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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01
ATTORNEY AND MRS. FARMER
ENTERTAIN WITH CARD
PARTY

Attorney and Mrs. Walter M. Far
mer, 475l Champlain ave-, gave a card
party in honor of Mrs. Minnie NAL
Tory of Kansas City, Mo-, at their
home Saturday evening, August 18th.
Among the out-of-town guests present
were Mrs. Ray, Topeka, Kansas; Mrs
Blonden, Germantown, Pa; Mrs,
Dixon, New York; Mrs. Walter Can
non, Of St. Louis, and Miss Clayton,
Ohio.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01
BAILEY MEETS MANY OLD
FRIENDS

M. 7. Bailey, Of the Bailey Realty
Co., member Of the National Negro
Press Association, 1888 S. State ST..
met many old friends while in attend
ance Of the Elks' convention and for
sock all business matters in the city
and suburbs to entertain the many
brother and sister Elks who came
from cities all over the U. 5.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01
THE OLD SETTLERS CLUB

The Old Settlers Social Club OF
indianapolis, Ind, celebrated their 9th
anniversary recently BY giving a picnic
and in the evening a fine program.
They especially invited their organizer
and first president, Mrs. M. E. Nc
Clure, she remaining over another
week for the Shriners Grand Sessions
the following week, and from there
she went to Decatur, where she at
tended Eureka Grand Chapter.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01
CALLS ON THE PRESIDENT

Washington.-W. H. Lewis, Of Bos-
ton, Assistant Attorney-General under
President Taft, called upon President
Coolidge last week. Mr.. Lewis was
the first colored man named to the
position OF Assistant Attorney-General
He was delegate TO the Republican
National Convention in 1920. and at
tended Amherst College with Mr.
Coolidge.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01
MEET AFTER MANY YEARS

After separation Of eight years, =
brother and sister were united this
week. Because Of the meeting Of the
Grand Lodge OF the Elks in this city.
Mr.. Frank Carr Of Washington. d. c.,
and his sister Mrs. Abigail Carr
Streeter, 5s28 Indiana ave. were hap
PLY brought together again.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01
MISS JOHNSON VISITING
FRIENDS

Miss Rhoda M. Johnson, Quincy,
ILL.,, who is public school teacher OF
Kansas City, Kansas, is in the city in
attendance Of the Elks' convention and
while here is the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. H. Young, ALA Calumet ave.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01
RETURN TO VIRGINIA

The Misses T. B. Whiting and +. B.
Anderson, who have spent the past
winter and summer terms at the Chi
cago University, returned to Peters
burg, Virginia where they expect to
take up their duties as teachers.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01
RETURNS TO ALTON

After spending an enjoyable time
making flying trips to other cities and
suburbs and visiting friends in this
city, Mrs. Eliza Williams returned to
her home in Alton, III.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01

DR.. Olive M. Officer and her daugh-
tiers. Mercedes and Lavergne, left the
city last week to visit friends in St.
Paul, Mimi, and Helena, and Yellow
stone Park, Salt Lake City, Utah,
Manoto, Pixies Peak and Denver, Col,
and other places, will return home BY
September 18th.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01
ENJOYED STAY AT IDLEWILD

Mrs. Ellen Kinney, ACCOMPANIED BY
Mrs. Eliza Williams Of Alton, ILL.,,
were in Idlewild during the last ten
days and heartily enjoyed their stay.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
MALE HELP

COLORED Men wanted to qualify
for sleeping car and train porters.
Experience unnecessary. Transports
ton furnished. Write T. McCaffrey,
Supt., ST. Louis, No.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01

Mr. and Mrs Walter NJ. Farmer.
475I Champlain avenue. left Tuesday.
in their handsome new Ford car. for
St. Charles, Ill, where they viii spend
their two weeks vacation
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01
MRS. DAY IN MISSISSIPPI

