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The Maker of Bandages
feed Cross Workers Solve in One Minute the
Mystery of the Stony Hearted
Mrs. Britt.
ijjH By MAXIMILIAN FOSTER
Of the Vigilantes.
A diamond Is not the hardest thing
in the world. A diamond will cut
glass and bore through case hardened,
tempered chrome steel, but glass and
steel —the diamond Itself too —are soft
compared to some things. The hardest
thing In the world Is a hard woman.
Mrs. Britt was such a woman.
I have seen hard women in my time,
but never one who was harder. She
smiled seldom, and when she smiled It
was like the glitter of Ice. She si>oke
Infrequently, and when she spoke her
speech was the tinkle of hall on slate
roofing. She did not look as If Bhe had
ever wept In her life.
Every morning Mrs. Britt appeared
at the Red Cross auxiliary in upper
Broadway. She was the first to arrive
in the morning, the last to leave at
night No one knew much about her,
though. She was not the sort that
make confidences. But that she was a
worker —a hard worker —no one would
dispute. Efficiency, as you’d suppose,
was a trait of Mrs. Britt’s.
Are Efficient Women Hard?
Efficiency —dreadful word that 1 How
often hard women are efficient! How
often efficient woman are hard! She
was both, Mrs. Britt. The moment she
came In at the door she had her hat
and jacket off. The next instant she
was at her place, her mouth set, grim,
austere and hard —hard at work. Prob
ably she did her work only from a sense
of duty. Hard women always profess
that trait Duty, duty! But, then,
few women are as hard ns Mrs. Britt.
In contrast to her was Mrs. Farlow.
She was soft and womanly and gentle
—the exact opposite. She was not
very efficient of course, though she
tried/ Day after day Mrs. Farlow sat
at the work table, her mouth quiver
ing, smiling wistfully, the tears starting
in her eyes. The bandages that came
from her were often soiled and rum
pled, poorly sewn, too, by her poor lit
tle trembling fingers. It was a won
der she could even see to sew at all.
Again and again what she turned in
had to be thrown away.
But no one reprimanded her. No one
even let fall n hint that she was more
of a burden than a help. The hearts
of all those women ached with woman
ly pity for the poor, stricken mother.
Once In awhile, though, in her corner
at the bnck of the room Mrs. Britt
would turn around and throw a glance
at her. The glance was ns hard as
rocks —harder, in fact.
Mrs. Farlow had a son In the Rain
bow division. The son was the oldest
of her four children, and until he went
away the little mother had been the
bappleat womnn in the world. Now any
day he might be ordered off to France.
QUARTERLY REGISTRATION
PLANNED BY GEN. C ROWDER
Washington, May B.—Quarterly reg
istration of men reaching 21 years of
age during the next year may be made
necessary by the new army expansion
program. Provost Marshal General
Crowder told the house military com
mittee today.
General Crowder presented estimates
for J 15.000.000, which is |3,000.000
more than expenditures this year.
Quarterly registrations will make the
increased expenditures necessary, Gen
eral Crowder said.
The nation-wide round-up of all reg
istrants who have Itcen unfairly classi
fied, particularly the large number of
skilled “experts.” “essential farmers”
and "vital” government employees is
one of the larger items for the appro
priations, General Crowder said.
As recently announced. General
Crowder has ordered all the deferred
classes combed for those who have
evaded service and expects to add sev
eral thousands to Class 1.
Chairman Dent read a letter from
President Wilson saying the president
had not been fully informed when he
announced thut he favored giving cred
it for volunteers and that he was now
opptwscd to tin* plan.
The president i*>inted out that vol
unteers are placed in class five, which
amounts to giving credit to the com
munities from which they are drawn.
Proper Food for Weak Stomachs.
..The proi>er food for one man may l>e
all wrong for another. Every one
should adopt a diet suited to his age
and occupation. Those who have weak
stomachs need to be especially careful
and should eat slowly and masticate
their food thoroughly. It is also im
portant that they keep their bowels
regular. When they become consti
pated or when they feel dull and stu
pid after eating thcy should take
Chamberlain's Tablets to strengthen
the stomach and rndve the bowels.
