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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-05-19
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
May 24--Democratic state Convention
at Albuquerque.
June s-s-Teachefs' Meeting at East
Las Vegas.
June s-il-AnnuaI Convention New
Mexico Sunday School Association
at Las Vegas.
July 4-6-cowboys' Reunion at Las
Vegas.
Aug. 23-Republican state Convention
at Santa Ft.
Roswell.
Oct. s-6-New Mexico Bankers Associ-
alton Convention ut Grand Canon
Aria.
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MAGAZINE SECTION for July 10, 1916

had hardly money enough to get out
of town.
"Then opened my eyes. l saw | was
in trap. lay awake hours thinking
about it. 1t was never out Of my mind.
What could l do? How was l going to
get hundred dollars? Women are care
less enough about business; but they
began to talk about investing the money
that was in the bank. OF course they'd
find me out then; they'd see the money
was hundred dollars short. l was miser-
able enough. thought and thought, but
| couldn't see any way out.
"TT seemed to me I'd rather die than
tell Ben. He'd despise me. He couldn't
help it. He'd see was just my father
over again, only worse, He could never
trust me again. Ben is sd honorable =
he'd loved me so much-T-he's been so
good to me. He'd even given up smoking
a pipe. He never spends cent for his
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told him lie about something father
had said to me when hadn't met father
at all. 1t didn't hurt me to lie to him. l
was-I don't know how to say i'll was
sort of hugging myself and grinning in my
heart because l could lie to him and he
couldn't find it out-as though that was
something to be proud of-Ben!'
Tears again rolled down her cheeks.
"Then lied to father. l wrote to him
I'd borrowed money to buy the things and
he must send me the fifty dollars by the
thirteenth sure. was angry with him
and abused him for not keeping his word.
He didn't send me the money the thir-
tenth. He put me off again. Then he
wrote me he was making fine deal. A
customer of his in Otsego wanted to sell
his store building and business and go
West. Father had found a purchaser.
He was to get seven hundred dollars COM
mission. He said he'd give me two hum
dred Of it and could get all the clothes
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needed for summer and fall and winter.
l made myself believe it.
THIS deal of fathers strung along. He
told me more about it when he was
here in June. and wrote me off and on. 1t
was coming along all right, he said, only
there were bitches. made myself believe
it. And took more money. First it was
ten dollars for things for the baby. Then
it was fifteen dollars for underclothes and
stockings for myself. Then it was five
dollars. 1t got to be a hundred dollars.
l began to be anxious about it then.
Father came here the last week in July.
He told me his deal had all fallen through;
somebody else had bought the store. He
was in debt head over heels-behind with
his house and afraid he'd lose his job;
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own pleasure. It's all for me and the
baby. Ben is so good and straight and
clean, he couldn't understand. He'd
despise me: he couldn't help it.
was punished, Judge Peck. was pun
ished every time Ben looked at me-
punished by every sweet. generous thing
he did for me and the boy. was punished
to see his shabby clothes and how hard
he worked. l wished | was dead some
times, if only that would wipe out the
hundred dollars, so Ben would never
know it. You see, l was desperate to find
way out.
Last Friday had thirty-three dollars
of club money. took it right over to the
bank. Mr.. Leffingwell happened to be
up at the counter. I've always liked Mr..
Leffingwell very much. I've known him
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leaving her bent over, her face in her
hands, awaiting the judgment. He peered
out of the window a moment with q puck
cred face, and came back, standing over
her.
@That is the law he said. Confess;
be punished openly. That is the law.
I've watched it thirty years, and the
punishment always falls on the innocent
as much as on the guilty. never sent
man to the penitentiary but some woman
or child sobbed What you've told me is
how all the crime and sin in the world
happen. In all my time on the bench I've
known only two really bad persons-a
man and woman. The rest were like
you--mised, and listening to the inner
voice too late. You can take your crime
to Ben, or you can take it into your own
heart and pay it off. You can be kind and
steadfast and humble. You can spend
less than you might and give the rest to a
person in need; you can 60 out of your
way to make sorrowful person smile
saying to yourself. 1 need this for my
account with God Whatever the law
says, you can pay it off. think you will. y
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was to meet father in Ashland Tuesday
that was the second day of May. l was
going up on the one o'clock train. l
was going to take Benny over to Aunt
Sara's before noon, so he could have his
nap there right after dinner, as he always
does. Then she'd keep him until came
back at half past six
CHE seemed to linger over these details.
Once more she looked at the floor, and
for a moment was silent. Looking up
again, she murmured, in a bodiless voice:
~ II don't think can tell you what really
