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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-31

the Tombs awaiting trial. She was
quite friendless. To the world she was
only thief in duress. At the last the
trial was very short. Her lawyer was
merely an un1edged practitioner as
signed to her defense as formality
of the court. At the end twelve good
men and true rendered verdict of
guilty against the shuddering girl in
the prisoners dock.
That which was the supreme tragedy
to the broken girl in the cell merely
afforded rather agreeable entertain
ment to her former fellows of the de-
partment store. Mary Turner through
out her term of service there had been
without real intimates, so that now
none was ready to mourn over her
fate Even the two roommates had
felt some slight offense. since they
sensed the superiority of her. though
vaguely. Now, they found SNUG
satisfaction in the fact of her disaster
as emphasizing very pleasurably their
own continuance in responsibility.
On the day of Mary Turner's tria!
there was subtle gayety of gossipings
to and fro through the store. The
girls plight was like shuttlecock
| driven hither and yon by the battle
dores of many tongues. 1t was the
first time in many years that one of
the employees had been thus accused
of theft. Shoplifters were so common
as to be stale topic. There was a re-
freShing novelty in this case. where
one of themselves was the culprit. Her
fellow workers chatted desultorily of
her as they had opportunity. and COM
placently thanked their gods that they
were not as she-with reason.
Smithson, a member of the executive
staff. did not hesitate to speak his
mind. though none too forcibly. Yet
his comment, meager as it was, stood
wholly in Mary's favor. And he spoke
with certain authority. since he had
given official attention to the girl.
Smithson stopped Sarah Edwards.
Mr.. elders private secretary, as she
was passing through one of the de-
partments that morning to ask her if
the owner had yet reached his Office.
Been and gone.' was the secretary's
answer. HE went downtown to the
court of general sessions. The judge
sent for him about the Mary Turner
case"
"Oh. yes, l remember now" Smith
son exclaimed. Il hope the poor girl
gets off. She was a nice girl-quite
the lady. you know, Miss Edwards.
Will you please let me know when Mr.
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CHAPTER |.
The Panel of Light.

TIME lids of the girls eyes lifted
slowly, and she stared at the
panel of light in the wall Just
at the outset the act of seeing
made not the least impression on her
numbed brain. For a long time she
continued to regard the dim illumina-
ton in the wall with the same passive
nxlty OF gaze. Apathy still lay upon
her crushed spirit In vague way
she realized her own inertness and rest
ed in it gratefully, subtly fearful lest
she again arouse to the full horror of
ner plight In curious subconscious
FASHION she was striving to hold on to
thls deafness of sensation, thus to win
little respite from the torture that
mad exhausted her soul.
VI sudden her eyes noted the black
INES that lay across the panel of light,
and In that instant her spirit was
qulckened once again. The clouds lift
ed from her brain. Vision was clear
now Understanding seized the full
import of this hideous thing on which
she looked. For the panel of light was
window set high within a wall of
stone The rigid lines of black that
crossed it were bars-prison bars. 1t
was still true. then. She was in a cell
OF the Tombs.
Crouching miserably on the narrow
oeo' she maintained her fixed watching
VI l.
was symbol of her utter despair.
AGAIN agony wrenched within her.
Inc girl was appalled, by the merci-
iesshess of destiny that had so out
ragged right. She was wholly innocent
Vi having done any wrong She had
struggled through years of privaticn to
Keep herself clean and wholesome, wor-
my OF those gentlefolk from whom she
ureW her blood. And earnest effort
hau ended at last under an overwhelm-
ing accusation, false, yet none the less
ia'al TO her. This accusation after soul
"earylng delays had eliminated today
LII conviction. The sentence of the
court had been imposed upon her-that
SNulS SHt
Oned
ihere had been nothing in the life
VI Mary Turner before the catastrophe
came to distinguish it from many an
otner. lis most significant details were
Vi sordid kind, familiar to poverty.
her father had been an unsuccessful
nidll as success is esteemed by this gen
Grafton of Mammon worshipers. He
was a gentleman, but the trivial fact
Is OF small avail today. He was of good
oFth' and he was the possessor of an
inherited competence He had as well
intelligence, but it was not of a finan-
cial sort.
80. little by little. his fortune be-
came shrunken toward nothingness
pE reason of injudicious investments
he married a charming woman. who.
after brief period of welded happi
ness gave her life to the birth of the
single child of the union. Mary. As
the years passed the daughter grew
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CHAPTER II.
Only Three Years.

