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The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-14
REPORT OF WOMAN'S
BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION

No meetings will be held during
the summer months, the first We'd
nesday in September being the next
meeting, but collectors Will
as usual every month.
MRS. E. A. GROVES,
Corresponding Secretary.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-14

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The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-14
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The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-14

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Williams news., 1915-07-29
SYNOPSIS.

A curious crowd of neighbors invade the mysterious home of Judge Ostrander' county judge and eccentric recluse, fol- lowing a yelled woman who proves to pc the widow of a man tried before the judge and electrocuted for murder years DeIore. Her daughter Is engaged to the judges son, from whom he is estranged, but the murder Is between the lovers. She plans to clear her husbands memory and asks the Judges aid. Deborah Scoville reads the newspaper clippings telling the story of the murder of Algernon Etheridge oy John Scoviiie in Dark Hollow, twelve years before. The judge and Mrs. Sco- vile meet at Spencer's Folly and she der, she saw the shadow of man, whit ting a stick and wearing long peaked cap. The judge engages her and her daughter Reuther to live with him in his yer. Black. go to the police station and see the stick used to murder Etheridge, She discovers broken knife-blade point embedded in it. Deborah and Reuther go to live with the judge. Deborah sees portrait of Oliver. the judges son, with a black band painted across the eyes. That night she finds, in Oliver's room, cap with a peak like the shadowed one, and a knife with broken blade-point- Anon ymous letters and a talk with Miss She finds that Oliver was in the ravine on the murder night: Black warns her and shows her other anonymous letters limiting at Oliver's guilt. In the court room the judge is handed an anonymous note. The note is picked up and read aloud. A mob follows the judge to his home. Deborah tells him why suspicion has been aroused against Oliver. The judge shows Deborah statement written by Oliver years ago telling how he saw cer's Folly on the night the house was burned.
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CHAPTER xIII-continued.

Claymore tavern did change own srs. When heard that man by the name of Scoville had bought it, went over to see Scoville. He was the man. Then 1 began to ask myself what l ought to do with my knowledge, and the more I asked myself this question and the more brooded over the mat ter the less did I feel like taking, not the public, but my father, into my con- fidence.
 had never doubted his love for me, but I had always stood in great awe of his reproof, and did not know where I was to find courage to tell him all the details of this adventure.
 There is one thing did do. however. l made certain inquiries here and there, and soon satisfied myself as to how Scoville had been able to come into town, commit this horrid deed and escape without any one but myself be ing the wiser. Spencer and he had
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VICTIM OF CRUEL DECEPTION
Falr Seaside Visitor Satisfied She Had Seen Remarkable "Government
 Salting Apparatus"

They were passing the holiday at Onset and during the course of the sunny afternoon took a stroll on the beach. At one point they came upon an improvised breakwater, where some resident had filled bags with sand and piled them in breastworks fashion to prevent the sea from en- croachtng upon his land during the stormy season.
 One of the young ladies was curious immediately. She would know what the bags were for.
 'Why, it's very simple" explained her companion with due gravity. "The water in Onset bay originally was fresh, peculiarity of nature which has puzzled scientists. It seemed too bad to deprive the place of seashore advantages so the government took the matter in hand. filled the bags with salt and thereby has imparted the proper flavor to Onset water"
 Far from rebuking him for being fresh" she is now telling her friends of having seen the government salt ing apparatus" down there.
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Diverging Opinions of Two Managers as to Attaining Results Are
 of Interest.

Two men with offices in the Wall street district, each employing cleri- cal force of dozen persons, were talk ing shop at luncheon the other day and one said he was an early riser and usually was at the office before any of the clerks.
 I'm an early riser, too, and get up because like to-, said the other, but I never get to my office before nine o'clock, a half hour after the office opens for business. do this because after considerable experience and ob- servation l found that it is more effec- tive with the employees.
 They are shrewd folk, they are, and have their own methods of sizing up the boss, and 1 find that they conclude that the employer who gets to his office early either needs the extra time to do his work in or he wants to see that his employees are not beating time on him. Either of these con ditions is, in my opinion. not to the interest of the employer
 Therefore, l let them see that trust them to be on hand promptly and also that I can do my part of the work in less time than they can. i cant always, but when I can't I do it at home, where they can't see me or know anything about it. I respect my people and they respect me. and l don't have to get to the office early to do it, either"
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Such a Long Time Ago.

