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Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-06-23
FRAUDULENT CHECKS.
# Your Check or Order Is Not Paid
When Presented You Are Liable
To Prosecution.

| The following Act passed by the last
session of the general assembly is one
of the most Wholesome laws that has
been enacted in many years. Business
houses and individuals have long been
greatly annoyed by having small
checks refused payment when pre-
sented at the bank on which they were
drawn. In many instances the person
who drew the check knew he had no
money there to pay it and simply took
that means of defrauding some person
or firm. That petty practice will now
have to cease.
One of the wholesome features of the
law that makes it particularly helpful
is that it applies to orders drawn on
store, firms or individuals. The Act
follows in full:
HOUSE BILL 148
A BILL to be entitled "An Act max
ing it unlawful for any person to OBJ
tain money or other property or credit
by check, draft or order which is not
paid by the drawee, and where the
same is not refunded or restored by
such person on written demand mailed
to his last known address; and making
the fact of such person not having on
deposit with the drawee such money or
other property, prlma tacie evidence
of said fraudulent intent
Section /. Be it enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly OF the State of Tennes-
see, That any person who shall obtain
with fraudulent intent, money or other
which may be subject of lar
ceny, or who snail obtain credit with
like intent, by means of a check, draft
or order of which he is the maker or
drawer, which Is not paid by the
drawee, shall be guilty of fnisde-
meanor if the amount or value is thirty
dollars or less, if the amount of value
is more than thirty dollars he shall be
guilty and punishable as in case of lar
ceny of such money or other property,
Or of anything of value obtained on
such credit, unless payment of such
check, draft or order after giving sew
en- days written notice mailed to the
lrawer's last known address, and the
Fact that such maker or drawer did not
have on deposit or to his credit with
The bank, person, firm or corporation
Upon which such check, draft or order
8 drawn, sufficient funds to pay the
'ame when presented, unless such
heck or draft is paid or accepted
when presented, shall be prima facIe
evidence of fraudulent intent.
L.
That all laws and parts of laws in con-
llct herewith be, and the same are,
hereby repealed, and that this Act take
Effect from and after it's passage, the
public welfare requiring it.
Passed May IL, 1915.
VIM. p. Cooper,
Speaker of House of Representatives.
Albert E. Hill,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved May Is. 1915.
Tom &. Rye, Governor.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-06-23
AUTOMOBILE TAX.

automobiles with capacities of five
passengers and over are taxed $3.50,
all four passenger and under cars are
taxed S4, and motorcycles are taxed
So. so. This tax is now due.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-06-23
EASY TO APPLY.

The borax treatment is simplicity it.
self. DR.. Howard's advice is to apply
6 TO 10 pounds of borax to every eight
bushels of manure Immediately upon
it's removal from the barn, sitting the
borax around the outer edges of the
pile with a common -four sitter and
then sprinkle large watering pot full
of water over it.
The flies lay their eggs on the fresh
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-06-23
70 PRESERVE YOUR HEALTH,

The kidneys are the great health
preservers. Rheumatism, backache,
headache sore muscles, stiff joints
come when the kidneys are out of ord
er and 1ai to properly filter the blood.
Foley Kidney Pills tone up tired and
stop sleep disturbing bladder troubles.
For sale by Reed & Burnett.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20

the beautiful original of that destroyed
photograph on board the Lola But
she has not always been so!''
"No. / think not always" replied
the sister quietly.
But she can write responses to my
questions?"
Alas! no." was the old woman's
whispered reply. Tier mind is affect
ed. She is. unfortunately, hopeless
lunatic."
looked straight into those sad,
wide-open, yet unflinching brown eyes
utterly COMPOUNDED.
Those white wrists held in steel,
that pale face and blanched lips, the
inertness of her movements, all told
their own tragic tale And yet that
letter l had read, dictated in secret
most probably because her hands were
not free, was certainly not the out
pourings of madwoman. She had
spoken of death. it was true. yet was
it not to be supposed that she was
slowly being driven to suicide? She
had kept her secret, and she wished
the man Hornby-the man who was to
marry Muriel Leithcourt-to know.
The room in which we stood was evil
IDENTIFY an apartment set apart for her
use, for beyond was the tiny bedcham-
Der; yet the small, high-up window
was closely barred. and the cold bare
ness Of the prison was sufficient in
deed to cause anyone confined there to
prefer death to captivity.
Again / spoke to her slowly and
kindly, but there was no response.
That she was absolutely dumb was
only too apparent. Yet surely she had
not always been so! had gone in
search Of her because the beauty of
her portrait had magnetized me, and
/ had now found her to be even more
lovely than her picture, yet, alas! suf-
fering from an affection that rendered
her life tragedy. The realization
of the terrible truth staggered me.
Such perfect face as hers had never
before set eyes upon, so beautiful, SO
clear-cut. so refined, SO eminently the
countenance of one well-born, and vet
so ineffably sad, so full of blank IN
utterable despair.
She placed her clasped hands to her
mouth and made signs by shaking her
head that she could neither under
stand nor respond. / took my wallet
from my pocket and wrote upon a
piece of PAPER in large hand the
words: Il come from Lydia Moreton.
My name is Gordon Gregg"
When her eager gaze fell upon the
words she became instantly filed with
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20
He Beat the Clock.

