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THR GATE CITY JOURNAL t TKeTruant Sou Bij Uictor Rousseau ~ MYERS S Y N O PS IS . — Nurses In the S ou thern h osp ital at A v o n m o u th are angered by the In solen t t r e a t m e n t a c c o r d e d th e m b y Dr. John L a n c a s te r, head o f the In s t i t u t i o n . a n d t h e r e is a g e n e r a l feelin g of unrest, in to w h ich Joan W en tw orth , p rob ation ary n u r s e , is d r a w n . D octor L a n c a s t e r Is p e r f o r m i n g a d i f f i c u l t o p e r a t io n , f o r w h ic h he has w o n fam e. Joan, w it h o th e r nurses, is In a t t e n d a n c e . S h e is u p s e t , th ro u g h no fa u lt o f h er o w n , and m a k e s a tr iv ia l b lu n d er at a c r i t ical m om en t. T h e p a tien t dies and D octor Lancaster accuses h er o f clum siness. S h e is s u s pended, the a ctio n m e a n in g the end o f her hope o f a c a re e r as a nurse. W ith ou t relatives or friends, and desperate, Joan, u r g e d b y h e r l a n d l a d y , g o e s to D o c t o r L a n c a s t e r 's office to a s k him to o v e r lo o k h er blu n d er and r e i n s t a t e her. She o v e r h e a r s a violen t altercation betw een D oc to r L a n c a s te r and o th e r men she d o e s n o t se e. J o a n is s t r u c k b y t h e f a v o r a b l e c h a n g e in t h e a p p e a r a n c e an d d e m e a n o r o f the d o c t o r , r e c a l l i n g t h a t a t t i m e s in t h e h o s p i t a l he h a s b e e n g e n t l e and th o u g h tfu l and at oth ers su p erciliou s and b u llyin g. Me tells her he can do n o th in g fo r her at the hosp ital, but offers her a p o s i t i o n in a n u r s i n g i n s t i t u t i o n in ths c o u n try , t e llin g h er she can bo o f " g r e a t a s s i s t a n c e " t o hi m . Copyright bq V . Q. C h t p m i t that day than at any time since her mother’s death! She leaned out of the window. She suddenly remembered that the insti tute wu8 not many miles from her old home. It would he almost going home —and on the morrow. Joy leaped into her heart. Then she saw something that for an Instant chilled the blood in her veins. Across the street, leaning against the park railings and looking up at the house, was a short, square-built figure of a man wearing a hard hat. She could not distinguish the face, but she thought it was Myers. And she remembered hi» threat. What did it mean? BewPdcr^d, she turned into her room again She half regretted now that she was to go to Lancaster. But in the morning she dismissed the incident from her mind as a fan tasy. C ha pter I V At half-past seven in the evening Joan descended from the train at Lan caster station, after an all-day ride. It was like going home. Joan could not see her village, which was on a branch line, but at Medlington she was only four miles away. There were the same misty mountains, break ing the horizon line, the same small, straggling towns, the same fragrance CHAPTER III— Continued of the deep forests, bringing hack to her those remembrances which a "You’re a fo o l! You don’t know chance odor suddenly unlooses, as nt when you are well off. I tell you, I the touch of some magidan’8 stave. wash my hands of you. This is final— ’’ The two years that she had spent nt Joan could not help hut hear. And Avonmouth seemed to slip out of her as she emerged into the passage, all recollection. the time hearing the sounds of the As the afternoon flew by the dis quarreling voices, Myers came hurry tant mountains changed into a semi ing past. circle of Irregular heights. Now the He did not see her. lie ran to the train was climbing into the foothills. door. Hung it open, and rushed down It wus a lonely land. This was fur the steps into the street. As lie went ther in the back country than Joan along the passage the girl saw him had ever been. The villages were be staring right and left; then, as she coming mere clusters of negro cabins. came out, he saw her and went toward There hud been two changes of trains her. She knew that it was she whom he had been seeking. "What was it Doctor Lancaster was saying to you, Miss Wentworth, before I came In?” he asked in ids rasping tone. Joan stared at him in astonishment. Now she realized that she had mis taken him; he was not a servant, but apparently a member of the doctor’s household. "W ill you let me pass, please?" asked Joan, as he blocked the way. "I want to know what the doctor was saying to you," repeated the man doggedly. "Are you going to refuse me pas