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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-07-03

TftE
MELT ING
OF MOLLY
By MARIA THOMPSON
DAVIESS
Copyright, 1912. by the Bobbs-Merrin
Company

and you can't get over the habit righ'
away. Poor Mr.. Garter hasn't been
dead much over q year. and must be
missing him most awfuly, though JUS
,itely ! can't remember not 10 forge.
about him great deal of the tine
Now If he had been here-horrors!
Still. that letter was enough 10 upset
anybody, and no wonder | ran ri-ht
across my garden through Billy's
hedge hole and over into DR.. john
Office to tell him about it, but oug3d
not to have been agltated enough t.
let him take the letter right out of ml
hand and read it
so after ten years Al Bennett j.
coming back to pop his bachelors bul
tons at YOU. Mrs MollyT he said IL
the deep drawing voice he away,
uses when lie makes fun of Billy and
me and which never fails to make Us
both mad / didn't look at him direct
". but | felt his hand shake with the
letter in it.
"Not ten, only eight! He went when
was seventeen" | answered with
dignity. wishing ! dared be snappy at
him. though | never am.
And after eight years he wants TO
come back and find you squeezed into
a twenty inch waist. blue muslin rag
you wore at parting2 No wonder Al
DIDN'T succeed at bank clerking. but
had to make his hit at diplomacy and
the high arts. Some hit at that, to be
legationed at st. James. He's such q
big gun that It is a pity be haa to re
turn to his native heath and find even
such a slight disappointment as IA one
yard waist measure around his-his"
"Oh. it's motifs not that muchr
| fairly gasped and | couldn't help the
tears coming into my eyes. ] have
never said much about it, hpt NOBODY
knows how 1t hurts me to be all this
fat Just writing 1t down In a boob
mortifies me dreadfully It's been com
ing on worse and worse every yeal
since | married Poor Mr Carter had
very good appetite. and don't know
why should have felt that had tc
eat so much every day to keep him
company. | wasn't always so consid
crate Of him. Then he didn't want me
to dance any more because married
women oughtnt, or ride horseback ei
ther-no amusement left but himself
and weekly prayer meetings, and and
I just couldn't help the tears comm"
and dripping as thought about it al
and that awful waist measure in
inches.
stop crying this minute, Molly,
said DR.. John suddenly in the deep
voice he uses to Billy and me when
we are really sick or stump toed You
know was only teasing you and /
won't stand for
But sobbed some more. like him
when his eyes come out from under
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PROLOGUE.

Molly was the fairesf and mer-
riest of widows-Gnd the plump
est That too, TOO solid flesh
mas the cause of all the trouble.
Molly loved Alfred Bennett in
her girlhood days. Now he was
coming home distinguished
diplomat and wanted to see Mol
~ in the same blue muslin dress
fwdist measure twenty inchest
which she had worn at their ten
der parting years before. So
Molly had TO grow slim as a
string bean in just three months.
And, as she had at least four
suitors, the melting process-a
fairly complicated business
wds often interrupted.
The gay, irresistible Molly, all
sweetness and spice and every
thing nice, is most fetching
heroine, and the longer one knows
her The more cne's admiration
grows. She has wit o-plenfy and
a very Keen sense of humor.
Furthermore, no one can tell
just what she will do next To
rhapsodize, she is-but wait, let
the witching Molly tell her own
story herself. -..s....,,lL--
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-07-03
Legal Notice.

N tioe is hereby given that until the 26th
DAY of ,ulv ia3. at IL O'Clock, noon, sealed
propose ais will be received at the office of the
lerk of he Bo.rI o. Education Of Carmel
Sp cial School District of Highl1nd County,
onio tor the u aterial and Tor the building
a frame school house on tt lot situated in
Carmel. HIGHLAND County, Ohio. according
t. the III ms and specifications on file In the
Clerks once.
Each biz shall conta the name of every
person interested in the same, and shall be
accompanied hy SUFFICIENT guarantee of
som disinterestCd person that II the bid is
accepted contract will be entered into. and
the performance of it properly secured.
Labor and material heing embraced in the
work bids for each must be separately
stated. with the price thereof.
None but the lowe st resp nsble hid will
be accepted, and The Board YES the
right to rejec' any or all bids or to accept
any hid for both labor and material which
is the lowest in he Aggregate.
BY order of the Board OF Education of
Carmel Special School District OF Highland
County, Ohi0.
q. L HIATT Carmel, OHIO.
Clerk of said BOARD of Education.
(6-26)
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whcs he seats her in their pew AZ
church and once at little Mamie john
son when she gave him a flower
through their fence as he passed by
one day last week, but never thought
l should have one all to myself. But
there 1t was. most beautiful one
long and slow and distinctly mine-at
least didn't think much of 1t was for
Billy. sat up and blushed as red all
over as do when first hit that tub
OF cold water.
~ hope you'll forgive an intruder,
Mrs. Carter. but how could a mortal
resist peep into the garden OF the
gods IL he spied the queen and her
faun at play?' he said in voice as
wonderful as the smile. BY that time
had reefed in my ruffies around my
feet and pushed In all my hairpins.
Billy stood spread legged as near in
front of me as he could get and said
4" tho r,ldest possible tone of voice:
(To Be Contlnued)
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LEAF FIRST,
The Bachelors Buttons.

