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CHAPTER XIV.
The Dragon Takes a Hand.

The company's automobile honked
outside. Hardin frowned across the
table at his. wife. You're surely not
going such a night as thisf'
Gerty gave one of her light, elusive
shrugS. No need to answer Tom when
he was in one of his black moods.
This was the first word he had spoken
since he had entered the tent. She
had warned Innes by a lifted eye
brow-they must be careful not to
provoke him. Something had gone
wrong at the office, of coursei How
much longer could she stand his hui
mors, these CHASTITY silent dinners?
The river on a rampage. and we
go for a driveI" jeered Hardin
The flood was not SeriouS-yet
Tom loved to cry wolf - No one
was alarmed in town-Patton, Mrs.
Youngberg. would have told her. Of
course, one never knew what that
dreadful river would do next, but if
one had to wait always TO see what
the rivers next prank would be, one
would never get anywhere
Innes was leaving the table. well,
I suppose I should be flashing on my
hat" Gerty's pretty lips hardened as
the girl left the tent. These Hardins
always loved to spoil Ger enjoyment.
They would like her to ne a nun, a
clustered num-
AT the opening of tie door, the
wind tore the pictures from the piano.
Gerty ran into her room, shutting
herself in against further argument.
She came back into the room, pow
dered and heavily yelled against the
wind. A heavy winter ulster covered
the new null gown which she had not
worn at supper, though lines could
have helped her with the hooks. But
there was always so much tall about
everything
They had to face the gale as the
machine swept down the wind-crazcri
street.
1t was too bad to have a night like
this And all her work-Tom and
his sister would have 1t go for moth
ingl She was made of stubborner
stuff than that. Life had been deal
would not drop out of the game, ac-
kDOWIeUSe herself Do8ISU-luck would
turn, she would get better cards.
In the hall of the Desert hotel, the
party was assembling. Mrs. Hardin's
rowing eye secured the hall. Richard
was not there. Patton called her from
the desk. Some one wanted her at
the telephone. 1t was Richard, of
course, at the office: to say he had
been detained. The fear which had
been chilling her passed by.
1t was not Richard on the wire, but
Mrs. Hatfield, lOquacious and coquet-
fish. She urged frightful neuralgia,
and hoped that she was not putting
her hostess to any inconvenience at
this last moment. She wanted to
prolong the cOnversation-had the
guests all come? Were they really
going? Then she must be getting old,
for a night like this dismayed her
Gerty felt her goodnight was rudely
abrupt. But was she TO stand there
Cabling all night her guests wait
ing?
She prayed that Richard would be
there when she returned. What q
travesty if the guest of honor should
heri Though he was not
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among the different groups, her con-
fidence in his punctiliousness reas-
sured her. She must hold them q lit
tie longer She fitted gaily from one
standing group to another. Her eyes
constantly questioned the clock.
How long are you going to wait
for Mrs. Hatfield?" Her husband
came up, protesting.
Mrs. Hatfield" she explained dis
family, sis not coming. We are wait
ing for Mr.. Richard"
HE didn't come in on that train /;
he's at the Heading" Hardin added
something about trouble at the intake,
but Gerry did not heed. Tom had
known and had not told her when
there was yet time to call 1t on!
"A pretty time to tell mel" Had
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HARDNS LUCK? HARDLY, THINKS RICHARD, AS HE
FORESEES DISASTER FROM CARELESsNESS OF
HIS PREDECESSOR.

the Overland Pacific is
a at the
embarras
college married Gey Holmes with whom Rickad
Richard
to
is
her jealous Gerty
in
IS
o.
a gate 10
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Then he began to speculate as he
cooled over the trouble up yonder. A
whole city burning? They would sure
ly get it under control. He began to
think of the isolation; the telegraph
wires all down. That might happen
anywhere! He walked to the door
and looked thoughtfully at the com
pany's big water tower. That wasn't
such bad idea! He picked up his
hat. ana went out.
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Going Back on the Transport.

