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: j~ THE DAILY SHORT STORY The Time Clock. By IZOLA FORRESTER. *" X L (Copyright, 1919, oy the MoClure Newspaper Byndlcate.) ggr-|-iBLti her to oome In," orilered Helen, and gate her attention ( ' * fully to what the assistant sales manager was trying to tell her. . "What you need here Is a good all\ around htislness manager. Mist Rani dall. You're tired out from overwork n ana need a rest. Helen laughed, glancing up at the i: ' clock. "A fine chance I hare ever to rest, Mr. Warner. See that the Altoona i agency Is punched up. They fell below laat month. And you'd better get aft| er the Fort Wayne bunch, too. Tucker thinks all he has to do Is draw his salary." The door opened and closed behind her, and she saw Warner look up In < " surprise at somebody behind her ' chair. Then the newcomer stepped fi around the desk, and she saw six-footone of sound soldier standing before her In the marine uniform. "Yes?" Helen asked. "Did you wish to see me?" / "I answered the ad. Shipping clerk. It said. 1 think I can fUl It all right." Helen stared at him. He was tahned and self-possessed, steady eyed, well poised, and yet she noted the lines of anxiety around hla mouth and eyes. Warner went back to the outer office, and she questioned the applicant. He was from Texas, he told her. It was a long way back home, and he had to get work at once at something. * I "What were you before you went I away?" she asked him. "Sales manager for Searles A Saunders In Austin." | Helen pursed her lips. She bad been "forelady" In the white goods stock room then. Fortunes of war had placed her perforce at the big oak desk in the t main office, and she was tired out, J tired of being a hustler, tired of business and time clocks and the steady, avarl&Mln* iIHva nf mmw?nHU ufa . .wwn~a >iw ? wvavcawtuv *??Wl "Do you like this tort of work?" ihe iked. "I like to<wln out-at anything," he (kid shortly. "Irs the making good I that counts." "Tou can go-down and tell Warner tit's all right. He'll introduce you to Doran, the manager or the shipping department. I'll tell Mr. Tuttle I took you on." All that afternoon she thought or him. He was so different to the men around the otrice. Even Tuttle himselt, when he came In as usual, about 3, alter a lunch at some uptown hotel, seemed tutlle beside him. She measured him with a new appraising glance when he came toward her smilingly. "Don't work too hard, girlie. How are they coming today?" "All right." She bent over her papers. "Say, Mr. Tuttle, could I take my vacation early this year? I'm tired out." "Take it .when I do, In July, and I'll see that you get a good rest. He sat down on the corner or her desk, smoking comfortably. "My sister's got a little bungalow down at Rockaway. Suppose you, stay there. I'll let you and Nell have a car, too. I've told her about you. Told her you'll probably be partner here before you got through; how about It?" Helen rose Impulsively, and laughed back at him. It was not the first time be had Intimated that he had his plans for the future, and before, In the tired days, she had almost listened It f ' wouldn't be so bad, after all, she bad reasoned, to rest and have plenty ot time and money to do all the things bub naa longed to do. Hut now It seemed as It all ber world had changed Just because one soldier boy had stood there In the office and had brought with him something of another life where labor was not all. v. Tuttle did not notice anything between them for weeks. She took her lunch down In a little quiet Qreek restaurant oft Fourth avenue, and here one day she found her soldier at the next table. They bowed, and Helen amlled over at him in a comradely way. "Getting along all right?" "While It lasts," he answered grimly. "I've got a chance to go home, but not in the city. Another friend of mlno is going on a ranch, and wants me to go Into partnership with him." "Why don't you?" she asked suddenly, ""I would If I had the chance. must be glorious to bo free like' After that day they wero friends, and usually had lunch together. Tut? ' tie never guessed why the color roso In her cheeks as she refused his of+A litaak -> ? uyiuna, auu inti uays lipped by Into weeks. Helen began to feel as It she knew that ranch. Steve brought his friend to meet her, a husky Texan boy. with high hopes *.bd plenty of muscle to carry them oat. 