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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1913-01-17
FIREnEN HOLD ANNUAL
Meeting And
BANQUET.
SAFE OFFICERS ELECTED.--LARGE
NUMBER IN ATTENDANCE AND
GOOD PROGRAM.

large gathering attended the an
nual meeting and banquet OF the Vest
minister Fire Engine and Hose Com
nany No. /. which took place on We'd
neHday evening About 200 active and
honorary members aud invited guests
we're present
The meeting vas called 10 order by
President ]. Peafre NantE. Who order
ed the minutes of the last annual meet
inE to be read. after which the election
OF officers took place. There being no
opposition the secretary aud treasurer.
William NaglsY cast the ballot for
the election Of candidates. and deelar-
Cd each candidate elected
The officers elected are a follows.
President, James Pearre Wantz
First Wee President. =. Frank
Thomas Second Vice President. Har-
= D Fosble
Chief. Meade Ohler; Assistant
Chief, ]. Leonard sahaener.
: Secretary and Treasurer. William
{ Vsagley. Assistant Secretary and
Treasurer. Ober s. Herr.
Foreman of Trucks. Harry CoaIea
Assistant Foreman Of Trucks. John
I = nlehi
a.
/ fsT. Assistant Foreman OF reels. ID.
waHd O DiffeHdal
Librarian. Luther E. WeImart= A.
aIHIant Librarian. William tt
Marshal. John II Nitten. Assistant
Marshal. Hnrr# SchWHIgaFI
/ Ianltor Frank sehseigarf.
+ II the conclusion Of tha meeting
81 sere Invited TO tHs banquet room
where fHey seated themselves to N.
i. the oysters. raw. fried and aiss
=. turkey. han celery. pickles. eaf.
T.. rlgaTH etez. prepared = the I'm.
f qHsi committee. composed o. ] GI0Yd
pIHendaI. chairman. Joseph =. Hahn
ozear 4 Gilbert. William I. Andsfs
Meade 0hler All " Frank Thomas.
Program Rendered.
Afnr - banquet hey HsFe aHZad
u re-aH#smbIe IN lha meeting room
sHse tha following program vas Tsn-
dsFsd
+ Orchestral Double Quartalto. ct
tha lilllH and XaIaa HzHuund. AddfHHa
Il. " i HsIflck Orchestra. IN.
b. QuafIsiis. Down = TIE Old III
Stream Address. Iou i. Brooks
F. annual report u the Secretary
an Treasurer annual report OF ths
CHEF. Orchestra. Double 1uarlaIln
- Moonlight bay Address. Frank
s Stewart Orchestra Double Quar-
taIIa. That's Hsg / <eed Xous d.
dHeaa, Il ! Walsh - Orchestra.
Tho following committees Haf
charge = the supper arrangements
Kitchen Harry CoaIea. William Il
and Frank SehNalRarI
Serving rooH. Meade OhiaH. Charles
Hunter William HeIm. o > Gilbert
aHd William ! AndsFH
! IartsTH. q. = Gilbert and William I
AndsrH
Walters. v Frank Thomas lad
waiter Arthur ! ArbauEh. nner
HaTr. Charles 0lHenHai Joseph g
liam. William Long. Paul Nhtmare
Luther Neimsft. Harry Thomson
/ Clarence stnusH. HaTTy sshBeiFari
| Charles Gootea md + . DI1sndaI
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Miller

Mrs. Mary N. Miller. widow Of he
late Lewis Miller. died Il the home Of
her son. George Miller. at Roller. On
Monday january l3. II the age OF 4
yenrs and . daya. She Is survived BY
one brother. Mr FL Zimmerman.
three sons. George md urIah. Of
Roller, and John. of Baltimore: thrae
daughters. Mrs Lizzie Besaner. vie
OF Henry Iessner: MrH. Eliza AlbauEh.
wife of George Albaugh, and Mrs.
Alice Shaffer, wife of Enhraim shaffer.
She Was buried y the side Of her hng-
band at the Menist church n Roller.
Rev. Edward Miller and Ref. ]. Z.
Bauscher we're he officiating clergy
men The pallbearerg we're. Messrs.
John Warner, John Gerber. Emanuel
Bailey, William Jones. John Thomas
and Jacob Wildason George Miller.
OF GlenYilIe, Pa. funeral director
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EulifHlau.

