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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
PiIIivant Wins marathon

st. Louis, May H.-L. j. Pillivant of
Chicago won the sixth annual Marathon
race of the Missouri Athletic club today
in 2 hours SIS minutes SO seconds. Joseph
Erxleben of the Missouri Athletic club
was second. finishing five seconds behind
the winner. Sydney II. Hatch of Chicago
was third.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
Rigney-Ashcraft

Florence, May 14.-(Special. Mrs A. j.
Ashcraft has announced the engagement
and approaching marriage of her daugh-
ter, Martha Street, to Mr.. Fleming James
Rigney of Ell Paso, Tex, on Wednes-
day. June Is, at a. m. at the First
Baptist church in this city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15

Huntsville, May 14-(Special.)-Hu
Vaughn, a popular young man of Merri-
mack village, died yesterday afternoon
after a lingering illness. He was q years
old and is survived by his widow and a
little daughter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
Mrs. james Cartwright Die.

Huntsville, May 14.-(speciai.)--Mrs
James Cartwright. an aged lady who for
merly resided at Madison, died yesterday
in Chattanooga, where she had lived with
relatives during the last years of her
life The body was brought to Madison
for interment
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
stork Is Expected

Madrid, May 14-(Special.)-The official
journal announces that the ACCOMPLISHMENT
OF Queen Victoria is expected In about a
MONTH Her last child, the Princess
Beatrice, was born in June, 1909 Two
princes were born to her before this.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15

Mobile, May 14.-Otis Stockdale.
veteran pitcher Of the Southern League,
was released outright by Mobile to-
night that the team might get in the
fourteen men limit Neal and Rhoton
are the others to go.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-09

The highest price paid for hogs
in 40 years was paid in Chicago the
other day. Who double-crossed that
meat strike?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-09
The Mote in the Other
Fellows Eye.

gay. He doesn't think much of the cutlery against high
prices when for the coming year. the people have ordered
$40O,O000OO worth of automobiles, mot of which
will produce bushel of grain"
The fellow who knows most about frigaity is the
who has compelled the most people to be frugal and jim
has squeezed out many millions through excessive rail
road rates, that he knows frugaty from head to tail.
There's nothing in life much pleasaner than to throw
Off weaknesses sins and then stand around
telling all the rest Of the people about their oles and
misdeed and the remedy for them Forsooth the best
doctor is who has cured himself with his mcdi-
cine.
Mr. Hill, being removed from frugality' necessities by
$2OOOOO0O $3OOOOO0O national calamity in
the fact that per cent of mortas feel
that afford automobiles instead of sticking to the
hoeing of corn exclusively.
Mr. Carnegie, up to his in the fruits of two decades
of high protection roass special privilege to the queen
taste.
Mr. Rockefeller, washed white purest of the
barbarous murderous methods of Standard OIL rises in
the shadow of the pulpit and becomes corybantc the
greed of the masses.
But you start something practical to relieve the people
of the necessity of the pinchng and the and
these eloquent and learned educators what as things
take to the TALL dense woods ahead Of the
every time.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-09
HE WORLD OLD .SNARL

n
Press
stepped III lie
trouh only elmh hasH eOnene
u an % lie
O. ga O ld
o al door Of
fo
lie newspapers the were the e1mm twas yo Hone al yuM
lie S know Ina
f las about muh tmewon and lido about uti
# a he k h h win
free his jobigty
n
S lie no waup it is too
an dan im o
f %
a trh S a ka gong hay clean
n OnrLi lgt g
A if dn in C d hent oil oil nSa I enmf t n
cnarns tlunmtct citizens when tnyae Fl
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-09
MOST Anything
Josh Wise Says:
"Too many people expec'
tn school teacher ter raise
their children fer EN-

Elsie Janis used to be Elsie Bier
bower before she took to the foot
lights.
Carrots, says the legumino-thera-
pists, will cure bad tempers. Yet it
is tradition that carrot tops" be-
come easily riled.
A life Insurance company refused
to pay a claim for man executed in
New Jersey, because the applicant
gave his business as travelling man
when he was really burglar. Well,
don't burglars travel, and quickly,
too, at times.
The spectacle of New Jersey,
mother of trusts, spanking one OF
them, is surely reminiscent OF
Spartan severity. But none of the
neighbors is likely to interfere.
Autograph letters of Roosevelt
are pronounced very scarce by col
lectors. Why shouldn't they be
scarce, at 81 word?
indianapolis may have women
policemen to clear the shopping
quarter of Washers. Where the men
policemen don't do their duty, it's
worth an experiment.
Everywhere there is a protest
against the long hat pins women
are wearing. However, what is a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-09
Fun L..
Facts
Fiction, i
F'roth
Fads
Folly ~,
Ls !

