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Drunk Man Will be Unusual Sight in
Another Generation Retiring
Recorder Says.
Within another generation a drunk
m*n will be a sight so unusual ns to
attract a crowd of curious onlookers
and the* saloon, which is now n mem
ory, will be to America what the cof
fee house is to England, according to
.ludge Byard Thurman Falls, who on
the first of this month resigned as
county recorder after disposing of
county court litigations in Cleveland]
county for aperiod of nine years.
I he tnle of life as it ebbs in and
out of the court room if probed by a
close observer tells more of the inner
yearning’s, the “good" and “bad” in
nypn and offers a better gauge of a
community than any combination of
scientific tests. In the court room- it
is life itself. “There is a little bad in
the best of us” and how far that little
had will spread or how it is curbed is
a feature of the interesting trend of
the court room. To the ordinary spec
tator in the gallery a court case means
little more than conies up in the evi
dence, but to .the one on the bench
versed in the ways of wayfaring life
there is a story in every cuse-—a be
ginning, and in some instances an end.
Motives may play a minor role in the
removal of cases from the court hlot
teg, but motives placed every nue
there. The best study of life is by the
judge onthe bench as he doles out pun
ishment or a “chance," and not by so
called experts who deal alone in outer
observations.
Looking out of the window in his
office across the court squure to the
court building where he has disposed
of some 5,000 cases Judge Falls Tues
day let his mind wander hack over the
nine years that he has served as re
corder. In the reminiscences—the lit
tle hits worth recalling—is some his
tory, some prophecy, and some—just
“human interest” When J. A. Anthony
resigned as county recorder Judge
Falls was selected to fill the one year
remaining of the term and since that
time he lias been elected for four two
year terms—without opposition. In
those nine years he has seen the hard
ened criminal stalk out of the court
room to a road sentence only awaiting
another chance to violate the law; he
has seen the first offender repri
manded, take a new grip on life
and start afresh, and he has seen the
odds and ends of living as registered
by the law.
Handled 5,000 Cases.
Estimating that during his time as
recorder that he disposed of approxi
mately 5,000 cases Judge Falls declar
| <'s that three things, liinKin<£ on th<>
: other- 1'ejuor, fi^htinjc and stealing
were responsible for the majority. Of
the estimated 5,000 eases the {treated
number of any of the nine years came
up this year -720 cases. The increased
number though does not show any add
ed disrespect for the law however in
his opinion. As a further item of in
terest it miirht be added that for the
month of November thii year alone
$1,452.70 was turned over to the conn-;
ty school fund from fines and costs in
recorder’s courts.
Two ('lasses of Criminals.
In hi* reminiscence the retiring rc-j
corder tolil of |wo classes of criinin ■
a Is. One that violates tile law with
Open ili-respect for it and the hope
of evading it: the other, that violates
vet respect:; the law. The first and last
cases disposed of by him were taken as
examples. His first hearing was that!
of a negro bawdy house, where the in-1
tentioii was to violate the law, hut
with the hope of eluding it which
it might lie said, was not done. The
last was that of an old negro in the* j
county who struck his son-in-law over!
the head with a hammer. The son-in-'
1: w had married and abandoned the
old man’s daughter, lie knew it was
no way of “evening up” but used the
hammer although he respected the (
law. Ii was the old man’ ins appear I
'anee in court nndTe told The storyf
in full with proper reverence for the!
law. Needless to say it did not go as I
hard with him as it might have,, had I
the “behind the screen” story been!
different. But punishment must lie!
meted out and the one to whose task !
it falls ha no easy sailing.
Liquor Making Decreases.
According to Mr. Falls it. is an i
easy matter to see that liquor drink-{
ing is on the decline. There are those!
who term prohibition a failure, hut
in his opposite view the judge re
called 11s far hack as the “J. <j. Lit.
tie Saloon” sign that once swung
where the First National bank now
stands. The drinking of extracts and
presumably patent medicines is the
••eat proof, he suys. Ten years ago it
would have been a hard matter to get
the worst “soak” in the county to
drink other than pare liquor, hut j
nowadays more flavor is guzzled than I
goes in cakes. Day after day a!
"drunk” is given a hearing in court.
On the stand the officers say that they
could smell no liquor hut that the
condition was similar. Liquor is not
so easily found or as plentiful as of
yore when such a condition exists,
Judge Falls believes, and in the course
of 50 years the Vawn” and pure dis
! tilled product o fthis and our father’;
! d:ty will ho an unknown thing-. ’
Auto Reduces Fighting.
The three most frequent violation?
