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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-07-16

him. Twice he had recovered from
wounds that would have taken a less
charmed life. And In grisly reminder
of the terror which clouded the peace
of his days stood the eight-foot log
stockade at the rear of the place,
which the proprietor had built to
shield his daily journeys between
house and store. But Jesse Puryy vas
not deluded by his escapes. He knew
that he was marked down."
The years of strain were telling on
him. The robust, ~full-blooded face
was showing deep lines; his flesh was
growing iaccid; his glance tinged
with quick apprehension. He told his
intimates that he realized they'd get
him." yet he sought to prolong his
term of escape.
Yesterday morning Jesse Purvy had
risen early as usual, and, after a sat
isfying breakfast, had gone to his
store to arrange for the days bust
ness. One or two of his henchmen,
seeming l~oafers, but in reality a body
guard. were lounging within call. A
married daughter a chatting with
her father while her young baby
played among the barrels and cracker
boxes.
The daughter went to a IA win
dow and gazed up at the mountain.
The cloudless skies were still in hid
ing behind a curtain of mist. The
woman was idly watching the vanish
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-07-16

he seemed weaponless, but Samson
knew that concealed beneath the
hickory shirt was a holster, worn
mountain fashion.
What air We a-reachin' after,
Tam'rack?" he inquired, his lips twist
ing in amusement.
"Thet's my business"
well, git hit out-or git out yeself,
afore l throws We often the cliff"
Sally showed no symptoms of alarm.
Her confidence in her hero was abso-
lutte. The boy lifted his hand, and
pointed off down the path. Slowly
and with incoherent muttering, Spicer
took himself away. Then only did
Sally rise. She came over, and laid a
hand on Samson's shoulder. In her
blue eyes, the tears were yelling.
Samson" she whispered, "ef they're
after ye, come ter my house. l kin
hide We out. Why didn't We tell me
Jesse Jurvey'd done been shot?"
"Hit faint nothin' ter fret about,
Sally" he assured ner. He spoke
awkwardly, for he had been trained to
regard emotion as unmanly. Thar
hain't no danger"
She gazed ~searchingly into his eyes,
and then, with a short sob, threw her
arms around him, and buried her face
on his shoulder.
EFF anything happens ter We, Sam
son." she said, broRenly, "hitIi Jest
kill me. l couldn't live withouten ye.
Samson. / jest couldn't do hit!"
The boy took her in his arms, and
pressed her close, His eyes were gaz-
ing OF over her bent head, and his lips
twitched. He drew his features into
q scowl, because that was the only ex-
preston with which he could safe
guard his feelings. His voice was
husky.
81 reckon, Sally" he said, Tcouldnt
live withouten you, neither"
The party Of men who had started
at morning from Jesse Purdy's store
had spent a hard day. The roada fol
lowed creek-beds, crossing and ire
crossing waterways in a fashion that
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-07-16

gave the bloodhounds . hundred bar
fling difficulties. Often. their noses
lost the trail, which had at first been
SO surely taken. Often. they circled
and whined, and halted in p~erplexity,
but each time they came to a point
where, at the end, n Of them again
raised his muzzle skyward, and gave
voice.
Toward evening, they were working
up Misery along a course less broken.
The party halted for a moments rest,
and, as the bottle wal passed, the man
from Lexington, who had brought the
dogs and stayed to conduct the chase,
put a question:
what do you call this creek?"
Hits Misery"
Does anybody live on Misery that
-er-that you might suspect?"
The Hollmans laughed.
"This creek is settled with Souths
thicker'n hops
The Lexington man looked up. He
knew what the name of South meant
to a Holman.
els there any special South, who
might have a particular grudge?"
1.-The Souths don't need no parti'lar
grudge, but thar's young Samson
South. He's a wildcat"
"He lives this way?"
These dogs air acmakin' a Decline
fer his house." Jim Holman was
speaking. Then he added: I've done
beer told that Samson denies dom the
shootin', an claims he kin prove an
alibi."
The Lexington man lighted his pipe,
and poured a drink of red whisky into
a flask cup.
He'd be apt to say that" he COM
mented, "These dogs haven't any
prejudice in the matter. I'll stake my
life on their telling the truth"
An hour later, the group halted
again. The master of hounds mopped
his forehead.
Are we still going toward Samson
South's house?" he inquired.
We're about a quarter from hit
now, an we hain't never varied from
the straight road"
will they be apt to give US
trouble?"
Jim Holman smiled.
IT hain't never heered Of no South
submittin' ter arrest by a Holman"
The t~railers examined their fire.
arms, and loosened their holster-iaps-
The dogs went forward at a trot.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-07-16
Some Advice About How to Moo ana
ture's Sweet Restorer.n

