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for that fact might have held herself
aloof from him. But she understood
the situation at a glance, and real
lied the fact that Aunt Carolina, in
her concern for her niece, had done
quite the same undetermined thing that
her niece had done for her.
Therefore, by way of no harm, at
dinner that evening the Hon. Peggy,
who had spent a good hour in the soli-
tude of her room, examining several
bulky volumes under the letter H, this
irrepressible young lady plunged
forthwith into an animated discussion
of that portion of the Kingdom known
by the name of Hertfordshire. Hall
burton WINGED and so did Aunt Caro-
lima. But Halliburton was a fairly good
liar, and he piled his avocation I'M
blushingly
Lady Carolina, true to her engage
ment, announced her intention of in
PRODUCING Cousin William Halibur-
tom as she called him, into the neigh
boring exclusive society of the imme-
date vicinity, but Halliburton begged
off. He explained that he was BASH
full, nervous, timid and unused to the
ways of the upper world, and that he
desired more time to prepare himself.
AS a matter of fact, he confided to
himself that before entering upon his
active social career considerable
amount of daily instruction by the Hon.
Peggy would not be amiss. The Hon.
Peggy, whose appreciation of the cir
cumstances made her a bit more un-
conventional than usual, kept him on
qui vive, and amused herself by call
ing him by the name of Witherspoon.
Time flew for Halliburton. And as
for the Hon. Peggy-well, that's anoth-
er question.
one day, late in June, however,
Aunt Carolina took her youthful niece
into the library and closed the doors.
"NOw, my dear" she said and she
said it apprehensively, Il have some
thing to tell you. Lord Southdown is
expected here in just about a week.
Lord Southdown, my dear" she con-
tinued placing her arm about her
young charge, isis the owner of-of
all that there is to Southdown, our
Southdown."
The Hon. Peggy never winked. "Of
course" she responded.
Aunt Carolina gasped. 81 knew it
all along said Peggy. Aunt Carolina
gasped again. i've always known it,
went on Peggy.
Aunt Carolina nearly tainted. MY
QNdA QtciA NlAAAhs SAAC ocAAAs AAON QAu
you ever bear it?"
The Hon. Peggy waved this sugges-
ton aside. And so. Aunt Carolina, "
she said lit is up to us to CO."
Aunt Carolina was puzzled. Up
to-us," she repeated.
Exactly" responded Peggy, that's
an Americanism OF Miss Wither-
spoons"
Miss Witherspoon's" repeated Aunt
Carolina.
Il beg your pardon" said Peggy, II
~ meant Mrs William Halliburton.
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William Hunt; but to conceal his
identity, after his arrival in this coun-
try, he changed his name TO Ephraim.
Once an artillery officer and a dashing
Tory cavalier he became a quiet citi-
zen of the new country. He cropped
his long hair and laid aside his fine
dress as we'll as his title.
He was too noted a man to be over
looked, however, and the search for
him was continued until the Restora-
ton. He was regarded by the party
in power as a malignant" a name
given to all Royalists of sufficient note
to be considered dangerous by Crom-
we'll
At the siege of York, Col. Hunt
had been the hero of the day, and the
dignity of knighhood was conferred
upon him by Prince Rupert. But at
the battle of Marston Moor, the tide
turned and Col. Hunt fled to Amer
lea, where he died in 1886, 40 years aft
er he left England.
A few months after he settled in
the colony of Massa chusetts he mar
ried an heiress, Anna Richards. Their
three sons were the progenitors of the
Hunts in this country and left records
worthy of their gallant father. Every
one was a military leader in those
dangerous times of Indian and French
wars.
When that generation of warfare
was passed, we find the same talent
tor command displayed in another
field-in developing the resources of
the country and establishing indus
trial pursuits.
Samuel Hunt, grandson of the
cavalier, monopolized shipbuilding in
Boston, and had hundreds of men in
his employ, many of them slaves who
had been brought in his ships from
the West Indies. Some of these ne
groes were quite famous, and the
story goes that one wrote poetry. The
last of the race, "Old Prince" gave
everyone to understand that there was
something mysteriously grand about
the ancestors of the Hunts, but that
the present generation had sadly de-
generated.
