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The log cabin Democrat., 1921-05-02
ALICE MOTHER, B,
 KILLED STEPCH|LD
lBy the Associated Pressl

Pennington, Mo-, May 2.-Circuit court today granted the plea of Mrs. John H. Parsons, 13, for transfer of her trial to juvenile court. Mrs. Par sons is under indictment for the mur- der of her stepdaughter, aged six. Trial was set in juvenile court for May 19.
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-05-02
iRv the Associated Pressl

Little Rock, May 2.-Statement of the condition of state banks at the close of business April are required under. call issued today by the state bank commissioner.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29

finished Mrs. Stanley murmured:
Il suppose shed think Lannesville queer
place"
Even in the genuine solemnity Of my mood
I stiied q laugh at the thought But some.
how did not laugh when heard her again
talking to the girl herself shall not try to
reproduce accents and shall not report all
the actual words.
You like thisr' began the other woman.
thought the girl flushed underneath her
pink and white coating.
why not!" she answered, and her voice
grew little louder and harder. "Faut
vivre-I must live. mustn't II"
Then. lower but steadily:
i've no regrets II hadn't been-weIl,
what / am and working here. I shouldn't
have met your son."
Yes. But now" urged Mrs. Stanley.
"Faut vivre." was again the answer.
It was incontrovertibie She must live as
much As any Of US.
And then the dear old thing from back
there home rose, think, to heights in one,
simple speech Of conservation, of atonement
on Jims behalf perhaps. Of q divine toler.
ance, or If not that. Of an ignorance equally
divine.
Wouldn't you like to come back with us
to see where Jim was born and raised? And
ytay on you could stand ~ II would b
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boy IN spite Of her halting English with .
kind of flaming passion that perhaps the
sweet girl from Ohio might not have shown
so-was 1t SO bra1enly?
II could not really search my compatriot's
heart, neither could that of Alphonsine.
What, we may well ask. could she guess Of
Ohio? Indeed, my story proceeds 1 see
more plainly how little it is founded upon
assured knowledge and how much upon
cloudy guess and inference. Yet 1t may well
be that gusa and inference. however cloudy,
sarvs wsmen better than they serve US. 1t
may we'll be that there are many miracles
worked by love. that it can make little
woman from home understand more of the
life Of a painted cafe chanteuse than she Is
likely TO admit to any men. Indeed. as 1
confessed earlier. write with Ignorance.
but am trying to write with sympathy.
Miss Sunshine left US a moment; the man
aser had beckoned to her and she probably
meant to repaint after the ravages of tears.
While she was gone Mrs. Stanley's slow but
noneommittal glance again appraised the
Cabaret Monddin.
Seems funny" she said meditatively at
ast ito think Of Jim's girl working In .
place like this"
How working did she think or mean.
wondered? But said nothing. And
Monsieur Tic-Toc sang another song. A. 1t
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
7he Big Moments in the Work of the Speaker Are Likely During
the Closing Days Congress- Says Spnnqiad Mass

lions that produced Frederick Huntinrtes
Gillett.
30 be told me shout westneld. Mass, out
In the west end Of the state, where he was
born. 1t vas then but q little village
ana IL now grown to busy tswn. II used
to manufaeture millions of buggy whips
before the automobile discouraged the use Of
old Dobbin for purposes Of locomotion. The
streets were 70 quiet that baseball could
be played In them with inpunity.
Miss Emily Squires, who still lives in West
field, and was q classmate Of Fred GilIett,
said that the embryonic statesman was a
good baseball player and smart enough to
pass in his studies without putting much
study on them. Prof. John T. Stoddsrd, Of
Smith College, was q elassmate, and have
II from him that Fred was mice boy and
hard to stump" But from what gather
Arthur L. Gillstt, now q professor at the
Hartford Theological Seminary, seven years
younger than Fred. was the member Of the
family most deserving.
The Gillett family was all that could be
desired. II had back Of il many generations
Of respectability. of prominence, of intellec-
tuality. II was fairly well to do. The
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
By HARRISON RHODES

