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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-09-01

way between the Halfway switch and
the opening Of the coal vein, and
stopped him with an unpraised hand.
do you know good coal when ye
see It'll" he drawled.
"Whyp asked Dale, on his guard.
The stranger looked sharply IN ali
directions, as though he wished to
make sure that no person was within
eGrshot 81 them. Evidently salts!
fed, he drew from trousers pocket
shining black lump Of coal, which
he held out for Dale's inspection.
"What do We think o. this herefs he
wanted 70 know.
Dale took the lump and examined
It closely. 1t was apparently as coed
as the Moreland coal, which had sent
the expert Hayes into raptures. Dale
then looked closely at the stranger.
He appeared TO be honest; his gaze
was steady. and seemed very limo.
cent.
"where did you get thIsir Dale
asked.
The alert eyes narrowed. DO We
think this here vein you're a-1xin' to
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-09-01

we TO the law, and we turned ye over
to the law; and EN-, By comics, the
law turned We loose the very next
dayl And 'en the shurIft he comes
out here and arrests four o. usl Ef
the law won't try ye and punish We
70 a-shootin' my son Adam in cold
blood. by gonnles, Wen try We and
punish We TO- a-doin' 1t. But ye
needn't be skeered none at all. Ye're
plumb shore to git jestice. Ill prom
Use ye jestice."
you've evidently overlooked the
fact that another man confessed to
the killing, and that that was why
they liberated me-" said Dale.
ITS some cussed frame-up," snarled
the leader Of the gang. "No man on
earth don't like no other man well
enough TO- that. Asides, you're the
one at killed my son Adam, by gen
MES, and you're the one at must suf-
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-09-01
CHAPTER XIII


Sheriff Tom Flowers and four able
deputies rode out Of Gainesville very
early on the following morning. They
went to the Big Pine mountain country.
and, by q scheme that entailed some
ehrewdness on the part Of the chief
Officer, arrested two Balls and two
srorfeys on suspicion and took them
away without trouble.
The two Balls and the two sEorreys
were lodged In the Gainesville jail
and offered their liberty and exonera-
ton from all blame IN the dynamIting
afEair II they would give the names
Of the other guilty parties and appear
against them. The mountaineers de-
ScIared stoutly TINT they knew nothing
whatever Of the matter, and when
pressure was applied they grew sulIen
ana refused to talk al all.
Il was plain to Flowers that they
dld know something about IT and he
finally ordered that they be kept n "a
Oall % 4 diet of bread and water until
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-09-01

BY adding pulverized mica, concrete
can be made closely to resemble
granite.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-09-01

II have Just heard Of a woman who
went to q hotel unaccompanled and
discovered that the acoustic properties
OF her room were such that every
time she spoke aloud there was an
echo She then made a bold attempt
to get in last word, and IN % doing
talked herself to death VI Portland
Express and Advertiser.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-09-01

Primitive Baptist paper and decided 20
Eyik IhaVe used LYDIA =. Pinkham'a
Vegetable Compound and Lydia y.
pInkham's Liver Pulls for about seven
months and now 1 am able 70 do my
work. ! shall never forget your ned,
cine and YOU may publish this II ron
want % ~ Il y true. Mrs. ]. u.
HURsEY, Star. N. G.
Here e another woman who adds her
testimony 70 the many whose lettek1Wo
have already published proving that
lydia ~ PlnIIham's Vegetable Com
pound often restores health % suffering
women oven after they have gone % far
chat an ce.ration IL deemed advisable.
Therefore Il win surely ''ay any woman
whe glffera from ailmentg peculiar p
Ter sex 70 give this good Old fashioned
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-09-01

