sick?’
The change in his speech was as
marked as in his body and habits, lie
halted over bis words and mouthed
them hesitatingly.
“‘A’es, pretty sick. And you—what
are you doing?’
“ ‘I do what the rest do,’ said he—
‘nothing. I have some horses and a
few head of cattle; that is all.’
“ ’Are you satisfied witii that sort of
life?’ 1 demanded sharply, at which
he hesitated an Instant before answer
*prr
“ Wes, lam satisfied. 1 r. m an In
dian.’
“ ’And so your education didn't do
you any good after all?’
"This time lie paused a long while
before answering.
“‘I have dreams.’ said be. ‘many
dreams. But 1 am a Sioux, and you
told me that dreams are out of place
in an Indian, so 1 hope to forget them
along with all the rest.’
“A woman’s voice which l did not
recognize called to me sharply, and as
I went Running Elk bowed his head
and slunk back through the tepee
door into the heart of his people—into
the past—and with him went my ex
periment. Since then I have never
meddled with tlie gods or given them
cause to iuugh at me.”
“What became of him?” 1 inquired.
“That was lie I asked about the horse
races, the man whom you couldn’t un
derstand, the fellow who wouldn’t talk
to you!” the old man answered.
“Good Lord!” said 1.
“Why don’t you ask about the girl?”
said he. “Haven’t you any sympathy
for her?”
“Not much.” 1 replied slowly, “for
her course was obvious. I seem to see
a more pathetic figure by far. It is
that of a youth from whose eyes the
bandages of tradition and training
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darkness of ail the ages into a daz
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could understand and which made a
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where he understood and ivas under
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“Then you don’t think my experi
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doctor.
“You haven’t proved that it did,” I
maintained, “for I would have done
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The old fellow looked out grimly
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