Thomas Hunt, a direct descendant
of the cavalier, was a youth of seven
teen at the time of the battle of Bun
ker Hill. His mother hid his gun, so
fearful was she that he would enlist.
and run himself into some danger
She then retired for the night. quite
easy in her mind. Thomas found out
from a servant where his gun was
concealed. The door of the room be-
ing locked, he climbed into the win
dow from the outside, got the gun and
was off to the battlefield before dav-
light He was on the hill throughout
the whole day. Soon after Washing
ton gave him a commission, and he
remained in the army till his death
His brother William, on the day
OF the battle OF Bunker Hill, was act
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the upper crust whose sole claim to
gentility and refinement lay in title,
and the former possession of some
wealth. But this, which he had start
ed as a joke, he found to be too seri-
Gus an affair, when he realized that he
was dealing with a woman whose
breeding was of the best. And the
Hon. Carolina Southdown, on her part,
was quite as agreeably surprised, when
she looked at this young American"
Aunt Carolina, looking into the face
of Halliburton, felt herself impelled to
tell him all. And she did it-she gave
him the whole story from beginning
to end.
And now" she asked him as she fin
ished. what would you have done
yourself?"
Halliburton bowed. "Your course"
he said deferentially and with a world
of genuine respect in his manner, "was
the only course left to pursue" Aunt
Carolina breathed a sigh of relief.
And now" continued Halliburton,
with a strange smile on his face, for
he had suddenly made up his mind to
go through with the part he was play
ing, the question is, may come, and
if so, when?"
In twenty minutes more the parties
to this compact had exchanged refer
ences, which were satisfactory on
both sides, and Aunt Carolina, the
spinster 'Dowager," and Halliburton,
the Young American" had gone their
several ways. But young Halliburton
was not yet satisfied. while 1 am
about it," he said to himself 81 may
just as well run down this other one.
There's possibility that there'll be
some fun in that one"
A short time later, in another part
of town, he stepped up to a young and
business-like young person. Il beg
your pardon" he inquired, "but is this
-er-that is, are you Miss Church
Mouse?'"
The young lady rose hastily and
looked at him. YES" she returned.
''but-but-there must be some mis-
take. My-my notice referred solely
to members of the feminine"
Sex" RESPONDED Halliburton. Eek
actly, but
And" went on the young lady,
your answer was signed Mary With
erspoon.
Halliburton blushed Exactly" he
went on, somewhat awkwardly "one
one of my MONS de plume-er-I
should say, noms de guerre-er-that
is"
The young lady, whose poise was
excellent, executed a curt little bow.
Good day. Miss Mary Wither-
spoon" she said. And then immedi-
ately turned upon her heel and left
him.
Now" said Aunt Carolina South
down, two duys later, to Halliburton
as they drove in from the station,
"you-you will not forget that you
are one OF the Hsliburtons of Hert-
fordshire, and the only son-of my
mothers cousin. 1t Is quite impor-
tant, / assure you, for my niece knows
nothing Off
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By ELEANOR LEXINGTON.

The name Hunt is from the Saxon
word hunt" a wolf.
At one time, in the history of Great
Britain, this destructive animal so
abounded that it was the buiness of
every man to assist in discriminating
it. To this end the taxes in some coun-
ties were levied in VOLTS ears. Hence
the word hunting" which at first on
ly meant pursuing wolves; after
wards it came to mean the pursuit of
game generally.
Probably the Hunts took their name
from their prowess in the hunting
field.
The names Hunt, Hunte, Hunt.
Hunter, Hunting, Hunting, Hunting
ton, Hunton and Huntley, all have the
same origin. Hundt, Huntus, Hontus,
Hunding, Hundingus and Huntingas
are other old forms of this patro-
nymic.
One of the first of the name of
whom any record exists was Adam lie
Hunt, who lived at Nottingham, Eng
land in 1895. Ralph lie Hunt, who re-
fused the offer of knighthood, lived
in the fourteenth century. In the time
of Henry VIII, a Henry Hunte lived
in Yorkshire.