The japanese Supreme cOurt-the
Daishon-In-consist Of seven judges,
the chief Judge being appointed for
life, or until removed to higher pO-
sition. Last June the late chief judge,
Baron Kuniomi YOkota, was given an
other berth nearer the emperor" and
DIR. Shotaro Tomiya was put In his
place. Doctor Tomiya is graduate Of
the Imperial university of Tokyo and
is one Of the best liked jurists in the
empire. The Japanese code Of pro
cedure Is patterned after the best in
the American, English and French
cOdes.-New York Tribune.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-09-01

so very melOdramatlc. And yet II
was SO grimly real, and his hopes
seemed so thin.
The Morelands ana the LlttIefords
would eventually learn the truth and
make the Balls and Torreys pay q
dear price, no doubt. but that that
wouldn't give him back his lifel
CTo BID coNTINUED.)
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-09-01

tney W0ulo l1a6 GNSO
weeks. ] W ae
treated BY two doc.
tors without relief
and they both eaid
/ would have 70 have
an operation. : had
mytrOuble fouryeaEs
and was unfit 70 do
anything, and had
given up al hope Of
ever getting any
better. Tread about
.-e,i.t. utanilf ,srSo n 49,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-09-01
WOMAN AVOIDS
AN OPERATION
Hope Nearly Gone but Lydia
E. Pinkharn's Vegetable
Compound Saved Her

Star. N. C.-'sMy monthly spells
gave me DO much trouble, sometimes
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-27

TINE most curious thing in the world is
the faith sinners have in forgiveness
- They believe that all they have to do
| is to say that they are sorry for the offense
| they have committed against us, and forth
with wet sponge is drawn across the slate,
| and the score wiped out against them.
There could be nothing less true than this.
| There is no forgiveness in this sense in which
| they imagine it. When we say that we for
| give people who have wronged us we merely
mean that. we cherish no animosity for the
evil they have done us, and will take no
vengeance upon them.
But as for 'forgiving and forgetting" as
the old phrase goes, those stultify themselves
who ask for such thing, and those lie who
pretend to do it. What has been done, has
been done. What has been, has been. The
faith that has failed us, the greed that has
robbed us, the cruelty that has stabbed us,
are facts that will live in our memory as
long as consciousness is with US.
They are not to be blotted out by a few
words of repentance, or an easily shed tear
or two. They cannot even be atoned for, be-
cause they Stayed something beautiful with
in our hearts that never comes to life again.
When you can take the shattered leaves of
rose and make bud of them again then
will love be able to flower in all it's pristine
freshness above the grave in which forgive
ness has buried the offense against it, not
before.
1t would take a superman or woman to
work that miracle. The balance of us who
are merely grOundl1ngS, are incapable or IL.
We say we forgive those who trespass
against us, and we mean that we cherish no
enmity against them, that we even pity them
as poor weaklings, and crooks who do not
have it in them to go straight, or to keep
the faith We may even go along bearing the
same outward relationship to those who have
wronged us, because sometimes we can best
save a bad situation that way, or for bust
ness, or family reasons.
And if we are big enough, after having
condoned the offense, to cover it up with
silence, the sinners go blithely along their
way, convinced that our forgiveness has set
tied their score, and that they have regained
their old-time place in our affection.
Men have been particularly active in
spreading this propaganda about forgiveness
so far as women are concerned. For ages
they have been engaged in exploiting the
beauty of woman's forgiveness and cultivat-
ing belief in its inexhaustible quantity. In
Vulnerable stories have been written in which
the lovely heroine waited to welcome back
to her arms the husband who had beaten
her, and deserted her, and left her to starve,
while he philandered off with another lady,
but who returned to her to have her sup
port him and nurse him in his old age.
In practically all man-made literature
woman is represented as really enjoying
working her forgiven overtime, and actually
preferring husband who is forever on the
repentance seat to decent man who behaves
himself.
I have often wondered if men really have
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-27
To Facilitate Traffic
THE suggestion of the requirement. of
I Piedmont avenue from the state cap

rHE suggestion of the requirement. of
Piedmont avenue from the state cap
itol to Peachtree road should appeal
to every citizen of the community who feels
an interest in the growth and development
of Atlanta and Fulton county. When the
project is seriously considered the wonder
is that the proposal for the improvement
Of the thoroughfare has been so long de-
layed in taking definite shape and chal-
longing the widespread commentator it has
received
AS means of relieving traffic conges-
ton in the downtown sections and uniting
the northern and southern extremities of
the county by rapid vehicular transit, not
to mention its obvious advantage in making
Piedmont park more accessible, the i'm
provement of Piedmont avenue is entitled
to the union of the city and county in has
tening the project to completion.
Piedmont avenue Is in a class by itself
as a thoroughfare. 1t is the only roadway
in the county which begins far beyond the
limits of the city on the north, traverses a
populous section and continues through to
the south side without interruption of a
between Decatur and Hunter streets, obvi-
ates the necessity of big outlay of money
for the construction of bridge or viaduct
and affords satisfactory means for eXpedit-
ing traffic. Funds that otherwise might
be required for bridging the railroad would
go long way toward defraying the cost Of
grading and paving the thoroughfare from
end to end.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-27
DOROTHY DIX'S TALKS-Is There Any Forgiveness?


