The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 72, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 24, 1927 Page: 7 of 8
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that night in Richmond?
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“Son, there’s only one real ques-
tion I’m going to ask you,” he said-
Jeanne Beaufort,, beautiful daugh-
ter of‘ a 'Virginia planter, has lost
Hurry,Wofry and OverworkBring
Heavy Strain. ,
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Why Not Concrete?
Concrete, with its smooth finish and enduring qualities, is the log- J
ical material for your sidewalks, walks around your house, ga- '
rage floors, etc.—But t is only by careful workmanship and the <
us£. of the best grade cement that you can be usre of getting
the work done right.—That’s why Babcock’s Concrete Work is ’
always in Demand.
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“Sidewalks That Wear”
' ” PHONE 183
The nearest thing yet to making
both ends meet are the new 1927
bathing suits we
the shop windows.
TyTODERN life throws a heavy
XV-L burden on our bodily ma-
chinery. The eliminative organs, es-
pecially the kidneys, are apt to be-
come sluggish. Retention of excess
uric acid and other poisonous waste
often gives rise to a dull, languid
feeling and, sometimes, toxic back-
aches and headaches. That the kid-
neys are not functioning perfectly is
often shown by burning or scanty
passage of secretions. More and
more people are learning to assist
their kidneys by the occasional use
of Doan’s Pills—a stimulant diu-
retic. Ask your neighbor!
j The entrance of an orderly in-
| terrupted the song.
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will permit me to explain, sir, the try Jennings found this pair
explanation will short." |
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“Yet faithful as a bridge of starsy.
She fights in her walled-up town—
Fights on, and on, in the endless.
wars—
From boyhood to the grave!”
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her fatherland two brothers in the
Civil War. >• (The year 1864.) -She
swears’;tQ - -
to the United States.
Mellon’s statement was strictly
curate,
and it
zens.
“Oh! spotless woman in a world of
shame,
Witlvr splendid ;
Go b^ck to God
came,
The kingliest warrior born!”
—Selected’.
It was a
crawling
a
rear
wliispering. ycu would have faced court-martial.
over}"
she re-
right
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But oh these battles they last
long—
From boyhod to the grave!”
There are really no hard times
for the efficient—nor good times for
the inefficient.
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Will Jack Dempsey fight again?
now seems to be the public ques-
tion. Sure he will. Maybe not in
he’s married,
Instantly Jeanne and her admir-
ers gathered about the table. A
w
ft®.
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who’s wo
alist keeps his machines busy. Eu-
inkls, roads, houses, and
possible to find work I
for all. That would be easy if men!
than ‘that/they arf‘officer’s" shoeT.” ™uld away from the idea that!
the- only sound reason for putting|jg.
spare bedroooms. Upon the
— shingles lay the figure of a man,
said the father vio- -and from the corner of his eye heihaJr/been unknown.
nearest bivouac-fired •
The v.h,sperer felt his hand be- “Did you know this Jeanne Beaufort
g caught by two small ones. He that night in Richmond? Had you
I the
he had saved were one and
They were at war, he
side and she on the other—
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He’s not always clear in the upper-
story; for he had a tough time of
it, and it left its mark.”
k “All rights* I’ll go over and have
a talk with him.”
r Kennedy did not seem particular-
. Make ly glad to see Armitage.
The way is
Crestone
Dealers t
Have Purchased 10©% More
GUM-DIPPED TIBES
[This Year Compared With. Same Period Last Year]
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drew it back quickly, for the kiss ever met her before?”
had the fe§l of'hot lead. 1 1
A little later a shot was heard
along the river-bank. Two more’under my orders. Watch that rogue
; follow every woman he
find
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Icntly, “all these plans gone to pot watched the
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side’ and traitors within! In God’s
name, how can we end the
when such things exist?”
“I am the traitor, father,”
the son quietly.
“What’s that?” The General lean-
ed across the table| his mouth open,!
million-tons - of, pre' in sight.
sHpw: many-more billions are hid-
den^,away in ,the mountains 'that
stretch -across and up
there by prospectors,
Feally PROSPECTED-
den away in ,the mountains
stretch -across and up and down “The bravest battle that ever was
this, country, feebly tapped here .and! ' fought,
fkora Kxr never1 • Shall I tell you*- where and when ?
On the maps of the world you will
find it not;
’Twas fought by the mothers of
men.’
explanation will short.” shoes at the end of his beat. They the d , a coorse.
