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Cleveland County herald., 1921-09-22
Beads for Insulation.

In certain installations, such as radio equipement, arc lamp wiring and laboratory apparatus, it is often nee essary to resort to beads for insular- ing bare wires. Heretofore, says the Scientific American, the beads have been of d plain design, with rounded ends resulting in a rigid covering which prevented the covered wire from being bent as desired, or left barred sections of the wire between the beads because fewer beads had to be strung in order to allow for bending.
 An English concern has recently introduced a new type of bead which is rounded at one end and hollowed out at the other, thus permitting of one bead fitting into the hollow of the next bead These beads permit of covering wire for it's full length, yet do not interfere with the bending of said wire.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-09-22

her hart pat said. pat said the only hold Mrs Dale has on her son is through you elizabeth and she is sad and remorsefe woman. then i got to thinking bill i mite be the cause of bringing peece between you and yore parents and so told pat would go and i did inc glad said pat but inc sorry to lose you but it is the best way and we can see each other often cant we deer
 well bill it wassent long until big moter car called around at pats for me and setting in the hind seat was yore father hisself john k Dale he helped me into the car with him and he seemed glad to see me. after we had said good morning and so forth he said anxious like now elizabeth please tell me all about bills trouble for patrisha mite have omitted some thing you know. at first i was awful afeard of him but soon got to like ing him fine and i told him about you and that lowdown black adam ball from beginning to end and when i told him about the fite In the river he grinned and grinned and said you al ways was jam full of the fite stuff.
 hell come out of it all rite the worst of At is his haveing to stay in jail until tke trial comes off said your father it the next term of cote. weed bet
Cleveland County herald., 1921-09-22
CHAPTER XIV.
A Letter and Proposal.

The Moreland Coal company's two big rough buildings were completed in record time. There had been no further manifestations of interference from the Balls and Torreys, and Hen dersOn Golf had been nowhere in evi- dence since the night of Bill Dale's ironclad verbal ultimatum. Work on the little railroad was progressing like wildfre, and everybody was in high spirits
 By Heck had just arrived with the mail. He stalked with an air of great importance into Dale's office, and threw the mail down on the new roll top desk; then he stepped backward, dropped into a straight-back chair and began to nurse his rifle tenderly on his knees. There was a puzzled look on his leathery face. Dale had re- ceived half a dozen letters and By Heck was at loss to figure out the why of such an overwhelming amount of mail
 Dale finished his figuring, leaned back in his swivel chair and took up a letter that seemed altogether too bulky for business letter. More over. it's address was in pencil, and somewhat scrawled, though a chirog- raphy expert would have said that the handwriting showed strength of character.
 q wonder who 1t is," Dale muttered, that mistakes us for a newspaper office and Is sending us copy?'
 "Jest what I was a-thinkin'," drawled By Heck through his Niagara Falls mustache "Open her up, Bill; mebbe It's money, by Jake!"
 Dale saw the postmark then, and his brows drew with interest. It was the postmark of his old home city.
 From Babe" he told himself-and 1t was.
 He opened 1t and read 1t. She had spelled most of her words correctly,
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 hear to ask if he can see me and will half to go down stares and see what he wants.
 yores respectively,
 Babe. Bill Dale folded the bulky letter ope. Then his gaze wandered through a window and to where golden winged high-holer was hammering in- dustriously at the top branch of dead tree. He smiled to himself, By Heck and nearly all of the rest of the world for the moment forgotten, and muttered aloud:
 "'Yores respectively, Babe. "
 Flaw, haw, haw !'' laughed the keen cared and watchful hillman in the straight-baek chair behind him. 'Yores respectively, Babe' Flaw, haw, haw Well. Bill, dadsling it, it shorely to goodness ain't nothin' to turn all that red about When the nights gone the day comes, don't it? Bill, old boy, it's the same thing!" You get out of here, By !" Dale stormed ill mock severity. "Go and help the commissary clerk with the new goods; eh?"
 Heck laughed another horselaugh, rose and went out.
 When he had gone Dale began to think-of the ultra-spoiled, charming after-a-fashion, wealthy, young, high night devotee, Jimmy Payne. And he wondered, and wondered, what would come of Fayne's quick liking for Babe Littleford.
 After he had viewed the matter from above and below and all sides around, he drowned like a berserker.
 Here is what came of Jimmy Fayne's quick liking f.ir Babe Littleford- ' The days had passed swiftly, and au-
Cleveland County herald., 1921-09-22
Needless Frettinu.

