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HARDWARE
Stoves, Tinware, Woodenware,
GLASSWARE,
China and Crockeryware, Paints,
OiSs, Etc., Etc.
Entire attention is given the lines
comprised tinder these heads, and
no opportunity is lost by personal
effort to provide this store with
the best character of Wares at
their lowest possible cost.
J. D. Hightower.
.1 iiKt i hi- << her Way
Hobson — J understand your
daughter in taking great pains
with her singing?
The Poor Father- —“Taking” is
not the word ; “giving” is more
like it.
Mrs. Mollie Allen, of South Fork,
Ky. says she lias prevented attacks of
choiera morbus by taking Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets when
she felt an attack corning cm. Such
attacks arc usually a used by indiges
tion and these Tablets are jiiHt what is
needed to cleanse the stomach and
ward off the approaching attack. At
tacks of billions colic may be preven
ted in the same way. For sale by .7.
H. Blackburn.
Clap an ext inguisher upon your
irony if you are unhappily blessed
with a vein of it. —Lamb.
When you want a physic that is mild
and gentle, easy to take and certain to
act. always use Chamberlain’s Stomach
and Liver Tablets. Fur sale by J. H.
Blackburn
Laiinelicd on llis h ternry Career.
“1 understand vour son lias de
cided to go in for literature. ’
“Yes: and lie's made a splend
id start already.”
“You don’t say.”
“Yes; he went to an auction
this morning and bought a sec
ondhand writing desk for only
s4.oß.”—Ex.
AVe carry in stock along with scores
of other pills, the celebrated Ramon’s
Liver Pills fe Tonic Pellets—in fact we
are headquarters for pills of all kinds —
but we want you to try Uamon’s. The
manufacturers claim them to be the
l>est our customers who use them,
say they find them, to be the beat, and
we believe they are the best 25c.
You cannot tell by the size of
a man’s homo the size of his hap
piness.—Tu Image.
KM) OF BITTEIi FIGHT.
"Two physicians had a long and
stubborn tight with an abeess on toy
right lung” writes J F Hugos of Du
punt, Ga. "and gave me up. Every
tHsiy thought my time had come. As
a last resort I tried Dr. King's New
Discovery for Consumption. The ben
efit I received was striking and 1 was
on my feet in a few days Now I’ve
entirely regained my health.” It con
quers all Coughs. Colds and Throat
and Lung troubles Guaranteed by I>.
L. Anderson's Drug Store. Price 50c,
and SI.OO Trial bottles free.
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The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway,
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(The Scenic Battlefield Route.)
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Or any information, cjOl on or address,
JOHN’V SATTERFIELD.
Traveling Paswtger Agent, Alauta, Ga.
No. 1 North Pryor St., Opp. Union Dep%
Phone 169 Bell St.
Hoot ..mg.
Pompous Customer—That in
sect powder you sold me the oth
er day is no good. The cock
roaches fatten on it.
A liable Salesman—Yes, si r
t lint’s the first stag. They get fat
on it, and then die of apoplexy,
('nine around next, week and re
port again. Anything I can do
for you ma’am?
BOV CURED OF COLIC AFTER
PHYSICIAN’S TR KATM KNT
IIAD FAILED.
My boy when four years old was ta
ken with colic and cramps in his stom
ach. I sent for the doctor and he in
jected morphine, but the child kept
growing worse. I then gave him a
half a teaspoonful of Chamberlain’s
Colie, ('hoiera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
and in half an hour he was sleeping and
soon recovered.—F. L. WILKINS,
Shell Lake, Wis. Mr. Wilkins is hook
keeper for the Shell Lake Lumber Cos.
For sale by J. 11. Blackburn.
Heroic Nuei-illce.
Hello—Do you think Chappie
loves me?
Grace —I know it. He told me
to-day that he was going to shave
oil' his moustache so that he could
devote more thought to you.
For Over Sixty Years.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Svrup
lias been used for over sixty years
by millions of mothers for their
children while teething with per
fect success. It soothes the child,
softens the gums, allays all pain,
cures wind colic and is the best
remedy for diarrhoea. It will re
lieve the poor little sufferer im
mediately. Sold by druggists in
every part of t he world at 2b cents
a bottle. Be sure ask to for Mrs.
Winslow’s Soothing syrup, and
take no other kind.
They I>II.
“Do minstrels take in this
town?” inquired the advance
agent of the Colisal Black Cork
t roupe.
“Well, tin* last that were here
did.” responded the innkeeper
sourly.—Ex
THE BARNESVILLE NEWS-GAZETTE THURSDAY AUGUST, 13, 1903
Equal Partners.
