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APRIL 9
r 1681— La Salle reached the mouth of the Mississippi
§ . river. S. captured by the British.
; 1780—Charleston, C.,
1865— General Le surrendered the army of northern
Virginia to General Grant at Appomattox
Court House, Va.
1018—President Wilson Created the War Labor
Pi Board.
BIBLE THOUGHT
For the poor always ye have with you.
John 12:*.
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Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer
everything that he may escape from it.—
Lucian.
OLD - T»r
TIME RELIGION
IS WHAT WE NEED
Sunday—Easter Sunday—we worshipped in
one of the leading churches of a neighboring
;dty. The auditorium was filled 1 to capacity.
and the altar and choir loft was beautifully
decorated with flowers—themselves remind
ful of Easter Tide. _ <&» % # „ _ jk jm mt
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The choir sfing a beautiful anthem- the
collection was taken— and then the large
P. audience settled back to hear an Easter ser
I mon, one telling the beautiful story of the
I resurrection—a sermon that would bring hope
I to the hearts of all and especially to those
1 who may have suffered bereavement within the
I* past few months.
* Every man and woman in that audience
I knew the story of the Resurrection—but every
r man and woman there wanted to hear it again
“the old, old story, ever new."
The preacher, a young man said to have a
brilliant future, squared himself off, selected a
text from the Old Testament and proceded
F to harangue his audience for over an hour
| on "the perils of the world.”
He blamed America with starting the World
' War. He told of the spreading of Atheism and
L vice thoroughout the world. He discussed
1 China, Russian and other far off lands. He
[ touched on politics, graft, prohibition enfor
l cement. But as far as that young preacher
1 was concerned Sunday morning the Christ
I did not die on the Cross and 1 was not Res
f urrected. No mention was made of this fact.
The young preacher's sermon led up to
1 taking a collection. He seemed to realize
i that one of the largest audiences of the year
F would be on hand Easter morning. He called
F into play cheap showmanship and took ad
vantage of a “full house" to take up a special
collection.
But not a word did he preach about the
- Risen Christ.
l|? ’ The writer is of the opinion that preachers,
[ regardless of their denomination, could do no
better than preach old fashioned religion, such
as Paul describes in Corinthians when he says
”1 am determined to know nothing but Christ
and Him crucified.”
We’re not a preacher and never hope to be
one, but one thing is certain, if we were
we’d preach an Easter sermon on Easter, a
^^B^Stmas sermon on Christmas Day, and a
... •giving Thanksgiving Day
sermon on
’ The trouble with too many of our pastors
ireat- they think their views of political, econ •
^' industrial matters are more important
f ■ :the truths' of old fashioned, rock-ribbed
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EFT; —“Invest In And Around Griffin"
* El I a flormon of Chicago was granted
after testifying that her husband
|o|fhk»d her before several guests.
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“DON’T-GET-EXCFTED CLUB”
(By Wightman F. Melton)
Editor G. G. Fennell, of The Gunteraville'
(Alabama) Democrat—a lively weekly paper
in a pretty little city that hugs Sand Mountain
to keep out of the Tennessee River—suggests
a new club: the "Don’t-Get-Excited Club."
Says Editor Fennnell, There are clubs for
mo9 j everything under the sun, but there seems
to be room for one more, The object of the
club which he suggests would be to keep
people from coming to the boiling point when
it isn’t necessary, He says there arc too many
who get excite dover little things and not
excited enough over the big ones.
“Agitation, loss of temper, and nervousness
over trifling annoyances only serve to waste
our energies,” says this Alabama editor.
During the last twelve months we have
had illustrations or examples of the success
that follows coolness and deliberation and of
failure as a result of haste —if not of excite
ment. Think of the number of men and
women who have buried themselves in the
ocem ; because, under the excitement of.....the
moment, and with undue haste, they hopped
off’—into ETERNITY. And then think of
Lindbergh, Byrd and a few others, who for
months and even years planned their ships
and studied their charts, and then calmly
took to the air, landing when and where they
said they would.