sage?" demanded the girl, flushing with anger. He stepped aside with a sneer and a mock how. "O, very well, If that’s your attitude," he answered. " I shall find out." Joan turned swiftly upon him. "I don’t know who you are. hut I shall complain of you to Doctor Lancaster," ■lie said. Myers looked at her and sneered and chuckled. Then, without a word, ha went back Into the doctor’s room. And still the voices kept up their quarreling dialogue. Joan found herself in the street In The Horse Breaking Into a Short Gal the twilight, and now the unreality of lop Near Every Summit. the absurd Interview struck home to her. She tried to puzzle it out. Be and each time the coach became shab fore she readied the boarding house bier and more disreputable, and more she thought site had her clue. impregnated with tobacco smoke. The That Lancaster, the terror of the character of Joan's fellow travelers nurses, should have been unable to changed as well. They were un promise immediate reinstatement, his couther, they wore chin beards and evident good-will, his indecision and rough store suits; they sat perspiring Illness were explicable only In one and collarless, the soft hats pulled way. The man Myers must he a rel over their foreheads. But she looked ative, the third man perhaps a nephew. nt them with the loving appreciation Lancaster had been supporting a of her own people that was In her worthless pair In idleness, and had heart, and they, in the presence of the turned on them In exasperation. That pretty girl who was traveling alone, was the meaning of Ills look of Illness, displayed the innate courtesy of the his preoccupation—the shock of some Southerner. domestic discovery. The sun descended; it was gilding At any rate she was satisfied with the whole land with level rays of gold some suen solution. And she was cer and dancing on the horizon like a red tain that, if she pleased him with her hall when the train pulled Into Lan mysterious mission, her reinstatement caster, the last station before Mill would follow. She went home luippy, ville. the terminus. Joan got down and Mrs. Webb read the news In her and looked about her. face the moment she opened the door. The station was a tiny place and "I knew It, my dear," she exclaimed seemed deserted. The hooking office with pleasure. "I knew that you could was closed. In the waiting room, ap twist that old devil round your finger pearing almost to fill it. was a stout If you tried hard enough." negress with n dov.en parcels; from "Mrs. Webb, It was nothing of the the wicker shies of one two hens' kind." said Joan. "And Doctor Lan heads with blinking eyes protruded. caster Is one of the kindest of men. ! Outside a ramshackle buggy, with a He’s going to try to have his decision lean chestnut horse attached, was reversed, and— Mrs. Webb, he Is send- j drawn lip to the edge of the muddy lug me to a sanitarium, on a case, in road. the meantime." A well dressed young mountain boy She checked herself, suddenly re- | In a hard felt hat was standing be memberlng Lancaster's caution. But i side It. As Joan came out of the sta Mrs. Webb took the girl to her wide j tion he turned toward her, took off his bosom and kissed her. hat. and bowed. "You little humbug!" she said. "Miss Wentworth?" he Inquired, In "Mrs. Webb," cried Joan, scandal- a well-bred tone. l*ed. " If you knew— ” "Yes. You are from the Institute?" But when she was upstairs she sat "Yes. Miss Wentworth. Mrs Fraser down suddenly and faced her con will he expecting you." He looked be science. What Inipres^lmi of herself yond her. and Joan, turning, perceived had she given In the consulting room? to her discomfiture the man Mvers, In She did not know. This scene, like his hard hat. He must have traveled that o f the morning, had become up In the train with her. Myers came forward, taking off hit blurred in her memory, and time had "Miss Wentworth, rvegnn to flow very faat after the alow- hat grudgingly. n e s s o f her twenty-two years. Oer I’m sorry If I annoyed you last night," tain • stranger things had happened he said. "1 ought to have explained Famous Forts in U. S. History Iftl l » I I I W W » MAKING GOOD IN A SMALL TOWN R ea l S tories A b o u t Real G ir l» By ELM O SCO TT W A TS O N Bjr MRS. H A R LA N D H. A LLE N ((&). 