Mrs. Corie Day, $40 Ellis ave-, is
now in Orrville, Miss, where she is
visiting her mother and other rela-
tives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-04

dow, where he stood looking out upon the street. His mind was busy with the prob lem confronting him. He realized that to prove the truth of Nerissa Selden's state ments would be well-nigh an impossbility. He abhorred the necessity for revealing his reasons for the recent cross-examnation, and he dreaded the terrible days which in- evitably must follow for her while the law took it's slow and merciless course toward ultimate justice as made apparent by the evidence in the sensational case. But through it all he saw himself at her side, en- couraging and upholding her during her martyrdom
 The girl must be informed of her fathers death and the charge menacing her with out delay. Just how to open the subject in the most delicate way he was at loss to de- termine She came to his rescue in an un- expected way. Advancing timidly to his side, she rested one hand on his arm in a supplicating manner.
 "Gordon," she said plaintively, q know I have done wrong-have been willful but you do believe father will forgive me after tell him all? You will see that he forgives me, will you not?"
 "God help us, little girl"' The words were torn from Bristow's aching throat "He is past forgiving-he is dead"
 For a moment the lawyer feared his words had been fatal. The girl did not cry out, but her face turned ashen and there came into her eyes dumb, stricken look that smote his heart. Then suddenly her form relaxed and she slid weakly, help lessly into his arms.
 Gently the lawyer placed her on couch near the window. Seating himself beside her, he chafed her cold, nerveless hands feverishly. He could not speak. Something that rose within him choked back the words that fought for utterance. Had she wept it would have been different. But what lay in his power that could assuage that stolid, passionless grief?
 With his heart aching as never before.
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ner brief and comprehensive message re- garding events which had transpired since the telephonic conversation of the night be- fore. After the telegram had been dis patched he felt little or no uneasiness as to the outcome of the affair.
 There was left that phase of the mys- tery regarding Miss Wrightston. If followed diligently it might be, productive of start ling results. He resolved to take it up im- mediately upon his return to Laurens.
 Vignolos undoubtedly would join him in the Indiana city. He depended upon the reporter in great measure. Nerissa's tes- timony regarding her thrilling experience in the hands of the Crimson Circle would be discredited he knew. His own, on account of his personal interest in the beautiful prisoner, undoubtedly would be sadly neu- tralized by the prosecution. But Vignolos could have no ulterior motive in substan- tiating the statements of both Bristow and Miss Selden. That was the one ray of hope that banished the most fearsome shadow of the despair that sought control of his mind.
 There was no telling, either, what could be forced from the housekeeper and Dr. Craig. He could not but think that the old physician knew more than he had divulged about the connection of the woman with her dead employer He mentally promised both hectic period of cross examination at the hands of Colonel BaGnbridge who, he believed, would appear as active counsel for the accused girl.
 Then there had been the girls grand father and uncle, if such in reality was the relationship of the men who had lured her from her home. They remained to be dealt with The Cincinnati police were hunting the pair, and probably within few hours they would be apprehended. Were they forced to corroborate the girls testimony, much of the discriminating detail would be swept away.
 No, he concluded with a sigh of relief, the facts were not so black as they might be. But it meant work for him and for her
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story of his adventures with the Italians, stunning vainly the disclosures that were inevitable.
 "Gordon," she said responsibility, "you are withholding something from me. Your agitation over the purple ponard and the brooch was so marked that it could not they with the death of my father?"
 "Your father was-murdercdw
 "Murdered Those wretches-"
 w-you have been-accusedw he forced himself to say.
 'I-I murder my father! Who is the author of such an infamous charger"
 The words burst from Nerissa's lips. Bristow was astonished at the transforma- tion in her. She sat up erectly, feverish glow mantling her face and her eyes spark ling with indignation.
 'Why do they believe me guilty of this monstrous crime?" she demanded in tone that brooded no equivocation.
 "Your brooch-the one you have told me was stolen from you-was found entangled in your fathers beard," responded the law yer, surrendering himself to the inevitable. Furthermore, Dr. Selden was stabbed through the head with poniard. Miss Wrightstone at the inquest identified the brooch as yours and said she believed the deed to have been committed with the pur- pie poniard you kept in your desk. The dagger could not found. She also testi- fled that you quarreled with your father on the night of the murder, using bitter and threatening lanpuage All these thinps coupled with your mysterious flight in the dead of night, combined to bring from the Coroner's jury an accusation against you"
 She wrung her hands in helpless, irreso- lute way. "There seems no way out. The poniard is. gone, the brooch unquestionably is mine and 1 cannot account for it's being where it was found. My story is so bizarre that no sane man would believe it for a moment. There is no evidence to corrobo- rate it. Oh. Gordon. what shall do?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-04