Speaking of needless worries. we are reliably informed of q chap who fret ted himself sick for two weeks because he had swiped an umbrella in res taurant. He went around growing pale and kept looking over his shoul- der on rainy days, fearing that the owner might pop up. After the second painful week of this sort of thing he told his wife about 1t, and proposed to send the umbrella to the police lost de partment.
 "Whatl" she screamed. Why, you boob, this is the umbrella bought you Christmas, and here are your initials worked inside the cover !"
 It had merely been travelling the rounds of fellow swipers-
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but the only punctuation she used was period and her capitals were few. For wonder, she had put it into paragraphs: Mir bill Dale. cartersvil1e. tennessee.
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you hadn't. asked me. I'm sure you'll find some better girl than me-than l for a wife,
 "There is no better girl than you, Elizabeth. I'm going to wait-and hope.'
 He took up one of her hands and kissed it, rose and went toward the street. Before he had gone a minute, she rose, her face little pale, and stared after him, sorely tempted-for Fayne's money could bring her people out of their long night of ignorancel
 Well, if she didn't marry Bill Dale and she feared that she wouldn't- she would marry Jimmy Payne, if he still wanted her-if he would agree to help her people, After all, it wasn't so much to give. What was one poor little unhappy human life?
 It was late, that night, when Eliz- abeth Littleford went to sleep. And when at last she slept, she dreamed of walking through a fragrant green meadow with Bill Dale. There was the low humming of wild bees about the purple crowns of the ironweed and the scarlet bloom of the clover; there was the mating call of the partridge, and the lovelorn coo of dove.
 (TO BE CONTINUED.)
Cleveland County herald., 1921-09-22

The days had passed swiftly, and au- tumn was far advanced. Save for a few chrysanthemums and asters that grew in places sheltered from the frosts, the flowers were all gone; the naples were shedding thei4 leaves of brown, crimson and gold.
 Ben Littleford's daughter had changed much in many ways. She had tried as hard as ever mortal tried to learn the correct use of words; and Mrs. Dale had been patient, painstak- ing and efficient in her teachings. Not that Elizabeth was educated, in any real sense of the word. Far from it. But her improvement was, in all truth, quite remarkable. She wore more or less costly gowns now, and a few jewels, thanks to Mrs Dale, and wherever she went she attracted ad- miring glances.
 Jimmy Payne had been coming to see her when Mrs. Dale would per init it, which was not very often. Jim my Payne, as Patricia McLaurin had
 
