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PAGE TWO THE TIMES-RECORDER DAILY STORY Published in Installments of Two Columns Each. Copies of Back Installment Available On Application at This Office. k. Gertrude "Atherton _ z _, . a.. . . •w.fc/l 'Akftvb.aiCU r .«> <. rt .iunal Picture*, inc. Watch fcr the screen version produced by Frank Llcyd with Corinne Griffith ■« Countess Zattlany. \ Cowrlakl ItM by Ouruude Alkertea ...j XXXI (Continued) ciavering was beginning to fj'el uneasy. What was she hading up to?. Who next? Hut he replied with a humorous smile: “Dearest Lady .lane' Why are you suddenly determined to many me off? Are you anxious to get rid of me? Marriage plays the very devil with friendships." “Only for a year or so. And I really think it is time you were settling yourself. To tell you the truth I worry about you a good deal. You're a sentimental boy at heart and chivalrous and Inipres sionable, although I know you think yoifrh a seasoned old rounder. Men are children. the cleverest of them, in a scheming woman's hands.” . “But I don't know any scheming women and I'm really not as ir resistible as you seem to think. Besides. I assure you. 1 have fairly keen intuitions and should run from any unprincipled female who thought It worth while to I'.'lYt her nets in my direction." . ’'lntuitions be damned They haven't a chance against beauty and finesse. Don’t mtn as clever* as yourself make fools of them selves over the wrong woman every day in the week'.’ The cleverer a map is the less chance ho has. for there’s that much more to play on hy a cleverer woman. It would be . lust like yon to fall in love with a ‘woman older than yourself and manty her " "For God's sake. .lane, cut out. i>-v fascinating self' It’s s subject that bores me to tears. Fire aWay about Janet. How long's she boon shut up? What will Jim do next? I’ll do my host to persuade him to tvke her round the world He’d , inlay JI himself for there are club Ip ev’erv port and some kind of - -e-t ''ll took h'm up tomorrow." Mi’s, (h'l'-tliorpe gave him a v.hfi-n |n< k but siirrendert d W1 ■ n he -ho'ited "Jane" at her in pm ,-lselv 'tie-same tone as ho of;. ’1 exph'dod “Jim" to her sen. “lie f'ur’d herself suddenly in a mood .•> ttfhy him me!,'ng. T’qc-y went up to her sitting room to spend the rest of the evening. It un's a large high room overlook ing the park and furnished in mas ■i'.'f walnut and blood-red broen b a room as old fashioned ami ugly it's its mistress but comfortable withal. On a table in one corner Lis jtn Immense family Bible, very old. atrd recording the births, ma-r --riages, and deaths of the Van den J’oeles from the time they began ■ ; hfc-r American adventures in the’, seventeenth century. On another, small table in another corner was a title of albums, the lowest con Hauling the first presentments of Mrs. Oglethorpe's family after the invention of calotype photography Ijfese albums recorded fashion in oil its stages from 1841 down to the sport suit, exposed legs and rolled stockings of Janet Ogle thorpe: a photograph her grand mother had sworn at hut admitted aS A curiosity. ■Tg Obe of the albums was devoted •TreThe friends of Mrs. Oglethorpe's youth. and Mary Ogden occupied the place of honor. Clavering had once derived much amusement' picking over these old albums and listening to Mrs. Oglethorpe's run ning and often sarcastic comment: but although he had recalled to' tiiind this photograph the night Mr. Dinwiddle had been so perturbed Jry.lhe stranger's resemblance to th“ flame of his youth, he had. him st If, 'been so little interested in • Mary Ogden that it had notice Vurred to him to disinter that old photograph of the eighties and ex amine it in detail. He turned his back squarely on it tonight, al .