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• 7 "< ORIOLE
PART ll—Continued.
—ll—
found n use for that hand pres
ently, and, having sighed, lifted it to
press it upon his brow, but did not
complete the gesture. As his hand
came within the scope of his gaze, lev
eled on the unfathomable distance, he
observed that the lingers held a sheet
of printed paper; and he remembered
Florence. instead of pressing his
brow he unfolded the journal she had
thrust upon him. As he began to read,
his eye was lusterless, his gait slack
and dreary, but soon his whole de
meanor changed; it cannot be said
for the better.
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POeMS
My Soul by Florence Atwater
*Vhen my heart is dreary
Then my soul Is weary
As a bird with a broken wing
Who never again will sing
Like the sound of a vast amen
That comes from a church of men.
When my soul is dreary
It could never be cheery
But I think of my ideal
And everything seems real
Like the sound of the bright church bells
peal.
Poems by Florence Atwater will be tn
■the paper each and every Sat.
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NEwS OF ThE cITY
“Miss Florence Atwater of tHis City
received a mark of 94 in History Ex
amintion at the concusion of the
school Term last June.
“Blue hair ribbons are in style
again.
“Miss Fatty Fairchild of this City
has not been doing as well in Decla
mation lately as formerly.
"MU. Noble Dill of this City is sel
dom seen on the streets of the City
without smoking a cigarrette.
“Miss Julia Atwater of this City is
out of the City.
“The MR. Rayfort family of this
City have been presented with the
present of a new Cat by Geo. the man
employeD by Balf & Co. This cat is
perfectly baeutiful.
“Miss Julia Atwater of this City is
visiting friends in the Soth. The fam
ily have had many letters from her
that are read by each and all in the
famild.
“Mr. Noble Dill of this City Is in
Business with his Father.
“From letters to the family Miss
Julia Atwater of this City is -enjoying
her visit in the south a greadeal.
“Miss Fatty Fairchild of the 7 A
of tins City, will probably not pass in
AUithmetiC -nless some improvement
takes place before Examination.
"Miss Julia Atwater of this City
wrote a letter to the family stating
while visiting in the SOuth she has
made an engagement to be married to
MR. Crum of that City. The family
do not know who this MR. CRum Is
hut It Is said he Is a wldwer though
he has been divorced with a great
many children.
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It may be assumed that the last of
the news Items was wasted on Noble
Dill, and that he never knew of the
neighborhood Improvement believed
to be imminent as a result of the final
touches to the ditch at the Mr. lieury
D. Vance backyurd.
PART THREE
Throughout the afternoon adult
members of the Atwater family con
nection made futile efforts to secure
all the copies of that week's edition
of the North End Daily Oriole. It
could not be done.
It was a trying time for “the fam
ily.” Great-aunt Carrie said that she
had the “worst afternoon of any of
’em,” because young Newland Saun
ders came to her house at two and did
not leave until five; all the time count
ing over, one by one, the hours he’d
spent with Julia since she was seven
teen and turned out, unfortunately,
to be a Beauty. Newland had not re
strained himself, Aunt Carrie said,
and long before he left she wished
Julia had never been born—and as
for Herbert lllingsworth Atwater,
Junior, the only thing to do with him
was to send him to some strict mili
tary school.
Florence’s father telephoned to her
mother from downtown at three, and
said that Mr. George Plum and the
ardent vocalist, Clairdyce, two of the
suitors, had just left his office. They
had not called in company, however,
but coincidentally; and each had a
copy of the North End Daily Oriole,
already somewhat worn with folding
and unfolding. Mr. Clairdyce’s condi
tion was one of desperate calm, Flor
ence’s father said, but Mr. Plum’s agi
tation left him rather unpresentable
for the street, though he had finally
gone forth with his hair just as he
had rumpled it, and with his hat in
his hand. They wished the truth, they
said: Was it true or was it not true?
Mr. Atwater had told them that he
feared Julia was indeed engaged,
though lie knew nothing of her
fiance’s previous marriage or mar
riages, or of the number of his
previous children. They had respond
ed that they eared nothing about that.
