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Derelict
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(Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.)
- “A brand from the burning!” pro
claimed wheezy, parsimonious Daniel
Britt. “I've put Bob Elston on his
feet. I hope he keeps his good reso
lutions which I—ha, hum— have tried
to instill.”
Old Britt indicated a figure going
down the street. It was Bob Elston
whom everybody in town knew for a
ne'er-do-well, but pitied him and liked
him.
As to Daniel Britt, the knowing
ones smiled and shrugged their should
ers. It was true that he had given
young Elston a suit of old clothes, but
it was also current knowledge that
HElston in some unaccountable sprint
of sobriety had delved and labored in
the Britt garden for a full ten days,
receiving half pay.
Britt made great capital of his
“charity” all that day. The next, how
ever, his feathers drooped. More un
steady and ragged than ever, Bob
Elston appeared on the streets of the
village. He had sold his clothes and
was back in his old attire. He was
blindly, steadfastly intoxicated. The
demon of rum had him fully in his
power once more.
“Did my duty, it's off my mind,” com
mented Britt, and poor Bob as an ac
knowledged institution of the lower
type of the time proceeded to pro
long his spree.
It was about a week after that when
Donald Pearce, a rising young lawyer
of the town, coming down the turn
pike in his automobile, nearly ran
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down a lurching, indifferent figure in
the middle of the road. His ma
chine just grazed Elston and pushed
him aside,
“Narrow escape that, Bob,” observed
Pearce, in a warning, but friendly
tone. *“I should think you'd about cut
this drink business out.”
“Would,” stammered Elston, “but
I'm afraid of the tremens,” and he
shuddered.
Pearce eyed him speculatively. He
knew Elston as an irresponsible vil
lage feature, he felt sorry for him
and wondered mentally if it would do
any good to try and sober him up.
“Sea here, Elston,” he said, “you've
got too much material in you to
throw it to the winds this way. Why
don’t you brace up?”’ and he tried a
lot of coaxing arguments on his sub
ject, but Elston was impervious to
them all. He was at that stage where
the liquor lay dead in him, afraid of
the “horrors,” and he fell behind with
a disconsolate face.
“Come to me if T can ever help you
—sgober, though, mind you,” hailed
Pearce in parting, and waived his
hand in a friendly, encouraging way,
not noting that the movement disar
ranged something from his outside
coat pecket, which fell into the road
over the side of the machine.
Flston, coming along, saw it, picked
it up. It was a pocketbook and it
was filled with bank notes, For a mo
ment the drink-bleared eyes glowed
with covetousness. Then Elston
thruet it out of sight inside his coat,
muttering:
“No, 1 won't be a thief, if T am
a drunken wreck. Pearce spoke right
to me. I'll act the man,” and half an
hour later he reached the office of the
young lawyer and returned the pocket:
book.
. “Whew,” whistled Pearce, for the
first moment aware of his loss.
“There's twelve hundred dollars mort
gage money paid me by a farmer. 1
say!—"
He was petrified at the simple hon
esty of this lost goul. He pulled Els
ton into his private office.
“Old fellow,” he said gratefully,
“you've got to let me repay this big
act of yours. The woman who keeps
my office in order has a neat little
home. I'm going to get you a room
there. You'll have the best of care.
Rest for a week and let me put you
on your feet.”
“No use, I'm afraid,” returned Els
ton dejectedly. “I can't bear to be
shut up. I'm afraid of the tremens,
and want to be where I can get the
drink if I begin to see things.”
For a long time Pearce pleaded with
the poor unfortunate. At length Eis
ton said:
“I'll try it, on one condition.”
“And what is that?”
“You trust me.”
“I guess I will, after your bring
ing back that lost pocketbook!”
“I want you to buy me a quart bot
tle of whisky. I want to keep it by
my side. On my honor, I will not
touch a drop of it unless I feel the
tremens coming on. It will help me
out to know I've got it, if I reach the
limit of endurance.”
“Done!” cried Pearce, “and I know
you'll conquer.”
Elston did. At the end of a week,
once more clothed again in his right
mind, he took a walk with Pearce. As
they reached a quiet spot he took out
the bottle. Its contents were intact.
He gave it a fling against a rock and
it shivered into a thousand pieces.
“That’s the end of drink for me,”
he said, quietly but determinedly.
Now a queer thing came about.
Pearce got to questioning Elston about
his past. He found that his only liv
ing relative was a sister, a milliner
in a town fifty miles distant. Elston
had kept away from her on account
of his drinking. Pearce suggested
that he go and see the sister. |
“I've got an uncle living in Mar-i
den,” he explained. “T'll get you work
there. You will be happier and safer
near your sister.” ‘
The first moment Pearce set his
eyes on Dorothy Elston, the pretty
milliner, with her sweet, winning
ways, he fell in love with her. He
got his old uncle in Marden to em
ploy Elston. The uncle was an eccen
tric recluse, something of a scientist
and had a vast collection of curios
and was a good deal of a naturalist.