better than this. think it would be NOR.
what Jim would like"
Was il 10 be expected that the poor Miss
Sunshine should understand at once7 Or that
she should ever understand all the implica-
tions? But believe that somehow she un.
derstood that an Ohio village was not possi-
BILE for her, and that in whatever strange
spirit these queer people asked her to come
to it. it would not be real kindness to them
to accept? Was she protecting their igno.
rance? Was she. too in the recesses Of her
heart, protecting Jim's memory. doing what
she thought he would like? Any one may
Judge as well a. 1. tell only the few words
said.
Il could not leave" she said. You see,
have little child"
caught my breath. 1t was Mrs. Stanley
alone who gave an answer.
lis it" she began very gently and she
paused an instant. II seemed to me that
could almost hear our four hearts beat.
Finally the girl slowly shook her head
NO" she said. and her smile was bitter
sweet.
Did she tell the TRUTH / for one shall
never know. But I suspect that for that
little instant she stood with the other woman
on the heights
GLAD TO know her boy stainless7 Or did abe
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in that moment see fade forever the vision
Of the grsndchild she might have held in her
arms IL her boy had lived and
May see him tomorrow" was all she
asked. Il like little babies So"
This is, think. almost all OF the story
which / shall tell. / had a telegram from
Paris which called me back. never saw
Riom. have not as yet seen any Of those
concerned again. / was not in New York
when the pilgrims passed through on their
homewsrd journey. But cdn say that the
Cabaret Monddin lost a singer-no great loss
and that one OF the friendly associations
which in Paris dispense American aid to raw
aged France helped a girl and her child back
to the village her mother had come from. in
the hill country toward lie Puy. and estab-
lished her as lessee OF the little EstdmiHet
des Derr Ldpins-the little Inn Of the Two
Rabbits. a business which Alphonsine said
she might be some good at
had at Christmas-time a picture post
card. II had been taken in summer and the
little garden was abloom. You could see the
kid. too. pretending he could walk. He
carried in one hand a tiny French flag and in
the other the Stars and Stripes. As he had
q right to. for it was kind Americans who
had saved his mother from Comic songs. He
will be. think. always a friend Of America
tCopyushl: ls2l: ~ Hsrrson Rsodsal
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!; SUNSHINE

needed nothing to persuade any Of us that
she had loved Jim. But how much had he
loved her! asked myself.
I looked around the Cabaret Aondatn and
at the streaked face where tears had washed
the paint away. A cheap locket and kodak
and a kiss for good-by, and then on sayly
to another Belcotreaux and other kisses and
so to death-was that not probably all It had
meant to the gallant Jim?,,
What It had meant to Jim was, however,
not the real question; rather what it now
meant to Jim's mother. I saw her give one
slow, bewildered survey Of the music anA
dance hall. And yet realized that what she
asserted earlier was indeed true of her-that
anything Jim did was all right. The cheap
locket was for her proof enough. Here was
where she had found the girl her boy had
loved. ..s
1t must have been different from what she
had dreamed. probably ever since Jim who
was to die as a soldier had lain as a baby
in her arms She must have seen a sweet
girl from their own town. and a wedding,
and a small white wooden house In the
village, and grandchildren. And now she
and papa who might have been grandpa,
were adrift in France, and a strange. tawdry,
oddly beautiful creature sat opposite to them
in an only half reputable cafe drinking a
stsemins grog and talking to them Of their
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MIS- S
lCeuttnned FROM preceding pasel

obscure provincial cafe table. For there were
tears enough flowing as well from Jim's
mothers eyes. Yeti Ike to remember that
she remembered what we others forgot, that
the promised grog had never been ordered
Back there in Ohio she would have made the
girl nice cup Of tea" The grog was only
the nearest thing she could think Of in this
strange remote France, where all her life
now seemed to lie. I smiled. but there were
tears enough in my own eyes as well.
would rather not write too much of the
next few minutes have, Of course, invented
the names Of Belcotreaux and ,Stanley-yet
somewhere In France the moon does rise
behind the tower of st. Roch's church, gild.
ing girls hair. still yellower gold. Some
where IN Ohio there are two lonely people
who were once pilgrims in France. The girl
-Alphonsine was really her name-had only
. little of the English speech. 1 translated
. bit. my old job. not so gay now-I trans,
lated more than intend to write
There was thin gold chain around her
neck and somewhere hidden. somewhere
nearer her heart and warm from it, was a
pleasant Eaudy locket and in it a picture
Of the finest young man In the world. II
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29