happened thatIday. can hardly under
stand it myself. When think of it now,
it don't seem real"
She was silent another moment; her
eyes looked frightened. She went on
slowly, with little halt between the short
sentences:
@You see, I'd taken Benny over to
Aunt Sara's. That was just after eleven
o'clock. was on my way back home
when young Charley Smith hailed me-
He was on his bicycle. He'd been to my
house. He had telegram for me from
my father. 1t said he would meet me in
Ashland the thirteenth instead of that
day-the second She made slightly
longer pause. II had sixty dollars of
Women's Club money in the house.
took fifty of it and went up to Ashland
and bought my things
Judge Peck pressed his right hand
against the stump of his left arm as if the
manned member suddenly panied him.
The flesh around his eyes puckered, too,
as if from pain.
II see, he murmured.
Staring at him, Bessie went on:
"That sixty dollars had been paid me
two days before. I ought to have de-
posted it in the bank. knew ought to
deposit it in the bank as soon as it was
paid to me. But didn't. kept it in the
house. l knew my father. l knew he
might put me off. can't tell you what
thought, because / can hardly under
stand it myself now. had set my heart
on the new clothes. couldn't endure the
thought of not having them. had been
married two years then, denying myself,
saving all could. resented it. was
rebellious against it. knew l ought to
put the money in the bank; but kept it.
l didn't say to myself I'd take it if father
put me off. just tucked it away in my
bureau drawer"
LIE saw from her eyes, round and blank
and staring, that she was hardly
aware of him or herself, but was deeply
living over that crucial time.
"There was something down in me that
knew what was going to do. But
wouldn't let myself think about it. just
tucked the money away and said to my
self, No doubt father will keep his word
Then, when got his telegram, l hardly
hesitated at all l went to my bureau
and got out fifty dollars and put it in my
purse. 1t was more than an hour before
train-time. 1t wasn't done all of sud-
den. And kept saying to myself, I
mustn't take this money. have no right
to take it for a moment. 1t isn't mine.
It's wicked to take it. How do l know
how long it may be before father gets
around to give me what he promised?
What would Ben say? shouldn't take
it, kept saying things like that to
myself. And all the time there was some
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and able. admired him. I was very
fond of him. Ever since was small girl
I've loved him, if you know how mean it.
SWELL, l went up to the counter with
my money and laid it down with my pass
book, and began talking and joking with
him. You see, when / was in the bank it
was joke that women would never make
out their own deposit tickets. So made
him make out my ticket for me, and we
laughed about it. He entered the thirty
three dollars in my pass-book, and went
away. Tuesday forenoon heard about
the bank failure and Mr.. Leffngwell hav-
ing run away p.
She shook her head at the Judge mourn
fully.
4You wouldn't think what didI Twas
shocked, Of course; but all at once it
flashed on me that there was my way out.
| got my pass-book and made a figure one
with the same colored ink in front Of the
two threes Mr.. Lefingwell had put down.
You see, that made it look as though /
had deposited hundred and thirty-three
dollars. And the deposit ticket in the
bank, showing only thirty-three dollars,
was in his hand. l could say had de-
posted hundred and thirty-three dol
lars, and prove it by my pass-book. said
to myself was safe.
She strove to control herself; but she
bowed her face to her hands and spoke
between sobs, her shoulders shaking:I
4See what an awful thing he did. No
one could do more terrible thing. Aunt
Martha Dickinson has taken her life.
They say Lon Williams will 60 to the
penitentiary. There's his wife and three
little children. Ada Worthington's hus-
band has lost every thing-they were saw
ing, too. It's all over town. Almost
everybody know and love is hurt. Ben's
lost what we saved. 1t comes back to me
II did it, too: did just what ALI Letting
well did. I'm as bad as he is. Then lied
it off on that poor man, as though he'd
deliberately stolen the women's hundred
dollars. can't stand it! Peo-
pie can't do such things.
They'll get paid Off
She sobbed moment, while
the old justice, with bowed
head, held the stump of his
left arm.
II came to you, Judge Peck.
l must go to somebody.
know you're good and wise.
I must find out what to do
know what to do. know
should confess it. I ought to
tell Ben. But can't! Ben is
SO honest-he's so strict about
such things. He loathes thief.
He can't help despising it. 1t
would break his heart. can't
endure the thought of his I'M
happiness. But I will, if you
say it's right. Twill! Tell mel
THE Judge got up and paced
across the room, rubbing
his shiny dome vigorously,
leaving her bent over, her face in her
hands, awaiting the judgment. He peered
out of the window moment with puck
cred face, and came back, standing over
her.
"That is the law he said. Confess;
be punished openly. That is the law.
I've watched it thirty years, and the
punishment always falls ON the innocent
nc much n 9 m tho O,,iltv I never sant n
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-03-04
TIME TO ACT
Don't Wait for the Fatal Stages of
Kidney Illness-Profit by Madi-
son Peoples Experiences.