Some Advice About How to Woo ana
lures Sweet Restorer."
In fighting sleeplessness l have found
nothing SO helpful as a simple pro-
cedure based on the conditions which
recent psychological experiment has
proved to be fundamental to sleep.
These are:
Mental and muscular relaxation, lim-
itation of voluntary movement and
monotony Of sensation.
To obtain these the next time you
find yourself wakeful select on the
wall of your room some ornament or
spot which. by reason of a ray of light
from the moon or street llamnAseenas
to stand out clearly from its surround
ings. Having selected this spot, as
sumo a comfortable position In bed,
taking care hat you lie in such a way
that you can see the spot on the wall
without straining any part of your
body.
Next. remaining perfectly motionless
and thinking of nothing but the spot
on the wall, gaze at 1t through half
closed lids in such a way that 1t seems
remote and indistinct-
Be sure not to try to get a full view
of it. That would mean tension. not
relaxation. and would defeat your pur-
pose. Your gaze at the spot. while
steady. must be without any straining
of the attention.
Soon, If you have continued to lie
perfectly quiet and to think of nothing
but the spot on the wall, you will find
your eyelids grow heavy and close com-
pletely. Open them half way. as be-
fore. and resume the process of gazing.
They will again grow heavy and
close. when you must, If you can, open
them once more. Before long you win
find it impossible to open them, for you
will be sound asleep.
Even If your room be In total dark
ness you can still make use of this
sleep bringing method by calling up
before your minds eye some imaginary
object and gazing at it between half
closed lids exactly as though it were
really before you. Remember, how
ever, that you must lie perfectly still.
moving neither your hands nor your
legs.
Try this device the next time you are
troubled by ~wakefulness. From per-
sonal experience l am satisfied that, If
you follow it faithfully in its details.
you will find that it works like a
charm.-H. Addington Bruce in Kan
sas City Times.
Burned Out Fuse Plugs.
When a house fuse plug elbows" out
and there is no other at hand take a
bit of tin foil-the covering from a
pack of tobacco or chewing gum will
do-and fold it once. making the strip
about one-half inch wide: then lay 1t
over the contact points of the plug and
screw the plug into the receptacle
This will make a connection and will
not produce any more body than If the
ordinary fuse wire were used.-Popu-
lar Mechanics.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-07-16

Them ThIngs?"
ing fog wraiths, and her father came
over to her side. Then the baby cried
and she stepped back. Purvy himself
remained at the window. It was a
thing he did not often do. 1t left him
exposed, but the most cautiously
guarded life has it's moments of re-
Taxed vigilance. He stood there pos
sibly thirty seconds, then a sharp fu-
sillade of clear reports barked out and
was shattered by the hills into a long
reverberation. With a hand clasped
to his chest, Purvy turned, walked to
the middle of the floor, and fell.
The henchmen rushed to the open
sash. They leaped out and plunged
up the mountain, tempting the assas-
sins fire, but the assassin was salts
fed. The mountain was again as
quiet as 1t had been at dawn. Inside,
at the middle of the store, Jesse Purvy
shifted his head against his daugh-
ter's knee and said, as one stating an
expected event:
"Well, they've got me-"
An ordinary mountaineer would
have been carried home to die in the
darkness of a dirty and windowless
shack. The long-suffering star of Jesse
Puryy ordained otherwise. He might
go under or he might once more beat
his way back and out of the quick
sands of death. At all events, he would
fight for life to the last gasp.
Twenty miles away in the ore of
the wilderness, removed from a rail-
road by a score of semi-perpendicular
miles. a fanatic had once decided to
found a school.
Now a faculty of ten men taught
such as cared to come such things as
they cared to learn. Higher up the
hillside stood a small, but model hos
pital. with a modern operating table
and a case Of surgical instruments,
which, it was said, the state could not
surpass.
To this haven Jesse Purvy, the muir
der lord, was borne in a litter carried
on the shoulders of his dependents.
Here, as his steadfast guardian star
decreed, he found two prominent med
ical visitors, who hurried him to the
operating table. Later he was re-
moved to a white bed, with the June
sparkle in his eyes. pleasantly modu-
lated through drawn blinds, and the
June rustic and bird chorus in his
ears-and his own thoughts in his
brain.
Conscious, but In great pain, Purvy
beckoned Jim Asberry and Aaron Hol-
lis. his chiefs of bodyguard. to his bed
side and waved the nurse back out OF
hearing.
"If I don't get WELL" he said feebly,
there's a job for you two boys. I
reckon you know what it isl"
They nodded, and Asberry whis-
pered a names
Samson South?"
"Yes," Purvy spoke in a whisper;
but the old vindictiveness was not
smothered. you got the old man,
reckon you can manage the cub. If
you don't he'll get you both one day"
The two henchmen scowled.
I'll git him tomorrer," growled AS
berry. Thar hain't no sort of use
in a-waitin'."
mol" For al instant Purvy's voice
rose out of its weakness to its old
~staccato tone of command, a tone
which brought obedience. "If / get
well / have other plans. Never mind
what they are. That's my business.
If l don't die. leave him alone, until
/ give other orders.
IF I get well and Samson South ID
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-07-16
Beautiful Defendant.

