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THE CEO ROLAN'S MAGAZINE PAGE
■The Case of Oscar
I Slater
/>v .vr Arthur Conan Doyle
Wihcrlock Holmes in Real Life
today ’S installment.
g] :,lr - • Mc, -' lnre ex p° sed very clear
[fl .ti any discrepancies as to identi-
an .i warned the jury solemnly
Bfe ..„ dangers which have been so
H . .' r ,. Y eJ to lurk in this class of evi-
.ether. it was a broad, comprehen-
B ..plv, though where so many points
■J. involved. it is natural that some
■V' .. j, Lave been overlooked. One does
■' . example, find the counsel as In-
|H as one might expect upon such
I I as the failure of the crown to
|fl. ... ~W Slater could have known any-
, (1 . a . al', about the existence of Miss
P . and her jewels; how be got Into
ami what became of the brooch
.. cording to their theory, he had
■ctm-l "ft-
■ <r t ungracious to suggest any addi-
■ pllS to so earnest a defense, and no
■ i( ,,q,. one Who is dependent upon printed
■matmr may miss points which were
L-tualb made, but not placed upon rec-
■ ’l'd
I oniv one point must Mr. McClures
■lmmim m be questioned, and that is on
FKlm most difficult one which a criminal
I lias ever to decide. He did not
■ .lace his man in the box. This should
Mi cry properly be taken as a sign of
■weakness. 1 have no means of saying
consideration led Mr. McClure to
determination. It certainly told
his client.
1 f In the masterly memorial for reprieve
H.irawn up by Slater's solicitor, the late
|H , lr Spiers, it is stated with the full Inner
Mkr.owli'dge which that solicitor .had, that
[■sinter was all along anxious to rflve evi
ißo. ncc mi his own behalf. "He was ad-
Mvis«l hy his counsel not to do ho, but
■not from any knowledge of guilt. He
' Hl ad undergone' the strain of a four days’
He speaks rather broken English,
■ although quite intelligible—with a for
’■<lgn accent, and he had been in custody
■ since January.'’'
I'M It must be admitted that these reasons
■ are very unconvincing. It is much more
Hprobable that the counsel decided that the
■ uurely negative evidence which his client
■•oifid give uptn the crime would be dear
fl paid for iy the long recital of sordid
■ ;.m...irs and Ijlackguard experiences which
:■ would he drawn from him on cross-ex-
■ amlnation ahd have the most damning
■ effect upon the minds of a respectable
■ Edinburgh Jury.
;. yy And yet, perhaps, counsel did not suffl
.■eiently consider the prejudice which is
H excited and rightly excited —against the
■ prisoner yho shuns the box. Some of
■ tiiis prejudice might have been removed
■ If it had been made more clear that Sla-
■ ter had volunteered to come over and
■ stand his trial of his own free will, wlth-
■ out wafting for the verdict of the extra
■ dition ifoceedlngs.
Thers remains the summing up of Lord
■ Guthri*. Ills lordship threw out the sur-
■ raise that the assassin may well have
■ gone io the fl .. '/*. any intention of
■ murder. This is < possible, but
in the highest degree able. He
fl ■ ■■mineiited whh great seven... . m Sla-
general character.
fl In his* summing-up of the ease, lie re-'
,fl . .ipii ulati-d the familiar facts in an 1m-
A't artial fashion, concluding with the
fl v.-.Ms, "I suppose that you all think that
div prisoner possibly is the murderer.
;■ Vol may very likely all think that he
rdiably is the murderer. That, how
-1 'er. will not entitle you to convict him.
r.ovn has undertaken to prove that
r] •* is the murderer. That is the ques
n y >ii have to consider. If you think
lir-re is no reasonable doubt about it.
i ' on win convict him; if you think there
SB "■ .'’"Il will acquit him.
s;i , in an hour anti ten minutes the jury
I ’'ad niado up their mind. By a majority
■,' l liey fuimd the prisoner guilty. Out of
■ fifteen, nine, as was afterward shown,
H " <re f ''’ r guilty, five for non-proven and
■ one for not guilty.
■ By l.iißlish law, a new trial would have
n .needed, ending as in the
■T'ardfrier case, in the complete acquittal
■f t' the prisoner. By Scotch law, man
verdict held good.
I know nothing about the affair, abso-
nothing,” cried the prisoner, in a
of despair. "I never heard the
I know nothing about the affair,
not know how I could be connected
fl’ n the affair. I came from America
own account. 1 can say no more.”
■ of death was then passed.
K 'erdict was, it Is said, a complete
Wiprise to most of those in the court,
■' certainly is surprising when exam
fleii after the. event.
