Claremore Progress. And Rogers County Democrat (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 6, 1916 Page: 7 of 8
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SECOND STORY
The Tight Rein
In Jeremiah McCaH's great factory
at Leaping River, It vaa estimated that
a pair of shoes was turned out every
■even and a half seconds. The big
rslls of leather—dry. llfeleaa akin* of
oattla, goata and horaea—came In at
ona and of the plant, and psised out
at the other aa the finished article, mil-
llona of them, ihlnlng, lacquered,
complete In neat pasteboard bozea.
Conversely, the factory took hun-
4reds of young girls, cheery-cheeked,
bright-eyed, glossy-haired, bursting
with youth, and turned them Into dry,
lifeless old women, leathery of face
and leathery of aoul.
Among the new applicants for
work—the raw material of the system
—one day came Amy Prentice. It
happened to be a day in April—a trick
ay day with big. white clouds aalllng
lazily over the bluest kind of sky, and
a warm, soft breeze which rustled in
at the open wlndowa to whisper all
aorta of fanciful auggestlons. By
coincidence, It happened to ba the
birthday of young Jock McCall, the
aon of the owner of tha plant—his
twenty third birthday.
One by one, tha applicants paased
before his desk to be perfunctorily
questioned aa to age, experience, refer-
ences.
Then suddenly he glanced up to en-
counter a face which in its wistful del-
icacy, and almost childlike charm of
expression, seemed to him tha very
counterpart and embodiment of the
day.
"You are looking for work?" he
asked, yet hardly knew his own voice.
It waa as if he were aaying, "I love
you."
She started a little at hia question,
showing plainly that ahe too had been
dream gathering; then murmured an
acquleacence.
She was absolutely green and with-
out experience, and for untrained labor
of that sort McCall usually paid from
three to five dollara a week. Jock
mentally strained a point as to the
factory's necessities, and assigned hci
to pleco work on a stitching machine
where. If she were quick and capable,
ahe could earn from twenty to twenty-
flve.
"Amy Prentice, age twenty," waa the
way she had Oiled in the application
blank be had given her; but his heart
had christened her, "April's Lady," be-
fore he ever knew her name.
The entrance of the head of the con-
cern aroused him from hla Idle mus-
ings. Jeremiah McCall was a tall,
apare man aa hard and dry and brown
as the leather In which he dealt
They talked business for a few min-
utes—routine matters—then Jock em-
boldened by the faint diminution of
austerity In the ether's manner, ven-
tured to broach a request which had
b<>en in hla mind for aotne time.
' Say. father," he plunged In daring-
ly. ' I've been around the plant here
for three years now, ever since 1 came
bark from college. You told me you
wanted me to learn the business, and
Amy Waa Discharged.
I've gone ahead and tried to do It. I'm
not throwing any bouquets at myself,
but I do thlpk that I've made reaaon-
ably good, and that you'd have more
or laaa of a hard tlma getting any-
one to nil my place."
"WallT" the old man's tone waa
absolutely without expression.
Jock hesitated. "Tall me, flrat,"
ne parried with a touch of shrewd-
ness, "what you think Have 1, or
have I not made good?"
McCall waa rigidly honest In speech
as well as In action. "I've no com-
plaints to make of yon,'' he aaid dryly.
"Then." deoiauded Jock, "why don't
you pay me a salary, aa you would
have to with any other man who did
t.e work for you that I am doing?"
Ob. 1 know." ha broks out aa hla
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AUTHOR OF -THE SIL,
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PEARL," ETC
NOVELIZED FROM THE SE-
RIES OF PHOTOPLAYS OF THE
SAME NAME RELEASED BY
PATHE EXCHANGE.
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father started to apeak, "you will tell
me that you give me the privilege of
going to the varloua atorea and charg-
ing thlnga up to your account, always
knowing that you will look over the
bills. Then too, If I want five or ten
dollara for apendlng money I can gen-
erally get It by aaklng you and ex-
plaining Just exactly what I am going
to do with it. Probably I get. all told,
a fair remuneration (or my services."