II want you to make the outfit for
my trial"
LET me see." unused the experience
ed modiste. you'll want a direct
testimony suit. a cross examination
gown and something dainty and cling
ing to faint in."-Kansas City Journal.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-07-16
oratory.

Oratory is the longest distance be-
tween two platitudes. Its success de-
ponds upon how much it impresses you
when it is being delivered and how lit
lie it impresses you afterward.-Life.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-07-16
FIGHTING INSOMNIA.

(To he Continued.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-07-16

While Spicer South and his cousins
had been sustaining themselves or
building up completeness by tilling
their soil the leaders of the other fac
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-08-19
WORK FOR TRADE EXPANSION
United States Has Splendid Chance to
Increase Its Commerce With
Eastern Countries.

A delegation Of distinguished Chi.
nese merchants and statesmen have
done this country the honor to visit
US with the expressed purpose OF
learning western ways from US, which
they deem superior to their own. It
Is compliment which is duly appre.
ciated, and, while Uncle Sam is entire
ly willing and ready to act the part of
schoolmaster, he should also take ad.
vantage Of the occasion to become a
student and learn from others while
teaching them. He can learn from the
visiting Chinese gentlemen a lesson in
progress and enterprise. What they
are doing by coming here Uncle Sam
should also do by sending delegations
to other countries on a similar mis-.
sion. We ought to send representa-.
tives and observing business men and
statesmen to the countries south OF
US. We, too, want to know what and
how to buy and we want to know what
our neighbors have to sell, and what
they wish to buy from u.s. Similar
delegations could be sent to the orient,
and especially to China, that is awak.
ening, and where 400,000,000 people
are anxious to trade with US. There
is practically no limit to the commerce
which could be carried on between
this country and other countries that
we have neglected too long. Not only
cotton, although cotton is a great pro.
duct, may be considered. The visiting
Chinese said that they wanted our
lumber, and by sending ships through
the Panama canal we can get our sur.
plus products into the Pacific and as
far as the seas extend, and success.
fully compete with any othersnation.-
Memphis News-Scimitar.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-08-19
NO CHANCE FOR THE BURGLAR
OFFICES of J. Pierpont Morgan
ana Company.