1V24, w « a t « r n N e w s p a p e r Union.) ■H-l I T I + I I I I I I I I I I I I t-H - H KNITTING NETS NEAT SUMS World’s Greatest Civil War Began Here FREE On the morning of April 12, 1861, to you that Tm the secretary of the Edmund Muffin, an aged Virginian, institution. I guess my manners ain't pulled the lanyard of a cannon and very good, but I meant no harm." made history. For the shot which Joan, who had witnessed Ids pres went screaming across the water of ence with consternation, now felt a Charleston harbor and struck the sudden reaction from her fears. Of walls of Fort Sumter set 2,000.000 course, Myers' explanation made the armed Americans at each other’s situation intelligible. throats in the greatest civil war in She bowed, and he turned to the history. boy. "You can take Miss Wentworth Fort Sumter, named for Hen. Thom up,” he said. " I ’ll find a buggy some as Sumter, the famous partisan lead where.” er of the Revolution, was built in 1828 As there was only room for two in and was a casern«ted brickwork of the buggy, Joan did not demur to the five faces, mounting two tiers of guns. proposition. She stepped in. the It was situated on a little Island be young man holding out his hand to tween Morris and Sullivan islands in guard her dress from the wheel. Joan the mouth of the harbor of Charles glanced at the man with momentary ton. S. C. At the opening of the Civil Interest. He had the appearance of a war It was commanded by MaJ. Robert gentleman, and the manners of one. Anderson, who had evacuated Fort There was no hint of either servility Moultrie In December, 1860, and oc or presumption, and yet there was a cupied Fort Sumter when he saw that sort of independence about the man South Carolina was preparing to seize which fitted him admirably. He the forts in the harbor. In January, flicked the horse, and the buggy be^an 1861, the steamer Star of the West to crawl out of the station yard along had been fired upon when It tried to the single street of a tiny village, bring supplies to Anderson, but no straggling uphill. It was a white vil further hostile move against the fort lage. hut clusters of shanties a little was made until April 11 when Gen. back among the- pines betrayed the I*. T. Beauregard, the Confederate presence of the black element There commander, demanded that Anderson was a store or two, their fronts plas surrender. tered with tobacco and baking powder When Anderson refused. Beauregard advertisements, and in front of each the next day ordered his batteries to stood a gaunt, yellow-faced hillinan, open fire on Sumter. After three chewing and gazing after the buggy hours Anderson returned the fire and with unanimated face. for the next 34 hours 19 batteries "Tills is Lancaster?" asked Joan. rained shot and shell against the fort. "Yes, Miss Wentworth." Three times the fortification was set "The people here look depressed." on fire but the brave defenders kept "There’s a good deal of sicknesw, up the fight until their ammunition Miss Wentworth. Hookworm, and was almost exhausted. Then Ander what they used to call malaria. But son sorrowfully lowered the Stars and there isn’t any malaria here; it’s bad Stripes and on April 14, after he had diet— salt pork and soda bisetiits. And evacuated the fort, the Stars and Bars there’s pellagra; it’s been here for gen of the Confederacy were hoisted in erations, but it wasn’t till last year their place. that the medical commission discov Twice during the war the Union ered It." forces tried to recapture Fort Sumter. The coachman’s knowledge might On April 7. 1863. Admiral Dupont have been ludicrous in most men of tried to reduce If with a naval bom his class, but there was nothing ridic bardment hut failed. That summer ulous in the grave, refined face of the Admiral Dnhlgren reduced the fort to young mountaineer. He must have an earthwork, but could not take it. picked up some knowledge at the In So the men in gray held this fort stitute, thought Joan. until February 17, 1865, when they "But it’s healthy up In the hlMs, were forced to evacuate Charleston Miss Wentworth," he added. "This and the next day the Union flag was village is Millville. They used to grow raised over it by Major General Hen cotton in the valley over yonder, tut nessey. The Inst chapter In the stir the frost killed the crops three years ring history <>f this fort was written ago, and the mill fell into ruin. Quite on April 14, 1S65. On that day Rob a little water power in that stream.'