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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-28
On the Spur Of
the Moment
BY ROY MoULTON.


FROM THE HICKEYYTLLE CLARION
Miss Euphemia Perkins is wrl1n
militant suffraget drama enfnHd
In again, out agin. gone agin Erp-
incline" tf4
Mr.. Amariah Tilson. propristor AZ
the Bon Ton sontoria parlors, an
nounces that he has secured a rev
razor in place Of the one his Nszs
used to open can Of tomatoes. and
is now ready to resume business 81
TIE old stand. Owing to the pFeE-
ent high price Of mutton the pensoF
'eno stole the goat out'n the Knigaez
os Equity Hail the other night il re-
speetfully requested to return fts
sa1ae, as there are some candidates
to be initiated in the near future ans
tie ledge can't afford to buy ns~
one.
90
Miss Euphemia. Perkins. our poek-
ess Of passion, has given up with
poetry for Doc Hanks's medicine nd-
vertisements. as Doc made her fskh
her pay in medicine, which is aleao
good for furniture polish. Miss
Perkins sold some Of it around toux
Tor that purpose, but decided T.
wasn't no way to get rich quick and
returned to her old position as sae-
ond cook at the Huttel HickeyviHesx
Ansel Higgins bought some 1Inz-
ment to remove a wart from vhss
thumb and Il was a great SUCCESS.
removing not only the wart. but nndzk
of the thumb. -
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quiet. Then, speaking in clear dis
tinct tones, she said
/" You men are towards You han
come here when you knew THAI
was alone. If Mr.. Johnson were
home and were to appear before
you would not dare to lift a
against him or his house, nor woa
you dare huri insulting epithefs n
him stand here in his place.
For an instant the mob stood MA.
vering At last the leaders turned
and within five minutes the street
was deserted
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Copyrighted. 1913. by ". e. Williams.

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1913. by E. J. Edwards
All rights reserved).
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he stars incline. but do not compel
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Daily Publishing
w the Nellie
= the which their
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-07-20

