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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-08-18

now with significant twitch to the
corners Of her lips. IT'S to be a
sort of engagement party
Engagement party?" Jock repeated
vaguely.
Eyes. A kind of opening gun to ar
range the marriage between you and
myself"
Jock halted abruptly and stood back
staring at her.
THE marriage between you and my
self" he gasped incredulously. Good
Lord!"
Gertrude burst into ringing laugh
Of sheer amusement.
"Fqatterer!" she Knocked. Really,
Jock, you couldn't look more Mortified
if ] had told you that you were going
to be electrocuted. What's the mat
ter with me, anyhow? / think / would
make a wife for any man to jump
at"
You want me to marry you?" he
said feebly.
Good Lord, mol" She was as en-
phatic in her disclaimer as himself.
1T isn't what you or I want that I'm
bothering about. It's what our two
fathers are after.
Let those two old men scheme and
plan all they please. They can lead
us to the water, but they can't make
US drink, not if we both make up our
minds to it." Then she stopped and
scrutinized him sharply in the light of
a street lamp. "Jock Mccall" she ex-
claimed. there's another girl"
How did you guess that?" he STAN
mered.
why, from the very look Of you.
hadn't the chance to see your face
plainly before. Oh, glory!" she
clapped her hands. Now / know !
can count on you"
So with perfect understanding es-
tablished, he escorted her to her gate,
and then went on home to report his
success in obtaining the release to
his father.
1T took me longer than expected"
he said, and It cost me the full hun
dred dollars. but finally argued them
into signing"
1t was the first time he had ever de-
ceived his father on a business matter.
but he justified himself on the ground
that he was not being treated sQuarely
from the other side.
Nor was this by any means the last
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-08-18

deception that he practiced in the next
few weeks. Under Gertrude's tutelage
Ia woman can always give man les
Sc ms in duplicity-he gave the impress
sion that he was falling in with his
fathers wishes and assiduously court
ing the daughter of old Jordan, thus
avoiding the raising of any issue, while
all the time he was spending stolen
hours with Amy.
But Leaping River was too small
a place and the son Of Jeremiah Nc
Call too prominent person in the
community for his actions long to es-
cape comment; and when Amy, with
only a healed scar to show for the
injury she had received, returned to
work, and Jock made practice Of
escorting her to and from the factory
every day, some of the gossip that was
rife came to the ears of the stern, old
head of the concern.
He satisfied himself that the infor-
nation was authentic. Then he moved
swiftly to action. First he gave or
ders for the discharge Of the "hussy''
as he termed her-it was not hard to
find a cause Of dismissal, when she
was so plainly Misrepresentation call
ing his son into the office, he laid
down the law in six vitriolic sentences.
Pretending surrender, he promised
compliance to all the old gentleman s
demands, and that night after tear
full farewell interview with Amy, he
skipped out.
When the safe at McCslps was
opened the next morning, it was found
that five hundred dollars in cash was
missing, and in it's place lay the fol
lowing letter:
Father: have taken $500. suppose you
will say have stolen 1t. But have fig
ured carefully, and have decided that
over and above what have had from
you, there is more than this due me at the
lowest wage rate paid at the factory. You
have steadfastly refused me the wages
and the independence you give to your
cheapest hand. Now I am off to win my
own way.
Old jeremiah made no comment
when he read this letter. His hard old
face grew shade grimmer, perhaps;
he drove his working force possibly
a trifie more ruthlessly; otherwise
there was no change in him. He sim
ply ceased to mention his sons name.
That all resentment was not dead
within him, though, was shown by the
significant fact that when he CHANGED
to learn thai the girl he blamed for
Jocks downfall was employed at Jor-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-08-18

