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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-10-15

Rev. D. G. Curry, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at DeFuniak. is
IN the city and this morning at II
o'clock, and tonight at 7:<5 O'Clock
will preach at the Knox Presbyterian
church, the pastor of that church.
Rev. /. E. Phillips, to preach in DR..
Curry's church at DeFuniak.
A large congregation will likely
greet the Walton county minister at
both services.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Corner Palafox and LaRua. ]. A.
Ansley, pastor.
Sunday school at $50 a. m. Ernest
Richardson, superintendent.
Morning service at II a. m. Sermon
by the pastor, "The Worlds Debt to
the Baptists.'
B. Y. P. u. at $50 p. m. Miss
Florida Waite, president.
No evening service, on account of
revival service at First Methodist
church.
Mid-week service Wednesday even
ing at 7:30 p. m.
You are cordially invited to attend
our services.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-10-15
LUTHERAN CHURCH

Sunday school at 8 a. m.
German service at 1920 a. m.
English service at 7:30 p. m.
]. F. w. Reinhardt, Pastor.
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have any care or thought for things
eternal. Come and enjoy these SER
mons. Lay aside your pleasures for
this day. Everybody is invited and
will be welcomed
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday school at $50 a. m. Hon.
L. v. Holsberry, superintendent. This
Sunday school viii observe Work
Day" for the orphans, who are sup
ported by our church. Each is re-
quired to give one days wage in the
year for these orphans, and we hope
the offering this morning viii be such
a one as win make glad the hearts of
these orphans.
Preaching at II a. m. by the pas
tor. Subject, ssThe Ideal Home"
| Epworth League service at 6:45
D. m. At this service the new Off
GERS will be installed.
Preaching at 80 p. m. Subject,
| spiritual Suicide" This service will
be the last of the series of services
which have been held. We have CON-
Portable seats for 1000 people at each
of these services. Come and worship
with US.
i CHRISTIAN UNION
Services in the Seamen's reading
and rest room, 104 East Government
street today at $3.50. Mrs. Metcalf
will speak. We invite as many as
can to come and bring word OF
cheer to as many men as will gather
| within our gates We are quite set
tied in our new quarters and will open
our building this afternoon to as many
as would like to inspect the institu-
ton.
| Gospel meetings Tuesday and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-10-15
ST. KATHARINEs EPISCOPAL

81. hAIHAhlNES EflSCOfAL
Corner Sixth avenue and East
Cervantes street. John c. Skottowe,
priest in charge. Residence, 502 East
Cervantes street.
Sunday, Oct. 18th, seventeenth
after Trinity.
Holy communion at a. m.
Morning prayer and sermon at II
a. m.
Morning prayer and sermon at IL
a. m.
Evening prayer at a p. m.
Wednesday, festival st. Luke
Holy commission at 10 a. m. Litany
at 4 p. m.
Friday, Litany, followed by choir
practice at 7:45 p. m.
Sunday school at $50 a. m. Mr..
j. w. Dorr, superintendent.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-10-15
GADsDEN STREET METHODIST

GADSDEN STREET METHODIST
Corner Gadsden street and Ninth
avenue. Herbert w. Rice, pastor.
Sunday school at $3.50 a. m. Prof.
VIM. Tyler, superintendent.
Preaching at 10:45 a. m. and 1880
p. m.
Epworth League at $50 p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:30
p. m.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-08