“There was no intrigue, such as were warm when he found them, Id^aIso^blame itself for al-
would be your natural supposition, sir.” I ""nn''nnn
This is why I released her.” Andi T—t----- —j i—
briefly the son recounted what had (
‘taken place on a <
Richmond. “Sir, I was one of those it over carefully.
men, and she was the woman.” . |
“Go to your tent and consider ,was his comment,
yourself under arrest. You’re no
•son of mine henceforth.” '
When Jeanne Beaufort climbed
ashore she knew ow and understood ]
•he had saved her because he had ».
recognized her, not as Alice Trent <
and silent scorn,
as white as you
There you have the ultimate sol-
ution of the farm question and proof
that “back to the farm” is not
necessary.
The farmer will sit, spyglass in
hand, on a tower in the middle of, the ring but—well,
his acres, watching one machine isn’t he?
ganization stood back of you. You
are on probation; so mind how you
walk. You’ll never convince those
who don’t know that you didn’t
have an intrigue with that woman.
Your father turned you over to the
government—a pretty brave thing
to do. Have you been to see Ken-
nedy yet?”
“No. I suppose X ought to.”
“Go to his rooms now. Tell him
you thank him. Without his aid
Secretary “No marshalling troops, no bivouac
< s()ng, .
No banners to gleam and wave, » j
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Great Britain receives the^ right
reply to her note concerning* Mr.
Mellon’s letter to* college professors
about international debts. I
Kellogg tells Britain<,that what Sec-’
retary Mellon writes to American |
professors is. our( business. That
covers the ground.
the y^passionate? hate 5was xgbne;'1* A'l
Yankee \ was<stilL a^human being.'.
(Continued..- next'\week)’
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.epunty»?^;Nobq^yj-.:cpuld':<guess)r'with- In Kansal* alone this year vaddib*
in a thousand: billions. s ,ional “combination” machines for-
. For instance^ Mr.': Bprifils, through harvesting wheat will'.do away with
■his Denver ,Post,?ahndunces discovery 25,000 itinerant, extra “farm hands.»
in Colorado'hf a bed of\manganese,- Brains, money and-machinery will
by t far''the' richest in the world, *feix solve the -farm problem as they have
solved other industrial problems.
MOTHER
is
the morning.
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Chapter VII
The officers filed out gravely, the
General’s son along with them. All
those carefully laid'plans gone like
a puff of ‘smoke! But is was certain
.n the minds of them all that noth-
ing on God’s earth could prevent a
firing\squad at sunrise.
Captain Armitage entered his tent
calmly enough; but once there he
fell to pacing. By and by he snuff-
ed the candle.
The spy lay quietly, wasting no
effort at the bonds, tied none too
gently.w The guard paced back and
forth and occasionally paused to
glance inside the tent. Hour after
hour went past.
At midnight the spy heard
rather unusual sound at the
•f the tent.
as of one
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Incidentally, the British admit that
beginning in 1932 they will be get-
ting from their European debtors,
recently called “gallant Allies,”
more than enough to cover all pay-
ments to the United States. Mr.
ac-
barring one clerical error,
enlightened his fellow citi-
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but as the Jeanne Beaufort who had
faced alone the anger of eleven men.
He was-the man wha had step-
ped out that night and offered to
marry her to save her life. She
knew that she loved!
Five da^s later Jeanne was serv-
ing tea in a drawing-room in Wash-
ington. Every time the door bell
rang her heart leaped wildly. She
feared to see Armitage; yet incon-
sistently she longed to see him.
She craved to know if he would rec-
ognize in “Alice Trent” the woman
of the loft, the cabin and the tent.
One day he appeared in mufti
with an officer unknown to her, a
Lieutenant Lowell. Shrewdly she
watched Armitage, and her covert
scrutiny finally convinced her that
that j he harbored not the slightest sus-
picion that “Alice Trent” and the
woman I—
the same-
on one
God was a just God, but neverthe-
less He had His playful ironies.
She loved a Yankee!
When Armithge and his friend
left the house they walked along
in silence for a while.
“Well?” said Armitage finally.
“She is all you say, John, and
more. But if I possessed your tqrn
of mind I’d fight shy of her.”
“That’s my intention. What would
you have done in my place?”
“Where'?”
“Jeanne Beaufort.”
“Oh. Well since you ask, I’d
have got up with the firing squad.