"Then what are you complaining
about?" queatloned McCall coldly.
"What do you want?"
"I want a regular aalary. I want
to spend It aa I aee fit, without any-
one having the right to atop or ques-
tion me. I want—freedom."
"Suppose," ha flushed a trifle aelf-
consclously, "I should meet aoma girl
that I would want to marry. Ht>w
could I ever think of entertaining
auch an Idea, when I am nothing more
than a dependent—receiving only
what you choose to give?"
The old man'* llpa relaxed some-
what from their stubborn set.
"The day you marry," ha aald, TU
take you Into partnership."
He turned back to hla desk with an
air of having ended tha discussion,
and Jock, knowing how uaeleaa It was
to continue when hia father adopted
that tlme-le-money tone, went.
Meanwhile, McCall acratched off his
signature to a basket of letters which
the stenographer brought in. Than
allowing himself a breathing spell at
last, ha stepped to tha window and
gazed meditatively toward a group of
factory bulldinga over on the other
aide of the river, belonging to hla
friend and competitor, Peter Jordan.
Tha two concerns combined would
make one of the largest planta In tha
world; and that Is what ha aaw In
hla mind's eya already accomplished
—a mammoth establishment, which
under tbe name of McCall, would be
carried on by his grandsons and great-
grandaons.
Jordan had already given tacit con-
sent to the plan; for Jordan had no
son to succeed blm. and waa very
willing that hla only daughter. Ger-
trude, should marry such a steady-
going. dependable lad as Jock McCall.
Jeremiah decided aa he rubbed hla
thin hands together to bring the mat-
ter to a head. He stepped to the tele-
phone and calling up his home, direct-
ed hla wife to Invite tha Jordana,
father and daughter, up for dinner
some evening that week.
It never occurred to him for a mo-
ment that Jock would enter objectlona
to the proposed arrangement, any
more than It had to Jordan lhat Ger-
trude might have other ideas as to
the disposition of her hand—
ideas not unconnected with
certain handsome young foreman In
one of her father'a ahopa.
McCall never doubted that Jock
would obediently fall In with tha
scheme. when It waa outlined to him.
Young Jock, returning from the task
of atralghtening out the dilatory let-
ters, had made a long and quite un-
necessary detour to pass through the
shop where his little protegee of that
morning was at work.
He aaw with a little catch of anxiety
that with her inexpert handling of the
big machine at which aha was aet,
there wes grave danger of disaster.
Awkwardly pushing the upper, on
which she was engaged, across the
machine, Amy'a hand had strayed out
of place and the abarp, strong needle
waa driven completely through.
Before It could descend a second
time, almoat before the quick cry of
pain broke from her lips, Jock had
aprung forward and thrown a lever
which brought the awiftly moving
mechanism to a halt. Then as the
girl reeled back half fainting In her
seat, he threw an arm about her and
supported her, while a group of nearby
employees hurriedly leaving their ma-
chines gathered around them.
"Oh," be appealed aa he gazed at the
white, paln-conrulsed face leaning
against his shoulder, "Isn't there any-
body here who knows what to do in a
case like this?"
Fortunately there was. Minor cas-
ualties of the sort were of no Infre-
quent occurrencea In that department,
and a meddlesome state bureau had
compelled the Installment of a "first
aid" equipment. With this forthcom-
ing now. the girl was given such relief
aa the circumstances permitted.
The color came back to her pale
cheeks—cam* back rather strongly as
she realized whera her head waa pil-
lowed—Md aha raised herself a trifle
hurriedly.
"I am quite all right now," she In-
sisted. "If someone will only go out
with me aa far as the car, I am sure I
can get home without the slightest
trouble."
But Jock would listen to nothing of
the sort Already he hsd seat out for
a luxurious limousine, and so, despite
her protests. Amy rode home In state
and escorted by the son of McCall
to the shabby little cottage In a poor
quarter of the town, where she lived
with her widowed mother.