The worlds cleverest cracksmen are
on their mettle. They are defied by
safe behind the doors of which lie un-
told treasures, which can never be
blown open. Even the most powerful
lyddite shell, fired from a big gun,
would have little effect, so far as open
ing the safe was concerned. This safe,
which is really an impregnable vault,
has lately been built in the Offices of
]. Pierpont Morgan & Co. of New
York, and cost altogether 100000. OF
this sum nearly half was expended on
the door. The latter, circular in shape,
is eleven feet six inches in diameter
and forty-five and one-half inches
thick. 1t is made of armor plate, the
same as that used in the construction
of modern battleships, and will with
stand any attack. In spite of its size,
so delicately is the door poised that
IT swings as nicely adjusted in its
movements as the works of the finest
chronometers. When closed there is
no conceivable way in which to at
tack It, 1t is proof against tool or ex-
plosive, and when the door swings into
its place not even the air is able to
get in. This prevents the introduce
ton of any explosive of liquid ma
ture. This wonderful safe door is
locked by twenty five-inch plungers or
bolts, each Of which is controlled by
combination locks, which in turn are
controlled by time lock having four
movements, any one of which will per-
nit the opening of the combination
locks. Another remarkable vault has
been completed in bank in Toronto,
Canada. 1t consists of hollow cube
made of hardened steel and cement,
measuring thirty feet in each direc-
ton. This vault has two sections, the
upper section being for the use of the
public as a safety deposit vault, and
the lower for the storage Of the banks
currency and securities. A floor of
solid steel separates the two sections
The vault is guarded by a circular
steel door ten feet in diameter, three
and one-half feet thick and weighing
forty-one tons, which is opened and
closed by electric motors. When all
precautionary devices are set three
different alarms are sounded by the
slightest tampering with the doors.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-08-19
JunketIna REFRIGERATOR.

One of the most practical junkets
that Uncle Sam has ever sponsored is
the specially fitted refrigerator car
that has been started around the coun.
try to demonstrate proper methods of
handling eggs and poultry for ship.
Iment.
The car is a complete refrigerating
Laboratory, which carries it's own en-
lgine to operate the cooling apparatus.
1t is divided into two rooms. The
nrst is Of temperature slightly be.
low normal, for the gradual cooling
OF the poultry before it is placed in
the other room, which is the refriger.
ator
Experts from the department of ag
rtculture make the demonstrations
with poultry and eggs supplied by the
local dealers. The scientific Gambling
OF eggs and their skillful packing for
long shipment are also demonstrated
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-08-19

Dill provides nationality
oepa from any port Of the United States unless
able to any order given by the officers
the
year ffy per entm the third ffve
Act
deck crew exclusive of licensed officers
The oversee trade of the world
the ship
the keen OF these rival nations with
sailor ooedient
Is therefore manifesy clear that If this law applied all naonaite
Tanpacfc all would
works single hardship all the ships of the world
American ships with the
European the cost of constructing ship higher than
the operated with condition
driven or But the American would
for the Chinese but the initial Of the ship
with Oriental
burden while whatever ship
American the
United States"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-08-19
DEATH AS AN ADVENTURE
Editors Comment on Remark That ls
Said to Have Been Made by
Charles Frohman.

why should we fear death?" said
Charles Frohman of New York, aboard
the Lusitania as he gave his life-belt
to a woman. 1T is the greatest ad-
venture that can come to one." The
words were distinctive to an American
gentleman facing flnality. Death an
adventure! And so 1t is when one has
lived largely. Then, the full measure
Of earthly experience having been
lived, eternal values established and
the divine in us unfolding daily, it
holds the yet richer promises and ex-
pectation in that continuation we hope
for and of which we know so little.
Change, growth, the opportunity to
live more largely, and yet more beau
tifully. In the other event, the illu-
sions of life all gone, it's utilities
weighing US down, the pitcher broken
at the we'll. and the final WEAKNESS
at hand, is death not great and beau
tiful hazard? Despite its outward ugli-
ness, a carcass at the bottom of the
sea, a mangled body rotting in a de-
serted trench, does 1t not captivate the
imagination? Extinction, maybe; a
plotting out, that complete and dream.
less peace from which there is no
awakening, or yet-new life, new leaf
to suit the newer day. A chance to
mend the broken shard, the rebirth of
old enthusiasms, illusion recreated,
the larger aspiration. the fuller life.
After all, what q gamble with unseen
forces death is! Incidentally, how
brave and how beautiful must have
been, must still be a soul which, un.
der such circumstances, could have ut
tered a sentiment so exalted. To go,
not like a quarry slave, but to wrap
the draperies Of the deep about one
and lie down peacefully-isn't it fine?
Isn't it the quality that belongs pc.
culiarity TO American manhood tom
Bodine in the Paris (Mo) Mercury.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-08-19