(fiougli he had a misgiving that It was -.not Janet who had inspired Mrs. Oglethorpe's singular note. :Qn one wall was a group of da guerreotypes, hideous hut rare and Valuable. An oil painting of James Oglethorpe, long dead, hung over the fireplace: an amiable looking gentleman with long side whiskers sprouting out of plump cheeks, a florid complexion, and the expres sion of a New Yorker who never shirked his civic obligations, his chairmanships of benevolent insti tutions. nor his port. Opposite was another oil painting of young James taken at the age of twelve, wearing a sailor suit and the surly expression of an active boy detain ed within walls while other boys were shouting in the park. Beside It was a water color of Janet at the age of two, even then startlingly like her grandmother. She had been Mrs. Oglethorpe’s favorite de scendant until the resemblance had become too accentuated by modern divagations. ‘(’layering did not extend him self on the sofa tonight bnt drew a leather chair (built for Mr. Ogle thsrpe) to the small coal grate, which inadequately warmed the large room. Mrs. Oglethorpe, like many women of her generation, never indulged her backbone save in . bed. and she seated herself in* her own massive upright (hair not too close to the fire. She had made a concession to time In the rest of the house, which was I lighted by electricity.'! t '! ■ I remained in her own . . . .u d t ■ I room was lit by (pin: y< i- •. ~ ! sli uggling through t'■» I glass glob> ■ of f.m: ih i i The Ilyin from i c ■ , stronger, and ■■ -il f-11 < austere old f.ici wit' it,- :■■ . Ing beak. < la o rm: r ' i . , she need- d only a broom ■' <•'; I! I really loved her. I ■( a t. . f ulty w orks as in perst naHy a ■ . 1 camera. He srnok: din ■ ’.it (•" I ' i Oglethorpe star d > t' ■ I She, too, was fond of her c ;• tonight she had shaken lo r ■ I as Hawkins had oftenal tin b after passing the coffee. Her f - ■ i no longer looked sardonic, but re laxed and sad. Clover ng rerar.i d l her with uneasy sympathy. Wo ' 1 I It be possible to divert her mind .’ “Lady Jane," he began. | "I wish you would call me Jam tonight. I wouldn't feel so in'ol i erably old." "Os course I'll call you Jam b:f you’ll never be old. What skeleton have you been exhuming?" He was in for it and might as well give j her a lead. "It’s Mary Ogden," she said ah- 1 ruptly and harshly. "Oh —I wonderbd bow you f-'t ! about it. Yon certainly have been splendid ” “What else could I do? She was l the most intimate friend of mv j youth, the only woman I ever had ' any real affection for. I had al | ready seen her and recognized her i 1 suppose she lias told you that I I went there and that she treated me • .like an intruding stranger. But I | knew she must have some good reason tor it —possibly that she ( j was here on some secret political I -mission and had sworn to preserve I her incognito. I knew she had i wen mixed up in politics more ithan once. I thought I was going ■ mad when I saw her. hut I never ; suspected the truth. The light was I dim and I took for granted that ! some one of those beauty experts ("had made a mask for her. or ripped I her skin off —I hardly knew what i to think, so I concluded not to ; think about it at all. and succeed ed fairly well in iL-:n:. -ing it from my mind. I was deeply hurt at her lack of confidence in me. I hut 1 dismissed 'hat. too. Ifter all it was her right. I do as I choose, why shouldn’t she? And I remem bered that she always did.” Here Clavering stirred tinea .'lv “When she came to me het ' last Tuesday and told me the w> >’e truth I felt as if 1 were listening Jo a new,chapter out of the Bib!' , but on the whole I was rather (Pleased than otherwise I had never heen jea'cis of her wlv n we were young, for I was married I before she < -me out. and she was I ;so lovely to look at that I wa« [ rather grateful to her than other ; wise. After her marriage I used - to meet her every few years In |-Europe up to some three or four I years before the outbreak of the i war. and it often made me feel i melancholy as I saw her beauty i going . . . until there was noth | Ing left but her style and her hair. I But nothing else was to be expect ! ml. Time is a brute to all women. I . . . So. while she sat here in , this room so radiantly beautiful j land >0 exquisitely and becomingly ; dressed, and leaning toward me ('with that old pleading expression I remembered so well: when she I wanted something and knew ex | actly how tn go to work to get it; I and looking not a day over thir’v J well, while she was here T felt I young again myself and I loved her ■ as much ms ever and felt ft a privi lege to look at her. I arranged a j luncheon promptly to meet several ; .of ( her