 seeing young man for all his weak nesses he had known in advance that the laurel bloom would change to a rose, and then to white hyacinth. Perhaps he even considered the fact that she, would make better wife for him, and better mother for his chil- dren, than some fragile and over-cul- tured woman of patrician house that had about run out. At any rate, Jim my Payne, the ultra-spoiled, had de- cided that he would marry her.
 During those weeks that had been made happy by an occasional hour at the home of the Dales, Payne had not once mentioned marriage. He figured, and wisely enough, that to be too quick with his proposal would be to lose everything.
 But now he meant to propose, for he knew that Miss Littleford intended go- ing home for vist-and he knew that when she went home she would see Carlyle Dale. The truth was, of course, that Miss Littleford was go- ing to Tennessee to attend the Oc- tober term of court at Gainesville.
 It was a little after the middle of bright afternoon. He found her sit ting on an iron settee in a secluded corner of the lawn, where cape jessa- mines and lilac bushes grew in order ly array. She wore light wrap, and there was an easy-to-read book in her hands; but she wasn't trying to read at the moment
 He barred his head, greeted her
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climbed the rugged wall and were about to set out through the pitchy dark woodland, when a voice that they knew well hailed them softly from the laurels to their left:
 Hold on, thar"
 John Moreland, by iiggers!" nut tered Heck.
 Moreland hastened soundlessly to them. q reckon ye didn't mean no harm, Bly, he said in tones that ex- pressed deep regret, but yit l shore Wisht ye hadn't ha' done it.''
 Samuel Heck was very proud of , himself. He strengthened there in the darkness.
 "What'n the name O the devil makes ye wisht sech a thing as that. John?'' lie demanded in a half angry voice.
 Cause" growled the big hillman, you went and spilled h--l out O the main big picnic. We meant to wipe out all O them thar lowdown Balls and Torreys, By. When they went to hang Bill Dale in the mornin', we'd ha' had good reason fo' a-killin' 'em every one-the weasels! Ye see, By, every man Moreland but Caleb. and every man O the Littlefords, is hid here in these laurels, and has been ever sense that thar fool trial begun. We was jest a-waitin'. How did we happen to know it?
 "At's easy, By. Me and Ben Lit tleford was on our way alter more dynamite, when we seed Bill Dale a-follerin' that stranger man, and Golf a-follerin' Bill and you a-follerin Golf We knowed somethin' ongodly mean was in the wind So I follered you, By, a-breakin' off bushes as I went to mark the gail, and Ben he went back and got the rest of lem and fol- lered me"
 Then to Dale, "Well, Bill, what're we a-goin' to do with this here cussed polecat Goff?'
 Dale turned to the shyster coal man, who was still being closely watched by Heck
 T told you was pretty apt to thrash you the next time we met. didn't F" clipped Dale. Do you want to get out of this country for good, or do you want to fight me to fin ish? Pm through talking right now, Golf"
 "Pd guess I'd rather fade" acknowl- edged Golf.
 "Then fadew
 Golf slunk off through the brush.
 When they had covered a mile, John Moreland grasped Dale by an arm and said to him:
 q reckon you think we're sort O blood thirsty, by Us a-waitin' to kill off that pack back thar don't ye? We'll we ain't blood thirsty Bill Them Balls and Torreys ain't wo'th nothin' to theirselves, nor to their fambles, nor to nobody else. The sooner they're dead the better off they'll be, and the better off their famblies'll be, and the better off everybody else will be- You aint safe, nor 1 ain't safe as long as they're alive.
 "We like you, Bill Dale," he contin- ued gravely. And you're shore wo'th it. You wouldn't sell out to that cussed polecat, even to save yore own life, and 'at's what I calls narve and principle in ye. Bill Dale, the aiH't many men in this here whole outfit who wouldn't give ye the last d-d drop O blood in their bodies, eff ye needed it. To the right, Bill-ahead of us is a clift."
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pleasantly, and asked pernlssIon rU sit down beside her. She looked up at him. He was immediately dressed.
 'Of course" she granted with a smile that was very iwinsome.
 He stated his mission briefly, for Mrs Dale might appear at any min- ute.
 q came, Elizabeth to ask you to marry me"
 She sat as still as though she had not heard He went on hastily:
 T confess that I'm little ashamed of trying to take you away from Car lyle Dale, for he was always very nice to me. Bat 1 may be forgiven for that, I think, because I care for you q great deal. Anyway-'All is fair in love and war'-you know
 His voice was hardly businesslike, but it lacked original fire Elizabeth Lfttleford closed the book in her lap. and lifted her clear brown eyes to his eager face.
 No she disagreed "all ain't-isn't fair in love and war. That's one O the very siI1fest sayin's I've ever heard. As for the otheI-I like you, Jimmy, but not in the way you want me to. It's Bill Dale that I like-in that way, Jimmy"
 Payne looked disappointed. He was silent.
 You're good boy, Jimmy" she went on, "and 1 hate to make you feel the least bit bad It makes me oh, Jimmy, it makes me blue. I wish
Cleveland County herald., 1921-09-22
Plunainq in Authorship.