The first Earl of Huntington re-
ceived his title in return for services
rendered in the restoration of NAL
com Ill, on the defeat of the famous
Macbeth an 1857. His son, WaldeOf,
married niece of William the Con-
queror. Their daughter married David,
brother OF st. Maud, Queen of Eng
land. IL became King of Scotland
The first person of the name of
Hunt in this country was Ephraim
Hunt, who settled in Weymouth, Mas
sachusetts. He was a refugee from
the disastrous field of Marston Moor,
and his right name was Colonel Sir
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BY VIM. HAMILTON OSBORNE.
Copyright. 1908 by VIM. Hamilton Osborne.

! years" he repeated. He reseated him
| self listlessly at the window and pick
| ed up a morning paper, which with
| the exception Of the advertisements,
| he had already read through. Under
| the circumstances, therefore, ne
tackled the advertisements With a
curiosity that would have done credit
TO a Yankee or a woman. he first ex-
amned that column Of the paper
which, in America. and in England.
too. contains personals, spicy and
otherwise; those delicate bits of in
1uiry and answers inserted by ladies'
desiring husbands and by gentlemen
desiring wives; by sportive youths
who. having seen for the first time.
upon a tramcar or a coach, some OBJ
ject of especial admiration, seek to eX-
tend their admiration into acquaint-
ance, and acquaintance into friendship
Half way down the column he paused
with his finger on the page. This
one" he said aloud, lis not quite so
nervy as the rest BY Jove, I'll an
swer one or two of these. 1t will give
me a good sort of entertainment, and
who knows" he added with a laugh,
1T may get me into good society. after
ALL"
The published notice that he had Sc
lected read about like this:
EXCLUSIVE member of nobility will
introduce into exclusive society gentle
man or lady of wealth. instruction in
etiquette. Recommendation as to
character required. Terms must be of
the most liberal kind. Applicants
must be persons of some refinement;
strangers from other countries pre-
ferred. Address. Dowager, this office.
This young man with nothing to do
and therefore being fit agency for
the preparation of mischief-immedi-
ately answered this and one other such
notice.
Two days later by appointment he
entered the Metropole in London, and
with but little hesitation he picked out
a sprightly little lady who seemed to
be expecting him. He DOTTED his hat
and bowed.
Il am Young American" he an
nounced. The lady blushed. And
you?" he inquired.
Dear me-" exclaimed the lady some
what flustered, dear me. Yes. II
am 'Dowager.' There"
Now Halliburton was taken some
what aback, for originally he had ex-
pected that 'Dowager' would turn out
TO be some coarse representative of
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From American Medicine.

Overstudy and the nervous school
child-such are the topics earnestly
discussed by societies for the study
of school problems, by school superin-
tendents, teachers, parents, physicians
and by editorial writers. An eminent
professor of pedagogics in a vehement
address repeatedly demands that the
will of the bad school child shall be
broken" exactly as one breaks a
colt" This Rarey and cowboy type
of withdrawing divides 1.-The nervous
child" into four classes: l. With I'M
degrade mind, well-nourished, de-
structive and extremely violent when
angered, and even homicidal. 2. The
anemic, active, alert, overstrung boy,
liable to sullenness and even epileptic
fits when disciplined. 8. The high
strung, oversensitive girl, so sensitive
as almost to go insane in trying to do
right. 4. The vicious, self-assertive, ill
tempered boy with criminal tenden-
cies. Such i'll observations as this ar
CUES the poor diagnosis and treatment
we find. In some cities" the nervous
child is moving parents and physicians
to appeal for fewer hours in the schools
and less pressure. We do not much
believe in the intellect, the morals or
pedagogics of the colt-breakers or the
boy breakers. There are better ways
to break horse or a child than
to break its will. and the teacher
that entertains such diabolic theories
should be broken" The noteworthy
fact about the whole discussion is the
utter omission from a hundred papers
and editorials and discussions of the
most important element of the entire
matter. There are, II is true, many
other factors; there is really overstudy
and OWeTnTagEgTFa hTrf the Of
the nervous child which is ignored,
but which is as prolific a source Of
evil as perhaps all othO-~ combined,
Is eye strain,
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HERMAN MYERS, ]. ]. DALE,
President. Vice President
F. D. BLooDwoRTH, CASHIER
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DIRECTORS.
MILLS b. LANE.
WILLIAM ROGERS,
]. II. ESTILL.
H. D. STEVENS.
JOHN r. YOUNG.