After 4 protracted Illness from
paralysis. Mrs. Ida nalle Fnhrman.
wife OF John 7. Fuhrman. Union
Mills, died on January 7, In tho bIHt
year OF her age. She was : dangh-
ter Of the inte George Myers. of Hamp-
stead. Nd. Besides her husband Hhe
is survived b. three daughters. rs
follows: Mrs. Oliver Hezaon. At
home. Mrs. irwin Dutrer aud Mrs.
George Dutrer. of Myers district. The
funeral took place on Saturday morn
Ing at 8 o'clock At the house. where
the funeral sermon was preached by
Rev. J. Luther Hoffman pastor OF the
Lutheran church at Silver Hun. Of
which the deceased Vas member.
lnterment was made In ST Beniamin,g 5
cemetery near this city.
The pallbearerE were. Harvey De
hon. Joseph Cookson. George Hide
bride, Murray Nasonhimer. George
Bankert and William Dehoff.
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Nary Isabella toIlifl1wer. wife af
join T ColIIaoweT Of Graceham.
passed asay laHf Friday night about
10 o'clock. after an illness of about
tRo weeks duration. n the aKe uf I
years. & months and ! day
The following i've children survive
hsH. Elmer. o. Hagefatown. Joseph.
Of Ohio. Clarence. Of GHaeeham.
Lloyd. Of Washington. u. {. and
Laura, vie OF Adam Zentz. y Craze
ham. Besides Har husband. IRo IS
ter Mr. Samuel Newcomer. If
Graeeham. an Mr. Tnaeel, If
cTeagerHtaHn. 80 survive
Funeral services WaHa held at her
late home In Graceham. and I'm the
Morasian church OF he same place.
at i a. n, Monday and InIermant
waH made In Ihe nearby cemetery.
Her pastor. ReY Robert Hnebrnar.
officiating NJ l. GreaRer funeral
director
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rnL4ne PragressIte Dinner.

n unusually unique dinner party
- giYan on Wednesday evening by
several q the young ladies OF the
ton. L vas progressive affair Thr
fri and second courses, grape fruit
and oyster cocktails. we're served n
tie reaIdenceof Mr. and Mr. ] Brooke
Fink. Vet Main street From there
tHz guests repaired % the home ot
Misses EugcuIa aud Eleanor Fouke
lat MIN street. where thry enjoyed
ths soup course. The meat md Fage-
tale course VI served AT tie home oI
NIHH Eleanor Thomas. Court Place
from there thE merHY party went 10
NI#s Sue BiliIHE8lea.H home on Eaat
Man street to enjoy chicken eroaueIlea
md peas Miss Margaret bennett xaa
hazIsga n the Westminster Hotel for
tn salad course After ices and cake
had been served at tie home of The
Misses Fouke. he guests were invited
70 he studio of Mr. 1. L. Benson 10
drink coffee.
Eaeh hostess had elaborate table
decorations OF flowers and green's. The
guests we're Mf and Mrs J Brooke
Fink. NIases=- EugenIa and Eleanor
Fonke, Eleanor Thomas. Sue Billings
lea. and Margaret Bennett. MessrH.-=
II L benson. Buckley Morton. Harry
Gallagher. Ira I. Harth aud John
Bennett
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DUkEs ELECTED CAPTAIN.
IL VIII Lead Western MARYLAND 1914
Track Team.

