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some squealing toward the end.
you as a cramp, / fancy
Ees, yes; il is 4 cramp.
|ell, you can hear what | say, any
Listen now, Can you remember
lnusual incident in your life just
the time your symptoms began7"
70, no; nothing
Ibink again,
am too i'll to think. -
Yell, then, Tn help you, Did any
come by poStl''
" postln
box by chance!''
m faIntiDg-l m gone.
listen, Holmes - There was a
rs If he was shaking the diving
and il was all | could do TO hold
4 quiet in my hiding place. "You
near me. You shall hear me. Do
]femember Il box-an ivory box r?
ne ON Wednesday. You opened it
you rcmemberl'
es, yes, | opened it. There was a
spring inside it. Some joke
NJ was no Joke, rs YOU will find to
rost-. You fool. YOU would have il
'fon have got it. Who asked you
Nes my PATH Ii YOU had left ne
would not have hurt YOU
femember, Holmes gasped. 1.-THE
II drew blood, This box-this
table. -
ne very one, by George. And il
as well leave the room in my
~ There goes yonr last shred o,
nee. But You have the truth now
and you can die with the
ledge that | killed you. You knew
uch OF the fate OF Victor Savage
I've sent you TO share il. You arc
near your end, Holmes. l will sit
md ! will watch you die
mes 8 voice had sunk to an almost
Nble whisper.
nat is thBt!' said Smith. ssTur,
~ gas, All, the shadows hcp;r
r do thcy3 Yes, ] will turn 4
~ l may see sou the BETTER III,
~ the room and the light sud
;. uIlgntcned. (" Is there any otho,
service that ] can do you, IN,
match and d cigarette.
early called out in my iov an,
ment. He was speaking in hi
~ voice--n little weak. perhaps
pe very voice | knew. There was /,
pause, and | felt that Culvcrto,
was standing in silent amaze
iooking down at his companion.
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By Geo. v. Hobart

spondent address him as a tan
go teacher?" friend wife said
slowly, and | could hear the ice
bergs grinding each other all
around us.
81 think ! can explain that"
Bunch put in quietly. Then
with the utmost deliberation he
looked lkey in the eye and said,
Mr.. Schwartz, its really none
of my business, but would yo,
mind telling me why you, real
estate dealer, should have a let
ter III your possession which is
addressed to you as tango
teacher? Answer me on your
fingers"
key delivered the goods.
in minute he had both paws
working overtime and such
knuckle-twisting no mortal man
ever indulged in before.
He says Bunch began to
interpret, THAT the letter is not
his. 1t is intended for Isadore
Schwartz, a wicked cousin of his
who Is victim Of the cabaret
habit. Mr.. Schwartz is now
complaining bitterly with his
fingers because his letters and
those intended for his renegade
cousin become mixed almost ev-
cry day. These mistakes are
made because the initials are
Identical. He also says that
he-hopes-the presence Of
this particular letter. in
his = possession = does - not
= offend the ladies' be-
cause while it is adj
dressed = to "a tango =
teacher = the contents = are
quite harmless being but
- "a small = bill - from -
the-dentist."
keys fingers kept on work.
ing nervously as though he felt
it his duty to wear them out,
and the perspiration rolled off
poor Bunch's forehead.
"Tell him to cease firing" l
said to Bunch; "he'll sprain his
fingers and lose his voice"
Ikey doubled up his eight fin
gers and two thumbs in one
final shout and subsided.
"I'm afraid we'll miss the
Sis train if we don't hurry"
said Peaches, and I could see
that the storm was over, al
though she still glanced suspi-
ciously at poor Ikey.
"And, Bunch, you and John
can come home with us now,
can't you?" Alice asked as they
started to float for the door.