'Gee, I wouldn't be found dead here la. New York." he Bald joyously. "Nobody ever says hello to you; nobody oarei whether you eat or starve.. I'm for home quick. Steve, say yon like It down there, too?" Steve looked out of the window with sudden lntentness. and. Helen's voice Was a bit unsteady as she answered: Td love to go It I had the, chance like you boys. ? Here we all llvebyUhe I time dock." TWo days later ebe heard-Tuttle Cpurdtng with somebody out in the corridor. The other voice was deep '' and low. She did not recognise It watt VkrHT bunt in asked excitedly tw cold welter and * itowd. She did V Wbfc Hiwtet Mm, hat walmd tor TntwS Oe hftOBsH, sensing tmnbde. TWttJe wu tens* Sawn nnnnffldng Ut hie smaShsfl Item,'" tfl? <nffine any bOBMrtrsfl "oeetaBs. TMM' TPbffb tptilTffte itn 3m wanrasor? Wtt nmfl si^lteji na>. "Hf yinih? ahhflsle^y <df hmtng JBitttTmr Itmra jycni'Jl mat mit igjilng <out tro nundh -with "the '.Khijv?Mg <dftrtk'." the said jnttttngly. 'Ukn tgdlsg farther dhon that with htm'." 3?dt*n hose -and Ihuiketl QVfrr :n' '"flto IPsaaB, J auppigg? Tfaase hdl'ldee itn tunfturin utnme ailong mini ntlli . vnu Wtifa tthlntr aSl its ' w? tthtoic off 11b wdhut tttsgr aw. AND FAN KEEPING~AI ON M Mian Hannah Patterson, recently awarded the Distinguished Senrlce Medal for work aa aaalstant director of the Council for National Defense, has Just been appointed a member of the advisory committee of the War Rllklnsu ranee Bureau. During the war the number of women workers In Germany Increased enormously. between eight and nine millions being employed. The chief Increase of women workers was In munition making, smelting and engineering. Miss Emma O. Lundberg and Walter Treadway of the children's bureau have made a surrey of the mental defectives in Sussex county, Delaware, which reerala a native American population with 12 defectives per thousand population between the ageB of 6 and 20 . No provision whatever Is made for tbelr care or teaching except the couhty almhouse. Mrs. Raymond BoBins, social worker, declares the new minimum wage for womdn just established In the District of Columdla, 1b too low. The new minimum Is )16.50. Miss Rob || i-ojnmtsnreei by tra i My Suspicions Gather About My Rlvi Jealousy made my ugly suspicion about Katherlne Miller thrive like a weed In a warm rain. Baby Barbara had Katherlne'B peculiar tint of blond loveliness, Thero was a strange tawny glow in the child's skin as well as In her hair. And Katherlne had both Tare beauties. She was truly "a golden girl" of the type which drives artists mad with admiration. The type Is found but once In a decade. I had neVer seen the tigerish yellow tinge ot skin except in Katherlne and Baby Barbara. I chlded myself on founding to wretched a suspicion on the strange resemblance. Yet I continued to strengthen my theory with the facts a/bout the time of Katherlne's disappearance from the city and her long absence. The dates coincided very oddly with thu Important dates In Barbara's short life. Only rarely had Katherlne made vis iib nomo in uio iasi lew years. It was part of tie petty gossip of her set that eho had stayed away because sbo couldn't live in peace with her sis tera. It suddenly occurred to me that she probably stayed away ibecause her family didn't aprprove of her for some reason they didn't advertise. None of her girl friends had over taken her war work seriously. She , had been overseas, to be sure, but her , "dearest" friends agreed that she must have been more ornamental than useful in her war activities. When she had finally come home to stay, sho had selected a date when her family had gone to the mountains. A time. 1 told myself, when my precious Bob had also come to stay. 1 knew that it was perfectly horrid of me to piece these bits of gossip together, but I couldn't fall