Airnat-Say. Cob, what's that thing
they call the crow's-nest for?
, SailOr-Aw, that's where the captain
takes his bath.
Airnat-WeIl. didn't know. / sup
posed il was where they kept the sail
Jrs' brains and socks while on voyage.
From Plane News.
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By
EDNAH
AIKEN


We'll" remarked her husband. II
only hope something will happen to
prevent it"
Toni" exclaimed Gerty Hardin.
What a dreadful thing to say. That
sounds like n curse. You make my
blood run cold.'
'Shu!' said Hardin, picking up his
hat. THAT was no curse. You
wouldn't go if it rained, would your"
"Oh, rain: :" She shrugged at that
possibility
well, You wouldn't go if the wind
blows!" retorted Hardin, leaving the
room.
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Reechers Prophecv About RrookIyn.

In 1858. in one of his sermons, Mr..
Beecher is reported To have said: 1T
will not be many years before Brook
lyn win contain as many inhabitants
sS the whole continent did at the time
IF the Revolution. ! believe Brooklyn
Il destined to have population of two
1r three million souls" Brooklyn now
has 100000 inhabitants, and it is
leading the five boroughs in the num-
Der of registered voters.
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DON'T Forget cu.ieura TaIeum

When adding TO your toilet requisites
An exquisitely scented face, skin. baby
and busting powder and perfume, rem
iering other perfumes superfiuous
You may rely on ii because one Of the
Cuticura Trio (Soap. Ointment and
Talcum). 25c each everywhere-Adv
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What will Richard think when
he reaches the leVee to find Har-
din gone on melodramatic, If
useful, dash up the river, leaving
the men fighting the rising river
Ieaderless and disorga
innes grasps the situation and
jumps into the breach. Don't
miss the next installment.
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Evanqellne.

Longfellow's beautiful story is not
historical. 1t was based on the fact
of the expulsion of the Acadians from
Grand Pre-. but beyond that the storS
Ia fiction.
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A man seldom gives his health n
thought until after he loses il.
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To keep clean and healthy take Doctor
liver. bowels and stomach. Adv.
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IT costs Holland annually s., 900 900
70 maintain it's sea dikes.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-03-31
M A r K E 7 s

New York, March 31.-The cotton
market was nervous and irregular at
the outset today on the reports OF
better weather in the South, and
lower Liverpool cables. The OPEN
ing was steady at a decline of from
35 to 40 points on the old, and from
thre to twenty-five on the new de-
1iveries under liquidation of the new
style, and after selling off to 24.53
for May rallied to within nine points
of Saturdays close.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-03-31
WAS AK|NG
TOO SOON
Kaiser Admits He Made Mis-
takes. Would Destroy Him
self Before Standing Trial
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR w

Amerongen, Holland, March 81
''I have made mistakes. I see now
where I might have done better,
but consider my difficulties. l
came to the throne too young. 1
really succeeded my grandfather,
the hundred days of my fathers
reign do not count. 1 succeeded
my grandfather and I found myself
surrounded by his statesmen. They
were all old men. They regarded
me as boy. They treated me with
amused tolerance which the old men
in those days employed toward their
youngsters. 1t was really insuffer
able. I determined to assert my
power. The opposition
I encountered made me headstrong.
I can see now how bad it was for
me. became impatient, intemper-
ate, but in spite of my faults 1 did
help Germany to grow to greater
power. and I kept the peace for
many years, and if Russia had not
betrayed the world there would be
peace now. have made mistakes,
but no man is more innocent of this
war than l."
"I did not want the war Nichol-
as did not want the war. George
did not want the war. No ruler
wanted the war. We were all dead
against the war. War was made by
the dip1omatists. The whole guilt
of the war rests on the Russian
Government, and there were secret
forces at work in the Russian Gov
enment."
The Kaiser is entirely impenitent
He is only convined of his innoo-
cence. He sees himself as one who
strove harder than any man in the
world to avert war. AS for being
!, put on his trial he laughs at such
an idea. If he thought
he was to be arraigned before an in
ternational tribunal he would de-
stroy himself, not cut of fear of the
result of such a trial, but because
he would regard such an ordeal as
insufferably undignif1ed. He says:
ST am answerable for my conduct
only to God and God knows how I
strove, to my own peril and the per-
il of my throne, to avert the ca1ami-
ty of war"
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COTTON