Bristow sat silently zing down upon the pallid, piteous face that, as he looked, seemed to age and grow haggard, consum- ing grief that possessed her. At last she spoke.
 Gordon" her voice was hollow and strained, lis it-can it-be true?"
 He nodded. Before the unutterable an- guish in her face and voice he was speech less still.
 Tell me-teil me all abou. it." she went on. "When-how did it happen?"
 He hesitated. How could he add to the terrible burden of grief he already had inn posed upon her? Yet the truth must be told. Mastering his emotion as best he could, he told her how Dr. Selden had been found dead by his housekeeper the pre- vious morning and of the hunt for her. In- sistently he clung to the repition of his
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Ut is best" he replied gently, but his heart sank as he pictured what home- coming it would be for her.
 She arose and rearranged her attire. q am ready, she said. q trust everything to you" |
 Silently they passed out of the hotel and crossed to the station. Fortunately, they had but few moments to wait for train. Soon they were seated and waiting to be borne back to the scenes of darkness that lay in the immediate but uncertain future.
 Bristow never forgot that terrible ride. It seemed as though the train moved at a snail's pace. Nerissa sat beside him, her head bowed despondently. At last the ap- pearance of the landscape without the car window told him they were approaching Laurens He prepared her gently for what was to follow.
 "You probably will be taken into custody as soon as we arrive" he said.
 She shuddered. "You will remain with me till it is all overw she asked appealingly.
 q will never desert you," was his con- vincing reply.
 With contented sigh she sank back in her seat and did not speak again until the train had whistled for the stop. Then she looked up, gratitude and inquiry dispelling the unutterable misery in her eyes.
 "Gordon," she whispered tremulously, 'it is so good of you to believe in me when all the world may think me guilty of fathers death. It seems impossible! Do you-'
 He responded sI know in my heart you did not do it and I will clear you of the charge if it is within human power to do so.
 The train drew up at the station and there was hurried exodus of passengers. Bristow wisely refrained from leaving his seat until the aisle was we'll cleared. Then he arose.
 Come he said, an odd catch in his voice. "We are home."
 Like an obedept, trusting child she arose
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''Your course is plainly blocked out by fate," he replied respectfully. "There is nothing to do but return to Laurens and face the charge. Flight would be con- fession of guilt. I-I will do everything can for you. There are so many little technicalities of the law that I have hopes of delaying the trial until evidence, proving your innocence shall have been unearthed"
 His mind went back over every phase of the case, seeking any and every way out of the dilemma. But every avenue of imme- diate, escape for her seemed closed. She must return and submit to arrest and im- prisonment for weary weeks or months. He, as we'll, was not immune, since the germ of suspicion had been implanted in the pub lie mind. But he felt that Colonel Bain- bridge could be trusted to look after his interests. He immediately wired his part
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MAGAZINE

tell her that her father had been murdered and that she was suspected of the crime.
 He went back over the story she had told and matching it with the facts as he knew them. Nerissa, he believed, had told the truth. It seemed wildly improbable that she had concocted the whole thrilling story of her adventures. Furthermore, he could corroborate it in many of it's most essential details. He believed that she had gone to her fathers study as she had said and, while there, probably in caressing her father in an effort to coax him into con senting to her trip to the supposed dying grandfather, dropped the discriminating brooch into his beard without either of them being aware of the fact But that che had lost the purple poniard was heavy Now to his framework of defense for her.
 He rose and crossed the room to a win
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other loyal friends-the hardest kind of work. He wondered how many real friends she had.
 But he would try-he would consecrate his life, if need be, to proving Nerissa Sel- den's innocence. Bristow's heart ached for the girl in her terrible ordeal. He longed to pour out to her the thoughts that bur- dened his mind, but his honor forbade him taking advantage of her gratitude and help lessness He must wait until he had proved his right to reward at her hands. He turned again to the girl. She was still upon the couch, but tears had come to her relief. Respecting her grief, he returned to his post at the window. After moment she summoned him to her side in sobbing tone.
 "Gordon." she said piteously, '1et us go home."
The Washington times., 1923-08-01
By FAY KING.