Candidates f0r tn track team OF
Western Maryland College Joined 10
unanimously sIsetinK Ernest =. DnEes
:. Of GsntersIIle, Nd. captain Of tho
team. Dukes Is a good runner and
ha# run IN tha team for three years
taat year he topk several individual
races n the Maryland Agricultural
College games.
Dukes Il not only he captain Of the
track team. huI also Of The 1918 foet
bal team on which IL PLAYS end.
Candidates faF the track team meet
IN he gymnasium every afternoon At Z
o'clock. and although the track Ia
snail, tls team IL expected . maze a
good showing IN The Indoor games this
winter
Instead OF arranging m lntereol,
lsKiate HEhoduIs foF tho basketball
tam, William u Cecil haH arranged
= schedule for ne -four classes and The
preparatory school Two gamea ill
b played each Saturday.
Frank HowefH has been elected zap
TN Of ne Senior team. y. q Clark
o The IHniora Jaek Arthur. OF Tho
Sophomore - TsIKE. Of he Fraah.
mn. an kirI Kaster. Of the Preuafa.
taHY taam TIE achaaalle, - arranged
> Manager Cell and approved b The
captains of tn different taama. / AZ
follows
1an Sophomore Freshmen. Ju.
mir Senior
an z5--JunIor-PreparatofY. senIor-
Freshmen
Feb. sophomorezrrcparatory Ju-
nIar Freshmen
Feb. SENIOR Preparatory. Junior
Sophomore
Fsb I5-Sonhomofsz Senior. Prspa.
rzIury Freshmen.
IN arranging such Il schedule 7 IL
hoped tat mHHe basketball players
I'll be developed and that those aho
cannot pay basketball or football may
hzfa a chance 10 taEs some par In
college athletics
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Orphans Court.

Monday. January 18th IetterE Of
administration on the estate OF IHa-
dore r. Stricklln. late Of Carroll coun-
ty deceased, were granted u Matte
VI. strieklIn, who received warrant 10
appraise and order TO notify creditors.
Letters testamentarY on tie estate
OF Anna + Martin, late Of Carroll
county, deceased, were granted TO
Willie L. Martin. who received war
rant to appraise and order 70 notify
creditors.
William IL. Hepp. administrators Of
Henry Zepp, deceased. returned n
Ventory O. money aud settled his frs
and final account
Letters of administration on he
estate OF Elizabeth Hebecca Shan !,
late Of Carroll county. deceased, were
granted to Clarence I Shank, who
received warrant to appraise and Or
der 10 notify creditors.
The last will aud testament Of Mary
A. Benson. late Of Carroll county, de
ceased, was admitted 10 probate and
letters teHtamentary thereon we're
granted 10 George r. Benson. who re
ceIYed order to notify creditors.
Claudia NJ. Alexander, guardian Of
Richard E. and Robert K. Hewitt, N
fants. received order 10 draw funds
for the maintenance of Richard Z.
Hewitt, ward.
Albert !. Dorsey, administrator y.
a.. Of Mary II. Dorsey. deceased. re
celYed order 10 transfer stocks and
settled his second and final account.
Tuesday. January f4th.-Charles
Jones, executor Of Margaret Il Jones.
deceased. received order To transfer
stocks, reported sale Of stocks and
settled his second and final account.
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Stem

Helen Arme Stem, infant daughter
of Charles &. and Sarah G. Stem, died
at their home near Sans Creek on
Thursday. January 8. at lib a. N
Her age was 6 months and tuo days
Funeral services we're held on Satur-
day morning at 11.30 o'clock at Eben-
ezer Methodist Episcopal Church II
Winfield, Rev. II. G. Hall officiating.
The pallbearers we're: Masters-WII-
liam Young. Arthur DnYall. GnerneY
StuIIer and Wesley Sluller.
Besides her parents. one sister.
Mary. and one brother. John. survive
the deceased child. C. N. Waltz fu-
neral director.
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Quinn.

James Quinn, D years old, Of Butler.
died on Monday from lnnrmitles Of
age. He vas a Civil Var veteran and
penaioner. and married Miss Rachel
LLOYD, who, with daughter. Mra.
Price Howard, Of Glyndon, and a son,
James A. Quinn, of nutler, survive
him. He leaves ten or more grand
children. lie was native OF ireland
and had been resident OF this coun.
try for rs years. His funeral took
place Wednesday from Falls Road
Methodist Episcopal Church.
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HItten.