* ert Anderson, now a general, led a The buggy ascended a steep«»* | force of boys in blue into Fort Sum grade, the horse breaking Into a short ter and over its ruined walls he hoist BOARDING, WITHOUT BOR gallop near every summit, and then ed the same shot-torn flag which he ING, THE SUMMER GUEST resuming its leisurely crawl. had been forced to lower from the "That's the institute, Miss Went fort’s flagstaff four years before. worth.” the coachman continued, ! X T AR IETY, not satiety. Is the objeo pointing toward a straggling building “ Hold the Fort for We Are * tive ot the summer boarder. on a little plateau. It had the appear- i He wants “ eggs with the cackle at Coming!” nnce of a large but rather dilapidated tached,” and he’d like to sample every It win only a small fortification vegetable In the garden— but not all farmhouse. " I t ’s three miles by tJMi road," he added, "but less than a mile built high up in Allatoona Pass In the at the same meal. That’s the conclu mountains of northern Georgia and sion of a girl who has seen several over the hills." The horse had stopped to gain history does not even dignify It with summers at “ taking In boarders. Her breath again. Looking back, Joan a name of Its own. But It once was town Is something of a resort; her saw a white line that crept upwurd a post of the greatest strategic value "paying guests” are tlred-out and more over the rocky slopes almost direct j In an important Civil war campaign or less critical cityltes. “ They want fruit from the tree and from the station to the building. Half and It also furnished the Inspiration way up was a little speck of black for a famous hymn, “ Hold the Port not from the can; they want country for We Are Coming!” cream that has never seen the Inside that seemed to move. Joan knew It Late In 1864. Just before General of a chemist’s laboratory,” she de was Myers’ hard hat, his body being i Sherman began his famous march to clares. "They want what they can’t hidden from view among the husheo. She shuddered slightly; the mun was the sea. Confederate General Hood get In the city. What they do not slipped around his right flank and want Is a poor Imitation of metropoli very repugnant to her. began capturing the small garrisons, tan fare— and they don't want to see The horse went on again, the road which Sherman had left along the the table unattractively overloaded winding uphill through pastures gajr line of his march. One of the most with coarse country foods, either." with buttercups and wldte with little Important of these posts wns located The professional summer hostess branched asters. It dipped between In Allatoona pass where a million and should, then, provide the vacationist hedgerows pink with meadowsweet a half rations were stored, a rich with simple foods, daintily and at The sun had set, but its light still tractively served. Two green vege gilded t he hills. The scene was very prize If Hood should capture It. This post, surrounded by earthworks tables, besides potatoes, are enough peaceful. Now the institute seemed hastily thrown up. was commanded for that type o f food. She should to swing out from among the undula hv Gen. .1. S. Corse of Illinois with a always have some fresh wild flowers tions of the mountain flanks iinmo force of about 1,500 Minnesota and on the table; and she can garnish the diately in front of them. Illinois troops. Hood detailed Gen- dishes with a lettuce leaf or a bit The buggy came to a standstill bo • ral French with 6.000 men to drive of parsley. fore the long wooden building, which Corse out o f the pass. It was soon She may Increase her margin of was of unshingled boards end very surrounded and a demand for its sur profit by continuous replanting of her much tlie worse for weather. It hsd render made. Corse refused and In a kitchen garden, thus assuring an not been painted for years, and two little while a hot battle was in prog abundance of fresh vegetables all windows In one wing were broken. A ross. Although many of his men were through the season. Small fruits from patch of weedy, unmown lawn extend killed. Corse still held out and retired her own bushes and vines; plenty of ed between what had once heon to the little fort nt the top, which milk, butter and cream all are cheap hedges, hut were now mere tangles of he prepared to defend to the last. and good. A few hives of bees to undergrowth. Nearby was a lsr/e In the meantime Sherman had start supply honey are an excellent Invest inclostire In which were a few chick ed north from Atlanta In hot haste to ment. The poultry plant should be ens. picking for grains of corn, rnd save the pass from being captured. enlarged to provide fried chicken ns a cow at pasture turned her head and ■Inst ns Corse was beginning to a regular thing, not Just for “ Sunday gazed at them placidly. despair of holding out against the at The door opened and a pleasant- tack of the gi ay Jackets, an officer dinner." The rabbit pen is good for nn occasional rabbit-pie or fricassee, looking woman came forward. called his attention to a white flag "How do y«ni do. Miss Wentworth,** that was being frnntleall.v waved from n pigeon loft Is easily managed— and. she said. "1 am the matron. Mm. the summit of Kcnesnw mountain. 