Newspapers / The Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.) / April 4, 1913, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
OH! MY BACK! A stubborn backache that banc* on, week after week, la cauae to ■aspect kidney trouble, for when the kidneys are inflamed and swol len, bending the back brings a ■harp twinge that almost takes the breath away. It's hard to work and Just as hard to rest or sleep. Doan's Kidney PUls revive slug giah kidneys—relieve congested, aching kidneys. The proof Is an amazing collection of backache testimonials. A COWjECnCUT ouim n. Phunptjn "wy*"" j r "I'm?; I^- Siiw was mo down 1 waa eonfln»J to bed / \tim for tan# weeftt and / —* llillf II npVKtintalilltU jinl. Ihmit l> rondfolna ttiyaajpnl/ JJI failed u> h«lp m*. and ME/ L II - tmfi Bnallf 1 il'uiu ni'iirit tn jir® nf\ atva ts.an'a Kidney r~l Pllla atrial The/ f- iMr-ll—iLril r^!9 tiered run alnv>*t from r _ i >Mi « Srat and, toonJ cured me entl rclf *vj Hitmn TM a Xrrf* Get Doan's at Any Store, 80c a Bos DOAN'S Kl Ml y FOSTE*-Mil-BURN CO., Buffalo. New York Natural Supply. "What's the use of all the Band on the seashore?" "That's what they scour the seas with" IHTItiORATIMU TO Till? FA IF AND SICK I.Y. T%9 OM Ptaudnrl grucml itr»«ngThoning tonic, OROV ■'H TAHT KI.HHM olil 11 TONIC, driven ont Mr lirla, c/»rlol.« * I lio blood and build* up the tyftleuu. AauroAptMiiior. For adult* »nl children. U) cla. Many a young man would get a hard bump If thrown on hit) own re sou rof-K. ImJUilllllTO WOMEN IIUIIIHIIIIIU Now Is Jhe Time | t>o«ve pain* and achee resulting 3 from wcaknoaa or derangement C of the organ* distinctly faminlne 3 sooner or later leave tneir mark. B Beauty soon fadea away. Now 3 la the time to raster* health S and retain beauty. DR. PIERCE'S Favorite Prescription g Tfiat great, potent, etrength-gtvtng jj* naUaraUve will kelp you. Start teday. 3 1111 Tear Dr*g(i*t will Sipfl; YeallllllQ Kodak Finishing Cheapest price* on earth by ■ JJmSjfc. i 'holographic tnecialitts. De- Bmllly- vekspiug aoy roll film sc. Prints L/Wiiiiyltc and ac. Mail your films to Dept. K, PARSONS OPTICAL CO., >44 KING ST.. CHARLESTON, SO. CAROLINA , strln(lnt Austrian Building Law*. iAeslrlan laws require that dwellings and burinesH houacs be built of solid material from Interior to exterior. Building regulations in Austria art; very strict and are rigidly enforced. Interior walla there are chiefly of plas ter and concrete, but bricks and laths are much used. Kor SI'VMUIt IIRADAriIKS Tllrkx' CAPL'DINB In the best remedy— ■o mutter what causes them—whether from the heat, hIIIImk hi draughts, fever tah condition, etc. 10e., 16c and COc per JaaUle at medicine stores. Adv. ' A wise man puts hla ears on the Job and gives his tongue a rent. CONSTIPATION SMunyon's Paw-Paw Pi I Is are unl i ke al 1 oth er laxatives or cathar tics. They coa* the liver into activity by gentle methods, th'ey do nut scour; tbey do not gripe; they do not weaken; but they do start all the secretions of the liver and stom ach in a way that soon pats these organs in a healthy condition and corrects constipation. Munyou's Paw-Paw Hlb are a touic to the stomach, liver and carves. They invigorate instead of weaken; they enrich the blood instead of impover ishing it; they enable the stomach to get all *).* nourishment from food that is put into It Price as cents All Druggists "Why Scratch? ££» "Hunt'sCure"isguar- IN. anteed to stop and "%2> permanentlycure that terrible itching. It is compounded for that WMf purpose and your money mg B fligu will be promptly tefunded tmjwj lMm\ WITHOUT QUESTION fJM jgOM If Hunt's Cure fails to cure Itch, Eczema, Tetter, Ring ■KBRV Worm or any other Skin Dtessf. 50c at your druggist's, or by mall direct if he hasn't it Manufactured only by A. B. RICHARDS MEDICINE CO., ShsrmMjeiu /«. ' _ la guaranteed to gtvi fttlleat ■ailafaetioD mfMtCUIC4&4' Writ* na for coplea ol treatments from poo pie who have beei ■rittwrv aim benefited. S6c and Aoc ■BBIf® ajs-r^"" BTBALE REMEDY CO., NIWPORT NEWI.VA marcs' ImssMsvt COPYRIGHT 1911 Johnston wßOßnatuLconvr Illu 18 SYNOPSIS. HardlnK Kent calls on lionise Farrish to j propoa! marring*.