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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1919-03-20
ARLINGTON BANK BURNS.

The Bank Of Arlington WIS destroy
ed by fire Thursday morning. a stove
in the second story 81 the building
where a guud roads meeting had hcem
held. j. believed % have become over
heated The roof on the grocery store
Of r. n owen and the plate glass
front OF this store we're broken hy the
falling walls az the hank building.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1919-03-20
PLANNING RAILROAD.

Reorganization of the Sikesfon &
Southeastern Railroad. organized some
years ago for the purpose of construct
ing line from SikeSfon south through
Mississippi county TO a point opposite
Hickman. Ky. is being pushed accord
ing 10 items in re Sikeston newspapers
this week
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1919-03-20

Corn Wanted: I want 10 buy good
sound white corn. snitable for grind
ing into meal. delivered at tie Ole Cole
mill. at Hickman--M0se Markett. tie
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1919-03-20

Hickman Chapter No. 40. r. A. NJ.
meets in stated cOnvocatiOn on the
third Monday night OF each month.
Visiting companions are extended a
cordial welcOme.-J. c. Sexton. ii. r.,
w. G. Speer. Sec'y.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1919-03-20

Elm Camp No. 3, Woodmen Of the
World, meets every Second and Fourth
Tuesday evenings at 80, at their
hall in the old city hall building. Wis
iting woOdmen cordially invited.-C.
Il. Parrish. Consul Commander, J. &.
Ellison. Clerk
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1919-03-20

Hickman Lodge No. 761. F. & A. NJ,
meets In regular communication on
the second and fourth Monday nights
in each month. Visiting brothers al
ways welcome.-H. w. Whipple, Mas
ter, W. r. Rennenberg. Sec'y.
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The Bouquet of SaXifrage By Henry Franz