to see that they fitted each other like sections of a picture puzsle. while men like you stayed back here and made money. Oh, I know all about you, and I'm tired to death of you and your type, Bandy. I'd go with him in a minute if he asked me. but he hasn't." She stopped with a little hurt feeling in her throat as she started for the cloak rack. And there in the door stood Steve. He had heard her, she knew, but somehow she didn't care. And then came his voice, with Tuttle backed to the wall staring at them. "We're leaving New York Saturday. I meant to tell you. Helen, I'd bought two tickets on a through trip home." DDbb rtni\o Of every kind ? large and small In size?splendid In sbape, can be selected at The Mountain City Floral Shop. Always the beet In flowers for j the table decorations. Flowers for the j sick?Stork bouquets?corsage?and 1 flowers for the "only girl" arc here in ' splendid assortment. Store, 318 Monroe St. Phone 688-J.?Adv. < A SMASH UP 1 Sometimes accidents will happen to ' the most careful motor car drivers? but no matter bow serious the damage 1 we are preqrared to do the repair work. t Our plant la modern,two employ mas- 1 ter machinists only, who?are experts In tbis particular business. You pay 1 for what you get and you get what you ] pay for?understand? Ldherty Oarage i Company, Merchant St Phone 590.? i i ; 1 j & *i?Bae Ppp-gettj ($ ^Motiacowe CMj! v ;<SET#.rr!s | 1"^i? \ \ I * ? CIES FOf **0* a^?^wa> >.W V ?TE OMEN FOLKS bins, president ot tbe National Woman's Trade Union League, recommonds $18 weekly at the lowest wage at which a woman may maintain health and working stridency. It's chief value she finds la that It will enable the women workers to organise far adequate wage demands and will *??>! ?A a?aw4a^)iw. = -?**? * kvuu ?v Dvauuoiuibc ?B|0 UUUUiLtVUB where now no standards whatever exist. The bureau of labor reports thai during the war school attendance fell off tremendously, partly because ol greatly increased child labor, and partly because 40,000 teachers left the schools to go Into better paid war employments. The end of 1916 In Japan found factory workers Including 666,669 women and 458,632 men. TTie women outnumbered the men by 260,000, and when divided into age groups girl children appear as almost five to one compared with boys. There were 6,671 little girls under 12 years of age at work, and 87,709 girls between the ages of 12 and 16 at work as against only 19,664 boys. I and I Treasure My New Weapon. 1 resolved to oonceal my doubts of Katherine from everybody, I would not even confide In Mother Lorlmer. Once again 1 was reminded that mother was never more than coldly polite to Miss Miller. Could It be possible that she, too, had noted that extraordinary freak of coloring In th* girl and child? Mother Lorimer had adopted BenJle's baby Just before Bob went away to the war. Bob had hunted the child up and that long bunt bad kept htm from enlisting and had therefore added months to my happiness as a bride. Bob found the baby after Benjle was killed but had never revealed the name of Its mother. I began to suspect that he had never known it. In the winter the child developed an obBtinate cough following the measles and all summer had been kept with her nurse at a famous mountain sanitarium. She was about to come home. 1 decided It would be mighty Interesting to watch Katherine Miller when Barbara was around. I admitted to myself tkat my mistrust was probably unwarranted, nevertheless, I developed a new hardness toward Mdss Miller. Long ago 1 had resolved that 1 would never claim my rightful placo In the family as Bob's wife unless he should recognize me and love me again S3 his wife. 1 had told Daddy and mother that If Bob should recover, partially or wholly, and fall in love with another girl?fl would be divorced?for th.e antra r\f tiio tionnlnoou But tt wasn't possible for me to contemplate any such sacrifice. If Katherlne Miller were the girl. On the contrary, If my suspicion proved to be correct I had a weapon with which to vanquish my rival. I knew that I would not hesitate to use tt. The Story