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Coca! news Items. Tom and Jerry went up to Atlan ta Saturday. Bob Carmichael and Parks Newton lerft Saturday for Jamestown W ash iagton and New York. Mrs. A. O. Milieu of Flovilla spent Saturday in Atlanta. ~~ 1 - Judge Paul Turner was down from McDonough Saturday Morning.| Editor R. L. Johnson of The Hen ry County Weekly, spent Friday wight of last week in Jackson. Mr. W. A. Newton visited the Gate City Saturday. Miss Minnie Bailey is spending the week in Atlanta. Those wishing to ride train No. 15 will take Notice that it arrives in Jackson at 2 :10 P. M. instead of 2 :27 as formerly. J. E. Reeves Cos; Received past week SISOO Worth of the Celebrated “Shield Brand Shoes.” Capt W. F. Smith was in the city Manday. Mr. J. M. Trapp was up from In dian Spring Camp Ground Monday. Ali copy for communications must be in this office by Tuesday Morning. Yu are requested to huye your ad vertising matter ready by Wednes day noon, Local news by Thursday ai 10 a. m, Forms close at noon Thursday. Bear all this in mind. — Ed. There's never a dream thats happy, Hut the waking makes us sad, 'lfcere’s never a dream of sorrow, Bat the waking makes us glad, Mr. T. J. Preston was up from Pfovilla Monday afternoon. Fresh Dove Hams Just reived at J. E. Reeves Cos. Miss Ada Sams has as her guest Mtes J uliet Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick, aad Miss Agnes Lyons, Atlanta. Miss Lilly Cornell was shopping i the city Monday. Mrs. E. C. Paine is visiting her ta\)thr in Cincinnati. Miss Pearson of Lagrange is the guest of Miss Bessie Ham. Rev. J. R. Gunn of Madison spent Wednesday with his mother Mrs. M. E. Gunn. Mrs. Oscar Crittenden left Tuesday f*r her home in Shellman after an extended visit to Mrs. Heflin and Miss Eva. Sasnett. She was accom panied home by her brother, Mr. "Willie Land who has accepted a po sition with Mr Crettenden. tiudnuts Fine and Me dium Grits at J. E. Reeves Cos. Just received fresh and sweet. Mrs. C. R. Gresham entertained at tea last Friday evening for Mi.-s Clara Nolan and her guests M-.360S Bunn of McDonough and Gray of Gridin. Those present were Misses Nolan, Bunn, Gray, Myeas, Davis, Jane Ham. Florence Morrison, Feli cia Morrison. Messrs Jack Dempsey Marlin * McCord, Willis Morrison, Boyd McMichael, Morrison Settle and Henry Byron, Miss Tsllie Jolly spent Wednesday in Atlanta. Mr . Add Nutt spent the first of the week at his home in Griffin. Mr> F. Z. Curry and children are spending a few days in Americus with her mother. The Reeves Cos. Grocery Department is fast gain ing friends and Customers on account of the nice fresh dainties just received Miss Leonora Nutt returned Wed nesday after an extended visit to her stater Mrs. Hail Turner in Winder. Mrs. Florence Lunqueat, Miss Mig non Lusquesfc Hud Master Thurman Lunquest left Thursday for Atlanta their future home. Miss Dollis McKibben leaves Fri day for Atlanta ts be the guest of Miss Maude Johnson for a few days. THREE SHORT STORIES FOR LEISURE MOMENTS READING. THE MAN WITH A HEEL. [Copyright, 1907, by Mary McKeon.] .Tamos Dodd had been an employee of the house of Walfour & Cos., the Bond street diamond merchants, foe a period of fourteen years before he was made assistant manager and given charge of the unset stones. For two years after he had been given charge of the gems James Dodd was simply waiting. He meant to fill his pockets with plunder and skip. He was methodical and cold blooded. He would not make the mistake so many others had. He would make none at all. Step by step he prepared for the coup. He must change his looks, his gait and his voice. An actor taught him the art of appearing to be ten years older. Someone else taught him that by holding a peach stone In his mouth he could alter the tones of his voice. A shoemaker made him a shoe for a deformed toot, and for more than 3<X) nights he walked the streets with it. It gave him a limp and a lop shoulder. He tested these things In the severest way. In his disguise he went boldly into the store as a stranger and made pur chases of men who had known him for years and years. Three months before the affair was ripe James Dodd had his every plan laid. He would not flee abroad, as others had done and been overhauled almost at onee. lie purchased a book stand wot five blocks away. Ho pur chased an old bouse to live in. lie se cured a housekeeper. He had worn Ids wig a hundred times. The shoe for the deformed foot had a cavity in • lie heel. The diamonds hidden away there would always be at hand. At closing time one day the event came off. Uncut and unset diamonds to the nipount of £20,000 were carried home In his pocket. An hour later lie had taken possession of his new quarters under another name. The “diamond mystery” made a great sensation. The house believed tn the honesty of its employee; the po llen believed he had skipped. Three @r four days were lost in discussion, auid then a reward was offered and the sleuths li loose. They telegraphed to every port in