this ch;illd-lliza faith in womans power to for
give, and if they thought, because their wives
do not rush Oft to the divorce court, that
their offense is blotted out, and they have
their old place in the women's hearts A
woman may technically forgive her husband
for his faithlessness to her. She may pocket
the insult he has offered her and swallow
her pride for the sake of her children, or be-
cause she doesn't want to break up her
home, or forfeit her social position. She may
go along camouflaging content so well that
she even deceives the man himself, but she
herself knows what q mOckery her forgive
ness is She knows the bitterness of her soul.
She knows that the glory and the circling
wings have gone from her love, and that
nevermore can she look up to, or respect, or
trust the man who has once betrayed her.
One Of the reasons that high-tempered peo-
pie make so little effort to control them
selves is because they also believe in this
CHEEKY theory that they can enjoy thmselyeS
by indulging in their RACES, and then make it
all right, and bring matters back to their
former status, by saying that they are sorry
for what they said.
It's a nice, comfortable theory, because
apologies are cheap, and it must be an ex-
hilarating experience to tell people just what
you think Of them when they annoy you.
The only difficulty with the theory is that
those who depend upon being forgiven lean
upon broken reed. Nobody ever really for
gives the hurt to his vanity, or the fatal
home truth that friend or near-relative
hurls at them in the heat of anger.
It is those who live closest to us who know
our weak spots best, and where they can
strike with deadliest aim. No stranger can
hurt us as they can, and when they drag to
the light some defect that we thought hid
den; when they remind us Of some failure
that rankles; when they shout aloud the
thing that we would rather die than hear,
they deal us a wound that never heals.
This is why family spats are 80 much to
be deplored. People think of them as trifles
and regard as unimportant the little flare
up Of temper in which husband will say
hard and cutting things to his wife, and the
wife will retaliate with cruel, bitter accusa-
lions against him, and the children will vie
with each Otner in brutal candor. Nothing
happens at the time. blanket forgiveness is
supposed to obliterate the whole incident, but
as the man goes about his business, and the
woman her work, and the children their af-
fairs, they are remembering the bitter words
that have been said to them, and resentment,
and hatred slowly springs up in their souls
to take the place of love.
Surely IL We realize how little we are for
given we would be more careful in SHINING
against our fellow creatures. For no matter
how sorry we are for what we have done, the
best we can ge. is new line of credit. the
old debt still stands against us.
Copyright, 1921 by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-27
THE YOUNG LADY
COMMUNISTS
BY DR.. Frank Crane

You never realize how utterly absurd and
non-American all this Social Revolution-Prole-
tariat-ClasS Revolt stuff is till you get over
into Europe where it belongs.
| am in Europe. Here is where they wrote
it. Glass is the worlds middle name over here
They breathe it. The big bugs on top and the
little bugs beneath both take it seriously.
And to an American, brought up in the Mid
die West, it is just funny. He can hardly
imagine what the devil they are making such a
stew about.
But, then, these people for generations have
been awed by the little tin gods of ariStocracy.
KaiSerS have Strutted before them, Cars have
terrified them, Kings, Dukes, Counts, Lord High
Muckamucks and Pooh Bahs have lived off of
them and kicked them around and you can
not blame them for muttering and plotting and
chucking an occasional friendly bomb into the
Palais Royal.
But how they think they can import that sort
of Limburger Cheese rebellion idea into the
u. S. A.. and sell it, is too much for me to
understand.
For instance, l have just been reading a
poster got out by "The National Federation of
Young Lady Communists" DOUBTLESS, Gle
mert Vautel observes, there are first, second
and third degrees of youth among ladies.) And
this particular piece of propaganda fireworks
says among other things
against bourgeois miitariSm
against pacifiSmI
"For arming the proletaratl"
These young ladies are about as consistent
as you might expect. They will have nothing
to do with pacfiSnl, any sort, by anybody, from
Jesus Christ to Victor Hugo. A has pacifiSm!
But
Let the Proletariat arml That means the
workers.
In the United States that would mean pretty
near everybody for not per cent of our pop
uation are professional loaferS, either in Palm
Beach hotels or in box cars and hay mows.
The spectacle of a subway train full of folks
going to work at or A. NJ, each carrying
revolver in his hip pocket, or a gat in her
bag, perhaps sword on, and possibly a Bowie
knife in his or her teeth, would be highly edify-
ing.
All department store girls would carry
bombs to blow up fat millionaires who snub
them.
Factory hands would stack their guns before
going to work, and insist on an hour off every
afternoon to practice shooting grocerS bankers
lawyers, writers and other bourgeois.
All this doubtless appeals to youth. Boys
all like to play soldier and girls all love the
military. When | was young the present
most wanted for Christmas was something
could shoot off.
So down with pacifiSm! And down with
militariSm, that is, bourgeois militariSm, mean
ng police and regular SolderS
And long live comic opera and revolution
md the proletariat
AS Aunt Martha would say
ShuckS
copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-27
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF
BABES