mans eyesight when weighed
against fool fashion?
During the last 10 years we ex-
ported $4,000, 100000 worth of farm
products.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-09
JUST KIDDING

According fashions, pinched
the ladies' The squeezed waist has always held favor
think when
the for them would sit nights them
What thunder will campaign to
house he stepped?
All born equa-but inequalities rise AFTER
It's harder Jail than
= needles
QUESTIONS ANSWERS
QWho il find Scotch
a o affairs?
Alt either Donald Mcdonald lavish McTavish.
FRAGMENT.
discovered that Japanese
of Thee"
Ing
90 Wahtah
o, wahtah, nahsi YAM
O. kYDD.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-09

good for stewing and picking.
Women hired today for any
purpose should prove unusually
satisfactory.
There Is a good sign over
fish.
Persons with this birth-date
are under signs that warn them
against ignobIe or degrading
associations or indulgence dur
Ing the tWelvemonth.
Children are born today un-
der stars that-often give a great
power Of ideaIistlc expression 4
through the medium of art or
literature.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-09
aspect, making for holiness OF
temper and quickness Of action.
saAa and hn0k kAAnAHl

aeHSSst
temper and quickness OF action.
Accountants and bookkeepers
should find the time especially
favorable today for handling in
tricate accounts, for the joint
aspects are read az being pow
erfuI for lending accuracy and
keen insight to arithmeticlans.
The aspects are excellent
also for chemistry and engin-
eering Problems, and for occu-
pations demanding dexterity OF
hand and sharpness OF eye and
mind.
Employees will find 1t wise to
be unusually punctual and
brisk, as the effect Of the plane
tary signs is to make super
Tors impatient Of anything re-
sembling Iaziness or .inatten-
ton.
The period should benefit
brewers, distilIers, bottlers and
all connected with the business
Of preserving, picking, boiling
or mixing liquids Of any kind.
In the household the sign Us
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-09

Qn the Chicago market the high
est price for hogs since 1870 was re-
corded when a lot was sold at $40
a hundredweight.)
Me an Mandy lives on a farm
In weatherbeaten shack;
TIL land amt much, an can't plow
With misery in my back.
With times so hard an money
scarce,
A Twin amt easy found;
But we amt carin' much fer that
With hawgs 10 cents pound.
Me an Mandy never lived in style,
We've lived sort of plain an
close,
A-sufferin' when tn craps wuz bad,
An takin' tn poor mans dose;
But we don't make pore mouth
yit,
We're patient with our fate,
When we kin sell our hawgs an git
Ten dollars a hun'dweight.
Me an Mandy is satisfied
To let tn worP wag on;
Though many's tn time we wuz
sorely tried,
All them hard days Is gone.
We don't mind havin' starved a
spell
So we could feed tn swine
They're payin' 10 cents a pound fer
hawgs,
An I'm gOin' to sell 'em mine.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-09
Horoscope
"The stars incline, but do not
compel"
Thursday, March 10, 1910.
Now curb thy bitter wit,
For sorely It will hit.

Mercury and Mars are In mu.
tua' aspects, promising favor
for cheerful and merry persons,
musicians, poets, and all inter-
ested In arts and sciences.
The evening should be extreme
~ favorable for reading and
study, or the prosecution Of
tasks that demand inspiration.
Persons Of quick and subtle
wit must beware today against
making sport of others or hold
ing their friends up to ridicuie.
Mars is a flaming sign in this
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-09

James j. Hill, the great
railroad king Of the north
west, has lectured the Min
nesota Hardware associa-
ton on the subject of fru-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-09

Hi-tiddy -di-dee-dum! A taxicab
company has gone into the hands
of a receiver.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-08
THE SHERIFF: OF GALLOWAY
By EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY.

