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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
MACON TRAIN HELD UP.

Cuthbert, July 1S.-Rains continue
in this section. A heavy downpour
this afternoon blew out culvert at
Bear Branch, on the Central railway
four miles west of Cuthbert, washing
away about 25 feet of embankment.
Tie westbound Macon Montgomery
passenger train is held up at the wash
out. The Fort Gaines train from here
went out and brought the passengers
to Cuthbert. The track will be crlbbed
up so that train may pass over during
the night or by morning.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23

Washington, D. c., July 20-The
South Atlantic storm was apparently
central tonight about latitude SO, Ion
gitude 70. with a northward move
ment according to the weather bureau
and the highest wind velocity thus far
reported was sixty-four miles an hour
from the west at point about four
hundred biles off the South Carolina
coast.
Northeast storm warnings have been
ordered displayed from Hatteras to
Boston.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
GEORGIA, Crisp County.

Office of Ordinary of Said County:
Ishman Worth Jackson being a minor
residing in said county, whose mother
is dead. and whose step-father from
age, infrmity and poverty, is unable
to support him, and the said minor hav
ing no estate whereby he might be sup
ported, and G. E. Griffin having made
application to me to have the said
minor bound to him, as provided by
law, notice is hereby given that | will
pass upon said application at the hour
of ten o'clock, a. NJ, on the 21st day
of August, 1916, at my office, at the
court house in said county, and all per
sons interested are hereby called upon
then and there to show cause why said
minor should not be bound out, as
prayed for in said application.
w. P. FLEMING,
2S-4t Ordinary Crisp County, Ga.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
BROWN is DEFENDED
BY FARMERS UNION

Macon, July 22.-J. II. Mills, of Jen-
kinsburg, was unanimously elected
president of the Georgia division of
the Farmers Educational Cooperative
ULion of America, at the closing ses-
sion o, their two days convention,
held yesterday at the Hotel Lanier.
Mr.. Mills succeeds j. J. Brown, who
retired after giving his annual address.
The union also voted to suspend the
Gilmer county union for sixty days
for circulating false reports about j.
J. Brown, the retiring state president,
who served as umpire in the differen-
ces between the farmers of Gilmer
county and the Tennessee Copper COM
pany relative to damages done crops
by fumes from the copper company's
plant At tfe expiration of that time,
if satisfactory amends have not been
made, the Gilmer county charter is to
be revoked.
The other officers named yesterday
were ]. S. Dean, of HARRISON county,
vice president; A. ]. Fleming, of Jen-
kinsburg, secretary and treasurer; ].
L. English and w. T. Taylor, chap
lains ]. S. Fields, doorkeeper, and the
executive committee composed of the
following: Thomas G. Hudson, of Amer
icus. chairman; T. S. Johnson, of JEFF
ferson, C. H. Kittrell, of Dublin; ]. w.
Slade, of Sandersville, and W. D. Mel
son, of Hephzibah.
The association endorsed the follow
ing legislation, reported favorably by
the committee on legislation:
Boykin-Eakes warehouse bill, with
the following amendment: That the
legislature appropriate $4,000 from
any source, preferably from the tax
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
GEORGIA, Crisp County.

Office of Ordinary Said County:
Len G. Broughton Jackson being a
minor residing in said county, whose
mother is dead, and whose step-father,
from age infirmity and poverty. is I'M
able to support him, and the said min
or having no estate whereby he might
be supported and j. T. Pitts having
made application to me to have said
minor bound to him, as provided by
law, notice is hereby given that | will
PASS upon said application at the hour
IF ten o'clock, a. m, on the 21st day
If August 1916, at my office at the
court house in said county and all per
sons interested are hereby called up
On then and there to show cause why
said minor should not be bound out,
as prayed for in said application.
w. p FLEMING
2S-4t Ordinary Crisp County, Ga.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
COLUMBUS WooDMEN ARE
MEMBERS STATES BIG THREE

NJ L. Duskin, clerk of the w. 0. w.
camp in Columbus, is one of the en-
thusiastic visitors of the week here.
He has the third largest camp in the
state and belongs to the big Three. "
The w. o. w. in Columbus is pro-
gressive organization and the work of
Mr.. Duskin and the Columbus mem
bers has put them far up to the front
in the order
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23

ple who have been crying dead and
buried" and turning everything IN
their power 10 turn in the effort to pre-
vent the people getting an emporium
ity TO speak on a great big state issue
at the ballot box.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23

derived by the sale of fertilizer tags,
from the department of agriculture,
in order to pay the officers of the pro-
posed new warehouse system.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
Legal Advertisements
GEORGIA, Crisp County.