He was obliged te ask his tether te
pay tor the limousine he had hired,
and so be called upoa to relate hla
whole adventure.
"Umouslae. eh?" snorted Jeremiah.
"To take home one of the girls who
got hurt out In the stitching room?
"However, since you've done It, I
suppose I'll have to settle," he grudg-
ingly took a flvedollar bill from tbe
safe and handed It over. "Tell Miss
Hastings to charge that up to my per-
sonal account and give ber the girl's
release to put on flle."
"Her releaser* Jock gave an uneasy
start
"Certainly. Do you mean to say
that after all this hauling of her
around like she was some visiting roy-
alty, you didn't get her to sign up
and release the flrm from liability?
Thunder and guns, boy, where are your
wita? Why. I'll bet some personal in-
jury shyster Is out there now draw-
ing up tbe papers for a ault. Hera."
be waved a peremptory arm, "grab
your bat and streak it out there again
as fast as you can make It. Or, wait
a minute," he seised a pen and acrib-
bled a line acroaa the sheet of a
memorandum pad.
"Take this and tell Miss Hastings to
«l e you a hundred dollara in cur-
rency. The sight of the cash will some
times land them when they'd turn
their nose up at a check. Strike aa
good a bargain with her as you can
and don't come back without that re-
lease."
Jock vanished, glad to get off with
no stronger a reprimand.
On his arrival at the cottage be
found that tbe girl waa only too will-
ing to waive any claim for compensa-
tion to which ahe was entitled. Jock
pulled out and tendered tbe one hun-
dred dollara as a "small Indemnity
rrom the firm for the loss of time and
extra expense to which they would be
put."
Then walking home in the aoft April
dusk, his mind full of entrancing vl-
elons of Amy as she aat propped up
at a tea table almoat smothered in
her flowers, he encountered Gertrude
Jordan.
He was about to pass her with a
mere lilting of the hat and a word of
greeting; but ahe turned, aa if upon
Impulse, and fell Into step beside him.
"Father and I are Invited up to your
house on Thursday," Gertrude said
deception that fee frasMsed In tka next
tow weeks. Undsr Gertrude's tutelage
—a woman can alwaya give a man lee-
sons In duplicity—he gave the lmprea-
slon that he waa falling In with hla
father's wishes and assiduously court-
ing the daughter of old Jordan, thua
avoiding tbe ralalng of any lasue, while
all the time he waa apending stolen
boura with Amy.
But Leaping River waa too small
a place and the son of Jeremiah Mo-
Call too prominent a person In ths
community for bis actions long to es-
cspe comment; and when Amy, with
only a healed acar to show for the
injury she had received, returned to
work, and Jock made a practice of
eacortlng her to and from the factory
every day, aome of the gossip that was
rife came to tbe ears of the stern, old
head of the concern.
He satlsfled himself that tha infor-
mation was authsntic. Then he moved
swiftly to action. Flrat he gave or-
dera for the diacharge of the "hussy"
aa he termed ber—It wss not hard to
find a cause of dismissal, when ahe
waa so plainly Incompetent—then call-
ing bis son Into ths office, he laid
down the law In six vltftollc sentences.
Pretending surrender, he promised
compliance to all the old gentleman's
demands, and that night after a tear-
ful farewell Interview with Amy, hs
skipped out.
When the safe at McCall's waa
opened the next morning, It was found
that five hundred dollara In rash waa
mlaalng, and In lta place lay tbe fol-
lowing tetter:
Father: I have taken 1600. I suppose you
wtli say I have atolen It But 1 have fig-
ured carefully, and have decided that
over and abova what I have had from
you, there la more than thla due me at the
loweat wage rata paid at tha fartory, Tou
have ateadfastly refused me the was**
and the Independence you give to your
cheapest hand. Now I em off to win my
own way.