He had just reached the philo- sophical stage when he slipped into a restaurant between bars for bit to eat. He ordered. Then he sat star ing ahead, quietly thoughtful in ex- pression, and waited
 It is admitted he did some waiting. too. What happened to his order couldn't be understood outside the peculiar convolutions of restaurant kitchen, but he spent half an hour sitting there staring ahead of him.
 At last it came. AS the waitress put the order before him he started from his deep study. as if he had for gotten he had an order coming. Then, looking up at the fair transporter of edibles, he said:
 You don't look a day older! !"- Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
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Cotton in California,

Since cotton was first planted in Imperial valley, California, as an ex- pertinent, about eight years ago, the acreage has increased yearly until 1t Is now 65.000, yielding 5o,000 bales. The United States department of agri- culture says the valleys production per acre is more than twice that of any other part of the country. In the valley there are nineteen cotton gins, three cottonseed oil mills, and three congresses. Over half the acreage is in the vicinity of Calexico, there be- ing there eight gins. two oil mills, and one compress, all busy day and night during the winter making by products like cottonseed oil. cotton seed feed and hulls.
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Ready to Risk 1t.

MT. Jones wants a windy-pane twilve inches be fourteen" remarked young Patrick Mullrooney, entering the glazier's shop.
 In the shop was smart young as sistant who wanted to have joke with Pat.
 Haven't any that size," he replied gravely. Will one fourteen inches by twelve do?"
 Pat looked thoughtful for minute. Then he replied:
 He's wantin' it at once, and this is the only shop in. town. Give me wan O thin. P'rhaps if we put it in sideways no one will notice"
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come from the West en route to New York without any intention of stop ping off in Shelby. But once involved in play they had got so interested that when within few miles of the town, Spencer proposed that they should leave the train and finish the game in his own house. Whether cir cumstances aided them, or Spencer took some extraordinary precautions against being recognized, will never be known. But certain it is that he escaped all observation at the station and even upon the road. When Sco- vile returned alone, the storm had reached such height that the roads were deserted, and he, being an entire stranger here at that time, naturally attracted no attention, and so was able to slip away on the next train with just the drawback of buying a new ticket I. a boy of fifteen. trespassing where I did not belong. was the only living witness of what had happened on this night of dreadful storm, in the house which was now a ruin
 I realized the unpleasantness. of the position in which this put me. but not it's responsibility. If I were going to do anything should have done it at first-so I reasoned, and let the mat. ter slide. I became interested in school and study, and the years passed and I had almost forgotten the oc ep-rence. when suddenly the full re-
 nembrance cane back upon me with a rusk A iiah--my fathers friend
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was found murdered in sight of this spot of old-time horror. and Scoville was accused of the act.
 I was older now and saw my fault in all it's enormity. I was guilty of that crime-or so I felt in the first heat of my sorrow and despair. I may even have said so-in dreams or in some of my self-absorbed broodings. Though I certainly had not lifted the stick against MT. Etheridge, had left the hand free which did, and this was a sufficient occasion for remorse-or so I truly felt
 even my father, with his own weight of troubles, noticed my careworn face and asked me for an explanation. But I held him off until the verdict was reached, and then I told him. 1 had not liked his looks for some time; they seemed to convey some doubt of the justice of this mans sentence, and I felt that if he had such doubts. they might be eased by this certainty of Scoville's murderous tendencies and unquestionable greed.
 And they were; but as Scoville was already doomed, we decided that 1t was unnecessary to make public his past offenses. However, with an eye upon future contingencies, my father exacted from me in writing this full account of my adventure, which with all the solemnity of an oath here de. clare to be the true story of what be- fell me in the house called Spencer's Folly, on the night of awful storm, September Il, 1895.
 OLIVER OSTRANDER- Witnesses to above signature, ARCHIBALD OSTRANDER, BELLA JEFFERSON. Shelby, November T, 1898.
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CHAPTER XIV.
The Telegram.