the empire. They gave notice to ail (lie steamers that had railed. They had every constable in every village on the watch. If Dodd bfttt! committed five cold blooded mur ders the limit couldn’t have been fierc er. It dragged into days and weeks mid months. It was discussed over and over in the press and in every police station and barroom In the kmd. A young man who had lived a life beyond reproach for fourteen years walks out of tlie house where lie has been employed and disappears from the ken of men. He was not even seen to leave his boarding house that evening. No one saw him on the street. He had not gone abroad by any sort of craft. He had not taken a train for any point within the empire. While he was directly in charge of the gems, the manager or either one of the part ners had access to them. The detec tives figured it out that Dodd must surely be tlie guilty party, but a large element of the public shook their heads deubtfuily and made comments that put others in embarrassing positions. After six months the hunt was abandoned. It was the general opin ion that Dodd was dead by accident or suicide. Meanwhile the bookstand flourished. Its only attendant day by day was Mr. Cooper, its owner. The only one to penetrate the old house be hind it was the aged housekeeper, and she went to her own home o’ nights. The public had been buying books of a certain man for years. One day lie dropped out of sight and anew man stood behind the counter. There was a moment of surprise at seeing him, a question or two, perhaps, as to the other, and then business went on as usual. That’s the way with the pub lic. The old goes and the new comes. There were no newer or better books. There was no change in prices. There was no'king to ••all for discussion. Detectives loafed away a quarter of an hour at the stand. Employees "of the house of Walfour & Cos. turned up there .almost daily. All sorts of men stopped there. For weeks Mr. Qooper heard his case discussed, but It was rarely that he had a word to say. Soon after the bookstand changed hands a little girl twelve years old began to pass that way every day with her fa ther’s dinner. By and by she and Mr. Cooper began to nod and smile to each other. Sometimes she would stop and chat for a minute, and sometimes he handed her a penny. She told her fa ther of these things, and lie was wroth, but after walking around to the stand one day and looking the man over he decided that there was no harm in him. A year lacking a few days had gone by, and It was midwinter again, whop oyy dax.as.the girl passed the stand The Old Clock. [Priginal.] The clock and tower were very old though the tower was far older thai the clock, having long been a ruin when the clock was put in it. It was supposed to have been built by the Romans. Some said that the clock was the oldest tower clock in the world. It had not marked the time for nearly a century. A few were living who had seen 16s great iron hands swing around the circle of Its dial, but they were very aged people. Its works were covered with rust, and there was not a cogwheel that could be turned without a wrench. One night suddenly every person in the village started up In bed. One, two, three, four! There was no bell to give forth this cracked antiquated me tallic sound except the old clock in the tower. And If It had returned to its life it must be Its dotage, for the hour was 12 midnight and all counted four strokes. Had not someone got up in the tower and struck the bell with a hammer? Impossible. The stairway—the last put in—had fallen years ago. Then, too, every one had heard the whirring of wheels—a whir ring harsh with rust. Directly after the last stroke I’eter Steiger, who lived just beneath the tower, had opened his shutter and looked out and up to the belfry. All was still up there and about the tower. If a foot step had fallen cn the stones beneath he would have heard it. Some,of the villagers got out of bed and talked to each other from behind their half opened doors; some lay awake wondering; some went to sleep again. Only little children slept on without having heard a sound. “Ah, the children,” said old Caspar Steiner, “the innocent children! If they had been awakened I should not think there was evil in it, but they are in sensible to evil.” Caspar was the phi losopher of the village, and his words struck deep into the souls of those who heni*l him. All looked for some ca tastrophe. There was one person and only one not u child who had not heard the ghostly strokes. That was Gretchen, the granddaughter of old Becker, the miller. Gretchen was to be married in a few days to Hans Huntsman, a young fellow about lier own age, who loved lier, and she loved him dearly. Gretchen laughed at the fears of the villagers. When they told her wliat old Steiner had said she replied that she had not heard the strokes, and she was not a child, therefore the philoso pher's words were not true. While the older people were whisper ing together, shaking their heads and giving way to