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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-03-13

charges it is very weak. Did jim
throw the butter dish at you, and
follow it up with the cream jug?
The girl stared at him.
why, Jim wouldn't do that" she
said, Jim's a gentleman"
He might have been little more
courteous in his references to d
lady's biscuits" said the old man.
But we will let that pass. What did
he do?"
He said some very cruel things.
replied the girl as she choked back
sob.
"All untrue, of course?
Every one of them
What did he say?'
IL can't remember"
But it is necessary to remember.
What did he call you?"
Me! He didn't call me anything"
Didn't he say cruel things about
you?"
moo o. He said them about
Chicago"
"Chicago."
Yes. He said the meanest things
you ever heard"
The old man drew a quick breath.
And, OF course. you retaliated by
saying still meaner things about New
York;"
mo. I didn't" the girl returned.
Il know so little about New aYork
couldn't think of anything to say"
That's true" He looked at her
keenly "Of course nothing will sat
isfy you except divorce?"
She gave a little start and open
ed her black eyes very wide.
Why, what else can l have?'
His voice was grave. "Jim's love-"
The tears filled her eyes.
"It's too late for that" she half
sobbed. "Jim's gone to see his law
yer?"
The Old man looked at his watch.
That reminds me- Who is Jim's
lawyer"
His name is Paulding, Jasper
Paulding"
CHI" exclaimed the old man.
Why, l noticed his sign as l came
through the hall. And it's just
twelve o'clock
Then he turned quickly and hur-
ried down the hall When he reach
ed the door that bore the name OF
Jasper Paulding he opened it and
entered.
Two men were seated at the table.
One was nearing middle age. The
other was a young man, good look
ing, tall and muscular.
There are occasions" said the old
man. when it seems justifable to de-
viate from established rules. This
is enc of them" He looked hard at
the young man. 81 have heard your
wife's sad story" he gravely said.
And despite the gravity of his
tone the young man almost believed
he saw twinkle in the keen old
eyes.
Il feel quite sure" he said. that
my wife didn't paint ME darker than
l deserved to be painted. Mr.. Pauld-
ing will tell you, sir, that | came
here only to arrange for the payment
into Angela's hands of fixed SUM
each week"
The old man arose.
Il am a little pressed for time,
he said. Il go aboard the French
liner this afternoon. Will you trust
your client with me. Mr.. Paulding?'
Certainly, general" cried the law
yer "He couldn't be in better hands.
Goodbye, sir, and a safe voyage"
A moment later the two men stood
before the library door.
"Your wife is in there, Jim Rob-
bins" said the old man softly, "and
she's much too dear a wife and too
sweet a girl to be lost through foolish
| pride. Do you understand"
Yes. SIR the young man answered.
Il begin to understand"
They shook hands and then the
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-03-13

The seeds of the parasitic pia'
jinkungo, a native Of NozamDMt
yields an oil that is said to be
pe~ior to the salad oil Of CONNER
The Washington times., 1909-04-21
The Journal of a Neglected Wife

seemed to hold relics of several ten
f: y couple OF rusty pens, a wire
10 pm some matches, an empty cigar
cite oox, the seven Of spades from a
pack. OF cards, some laundry sims. and
ssVeral sheets of hotel paper. Most of
the paper was blotted, one sheet was
tSOIseted WITH penciled figures. another
nad August 18th" written on the date
Inc, OF another some one had iotted
qoWn telephone number-6205 Rector
IN the back of the drawer was folded
s saeea torn ~ B1-r"o- BY fitting it to-
Dear Minnie-Things look pretty hone
less saw Mack today, but il was
Just as L thought-nOthing doing. He
Bra ndfor1 tomorrow. YESTERDAY was
SUNDAY and tell you 1 felt mighty
oIde. thought I would get a letter
l si,1 y ret, TINS morning; haven't had one
Sllce crlday. l wish had some good
news 70 write. But keep up spirits, lit
re girl, things may come right vet.
they ought to for your sake You've
pa1 IA a Tough time. I know. If I can
diminished? Had he written another
S-no nhOr9 cheerful note? I imagined
MN q man OF mediocre ability, on here
~ Ing ,s 20 get position, writing back TO
ms ms "1te- she may have had a hard
tiine, nut he loved her. The little
girl md the rest of the sentence
SHOWS mat wonder II she realizes
now little anything else matters &c
long as she has love? How gladly I
would go through any poverty and
har%Shlps II could only feel that Hor-
ace loved ne.
AS / tried to close the drawer. I saw
a small newspaper clipping, which baS
Deen caught in the crevice at the side
81 louis. June 12-Alfred z. Baker
traVellrg salesman for a New Yorlf
MooISn mouse, committed suicide in the
dotel Nendome here last night He
was round unconscious, a pistol still in
ms nahd, and two bullet wounds in his
sac; he died on the way to the hos
pllai- Several letters were found show
ing ms dependency from i'll health and
why was this clipping here2 Had
some one been in this room To v-horn
InS ueath OF Alfred r. Baker brought
sorroW or remorse? closed the
drawer with shudder The room
seemed run OF ghosts-ghosts of past
tenants small, cheap room in 2
medium priced hotel-what a Droces-
sion Of humanity must have nsssed
through here. What could these
walls tell of disbursement and de-
sPaIT-WhaI scenes have they looked
Oh. HoraceI Horacet I am filled
with terror! Come after me: take
me away from here: tske me home
and shield and protect me. Keen this
strange fear of Iife-of I know not
What-aWay from me. Oh Horace !
am Enthusiastically
The Continuation of This Story Will
Be Found I'm TOmOrrow's
Issue of This Paper.
The Washington times., 1909-04-21
NEGRO COMMITTED
TO INSANE ASYLUM
Became Suddenly Violent
and Started Riot in Emer-
gency Hospital.