tered pan and mark off in squares
Chocolate CarameIs.-Put two and
half tablespoonfuls of butter in q.
saucepan and when melted add two
cupfuls of brown sugar, two table
spoonfuls of molasses and a half cup
full of milk. Bring to the boiling point
and add four squares of unsweetened
chocolate and stir until the chocolate.
is melted. Let boil to the soft-balL
stage, add vanilla and pour out to-
harden.
Chocolate RoIl.-Beat the yolks OF
five eggs until thick; add gradually.
beating constantly, one-half cupful OF
sugar and two tablespoonfuls of cocoa.
Beat the whites of the eggs and fold
into the first mixture third Of an
inch thick and bake in a moderate
oven. Remove from the pan to a pa.
per we'll sprinkled with powdered
sugar. Spread with cup Of sweetened
and favored whipped cream. Trim
Off the edges and roll like jelly roll
Cover with melted chocolate.
Rochester Chocolate cake.-Cream
a fourth of cupful of butter add a.
cupful Of sugar gradually, beating con-
stantly; then add two squares Of
melted chocolate, two eggs we'll beat
en-, half a cupful Of milk, one and a.
third cupfuls Of -four, mixed and sifted
with three teaspoonfuls of baking
powder and half teaspoonful of salt
Beat we'll, add teaspoonful Of vanil-
la and bake in a moderate oven forty
FIVE minutes. Cover with ice cream
frosting. "4
Ice Cream Frostlne.-Boil to g.
thread two cupfuls OF sugar and six
tablespoonfuls Of water, pour the
strip gradually over two eggs beaten
stiff; beat until thick, flavor with va
uilla and spread over the cake.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-08-19
A Buouy Ride!

1t seems long time since a more
appealing idyl has come to the at.
tention of jaded, gasoline-ridden pub
lie than the brief story of the two
sailor lads who went buggy riding
Sunday. They hired an old horse
and buggy, that almost forgotten COM
bination sacred to Sunday afternoons
in the country during the golden era
of the nineteenth century (survivals
of this sort must of necessity be old,
and with their pancake hats lying in
the bottom of their quaint vehicle they
logged along contentedly toward White
Plains.
That is all, so far as the printed
plot goes; but one must not forget
the apple blossoms they saw and
shifted on their leisurely way, the gen.
tie May breezes from verdant May
meadows which stirred their youthful
locks caressingly, the voluble greet
ings from tree tops and barnyard and
swamp, lost neither through speed
nor throb of motor, which spoke to
them Of home.-Exchange.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-08-19
Went Down With Lusitanla

"A truth can be proved in just one
way--by living It," And those who
know and understand little of what
he called the meaning Of his life,
realize that Ebert Hubbard did this.
In one Of the best of THE Little
journeys" that he has written, oc
ours this: 1--WE give the name philos
opher to men who make other men
think" So Ebert Hubbard was a
great philosopher. No one who has
seen the biggest Roycrofter at work or
play can ever doubt this. All the
beautiful theories and sentiments that
he has sent abroad as notices are
there, in that little corner of the coun.
try, put into everyday use.
What John Ruskin and William
Morris began--he carried out. 1.-THE
Beauty of Usefulness" and THE Use.
fulness OF Beauty" was made manifest
to all who took the little journey to
the homo of the Roycrofters. How
those two leaders would have gloried
In him!
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-08-19
WOMEN THIEVES IN CHURCHES
Boston Complains That Band lie sys-
tematleaIly working" the Sacred
Edlfices Of That City.

A clever band of woman thieves is
suspected of working" the wealthy
congregations of several large Boston
churches. Rectors and sections of at
least two houses of worship have been
notified recently of purse and handbag
thefts during services. Circumstances
have led to the conviction that 1t is
the same band that operated last
spring among Back Bay churchgoers.
at. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral have
been visited by members of the fe-
male gang lately.
The suspects are all women. One of
them, at least, Disputes herself in
deep mourning, apparently to throw
her prospective victims off their guard
Others of the suspected band are stun
,ningly gowned girls, attired always in
the latest styles. One Of the suspects
Is about fifty years old, another is said
to be not more than twenty. Invaria-
bly, the thefts are from women in the
congregations, and most often the
stolen articles disappear during COM
imunion services, when the communi-
cants leave their pews to receive the
sacrament. They return to find that
the demure, well-attired girl who sat
beside them is gone; so also is the
purse or handbag, containing money
or jewelry, perhaps, which they had
left on the cushioned seat when they
went forward. Or again, the sorrow
ful, aged woman in widows weeds,
whose heavy black veil had complete
ly hidden her features, has vanished
and the worshiper's costly muff or rich
fur piece is missing. too.-Boston
Post.