Then Ikey cut in as we start
ed to follow the family parade,
"I'm hep to the situation. It's
a cutey, take it from little Ikey.
| I'll have to charge you $500 for
the sudden attack of deafness
then there's $19 for hardships
sustained by my finger joints
while conversing. The rest Of.
the hundred iron men Pm going
to keep as a souvenir of two
good-natured ginks who would
not know what to do with a
tango if they had one"
AS we pulled out of the May
onnaise / looked back at Ikey
to thank him with farewell
nod.
He was half way under the
table, holding both hands to his
sides and making funny faces at
the carpet.
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| naDer Svp1icafa0
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key tried to bend society double.

key tried to bend
went forward to meet friend
wife, her aunt and Alice.
They were as much surprised
as | was.
"It was such a delightful day
that Aunt Martha couldn't re-
sist the temptation to do a lit.
tie shopping" Peaches ratified
on; "and then we decided tc
come here for bit of luncheon
hello, Bunch! I'm so glad tc
see you! John, hadn't we bet.
ter take another table so that
your friendly conference may
not be interrupted?'
I hastened to assure Peaches
that it wasn't a conference al
all. We had met Mr.. Schwartz
quite by accident. Then | in.
troduced Ikey to the ladies.
He got up and did something
that was supposed to be a bow
but you couldn't tell whether
he was tying his shoe or com
ing down a stepladder.
When Ikey tried to bend {
society double he looked like
one of the pictures that goes
with rubber eXerciser. price
rs cents.
After they had ordered clut
sandwiches and coffee | ex
planned to Peaches and the 9th
ers that Mr.. Schwartz was
real estate dealer. Ikey begar
to swell up at once.
Bunch and | are going in
little deal with Mr.. Schwartz,
explained. "He knows the
real estate business backward
Mr.. Schwartz has a fad for col
lecting apartment houses. He
owns the largest assortment o1
people coops in the city. All the
modern improvements, too. Ho1
and cold windows, running gas
and noiseless janitors. Mr.
Schwartz is the inventor of the
idea of having two baths in ev
cry apartment so that the les
sees have less excuse for moi
being water broke
Ikey never cracked a smile.
''In Mr.. Schwartz's apartment
houses" continued, while
Bunch kicked my shins under
the table, ''you will find self
freezing refrigerators and self
leaving servants. All the rooms
are light rooms, when you light
the gas. Two of his houses
overlook the park and all of
them overlook the building
laws. The floors are made of
concrete, so that if you want to
bring a horse in the parlor you
can do so without kicking off
the plaster in the flat below.
Every room has folding doors,
and when the water pipes burst
the janitor has folding arms"
"Quit your joshing, John;
you'll embarrass Mr.. Schwartz"
laughed Bunch somewhat nerv-
ously, but keys grin never
flickered.
SIS Mr.. Schwartz deaf and
dumb?" Peaches whispered.
"Intermittently So" I whis-
pered back; sometimes for
hours at a time he cannot speak
a word and can hear only the
loudest tones"
Aunt Martha heard my COM
ment on keys infrnlity and
was about to become intensely
sympathetic and tell him how
her brothers wife was cured
when Buncl, interrupted loudly
by asking after Uncle Peters
Never better" answered
Aunt Martha. "He has spent
all the morning arranging the
of dancing for our
little party. He insists upon
having the Virginia reel, the
old-fasioned waltz, the polka
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of those hatefully intimate new
dancesy'
'The same with me, Alice
friend wife chirped in. II be-
lieve if John were to suddenly
display ability to dance the tan
go I'd be broken-hearted. Nat
urally, I'd know that he must
have learned it with wicked
companion in some lawless cab
aret. And if he frequented
cabarets without my knowledge
oh, Alice, what would ] do"
/ looked at Bunch, he looked
at me and then we both looked
out the window.
"For my part" Alice went
on, 81 trust Bunch so implicitly
that | don't even question his
motive when he telephones me
he has to take dinner in town
with a prospective real estate
customer.