c.,sful NJ the law be went to the state
J t..i.,.,r,. became assistant attorney
..n.r.I of the state, went to congress
=. enty eight years ago. de mas oeen 'Neie
ever since. almost without an enon'
EVERYTHING had come easy Tor FRED "il-
,.,, 7 could not help thinking OF FRANK
w Monden. Republican floor leader twin
-;,h Mr.. Giilett in the execution OF the
p.nublicsn legislative program. Mondeu
- h..n a homeless vah on the western
-,.,,, . boy trapper in the lake country,
,..m,ter. a railroad gang foreman,
,;,n.e, settler in the West, q lad almost
r;,hout opportunity. Yet these two men
-.,l.d side BY side on the same big task,
-.,. the same type Of men. equally fluent,
80. effective in handling their fellows
..d !, retting legislative results, 1t was
n.,l.b,e that they should have been
brought together here BY the turmoil oil c'r-
cumstsnces.
Mr.. Gillett likes to ten Of the conditions
hat existed in Congress twenty eight years
90 when he frst arrived. 1t happens. BY
~. x.y. that there Is no other man in
Co,,res. who has served that length Of time
.s.cutively. Mr. Cannon has more years
~ ~, credit, but there have been two oc-
80. when his district has failed him.
Ie..nh G. Cannon was already quite eI-
.,,.nced legislator. William Jennings
&C then in his second term. was wont
rrl..sh his oratory not infrequently.
C,n Clark made his legislative debut in
..r,. session and the two worked side
IA. through all those years, the late
.L., having been absent because OF de-
~, one term. There was much Of the
- nan the clerk in the country store.
~. rr,acher attitude about the young Mis-
u-;., in those days. Theodore Roose-
~, v,. holding his first post with the
t.d.,,l government as civil service commits
-, Cleveland was President. Gresham
..-,.tary Of state. Carlisle secretary Of
...r,, Lamont at the War Department,
Oln.y a. attorney general.
ynun, GiIlett ono day arose to make 5
..cb IN, subject under discussion being
.i.c,ion, in the South. His seat was at the
..r, hack. When the sound Of an unfs
.,;,;., voic. we'll on their ears the Repub-
go. Turned around to look. The Demo-
,r.t. were reading their papers or chsttins
.nor. themselves. Encouraged by Repub.
Ic,, notice the young speaker raised his
r.;.. until even the Democrats heard above
IN. confusion. He was denouncing Tam
man, Hall. This started q fight. The Dem
ocr,ts were after him like pack of wolves.
He fought back. When it was all over the
big men Of his party came around and con-
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29

father OF IL was q lawyer,
q man Of attainments and
Of polish. He was famed
for the huency Of his
language. He drilled his
sons in facility of eIpres-
sion. This was the founda-
ton Of the speakers
linguistic grace.
Young Gillett finished
high school, studied for q
year In Germany before
entering Amherst, finished
there, took three years law
at Harvard. Then be went
ON his own. Fairly sue
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era of greatest activity. 1t was ,ueu ina.
he appointed his committees. Since it was
the committees that controlled the destiny
OF legislation, the speaker could make his
power great BY properly placing his sup
porters and 1t was but human nature that he
should do 50,
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04

Henry Feather, aged seventy-seven
and Mrs. Emma Clark, aged sixty-sev.
en-, widower and widow, brother-in.
law and sister-in-law, eloped from their
sons and daughters and were married
by Judge McEwen in Chicago. Feath.
er's home is at Minneapolis, Kan, and
Mrs. Clark lived at 2028 Point street,
Chicago. Mr.. Feather bears strik-
ing resemblance to President Harding,
and his wife Is related to ex-Presldent
Mckinley. Three Of Feathers former
wives were named Clark.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04
CHOLERA KILLS MANY
Spreading Over Place Where
Turks and Armenians Fought.
An Average Of rs Persons Are Dying
Daily In Streets Of Alexandra
pol From Cholera and
Hunger.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is spread.
ng throughout that part Of Armenia
whieh was the scene of the war be-
rween the Turks and Armenians last
winter, according to a dispatch from
Tifiis, forwarded by Paxton Hibben of
indianapolis, Ind. Mr.. Hibben Is q
msspSsr of the group of representa-
tfsss Of the Near East relief and re-
ssAtly visited Armenia before starting
aorthward through Russia to Mos
tpv- He writes that the cholera Is
due to lack of fOOdstuffs and the con-
xequent reduced resistance of the
population.
AN average of twenty-five aged per-
scns and young children are dying
daily in the streets of AlexandropOl
from both cholera and hunger" he
adds The bodies are being loaded
EiS wagons which are continually max
Ing the rounds Of the streets.
1.-The American Near East relief Is
taking additional hundreds Of virtually
naked children into it's already over
crowded Orphanages until buildings
GRn be obtained.
There are GO registered cases
sS cholera In Erivan and 141 at
AEexandropOl and the deaths are
averaging 20 per cent of the cases.
The homeless inhabitants Of 40
towns RACED by the Turks are camp
Eng in the fields and swarming in the
city streets, and are without the slight
sxa hope of assistance from the i'm
BSSerished government In whose paper
money 5000 rubles is equivalent to l
rent.
The Armenian foreign minister, AS
ssRas MoOravian, and the minister Of
nSppASes, Sarkis SrabeOnian, recently
wafred on a delegation of twenty-five
Americans headed by Charles v. Wick
sry, general secretary of the near east
Te4sef, to appeal for American aid to
zee Armenia through the winter. They
stated that the government was try
Eng desperately to obtain grain from
Rsrsia. but that the Persian govern
Dent was becoming alarmed at the
expectation of fOOdstuffs and had
srdered an embargo, thus cutting Off
the only nearby source of supply"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04
FINDS RARE MOSAIC WORK
American Student Discovers Master
piece in Forgotten Cathedral Some
Miles From Rome.

