The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1915 Page: 2 of 4
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The Deport Times
BAM C. HOLLOWAY, Po»Li*n*a
Entered at the postofflce at Daport,
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The
QUARRY
Bn JOHN A. M0R0S0
Copyrlsht, UU, by Little, Brown A On
One knocker said Saturday’s
snow killed wheat and oats; 1
another said Sunday’s cold
weather got the vegetable gar-
den’s goat, while yet another
insisted that Tuesday’s storm
put the fruit crop out of commis-
sion. In fact, so far nothing is
damaged. What Delta county
needs is a freeze that will kill the
knocker —Delta Courier.
Attention, Cotton Growers
I have some Rowden cotton
seed that was selected from the
1913 crop, run through my Bow-
ers & Franklin cotton seed cul-
ler twice, planted in the 1914
crop, caught and sacked under
the gin stands and run through
my machine. This cotton show
ed quite a number of six locks to
the boll last season. Some of
the bolls and some of the seed
are on display at Baughn & Oliv
er’s store at Deport. I also have
some of the Webb seed that has
had the same attention. Both
varieties of seed worth $1.00 per
bushel. Quantity is limited.
H. R. Webb.
Times Honor Roll.
Following are the names of
those who have renewed their
subscription since our last issue
Dr. I. W. Teague, Mrs. C. L.
Brewer, Mack Grant, T. T.
Jeff us, Jno. Westbrook, W. 8.
Latham, W. H. Horton, J. F.
Holland, S. H. Westbrook, Dr.
B. S. Grant, I. L. Read, Bob
Westbrook, A. Frasier, 8. J.
Read. J. J. Lowrey, Mrs. J. M.
Pressley.
New Subscribers
The following names have
been added to our list since our
last issue:
Farris Day, A. S. J.* Steven-
son, Le Roy Moore, H. C. Sikes.
Miss IJellen Lawler.
Minter Mentions
Rev. Butler spent two days
this week in our community.
Rev. J. R. Jordan is at Talco
this week attending quarterly
conference.
Lundy and Felix Stalls spent
Sunday with their sister, Mrs
Luther Murray.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Bell,
spent Saturday night with Mr.
Denison at Milton.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bell
spent Saturday night and Sun-
day with Jack Beil and family
and Lawrence Robinson
Miss Maude Chovat who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. E.
N. Weaver, has returned home,
Mrs. Weaver accompanying her.
The young people enjoyed a
musical entertainment at Mr.
Manning’s Thursday night, and
a party at Mrs. Teague’s Friday
nigh j.
Mrs. J. H. Ratliff, as delegate
of the Minter Rebekah Lodge,
and Dr. T. W. Bufprd of the
I. O. O. F. Lodge, are in San An-
tonio this week attending the
Grand Lodge.
The infant son of Mr. Haley
and wife of Rocky Ford died
Sunday night after an illness of
several months, and was buried
at the Rocky Ford cemetery
Monday alternoon. Selected.
E. K. Gunn and wife returned
Wednesday from an extended
trip to South Texas.
SYNOPSIS
James Montgomery, an Innocent country
latf, le arrested for killing a bank watch-
men. Hie linger prints are taken by the
New York polica
Ills old mother pleads In vain for him
with Detective Michael Kearney. Mo
goraery le pieced on trial for his Ufa
charged with murder.
Convicted of murder In the second de-
gree. be le tent to Bing Bing as a life
prisoner end enters the machine ahop.
His cellmata Bill Hawkins, a burglar,
plana to aid Montgomery In escaping
from the prison
BUI makes Montgomery a eult of
clothes, but It la seised. Montgomery
crawls Into a box of machinery that Is to
leave the prison.
Escaping, he hides In thV New Jersey
marshes and changes his clothing for that
of a drowned man.
Detective Kearney vainly questions Bill
Hawkins concerning Montgomery’s where-
abouts. Montgomery becomes a tinker
and travels nights.
