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Charged W.ith Theft of biol Cont.

Aleck Lucas. colored, was arrested
by Patrolman Warmer last night on
a warrant charging him with assault
ing and stealing 10 cents by force and
violence from Joseph Finley.
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me eleventh annual convention Of
Ehe Retail Merchants Association Of
Firginia. beginning May 10 and
ast!ng through the 2lst. will be
Fed this year at Norfolk. An invita-
ZION has been extended to all mer-
Plants in Virginia. whether members Of
nc association or not. to attend the
Eonvent.on. and an unusually large
Delegation is expected. The Norfolk
Association Will welcome the visitors
tnd arrange an entertainment pro-
g.am.
II There Is no State organization Of
lnerchants composed OF as many large
lnerchants as are TO be found in the
II irSnia Association. Its sessions are
ways very active and conducted with
unusual ability. In view Of the fact
4 hat the Legislature meets next winter.
H is expected that several measures
affecting the merchants Will be dis
FUSED al this session and submitted
H o the General Assembly for enactment
INTO law
tAMuEL COHEN. OF
II RICHMOND, is PRESIDENT
\ Tho officers OF the association are
Is follows: President. Samuel Cohen,
u Richmond: first vice president. NJ
III Ramsey, OF Roanoke: second vice
PRESIDENT, r. Z. knight, Of Alexandria;
treasurer, l. H. Kaufman. OF Richmond
nd secretary. w. a. Clarke. Jr.. Of
Richmond. ". 4. Martin Is presiden,
Had Walter 6. Blick, secretary, OF the
Norfolk Association.
4 II IS expected that the following
elesates will go from Richmond;
n. o Miller. J. II. Kaufman. John A.
|heyine, Fred JurEens, Moses Thalhimer.
III: n Hawks. Julius c. Levitt. Jesse
|lehwarzschild. Walker c. Cottreil.
Raphael Levy. w. y. Clarke, Jr., II.
Iiarl Boschen, John +. Kohler. c. Fred
Eohler. ID. a. Buchanan. a. +. Jahnke,
: James and w g. Malone.
Tho health OF Samuel Cohen will not
i Hermit him 10 stand for re-elect!on as
PRESIDENT. Though much stronger now
nan he has been. his large interests
! ye sufficient tax for his strength.
NIL. NE WELCOMED
ny MAYOR MAYO
I The sessions will he held at the
Fonticello Hotel, the preliminary ses-
ion for registration of delegates being
ED az noon OF the first day. President
ohen viii call the convention to order
$50 o'clock, and Mayor w. r. Mayo
III deliver an address Of welcome TO
HE GclcStteS on DcnalI oil the city, lOl
bwcd by NJ. tms,adter. who will speak
kbr the Norfolk Association. After a
Euitable response from the delegates
n reports Of the various officers and
Committees will be heard. and then
Eherc will be an address by C. b.
Itricklor. OF Salem, whose subject will
he Boosting the Home Town-How
&alem Did It." AT $40 a theatre party
{ the Academy OF Music will be ten
cred the delegates by the Norfolk As
1ciation.
On T'lirsday morning the reports OF
HE .rious local associations will be
card. and the delegates will take
Zip about the harbor as guests OF the
ortolk Association. In the afternoon
,ere Will be several addresses and i'm
&romptu talks on business topics. At
- ie night session the committee on reso-
: Itons will make its report and a
General discussion will ensue.
! Tho convention Will come to a close
friday morning after the disposition
"a unfinished business. the election Of
fcers for the ensuing year and the
lection of the next place OF meeting.
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pre.ton Elected chairman.

