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The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-25

Black Hand" At this her eyes light
ed; she exclaimed impetuously:
"Cary Mercer never did send that let
teri" She drew a deep intake OF
breath. II don't believe he touched
Mr.. Keatcham!"
Neither do T." said the colonel,
but watt" He went on to the theater
girls report of the receiver of the tele-
grams. Her hands, which clasped her
knee, fell apart; her lips parted and
closed firmly.
did l think it was you?" said he.
"Why, yes, 1 confess 1 did fear 1t
might be and that you might be trying
i to, shield Atkins"
IT" she exclaimed holly; that de
testable villain!"
Isn't he?" cried the colonel. But
well, l couldn't tell how he might
strike a lady," he ended lamely.
81 reckon he would strike a lady II
she were silly enough to marry him
and he got tired of her. He is the
kind of man who will prosecute a CIR.
| to marry him, follow her around AND
importune her and fatter her and
| then, if he should prevail, never for
| give her for the bother she has giver
him. Oh, / never did like him; In
afraid of him-awfully."
mot you?"-the coloneps voice wa:
| cheerful, as if he had not shiveret
over his own foreboding vision. i've
seen you in action already, you know.
mot fighting bombs. l hate bombs
There are so many pieces to hit yon
You can't run away"
well, you'll find them not so bad
besides, you did fight n this verl
morning. and you were cool as pep
permint!"
THAT was quite different; | hat
| time to think, and the danger wa!
more to me than to any n else; bu
to think of Mrs. Winter and Archie
and v all of you; that scares me"
"Now, don't let it get on you
nerves." he soothed-of course 1t Ii
necessary to take a girls hand tt
! soothe her when she is frightned. Blu
Miss Smith calmly released her hand
only reddening a little; and sh'
laughed. "Where-where were W
at?" she asked in her unconsciou!
southern phraseology.
Somewhere around Atkins,
| think" said the colonel; he laughed II
his turn-he found it easy to laugh
now that he knew how she felt toward
Atkins. You see, after / talked witt
Keatcham / couldn't make anything
but Atkins out of the whole business
But there were those stained cuffs and
his changing his clothes
yes" said she.
"How explain? There was only ont
explanation; that was, that perhap:
Mercer had discovered Keatcham be
fore we did, unconsciously spotted hi:
cuffs, been alarmed by u approach
and hidden, lest it should be the muir
derers returning. He might have
wanted a chance to draw his re
volver. Say he did that way, he NIGH
foolishly pretend to enter for the frs
time. If he made that mistake anG
then discovered the condition of his
cuffs and the spots on his knee, what
would be his natural first impulse
Why, to change them, trusting thai
they hadn't been noticed. Maybe
| then, he would wash them out"
CTO BE CONTINUED)
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All His Fault.

An old lady who was in the habit of
declaring, after the occurrence of an
unusual event, that she had predicted
it, was one day very nicely sold by her
worthy spouse, who, like many others
we have heard of, had got tired of her
eternal Il told you SOL" Rushing into
the house breathless with excitement,
he dropped into his chair, elevated his
hands, and exclaimed: "Oh, wife, wife!
What-what-what do you think? The
old brindle cow has gone and eaten up
our grindstone!"
The old lady was ready, and hardly
waiting to hear the last word, she
broke out at the top of her lungs: II
told you so, you old fool! 1 told you
so! You always would let it stan
out O. doors!"
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WON'T MIX
Bad Food and Good Health Won't Mix.

The human stomach stands much
abuse but it won't return good health
If you give it bad food.
If you feed right you will feel right,
for proper food and a good mind is the
sure road to health.
"a year ago / became much alarmed
about my health for / began to suffer
after each meal no matter how little I
ate," says a Denver woman.
Il lost my appetite and the very
thought Of food grew d%istasteful, with
the result that / was not nourished
and got weak and thin.
my home cares were very heavy, for
besides a large family of my own I
have also to look out for my aged
mother. There was no one to shout
der my household burdens, and come
what might, / must bear them, and
this thought nearly drove me frantic
when I realized that my health was
breaking down.
II read IN article in the paper about
some one with trouble just like mine be-
ing cured on Grape-Nuts food and act
ing on this suggestion gave Grape
Nuts a trial. The first dish of this
delicious food proved that / had struck
the right thing.
MY uncomfortable feelings in stom-
ach and brain disappeared as if by
magic and in an incredibly short space
Of time / was myself again. Since
then I have gained 10 nounds in
weight through a summer of hard
work and realize / am a very different
woman, all due to the splendid food.
Grape-Nuts."
There's a Reason" Trial will prove.
Read the famous little book, THE
Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs.
Ever read the above Iettery A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true. and full Of humas
interest
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SORE EYES CURED.
Eye-BaIls and Lids Became Terribly
Inflamed-Was Unable to Go About
All other Treatments Failed, But
cuticura Proved Successful.