IEORGlA, CTlSp COulty.
Mrs R. c. Jenkins, guardian of Rosa
Lee Cole Greene, her minor daughter,
has applied to me for discharge from
her guardianship of said Rosa Lee Cole
Greene, and naming Guy H. Greene as
suitable person, willing to accept said
rust this is therefore to notify all
persons concerned to file their objec-
tons, if any they have, on or before
the first Monday in September next,
else Mrs. r. C. jenkins will be dis
charged from her guardianship as APP
piled for.
w. P. FLEMING,
2S-4t Ordinary Crosp County.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
Buggies- Harness Wagons

A complete line of Buggies, from the
heavy vehicle of service to the dainty,
fashionable kind, all highest grade and
not too high in price. Farm wagons,
heavy and light drays, delivery wagons
in great variety, to suit everybody.
Buggy and team harness, heavy and
light, saddles, blankets, lap robes for all
seasons, storm curtains, wagon UNI
brelIas, brides Of every description, iron
and leather traces, plow and wagon
names, team and pillow collars. This line
is complete. Horse covers and dray
covers.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
No. 666

This 10 o prescription prepared espeeiaIIy
for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER;
Five or six doses will break any case, and
If taken then as q tonic the Fever will not
return. II acts on the liver better than
CaIomel and does not sripe Of sieken. <ss
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
ONE CENT A WORD

FOR SALE--Cow Peas, cheap; Syrup,
Molasses, Coffee and Rice. Write
for prices. w. H. Davis, Box TIA, Au-
gusta, Ga. o-z4t
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
Ti|Iage Implements

Hallock Weeders, cuItiVators = one
horse, two-horse, riding and walking,
compost spreaders, disc harrows Acme
harrows, drag harrows, one, two, three
and four-horse ploWs, cotton and corn
planters, fertilizer distributors, stalk
cutters and many other things necessary
for making the crop. Best to be had.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
Harvesting implements

We are fully supplied with every de-
pendable device. A full line Of Deering
grain binders, Deering corn binders,
Deering corn shredders, Deering NOW
ers and rakes and all parts for this make
of machine. We handle gasoline, kero-
sene and crude oil engines from one
horse power to $50 horse power, pumps
and pump jacks, grain thresherss,, corn
shelters, feed grinders, grist mills, en-
silage cutters, binder Irvine, hay press
es, horse and motor power balers, hoes,
shovels, pitch forks, cotton pickers'
sheets, house paints, carria9e paints,
wall paints, axle greases, machine oils,
metal polish, gall cure, balsam Of myrrh.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23

The worlds best cork comes from
trees in Spain and Portugal that are
allowed to become forty years old be-
fore the bark is cut, and then it is re-
moved only every other eight or ten
years.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-15

with first-class cream, and we never
have any but homemade ice cream, so
there"
"Ah," said the doctor, "then in that
case it must be traces of thanatopsis
which I see, and the evidence is con.
elusive that a great deal of artificial
frappe has been used, nevertheless"
"No, thank you," said Uncle Greg
DRY, II never eat ice cream because
1t goes to my head and makes me cold
to my friends"
"Take this coffee, for instance"
chortled the doctor, juggling spoon
full with the left hand and four Jumps
of sugar with the right Herein
you will find copper salts, iodide of
chicory, four per cent solution of
gladiolus, together with about q six
teenth of a grain of mocha to the cup
full"
"No, thank you," gasp"d Uncle
Gregory; II never drink coffee; it
gives me the hiccups."
After the dinner was over, Uncle
Gregory took me outside and whis-
pered: John, for the love of a
blissful heaven, the next time you give
dinner party cut out that bug doc
tor, or let me wear ear muffs!"
Peaches hasn't spoken sensible
word since that bitter evening,
Can you blame her?
copyright, 1876 by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-15