New York, March 31.-Cotton fu-
lures opened steady. May old 23.S7,
New 24.70, July old 21.75, new
22.28, Oct. old 1880, new 20.30,
Dec. new 2O.O4, Jan. new 1887. At
noon May was 24.91 Spots 251-2.
STOCKS
New York, Wall Street, March 81.
Advances and declines at the out
set of today's stock market was SO
mixed as to indicate further confu-
sion of sentiment among the special
ties. Interest was attached to United
States Steel on account of the publ
cation of it's annual report. The
stock opened at slight loss, but
there was an immediate recovery be-
fore the end of the first half of hour.
ALI the shippings, Industrial Alcohol
and the Tobaccos were irregular.
while the Motors and equipments
rose moderately over last weeks
final prices.
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A PISTOL DUEL IN RALEIGH

Raleigh, N. c., March Slack
Bridgers, a grocer of this city has
been shot and killed, and Jesse
Snuggs is under arrest at a local
hospital suffering serious wound
in the breast as the result of pos
tol duel which occurred early this
morning in the store of Bridgers To-
Gated on the outskits of the town.
The store of Bridgers was enter
ed and robbed twice last week, and
last night he secretted himself in
the building in order to wait for the
intruders. About two o'clock
Snuggs entered the store and was
fired on by Bridgers, who retuned
the Shots Two bullets stuck Brid-
gers in the abdomen. and head,
while Snuggs received one from
Bridgers pistol in the breast.
According to the police Snuggs
claims that he was passing the store
and noticed the door was standing
open and stepped inside to see what
was the matter. When he did he
was fired upon and in the darkness
fired at the flashes of light from the
other pistol. Bridgers leaves a wife
and several children.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-03-31
CROSS ROADS ITEMS

Mr. J. R. Ethridge and wife spent
Sunday with his son, G. L. Eth
ridge.
Miss Minnie Scott spent Saturday
night with Mrs. j. F. Deans.
Misses Minnie and Margaret
Wells spent Sunday with Miss Rosa
and Miss Minnie Deans.
Mr.. L. G. Deans and Mr.. J. A.
Davis went fishing Thursday night
and caught three shads.
Mrs. S. F. Winborn spent Fri
day p. m. with Mrs G. r. Morris.
Mrs. G. R. Morris spent Friday a.
m. with Mrs. E. B. Williamson.
Mr.. Wiley D. Ellis was the guest
of Miss Mary Ethridge Sunday.
Miss Minnie Williamson spent
Saturday night with Miss Mary Eth
ridge.
Miss Alice Lee Jordan and Miss
Pearl Ethridge and little Susie
spent Sunday with Miss Gertrude
Williamson.
Master Robert and Vernon Eth
ridge spent Sunday with Stepher
Williamson.
Miss Earl Ethridge and Miss
Mary May Williamson spent Sunday
with Lila Williason.
Mr.. Fate Boswell and wife spent
| Sunday with Mrs. Johnnie Ellis.
Mr.. Clyde Joyner spent Sunday
night with his uncle.
Mrs. G. A. Boykin spent Sunda.
In Lucama.
Mrs. L. C.xDeans visited Mrs.
r. Ethridge Saturday night.
| We are glad to know the farm
ers are getting along fine will
plowing.
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PROVIDES FOR HEALTH DEPT.