w YHEN at last the owner OF the
NJ store entered the office his
" face showed extreme irrita-
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08
SPLENDID RIVALRY
AMONG COUNTIES
Every Section Of the State viii Be
Represented in Competition for
Combined EXHIBITS.

One of the best criterions Of the
prospects for the 1913 Arkansas State
Fair, October 81 to November /, is the
splendid interest manifested by the
county fairs in the competition for the
eight splendid awards made annually
by the state fair for the best col
lective county exhibits.
Last year Faulkner county won first
honors, Saline county. second, and
Conway third, with other splendid ex-
hibits winning the lesser honors.
Less than twenty counties exhibited
at the 1912 fair, but this year forty
counties have already entered in this
competition, which comprises a grand
panorama of the states resources and
produCtiveness. On another section OF
this page will be found the illustration
of the three winning exhibits last year.
This year Agricultural hall will be
taken up almost exclusively with dis
plays from the different counties OF
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08
GREATEST DISPLAY
IN STOCK arena
Live Stock Exhibits Already Entered
Presage the Greatest Showing in
History of the State.

The big increase in the number of
live stock entries for the Arkansas
state Fair, October q to November j =,
has made it incumbent upon the man
agement to provide more enlarged
quarters to accommodate the exhibits
Last year the swine pens had to be
extended and this year still more ad-
diuons will have to be made. The
same is true of the cattle division,
where more facilities will have to be
provided. The horse division can be
amply accommodated by the hundreds
OF splendid electric lighted box stalls
and stables, and the management has
taken hold of the matter thus early in
order that every exhibitor will be af
forded an equal chance in the exhibit
of his stock to the public as we'll as in
the competition before the judges.
The Arkansas State Fair provides
the most magnificent quarters for live
stock of any state fair in the United
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08
Mining Section Prosperous.
Special to Independent.

Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Oct. 8.-Agricul-
tural Commissioner John H.
Page has returned from a visit
to Marion county, and discuss
ing his trip he said:
Il was much gratified by the
evidences of prosperity in the
mining industry. The zinc
mines in that part of the state
are turning out a large amount
of commercial ore, and they are
marketing it and getting q good
price for it. The Arkansas ore
is running so to leo per cent
better than that of the Joplin
district. New mines are being
opened, and the industry is be-
ing placed upon a solid basis.
"The new state mineralolo-
gist, Mr.. John 7. Fuller, will
soon make a trip with me to the
zinc district of Boone, Marion,
Newton and Searcy counties for
the purpose of making a very
thorough examination of the
mining industry, that we may
give the world an intelligent idea
of it's extent and value.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08
The l. O. o. F.

The l. o. o. F.
The I. O. O. F. meets every
Monday night in Masonic Hall,
corner Hazel and Second streets.
Visiting brothers always well
come.
S. ]. Blackburn, N. G.
J. F. Parish, Secretary.
Tribe of Ben Hur.
The Tribe of Ben Hur meets
in the Board Building every
Tuesday night at 8 o'clock by or
der of the Chief.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08

States. Nowhere in the country can
visitors to fair enjoy the comfort
and facilities for viewing the live
stock that they find at Oaklawn park.
Special directors in each of the live
stock departments have worked in
harmony in securing for the coming
fair the greatest aggregation of blue
ribbon stock ever exhibited in single
arena.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08
Missionary Returns To Congo.