■ ' 1 see how any reasonable man
' fully weigh the evidence and not
■ when the unfortunate prisoner
know nothing about it.” he was
fl" id even probably, speaking the
■‘T'l truth,
llle monstrous coincidence
1 T ’ nv ' ,,vp fi in his guilt, the coincl
llo''ce - owing to their mis-
Ille * >ro °ch, by pure chance
Kit? ’ mil in pursuit of the right man.
I continued In Next Issue.
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A long-gone friend drops in on a snowy night to talk over old times.
*r\OES your little wrinkled grandmother with the black dress that “shuf
shufs so softly along lhe floor—and who always is safe under her
white nightcap by 9 o’clock—ever get a little "spell" and sit. by the blazing
hickory logs long after the rest of the young household is breathing deep under
the quilts’?
If you d slip your feet out on the cold floor, open your door without a
An Annual Injustice
Ry Beatrice Fairfax
THERE are very few girls over ten
these days who do not have their
own Christmas spending money.
Those too young to earn money are
given an allowance, and this making of
daughter an independent factor in the
home begins in many instances when
she is little more than a baby, and is
given every Saturday night her weekly
allowance for “helping mother” during
the week.
Out of this allowance when a child,
and later out of the money she earns
with her own hands, she buys many lit
tle luxuries for the home and for her
self. I put “the home” first for the rea
son that a daughter’s generosity is
proverbial.
At hen the holidays approach, she gets
out her little store, and no one engaged
in the great big shopping game at this
time of the year has a list that is long
er. And few, alas! have purses that
are much flatter.
She is young, and, therefore, has a
Up-to-Date Jokes
Teacher (reading aloud)—The weary
sentinel leaned on his gun and stole
a few' moments sleep.
“I bet I know' where he stole it.”
"Where, Dot?”
“From his ‘nap-sack.”
“Does my boy,” Inquired the parent,
“seem to have a natural bent in any
one direction?”
"Yes, sir," said the teacher. He
gives every indication of being a cap
tain of Industry some day. He gets
the other boys to do all his work for
him."
Pat had joined the navy, and was
being drilled with his shipmates on a
pier.
“Fall in!” came the order.
Immediately Pat fell into the water.
“Two deep!” was the next order.
Pat (sputtering in the water):
"Bad scran to ye! Why didn’t ye tell
me it was too deep before I fell in?”
It was dinner time and the conversa
tion turned to sport.
“Did I ever tell you about me brother
Tom winning the cup in the Marathon
race?” said Terence to his mate.
“One cup—why. that’s nothin’!" said
Mike. "My uucle Dennis has cups for
swimming and running, medals for
wrestling and watches for football.”
"Bedad, and he must be a great ath r
let< !” said Terence.
"Begorra. ami ye’re wrong,” replied
Mike. “He's a pawnbroker.”
A young man about to get murtied
asked his father how lie got on so well
with Ills wife. The old man considered
for a moment or two. and then he said:
"It’s like this, .John. If your wife is
a good woman, b t her hint- h< i own
wuv, and If sin a had cm -he'll l ike j
i long list of friends. After she is older
she will find that many plants she nur-
■ tured in her garden of friendship have
proven to be weeds, but in the hope
fulness of youth all look in her eyes
like buds of rare promise.
Home Folks Suffer.
Some one must be sacrificed. She
. can not buy' handsome presents for all
on her list. She puzzles over it with
pretty brow deeply' furrowed. She
would be ashamed to give an inexpen
sive present to this friend, or that
friend, recalling the handsome gifts she
received from them last year. No, she
can not economize there!
There Is only one way left! She must
economize on what she gives her father
and mother!
“They,” she says, resting secure in a
love that knows no criticism, “will un
derstand.”
So she buys of the best for every so
called friend, and with the few pennies
left gets mother a back comb, or sub
scribes for a magazine for father which
contains the kind of reading she most
enjoys.
This is a form of Christmas injustice
so often practiced that daughters get
used to this last-penny’ consideration
for the two who love them the most,
and give these little make-shift gifts
without regrets or a qualm of con
science.
Then there is another form of Christ
mas injustice just as inexcusable.
Daughter forgets mother or father is an
individual, with personal longings and
necessities. She regards the one, or the
other, or both, as “the house."
"The parlor." she says, “needs a new
chair. 1 will give one to mother and
father for Christmas.”
Sacrifice Others.
And there appears in the parlor a
chair which adds to its attractiveness
for daughter’s company. It is not put
in father’s den where he can sit in it,
or in the corner where mother spends
her few leisure moments. If it were,
then the spirit of Christmas would at
tend such a gift and make of the least
expensive article the most comfortable
and comforting of its kind. But that
the gift is for “the house” is obvious.
To consider mother as the dining
room in urgent need of a new table
cloth, or father as the hall crying for
a new hatrack is to make of Christ
mas a painful joke.