| Seven years at hard labor, pro-
nounced the Judge to the weeping man,
and they led him away to prison,
latest but not last of the victims of the
great pink pearl.
Once Boeck had lived in luxurious
rooms at the Republican Club in New
York City; now he was in narrow,
noisome cell in Sing Sing, forty miles
away From there he was released a
few days ago, broken man; a man
deprived of his citizenship; felon
who had done his Bit" without a
friend; penniless-ne had been stripped
even of his $4,000 inheritance, left
him by a relative while he was still
convict.
But of the pearl?
Gone forever, seemingly.
The Shreves had sold it somewhere
in New York, they said, but all trace
of it was lost Many are the pearls
that are dealt in daily in Maiden Lane
New York's jewelry heart-and little
more than passing notice is taken of
any particular one.
There was pink pearl, to be sure,
hawked around by statesmen, but it
was priced too high and nobody want
ed it. One day it was in the Nissen
offices; not a soul even bothered look
ing at it, And so this pearl passed
from hand to hand, from jeweller to
jeweller, and not penny of profit did
any one of them make on it. And
each time it tied up $4,000, which is a
lot of money, even in the jewelry
business.
But at last it wound up at No. 10
Maiden lane, the office Of Abraham
Schorr, an importer of precious stones.
And there-a buyer at last!
No. not any of the Guggenheims, or
Senator Clark: not the Cavalier, who
wanted to change her emeralds for
pink pearls; nor the multi-millionaire
Capt. Delamar; but Mrs. Jules Vatable
of New York and Tuxedo.
'',The very thing want for the cen
ire of my necklace!" she cried
when she saw the perfect sphere of rosy
copper hue.
1t was bought and strung. Hardly
was the pearl in Mrs Vatable's hands
when she was stricken with pneumonia
and all but died Soon after her hus-
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& N anguished face, the sudden
- thrust of a brown arm from out
the blue sea, scream of human
agony-just one; the slap of some
thing Shiny and 1.-THE over a wave
emptiness and silence. And then a
little red dyes the waters.
Only the little waves are left, the
little waves that spread out in ever
widening circles until they are lost
tn nothing the little waves which
started where the face went down,
doubly distorting itself up from the
wrinkling depths. Nothing left?
Yes. something The hand that
flung itself out too late dropped bit
OF weed and a shell over the gunn'le
of the boat 1t rolled to the feet of the
other man, who sat there stupefied as
he saw his comrade go down to the
death of pearl fisher. Another
oyster, more or less, what of it? 1t
had cost a man his life. this formless
thing from the floor OF the Indian Sea.
Up came the anchor stone. Up rose
the lateen sail, Tapping idly against
the mast. Slowly ashore skunk the
fishers boat with its story OF death
and its freight of the solitary she'll
which lay forgotten on the bottom
boards at the feet of the man who
steered.
Three weeks later India knew a new
pearl. 1t had come to Colombo, Cey-
Ions port of pearls-a great, dark
pink thing, almost coppery in hue, big
as a bullet A perfect sphere, fiji fol-
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urrnJ 70 sell; with the pearl he gave
too, some diamonds and emeralds oil
the fair Lima CavaIieri, who brought
tears into the life of the rich young
Robert Winthrop Chanler when she
married and divorced him. And tears
for the dealer, too, and the agent.
The agent fed with the pink pearl
five other pearls and many jewels, and
disappeared as if the waters had swal
lowed him up, even as they had the
man who had first wrested the shining
thing away from its keeper, the sea.
And the dealer failed for $4,000
when his pearls had gone and left him
a bankrupt And so the police were
called in and detectives set to work t.
run down j. Edward Boeck, the thief
But he was clever thief and he got
rid of all the pearls but one-the pink
pearl. Three he pawned In New York
City for $4,000 before he fied-they
we're worth $4,000! Three he took
with him to Goldfields, Nevada, where
the mines were, but they did him no
good. His particular mine failed and
gave him no gold back for his stolen
gems. He left Goldfields behind him
forever and started for the Pacific
Coast. Fate stayed him.
Like a thief in the night appendi.
c.tis struck down Boeck when he was
poorest, and he nearly died. The mink
pearl, could he have sold it, would have
enabled him TO have gone to the inter.
most bounds of the earth, but he dared
not sell for fear of being caught. And
ne needed money sorely So when he
was turned out of the hospital in Los
Angeles he still had the big one and
the two others, which weighed 35
grains between them.
To San Francisco next A woman
came into his life; she volunteered to
sell the treasures across the seaside
shipped as a stewardess on the steam
slip Korea which piled between San
Francisco and Hong Kong.
Two of them she sold in Shanghai
but not the pink one, last of the six
Back to the Golden Gate she came
with the money and the last pearl, the
biggest one.
II must sell it, declared Boeck
''and get away"
He knew. There were signs in the
air that the police were close behind
him. So it went at last-the woman
sold it to Shreve & Co. of San Fran
cisco for a mere $500, barely a titnt
of it's worth.
Nov can get away" sighed Boeck
as he took the cash from the woman
Not so. The day after man walked
up to Boeck and laid his hand on his
shoulder.
Il want you,' he said, taking paper
and a photograph out of his pocket
for the theft of six pearls in New
York;"
''The jig's up!" sighed Boeck, "and
I'm glad of it. Now l can sleep in
peace!"
And there were more tears that night
when Boeck wept himself to sleep in a
cell, where they locked him up until
the extradition papers could come on
from New York.
Guilty." whispered Boeck, when he
was called to make his plea in the
court where felonies are tried.
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The hand dropped a shell into
the boat.

