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The Padrone’s
Girl
By Eugene Ronald Brigge
(Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.)
A narrow street in a wretched tene¬
ment quarter, a hand organ lying on
the ground, a frightened chattering
monkey beside it, and the apparent
owner ol the instrument, fierce-visaged
and brutal, hammering a shrinking
young girl about sixteen with his
fists.
Instantly a casual passer-by, a well-
dressed young man, became an active
participator in the scene. He was
athletic as well as handsome. One
spring, then a reaching out of a force¬
ful hand and he had wrenched the
girl free from the grasp of her inhu¬
man persecutor. That sinewy arm
shot out once again. With a shriek¬
ing imprecation in Italian the girl's
assailant went dashing back across
the organ, the monkey springing to
one side with a curdling squeal of
fright.
‘‘Oh, he will kill me for this!” pal¬
pitated the girl.
She was poorly attired, of stunted
growth, a typical suggestion of a pad¬
rone’s slave. She glided forward to
seize the hand of Alan Pearce.
"Keep him here till I can get far
away, never to return!” she gasped,
and pressed her lips in token of deep
fervent gratitude on his hand and was
away like a sprite. Pearce waited
till she had disappeared, a square dis¬
tant. Then he cast a look of con¬
tempt upon the wretched tyrant, who
cowered like a beaten dog, and went
on his way.
He told Annette Rytber, his fiancee,
of the iticident that evening. In her
gentle, pitying -way she wondered
what would become of the poor young
street beggar. Then, amid bright
plans for the future, the theme drifted
out of their minds.
More than bright were those dreams
just now. Pearce held a good posi¬
tion, he had saved up quite a sum
of money, and “love” and "home”
were the words that beckoned them
to a happy married life.
Pearce lived at a private boarding
house. He came down stairs from his
room one morning, whistling gayly as
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Went Dashing Back Across the
Organ.
was Ms wont. As he passed the room
of the ‘‘star boarder” on the second
floor, he paused. It stood open, and
a lively breeze, pouring in at the win¬
dow, had blown loose letters and pa¬
pers from a writing desk across the
floor and out into the ball.
The star boarder was not a favor¬
ite with Pearce, nor with many others
in the house, unless it were the land¬
lady, who valued him because of his
liberal tips to the servants and the
"extras” he allowed her to put on his
bill. He was a man of about forty,
a bachelor, seemed to have plenty of
money and dreesed flashily.
He had met Annette several times
and made no efforts to conceal the
fact that she attracted him. As to
Annette, she had conceived a violent
dislike for him from the first. Pearce
barely tolerated him. The star boarder
seemed to think, however, that his
wealth might finally make some im¬
pression upon the young lady upon
whom his heart was set.
Pearce gathered up the scattered
papers and placed them on the desk.
Then he closed the window so that no
further damage might be done. As he
came out of the room two servants
met him. He did not, however, deem
it necessary to explain his intrusion,
regarding it as an ordinary act of
obliging consideration. He went to
his office and forgot the incident, but
it was revived in a marked way be¬
fore that same evening was over.
Bolger, that was the name of the
star boarder, had been robbed. He
had left his room that morning for a
bare five minutes. The window of his
room fronted on the street. An organ
grinder had come along with a whang¬
ing disturbing instrument. Bolger
was aroused from a late morning nap.
He hurried on his dressing gown and
went down the rear stairs to the
kitchen, bribing the cook to run out
and drive the pest away. When he
returned to his room, be found his
diamond pin and two rings missing
from the little stand where they bao
when he rushed away on hie
urgent errand.
‘‘I know the thief,” he declared to
group in the parlor. "If I find the
thrown over the transom in
my room by tomorrow morning, well
and good. If not, I shall swear out
a warrant.”
Pearce was not in the room when
this remark was made. He heard of
it when he came home from a call on
Annette. His intention was to go to
Bolger and tell him of being in his
room that morning. As he passed
it on his way to his own, however,
the absence of a light induced Pearce
to consider that Bolger was either
away or asleep.
Pearce was just leaving the house
the next morning, when a man wait¬
ing at the front doorway touched him
on the shoulder.
“You are under arrest,” he an¬
nounced, and produced a warrant
charging Pearce with the theft of the
missing jewelry belonging to Bolger.
Pearce offered no resistance, All
that was manly in his nature, how¬
ever, came to the surface as, glancing
back at the house, he saw the face
of Bolger peering malevolently from
behind a curtain. It was less the man
mourning a loss, than of one gloating
over the opportunity to degrade and
disgrace an envied rival.
Pearce was taken into the court
room of the examining magistrate.
Half a dozen other prisoners were
seated just beyond him awaiting ar¬
raignment. Amid his own troubles,
Pearce did not particularly notice
them. He had sent for his lawyer.
The preliminary examination took
place. Bolger appeared. His two wit¬
nesses were the servants who had
seen Pearce leave his room.