Cant you lend me a ten spot. old man?" remarked Black, who had chanced to meet White at the corner. I'm dead broke. Been writing stories for the magazines and haven't made cent!''
 What became of that 5000 your uncle left you?"
 T used that up for postage. Way side Tales.
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Mir bill Dale.
 cartersville.
 tennessee.
 Kind friend.
 seat myself with pen in hand to drap you a few lines to let you know am well hoping you the same. well bill have some news to tell you about what happened when got back hear and since got back and hear it is.
 the first person seen when got to the railrode stashun was jimmy fayne and he was dressed up like millionair and i reckon he is one. he took me in his moter car up to pats home. patrisha you know. pat she hugged me and jimmy left rite away but said he would be back. asked pat had she heard about yore trubble bill and she answered no what then i told her bout you and the lOwdown black adam ball bill and she said pore old bill he had such high temper no- body could ever understand it but 1t cant be are you serious elizabeth.
 well i said yes mean it. pat shook her head sorrowf1e and said tell me all about it elizabeth deer when had told her the hole story about it we went up stares pat went to closet and got a butifie dress my size. 1 ordered this the day before you left us pat said but it mite half to be al- tared wilp VOu are dressing nat said will speak to Mrs. Dale over the telephone. pat said yore mother has softened tord her son and 1 promised to tell her any news had conserning him. 1 said all rite.
 pat was gone down stares talking over the telphone for long time and when she returned to me was dressed and we went down stares together and the new dress diddent half to be altered. after dinner was over me and pat went to a swing at the end of a vranda which had dim lite on it. pat spoke all of a student and said to me how would you like to go to live with Mrs. Dale bills mother i remembered haddent liked yore moth CT bill cause, of what she said about me and got about half mad. don't you want me to live hear with you pat i asked.
 of course pat said idle be glad to have you but Mrs. Dale wants you too pat said. her treatment of her son which is you bill has most broke
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ter see if We cant get him out on bond he said haddent we elizabeth and i said yes. bill found wore mother indede a sad woman. there Wassent much about her to renine me of the time when she called me q savaje person. she said am defited you came elizabeth and i cride little couldent help it when jest half to cry jest half to cry and nothing else don't help q bit. Because she kissed me bill.
 well bill yore father he wired the authorities in cartersVille and found out that cale Moreland had confessed to the shooting of black adam and you was free and it has set his mind at rest. but it diddent set my mind at rest for because no the mountain hart. know cale Moreland is jest takeing yore place in jail until the day of the trial for that is the way of the More lands. pore cale is a good boy. i am doing fine hear bill but often wish could have old Doe River hear to sing me to sleep like it used to. yore moth CT is teaching me how to read and rite and spell like pat did and i am learn ing fast. you can see by this letter can rite an spell fine cant i.
 well bill kind friend jimmy fayne has jes sent yore mothers made up hear to ask if he can see me and 1 will half to go down stares and see what he wants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-26
Two Road PropectS
 Approved By Commission

Sheffield, June 25.-(Special)-- The state highway commission has approved two road projects in this county. which insures a road con- struction campaign that will event ually give this county as fine sys- fem of roads as can be found Ill the state.
 The Jackson highway, from the Tennessee river bridge to the top CT the mountain, south of Tuscumpla' win be the first road completed, rms road will connect Franklin' and Col hert counties. Already several miles of this highway has been completed bv this county and the 20 miles be- tween the two county seats IS mat ter of less than an hour.
 The highway connecting Colper. and Lawrence county is the secohu proiect to be approved. rms roau will give quick transportatlon 70 Decatur. connecting there with the Ree Line National highway
 In addition to the two state 'runN highways, above menuoneu, .,,. an court of county commissioners W,ii heein work at the earliest possioie time on the construction or the mar ket roads of the county.
 In the recent bond election the neonle authorized the issuance or s25o 900 of good roads bonds py vote of 20 to l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-26
NOTED LAWYER DIES
John B. Stanchfield Snccumbs to
 Kidney Disease
By Associated Press