It’s a devil of a mess ^you’ve got
yourself in. Here you are, guilty
of a treasonable act, meriting court-
martiaF and long imprisonment.
Your dad has disowned you. And
who could blame him? You are at
liberty today because 'the whole or-
John Kennedy, D. D.
H-RD-M
P-PA-G
J-NK-F
F-BN-S
W-BE-H
Later Jeanne learns that Morgan
is a spy.
To her surprise she receives a
letter bearing the curious device
she had seen tatooed on her hus-
band’s arm. The letter, ironicaP in
its tone, shows that her unknown
husband is still in Richmond and
knows the name and identity of
his wife! She cuts her hair, stains
her face and, going to Baltimore,
assumes the name of
Alice Trent, not knowing such
person lived in Baltimore.
An intoxicated man
Jeanne and she is rescued by
Captain John Armitage, a young
Union officer whom she tells her
assumed name.
Jeanne tells Morgan of the tattoo
mark and at her request he agrees
to abduct Parson Kennedy so 1
shs,, can question him about the
names on the marriage certificate.
Kennedy had, with the authority of
a Secret Service officer, directed
that Armitage watch him (Ken-
nedy). Kennedy is carried away
and bound, but as Jeanne is ques-
tioning him, Armitage^ rescues him.
Jean escapes.
General Armitage, father of the
Captain, is discussing plans for the
final campaign against Richmond
when Jeanne, attempting to steal
them, is captured. Though she is in
boy’s clothes, Captain Armitage rec-
ognizes her, but says nothing, and
bound to face a firings squad in
will carry .out the Biblical injunc-
tion for< revenge—“an eye for an
eye!” . While'at Richmond she meets
Henry'Morgan, a debonaire young
officer,, ./who’ falls in love with her.
she repels1'-'his advances. She is
engaged^.as/a spy for the Confed-
erate government, and urged to use
all the wiles and power of her sex
to find' one
Parson Kennedy and bring him
within the Southern lines. It is
planned to have her make head-
quarters witli\a family of southern
sympathy, • in-X Washington.w Jeanne
learns... telegraphy and other techni-
cal branches of her new calling. And
clad as a boy, often in the Blue of
the North, she makes her way thru
the lines. She learns of an organ-
ization of eleven Union spies and
of their meeting place in a Rich- „
mond loft. As .she overhears the or7t^®’r
leaders address the masked men
seated about a table, Jeannes is dis-
covered and dragged into the room.
The leader unmasks as he threatens
her with death, but is dissuaded
from shooting her by the suggestion
from one of the men that one of
their number marry her. She' con-
sents and when one of the masked
men volunteers ta marry
fuses and claims- the
choose.
She rejects the volunteer and se-
lects the one who suggested the
marriage. Him she names “Irony.”
To her surprise the leader is no
other than Parson John Kennedy.
He performs the ceremony. “Irony”
says his name is among those who
sign as witnesses, (just before they
leave, her bound), in the following
/code form:
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A-NK-S
G-RD-A
J-WG-A
F-WG-S
OLDFIELD
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Fabric
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This
iplaw with no driver, all by them-
selves, guided by electricity, plough-
ed a twenty-acre field on t^e farm
of the Nebraska Agricultural Col-
lege yesterday, farmers, professors
and business men^looking on. The
1 first furrow only was ploughed un-
der human guidance. That furrow
acted as guide and the machine did
the rest.
certain night in General took up a shoe and looked a.n.^, ®xen working, a good industri-
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I “Made by the Yankee government” f°Pe needs cai
1 | it should be
“Army shoes,” spid Jeanne. “More
• j-Vian TTioT Their nvo cVinaa ’’
All except the General looked at
her in wonder.
• “You are right, Miss Beaufort.”
said he coming to her rescue. “It
signifies that we have an unwelcome
guest hereabouts. The next thing
is to find him. Mann, will you see
the proper orders are given to pre-
vent this Yankee 'from getting out
-of our lines?”
“Yes, sir!” The
fc-an from the house.
The General put the shoes upon
the table and rose. The rest of the
staff rose with him.
Presently Jeanne was alone. With
her arms folded across her bosom,
she bent her gaze upon the shoes,
mute witnesses of a business she
knew only too well. Somewhere in
the camp there was a man in stock-
inged feet.
