The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 49, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 1, 1909 Page: 5 of 8
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THE ♦ HOME AND ♦ STATE •
Saturday, May 1, 1909.
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ORIENTAL CARD CO.
Box 324,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
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Nor did the struggle end that night.
It was renewed with still greater pos-
itiveness the next day, as I witnessed
the glances which from time to time
passed between this father and daugh-
ter-glances full of doubt and ques-
tion on both sides, "
FREE DEAFNESS CURE.
A . remarkable offer by one of the
leading ear specialists in this country,
who will send two months’ medicine
free to prove his ability to cure Deaf-
ness, Head Noises and Catarrh. Ad-
dress Dr. G. M. Branaman 68 East
12th St., Kansas City, Mo.
“Important” written in the corner. I
did not know the writing, but I felt
that I should open and read this let-
ter before committing myself or those
who stood back of me to this desperate
undertaking.
Glancing behind me and seeing that
the door into Miss Grey’s room was
ajar, I caught up this letter and rush-
ed with it back into my own room.
As I surmised, it was from the in-
spector, and as I read it I realized that
I had received it not one moment too
soon. In language purposely non-com-
mittal, but of a meaning not to be mis-
taken, it advised me that some unfore-
seen facts had come to light which
altered all former suspicions and made
the little surprise I had planned no
longer necessary.
There was no allusion to Mr. Durand
I at the final sentence ran:
“Drop all care and give your undi
vided attention to your patient.”
(Confined Next Week.)
Splendid Bargain in Post Cards. $1.00 value for 20c
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_________________DALLAS, TEXAS.
self that it was not a good man’s over-
throw I sought, or even a bad man’s
immunity from punishment, but the
truth, the absolute truth. No shame
could equal that which I should feel
if, by any over-delicacy now, I failed
to save the man whc trusted me.
The article which I held—have you
guessed it?—was the stilletto with
which Mrs. Fairbrother had been
killed. It had been intrusted to me
by the police for a definite purpose.
The time for testing that purpose had
come, or so nearly come, that I felt
I must be thinking about the necesary
WHY STATE-WIDE PROHIBITION
Continued f.om Page 3
must not be saddled onto the people
unless they be given a right to vote
on the liquor traffic.
7. State-wide prohibition has been
successful where tried in recent years.
8. It can be enforced in large cities
as well as in small ones.
9. Texas must not be made the
dumping ground for criminals from
the dry States.
Then up Freemen, and unite
5) \ A first class Shorthand writer can always /
s \ command a pleasant position and a high /
. “0 salary. Incomes of $1,000 to $5,000 a 5
4 year are not uncommon. The young man ‘
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: s ity to earn an independent living.
, We Will Teach You
this crime had placed him. I spent
the hours of the afternoon in alter-
nately watching the sleeping face of
my patient, too sweetly calm in its
repose, or so it seemed, for the mind
beneath to harbor such doubts as were
shown in the warning I had ascribed
tc her, and vain efforts to explain by
ary other hypothesis than that of
guilt, the extraordinary evidence
which linked this man of great affairs
and the loftiest repute to a crime in-
volving both theft and murder.
against this monster vice. Patriot-
ism never had a greater field for
daring and endeavor.
When freedom on her natal day
Within her far rocked cradle lay.
An iron race around her stood,
Baptised her infant brow in blood.
And through the storms which
round her swept.
Their constant ward and watch-
ing kept.
Our fathers to their graves havo
gone,
Their struggles past, their
triumph won;
But sterner battles wait the race
Which rises in their honored
place;
A moral warfare with the crime
And folly of an evil time.
So let it be! In God’s own might
We gird us for the coming fight;
And strong in him whose cause
is ours.
In conflict with unholy powers.
We grasp the weapons he has
given,—
The Light, and Love, and Truth
of Heaven.
ways and means.
Unwinding the folds of tissue paper
in which the stilletto was wrapped, I
. , - scrutinized the weapon very carefully,
snob .but not exactly Hitherto, I had seen only pictures of
taung very much over my gj* anma.t “omane"qos8
on ngenzngxpereittznmoy altsry vounas, u I forced myself
vive in view of the extraordinary ex- tostsewhytheendofitsblade was
Ereaiongorzdre 1 7' might with etili yies which ornamented the handle *
sttethreayanar madechnem,rm nadngtdpeonumitoven In "The
myounaccustomed eyes, almost un- none other, th "vus®algremandit
18 . ’ quiry I had undertaken. However the
He was sitting at his desk in reverie matter ended, I should always have
over some papers which he seemed these historic devices for my excuse,
not to have touched for hours, and ,
when, at some movement I made, he , MY Plan Was to lay this dagger on
started up and met my eye, I could Mr. Grey’s desk at a moment when he
swear that his cheek was " pale, the Would be sure to see it and I to see him.
