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FOUND A PARTNER
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Clever Girt Gave Up Work ai
Sleuth for Profession That
Is Much Older.
ViM (]rM'i<> FlftlliinilB wm
two year* old. Mies Gracie.; was
Monographer and typist for the firm
of K. A K., and was so smart that
he earned $14 a week.
She was receiving $10 when it was
discovered that some employe was
carrying goods out of the store. Tha
detective from headquarters spent a
week and did not get a clew.
"Here is where I get a raise to
$1?," said Miss Gracie to herself;
and she shoved hack from her machine
and wandered about for half
an hour and then said to K. & K.:
Tour assistant bookkeeper has
just gone out to lunch.
"He goes out every day at this
hour," was the calm reply.
"And the missing goods go with
hrm."
"Whatl You can't mean it!"
Tome with me! I know where
he feeds at this hour.**
She led K. A K. to a ouick-lnnch
room three miles away, and they
walked in upon the assistant just as
he had ordered his usual spring
chicken.
""Has the firm failed?" he asked
as he looked from one to the other.
"No, but you have!" replied the
smart girl with a little giggle of triumph.
"Hand over quietly and you
may not get over twenty-five years
in the jug!"
The yonng man, who was the sole
support of a widowed mother and six
fatherless sisters, and who firmly believed
that the moving-pieturp
? shows were filling the jails to overflowing,
smiled a gladsome smile and
began to hand over bolts of silk,
yards and dozens of real pearl hutA
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iwb, uqui ne nan uepraitra eiwugn
on the table to stock a department
tore in the Bronx.
When the thief had been tucked
away in a nice little cell in prison
Miaa Grade waa told by the firm :
"For your smartness you now get
$12 per."
-Thanka"
"And during your spare time you
can watch others."
Miaa Grade Hollands stuck to her
veal duties, but she imbibed the
idea that she was a bom detective.
She began to look at all men and
women aa suspicious characters.
Even when a young man tried to
flirt with her on the streetcar her detective
intuition was so strong that
she almost laid a hand on his shoulder
as she hissed at him:
-You are a aafa blower, and I
know it, and you make your hike or
111 run you ra!"
He was a minister's son and a
> salesman in a large jewelry bouse,
- and had just organised a Bible claaa,
but he made his hike just the same.
When Miss Grade began her professional
career ahe went to board
with Mammy Jones. It was a hall
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oca room ana a starvation table, but
as the salary went up things improved.
When it reached $10 a
week Miss Gracie took the best front
room and became the s+ar boarder.
'She did not leave when the salary
- became $14.
Strangers came and went. It suddenly
occurred to the stenographer
that she was most favorably situated
to continue her detective work and
she went right at it. One evening
when an old-clothee man called to
me if she had any second-hand garments
to sell, the won! villain stood
out so plainly on his forehead that
the girl laid a hand on him and
aid '4
"Ketribntion ha* overtaken you
at last!"
"Vhat iah dot?" wm asked.
"Your crime ha* found you out!"
**I lick my wife ten year* ago, bnt
he don't go by der police."
Other callers were put through
their pare*, but none of them vras
frightened into confessing murder
or bomb explosion. The day
muat come, however, and it did
came. It came three day* after a
little incident on the street. A bareheaded
young man with a pencil behind
his ear, and who seemed to be
a clerk in a store, accosted Miaa
Oracle at a corner and ashed if she
ooold give .him a $10 hill for fire
tma. It was her aalftry day and she
was carrying home, her $14. Why
caot oblige the clerk? The HO was
p?ad over for the two's, and it
?mod to the girl that she was beginning
to be of soma importance
. aa a capitalist.
Tto oobbtor took $0 easts far
pairing a pair of shoes; a lunch at |
a restauran t was 3ft cents; a bit of 1
cheap jewelry that happened to
please was 7ft cents. In each, case
ane of . the two-dollar bills was handed
oat The other two went into
her board money, and Mammy Jones
passed them along to the grocer and
butcher.
And then there was the arrival of
the strange man. He took a back
room upstairs without- board. He
was well dressed, but he had a sly
look. In looks and talk he was not
the average roomer for that quarter
?he was above them. He had plenty
of money and paid a week in advance,
besides assuring Mammy that
be didn't play on a flute or an accordeon.
and he was given the room.
It was two days before the detectress
caught sight of him, and then site
aai<l to.the landlady:
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"Your Mr. Bennett is a crook !"
"My stars!"