81 once conceived the beautiful
idea,' says a Philadelphia school
teacher, ''of requiring that my pupils
should write for their day exercise a
brief account of baseball game.
"One boy sat through the period
seemingly wrapped in thought. while
the others worked hard and turned in
their narratives. After school / ap-
preached the desk of the laggard.
"T'll give you five minutes to write
that description said sternly. If it
is not done by that time l shall pun
ish you
"The lad promptly concentrated all
his attention upon the theme. At last,
with joyful eagerness, he scratched a
line on his tablet and handed it to
me. 1t read:
Rain-no game - Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20
These Fish Need Ladders.

Salmon seeking to scale the i'm
pounding wall at Gibraltar dam, on
the Santa Ynez river, to reach the up
per canyons and spawn, are reported
to be exhausting their strength and
will die
The city has reared wall over ten
feet above the bed of the stream, over
which the water is flowing. On the top
of the wall is slight shelving where
the fish, seeking to make the long leap,
land, and they are carried by the flow
back down the stream again.
Engineer Pyzel, who is in charge
of the city's reservoir works, reports
he has watched dozens of big salmon
or salmon trout try to make the
leap and fail, and he is of the opinion
that all will eventually die. When
the impounding wall was built the
city did not provide for fish ladder.
hence the trouble. Santa Barbara
Dispatch to Los Angeles Times.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20
REFUSED TO EAT MATCHES
Experiment Proved That Rats and
Mice Have Been Unjustly Accused
OF Causing Fires.

Rats, mice and matches have long
been considered a source of fires. An
Investigator, however, after extensive
experiment, reports, in Safety En-
cheering, that there is no real founda-
ton for the popular idea. A large num-
Der of rats we're caught at different
times and confined in cages with the
ends open for observation. Matches
were then placed in the cages, but no
food, and the rats were left in quiet
spot in cellar. In every case the AMI
mails starved to death or ate their COM
panions. Not match head or splint
was gnawed The matches were well
seasoned and of different varieties
from the strike-on-the-box to the
match. A second series of tests was
conducted in cage measuring more
than six feet square. The results
were the same.
In all cases the rats were without
food from two to three days, then the
matches were introduced and the rats
died from starvation within one to i've
days after. Like experiments were
conducted with mice and the same re-
suits obtained, the mice being hungry
! from two to three days, then the
matches we're introduced and death
followed in one to five days. In the
larger cages the rats were fed for
periods varying from twenty to forty
four days in order to permit the AMI
mails to become accustomed to their
surroundings and act normally. A
greater variety of matches was used
in this test. The rats were imprisoned
together in this case and many were
gnawed and eaten by their compan-
ions.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20
The Mans Mistake.

Out of loyalty to his own sex the
manager of the womans suit depart
ment discharged his young woman
stenographer and hired man. The
first batch of letters dictated to the
man were written to about a hundred
old customers, whom he invited to ex-
anime privately lot of exclusive gar
ments before they were placed on
sale. The day after the letters were
mailed the women flocked into the
store, but the fire that burned in their
eyes was the fire of the avenger rather
than of the bargain hunter One word
which each woman had underlined in
her letter explained their wrath The
garments, so the manager had meant
to say, had been designed for women
of stock figure, such as they pos
sessed, but the male stenographer had
drawn on the alphabet and had writ
ten it "stocky."
No woman on earth would have
been guilty of such a mistake, .
growled the manager
The next week the girl stenographer
had her job back.-Ph Philadelphia Led
ger.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20
ToAsTS OF GIVE CAPTAINS"
No Record of What Happened After
the Last Glass Was Turned
Upside Down.