 This was the document and these the words which Deborah, widow of the man thus doubly denounced. had been given to read by the father of the writer, in the darkened room which had been and still was to her, an abode of breeding thought and unfathomable mystery.
 No wonder that during it's reading more than one exclamation of terror and dismay escaped her. There were so many reasons for believing this record to be an absolute relation of the truth.
 Incoherent phrases which had fallen from those long-closed lips took on new meaning with this unveiling of an unknown past. Repugnances for which she could not account in those old days, she now saw explained. He would never, even in passing. give a look at the ruin on the bluff. so attrac- tive to every eye but his own. As for entering it's gates-she had never dared so much as to ask him to do so.
 Then the watch! Deborah knew well that watch. She had often asked him by what stroke of luck he had got so fine timepiece God! was her mind veering back to her old idea as to his responsibility for the crime com mitted in Dark Hollow? Yes; she could not help it. Denial from monster like this-a man who with such memo ries and such spoil, could return home to wife and child, with some gay and confused story of great stroke in speculation which had brought him in the price of the tavern it had long been his ambition to own-what was denial from such lips worth? The judge was right. Oliver-whose in- genuous story had restored his image to her mind, with some of it's old graces-had been the victim of circum- stances and not John Scoville
 Her thoughts had reached this stage and her hand, in obedience to the new mood, was lightly ruf1ing up the pages before her, when she felt light touch on her shoulder and turned with a start.
 The judge was at her back. How long he had stood there she did not know, nor did he say, but when upon feeling his hand upon her shoulder she turned, he was there; and while his lips failed to speak, his eyes were elo- quent and their question single and i'm perative.
 What do you think of him now?" they seemed to ask, and rising to her feet, she met him with a smile, ghastly perhaps with the lividness of the shadows through which she had been groping, but encouraging withal and soothing beyond measure to his anx- ious and harassed soul.
 Oliver is innocent" she declared, turning once more to lay her hand upon the sheets containing his naive confession. 'The dastard who could . shoot his host for plumber is capable of second crime holding out similar inducement. Nothing now will ever make me connect Oliver with the crime at the bridge. As you said, he was simply near enough the hollow to toss into it the stick he had been whiting I am his advocate from this minute"
 Her eyes were still resting mechan- ically upon that last page lying spread out before her, and she did not ob. serve in it's full glory the first gleam of triumphant joy which. in all prob. ability. Judge Ostrander's countenance had shown in years. Nor did he see in the glad confusion of the rroment,
Williams news., 1915-07-29
Woke Him Up,

The young man was rather slow. So the girl thought it time to give him Aint.
 Gracious" she exclaimed sudden ly, I've bruised my lip! Do you know. MT. Jenkins, my mother always used to kiss hurt place to make it well?"
 And did 1t do any good?" asked the young man, falling to see the point.
 T don't remember" replied the girl. getting desperate; "but those old-fash- toned remedies are sometimes very good"
 Then he got busy. lsas:5s {
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mark delivered with little more civil ity than any of his previous ones:
 What you call evidence may not be the same as calls evidence. If you're satisfied at thinkin' my words no good. that's your business. I know how I should feel if was Ol Ostran- der's father and knew what know"
 Let him go." spoke up a wavering voice. It was Deborah's
 But the judge was deaf to the warn ing. Deborah's voice haC but remind ed him of Deborah's presence It's tone had escaped him. He was too en- crossed in the purpose he had in mind to notice shades of infection.
 But MT. Black had, and quick as thought he echoed her request:
 "He is forgetting himself. Let him go, Judge Ostrander."
 But that astute magistrate, wise in all other causes but his own, was no more ready now than before to do this.
 Tn a moment" he conceded. Let me first make sure that this man un- derstands me. I have said that there OA1oto ho CNAoOhSO o6dAhoS Ahy oSA' This I aver; and this the lady here will aver. You have probably already recognized her. If not, allow me to tell you that she is the lady whose efforts have brought back this case to the public mind: Mrs. Scoville, the wife of John Scoville and the one of all others who has the greatest inter- est in proving her husbands inno- cence. If she says, that after the most careful inquiry and conscientious reconsideration of this case, she has found herself forced to come to the conclusion that justice has already been satisfied in this matter. you will believe her. won't your"
 'I don't know" drawled the man, a low and cunning expression lighting up his ugly countenance. s"She wants to marry her daughter to your son. Any live dog is better than a dead one; I guess her opinion don't go for much."
 Recalling before a cynicism that pierced with unerring skill the one joint in his armor he knew to be vul- nerable. the judge took a minute in which to control his rage and then ad- dressing the half-averted figure in the window said:
 Mrs. Scoville, will you assure this man that you have no expectations of marrying your daughter to Oliver Os- trander?"
 With a slow movement more sugges- tive of despair than any she had been seen to make since the hour of her in- decision had first struck, she shifted in her seat and finally faced them, with the assertion:
 ''Reuther Scoville will never marry Oliver Ostrander. Whatever my wishes or willingness in the matter, she her self is so determined. Not because she does not believe in his integrity for she does; but because she will not unite herself to one whose prospects in life are more to her than her own happiness"
 The fellow stared, then laughed:
 She's a goodun,' he sneered- And you believe that bosh?" MT. Black could no longer contain himself.
 "I believe you are the biggest rascal in town" he shouted Get out, or won't answer for myself. Ladies are not to be treated in this manner" Did he remember his own rough handling of the sex on the witness stand?
 CTO BE CONTINUED
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MANY WAR ZONE H0sPITALs

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Williams news., 1915-07-29
Envioua.

