The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-06-15

II be win not sell Arbuckles
| ARIOSA write to us. We will supply
you direct; You win get greater value
for your money-a better pound of cot.
fee-fuu weight-than he can sell you
uneer any other name. He cannot sell
Arbuclles' ARIosA loose, by the
POUND out of a bin o. bag, because we
supply it only in sealed packages that
you can identify every time, which pro-
tect the coffee from the dust and i'm
purities that loose coffee absorbs-and
insure full weight. Coffee exposed to
the air loses its flavor, strength and
purity. You cannot tell where it came
from-neither can the grocer-he may
think he knows-but he doesn't, and
all you can ever know is the price
ticket 1t is worth remembering that
outward appearance is no Indication of
cup" quality.
Grocers as Il rule are honest, trust
worthy men who would not consciously
mislead you. Whenever one Of them
advises Won TO take loose grocery store
When | awoke I was Mortified to find
myself in a prison cell. The jailer
stood at the door and cautioned, RE
member anything you say may be used
against you" A great dread sat, like
lump of ice, on my heart. | begged
him to explain. Anything but that
awful suspense. Then he told me
had murdered MissC., the old landlady.
My trial was set down for date
about month off and my angel moth
err secured the best and ablest coun-
sci to defend me; but, best of all, she
came to me in my agony and put her
hand on my forehead, and then kissed
me and told me that she believed me
innocent How she could logically do
1t, with evidence enough against me
to damn an angel, l don't know, but
she did Il with her woman's heart, and
her woman's heart broke when, at |
length, the jury told her she had been
mistaken"
Gentlemen" resumed Barclay, after
a pause, i used TO believe all lawyers
rascals until that time. But the way
that man worked for me was nothing
short of sublime. He labored with me
day in and day out, morning, noon,
and night, striving by all means
known to philosophy, science and prac-
tice, to recover from the sensitive
plates of my memory the picture print
ed on them by a rum-enfeebled spirit
between the hours Of eleven P. M. and
two A. M. on the night of the murder.
But it was of no use. Evidently the
films of memory had been temporarily
desensitiZed by the Supplying infiu-
ence of the alcohol. Anyway, nothing
could bring the dreaded pictures of
that awful period to the surface.
II shall not bore you with the har-
RAISING details of the trial. 1t was
shown, however, that had been dis
covered in Miss Cs room. was on
The floor in a drunken sleep when the
officers arrived, and was completely
dressed, even to my overcoat and hat.
Near my right hand, as If had but
recently relaxed my hold upon 1t, lay
my pistol. One of the cartridges had
been discharged and the bullet found
n Miss C's body fitted the empty
hell.
My lawyer used to come to my cell
Ind implore me to use every trick and
levice that knew to bring back the
hahn OF events Of that fateful night,
tut | could only gaze at him stupid
y. So far | could 60, but no further
At certain point the cloud of obliv.
on would drop before my mind, and q
could not penetrate 1t. I thought y
hat by thinking with great rapidity, q
nd running with exact sequence
long the chain of occurrences leading !
ID to a certain hour, the mental nom !
ntum thus acquired might carry me I
through into the realms of my mental
arkness. But It was without avail c
'ou can drive a horse at a furious ?
ate right up to the brink of a lake,
ut there he will stop, and not bulge
n inch further; and the blackness of
he lake in front of him is no blacker
han the blaclness> of that hell-born
eriod of five or six hours of Oblivion
hat confronted me. o, the helplessness f
{ 1t ALL used to sit and watch my n
lwyer fight against such overwhelm- Il
lg odds that the admiration | felt for :
Is skill would, at times, so absorb Il
he that felt the part was taking in p
ie awful tragedy. g
'HTo make a long story short, the 4 4
lse finally went to the jury. You 4
ave seen the newspaper clippings. I
he verdict killed my mother who had
ever once left my side during the Y
ials except at night, and then only to y
.sume her place the first thing In
Ie morning. She had been hoping &
gainst hope. When mother dropped =
sad, | offered q silent prayer of =
attitude that she had not lived to !;
Itness the last act. "
"On the morning OF the twenty-irst,
the clipping says. was brought .,
fore the Judge, an old friend Of my
Their, and sentenced TO be hanged by
e neck until dead, Gentlemen. q
ere's an experience not many ever n
d and lived to tell Of 1t. Words are 4,
t feeble when one tries to describe N
Talk about timely rescues in the Nl
amas-ali nicely planned TO occur Nl
tn the regularity Of cloclxwork-why "a
ey actually had that awful black cap d
avn over my face, and the moose adj
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