Irg. Alice { Mitten. widow OF he
laIe Edward Iitten. Of Wakefield.
did Friday morning. January 10. at
The residence Of her son in Nv Wind.
sor. aged = years She Is survived by
one son. Mr. Harry Nitten. OF kaa
Windsor Mr5 Hitten.s maiden name
was slOnaker and she aas native If
UnIDnt0Wn. thiH county.
The funeral services were held n
her late residence Monday Il
l. o'clock Rev. B. ( Bets. Of ne
Church Of God conducted the services
and the Intcrment Wag In he I'll
Cemetery at unIontoWn The uHll-
bearers we're Messrs Samuel RoH.r.
George staub. Charles Fritz. Daniel
Diekensheets. Samuel RoberIaon and
r. /. Newcomer.
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Enjoyable Dance mt Union bridge.

! dance was held recently In he
lafEe assembly hall o. the TldewaIel
Portland Cement company.a ofIict
building IN Union Bridge. The afTaiI
was great success, he committee In
charge being: MessrH. Buckley. Perry
Hurley and Otto.
Those attending the dance were:
MIHHes--stella Hollenberger. Margue-
rite Anders, Gawina Buckley. Helen
Markell. Hettie Hainea. Grace Zum.
hrnm, Nora Repp, Pauline Snyder
Marie and Helen Baker, 0lene and
Emma Perry, Gladys Perry. Carroll
Rooms, II. Sullivan. Elizabeth and
Emma Lease, Hilda Fyler. Helen
Malone and EdWIna Mckinney. MeaHrg
Norman Otto. Earl Hnckey. William
Hurley, Lester Perry. chip Whitehill
Lester Repp, Thomas Znmbrum, Pau
Markell, Earl shriner. Roger White
hill. Oswald Baker. Albert Gait. verle,
Koontz, Thomas Bennett, Mr. Leeze
Mr. Gillespie, G. c. sImone, Eddie G
Grabill, Wm. Anders and II. Il. Hlek-
man. OF Baltimore.
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shnlfz

Nfa, Susan sauitz. HIra o John !.
shultz, dIsdht Hsr home 10 Hampstead.
On Saturday morning. aged = year.
from pneumonia She IL survived ~
hef husband 80 daughters. ~
John Kelly Of baltimore. ID HFH
Joseph zHmaea@1. Of Eorrafaa three
HanH. Andrew. Amos md Charles. af
Ian pstsad tsa HisteFH. Mra Augustus
AfmacuHI. aud IrR Edward Hoyatan
and one brother. Richard Martin.
Funeral services We held IN Tue
d. morning at Grace Church. ReF |.
II Mckinley officiating raIIbeaTsra
were jamnB HaHtz. Watson TrAenY.
William Kemp. William Stone. /
Oliver Murray md frank sHhuItzer
e : TinIon 4 On undertaEsra.
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WEDDINGS
Shlpley-mnion

Miss Henrietta Linton, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Linton. and Mr.
Jesse NJ. shipley. both OF sykesfIlle
were married Wednesday afternoon
January 5. at the parsonage at Small
wood. The bride waz beeomingly 81
tired In blue serge suit HHd wore a
beautiful picture haI and gloves to
match. After the wedding they re-
turned to the brides home for sup
per and the next d. they left for
York. Pa. They will return home In
about A week
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Eagle.

On Saturday evening. January Il.
at her home, near Shiloh, Mrs. Mary
Ann Kagle fnee Luckabaughl widow Of
the late William Kagle. died at tho
age of 10 years. Il months and l day
She Is survived BY two sons and two
daughters
lnterment was made In Manchester
Cemetery Tuesday. Rev Thomas Land
officiating. jacob Wink. funeral d.
rector
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Helm.

rs. saIiie O Helm. wife Of DR. ]
v Helm. of Sex Windsor. Id. de-
on Monday night. January III. at n
University Hospital Baltimore.
MfH Helm wenf II BALL
more and an operation as pr.
formed n the University Hospital
Besides her husband. two aonH. IT
LsHIIe Helm. o. Baltimore. and John
Helm at home survive Also 70 mar.
rled daughters. Funeral services we're
held this morning at L o'clock at her
late residence. Rav. Nr. Marsh nd
Re-. Mr. F'lore officiating.
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burgess