James Wood, negro. who went
violently insane in the operating room
at the Emergency Hospital yesterday
afternoon, and attacked attendants with
bottles of medicine, surgical knives and
everything he could get his hands on,
was today committed TO the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane. The
physicians say the negro is a victim Of
what they term acute mania
Wood was discovered lying in C street,
near Seventh street northwest, in front
OF a stable, where he was employed.
He was taken to the hospital in an
ambulance, and IL was found that he
was suffering from vertigo. After stirnu-
lants had been administered. he was
paced on one of the cots in the alcove
back of the emergency room on the
first floor.
Attracted by an unusual noise in the
operating room, Policeman Turner, who
IS detailed at the hospital, and John
middleton, an orderly, opened the door.
and discovered the negro smashing the
contents of large medicine cabinet
Picking up bottle. Wood hurled 1t
At Turner and Middleton, after which
ne opened fire with a fusillade of
surgical knives, bottles, and a few
pieces OF operating apparatus. Turner
anu Mldoieton We're Obliged to retreat
dor minute under the heavy fire.
The policeman obtained his hahdcuffs
ara again attempted to enter the room
with the orderly.
time the negro fell to the floor Turner
and Middleton were on top of him the
next instant, and slipped the handouts
on him. Wood was locked up at the
insanity. whence he was committed
10 St EliZabeths.
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u table, a stationary washstand,
~ three chairs, a telephone on the
wall. and a GRID of hotel laws
and regulations on 1 back of the
door. My silver brushes on the bureau,
and my suitcase on a chair-how
strangely unfamiliar they look. For two
DAYS they have been there-and yet
cannot put it into words-I
only know that often in these two days
I have spread towel over the bureau
and have hid the suitcase in the ward
robe. And then there is nothing in sight
that recalls Nothing except the
telephone. That is just the same-even
the same green book hangs beneath it.
By taking down that receiver and
whispering a nurlber-at any moment
I could But no. no. l shall go
mad If I think of that. For two days
I have been fighting that thought
Why did bring with me this journal2
II must write-if the only relief I
know is putting my suffering into words
would it not have been better 20
have begun anew? Why did put in my
suitcase this record OF the life 1 was
leaving? The very cover of the book,
even the feel of the soft leatl er. brings
back my desk before me-rae gilt ink
stand, the biotting-pad, the silver
paper-knife, the tiny revolving calen-
dar, the addresS-book-are they still
lying carelessly as I left them, or have
they been locked away? I can almost
hear the ticking of my small French
desk-clock. VIII 1 ever see it again
VIII 1 ever take It from its case and
wind it, as I have so many hundred
times? am praying that will-that !
Will Only two days and-oa, God. how
/ want to go back,
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rang. Horace dropped his napkin and
hurried to the library. There was
something so tense. so anxious in lis
manner. ana he had been so silent and
preoccupied all through the dinner.
Was he expecting this message? Was
II from herr I arose from the table
and went half way up the stairs until
1 could see the library door. 1t was
closed. There was something IN the
sight of that closed door that sent the
fierce hot blood surging through me.
Was he talking to this woman in our
house-closing the door on me and talk
ing to her? Deliberately I walked to
the door and listened. 1 would know
had a right to know
Temperature 102? Is the doctor there
now? Why did you not send for me
before? Yes, at once. Tell her I am
coming at once"
1 made no attempt to slip away. J
was leaning against the door when he
opened it. For a second he stood mo-
tionless, then:
You have listened?''
Eyes"
Il am sorry you did that he said
quietly, as he passed me on his way
upstairs.
I caught his arm. IF I have lis
tened, It is you who have driven me
to it,
He made no answer; lie merely re-
leased his arm and went on upstairs. In
a few moments he came down with his
hat and coat. l was still waiting where
he had left me in the hail. Again
caught his arm.
Mary. 1 am sorry you are doing tins;
it is only humiliating TO us both"
Even in the dim light of the hall ]
could see he was very pale,
You are not going to that woman
He passed on down tie hall to the
front door. ] ran ahead OF him and
stood before the door, my hand on the
Horace, II you go to that woman to-
night 1 shall not be here when you come
backi"
you must do as you think best" He
put me gently aside, opened the door
and closed it after him.
December 1st.
II I could know just what 1 wrote-if
L gould remember the exact words
Butt was almost crazed that night.
only know that 1 left a note-a bitter
passionate note-saying that / was go
ing away and would never come back
until he promised Internationally thai
he would never see that woman again
! did not wish him to know or try Il
find out where 1 was, but that any let
| ter addressed TO Mrs r. l. kemptOn
general delivery. l would receive Blu
not to write unless 1t was to make the
promise 1 demanded. think that wa
all 1 said, but 1 do not know how
| said it.
Oh, why did I say he must not writ
unless he made that promise? If I had
| not said that he might have writer
| something-anything- would hav'
made it possible for me 10 go back.
The Washington times., 1909-04-21
PYTHIANS VISITED
BY OTHER LODGES
Fair to Be Continued Until May 1.
Maccabees> Guests
Tonight.