"And I know enough of hui
man nature" Peaches gurgled,
'to be sure that if either one of
them could tango he would be
crazy to show off at home. /
think we're very lucky, both Of
us, to have such steady-going
husbands, don't you, Alice"
At this point Aunt Martha
buzzed into the other room and
the caclle took on another COM
pleXion.
In the meantime Bunch and
I had passed away.
"It's cold turkey" | whis-
pered,
"I've been in the refrigerator
for ten minutes and Pm chilled
to the bone," Bunch whispered
back.
Can we get our coin away
from Ikey?' | asked.
The next afternoon we had
Ikey Schwartz for luncheon
with us at the ST. Astorbilt.
The idea being to dazzle him
and get a few of the iron men
back.
Leave everything to me" J"
Bunch growled as we shaved
our hats and Indian-filed to a
trough.
"A quart of happysuds, "
Bunch ordered. "How about it,
Ikey?"
Ilkey flashed a grin and tried
to swallow his palate, so it
wouldn't interfere with the wet
spell suggested by Bunch.
lkey belonged to the dis,
dose and dem" push.
Every long sentence he ut
tered was full Of splintered
grammar.
Every time Ikey opened his
word-chest the kings English
screamed for help and literature
got a kick in the Stats.
He was short and thin, but it
was a deceptive thinness. His
capacity for storing away free
liquids was awe-inspiring and a
sin.
l think Ikey must have been
hollow from the neck to the
ankles, with emergency bulk
heads in both feet.
His nose was shaped like a
quarter to six o'clock. 1t began
| in the middle and rushed both
ways as hard as it could. One
end of it ducked into his fore
head and never did come out.
His interior was sponge-lined
and when the bartenders began
to send them in fast Ikey would
lower an asbestos curtain to
keep the fumes away from his
brain.
Nobody ever saw Ikey at high
tide,
There was surely something
wrong with keys switchboard,
because he could wrap his sys-
! tenn around more Indian laugh
ing juice without getting lit up
than any other man in the
world.
But Ikey was the compliments
of the season, all right, all
right.
Ikey had spent most Of his
life being a bookmaker, and
when the racing game went out
of fashion he sat down and
tried to think what else he
could do. Nothing occurred to
him until one day he discovered
that he could push his feet
around in time 10 music, so he
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ready been expended in this develop
ment and the equipment and organiza-
tio.. for carrying on the work were in
fine condition and it would have been
economy for the State to have spent
about 800 600 year on the work for
two or three years and by that time
practically all of the patients at the
asylum in Columbia could have been
at the new institution in the country.
Tie people of the State would scarce
Iy submit to any proposition looking
to the discontinuance of this develop
ment after it has proceeded as far as
il has.
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31th session of this body and he was
present at its organization 81 years
ago and mas never missed a meeting.
At the last service that great audi
ence rose to do him honor, and we'll
they might, for when one looks into
his face one sees that Peace which
passeth all understanding" but
when one looks at his stopped should
ers and snow-white hair one realizes
tat he will soon lay his armor down
A sad feature Of tnis meeting is
the loss CT Miss Grace Vandiyer, who
has resigned her position as general
secretary. The great work done by
her in South Carolina for Sunday
schools will never be known here,
but will hereafter. She is to be mar
ried to a minister and IS going away
to Canada to live The association
secured the services Cf John Car
man, of Denver, Colo, to fill her
place From his appearance and
splendid talks they have chosen we'll
such an easy, quiet, gentle-looking
piece Of humanity, and such great
big heart. I~deed to know him is to
love him
Now, before we close our little eX-
perience at this great meeting, We
want to menticn the music. Oh, for
the tongues of men and of angels"
to talk about music Any of it is
sweet, from the lowliest to the great
esg. So when that great pianist from
away out West was playing MY
Jesus. I love thee with his varia-
tons and chimes, in drinking it in,
as the heart panteth after the water
brook we forgot that we were net
the only one present, but when It was
over, we looked and 10! there were
1000 other souls just as interested.