The officials of Vance county
have made provisions for the organ
ization and conduction of a full
time county health department. The
department has been arranged for
by the cooperation of the county
with the State and International
Health Boards and a three-year
plan of work has Leen agreed upon.
A health officer will be selected in
the near future to take charge of
the department, the offices of which
will be located at Henderson.
Vance will be one of ten counties
in which the State Board of Health
is assisting in health work, the 9TH
er counties being Forsyth, David
son, Lenoir, Nash, Northampton,
Pitt, Robson, Rowan and Wilson.
The personnel of the Vance Health
Department will very likely consist
of health officer, an office assist
ant, and nurse for rural santa
tion and infant hygiene work. The
cooperation, of the State Board of
Health has been given to county
health work since July 1917 and
satisfactory results have been OBJ
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tanned in all the cooperating coun-
ties. An example Of what has been
accomplished is shown in the reduc-
tion in the death-rate from typhoid
fever. The average number of ty-
phoid deaths per year from 1914 to
1917 in the nine counties was 120,
and the death-rate was 352. Dur
ing 1913 there were only "a deaths
from typhoid in all nine of the
counties, the rate being only rs.
The State Board Of Health pre-
diets that the Vance Health Depart
ment will be one of the most sue
cessful in the State, since the coun-
ty has been interested in health
work for number of years and had
a whole-time health officer for two
years. The whole-time health work
in the county was suspended dur
ing the war.
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SUMMER SCHOOL AT NORTH
CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE

The fifth annual session of the
State College Summer School at
West Raleigh, N. c., will start June
10, and last through July %, 1919.
Arrangements have been made to
extend the scope Of the courses of
fered and, in addition to those,
courses offered for the benefit of the
teachers of the State, special atten-
tion will be given to courses to pre-
pare candidates for admission to col
lege and to Freshman credit courses.
A large and capable faculty has
been secured, and competent instruc-
ton is assured.
Courses in Education covering all
needs and requirements, have been
planned, as have courses in Elemen-
tary Agriculture, Vocational Agri-
culture, Home Economics, Basketry,
Languages, History, Mathematics
and Science.
A course of lectures for the cu1-
tural and recreational side of the
school life has been planned and
numerous features, including enter
tainments and moving pictures in the
Y. M. G. A. building, will be a part
of the privileges of those attending.
The usual storytelling circles and
games and folk-dances and commu-
nifty singing will be features held
frequently for the enjoyment of the
students, and pageants will be pre-
sented on July and at the end of
the session.
The preliminary announcement of
the Summer School is being distrib-
uted and the catalogue, which is
more attractively gotten up than
ever before will be ready shortly.
Already numerous reservations
have been made and a large and
successful school is anticipated.
G. F. MILLER.
March 2S, 1919.
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CENTENARY
CONVENTION
Methodist Church Which Meets
at Knoxville, Tenn, De-
scribed by Mr.. Ferguson
BREAD IS THE LIFE

The service yesterday morning at
the Methodist church was very in
teresting. Preceding an able SER
mon by Rev. w. A. Stanbury, pas
tor of the church, Mr.. B. T. Fergu-
son made an eloquent appeal for
the Tri-State Centenary of the
church, a campaign on for the pur-
pose of raising $35,OOO,OO0 to ex-
tend the various activities of the
church. The Centenary drive will
be discussed in all it's aspects at
Knoxville, Tenn, April 10 and 18th
when 500 laymen from North Car
olina, Tennessee and Virginia meet
for this purpose, and the program
will be gone over from the view
point of the area, district and local
church.
Mr.. Ferguson made an eloquent
appeal for the movement. He
graphically described the condition
of the world today. He drew a
wonderful picture of the war torn,
devastated countries of Europe and
of the people moving distractedly
without a beacon of light to guide
them. The church must save the
world, he pleaded, from ignorance
and the sway of the passions that
are now running riot.
This idea was voiced in the splen-
did sermon of Mr.. Stanbury which
followed. His subject was God
and Bread,'' and taking as his text
the example set before us of the
temptation of the Savior after fast
ing for forty days. He explained
that this was to show us that even
when a man hungered as did the
Savior that bread was not the only
thing that would help or satisfy the
craving of the soul.
Here was the Savior hungry and
weak from his long fast, and in that
condition where he was most vul-
nerable against the shafts of the
evil one. Around him were lying
the tantalizing stones of the will
derness which, made in the shape of
bread, appealed strongly to the
physical or natural side of his ma
ture.
But the Savior knew that obedi-
ence to His Father and confidence
in Him were above and beyond the
satisfying of the appetite and so
his reply, 'tThou shalt not tempt the
Lord thy God, for it is written,
"Thou shalt not live by bread alone
but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth Of God"
The world today is crying for
bread and it is hungry and Ameri-
ca is called upon to feed the mil
lions of Europe until order can be
restored and the people can resume
their wonted avocations. But is
bread all they need, and is natural
bread all we need here in America?
We look after natural things and
some believe that if money is piled
up and barns are filed that is all
required, but the answer comes to
many and when least expected
''This day thy soul is required OF
thee"
Mr.. Stanbury eloquently pleaded
more religious zeal in the commu-
nifty, a deeper reverence for God
and for his son. who came to give
his eternal life. These found their
ria r.onord On tic
faction.
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AMERICAN RED CROSS