dams. he called up his competitor on
the phone and asked as a personal 70,
ror TO himself that she be discharged
Jock, through some influence he com
manded there had secured the place
for her before he went away, telling
her that as soon as he was fairly set.
tied and making his own way they
would be married; but of course old
Peter Jordan cared nothing for that,
and was quite willing to obligo his
friend.
To the two women In the little cot.
tage where Jock had spent SO many
happy hours, however. It was nothing
more or less than & tragedy. The
semi.inyalid mother, broken BY the
years in which she had fed her youth,
full vigor into those big machines
clanking away in the factories along
the river, was incapable OF selssup.
port. and Amy was apparently black,
listed.
What had happened at Jordans wa.
almost certain to happen at any othe
place In Leaping River where she
might secure employment; for Jere.
miah Mccall was not the one either to
forgive, or forget and his word was
very potent
In short, there seemed nothing for
the girl except to 20 away.
To make her lot more hard, she had
heard nothing from lock for several
weeks. He had not written her, nor
did she even know where he was.
In her dilemma, New York with its
countless opportunities seemed to of.
fer the only refuge. and like many an.
other girl who finds herself at dlsnd.
vantage against the barriers OF her
home environment, she turned her
eyes toward the shining towers Of
Manhattan.
One afternoon when abe had been
YEARLY trampinE Broadway all day In
the vain search for work. she turned
into the employment bureau Of q biz
department store. She had had moth.
ing to eat since breakfast, and thon
only q glass Of milk and . couple Of
rolls.
So. as she stood there in the long
line OF applicants. tired, footsore and
weak from hunger. she suddenly col.
lapsed IN q faint.
When she came TO herself again. she
was lying on couch IN one Of the 70.
firing rooms Of the estabiishusnt
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now with a significant twitch to the
corners OF her lips. Its to be Q
sort of engagement party"
Engagement pa-ty?" Jock repeated
vaguely.
Yes. 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 gaspod incredulously. Good
Lord"
Gertrude burst into q ringing laugh
OF sheer amusement.
"Flatterer!" she Knocked. Really,
Jock. you couldn't look more horrined
II had told you thst you were going
to DO electrocuted. What's the mat.
ter with me. anyhow7 think would
make wife for any man to jump
you want me to marry you7" he
said feebly.
Good Lord, mol" She was rs EN-.
phatic in her disclaimer az himself.
ut isn't what you or / want that I'm
bothsring 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 IL we both make up our
minds to It" Then she stopped and
scrutinired him sharply In the light Of
street lamp. Jock Mccall" she OK.
claimed, there's another girl"
How did you guess that!" he STAN.
mered.
why. from the very look Of you.
l hadn't the chance to see your face
plainly before. Oh. gloryl" she
clappsd hor hands. Now know ]
can count on you"
So with a perfect understanding es.
tablished, he escorted her to her gate,
and than went on homo 70 report his
success in obtaining the release to
his father.
TT took mo longer than expected"
he said. and It cost mo the full hun.
dred dollars, but l finally argued them
into signing"
It was the first time he had ever de.
ceiyed his father on g business matter.
but he Justified himself on the ground
that he was not being treated squarely
from the other side.
Nor was this By am mssns the last
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advertisements there came 70 The lods.
ing house. addressed TO Jock Mccall o
blotted and tear-stained note. The
handwriting was very khaky, but still
II was unuistakably Amy's.
Il was brief, scarcely more than half
. dozen lines, and It told him that he
might rs well give up the search for
her and 30 back to where he came
tron. shs did not want TO be found.
And this last was underseorsd 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-anding Amy. He went TO
places where the light laughter Of
women rises like the bubbles in their
brizming wine cups. To oaharets and
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BE was obliged TO ask his father to
pay for the limousine no had hired,
and so be called upon to relate his
whole adventure. SIS
Limousine. ehi" snorted jeremiah
ITO take home one Of the girls who
got hurt out in the stitching roomf
However, since you've done Il, ]
suppose I'll have to settle" he Erudg
ingly took a nye-dollar bin from the
cafe and handed It over. Tell Mss
Hastings to charge that up to my per
sonal account and give her the girls
release to put on flle."
Her release?" Jock gave an uneasy
start.
Certainly. Do you mean to m,
that after all this hauling Of her
around like she was some visiting roy
atty. you didn't get her to sign W
and release the firm from LIABILITY
Thunder and guns, boy, where are yosi
wits? Why, I'll bet some personal In
Jury shyster Is out there now draw
Ing up the papers for suit. Here.
he waved 9 peremptory arm, "grat
your hat and streak II out there again
as fast as you can make 1t. Or, walt
a minute" he seized pen and serb
bled limo across the sheet Of 0
memorandum pad.
Take this and tell Miss Hastings to
siro you hundred dollars, IN cur.
rency. The sight OF tho cash viii some
times land them when they'd turn
their nose up at q check. Strike as
good bargain with her as you can
and don't come back without that re-.
lease"
Jock vanished, glad to get of With
no stronger reprimand.
On his arrival at the cottage he
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 a small indemnity
from the Arm 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.
siors 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 q
mere lifting OF the hat and q word Of
greeting; but she turned. as Il upon
impulse, and fell into step beside him.
Father and are invited up TO your
house on Thursday" Gertruds said
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deception that he practiced IN the nexi
few weeks. Under Gertruds's tutelags
"a woman can always give man les
sons 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, thui
avoiding the raising Of any issue. while
all the time he was spending stolen
hours with Amy.
But Leaping River was too small
Q place and the son OF jeremiah No
Call too prominent person in the
community for his actions long to %
cape comment; and when Amy. With
only healed scar to show for the
injury she had received, returned to
work, and Jock mado q practice Of
zeseorting her to and from the factory
every day. some Of the gossip that va,
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
ind a cause Of dismissal. when she
was 80 plainly incompetent-then 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,
demands, and that night after a tear
ful farewell interview with Amy, be
skipped out.
When the safe at McCall's v,t
opened the next morning, it was found
that i've hundred dollars in cash wa,
missing. and in its place lay the fol-
lowing letter:
Father: have taken 1870. I suppose you
will say have stolen II. But I have NJ.
ured carefully, and have decided that
ever and above what I have had from
you, there is more than this due me at the
lowest wage rate paid At the factory. You
have Etesdtastly refused me the wager
and the independence yoI give TO your
cheapest hand. Now I am OF to win ny
own way.
Old jeremiah made no comment
when he read this letter. His hard old
face grew shade srimmer, perhaps:
he drove his working force possibly
a tribe more ruthlessly; otherwise
there was no change in him. He sim.
ply ceased to mention his sons namo.
That all resentment was not dead
within him. though, was shown by the
significant fact that when he CHANGED
to learn that the girl he blamed for
Jocks downfall was employed at Jor.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-08
SECOND STORY
The Tight Rein