Thev are easy to take and pleasant in
effect. —adv.
Spring tooth cultivators at Woodruff
Hardware Cos.
His picture was In the locket she
wore. Every half hour she would stop
her work to look at it Sometimes, her
face wistful, she would show It to the
other workers, voicing the anguish that
with every waking breath she drew
twanged hollowly In her mother’s heart.
One afternoon Mrs. Farlow’s oldest
daughter came hurrying In. Her face
was white. She had Just learned that
the Rainbow division had been ordered
overseas.
Mrs. Farlow rose, her face tragic.
One glance she gave about her, then
she collapsed, sinking to the floor. In
her fall she overturned a huge pile of
antiseptic gauze Just torn Into squares
for Triarigulars No. 13.
The room Instantly was in confu-
Rlon. Instantly every one sprang to
the mother’s aid—that Is, every one
but Mrs. Britt She rose and rescued
the bandages under foot Then, her
face hard as nails, grimly Mrs. Britt
went back to her work. When Mrs.
Farlow, still stricken, was led away to
her car outside the drab figure In the
corner was plugging away as mechan
ically and methodically as ever. The
one glance she threw over her shoul
der at the weeping woman was almost
contemptuous.
A hard woman, Mrs. Britt; a heart
less one, too, It was agreed.
For days nothing was seen at the
auxiliary of Mrs. Farlow. It was un
derstood thnt In her grief and appre
hension she was ill in bed. Then one
afternoon, pallid and quivering, she
came in at the door. She smiled wist
fully when the others gathered about
her. “Let me work,” she appealed
plaintively. “Work may help me not
to think.”
Her Bandages Worthless.
She took a bandage and tried to
sew. She made poor work of it, how
ever. Then her head sank on her
breast and the handnge slipped from
her hands. “I can’t —oh, I can’t!” she
wept.
Once more she was led away.
The same thing happened three or
four days later. A week later the
mother wandered in again. By now
the first of the troops were in the
trenches, and her pale, transparent
face was like a wraith’s. She took a
bandage; she tried to sew, and for a
third time Mrs. Barlow gave In.
“Oh, my boy, my boy!” site wailed.
The next instant a face was thrust
into hers. The face was Mrs. Britt’s,
and the hard, bony visage was quiver
ing with ill concealed anger and con
tempt.
“Sit down! Stop it!” said Mrs.
Britt. With one hand she thrust Mrs.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Sunday school at 10 :.‘id a. m. Com
munion and sermon at 11:30 a. m.
Christian. Endeavor at 7:45 p. m. Ev
ening services at 8:45 p. m. The sub
ject of the morning sermon wil be;
“The’ Man of Macedonia." Evening
subject: "What Doth Jehovah Re
quire?”
This being Mother’s Day, a white
rose, symbolizing in its purity a fra
grance of mother's love, will be given
to each person attending the morning
service.
A cordial welcome to all.
R. W. WALLACE, Pastor.
Twelve Months’ Support.
GEORGIA—Barrow County.
It appearing that the appraisers ap
pointed to set aside a year’s support
for Mrs. C. T. Hamilton, widow of C.
T. Hamilton, deceased, have tiled their
returns. It is ordered that citation is
sue and be published as provided by
law. Given under my hand and official
seal, this the 9th day of May. 191S.
H. G. HILL. Ordinary.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All creditors of the estate of W. L.
Oliver, late of Barrow county, de
ceased, are hereby notified to render
in their demands to the undersigned ac
cording to law, and all persons indebt
ed to said estate arc required to make
immediate payment. Tills the Btli day
of May. 1018.
LEE J. OLIVER,
Administrator Estate of W. L. Oliver,
Peaeesed. 6-11
Winder Colored Public School.
The commencement of the Winder
Colored Public School will begin Sun
day. May 10th. The baccalaureate ser
mon will be preached by the principal,
ltev. B. B. Jones. Thursday night fol
lowing will occur the graduating ex
ercises. White people are cordially in
vited to attend these exercises.