As "John Nelson," Montgomery enters a
cotton mill and Invents very valuable ma-
chinery. He meets Molly Bryan, a beau-
tiful girl.
I’hey foil In love with each other. “Nel-
aon” learns that Detective Kearney la atlll
hunting for him. He notlflee BUI of hla
whereabouts.
Bill la released from Sing Sing so that
Kearney can shadow him and And Mont-
gomery. Hawkins cleverly gives Kearney
the slip.
CHAPTER XI. _
Out For a Purpose,
rw^ IIE silent Influence of five years
I with a mnn who prayed to bis
£ God morning and night and
kept a brave heart In his bosom,
although be was suffering bitter Injus-
tice, bud a lasting effect on Bill Haw-
kins.
The old burglar bad come to look
upon James Montgomery as If be were
bis own son grown to manhood, and
this affection, which had grown wltliln
him gradually, drove bitterness from
bis heart It was as If the tragedy of
his own life had been veiled by a kind-
ly hand.
As the days passed In Bing Bing and
the boy was not brought back to bis
cell Rill found bis spirits gradually
brightening.
He learned to conform to the prison
regulations, nnd his new course of con-
duct was not without Its good effect.
His red disk was gone forever, of
Ha Was Fraal
course, but he could still win cbevrons
and turn them Into stars of honor with
each live years of exemplary behavior.
In the cutting room “The Butcher”
still kept a good record and received
the benefits thereof In letters and news-
papers. The message Anally came, and
Bill was signaled by “The Butcher” to
stand by to receive It. He quickly
comprehended the use of the numbers
aod knew that he would And Montgom-
ery In Greenville. 8. C.
As If fnto had determined to make
up for all the bud luck of the past with
one happy surprise, BUI was sum-
moned before the probation board that
very day.
Bill s old tbatcb wras now as white aa
snow. Ten years after tbe mid-century
mark leave heavy traces. Tbe ex-
pression of cunning and craftiness was
gone from bis features. Tbe Jaw w^s
■till heavy and low set and the brow
sloped, but there was tbe faint light of
regeneration In Mi face. \
“No. 00.110,” be heard the warden
say. "has been a splendid prisoner fbr
tbe Inst four years. He Is getting old.
nud It looks as If he might straighten
out If given a chance.”
“If you are released on pro ha on.
will you try to be worthy of the cb -e
given you nnd will you report to the
board once every month by letterV the
chairman asked.
"Y^p. sir," be replied, his voice trem-
bling as be began to realize that the
prison garb was about to drop from
him.
We bava studied your case and
think It worth while to give vou a
trial.” tbe dutnaaa toM him. Dm!
Is all."
He was free! It waa bard for him
to understand. A miracle bad been
wrought, it seemed to him. Klndaeeo,
inerey. compassion, bad been offered
him, a thief. Daaed nnd aplrltually
troubled, the old man walked to Me
cell.
He had not asked for mercy, and yetiAnad and corned J>e*f.
It was given him. What would be find1 ]earr
outside? No one was Interested In him.
Yee. tbe bey Jim waa.
Did tbe boy bring about hie detlvar-
encer Surely with a life term banging
over hla head he conld not have reach-
ed out from hla biding place and open-
ed tbe gates of Bing Bing.
Perhaps it was the God tbe boy used
to pray to morning and night. Per-
haps Jim had been praying for him
and be bad beard hla prayers.
Tbe awakening soul of Bill Hawklna
leaped to tbe beautiful thought. His
kneea trembled, and he sunk upon
them beside hla Iron cot. Hla head fell
In hla bands, and he prayed. Indeed,
he prayed, for hla eyea were wet with
tho tears of gratitude.
Ilawklns had come to Sing Slug with
nothing hut bis sins and his sentence
of fifteen years. lie carried away
with him a sense of thankfulness, a
thing he had never experienced before,
and tbe Intention of living the life of a
decent man.
Tbe warden shook bis band and made
a pretense of beaming upon him. He
little knew wbat good bad come from
bis base share in tbe plau of Detective
Michael Kearuey to use one friend to
betray nnotber.
