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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26

THE children at the seashore hotel
L are all brown and rosy and sturdy
and vigorous.
Except Little Alicia. !
They all 90 down on the beach every
morning and dig in the sand and run
about in the sun and get their feet
wet and get scolded for 1t.
Except Little Alicin.
After that they all get into red or
blue or pink and white bathing suits
md you can hear their squeals OF
delight and excited Joy as they all
go into those fearsome, wonderful waves.
Except Little Alicia.
How they all do ent after that!
How they laugh and tnl k! How they
all hurry to get through with their
resting, into their fresh clothes and
down on the beach again for that long
afternoon Of playing on the sand.
Except Little Alicia.
Suppertime, and another big meal.
They all tell Mother about what
they've been doing nll day, and they
all try and try to stay awake longer
than they should.
But somehow the sand has got into
their eyes while they were down there
on the beach, and before they knew 1t
they are HI 1NSt asleep ket'lHk iSS"y -
another beautiful, healthful day at the
seashore.
Except Little Alicia.
DUT little Allcia's day isn't bit like
Dthat.
Little Alicia sleeps late, and eats
little.
She doesn't play with the other
children on the beach.
She sits quietly under the tent where
her TOYS are, and she stares listlessly
at the toys and the sand and the other
children.
There is no rose that mounts up under
her eyclashes beneath the faint tan that
the sun has brought to her pale cheeK'.
And little Alicia never gets into d
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26

CAN YOU TELL LvSArry. A WOMAN HOW TO
county, p9lit!esI ,sastrs. 70 YOU think a
Constance DreSel VIII give you some point.
srs on this subject In her articles which
fSsss.. Ssis s1s Ass, G.aias aTX9ss. f''I''
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Monday-"Why Does the SSt%t' pIa,'
Appear to Move When We Are "~1
on q Train?"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-03-09
ISABEL OSTRANDRRD - -

-
an enemy in the world Sergeant
Barry, find me the guilty manp
She disappeared on the veranda,
and Barry made his way slowly to-
ward the bacRsfoor AS he reached
the back porch, still deeply engrossed
in his meditations, Louise met him
in a little fiutter of renewed excite
ment.
IF you please, Sergeant Barry,
Frank and the sheriff are down be-
hind the garage. Frank called out
to me to run and find you as quick
as | could. He says he's got some
thing to show your
lie neared the garage. A subdued
shout greeted him.
Look aat this. The .sherif,s
voice was triumphant. "How's that
Tor the thing the numbering wretch
used to convey that carbon monoxide
to the house in?"
A tomato plant, frame and all. was
Iylng on its side in the soft loan.
winch had been heaped in a circular
mound about a shallow hole. In it
lay large tin oil can to which a
length of thin but strong rubber tub
ing had been attached, and from. both
there came stencil of the same
fumes which Barry had detected
when he examined the gas mask.
He took the thing up and seruli.
nlzed it carefully, then looked into
the faces of the two men.
The sound of footsteps crunchng
on the gravel path elading from the
house made the sheriff turn and
whisper iercely:
Here comes Clayton and the lame
ffeller. Look sharp and get that can
| into the tool house back of the gar
age, Frank We don't want them
shopping into this business Just vet. -
Frank obeyed hastily. As he de-
parted, Barry asked:
What is this bunch Of Franks
that he is on the track of that fellow
we've been looking for-the one who
took his suit of clothes?"
"Well"-the sheriff's tone was not
enthusiastic he's come on a place
where the woods and the beach meet.
and he says there are signs of a
little fire having been built, and
chicken bones lying about. The
woods are thicker there than here.
He heard something come creeping
through the bushes, but it must have
seen him first, for it plunged off
again. ssa 81 ,4s.
~, Frank probably stumbled on
some picnic place. remarked Barry.
And that noise might have been a
stray dog"
Animals don't take off their
clothes and try to burn en-" re-
torted Halse. He saw near the re-
mains of that fire a charred bit of
grayish flannel, and it had some bits
of red cloth, just narrow strips,
sewed onto it like the beginning of
letters or numbers"
What's that?" A quick, incisive
voice spoke 50 close to them in the
darkness that the sheriff Jumped
1t was Captain Warrens voice
which had interrupted him, but the
tones were quite unlike those which
| Barry had heard before. They had
raspei out in stern command, and
the sheriff gulped and started his
story anew.
The five men were so deeply en-
crossed in their plans that none of
them noted slender, dark-clad little
figure wh:ch lowered just beyond the
Wavering light of the wantern and
which now drew closer.
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Continued From Our Last Issue.
CHAPTER X.


