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The Mood
Of a Maid.
By CECILY ALLEN.
CopyrlKhtod. 1901, by Associated
Literary Press.
The girl leaned forward after scan
ning the I'Wd in lsth directions und
touched the chnulTeur’a arm. The
£rent crimson c:ir cnme to a punting,
deliberate standstill.
The Ctrl did not wait for the chauf
feur to help her, hut sprang lightly to
the road and vanished into the wood
land on the right. 1 lit* chauffeur turn
ed the car as if his thoughts were ton
rentrated on the necessity of making
the smallest possible turn in time of
Safety, in order to he prepared In time
of emergency. And then the great crim
son car shot hack in the direction from
whence II had come
Safely scrs*ued by the underbrush,
ilie gill found a clearing in the wood
land and sal down on a moss grown
log. Deftly she unwound the swath
lugs of chiffon from her hat. haring
ii face delicate and sensitive as Ihe
anemones opening at her feet.
She drew off her gloves and felt of
the velvety moss on the old log. then
stooped to gather flowers. Finally,
with the blossoms forgotten In her
lap, she leaned forward, her elbows on
her knees, her chin propped in the
palina of her hands, watching the
woodland life around her.
t’hlpimiuks and squirrels scampered
along Ih<* edge of the clearing. \\ here
the sun shone upon a tangle of fern
and jack In the pulpit two robins
perched pertly on dry twigs and dis
cussed (lie troubles of May moving
day. From the shadows of the wood
lieyond came the persistent hammering
of a wood|ecker.
Heyoml the screen of underbrush au
tomobiles and smart turnouts spun on
toward the race track, where the world
of fashion was foregathering. An hour
passed, and then at the distant wall of
a peculiar siren whistle the girl sprang
to her feet, dropped her lapful of flow
ers ami ran to the roadside.
Bearing down upon her was a crim
son ear, twin of the one which had
dropped her so unceremoniously an
hour earlier.
But the resemblance stopped with
the car. The chauffeur in the tirst ear
had worn a spick span uniform in tan
color from the tips of his highly polish
ed iHKits to the crown of his heavy red
cap. Tbe man In this car wore a dis
rcputtihlc looking storm coat of Eng
lish cloth, a shabby visor cap and a
pair of goggles which had certainly
seen more prosperous days.
He was scorching along at a fine
pace. Hut the girl calmly stepped to
the edge of the road and waved a de
taining hand a hare baud at that.
The machine slowed down, and the
man made preparations to descend, as
became one hailed by a maiden in dis
tress Hut again the girl raised a de
taining hand.
“My car met with an accident I
thought perhaps I am very anxious to
reach Dalton this afternoon. Perhaps
you were going that way. Would you
give me a lift?"
She looked up eagerly into his star
tled face. Then the man coughed dis
creetly, swallowed a smile and sprang
from the machine.
“I was or thought 1 was—going ;o
the rnees, hut 1 am sure it will be
much more pleasant at—er— was it Dal
ton you said?”
The mail’s accent was English. The
admirallou in his eyes was the sort
♦Hiat knows uo nationality. The girl
tdushed beneath It and sprung Into the
-car before the astonished man could
assist her.
For a few miuutes the car ran on iu
silence. Then the girl spoke abruptly.
“Let us take this crossroad. Then
n mile farther we will strike the old
Dalton turnpike There we will not
meet”—
k “1 understand," he interrupted gra ve
'ly. And the great car swerved into
the crossroad, running through a
stretch of woodlaud.
Again the girl seemed pluuged in
Hut jit last the man remark
ed jhit, lamely:
t “Perfect day, isn’t it?"
t looked up at him shyly, ller
eyes" were soft and luminous.
“Oh, I have had the most beautiful
hour there in the woods. I’ve never
seen anything half so wonderful as
those little creatures doing just as they
pleased. Just as soon as the birds
tiled of one tree or bush or fern they
flew off to another. They did not mind
me nor each other. Just think of being
like that all your life!”
The man looked at her curiously, as
if she were anew specimen of the
genus feminine and entirely worthy of
deep study.