old friends and put a stop - to the clacking that was going on— ; J had been called up eight times , that morning. ... I could have boxed your ears, but of course it was a natural enough thing to do. ; and you had no suspicion. Well, as soon as she had gone I wrote to twelve women, giving them a bare | sketch of the truth, and sent the ' notes off in the motor. And then— ! I went and looked at myself in the | glass." i She paused, and Clavering rose ' involuntarily and put his hand on her shoulder. “Never mind. Jane." lie said awkwardly. "What does it matter? You are you and there's only one of the kind, all it’s only one more miracle of Science. You ! could do it yourself if you liked." •I’’ Ha! With twenty-three grandchildren. I may be a fool but ; J'm not a damn fool, as James used to «ay. What good would it do me ' ‘to look forty? I had some looks l--ft at that age but with no use for i them as women go. I'd have less nov But Mary was always lucky • daughter of the gods. It’s just ke lier damned luck to have that i. - wry made in her time and - ' i ■ she is still young enough to ■ hy it. besides being as free . 'ten she was Mary Ogden. . v God knows what devilment iie'il be up to. What she wants | she’ll have and the devil take the ' consequences." She patted hit! i band. “C.o and sit down. Lee. I'vfl i a good deal more to say.” (To Be Continued) J 'HOG GROWERS IET I TO DMW B!G CROWD Conizenticn to Attract Ho? Rais ers From All Parts of Country ATLANTA.Dee. 19.—The Geor gia Swine Growers association will U.old its annual convention at Moul trie January 10-11, ami ('. B. Al len, editor of the Moultrie Daily (Jbserver, says that 5.000 neople ar ■ Expected to lie present on each day. ■ Editor Allen comments upon the : appropriateness of Moultrie as the convention city. It was a Moultrie enterprise which first provided the hoc-growers of Southwest Georgia with an all-year round market for | their animals, thus taking an im- I portant step to stabilize the hog industry in Georgia. Since (he ’ Moultrie packing plant opened and began adding fame to that little city, other packing plants have been opened in the South. South Georgia is destined to he one of the great swine-producing states of the union, in the opinion of experts, particularly the agricul tural agents of the Atlanta, Bir mingham and Atlantic railway, who have made a close study of tile hog and cattle industry all along their line of railroad. Some discourage ments have been met with, as point ed (,'jt by H. M. Mclntosh, editor of the Albany (Ga.) Herald, but it is not doubted by close observers, he says, that great forward strides will be made next year, and that the i crop of 1924 will be the greatest in the history of the section. CUT-OFF Ernest Coker, made a business ; trip to Montezuma Monday. James Maxie, of Arles, was a Sunday visitor here. Mr. and Mis. Early Coker, an nounce the birth of a daughter Fri day, Dec. 7th. Rev. E. M. Clapp, of Waiden, spent the week-end with Mr. and: Mrs. George Wicker. Mrs. Andrew Jordan, and chil dren of Ty Ty, are spending a few ' days with Mr. and Mrs. Early Cok er. ’ '| Robert Stubbs and David Beder.- i baugh spent Sunday at Henderson. Gus Kitchen and David Beden baugh were Americus visitors Sat urday evening. E. \V. Holloway, spent the week-end here with reiitiv’es. Misses Eula Kitchen and Glayds Chambliss and Grady Kitchen, were Oglethorpe and Montezuma shop pers Saturday. R. H. and George Stubbs and A. h. Pennington and Henry Bed enbaugh were looking after busi ness interest at Montezuma Satur day. Miss Maudeli Pennington enter tained at a birthday party Satur days evening. After spending some . time in local chat, games and I iano music, Ambrosia and cake were served. .She received several nice presents, as the guests depart ed, each said it was the best party I YES k Your Christmas Cake is 'VflO ready. L VBF avoid the rush. ■ We ChristmasTday A / <R7Wmr_ , _ » / r?. w ~-^.'z r ?sssiai Hk / !'”'