I~ lES, l truly think that in all the
u world there is nothing so
EsTyUsI dead as a young widows de-
1sf9El ceased husband and God
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his bushy brows and are all tender and
full of sorry for us.
II can't help it," ! gulped in my
sleeve. 81 did used to like Alfred Ben
nett My heart almost broke when he
went away used to be beautiful and
slim, and now ! feel as if my own fat
ghost has come to haunt me all my
life am so ashamed! II a woman
can't cry over her own dead beauty
what can she cry CverY By this time
was really crying
Then what pnned to me was that
DR. John took u by the shoulders and
gave me one good shake and then
made me look him right in the eyes
through the tears and all
"You foolish child" be said in the
deepest voice almost ever heard him
use. "You are just lovely. ronnd
luscious peach but II you will be hap
pier to have Al Bennett come and find
you as slim az string bean | can
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LEAE SECOND.
Love Letter, Loaded.

T" 1HE very worst puge in this red
l. i y-red devil--I'm glad I've
EFSEFd written 1t at last--of a book
E.Gk is the fifth. 1t says:
"Breakfast--o one slice of dry toast.
one egg. fruit and tablespoonful Of
baked cereal, small cup of coffee, no
sugar. no cream" And me with two
Jersey cows full of the richest cream
In Hillsboro. Harpeth valley, out in my
pasture!
"Dinner-one small lean chop, slice
of toast. spinach, green beans and let
tuce salad. No dessert or sweet The
blue grass in my yard is full Of fat
little fryers. and ! wish were sheep
If have to eat lettuce and spinach for
grass At least, I'd have more than
one chop inside me then.
"Supper-slice of toast and an ap-
ple." Why the apple? Why supper
at allP
Oh, I'm hungry. hungry until | cry
in my sleep when ! dream about q
muff1nl ! thought at first that getting
out of bed before my eyes are fairly
open and turning myself into a circus
actor by doing every kind Of overland,
foot. arm and leg contortion that the
mind of cruel man could invent to tor
ture human being with, would kill
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HE very worst puge in this red
red devil--I'm glad I've
written 1t at last--of a book
Is the fifth. II SAYS:
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OTTO SnFOuuo NC OF tUo SN9oHys
me before had been at 1t week. but
when read on page sixteen that as
soon as all that horror was over must
jump right into the tub of cold water
i kicked. metaphorically speaking
And I've been kicking ever since, liter
ally to keep from freezing.
But, as cruel death as freezing is
it doesn't compare to the tortures of
being melted Judy administers it to
me, and her faithful heart is 80 wrung
with compassion that she perspires al
most as much as / do. She wrings a
linen sheet out in caldron of boiling
water and shrouds me in it for the
agony-and then more and more blan
ket windings envelop me until ] am
like the mummy of some Egyptian gi-
antess | have ice on the back of my
neck and my forehead and murder for
the whole world in my heart. Once |
got so discouraged at the idea Of hav'
ing all this hades in this life that |
mingled tears with the beads Of per
spiration that rolled down my cheeks,
and she snatched pe out Of those
steaming grave clothes III less time
than 1t takes to tell 1t, soused me In a
tub of cold water fed me chicken
wing and hot biscuit and the infor-
nation that was good looking
enough for anybody to eat up alive
without all this foolishness." all In a
very few seconds Now. have to beg
her to help me. and heard her tell her
nephew, who does the gardening. that
she felt like an undertaken with such
goings on. At any rate, If 1t all kills
me 1t won't be my fault If anybody
has to lie in saying that was "beau-
hful In death"
But now that more than a month has
passed. | really don't mind 1t so much.
feel so good and strong and prancy
all the time that can't keep from
bubbling have to smile at myself.
Then another thing that helps is
Billy and his ball. never could real
y play with him before, but now i
can't help 1t. But an awful thing hap
pened about that yesterday. We were
in the garden playing over by the lilac
bushes. and Billy always beats me.
| because when be runs to base he
throws himself down and slides along
on the grass on his little stomach as
he sees the real players do over at the
ball grounds. Then all Of a sudden,
before knew it. | just did the same
thing. and we slid to the fiowerpot
we use as base together. each on his
Swn stomach And what did Billy do
but begin right there on the grass the
kind of a tussle we always have In
the big rocking chair on the porch
Over and over we rolled. Billy chuck
ling and squeaIing. while ! laughed
myself all ont of breath. I'm glad
always wonld wear delicious petit
coats, for there. looking right over
my front fence, discovered Judge
Benton Wade ! wish could write
down how felt. for ! never had that
sensation before. and I don't believe
ri ever have 1t again.
! have always thought that Judge
Wade was really the most wonderful
man In Hillsboro. not because he is g
Judge SO young in life that there is
only a white sprinkle in his lovely
black hair. that grows back off his
head like Napoleon's and Charles Yves.
ley's, but because of his smile. which
you wait for so long that you glow all
over when you get It, | have seeI
him do II once or twice at his mother
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Notice of Appointment.