- and Amis the house In great excitement over the attempte*i sul -1 ctdo of her slater Katharine. Kent starts an Investigation and finds that Hugh I Cranilall. auitor for Katharine, who had been forbidden the house by General Far risli, had talked with Katharine over the I telephone just before she shot herself. A torn plere of yellow paper Is found, at alKht of which General Karrlsh l» stricken with paralysis. Kent discovers that Prunflall has left town hurriedly. Andrew minor, an aged banker, commits 1 suicide about the same time as KaOiarln» | attemptod her life. A yellow enviflhpe U found In Klser's room. Post Office In spector Davis. Kent's friend, lakes up , the case. Kent Is convinced that C'ran ; dall Is at the bottom of the mystery. ! Katharine's strango outcry puzzles the 4 detectives. Kent and Davis search tea#- j dall's room nnd find an address, Dock , 1 Box 17, Ardway, N. J. Kent ene* to Ard -1 I way to. Investigate nnd becomes auspl ' j clotls of a "Henry Cook." A woman ! commits suicide at the Ardway Hotel. A I yellow letter also figures In this case. Kent mils Doulse on the long distance ■ I telephone and finds that she had Just been 1 called by C'randall from the s;une booth. I "Cook" disappears. The Ardway post ' master Is missing. Inspector Davis ar rives at Ardway and lakes up Invos -1 ligation. He discovers that the dead woman I* Sarah Harkel of Iwnilse telephones Kent Imploring lilm to I drop tl)e Investigation. Kent returns to ! New York to get an explanation from lonise. He finds the body of n woman In { Central Park and more yellow letters. I He sees CrandalL, whom he recognizes aa "Cook," enter tile Fnrrlsh homo Fxiulse again Implores Kenl to dr»i» thu Investi gation and refuses to give any explana tlon. l.ater Kent see* C'randall nnd Doulse i In an automobile. Kent returns to Ard ! way. Davl* announces that he has h planned to arrest the missing postmaster : and also the master criminal. While seek j Ing the criminals. Kent comes across I/Muls* l nnd Crandnll. Pursue)! bv Davis the posi master Jumps off a precipice and ; Is killed. Aleck Young, the mutter crlm ; Inal, In found In a hut In a morphine stupor. Doulse tells Kent that she and j Cratidall had come to get papers front 1 Young whleh gave him a strango hold I over General Karrlah. CHAPTER XlH.— (Continued.) AH If in corroboration of iny words, the threw of them, Orandall, Davla and the constable, returned Just at this moment. "Come, Miss Fnrrlsh," said Crandnll, "I think it time ! was starting home with you, If you feel ablo to travnl, I ■jhave run' the car up Just outside ihc cottage. I think w« can snf«'ly leave j the completion of our mission to the ; inspector and Mr. Kent." "I wish Mr. Kent was coming back ! with us," snld Louise In a sweetly ! plaintive tone that made mo long to ! grntlfy her wish. "I need him here," said the in -1 spector almost roughly. "And that comes first for all of us," she said bravelv. I watched the automobile out of I sight anil then turned back Into the ! cottage, where I found the constable stretched on the floor, already fast asleep. Davis, sitting on thn floor be j foro some smoldering logs that hail been placed In n rudely-aonslriicteil | 1 Nevertheless, I Seated Myself on th« Floor Beside Him. ' open fireplace, seemed wrapped In t : thought and did not even look up wheii ' i I entered. I Nevertheless, I seated myself on the ' floor beside him and. placing my band 1 on his shoulder, I said once more; [ "And now I want to know all about , tt." f "Shut up," he said, savagely shaking I | off iny hand. "Can't you see I want to - ; think?" 