It was just as Bolger was describ¬
ing the pin and rings that there was
an interruption. One of the other pris¬
oners, awaiting trial, sprang up. With
a quick dash she reached the side of
Pearce. She clung to him, crying out
to the judge:
“He was my friend. He is a good
man. I will prove it.”
“W T hat is this?” demanded the baf¬
fled judge.
“See, you, sir,” went on the girl,
"I am the girl arrested for begging.
Pietro, the padrone, makes me beg.
For that I am arrested. 1 escaped him
through this good man. He found me
out. That man,” and she pointed at
Bolger, ‘‘say my friend steal. No,
no—it was Pietro—Pietro and his
monkey.”
“What are you telling, girl?” de¬
manded the lawyer sharply, pricking
up his keen ears.
“I see what Pietro bring home—a
pin, the rings, diamonds. Ah! that is
his trick. The monkey climbed to the
window. Pietro teach him. He take
jewelry. Come, I will show you where
Pietro hide his plunder.”
The judge began to question the
girl. Within an hour officers of the
law visited the den of Pietro, to re¬
cover the stolen jewelry.
A free man, with the real culprit
in custody, the first act of Alan
Pearce was to see that the poor girl
was placed in kind hands.
And when Annette and himself went
to housekeeping, little Carlotta be-
came maid of the happy household.
Just to Be Sure.
“Gawge Washington Ab’ham Lin¬
coln Christofo Colombus Andy Jack-
son Jeff’son Davis! You all come in
dis heah house dis minute, fo’ I tan
you all!”
Mandy was yelling it at the top oi
her voice.
I waited, expectant of a cowering,
obedient regiment, which I expected
to see file past, says a writer in the
New York Telegram.
There rushed by one little kinky-
haired pickaninny. “Of
I stepped up to Mandy. course,
it is none of my business, but that
little fellow seems to be the most
obedient child you have.”
“Suttenly he am,” she replied. “And
he’s all I has, too.”
“But you called a round dozen dif¬
ferent names?”
“All the names you done heard me
call is his’n. We done give him them
thar names so when he’s growed up
and his name’s called outiin co’t white
folk will sure know he comes from a
quality family!”
Potatoes ar.d Buttermilk.
An Irishwoman well expressed, the
other day, the value of the national
diet of potatoes and buttermilk. "When
I was young,” she said, “we never
heard of consumption. The people
were content with potatoes and butter¬
milk. Now they must have meat and
tea. They are healthy enough as chil¬
dren, but few grow up strong. They
become consumptive as they grow.
They cannot afford good meat, or
enough of it, and they will not eat the
potatoes and milk that would cost
them little and keep them strong.” Po¬
tatoes are more nourishing if boiled
or baked in their skins. The Irish
know this; and, passing the open doors
of cottages today, one may still some¬
times see the brown, smoking balls
turned out of the big pot onto the
clothless table, round which the family
is sitting.
Spider's Olfactory Organs.
After disproving the theories of all
the other writers concerning the seat
of the olfactory organs, Doctor Mcln-
doo began to search for organs simi¬
lar to those which he found a few
years ago in spiders. Tfiese organs
were soon found on the legs and wings
of all insects examined. Many ex¬
periments were performed which
proved conclusively to the author that
these organs are the true apparatus
for receiving odor stimuli in the in¬
sects tested.
THE CARNESVILLE ADVANCE, CARNESVILLE, GEORGIA.
CALOMEL MEG YOU SICK!
CLEAN LIVER AND BOWELS MV WAY
Just Once! Try “Dodson’s Liver Tone” When Bilious, Consti¬
Headachy—Don’t Lose a Day’s Work.
Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel
fine and cheerful; make your work a
pleasure; he vigorous and full of am¬
bition. But take no nasty, danger¬
ous calomel, because it makes you
sick and you may lose a day’s work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver,
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel crashes Into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That’s
when you feel that awful nausea and
cramping.
Listen to me! If you want to enjoy
the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel
cleansing you ever experienced just
take a spoonful of harmless Dodson's
Liver Tone. Your druggist or dealer
sells you a 50 cent bottle of Dodson’s
Liver Tone under my personal money-
More Words Followed.
“I’m a woman of my word,” said
Mrs. Prebscomb, with an air oi final-
ity.
"Indeed you are, my dear,” said Mr.
Prebscomb.
“When I go out I don’t come home
and tell an improbable yarn about
where I’ve been.”
“No, you don’t, my dear,” heplied
Mr. Prebyscomb mildly, “but that may
be due to the fact that I have never
had sufficient courage to ask you
where you have been.”
Tetterine Cures Itching Piles Quickly.
“One application of Tetterine cured me
of a ease of Itching Plies I had for five
years.” Walterboro, S.
Bayard Benton, C.