Several years ago, in the neighborhood of
Clayton, Georgia, I heard some one singing:
"ft'» best to be jolly and gay, my boy;
Remember the world is wide;
And Rome was not built in a day, my boy—
Just wait for the turn of the tida.”
This little ditty with its swinging melody
suggests—in the last line-—-?. Tefiberation that
may be as great a hindrance as tod -much haste.
O. O. Mclntrye,, who seems, in the last few
weeks, to have had a sort of grouch, asks why
folks from the country always look older and
seemed more tired than the people in towns
and cities. He needs to look again and closer.
bigger the city the tired-er the fojjts and
the more artificial the apperaance of youthful
ness. In the city there is natiftally more
to worry about and more lo get excited about
than there is in the country. I know, because
l have,lives! in the cptintry,^where the popu
lation was one family ancl i’ve lived in the
heart of a city of more than a million people.
But Editor Fennell's idea of a "Don t—Get
Excited Club” is a good one, whether few
or many people are concerned, and whether
they live in the country or the town. Of course
he is not seriously advocating such a club, he
is merely putting over an idea of calmness as
an asset to human achievement. An exciting
youth marries in haste. An excited driver
tries to climb a tree. An excited fireman gett
smothered in the smoke. An excited doctor
loses his head and possibly his patient.
At all events, the man or the woman who
can remain calm when everybody else is ex
cited, is usually master of the situation.
——"Invest In And Around Griffin’’
Robert K. Vallon, of St. Paul was buried
in a coffin made by his father twenty years
ago lor his own burial.
-Invest In And Around Griffin--
W. B. Pot ts, S3, of Memphi s, being arrested
for speeding, asserted that he was rushing
to police court to pay a $3 fine for his wife
for traffic violation:
’Invest In And Around , Griffin'-
Drawing four cards to a king in a poker
game, G. T. Merchant of Duluth, Minn., got
four aces and dropped dead.
“Invest In And Around Griffin”-
Mrs. Mary Warner, of Wilton, Eng., who
recently died at the age of 101, never traveled
farther than five miles from her home.
——“Invest In And Around Griffin’’
An Iowa carpenter has four sets of twins.
Just trying to build a family.
-“Invest In And Around Griffin”
A Harvard professor has located a new
planet. He has the figures on its orbit
and is willing to help anyone who is flying
that way.
- ............. “Invest In And Around Griffin*’ ■— —
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Some of our leading politicians seem to be
pretty hard-boiled in oil.
“Invest In And Around Griffin"
Ringing speeches don’t always ring the
bell.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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“The doctor had disappeared, and
I went down the alleyway and in
the side door. After listening a
minute, as I told you, and hearing
a man’s voice, I came away and
went home That’s everything.”
At that moment Swacker came in
and whispered something to Heath.
The sergeant rose with alacrity and
followed the secreTaTw-»ut--o-f -the
room.
Almost once lie returned, bear- j
ing a butgihg Manila envelope.
Handing it to Markham, he said
something in a low voice inaudible to
the rest of us. Markham appeared
both astonished and displeased.
Waving the sergeant back . to his
seat he turned to Cleaver.
“I’ll have to ask you to wait in the
reception room for a few minutes.
Another urgenCmatter has just ari
sen.”
Cleaver went out without a word,
and Markham opened the folder.
“I don’t like this sort of- th i ng
sergeant. I told you so yesterday
when you suggested it. ”
“I understand, sir,” Heath, I felt
was not as contrite as his tone in
dicated. “But if those letters and
things are all right, end Cleaver j
hasn’t been lying to us about them, j
1 11 have my man put them back !
sps no onrril-ever-know-t-he-y
taken. And if they do make Cleaver
out a liar, then we’ve got a good ex
cuse for grabbing them.”
Markha mdid not argue the point.