"About two years ago my eyes got
In such a condition that 1 was unable
to go about. They were terribly in
famed, both the balls and lids. /
tried home remedies without relief.
Then / decided to go to our family
physician, but he didn't help them.
Then l tried two more Of our most
prominent physicians, but my eyes
grew continually worse. At this time
a friend of mine advised me to try
Cuticura Ointment, and after using it
about one week my eyes were con-
siderably improved, and in two weeks
they were almost we'll. They have
never given me any trouble since and
I am now sixty-five years old. shall
always praise Cuticura. G. B. Halsey,
Mouth of Wilson, Va, Apr. 4, 1908"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Sole Props, Boston.
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tuberculosis Afiiets Japanese.


Consumption among Japanese labor
ers is increasing to such a degree that
the figures are becoming a source or
anxiety to Japanese merchants and Of
ficials. A large percentage OF labor
ers who are sent back to Japan by
the Japanese charity associations are
consumptives. 1t is claimed by the
Japanese newspapers comenting on
this matter that through the lack OF
hospital accommodations in the jap
anese labor camps tuberculosis in
creases at an alarming rate. They
suggest that a new system be en-
ployed in dealing with the sick in
these camps, as the Japanese are
quite ignorant of even the most sim
pie health safeguards.
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money cost in mind, a deep problem
for solution before this n cause OF
destruction of human life is elm.
mated.
Measure. Hardness Of Metals.

An instrument to measure the hard
ness of metals has been recently de-
vised, more especially designed and
found very useful in the manufacture
of tools like twist drills, where the
hardness has to be kept between Ia
row limits. 1t consists Of . glass tube,
within which a steel ball Of 40 grains
weight, treated by a special process
so as to have jewel hardness, falls
freely. The height of the rebound Of
the ball measures the hardness Of the
metal It strikes. Were the area Of
contact between the dropped weight
and the metal larger, SO that no APP
preciable dent were made, the rebound
would be a Of elasticity rath-
err than hardness. The height Of the
rebound is measured on a scale, OF
which 100 Is the average hardness Of
carbon steel, which is also found to be
the safety limit for steel tools after
relocating and tempering ready for use.
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CHAPTER XVII.


In Which the Puzzle Falls Into Place.
While the colonel was trying to de-
cipher his tragical puzzle, while Ed
win Keatcham was busted with plans
that affected empires and incidentally
we're to save and ~extinguish some hui
man lives, while Janet Smith had her
own troubles, while Mrs. Rebecca
Winter enjoyed a game more exciting
and deadly than Penelope's Web, Mrs.
Millicent Winter and the younger
people found the days full of joyous
business. The household had fallen
into normal ways of living. Although
The secret patrol watched every rod
of approach to the house, the espial
was so u%nobtrusiye that guests came
and went, tradesmen ratified over the
driveways: the policemen, themselves,
slumbered by day and loitered majes-
tically by night without the Casa
Fuerte portals, suspecting.
Millicent, encouraged by Arnold,
had had Mrs. Wigglesworth and two
errant daughters, whose husbands
were state regents for Melville's uni
versity, to luncheon and to dinner;
the versatile Kito donning a chauf-
feur's livery and motoring them back
to the city in the limousine, on both
occasions; all of which redounded to
Millicent's own proper glory and state.
Indeed, about this time, Millicent
was in high good humor with her
world. Even Janet Smith vas nc
longer politely obliterated as "the
| nurse" but became s'our dear Miss
JANET and was presented with two
of Mrs. Melville's last years Christ
mas gifts which she could not con
trive to use; therefore carried about
for general decorative generosity,
One was a sage-green linen handker-
chief case, quite fresh, on which was
etched, in brown silk, the humorous
inscriptions: Wipe me, but do not
swipe mel" The other was q white
celluloid brush-broom holder bedecked
with forget-me-nots enframing
a complicated monogram which might
Just as well stand for j. B. B. 8.
(Janet Byrd Brandon Smith as for
NJ. S. w. (Millicent Sears Winter OF
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Literary Hit.

did your friend make = hit at the
literary club?"
Il guess he did. He pronounced Les
M~iserables' In a brand-new way and
then alluded to it Is Victor Herbert's
masterpiece"
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SYNOPSIS.