against telephone pole and scratched
his square stnhble,eovered chin. He
simply could not believe it.
.Tunk, you re lyin't'ta he declared,
lifting his steelgray eyes to a pair
of watery bbiue eyes.
Of watery blue eyes.
lyon come am Sect was the quick
"Oh / reckon Dan g dead, all right
I IN not disputin that, for / knew be Il
end this way. Bnt when you come up
here an tell me woman killed Dan
Wilton-d you s'peet me to b 'lieve
its"
The messenger grinned AL drew a
twist of Tobacco from his pocket He
proceeded to gnaw off a mouthful,
talking at the same time.
cit 3 shore 'nough fac any
The main street of Lowton at eight
O 'eloek Sunday morning was not TEEN
ing with life, but during the brief col
loqny between the sheriff and the mes
senger a small crowd had gathered
ssWAat's happened asked the town
marshal. who had just appeared
Gore shifted HIS weight to the other
foot.
STell 1T ever again Turk, and tell
how it happaned, ii. You know. Part
Of It sounds like he to me- he adj
ded somewhat aside.
The crowd closed around the horse,
and its rider, finging his leg over its
neck and assuming an easy attitude,
began without preliminaries
"They's dance las night at Joe
Horn Mos, o the Ridges thar.
'caus they had it in a tobacco barn,
nj they = Fcem fer all creation. No
body asst Dan TO &c emey but he didn,t
|ns4A 10 ashn 4 He's thar; come late,
kind. . hoopin' drunk. Course every
body hundred him. not waptn any
fuss. Then Dan up an ast whar n
lhslrs Becky Rase, caus he lowed to
daaoe xskA her. sSomeboay toll sim
she hadn't COM, m he rips ont some
euss words, m said he'd go m fetch
her. She lives down the Ridge, mex
10 the Big Noba, jes' with the ole
man. Has eff in the mex county
tradin', ,n- She's by herself. We. tried
10 = 'suaas hin net 20 30 pesterin
lRf1ky. eopse slesd : eoss- if SHED :
lx114ea ~, b,4 ha liked off anyhow,
- .asoszple of hsusss~er~ sish matter,
Dan hahn + come. n some Nv 'en
went down to see what s the reasoa.
lFfum thS evisisncs, she isalEn't let d
l4a .t<A>A b5oks il tkroo wlns1sr
I1Ae enae fbly nsnsed up, ~
f1knn 1un6 - l1ks fhevAa At auans
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-08

Word had come to Lowton one Sun
Aav morning that Dan Wilton had been
killed the night before; shot, and by
!, woman.
Sheriff Tom Gore, six feet six. in
ehes. eadaverous. bony, sharp-eyed,
looking AT the scrawny unwashed fig-
ure lolling on she neck Of the mag
affcent bay horse which had brought
him the 12 long miles from Dry Ridge
te Iowton in less than an hour.
.et4it out; ven re drunkl' exclaimed
the sheriff, when the tale was done.
asDrunk, hell, Amt l seen Dan lay
In thar on the floor dead's a nitf Hole
l.. his chist a dawg could crawl inl
Hes kilt daid, / tell yo. -
Tom Gore had had dealings with
Dan Wilton. He had been the worst
character in the community where few
were GOOD His natural state was one
of drunkenness, and he would kill
with as little conjunction as he would
take drink. He had been at odds
with the law constantly, aid no sher-
if in the county's history had been
able to arrest him until big Tom Gore
had been sworn in It was because of
the terror which Dan had always in
spired in everyone, that Gore-faand it
hard to accept the story which the
ragged messenger had brought -
The sheriff of Galloway LEANED
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-08

briefly, and took her by the hand to
help her rise.
II was twilight when they reached
the cabin of old man Rose. An traces
of the tragedy had disappeared, ana
SOLICITORS friends were eondoHng the
cid fellow over the trouble which had
come upon him. He had gotten back
that afternoon and had Just heard tha
dreadful news Gore led the girl up
to the group where her father stood
"Here's your daughter. old man, -
he said. 81 fonud her back in the
wood a while ago. Take her and treat
her the best you know how for tho
rest Of your life
And while the hill folks looked on
with mouths agape, seeing that thu
sheriff of Galloway was willingly Civ,
ing up prisoner Tom Gore flung his
long legs over the back Of his mars
and galioped down the yellow trail
which led to Lowton
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-08