Hr Charles T. Burgess and Mlas
Ida A Kelly. both of Ses Market.
thIa county. we're quietly married at
Mount AIfy, o. Tuesday. January
i4fh. by me RaF Mr. kinR. pastor Of
ths Southern Methodist Church. of
Mount Ar 10 wedding came - a
surprise % many q their friends.
Ma knIIY la daughter q SIR nd
n james KeIIY. an Ar burgess IL
thH son of NIf and Ira George y
II.HHl.lsH
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zentRnft-Fmrcll.

Joseph +. IentgrsfI. of Baltimore,
formerly Of this oity. and Hiss Mar
garet Farrell alao Of Baltimore, Here
married On December "a. about D
m. at Atlantic City. y. J. Mr. and
MFa. Zentgraft will reside IN BaItl-
more. The groom Ii popular Vest
ern Maryland Hallway engineer. They
haFe the best wishes d The Advocate
IN their matrimonial venture.
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Marriage Licenses

Jesse y. Shipley and Henrietta In
ton. both of sykesyille.
wade Il Miller, Westminster, md
Mabel Bankard. Carroll county.
Charles w Mnsselman and Ida
Shanebrook, both OF TaneyIawn. II
Oliver l. Palmer, Union Bridge. and
Anna T. Michael, Westminster.
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II0lkey

Jacob Rodkey died ut his home IN
Mayberry. on Thursday, January ..
aged so years and months. Funer-
al services were held on Saturday
morning At his late home b. Elder
John utZ. Interment was made I'm the
United Brethren Cemetery on the
road leading TO Westminster.
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County Commissioner.

The board OF county commissioners
was in session Monday and Tuesday.
An order was passed directing that
Mrs Rebeeca Shoemaker, of Taney-
town be sent 10 Springfield State Hos
pital for the Insane to undergo treat
ment Mrs. Amos Ehaugh, formerly
Miss Maria Mikesell, daughter of the
late Peter B. MIkesell. of this CITY
was pronounced insane by jury
which sat Monday at the court house
and she was sent by the county com
missloners to Springfield State Hos
pital.
! petition signed by large number
of the citizens and tax payers Of
Fzmpstead district was filed with
the board praying for IA miles Of
state road from Hampstead toward
Honeksville.
The board inspected the improve
nents at The county jail and found
everything alright except that the
radiators we're leaking and needed
repairing.
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Maryland Press Association Meet.

Maryland Press Association Meets.
At the annual meeting of the MARY
land Press Association, held Tuesday
at the Rennert, Baltimore. Col w. S.
Powell, of Ellicott City, was reelected
president for the fourth consecutive
term, and " S. McCombs, OF Hayre
de Grace. was reelected secretary
treasurer, also for fourth term
]. Briscoe Bunting, OF Prince Fred
erick, and c. o. Melvin. of PoeomoRe
City, were elected YIee-presidenta.
and the new executive committee Is
composed Of Il. Watson Webb. Cam
bridge E. 0. Diffendal. Westminster: !:
w. Meade Holiday. Annapolis. and ?.
B. Englar, TaneytoWn.
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Stone

Julia A. wife Of the late Andrew J.
Stone. died on January IA, n Balu-
more. Funeral took place thIa morn
Ing from the residence of her daughter.
Mrs. Mary Beck. 341 South Dentalon
street. Services and interment IT
Pipe Greek Brethren Church, this
county.
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I.IIsnII-

Mrs. Joseph Wilson died at her
home In Union Bridge on Sunday.
January = Funeral services were
held on Wednesday. Interment was
made In Beaver Dam Cemetery.
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Lambert.

Raymond. the little four year old
son Of M and Mrs Herbert Lambert
of near New Windsor. died Monday
night Funeral services were held On
Wednesday morning.
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Miller Bankard.