Old Jeremiah made no comment
when be read thla Istter. His hard old
face grew a shads grimmer, perhapa;
he drove his working force poaslbly
a trifle more ruthleaaly; otberwlae
there was no change In him. He aim-
ply ceaaed to mention his son's name.
That all resentment waa not dead
within him. though, waa shown by tbe
significant fact that wben he chanced
to learn that the girl he blamed for
Jock's downfall was employed at Jor-
Tha Girl Was Given Such Relief aa Clrcumatancea Permitted.
now with a significant twitch to the
corners of her lips. "It's to bs e
sort of engagement party."
"Engagement party?" Jock repeated
vaguely.
"Yea. A kind of opening gun to ar-
range the marriage between you and
myaelf."
Jock baited abruptly and stood bsck
staring at ber.
"The marriage between you and my-
aelf!" he gasped Incredulously. "Good
Lord!"
Gertrude burst Into * ringing laugh
of aheer amusement.
"Flatterer!" ahe mocked. "Really,
Jock, you couldn't look more horrified
If I had told you that you were going
to be electrocuted. What's the mat-
ter with me. anybow? 1 think I would
make a wife for any man to jump
at"
"You want me to marry you?" ha
aaid feebly.
"Good Lord, no!" She waa aa em-
phatic In her disclaimer as himself.
"It Isn't what you or I want that I'm
bothering about It's what our two
fathers are after.
"Let those two old men scheme and
plan all they please. They can lead
us to tbe water, but they can't make
us drink, not If we both make up our
minds to It" Then ahe stopped and
acrutlnlxed him sharply In the light of
a street lamp. "Jock McCall," ahe ex-
claimed, "there's another girl."
"How dtl you guess that?" ha stam-
mered.
"Why, from the very look of you.
I hadn't the chance to see your face
plainly before. Ob. glory!" she
clapped ber hands. "Now I know I
can count on you."
So with a perfect underatanding es-
tablished, he escorted bar to her gste,
and then went on home to report his
success In obtaining tbe releaae to
his father.
"It took me longer than I expected."
he aaid, "and It cost me the full hun-
dred dollars, but 1 finally argued them
Into signing."
It wss the first Ume he had ever de-
ceived hla father on a business matter,
but hs justified himself on tbe ground
that hs wss not being treated squarely
from the other slds.
Nor was this by any means the last
dan's, he called up his competitor on
tbe phone and asked aa a personal fa-
vor to himself thst she bs discharged.
Jock, through aome influence he com-
manded there had secured the plsce
for her before he went away, telling
her that aa soon ss he wss fairly set
tied and making his own way they
would be married; but of course old
Peter Jordan cared nothing for that
and waa quite willing to oblige hia
friend.
To the two women in the little cot-
tage where Jock had spent so many
happy hours, however. It was nothing
more or less thsn a tragedy. Ths
seml-lnvalld mother, broken by the
years In which shs had fed her youth-
ful vigor into those big machines
clanking away In the factories along
the river, was Incapable of self-sup
port, and Amy was apparently black-
listed.
What had happened at Jordan's waa
almost certain to happen at any other
place In Leaping River where shs
might secure employment; for Jere
mlah McCall waa not tbe one either to
forgive or forget and his word was
very potent
In short, there seemed nothing for
the girl except to go away.
To maks her lot more hard, shs bad
heard nothing from Jock for several
weeks. Hs had not written har, nor
did she even know where he was.
In her dilemma, New York with lta
countleas opportunities seemed to of-
fer the only refuge, and like many an-
other girl who finds herself at a disad-
vantage against the barriers of ber
home environment, she turned her
syes toward ths shining towers of
Manhattan.
One afternoon when ahe had been
wearily tramping Broadway all day la
the vain search for work, she turned
into the employment bureau of a big
department store. She bad had noth-
ing to eat since breakfast, and then
only a glass of milk and a couple of
rolls.