their dread, the younger ones were preparing for the wedding. No one had been married in the village for a long while, for there were few people there, and the boys as they grew up went out into the world, leaving the girls with no one to marry them. But Gretchen's lover would not go without her. He loved lier better than even success In life. This was not remark able. for every one loved her. She was gentle and amiable and kind. But not till later did those who knew her real ize that, much as they prized her, they had not known her true value. All the preparations were made, and the wedding was to be tomorrow. One man who had been a sailor predicted that the sun would shine. By common consent the older ones ceased to talk about the mysterious strokes of the old clock and, for the young couple’s sake, assumed a cheerful air. Up to 10 o'clock tho younger people were laugh ing and singing, then were still. There were people in the village who lay awake till after midnight fancying, dreading, that they would hear the old clock strike again. Why they felt this way at this time they did not know. Bearer!-;,, airy of the older ones but two dogs began Lgating in her path. Mr. Cooper hurried out to kick them apart and make a safe passage for her. but in doing so he slipped and fell and robed off tho narrow walk in front of a van and was run over. There were two or three minutes of excitement, and then ho was taken away to the hospital, and the doctors found him al ready dead. Mr. Cooper was known by name, but of course his clothing was overhauled. As the shoe for the deformed foot was removed it was seen that the heel was turned a little. A minute’s investigattion revealed the fact that there was a cavity and in that cavity the diamonds stolen from the house lu Bond street. The man had planned and plotted and dodged and waited, and yet it had all been In vain. The veriest trifle had exposed him and lost him his life at one ana the same moment. M. QUAD. HOW SHE MADE THE MATCH. ' [Original.] Fraulein Gretchen Linderstein be longed to the pauper nobility of Ger many. She came to America, where she supported herself by making por traits of children, at which she was very skillful. Albert Adams was a widower about thirty-five years of age, with two little children, a boy and a girl. His maid en aunt, Virginia Adams, managed bis household and took care of the chil dren. One day Mr. Adams stumbled into the nursery and saw the pretty German girl sketching his children. Seeking his aunt, he asked all about the girl and on being told that she was a German objected. He was preju diced against the German race. Miss Virginia threatened if he interfered to resign the care of his children, so the fraulein was allowed to finish her work. Then one day Mr. Adams was Informed that she was to depart the next morning. “I think you had better keep her if you can,” he said. “The children have grown attached to her. Try to get her for their governess.” This was exactly what Miss Virginia wanted, and she induced the artist to remain and assist her Avith the chil dren. One evening Mr. Adams, whose resi dence was in the country, came home to find a young man wearing clothes of a German cut and smoking a china pipe walking in the grounds beside the governess. Mr. Adams hurried to his aunt. “What’s that Dutchman doing here?” he asked angrily. “You mean Count Ludwig Slaght? He’s not a Dutchman. lie’s a German. He’s a family connection of Fraulein Gretchen Linderstein’s.” “He’s scenting up the grounds with his l>eastly j>ipe. What lia3 he come for?” “It looks very like he has come for the fraulein.” “I thought you said be was a rela tive.” “Not a near relative.” With something like a growl Mr. Adams departed and was not again visible till the next morning at break fast. Several days later he asked his aunt what had become of “the Dutch man.” “He’s at the inn. He comes to see the fraulein every day at her recrea tion hour, and she walks out with him. “Do you really think she’s going to marry the fellow?” “The fellow! She tells me lie’s a member of the German parliament.” “German parliament! They have no real parliament in Germany. They’re a set of toadies to the em peror.” “Well, he wants to take the fraulein back with him.” “How do you know that?” “I don’t know it. I suspect it” “What a rascally proceeding!” “What do you mean?” “Why, the children have got used to her and love and obey her as they will ijo one else. it’s a pity Wished the wedding over lest some thing might happen to mar it. But they were disappointed in hearing the clock. It did not strike again. After midnight one after another they fell asleep. While they were dropping off a light appeared in the house of the miller. Presently lie emerged hurriedly from the door and called Ids next neighbor. Then, one by one, the villagers began to stir, passing from one house to an other, and all looking anxiously at Becker. Gretchen had been taken sud denly ill. The anxiety, the running of people in and out of the house, increased rap