“It is all so different from what 1 ve
been used to. 1 wake up know ing that
Marie will be right there with uiy
chocolate. And then will come cards
and mall and flowers and Aunt Mar
garet. Of course Aunt Margaret is a
dear, hut ten years of doing things
..jrJelit under Aunt Margaret’s eyes are
' •
‘Tain qulto sure It must be a terrible
bore.” replied tlie man gravely.
“And then seeing the shine people
everywhere you go and being quite
sure that you will see no one that
Aunt Margaret has not seen first.”
The man bit his lip at this naive con
fession.
“Do you know,” said the girl, waxing
confidential as the car lazed along over
the tree hung road. "I’ve always
dreamed of having a man come to my
rescue Just like this-a man I had
never known—a man quite different
from any of the men I have ever
met”—
She paused, and the man at her side
studied tier with grave eyes.
“Now, there wms Bessie Stewart—
she married Jack Coghlan. They’d
gone to kindergarten and dancing
school together. And then she’d gone
to all his college ‘proms’ and the same
cotillons. Why. it was Just like marry
ing someone who had lived In your
own family always.
“And now they're bored to death
with each other. They had a honey
moon at Monte Carlo, where they had
been the year before on the Borden
,Tones yacht, and they came back to
tiie same old round of teas and dinners
and dances. There was no romance In
that."
The man shook his head.
"But Harriet, one of our parlor
maids, married a miner way out west.
She met him by answering an adver
tisement in a matrimonial paper. He
came east after her, and she wrote
Marie that they were awfully happy.
Ho had never beaten her once.”
The man flung back his head and
laughed, and the girl laughed with
him. Then suddenly she clutched his
sleeve.
“You’ve passed the Dalton turnpike,
and 1 must be at Stoneywold for
lunch.”
"We are not going to Dalton,” said
the man calmly. “I’ve been out this
way before. .lust two miles beyond we
will cross the state line.”
“But why? Ob, I must go on to
Stoneywold.”
The man Ignored the remark.
“And across the state line, I under
stand, there Is no need of a license.”
“Oh!” said the girl very softly, and
the great car stopped beneath the arch
of freshly leaved trees.
He flung nside his heavy driving
gloves nnd took the delicate, sensitive
face of the girl between his two hands.
“Will you, dearest?”
Her eyes stopped dancing and turned
wondrous tender.
“Oh, I hoped you’d understand, but I
did not dream”—
“Will you, dearest?” persisted the
man.
She lowered her long lashes over the
eyes Into which he tried so hard to
i gaze. Later she murmured from the
j shelter of his arms: “But 1 want to tell
you the truth, Lester. I never loved
you till just this minute. And I had
made up my mind that if you did not
understand I would just”—
He threw r on the power.
“Let us gel across the line quick be
fore you change your mind again.”
Hiram Manning, justice of the pence
in the —th district, plucked at. his
beard and regarded the couple doubt
fully.
“I’d like t' oblige you, but this ain’t
no Gretna Green, an’—well, I don’t
mind toll in’ you that the girl looks un
der age.”
“But I am not,” protested the girl.
"I am twenty.”
“Not castin’ no reflections, ma’am,
but Pd like some proof—
The girl and the man looked at each
other; then the girl’s troubled glance
traveled to the table, and a smile
brightened her face.
“Isn't that proof enough that my
family are willing?”
She held tbe paper toward the jus
tice with the face of a girl peering
straight from the printed page.
The justice looked from the picture
to the girl, and Iris face alternately
flushed and paled.
“Gosh all hemlocks, you’re Banker
Ciaflln's girl, and be—he’s”—
“Yes,” said the girl, her eyes danc
lug. "He is Lord Granraton. But, in
deed. he's very nice in spite of the
fact,” she added as Justice of the
Peace Manning continued to stare in
credulously at the man’s slim figure in
its disreputable motoring apparel.
“You wait a bit. I’ll l>e right back,"
said the justice, w ith sudden accession
of spirit, and he started for the door.
The girl and man sprang after him.
“You are not going to telephone—te
town to those wretched reporters.
Please, please, 'et us l>e married quite
alone, with just some of your family
for witnesses,” cried the girl.
