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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1921)
• 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. THE North END daily ORIOLE Atwater & Co., Owners & Propreitors Subscribe NOW 25 Cents Per Year. Sub scriptions should be brought to the East Main Entrance of Atwater & Co., News paper Building every after Noon 430 to VI 25 Cents 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. AdVertizements 45c. each Up Joseph K. Atwater Co. 127 South lowa St. Steam Pumps 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. “Subscribe Now 25c. Per Year Adv. 45c. up. “Atwater & Co. Newspaper Building 25 Cents Per Years.” 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 cago Sunday Tribune, the United States lends the universe In: Libraries, jails, universities, blind pigs, news papers, payroll robberies, automo biles, bank deposits, Bibles, profiteers, sneak thieves, divorces, movies, bull dogs, patent medicines, silk stockings, labor unions, scented soap, safety ra zors, safes, safe-blowers, lawyers, me chanical pianos, mahogany furniture, diamonds, imitation diamonds, mur ders, acquittals, continuances, elec tions, laws, law-breakers, railroads, freight rates, souvenir postal cards, telegrams, billiard tables, opinion!*, cabarets, peroxide, safety mntches, dark alleys, taxicabs, office-holders, descendants of Irish kings, delinquent messenger boys, skyscrapers, bunko steerers, pie, counterfeit money, prom issory notes, collectors, vaudeville ac tors, horseshoe pins on soft shirts un der bow ties, patent leather shoes, electric lights, watermelons, foreign missionaries, millionaires, Elks, busi ness women, handbooks, radintors, home made beer, and good guys. 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