The story opens at Harvard where Col.
Rupert Winter, U. S. A., visiting, saw the
suicide of young Mercer. He met cary
Mercer, brother of the dead student!
Three years later, in Chicago, in 1906,
Col, Winter overheard Cary Mercer APP
parently planning to kidnap Archie, the
colonels ward, and to gain possession OF
Aun Rebecca Winters millions. A MISS
Smith was mentioned apparently as d
conspirator. A great financial magnate
was aboard the train on which Col WIN
ter met his Aunt Rebecca, Miss Smith
and Archie. Col. Winter learned that the
financial magnate is Edwin s. Keatcham.
Winter, aided by Archie. cleverly frus-
srated i 2 hold, tn % on the sm TRAN DESPITE e9 te0h her r
alleged kidnapping plot. Archie mysterl-
ously disappeared in Frisco. Blood in a
nearby room at the hotel caused fears LOT
the boys life. The lads voice was heard
over the telephone, however, and a min
ute later a woman's voice-that OF MISS
Smith. Col. Winter and a detective set
Arnold. a Harvard graduate: They, We're
met with an explosion within. Mercer
appeared. He assured Winter that Archie
had returned. The colonel saw a vision
fitting from the supposedly haunted
house. 1t was Miss Janet Smith. Col;
Winter to himself admitted that he loved
Miss Smith. Mercer told Winter that
Archie had overheard plans for a coup
and had been kidnapped. One OF MERGERS
friends on returning the boy to his aunt
had been arrested for speeding and when
he returned from the ponce Stdtioh " MS
auto the lad was gone. Mercer confessed
he was forcibly OBTAINING Keatcham.
Mercer told his life story. relating now
Keatcham and his s~coundrel secretary.
Atkins. had ruined him. the blow killing
his wife. Mercer was holding him prison.
er in order that he could not get control
of a railroad which was the pet project OF
the father of his college friend, Endicott
Tracy. Aunt Rebecca saw Archie In a
cab with two men. Then he vanished.
She followed in an auto into the Chinese
district and by the use of a mysterious
Chinese Jade ornament she secured a
promise from an influential Chinaman
that the boy would be returned. Archie
returned and told his story, Atkins, for
mer secretary to Keatcham, being his
second kidnaper. Col. Winter and Tracy
returned to the haunted house." They
found Keatcham, apparently stabbed to
death. Keatcham was not dead. how
ever. Cary Mercer appeared on the scene.
Winter believing his actions suspicious.
The party removed to the Arnold home;
They feared Atkins gang. The colonel
became temporary secretary to the mag
nate. A Black Hand letter was received.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-11-05
DEALERS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE
IF GRAIN FAILS TO GERMlNATE
RULE scHANcELLoR sEARoEN NOTABLE oPINIoNoF MUCH IN
TEREsT TO GRAIN DEALERS AND FARMERS

Shelby Coffey. The attorneys, after
careful search, could find but three
similar cases in the United States,
A case from Kentucky had been de-
cided for the negative and case from
Kansas for the Affirmative.
The Importance of the decision TO
grain dealers cannot be over-estimat-
ed. Last season alone the City Grain
& Feed company sold $4,000 bushels
Of oats, while the total sales through
out the United States ran into the
millions of bushels OF course, but
small part of this grain was used FOR
seeding purposes, and but little OF the
PARTS so used failed to germinat@
However. the proposition is full OF
possibilities, and different decision
would have been a severe blow to the
grain industry
The case was appealed.
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ROAD COMMISSION sE
NAMES SUCCESSOR
TO JOHN NELSON
ENGLISH AKIN ELECTED AS
WORK HOUSE SUPER.
lNTENDENT.
MEMBER OF COUNTY COMMITTEE
Well Known Over the County and
Well Qualified to Fill the Position.
Nelson Will Look After the Farm.
Guards Are Chosen.