Tetterine cures Eczema, Tetter, Ground
Itch, Ring Worm, Infants’ Sore Head.
Pimples, Itching Piles. Rough Scaly
Patches on the Face. Old Itching Sores,
Dandruff, Cankered Scalp, Corns, Chil¬
blains and every form of Scalp and Skin
Disease. Tetterine 50c. Tetterine Soap
25c. At druggists, or by mail direct from
Tbe Shuptrine Co., Savannah, Ga.
With every mail order for Tetterine we
give a box of Shuptrine’s 10c Liver Pills
free. Adv.
Chocolate Soldiers.
The soldier’s weakness for sweet¬
meats, to which Mr. Bernard Shaw
called attention when he wrote “The
Chocolate Soldier,” has been abund¬
antly confirmed during the present
war. The quantity of sweets con¬
sumed by our army in France has
been prodigious, while from Cairo
comes the news that the Australians
have absolutely eaten the place out
of chocolate. On the troopships
which brought them, too, it was the
same. Thus Captain Bean, the official
correspondent with the force, writes:
“Our canteen had five times the de¬
mand for sweets and soft drinks that
was expected and one-fifth the demand
for beer.”—Westminster Gazette.
Light More Beneficia! Than Heat.
When rays of light fall upon the
skin of our bodies, which is translu¬
cent, the greater part of them are ar¬
rested, some by one layer of the skin,
some by another and still others are
not stopped until they have penetrated
the subcutaneous tissues. This arrest
of the light rays produces radiant
heat, which has a higher penetrating
power than convection heat as gene¬
rated by a hot water bag or poultice,
for instance.
E. C. Titus in an address before the
Illuminating Engineering society said
that such heat penetrated two inches
or more, while convection heat was ex¬
cited principally on the surface.
This is why electric light baths and
sun baths are so stimulating to the or-
gans of elimination, especially the skin
and kidneys, and so beneficial in so
many diseases.
RESINOL BEGINS TO HEAL
SICK SKINS AT ONCE
You don’t have to WONDER if res-
inol ointment is doing you good. You
KNOW it is, because the first applica¬
tion stops the itching and your tor¬
tured skin feels cool and comfortable
at last. Why don’t YOU try this easy
resinol way to heal eczema or similar
skin eruption? Resinol clears away
pimples, too, and is a valuable house¬
hold remedy for sunburn, poison-ivy,
cuts, sores, burns, chafings, etc. It
has been prescribed by doctors for 20
years and contains nothing that could
irritate or injure the tenderest skin.
Sold by all druggists.—Adv.
Everybody Satisfied.
"I see where another baseball player
has been fined for having a row with
an umpire.”
"Do you sympathize with him?”
"Not at all. My observation Is that
the average player who is fined for
assaulting an umpire feels that he
got his money's worth.”
DON’T VISIT THE CALIFORNIA EX¬
POSITIONS Without a supply- of Allen s Foot-
Ease, the antiseptic powder to be shaken into the
Shoes, or dissolved in the foot-bath. The standard
Remedy for the feet for 25 years. It gives nstant
relief to tired, aching feet and prevents swollen,
hot feet. One lady writes: I enjoyed every minute
of my stay at the Expositions, thanks to Allens
Foot-Ease In my shoes. Get it TODAY Adv.
His Guess.
Flatbush—Did you ever hear a
young owl cry at night?
Bensonhurst—Oh, yes.
"What do you suppose makes it cry
so long?”
"Perhaps his father is walking the
floor with it.”
Death Lurks In A Weak Heart
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If Yours Is fluttering or weak, use RENOV1NE.” Made by Van Vleet-Mansfleld Drug Co., Memphis, Tenn. Price gl.QO
back guarantee that each spoonful
will clean yotir sluggish liver better
than a dose of nasty calomel and that
it won’t make you sick.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is real liver
medicine. You’ll know it next morn¬
ing, because you will wake up feel¬
ing fine, your liver will be working,
your headache and dizziness gone,
your stomach will be sweet and your
bowels regular.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is entirely
vegetable, therefore harmless and
cannot salivate. Give it to your chil¬
dren. Millions of people are using
Dodson’s Liver Tone instead of dan-
gerous calomel now. Your druggist
will tell you that the sale of calomel
is almost stopped entirely here.
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The Exception.
"Two is company,” quoted the Sage.
"Unless they happen to be husband
and wife,” corrected the Fool.
YOCR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TEI.I. TOO
just Eye comfort. Write foT Book of tbe Kye
by mail Free. Murine Ifiye Bernody Co., Cbi cago.
High-Browed Help.
"I see where there is a plan on foot
to make every servant girl an ‘edu¬
cated household scientist.
"Do you think that is practicable?”
"It’s hard to say. My experience
and observation is that a ‘scientist’ in
the kitchen means a dyspeptic in the
dining room.”