What is the matter, Alicer' asked her mother as the little girl came home crying as if her heart would break
 Mabel Jones has got adenoids and I never have anything" sobbed Alice.
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Revenue!

Mollie-What are you letting your hair grow so long for? Going to be musician?
 Chollie-No; I've got grudge against the barber.
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Orioin of Old Joke.

Harper Pennington has revealed the origin of the standing room only joke: It appears that there was hard ly ever any furniture in Whistler's house. He was peculiarly parsimo nious in the matter of chairs. This led to a remark of Corny Grains which became famous. "Ah, Jimmy Glad to see you playing to such full housei" said Dick (Corny) Grain when shaking hands before Sunday lunch con, while glaring around the studio with his large, protruding eyes in search of something to sit on. What do you mean?" asked Whistler Standing room only" replied the actor.
Williams news., 1915-07-29

Horses in Iceland are shod with sheep horn and those in the Sudan are fitted with camel-skin socks.
Williams news., 1915-07-29

Be happy. Use Red Cross Bag Blue; much better than liquid blue. Delights the laundress. All grocers. Adv.
Williams news., 1915-07-29

YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU
 Try Murine Eye Remedy , for Red, Wesk. Wstsry just Eye comfort Write for Book of the Eye by mali Free Murine Eye Remedy Co.,. Chicago
Williams news., 1915-07-29

Beads of precipitation are the jewels of, honest labor-perhaps.
Williams news., 1915-07-29

A woman would rather be incon- sistent than otherwise.
Williams news., 1915-07-29

O liberty, what lot of divorces hide under thy cloak.
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Sure Cure

Sure Cure. What are you taking for your cold?" Advice" Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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So Say We All.

Landlady-How do you like youl eggs, MT. Newcomer?
 New Boarder-Fresh, please
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MATTER OF OFFICE HOURS

CTo BE coNTINuEDo
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does not know his folly. Perhaps he thinks because I was thrown aback today by those public charges against my son and string of insults for which no father could be prepared. that am seriously disturbed over the position into which such minimizing men as himself have pushed MT Oli- yer Ostrander. I might be if there were truth in these charges or any se- rious reason for connecting my up- right and honorable son with the low crime of a highwayman. But there is not l aver it and so will this lady here whom you have doubtless recog- nized for the one who has stirred this matter up. You can bring no evidence to show guilt on my sons part"-these words he directed straight at the dis comfited poster of bills-"because there is no evidence to bring"
 MT. Blacks eyes sparkled with admi- ration. He could not have used this method with the lad. but he recognized the insight of the man who could. Bribes were a sign of weakness, so were force and counter-attack; but scorn-a calm ignoring of the power of any one to seriously shake Oliver Ostrander's established 'position-that might rouse wrath and bring avowal: certainly it had shaken the man; he looked much less aggressive and self, confident than before
 However. though impressed, he was not yet ready to give in. Shuff1ing ahOut with his feet hut mt vat sh,jnL
 ing from an encounter few men of his stamp would have cared to subject themselves to. he answered with re.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-14
entire NEWF0uNDL AND FISHING
INDUSTRY HANGS UPON BILL
NOW IN ITS LEGISLATURE

st. Johns, N.'F., May IA reorgan-
Szation of the fishing industry which
forms the mainstay Of this colony. is
believed in well informed quarters to
be forecasted in the introduction in
the Legislature of bill for govern
ment control Of the price Of fish caught
off the Labrador coast. The bill intro
duced by a member of the Fishermens'
Union, which has become an import
ant political factor, provides for the
creation of a board Of three men to
fix what is known as the current
price,"
Fixing Of Price
Because of the difficulty in estab-
fishing price for fish until a fair es-
innate of the total catch can be made
and information obtained Of the proba-
BILE competition from other quarters, it
has been the practice of the merchants
supplying the fishing outfits to con-
tract with the fishermen on the basis
of an agreement to pay the current
price" late in the season. Many of the
fishermen have complained that under
this method the price has been fixed
too low to afford them fair pay for
their work.
Frequently in recent years, when the
merchants have sent their vessels to
collect fish. the fishermen have re-
fused to turn over their catch at the
price offered. This has resulted in dis
putes, in some Of which DR.. Wilfred T.
Grenfell, the Labrador medical mis-
sionary. has figured as peacemaker and
Cio no need G a
local magistrate to adjust the diff
culties.
Control of Industry
Fishery Quitting merchants in this
city, who formerly controlled the in