•' ~«! r- A, W / Model Bread Co. L^_. - . THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER . ever. Mrs. Delia Parker, o£ New Era and Tiff Pace of Leslie, spent Sun play afternoon with Mrs. J. T. Mor ! ris at the home of Mrs. A. J. Pen- I nington. LESLIE Rev. J. P. Daughtry will fill his regular appointment at the .Meth odist church Sunday morning at eleven. The evening service will be a specially arranged song serv . ice. Mr Weir, of Glennville spent Saturday and Sunday here, with nis sister Miss Martha Weir, who is teaching in union High. Mr. and Mrs. C. 11. .Malone who ; have resided near Smtihville for • the past ten years will move to the ’ place known as the Glaze I home near Leslie this week. I L. G. Pappy, of Bainbridge, an 1 D . Frank, Deriso of Albany were < guest of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Deriso j Sunday. * Mrs. Estelle Cocke of. Thohias ' ville who spent several days last week visiting friends here spent the week-end in Leesburg with her sister, Mis. George Ixiramore. Misses Ethel Barlow and Ruth I McNeil who are here attending j school spent the week-end at then ; home near Americus. I Stanley Burnett left. Tuesday for ■ Augusta, where he will visit his father, Mr. O. O. Burnett for a few I days. It is hoped there will he a large attendance at the "Bazaar," Wed nesday afternoon and night. Open ing at three and to close at nine, an oyster supper will be served by I several of the ladies of the I’. T. A. I for the benefit of the school. SENATE PASSES HARRIS ARSENATE PROBE PLAN WASHINGTON, Dee. 19.—Sur vey of available stocks of calcium arsenate in the United States will be made by the Geogolical Survey under a resolution by Senator Har ris, democrat, Georgia, adopted Monday by the senate. 1 The compound used widely in the 1 south for lighting the boll weevil, ' has been held dutiable by the treas- [ ury, although white arsenic is on the free list. Senator Harris ex plained, and a report on the avail- : able supply is important on eon-' 1 neetion with proposed efforts to re-" move the duty. ;' — - I LYERLY LODGE ELEC T S NEW MASONIC OFFICERS ! LYLERLY, Dec. 19. Lylerly led.. , No. Free and Accept ed Masons, at their regular meet- ] ing Saturday night, elected offi- - eel’s for the ensuing vear, as fol-'i lows: ’ ' J"hn M. Rose, worshipful master; ■ A. J. Gayier, senior warden; G. T. Edwards, junior warden; J. p. , Rose, secretary; Dr H. D. Brown, 1 treasurer; George Penley, tyler;. Hollis,,sei . \y. n McNair, junior deacon. Senior and junior steward ano - chaplain will be appointed at the next meeting M s the lodge. Stand one major in the rain. Let war vets see him eating bread. Bet ter than a bonus to them TREE STUMPS USED TO MAKE CREOSOTE Hindrance To Farmers To Be Turned Into Asset By Dublin Factory ATLANTA, Dec. 19. Tree stumps—one a great hindrance to farmers—may soon prove a tremen dous asset in Georgia, according to reports received here. Stumps hereafter, if plans now under way are carried out, will fur nish grist for creosote plants. A stump survey is now being made of a number of counties in Middle Georgia it is stated, with a prospect of establishing a million dollar creosote plant in Dublin. Stumps in many counties, creo sote experts say, will he needed to keep the factory in operation foi a number of years* and this will open a market tor them that will put considerable money in circulation, and at "the same time remove one of, the hindrances to agricultural development. Reports slate that Dublin was chosen as the site for the creosote * plant on account of railroad and river transportation facilities, and ■also because it is near the center of the stumpiest section of the I state, as sawmills have left many ol the tields with only the stumps as reminders of the dense forest which’ once covered Central and , South Georgia with what was claim jcd to be the finest timber in the ■ country. FOREIGNERS ABANDON GERMAN UNIVERSITIES BERLIN, Dec. 19. — (By Asso ciated Press.)—Foreign students are deserting German universities because of the high cost of living in this country. Outsiders* must pay more than twice as much for tuition fees as Germans, but the unusual advance in living costs has been the chief factor in reducing the number of non-Germans in all the universi ties of the republic. Every thirtieth male German be tween the ages of 19 and 23 is" a student in some university, and the number of students in attendance at practically all universities is in creasing in spite of the economic distress. SAVANNAH LEGION SEEKS FREEDOM FOR GRIFFIS SAVANNAH, Dee. 19.