IN Jeremiah MoCall's great factory
ct Leapins River. II was estimated that
. pair Of shoes was turned out every
seven and half seconds. The big
rolls Of ieather-dy. iiteIess skins Of
cattle, goats and horses-came in at
one end Of the plant, and passed out
ntthe other as the finished article, mil.
Inns of them. shining, lacquersd
complete in neat pasteboard boxes.
Conversely. the factory took hun.
drods Of young girls. CHEEKY. checked,
bright-eyed, glossy-haired. bursting
With youth, and turned them into dry,
lifeless 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. It
happened to be day in April-a trick.
81 day with big. white clouds sailing
laxily over the bluest kind OF sky. and
nwarm. soft breeze which rusued In
q the open windows to whisper all
sorts Of fanciful suggestions. BY q
coincidence. It happened to be the
birthday Of young Jock Mccall, the
son OF the owner Of the plaintiffs
twenty.third birthday.
One BY one. the applicants passed
before biz desk to be perfunctorily
Questioned as TO age. experience. refer
enoes.
Then suddenly he glanced up to en-,
counter face which in It's wistful del.
fcacy. and almost ohildlike charm Of
oppression, seemed 70 him the very
Counterpart and embodiment of the
day.
you are looking for work." he
asked, yet hardly knew his own voice.
It was a. II he were saying. II love
you"
q She started = little at his question.
showing plainly that she too had been
dream gathering; then murmured an
acqaiescence.
she was absolutely green and with.
out experiences, and for unframed labor
ofsthat sort Mccall usually paid from
three to ave dollars q week. Jock
mentally strained q point as to the
faetory's necessities. and assigned her
70 piece work on a stitching machine
whore. II she were quick and capable,
che could earn from twenty to twenty.
Eve.
Amy Prentice, age twenty" was the
way she had filled in the application
blank he had given her: but his heart
had christened her. "April's Lady" be
fore he ever knew her name.
The entrance Of the head Of the con,
cern 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 few min
ntes-routine mattsrs-then Jock en-
boldened by the faint diminut!on Of
hustertty In the others manner, ven.
tured to breach a request which had
bsen In his mind for some time.
Say, father" he plunged In daring
y, live been around the plant here
for three years now, ever since came
back from college. You told me you
vented me to learn the business, and
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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.
lbly good. and that you'd have more
or less Of hard time getting any.
onelto M my place"
=Welli- the old mans tone was
absolutely without expression.
Jock hesiSated. Tell me. nrst,r
he parted 9th o touch Of shrswd.
ness, what you think. Have I, OF
have I not made Eood1"
Mccall was rigidly honest in speech
as well as in action. "I'yo no com.
plants; TO make Of YOU" he said dryly.
Then demanded Jock. why don't
you pay me a salary. as you would
have to with any other man who did
the work for you that an doingi"
-oh. ! know" be hrnks out q hi
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dance palaces. and all.night restau.
rants he went, and even to places Of
worse rsputs. But he never set eyes
upon her.
One day he saw crossing Broadway
at Forty-second street, his old play.
mate. Gertrude Jordan. She had
grown stout and mRtronly, since he had
seen her last. but there was look up
on her face which he had never known
in the old days. and which mado her
homely features almost beautiful.
Then he recognized the cause, for be-
side her was the stalwart foreman!hus-
band, now the manager Of Jordan's
and on his shoulder was Q chubby,
two-year.old boy.
Jock did not Try to speak to them.
There, except for my fathers med.
ding" he muttered bitterly, goes
Amy Prentice and myself"
But at last he found her. II was
Just a. he had often pictured II. She
was at . fast restaurant with Q gay
party.
He paused beside her. ~
Amy" he said.
She glanced up at him quickly. and
half drew back. her face paling under
the rouge.
Il am going TO take you home, and
let you change that gown for some
thing more suitable" he said a. he
led her to the door, "snd then wore
going over to Jersey and get married.
l have friend there who will man.
age the license for u.s."
oh. no, Jock" she faltered. tits
too late. Don't you understand I
could never DO your wife-anybody's
wife now"
She would have said more, perhaps,
but at that minute. the manager from
the department store, beginning to
sense what was in tho wind, strobe
forward.
go back to your seat" be ordered
dropping a heavy hand upon her
shoulder.
Almost simultaneously, Jocks flst
shot out and the manager went down
to the floor with q crash that nearly
knocked the glasses OF the tables.
A dozen walters rushed forward to
interpose; but before they could get
half way across the room, Jock had
whisked Amy out Of the door, and In.
to q taIi-cab standing In front. A mo
ment later they were whirling OF To
her apartment.
Hurry now, dearest" he urged her,
a. he opened the door with the key
she gave him, and they passed inside
together. Il am going to telephone
the minister at Hoboken that We will
DO there In half an hour"
But again doubts and compunctions
assailed her.
The past Is past Amy" he said
masterfully. I'VE have both gone
wrong. and have suffered for It But
the future Is ours. and BY the Eternal,
wen share II together.
Suddenly, the door was dashed open
and the enraged manager, wild.
eyed and hatless and disheveled,
confronted them with . revolver in hia
hand,
Tho next morning, Jeremiah Mccall
picked up his newspaper and read that
his son had shot and killed Amy Prem.
lice and then killed himself. There
was nothing in the account to indicate
what had been their direct motive.
But Jeremiah Mccall raised his eyes
grimiy to the text on his once wall:
The Wages Of Bin Is Death"
The newspaper account OF the trag.
edy Of these two young lives gave Jere,
miah Mccall NO hint that the manager
OF the department store had followed
his quarry, taken his desperate 70.
yenge and made good his escape. The
police were satisfied with the eyid ence
that appeared TO their eyes, but the
moral law stiii questions:
WHO'S GUILTYt-
EsD OF SECOND .sToRY)
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-09
PRODUCER OVERTAXED
Consumption in All Lines Exceeds
Output-Record Breaking Sales.