With a gesture of distaste he began
running through the letters, look
ing particularly at the dates.
Two photographs he put back af
ter a cursory glance; ahd one piece
of paper, which appeared to contain
a pen and ink sketch of some kind,
he tore up with disgust and threw
into the waste basket. Three let
l-to-ene sider
After five minutes inspection of the
others,. he returned them to the
folder. Then he nodded to Heath.
“Bring Cleaver back.” He rose
and turning, gazed out of the win
dow.
As soon as Cleaver was again
seated before the desk Markham
said, without looking round:
"You told me it was last June
that you bought your letters back
from Miss Odell. Do you recall the
date?”
Not exactly," said Cleaver eas
ily "It was early in the month,
though—during the first week, I be
lieve.’
Markham now spun about and
pointed to the three letters he had
segregated.
* "How. then, do you happen to
have in your possession comprom
ising letters which you wrote to
Miss Odell from the Airondacks late
in July?”
Cleavers .self-control was perfect
After a moments stoical silence,
lie merely said in a mild, quiet
voice:
Ot course you came ty those let-
ters legally?”
Markham was stung, but he was
also exasperated by the other per
sistent deceptions.
“I regret to confess," he sai *, “that
they were taken from your apart
ment—though, I assure you, it was
against my instructions.
“But since they have come un
expectedly into my possession, the
wisest thing you can do is to ex
plain them. There was an empty
document box in Miss Odell’s apart
ment the morning her body was
found, and from all appearances, it
had been opened Monday night.”
"I see," Cleaver laughed harshly.
"Very well. The fact Is—though I
frankly don’t expect you to believe
me—I didn’t pay my blackmail to
Miss Odell until the middle of Au
gust, about three weeks ago. That’s
when all my letters were returned. I
told you It was June In order to set
back the date as far as possible.
The older the affair was. I figured,
the less likllliood there’d fee of your
suspecting me.”
Markham stood fingering the let
ters undecidedly. It was Vance who
put an end to his irresolution.
“I rather think, don’t you Ki»w.”
he >ald. “that you’d be safe In ac
cepting Mr Cleavers explatui'toA
end returning -his letters.”
Markham after a momentary |
testimony. And I goess Clea- 1
ter saw Lindquist all right that
night, lor it was him who first tip
ped us off about the doe. He took
a chance doing it, because the doc
was liable to tell us he saw Clea
ver.”
But if Cleaver had an alluring
alibi,’ said Vance, "he couM simply
have said the doctor was lying. How
ever, whether you accept Cleaver’s
absorbing legend or not, you can ■
take m£ word«for it there was a vis
itor other than Skeel, in the Odell
apartment that night.”
’•That’s all right, too,” conceded
Heath reluctantly, "But| even so,
this other fellow is only valuable to
us as a possible source of informa
tlon against Skeel.”
"That may be true, sergeant” said
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Markham perplexedly, "Only, I’d
like to know how that side door was
unbolted and then rebclted on the
inside. We know now that it was
open around midnight, and, that
Mannix and Cleaver both used it.”
“You worry over trifles,” said
Vance negligently. “The door prob
lem will solve itself once we dis
cover who was keeping company with
Skeel in the Canary’s gilded cage.”
"I should say it boils down to
Mannix, Cleaver and Lindquist. They
are the only three at 'all like to be j
present; and if we ac cept C leaver’s
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“Smile Through the Rain Drops.’’
hesitation picked up the ihreeTHteTS^
and replacing them in the folder
han ded it to Cleaver .
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“I wish you to understand that
I did not sanction the appropriating
of this correspondence. You'd bet
ter take it home and destroy it—
I won’t detain you any longer now. j
But please arrange to remain where
I can reach you if necessary."
"I’m not going to run away,” said
Cleaver; and Heath directed him to
the elevator.
Heath returned to the office hope
lessly shaking his head.
“There musts been a regtrar wake
at Odell’s Monday night.”