When Uncle Gregory saw all this
his face broke out in smile, and we
could see, his appetite roll up its
sleeves.
"In this" the doctor began again,
holding up turkey wing on his fork,
''in this we have cold-storage tur-
key which has been treated with OK
alic acid and chloride of potassium
to keep it in a shivering state"
"Pardon me, DOCTOR" exclaimed
Peaches Indignantly, "but it isn't
cold-storage turkey, because it was
sent me as present by some friends
on Long Island only this morning"
POSSIBLY" went on Caterpillar
Charlie, possibly my hurried diagnosis
was at fault, but we can never be sure
about these things, because here, on
the elbow of the wing find traces Of
calisthenic acid over the membranes.
NO. thank you," said Uncle Greg
DRY, II never eat turkey, it gives me
the heartburn" And the poor old
guy struck such a note of hunger that
wanted to throw that doctor out of
the window.
By this time several others at the
table were becoming more of less i'm
pressed, and the dinner party was be-
ginning to assume the cheerful as
pect of a meeting Of martyrs an hour
before the arena opened.
''Please pass me some mashed pO-
tatoes," whispered Uncle Gregory
after the pangs of hunger had beaten
him to the ropes.
Here we find," croaked the doc
tor, raising a forkful of mashed po-
tatoes, "here we find one Of the most
evil effects of food adulteration. This
potato was grown in the fall of the
year 1889, but it has been washed in
alum water to give it the appearance
of being modern, while it's eyes have
been treated with belladonna to make
them bright and snappy."
Uncle Gregory groaned pathetically,
and the rest of us, out of politeness,
lllCu W 1OOh C0LCu, OuL OA1J ouS-
ceeded in looking seasick.
When the ice cream and cake were
brought on Doctor Smotherjoy drove
his spoon down deep into the choco-
late and vanilla mixed and said,
"Here is pitiful Illustration of what
dishonest tradesmen will do for
money. Here we find that some of
this ice cream was pale originally,
but it was treated with aniline dye to
give it this chocolate effect, and then
baked in the sun to deceive the eye.
On the other hand, we find this va
nilla was originally dark and forbid
ding, but it has been treated with per.
oxide of hydrogen to make it more of
a blonde"
pardon me, doctor, snapped
Peaches, her teeth chattering with ner-
vousness, "but this ice cream was
made in our kitchen by our own cook,
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MAGAZINE SECTION for July 10, 1916