1 | Rebuffed and amazed by his rude [ ness, I sprang to my feet, only to get i a new surprise as, in tones as courte i ous as his others had been rude, he said: "If I were you, Harding, I'd fol low the constable's example and try to get some sleep. You and I have a hard day ahead ot us, tomorrow." Seeing that he was In no mood to b« questioned, I smothered back the many things I wanted to ask him and 2 stretched myself on the floor, not to V 'sleep, but to ponder. As I reviewed Jj the amailng events of today, of yester > day, of the day before. It seemed aa £ if ages and ages—grim, mystifying, >r terrifying ages—had passed since that hour when I left my office light-hoart '• ed to call ou Louise Farrish. ~ And the morning—the inspector had 1). said —was to bring a hard day for both £ of us. What new terr6r could tomorrow | M 4? CHAPTER XIV. The Inspector Explains. Thump, thump, thump! I had not thought slumber possible for me, and yet I must have slept. My bewildered senses, dazed by a sudden recall to activity, took subconscious cognizance of a regular, persistent pounding and eventually succeeded !■ stirring me to attention. I suddenly sat up and looked about me. I found myself in the deserted cottage, the drug slave still motionless on his couch and the logs still smoldering In the fireplace. That thumping—l quickly saw where It came from. Davis was standing over the sleeping form of Dodds, the con stable, engaged In the work of awak ening him by the park policeman's method—kicking him on the soles of Ills shoes. The process waa successful. The constable snorted, drew up his legs, rubbed his eyes and sprang to his feet. "It will be daylight lu half an hour," I heard Davis tell htm. "1 want you to go and get the buckboard and drive around to where Rouser's body lies. Bring me any papers you find In his pockets. Leave his money and his watch and keys, so as not to arouse any suspicion of robbery. As soon as you havo done that I want you to drive back and pick up tho body be fore anyone else finds It. Drive with it to Mlllervale and leave It there. Don't talk too much. Tell everybody that you found the body at the foot of tho precipice and Impress on them that it must have been an accident In the dark. As soon as you can conveni ently get away, come back here. Make sure, though, that nobody follows you." As soon as the constable had gone, Davis lit a cigarette, turned up hia coat collar and took a seat on a rough bench Just outside the door. "Come on out here, Harding, and watch the sun rise," he called to me. I rose hnstlly from where I had tve*7i ilTtliig gaziug Htujildly about me arid joined him on the bench. "There was something you wanted to ask me, wasn't there?" he said pleasantly. There were so many thinKs I want ed to ask him I hardly knew where to begin, but the first thing I blurted out was: "Is Hugh Orandall guilty?" "He Is guilty only of being in love with Katharine Famish against her fa ther's wishes," he replied. "But surely," 1 said doggedly, "he has some connection with the crime of the yellow letters. He knew Young, lie knew where to find him. i There are many thtngs about his ac- ! lions that to my mind call for expln- j nation." - - "Did you notice' his eves?" asked Davis. It was still too.dark for me to see the Inspector's face, but I felt j sure that he was laughing at me. He made nie feel tlint way all too often. "1 didn't," I answered rather cross- . ly, "but whnt'B that got to. do with it?" "I'm afraid, Kent, as I have said be fore, you will never make a good de tective. You are entirely too unob servant of Important details Do you reenll my asking early In our investi gation whether or not Crandall had blue eyets?" "Yes," 1 grudgingly admitted, "1 re cull it." "As soon as I discovered that Cran dall had blue eyes that eliminated him as the probable criminal." "I don'tTsee your logic." "I've told you before," said Davis, after a pause long enough to permit him to light another cigarette, "that there are clauses of crime and typea of criminals, each stron bUl ,jna rked J after its own sort. I snw right aT'the start that this crime was of the hid- I den sort, of the kind that includes con spiracy. secret plotting— the kind that requires a skilful sneak. ! You never in your life found a blue