Rev. w. M. Morrison, the well
known missionary of the First
Presbyterian Church, Little
Rock, will sail from New York
for Luebo, Congo Free State,
South Africa, October Is, to re-
sumo the work there in which he
has been engaged for many
years. He has written Little
Rock friends asking that he be
remembered to all as he returns
to his field of endeavor. Ark
ansas Democrat.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08

The Arkansas State Fair is only a
month in the future. Have you made
your arrangements to attend? Re-
member, Hot Springs is amply able to
care for all who desire to attend In
it's usual manner. Hotel and rooming
house proprietors announce and gu
arantee that the rates for accommoda-
ton are the same as in the past, with
ample room for all.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08
$4,000, 900 FIRE FIELD.

While such misfortune as the re-
cent $10,O00,00O fire which swept 200
acre section of the residence district
of Hot Springs. could not properly be
held out as an attraction, still there
are thousands of people in Arkansas
who while visiting the state fair. will
desire to have a look at this fire
swept field. They will want to view
the scene of the conflagration which
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08
WOOdmen of the World.

Pecan Camp, No. 3, meets LIST
and 3rd Thursday nights of
each month in Masonic Hall.
Visiting brothers welcome.
r. T. Simmons, C. c.,
P. S. White, Clerk.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08
Royal Arcanum.

Newport Council, No. 322.
Royal Arcanum meets 1st and
3rd Friday nights in each month
in the opera house building.
Visiting brethren always well
come.
S. Nj. Beattie, Regent,
w. C. Wishon, Sec.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08

the state, arranged in regular panora-
mic manner. The awards of last year
have stimulated nearly every county
of the state to the desire to win the
state honors and the competition this
year will be very keen.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08
ARKANSAS NEW FLAG.

The new flag of the state of Arkan-
sas will be unfurled to the breeze for
the first time officially at the Arkan-
sas State Fair. Governor George w.
Hays and his official staff will parti-
cipate in this big event, as will also,
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08

the Young woman who designed the
banner, thousands of uniformed mem
bers of fraternal societies, hundreds
of beautiful girls in patriotic gowns,
all centered about gorgeous stage
setting. 1t will be one of the greatest
and most spectacular events in the
history of Arkansas.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08

within the course of few hours swept
it's pathway through the city, covering
a territory ten to twelve blocks In
width and over mile and a quarter
in length.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08
Modern WOOdmen.

Newport Camp, No. 1854,
M. w. A., meets Second Friday
night of each month in Opera
House. Visiting brethren invit-
ed.
R. T. Simmons, Consul.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08

The 1913 fair is going to be another
banner year for the swine exhibitors.
Already the entries have surpassed in
number and clss@ any former fair, and
new entries of show herds are being
received every day by Secretary Beld-
ing.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-10-08

Jackson Lodge, No. 191 F. &
A. M.
Meets Second and Fourth
Tuesday nights of each month
in the Opera House Building, Sc
cond and Hazel streets.
Visiting brothers always well
come.
Geo. M. Sink, w. M:
S. M. Beattie, Sec
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20

London is the most conservative city
in Europe, If not in the world. 1t loves
its lumber. You may still see those
notices attached to lamp posts which
announces Standing for Four Hack
ney Carriages, or whatever the num-
Der may be, though for ten years lin
one case, to my own knowledge for
twenty-five) no vehicles of any kind
have stood there. Perhaps it is as we'll
that these relics should remain; they
are tiny part of our social history
They will probably remain when we
are tlying to dinner or the theater in
omni-aeros. By that time people won't
know what hackney carriage" meant,
and there will be discussions In the
Notes and Queries" of the period
For each generation hands down to the
next certain nuts to crack.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20
Catching Flies Paws Well.

Catching flies is affording a Shreve-
port (La.) man a profitable and indie
pendent living. He sells them to the
city board of health. His name is
Bartsch, and his net revenue from the
fly industry for the first two days of a
recent week was $24.20. When the
health board began offering premiums
for the flies, dead or alive, Bartsch
purchased about 100 traps and placed
them in fiy-ridden sections of the city.
Then he began making inroads on the
health boards exchequer. and so well
did he operate that he bore the market
price down from so cents to 20 cents a
quart, for it is by that measure that
the board purchases. Bartsch is still
working, and he will work as long as
the treasury holds out. He finds fly
catching pays.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20
HEAD A MASS OF PlMPLES