The girl was sitting with >sr legs
crossed tailor-wise, and her Lack to
the wall of stone which sprang up at
the rear of the shelving rock. Her
braided hair hung over oae shouaer
upon her breast She was clad IN some
lowered stuff which she had evident
" used for a nightrobe. At the neck
piece had been torn from it, and her
white bosom shone marble ike within
the rent. Her hands were crossed IN
her lap over an ugly black revolver
which she made no EFFORT to use as the
man approached.
Gore thought he had never seen such
absolute despair ana hopelessness on
a human face Not line OF her eoun-
tenance changed when he stepped into
view. With drawn brows and stony
eyes she sat and looked at him.
The sheriff took of his hat anl
mopped his streaming forehead with
his shirt sleeves. He did not know
what to do, OF what to say. lie leaned
on the muzzle of his rifle, and returned
her stare.
"You-you killed Dan Wiltona" he
asked at length, and his voice was gen
tie.
A tremor shook the form Of the girl.
Her icy calm vanished, and she flung
her hands to her face and sobbed vio-
lentiy. The paroxysm passed quickly,
and she gazed at him with big swim
ming eyes.
~ knowed yo'a eome!" she said.
ssYo allus does when somebody gets
kilt thought I'D hide sos 70 d
never 6nd ne" Fer face changed
end feroeious expression convulsed
it eyes. / SHOT Dan Wilton, til drunk
edward an thief. He knowed pap $
away, Yo've come Ter get me to take
me ter jail, m hang me, meebe9
Her hand wsnt back 10 the revolver,
but she did rot try to use it.
esTeu me aI,our it frst," said the
sheriff Of Galloway.
esI's sleep wen ne come Knocklh
a. the door IN astin me to let i'm IN.
+ TOD I'm to go away, n , he eussed N
tried to break tn door down Then
he come to tn winder IN tore 1t plum
cut. / got up N got my pistol but
he grebbea me m tried to choke me
bets erazy drunk. fit i'm n Mt
i'm, n, if he hadn't been sa crazy
drunk he'd kilt me. Then I shot
I'm, IN, he dropped, N / run run
back here to hide, Gus | knowed 20 4
come-an, j don want ter go 90 jail 8
sYou oint goin TO jail answered
the sheriff very promptly Is your
feet cut very mnehf
B she thrust them under the hem OF
her aown. and Gore stw that each had
bled He drew his big handkerchief
fran his pocket, tore i in half with :
savage gessure and savage growl and
in another moment was binding up the
bruissa eo1ss
1sCems .rifh areis' he commanded
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-08

iasdlazrabie. y thar's Dan ia the cor
ner dead 'ssG Hit, Eith q bunch 0 cal
leo in eae ham wher' he'd tore 1t off
becky she shot i'm clost, fur the
ha,r's siage9 ofn his ehist round the
builit hole. She's gene. Nobody knows
where. - that's a fas shores if s
suaday.
he leaned over and allowed a small
scsstaraat Of amber 10 flow from his
porsed lips TO the ground. He had
not. time to expeI the accumulation dur
lag the recital
Various explanations were heard as
the story was concluded. The town
mafshal hudged MS fellow officer in
the ribs
Glad it's your jib Tom he said.
Gore straightened up and felt for
bis pipe
We aiirn big notion to let the gal
alone. he returned. eff she did kill
+ Dan lau3 there g nothin' to prove it
yet. that I can see), she's done this
+ county . mighty big service. I'm here
to say that
/ Laws law, though, . persisted the
marshal you We got to go''
Laws law, fer a fact, and I'm
sofas's' retorted Gore lippantly, as he
turned abruptly down the street.
/ ..Don / you wanta posse, the mar
/ sbal called out after him. You're Xix
= 10 have tronble
/ The sheriff paid no heed to the jibe,
b'lt passed on with long strides, piumes
of smoke darling back over each big
shoulder from his pipe
The task was enc which suited him
I not at all. It was an unparalleled case,
and as he mounted his brown mare and
set her head towards Dry Ridge, he
almost hoped his qeust would be flu
tile. He had never failed yet in over
taking evil-aoels, and when some des-
peTade was at the other end of the
hunt he Fas keenly alive to The adj
vEeature. He loved his work, and he
took a pride in making good Since
he had been in eftice law1essness had
decreased, even on Dry Ridge, always
"a hot-bea of crime. He had made
some nofable captures, always working
alena-bnt thisi To go out against q
hgix with revolver at his waist and
~ Winchester aeross his saddle bowl
Ito. hale her 20 the jail and court be-
Eeaase q dog of man had died! He
flushed from shame and urged his mare
into . eanter. For the first time since
the people Of Galloway county had
s3eeted him with an overpowering vote
ne wished he was q private citizen.
IT was yet nail-morning when he
reached the knob foothills, and began
the long Winding ascent which led up
r fssf ss Of the Ridge The way
s..alasaT Twice before he hal
sseaghs Dan Nilton along that roa
I'm irons to have his trouble Cor nosh.
Eknx becanss perjazed vEtnssass zsslsru
Ithe pFasoupx free. NoE slna aepin -
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-08