Two months went by. Pearce made
a good many visits to Marden. He
got on famously with Dorothy Elston,
and her brother was keeping away
from strong drink. His employer had
sent him away from town on a mission
of importance one evening, and Pearce
stayed with his uncle that night, leav
ing early in the morning before his
uncle was awake.
Serious news reached him in his
own town before nightfall. His uncle
had been robbed of a large amount of
jewelry. The fact of Pearce being at
the house and leaving as he did, led to
gossip, and then suspicion. Elston
could prove that he was absent when
the old man, now turned sour and
suspicious, had been robbed. The
latter did not prosecute, but he ig
nored his nephew and former heir
after: that.
Elston returned to Marden greatly
‘the my fiofimfih% fend.
All one day he prowled about the
‘old house, trying to figure out how
"and why his employer was robbed.
At last FElston rested suspicion
upon a stranger who had come to the
town the day before the robbery, and
had been found intoxicated on the
public streets the ensuing evening.
The man was serving a thirty days
sentence for the misdemeanor,
One day another stranger met Els
ton and scraped up an acquaintance
with him. He informed Elston that
'the man in jail was a friend of his.
~ “] want to get some money to him
'so he can buy little necessaries,” ex
plained the man. “You're acquainted
here and you can get into the jail.
' Just give him the money, will you—
ah, yes, and this cigar.”
Elston assented. The mission would
enable him to get closer to the pris
oner. On the way to the jail, how
ever, he’happened to notice the cigar.
It felt soft in the center. He sus
pected something and investigated. It
was to discover a note packed into
small compass, and reading:
“I can't hang around here for fear
of exciting suspicion. Your share of
the loot is hidden in the loft of the
old shed back of the house we rob
bed.”
Immediately Elston set the officers
on the trail of the man who had given
him the money and cigar. He was
captured, confessed, and Pearce was
restored to the good graces of his
uncle.
Donald Pearce blessed the hour he
had reclaimed frem the dregs the re
formed derelict why saved his good
pame, and led to his gaining the
dearcst, sweetest wife in the world.
1,800 Pies an Hour.
The fastest machine devised for
making ples is operated by a fore
man and six assistants and will turn
out 1,800 pies an hour. The machine
is provided with 18 revolving pie hold
ers, which move arcund an oblong
table or platform; two crust rollers,
one for the lower and the cother for
the upper crust; a set of four auto
matic moistening brushes, and a ple
| trimming wheel, The six operators
|of the machine place the crusts, fill
the pies and remove them from the
table when the operation of moisten
ing and trimming has been automat
ically completed~World's Work.
Discovery of Coal in America.
Coal was first discovered In the Le
high regions of Pennsylvania in 1701
by a poor hunter named Willlam Gin
ter, near the present town of Mauch
Chunk. It was not until 1804 that coal
mining was begun along the banks of
the Mississippl as well as along the
Yellowstone, And it was in this
same year that coal was first guccess.
fully used in thie country for heating
purpoees,
CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD, FOLKSTON, GEORGIA.
GALONEL SIGKENS! T GALNATES
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day’s work. Calomel is quicksilver
and it salivates; calomel injures your
liver.
If you are bilious, feel lazy, sluggish
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are constipated and your head aches
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vigor and ambition.
Your druggist or dealer sells you a
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Russian Soldiers Wear Paper Shirts.
Shirts made of paper in Japan are
in regular use in large quantities for
the Russian army. They proved
their worth during the winter cam
paign in Poland and East Prussia. The
paper used is made from mulberry
- bark. Paper clothing known as kamike
"has long been in use among the Jap
anese. Such clothing is not only cheap,
but most serviceable, its only draw
‘back being that it cannot be washed.
The paper is very soft and warm, but
has little “size.” For this reason a
thin layer of silk wadding is placed
between two sheets and the whole
quilted when it is to be used for shirts
or other clothes.
OFFICER CARROLL CURED
OF BAD CASE OF ECZEMA
He writes from Baltimore as follows:
“l am a police officer and had long
suffered from a bad case of Eczema of
the hands and had to wear gloves all
the time.
“1 was under treatment by eminent
physicians for a long time without
success Last summer Hancock's Sul
phur Compound and Ointment were
recommended to me and my hands im
proved on the first application. After
a week’s trial I went to the Johns
Hopkins Hospital to have my hands
treated with X-rays. Under their ad
vice, I continued to use your Sulphur
Compound and Ointment for 6 or 8
weeks, and at the end of that time my
hands were cured. I cannot recom
mend your preparations too highly.”
(Signed) John T. Carroll,
Hancock’s Sulphur Compound and
Ointment are sold by all dealers, Han
cock Liquid Sulphur Co., Baltimore,
Md.—Adyv.