So. aa she stood there In the long
line of applicants, tlrsd, footeors and
weak from hunger, shs suddenly col-
lapsed In a telnt.
When shs came to herself again, shs
was lying on a couch In one of the re-
tiring rooms of ths sstabUshmsnt
HAS GOOD WORD FOR DOGS
One Msn, st Lsast, Prefers Thsir
Companionship to Thst of ths
Pestiferous Crsnk.
Dr. Haven Emerson. New York's
commissioner of health, told an audi-
ence which he waa addreasing tbe otli
er day that be would like to banish
all dogs from the city. "Dogs are not
necessary to a cultured existence."
Well, what Is necessary to s cul
lured existence? We suppose that
the answer would be—cranks, though
these beings would be called by some
more euphonious name.
Speaking for ourselves, however, we
should prefer one good dog to all the
rranks In Christendom. But the doc-
tor says that doga are dangerous be-
cause they go mad and bite people.
Well, all the cranks bite people, too.
and the madness of the cranks Is
more dangerous than ths madness of
dogs, sines there Is vsstly more crank
madnesa In the world than dog mad-
ncaa. Ths overwhelming majority of
mankind have never witnessed, snd
never will witness, a case of bydro-
phobla, which Is a disease ao rare that
a good many peraons have doubts
whether It reslly exists. To many a
world without dogs would lose a con-
siderable amount of Its charm. The
dog is tbe one animal which has been
completely domesticated, the one ani-
mal that looks up to man with love
and veneration tn Its eyes. Is there
In all literature any passage more
pathetic than Hetner'a description of
Ulysses' return to his natlvs heath.
after hla ten years of strenuous light-
ing around the walla of Troy, only to
And that nobody recognizes him ex-
cept his old dog, which greets him
with Joy? Before considering the ban-
ishment of dogs would It not be ad-
visabls to consider the banishment of
cranks?—Rochester Herald.
•Me a eoepls of salsewooee hovered
over her with a bottle of smslltng
salts.
Ths manager of the department, a
big. pompous man. buatled In and took
a look at her.
"Ah! coming around all right, eh?"
He seemed kind, and so aa be
shrewdly led her on to talk. It was not
long until Amy had acquainted him
with the main details of her long strug-
gle for work, and had alao revealed
to blm how utterly alone and friend-
leea waa ber state.
"Well, well," he patted her hand
gently. "I ahall certainly have to try
and do aomntblng for you. Call afound
tomorrow morning about ten o'clock !
when I have more time to talk with
you."
"Or, say," he added, as he walked
with her in casual fashion to the door,
"come to think of it. I won't havs a
moment to apare In ths morning. I
wonder if it would be possible for you
to drop up to my apartment and have
a chat with me thla evening. Here la
the address." Hs slipped a card Into
her hand as he spoke.
Amy eagerly aasented. Shs waa en-
tirely willing to meet hla convenience,
ahe told him. And so that night, all
unauapectlng, ahe went to the addreas
he bad given her.
The next day a girl with wide blue
eyea In wblch lurked a thrinking hor-
ror and a mouth whose tender curves
were drooping and forlorn, wandered
through New York debating In her de-
apoir whether ahe ahould throw beraelf
into the river, or Into the gutter. Of
one thing she waa certain, she could
never go back to Leaping River, or
even to the lodging houae where shs
had been stopping in Nsw York.
In ths end—perhaps becauss ths
love of life Is strong sven when all
elss Is gons, and becauae aha waa
tired and hungry and had no place elae
to go—ahe crept back to tbe depart-
ment manager from whom that morn-
ing ahe had flung heraelf away with
words of utter loathing and contempt
and thla time aha stayed.
And ths pity of it waa that at the
lodging bouse she had deaerted, Jock
McCall waa besieging ths door In the
effort to get some Information In re-
gard to her: for In spite of his silence,
he had nsver forgotten or wavered In
his determination to come back and
get her.