;porge Preston was elected chairman
the Henrico County Democratic
ID yesterday Afternoon at the meet
, at the Henrico Courthouse. He sue
IDS II. NJ. Fleet, who is candidate
commissioner of revenue for the
per district of Henrico County.
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Jones Admitted IN u,ti

w. l.. Jones. "A United States gauCer.
charged with irregularities at dis
tillery at Clarksville. was adnittod ~
pan last night by Commissioners Mel
win Flegenheimcr in the sum Of 81 600.
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note lay upon the desk and he
picked II up, absently CHANGING over
the brief writing. He turned the sheet
and. as his eyes fell upon the signature,
"A wild ferocious CLEAN famed up with
in them. He reached out and clutched
the desk for support, clutched so tight
~ the knuckles CLEANED shiny blue
black. Mastering himself with an ef-
fort he dispa tched a servant for his
wife and daughter, still standing in the
same position when they entered the
room. the note in his hands. such an
expression of hatred and inflexible de-
termination upon his face as caused
them TO halt abruptly. checking their
affectionate greetings.
You have answered this-man,
Esther" Straight TO the point he cut.
his voice shaking a trine with the rage
he masterfully held in check. AS she
did not answer. he slowly crumpled
the paper in the palm OF his hand. let
ting II drop 70 the floor. The hurt ex-
preston in her eyes broke his control
Then YOU shall answer it-now
Do you know that Felix Lynn is the
man have just beaten. that he tried
10 ruin me. that he has worn out the
last atom of my strength. that the
fight has forced me 10 retire? Felix
Lynn is the man who has just failed
in his attempt TO ruin this household.
And Felix Lynn is the man who has
the audacity 10 invite a member of
this household TO christen his new
yacht! Felix Lynn must be a stranger
TO this door You will neither speak
10 him nor have any Communication
with him. And you Will give him TO
understand that-NOW." Esther re-
belled at first but at significant ges-
ture from her mother. wrote the fate
full note:
Felix Dear.-Father stumbled on
your note and raised such a storm It
Will be impossible for mother and me
to christen your yacht. We must be
SO careful. you know. Why not ask
ALICIA and her mother to go?
ESTHER.
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"A friend
Advised
Peruna
For my
Chronic
Disease.
Peruna
Cured me

Mrs. Maggie Durbin. 200 Victory 81.
Little Rock. Ark, writes: II was trou-
blcd for Ave years with a chronic dis
ease. / tried everything I heard Of
hut nothing did me any good. Soma
doctors said my trouble was catarrh
of the bowels. and some said con-
sumption of the bowels. One doctor
said no could cure me: took his
medicine two months, but ii did me no
good. a friend of mine advised me
TO try Peruna, and l did SO, After
had taken two bottles I found It waa
helping me. SO I continued its use until
am sound and we'll"
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avs?
Story No. 5
Unto Herself Alone
By EDWIN BLISS

Copyright. 1915. by Pathe Elk
change. Inc. All moving picture
rights and all foreign copyrights
strictly reserved. Shown at tho VIC
tor each Saturday,
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CONTINUED From Yesterday }
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-10-21
SYNOPSIS.

Kenneth Grigwold, an unsuccessful
writer because of socialistic tendencies,
holds up Andrew Galbraith. president of
the Bayou State Securities, in the presi-
DENTS private office and escapes with $780,
90 In cash. By original methods he es-
capes the hue and cry and goes aboard
Sne Belle julio as a deckhand. Charlotte
Earnham Of Wahaska, MIMI. who had
eeen him cash Galbraith's check In tha
oank, recognizes him, and sends a letter
OF betrayal to Galbraith anonymously.
k'riswold is arrested on the arrival OF the
poat at st. Louis. but escapes from his
captors. He decides on Wahaska, Mimi,
es hiding place. and after Quitting
himself properly, takes the train. Girls
void falls III on the sleeper and is cared
for and taken to her home in Wahaska
py Margery Grierson. daughter Of Jasper
Grierson, the financial maEnate Of Wa
naska. Margery finds the stolen money
IN Grlswolds suitcase. Breffln. detective.
Eakes the trail. Margery asks her father
20 get Edward Raymer into financial hot
water and then help him out of II. Girls
void RECEIVERS to find the stolen money
zone. He meets Margery'H social circle
end forms friendship with Raymer, the
IRON manufacture. Broftin comes to Wa
Nne anonymous letter to Galbraith. Mar
gerry takes Griswold to the safety deposit
vault and turns the stolen money over to
plm. Charlotte bluffs out Broffln and
Margery begins to watch him. Griswold
puts his money In Raymers plant and
commences to rewrite his book Griswold
goes to dinner at Doctor Farnham's and
rs not sure that Charlotte has not recog-
nized him.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-10-21
OQoN12IEHZ 6/ (XzzEJ 5CHl6hC2t SONS