“Quite,” agreed^Vance. “A mid
night conclave of the lady’s ad
mirers. Mannix was there, unques
tionably; and he saw Cleaver, and
Cleaver saw Lindquist, and Lind
quist saw Spotswood.”
“Humph! But nobody saw Skeel.”
“The trouble is,” said Markham,
“we don’t know how much of Clea
ver’s story is true. And, by the way
Vance, do you believe he really
bought those lotters back in Au
gust?”
"It only we knew! Dashed con
lusing, ain’t it?” , Heath,V’Clea- ^
"Anyway,” argued
ver’s statement about phomngXptfoll
at twenty minutes to twelve, a; a
man answering is verified by Jes-
MONDAY, APRIL 9.
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The number 13 is no jinx to Miss
Nell Wtllhite, South Dakota's iirst
graduate aviatrix and daughter of a
well known rancher. She was the
13th student to enroll in the flying
school conducted by a Sioux
avlation company, 13th to be
graduated, and too k her first flight
on Friday the 13th, after 13 hours
of air instruction. She is to estab
lish a passenger line between Pierre
and Rapid City.
story in its essentials, each
had an opportumty of getting into
the apartment between half past
eleven and midnight.”
“True. But you have only Clea
ver’s word that Lindquist was ill the
neighborhood. And that evidence,
uncorroborated, can’t be accepted as
the lilly-white truth. !
"Say, what.about that nurse you
wanted at eleven o’clock?”
“I’ve been worrying horribly about
her for an hour,” Vance appeared
actually troubled, “Really, you know
I haven’t the slightest desire to meet
the lady. I’m hoping for a revela
tfon. don’t you know. Let’s wait
for the doctor until half past ten,
sergeant.
He, had scarcely finished speaking
when Swacker informed Markham
that the doctor had arrived cn a
I mission of great urgency. It was rt’i
amusing situation. Markham laughed
outright, while Heath stated at
Vance with uncompromising aston
ishment.”
"It’s not necromancy, sergeant,”
smiled Vance. “The doctor realized
yesterday that wife were about to
catch him in a falsehood; so he
decided to forestall us by explaining
personally. Simple what?’
“Sure.” Heath’s look of wonder
ment disappeared.
As the doctor entered the room I
noted that his habitual urbanity had
deserted him. His air was at once
apologetic and apprehensive. That
he was laboring under some gree t
strain was evident. ;
“I’ve come sir,". he
taking, the chair Markham indi
cated. "to tell you the truth
The truth is always welcome,
doctor/ 1 * ,said Markham
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-Doctor Lindquist bowed - vrrcc
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ment.
“I deeply regret that I did not
follow that course at our first in
terview. But at that time I had
not weighed the matter .sufficiently;
j I and having
once committed myself
.' to a false statment, I felt I had
no option bu t to. abide bv it.
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sideration; I have come to the con
clusion that frankness is the wiser *
course. The fact is, sir, I was not
with Mrs. Breedon Monday night be
^ the hours j mentioned, I re
mained at home until half past ten.
^ j went {0 Miss 0 dell’s ^
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slood Qutside in the strect unU1 half
eleven; then l home
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“ Such a bare stafement , needs con
siderable amplification/’
“I realize it.' sir; and I am pre
pared to amplify it.” Doctor Lind
quist hesitated, and a strained look
came into his white face. His hands
j weer “I had tightly learned clinched. that Miss Odell
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I was going to dinner and the thca
j tre With a man named Spotswood;
and the thought began to prey on
I my mind, It was Spotswood to
i whom I owed the alienation or Miss
Odell’s affections; and it was his tn
I terference that had driven me to
[my threat against the young wo
man.
"As I sat at home that night, let
ting my mind dwell morbidly on ;h£
situation, I was seized by the im
pulse to carry out that threat. Why
not, I asked myself, end the whole
intolerable situation at once? And
j why not include Spotswood in the
debacle?”
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