This man Crum’s record was a matter
of indifference to them. All they
wanted to know was whether Julia
was engaged or not—and she was I
“The odd thing to me,” Mr. Atwater
continued, to his wife, “is where on
earth Herbert could have got his story
about this Crum’s being a widower, or
divorced, and with all these children.
Do you know if Julia’s written any of
the family about these things and they
haven’t told the rest of us?”
“No,” said Mrs. Atwater. “I’m sure
she hasn’t. Every letter she’s written
to any of us has passed all through
the family, and I know I’ve seeu every
one of ’em. She’s never said anything
about him at all, except that he was a
lawyer. I’m sure I can’t imagine
where Herbert got his awful informa
tion ; I never thought he was the kind
of boy to Just make up unpleasant
things.”
Florence, sitting quietly in a chair
nearby, with a copy of “Sesame ami
Lilies” in her lap, listened to her
mother’s side of this conversation
with an expression of impersonal in
terest ; and if she could have realized
how completely her parents had for
gotten (naturally enough) the details
of their first rambling discussion of
Julia’s engagement, she might have
felt as little alarm as she showed.
“Well,” said Mr. Atwater, “I’m glad
it isn’t our branch of the family that’s
responsible. That’s a comfort, any
how, especially as people are reading
copies of Herbert’s manifesto all up
and down the town, my clerk says.
He tells me that over at the Cole com
pany, where young Murdock Hawes is
cashier, they only got hold of one copy,
but typewrote it and multigraphed it,
and some of ’em have already learned
it by heart to recite to poor young
Hawes. He’s the one who sent Julia
the three five-pound boxes of choco
lates all at the same time, you re
member.”
“Yes," Mrs. Atwater sighed. “Poor
thing!”
“Florence is out among the family,
I suppose?” he inquired.
“No; she’s right here. She's Just
started to read Ruskin this afternoon.
She says she’s going to begin and read
all of him straight through. That’s
very nice, don’t you think?”
He seemed to muse before replying.
“I think that’s very nice, at her
age especially,” Mrs. Atwater urged.
“Don’t you?’
“Ye —es! Oh, yes! At least, I sup
pose so. Ah—you don’t think—of
course she hasn't had anything at all
to do with this?”
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA.
“Well, I don’t see how she could.
You know Aunt Fanny told us how
Herbert declared before them all. only
last Sunday night, that Florence
should never have one thing to do with
Ills printing-press, and said they
wouldn’t even let her couie near it.”
“Yes, that’s a fact. I’m glad Her
bert made it &o clear that she can’t he
implicated. I suppose the family are
all pretty well down on Uncle Jo
seph ?”
“Uncle Joseph is being greatly
binmeu,” said Mrs. Atwater primly.
“He really ought to have known better
than to put such an instrument into
the hands of a boy of that age. Of
course it simply encouraged him to
print all kinds of things. We none of
us think Uncle Joseph ever dreamed
that Herbert would publish anything
like this, and of course Uncle Joseph
says himself he never dreamed sucli a
thing; he’s said so time and time
again, all afternoon. But of course
he’s greatly blamed."
“I suppose there’ve been quite a
good many of ’em over there blaming
him?” her husband inquired.
“Yes —until lie telephoned to n
garage and hired a car and went for
a drive. He said he had plenty of
money with him and didn’t know when
he’d be back.”
“Serves him right,” said Mr. Atwa
ter. “Does anybody know where
Herbert is?”
“Not yet.”
“Well —” and he returned to a for
mer theme. “I am glad we aren’t im
plicated. Florence Is right there with
you, is she?”
“Yes,” she said. “She’s right here,
reading. You aren’t worried about
her, are you?” she added.
“Oh, no; I’m sure it’s all right. I
only thought—”
“Only thought what?’
“Well, it did strike me ns curious,"
said Mr. Atwater; “especially after
Aunt Fanny’s telling us how Herbert
declared Florence could never have a
single thing to do with his paper
again—”
“Well?”
“Well, here’s her poem right nt the
top of It, and a very friendly item
about iier history mark of last June.
“Wei!" Said Mr. Atwater, “!'m Gled
It Isn’t Our Branch of the Family
That's Responsible."
It doesn’t seein like Herbert to he so
complimentary to Florence, all of a
sudden. Just struck uie as rather cu
rious; that’s all.”