New York, Dec. 9.-Bradstreet's to-
day says:
Consumption continues to overtax
production and in some respects even
greater velocity than heretofore, is
evidenced numerous lines having all
and more than they can handle. Yet
there are n few halting signs, such for
instance, as less feverishness in pig
iron possibly due to the fact that
prices are up all around, diminished
buying of some food products that
have been subjected to boycotts, COM
plants of warm weather retarding re-
tail trade in seasonable merchandise
with intimations from the interior dis
tricts of the spring wheat northwest
that perhaps country dealers are tenn
porarily overstocked.
But over and beyond such cross
currents as have been developed are
evidences that holiday buying is of
enormous proportions that numerous
industries are impeded by inability o
get sufficient cars either for receiving
or sending out products that jobbers
as well as wholesaler purveyors of
staple merchandise are making record
breaking sales, that wages as well as
dividends keep going up, and that in
vestment securities continued to be alb
sorbed on a large scale Weekly bank
clearings $6,979,57 900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-09
T0PEkAN BUYS IT
L.. C.. Rain Takes Over Shirt
Factory, Laundry at Lawrence.
Young Business Man Started in
Work Only 5 Years Ago.

L. C. Rain, owner of the Capital
shirt factory in Topeka, has purchased
the Wilder Bros. custom shirt factory
and laundry at Lawrence. No plans
have been completed for consolida-
ton of the factories.
The Wilder brothers firm has been
in business in Lawrence for the last
forty-five years. The institution en-
ploys thirty-five persons and has sold
goods in all parts of the United States.
L. c. Rain was lin the employ of
the Jensen Manufacturing company in
Topeka five years ago when that firm
decided to move from the city Rain
didn't want to leave Topeka. He saw
an opportunity in the small shirt fac
tory operated by S. F. F1eish man, who
employed only one girl He bought his
interests-and last week he married
the girl. From one-girl shop to a
factory employing twelve operators at
times, he conducted and built up a
thriving business on Kansas avenue.
He manufactures shirts, pajamaS.
night shirts and underwear and con-
ducts the Ed V. Price clothing agency
here.
His latest move is the purchase of
the Lawrence factory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-09
line To ST. LOUIS
Santa Fe Plans to Run Trains
Into Missouri Metropolis.
Road Will Use Tracks Jointly
With the C. B. & Q.

Plans for the construction of new
line of railroad in Missouri, Wnerepy
the santa. Fe will gain direct entrance
to St. Louis over a line Jointly used
with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
are reported to pc in progress The
matter was mentioned in recent is-
sue of a railroad trade publication
The proposed route is to be oullt ny
the G. B. & O., and the Santa Fe is
to have joint use of the tracks, ac-
cording to the reports. The line will
be some thirty-five miles long, from
Monroe City, Mo, to Moberly June
ton. three miles southeast of Moberly.
1t will closely parallel the tracks of
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas between
the two points
Santa Fe officials in Topeka state
that the matter is under discussion by
the executive officers of the road at
Chicago.