EDWARD F. LOVELL
T. H. MCMILLAN.
J. H. HUNTER.
GEORGE J. MILLS.
E. T. CONFER.
LAWRENCE McNEILL
J. w. HUNT.
J. J. CUMMINGS.
3. r. BILLIARD.
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ing commissary.
A stirring story is told of his
bravery upon that eventful day. Am
munition was exhausted in the forti-
fication. Powder had arrived as far
as the valley swept by the guns of the
English vessels. There it stopped.
No one would venture to drive across
the intervening distance under fire to
fetch it.
At that moment a young man drove
up with pair of young, fiery horses,
who were almost maddened by the up
roar.
Mr. Hunt said that if he could bor-
row the horses he would bring the
powder to the hill. The owner of the
animals hesitated: the horses were
splendid ones and the ride was certain
destruction. Then he said:
IF Mr.. Hunt will risk his life I
won't refuse my horses" They were
at once hitched to the wagon of pow
der
Lashing the wild animals Hunt,
dashed across the valley. The danger
Gus passage was made three times, till
all the powder had been brought. Both
man and horses were unframed.
Among Hunts who are renowned in
various ways as writer's, poets, artists
or professional men, Leigh Hunts
name must at once occur to every one.
lie was not only poet but also one
of the most delightful of English es-
sayistS.
William Hunt was one of the crea-
tors of the English school of water
color painters. Ruskin says he was
the finest painter of still life that eevr
existed.
Walter Hunt has fame as the inven-
tor of the eye-pointed needle for the
sewing machine.
John Hunter. a surgeon and physi-
clan. is unrivalled in the annals of
medicine. On every anniversary of
his birth the Hunterian grafton, insti-
tuted in 1913, is delivered at the Royal
College of Surgeons, England. His
wife supplied the words for Haydn's
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When Lord SouthdoWn died his sur
viving family was the center at once
OF that typical tragedy of English life
THAT springs from the genteel habit Of
entailng properties.
The instant that the breath left his
body he and his were Immediately
stripped of the title Of the famous
Southdown estates in land. For these
vast estates had been conferred by
some ancestor upon Lord Southdown
and upon his heirs male.
Heirs male he lacked, and while his
soul was futtering away, the title to
the lands lowered for an instant in the
air and then swooped down upon
distant relative-some remote South
down unknown even to the late in
cumbent.
Lord SouthdOwn was not childless'
for he left behind him the Hon. Peggy
Southdown, fair slender and some -
years OF age And he left also his
worthy sister. the Hon. Carolina South
down, a gentle spinster of resource and
tact But when this gentle spinster
began to realize, as she did soon after
her brothers death, that her brothers
entire wealth was now the property OF
some one else, ner tact ana neT Ie-
source seemed incontinently to aban-
don her. However, she kept the news
from her fair and slender niece.
IF it were not for Peggy she kept
exclaiming TO herself, Il would not
mind I could get along. But Peg
gy-" With a mist floating before her
eyes the tender-hearted spinster watch
ed her young niece as she swung along
the green.
I'VE certainly must do something"
walled Aunt Carolina to herself
What can we do-what can we do?
Poor Peggy. She'A know it all too
soon. / must keep it from her while
/ can"
One day the Hon. Carolina was eX-
ceedingly befustered to receive a for
NAL looking package by the post. When
she had opened it, however, she ut
tered a sigh of relief. 1t was a brief
note from the London solicitors of the
new Lord SOuthdown stating that his
client would refrain from demanding
possession of his estate until some
time during the middle of the sum-
mer.
Thank goodness" CALCULATED Aunt
Carolina, this gives us plenty of time
10 turn around. And now 1 must get
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my wits together and. arrange some
plan of action"
Lady Carolina was good at arrange
ing anything, and she was past mis-
tress in the art of planning, but the
present situation put her to it beyond
any experience that she had ever had.
aunt Carolina was not a woman with
an immObile face, and though she told
herself that she was keeping her
secret well and safely from the Hon
orable Peggy, this same Peggy finally
put two and two together.