(Continued from Sixth Page.)
and at that moment, to the surprise of
both, Alden entered the room.
CHAPTER X.
“CI.AKKNCE.”
L DUN looked rears
. /** younger than jester
•ft IjV day His expression
laid lost much of its
f\ Jji&jijk painful concentration
and intensity, though
a slsrewil man might
—*-■ J say he was still under
the domination of a single thought.
‘‘Such splendid news at the hospi
tal." said he. “that 1 ventured down
here for a few minutes. I can see her
this afternoon. .lack.” lie added, ad
dressing Robinson, “you’ll have to look
out for my mail for the next few days.
I shall he at St. Winifred’s all the
time, or at the house next door on the
wes*. Any news this morning, Mr.
Elmendorf ?”
“No,” replied the detective. “1 came
down to have a little talk with Mr.
Robinson, but as neither of us knows
anything the result was not important.
By the way, can I write a note at your
desk ?”
Alden was just raising the lid.
“Certainly.” said he. and Elmendorf
sat down and wrote fast wftli a sput
tering pen.
“I don’t see any blotter here,” lie
said, when the pen stopped scratching.
“Never use one.” rejoined Alden; “1
don’t have time. There's a pad, but I
never blot anything on it.”
“You don't spill as much Ink as I do.”
said Elmendorf. “except on your signa
ture. You write that black enough.”
“Habit of mine,” replied Alden.
“llow do you happen to know anything
about it?”
“I saw the note you wrote yester
day.”
Alden flushed.
“I couldn't help it,” said Elmendorf
hastily. “And let me tell you that I’m
greatly mistaken if the result of my
seeing it isn’t, very important.”
“In what way?”
'Elmendorf bogged to be excused from
giving an immediate answer, and Al
den did not insist.
“This ‘making trouble’ that you men
tioned last evening.” he said, “is get
ting its work in this morning. I am
shadowed by the most conspicuous
man in Grentor New York. Every
time lie fancies that 1 have forgotten
Ids presence lie barks like a dog and
remarks to every one who will listen
that the grip is worst in hot weather.”
Elmendorf glanced tit Alden with an
anxious eye. lie seemed to have some
tiling on ids mind, blit he said only:
“I’m surprised. There are shadows on
the force who can’t lie picked out so
easily.”
Alden regarded him intently over the
top of the desk upon which he was
leaning.
"See if I've got any more letters out
side, Jack.” In- said and added when
Itohinson had left the room. “Do you
mean to say there's another one?”
"Sure." returned Elmendorf. “one
for trouble and one for business. I
dou't know why I tell you these things,
except that 1 hate Neale. He wants to
know where you were yesterday, and
he ihiuks you'll go there again, lie ex
pects you to throw the man with the
grip and never notice the other one.”
“I’ll remember tliis, Elmendorf.” said
Alden.
“It's a gift.” replied the detective.
“As for that, you’ve paid me already
with the information that you don’t
use a blotter. Good morning. I'll see
you later in the day.”
It may have been about half an hour
afterward when lie presented himself
at the house where John Robinson
lived aud introduced himself to the
landlady thereof, with the result that
he was presently ushered up two
flights of stairs to a large room at the
rear of the house. Left alone there, he
remarked to himself. “This doesn't
seem to go against me so much as it
usually does.”
Then he proceeded to examine the
personal effects of Mr. Robinson. The
examination was thorough, but the
product was singularly meager. He
discovered an envelope containing
some pawnbroker's tickets, showing
loans upon a watch, a winter overcoat
and a ring of small value, and in a
waste paper basket a part of an envel
ope which laid been addressed to some
person in Philadelphia, hut the name
was missing. Remembering that Rob
inson had thought of Philadelphia tirst
when groping about for a falsehood,
ihe la:ter disi every assumed some little
uiipei'tancc as a guide for subsequent
in\. : igatiou.
The particular object of the detect
ive's search eluded him. however, and
when lie left the house he was far
from satistied with his luck.
"I thought I knew why Robinson
went home." he said, “but either I
didn't or lie changed his mind.”
He spent some hours in verifying
Robinson's statement about the place
where he had passed the night and in
attempting to ascertain the young
man's favorite haunts and the names
of his companions. The verification
was easy, but the search for the man’s
associates yielded little. Apparently
Robinson had not a wide circle of ac
quaintances.
Returning to the lower regions of the
city, Elmendorf encountered a bit of
bettor fortune in learning that Robin
son had visited his place of employ
ment on the previous day between 5
and 0 o’clock.