"He's a confidence man or a wire*
tapper!"
"Then hell mb and murder us!"
No, he Won't!" replied Miw
Grade, in a firm voice. "Am I not
here? Isn't it a part of my profession
to run down crooks?"
"Bnt the police?"
"Not a won! to them?not a hint!
When I have -got this man in my
toils Til communicate with police
headquarters. Ill shadow him and
have a line on him within three
day*. You must not amy or do any*
thing to frighten the bird away."
The Rtranger seemed to slink out
and in. He asked no questions of
anybody, and if he gave any of the
people in the house more than a
passing glance it was the stenographer.
Each evening for three successive
evenings she found him in
her hall when she came up from
her dinner. She had taken the precaution
to lock her door and had
not doubt that he hod tried it.
"Ah, ha, hut I'll set a snare for
the bird!" she exclaimed to herself.
It didn't take two minutes to invent
the snare.
When she went down to dinner
the nnt evening ahe left -her door
unlocked. When the meal was half
over she rose from the table and tiptoed
upstairs. Mr. Bennett wasn't
visible, but site passed along and
opened her door with a bang. Mr. j
Bennett was on his knees before her
open trunk.
Three yells into the hall of
"Help! Murder! Police!" and
then she grabbed the crook. The
room filled with boarders in a moment,
but Mr. Bennett didn't seem
very mum embarrassed about it
"I caught him going through my
trunk!*' explained Miss Gracie.
"Yea." he oalmly replied. v
"Then you are a aneak thief, and
we'll hold *you until the police
come!" mud one of the valiant actor*.
"Not quite a aneak thief," smiled
Mr. Hvimeth "Thia badge will show
, you that I belong to the governI
roent secret aervice."
! "He's a .crook, I tell you t" abot
back Miss Gracie.
"I was in my line of duty looking
after counterfeit money or plates f
"Counterfeit money 1" gasped all
in the room.
"J net so. It'a np to you, Mies
Hollands, to do some explaining."
"Why doesn't somebody telephone
!" she demanded.
"Because no one wants to see yon
locked up!" replied Mr. Bennett.
'Will you kindly tell me whers you
got those fire $2 bills you handed oat
the other day?"
; "Why?why?"
"Every one of them was a coon
trrfeit. I ramp here looking for a
plant, I did not want to aak for
a warrant foT you, Miss Hollands,
until sure of my case." ,
The next half-hour was as full of
explanations as a chestnut is full of
life. The police were not called in
on the one hand, and on the other it
was tearfully admitted that Mr.
Bennett was not a crook.
The next day he had the good
luck to capture the man he wanted,
and it was only natural that he
should come around to the house to
make his report. Then he -called
i again to a?k mi? wracie's forgiven??a,
and again with some other excuse,
and finally the cheeky man
got into the habit of calling without
making any excuse at all. It war
during one at these calls.that he suggested
that Miac Gracie.give up. the
detective business. She promised
to. and then he suggested that ah*
give up K. & K. She also promised
that, and when Mammy Jones heard
f it she exelaimed:
"Who ever heard of the likes!
Isn't it funny how some girls get
husbands T 'Boston Qlabt.
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ESKIMOS > PRIMITIVE RACE
N?UVM ThMfht fapkfw AmerJIMI
Had DrsppH Among Tfiam
From tha Moon.
The "North Pole natives" alluded
to by Captain Amundsen in a recent
lectnre irere discovered by him-while
he was navigating his little craft,
the Qjoa, through the Northweat
passage in 1903-7.
He christened them "Nechilli,"
and considered them to be the most'
primitive race on earth. No white
man had ever before invaded their
icy fastnesses. Consequently, they
were ignorant of the use of iron.
Their fishing implements were long
spears, fashioned out of reindeer
horn. They knew no other method
of procuring fire than that of rubbing
two piecea of wood together.
They were, in. short, still in the stage
of civilisation reached by our ancestors
of the stone age.
So cut off were they from' others
of their kind that they imagined
their tribe was the only one in the
world, and displayed the utmost sstonishment
when told of populous
countries far to the south, where
neither ice nor snow was. The Ojoa
and her crew they thought to have
dropped from the moon, and the first
Nechilli to come aboard felt the 4rck,
masts, boats, oars, all the while whispering
to one another in amassment:
"How much wood there is In the
moon?how very much V*
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GOING SOME
"Alice is a splendid chauffeur."
"Is she? How fast does she go?"