Oy Ia IAA1NUs
Fashions may come and fash
ions may go, but the family
album Is funny forever.
We smoker right out loud when
we lamp pictures of granddad in
collar that looked like the wings
OF an airplane, and a plug topper
held in one hand like Veranda,
with background of hOrsehair
and fringe, which finally we dis
cover is q smart bit of furniture.
Then we turn the page and
tears run down our eyes as we
laugh at dear old Aunt Nell, all
out of shape, impersOnating the
famous Gibson girl.
On top of her head is some
thing that looks like an extra
tire, and 10! it's her famous. pOmpa-
dOre she worked like a galley
slave to get set right over a huge
rat she wore.
LIKE COLLISION VICTIM.
She looks like she had been out
in the rain and warped. Nothing
but a head-On collision could put
anybody in that unfortunate
shape these days.
But you find out it wasn't
rheumatism or spinal trouble but
style she suffered from.
Well, just cut out the smokers
and settle back and sigh. because
Wen look just as funny some
day, too.
Our grandchildren will take
down the rOguish gallery of rela-
tiVes, and when they come to us
that think we are so snappy they
will roar with laughter and won
der what allied us.
CAN'T TELL 'EM APART.
Aunt Irene will look awful
funny with her shoulder hiked
away up under one ear and no
more shape than a cane.
In fact, they won't be able to
tell Aunt Irene from Uncle Rob-
ert in their riding habits.
The curves that were a clue are
decidedly missing.
In fact, even in evening dress
it will be hard to tell whether
it's Aunt Jennie in her famous
black velvet and Tut tuburn or
Uncle Jack i'm his swimming suit
and bathing cap.
They will probably refer to u.s.,
their ancestors. as people who
were very much up in their time.
One always refers to their an
ceStOrs being away up in the
world. No one ever seems to
remember the others.
LIVE IN FLAT AGE.
Of course in New York almost
every one lives up a few flights,
as it will be true enough literally.
I'd love to sneak back in about
six centuries and hear what they
are asking about us that think
we are so smart and so up to
date!
Probably would hear of us re-
feEred to as the brick dwellers Of
the Flat age.
Students will probably be study
ing that flats were SO small we
got that way.
1t will likely be rumOred the
The Washington times., 1923-08-01
COLONIAL BEACH
TOHAVE NEW
BOAT LINE
"commodore" Robertson Or
ganizing Company to Run
2oo-Passenger Yacht.

Commodore" William c. Robert
son, for thirty-five years prominent
in the Potomac river and Chesa.
peake Bay trade, is completing the
organization of a company to put
in commission 200-passenger yacht
10 make daily trips between Wash
ington and Colonial Beach.
Besides the Commodore" who
will be vice-president and general
manager, other prospective officers
or the company are: Wade H.
Cooper Of the Continental Trust
Company, president; George E.
Frazier, secretary; William c.
LOCKER of the District National
Bank, treasurer; and C. H. st. John
OF the Consumers Coal Company
and Lee Walsky, directors.
Robertson has options on several
sea-going yachts, among them the
Lawley, a 175-foot boat with goo
horsepower engines and a speed of
Is knots, capable easily of making
the trip to Colonial Beach each way
In four hours. 1t is proposed to make
trips every day throughout the
season from MAY to October, in
elusive, leaving Washington at 8
Q. m, arriving back in the city at
p. m. The steamer will be
offered for exclusive charters to
The Washington times., 1923-08-01
SEE WAY TO END CRIME
IN ESPERANTO FOR POLICE

NUREMBERG, Aug. 1.-Esper-
anto as a means Of abolishing
crime by making policemen
throughout the world learn it, is
being advocated by the first world
Esperanto congress held in Ger
many since the war.
AS the eighth Catholic Esperanto
Congress and the international
Police Congress are meeting stimuli
taneously this week an effort is
being made to interest the visiting
police to the value of Esperanto
in giving universal lectures and les
SEEMING crime and an Esperanto
dictionary is being furnished all
delegates to the police congress.
The Washington times., 1923-08-01