Here is an interesting clipping from
an American publication in 1854. 1t
is entitled Five Captains"
There were five captains CHANGED
to meet-one Russian, one Turk, one
Frenchman, one American and one
Englishman. One proposed cham
payne supper, each one to give toast
of his own native country or pay for
the wine drunk
"The Russian: Here's to the stars
and bars of Russia, that were never
pulled down.
"The Turk: Here's to the moons
of Turkey, whose corners were never
clipped
"The Frenchman: Here's to the
cock of France, whose feathers were
never picked
''The American: Here's to the Stars
and Stripes of the United States of
America, who never failed to defeat
"The Englishman: Here's to the
rampant, roaring lion OF Great Brit
ain, that tore down the stars and bars
of Russia, clipped the wings of Tur-
key, picked the feathers of the cock
of France and ran like HI from
the Stars and Strips of the United
States of America" st. Louis Post
Dispatch.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20

their power because she had no means
OF defense. The man Is awaiting me
in the boat outside. intend to take
her with me-"
"But, m'sieur, why that is impos-
sible!" cried the old woman in q
hoarse voice. IF you were discovered
by the guards who patrol the lake both
night and day they would shoot you
BOTH"
II will risk it, said, and linking
my arm in that of the woman whose
lovely countenance had verify become
the sun of my existence, made sign,
inviting her to accompany me.
The sister barred the door. urging
me to reconsider my decision. but
waved her aside.
Elma recognized my intentions in a
moment, and allowed herself to be con-
Quoted down the long intricate corri-
dor, walking stealthily, and as we
crept along on tiptoe felt the girls
grip upon my arm, a grip that told
me that she placed her faith in me as
her deliverer.
w ILuOuL d OOuLu VIC C1CpI III W010
until within few yards from that un-
| locked door where the boat awaited US
below, when, of a sudden, the uncer-
tain light of the lantern fell upon
something that shone and deep voice
cried out of the darkness in Russian:
Halt! or fire!"
And, startled, we found ourselves
! looking down the muzzle Of loaded
carbine.
A huge sentry stood with his back to
the secret exit, his dark eyes shining
beneath his peaked cap, as he held
| his weapon to his shoulder within six
| feet of us.
Speak" cried the fellow. "Who
are you?"
| At a glance took in the peril of the
situation, and without a seconds hesi-
tation made a dive for the man be-
meath his weapon. He lowered it, but
| it was too late, for | gripped him
| around the waist, rendering his gun
useless. 1t was the work of an in
slant, for l knew that to close with
| him was my only chance.
CTO BE CONTINUED)
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20
ENTIRELY A STATE OF MIND
So Just Feel Sure You Have the Sc
cret of Longevity and the Years
Are Yours.

Centenarians all know why they
have been blessed with long years. 1t
is because they never drank, or be-
cause they did drink; because they
never smoked, swore, quarreled, wor-
ried, sat up late of nights, or because
they did all these things, yet counter
acted the evil effects with diets of
milk, mush, cornbread or an apple
day. Neighbors and relatives and doc
tors may wonder why the tooth of
time has proved incapable. But the
subjects of their wonder have never
any doubts They know exactly why
they and death keep apart.
An intimate study of the character
of centenarians might reveal the true
formula for long life. These tenacious
old folk all have one thing in COM
mon, and that is perfect confidence.
They are never troubled with misgiv-
ings, never afflicted with self-ques-
tioning. If person is absolutely GER
tain that he is going to defeat time,
perhaps that is as effectual as it is
with the man who is absolutely GER
tain that he is going to defeat a case
of typhoid Confidence may be a
good anodyne for sleeplessness, a
worthy aid to digestion, protector
against accident.
The records indicate that it does
not matter so greatly that the can
didate for a hundred be abstemious
or moderately indulgent, careful with
his food or reckless, as that he feel
sure that he has the secret of Ion
gevity So, it would seem, the first
duty of aspirants is to cultivate
dogmatic set of opinions. Toledo
Blade.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20