The members Of the District tents
OF the Knights of the Maccabees with
their wives viii be the guests of the
Knights Of Pythias at the Pythian
Fair tonight. The fair has been such
a success that arrangements have
been completed for continuing 1t until
May l.
During the next ten days it is ex-
pected that most of the fraternaI and
secret orders in the District will have
visited IL. The Odd Fellows were
present last night, 500 of them hav-
ing marched to the Pythian Temple
headed by a band and two companies
of the uniformed rank
The Mystic Shrine, Junior Order OF
American Mechanics. and the Sons OF
Hur have all accepted invitations To
attend.
The Washington times., 1909-04-21
DISEASE OF CATTLE
FINALLY PUT DOWN
Guarantees Now Existing in Sew
eral States Will Be Lifted
This Month.

The fOot-andmOuth disease that
created such havoc among the cattle
OF several States and cost several
hundred thousand dollars to the Gov
eminent, besides the loss to individual
cattle owners. has been finally eradi-
Gated from the United States, accord
ing TO a statement given out by the
Secretary OF Agriculture today.
1t is announced that all quarantine
measures on account Of this disease
will be revoked about April "a. A
quarantine is now in effect in sew
eral sections of New York, Pennsyl-
yania and MARYLAND.
The Washington times., 1909-04-21
.ovember 30th.

ANUNtfIUEI oJLU.
THAT nighttime events that at last
drove me from my homel For two
days and nights 1 have walked up and
down this room, living 1t over and over,
always with the anguished questioning
could I have stayed2 Was there any
way I could have kept any vestige Of
my self-resT ct and still have stayed2
Why did 1 go 10 the door-why di1 I
listen? Never before have stopped to
SO contemplate a thing. why did 1 do
it then?
We were at dinner when the telephone
The Washington times., 1909-04-21
RAISES COAL RATES.

MEXICO CITY. April 21.-Upon
recommendation of the railroad COM
mission the Mexican government has de-
cIded TO raise the rate on imported coal
81 a ton, TO protect the local producers.
The Washington times., 1909-04-21

know now / would go back under any
preteXt- Those five days have beaten
me downtown. II he vvol,ld
only write and make the promise-even
though he broke il the next day. If
can only go back, l will be blind-blind
VIII make no complaints. no re-
preaches. / will ask so little-so much
less than I have ever asked before /
VIII accept any conditions if only / can
be with him.
December I'd.
FOR the sixth time in these four DAYS
l have gone over to New York to the
city postoffice. to the window marked
General Delivery" and have asked ii
there is anything for Mrs. r. L. Kemp
Nothing"
And now 1 am back In Brooklyn. in
my hotet room, =fsiHng. waiting for
what? For the morning. when I will
again go over to that postoffice and
again be told Nothing What have /
done? If he should never answer that
ietter-if he should never try to find met
For the first two days my fierce pride
apd bitterness kept me up. But now
now l am terrified at what have done.
could have stayed-I could have seen
MN every day-eVery morning
could have been with him at breakfast,
ana many times at dinner. / could have
had all his things about me, his room
20 straighten, his clothes to touch-to
bury my face against But now l have
nolhlngTnothtng- How long car
l live like this?
The Washington times., 1909-04-21