to be presumed that much. If not all,
of the complacency would have van
ished II he could have been an unseen
listener In the Farnham sitting-room,
dating from the time when little Miss
Gilman battered of to bed, leaving
the father and daughter sitting to-
gether under the reading lamp,
At first their talk was entirely OF
the window apparition, the daughter
insisting upon its reality, and the Ia
Their trying to push it over into the
limbo of things imagined. Driven
finally to give all the reasons for her
belief in the realities, Charlotte related
the incident Of the afternoon.
By this time the good Doctor BERTHE
had become the indignant Doctor Ber-
tie
I'VE can't have that at ALL" he said
incisively. You did your whole duty
in that bank matter; and 1t was a
good deal more than most young WON
en- would have done. I'm not going
to have you prosecuted and harassed-
not one minute! Where is this fell
low stopping?"
The daughter shook her head. 81
don't know. He gave me his card, but
1t has the New Orleans address only"
Give 1t to me and I'll look him up
tomorrow"
The card changed hands, and for a
few minutes neither Of them spoke.
Then the daughter began again.
1--WE had another shock this eve.
ming, too" she said, speaking this time
in low tones and with eyes downcast.
"This Mr.. Griswold-did l understand
you to say that he had lost all Of his
money!?
Yes; practically all of IT," said the
father, without losing his hold upon
what certain great London physician
was saying through the columns of the
English medical journal.
But afterward, long after Charlotte
had gone up to her room, he remem-
bered, with a curious little start of
half-awakened pu2zlement, that some
one, no longer ago than yesterday. had
told him that young Griswold was
rich-or If not rich, at least well
fixed"
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Griswold looked and vas reasonably
sure that he could make out the
shadowy figure of man leaning
against one of the trees.
THAT is my shadow" she said, low
ering her voice; "Mr. Matthew Rrof-
fin Of the Colburne Detective agency,
in New Orleans. He has foolish idea
that am In communication with the
man he is searching for, and he was
brutal enough to tell me so. What he
expects to accomplish by keeping an
absurd watch upon our house and dog
ging everybody who comes and goes,
can't imagine"
.You have told your fatheri" said
Griswold, anxious to learn how far this
new alarm fire had spread.
Certainly; and he has made his pro-
test, But It doesn't do any good; the
man keeps on spying, as you see. But
we have wandered a long way from
your book. I've been trying to prove
to you that am not At to criticize II"
mo; you mustn't mistake me.
haven't been coming to you for criti-
cism," was Griswold's rather incoher-
ent reply; and when the talk threat
ened to lapse into the commonplaces,
he took his leave. Oddly enough, as he
thought, when he was unlatching the
gate and had shifted one of the newly
purchased automatic pistols from his
hip pocket to an outside pocket of the
light top-coat he was wearing, the
shadowy figure under the lake-shading
trees had disappeared.
1t was only few minutes after the
lingering dinner guest had gone when
the doctor came out on the porch,
bringing his long-stemmed pipe for a
bedtime Whit In the open air.
"You are losing your beauty sleep,
little girl" he said, dropping into the
chair lately occupied by the guest. did
you find out anything more tonight
The daughter did not reply at once,
and when she did there was a note of
freshly summoned hardihood In her
voice.
1--WE were both mistaken" she af.
firmed. Condolences are always
likely to be misleading. am sorry
told you about them. He has certain.
ly been a present help in time of need
to Edward"
AS before, the good little doctor had
recourse to his pipe, and 1t was not un
til his daughter got up to go In that
he said gently: zone other word, Char
lie, girl: are you altogether sure that
the wish isn't father to the thought
about Griswold?"
Don't be absurd, papa!" she said
scornfully. passing swiftly behind his
chair to reach the door; and with that
answer he was obliged to be content
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-10-21