New York, June 25.-John B.. Stanchfield, New York lawyer, who appeared in many important cases, died toray at Islip, Long Island.
 MT. Stanchfield succumbed to kid : ney disease, after an illness of 10 days. He leaves a widow, daughter and son. MT. Stanchfield was prom inent in politics, as well as the law. Born in Elmira in 1855. he served as mayor of that city from 1886 to 1888, after having practiced law there In 1895 he was elected to the New York assembly, of which he became demo- cratic minority leader the following year.
 He was democratic candidate for governor in 1900, and year later was nominated by his party for United States senator. He was delegote to the democratic national convention of 1912, which nominated Woodrow Will son.
 As head of the law firm of Stanch- field & Levy, he appeared in many important cases, among which was that of the state of New York against the five socialist assemblymen busted from the lower house last year. He was engaged by Attorney General Newton as special counsel for the as- sembly judiciary committee and vir- tually directed the case against the quintet charged with disloyalty.
 Until recently he was chief counsel for Mrs. Anne U. Stillman. in the de- fense of the divorce suit instituted by her banker husband. A short while ago. however, he withdrew from the case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-26
LOOKS LIKE AUSTRALIA WILL BE BARREN FIELDI
 IN SEARCH FOR OIL

Sydney, N. s. w. June 25.-Seekers of oil in Australia are beginning to regard their search as hopeless, 1t is said here. Although hundreds of thousands of pounds have been spent by the federal government and pri- vate firms in seeking oil in the com monwealth, nothing worth while has been found .-~-
 Money rewards, as well as riches in oil, await the successful. The commonwealth government has of- fered a reward of 25,oO0 pounds for oil in payable quantities, and the N S. government has a standing of- fer of 10000 pounds for oil.
 Many of the searchers have cen tered their activities In the neigh boring territory of Papua, where In some sections oil is actually trick ling from the earth at the rate ot two or three gallons week. De- spite this, government engineers have been unable to find the oil Tn commercial quantities.
 oil Is a tremendously important thing to this country of wide dis tances, for the motor, in cars and in airplanes, promises to solve many of Australia's most acute communica~ ton problems If only cheap fuel for the motor can be found,
 At present Australians are paying high prices for oil imported from other countries by big companies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-26
WOODROW WILSON IS
 AEMiTTED TO BAR
 BY SUPREME COURT
ffp AssOciated \ Press

Ashiagfon, June 25.-Woodroy5 WiaON @8nearrd in person today fn the chamners os Chief Justice Mccoy of lns District of Columbia supreme court to be admitted to the practice of law before that court.
 A special session of the court was called for the purpose of admitting MT. Wilson, the court having pre- viously amended its rules, so that former Presidents and Vice Presi- dents of the United States, who are tice without application, or other formality.
 MT. Wilson was accompanied to the court by his law partner Bainbridge Colby. former Secretary of State, and by Joseph P. Humility, formerly his private secretary. The admission of the former chief executive was moved by John Paul Earnest, chairman of the examining committee, and the usual oath was administered by Nor gan H. Beach, clerk of courts.
 At the conclusion of the ceremony the chief justice briefly welcomed MT. Wilson to the membership of the bar.
 To avoid photographers, the time of the ceremony was kept quiet. MT. Wilson reached the courthouse short ly before noon in an automobile, and walked the short distance from the car to an elevator which carried him directly to the chambers of Justice Mccoy.
 The ceremony and reception were brief, and MT. Wilson returned the same way to his waiting automobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-26
Seuen Hectic Days in Gotham

turies ago. They'd find America a leetle mite too narrow today.
 Clever Robbery Staged
 While toddle tops were being con fiscated, the cleverest robbery ever reported in New York was consum- mated, with a $3OO,000 haul. The thief passed a guard on the first floor. made his way to the twenty ninth story, eluded watchmen making their hourly rounds, picked the locks of a dozen doors and desks and opened three safes without a tool or a ffngerprint. So delft was the job, so secret the strong box combina- tions, that it looks as though the thief manipulated the tumblers by thought waves.
 There's a baby crime wave in the Bronx No sooner was the juvenile black cross gang broken up than another crop of infant bandits ap- peared. The second gang had no members older than 15, yet it snatched a woman's purse. Feeling ly, the magi strate recommended Sessions in the woodshed," but where in the Bronx is there wood shed any more? Perhaps that's the whole trouble with city juveniles now.
 Grownups, however. are no better. So accustomed are citizens to being held up that a menacing look is about all that is needed to make them dump wallet, watch, and rings in the palm of any stranger. A man held up two subway commuters the other night with harsh word and a pair of shears.
 Motor car thieves, also, are doing as well as could be expected. They have organized the port of missing flivvers. It's at the bottom of the East river and has proved a great