I ever cease to want that? Everything
1 read now which bears on life. love,
happiness or unhappiness, seem to
apply in some way to Horace and my
seIf-to the condition of our lives now.
cannot help it; my thoughts always
come back to that
November oath
THANKSGIVING Day, and, oh,
L such a piiiable one! The long
course-dinner il; over. We had 1t
all alone Neither of us could
eat. 1 could not swallow past
the lump In my throat, and he seemed
worried and ajsent-minded. as he al
most always ts now. After dinner he
made some vague excuse about an out
of-town, client and hurried off.
I can see how he hates to lie. Ally his
life he has despised an untruth more
than anything else, aud now-now---
Oh, what power has this woman TO
change his whole nature-to force him
into constant subterfuge and deception?
The Washington times., 1909-04-21
CHAPTER TX (Concl'd}.
November 18th

November 18th
Tor years we have gone to my broth
er's for Thanksgiving dinner. and
they have always spent New Year
with U.S. This morning 1 received a let
ter from Katherine, my brothers WIFE
with the annual invitation. I read the
letter to Horace at the breakfast table.
"Do you really care to go this year?
"Why. it wouldn't seem like Thanks
giving anywhere else, would it,?
asked, struggling against the sick wave
that always comes over me now at
each breaking away of our old customs
and our old life.
well, 1 had thought we might have
dinner at home this year. If we could
have it early, about 6 O'Clock, it would
give me an opportunity to accept an
engagement for later in the evening,
partially a business matter with an
out-of-town client"
And then, as he saw the color leave
my face:
"Of course we will go''-hastily. 81
didn't know you cared so much about
it,
The Washington times., 1909-04-21
u r N E R
BY MABEL ERT

Copyright 1909 by w DODGE COMPANY
Registered at statoners' Reserved)
The Washington times., 1909-04-21
November RI.

NOFtInDcF III.
I HAVE been reading one of John oil
yer Hobbies novels, in which she
says:
1T is a mistake to think our prayers
are not answered-they are. We get ouI
hearts desire when we have ceased 10
care for it,"
My hearts desire-Horace's Iove-wiIl
The Washington times., 1909-04-21
December 4th.

december 4tl.
7 HAPPENED to open hedrawer of the
table in this room today. It is a cheap
shiny oak table, and the drawer, stuck
by the varnish, opened reluctantly
Perhaps that is why the careless masd
had not troubled to clear it out. II
The Washington times., 1909-04-21
THE silent telepbone-tbis - tele,

THE silent telephone-this telephone
in my room. In all these six days
not once has it rung. Why should it.
VINO is there to call up Mrs. r. l.
heulptOn, In an obscure Brooklyn hotel.
And yet the longing that it will ring
IS never quite out Of my mind, the hope
tnat IN some waT he has found out
where am and las come to take me
nome. Day and hight l dream of his
coming, live through scene after scene
in which he comes for me I ALWAYS
! think of a sudden telephone ring and
the girl Downstairs saying: "A gentle
man is here TO see you" or perhaps he
VIII give his name. Mr.. Kennedy" or
he may take the name l am under so
there VIII be no question of his being
my husband-of his coming to my
room. And then I will say: You may
ask the gentleman to come up" Some
| times l find myself saying ii OUT loud.
/ Then 1 picture him at the door, dream
| of his taking me in his arms. whisper
| ing: Mary, my dear little wife il Is
all a mistake. There is no other woman
/ in my life but you-there never will be.
I have come to take you home. dear,
never tc let you go again" Hour after
/ hour, walking I'D and down this bare
! hotel room, / rehearse-live through
| scenes like that.
And yet I am so sure, so piteously
i sure, that nothing like these dreams
will ever happen. That the most 1 have
to hope for is some pretext to go back
TO go back TO indifference and neglect
/ just TO go back.
| December 4th.
The Washington times., 1909-04-21