CHAPTER X.
Dropped" exclaimed Barry. Mrs.
Tudor, you cannot mean itH''
II was never more sane in my
life, sergeant. Will you come this
! way?"
Although she trembled in every
limb she did not falter as she led the
way into the now cleared dining
room.
''LaurePs death is the deepest
grief which life could ever bring to
me, sergeant. But if this search is
carried through it will bring to us
who are left that which is worse than
death itself, shame and dis
gracep'
"But my dear Mrs. Tudor, it is a
criminal ease and the murderer must
answer to the law, whether you de
sire it or not"
-"You can stop the inquiry even
now if you will. Coroners can be
bought off, sheriffs sent out of the
country with sums that will make
them independent for life, doctors
can be suborned-"
Gust moment, Mrs. Tudor"
Barry's voice was suddenly stern
What are you offering me for all
this?"
She passed wisp of handkerchief
across her lips and answered un-
steadily.
II have-have great influence at
my disposal. If you like your work
you can rise easily and quickly in
your profession! You can be the
commissioner of New York with the
next administration if you wish, or
high in the secret service"
stop" he demanded. 'If you
were a man, Mrs Tudor, you would
not have dared utter those words to
me! would no more compound a
felony than | would commit murder
myselfw
She covered in her chair, and with
a little moan stretched out her arms
to him upon the table.
1"Oh, will you not be merciful?
Can nothing move your" she cried in
a low, thrilling tone.
f'Mrs. Tudor Barry, too, bent
across the tablet will relieve your
mind at ence if you will only trust
nay word This will, j hope, tighten
your suffering, Your niece did not
lill your daughter" 4,,s ,4,s,
The woman stared att him, wide
eyed.
"She didn't?' Her voice was a
mere teneless breath. "But the
proof
There is not an atom of proof
against her" Barry spoke smoothly.
Not even the motive remains, for
can assure you that she has abso-
lutely forgotten her old attachment
for Lieutenant Cadmus; moreover, /
have reason to believe that she is in
love with another man."
Another mani ," Into Mrs. Tu-
dOI > uulicu eyes licIe Cdlilt d Blc1thi
of hope. why, Sergeant, how can
you know? 1t cannot ben
But am convinced it is true, and
am sure that he loves her also.
Miss Fay is utterly innocent of any
completely in the death of your
daughter"
Mrs. Tudor had miraculously re-
covered her poise and possession.
Il shall not ask you the name of
the man." She smiled family You
don't know what burden you have
lifted from my heart, Sergeant Bar
ny! When !. thought her guilty you
will understand that wanted to
shield her at all costs"
81 know" Barry paused in the
doorway eve will forget every syl-
liable of the conversation which has
just taken place, Mrs. Tudor"
"Thank you" She held out her
hand with pretty little gesture of
gratitude. "You have proven real
friend. But since-since she is not
guilty, who is? My Laurel hadn't
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-03-09

This display Of DRESSES comes in just the right time
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Full of sizes and all in the shades Many Of
them combination styles, such Mohawk black
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Wicked Men Cannot
Bride God By Prayer

God grant you salvation by your
faith in Jesus and then you can
pray God for a blessing and he will
give It to you. Pray that PRAYER
first. then the blessing will CONC
God WON'T hear when pride and sci
fishness are the main spring.
There are cases where wicked
men pray in their extremity. every
body prays sometime. II you have
not prayed, you will pray, ara
some OF you may pray before the
grass turns much greener and Re.
fore the leaves bud and flowers
bloom. You will pray; everybody
will pray.
There are cases where wicked
man and wicked women have pray
ed in their extremity, not because
they were sorry they were sinners,
not because they were longing IN
their hearts to know God, but be-
cause they hoped they could bride
God by the prayer, and that God
wouldn't damn them although they
had lived life of sin.
That is why they prayed, think.
ing that they could bride God and
escape the trouble they have
brought on themselves because
they had lived in sin. They didn',
pray because they were sorry
they were sinners and wanted to
do right and serve the Lord. No,
because God won't hear selfish
prayer. m
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TODAY'S BEST STORY
In BILLY'S SERMON