Hyattsville, Md.-"My little boy was
taken with an itching on the scalp.
There was an ashy place on his head
about the size of ten-cent piece, and
the hair was falling from this place
by the roots. In about ten days all
over his head were these ashy spots
which looked like ringworm, but were
porous-like. The itching and burning
made him scratch great deal. His
head had gotten so that it was just a
mass of mattery little pimples all
heaped on each other. and when took
off his night-cap, the hair and flesh
came off at the same time / really
thought he would lose his whole scalp.
He couldn't sleep for five weeks, 1t
would itch and burn until thought
he would go into commissions.
II used different soaps and salves
to no satisfaction. Then I decided to
use the Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
Finally l noticed he began to sleep all
night. used one cake of Cuticura
Soap and one box of Cuticura oint-
ment and he was entirely cured. He
has better growth of hair now than
he had at first" (Signed) Mrs. Ida
S. Johnson, Mar. &c, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world Sample of each
free, with 32-p Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cutlcura, Dept L, Boston"
Adv.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20
NO NEED I'd "HoLD PHONE"
Sound Maanlfying Trumpet Which
viii Tell You When II Is Time
to Talk.

There is sound magnlfying trum.
pet Of fiat shape, behind which is a
small attachment intended to support
the telephone receiver. When it be-
comes necessary to hold the line,
when calling up or replying, instead OF
the person standing with the receiver
glued to his ear he places the receiver
upon the time saver, bringing the ear.
piece into position with the sound
magnifier. He is then at liberty to
resume his duties until such time as
the person required at the opposite
end attends his instrument.
This is notified by the speech trans
mitter being magnified by the time
saving device so as to be perfectly
audible at distance. The receiver
may then either be withdrawn and
held to the ear in the usual way, or
left in connection with the magnifier,
hearing being quite as simple and
easy as under normal conditions. An
other advantage of the invention is
that the users two hands are left free
to carry out any other requisite task.
such as the turning up of documents,
making references, writing down mes
sages or instructions from dictation,
and SO on.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20
CARING FOR THE
BLOOMING ROSES
Flowers Should be Cut Early in
Morning and Placed in Re-
ceptaGle of Water.
tBy JULIE aoRDoN0

When cutting rosebuds, cut back to
strong leaf-bud and another rose
will reward you. Use a good, sharp
knife, and give clean. slanting cut.
While you are about it-cutting
roses-bear in mind the future shoot;
that is, so 1t may add to the beauty
and symmetry of the bush.
Cut roses early in the morning and
place them in deep receptacle full
OF water until you are ready to form
bouquets or use them for decoration.
If you want them to last long, keep
them out of the sunshine and out of
draughts. Cut off the stems every
morning and add salt to the water,
which must be changed daily.
Never ship or send roses long dis
tances Just after they are gathered.
Keep them several hours in deep wa
tr, so as to allow them to absorb as
much water as possible.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20

the start, you can have low. bushy
head and good root growth.
If the orchard was cultivated as
carefully as the corn crop the yield
of fruit would be pleasant surprise
to most of us.
The nature and habits of the straw
berry require that tillage be contin-
uous through the season. Down in the
crown of the plant are being per-
fected fruit buds, which are large or
small, strong or weak, as the condi-
tions for their development are favor
able or unfavorable.
The bacteria which works upon the
elements of plant food in the soil,
converting them from an insoluble to
a soluble form, play a most important
part in plant life. Soil aeration is one
of the things required by these bac-
terra and this condition In the soil is
secured by continuous cultivation.
Two busy women can fatten up
their bank account materially from q
half-acre of Strawberries. Blackjack
ing work, of course, but the sunshine
is cure for great many ills-and is
cheaper than medicine.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20
EnqIand's Oldest RowIino Green.