A fully perfected program of work
is ready for the Junior members of
the Red Cross and this department
bids fair to be one of the most influ-
entail in the great national organi-
zation.
The Department of Junior mem
bership has received the unqualified
Endorsement of p. P. Claxon, Unit
ed States Commissioner of Educa-
tion and of DR.. G. D. Strayer, Pres
ident Of the National Educational
Association, an organization which
public school system of the United
States. These Endorsements alone
would indicate the attitude of the
educational world to the Junior Red
Cross, and the approval of national
Red Cross officials, leading minis
ters Of the gospel, statesmen and
prominent citizens in all walks of
life bear ample testimony to the
value of the Junior organization in
time of war.
There are some 100000 Junior
members in the Southern Division
and the many schools which include
Junior Red Cross as a part of the
regular curriculum will welcome the
Juniors.
In the Peace Program of the Red
Cross the Junior Red Cross which
has been a Bureau of the Department
of Development has been formally
made a separate Red Cross Depart
ment for the work of the children
of the schools of tie country may be
said to have passed beyond the "de-
ve1opment'' stage into that of actual
and progressive usefulness.
The new purposes of the Junior
Red Cross are: 1st-to furnish re-
lief to suffering children throughout
the world; 2nd-to stimulate activ-
tiles appropriate to the spirit of the
American Red Cross; 3rd-to devel-
op an international understanding
and good will made necessary by the
new world conditions resulting from
the war; 4th-to provide motives for
purposefu1 and useful school activi-
ties and 5th-to incu1cate ideals and
habits Of service.
The terrible suffering in Europe
among millions of children must
continue for some time to come be-
cause of war conditions, but it is the
plan of the Junior Red Cross Off
cials to enlist the service and the
sympathy of the children of America
in relieving this suffering as far as
possible. Care given to the foreign
chillren today determine the actual
preservation of the race in some in
stances, and every agency by which
this care may be given fully, eff
cfently and quickly must be en-
ployed. The Junior membership OF
the Red Cross is to be used as chief
element in this rebuilding of the
world" Every activity in which the
Juniors have engaged which is OF
n productive character is to De con-
tfaued and the results used tc give
aid to the stricken children OF
Europe.
The Junior Red Cross members
of today become the adult Red Gross
members Of the future, and as such
they carry the spirit of service into
the field where it is most needed.
=
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THE FRENCH
NEWSPAPERS
Contend Germany Must Dis
mantle Forts on This Side
Rhine. and Hold Other
UNTIL INDEMNITY is PAID

Paris, March 31.-The probabil-
ity that important final decisions
will be reached this week by the
Peace Conference as indicated by
the tone of the French press which
declares that the safety of France
and the world lies in the disman-
telling of the German forts on the
right bank of the Rhine and the re-
tention of the west bank of the
Rhine until the indemnities are all
paid.