idly. At 3 o’clock one came out and said, “If she doesn't get relief very soon she will die.” . At half past 3 another came and said, “She is sink ing.” At 4 o’clock old Becker wrung his hands nnd said, “She is dead!” The people stood in groups in the street, saying to one another, “The old clock predicted this calamity, even to the hour and minute it would occur.” Then came old Caspar Steiner, and one of tho women said to him; “Ydu said the strokes of the clock predicted no misfortune because the innocent children did not hear them. You were wrong, you see.” “There has been no misfortune,” said the old philosopher, “at least to Gret chen. She alone except the children did not hear the strokes. Had the clock predicted an evil for her she would have heard its strokes. They predict ed her entry into paradise.” This quieted those who heard the words, and they went to their beds —all but the old grandfather and the lover, who were not to be comforted. The words of philosophy are not for those who mourn; they are for those who have passed the dark portal. • F. A. MITCHEL. 1 Camp Meeting starts today. Mt3. C. B. Gann has moved into the superintendents house on Indian Spring St. Mr. C. W. Buchanan, Mrs. Rose Carmichael, and Miss Annie Carmich ael took tea at Indian Spring Satur day evening. ' Mr. Jim Etheridge, and Mrs. R. Etheridge are spending a lew days at Indian Spring. Miss Vsllie Garr was in from Mon- TG roe County to see Mrs. J. R. WrigfcS 1 Monday. Miss Annice Gilmore visited" and Mrs. Walter Gilmore in HeSb County last week. ■ Miss Bessie Bea Williams iftrivlw Thursday to visit Mrs. C. W. anan. Mrs. Mary Ann McKibben is spend ing a few days at Indian Spring. Prof Lanier has moved to Jackson to take charge of the Jackson School and is now at home on Indian Spring St, Miss Leonora Johnson is down front Atlanta to spend a few days with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Johnson. Mrs. Loyd Marlin is the guest of her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ed wards. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wright were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Gilmore of McDonough Sunday. Mr. and Mrs, Walter Gilmore of Henry County spent Sunday with Mr J. ,M Wrights family. The J acksonian office was bright ened by a visit from Miss Eula Thorn ton Monday afternoon. Accounts of the protracted meeting at Mount Vernon are to the effect that t e meetings were the best en joyed there for years. Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Etheridge, and Misses Leila Hodges and Mary New ton left for New York this week. Rev. W. A. Harper will preach at Grady School house the 4th Sunday at 3 :80 o’clock. The public is cordi ally invited. thfft such ‘a refined’ girl should be tied for life to a brutal German husband.” “But she’s German herself.” “I don’t care if she Is. We all know what tyrants the Germans are with, their wives.” “Albert, never Interfere in a love affair. The couple will turn and rend you.” “Ij*ve affair! I can’t conceive of a dainty little thing like the fraulein loving a garlicky Dutchman.” MV. Adams spoke the last words with sovereign eontempt and, turning on bis heel, left his aunt and mounted a horse to ride oft" his indigrfation. On his re turn he found the count walking in his grounds with the fraulein. The sight was too much for him. When he reach ed the pair he dismounted and said to the count: “Perhaps you are not aware, sir, that in America it is nqt considered honor able to tamper with employees.” “Vat you say? I not honorable? Per haps you do not know how we reply to such language in Germany. I will ‘pig stick’ you.” “Ludwig,” said the girl softly, “re member that you are in America.” “Yes, Gretchen, but a gentleman can not brook an insult wherever he be.” “It is my wish that yon go away from here and leave me to explain your presence to Mr. Adams.” “Since you desire it. But you must procure me an apology.” Raising his hat in a dignified man ner, he turned and walked stiffly out of the grounds. Then the fraulein said; “Why do you object to my brother-in law's presence here?” “Your brother-in-law!” “Yes. He <_ Jines with a message from the family urging me to go back to Germany. They guarantee me sl,- 000 a year to live on. “Fraulein, I am an ass. But you must not leave us. My aunt has come to rely upon you, the children adore you, and I” , “You?” she asked, looking up archly. “Love you.” Au hour later a servant bore an apol ogy to Count Ludwig and an invitation to dinner. At the dinner he was in formed tlmt his sister-in-law would not return at present to Germany, but would visit her relatives in a few months as Mrs: Adams. The count him seif was induced to take up his resi dence during the remainder of his stay at the Adams borne and when he re turned gave glowing accounts of the new American member of the Linder stein family. “Who made the match between your nephew,” Miss Adams was once asked, “and the pretty fraulein?” “I did,” was the laconic reply. ROSE TREAT THURBER. !