called-confides. Music, champagne
and Nackttaenzerin.
The man from home is game"
He follows the schlepper and is con-
Quoted to some hole-in-the-wall
where an enterprising German has
rugged up a little cafe.
It NAV be the parlor Of a private
home, rented for the night by the
manager. 1t may be the back room
of a cafe. or tiny lodgeroom.
Whatever the place, the manager
has provided a small orchestra, an
annie supply of German cham
nagne. which he sells at fearful
nrices-and a couple of homely girls,
who dance practically in the alto
pether and then. pass the plate.
ANYONE who has ever heard about
an old-fashioned stag party will
know the kind of dance that is put
on. Not very edifying.
However, the merry Men from
Hone-they're not all Americans
either-there are plenty of Hol
landers, Russians and Scandina
VANS, as well as prosperous Ger
mans from the provinces-eat II
all up.
There seems to be very little Elk
ing here-the old Prussian tradi
ton of loyalty is still strong. Just
as soon as a case Is made the
vice squad comes down like a tor
of brick. And legal expenses devour
profits.
Move Frequently.
To avoid attracting police notice
the managers of these places never
stay very long in one place. They
figure they. can always get away
with it once anywhere, provided
nobody commits bloody murder
while the show is on. Probably
nothing will happen the second
time, but three times is out. The
The Washington times., 1923-08-01
AMERICANS AR
EASY MARK"
|NBERL|N
Providing Thrills for Tourists
Is Profitable Game in Ger
man Capital.
BY international News Service.

BERLIN, Aug. There is one
species of mark" which has not
deprecated. It is as rich in lucra.
tive potentialities as ever.
Providing a thrill for the foreign
Easy Mark"-for that's the one re
ferred to-has become a well.or.
ganized business in this city.
The operation of "all night Joints
for the benefit of simple Americans
is now a science.
why go homer" cries the merry
man from home when, at midnight,
the management of the law-abiding
place indicates that it is time to
close up before the police crash
down. Where do we go from here"
Thirsting for adventure and thrill,
he gets as far as the sidewalk. A
sinking individual standing outside
spots him at once.
Stranger Led On.
Elegant place." the "schlepper"
that's what the street man Ii
The Washington times., 1923-08-01
TRADE DISPUTE CALLED
CHIEF CAUSE OF WARS

wILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. Aug. l..
Trade disputes form the main
cause Of war, William S. gilbert
son vice chairman of the tariff
commission, said at the Williams
College Institute Of Politics. Ma
tiOnal security and the preservation
Of world peace, he added, depended
upon an anIysis Of the economic
basis of society and means Of adj
iusting economic disputes before
they reach the stage Of political
differences between nations
War is not a necessary accom-
paniment of human relationships"
| he said, but the causes of war arc
Embedded in our economic life, and
If they are not removed war fol.
lows inevitably"
The Washington times., 1923-08-01
NAMED VIRGINIA" FOR
BASKETBALL PLAYERS

DEFIANCE, Ohio, Aug. 1.-Sons
in most any town may be named
after the President of the United
States, but to Defiance falls the
distinction of possessing proud
parents whose daughter was chris
tened from three basketball play
ers, all having the given name of
Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl L. Mauck,
ardent basketball fans, have named
their baby Virginia May, honoring
Misses Virginia Lambertson, Vir-
ginia Harley and Virginia Lawson,
all members of the local high
school basketball team.
The Washington times., 1923-08-01
NEW YORK BOY LOST
ON MAINE MOUNTAIN

LEWISTON, Me-, Aug. AL
fred T. Merriam, a Harvard College
junior, son of Alfred Merriam of
New York, and CASTOR Dallendsch,
of Switzerland, are lost on Mount
Katahdin, in northern Maine.
Mr. Merriam and DR.. Thaddeus
Hyatt of New York are now there
to take part in the search.
With three other young men,
Merriam and Dallendsch left last
Wednesday to climb the mountain
They were last seen by their COM
panions Friday morning, when they
were about third the way up. A
heavy fog prevailed.
A reward of $500 is offered by
Merriam. Game and forest fire war
dens have been instructed by Gov
ernor Baxter to seek the boys.
The Washington times., 1923-08-01

the champagne, glasses and a few
leathery sandwiches that sell for
top-nothch prices. In the evening
the word goes out to his "pullers.
in" and just as soon as the thea.
tiers let out the gang is on the
street drumming up trade. What
between the airy-fairy ladies and
these gentry one developes a mar
Vicious capacity for saying "No!'
firmly, definitely and finally.