"Oh, mamma" exclaimed Hazel. "I've got
an awful pain! Won't you please give me a
big dose of that medicine with sugar in it?
Quick, mamma, before the pain goes away!"
Edwin had been kept in the house all after
noon for being naughty, and toward evening
he said, Mamma, l wish we lived in fiat"
why, Edwin" queried his mother.
Because" answered the little fellow,
people who own flats don't allow children
in them"
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-27

\ TEW YORK CITY, Sept. 23.-Teach it
VI by moving pictures instead of by
books!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-27
Editorial Echoes

It would seem that the "invisiD1e empire"
is also transparent-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Statistics show women are spending less
for paint Buying wholesale?-Omaha News.
One drawback to canned daylight is that
it won't keep after sunset.-Toledo Blade.
The international court of justice must
now find some one else to Root for it. New
Orleans Times-Picayune
Harding Plays Golf, Then Steams Away
Headline. The weather has been hot.-Mo-
bile Register.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-27

Copyright, 1924, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-27

We suggest feeding the new polar expedi-
tions garlic so relief parties can find them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-04-22

your
mo; didn't have a chance-not
any real chance"
'Then somebody else told him. jim
mic; and that is the reason he has
resigned and gone away. Mr.. Van
Britt thinks it was on account o. the
two messages from Mr.. Chadwick
and MIR. Dunton, and that is why he
wants to talk to you about 1t. But
you know. and I know, Jimmie, dear ;
and for Cousin Sheila's sake and Mr..
Norcross, we must never lisp 1t to a
human soul. A new general manager
has been appointed, and he is on his
way out here from New York. Every
thing has gone to pieces on the rail-
road, and all Of MIR. Norcross' friends
are getting ready to resign. Isn't it
perfectly heart-breaking?'
1t was; it was so heart-breaking
that I just gasped once or twice and
went off the hooks again. with Maisie
AIMS frightened little shrek ringing
in my ears as she tried to hold me
back from slipping over the edge.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-04-22
CLEANUP COMMITTEE
BEGAN WORK MONDAY

First thing to ctu weeds and NOW
parking strips. Penalty for not cut
ting the weeds.
Yesterday began the big cleanup
campaign. The committee having the
matter in charge are at work urging
all owners Of private property to cut
their weeds, and NOW their parking
strips.
Already they have provided a PEN
atty for failure to cut the unsightly
weeds, and clean up the refuse on
vacant lots. The city will go ahead
and hire the work done, and the
property owner will pay the bill.
No penalty has been provided for
failure to NOW lawns, and parking
strips, but some measure will be de-
vised to enforce the requirements Of
clean city.
Property owners will not be al
lowed to forget that this is the OPEN
ing day Of the cleap-up.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-04-22
eYNopsis.