For a time, whsn discouragements
fell thick about him, and It seemed
that he would never get on. hs had
been too heartalck to write and then
after that he bad fallen 111 and had
been in the hospital for many weeka.
But at last with health recovered, he
had managed to annex a amall job In
hla own line, and had ahown such
marked capabilltiea that he had been
rapidly advanced through aucceaaiva
promotions until now he waa an aa-
aistant auperintendent with excellent
prospects of an even higher boost.
He had aaved hla money aeduloualy,
and aa aoon aa he felt that he bad
enough he came back to Leaping
River.
Aa he walked up brlakly to the fac-
tory, old Jeremiah McCall from hla
window aaw him like another father
of whom ws are told, "while he waa
yet a long way off." But unlike that
other father, Jeremiah did not go out
and fall upon the neck of the returning
prodigal. On the contrary, be aat
atonlly still with his hard eyea fixed
upon the framed text "The Wagea Of
Sin la Death." And he did not changs
from that attitude even when hla boy
entered the room.
Jock hesitated a moment on the
threahold; then aa he realized the sig-
nificance of the ssvsre bsck turned so
relentlessly toward him. his hesd
went up, and he stepped quickly for-
ward to lay an snvelope on his fa-
ther's deak.
"I am returning, air," bs said, "with
Interest, the five hundred dollars I
borrowed from your safe I consld
sred then snd I consider still that
the money waa justly due me; but I
am no longer In need of any assist-
ance from you, so I have brought It
back."
There waa no answer, nor did tha
old man change In any degree hia
stiff pose of disapproval. Jock waited
a moment for aome word, aome algn
of yielding; then with hla head thrown
up higher than ever, he aUlked from
the room.
This first duty accomplished, Jock
left the factory, and hastened to tha
cottage of Mrs. Prentice. Had it been
ths other wsy about and he had been
thua Informed of old Jeremlah'a scurvy
trick In securing the dlschsrge of the
girl from Jordsn's his visit to his fa-
ther might have been of a leas pacific
tenor. As It waa, ao great waa hla die-
appointment ovsr finding Amy gons,
and so hot his rssentment over ths
cause of her leaving that he was
strongly tempted to return to the fao-
tory and give his father what hs
called "one good bawling out"
He had. however, but twelve min-
utes tn which to catch a train for
New York, and therefore felt obliged
to defer the Interview until a later
occaaion. At the atatlon, he aent a
wire to apprlaa Amy of his coming.
It arrived just ten mlnutea after ahe
had left the houae to keep her Ill-fated
engagement
And ao. for three dajra. Jock suffered
every qualm of anxiety, apprehenalon
and panic. The lodging houae woman
equally with himself waa at a loss to
account for the girl's Inexplicable sb-
sence; such a thing had nsvsr occurred
before, she said.
Jock spent a small fortune tn advsr-
tlslng for hsr, and wandered Broadway
like an uneasy ghoat In tha vain hope
that hs might pick up aoms due.
Then on ths fourth day, the mystery
was solved, in responas to one of feU
ing bouse, sddreessd to Jock McCall a
blotted aad tsar-stained note. Tfes
handwriting was very shaky, feat still
It was unmistakably Amy's.
It was brief, scarcely more thaa half
a dosen lines, and It told blm that fee
might aa well give up the aearch for
her and go back to where he came
from. She did not want to be found.
And this last was underscored three
times.
Still, Jock did not give up the search.
He sbandoaed hla poaltloa and all his
fins prospects, and settled down In
New York to devote himself to that
one snd—finding Amy. He vjrent to
pieces where ths light laughter of
women rises like the bubbles In their
brimming wine cups. To cabarets and
Imperfect
Digestion
soon undermines your
health and impoverishes
your blood, but this may
be corrected by carcful
diet and the assistance of
HOSTETTER'S
Stomach Bitters
It tones and strengthens
the entire digestive sys-
tem and is a real aid to
Nature incasesof indiges-
tion, cramps or malaria.