Which is our Oldest recreation ?
There are not wanting psychologists
who profess to be able to trace refer
ences to football and baseball on
Egyptian moral tablets. However,
when it comes to actual records, the
fine old English game of bowls would
appear to be as old as any.
Southampton, Eng, has records
showing that one of the local bowling
greens was in existence in 1899.
Many interesting customs are asso-
ciated with the game on this historic
green. Every summer fire jack
competition is held. and an order OF
knighthood is conferred on the win
ner, who kneels in the center of the
green while the other players gather
round him and the master touches
him with sword and dubs him sir.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20
INJURY WROUGHT
BY BOX TURTLES
Little Insect Destroyers Have
Great Fondness for the
Juicy Tomatoes.
tBy FRANCIS L. R1sLEY1

Gardeners and most farmers have
friendly feelings towards this shy lit
tie reptile, SO much so that they give
them the freedom Of their gardens as
insect destroyers. But if one watches
the ripest tomatoes he will often find
queer-shaped holes or bites in them
It's without doubt the night work Of
a turtle-as they have great fondness
for the juicy tomato, and when the
turtle attacks such it leaves a "bite
mark" that tells the story. It's best
to have tomatoes grow as high up "a
possible. leaving no chance for he
turtle to reach them-but the height
turtle can stretch is astonishing
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20
Regulation Welaht.

There is only one way to regulate
body weight, and that is by the nat
ural method-by diet, exercise, bath,
ing, etc.-by Authorization and elimina-
ton, The nostrums advertised to take
off flesh without change of diet are all
dangerous. Be sure of that, and avoid
them. The same diet that will put
flesh on thin man will take flesh off
a fat one, In other words, natural
diet produces natural condition of
the body
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20

they should be thinned to stand not
closer than six or eight inches apart.
For immediate effects they should be
allowed to stand close together in a
bed.
From the small size Of the plants
and the pure white of the numerous
blossoms, sweet-alyssum makes a
splendid edging plant with a variety
of other flowers.
But for unity of charm, both Of
color and the most delicious fragrance,
an individual bed of the plants three
or four feet wide, extending the full
length or width of the garden will
give the highest satisfaction.
Before frost in the fall the plants
may be cut back, lifted, ported, and
they will bloom in the window all win.
ter.
Better results, however, with sweet.
alyssum for window culture is to
start the plants in seed boxes, in the
late summer or early fall.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20

(By L. M. BENNINGToN1
Forgot to rake and burn all the
dead leaves and litter in the orchard
last fall? Well, better do it now
not next month.
Trees require food as we'll as plants
do. They get this food in solution
only and it is necessary to keep the
ground moist. Cultivation helps to
do that.
The apple maggot is no kin to the
cooling moth, but is equally destruc-
tive, as he eats through the fruit in
all directions, while the larvae of the
moth confines its eating principally
to the core.
Tobacco dust is death to the woolly
aphis. Tobacco good enough for the
pest can be raised on almost any
farm.
When you prune apple and pear
trees, go slow. Better take two or
three years to get neglected orchard
In shape than to do it all at once.
Heavy pruning brings too many wa
ter sprouts on apple trees.
Cherry trees should be pruned
rather lightly. BY proper pruning at
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20

tBy BESSIE L. PUTNAM
Sweet-Alyssum is one of the cas-
lest of all Towering plants to grow,
and bed of 1t should be on every
home ground. since its value lasts,
without extra care, from the time it
begins to bloom in the summer until
1t is killed by the frosts of autumn.
The plant is whlte-fiowered, very
fragrant, hardy, and low-growing in
habit. 1t seldom attains height OF
more than one foot, and the average
height is from five to eight inches
1t thrives best in good garden loan
of moderate fertility but it will grow
and give much satisfaction in almost
any soil.
Sweet-Alyssum plants begin to
bloom when they are two or three
inches high and they continue to
branch and bloom all through the sea
son, single plant making a mat of
branches otter nearly two feet across
To produce the large-sized plants
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-20
MeteorIte Falls Near Woman

A meteorite weighing 81 pounds was
recently the subject Of discussion in
chemical circles in johannesburg
South Africa. The stone fell in Zulu.
land few months ago, and was not
only noticed by an eye witness some
Is miles away, but fell within few
feet of native woman, who gave
information which led to its discov-
cry. The meteorite cannot SO far be
broken, 1t is known, however, tc
contain platinum.