English Akin, member of the Coun.
ty Democratic Executive Committee
and prominent farmer, was elected
by the Maury County Road Commits
sioners to succeed John T. Nelson,
whose resignation was rendered Mon
day, as Work House Superintendent.
Tom Swan was elected first guard
and Hughes Pugh second guard.
The election of Mr. Akin was some
what of surprise, as was the resigna-
ton Of Mr.. Nelson. 1t was not known
that the latter intended quitting the
service of the county until his resig-
nation was handed in. Consequently
there was no speculation as to the APP
pointment of his successor.
The election of Mr.. Akin will meet
with general appreciation. He is a
member CT the noted Akin. family, one
that has long been closely identified
with the history of Maury county.
While he has not aspired to public Of
flee, he has been active in politics,
and represents his district as a mem
Der of the County Democratic Exec
utive Committee. Mr.. Akin resides at
Hampshire, where he is engaged in
farming. Mr.. Nelson, who has re-
Gently married, and who will look af-
ter his wife's farming interests in
the future, has filed the office of work
house superintendent with ability.
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FORCES
WON'T PRECIPITATE
A COUNTY FIGHT
is THE CONCLUSION ARRIVED AT
IN MONDAYS CON.
FERENCE.
HELD IN DR.. COLLINS OFFICE
Second Meeting Within The Past Few
Months-Rasher Leaders Want a
Full Ticket-Dr. Collins is Men.
toned.

The efforts of the Patterson Demo-
Gratis to put out county ticket have
apparently fallen through, although
there are still many rumors prevalent
as to their probable action. At a sec
ond meeting held Monday in the Off
ces of DR.. E. E. Collins the ADVISABLE
ty of naming county ticket was dis
cussed, but adjournment was taken
without anything definite being done.
For the past few weeks the Patter-
son forces have appeared restless, and
number of conferences have been
held by their leaders. There has been
division of opinion, and still is, as
to the expediency of precipitating a
fight over the county Offices. Some of
the rasher supporters of the admins
tration have insisted upon full coun-
ty ticket, while others have favored
the waiting game, with the hope of
bringing the entire strength of the
faction to the aid of the state icket.
A meeting was held about one
month age in the King building, and
was presided over by DR.. Collins The
Monday was held in Dr. Col
Inns Office, although it was expected
that adjournment would be taken to
the Circuit Court room. The atten-
dance is variously estimated at from
thirty to sixty Shortly after the ad-
journment of the meeting it was ru-
mored on the streets that DR.. Collins
had been endorsed for trustee. How
ever, this rumor was not well founded, |
although some pressure has been
brought to bear upon DR.. Collins to |
get into the race.
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THREE GAMES
ARE SCHEDULED
SEWANEE MILITARY ACADEMY
CLOSES THE SEASON ON
ACADEMY FIELD.

There are but three more football
games on the local schedule, the seas
on closing Saturday, November 20. On
next Saturday Bowen School, Of Nash
vile, is taken on, followed the follow
ing Saturday by Montgomery Bell
Academy On Saturday, November
goth, Sewanee Military Academy
comes for the last contest of the year
The dope is that Bowen and Mont
gomery Bell will be easy picking.
But when it comes to Sewanee there
is likely to be something doing. c.
M. A. and S. NJ. A. are the only two
military schools of Glass A in the
South to meet on the gridiron this
season. The military is noted for it's
qualities, and when the
whistle blows here a terrific struggle
is expected. Sewanee has made a
splendid showing this season, and the
spirit of the locals is unbroken, de-
spite defeats.
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whether a dealer is financially re-
SpouSibe if grain sold by him fails to
terminate, legal question never be-
lore raised in Tennessee, was decided
ID the negative Tuesday by Chan
'eIIor Bearden in two cases.
Ihe cases on trial were those OF
"als Baker company, Of Cordele, Ca,
w. City Grain & Feed company and
w. A. Howard & Co., OF Eutaw, Ala,
W. CITY Grain & Feed company. The
damage asked in each case was in
excess Of $1,000, and the allegations
were ractically the same in both
odSes--that seed oats sold by the City
'raln & Feed company had failed to
terminate.
H. 7. Nguers represented the City
'rain 4 Feed company, in both cases,
ana the compliments were represent
wi by Fleming & Fleming and by
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BOOKER WASHINGTON
WILL SPEAK HERE
ON NOVEMBER 10Th
NOTED coLoRED EDUCATOR TO
DELIVER TWO ADDRESSES
IN COLUMBIA.
WILL APPEAR At OPERA HOUSE
Whites Anxious to Hear Gifted Black
And Will Defray Expenses of HE
Appearance in EVening-TweIvO
Hours in City.