Some of you have got new
mind and new affection in you, ana
a new will in you, and new no
tives; you are going (. do new
things to please God and dispIease
the devil. Like a friend of mine,
who lived out on the Ohio river and
there was an old steamboat down
there that used to trail all the res.
of the crafts on the river, and one
day they missed her and everybody
wondered where their old friend
was. She didn't show up for
month, and one day they heard her
famous old siren whistle, and size
came in there glistening in the
afternoon sun like a woman scin
tillating in jewels. She was paint.
ed from her smokestack to her
keel, and everythingshined up, and
she had bone in her teeth, ard
she was leading all the craft on
the Ohio. They assembled around
the dock and said:
"HeIlo, Captain, we are Glad to
see you. Now we know why she
came in ahead of the others, she's
got new coat of paint on. "
Take another guess" said TIE
captain.
shes got new engine"
She had a new engine, so she
had new force and new power.
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pie of this city. They failed, and be-
cause they failed, we can learn how
to succeed, for we can learn what
made them fail and then unless we
are fools we will avoi d the same
thing. That is the whole proposition.
If you know that drinking impure
water gave your neighbor typhoid
fever, you are big fool to go and
drink the same kind of water, because
it will do the same thing for you.
Causes of Failure
of Many Persons.
Now then, when we see what causes
so many people to fail, why are so
many people such fools as to go and
do the same thing? The man who
will go in and spend all his money on
drink knows it will hasten his ruin.
And the girl who goes down with that
wild gang and dances and sits around
and hits the booze, she knows it
causes the ruination of three-fourths
of the five hundred thousand pros
titutes in the country, and that it will
just do for her what it does for the
rest of them Why, they think that
the man that stands up and warns
them is their enemy, he is the best
IU6y ever IlSltneu u. >
trying to put them next.
] don't want your virtue. am not
looking for your money. ! want to
warn you of the other fellow that
does want it. don't want your
money, am trying to warn you Of
somebody else that does want it. ]
don't want it. | want your soul and
God wants your soul, he wants you to
live right. ! am trying to teach you
how.
l am glad to know that the dis
ciples knew they had failed, halle
lujah, and | am glad they were dis
satisfied with the fact that they had
failed and l am glad to know that
they wanted to learn how to succeed.
There is hope for the fellow who has
lost his way and is anxious about II.
There is little hope for the fellow who
thinks he is right and keeps right on
until he stumbles over the cliff down
into the canyon. They knew they
had failed and fallen short of doing
what the disciples of Jesus should 90
Over shooting gallery out in
Butte, Montana, friend of mine saw
this sign, eff you can't find out why
you miss, you will never hit the bulls
eye"
| If you can't find out why you fail
YOU will never succeed. If you have
| MT got sense enough to know what
| made you fail you will never succeed
Find out. That is true of every life
| in the world. The doctor doesn'f
give the medicine until he finds oui
what is the matter. That is why hi
| does it.
Find Out Why
You Failed.
/, The first step to success is to fine
out that you have failed. The secont
step is to find out why you failed
Are you making a failure of you
Christian life? Are you no good
Well, there is a reason for 1t. Thi
is not world of chance. God don
wind it up and then throw the Ike,
away and let her rip till she run
down. Nothing comes by accident
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There Is cause for everything.
There is a cause for that light blaZ-
ing above my head-the dynamo and
the wire brings it in here. If you are
sick, there is cause. The doctor
finds out the cause, removes that and
you will get well. The same as
flower is proof that somebody put d
seed in the garden, that oak is proof
that there was an acorn planted
You are sick, there is a reason for
it in the world. Therefore, if you
are not holding your own as a Christ
ian there is a reason. If you are
immoral, there is reason. If you
are an infidel, there is a reason. Find
out!
That is what we are trying to help
you do. Am / the kind of Christian
that Christ wants me to be? Am
hurting the devils business by the
way | live? Am | making a failure
serving the Lord? If SO, why? Is there
any reason l can't live the way God
wants me TO live? Don't | pray
enough? Don't / read the Bible
enough? If you are Sunday school
teacher, are you succeeding? Are
you teaching a lesson to make it read
or just to kill time till the bell rings?
If you are a preacher, are your SER
mons SO much hot air or do they make
the Felix's and Aggrippas that sit in
the audiences squirm and tremble and
cry out,
Much learning hath made you
mad Thou almost persuadest ME to
! be a Christian
Works Hard For
Christ's Cause.
| Do | get my Bible wide open when
preach? Do / get my sermons
! from the word of God? Are you
| DRAWN G people to God? Are you
doing more for the church than the
organ and the bell or the janitor
Are you in the pulpit because God
! wants you there, or because you have
got pull with the officials and they
keep you there? How do you know
! What am | preaching? Am I max.
! ing it easier for people to do righJ
and harder to do wrong? Am ! cast
ing out devils? If the church isn't
casting out devils, is it because there
are no devils in people to cast out
What is the trouble? / tell you il
the church throughout the world, il
the church in this city will get dowr
on her knees and ask, why could
not we cast him out the devil anC
the white SLAYER will work harder
than they do for all they get.
Why? Why? Come on back to the
text a minute. why could not We
cast him OUT"
Jesus Christ said, This kline
cometh not forth but by prayer ant
fasting"
That is all he said, that was enough
They understood That put then
wise, that gave them all the ligh
they needed and it made each on