little colonial doorway, he lighted up when
he saw who his caller was. His blue eyes,
behind gold-bowed spectacles, beamed,
and he made an odd little motion with
the stump of his left arm,-gave it kind
Of flop,-as he had a way of doing when
pleased. He held out his right hand and
chuckled, why, it's Bessie Walker-or
Harlow, should say!"
He had known her all her life, and her
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w
we can enjoy them, and not be pinched
down to the last penny always. That old
man might as well put us both in Jail at
hard labor. A little of the money right
now that he will finally leave Ben would
be that much life to us. But that isn't
his way. OF course, l keep my tongue
between my teeth before Ben. He's
grown up taking his father for granted,
just as, | grew up taking mine for
granted. never say what think about
it. l love my husband, Judge Peck.
There never was better husband.
There would be no use of my telling
you this about Father Harlow, only it had
an influence on what l did. It's true,
hated it and resented it. suppose had
no right to, but did. want to tell you
honestly, Judge Peck. was vain of my
hands, and couldn't keep them looking
nice. Housework roughened and red
dened them. kept breaking my finger
nails, so had to cut them down to the
quick. burned my arms and wrists over
the cook-stove. You'll think that's ter
ribly silly. know it's silly. But re-
sented it. Sometimes l thought my hair
smelled of dish-water. You see, I'm vain.
She said it mournfully, and paused
moment to consider whether he could I'M
derstand.
IL think every young woman wants to
look nice-to be attractive. It's kind of
like death to see that go. Father Harlow
has a good deal of money, you know. 1t
would be SO easy for him to save me some
some wrinkles and stubby fnger-nails
and rough hands-before the time came
when wouldn't be young any longer and
it wouldn't matter much. So l felt
rebellious all the time.
"There were other things-like going
up to Ashland to theater once in while
and having little spree with other young
couples here. I'd been brought up to-
spend money when had it and have
good time when could. hated having
to put all those things off-wait for them.
l didn't have the strength to watt she
added desolately, and her eyes filled again.
WED been married two years last
spring, and my clothes were all worn
out. I was pretty well supplied when we
were married, and I'd really bought just
as little as possible. wanted so much to
be economical and help Ben save. All my
last winter things were made over. Aunt
Sara and l made them over with little
help from Mrs. Dewstow. l didn't think
Mrs. Dewstow's dressmaking was good
enough before married. You don't know
how hate to be shabby. You'll see what
a fool AMI don't feel respectable in
dress that's all faded in front and shiny
around the seams and punches up across
the shoulders.
"But this spring it seemed as though
everything had given out. l couldn't
bear to take the money from Ben for
good clothes, and couldn't bear to buy
bad ones. Oh, know I'm an awful fool!
Ada Worthington bought cloth at Beck's
and had Mrs. Dewstow make her spring
suit. 1t cost her only eleven dollars and
a half. | was going to do the same; but
waited to see how Ada's came out
There was lump as big as walnut in
my throat for an hour after | saw it. I
could hardly keep tears out of my eyes.
That's the sort am, Judge Pock!"
For the first time her eyes fell; her un-
der lin uuiyered
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her breast labor for breath:
Il want to tell you. l know
what want to tell; but it's hard to know
how to tell it, It's about Alt
Leffingwell-the bank. You know,
worked in the bank nearly year before
/ was married"
He remembered it then, and said eyes"
gently.
well, the Women's Club here is col
lecting money to build clubhouse. They
want to get twelve hundred dollars. We
get up entertainments, and give dinners,
and make some money that way, you
know; and the women subscribe what
they can. The men have given some
thing. Mr.. Leffingwell gave two hundred
dollars. 1t takes a long time, you see.
They made me treasurer suppose be-
cause I'd had some experience in the
bank. All did in the bank was write let
tiers and use an adding-machine and at
tend to the files, and little things like
that. But they said I'd had as much bust
ness experience as anybody, SO they made
me treasurer"
Once launched, she spoke more firmly;
but here she hesitated, putting finger to
her lips, and her eyes questioned him.
Then, with very near sob:
Il wasn't well brought up, Judge Peck!
guess you know my father"
He understood what sort of knowing
she meant, and murmured eyes, combing
down his bushy white mustache with
thumb and bent forefnger.
In one degree or another, everybody
knew "Elt' Walker,-a large beefily
handsome, loquacious man, employed for
many years as travelling salesman for
Grand Rapids furniture concern; appear
ing in Plum Hill internationally, usually
with new suit of clothes and always with
new stock of stories. He had hearty,
easy manner, and impressed strangers inn
mediately. Everybody knew he was
good fellow. More extended acquaintance
produced knowledge that his statements
could not always be relied upon. All the
merchants in Plum Hill knew he did not
pay his debts. Judge Peck happened to
have some further knowledge which he
doubted that even Bessie possessed
IL grew up careless" she said. Il sup
pose it's in my blood. Father would take
me up to Ashland and give me twenty
dollars to buy new hat and shoes with,
when he wasn't paying Aunt Sara what he
had agreed to pay for my board. 1t seems
strange now, but l never thought any,
thing in particular about that. He al
ways wanted me to look right, so he'd be
proud to take me around and introduce
me to his friends. Twice Hutton & Simp-
son in Ashland refused to let me have
things on fathers credit when he'd written
me to, buy them there. l wasn't very
