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I can make you a loan on your
farm lands on loug time, cheap
rate of interest, liberel terms and
with the least possible delay. Be
sure to see me before placing your
loan.
W. A. WILCOX, Douglas, Ga.
WHEN IN TOWN
< 'ome in and inspect my line of
Boy’s Youth’s and Men’s Suits. Children’s Misses
and Ladies’ Coat Suits.
Also a fresh shipment of
Dress Goods, Shoes and Hats for Misses and Ladies
H. L. Lankford
For the next thirty days we will p res s
ONE SUIT OF CLOTHES FREE
With every dollars worth of patronage received.
scotclTWooi*nlrtl*i» for ODOM’S PRESSING CLUB
WE WISH TO ANNOUNCE
That we have bought out
the Whitley market fix
tures and have opened up
in the same building an
■i&y, * *‘3> up-to-date market in ev
ery respect and will ap
predate the patronage of
_ the general public.
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PEARSON, GEORGIA
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PEARSON TRIBUNE, NOVEMBER 10,1917
Cinderella
Without the Ball
By George Haskell
(Copyright, 1817, by W. G. Chapman.)
“Oh, come on Em! It’s going to be
a dandy party!”
The girl looking over the fence was
urging another who paused a moment
in the business of hanging clothes on
the line to answer: “I can’t Grace—
but Dora Is going.”
“Yes, Dora's always ‘going,’ and
you're staying -staying home, and do
ing the work.”
“Oh, well, I’m trying to get a dress
made. When it's done, I’ll be ‘going.’ ”
Emily laughed cheerfully, gave a
towel a vigorous snap, and hung it on
the line. She was thin and rather color
less, but her hair scintillated in the
shifting sunlight and had copper and
gold glints. The fence of the backyard
in the village street was not too high
for those who passed to look over, hut
Emily .was not ashamed of her homely
work, they were not able to hire it
done, her mother hail never been used
to hard labor of any kind, and as for
her younger sister, Dora, it was quite
out of the question to think of her do
ing the family wash. Dora was eight
years younger than Emily, very pretty,
very self-willed, and very sellish. The
last two traits were probably owing to
the spoiling she had received from
both mother and sister. Two children
Emily and Dora had died, and Dora
was the apple of her mother’s eye. She
had lived in luxury, and when the
crash had come, followed soon by the
death of her husband, she hud taken
the lltiie that brought in a very slender
income, and had settled down to live
upon it with no idea of trying to in
crease it with any labor of her own.
She was of the helpless, unthinking
kind who will sometime, somewhere,
have to experience a heavy Jolt to
awaken them to the purpose of their
being here on this terrestrial globe.
When Emily was seventeen she had
taken up the burden of attempting to
better conditions, and make the little
income go further by doing the heavy
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“I Knew You Are Worth All the Doras
in Creation.”
work that a woman had been paid to
do. Next she saved dressmaking bills
by making her own clothes, and even
tually those of her mother and sister.
It is always the people who are
willing who are allowed to carry the
burdens of those who are not. There
has been known, however, to be such a
thing ns “the lust straw.”
But Emily gave no indications of the
last straw till a cheery voice hailed
her over the fence some minutes after
her girl friend had passed on. A pair
of merry eyes belonging to a tanned,
honest face, not especially handsome,
but invitingly reliable, smiled at her
under the raised hat. Emily embar
rassed and rather miserable at the
thought of her appearance in the old,
faded working garb, could only stam
mer out: “Oh! Mr. Hale!”
“You'll be there tonight at the Ston
er party, won’t you?” he asked.
"No. I tliiuk not. But my sister’s
going.”
“Why don’t you go?” he persisted.
Emily thought she even noticed a
tinge of disappointment in the tone.
She pushed a wet sheet along on the
line to better see his face, and said:
“Well I—l can’t explain just now,
but I can't go.”
She fqjt that any plea of ill health
would be slightly incongruous with her
vigorous handling of the week’s wash.
Site could not teil him the real rea
son, and with an expression of regret
Hale passed on. The wet towel hung
limply in her hand, and the wind catch
ing an unfastened sheet, it slid to the
ground unnoticed by the girl. Youth,
the desire for companionship, the call
of the heart were all having their say.
Their demand was insistent. They did
not even ask why they should be de
nied.
Emily had met Hale only two or
three times, but she had been strongly
attracted to him. When her mother
called from the doorway, and she saw
the sheet on the ground she had sud
denly a glimmering realization that he
meant more to her than she had sup
posed.
In the cool sitting room Emily drop
ped down on a chair.
“I wonder if that bine voile would
look well enough for me to’ wear to
night,” she said.
Her sister Dora looked np from the
novel she was reading, comfortably
stretched out on a couch.
“Oh Em, that old thing!” she ex
claimed in a distressed tone.
“Emily! you would disgrace the
family in that dress!” chimed in the
mother from her corner by the window
where some stockings were receiving
some desultory darning.
This aspect of the case had not be
fore occurred to Emily, but she at
once saw the force of the argument.
“I thought I might freshen it up a
bit,” she answered apologetically. “But
if yot§> think it looks so shabby, why
I’ll just let It go.”
“You must get at your clothes dear,
and fix up something to wear, so that
you’ll be ready for the next party.”