What Holds a Man.
Good men are attracted and held not
alone by salaries, but by the conditions
under which they work. The efficiency
of the board of water supply force com
pares favorably with any large public
or private engineering organization.
This board has been noted also for its
esprit de corps and enthusiasm for its
work. These desirable qualities, the
report states, were obtained by select
ing the most suitable available men
for the leading positions, giving great
weight not only to technical fitness,
but also to those personal qualifica
tions which cannot be learned or rated
by examinations,
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as n Gen
eral Tonic because it coutains the wel)
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IKON, It acts on the Liver, Drives out
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. 50 cents. — Adv
International Politeness.
In some ways the war s causing
a revival of international politeness,
Anyway, Russia apologizes to Swe
den for dropping a shell into SBwedish
waters.—Chicago News,
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under my personal guarantee that it
will clean your sluggish liver better
than nasty calomel; it won't make you
sick and you can eat anything you
want without being salivated. Your
druggist guarantees that each spoonful
will start your liver, clean your bowels
and straighten you up by morning or
you can have your money back. Chil
dren gladly take Dodson's Liver Tone
because it is pleasant tasting and
doesn’t gripe or cramp or make them
sick.
I am selling millions of bottles of
Dodson's Liver Tone to people who
have found that this pleasant, vege
table, }iver medicine takes the place
of dangerous calomel. Buy one bottle
on my sound,.reliab]e guarantee. Ask
your druggist or storekeeper about me.
A Fellow Feeling.
“All sorts and conditions of men
have excellent explanations for their
position in life,” said the senator. “A
tramp, however, came under my ob
servation who had no illusions about
the cause of his own condition. A
fine-looking and fashionably dressed
woman had just alighted from her
limousine at the hotel entrance and
was suddenly approached by this shab
bily dressed man, who requested a
dime. ‘No, I have no money to spare
for you,' she said. ‘I do not see why
an able-bodied man like you should
go about begging.’ ‘I s'pose, ma'am,’
replied the lazy tramp. ‘it's fer about
the same reason that a healthy woman
like you boards at a hotel instead of
keepin’ house.” "—Harper's Magazine.
Harvey, La.—Mrs. S. W. Spruiell, of
this place, writes: “I suppose it will be
a great pleasure to you to know that you
cured my child. She had pellagra very!
bad and the doctor said she never would
get well. She is well of pellagra and
looks fine. ‘
“You may use this letter as a testimon
ial if you wish. Great benefit have you
done my daughter, Mindie Abrams.”
There is no longer any doubt that pel
lagra can be cured. Don’t delay until it
is too late. It is your duty to consult the
resourceful Baughn,
The symptoms—hands red like sunburn,
skin peeling off, sore mouth, the lips,
throat and tongue a flaming red, withi
There is hope; get Baughn’s big Free
book on Pellagra and learn about the
remedy for Pellagra that has at last been
found. Address American Compounding
Co., box 2091, Jasper, Ala., remembering
money is refunded in any case where the
remedy fails to cure.—Adv.
Ostriches Cheaper These Days.
It helps one to realize the South Af
rican slump in ostriches, as shown
by the sale of a fullgrown bird for
three pence at Grahamstown, when
one recalls former prices. In the
early days of ostrich farming a chick
newly out of the egg would sometimes
fetch £lO, and £SOO has been
paid for a good pair of grown birds. I
But those were the days when one
plucking of a single bird would hrinu!
in £25, and of late years prices |
have not ruled so high—you could get
quite a good pair of ostriches for £l2,
Ostrich farming dates from about
1807, and brought many a pioneer a
fortune when it first began.-——London
Chronicle,
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Magic Washing Stick
This is something new to housewives—
something they have wauted all their lives,
out never could get before. It makes it pos
sible to do the heaviest, hardest washing in
less than one-half the time it took by old
methods, and it eliminates all rubbing and mus
cular effort. No washing machine {s needed,
Nothluf but this simple little preparation,
which s absolutely harmiess so the finest fabrigs—
white, colored or woolen. It makes the
bardest task of the week a pleasant pastime-—
- dmhzhl oecurn.tion‘ You will be de
ligh at the clean, spotless, snow-white
clothes that come out of the rinsing water;
and all without any effort on your part. The
ln&le Washing Stick does it all—and remember,
without ln]ur‘: to the most delicate goods,
colored or white, woolens, blankets, luce eur
tains, ete. Contalns no acids, no alkalles, no
polsonvus Ingredients to make its use dan
gerous. 15 washings 25 cents.
Sold DL all Druggists and Grocers every.
where, yours doesn't hundle It, show him
this ad—he'll get it for you. Or send ein
stamps to A B, fium €O.. Sherman, Texas.—~Adv
Served Him Right.