much Inundated at that. l was Just
angry because l couldn't get the things.
Father fixed il up with them someway,
and went back and bought other things
just as cheerfully. You see, I'm dead
beat, too"
She put her finger to her lips and tears
came into her eyes.
"You see, Ben and have had to live
very close. Father Harlow allows Ben
nine hundred dollars year. And he said
when we'd saved thousand dollars he
would give Ben an interest in the lumber
yard. We've tried hard; but you know
with the baby and my sickness when
he was born, it's been hard. I've done
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able temper. Ben was wondering, with
regard that six hundred and nine dollars
as saved toward the thousand.
Wondering about that, not hopefully,
he left the Wicklow cottage on the Friday
morning after the failure, and set out with
long strides for the undergrad. There
was another wonder, bigger than that
about the six hundred and nine dollars,
more poignant than whether Adam Ben
son was going to pull through or even than
whether Lon Williams would 60 to the
penitentiary: a wonder that had an ele-
ment of terror. How could ALI Letting
well have done it?
Many, really, were wondering that
How could he have done it? A warm,
genial, kindly man; q man ready to laugh
and to give; man always rich, by Plum
Hill standards-how could he have loosed
this plague upon people he had known all
his life, people who trusted him-striking
them down with death and despair, blast
ing their hopes, manning their lives?
How could ALT Leffingwell have done that?
Some said he did it because he was
thief and villain for whom hanging
would be too tender mercy. Ben and
others judged him with great severity
thought no punishment too much for his
crime, hoped hourly to hear he had been
caught and was returning to a long term of
imprisonment. Yet they wondered. Ben's
way to the undergrad took him down
Oak and Maple streets. He passed Lon
Williams small, neat house, Adam BEN
sons, Aunt Martha Dickinson's house.
e. n,,k< -cot uuo11 hon
from the street in lawn that occupied
half block and had been planned and
planted by a landscape gardener from
Ashland: house more spacious than any
OF the others and in smarter style, with
rough brick for the first story and brown
stucco for the second. 1t was shut now,
with locked doors and drawn shades;
empty-for Mrs. Leffingwell had taken
the two children and gone to her mothers
in Plainwell. That house, someway, was
more tragic than any Of the others, the
very seat of the tragedy. How could ALI
have done it?
HALF an hour later Ben's wife passed
along the same streets. 1t was early
for her to be out, but she had let the fore
Moons housework go, for her business
could wait no longer. She had left little
Ben in care Of young Mrs. Worthington
next door, for whom she often did like
neighborly Office in respect of three-year-
old Maggie. Housewives without maids
know how to help one another.
The smart house with rough brick be-
low and brown stucco above drew Bessie
Harlow's eyes, too; but she turned off at
that corner-down Beech Street half
block to two-story white frame house
with green blinds, whose simple, self
respecting harmony had been derived
from sound New England model. Judge
Silas Peck lived there, and it was he who
opened the door when she rang.
He was usually spoken of as Judge Silas
Peck rather than merely Judge Peck. He
was seventy nova lean old man in slip
pers and baggy trousers and a wrinkled
sack-coat. AS usual, he wore white shirt
and standing collar with small black
bow tie. The left sleeve of the coat was
empty to within six inches of the shoulder
and pinned to the breast of his coat
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mother before she married Elton Walker;
yet, if all the conversations between them
in all her life had been put together, they
would probably not have taken up three
hours. He had known her-to say, "Good
morning, Bessie; or, How are you to-
day, Bessie?" or, as your mother quite
well now?'' or to stop and talk three min
utes about nothing in particular. T.,
She had always pleased him, as pretty,
merry creature naturally pleases. He had
smiled to himself and Topped his arm over
her shining face under a tangle of brown
curls as she raced by to her frst-grade
room in the public school. He had
chuckled to see her tussle the snow,
with shouts of laughter, when the curly
hair was done up in quite young-ladyish
fashion and the cap on top of it reached
fairly to his shoulder. He was pleased
that she invited him to her wedding, and
would have gone if he had happened to be
in Plum Hill at the time. He was glad. she
was marrying Ben Harlow, who was of
the right sort. r., Is. YY,5s
That is the way he had known her, with
a kind of detached, unprecedented af-
lection; for much of his life, especially of
late years, had been spent away from
Plum Hill 1t is doubtful that he could
have remembered now whether her baby
was boy or girl. But he was pleased
to see her on his doorstep. He Topped
the stump of his arm and his eyes beamed.
IT was a pretty young woman who
looked up at him, with round face,
straight little nose, curved red lips, and
gray eyes. He had hardly extended his
hand before he saw something in the up
turned gray eyes.
II want to see you, Judge Peck. want
to tell you something" she said breath
lessly, with little failing of her voice.
Her lips trembled.
The smile went off his own face.
"Come ia, Bessie, he said gravely, and
put his released hand on her shoulder an
instant.
He knew it at once-that look in her
gray eyes. What an endless procession
of entangled men and women had marched
before him, looking up with that dumb
hope and fear of the Judgment!
They went into the parlor to the right
of the little hall, and he ran up the win
dow-shades to let in all the morning sun
shine before taking seat opposite her.
She put finger up to her lips to stop them
from trembling. Her eyes chung to him.