band decided to go on the Stock Ex-
change and actually bought seat.
Why he never completed his member
ship in this rich mems club" has not
been made public. At any rate. Mr..
Vatable's name did not appear on the
Exchange bulletin as having beer
elected.
AS for the pearl that the Vatables
had bought, no one gave it another
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raiahs Of India and their suites, and
among them the man who owned the
pink pearl dyed with his blood" and
with him the jewel.
Europe had never seen SO many
raiahs before nor had so many rajahs
seen Europe. 1t was a wonderful adj
venture for the man with the pearl
until-but why tell of all his haps and
mfshaps? The pearl and he were forced
to part company-he had lost too
much en- route at Monte Carlo and
then at Baden-Baden and Ostend.
And so the pearl journeyed on to
Paris-alone.
London saw it next, now in the
wholesalers hand, and at last New
York. Surely some American million
aire would buy 1t this time and the
world might see its roseate glory
Surely it could no longer blush unseen
in the darkness of some jewelers. safe,
this rarely beautiful thing that had
cost man his life, the last of an
others fortune.
No? Why, its journeys were hardly
begun, much less done!
Pearls are for tears-indeed they are.
Still more tears were held within the
soul of that glittering gem; more tears
than many a human soul sheds in a
lifetime It's mission was not ended
nor is it yet!
To a very prosaic old building of
brown stone went the pearl from Co.
lombo. Ludwig Nissen & Company of
No 1872 Broadway, New York City,
wholesalers of jewels, owned it now
and their price was $4,000 for the
globule of rosy glory.
1T weighs just a shade less than 26
grains,' explained Mr.. Nissen, an ex-
pert in gems, to all who saw his proud
possession.
And pearls of 26 grains, mind you,
Go not grow in every oyster. So there
it lay waiting for some rich man to
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all such pearls go; an Indian
princelet snapped it up and il
went to his treasure chest in Cav
pore, there to stay against the
coming of the years and then
to his son and his sons son.
And in the lapse of time came the
coronation of Edward, Emperor of
India and King of England, and to
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the stomacher of a princess or
the diadem of a maharajah, as the
man who bought it we'll knew.
And, dyed with his blood"
whispered the man who sold
1t, as he gathered up his rupees
and silently went his way. And
1t all happened in the long ago,
before you and / were born.
Before many days the pink
pearl was in the marts where
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come and take it home. No rich man
came. But there did come dealer
who knew many rich people and there
was talk Of a possible purchaser
maybe Senator Clark of Montana, or
the Guggenheims, who we're always
buying pearls; or the romantic Capt.
Delamar, who had worked such magic
with his mines that he was worth I'M
told millions. Of certainty one of
these rich men would like the pink
pearl and pay its price.
But only tears, idle tears.
The dealer gave the pearl to an
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13

Cling takes the place of legiti.
mate commerce. So also, il the
interest rate is made too low or
too fixed, usury is rather promo
ted than prevented, or else all
the money is driven out of the
State into other States where
the demands OF trade are met.
When the government gets q
good banking. system and al
lows a reasonable use of q bank 8
credit for the issue oil notes on
it's assets, interest rate will vary
from four to six per cent. Ell.
forts to improve interest rate
should be in the direction of a
good national. banking system,
not special leaisla tion. except as
to nsury Legally, there should
be limits of interest, say from six
to eight per cent. making oDpor.
tunity legally to cover tho range
Of BUSINESS demands.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13
Better Times Now.

John Milton'sgreatest noblest
poem was sold for fifty bucks; he
sadly took the money home, and
TO his wife said: ''Shucks!" This
thing OF singing deathless strains
is vain, so. help me John; there's
less reward for poets brains than
there's for teamster's bra wn.
You should have wed a pluto.
crat, dear housewife, in the past;
you'Il have to do without q hat
this spring, as you did last. The
girls must wear their old print
gowns-I trust they'll dance and
sing-and must wear the hand
me downs | bought when James
was king" The modern pO,t
gambols home, that home with
laughter fills. lie says: 81 sold
thatmisfit pome about Dofunny's
pills. / have an order for a rhyme
concerning Jimcrow's salve; anu
now, my dear, a bully time we
surely ought to have. e. blow
yourself for gaudy rags, and give
the kids a treat, for joyously the
old world wages, and I'm on
Easy street. Walt Mason.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13
NJ Need To Stop Work

When the doctor orders you to
stoop work it staggers you, can't
you say. You know you are weak,
run down and failing IN health day
by day, but you must work as long
as you can stand. What you need
is Electric Bitters to give tone,
strength and vigor to your system,
to prevent break down and build
you up. Don't be weak. slckly or
a.ling when Electric Bitters will
benefit you from the first dose.
Thousands bless them for their glo-
rious health and strength. Try them
Every Bottle guaranteed to satisfy.
Only 50 cents at all dealers.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13

in the next campaign. The his
tory of ordering a senatorial pri.
mary shows what the people
would do. They would demand
that they select their candidates
in a primary regulated by law.
That is the only certain way they
can govern in the no .nination oil
candidates. and in North Carroll.
ma, where a Democratic nomina-
ton generally is equivalent to an
election, it is really more impor-
tant to place legal protesticn q
round nominations than about
the election, important as tbstis.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13