eyed sneak. There are lots of blue eyed desperadoes and burglars. Most ; of the notorldUs bad men of the west were blue-eyed, but you don't find a ; man with blue eyes shooting or stab i bing a man in the back or klduapplng a child or writing blackmailing let • tors." t While I was not at all convinced • by his argument, I felt that it would I be useless for me to dispute it, for I • would be invading comparatively un i known territory, whereas he undoubt i edly had dozens of cases at his finger tips ready to illustrate his theory. I t decided to change the subject, r "I recall, too,'' I said, "that you I asked if Crandall was left-banded. So > far as I saw, be Is not What of that? I Is that another proof of Crandall's in - nocenoe?" I "No," said Davis, "that didn't prove , Crandall's inoocence. It proved Rou t ser's guilt. In fact, it was the left - banded clue that -put me on the right track and eventually led me to this I very cottage." i "For Heaven'i sake," said I impa tiently, "don't talk in riddles. Qo on r and explain It." "You're not to blame." he continued j. ..'.s b: i •£- H&J ' i?tß calmly, "for not having eeen the left handed clue. You lack the education. Only a person who had seen hundreds and hundreds of envelopes and had studied them closely would have ob served it. You remember that a po liceman brpught me part of a yellow envelope that had been found in old Andrew Elser'a room. On It was a stamp and part of the postmark. The flrst thing that I noticed was that the stamp was put on crooked. Thie might mean much or nothing. A left handed person stamping a letter in variably gets the stamp on crooked. It ordinarily is put in the upper right hand corner of the envelope. A right handed person stamping a letter haa the two edges of the envelope as a guide. Try putting on a stamp with your left hand and you will see that your hand comes In such a position that the edges of the envelope are hidden and In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the stamp la out of plumb." "I still fall to see," I said stubborn ly, "why you did not suspect Cran dall. There were many things that seemed to point to him—his telephon ing to Katharine Just before she shot herself, his sudden disappearance, the finding of the morphine syringe in his rooms, the Ardway address in his note book, coapled with the fact that Gen eral Farrish had fdrbldden him the house. I do not see how you could help suspecting him." "I'll admit that on the surface these things all did look damaging, but against this wax the one Important fact that he was too well-balanced— tfco sane. If I might put it that way. I quickly learned that he was a repu table business man, that he was one of the governors in two clubs, and yon yourself Informed me that Katharine Farrish had thought highly of him. No well balanced man commits crimes of this sort." "Do you mean to tell me," I cried angrily, "that all criminals are In- I sane?" "Yes," said Davis thoughtfully, "I I mean exactly that. The time will come when our courts will not be puni tive but curative. Men are criminals because they can not help it. The great well-balanced majority of people see that In the observance of the laws tho community has made for itself lies the only hope of a happy, regular life. The unbalanced few, the un healthy product of unfit parents, In their poor misshapen brains are un able to comprehend this. They be- ' "But How About the Morphine Syringe," I Asked Again. - come the rebels against authority, the t slaves of alcohol and narcotics, like t that poor devil in there. They can i not help themselves. It's the fault of - their parents. It's the shape of their I beads, it's the diseased condition of their nerves. It's our fault for not tak ing the same euro in breeding the hu -1 man race that we would in breeding 1 horses or dogs." I "Oh, bosh." said I. "I ask you how i- you account for the hypodermic sy :• rlnge In Crandall's rooms and 1 get > a sermon." I "Lawyer though you are." retorted Davis, "I'm afraid