Emily made no answer. She knew
that the time for getting at her own
wardrobe was not likely to come very
soon with all the sewing for her moth
er and sister that was already laid out
for her. She arose a trifle wearily,
and went into the kitchen to prepare
tlie meal.
Dora came home from the party
flushed and excited with the “dandy
time” she had had. Howard Hale had
danced with her more than with any
other girl; and both women saw quite
plainly that something like a romance
lmd begun under their own roof. To
the elder sister the knowledge came
with a chilling, benumbing weight. She
tried to set it aside, and be glad of
the other’s happiness, but her own
heart cried out in revolt. She saw be
fore her a battle to be fought to gain
the victory of renunciation.
After Hale’s first call at which eti
quette required the presence of the
family, Emily invariably left the field
clear for her sister, who had intimated
that she wished this. Emily was find
ing the battle with herself an unusual
ly hard one. The more deeply she
found she loved this man, the more
strongly came the temptation to re
volt ; but her mother was so pleased,
and her sister so happy how could she
reveal her feelings. Besides Hale evi
dently loved her sister, and had not
even thought of her, so she hid all
evidences of the struggle under a quiet
exterior.
One evening Hale came when Dorn
was out, as she had not expected him.
Emily met him with the Information.
After a few minutes talk he said:
“Will you answer me frankly, truth
fully one thing?”
In surprise she agreed to his re
quest.
"Why do you always fly from me
ns though I were a pestilence?” he
asked.
“Why—why, you come to see my sis
ter —”
“No. T don’t,” he broke in. “I come
to see you! Don’t you think I know
you are worth all the Doras in crea
tion. You're courageous, unselfish lit
tie woman!” >
At this Emily quite broke down,
sobbing out something rather unintel
ligible. But holding her close against
his heart, he seemed to understand.
JUST WHAT CREATES ECHO
Under Proper Conditions Any Kind of
a Sound Wave Will Be Effec
tively Reproduced.
An echo Is caused when the waves
of air which you create when you
shout are thrown back again when
they are stopped by something they en
counter aud are turned back without
changing their shape. Any kind of a
sound wave will make an echo in this
way.
You see, you can have no sound of
nny kind without sound waves. You
could not make a sound if there were
no air. Now, when you shout, you
start a series of sound waves that go
out from you in every direction and
they spread away from you in circles
just like the rings or ripple that are
caused when yon drop a stone into a
pool of water. You can prove this to
yourself easily by having one, two,
three or more of your friends stand
around you in a large circle. You can
place them as far away from you as
your shout can be heard if you wish.
When you shout, each of your friends
will hear the shout at the same time,
provided, of course, they are at equal
distance from you.
Sometimes these sound waves as
they go away from you in circles strike
objects that turn the waves back un
broken just as they came to them. The
waves will bounce back just like a rub
ber ball from a wall against which it
has been thrown and this is the echo.
However, some things that the sound
waves strike break up these waves en
tirely and others partially.
No doubt you have sometimes no
ticed when you shout you hear a dis
tinct echo and that at other times,
standing in the same place, you can
not hear any echo, although you shout
in the same way. This is explained
by the fact that at times conditions of
the air are such that no echo Is pro
duced while at other times a perfect
echo results.—Book of Wonders.
No Time for Debate.
Alfred —Please don’t put me off any
longer. Mary. Will you marry me?
Mary Alfred. I hardly know,
whether I love you well enough or not.
Besides
Alfred (looking at his watch) —Mary,
the last train is due in just three min
utes. Yes or
Mary—Yes, Alfred. 7
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Al .Martin Willie Browning
Marie Martin Marie Roberts
Sam Johnson Simon Davis
Tom Briggs Lewis Sears
Buck Friend lohn James
Rube Hutchins Autliur Simians
Harold Hawley Lonnie Pearson
Robert Corey Ivey Mi Neal
Bess Edna Meeks
Anna Willard Grifleth
Mrs. Blake Ruth Grifleth
Mrs. Smith Doris Dickerson
Mrs, Hawkins Eva Tillman
Miss Simons Etta White
u liter Cor iner Padriek
bus Risley Charlie Mathews
Jerry Clea Metis
Si Newcomb Win. Whiddon
Ralph Milleo Mr. Parker
Rev. Asburry George Padriek
Otto Padriett Wm. Whiddeu
Squire Holden Robert Bullard
Jim Edison l’afford
Mandy Spriggs Eva Grifleth
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Children under 10 years old free
ATTENTION PUBLIC!
1 have just received a full line of
Fall Goods, at which I bought be
fore the prices advanced. I am
going to give my customers the
benefit of the Bargains. Call
around and let us show you our
stock before you buy.
PEARSON BARGAIN HOUSE
I. PASSON. Prop.
PEARSON, - - - GEORGIA
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In The First Place
The ability to save is one of the very first
rules in the game of success.
In The Second Place
Did you ever meet a successful man who
at some time did not owe his success to his
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Think it over and start an account with
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PEARSON PHARMACY
WE CARRY a full line of PHARMACEUT
ICALS fresh to fill all Doctors Prescrip
tions and have a licensed pharmacist in charge of
our store.
We also carry a full line of Cigars, Cigarettes.
Perfumery, Toilet Articles, in fact everything us
ually kept in a first-class Drug Store will be found
here.
Your patronage will be appreciated.
Pearson Pharmacy
Dr. E. S. BOLTON, Manager