Mr. Mark Sims, of the Bell Overall
Cos., was visiting relatives In Walker
county during the week-end.
THE WINDER NHWS, THURSDAY APRIL 9, 1918.
Farlow back on her chair; with the
other she thrust at her the half fin
ished bandage. Her tone as grim as
her face, she spoke, and again the
sound of it was like hall pattering on
slate. "You’re not thinking of your
son,” she said. “You’re Just thinking
of yourself!"
There was a murmur of remon
strance. Mrs. Britt heard it, and she
llnshed a look about her. But when
she spoke again it was to Mrs. Farlow
she spoke.
Think of Your Son.
“l’ou’re not the only mother in this
war,” she said. “If you thought a lit
tle more about them and a little less
about yourself you’d be doing some
thing. You’d be helping your son, for
one thing!”
“Why, what do you mean?” gasped
Mrs. Farlow.
Mrs. Britt smiled another adamant,
Icy smile.
“Your son wouldn’t die for want of
care. Any one of those bandages I’ve
seen you ruin might save his life. Any
one of them might save the life of
some other mother’s son!”
Mrs. Farlow shrank as if she had
been struck. She’d never thought of it
that way before.
The silence, the grim reserve, which
had cloaked Mrs. Britt seemed for a
moment to quit her. “I have no son,”
she said, her flinty voice biting out the
words. “I had one, but he died at
Guantanamo. It was In the Spanish
war,” snapped Mcs. Britt, “and there
were no bandages—nothing. That’s
why he died. That’s why I’m here
now. It’s to keep other women—moth
ers—from becoming the sort of woman
I am.” A harsh, brittle laugh escaped
her. “Oh, I know what you think of
me. I’ve heard what you said. Well,”
said Mrs. Britt, "my son wouldn’t have
died like that maybe if I hadn’t sat
around sniffling and snuffling, never
doing a thing.”
Then, her lips drawn Into a bony
smile, she glanced about her once
more and stalked back to her place in
the corner.
That night Mrs. Farlow rose from
her place nt the bnndage table and
sought the table at the back. For the
first time that day Mrs. Farlow had
managed to create half a dozen band
ages, none of which had to be thrown
away. Timidly she held out a hand to
the drab, dingy figure in the corner.
“I—l’ve done better today,” she said
timidly.
Mrs. Britt looked up at her. Out of
the corner of one glassy eye something
welled, then fell, running slowly down
her cheek.
“He was only twenty. He was all I
had,” said Mrs. Britt.
LEGAL ADS
Application for Leave and Order to
SeU Real Estate.
GE(>ROIA —Barrow County.
The petition of the Winder National
Bank, administrator of the estate of W.
A. Manders, deceased, showeth that the
estate consists of certain real estate,
consisting of a certain lot or pracel of
land on north side of May street, anjil
adjoining the property of J. Booth on
west, S. A. L. By. right of way on
north, and the Winder National Bank
on tlie east, on which is situated the
residence of the late W. A. Manders,
deceased.
H. G. HILL, Ordinary.
Petition for Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA—Barrow County.
To whom it may concern:
Mrs. C. L. Dalton having in proper
form applied to me for permanent let
ters of administration on the estate of
V. C., Dalton, late of said county, de
ceased. This is to cite all and singu
lar creditors and next of kin of V. C.
Dalton, deceased, to be and appear at
the Court of Ordinary of the said coun
ty at the June term, 1918, and show
cause, if any they can. why permanent
letters of administration should not be
granted to Mrs. C. L. Dalton on said
estate. Witness my hand and official
seal, this the 6th day of May. 1918.
H. G. HILL, Ordinary.
Petition for letters of Administration
GE( IRGIA —Ba rrow County,
To all whom it may concern:
F. Q. Sammon having in proper
form applied to me for permanent let
ters of administration on the estate of
J. H. Hutchins, deceased, with will an
nex. This i% to cite all and singular
creditors and next of kin of J. H.
Hutchins, to be and appear at the
Court of Ordinary of said county at
the June term, 1918, and show cause,
if auuy they can, why letters of admin
istration with will annex should not he
granted to F. Q. Sammon on said
estate. Witness my hand and official
seal, this the 6tli day of May, 1918.