If, as daughter argues, “the house”
really needs new chairs, table linen or
hall furniture, then let her go to her
parents and say:
"Let me be ’the house’ this year,
(live me a new mattress for the spare
room instead of that set of furs 1
w ant."
Be ju.-i. girls, and don't try to spread
your spirit of generosity over too large
.> infill'. If ~ nine one must be -iierl
ficcd in your (’hrlHtinus buying, don't
let Hint sacrifice be tile best friends
vou lune on ..Hili- y out lath.o mJ
'< mu mother.
creak—sneak along the passage and down the black well of the stairs to the
curtains of the living room—there in the flickering of the flames and the dim
glow of candles you’d find your little old grandmother entertaining a late
guest! A little fat boy! And the eyes of the two of them would be dreamy
and all atwinkle—and there’d be a pink spot in your grandma’s either cheek—
and you’d hear the most amazing laughter as the two of them went over old
times —old places—old faces —and old days!
Daysey Mayme and Her Folks
By Frances L. Garside
BUYING FOR FATHER.
may be other women who
poiipt with pride and alarm to
long lists of friends and relatives
they remember at Christmas, but there
isn’t one of them so badly infected with
the Holy Yuletide germ as Daysey
Maynie Appleton.
She gives to everybody, ineluding the
woman she met on a train a year ago
last summer and hasn’t seen since. She
gets the Christmas trot in such exag
gerated form that If it were not for her
father’s exalted position as Kin Com
missioner General of the United States,
she would be arrested for exceeding the
speed limit.
After such effort her brain had begun
to feel as inflamed as a sprig of holly.
She had scratched name after name off
her list and had at last come to father.
"Dear father,” she thought. “He is
so good! J must remember dear fa
ther!”
She coaxed S2O out of him as a pre
liminary effort to remembering him,
and with this in her purse she started
downtown.
She passed a millinery store on the
way and went in. When she came out
she had paid $lB for a sweet little hat
the size of a wagon wheel.
"I am on my way,” she recalled, “to
buy a Christmas gift for father."
She reached a department store and
went in and walked and walked, and
ROMANCE UP TO DATE.
It was a secluded corner, hemmed in
with palms and fairy lights, calm, cool
and restful. In the distance could be
heard the strains of a band, playing a
slow, rapturous waltz. The very air
breathed with romance.
"Do you realize what it would mean
if 1 were to give you such a beautiful
ring?” he asked softly.
She thought she did; but. instead of
saying so—for she wished to hear him
say those blessed words herself—she
cooed a gentle—
" What? What would it mean?”
"It would mean." he said, as he rose
to his feet, “that I should have to live
on ten-cent lunches and wear old
clothes for a year!”
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thought and thought. Then she had an
ice cream soda while she thought and
thought some more.
Then she walked and looked an 1
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sighed because she couldn't afford to
buy one for him. Then she looked at
cotton socks, but felt that cotton socks
even with bunches of holly pinned on
the toes, would somehow fail to express
the real • innermost Christmas senti
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Then she walked and looked am’
thought, and walked and looked an.i
thought some more. And then she
found it!
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"And, after all," said Daysey Mayme.
“it’s love that counts with father."
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Adv ice to the
Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
BOTH RIGHT AND NATURAL.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
Is it right for a fellow to ask a
girl to go out with him on a Mon
day and Thursday? Do you think
he cares anything about her?
M. M. F.
He certainly cares for her or he would
not seek her company two evenings a
week. As this love story progresses I
shall be sure he Is limited in time or
love if he doesn’t seek it oftener.
NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am in love with a man 45 years
old, and he says he loves me sin
cerely. lam sixteen years old and
considered very good looking. At
present he Is making sl3 a week;
he is a section hand for a very
large railroad, but lias fine chance
for advancement. Do you consider
his small wages and age a detri
ment to our marriage? He wants
me to elope. RAY.
He is not a man of honor. No man c.t
45 will urge a girl of sixteen to elope
with him if he loves her In the right
way. You must never see him again,
or hold any communication with him. I
bog of you to heed me.
HAVE YOU A RIGHT TO OBJECT?
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am nineteen and love a inan
four years my senior. His sister
and I are friends and I often call on
her. when I know he Is out.
The last fyw limes I called on
her I met three or four young ladies
of about my age and they, not
.knowing me, made inquiries as to
hfs Whereabouts and made state
ment* which led me to believe that
they are fond of him and were out
iir'hts company several thnes. A.
You are not engaged, and the fact
that you have given your love unsought
doesn’t make you the young man’s cen
sor or guardian..
It seems to me the other girls are
guests of his sister because of the same
motive that takes you there.
Don’t go so often, and don't, I beg of
you, if you want to win this man’s love,
make the mistake of being too easily
won yourself.
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