that you are weak a in logic. Having decided that Cran -0 dall had no criminal connection with T the case, what th«n? I set up the t theory that his connection was exact ly the same as your own. Yon were e in love jirlth Louise and were deter i- mined to trace the hidden danger that t- was threatening her father. He was it In love with Katharine and was try- B Ing to do the same thing. In fact, he had several weeks the start of you. i- Every one of his actions which you n regarded as so suspicious and damna tory was perfectly explicable on this 1 theory.' ,yj±k - s j-. „ Tea," I grudgingly admitted ae ! hastily reviewed them in my mind, **l suppose they could all be explained In that way." "The questl&n then came to me," continued Davia, "how could Crandall have known of the hidden danger that threatened General Farriah? It was highly improbable that the gen era! would confide a thing of this aort, j either to his daughter or to her flan- . oe. He must have come on It in some other way. 1 Judged that when he j revealed his knowledge to the general, : the latter. In fear that hla daughter j might learn what he had been trying ! to keep from her, in rage ordered | Crandall from the house. "The only logical way for Crandall to be restored to favor was for him to clear up the mystery that was men- \ acing the general. As be had been at work on it for some time, I felt sure that In his rooms we would fti>d a clue to tho address of the persons ws were seeking. I was confident, too, that af fairs were approaching a crisis. Cran j dall apparently had taken Katharine j Into his confidence. It looked as if some plan they might have made bad failed and that this failure had driven Katharine to despair. With the lock j box In Ardway as a clue, with the \eft handed stamp as evidence and with Crandall's movements to watch, I felt certain that we could quickly solve the whole mystery." "But how about the morphine sy ringe?" I asked again. "I hardly gave It & second thought i For all I knew, It may have come there by accident, yet Crandall quickly ex- ' plained its presence in the talk that I have just had with him. He kept ( this chap, Young, there in his roomfl | for two weeks, trying to worm out of him the aecret with which Young had been trying to blackmail the old gen- i eral. When Young disappeared be left the syringe behind him." "So," 1 exclaimed in excitement | "the mystery of the yellow letter was j a blackmailing plot against General : Fairish." "No," snld Davis, "I don't think the j Farrish ease had anything to do with | the other chain of suicides, unless II , was that both devilish plots originated in the drug-fevered, malevolent braio j of the poor fellow in yonder. It i» j true that General Farrish got yellow letters. Once a week for months an* months he has found one in his mall. | each more threatening, more menacing j ' than its predecessors. He has for » ! long, long time been living in dal!> dread that the anonymous writer of these letters might at any moment carry out his threats and expose hiss to public shame, and disgrace him la the eyes of his beloved daughters." "But bow did you learn all this?" 1 asked. "Young bcasted to Crandall abont the weekly letters. So sure did be feel that General Fairish would nc* dare openly to proseeete him that witfe | fiendish malignity be took delight !• , retailing to Crandall the dread-lnsplr ■ lng phrases he bad employed snd !