ed his happiness? And he had set
out. in spite of the difficulties of all
sorts which the expedition presented.
Now worn with fatigue, his knees
shaking, his temples moist, but his
eve triumphant, he pressed tenderly
against his heart the fragile con-
quest which was TO assure him still
more precious compassionate OF
Madeline l$rself.
Suddenly he stopped and listened.
The sound OF sobbing reached his
ear. At that moment he was passing
alongside the wall of the little VIII
lage cemetery. He entered the in
closure, impelled by an inVincibte GU
riosity and. perhaps, unknown to
himself. by that instructive sympathy
which slumbers In the soul Of every
human being.
At the foot of an humble cross of
discolored wood a little boy was
kneeling--prostrate, one might better
say. And his distress found an outlet
in heartbreaking sobs.
Guy recognized the child and his
heart strings frightened.
Poor little Claude His father had
fallen in battle and only this morning
they had carried his mother to her last
rest. The orphan was left alone and
friendless, without any other protec-
tor than u farmer of the neighbour
hood, who. during the widpwhood Of
his mother, had employed the boy at
Cdd jobs,
Guy deposited his shcaf of flowers
on the cemetery wall and approached
the child. AT the sound OF footsteps
the latter raised his head. Checking
his sobbng. he looked despairingly at
the young soldier
Claude. my poor little fellow! muir
INJURED Guy, overwhelmed with pity.
You mustn't stay here like this In the
snow, You will set STICK. Go back to
the farm
lie lifted the boy up and set him on
his feet, cheering him with kindly
words. But the little fellow. insensi-
BILE to these consultations, repeated me-
chanically in his dead voice
Mamma. My dear mamma! They
have put you here IN the earth and
haven't even a flower TO Offer you The
others have bouquets. j have no
money to buy one and my poor
mamma will think that have forgot
ten her. Mamma! Mamma"
Deeply affected, Guy, with an almost
unconscious movement, extended his
arm toward tho wsll where he had
placed h!s shoaf of saNifc0ge. Claude
eyes followed the gesture. Seeing the
flowers. they became brilliant The
little fellow advanced toward Guy
With outstretchea hands,
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"Oh, Monsieur Guy! Are those pretty
flowers yours? Give me one--only one
for mammals tomb"
His imploring voice trembled Be-
fore this immense, childish grief,
which he could console at least a lit
tie, Guy forgot everything. He forgot
the promise ne had made to Madeline
the efforts which his hunt for the
flowers had cost him. He saw only
the big, sorrowful eyes which ap-
pealed to him in supplication.
He took from the low wall the sheaf,
rose colored and diamond sprinkled
by the boar frost. lowered it and sol-
EMMY. without a word, placed at the
foot of the discolored cross the gor-
geoIs floral Offering.
Claude gave Il cry of delirious joy,
He leaped toward the young soldier
in order TO thank him. But Guy had
had come, as IL stealthily fleeing the
scene of some evil action
With a smile on her lips and a CLEAN
in her eyes, Madeline awaited her cou-
sins arrival. When she saw him
some distance or on the snow covered
road she ran 10 meet him and received
him with q misci"N Gus sparkle in her
azure pupils.
And my flowers? Didn't YOU go to
Sapiniere2"
Guy became very pale. TTo bowed
his head, and a furtive tear trembled
ON his eyelashes.
lne weather was bad he Stam~
mered, IN a choking voice. ashamed Of
his falsehood
Madeline pouted coouettishly:
III you loved nae YOU would have
tried to do me a pleasure. In spite OF
The snow. And YOU swore TO me that
you were ready TO do anything to
please me"
he stretched out his arms vaguely,
She seemed to ignore this half-fins
ished gesture and. sulkiuR, turned
about to make her way home. GUY
not knowing how to retain her, hid
his burning face In his shaking hands.
For some seconds he stood thug,
Then II joyous burst of laughter
forced him to raise his head.
Madeline, coming up close to him,
looked at him ironically. Then, sudI
denly. n tender emotion made her rosy
lips tremble, and she murmured, place
Ing her hands on Guys shoulders and
gazing straight In his eyes:
II wanted to punish you for youc
lie and also to Brighten you a little.
| was leaving the church just now
Passing the cemetery, | heard everyA
thing You are good man, and for
this good act in particular 1 love YOU
aud viii be your wife, Now, you may
Kiss your tianoee"
...... tCe2yt!ght, 1922
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CHAPTER WI.
Mary Shows Her Hand.

Mary Regain stood in the dusk of
her sitting room. holding apart the
velvet hangings of window, and
gazing far down at the quadruple
line of motor ears which at this twi-
light winter hour moves in slow lock-
step between $50 and 59th streets; and
az she vacantly gazed upon the
worlds greatest parade of pleasure
vehicles, part of her mind was Won
dering about her approaching inter
view with Clifford--and part of her
mind, in subconscious preparation
for this meeting, was automatically
reviewing, ana checking up, and re-
swearing allegiance to some of the
decisions she had reached concerning
herself and the course she had
chosen. She was somewhat excited,
but she felt sure of herself-very
sure,
During the six months she had
been away she had studied, or be-
lieved she had her own nature most
carefully. and also her immediate in
terests, and also the holder reach
ings of her ambition. She had con-
sidered these matters, not senti-
mentally--she hated sentiment, she
told herself-but with cool brain,
and with no fear to admit the truth
To be sure there had been swift
seizure and possession of her by
emotion when she and Clifford had
kissed that summer dawn long ago
in Washington Square; and now and
again this emotional element had
arisen in her with appealing energy,
but her cool intelligence had always
controlled such impulses. What did
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-09
of Mary Regain By Leroy Scott