He was obliged to ask his father to
pay for the limousine he had hired,
and so be called upon to relate his
whole adventure.
? Limousine, eh?" snorted jeremiah.
ITO take home one Of the girls who
got hurt out in the stitching room?
However, since you've done it, l
suppose I'll have to settle" he grudg-
ingly took five-dollar bill from the
safe and handed it over. Tell Miss
Hastings to charge that up to my per.
sonal account and give her the girls
release to put on file"
Her release?" Jock gave an uneasy
start.
Certainly. Do you mean to say
that after all this hauling of her
around like she was some visiting roy
atty, you didn't get her to sign up
and release the firm from liability?
Thunder and guns, boy. where are your
wits? Why, I'll bet some personal in
jury shyster is out there now draw,
ing up the papers for suit. Here
he waved a peremptory arm, grab
your hat and streak it out there again
as fast as you can make 1t. Or, wait
a minute" he seized a pen and scrib-
bled a line across the sheet Of a
memorandum pad.
take this and tell Miss Hastings to
give you a hundred dollars in cur
rency. The sight of the cash will some
times land them when they'd turn
their nose up at a check. Strike as
good bargain with her as you can
and don't come back without that re-
lease"
Jock vanished, glad to get off with
no stronger reprimand.
On his arrival at the cottage ne
found that the girl was only too will
ing to waive any claim for compensa-
ton to which she was entitled. Jock
pulled out and rendered the one hun
dred dollars as small indemnity
from the firm for the loss of time and
extra expense to which they would be
put"
Then walking home in the soft April
dusk, his mind full of enhancing vi
sions of Amy as she sat propped up
at a tea table almost smothered in
her flowers, he encountered Gertrude
Jordan.
He was about to pass her with a
mere lifting of the hat and a word OF
greeting; but she turned, as If upon
impulse, and fell into step beside him.
Father and are invited up to your
house on Thursday" Gertrude said
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advertisements there came to the iodg-
ing house, addressed to Jock Mccall q
blotted and tear-stained note. The
handwriting was very shaky, but still
it was Enthusiastically Amy's.
1t was brief, scarcely more than half
a dozen lines, and it told him that he
might as we'll give up the search for
her and go back to where he came
from. She did not want to be found.
And this last was UNDERSIGNED three
times.
Still. Jock did not give up the search.
He abandoned his position and all his
fine prospects, and settled down in
New York to devote himself to that
one end-finding Amy. He went to
places where the light laughter of
women rises like the bubbles in their
trimming wine cups. To cabarets and
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-08-18

I've gone ahead and tried to do it. I'm
not throwing any bouquets at myself.
but do think that I've made reason
sbly good, and that you'd have more
or less OF a hard time getting any
one to I'LL my place"
"Wellf" the old mans tone was
absolutely without expression.
Jock hesitated. Tell me, first,
he parted with touch OF shrewd-
ness, what you think. Have /. or
have / not made good"
Mccall was rigidly honest in speech
as well as in action. I've no COM
plants to make of you," he said dryly.
Then" demanded Jock. why don't
you pay me q salary, as you would
have to with any other man who did
the work for you that | am doingg
.Ca. l know" he broke cut as his
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-08-18

SECOND STORY
The Tight Rein

In Jeremiah McCall's great factory
At Leaping River, it was estimated that
pair of shoes was turned out every
seven and half seconds. The big
rolls OF leather-dry, lifeless skins Of
cattle, goats and horses-came in at
one end Of the plant, and passed out
at the other as the finished article, mil.
lions Of them, shining, lacquered,
complete in neat pasteboard boxes.
Conversely, the factory took hun
dreds OF young girls, cheery-cheeked,
bright-eyed, glossy-haired, bursting
with youth, and turned them into dry,
hfeless old women, leathery of face
and leathery Of soul.
Among the new applicants for
work-the raw material of the system
one day came Amy Prentice. 1t
happened to be day in April-a trick
sly day with big, white clouds sailing
lazily over the bIuest kind of sky, and
q warm, soft breeze which rustled in
at the open windows to whisper all
sorts of fanciful suggestions. By a
coincidence, it happened to be the
birthday of young Jock Mccall, the
son of the owner of the plaintiffs
&wenty-third birthday.
One by one, the applicants passed
before his desk to be perfunctorily
questioned as to age, experience, refer
ences.
Then suddenly he glanced up to en-
counter face which in it's wistful del
icacy, and almost childlike charm of
expression, seemed to him the very
counterpart and embodiment Of the
day.
You are looking for work." he
asked, yet hardly knew his own voice.
1t was as if he were saying, Il love
you"
She started little at his question,
showing plainly that she too had been
dream gathering; then murmured an
acQuiescence.
She was absolutely green and with
out experience, and for unframed labor
of that sort Mccall usually paid from
three to five dollars a week. Jock
mentally strained a point as to the
factory's necessities, and assigned her
to piece work on stitching machine
where, If she were quick and capable,
she could earn from twenty to twenty
five.
Amy Prentice, age twenty" was the
way she had filled in the application
blank he had given her; but his heart
had christened her, "Aprips Lady," be-
fore he ever knew her name.
The entrance of the head of the con-
Germ aroused him from his idle mus
ings. Jeremiah Mccall was tall
spare man as hard and dry and brown
as the leather in which he dealt.
They talked business for a few min.
utes-routine matters-then Jock en-
boldened by the faint diminution OF
austerity in the others manner, ven
tured to breach a request which had
been in his mind for some time.
Say, father" he plunged in daring
~, I've been around the plant here
for three years now, ever since l came
back from college. You told me you
wanted me to learn the business, and
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-22