November 20.
TT showed heavily during the night,
the first deep snow of the season. I
was awakened early this morning by
the sound of scraping shovels. When
drew up the blinds, the scene was
like a great Christmas card. The trees
are beautiful. each branch bending pa
tiently under it's burden of snow. The
street, except for a few tracks in the
center, is yet unbroken. A few hours
traffic and all that purity and white
ness will be trampled and soiled.
1t is a dry, clingfng snow and has
filled the window-sills and is packed
up several inches against the glass.
raised one of the windows and took up
a great handful There is always some
thing exhilarating to me about the
smell of snow-that crisp, Elusive odor
that is indescribable. Even though II
is very cold. for a long time 1 stood
at the open window breathing IN the
fresh keen air. How wonderful the
country would be today, if Horace
would only take me for a long sleigh
ride, as he used to do
! am a little happier this morning
just because Of this snow,
The Washington times., 1909-04-21


7 HAVE written Katherine that we can
not come this year. He was willing
to go, almost insisted upon going when
he saw how it affected me. But L have
no heart for it now. He wants to spend
the evening with her. 1t would be
only pity that kept him with me, and L
do not want that
One by one all the ties and customs
of our life together are being broken.
The end cannot be far of Will 1 have
the strength to meet IL? Now and
then my crushed pride cries out that 1
will never try to hold him through
pity. And yet deep in my heart 1 am
afraid, afraid that should it come to
his leaving me altogether, I would try
10 hold him in any way could,
through pity, through my legal right
desperately 1 would use any claim, any
means, just to hold him.
The Washington times., 1909-04-21

november <lSI.
IN one of the December magazines
there is an article compiled from the
opinions of a dozen prominent people
as to what Christmas gift they would
give the world. If it lay in their power
to bestow some one thing.
One writes he would give to every
child an equal education; another that
her gift would be universal temperance;
another would confer a wider religious
instinct and still another the equal
chance for work.
And I-were the power of the one
world-gift granted mel would satisfy
the need for love in the breast of every
heart-hungry wOmanl
The Washington times., 1909-04-21
November 24th-
THANKSGIVING Day. and, oh
CHAPTER X.

- Hotel. Brooklyn, November 18th.
CHEERLESS hotel room, a bed,
a table. a stationary washstand,
4 three chairs, a telephone on the
n - - t,o+o1 1axrc
The Washington times., 1909-04-21

The Continuation of This Story VIII
Be Found In TOmOrrOw's
Issue of ThIsHsaper
The Detroit times., 1909-06-11
$4,000 FIRE LOSS.
Fire In Hardware Store Is Controlled
AAfter Hard Flight.

IONA, Mich, June 11.-Fire Chief
McGannon was dragged from the
flames in the Weber Hardware Co. s
building last night. He was In an
insensible condition. The flames.
which started in the basement OF the
hardware store, caused a $4,000 loss,
partly insured.
Clerk Mann went to the basement
TO get large pane of glass. He car
ried a light. which he handed to a
customer who was with him. mo-
ment later the customer ran upstairs
and the clerk found himself surround
ed by flames. He also rushed through
the fire, made his way upstairs and
spread the alarm.
Five minutes later the basement
was roaring furnace and for two
straight hours six streams of water
were played on II In an effort 10
hold the blaze under control. The
basement was filed with oils and
all kinds OF innammable material.
but thcIe being two hardwood floors
the fire was confined to the base
ment until o'clock, when the first
floor OF the store fell in, precipitat.
ing great quantities OF hardware into
the basement. At 10 O'clock the Are
was under control.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-11
TO. MEET AT HARBOR BEACH.
women's Press Association Selects
place for Next Year.

PORT HURON. Mich. June IL
The Michigan women's Press associa'
ton yesterday selected Harbor Beach
for the next annual meeting place.
Saginaw and Ann Arbor had also ex'
tended invitations for the next con-
yention. The association elected these
officers for the ensuing year:
President, Mrs. Grace Greenwood
Browne. Harbor Beach; first vice-pres-
ldent. Miss eJnnie Buell., Ann Arbor;
second vice-president. Miss Clara
Bates, Traverse City: recording secre'
tary. Mrs. Sarah J. LaTour. Detroit;
treasurer, DR.. Emma K. Bower, PORT
Huron; historian, Mrs. Alice +. Bart
lett. Detroit; directors. Mrs. Pruella
J. Sherman, Detroit; Mrs. Margaret
III. Alden, Detroit; Mrs. Belle M. Per-
ry, Charlotte; Miss Maggie Wall. Calu-
met.
Mrs. Browne was elected delegate
to the State Federation OF Women's
clubs which meets In Hillsdale n
October, and Mrs. Frances f. Burps. or
st. Louis, alternate.