—liquor infractions, fighting and
stealing are on the decline, he said,
and the decline was credited to three
things, prohibition gaining in effec
tivi ne. automobiles and an increas
ing respect of the law. Back in the
olden days when on first Mondays
“ho ■ swappin’* was the town’s big
•’or industry down where the Arcade
Furniture store now stands, the fight
docket: in the following week’, court
were omething fierce. Of course li
quor played its part as happens in the
majority of court cases. In other
"’"ids: “wine, women and song” mod
ernized i “vanilla, automobiles and
in//.” Through it all the retiring
judge secs a greater respect for law
and needy that as time passes means
a better and greater county. The nine
years -unimed up how a better coun
ty morally and not a drift to the bad
the world, ours, not growing worse.
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Weak
Nervous
“I was weak and nervous
and run-down," writes Mrs.
Edith Sellers, of JC6 N. 21st
St., East St. Louis, 111. ‘‘I
couldn’t sleep nights. I was so
restless. I felt tired and not
in condition to do .jpy work.
I would have such pains in
my stomach that I was afraid
I would get down in bed. . .
My mother ccmo to sco me
and suggested that I use
The Woman's Tonic
I felt better after my first
bottle. I had a better appe
tite. It seemed to strengthen
and build me up. I am so
glad to recommend Cardui
for what it did for me. I
haven’t needed any medicine
since I took Cardui, and I am
feeling tine."
Nervousness, restlessness,
sleeplessness—t h e s e symp
toms so often are the result
of a weak, run-down condi
tion, and may develop more
seriously if not treated in
time.
If yea" are nervouo and
run-down, or suffering from
some womanly weakness,
tuke Cardui.
Sold everywhere
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ITNE DEER killed
IN TOWN OF SPENCER
Spencer, Dec. 1 — A real honest to
goodness deer was captured and killed
: in the corporate limits of Spencer near
| tile passenger station Saturday after
I noon the passenger station Saturday
afternoon by Russel Robinson, Hugh
Allen and Thurman Lloyd, the high
school hoys, who happened to be play
ing near where the deer came along.
Tt was a fine specimen, weighing about
2(K» pounds and with a fine set of ant
lers. The buck came to town with air-!
plane speed and in its excitement at
so much civilization dashed into a
j heavy wire fence breaking its n^Jc.
Inmindful of the great danger of ap
proaching a wounded deer the boys
pounced upon the kicking animal and
soon bad it under control. Engineer
W iley Wright, an old deer hunter and
near whose home the animal was cap
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tured, appeared nn the scene and
“stuck” the deer in a manner to as
sure choice venison. Another deer was
killed near Spencer sometime ago but
it is not thought this one was a mate,
though it is not known where it came
from or how long 't had been in the
vicinity of Spencer.
That ethyl gas that has killed so
many people is evidently the female
if the species—Columbia Record.
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Earl News Notes Of
Comings and Goings
(Special to The Star.)
Earl, Dec. 3.—Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Webber and little son Fred jr., of
( harlotte, spent Thanksgiving: holi
days with his mother Mrs. D. G. Web
ber. „
Mr. and Mrs. John Byers and fam
ily of Charlotte wore the guests
Thanksgiving of Mrs. Byers parents
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Austell
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Austell and two
children Virginia ayd Roberts of
Greenville, S. C., visited at the home
of Mr. Austell’s mother Mrs. J. }{
Austell last week,.
Mr. and Mrs. Fitzhugh Wilkins of
Charlotte visited relatives here last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bettis and son
Thomas of Greenville, S. C., weie
th- week end guests of Mr. A. E. Bet
tis and family.
Mr. B. F. Jones who has been
spending- the past two weeks with hi,s
family returned to his work in Georl
"ia Tuesday.
Mr-. Grady Bettis returned to her
home in Greenville, S. C.f Friday.
Big Gloria Swanson
Film At Prnicess
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| frowning Film Triumph of Croat
Slsir at Princess Theatre
On Friday.
I “Her Love Story’—Mary Roberts
Tf inhart’s stirring' and throb in story
| of too s<H r«*i romance portrayed qii
the screen by the wonderful Gloria
Kwan-a-n will be ,x\m big. attraction
a: the Princess theatre Friday—one
of the biggest of the year.
It's the crowning triumph of tfce
j beautiful Gloria’s great career. A
lew typo romance which stirs the
! heart, feasts the eye and entertains
mightily. Founded on the thrilling
-tory of Mary Roberts Rhinehart it
pictures Gloria as a charming Balk
an princess and is a picture well worth
seeing. (Advt.)
People sometimes put over a bluff,
but generally they fall over them.
Politeness and love ore both fine
things until they begin to spill over.
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