Diaappeinted Hopes.
"I told that Invegterate gosxlp, Mrs.
Gnbby, that I saw young Hlghfly tak-
ing lunch with a married womau la
the fashionable restaurant."
"And was he?"
"Sure. It was his mother."
Suddenly CoMapssd In a Fslnt
A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY
For tbouMinds ef years consumption has
been ronmdered ss incurable. Yet, in ths
part few years there has been discovered
s treatment, which if we are to believe
the statements of patients, is proving ef-
fective. Here is what one lady, Mrs. J. A.
Rippy, 703 North 18th Ave., Nashville,
say*: "For four years I hsve had a ter-
rible cough and suffered with tuberculosis.
In less tnan two years I had s number of
hemorrhages, and had tried all kinds of
remedies with very poor results. Sines
taking the first dose of Long-Vita I have
not had a single hemorrhage. I am able
to do my own work, eat snd sleep well,
better than I have in many vesrs." Lung-
Vita is proving equally as effective in cases
of ssthms. Try Lung-Vita now. Send
$1 75 for thirty-day treatment. Nashville
Medicine Co., No. 10 Steger Bldg., Nash-
ville, Tenn. Adv.
dance palaces, and all-night restau-
rants hs went, and even to pieces of
worss repute. But he never set sysa
upon her.
One day he saw crossing Broadway Speedy.
at Forty-second street, his old play- • "Does that new watch of yours keep
mats, Gertrude Jordan. she had good time?"
grown stout and matronly, since he had "You bet It does: There Isn't a .-lock
seen her last but thsre was a look up in town that can keep up with ItT'
on her face which he had never known
In the old days, and which made her SAVE A DOCTOR'S BILL
homsly features almost beautlfuL by keeping Mississippi Disrrhoea Cor-
Then he recognised the cause, for be- dlal bandy for all stomach complaints,
slds ber was the stalwart foreman-bus- Pr1c" 25c BOc-—Adr-
band, now ths manager of Jordan's
and on his shouldsr was a chubby,
two-year-old boy.
Jock did not try to speak to them
"There, except for my father's med-
dling," be muttersd bitterly, "goss
Amy Prentice and myself.1
Methodist Women Gsve $278,000.
The amount raised last year by the
Woman's Missionary society of the
Methodist Episcopal church. South,
for tbe work in the foreign field was
$278,792.2ft. The amount given during
d. . , , . the week of prayer for tlie new work
. 1 t ,K*t.h*«f°Un? ^ 11 WM « J Pan was *13.731.71.
■t mm h* had nftan «• ol.
Silence hns every other kind of a
bluff hacked off the boards.
For a
Galled
Horse
K«pt Him Workmg
, HANFORDS ,
Balsam of Myrrh
I A LINIMI NT
jest ss he bad often pictured It. She
was at a fast restaurant with a gay
party.
Hs psused beslds her.
"Amy." he said.
She glanced up at him quickly, end
halt drew back, her face paling undsr
the rouge.
"I am going to take you home, end
1st you changs that gown for some-
thing mors suitable," he said as he
led hsr to ths door, "and then wVre
going over to Jersey and get married.
I have a friend thsre who will man-
age ths llcenss for us."
"Oh. no, Jock." she faltered. "It'a
too lata. Don't you understand? I
could never be your wife—anybody's
wlfs now."
Shs would have said more, perhapa.
but at that minute, the manager from
ths department store, beginning to
sense what was In the wind, strode
forward. For Galls, Wire
"Qo back to your a sat," he ordered Cuts, Lameness,
dropping a heavy hand upon har Strains, Bunches,
'^Almost simultaneously, Jocks fist °'d SSttM
shot out and ths managsr went down £{,
to the floor with a crash that nearly Fistula, Bleeding, Etc., Etc.
knocked the glassss off the tables. ~
A dozen walters rushed forward to
interpose; but before they could gst
half way acroas ths room. Jock had
whisked Amy out of ths door, and In-
to s taxi-cab standing In front. A mo-
ment later they were whirling off to
her apartment
"Hurry now, dearest," he urged her,
ss hs opened the door with the key «m&rtrtijr, achingre*t. Tbeu forustingcomfon,
*«• him, and they pasted inside shake Alleys Foot-ka^e Into your ahQM. All
togsthsr "I am going to telsphons ~
the mlnlstsr st Hoboksn that we will
be there In half an hour."