Poor Aunt Carolina" she said to
herself when she found it out, what
will she ever do2"
Now. on a certain memorable day In
her career, Aunt Carolina shut herself
UP in her rooms in the east wing, and
surreptitiously united a bundle When
she did so, every daily paper In the
Kingdom fell out of it, and Aunt Car
DINA began her systematic search for
profitable and dignified employment.
In the very first paper she tackled a
small notice in a corner attracted her
attention. She read it through and
then gasped with horror.
Dear me-" she exclaimed, that any
gentlewoman would so demean her
self. Wait, let me read that over
again." Then after reading it, she
shook her head.
would never, never do. 1 could never
do it, and if Peggy ever found it
out"
she continued her perusal. but ever
and anon she returned to that small
notice.
II wonder IL it would be so bad, y
she reasoned Perhaps l could man.
age to keep it from Peggy after all
And 1 could tell her that-that they
were-were distant cousins, or old
school frlends-or any thing" She
glanced about uncertainty. 1T is just
awful to think of it, but why not, af-
ter all Needs must when-when
there's Peggy to be considered. And
we'll have four months more here,
and in that time, why" Aunt Caro-
lima rose and taking a pair OF scissors
from her workbox, cut out the little
notice. 'I'll do it," she continued
firmly. 1T is awful. but I'll do it,"
Halliburton was a young man, who,
for time at least, had nothing to do.
He sat at one of the windows of his
rather expensive London lodgings,
yawned once or twice or thrice, and
then rose and stretched his arms
above his head, after the manner of
young men when all alone. He
frowned.
"Confound III" he exclaimed, this
is the first time in many years that
i've had absolutely nothing to do. 1
feel like a cat in a strange garret."
He Avas strong individual with a
bronzed complexion. HIS attire was Of
the cut and fashion of the season, but
there was about him an unconvention-
atty OF movement and appearance that
set him just a bit apart from other
London men.
Nothing 10 do for the nrat time in
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English canzonets. She wrote most of
the verses: the best known is MY
Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair The
brother of John was William Hunter,
who was born in 117S. He was the
first great teacher of anatomy in Eng
land.
The Hunts. as a family, have al
ways been noted for their fine appear
ance. Their type is Saxon, with blue
eyes, brown hair. nose of the Grecian
profile, seldom Roman or aquiline, and
a large. handsome mouth.
The arms of one branch of the Hunt
family is per pale, argent and sable,
a satire, counter-changed. Crest, a
lions head erased. per pale, argent
and sable, collared. gules, lined and
ringed, or.
The crest. in the early days of the
Hunt family, was always a VOLTS
head.
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Mrs. Long (who recommended a
servant)-"Yes. she was an excellent
girl in every way. except she would
initiate me in dress, and things like
that" Miss Short-"Ah, yes 1 no.
ticed she began doing it when she came
to me; but she's given it up now"
Mrs. Long-"I'm glad to hear it. l ex-
pect she saw she was making herself
ridiculous. Punch.
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CAPITAL, $25O,OOO.OO.
Surplus and Undivided Profits, S245,OOO
The National Bank
of Savannah.

Buys and sells Foreign Exchange
Foreign Coins, and Bank Notes.
Makes Cable Transfers to Foreign
Countries.
Issues Certificates of Deposit payable
at time specified or on demand with
out notice. on which it allows reas-
enable rate of interest.
Accounts solicited.
Correspondence invited.
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A CORNER IN ANCESTORS
THE HUNT FAMILY.

Title Conferred for Services Rendered in Defeating the
Famous Macbeth-Romantic Story Of the DaShing Cav
aIier Who Was knghted by Prince Rupert-His De-
scedannts in This Country Have Records Worthy of
Their Gallant Ancestor.
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The Way Of it.


Drop a tack on the floor In the
morning,
Look for 1t earnestly, patiently,
long,
And nearly always you will not
find 1t.
Needles and pins and tacks fall
wrong.
But away In the night, wheu the
lamp Is empty
Aud your shoes are lost, to that
room 60 back
You will not go" far till you'll
wish you hadn't,
For you'll tiud 1t sure, In your
foot-that tack,
We laugh at time,-at six teen,
But at sixty we have learned to
sigh
And, In the intervening years,
about our age we lie.
Whatever will become" of the
man who gets angry at the news
paper for having his name in 1t and
then gets angrier because 1t doesn' I
have his name?