They were stout shoes, but at the
same time they were small and
shapely. The muck, which was still
damp upon them, made manifest
that the owner had come across the
river below the plantation; for at
the north of the camp the soil was
firm and rocky.
rom tFhe South! What did that
mean? A slight shiver wrinkled her
spine. There was ev£r that feari” in
her heart that some day she would
meet one man in the pursuit of his
duty. What would happen when the
dreaded moment came ?
He was in his stocking-feet. A
man' did not wander about a camp
5n that fashion. He was somewhere
within the house! This knowledge
came as a shock.
A Yankee spy, an officer, was
hidden under her roof! Her first
impulse was to seek the General
and disclose to him her discovery.
Then the old weariness and distaste
v j
The State, of. Michigan is still
trying to reach a decision on capi-
tal punishment. 'Certain legislators
Atj about midnight Captain Ar- ’ Beaufort’s was like the run of its | aPpear to think that ,to discourage
mitage had stopped to question him.[kind. The kitchens were i 1 J *’ •
Just before that he had looked into single story. The shelving roof ran murder and inflict death,
the ten and he spy was yet there.1 up to the windowst of Ithe wing, to
When General Armitage returned to teh
his tent he found his son.
“Ah, John,” i
x-i -- x.--! vkj nearest bivouac-fired Michigan is a civilized state,
in a night! Damnation! Spies out- /By and by taps sounded, and the ’ °^bers in many ways.
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war
"'nind,
i-”*acs.
Piosently a strange hand worked
< * the ropes.
came a faint whisper:
you hear me talking to the
slip cut at the rear. ?'
IS news. A tractor
man entered the garret and drop-
ped to sleep. , i •
Jeanne had''-returned home to 1 ^an needs the help of a . hangman,
find that her father’s regiment,; a ™an to throw the switch on an
with others, was quartered at the eIectnc chair,
plantation for the severer months.
She was delighted. It put wings
to her depressing thoughts; it gave
her physical as well as mental oc-
cupation.
It was like olden times to
these bright-facbd young c
about, with their exaggerated com-ino^ Tu*ed by emotions.”. That is a
pliments, the courtly airs which the S°°d definition of a child destined
’ to develop into a go-getter.
On the other hand. Napoleon, who
told all the adult children of Europe
what they should do, was not vocif-
erous or robust. He was sickly, sal-
- - v - l°w’ su^ed in a corner because his
search him after he was dead, did insisted that she play and sing,' schoolmates laughed at his Coriscan
—— --i va.wj uww&wJ over maps which accent, and was entirelv ruled by
It was a woman.”, were growing smaller and smaller, bisone emotion, AMBITION.
Tbc industry commission of the
Bir^I have” to* report that Sen- LeaSue Nations reports 20,000,000
. out of work in Europe and blames
What is the ideal .child, in your
opinion ? Secretary Hoover, presi-
dent of the American Child Health
| Association, says the normal child,
vj see superfluously happy' or deep-
officers discouraged, is robust, vociferous,
about, with their exaggerated com-ino^ Tuled by emotions.”
to develop into a go-getter.
not the strangeness of that request while they puttered over
strike you, sir? I..— .. .
“A woman!” The General stepped
back. “You say a woman?” t
“Yes, sir, a woman. And if you]
v.j u of out work in Europe and blames
I shoes at the end of his beat. They „pnited States, of coorse. Eu-
’ w « « - . « 7* An A cnnHIfl oic*/s rlnmn
lowing 20.000,000 pairs of hands to
remain idle.
| A good farmer keeps his horses
his eye’s at their widest.
“I freed the spy.”
“You, my s',on?”
“Yes. But before you give any
“Say ‘Sir!’” came quickly. through
the lips of the man opposite. ,
“Before you give any orders, sir, Northerners lacked.
I want you to hear the rights of, Tonight she sat at the piano-
it,-such as they are.” (The younger officers were gathered
“Rights? Did you give the spy about her. The older members of
his information, too?” |th staff satxabout the table talk-
“No sir. When the spy said to ing in subdued tones. They, too had
maps which accen^» and was entirelv ruled by
along the river-bank. Two j
shots followed hurriedly at the tent ] Morgan;
of General Armitage, where a light speaks to. In other words,
Mrs.' Wetmore, her aunt that she still burned. | this woman you let go; find Jeanne
---- r have to report, sir, that the Beaufort.” x
spy has escaped!” | The old plantation home of the I
under a]murder the State must imiate he
I is proposed to restore capital
punishment in Michigan, where it
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