Occasional attacks of backache, ir-
regular urination, headaches and dir
Zy spells are frequent symptoms of
kidney disorders. It's an error to
neglect these ills. The attacks may
pass off for a time, but generally re-
turn with greater intensity. Don't
delay a minute. Begin taking Doan's
Kidney Pills, and keep up their use
until the desired results are obtained.
Good work in Madison proves the eff
f~ectiveness of this great kidney rem
edy.
G.. /. Brannan, farmer, r. +. ID. No.
A., Madison, says: Il have used
Doan's Kidney Pills for the past two
or three years and | don't mind rec
ommending them publicly, as | know
that they are just as represented. |
first used them through hearing them
spoken Of SO highly by my friends.
l had considerable trouble with the
kidney secretions and attacks OF
backache. Doan's Kidney Pills soon
relieved me-"
Price SO cents at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Brannan had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Props, Buffalo. N. Y.
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THE

Synod Lutheran Chucrh-There
will be services Sunday evening at
1880 in the English language. Sun
day school at IL o'clock.-Alfred
Nelson, Pastor.
Grace Episcopal Church - Holy
communion and sermon at 1880 a.
m. Sunday school at IL IN. No even
ing service.-E. Wilson, Rector.
United Lutheran Church-There
will be services Sunday evening AT
1880 in the English language. The
Young Ladies' Aid meets on Friday
evening at the home OF j. A. John
son.-Olin Reigstad, Pastor.
Presbyterian Church-The usual
morning services conducted by Rev.
d. j. Mitterling. Sunday school in
connection with the morning services.
There will be no evening service.
All cordially invited.
First Baptist Church-Baby Sun
day will be observed tomorrow. The
pastor will preach on the theme,
The Child in the Midst" at the
morning service. The evening serv-
ice will be at the usual hour and the
pastor will speak. B. Y. P. U. will
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state Firemen's Board i'm Session at
Yankton.

Yankton, March 4.-The board of
control of the South Dakota Fire
mems association is in session here,
with a complete attendance, to ar
range for the annual tournament OF
the association, to be held here In
June. Those present are; President
C. b. Frenzy, Yankton; Vice Presi-
dent +. p. Hooper, Rapid City; &c
rotary A. l. Gliding, Redfield; Treas
urer w. s. O'Brien. Lead; Directors
John Muellar, of Hot Springs; Mat
Behrens, of Parkston, and p. H. Co
quillette, of Miller.
1t is likely that June IL to is will
be fixed as the dates, but this is not
definitely decided as yet. The sum
of $4,000 has been set aside in prizes
for the usual races, Of which sum
$4,000 is for the regular firemen's
program. 1t is eighteen years since
a state tournament has been held at
Yankton and very keen interest is
shown in the coming event.
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YOUTH SENTENCED
ABERDEEN YOUNG MAN WHO
STOLE DIAMONDS GETS
ONE YEAR.