Miss Mabel Bankard. daughter oi
Mr. and hrs. Nelson Hankard and Mr
Wade II. Miller. son Of Mr.. and Mrs
Samuel Miller. both Of thIa county
were married January :, atthe paraon.
aEe OF Carroll Reformed charge. neal
this city. BY HaT ]. =. Reinecke
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charge of larceny against william
W GhenoHeth, formerly agent for the
Western Maryland Railway. was dis.
missed Wednesday In the Central 20
lice Station, Baltimore. when George
r. Gather. attorney for the company
refused To prosecute the case. Cheno-
weth was charged with the larceny
OF tickets and stamps to the value d
5000 from the company. The alleged
theft occurred about eight years 40
but none Of the stolen goods had been
recovered until l9o weeks ago. when
a trunk containing them was broken
after II tel from an express wagon
ChenoweIh.s arrest followed.
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4 bouncing boY arrived at the home
of Mr. aud Mfa. Dohnea c. Nygren.
EasI Main street. last night He vii
be : member OF the BuII Moose party.
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Mrs. William sharrer. Willis street.
entertained the Girls Club on Thurs
day afternoon.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-03-17

There were two ways in which it
could be solved-she could give Elsie
dose of poison in place of the medi-
cine, and then commit suicide her
self. That was the course that the
men seem to think the girl who can
not live should choose. L do not
know whether moral suicide or ply
steal suicide is preferable in the eyes
of the only capable Judge. But
it meant more than suicide. 1t meant
murder, too, and murder of the little
sister Madge loved.
And so she considered the easiest
way" 1t
In the hearts of women God plants
a strong sense of modesty that is to
be a protection, not only to herself,
but to the children of whom she may
some day. be the mother. That in
stinct is the strongest thing woman
possesses. She trembles with horror,
she shudders with shame, she shrinks
in fear as she contemplates destroy
ing it. But Madge placed, on one
side, the life of her sister and herself,
and on the other-not the justifica-
ton of the state of Illinois><but the
horrible death of any future happi-
ness. And she chose the life of her
sister and herself.
She came home flushed and bitter
two night later, and it was after nine
o'clock, but she carried some nourZ
ishing food under her arm, and she
had a little money to apply on the
back rent She told Elsie she had
gotten night workout that night
she stared, in the darkness, at a wo-
2 man defiled- there were no tears in
her eyes, they were bright and cold,
but she loathed the touch of her own
skin and she did not dare remem-
ber
There is something so fendishly
fateful in a woman's first step along
the easiest way" Man has taken
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fall, if they repent. And who but
God can tell how bitterly they do re-
pent?-for "only God and know
what is in my heart
What could NOT be earned honest
ly was slowly but surely earned the
other way. And finally, Madge sent
Elsie to the country and she herself
went to live in a resort.
/ don't want to tell you all of it.
There are things in life so terrible
that mercifully they are never heard
i am just going to show you what
a girl gets out of the easiest way"
Elsie lived seven months and
each week she wrote to her sister
charming letters of the beauty of the
country, the sweet scent of the roses,
the warm sun that beat down on the
happy earth, the twitter of the song
birds, the big, lazy cat that loved
her, the rich mild she drank. Those
letters kept Madge alive this days.
For there is nothing that kills so
quickly as tortured conscience that
tells one to loathe oneself.
Madge did not. go to see her sister
when she was dying. She didn't want
to defile a. deathbed; but afterward,
they wrote her that Elsie had smiled
as she, died.
Then Madge tried to reform. There
was no longer reason for vice. And
somehow she felt that Elsie could
watch her now, and she could not
bear that.
But it was too late. There was the
whisky habit to fight, too, for stimu-
lants are necessary on the easiest
way" and she wasn't morally, ply
sically or mentally able to make the
fight, and no one tried to make it for
her.
Madge is dead, now, but she went
the road to the gutter first-and she
tread each thorny step of it-alone
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l wonder if Mr.. Richards still be-
heves that girls want the justifica-
ton of the state of Illinois, or any
other encouragement as an excuse to
go not the easiest way" but the
HARDEST WAY that a woman ever
Iod