15 the hostess should remember, broiled Fraser. Doctor Lancaster telegraphed miles away. This signnl was answered squab is a luxury that comes high In about your comiug. I’ll show you and then the heartening message was city hotels. She may economize legitimately on your room, and your supper will be waved from mountain to mountain: her laundry bills, too. by discarding ready in a few minutes." “ Hold the fort: I am coming W. T. the heavy cover-all tablecloth in favor Joan descended. The driver, who Sherman." of doilies and runners, or the new had leaped to the ground, held hfa A wild cheer went tip from the he luncheon sets of decorated oil-cloth, hand over the wheel, but did not offrt league red men and with renewed which are both practical and artistic. it to her. Then he reentered the hug courage they kept up the fight. Bj But she cannot afford to confine her gy, and. rather to Joan's surprise, this time more than half of the mer drove off along the road by whicb In the little fort were either killed activities to the dining room. The en tire house must be clean and well- they had ascended. or wounded. General Corse was shot aired. beds comfortable, furniture sim through the head three times, but un ple. pictures appropriate. She may dismayed by the fall of their leader decide to solve ffie problem of room the men of Minnesota and lllinoti scarcity by -nting tents— which In fought or for three hours more until mnny cases will he more popular than Sherman came to their relief. the rooms. The hostess may provide a No sooner had Philip Paul Ritas, tennis court, and a playground for « writer of hymns and later a partner children at little cost. If there Is of the famous evangelist. Dwight L. wster. diving-boards, flshlng-tackla »T O B E (C O N TIN U E D .) Moody heard of thli incident than he snd canoes are easy to furnish. ■at down and wrote the thrilling old She must “ put bar house in ordsr* In parti of A M e » and sourhert hrtnn wMrh has been sung wherevet A il« the cowrie, a «mall liiotl. 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She "peddled” her wares from door to door, knowing that every person In town wns u possible customer. Her Idea "direct from mill to home" mode a hit, and she soon found It necessary to Install two knitting machines, and to employ girls to run them. From that small start has grown an organ ization running six hundred knitting machines, and employing eight thou sand workers. The small town girl who wants to take up knitting as a profession should start in on a small scale, knitting by hand, or buying only one machine. Even before the present vogue for knitted outer-wear, the need for knitted stocking and underwenr kept knitting needles— and machines— busy. Formerly, objections to a complete cos tume of knit goods were that It was too "stretchy,” that It lost Its shape almost before the buyer could get It home, and that It was not becoming to anyone weighing over one hundred and twenty pounds. Recent manufac turing methods have. In part, over come these objections, and recent dressmaking methods have done the rest. Knit wear Is fashionable; and the small town girl knitter should keop up on the fashions. She will then know Just what knitted novelties are salable. I f she is expert, she will be able to make, herself, the scarves, gloves and caps sportswomen are ask ing for; but foe complete garments, she will. In all probability, need an expert tailor's aid. Right now, when women are de- mandlng complete knitted costumes, with all knitted accessories. Is the time for the girl with the knitting needles— or machine— to "make good.” To Housewives Send u iy o u r M m e and w e w ill «end you, F t £ l and F0STPAID a 10cant bottla of L IQ U ID V E N E E R . W o n d o rfu l for your daily duating. Cleans,duats an d poliahea with o n * sweep o f your dust cloth. R anaw a pi anos, furniture, wood work, automohUa». Makaa avarything look like new. M akes duating a pleasure. •sitala, 1.1. 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