CHAPTER I-Graham Norcross, rail.
road manager. and his secretary, Jimmie
Dodds. are marooned at Sand Creek sid
ing with q young lady, sheila Macrae.
and her small cousin. Unseen, they wit
ness g. peculiar train holdup, In which
. special car is carried of.
CHAPTER II.-Norcross recognizes the
car stolen as John Chadwick's, financial
:, Aagnate, whom he was to meet at Portal
1 City. He and Dodds rescue Chadwick.
The latter offers Norcross the manager
eh1p Of the Pioneer Short Line, which Is
In the hands Of eastern spectators.
headed by Breckenridge Dunton, pres!-
dent Of the line. Norcross learning that
eheila Macrae 10 stopping at Portal City.
accepts.
CHAPTER III.-Dodds overhears con-
versation between Rufus Hatch and Gus
tave Henckel, Portal City fnanciers. In
which they admit completely in Chadwick
kidnapping. their object being to keep
Chadwick from attending meeting Of
directors to reorganize the Pioneer Short
Line. which would jeopardize their inter-
ests.
CHAPTER IV.-To curb the monopoly
controlled by Hatch and Henckel, the Red
Tower corporation, Norcross forms the
C1tsens' Storage and Warehouse COM
pany. He begins to manifest q deep In
terest In 6heila Macrae. Dodds learns
that Sheila Ii married, but living apart
from her husband. Norcross does not
know this.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-04-22

that $1,650.50 was collected during
the Christmas seal sale in December,
county league made their quota.
The report as submitted by Mrs.
Charles Lindley, secretary, for the
quarter ending December 81, 1920.
and March 81, 1921. show total
expenditures of S1,057.O0 in treat
ment and relief of tuberculosis VIC
tins for the two periods, leaving the
league with balance of $SS4.63 at
the end of the March quarter.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-04-22
CHAPTER VI
What Every Man knoWs-

What Every Man knows-
wasn't gone very long on this Sec
ond excursion into the woozy-woozies,
though 1t was nighttime, and the
shaded electric light was turned on
when l opened my eyes and found
Mrs. Sheila sitting by the bedside.
The change in Mrs. Sheila sort Of
made me gasp. She wasn't any less
pretty as she sat there with her hands
clasped in her lap, but she was diff.
ferent; sober. and with the laugh all
gone out of the big gray eyes, and a
look in them as If she had suddenly
become so wise that nobody could
ever fool her.
"You are feeling better now?" she
asked, when she found me staring at
her.
told her I guessed I was. but that
my hand hurt me some.
"You have had great shock of some
kind-besides the burn, Jimmie" she
rejoined. folding up the bed covers so
that the bandaged hand would rest
easier. "The doctors are all puzzled.
Does your head feel quite clear now
so that you can think?"
1T feels as IL had a crazy clock
in It," said. "But the thinking part
is all right. Have you heard any
thing from Mr.. Norcross YETI"
"Not a word. We have been hop
ing that you could tell US something
when you should recover sufficiently
to talk. Can't you. Jimmie?"
Remembering what Maisie Ann had
told me just before I went off the
hooks, I thought I might tell her a
lot II I dared to. But that wouldn't
do. So just said:
" told Maisie Ann all I knew about
Mr.. Norcross. He left the Office some
little time before did-with Mr.. Rip
ley. I didn't know where they were
going"
"They went to the hotel" she helped
out. Mr. Ripley says they sat in the
lobby until after ten o'clock, and then
Mr.. Norcross went up to his rooms"
OF course, knew that Mr.. Ripley
knew all about the Hatch ruction ;
but II he hadn't told her, wasn't 60
ing to tell her.
''There was some trouble in con-
nection with Mr.. Hatch that evening.
wasn't there?" she asked.
"Hatch had some trouble-yes. But
I guess the boss didn't have any," I
replied.
'ATell me about It," she commanded ;
and ! told her Just as little as could /;
how Hatch had had an interview WITT
the boss earlier in the evening, while
was away.
ut wasn't a quarrel?" she suggest
ed.
"Why should they quarrel?"
asked.
She shook her head. "You are spar
ring with me, Jimmie, in some mis-
taken idea Of being loyal to Mr.. Nor
cross. You needn't, you know. Mr.
Norcross has told me all about hi
plans; he has even been generou!
Continued on Page Six.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-04-22

DR.. and Mrs. Paul Turner of Seat
tie drove to Olympia yesterday to
spend few days here. DR.. Turner
is director of health under the new
civil administrative code They are
registered at the Hotel Olympian.