“If he’s the man.” reflected the de
tective. "he took that money home, and
then, not finding a satisfactory- place to
Bwn th You Haw Alums 6l
T* .
nine it. tie Drought It down here. Br
ibe everlasting, he must have had it in
Ids pocket right there in Elsie Miller’s
room! No wonder be had nervous pros
nation!”
Alden. as was to have been expected,
bad left Ids office long before El men
dorf returned to it. Robinson also bad
gone away, but might come back soon.
Ry the exercise of a little tact the de
tective secured permission to wait in
the private office, and while there be
familiarized himself thoroughly with
the contents of Robinson’s desk, but it
was not worth the trouble.
It was difficult to suppose that Rob
inson was still carrying that money- in
ids pocket. He must have put it some
where. And Elmendorf racked his
brains, asking the conventional and
generally useless question. “What
would I have done in the same cir
cumstances?” it came into his mind
at last that Robinson had been present
when Alden was arrested, and for
tHis reason would not have expected
to see him at the office again imme
diately. Thus reflecting. Elmendorf
drew some keys of convenient design
from liis pocket and cautiously raised
the lid of Aldon’s desk. It was fairly
clear on its working surface and the
pigeonholes did not look promising, so
at random Elmendorf opened a little
drawer in which, under some papers
which seemed to have lain there a long
time, lie found an envelope addressed
in typewritten characters to John Rob
inson.
The envelope looked fresh and the
papers on top of it did not. The infer
ence that the tiling had been slid into
a little used drawer and under those
old documents for purposes of conceal
ment was as easy as possible. Elmen
dorf closed the drawer and the lid of
the desk and walked to the window
with the envelope in his hand. It
looked suspicious, and the detective
gently murmured that he would
“chance it.”
With tlie thin blade of a penknife he
very adroitly raised the gummed lap
pet without inflicting any injury
which could not be repaired. The en
velope contained five SIOO bills
wrapped in a blank sheet of the firm's
paper.
L>espite tiie coincidence of amounts,
this was not necessarily tlie money
mentioned in Alden’s note to Elsie. If,
for instance, Mr. Robinson should say
that he had frugally laid by that sum,
and had thought liis employer’s desk
tlie safest place for it, tlie statement
would be equally hard to believe or to
disprove. For this reason Elmendorf
scrutinized tlie bills with an eager eye,
and when he found upon one of them
a peculiar mark, as if a word of a
strange language had been scrawled
there, he was more than pleased.
Raising the lower sasli of the window,
lie made a mirror of tlie glass by hold
ing tlie cuff of liis black coat against
it. Placing tlie bill before tliis mirror,
lie beheld the strange word reversed,
and it became legible as “Clarence.”
“The signature was blotted against
tlie money,” said lie. “It couldn’t lie
anything else. The bills were folded
into the note while the signature was
wet, and of course it printed itself on’
one of them.”
If Robinson had entered the room at
that moment, he would have been ar
rested for attempted murder, but be
a 3.,^
Ss!E
Hr beheld the strange word reversed.
did not come in. Whether this was his
luck or ElmemlotTs uiay lie hard to de
termine.
The detective sat down by Alden's
desk, holding the money in his hand.
His face wore a look of triumph, but it
was not pleasant to see. for the resent
ment which this crime had inspired in
him was burning in his heart. He was
not the hunter who does a day’s work
in the woods and counts his gains with
dull interest at night, lie was the man
who lias caught the wolf that killed the
pet lamb.
But there came a slow change upon
him. His face was puckered around the
eyes, and his lower lip got between his
teeth. Presently with a hasty hand he
scribbied upon a sheet of paper this
sentence:
For further particulars inquire of William El
nicndorf. New York detective bureau, 300 Mul
berry street.
This message he inclosed instead of
the money in the envelope, which he
carefully resealed. He held it balanced
upon two fingers for a moment, eying
It critically. Then be replaced it In the
drawer under the papers.
The knife with which he had opened
the envelope was lying open upon the
desk, lie picked it up. pulled dowu
the desk's lid and drew out one of the
sliding leaves, unon which be beat out
a gentle tune with the point of the
knife blade. He bad worn a little bole
in the wood without beiug aware of It,
when he beard Uoliinson's voice just
outside the door.
Elmendorf suddenly gripped the knife
hard and set the point upon the back
of his left hand. Then with a bit of a
laugh be shifted the knife to his left
hand and alowlv steadily pressed the
(Continued to Eighth Page.)
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