This is a good old world if We
make it that way, but they tell US
there is a better place, and if some
time, somewhere, am ever good
enough to slip into that place it will
be from an inspiration from music,
and maybe they viii! let me sit at the
feet of that great Choir and help
them sing Praise God from whom
all blessings f1ow.'
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hand that ever points the little ones
the way that is best.
One CT the good features Of this
meeting was that one couldn't tell
"who was who" There were Shout
ing Meth2dists, "Watery Baptists, y
"Stiff-Necked' Presbyterians and
EpiscopaIians, the Lutherans. the
Christians, etc. q don't know all
their names). You had no way Of
thei? first names. You had nod way OF
telling to which church any belonged.
All were working for the same great
cause. So many people of different
denominations mingling so happily
together, teaching each other things
that are noble and best wondered
if it didn't look Heavenly. for isn't
Heaven interdenominational?
We would like 50 much to tell Of
the different ones who came from a
distance to lecture-some Of them
crossing the continent-but as We
couldn't do the subject justice will
rot attempt it. We wish We knew
that we would some day hear these
good people again. Their whole be-
ing seems to be enyeloped in this
great Sunday school work.
VIII mention a collection that was
taken at one Of the services for this
work. In few moments they raised
$4,000. which shows that there are
many great big hearts in our beloved
South Carolina.
Oconee people are proud of Prof.
Morrison, of Clemson College, and
the interest he is taking and good
work ne is doing in this Sunday
school work. He is a member Of the
executive committee and most ac-
tive one. His son was also at this
meeting and seems SO interested.
What is a more beautiful sight than
to see father and son, hand and hand,
working for Him?
I want to mention Rev. W. H. K.
Pendleton, an Episcopal minister
from Spartanburg. He is chairman
of the executive committee He must
be one of His best, for a more earn
est, consecrated looking man I have
never seen.
Now, T want to tell you about an
old soldier l saw at this meeting. He
sat next to the front pew at every
service. He is an inmate of the
home in Columbia This was the
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THE MERCHANTS SALESMAN.

This is the opinion of a successful
merchant:
Newspaper advertising is your best
salesman. When times are dull keep
up your advertising and increase your
space in the papers from time to
time"
The paragraph aboye quoted is the
advice given the delegates attending
the last session of the National Shoe
Retailers associations convention in
New York last week by William Laird,
of Pittsburgh. 1t was based ,on a sue
cessful business career of more than
80 years.
advertising gives your customers
confidence in you and increases your
confidence in yourself" continued Mr.
Laird, in his paper on How to Make
the Shoe Man More Successful" "It
is profitable investment in every sea-
son, and to lessen your advertising
space in dull times is i'll advised and
often costly. y.'-Winston- Salem, (N. CO.
Journal.
There is no doubt about the truth
of the statements in the above You
may stop long enough to recall the
merchants who are the most success
ful and you will frd them among the
merchants who knew how to use news
paper space and who used it. Look
around you in your own town and an
swer the questions We mean you,
Mr.. Merchant.
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l wonder how many farmers have
realized how little trouble it would be
and how much good would be done,
and how li;tle expense it would be ii
they would take a split-log drag and
dray the roads for a few
miles after this freeze-Mountville cor.
Laurensville Herald, GOTH
They are afraid some one else will
get a little more benefit of the good
road than they will and that those
other fellows will no: do quite as
much dragging. If we could just get
our people a little bit out of them
selves. Just get them to see beyond
the. corner of their lot fence. Good
dragging of all the roads as soon as
sufficiently dry would help so much.
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WAS GREAT INSPIRATION
Sunday School Convention Proved to
Be Great Gathering.

Keowee (Walhalla) Courior, 18th.