If there was one thing more than
another that he prided himselt on, it
was the fit of his clothes.
“I can never get a dress coat really
to fit,” he sald to his partner, as he
glanced down at a perfectly made
garment, with a hope, of course, that
she would at once disclaim the in
sinuation. “Look at this thing."”
“Well, it I 8 atrocions,” she sald cool
ly. "But why not save your money
and buy one? It is so much cheaper
in the long run than hiring.”-Phila
delphia Publie Ledger,
Eight-Hour Law In Alaska,
Alaska recently adopted an elght
hour law for placer miners and pen
sioned her aged and indigent prospec
tors,
WAS HER GREATEST TORMENT
Stuffy Atmosphere Was Bearable, but
“Hot Air” Caused Her to
Suffer Muc*
The waitress was pretty and con
scious of the fact,
The diner was frivolous and for
ward.
“Pretty tough to be penned up here
on a nice day like this,” the diner
observed.
“Yes, sir,” the girl returned.
“You are too good-looking to be
doing this work.,”
The girl raised her brows.
“Have you never thought of better
ing your condition?”
“Oh, yes.”
“It's awfully warm in here.”
“Uh, huh.”
“Don’t you suffer from the stuffy
atmosphere?”
Half closing her bright eyes, and
assuming a pensive air the girl tartly
replied:
“No; only from the hot air.”
Just So,
“What do you think of these here
‘summer furs'?”
“It's carrying things pretty fur.”
S he Babi
ave the Bablies.
NFANT MORTALITY is something frightful. We can hardly realize that
of all the children born in civilized countries, twenty-two per cent.,
or nearly one-quarter, die before they reach one year; thg&y-seven
per cent,, or more than one-third, before they are five, and one-half before
they are fifteen !
We do not hesitate to say that a timely use of Castoria would save a
majority of theso Srecious lives. Neither do we hesitate to say that many
of these infantile deaths are occasiored by the use of narcotic preparations.
Drops, tinctures and soothing syrups sold for children’s compleints contain
more or less opium or morphine, They are, in considerable quantities
deadly poisons, In any quantity, they stupefy, retard circulation and lead
to congestions, sickness, death, Castoria operates exactly the reverse, but
you must see that it bears the signature of Chas, H. Fletcher. Castoria
causes the blood to circulate froperly, opens the
pores of the skin and allays fever. M———
Genuine Castoria always hears the signature of LY m
RICHES LIE IN OURSELVES
What the Man Is, Not What He Has,
Makes Him Wealthy
or Poor.
In my own life, as I wander farther
and farther along the vagabond trail
in search of truth and beauty, I find it
easier and easier to find contentment
without the riches of the world. Leave
me imagination, and 1 shall still be
rich; but give me all the wealth of
the world and take from me imagina
tion and you will plunge me deep into
a bottomelss hell of indescribable mis
ery. |
We cannot own things without be
ing owned by them. Thoreau under
stood this. His life was so successful
v ) “hir SO
ome.”
I cannot live Thoreau’s life. But I
can live my own. :
“In the transmission of heavenly
waters,” says Emerson, “every hose
fits its hydrant,”-—-Thomas Drier, in
the Nautilus.
For Campers.
Chiefly intended for campers is a
curved table knife the end of which is
formed into a four-pronged fork.
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BY SKIN ERUPTION?
Pimples, rashes, ringworm, prickly
heat and, worst of all, that red itch
ing, scaly torment, eczema, vanish
when you use resinol ointment and
resinol soap. There is no doubt about
it. Even though your skin is so
unsightly with eruption that you shun
your friends and youy friends shun
you, resinol usually makes it clear
and healthy, quickly, easily and at
trifling cost. When you are sick of
wasting time and money on tedious,
expensive treatments, get resinol oint
ment and resinol soap from the near«
est druggist and you will quickly see
why physicians have prescribed them
for twenty years for just such troubles
as yours! Great for sunburn.—Adv,
A Test Case.
“1 don’'t know whether my pretty
neighbor takes me seriously or not.”
“You can easily find out.”
“How?”
"Pretend you have found another
pretty neighbor in the same block.”
The Limit of Conceit.
“Vain, isn't he?”
“Very. He even thinks he looks
well in his bathing suit.”
One of London's Oldest Women,
Mrs. Mary Mitchell of Old Bromp
ton, Chatham, recently celebrated her
one hundredth birthday. She is a
widow and is the granddaughter of a
centenarian who died at the age'of
one hundred and three. As a member
of- the Wesleyan Methodist commu
nity, she was the first Bible woman to
visit the homes of the royal marines
as long ago as 1832,—London Times.
SOFT WHITE HANDS
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Why, Certainly,
Patience—So she's learning to
dance, is she!?
Patrice—Yes,
“Where?”
“Why, on her feet, of course.”
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