Rome.-An American young man,
Harry Sternfeld Of Pittsburgh, winner
at the 'Prix de Paris" student of the
american academy here, has discov-
cred masterpiece of Cosmodi mosa-
Srs embellishlng a great facade Of a
medieval cathedral. 1t is several miles
9run Rome, a Civita Castellana, a
ussee FOR centuries forgotten, where
ttfe genius of COsmOdi and his sons
s but commonplace because Of famil-
thrifty.
The design was executed IN 1910 and
shows the influence Of the Byzantine
school. The whole Of the facade is
sfch In color and glittering with gold
q fragments Of stone which has stood
tire test Of TOO years. The immense
detaif in the design staggers one. The
Emp OF the loggia Is one mass Of mosa-
xe done with variegated cOlOrs Stern
feld says the work is "a dream; the
best example Of outside decorative
Rnssics know Of"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04
WILL SURVEY ROADS
Federal Bureau Will Investigate
Highways of Nation.
Seeks information on Cost, Character
of Construction and General Con-
dition of country's Roads
Asks Cooperation.

Washington.-The bureau of public
roads of the United States Department
of Agriculture will shortly undertake
a survey of the mileage, cost, character
of construction and general condition
Of the nations highways. The survey,
which is the most extensive ever I'M
dertaken and the first in seven years,
is to be made with the aid of state and
local officials and individuals the coun-
try over, and is comparable only to
the great task of taking the national
census.
Nobody, In all probability, could
guess today within millions of dollars
what the roadways total, in dollars
and cents, on the ledger of the national
assets. Nobody knows how many miles
there are where wheels may roll. The
strength and the weakness Of the ma
tons transportation arteries likewise
are unknown in detail.
When the survey is completed, all
these and other facts will be known
and will be available for guidance to
road builders. In addition there will
be abundant data to show up compari-
sons Of costs. The well-built roads of,
say, Pennsylvania can be laid, dollar
for dollar and mile for mile, alongside
the well-built roads of California and
other states. First cost and mainte-
nance of macadam, asphalt, concrete
every kind of road built-from one sec
ton can be matched against such costs
from every other section, II desired.
The way to make the dollar most effec-
tive in road work thus will be pointed
out.
Rural highways as well as urban are
to be included the latter embracing all
roads, streets and alleys in incorporat-
ed communities Of $500 inhabitants or
more. How the funds are provided for
constructing and maintaining roads
also will be made known. The amount
invested in road machinery-an item
concerning which even approximate in
formation Is lacking today-will be
sought. After the information Is OBJ
tanned 1t will be kept up to date.
In undertaking the survey the bu-
reau requests the assistance Of every
unit Of government doing road work
in the nation of road officials the coun-
try over, and Of associations, organlza-
tons and individuals, down to the man
with a fiivver, having information or
data as to local highway activities. AS
future legislation may be based on
percentage of road mileage, 1t Is point
ed out that 1t Is essential for each unit
to have its total, as well as Its I'M
proved road mileage, carefully and cor
rectly recorded In the survey.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04
SEEKS TO PATENT U. S. FLAG
British Firm Denied Application for
Trademark In South
America.

grenos Aires. Argentina.-Com-
Vzsht has often been made by manu-
fscturers and others that on enter
shs South America for the purpose of
selling their products they found that
nume enterprlsing person had appro-
pristed their trademark and patent
rights thus being able to prevent the
use Of she manufacturers own brands
without adjustment"
Probably the most curious case of
Du-h an attempt to appropriate de-
sign was made here recently when an
English firm applied for patent rights
@ the American flag. It was denied.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04
HENDERSON

Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Peters, of
Dawson, were guests of the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Peters,
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hendrick
were callers at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Andrew Fillinger Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Schautz of Owos-
so were guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. E. H. Cheney Sunday.
Hazel Green Grange will meet Fri
day evening, Nov. a, at the l. o. o. F.
family were in Owosso Friday.
William Hunt of Owosso was call
ing in the village Saturday.
The N. P. G. met at the home of
Elsie Jones Saturday afternoon. The
next meeting will be held at the
home of Lois and leila Berner.
Rush Arbor Of Cleaners will meet
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. P. p.
Bishop Tuesday evening, Nov. 8.
Every member is urged to be present
as there will be election of officers
and delegate to the biennial con-
pue qaneIN HueId SIN pue IN
'Ueq
vention will be chosen. All assess
ments must be paid for the last quar-
ter of 1921 also at this meeting.
The dinner served at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. S. Watson by the
Methodist Aid Friday, was we'll pat
ronized. Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Wilcox
and daughter, Marjorie, of Flushing,
were out-of-town guests. Mrs. L..
Shuster will entertain in November.
Mrs. Howard Middleton, who has
been spending a few days with her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Richard Cramer,
of Brady, returned to her home the
last of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Hunt and
grandson, Gray Tonnacliff, and Mr..
and Mrs. c. Keith are visiting rela-
tives and friends at Shepherd.
Ward Coon is moving his house.
hold goods to the Dan Arthur farm
where he and his family will reside
for the present.
hiIhui iluoI, WIN Icoiuco ncdi
Owosso, is assisting in the A. G. Ber-
ner cheese factory here.
Worlds Temperance Sunday was
observed in the M. E. church Sunday.
The pastor, Rev. Black, delivered a
temperance sermon and at the close
of the Sunday school lesson a short
program was rendered. Lois and
leila Berner sang a duet and Elgin
Crane and John Willoughby gave
recitations.
Mrs. George Brock of Owosso, 821
Pine street, received word Tuesday
morning that her cousin, Mrs. Loret-
ia Pierce, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Ed. Knapp, in Sagi-
nav. The funeral will be held from
the home of her daughter in Sagi-
nav, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Mrs. Pierce was well known in this
vicinity.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04
Longer skirts for Teachers Ordered.

Lyndhurst, N. J.-Longer skirts and
no silks or satins-this is the latest
order to teachers issued by the Lynd-
hurst school board. The order does
not specify the length demanded.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04
Three Fake Bank Notes Out.

Observation-Disclosures of three ad-
Ntsssl counterfeit federal reserve
nstes was announced by the Treasury
apartment, and the public was
warned to be on guard. One Is
$50 note Of the Federal Reserve
bank Of Kansas City. The Sec
end is $50 note on the Richmond
Ws.) Federal Reserve bank, and the
tstsrH Is $40 note on the Federal
Sank Of Boston.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04
Boy Lassoes Truck;
Dragged to Death

New York.-Playing cowboy,
John Bullera, ten, threw his
lariat around a post on the edge
of heavy truck that was pro-
ceeding along pier No. 81. Hold
ing to the rope, he was dragged
several feet, his head striking the
pavement, before the driver
could stop his truck. The lad
was dead when an ambulance
arrived.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04
Cow Lassoes Aged
Man in His Yard

freehold. N. J.-Lassoed by
his COW, Frederick Carton of
Everett, oldest Civil war veteran
IN Monmouth county, was near
Fy dragged to his death by the
animal before his son saw his
plight and came to his rescue.
The aged man, who lost an arm
in battle, was pulling weeds In
his front yard when the COW,
fastened by a chain to a stake,
eircIed around him.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04
Heroes Relatives pefrauded.

New York.-Alleged to have sold
fake memorial medals to relatives and
friends Of soldiers killed In the World
war. Marion Gross. a salesman. was
arrested on a charge Of using the mail
to defraud. The value of the medal,
the police said, was about 10 cents.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04
Find Buried Treasure.

Berlin.-Twenty million marks
worth of gold and silver, which is be-
lieved to have been hidden by Ger
many's legendary capt. KIDD
Claus Stoertebedxer--has just~been
dug up near the North sea coast, said
a Hamburg dispatch to the Neue Ber-
liner Zeitung.