look into his heart and what he say
!, in there made him speeches., for h
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he wouldn't meet with any more re.
spect. He wouldn't get a better re-
ception from the people of this city
than he did at that day He had a
hard time when he was on earth, and
no matter what your lot, he will have
compassion on you and help you.
IF thou canst." He wanted the
help for his child he was helpless and
his need found expression in his pray
er. And can you imagine Jesus turn
ing a deaf ear to a man like that?
1t is unthinkable and you can't find
a place in the Bible where cry went
up for help that God refused to grant
There Is No Failure
With Jesus Christ.
There was no failure with Jesus
The demon might defy the disciples
but not Jesus Christ. Jesus not only
cast the devil out, but barred the door
against his ever going in again
Il charge you, come out of him
and enter no more into him." and
God not only will cast a devil out
of people, but will lock all doors Sc
the devil can never get in again. He
will drive the drunken devil out Of
man and keep the drunken devil Out
of him. He will drive the licentiouy
devil out and keep him out and he will
drive the internal devil out and keer
him out. He will not only cast hin
out but say, "You can't go in again"
Il command you, come out, ant
enter no more into him.
In spite of the failure of the dis
ciples. that demon would never trou
/ BILE him again. No matter what 9th
er troubles might come, that demon
would mover trouble him, though HI
might bear the scars to his dying day
Goodbye to the demon.
! The deepest sorrows ever know
are those that come to you through
your own flesh and blood. The deep
est sorrow that comes to d wife i
the sorrow her husband brings. TIL,
deepest sorrow to man is the sor
row his wifi brings, or to parent
the sorrow their children bring. TIL,
deepest sorrow that comes to human
are those that come to you through
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full works, heard what he taught, and
received his explanation to his teach
ing, and it would never have entered
my mind that the disciples could have
known the same heart-aches that we
know today, and we are apt to think
that they were chosen vessel of a
choicer mold and that then enjoyed
perfection which is not ours.
That isn't true. What God did for
them he can do for you today if you
will do what they did. What God
did for them he will do for the peo-
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don't believe meeting was ever held that
somebody didn't come there with a devil in
him that ought to go home with a devil out Of
him. That is just as sure as you breathe
Do you know what binders revival? Do
you know what kills the church today? 1t
isn't the whiskey business, dirty, rotten, in
famous, vile, contemplate sinking, degrad-
ing. infesting, injecting, poluting, mildewing,
like a pestilence with no decent thing to be
said about it. 1t isn't that curse that gang,
vile 1t is; it isn't the wickedness in the
slums and the submerged tenements; it isn't
RIGHTEOUSNESS my friends, OH it is the quar-
relling envy, strife, jealousy, dissension, sell
fishness, that kills the spirit of prayer upon
the souls of men,
say it to the eternal disgrace of the human
race, nobody had a harder time than
Jesus Christ.
The deepest sorrows that come to humans
are those that come to you through your own
flesh and blood.
If you haven't got sense enough to know
Find out! The doctor doesn't give medicine
until he finds out what is the matter
You've got to take sides. Make up your
minds whether you're going to be decent or
not. It's up to you, not to me.
l think that God is too busy to pay any at
tention to the fellow who is trying to lift him
self by his own bootstraps.
1t is as impossible to pray right when your
life is wrong as it is to run an automobile
with dishwater. 1t can't be did!
There is nothing to show that God Almighty
will do anything out of common to help a
| fool. MOI
This is not world of chance God don't
wind it up and then throw the key away and
let her rip till she runs down. Nothing comes
by chance.
Christianity is not simply a creed
| Christianity is creed plus Jesus Christ
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mark of gratitude for God casting the
body being stingy after all that God
has done for them in feeding and
clothing and giving us air to breathe
and water to drink and making life
worth whilei Imagine having to
work so hard to- get people to be de-
cent. If to be a Christian meant to
be disreputable, ! wouldn't expect
any of you to be, but when it means
to be what God wants you TO be, |
haven't any respect for you. Don't
you feel ashamed of yourself? Well,
if you don't, the Lord pity you.
If you have lived as long as you
have and come in here and are not a
Christian. you ought to hang your
head in shame to think that you have
gone through this world and haven't
thrown your influence on the side OF
GCd
While the father and mother were
rejoicing over the deliverance of their
child from the power of the devil and
the neighbors were running in to join
with them, the disciples had gone to
Jesus privately and asked him the
words of my text. why couldn't we
cast him out?"
Now listen! They didn't ask one
another. No. They asked the only
one that could tell them, Jesus.
A preachers meeting is poor place
to find out why you have failed
You can't get any light on the sub
ject in any church paper | have ever
read. You don't have to read books
to find out what your weak spots are
Take your heartaches and do as the
disciples did, go to Jesus. and ask why
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you failed and he will tell you and
he will tell you how to succeed.
| am glad this lesson was not left
out of the Bible. | am glad we are
told that the disciples failed; | am
glad we are told why they failed If
it had been left out of the Bible, |
never would have dreamed failure
possible to the disciples who had seen
Jesus face to face, lived with him,
seen him as he wrought his wonder
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Todas Hot Epgrams from Billy Sundays Lips With the Sting Still Them