If you are housewife you can.
not reasonably hope to be healthy
or beautiful by washing dishes,
sweeping and doing housework all
day, aud crawling into bed at night
dead tired. You must get out into
the open air and sunlight. If you
do this every day and keep your
stomach and bowels in good order
by taking Chamberlain's Tablets
when needed, you should become
both healthful and beautiful. For
sale by all dealers.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13
Health Warning,

Chilled and wet feet result in con
gesting the internal organs and in.
flamation of the kidneys and blad.
der. with rheumatic twings and
pain in back, generally follow.
Use Foley Kidney Pills, they are
the best medicine made for all dis
orders of the kidneys, for bladder
irregularities, and fc, backache and
rheumatism. They do not contain
habit forming drugs. Tonic in &C.
tion quick in results. For sale by
all dealers.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13
81 hope that Ishall not be mol

IL hope that Ishallnot be mob
bed for saying 40, but | telieye
that tho women of this country
will serve it better by staying at
home and raising the family
than they will be with the ballot
in their hands, l have more
faith in one good old fashioned
mother with b black gum IN her
hand and a boy across her knre
than l have ia one with the relns
of thegovernment IN her hands. "
Bishop KiIgo.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13
Are You A Geld Sufferer?

Take DR.. Kings New Discovery
The best Cough, cold, throat and
lung medicine made. Money re-
funded if It fails to cure you. do
not l,esitate--take it at your own
risk. First dose helps. j.. r.
Wells Floydada, Texas, writes:
"Dr. Kings New Discovery cured
my terrible cough and cold. I gain.
ed IS pounds" buy it at all drug.
gists.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13

During the summer months
mothers of young children shonld
watch for an unnatural looseness of
the bowels. When given prompt
attention at this time serious trou-
BILE NAV be avoided. Chamherlains
Collie Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy can always be depended upon.
For sale by all dealers.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13
AN INAUGURAL ODE
Dedicated to Woodrow .wilson.y

(DedicAted to woodrow. WILSON,.
To Tune Of "America.''
Our noble Ohieftain great
The faith OF every State
To thee we bring: "a s
A peoples name and choice,
In thee our hearts rejoice.
And with united voice
or thee we sing.
Our worthy ruler true,
The honor that is due
We bring to thee;
Our God will be thy stay, &
He'll guard thee all way.
And give thee purer sway
Ger all the free.
Act thou a stateman's part,
Rule thou with patriot heart,
And guard the right;
Stand by thy highest aim,
Preserve eternal fame,
And keep thy worthy name
In honor bright,
God save our ruler great
From every evil fate
BY His own hand; --y
May every act be pure,
And every step be sure,
And through tho age endure
In all the land!
We lift our hearts to Thee,
Great God Of noble free,
E'er true and just!
On this Inaugural day,
And all along the way.
Help ns In faith to say;
In God we trusts''
]. NJ. DOWNUM.
3OOnp N q.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13
The Pay Envelope VI. The Drink.