Estate of Rachel A Gaddis, deceased.
X. b. Gaddis has been appointed and gu ALI
fed as executor of the estate of Rachel A..
Gaddis, late OF Highland County, Ohio. de-
ceased.
Dated this 3rd day of June A. D. 1918
adv J. B. WoRLEY,
Probate Judge of said County.
WILSON & MCBRIDE, Attorneys.
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Notice of Appointment.

Estate of Nancy J. Roades deceased.
Ira Roades has been appointed ana
qualified as Executor of the estate of Nancy
J. Roades late OF His bland county. Ohto. de-
ceased.
Dated this 2lst day of June A. D., 1918.
adv b. WoRLEY,
Probate Judge of said County.
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Notice of appointment,

Estate of Sarah Damman Deceased.
]. Horace Roads has been appointed and
qualified as administrator of the estate of
Sarah Dammann, late of Highland County,
Ohio, deceased
Dated this 2nd day of June A. D. 1918
j. B. WoRLBY,
Probate Judge of said County.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-07
7 BROTHERS
KILLED IN
CABIN
Bodies Found Two or Three
Days Following Commits
sion of Crime

MARYSvILLE. Nov VIII and Ste-
rhen Sherman. two brothers living in
their cabin in an isolated spot in
Strawberry valley, in eastern Yuba
county. have been found murdered,
according TO advices received here. 1t
IS said the men had been dead two or
three days when found.
CHINESE WANT TO GO HOME
LOS ANGELES, Nov. Tt is stated
that more than 1000 Chinese in the
vicinity of the border are waiting a
chance TO get across the line SO they
can be arrested and sent home. There
are now 100 in the county jail, so of
whom viii be sent north and deported.
LURE VICTIM WITH NOTE
STOCKTON, Nov AFTER sending
Robert Eickhoff. saloon man, a note
stating that they desired to see him at
his home. two men waited near the
house and held him up. securing s145.
WANT BARROwS REPRIMANDED
SACRAMENTO Nov. Resolutions
asking Governor Johnson to reprimand
acting President Barrows of the Uni
versity OF California for his utter
ances said to favor Intervention in
Mexico have been received, but the
executive secretary declines to make
public the identity of the petitioners.
BONDS FOR GOOD ROADS
SAN JOSE. Nov. delegations from
all over the county attended ban
qUet at Gilroy last night in the inter-
est Of a bond issue of 100000 for a
road from the Santa Clara to the San
Joaquin valleys via Pacheco pass.
BOTH MAKE SAME CHARGE
STOCKTON. Nov. 7.-Olando Lamp
son, Sonora merchant, has filed a suit
for divorce against his wife. alleging
she and her mother are Incorporate
and unfit TO have the custody of their
child. Mrs. Lampson makes a similar
allegation against Lampson in a cross
complaint. The court has the case
under advisement-
JAPANESE MEETS DEATH
FRESNO. Nov. 7.-Y. Yenewona. a
Japanese, who with two others was
arrested for shooting and robbing a
Chinese merchant in Kings county.
was shot and killed last night follow
ing his release on the charges. Chi
nese are suspected.
"RAG'' CURES INSANITY
SACRAMENTO. Nov. lit is stated
that since the introduction of rag
dancing at the hospital for the insane
the patients are showing signs of i'm
provement and physicians are watch
ing the effects of the newest steps
with great interest.
COMMISSIONS ISSUED
SACRAMENTO, Nov 7-Commis-
Eions for delegates to the national
conservation congress in Washington
November IS, 19 and 20 were issued
last evening.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-07