—Chatham Post. American Legion, Savannah, this week will petition the state de partment cf the legion and the ra tional department that they in turn request the secretary of state ■'i he United States to ask of the defacto German government to .re lease Lieutenant Griffis, officer re cen.ly sentenced to imprisonment -or attempt to kidnap Grover Cleve land Bergdoll, the alleged draft evader. Put cooties on ail ex-compant clerks and tie their hands. Then other war vets will forget the b nil.-:. New Era Dr. Pound and. Mr Dupree visit ed New Era school end was pleased with attendance dining the bad weather. They seemed pleased pleased with the condition of the building and the work Tlie state health doettirs after a thorough examination of rhe chil dren of New Er.i ii'uml that only a small per cent of the children were suffering from physical defects. The 1 greatest ‘trouble was malaria. Teachers of New Era are expect-! ing to spend Christmas in their re-' sficitive homes.- School will close Friday after noon for one week. All are re quested to return December 31. The Christmas play at New Era has been called off. s Miss Ethel 1 jirker Ijas returned 'i'roni Ashburn, to spend the holi lays with her parents here. Prof H. C. Gnann, of Rochelle, and Mr. Mr. James Oliver of Abbie-! ville spent Sunday with Prof Burk. ! Mr. and 'Mrs. J. A. Deese, visited! iriends and relatives in Plains, Mrs. F. H. Hines and daughter >f Leslie did their Christmas shop ping while visiting friends here. Mrs. Fred Brewton from Mount Vernon, is spending a few days vvith Mr. and Mi*s. A. G. Brewton. Mr. .1. P. Harrold and Mr. Honi n' Stills were the guest of Mr. A. J. Bradley Sunday. Miss Nellie Cowart spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. an,d Mrs. J. B. Cowart. Miss Lucile I.ittie was the guest of Miss Elizabeth Hogg Sunday. Mr. A. J. Johnson is very ill at his home here. Mr. Paul .Murphy is also on the! sick list this week. Miss Elizabeth Mixon has gone to! Abbieville where she will spend Christmas with home folks. I 0«L s h« Now Showing the Battle of the Age ac k . • . ■ Luis DEMPSEY - FIRPO HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE TO-DAY AND THURSDAY ONLY Admission: Adults, 30c; Children 10c Thousands Paid $27.50 to See This Battle. YOU SEE IT FOR 30 CENTS The Greatest Mystery Play Ever Filmed!— low many times have you gone to the novies and before the picture is half ver said to yourself: “Oh, 1 know how his is going to turn out!” And per h ,os nine times out of ten you’re right, but.this time you 11 be wrong. This is the picture that is going to surprise and start.e you—it will kee,p you guessing and leave you gasping fi a i If W|^ M 0 KILLED ANDREW dont tell your ’ ~ ’ lt> tfuess ! b ~ .jew* ■ \ flilß R H jl,w i\ /<• 4,1 »VV;. V > CLAIRE BOW WINDSOR NORMAN e KERRY Special Added Attraction Larry Sernon, i n ‘Lightning Love’ RYLANDER WENESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1923 GEORGIHORM WASHINGTON OAK CUT All States To Get Section of Historic Tree; Plan to Erect Bronze Statute ATLANTA, Dec. 19. (By Asso ciated Press.)' —Georgia will receive a section of the historic elm under j which General George Washington stood when he received command [of the American forces in 1775, .according to a letter being sent out by Mayor Edward W. Quinn , of Cambridge, Mass. The old trees recently fell and it is the plan of Cambridge citizens to erect a monument in bronze, or stonu, on the spot as a memo-rial to the great event. Every school child in the country will be asked to contribute something to the me ' morial. It is proposed,” the mayor’s let jter reads, “to cut the tree into fifty i pieces, one to be given each state Alaska and the District of Columbia to be preserved in the various slate houses as a part of a common heri tage of inestimable patriotic value.’ The mayor asked that each state appoint a Washington” Elm commit tee, name a Washington Day, .al low each school pupil to contribute jone penny to the memorial fund and conduct an essay contest among high school students on the sub ject, “Tho Washington Elm It’s Significance in History,” ’ wi(11 prizes to be awarded. CATARRH ■ Os head or throat is usuall „ vieWs