excitement, and nodded quickly. Then
holding her steel-clasped wrists to.
wards me she looked Wistfully at me,
as though imploring me to release her
from the awful bondage in that silent
tomb.
there endeavored to prevent it, hand.
ed her the pencil, and placed the paper
on the table for her to write.
The nun tried to snatch it up, but
held her arm gently and forcihly. say
ing in French:
mo. l wish to see If she is really
insane. You will at least allow me
this satisfaction"
And while we were In alteration,
Elma, with the pencil In her fingers,
tried to write, but by reason of her
hands being bound so closely was I'M
able. At length. however, after sew
eral attempts, she succeeded in print
ing in uneven capitals the response:
'I know you. You were on the
yacht. l thought they killed you"
The thin-faced old woman saw her
RESPONSE reply that was surely ra-
tional enough-and her brows CON
tracted with displeasure.
Why are you here?" / wrote, not
allowing the sister to get sight Of my
question.
In response, she wrote painfully and
laboriously:
Il am condemned for crime did
not commit Take me from here. or I
shall kill myself"
"Ah!" exclaimed the old woman.
"You see. poor girl. she believes her
self Innocent They all do"
But why Is she here?" demanded
fiercely.
Il do not know, m'sieur. It is not
my duty to inquire the history Of their
crimes. When they are Ill nurse
them: that is all"
And who is the commandant Of this
fortress?"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20
Florence Nichtinqale's Statue.

"The Lady With the Lamp" statue
of Florence Nightingale. has been un.
yelled without ceremonial, in Water
loo place, London. The statue stands
high on a red and gray granite pedes-
tall and makes notable and an ap-
propriate addition to Waterloo place.
By its side, fully harmonizing with II
in general outline, is that of Sidney
Herbert. The effective background
for both is the Crimean memorial. The
sculptor portrayed his subject in q
sympathetic pose, standing in the 70.
luminous skirt Of the early Victorian
period, with the lamp borne In the
right hand. This statue of 'The Lady
With the Lamp" is the first public
statue of a woman in London other
than those of royal ladies.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20
SYNOPSIS.
10

Sso-g.a Gregg, dining aboard with Horn
sV rHs Yacht Lola's owner, accidentally
aces q torn photograph Of young girl.
III 1irht the consufs safe is robbed:
m -gllce find that Horribly is fraud
and ne Lola's name a false one. In
London Gregg Is trapped nearly to ms
death by a former servant, Ollnto. VISIT.
ms In Dumfries Gregg meets Muriei
IeithcOurt. Horribly appears and Murlel
Introduces him as Martin Woodroffe. her
fathers friend. Gregg sees copy OF the
torn photograph on the Lola and finds
thai The young girl is MuriePs friend.
Woo.roffe disappears. Gregg discovers
the body of a murdered woman in Ram
noch wood The body disappears and in
ITS place is found the body of Oiinto.
Nurial and Gregg search Rannoch wood
together, and find the body of Armida,
Olintos wife. When the police go to the
wood the body has disappeared. In Lon
don Gregg meets Olinto. alive and well.
Gregg traces the young girl of the torn
photograph and finds that she Is Klma
Heath, niece of Baron Oberg, who has
taken ner to Abo, Finland, and that she
holds secret affecting Woodroffe. On
his return to Rannoch Gregg finds the
Leithcourts fled from Hylton Chatter, who
had called there. He goes to Abo, and
after Il tilt with the police chief, is con-
Quoted to the place where Elma is i'm
DrisOned.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20
Absinthe Plants Burned,

AS the manufacture and sale of
absinthe have been prohibited by law
the little parish of Orly, just south
of Paris, has lost its chief industry,
the growing of absinthe plants for
the trade. The new law allowed com
pensation for the crop already plant
ed, so $4,000 worth of plants were
handed over to the excise authorities.
They were weighed and burned. The
same operation is performed at all
places where the plant was grown.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20
Hard Luck. indeed.