this swift transition, Clifford strobe
out of the office and out of police
headquarters. Two minutes later he
was In a telephone booth in "a saloon
across the way and was asking the
Grantham Hotel in which he had left
Mary Regain an hour before, for Mrs.
Gardner" Soon Mary's cool, even
This is Robert Clifford" he said.
May / see you again--for just a few
minutes?"
There was a long silence; then the
cool voice queried: "Alone?"
IF you please"
Another silence. He was beginning
to fear that she had hung up, when
the cool voice spoke again.
Very welp'--and this time he heard
the receiver click upon its hook.
He hurried for the subway. He was
athrin with grim elation. He felt
that all that had thus far passed
between him and Mary Regain was no
more than "a prelude---a long prelude,
to be sure-and that the big action of
their drama lay still before them. He
would fight on, still. for Mary Regain
to save her from herself, to protect
her from others!
But in this, his high moment. he had
no provision of the vagaries OF a
wOman's nature he was to encounter
of a willful. many elemented
woman who had not yet found herself,
and who had a long road yet to travel
before she reached that self-knowl-
edge; and he had no provision of the
strange places behind the scenes of
pleasure that his new purpose was to
cause him to penetrate, and no pre-
vision of the strange motives, the
strange mixtures of human nature,
that he was to meet.
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you--but It is only one of many
things. l have done lot of thinking
since l left you two hours ago. Also
Thorne."
"Yes?"
'Mr Thorne honored me by Offering
me the position of chief of the detecy
tive bureau. / accepted the postt
ton"
"Then I suppose / should address
you as-by the way. just how should
one address you?" =.
but Immediately withdrew my acr
ceptance," he continued, ignoring the
cool irony which seemed to come au-
tomatically into her voice whenever
they met. II refused because of GER
tain things l learned from Thorne
about you"
About me? What are they?"
That's what l want to learn moro
about-and from YOU
"Ah---then you still are a detective?"
II suppose l am still ignoring the
irony of her tone. But Just now !
primarily am a person who Is inter-
ested in his own affairs as a man."
Your affairs?" she questioned,
Just now your affairs have become
my affairs. And I'm hoping that you'll
help me by frankly answering my
questions"
Questions about what?'
About yourself"
Such as?"
Instead of leaving it for me to dis.
cover by accident. why did you not
frankly tell me of your intention to
marry some one elSe2--when you
knew what for six months / had been
hoping for. How much do you care
for Jack Norton"
His determined face, and the fiaGh-
ing memories of what he had tried to
do for her, checked the sharp replies
that instinctively started for her lips.
The steady gaze of his intense eyes
sent warm tremor through her, gave
her swift tngling pleasure. But
that very pleasure was q warning to
her; such feeling IN her was only
aberrat on--the life signs of some OF
her less important elements, which
she had adjudged 10 be a menace to
her success and which she must there
fore suppress. The next moment she
had fun control of herself-and she
had decided on what should be her
course with him.
You seem to regard me as mys>
terry" she remarked with tantalizing
CoolneSS.
You are one--in degree. And !
want it solved"
There is nothing in the least mys-
FERROUS about me- she said in her
even tone. III tell you all you need
to know. You may be seated if you
like" And after they We're both in
chairs: "First about Mr.. Morton. He
is pleasant, agreeable gentleman. He
has money and position"
You love him?"
Il like him"
You are marrying him, then, bes
cause it is a good business propoA
sition--to put ii brutality"
tTo be Continued Next Sunday)
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~ VERNEUIL passed through
the village. insensible to the
cold, which pinched his face
hiup nreoccupipd in holding