Tbe probationer’s gray suit was
ebunged for a new black one, and a
felt hat was pulled over b' forehead,
hiding tbe defective formation. In his
pocket was enough money to take him
whence be came—the morass of hu-
manity, the underworld of New York.
He would return there beerfuse no
other world would have him, but be
would return a different man.
lie w as not going forth to evangelize.
He was going to seek tbe woman who
bad been a pretty girl once, tbe woman
who bad suffered ten thousand times
wbat be bad suffered.
At the Ossining station he bought a
ticket to New York nnd boarded the
first train. Two men of all the crowd
seemed to notice him. One of these
got'aboard the train directly behind
him, while the other entered the conch
he had chosen by tbe opposite door.
The train was an express and they
were soon at Forty-second street,
where. In the swarm of thousands ot
men nud women, many coaches were
unloading to the station platforms.
Shorter of stature than the nvernge
In the teeming crowd, the head of
Hawkins disappeared In a sen of bats
and bonnets, but tho two men who
bad come with him from Ossining
were never more than ten feet away
from lilm. ,
Leaving the Grand Central station.
Hawkins struck to the east nnd board-
ed a downtown Third avenue elevat-
ed train. He went all the way to Park
row.
In one of the more widely rend of
the penny newspapers he sought a
means of finding tho woman he wnnt
ed. Ho entered the Park row newspa
per office and, counting his cash, found
that he bad #2 and some odd change
He Inquired of a clerk and found thn:
a “personal” would cost him $1. Ui>
was given a pencil and an advertise
ment blank. The personal was written
and paid for, nnd BUI departed.
As the probationer reached the side-
walk tbe two men who had followed
him separated. One kept on his heels
and tbe other, with a look of triumph
In his eyes, hurried inside nnd to the
advertising clerk. He showed n police
badge.
“I’m Captain Kearney of central of-
fice.” he said briskly, “and I wnnt to
c;
Ho Showed a Palica Badge.
glimpse the personal the old man just
left with you.”
Tbe clerk produced It.
Kearney rend It slowly: "Jennie
Hawking. Bend address this office.
Wnnt you. my wife.”
The detective littered a growl of dis-
appointment ns he handed back the
slip of paper.
“I thought be wos tipping Montgom-
ery that be was out ond that tbe trail
would be a abort one,” be said tc blrn-
•elf.
He turned to tbe clerk again.
"Boon as you get an answer to^hat
peraonnl,” he Instructed tbe young
man, “telephone headquarters nnd ask
for Captain Kearney, if I ain’t there
the meaaage will be delivered to me.
Beer*
Hawklna moved from the respectable
newspaper end of Park row to that sec-
tion of tbe same Iron pillared and
track covereil highway which melts
luto tbe Bowery. He bad but little
money, and be >raa hungry.
For 5 cents be could have entered
one of a hundred and more aaloooa.
bad a glaaa of beer nnd hla fill of beana.
But be had
learned hla^feaon from drink, anil he
panned these places, choosing a cheap
restaurant after carefully studying tbe
prices of Its vartoua dishes displayed
on a frame of dirty white oilcloth In
black letters.
He found a seat In the rear of the
place facing tbe door.
Kearney’s man had entered behind
him and waa seated with hla back to
him. But he faced a mirror, and he
could aee every move of the old proba-
tioner be was shadowing.
The eyes of Hawkins shifted about
the restaurant, taking In the dirty
walla, tawdry pictures, fuded artificial
flowers and the little algua proclaiming
special dishes and their prices. For
only a second his eyes rested on the
mirror, but It was long enough.
“A bull,” said Hawk to himself.
The glance at the m: jred face was
enough to Impress It on hla mind. If
this detective was shadowing him and
not some other man Ilawklns would
know It in Just a little while.
He ordered a plate of ham and beans
and a cup of coffee. Hreud was served
with It, three slices. He ate with a
good appetite and puld tbe waiter lb
cents from his little store of money.