But again doubts and compunctions
assailed her.
"The past Is psst. Amy," he ssld
mssterfuily. "Ws hsve both gone
wrong, and have suffsred for It. But
the future Is ours, and by ths Eternal.
we'll shars It together.'*
Suddenly, ths door was daabed opsn,
and the enraged manager, wild-
eyed and hatlesa snd disheveled.
confronted them with a revolver In his
hand.
The next morning, Jeremiah McCall
picked up his newspaper and read that
his son had shot and killed Amy Pren-
tice and then killed himself. There
was nothing la the account to Indicate
what had been thsir direct motlvs.
But Jeremiah McCall raised his eyes
grimly to ths text on his offlcs wall:
"Ths Wages of Sin Is Dsath."
The newspaper account of the trag-
edy of these two young lives gavs Jsre-
mish McCall no hint that the manager
of the department stors had followed
his qusrry, taken his desperate
venge and made good his eecape. Tha
police were satisfied with the svldsnse
that appeared to their syee, hat tha
moral law still questions:
"WHO'S OUILTTr
(END or SECOND STOSYJ
Made Since 1846.
Price 25c, SOc and $1.00
All Dealers
FOR ACUTE ACHES OF THE FEE1
Sprinkle one or two Allen's Foot-EMe powder*
In Ilie Foot Bulb and soak and rub tbe feet. It
takes tbe atlor out of Corns and Bunions and
•hlng feet. Then for lastin
s Foot-into your s
dealers sell It, SSc. Sample j>ackAg« k REK.
ECZEMA
•Hunt's Cute" Is (uarmatesd to
Slop and permanently cure thst
terrible itching It Is com-
pounded for thst purpose snd .
your money will be promptly \
refunded without question
If Hunt's Cure fnl's to cure
Itch Scseesa.Tetter. Hint Worm
er an? other shin disease fttte
the box.
For sal* ty all draff store*
•r by mail from tha
A. B. Richards Medicine C«.. Skirsii. To.
fEvery Woman Wsnts^
cPciz({n<3^
ANTISEPTIC POWDER
dJS5
a^TLpe
saaadtallaM.
BLACK
urns surely PHvona
An English Inventor's ssfety suit
for avistors Is covered with parachute-
like pockets snd the entire gsrment
can be Inflated to help braah the foroe
of a wearer's fall.
PUT $5 IN COLLECTION BOX
Akren Police Now Question Sanity ef
Osnsrous Contributor snd De-
msnd sn Investigation.
Akron, O — Is a man Insans who
slips sn honest to goodness S5 bill In-
to a church collection plats? Akren
police want to know.
Theodore Rlbea did It hsrs recent-
ly. Police are holding him pending
an Investigation into his msntal bal-
LEG
ounced he made the em- j * cJS S"
celebration of his releaa* sJdyr.ar^ J
4.11 wh«r. I,. ... nlaiu^ "* W « llSk I*
Blbea announced
trlbutlon In
on ball from Jail, where he was plaeed
following a charge of carrying con-
cealed weapons.
Police, however, argue that nibea.
while concealing weapons, didn't con-
ceal the contribution. They do aay ha
announced It In church with enthusi-
asm and with exceedingly great toaal
power.
SMC
There are MM students now study-
ing at the Dnlversl^r of Psusylranla.
WANTED 11 Jab bos aJSTut
SiSISil
W. N. U, Oklahoma City, No. 2l-1Ma
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