II
\ cold, which pinched his face
blue. preoccupied in holding
fast in his left arm an enormous
sheaf of saXifrage.
He met one of his comrades. Pierre
Letang. Seeing the flowers. the latter
exclaimed in astonishment;
Where did YOU get these? Certainly
not in n garden?'
ION Sapiniere mountain" replied
the other, with a fash of pride in his
face.
We'll, my dear fellow" cried Pierre.
some one very much 10 have climbed
up there in cold weather like this!
You ought never to have gone up
there alone"
He turned about and loked at the
forest, making in the distance
huge black patch in the midst OF
which the bare peak stood out
haughtily, as IL defying those rash
enough 10 attempt to violate It's soil
tude.
so 1t Is there" he continued. that
one fnds these pretty flowers? But
all the same, it is folly TO climb
Sapiniere on day like this"
Madeline wished it, said the other
softly. And merely speaking the
name of his beloved flushed his face
rose red.
without seeming to SEQ the un-
sympathetic shrug of the shoulders
which his friend gave, Guy con-
tinued. light heartedly, on his way.
This time Madeline would realize
the greatness OF his love. since she
would measure 1t by this satisfac-
tion OF childish caprice. Hadn't
she said to him:
There ought to be saxifraRe on
Sapiniere. If you love me, bring me
~ bouquet of 1t tomorrow morning
1t will be our engagement bouquet"
Guy had not attempted to discuss
the matter. When his cousins blue
eyes fixed themselves on him in n
certain fashion he was incapable of
resistance. He loved her so much
this Madeline! And she had let him
sigh so long without encouraging his
advances!
why should he have hesitated 10
obey her, since on his docjlity depend
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life offer with q police official who
was on the square. Nothing! Al
least nothing that she cared for or
dreamed of. Honest police officials
never got anywhere. And as for
Clifford, marriage with him would
ruin such career for him as might
be possible. 1t would never do--not
for either of them.
What she wanted was altogether
different. She knew, for she had
analysed herself with the apartness
of a scientist Her former attitude
toward crime, acquired through a
girlhood spent with those cynical
gentlemen of the world, her father
and her Uncle Joe--that attitude, to
be sure, was now changed; at least
such intentions as formerly she had
had she now knew to be quiescent:
Clifford had influenced her to this
extent. But, though the criminal
impulses given her by her training
were gone, the worldly attitude and
instincts begotten by that training
still remained, She believed herself
wording; and more. she believed
herself a competent wording. She
believed she had no illusions about
herself. The things in life that We're
worth while---so in her confident
youthfu]ness she decided-were lux
ury, admiration, the pleasures that
money could buy. And these things she
pCiicNCu SIG Coulu VIII.
This much. in her retreat, she had
already decided before Jack Morton
had appeared in the quiet country
side.
The coming of Jack, with the oppor-
tunites represented by his amiable
person, mad made her even more de-
cided.
And so, as she now gazed down
through the winter dusk upon the
shifting motor tops, she was very GER
tain of herself despite her palpitant
expectation over Cliffords coming
very confident of herself, and what
she was, and what she was going to
do, and what she was going to be:
just as many another young woman,
of perhaps more careful rearing,
was preeningly confident of herself,
in those limousines far below her.
For this was the time of all times,
and the place of all places, that young
women We're trained to dream of
themselves; and here, also, often the
dreams came gorgeously true-for
The ring of her apartment bell
brought Mary sharply from her
thoughts, Switching on the lights,
she opened the door and admitted
Clifford into her sitting room. She
spoke first, with Il formality that held
him at II distance.
Il consented to see you because an
hour or two ago you discovered pri-
vate matter of mine. and | neglected
TO ask you to keep it silent"
You refer to your engagement to
Jack Morton?"
II do. OF course, YOU viii say moth
ing about it,
That you must leave to my dis
cretion."
You mean you are going to tell?'
she demanded. He tried to keep his
business here to the front of his mind.
hui In fan 20 for VIII
her, the old question REQUIRED for which
he seemed able to reach no final an
swer: what was she really like be-
meath this exterior she showed him =
what might she be beneath and with
in the self she supposed herself to be?
Il mean that | am reserVing the
right to do exactly what | please he
replied. looking at her squarely. This
business of your secret engagement
is also what made me want to see
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when at length he was seated beside
Clifford" said the commissioner
briskly. his lean, Scotch Irish face
all my cards, face up, on the table.
asked you to meet me down here
instead of up town, for the sake OF
the effect on you. That's why |
made you wait, and asked you to visit
about. l wanted YOU to feel the old
tug of headquarters"
Il guess I've felt 1t all right chief"
That's good. Clifford, six months
ago / asked you to become second
deputy commissioner. For your own
reasons you refused. l hope you've
changed your mind, for I'm now again
asking you to take the place"
TO be second deputy chief of New
York's detective bureau!-Clifford felt
from the heaviness and bitterness
which had been upon him since his
scene with Mary Regain. He consid-
cred for moment. The controlling
reason for his previous declination,
his knowledge that Mary Regain
would refuse him If he continued Of
ficial police work because she be-
lieved she would interfere with his
career-ths reason Mary Regain
herself had just wiped out. He had
lost enough because of her. Here
was big work to do. Here was a big
career.
Clifford looked up. 81 accept, chief"
he said with an energy almost fierce.
And I'll give the job the best that's
in me-"
Bully for you" cried Thorne, seiz-
ing his hand.
There was a minutes further eX-
change of thanks and congratula-
lions. Then Thorne continued:
There's a particular situation |
want you to take care of. / believe
in tho need OF pleasure as much as
any man. But the providing of pleas
ure in this city has become vast
business I'm not referring to the
theaters; I'm thinking of the restau-
rants, roof gardens. dancing places.
things like that---high and low. And
est places, and OF some OF the. pre-
sumably most respectable places.
These establishments have bred
new variety of specialists, astute
men, astute women, who entangle and
victimize the pleasure seekers. Els
pecially since women began to go
about so freely to the dancing places.
and 1T became so easy, to make ac-
quaintances. there have developed
such opportunities--God. IL the pub
dribbling In to us!--and even we never
get rumors of a tenth Of what actual
ly happens. But you know this Sit
uation better than do"
I've had TO learn something ABOUT
It," said Clifford.
~ want the facts, want the stu
alton cleaned out. You've got free
hand--use as many men as you like
fellow your own plans
''Ill be on the job at once" said
Clifford. $50 .4
Good stuff" cried Thorne enthu-
siastically. And II you succeed
and / know you will--it will be n
big thing for the department.. big
thing for mo. and Wen try to make
1t n big thing for you"
This new Interest so promptly ana
exactly fitted the sudden emptiness
in Clifford's life that almost without
thinking he was impelled to ask,
Has anything happened. chief to
cause you to make me this oner Just
now?"
Thorne regarded Clifford with a
curious, thoughtful air. II wonder
if I should tell YOU" he said slowly;
and then: We'll, the fact IL, Clinoed.
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Hot as Hades.