It bad been bis Intention to go to tbe
Herald office and lusert a reply to the
personal from Montgomery. He left
tbe restaurant nnd continued his wny
north on the Bowery to Third avenue.
He went as far as Twenty-third street
and turned west.
At Fourth avenue he entered the
Metropolitan building arcade, which
runs through to Madison avenue and
Madison square, lie bad not as yet
turued about to make un attempt to
find tbe shadow, and Kearney's man
was congratulating blraself on having
struck an easy job.
Once In the orcude building Hawkins
Increased his gait until he entne to the
wido Madison avenue entrance. Here
the storm doors hud been put up In
readiness for comlug winter and the
heavy weather of the lute fall. He
pushed through the door, but Insteud
of continuing Into the avenue he com-
pleted the circle and was back In tbe
nrcude. lie retraced Ills steps, passing
and recognizing tbe shadow, went to n
bootblack stainf nnd calmly took u
chair.
v The shadow, surprised, at first
thought tbnt this was n ruse of tbe
man he was stalking to avoid him, but
when be suw Ilawklns take the cbalr
be stood off nnd under cover told him-
self that bis task was still a simple
one.
As a Greek boy rubbed and polished
his shoes Ilawklns pondered how best
to proceed next. Hnd Keriruey not un-
covered Ills hand In the attempt to
bribe him to betray Ids friend be would
have been puzzled to fathom the mean-
ing of this shadowing. Now he under-
stood why he Inid been released from
prison and why his steps were being
dogged. It was not mercy nnd kind-
ness that hud been tbe motive of bfs
deliverance. It was |>ollce cruft. Nev-
ertheless lie wns out on probation and
to stay out us long ns be violated no
law.
The problem before him was to gain
that probation by Ids own honest effort
nnd not by being made a Judas. Ills
knowledge of detective methods, gain-
ed in evil days, now stood him In good
stead for n good cause, lie knew that
some time during the late afternoon
or night bis shadow would be relieved
by another. If necessary, the man fol
lowing him would arrest him ns a sus-
picious clinrncter. take him to a sta-
tion nud bold him just long enough to
have his relief look 1dm over from
under cover nnd then follow him. That
he would not be held for long, he
knew' very well. The police wanted
him free so that he could mnkc his
wny to his friend nnd guide them to
their quarry.
He wns concerned chiefly 'In getting
In print the reply to Montgomery’s per-
sonal. '1 mnnage this best be would
return to Ids old associates of the un-
derworld. Unwritten, the words of
the brief messnge would be passed
along until they reached the Herald
office and found their way to type and
eventually to the man they were In-
tended. fpr..
Ills shoes were polished. He paid
the Greek boy and returned to the
Bowery with Ills shadow.
Ilawklns entered the “reading room”
of n lodging bouse Just north of Clint-
ham square. One tuble. littered with
castoff newspapers nnd three or four
old and well thumbed magazines, was
In the center of the room. Around the
walls were ranged chairs placed ns
closely together ns the seats on the
average New York park bench.
As he fumbled among tbe papers Ills
keen eye* swept the fuces of the down
nnd outs who hnd been able to pny for
tho shelter they would have during
the coming night.
Kearney’s man followed him Into the
room after ii minute, pulled a newspa-
per from his po'-ket and found a seat
near a window.
The probationer expected some one,
hut he was not nmong the men gather-
ed here. He took n paper and found a
sent In the same row with the detec-
tive.
Without craning hla neck and lean-
ing forward tbe detective could not
watch Bill’s movemeuta. Still, there
wns no wny for Bill to leave tbe room
Without being seen by blm, and the de-
tective wns satisfied with tbelr relative
You never tasted
daintier, lighter, fluffier .
biscuits than those.
baked with Calumet,
They’re always
good — delicious.
For Calumet in-
sures perfect
baking.
RECEIVED
HIGHEST AWARDS I
WmU’i hn Food
Eipoaitioo. Ckkaao.
Folio Exposition,
France, llank,
1812.