brackish waters of sheer worldliness
Then he saw how inadequate it would
be; how utterly impossible 1t was t.
meet this charmingly vindictive young
person upon any grounds save those
Of her own choosing.
That Is the first really unkint
thing have ever heard you say" wal
the mild Teproach which was all thai
the reactionary second thought would
sanction.
"Unkind to whom?-to you, or tc
Miss Farnham"
ASK yourself" he countered weak
ly, and she laughed at him.
Griswold did not reply to the laugh
He was gathering up the scattered
pages of his manuscript and replacing
them in order. When he spoke again
1t was of a matter entirely irrelevant
81 had an odd experience the other
evening" he said. II had been dining
with the Raymers and was walking
back to Shawnee street. A little news
boy named Johnnie Fergus turned up
from somewhere at one of the street
crossings and tried to sell me a pa.
per-at eleven o'clock at night! |
bought one and joked him about being
out so late; and from that on couldn't
get rid Of him. He went all the way
home with me, talking q blue streak
and acting as If he were afraid OF
something or somebody. remem-
bered afterward that he is the boy who
takes care Of your boat. II there any
thing wrong with him?"
Miss Grierson had left her chair and
had gone to stand at one Of the win.
dows.
Nothing that know Of" she said.
"He Is bright boy-too bright for his
own good, I'm afraid. But | can ex-
plain-a little. Johnnie has taken a
violent fancy to you for some reason,
and he has fallen into the boyish habit
Of weaving all sorts of romances
around you. think he reads too many
exciting stories and tries to make you
the hero Of them. He told me the
other day that he was sure somebody
was 'spotting' you"
Griswold looked up quickly. Miss
Grierson was still facing the window.
and he was glad that she had not seen
his nervous start.
"'spotting' me?" he laughed. where
did he get that idea?"
How should know? But he had
made himself believe It; he even went
80 far as to describe the man. Oh, ]
can assure you Johnnie has an imagi.
nation; I've tested 1t in other ways"
81 should think sol" said the man
who also had an Imagination, and
shortly afterward he took his leave.
An hour later the same afternoon,
Brofin, from his post of observation on
the Winnebago porch, saw the writing.
man cross the street and enter hard
ware shop. Having nothing better to
do, he, too, crossed the street and, in
passing, looked into the open door of
Simmons & Kleifurt's. What he saw
brought him back at the end Of re.
Elective stroll around the public square.
When he entered the shop the clerk
was putting q formidable array Of
weapons back into their showcase
inches. Brofin lounged up and began
to handle the pistols.
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I'm coming to that. This escape
we read about happened on certain
day in April. 1t was the very day on
which poppa met me on my way back
from Florida, and we took the eleven
thirty train north that night. You
haven't forgotten that Mr.. Griswold
was a passenger on that same train :"
But. goodness gracious, Miss Mar
gerry! any number of people we're pas
sengers on that train. You surely
wouldn't"
"Hush!" she said, and through the.
lace window hangings Brofin saw her
lift warning finger. What l am
telling you, Mr.. Raymer, is In the
strictest confidence; we mustn't let
breath OF 1t get out. But that wasn't
all. Mr.. Griswold was dreadfuly sick
and, Of course, he couldn't tell US any
thing about himself. But while he was
delirious he was always muttering
something about money, money; mon.
ey that he had lost and couldn't find, or
money that he had found and couldn't
lose. Then when we thought he
couldn't possibly get we'll, Doctor Der.
tie and ransacked his suitcases for
cards or letters or something that
would tell US who he was and where
he came from. There wasn't the III.
tleet thingi" J
Uo IN cpNHTAII&nA
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the now quite complete fulfllment Of
the wishing prophecy. Miss Farnham
was going to prove to be all that the
most critical maker of studies from
life could ask In model; q supremely
perfect original for the character Of
Fidelia in the book. Moreover, she
would be his tombstone for the truths
and verities; even as Margery Grier-
son might, II she were forgiving
enough to let bygones be bygones, hold
the mirror up to nature and the pure
humanities. Moreover, again, what
ever slight danger there might have
been in a possibility of recognition
was a danger outlived. If the first
meeting had not stirred the sleeping
memories in Miss Farnham, subse-
quent ones would serve only to widen
the gulf between forgetfulness and rec
objection by just such distances as the
Wahabka Griswold should traverse in
leaving behind him the deckhand Of
the Belle Julie.
How much this might have been
modified If he had known that the man
whose face Miss Farnham had seen at
The window was silently tracking him
through the tree-shadowed streets Is
EMattar for conjecture Also. i u
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-10-21
CHAPTER XIX.
Pitfalls.