Incidental Advertising.
“I suppose you think that if you
abandon your old party you will
deal it the finishing blow?”
"Not necessarily,” answered Sena¬
tor Sorghum. "My leaving It may help
it a little by calling attention to tbe
fact that it still exists.”
Boston’s Advantage.
Mrs. Gotham—But your streets in
Boston are so crooked.
Mrs. Hubb—And yours in New York
are bo straight.
"But aren’t straight streets an ad¬
vantage?”
"Why, no. Now in Boston one can
walk and walk and get some place,
but in New York you can walk and
walk and get nowhere.”
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen¬
eral Tonic because it contains the well
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. 50 cents. — Adv.
How It Happened.
“I -can’t do a fool thing with that
dern camel," growled Noah, as he
came into the cabin for supper.
"What is the matter with him?”
asked Mrs. Noah.
“Why, he didn’t like the quarters I
gave him, and he got his back up
about it, and he can’t get it down
again,” replied Noah.
Most of the things postponed until j
tomorrow could have been done today.
A Regular Excuse.
“Does your husband carry much life
insurance?”
“I don't know the exact amount, but
it's just enough so that whenever I
want a new gown or hat lie always
manages to have a premium to meet.”
—Detroit Free Press.
Subtleties of Expression.
“Music expresses more than lan¬
guage can convey,” remarked the en¬
thusiast.
“That’s right,” responded the ordi¬
nary person. “I can whistle a lot of
tunes whose names 1 couldn’t pos¬
sibly learn to pronounce.”
A Warning.
Doctor—You’ve had a terrible shock.
Patient—It’s up to you to see that
1 don’t have another when 1 get your
bill.
Doctors say that worry kills more
people than work—probably because
more people worry than work.
If we were to refrain from talking
j about our neighbors, fewer of us would
be afflicted with talkitis.
Children Cry For
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What is CASTORIA
Casforia is a harmless substitute lor Castor Ofl, Pare*
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrnps, It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age Is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it
has been in constant nse lor the relief ol Constipation,
Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend,
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
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The Kind You Have AlWays Bought
TNB CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY.
’Twas Ever Thus.
"Have you been operating in the
stock market of late?”
"No. I’ve been operated upon.”—
Judge.
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“I know what Father likes best”
-I-L T^VEN Arbuckles’ tbo children Coffee know the big¬ that
gets
gest welcome at the breakfast table.
It is the popular favorite every¬
where. More of it is used than any
other packaged coffee. Think what
this means.
In America we drink more coffee
than does any other nation. Last
year 900,000,000 lbs. cf coffee were
brought here. Think of all the dif¬
ferent kinds of coffee—the different
varieties of flavor this represents.
For their favorite coffee, the peo-'
pie of this country have chosen Ar-
buckles’. For nearly fifty years they
have shown their preference for this
coffee. In one state last year four
times as many pounds of Arbuckles*
were used during the year as there
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HOW TO CURE ECZEMA, ITCH
AND ALL SKIN DISEASES
Don’t suffer any long ft eczema
or any other skin trouTT-?* Just apply
Hancock’s Sulphur Compound to the
parts affected and it wiH’stop the itch¬
ing at once and cure the trouble per¬
manently. Many sufferers from skin
troubles have written us that the Sul¬
phur Compound cured them after
everything else failed. Mrs. Evelyn
Garst, of Salem, Ma., writes: “Three
years ago I had a rough place on my
cheek. It would burn and itch. I was
fearful it might be of cancerous na¬
ture. I used different preparations,
but nothing helped it. One bottle of
Hancock's Sulphur Compound cured
me completely.” To beautify the com¬
plexion, remove blackheads and
pimples use Hancock’s Sulphur Oint¬
ment. For sale by all dealers.—Adv.
A Vegetable Raiser.
Bacon—It is estimated that 93 per
cent of the ocean floor is entirely de¬
void of vegetation.
Egbert—Well, 1 never heard that
Neptune had any reputation as a gar¬
dener.
A woman’s conscience is almost as
elastic as her tongue.
The green grocer is In a position to
acquire a lot of ripe experience.
were men, women and children in
the state. And the demand is con¬
stantly increasing.
Have you tried it lately? Before
you serve another breakfast, go to
your grocer’s and get a package of
Arbuckles’ Coffee. Taste its rich,
satisfying flavor and know why
more of it is used than any otbei
packaged coffee.
Make your coffee earn
lovely gifts
Bavo the signature on every Ar buckle
wrapper. cles liavc Get always beautiful, useful gifts—arti¬
you wanted. Arbuckles’
premiums are almost as famous as Ar-
buckles’ Coffee. In oneyearwegaveaway
over o million of onepremium alonel Send
for our big Premium Catalog showing 150 of
our Arbuckle most popularpremiums. Write today
to Bros, 71-U-3 Water St., N.Y