film carriage of his body shkel. and I he betrayed a guilty knowledge of
the whole man a victim to some strong this fatal steel; if, unconscious of my
and secret apprehension he vainly Presence, he showed surprise and ap-
-sought to hide. When I ventured to Prehension,—then we should know
tell him what I wanted, he made an hoW to proceed; justice would be
effort and pulled himself together, but .00Sed from constraint and the police
I had seen him with his mask off, and feel at liberty to approach him. It
his usually calm visage and self-pos- Was a delicate task, this. I realized
sessed mien could not again deceive hoW delicate, when I had thrust the
me stiletto out of sight under my nurse’s
.. , apron and started to cross the hall.
My duties kept me mainly at Miss Should I find the library clear? Would
Grey’s bedside, but I had been provid- the opportunity be given me to ap-
ed with a little room across the hall, proach his desk, or should I have to
and to this room I retired very soon carry this guilty witness of a world-
after this, for rest and a necessary famous crime on into Miss Grey’s
understanding with myself. room, and with its unholy outline
For, in spite of this experience and presing a semblance of itself upon my
my now settled convictions, my pur- breast, sit at that innocent pillow,
pose required whetting. The inde- meet those innocent eyes, and answer
scribable charm, the extreme refine- the gentle inquiries which now and
ment and nobility of manner observa- then fell from the sweetest lips I have
ble in both Mr. Grey and his daughter, ever seen smile into the face of a
were producing their effect. I felt -onely, preoccupied stranger?
guilty; . constrained. Whatever my The arrangement of the rooms was
convictions, the impetus to act was such as made it necessary for me to
leaving me. How could I recover it? pass through this sitting room in or-
By thinking of Anson Durand and der to reach my patient’s bedroom
his present disgraceful position.
With careful tread, so timed as not
Anson Durand! Oh, how the feel- to appear stealthy, I accordingly ad-
ing surged up in my breast as that vanced and pushed open the door The
name slipped from my lips on crossing room was empty. Mr. Grey was still
the threshold of my little room! . An- with his daughter and I could cross
son Durand, whom I believed inno- the floor without fear. But never had
cent, whom I loved, but whom I was I entered upon a task requiring more
betraying with every moment of hesi- courage or one more obnoxious to fty
tation in which I allowed myself to in- natural instincts. I hated each step
dulse: What if the Honorable Mr. I took, but I loved the man for whom
Grey is an eminent statesman, a digni- I took those steps, and moved reso-
fied, scholarly, and to all appearance, lutely on. Only, as I reached the chair
high-minded man? What if my pa- in which Mr. Grey was accustomed to
tient is sweet, dove-eyed and affection- sit, I found that it was easier to plan
ate? Had not Anson qualities as ex- an action than to carry it out. Home
cellent in their way, rights as certain, life and the domestic virtues had al-
and a hold upon myself to any claims ways appealed to me more than a
which another might advance? Draw- man’s greatness. The position which
irg a much crumpled little note from this man held in his own country, his a
my pocket, I eagerly read it. It was usefulness there, even his prestige as
the only one I had of his writing, the statesman and scholar, were facts, but
only letter he had ever written me. very dreamy facts, to me, while his
I had already re-read it a hundred feelings as a father, the place he held
times, but as I once more repeated to in his daughter’s heart—these were
myself its well-known lines, I felt my real to me, these I could understand;
heart grow strong and fixed in the and it was these and not of his place
determination, which had brought me as a man, that this his favorite seat
into this family. spoke to me. How often I had beheld
Restoring the letter to its pjace, I him sit by the hour with his eye 011
opened my gripsack and from its in- the door behind which his one darling
most recesses drew forth an object lay ill: Even now, it was easy for
which I had no sooner in hand than a me to recall his face as I had some-
natural sense of disquietude led me to times caught a glimpse of it through
glance apprehensively, first at the the crack of the suddenly opened door,
door, then at the window, though I I felt my breast heave and my hand
had locked the one and shaded the falter as 1 drew forth the stiletto and
other. It seemed as if some other eye moved to place it.wherehis eye would
besides my own must be gazing at tall upon it on his leaving his daugh-
what I held so gingerly in hand; that ter’s beside.
the walls were watching me, if nothing But my hand returned quickly to my
else, and the sensation this produced breast and fell back again empty A
was so exactly like that of guilt (or pile of letters lay before me on the
what I imagined to be guilt), that I open lid of the desk. The top one
was forced to repeat once more to my- was addressed to me with the word
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Rankin, George C. The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 49, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 1, 1909, newspaper, May 1, 1909; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1569448/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.