“Yes." added the man nervously.
"We've just run away from ail that
sort of thing -piif.e, don't you know.
Please let ns get away quietly. Don't
telephone. I h-g of you.”
“Telephone nothin’." exclaimed the
Justice heartily. “I’m just goln’ to put
en my Sunday suit. Never expect to
marry a millionaire’s girl and a lord
again in my time.”
Economy Begins at Home.
“1 hear you're teaching your son to
play draw poker. Do you think that
wise ?”
“Certainly. He’s bound to learn from
someone. If he learns from me it
Veeps the money in the family.”—New
A ROMANCE OF STEEL
The Rise of a Great Industry and
Enormous Fortunes.
KELLY AND THE AIR BLAST.
The Flash of Genius Which Provided
the World With a New Metal —Rob-
ert Mashet’s Device—Captain Bill
Jones and Andrew Carnegie.
As late as the middle of the last cen
tury cheap steel was unknown. It
was then sold at 25 cents a pound
The railroads were using Iron rails
which wore out In less than two years,
and the total output of iron and steel
in a year was less than is now made in
four days.
Then came to William Kelly, a Pitts
burg Irish-Amerlcan. that flash of gen
ius which provided the world with a
new metal, something as strong as
steel and as cheap as iron.
Kelly was an iron maker and needed
charcoal. In time all the wood near
his furnaces was burned, anti the near
est available source of supply was
seven miles distant. To cart his char
coal seven miles meant bankruptcy un
less lie could Invent a way to save fuel.
One day he was sitting in front of the
“finery tire” when he suddenly sprang
to his feet, with a shout, nnd rushed t<>
the furnace. At one edge he saw a
white hot spot in the yellow mass of
molten metal. The iron at this spot
was Incandescent. It was almost gas
eous. Yet there was no charcoal
nothing but the steady blast of air.
Like n flash the idea leaped Into his
excited brain—there was no need of
charcoal; air alone for fuel.
But people suid he was crazy when
Kelly asserted that pig Iron could be
changed into malleable iron by the air
blast, for every iron maker believed
in those days that cold air would chill
hot iron. “Some crank will be trying
to burn ice next.” said one manufactur
er, and Kelly, through lack of means,
could not turn his idea into the suc
cess he deserved.
Then, seven years later, came Besse
mer. who made the new process a com
mercial success by the invention of his
celebrated “converter” and received
$10,000,000, worldwide fame and a
knighthood as his reward. Kelly re
ceived $500,000 and comparative obliv
ion, although his idea was the nu
cleus of the Bessemer process by
which iron is purified from carbon by
the direct introduction of oxygen, for
when Bessemer applied for and ob
tained a United States patent for his
“pneumatic process” Kelly claimed pri
ority for his invention, and Ms claim
was allowed by the patent office.
Another pioneer of the steel trade.
Robert F. Mushet. a Scotsman, who hit
upon a device for removing a difficulty
that baffled Kelly and Bessemer, fared
even worse than Kelly, for he lost his
patent by failing to pay the necessary
fees and in his lajer years was de
pendent upon a pension of $1,500 which
he received annually from Bessemer.
The difficulty which Munset removed ]
was this'; _
“The air blast clears the molten
metal of carbon and of all Impurities,
including sulphur and phosphorus. But
a certain quantity of carbon is neces
sary to harden the metal into the re
quired quality of steel. Instead of
endeavoring to stop the process at
exactly the right moment, Mushet
asked. ‘Why not first burn out all the
carbon and then pour back the exact
quantity that you need?’ This was a
simple device, but no one had thought
of it before.”
The man who took the invention of
Kelly and Bessemer into his hands, de
veloped it into one of the wonders of
the world and made the Carnegie mil
lions was Captain William R. Jones -
Bill Jones, as he w’as known—who
seemed to live with the sole desire jof
toppling over the idea that England
owned the steel trade. He could have
been ft millionaire many times over,
but he cared little for money. When
he was offered a partnership he re
plied:
“No. Mr. Carnegie. I don’t know any
thing about business, and I don’t want
to be bothered with it. I’ve got trouble
enough here in these works. I’ll tell
you what you can do"—these were his
exact words—“you can give me a
thundering big salary.”