Aberdeen, March 4.-One year in
the state ~penitentiary at Sioux Falls
was the sentence imposed by Judge
Thomas l.. Bouck in circuit court
here against Frank Fry, the 22-year-
old boy who was arrested last Satur-
day on the charge of stealing three
diamond rings valued at 1915 from
the Voedisch JewelTy company.
Mr.. Voedisch appeared in court
and informed the judge that the
property had been recovered and
pleaded for a suspended sentence in
the case. The judge stated that il
such an appeal was made in the
proper form and a showing made
that the young nan would be placed
on a farm. would totally abstain
from using intoxicating liquors and
would reform, that he might enter
tain such a hearing.
Fry told the court that he was IN
der the influence of liquor when he
committed the theft, w~hereupon the
court. in a few words. gave the
strongest temperance lecture heard in
Aberdeen in many a month.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-03-04
TWENTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
Items Taken from the Daily
Leader Files

Kittie Casey and Lizzie Ryan went
to Flandreau on the morning train.
A marriage license vas issued to-
day to Reuben Rounds and Teresa
Horner.
Mrs. Frank Ginder went to Dell
Rapids to visit her parents.
Mrs. Il. =. Grinager returned from
Howard this morning. whittier she
went last evening.
Miss McClarty, sister of Mrs. NJ. ID.
M~cGillivray. was an arrival from
Wisconsin this afternoon.
The wires today report the snow
storm raging north. south, east and
west of us to quite an extent today.
Everybody is rejoicing over the
snow storm. Such storms are the
prosperity and happiness of Da-
kotans.
Chas. Yeager proved up today be-
fore Clerk Preston on his timber cul-
ture entry, northwest quarter 26-107-
81, town of Rutland.
The county treasurer's office re-
ceived during the month of February
very nearly $4,000 on taxes and de-
linquencies. OF this amount S22,-
310.24 was on 1895 taxes. This is
no small handling.
N. ID. McGilliyray has purchased
the interest of ID. A. McGilliyray in
the mercantile firm of McGillivray
Bros. and with his brother, NJ. D.,
will continue the business. Norman
had contemplated seeking a business
location elsewhere, but We are
pleased to note he will now remain
a permanent resident of Madison.
Norman is an active young business
man, just such as Madison desires TO
retain. ID. A. McGillivray will take
up his residence on Mrs. Nj. j. Nc
Gillivray's farm.
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HEALTH LESSON
A LETTER TO FATHERS IN THE
INTEREST OF BETTER
BABIES"

Every father should take an active
interest in civic cleanliness, city
righteousness and all things which
will give the baby a better chance.
The father must share with the
mother the responsibility for the
health OF the baby.
He should know that prospective
mothers should have wise care and
advice at an early period to insure
the health of both mother and child.
That the mother must have good
care during and after the birth of the
baby that her health may be quickly
restored.
That a nursing mother ought not
to suffer from overwork, excitement
or worry of any kind.
That soothing syrups are danger
GUS, that pacifiers are injurious and
that too much handling weakens the
baby.
That a baby must have fresh air.
sunshine and regular hours for sleep.
That cleanliness is even more ilt-
portant TO a baby than TO an adult,
for "A baby cannot protect itself
against dust, dirt and flies.
That the blood diseases of unclean
parents result in babies blind, defec-
tive and deformed.
That only the morally clean and
the physically fit have a right to be
parents.
M. A. Winters,
Public Health Nurse.
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MUST HURRY UP
TIME SHORT TO CANVASS VOTE
ON DELEGATES TO G.. O. T..
NATIONAL CONVENTION.

Pierre, March 4.-Even with May
% as the primary date Ii will take
some quick work to get alternates TO
the republican national convention
properly selected in time for the Chi
cage meeting June Z. The method
of selection of alternates Is provided
in subdivision ID" of Section 4, of
the amended primary act, and the
requirements are that the delegates
selected to the national conventions,
shall upon his notification of his cleo
ton as such delegate, by an instru-
ment in writing. filed in the office of
the secretary of state. shall appoint
one alternative, who shall accept such
appointment in writing SO filed with
the secretary of state, and who shall
state in his filing of acceptance that
his choice for president is the same
as that of his principal appointing
him.
After this procedure the alternate
is entitled to rights as such at the
convention. Unless the country can
vassing boards work more rapidly
than they usually do, and the audi
LUIS use ulOlC Ciloit W SCI ~ -
turns into the hands of the secretary
of state, it will be at least the 3rd of
June before the results will be an
nounced and the delegates elected
can be notified of such election"
and that will not give much time for
the procedure necessary to proper
selection of alternates.
While there Is a strong belief that
Cummins will secure the delegation
from this state, and that ten candi-
dates for delegates will file at an
early date, there is nothing to pre-
vent as many more making like fill
ings of affidavits declaring their de-
sire to go upon the ballot as Cum
Minis supporters, and that there will
be quite a Cummins list for the voters
to pick their ten from on the ballot
in May is probable.
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Sent TO PRISON
HE IL bad MAN" GREGORY, WHO
MADE THREAT TO KILL
JUDGE WILLIAMSON.