|. B. HOBBS.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-22
A

"What became Of your parrot lie
was such a good talker.
"Well, We bought a graphophone
that was a better talker. The parrot
tiled To emulate it, but couldn't keep
No the pace. So the poor bird plEed
away and died
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| hereby officially make my
announcement as a candidate for
the office of Justice of the Peace
in Precinct No. ) Luna County,
in the election to be be held on
the Sth day of January, 1917.
THOMAS J. COLE
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-22

| hereby announce myself a
candidate for the office of con-
stable of Precinct Ma. ;, Luna
County, subject to the action of
the voters of said precinct in the
election to be held on the Sth of
January, 1917.
JOHN THOMAS
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-22
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

! hereby announce myself as
a candidate for the office of con-
stable, precinct No. 3, Luna
County, in the election TO be held
January s. 1917.
JESS FULLER
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-22

| hereby announce my candi-
dacy for Constable in Precinct
No. ), Luna County, New Mexico
and solicit the support of the
voters in the election TO be held
the second Monday in January,
1917.
|. b. HOBBS.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-22

| hereby announce my candi-
dacy for the Office of Constable,
Precinct No. ), Luna County,
New Mexico, subject to the APP
prOval of the voters in the elect
ion to be held on January s. 1917.
II. J. KANE.
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hereby announce m SeIf as a
candidate for reelection to the
of Justice of the Peace,
no. ). Luna County,
subject to the viii of the voters
of said precinct on Monday, Jan
uarl ), 1917.
T.. J. PEACH.
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announce myself as a candi-
date for Constable in Precince
Ma. ;. Luna County, New Mex
leo, and solicit the support of
the voters in the election to be
held on January s, 1917.
POWELL ROBERTS
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-22

announce myself a. a candi-
date for Justice of the Peace in
Precinct No. ), Luna County,
New Mexico, and solicit the sup
port of the voters in the election
to be held the second Monday in
January, 1917.
THOMAS G. LAKELAND.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-22
BEGINNING.

Odd YOU ever make % start ON
that automobile You intended to
buy?'
"In a small way, only We've land
in a thermos bottle, which my wife
saws yil be- a great convenience ON
our long tours If We ever get an au-
tomobile. Puck.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-22

| hereby announce my candi-
dacy for the office of Justice of
the Peace, Precinct No. ,. Luna
County. New Mexico, subject to
the approval of the voters in the
election to be held January s.,
1917.
T. 4. HULSEN.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-22

| hereby announce my candi-
dacv for the office Of Justice of
the Peace in this precinct in the
election on January :, 1917.
CHARLES HEATH
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-22

"What position does Roumania
occupy in the field OF world opera
tions?"
81 believe she's still on the fence"
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Young Rcporter-Why did they
kill my story?
Old One Because, son, you muir
dered it.
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7. 4. HULSEN.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-07-21
AN OBJECTION

Editor Star: | notice piece in
your paper from Marshal Carter rel
alive to seats around the court house
square. Mr.. Carter is very nice to
agitate this matter, but / do not think
the city of 0cala or the citizens of
Ocala should furnish those seats. The
court house and the grounds belong to
the citizens of Marion county and the
county commissioners should provide
the seats. 1t will be great accom-
mediation to the country ladies and
children as well as country gentlemen
to have some place to rest and meet
each other. The writer has been in
several counties of the state and very
few do not have such seats around the
court house square and it is a great
convenience. Let the county commits
sioners get busy and have the seats
put on the square. A Good Wisher.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-07-21
AND THEN WHAT !?

"Will Cats support Wilson," is a
question being pushed forward with
considerable persistence around the
state. He probably won't. After say
ing what he has said about Wilson he
couldn't be expected to. And that sug1
gests another question. What are you
going to do about it?-St. Petersburg
Times.
The question should be put squarely
to Cats. If he should answer in the
negative it would absolve every dem
ocrat from voting for him.-Ocala
Star.
Well, put it up to him, and it he
doesn't Immediately say he will sup
port Wilson, we will absolve ourselves,
as the Star suggests. Mr.. Cats, are
you for Wilson? We thing you will
support him, but since the question is
raised, you do yourself a great injus-
tice not to answer unequivocally. No
man can be governor of Florida who
will not support Wilson. Shall we hear
from you at an early date Arcadia
News.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-07-21

were very pale, salloW and bloodless. The
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as | was in q state of nervous collapse
with exhaustion, and after trying various
physicians and not Improving made up
my mind tC try DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
|scription. Alter taking the fifth bottle
| was SO fully restored to health that ]
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The use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription makes women happy by making
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Like an open book, our faces tell the
tale of health or disease Hollow cheeks
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traceaLse to common source.
Get tie Prescription to-day-either
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Questions of Sex9-Are fully and
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on receipt OF 3 dimes. Address DR.. Pierce,
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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-07-21