“After this, captain.” replied Car
negie, "you shall have the salary of the
president of the United States—s2s.-
000.”
The famous scrap heap policy was
originated by Jones. He did not be
lieve in waiting until his machinery
was worn out. The moment that au
Improvement was invented old ma
ehintry was dragged to the scrap heap
and ihe latest devices put in its place.
Fie made the shareholders gasp on sev
eral occasions by asking permission to
smash up $500,000 worth of machinery
that was as good as new. but outgrown.
Jones died, as lie had lived, in the
midst of an industrial battle nt the
head of his men. He was killed in an
accident in the company’s works. “Car
negie. looking upon poor Jones as he
lay in the hospital, sobbed like a child.”
—“The Romance of Steel,” by Herbert
N. Cassoc. ’
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PERILOUS SLEEPWALKING.
The Tragedy on Which Bellini Wrote
His Celebrated Opera.
Somnambulists can maintain their
footing in the most perilous [daces so
long as they remain in a state of som
nambulism, but if suddenly awakened
they instantly lose their self posses
sion and balance.
On one occasion a young woman liv
ing in Dresden was seen at midnight
walking on the edge of the roof of her
house. Her family were immediately
told of her plight, but were afraid to
go near her. The neighbors gathered
about the house and placed mattresses
and blankets along the street in hopes
that they might save her in case she
fell.
She danced for over an hour on the
slanting roof, apparently retaining her
balnnce without difficulty, and every
now and then she would advance to
the edge and bow to the silent crowd
standing many feet below her.
At last she climbed down on to the
wide gutter which ran in front of the
window through which she had come,
with the evident intention of re-enter
ing the house. The crowd watching
her so intently drew a sigh of relief.
But, unfortunately. h%r terrified rela
tives, thinking to assist her. had placed
two lighted candles in the room near
the window, and as she approached the
light fell directly in her eyes.
Instantly the shock awakened her.
and she swayed back and forth in her
perilous position; then, with a frightful
scream, she fell headlong to the ground.
She was fatally hurt and died in a
few hours. It was on this tragedy that
Bellini wrote his felebrated opera “La
Sonnambula.”—Washington Post.
Th* Tragic Loco Weed.
The abominable Mexican plant known
as the loco weed has the peculiar prop
erty of making irrational both men and
ixmsts who partake of it. Horses and
cattle out on the prairies after grazing
upon it go crazy, and a "locoed” pony
will perform all kinds of queer antics.
It is said that if a man comes under
its spell he never regains his senses,
the insanity produced by it being incur
able. It is said that the loss of mind
of the ill fated Carfotta was no doubt
due to the fact that some enemy drug
ged her with a preparation of loco, al
though history has it that she went in
sane by reason of her husband's exe
cution.- Baltimore American.
A Gentle Husband.
Woman (to her husband, busily en
gaged writing) —My dear, correctly
speaking, what is a dentist? Husband
(crossly)—Derived from dent, French
for teeth, a man who pulls teeth. (Hus
band settles down to writing again.)
Wife—My dear, you said this morning
that linguist was derived from the Lat
in lingua, a tongue. Husband (crossly)
—Yes. Wife—Well. dear, is a linguist
a man who pulls out tongues? Hus
band—No. madam, but I wish he did.—
London Answers.
The Best Man.
“Why is it.” asked the dear girl,
“that the bridegroom's attendant Is
called the ‘best man?' ”
“I suppose it’s because he is the best
off,” growled the fussy old bachelor.—
Kansas City Newsbook.
Considerate Censorship.
“Does your father know I love you?"
“No. Taps isn’t very well, and we’ve
kept it from him.”—Harper’s Weekly.
The Wind.
The senator pushed into the crowd
that surrounded the automobile.
“What is the trouble here?” he in
quired.
“Punctured tire,” replied a man with
a dinner pail. “Make a speech Into it.
will you. senator?”—New Y’ork Press.
Inquisitive people are the funnels of
conversation. They do not take In any
thing for their own use. but merely to
pass it to another.—Steele.
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