Lady "Mamma! Ma-mah! Make Peter leave our play-houBe alone!" ThiB was from Patty, and as no sound came from the house Peter pushed over a box that formed part of the wall of the house the twins were building. The twins waited for no more but with wild howls flung themselves on Petor. It was reters turn to yell for help and he lost no time. "Mamma, you make these kids loggo my hair. I never done nothtn' to their ol' house. Ouch! Mamma!" As there was still no sound from the house they stopped fighting and went to see about it. Generally, their ngat orougnt mamma to the scene at jnce. '"Where's mamma?" they demanded of Jane who was dusting. "I don't kpow but 1 just have the baby asleep and If you wake him there will he trouble." The children tip-toed through the bouse and no trace of mamma could Lhey find so they sought Norah In the kitchen, "I don't , know," said Norah sourly In answer to thelrmueatlon, "but I expect she's>run.oft. I would If I.had three kids that cut-up like youiklds do. Why I knew a-woman once that MDiGSOFTB *s- N A. 5 1 ? WOMAN ROMANCES of'a By ZOE BI (Oopyrltht, 191 (Dorothy, aged 26, it ipending the her job and S50O unmet on the chmrm the summer. These art her Utters home Lively Beach Hotel?Wednesday. I I guess Time Is haiy. I My dear Joan: I i 1 must write my heart out to you 1 or burst * ? 1 know you will hide this letter >?way with my, other rash 1 ; ones, and that whatever 1 say will l | get*no farther than that dear wise : head of yours that bee been my eoun' sal since we were bare-legged ttd- | 1 dies together In a oonirtry town. This, as nearly as I can remember, \ Is what he said to me tonight?John de OaUler. violinist and artlst-ln-love. 1 We wore sitting In an old life-boat | oh the beach, silver with moonlight De Galller had played at the hotel, I after days of beeseechlng by the women guests. I told him how dell- ; Clous the music was. I "I played for you," he said, taking 1 1 my hand so swiftly I couldn't prevent It?even If I wanted to. I The passion in his voice shook me. i I commanded myself with an effort "Where did you study?Paris?" "rl'Jis?dtaly?Vienna?everywhere. | Do you know Paris? Do you know ; Vienna? * Dorothy, forget that ] you are a conventionally reared Amer- | dean, and listen to me?to me, who i knows the world as you know your i little New York. I want you to see i Paris?" i "Doht, please?" I breke In. "You i muan't use this tone, really. It?it ter- i rifles me?I?" \ "Oh, you're going to listen! Don't pose; I bete It. You are human are i you not? Can't you see that 1 lore \ you?that with all the place I have ; been, all the women I have eVer met, i I have never lived till now, never car- : ed for any one of them?really? ; "Ldt us live! I want you to see i Parts as t know tt?the Alexandre ] bridge with the sunset on the golden 1 horses: the Eiffel Tower In the mist, 1 like a lace pyfamld with lta point dl?- 1 solved In the olonds; tbe boulevards on a golden afternoon when all tbe i world sup* Its wlne-and-water, tree i and happy, watching life swirl by. i i "I want you to see this moon on I the Lagoon In Venice, and hear the 1 tinkle of gutters and the calls of the i gondoliers as they pole their black run off and left three kids and after a I while their dad got tired of takln' care 1 of 'em and got 'em a step-ma and she sure made 'em toe the mark. Some | one seen tbe woman a long tlmo after and asked ber what made her do It. 1 She said that the kids just fought so i much that she had to get out or go i : crazy." ? The children went quietly out on the 1 porch and sat side by side In the swing. They were too scared to even cry. They burst Into wild sobB however c when mamma appeared about five ' mlnutds later, and she had hard work ' explaining to them that Bhe had been s to call on a sick neighbor. "Mamma," said PrUsy, hugging her * till she almost choked her, "would ' you run off an' leave us even If wa ' were Just awful bad?" B "Of course not," said mamma. But Peter shook his head soberly. "Let's not give her a chance, kids. If Just thlnkln' she was gone was so 1 bad what would It be like