“Why, yes,” said Mrs. Atwater, “It
does seem a little odd —when you
think of It.”
“Have you asked Florence if she
had anything to do with getting out
this week’s Oriole?”
“Why, no; it never occurred to me,
especially after what Aunt Fanny told
us,” said Mrs. Atwater. ‘Til ask her
now.”
But she was obliged to postpone the
intended question. “Sesume and
Lilies” lay sweetly In the chair that
Florence had occupied, but Florence
herself had gone somewhere else.
She had gone for a long, long ram
ble; and pedestrians who encountered
her, and took note of her expression,
were interested ; and, as they went on
their way, several of them interrupted
the course of their meditations to say
to themselves that she was the most
thoughtful-looking young girl they had
ever seen. There was a touch of wist
fulness .about her, too; as of one
whose benevolence must renounce ail
hope of comprehension and reward.
Florence, in fact, had about reached
the conclusion that far from the likeli
hood of her receiving praise for her
thoughtful circulation of the news
eoncernmg her aunt Julia, there was
a strong probability (hat dire results,
wordy and otherwise, would ensue.
Hence her extreme thoughtfulness.
Among those who observed her un
usual expression was a gentleman of
great dimensions disposed In a closed
automobile that lubored through mud
holes In an unpaved outsklrt of the
| town. Ha rapped upon the glass !i
front of hUu, to get the driver’s atten
tion, and n moment Inter the car
drew up beside Florence, as she stood
In deep reverie at the intersection of
two roads.
Uncle Joseph opened the door and
took his cigar from his mouth. “Get
in, Florence," lie said. “I’ll take you
for a ride." She started violently;
whereupon he restored the cigar to
his mouth, puffed upon it, breathing
heavily the while, as was his wont;
and added: “I’m not going home. I’m
out for a nice long ride. Get in.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
COLD IN HIGHEST ALTITUDES
Why Volume of Heat Decreases as
One Leaves the Immediate Sur.
face of the Earth.
You would have thought that the
nearer you get to the sun, the warmer
the temperature becomes, wouldn’t
you? But this Is by no means the
case, for it Is much colder closer to
Hie sun when the latter Is shining Its
brightest than it is on the earth.
This Is proved by the fact that the
highest mountains, even in tropical
countries, **re perpetually snow
capped. Were the air there even
of the same temperature us that of
the plains beneath, the snow would
soon disappear.
You know, too, that the higher an
airman tiles the more warmly clad he
must he if he is not to suffer from
cold.
The reason for this strange phe
nomenon is that the rays of sunshine
pierce through the upper layers of
the atmosphere, which offer very little
resistance to them. The earth, on the
other hand, being more solid, cannot
be penetrated so easily, with the re
sult that we get tlie full effect of the
warmth, both as the rays strike the
earth and as they rebound from It.
Where America Leads.
According to a writer in the Chi
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The Were-Wolf Legend.
Were-wolf is a man transformed into
a wolf. The belief in the transforma
tion of men into wolves or other beasts
of prey has been very widely diffused,
and In many of the rural districts of
France the “loup-garou” is still an ob
ject of dread. A man who is thus
transformed, or transforms himself,
was believed to become possessed of
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In the Fifteenth century the belief In
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belief In witches, which It had then
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been exterminated, the were-wolf was
only known by rumors coming from
abroad.
Important Archeological Finds.
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Greek legation at Washington, news
paper correspondents with the Greek
troops commented on Important arch
eological discoveries made by the
Greeks In their march through Asia
Minor. Many of tie tombs dating
from the Greek and Roman epochs
had been demolished by the Turks, It
was stated, who used the stones for
construction work. In the ancient
cemetery near Kutaia columns of blue
marble were discovered, which were
part of a great building dating from
riie Roman period. The army brought
home many tablets and Inscriptions
picked up on the mnreh.
Changed in Transit.
A teacher asked her pupils to sug
gest a song to be sung by the class and
a patriotic little fellow in the rear
called for “My Country, Tls of Thee.”
His voice was so wenk that the
teacher could not understand and n
youngster near him sang out: “He
wants ‘llls Country ’Tis of Him.’”—
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