Pitfalls.
Within a week from the day wher
Raymer, angrily jubilant, had rescued
his imperiled stock, 1t was pretty gen
orally known that Kenneth Griswold
the writing man, had become the
fourth member in the close corpora
ton of the Raymer Foundry and Ma
chine works, and Wahaska was ca
gerly discussing the business affair In
all its possible and probable bearings
upon the Raymers, the Griersons and
and the newly elected directory of the
Pineboro railroad.
OF all this buzzing Of the gossip bees
the person most acutely concerned
heard little or nothing. Digging deeply
in the inspiration field, Griswold speed
lily became oblivious to most of his en-
compassments; to all of them, indeed
save those which bore directly upon
the beloved task. Among these, he
counted the frequent afternoon visits
to Mereside, and the scarcely less fire.
quent evenings spent In the Farnham
home. He was using each of the
young women as a foil for the other
in the outworking of his plot; and he
welcomed 1t as sign of growth that
the story in its new form was acquir.
ing verisimilitude and becoming crate.
fully, and at times, he persuaded him.
self, quite wildly, human.
When he got we'll into the swing of
1t and was turning out chapter every
three or four days, he fell easily into
the habit Of slipping the last install
ment into his pocket when he went to
Mereside. Margery Grierson was add.
ing generously to his immense obliga-
ton to her; hoping only to find a
friendly listener, he found a helpful
collaboration. More than once, when
his own imagination was at fault, she
was able to open new vistas In the
humanities for him, apparently draw
ing upon reserve of intuitive con-
illusions compared with which his own
hard-bought store of experimental
knowledge was almost puerile.
81 wish you would tell me the secret
of your marvellous cleverness," he ex-
claimed, on one Of the June afternoons
when he had been reading to her in
the cool half-shadows of the Mereside
library. you are only a child in
years; how can you know with sucn
miraculous certainty what other
people would think and do under con-
ditions about which you can't possibly
know anything experimentally? It's
beyond mel"
There are many things beyond you
yet, dear boy; many, many things, :"
was her laughing rejoinder; from
which 1t will be inferred that the epi-
sode in the Farmers and Merchant a.
burglar-proof had become an episode
forgotten-or at least forgiven. "You
know men-a little; but when 1t comes
to the women =. well, If didn't
keep continually nagging at you, your
two heroines-with neither of whom
you are really In love-would degen.
crate into rag dolls They would, ac-
tIally."
That's true; can see It clearly
enough when you peint 1t out" he ad-
MHted- putting his craftsman pride
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underTuol, as lie was always oOieeL to
do in these talks with her. 81 should
be discouraged if you didn't keep on
telling me that the story, as a story,
is good"
1T is good; it is a big story,g she
asserted, with kindling enthusiasm.
The plot, so far as you have gone
with 1t, is fine; and that 10 where you
leave me away behind. / don't see
how you could ever think 1t out. And
the character drawing is fine, too,
some of 1t. Your Fleming is as far
beyond me as your Fidelia seems to
be beyond YOU"
You don't know Fleming yet. Have
you ever met Fideliaf"
Not as you have drawn her--no
She Is too unutterably fine. II she
had q single shred of humanity about
her. / should suspect you of meaning
to fall In love with her, farther along
to the humiliation and despair of poor
Joan, who, as you say, is mere daugh
ter Of men,"
But how about Joan?" he fretted
is she out Of drawing, too?"
Yes; you are distorting her the
other way-making her too inhumanly
worldly and insincere." Then, with ar
abruptness that was like slap in the
face: III you didn't spend so many
evenings at Doctor Rertie'a Won would
get both Fidelia and Joan in better
drawing"
He flushed and drew himself up
with stabbed amour propre prompting
him to make some singing retort con
trasting the wells of truth with the