s Standing by the side of his horse,
which had waited for him patiently,
Gore relit his pipe, and set his mind
to work If Wilton had met his death
at the hands of this girl (and every
thing pointed that Bay9 she could not
be far away. She had fed without
any set purpose, so Gore reasoned, and
most likely had gone back into the
knobs, where abundant hiding places
could be found in the numerous de-
files and vine-hung ravines. Horror and
fear had been the scourges which had
driven her.
Gore slipped the reins over his
horses head, and leading the animal,
passed slowly up the nearest ravlne-
The way quickly grew impossible for
his horse, so he tethered the mare to
low hung limb, and went on foot.
Suddenly he stopped and faint smile
fiickered about his mouth. No water
ran over the stony, narrow bed which
he was traversing, but the earth was
moist and soft where it showed be-
tween the stones. In one of these
bare spots tho sheriff had seen the i'm
kneit beside the telltals mark, he saw
at glance that it had been made by
a woman, and that she had been run
ming, for the indentation left by the
bah of the foot and the toes was
much heavier than the rest of the track
Barefseteds Over these rocks.'
breathed the sheriff, and short dis
lance on he fousa blood marks.
tsEasy tfoilint - he thought, locking
for the brown stains which led him
unerringly, and wondering just what
he weuld de and say when he over
took his quarry.
For half naile the trail was unbrok-
en-, then the. guiding stars disappear
ed abruptly, completely, and search a.
. he. would, Gore could fnd no evidence
that the girl he was hunting bad parsed
that way. Quilted, wooded slopes rose
1DInpk1L 0l GfsAri SUI, IAASAits 0A10ebS-
ing Where the stains ceased the ca
davsr6us ierm sank down and began .
mesr minute examination. On hands
and knees, he moved about patiently
working over the ground. In this
papnsrs he came to the right bank of
Ith1 ravine RansatA his searching eyes
WAS an overtsrned leaf He took II
gently betweea fnger and thumb and
reversed It On the ether side was a
drop of blapd, not dry. The sheriff gor
on his feet and gazed earnestly up the
slope. About ten feet away = broken
tNie se0ged. Gore hitehed MP his
trousers and began to ascend at once.
It was slow, hard work, fer it was i'm
possible for him to tell whether he was
gsing right or wrong. For two hours
longer he soiled, then As he suddenly
made his sxit- from the enconpassing
Brnsh unto > anan pleteau, or shelf
- sesk 11ieA era1hpnesA dssp gorge,
he realized-<hzt: dis sacst Was over.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-08

passed a cabin squatted by theS side
of-the road. Its inmates woald Reolne
to the door-tlsnally siatterniy wom-
an with brood of scantily clad chill
dren of both sexes and varions ages
and siieaIly watch him ride by. They
knew him. and they knew his errand.
There had been killings before on
Dry Ridge, and always the day after
this lang slim figure with the heny
face and steely eyes would pass, fnex-
orable as death itself. They had come
TO wait for him, then sit up for his
/ return. He never spoke to them. It
would have been useless. They were
clannish, and would have given him
no information They hated him, but
they also feared him.
1t was a long dire to the home of
| cid man Rose after Gore had gained
| the crest of the Ridge. The way was
devious. and numerals bypaths bran
i ehed from it. He met very few peo-
| pie here, and none of them accosted
him. It was nearly noon when he
reached his distinction. The cabin
! before which he drew rein was situ-
ated at the base of a high, wooded
knob and was completely isolated.
There was NOT a sign of life visible
anywhere The sheriff had looked for
this. After he had gone they would
/ -
ment.
Gore swung himself to the ground
! with an easy smovement, and letting
/ the birdie reins lie upin the neck of
his horse, went towards the cabin
The broken-in window confronted him
| eonirminga a part of the story which
had been brought to him. The entire
sash was gone and shattered glass was
scattered upon the ground. The still
ness eff death hung ever the place,
and death was indeed there. ~ Goys
at once found as he bent his gaunt
framn and sseppel through thu win
dow. In common with the majority
OF homes on the Ridge, theeezbdns had
] only one room, with loft. Rhe pllee
] WIS ia the greatest dissrdsn lAAirs
! were overturned, ard debris II psim
tive household effests was scattered
over the door. In further corner lay
the dad man. His legs were beat IN
der hiah. anonymously, an besssvas
lyine on his back with his arms flung
wide. Gore bcnt over his for a
momsnt, then stood erect, placed a
hand on either hip, drew long breath
and ejaculated
DAMMIT
As far = his Investigations had
| gone, Turks tale WIN tzus Das was
dead, and there Was ragged hole IN
his bony chest. II lis srimy han.ls
were sons shreds az hrightly eolored
goods. ~ Il 49,
The skunk,s e -
With this brief but comprehensive
exelennaeipa - aAeai3 tusasd con.
lsseuRtaeaslx HNa1s
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-08

Among the plays which Nine Nazi.
nova has in rehearsal is ''The Sea
gill; drama of Russian life by An
ton Tehekhof, in which she acted dur
ing her first engagement in this coua
cry, speaking the lines in Russian.