■ j dilating on the terror they undoubted- I ly were causing the general. It is ! Htnall wonder that the sight of yoe and Louise examining the scrap of one of the yellow letters, coming as it did right on top of Katharine's desperate act, brought on a stroke of paralysis." "Poor old man," I said, "how be must have suffered!" "Far more than we can imagine," Mid Davis. "I do not think any on* but a half-crazed drug fiend, either, could have conceived such iwfinemeat ct torture as of always using the saaf peculiar yellow statloaery." (TO BE OQMTDni*a> ' THE DEAREST _Mir Mr*. Wilkes' Fondest Hope* Realized —Health, Hap piness and Baby. Plattsburg, Miss. — " Lydla E. Plnk ham's Vegetable Compound has proved very beneficial tome, for now I am wall and have a sweet, healthy baby, and oar home la happy. "I was an invalid from nervous pros tration, indigestion and female troubles "I think I suffered every pain a wo man coald before I began taking Lydla EL Pinkham's Vegetable Compotmd, and I think it saved this baby's life, as I lost my first one. "My health has been very good ever since, and I praise your medicine to all my friends." Mrs. Verna Wilkes, R. F. D. No. 1, Plattsburg, Miss. The darkest days of husband and wife are when they come to look forward to a childless and lonely old age. Many a wife has found herself inca pable of motherhood owing to some derangement of the feminine system, often curable by the proper remedies. In many homes once childless there are now children because of the fact that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound makes women normal. Kf yea want special ad rice writs to Lydla E. Plnkham Medicine Co. (confi dential) Lynn, Mass. lonr letter will be opened, read and answered by a woasan and held la strict confldenos. RESINOL STOPS SKIN TROUBLES If you have eczema, ringworm, or other Itching, burning, unsightly akin or scalp eruption, try Reslnol Oint ment and Resinol Soap, and see how quickly the itching stops and the trouble disappears, even in severe and stubborn cases. Pimples, blackheads and red, sore, blotchy faces and hands speedily yield to Reslnol. Reslnol Ointment and Reslnol Soap heal skin humors, sores, boils, burns, scalds, cold-sores, chailngs and piles. Prescribed by physicians for eighteen years. All druggists sell Reslnol Soap (25c) and Resinol Ointment (50c and fl). Sent by parcel post on receipt of price. For sample of each write to Dept. 7-K, Reslnol Chem. Co., Balti more, Md. LEARN to b® an auto ft youevarytbtngandWA employ you while —n i Warning. Pre* model to HomoStndr Students. Small tost KasrpaymeniH Write for special offer,plan C-11. 4a>s»sMto knf IneerUf CeltefS of Wuk'a, In,, Wnsb'a, n. 0. f&u KODAKS O£VEIQ*MI I mllirTf ® * X P'o'® d«relop«U 10c. Print* Htos j-ffWjV eta Prompt attention to mall orders. R. O. BEHNAU, GREENSBORO,N.C. AH makes, sold, rented and skilfully repaired. RrnlH •-> for S nionihs, rte ittlr rent applies un puivbaae. birt, Wli i:»»t Bala Mr set, Rlrhmesd, H. Jg\ l/Anil/O * nd High Grade EH A RU UAR A Finiahing. Mall "IWMIIIIV orders given Spe llHHnv Attention Pricea reaaonable. kßwS«rrlef prompt. Bend for Price List. LA.VtkA**l All BXOIUL CMaALUTUH, ft. (V Home to. Special Seed Corn. Brrd twenty year a for purity £ yield. 92 bushel shelled, II cob C. \\. Tompkins t 8«n. Guinea, Va Classif iedColumii POTATO PLANTS—Nancy Hall and j Porto Rico Yams. $1.75 per thous and. M. L. Fant, Waldo, Fla AGENTS WANTED—IOO per cent. Selling "Electro-Edge" Raior Strop paste. Puts keen edge on any razor; buyers everywhere, sample 25c (coin.) J. E. Rue, Littleton, N. C. OSTRICH FEATHERS cleaned, curled i and dyed. We not only clean your feathers, but curl them In the latest aprroved styles or dye them to match any costume. Write for catalogue to- I day. The Ren-Vonde Co., "Quality" | Dyers & Cleaners, "Largest In the South," Charlotte, N. C. Charlotte Directory L a _ = _H rirat olaaa work. Writ* for prlcea [s =m^ TT ...----n MarMt k Granlta Csmsmu Charlatta, north Carolina # TYPEWRITERS Row, rebuilt and lecond haad, 117.01 up and gn»r*ntr«d satis (acton. Wo fV curai totmn, n i iisi, s.c 2078 Ad excellent remedy for all blood diseases. Price 500 and 91.00 per bottle post paid by Parcels Post CHARLOTTE DRUG CO. Csr. Trad# art Cattsse St»., Charlotte, N. 6. Send year name and addraas on postal card, receive sample FREE. "R takes the place of calomel." The great Uvar medicine,pleas ant to take. Writs today. ff.L. HAND ICO.. DEPT. a. BOX 78®, CHARLOTTE, N. c!
The Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 4, 1913, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75