What is fellow to do, I'd like to
know?" complained John. "The kids
that mamma don't object to me play.
ing with all have mammas that won't
let them play with me"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-21

MEMS SHOES
Big lot Of Mems Rubbers, $1.oo val On
ues, go at 50. !. 80. .LUGs
Big lot Of Mems 81. 90 and $$l.25 p0n
House Slippers, go at .t.l 4. !. .u5G
Big lot Of Mems Shoes andsO xfords 70n
go at /. !. !. y. b. i. 5. IjG
Bi gs 3ss # a e Dress and WORK 500
B sRsss ssa z Rasss s e H1ft s48
Z Big lot Of Mems Dress and Work Shoes, in
all feathers and newest styles N Ok
Big lot of Mems Fine Dress and Water
Proof Work Shoes, up to $500 co %
values go at $3.50. 3. .s :. 0L.15a
Big lotEof Mems LOO Buckle Arc Efln
tics go at u. . ~ 3. 4, UJU
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-21


MISSES AND CHILDRE S SHOES
Big lot Of Children s Shoes, n.
Big lot Of Children's Shoes ifln
\ go aJ tGUs:
sig ls & T o1'iaFsn,s Shoes 26G
sl ge les St Children Shoes .48G
fi gs lss e oaalsns Shoes 69c
Ri 81 e s It es5laEsB ana Misses c
Big lot of Misses Fine Dress Shoes, lltn
button styles, go at 3. y. %. &. OJUs
3 Big lot of Children and Misses tl01g
Dress Shoes, 50 values, go at. 1i.EJ
Big lot Of Misses and Ghildrens IA
Rubbers, go at 1. !. .s. ~. !. It'll
Big lot of Finest Girls and Children's
Dress Shoes, and new winter ei6(ls
cuts, button or lace, go at 81. 3. {. pl.I5F
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-08-05
CLERKS
WEEP At WORDS
Literature Profits by Filing OF Dl-
mon Petition for Divorce
Poetic Flights

CEAtS Of literature Of the purest
Nray serene, lights Of rhetoric
which might easily grace spelbnd-
cr'S speech and pathetic touches ~ real
pnthOs garuIsh divorce petition III.
ed iu district court Wednesday with
II profusou which caused deputy
clerks and others to pause IN wonder
ment aud speculate AZ 10 the entry ~
q writer uf best selling literature into
legal fields.
The petition lays bare to the world
the mGuy aud manifold grlefs of Ben
Jamin H. Dlmon In his quest Of mari
tul happiness Fulrly dripping with
unseen tears, the statement is made
that Benjamin took Helen Dimon ~
his lawfully welded wife 10 have and
TO hold against the world, the flesh
and the devll, ON certain day In May
1913. with delicate touch. the lnstru
ment goes Oh 10 recitc that until the
errlng wife met one Ortagan, all was
happiness and content In the little nest
which housed two, but could not hold
three without disruption
In language which 'twould be diff.
cult for a poet 10 equal the petition
narrates Of how the couple met in
Wheeler Park and wandered IN deep
tangled wild wood, enjoying them
selves as lovers do, until interrupted,
when Ortagan vanished Az do the
mlsts from the mountain top at the
approach Of the morning sun"
After this escapade, II is alleged
that the plaintiff, with tears In his
voice and qulyerIng eyes, begged the
falthless spouse 10 turn from ways u
nnholy Ulckedness and abandon this
vampire lover Of hers; that II she
would do 80, the injured husband
would forgive and forget all that WAS
past and would again shelter and pro
tect her from the devious ways Of a
cruel world But all to no avail.
After this impassioned pleading fell
from the lips of the plaintiff the pc.
tition alleges that she (said Helen
Dimonl answered him with words
from wicked lips, saying she did not
and could not love the plaintiff, and
that she Intended to go away and nev-
or come back" which promise, accord
Ing to the husband has been kept to
the letter
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-08-05
CUT OFF YOUR LIMBS
II Your Trees DrOOp Over Street Trim
Branches or Expect Visit From law
MlniOn-Order Goes Out

"Cut your limbs off" Such is the
somewhat startling order which has
gone forth from the police station.
The limbs IN question do not refer to
that part OF the human trunk some
times referred TO as leg. but 10 the
ordinary tree branch when It happens
TO be growing across the street In.
stead Of In the back yard.
Many complaints, both from the pe.
destrlnns md drivers, have been re-.
celyed from the more shaded parts of
the residence districts recently. on nc.
count " the foliage which oyerhnngs
the sidewalks and parts " the street
The wet spring has made this condl
uon unusually noticeable this summer
ana In many cases the property own.
ers let their trees grow where they
VIII without regard for the passers by
An ordinance provides that the
property owner shall attend to the
necessary trimming " his trees and
shrubbery along the streets or alleys