Booker T. Washington, the noted
negro educator, will speak in Column
bia, afternoon and evening OF Novem-
Der goth, according to advices received
here Wednesday by DR.. T. w. Steph-
ems, who has been in communication
with him. According to the present.
program the afternoon address will
be delivered at st. Pauls Methodist
church. or at some other commodioun
building. The evening address viii
be delivered at the Opera House, and
a special reservation of seats will DO
made for white people.
1t is understood that DR.. Washing.
ton will spend about twelve hours In
Columbia. He will be accompanied
here by delegation of representative
negroes from Nashville, about twenty.
five in number. This delegation villa
remain here until after the delivery
of the first address, leaving on the 6
O'Clock train. Prof. Washington will
not leave until early the following
morning. A banquet will be given
Prof. Washington by the negroes OF
the city and county, at which plates
will be laid for several hundred.
The white residents of Columbia,
many of whom are eager to hear Prof.
Washington, will bear the expense OF
his appearance at the Opera House.
The negroes will raise funds for de-
fraying his other expenses.
There is no better known negro in
the world than Booker T. Washington.
He is the president of Tuskegee Insti-
tute, school for the training of negro
youth. This school has the largest
OF any educational institu.
ton in the South. Prof. Washington
has lectured in all the big cities of the
United States, and is looked on as the
leader of his race. His work in BEHALF
Of negroes has been along lines that
have won him the commentator and
respect of whites.
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NEW RAILROAD TO MT. PLEASANT
IS NOW ABSOLUTELY ASSURED
FULL AMOUNT OF STOCK NEcEss
ROAD WILL BE FNIsHE D FEBRUARY l. 1911

That Mt. Pleasant will have a new
railroad is now regarded as absolutely
assured. Under the agreement with
the people who have subscribed for
stock in the road trains will be in OPP
GRAFTON fifteen months from now,
therefore the screech of the locomo-
tive and the rattle of the cars should
awaken the echoes around Williams.
port and Cross Bridges about February
/, 1911. Announcement was made Mon
day that the full 100000 of stock re-
CURED to insure the building of the
road had been secured.
The new road will be an extension
Of the Middle Tennessee Railroad re-
Gently built from Franklin to Water
Valley in this county. The extension
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will run from Water Valley to Mt.
Pleasant, distance of eighteen or
twenty miles. 1t will run close to
Williamsport and will run within
mile of Cross Bridges. From there it
will go into Mt Pleasant. It is ex.
pected that the road will cost in the
of 100000.
Some time ago the builders of the
Middle Tennessee road proposed to
the people along the proposed extension
that IL they would subscribe stock to
the value Of 100000 that the road
would be built An active campaign
FOR the stock subscriptions was at
once commenced, and today Austin
Harlan, Of the Committee to obtain
announced that the full
mount had been obtained.
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WEARER OF THE Blue
THRILLINGLY DESCRIBES
DEATH OF SAM DAVIS
CAPT. MGILLICUDDY, PROVOST MARSHAL AT
LYNNVILLE WITNESSED
EXECUTION
PAYS GLOWING TRIBUTE HERO AND sUescRsEs
TO THE FUND FOR HIS MONUMENTS SPENDING
SOUTH.

He was the bravest man / ever
saw" These historic words, spoken
by Napoleon Bonaparte while a pris
oner on the rock-bound island of St
Helena of the intrepid Marshal Ney
were used Tuesday afternoon by Capt
T. D. McGillicuddy, in describing the
death of Sam Davis, the boy hero,
whose execution he witnessed nearly
half a century ago.
Capt. McGillicuddy was provost mar
shall at Lynnville during the month of
November, 1863 He was stationed
there at the time that Sam Davis was
captured by the Seventh Kansas, and
the colonel OF his regiment was the
president of the court martial that
sentenced the brave Southerner to an
ignominious death. He is therefore in
position to speak authoritatively of
the occurrences of that trying time
I'm November 1863, came over with
Sherman's army from Corinth, Miss. !"
he said to a Herald representative in
describing the death of Davis. with
our command was the Seventh Kan
sas, commonly referred to as the Kan,
sas Jayhawkers.'
Il made my home with the Shields
family.
In some way Sam Davis and his
party of scouts ran into the Seventh
Kansas and was captured. He was
tried as a spy and condemned to
death by hanging. Thos. w. Gaines.
lieutenant colonel of my regiment, the
Fiftieth Illinois. was president of the
trial commission, the other members
being Col Madison Miller, of the
Eighteenth Missouri and Col. Lathrop
You are familiar with the history of
the trial, and know of the offers that
his life if he would betray his friend,
and how these offers were spurned.
The day of execution came. On
%, 1868, my command was
called out to guard and witness the
execution. | remember as if it were
Yesterday how Sam Davis looked as
he went by on the wagon. He waved
his hand at some friends, and his man
ner was as calm as if he had been