H. G. HILL, Ordinary.
See the new Jewell range at Wood
ruff Hardware Cos.
Petition for Letters of Administration.
With Will Annexed
GEORGIA—Barrow County.
To all whom it may concern:
T. A. Fowler having in proper form
applied to me for permanent letters of
administration on the estate of Mrs.
I). P. Cleveland, late of said county, de
ceased. This is to cite all and singular
creditors and next of kin of Mrs. D.
P. Cleveland to be and appear at the
Court of Ordinary of said county at
the June term, 1918, and show cause, if
any they can, why letters of adminis
tration should not be granted to T. A.
Fowler on said estate. Witness my
hand and official seal, this the 6th day
of May, 1918.
H. G. HILL, Ordinary.
We Would Not Dare to
Disappoint You—
Our reputation for prompt and efficient service
in cleaning, pressing and repairing clothes is un
excelled.
Try us only to find that your clothes will look
better, set better and wear longer. Our method
of pressing clothes is the Hoffman sanitary way.
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Phone 197
THIXTON PRESSING CLUB
Smith Hardware Specials
\ • *
The Celebrated Mitchell Wagons
We have just received a car of the Celebrated Mitch
ell wagons. It is better to buy now while you can get
one than to wait later and not be able to get one
when you want it.
PAINTS—ALWAYS USE THE
BEST
It is our policy to carry the best
paint, lead and linseed oil—the 100
per cent PURE, GUARANTEED
kind. If you want to paint anything
around the house, inside or out, in
eluding your automobile, buggy or
wagon, we can tit your needs.
AUTOMOBILE TIRES, TUBES
AND ACCESSORIES
We have the most complete stock
shown in this section, and remember
we sell the HIGH GRADE MICHE
LIX, PENNSYLVANIA and GOOD
YEAR makes. We also bought some
other makes we are closing out at a
bargain. See us before you buy.
COTTON CHOPPING HOES AND
CULTIVATORS
We have the best assortment of
high grade steel hoes, plow shares
and cultivators we have ever shown,
and a lot of them we are selling at
last year’s prices.
Smith Hardware Cos.
Petition for Leters of Administration.
GEORGIA —Barrow County.
To all whom it may concern:
W. H. DeLa.v having in proper form
applied to me for permanent letters of
administration on the estate of James
M. DeLay, late of said county, de
ceased. This is to cite all and singu
lar creditors and next of kin of James
M. DeLay, deceased, to be and appear
at the Court of Ordinary of said coun
ty at the June term, 1918, and show
cause, if any they can, why permanent
letters of administration should not be
granted W. H. DeLay on said estate.
Witness my hand and official seal,
this the 6th day of May, 1918.
H. G. HILL, Ordinary.
Petition for Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA —Barrow County.
To whom it may concern:
John W. Bell having in proper form
applied to me for permanent letters of
administration on the estate of Mrs. J.
A. C. Thompson, late to said county, de-,
ceased. This is to cite all and Singu
lar creditors and next of kin of Mrs. J.
A. C. Thompson, deceased, to be and
appear at the Court of Ordinary of said
comity at the June term, 1918, and
show cause, if any they can, why perm
anent leters of administration should
not be granted to John W. Bell on said
estate. Witness my hand and official
seal, this the 6th day of May, 1918.
H. G. HILL, Ordinary.
THE OAKLAND SENSIBLE SIX
AUTOMOBILE
AVe have just been alloted a few
more on our contract for this month,
and if you want a car of durability,
comfort and service see us at once.
SCREEN DOORS AND WINDOWS
The matter of HEALTH and COM
FORT should always receive the first
consideration. Flies and mosquitoes
are the cause of 50 per cent of the
sickness, besides the question of com
fort. Now is the time to buy screen
doors, screen windows and screen
wire. Our stock is complete and
bought last summer before the ad
vance. Buy early and save money.
GARDEN HOSE
We have a large stock of garden
hose of the best quality. Save the
flowers and vegetables by giving
them plenty of water.