The Pay Envelope VI. The Drink.
Mountain Scout.
The fact that employers gener-
ally are becoming convinced that
it does not pay to employ men
who frequent saloons is one OF
the most hopeful signs OF tn 9
times. The Atlanta Constitution
says:
1t was testified at the court.
martial Of Captain Jowitt, at
Augusta, that Major Levy. in
command OF the MALTA at that
point had issued orders to the ei.
feet that any man in the service
who took a drink would be sub.
ject to court martial There is
little question that the embargo
embodied in this suggestion will
eventually become the rule in ev-
erv, branch of the service, regu.
lar or volunteer, and will extend
to men off as we'll as on duty.
auch a development will do more
to stop drinking among men
who wear the uniform than any
amount oflegislaticn or the most
clamorous protest against the
restoration OF the can'een.
As the Constitution pointed out
several days ago, economic. 'rath.
erthan legislative forces, are back
OF the undonbted trend toward
temperancesin this country. Agi-
tation by men and women who
genuinely believe the affic ought
to be stopped has unquestionley
been OF aid. But the deciding a.
genry has been, not well-meant
hysteric bnt'the stern, unsenti.
mental business edict, "Take your
choice between your drink or
your jobl"
Reform OF this nature began
first with the railroads. Above
all other callsFgs, this one requir
es clear heads, steady nerves,
keen eyes. Many years ago, crews
were forbidden to drink while,o
duty. The interdict is gradually
extending to include those off du-
ty as well. Train dispatchers
and train masters and general
supertendants are finding that
Che man who 'lushes" between
runs is only a triHe less menacing
to safety OF traffic than the EN-.
ployee who carries a bottle with
him on the trip. When a train is
ditched through the snap of an
alcoholized intelligence, it costs
the road money. Therefore al
cOhol must go.
The same principal is RAPIDLY
spreading to all occupations.
The era is one deficiency. Whis-
key makes against efficiency. 1t
is the count of ten for whiskey!
PERSONALLY You are entitled to
your drink" says the employee,
"but | am also entitled to efficien-
cy. l can't compel you to sign the
pledge or to observe the prohibi.
tiOn law. But lean and will secure
efficiency by refusing employ
ment to the man who drinks"
The pay envelope versus the
drink. And the pay envelope wins
every time. The principal might
profitably be.horne IN mind by
those of mistaken zeal who think
they can drill prohibition into
people with drastic laws. The
economic law is doing be job bet.
ter and without hypocrisy, for
keeps and without evasion.
Cling takes the place of legiti.
mate commerce. So also, il the
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13
INTEREST AND UsURY.

lAIEhEOf AND USUkt.
Charlotte Observer,
Amongstall people and in prac
tically all time there has been q
serious and unsolvable question
as to where interest rate ON mon
ey ends and where usury begins.
The Wcissitudes and variations
in business make it impossible to
indicate by. a sharp line where
interest ceases and where usury
begins. In modern times, it very
frequently happens that a mar.
gin for interest rate is provided
so that when business becomes
tighter the interest rate may by
contract be modified to suit the
tightness of times and attract
money. and the money in a Sta te
be not driven to other States by
too sharp a hne.
Some members of the Legisla :
ture seem to be concerned now
about this question and wish to
make severe penalties when the
limit OF the legal interest rate is
passed, regardless OF the varia-
tions OF business emergencies.
The people all over the United
States are payingtoo much inter
e.t rate. slt ls.almost twice what
it is in some European countries,
and far in excess oil, most. of the
advanced European countries.
This condition cannot wholly be
remedied by State law. 1t il the
fault of the national bnLking
system which prevents us IN the
United States from using t h e
ere dit of the banks for the relief
OF the very yicissitud.s and va.
riations OF business above men,
toned. In the business world
things don't always 60 smooth
ly; there are ups and downs, Xix.
treme prosperity and extreme
adversity tend to produce a high
interest rate. In such t. nj e s
the au horities Of t h e
banks should be allowed an in-
crease or decrease of banknote
issues. While we seem to havea
liberal issue of hank notes in this
country, they are based upon
bonds which absorb all the capi-
tal That the notes represent, and
there is not one cent OF credltCur
rency issued by the American
banks.
The best thing for the Legisla.
ture to do would, be to recon-
mend TO Congress some immedi
ate action ON the currency ques-
tion allowing us reasonable ls-
sue of bank notes on the credit
of the banks assets. This would
reduce interest, rates and would
increase the facilities of banks
for making money at the same
time, and no legislation would
be required to keep the banks
inside OF the usury line. In the
present situation it spractically
impossible to prevent a bank
from giving the preference ofloan
to good customer who always
carries a good balance. A good
merchant usually does carry a
balance, or ought to, yet by car
rying balances and otherwise u
sury laws may be evaded.. In
any situation, money is more or
less a commodity; its use usually
sells for what it will bring or ap-
proximately So. Usury laws are
not meant to try to control the
commercial rates as. much as
they are meant topreventsquee-
zing customers in a tight time.
This they accomplish, within rea.
sonable limits. and flagrant usu.
ry il very uncommon in this
country. But to try to make a
harsh punishment for slight diff
ferences and variable interpreta-
tions Of the law is simply to han
dlcap the commerce of the State.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-02-13

THE grandest Of heroic deeds
are those which are performed
within four walls and Id domes.
tic privacy"