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’’’Av
y> c
si
baking powder. Don’t I* aulod.
wkos roo bay ckoop <
t b* misled. Bog Coli
or bip-i
i willed. Bog Lelewr
bolt row.—give, boot l
Colowol U ior a a parlor to aeer milk nod aodn.
nnpltions.
(Crmtinnr-d next week.)
Investigate our clubbing offers
EVER SALIVATED BY
CALOMEL? HORRIBLE!
Calomel Is Quicksilver and Acts
Like Dynamite on
Your Liver,
Calomel loses you a day! You
know what calomel is. It’s
mercury; quicksilver. Calomel
is dangerous. It crashes into
sour bile like dynamite, cramp-
ing and sickening you. Caio-
mel attacks the bones and
should never be put into your
system.
When you feel bilious, slug-
gish, constipated and all knock-
ed out and believe you need a
dose of dangerous calomel just
remember that your druggist
sells for 50 cents a large bottle
of Dodson’s Liver Tone, which is
entirely vegetable and pleasant
to take and is a perfect substitute
for calomel. It is guaranteed
to start your liver without stir-
ring you up inside, and cannot
salivate.
Don’t take-calomel! It makes
you sick the next day; it loses
you a day’s work. Dodson’s
Liver Tone straightens you
right up and you feel great. Give
it to the children because it is
perfectly harmless and doesn’t
gripe.—Advertisement.
Plenty of Meal and hulls
[travel in
COMFORT
OPERATE8 ^ N
THROUGH STANDARD
STEAM TRAINS
BETWEEN
Dallas, Greenville and
Paris via Terrell and
Texas & Pacific.
ALSO
STEAM TRAINS AND
G A S-ELECTRIC
MOTOR CARS
BETWEEN
Paris, Terrill and Ennis
Ask for Tickets Over Texas
Midland Railroad
■M
F. B. McKAY
General Passenger Agent
.Terrill, Texas
Paris & Ml. Pleasant
Railroad Go.
We are at considerable
extra expense, operating
through package cars from
Dallas and St. Louis afford-
ing you from one to three
days better service than
you can otherwise receive.
We are not reoeiving the co-
operation of our patrons
which we feel we should, as
these cars are operated
solely with a view of giving
you better service, and un-
less you instruct future
shipments from those
points via Cotton Belt, we
will be forced to discon-
tinue this service.
C. F. COLLINS,
Gen. Fit. Agent, Paris,
Little Children
Suffer from itching, burning
skin eruptions. If the skin is
dry and scaly, try the cooling,
soothing ointment; DKY ZEN-
ZAL. If there is a watery erup-
tion use MOIST ZI5NSAL and
give the sufferer immediate re-
lief. Ask the City Drug Store
about it.
E. H. B. STEELE
Physician and Surgeon
*• Kesidence, Commercial Hotel
Res. ’Phone 105 Office phone, 146
Office at City Drug Store
DEPOUT, TEXAS
Plenty of cotton seed meal and
hulls for Rale- cal $1.40 per
sack; hulls $7 per ton.
Detroit Cotton Oil Co.
Jno. Harvey, Manager.
Dr. M. C. Andrews
DENTIST
Office in Phones in
Postoffice Bldg. - Office and Res.
Deport, Texas
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DR. S. H. GRANT
General Practice
Office in Post Office Building
Phone -Office 41.—Residence 201
DEPORT,
TEXAS
A. P. Park
L. L. Hardison
F. Moore
Park, Moore & Hardison
LAWYERS
South Side Lamar Ave., Paris, Tex.
Chas. W. Elliott L. V, Larsen
M. H. Baughn
Elliott, Larsen & Baughn
LAWYERS
Office in Lynch Bld’g. Paris, Texas
WELLS & CALVIN
Lawyers
Lynch Bulding
PARIS, TEXA8
DUDLEY, LOVE & DUDLEY
Attorneys-at-Law
84 Bonham Street
Paris, *•••?'. Texas
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