On account of Increased business,
necessary to lease the six story build
ing at 24-30 Main street between
Mission and Market This building
has a frontage Of As feet on Mission
street and is 12o feet in depth The
entire floor space Of $4,000 square
feet will be devoted to the manufac-
turing. bottling. labelling and pack
ing of The Owl Drug company's''
products. The building will be thor
oughly renovated and remodeled and
the manufacturing department now
occupying two floors of the ell Mission
street headquarters will be housed In
the new location.
The Owl Drug company at the pres
ent time is operating 20 stores in the
states of California, Washington and
Oregon. being represented In San
Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles. San
Diego. Sacramento, Portland, Seattle
and Spokane.
On account of the recent addition
of several news stores. together with
other stores planned for the near fu-
ture. it has become necessary to en-
large the manufacturing plant in or
der to handle the increased volume of
business.
The home Office OF the Owl Drug
company will still be located at GIL
Mission street. This building will also
be remodeled the top floor being
given over entirely to the offices of
the heads of the various departments
The auditing and the mail order de-
partments will also be on the top
floor.
The Owl Drug company will soon
open a new store at the corner of
Golden Gate avenue and Market street,
which will be in full operation by the
middle of December The Owl Drug
company now employs $50 people.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-18
Political Lynchng, Suffers Designation For
Conviction; Tammany Court Made it Useless to
Attempt Fight, Declares the Ousted Governor

Albany. Oct. 1s.-A statement in
which he declared he has been made
the victim of a political lynching. that
his trial was a farce. and that the
court was Tammany controlled all
the time. was made last night by Gov
ernor Sulzer when he received for.
NAL notice Of his removal. The full
statement follows:
''Untarnishei and unsullicd.''
In response to requests from
friends through the state for some
expression from me. can only say
at this time that ] am glad that my
trial is over.
by virtue of a power beyond the
present control of our electorate.
commission they gave me. and I hand
1t back to them untarnished and un-
sullied.
MY lips have bcen sealed for
weeks, during which time I have pa
tiently submitted in silence to abuse
and villification.
However. after stating my case to
my counsel. and by their advice on
August I, made the following state
ment:
."T deny that used campaign con-
tributions for PERSONAL use.
al deny that I speculated in Wall
street. or used money contributed for
campaign purposes to buy stocks
either in my own name or otherwise.
"T never had an account with Full
ler and Gray or Boyer and Griswold.
I never heard Of these firms: do not
know the members: and know MOTH
Ing about the transactions with these
firms. testified to before the Frawley
committee. until recently threatened
with exposure. and the alleged trans
actions were brought to my attention
by the Frawley committee. The stock
matter with Harris & Fuller was not
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-18
GLAD TO VOTE
FOR CURRENCY
So Declares Congressman
Young on Return From
National Capital

Valley City. n. D., Dec. 1s.-Con-
gresham and Mrs. Geo. NJ. Young and
laughter returned from Washington
last night to spend few weeks. AS
it is eight months since they left here
for the national capitol they express
ed great pleasure to be back again.
About the new tariff law Mr.. Young
said: Give 1t a fair trial. a year of
experience will demonstrate more
than ten years Of talk"
MIR. Young also expressed himself
upon the banking and currency bill.
saying:
~ was glad to vote for the currency
bill Tn the house. although l think
there should have been some amend
ments made to it. and believe the bill
will be changed and improved by the
senate. believe in free banking:
that membership in the proposed
United States regional reserve banks
should be optional. and that all hon
cstly managed banks, including the
small state banks. should be permit
ted to become members"
have not been requested by the
sergeant-at-arms to return to Wash
ington and do not expect to receive
any such request. There Is nothing
10 do In the house until the currency
bill is sent back from the senate
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-18