Chamberlain, March Al. A.
Gregory, who a few days ago, was
sentenced at Council Bluffs, Ia, to a
term of twenty-five years in the pen
itentiary at Fort Madison, having
been convicted under the habitual
criminal act, is the same individual
who last year created a decided SEN
sation in Lyman county and the
Rosebud country when he went gun
ming for Judge Williamson, of the
state circuit court and leading wit
nesses who had appeared against him
when he was tried and convicted in
Trip county and sentenced to a term
in the Sioux Falls penitentiary on a
charge of cattle rustling.
Immediately upon completing his
term in Sioux Falls, he departed for
Lyman county, where he made public
threats that he was going TO get"
Judge Williamson and the chief wit
nesses for their action in having him
sent TO the p~enitentiary. Heavily
arming himself, Gregory went on a
raid through Lyman county and the
Rosebud country in search of the men
whose lives he had threatened. A
posse of officers was sent out to in
tercept him and finally effected his
capture. After being kept in Jail for
a time, he was released on condition
that he exile himself from South Da-
kota. He accepted this condition and
departed for Omaha, afterward going
to Council Bluffs, where he was ar
rested on an old charge.
The records of the courts OF Iowa
show that Gregory was sentenced to
the penitentiary for horse stealing in
1885 and again 1897, when he added
gun play 10 his other misdeeds, shoot
ing a constable who attempted TO ar
rest him. near Loveland, where he
Communicated a team and compelled
a young son of the wounded officer
to aid him to escape. Ii is believed
also that he served time in Nebraska.
After escaping from Iowa and Ne
braska and coming TO South Dakota
Ii was not long until he again be-
came involved in difficulty which re-
suited in his being sen TO prison.
During his trial at Council BLUFFS,
the attorneys for the defense at
tempted to prove that Gregory was
insane as the result of injuries to his
head. sustained by a fall from a
horse i'm South Dakota several years
auA
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WAR SUMMARY
PROGRESS OF CONDITIONS As
COMPILED BY THE ASSO-
GATED PRESS.

New York, March special: The
Germans have resumed their heavy
offensive in the region of Verdun,
with the French everywhere strongly
opposing ii. While over most of the
front from the east of the Meuse
down into the Woevre region, the
Germans big guns have been active,
around Douaumont the Teutons
launched several infantry attacks of
extreme violence. These, the French
"a office declares. were put down
by the French troops, whose fire deci-
mated the enemy ranks.
lie Mort Homme, the Cote du Poi
vre, and the Douaumont sector, par
ticularly. have suffered heavy bonn
bardments. Northeast of St. Mihiel,
the French guns have been worked
effectively against the German posi-
tions. In Alsace, in the region of
Seppois. a heavy artillery duel has
been in progress.
The British along the Ypres-Co-
mines canal have reversed the victory
gained over them by the Germans
February IA by retaking the 500
yards of trenches which the Germans
captured at that time. The German
mine galleries in the trenches were
destroyed and four officers and i76
men We're taken prisoners. In addi-
ition French guns have destroyed a
German work in the region of Beu-
y~raignes, which lies between the
Somme and Disc rivers.
The situation remains unchanged
on the Russian and Austro-Italian
fronts. In Asia the Russians are
keeping up their strong offensive
against the Turks.
Nothing definite has transpired
with regard to the report that the
German commerce raider Moewe has
been captured and taken into Trini-
dad by British cruisers.
A dispatch from Trinidad says
nothing is known there. concerning
the Moewe.
The British admiralty has made
public its instruction to armed mer-
chantmen. Armament is supplied to
such vessels, the instructions say
solely for the purpose of resisting
attacks by an armed enemy vessel
and must not be used for any other
purpose whatsoever"