CIR JOHN FOSTER FRAZER was
= taking about the MeSopotamiau
heat
AN officer at the Savoy" said Sir
John. dec Jared one day:
"'When | was in Mesopotamia, sir,
/ sweated two gallons a day
But another officer said coldly:
Gentlemen perspire. Only horses
sweat
Then said the Mesopotamian offtS
Ger, I'm Il horse"
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Queen OF the Seas
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BRYANT Washburn in
The Way of a Man
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Pauline Frederick
out OF the Sha dow
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William Fayersham in
The Silver King
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! stuart Blackston's
The Common Cause
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IhCda Bara
When q Woman Sins
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Harry Morey in
Hoarded Assets
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Lila Lee i'm
The Secret Garden .
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Alice Brady In The
Hollow OF Her Hand
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Barbara Castletou IN
What Love Forglves
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Tom Moore In
Thirty a Week
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u, W. Grifhth's
Greatest Thing in Life
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: stuart Blackston's
The Common Cause
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Pauline Frederick
Out OF the Shadow
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June Elvidge
The Buffer
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Annette Kellerinan
Queen OF the Seas
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Coroorstlen. wbleh Iuarantse of early show.nE q q
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Maurice Tourneurs
Snorting Life
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Louise Glaum in
Two-Gun Betty
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ID. w. Grinlth's The
Greatest Thing In Life
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Evelyn Nesbit In
Her Mistake
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Thirty u Week
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Tulsa, Okla, April l1.-Cincinnati
Nationals, s; Tulsa Western league.
o. Batteries: Corner. Luque and
Rariden and Allen; Salisbury. Sparks
and Manion.