if she really t was to go?" i ?Helen Carpenter Moore. J r. ==l ' ? Worthington - ! I ? p j Surprise Donation Party. v Mr. and Mrs. George W. Andrews J entertained a large number of friends on Saturday evening by giving a do- ( nation party for the benefit of Mrs. J Mattle Smith whose husband was a victim of the flu last fall. Mrs. Smith s was the recipient of many valuable J presents. Those present were Georgia Barbe, Ada Brumage, E. L. Billings. ^ lea, Wllla Messenger, Delia Smith, v Maude Springston, C. R. Athn, Eliza- a beth Wood, Ella Taggart, Mlldrea ? rviclinin W Tir 1 o > ... ?, . I^uuaiu, VJCILlUae *> Bryan, Darlle Martin, Fred Billings- I lea, Etta Robinson, Janle Kunz, H. B. Berdlne, Zoa B. Sturm, Ola Oakes, ' Mary M. Martin, Audra Wood, Flor- ' ence Tetrlck, Chas. E. Pariah, Ora Maaon, Blanche McDanlel, F. M. Sharp, 1 Z. ?. Talklngton, Mra. Ella Halbritter and Mlsa Vanda Hallbritter. of Key- 1 aer, W. Va? the mother and'Slater of Mrs. Andrews; Misses Olive Morgan, 1 Buena and Ethel Davla.tMaxlne Barbe, Mazlne Oakea, Pauline-Smith,'Helen ^ Leonard, Marine and Genevieve An- C drews, and Mary'Harrison, the latter et Enterprise; Bryan-Jones, ot-Enter- t EE BUFFS?(TOM BAD ABi ni AND TH SUMMER GIRLI !GKLEY .9, N. E. A.) summer at Lively Beach, having staked of winning a suitable husband during to Joan, her chum.) icats round the corners of crumbling jalaces. I mutt you with me la Sorrento with its white road cut from, the rock winding along the coast! The water ,1b like. bright-blue i wine. and there.are old. old mohMtertea-inns tow'where one can live and?" 1 was turning dlxxy Joan. ,Hla voice 18 touch,.the things heeald,'the<wlld lancies he>called?up?frtgMenedlme. ! wrenched tmyeelf away'and tried* to rtae. He drew me back sharply. "SlUy child?I shall not harm*you. What are you afraid of? IB love eotooth Ing to fear? Don't you?wan tiki Vol "1?I don't know. You frighten mo because I don't know you. What and Who are you? What do fou mean, and why do you speak of love to me who am almost a Btranger Marriage U?" "Oh, marriage! Slavery. Mannade law. Stupid convention. Bonds More cruel, more repulsive than prlstn can devlael" I lelt myself growing cold from bead to Toot Joan. And yet I swear to rou I felt more terrified than shocked. I wanted him to go on. 1 wanted to knew what his life really waB?what tn.'sery of marriage could make him talk so. Yet he was asking me to do i hideout thing. I loathed him. and at the came time pltled.hkn. I recignlrod the wrong?and could not rid nyself of the spell his personality and fords wove round me. ''lloicthy ? little exquisite nindcnoleelle?hear what 1 say." iHe drooled his voice to a thrilling gentleness litd laid hie forehead against my tarn!. "Seme day I shall tell you the story. But promise me tonight that rou will think with your hear', und lot your mind ovef what I aak. * Rememlber nothing matters bnt love. : can give you that and much besides. tVe shall go back now, but tomorrow [ shall see you again." As we entered the hotel, Joan, a nan who plays In the hotel orchestra, i youth with traglo eyes, brushed by is. He looked at de Galller, then at Tie. lOEC und Tnnnnpho-lv T : hurried to my room, Joan. I shall ear further from that man, that last >ne. DOROTHY irlse; Marcus Barbe, Ray Smith, jynchtord Snodcrly and Ralph Wood. Death of an Infant. A two-months'-old son of Mr. and Urs. Q. H. Martin died on Tuesday norning at 4 o'clock. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday aftirnoon and interment wl* be made at Enterprise at 3 o'clock p. m. Road Work. The Keely Contracting company has ompleted the work of concreting the oad bed for the M. V. T. Co.. and the own has taken up the brick on the treet and aro now ready for the oonractor for the paving to get busy. Ve understand the Grant district work vlll be completed In one more day and hen the work In the town will be reumed. Personals. Misses Genevieve and Doris Parish eft for Denbo, Pa., near Brownsville, vhere they will spend their vacation dsitlng/ their cousin, Mrs. Warren tnglin. Mr. and Mrs. hid. McDougal were reek end visitors with MrB. McDou;al's father, U. G. Stutler, near Kilarm. Mr. and Mrs. William Evans, of Molongab, werv visiting with Mr. and drs. G. W. Martin on Tuesday. Mr. Evans recently returned from France rhere he was In the service with the Iritlsh army. Misses Jettle Barnes and Jessie Ehristle, of Fairmont, were guests of '1 Ibb Georgia McDanlel on Sunday. Mrs. Agne* Kelley, of Fairmont, was . Sunday Visitor with Mr. and Mrs. A. . McDanlel. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Anglln and son, Varren, Jr., of Brownsville, Pa., were isiting Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Parish ,t the "Ark" on Sunday. They were iccompanled by Mr. Parish's siBters. drs. Wesley Work and Miss Mollle 'artsh, of Kingmont. Joshua H. Holbert, of near Kllarm, ras a business caller here on Tueslay. Edgar Bock, of Farmlngton, wad Tinting relatives here on Tuesday. Thos. T. Hay, of Briscoe, was a buslless caller here on Monday. Lorenzo D. Smith, of near Wyatt, ras a business visitor hero 1 recently. Miss Clarice Oakes -was a week end isltor with Mr. and. Mrs.. Lawrence lain on Harter Hill. Mr.andMrs. Howard Gilmer, of Pesos, were callers In. town on Tuesday. MEffiEL OF LUCK)?BY-AJ - ? ? "4 5?*,,ffi88wE2?2^9 j ,v .?T^Yf ^ fttSijy^j * CiCsi j!y^ . >-vrH 'v&S*| E HOME ii ma <7 ?ti Simple St Most L Imagii su They are Now New Fal THERE seems to be i of the coming seaso they wish'in the attrac ready'in Osgood's stoel if anything, than have blended with them are s able materials bearing bloom, rayoner, tinsel-t men's wear serges and the models in navy and tones is to be a greatly i of fur not only on colla; the hem of the coat or noticeable attraction, note the range of skir where from 32 to 40 i great opportunity for < with an Osgood Suit. Priced Thirty One Hund Elks to Play a Ball Game Here Incident to the meeting of the State Association of Elka a baseball game will be played between teams representing Clarksburg and Fairmont Elks Both are permitted to secure all the "ringers" they deatre and there le nc all-Elk restriction as to the bat game . A delegation of Fairmont Elks wenl YOUR CATARR LEAD TO iDtttgerdas'toUae Treatment for Only; Temporary Relief.i ThSreria oonore aerlous stage pf Catarrh than thQignnoyanceiCauied by the jtopped-no air passages, and other distasteful features. i> The real'dangeecomes Irom the rmdcncyof^the disease to continue its r course.' downward; until the lungs bectsmeteffectesLVand-ithenl drsadsd SSBsumjilioiuitVoo, your rjragATW ~ mr m 1 * - , iC- ." ' .' / . 13' S3iff* * ?X\JkU 4 |L circlej , ! /s^ 1 yles or the uxurious I lable in ||fl ITS I i Offered in the 11 [Displays I io reason-why-the women |H n need notbe as lovely/as tive Su its. whichI are. now cs. The 3tyles are richer. . Ill ever been created < and ;oft, luxurious yet servicenew names such peach I one, and the ever present 1 tricotine. Plentiful are klonlr V\tif t*? 1*? uiu^iy, uui uiuu'ii in maiiy 'avored color. Trimmings r and cuffs but all around set into panels will be a It is also interesting to t lengths which are anynches. Briefly, there is >ne to he properly suited -Nine Fifty to M red Dollars llfl II H to Mannlngton Lodge ot Elks Wast B evening. ManntofiTon will tnm.ont lnjB goodly numbers, being headed by Uu B Mannlngton Elks' band. WALKINO THE PLANK. " > This may be done safely enough ttlB the plank comes from our large stock! ot lumber. And when yon are ready!! to build you will find hare all kinds'! of materials?Lumber Rooring, Bash! Doors, Wall Board, etc., retafosSlM quick delivery to yon. . John M'KIs-! ner & Bro. Lumber Co., PhonejlM-Xafl H MAY I CONSUMPTION I path.-?.Your.' own * experience ha* taught 70a that the diaease can- > not be! cured by sprays, inhalers. ;'l atomizers, jellies and,other, local *: applications, ' factory remedy for, Xatarrho b*i cause, it-goes direct-to its source; J 'J Get a bottle today, begin the only logical treatment that gives real B results. For frec? medical advice , "Writer-Medical Director..#; Swjft 5? 1 Laboratory, Atlanta,iGa??- ? wwvwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwssw^# !