Editor Keowee Courier: Did you
ever get so full of enthusiasm over
any particular thing that you just
had to tell somebody about it?
was fortunate enough to be one OF
the 80 who went from Oconee to the
Sunday School Convention at Ander-
son last week, and in some kind Of a
way I would like to tell somebody q
little Of what I saw and heard while
there
To begin with, I presume there was
plenty of other cities IN South Car
olina that can and will do as much
for visitors, but I am sure they could
not do more. They did everything
possible to be done for the entertain
ment and pleasure of the 500 dele
gates and several hundred visitors.
Three cheers for Anderson. We shall
always love them.
The meeting was held at the First
Baptist church. They have an en-
rollment of 200 members-and no
wonder! If they haven't a live wire
for a pastor l never saw one. He re-
minds one of a ray of sunshine i'm
med;ately after a storm.
l wish l had the words to tell
something about everything that was
said at this great meeting, but will
have to leave that for somebody else
to do. A more cordial welcome was
rever gives than by Porter Whaley,
secretary of the Chamber Of Com
merce, in behalf of the city, and by
DR.. J. F. Vines, pastor of the First
Baptist church, in behalf of the Min
ister.aI Union. We realize then and
there that We indeed were in a
goodly place.
Rev. W. l. Herbert, of Sumter,
president of the Sunday School Con-
yention, filled the chair most ably.
LAS he won't see these lines we would
like to add that he is considered the
handsomest man in the South Caro-
lima (MethodisD Conference, and his
goodness exceeds his looks, Which is
far better.
There were so many splindid lee
lures that each one We heard We
thought that one best If there is
any other way known among men,
other than was told there, as to how
Ito reach children and how to teach
them, l wonder what it is. One of
the things most forcibly expressed
was the saving of the child while
young, such small per cent of them
ever being reached after the age of
i21, and the best way outside Of the
home to reach them was through the
Sunday school.
So much was said about the great
responsibility that rests on the Sun
day school teacher. What great
work there is for them to do if they
do their duty in teaching the chill
dren given over to their care-ia
many instances theirs being the only
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hurches, Methodist and Presbyterian,

churches, Methodist and Presbyterian,
Of a small town.
Children's meetings were held every
day at the close of school, first in one
church and then in the other.
One day TWO girls who attended the
Presbyterian church We're discussing
the meeting which was to be held in
the Methodist church that afternoon,
when Mary asked:
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The legislature adjourned on Thurs
day after a session of nearly eight
weeks. There will be very little con-
structive legislation TO be placed to
the credit Of this general assembly
The house sent to the. senate the larg-
est appropriation bill ever passed by
the South Carolina legislature. The
senate struck out about 100000 and
after about three days in free confer
ence, the house practically agreed to
all of the senate amendments, but even
then the appropriation bill carries
more than 100000.
Even with this the most construc-
tive work in which the State has been
engaged for the past several years will
be discontinued, at least for year, on
account of the legislature failing to
make an appropriation to carry it on.
We refer to the development of the
modern asylum at State Park for the
proper care of the unfortunate wards
of the State. About s25O,OOO has al
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Wonder how many more are going
to enter the race for lieutenant gov
ernor. 1t is a very nice job, and then
the governor might die or be elected to
the United States senate. There are
possibilities in the job.
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The Herald and News today prints
the county supply bill for Newberry
county which includes appropriations
made by the legislature. This is a
matter of considerable local interest
and contains ne IS that the people Of
Newberry county are interested in.
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The , cent rate bill with number
of other bills died in the senate on
Wednesday night without ever having
reached a vote
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Friday, Marlh 6, 1914.

The Fortner bill to prevent white
teachers in negro schools died in the
senate.
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There we're lively scenes in the
house en- Wednesday night. No one
was hurt,
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What would you do if they should
ask you to pray?'
81 wouldn't do it, answered Martha.
I'D just tell them I'm a Presbyterian. :"
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Not WithStereOptfcOn Views.

London SketcL
The policeman Where are you &C.
ing this time Of night?
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to
a elcture.
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4 Small Girls Getaway.

Harpers.
An evangelist was once conducting
joint revival meetings in the two