How many misguided, shortsighted preach
ers seem to have their only anxiety in draw
ing crowd. Some of them as crazy after
sensations as the yelowest journal you might
find, and I think that is one reason why the
ministry is degraded by lot of nonsensical
clap-traps as exist outside of the insane asylum
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your own flesh and blood; and the
highest joys that come to you are the
joys that come when your own loved
ones are making good and are decent
and making the world better because
they are living in it.
Imagine that father giving twenty
five cents a year to missions as a
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Remember These

You will get just as much fun out of
coughing into your handkerchief or
coat sleeve as you will coughing out
loud at the tabernacle-and it's much
less disturbing.
Bring all of your children with you
if you must, but leave them at the
nursery in the Friends church beside
the tabernacle. Mrs. H. r. Mcqueen
and corp of competent women are in
charge.
Lee an usher help you find seat.
Avoid floating aimlessly along the
saw-dust trails.
If you can't find a space in which
to park your car on Fifteenth or Six
teenth streets, anchor them at Glen
Miller park.
If you must leave a meeting before
the sermon is over, get out as quickly
and quietly as possible. Don't expect
to get the same seat back if you re-
turn if a few minutes. Ushers have
orders to keep you on the fringe of
the crowd in such an event.
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Program Tuesday Night and Wednesday

ZOO p.m-Song service and sermon.
WEDNESDAY
12:00-Noon meeting at w. N. Johnson plant.
2:30 p. m.-Song service and sermon.
$3.50 p. m.-Meeting of prayer meeting committee.
700 p nl.--Song service and sermon at Tabernacle.