Because the jury says Orpet did not
kill the Lambert girl, his lawyer ex-
presses, outside the court, the private
opinion that his client has been de-
clared innocent of all crime and
should receive honor and respect in
the community! Orpet says he will re-
sumo his studies in the university and
became a lawyer-the disappearing
stunt does not appeal" to him! This
when his own testimony shows him
guilty of the worst crime possible
the ruin and desertion of a young
woman!-Times- Union.
We shouldn't think any decent man
or woman would ever want to shake
hands with 0rpet, but he will prob
ably find plenty to condone his con-
duct.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-07-21
LIGHT WILL VOTE
FOR THE AMENDMENT

There are % counties in the state.
North Florida % counties; South
Florida % counties; North Florida 45
representatives; South Florida 80
representatives; North Florida 81
state senator's; South Florida IL state
senator's. North Florida has Sc men,
bers in the Florida legislature, while
South Florida has Al According to
the reapportionment, North Florida
would have % senator's, or a gain of
eight senator's; South Florida would
have % senator's or gain Of II SEN
ators. North Florida would have 45
representatives South Florida. would
have %, if the reapportionment bill
is adopted. North Florida would gain
but eight members in the legislature,
while South Florida would gain Ia.
| believe it is to the good of South
Florida to adopt the reapportionment
amendment. IL the amendment is
lost, when will the legislature make
another and better reapportionment
bill?
Some day there will be new con-
stitutional convention and a new state
constitution made. Would not South
Florida be better prepared to take
care of her interests with as large a
delegation as possible. The adoption
of the amendment gives the South
Florida delegation larger member
ship than under the present system.
How are you going to get a better
reapportionment bill passed when you
people of the southern part of the
state have less than a two-ffth vote in
the present legislature?
vote for the amendment.
Yours truly, L. S. Light.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-07-21
WOMAN EXPERT N
HOME EFFICIENCY
FOR STEPHENS BILL
MRS. CHRISTINE FREDERICK SAYS
1T WILL AID CONSUMERS.
INsUREs STANDARD QUALITY
Consumers in Small Towns and Rural
Communities Are Victims of Dis
elimination by Big Store Methods.
Which Encourage Substitution of
Unidentified Goods at High Figures.


Mrs. Christine Frederick, household
efficiency expert and consulting house
hold editor of the Ladies' Home Jour-
nal, the New York Evening Sun, Sue
cessful Farming, and various other
publications, recently appeared before
the Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives in Washington In support
of the Stephens-Ashurst bill. This
measure, according to its title, is de-
signed ITO protect the public against
dishonest advertising and false pre-
lenses in merchandising"
The bill will legalize standard, uni
form prices and prevent price cutting
of trade marked goods by big city
stores for the purpose of giving the
false impression that all their other
articles are proportionately low.
Price cutting is merely bait to- lure
customers SO that articles of inferior
merit may be substituted at high
prices.
Il appear before the committee
purely in the interest of the con-
sumner" said Mrs. Frederick, "and I
do not care about the rights or wrongs
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-07-21

No doubt a lot of patriotic feeling
is burning in these khaki dressed
figures on their way to a mysterious
unknown. There is a sense that in
the patient forbearance of the past
years, the old stars ard stripes have
been trailed in the ground, and that it
is up to some one to plant the fear OF
the Lord in the hearts of the heather.
Our country may be land of dollar
chasers, as the old world says of US.
Nevertheless there is very ardent
sentiment of Americanism in the
hearts of our young men, as those
who provoke it too far will find out
Orlando Reporter-Star
1t will be better for the country ii
this sentiment is provoked too far be-
fore the milksops and dollar chasers
succeed in killing it.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-07-21

After the failure to fill the hospital
corps and the machine gun company
with st. Petersburg recruits, it looks
like foolishness to send a recruiting
officer here to get men for the volun-
teer army.-St. Petersburg Times.
Recruiting officers came into Ocala
one afternoon this week and had a
dozen volunteers before breakfast next
morning. Ocala and surrounding ter
ritory had already sent 1873 men to
Black Point, beside some thirty or
forty volunteers who could not pass
examination.