q speculative account but loan &C.
count made upon stocks, collateral
which stocks had been acquired and
paid for years before my nominati tion
Tor the Office of governor and from
other sources than Harris & Fuller
Paid the Amounts.
Certain checks given to me dur
my personal account. and thereafter
I paid the amount of said checks to
the campaign committees.
In fling my statement of receipts
and disbursements with the secretary
OF state, relied upon information
Furnished me by the persons in i'm
mediate charge of my campaign. and
most implicit confidence. and l be-
lieved the statement furnished by
thcm to me at tho time to be accurate
and true
"No legal evidence was adduced on
the trial which disproved that state
ment.
subsequently on September IL.
gave out another statement as fol-
lows
1.-THE stories that I am going to
resign are false and malicious The
purpose In circulating them NUT be
evident to any one. I am not going
to resign. I am going to stand trial.
II have said sone hard things
about the senators. and they have
said some hard things about me: Ut
this is a trial. not political fight.
"'They are both judges and Jurors
and believe most Of them are large
enough and honest enough. to rise
above any personal feeling they may
entertain toward me because Of wha,
have said about them. and do me
Justice
BY Orders Of "Boas."
Those are the only. statements OF
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-18
MONEY PROBLEM TOO
GREAT FOR POWERS; he
-, OUTS At: TERMS END

Washington, Oct. fS-Rrpee-
; sentative Caleb Powers. who
came to congress almost directly
from the Kentucky prison where
for yee-s he had conducted a sem
sational fight for his life, growing
out OF the killing of Governor
Goebel, will retire at the end Of
his term.
81 am not now financially able
to longer stay in the game of poll
tics and play it as the times de-
mand," said the congressman, In
u statement. "The game is
strenuous and life-destrOying.
Any statement that I am retiring
bccause Of ostracism by members
of congress is false. With the ex-
ceptiOn Of the democratic mem-
bcrs from Kentucky, whose asso.
citation and Fellowship / never
have sought nor desired. have
been treated respectfully and
cOurteOusly by all members.
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interviews ] have made or given ouf
since the assembly. by the orders of
the boss passed the resolution Of i'm
peachment.
"Of course when | issued the last
statement September il. did not
think Senator Wagner. Senator Fraw-
ley. senator Ramsperger, Senator
velt and Senator Thompson would act
az my jurors and judges. as they were
either interested personally in the
outcome of my trial or had acted AS
my prosecutors and condemned me
before trial. or on account of per-
sonal grievances had expressed an
opinion as to my guilt. The pro-
priety Of the senators voting for my
conviction, must be apparent ana
they refused to vote--as sense of
dency should have induced them to
do would not have been convicted
on any one of the articles of inn
peachment.
Trial 4 Farce.
MY trial. from beginning to end.
SO far as the Tammanized part of the
court was concerned. was farce-a
political lynching-the consumma-
acy to oust me from Office. ] am
being illuminated. tired of being
hunted and bounded; tired of trying
to do my duty and being traduced.
THE court rule against me in ev-
erything. and ruled out everything
in my favor. The well.settled rules
of evidence were thrown to the winds.
A horse thief in frontier days would
have received a squarer DEAL
"Mr. Murphy controlled the assem-
bly, and ordered the impeachment
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-18
CATTLE THIEF IS
SHOT BY SHERIFF
Attempted to Make Away
With Sixty Head-Caught
in Hut Near Belfeld

Dickinson. n. d., Oct. 1S.--Corner-
ed in little hut fifteen miles from
Belfield. Mike Schmciski. an alleged
cattle thief. made break for free
dom, leaping through a small window
and running ACROSS the prairie, fol-
lowed by Sheriff Barrett of Bowman
county and Sheriff Brown Of Stark
county. only to he shot down while
crawling through a fence. Twelve
shots were fired at the fleeing man be-
fore he was felled. the injury not be-
ing serious.
Henry Peterson. aged II. of White
Bear. Minnesota. with Schmeisl<i.
was also arrested. It appears that he
had been hired by the alleged thief
to drive sixty head of cattle that had
been stolen in Bowman county and
has no part in the actual theft.
Sheriff Barrett trailed the thief over
Ia hundred miles.
Schmeiski was in the state peniten-
tiary only a shor, time ago for cattle
stealing in Morton county.