"Oh, fifty smiles an hourJ"
FLICS FOR FI8HINO.
Mr. Volker was very fond of tront
fishing, and each year tried to hare
at least a week of good sport. The
day before he was to start on his long
looked for vacation his wifa, smiling
joyously, entered the roam, extending
toward her husband some sticky,
speckled papers.
"For goodness' sake, Laura," he
exclaimed, "what on earth are you
doing with those old fly papers?"
"Why, I saved them for you from
last summer, Jeff," she replied. "You
know you said you always had to buy
lies when you went fishing."
BASEBALL TALK IN 1MB.
"Do you know that back in 1918 a
pitcher would sometimec pitch a
whole game?"
| "So tradition eayi," asserted the
other manager. "Well, they worked
, their pitchers too hard in those days.
Now I never let a pitcher go over
three innings."?Kansas City Jour:naL
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HEARD IT SPLASH.
The most popular feature of the
menu for dinner had been soup, of
I which the little girl had partaken
heartily.
"Dear me," she sighed, ss she went
on with other things, "I've eaten so
much soup that every time 1 swallow
s piece of bread I can hear it splash."
HAVE YOU MET ORIQQST
"Does Griggs respect the rights of
others ?"
"Yes, so far as he will concede
mat they hare any rights."
PERMANENT UNION.
Knicker?The Atlantic and Pacific
are wedded.
Bocker?And neither of them can
: possibly go to Reno.
HIS SPECIALTY.
"My lawyer friend prefers cats tc
dogs a* pets."
"It is natural for lawyers to prw
far anything m the fee-line species.*
THE RULINQ PASSION.
"How can the women run aftsi
Smith so? He is a marked man."
"1 suppose, then, they thought hfl
was marked down."
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IALKSD ON DMOWNINO.
! A youthful stoker, according to an
"English paper, waa brought before
Ids commanding officer charged with
insubordination. Ha had refused to
enter the swimming bath. When
ashed what he had to say for himself
I the youth gave good reason for his
1 seaming misconduct.
"Sir, I've only been in the navy
three days, The first day the doctor
drawed six of my teeth, the second I
was vaccinated, and the third day
| the petty officer, be says: 'Come
' akmg; we're go in' ter drown yer.' So
I balked I"
THE SOMNAMBULIST.
Mn Exe?My husband walks in
hit sleep.
Mrs. Wye?I wish I could get
mine-to. His daily work is so confining
the poor fellow gets hardly a bit
?f exercise.
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USED CHEESE FOR SOAR.
She walked in and banged a hunk
* ?f yellow Substanoe on the counter.
; "This," she announced, Mis the soap
?that does the wash in' itself. It's the
; <eoap that makes washing a pleasure;
1 if a the soap that?"
"That ain't soap, ma'am," interrupted
the grocer as he took the substance
in hand and examined it.
j "Your little girl was here yesterday
for half a pound of cheese and half a
pound of soap. That's the cheese."
j "The cheese!" exclaimed the woman.
"Then that accounts for the
other thing."
"What other thing?"
"Whv. I lav awake tha whnla TiJtrVit
"wondering what: made the Welsh rabbit
we had taste so queer."
"OBJECT MATRIMONY."
'
Toung woman of ancient lineage,
beautiful aa Helen, prudent as Peneli
ope, economical as the Electress Soi
phia of Brandenburg, witty as Mme.
de Stael, austere as Lucretia, charitable
aa St. Elizabeth of Hungary, deToted
aa Florence Nightingale, loving
aa Virginie, with the voice of an
angel, an artistic soul and possessed
*ef a splendid fortune, desires correspondence
with a view to matrimony.
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PLEA MADE FOR CLASSICS
Valuable Lessons Are Learned In Contemplation
of' Ancient
Literature.
I advocate the classics because they
constitute a retreat in which the
spirit may commune with the high
. thoughts of the past. Modern liters
iUIU ID IIllAICI U J It WUIXIUD I lOCll
with actual life, with our distractions,
our trivialties, our romance,
our getting on in the world, with all
onr coarser appetites; but in the remote
classics, in that cool, tranquil,
distant world, we can surrender ourselves
to contemplation, to meditation,
to the high influences that always
stoop to the soul's call.
This remoteness of the classics affects
me as my remembrance of gracious
figures in my childhood, says
a writer in the Atlantic. The people
there seem to have a nobler aspect, a
more goodly presence, larger sympathies,
a wiser and a kinder attitude.
We do not apply the lessons we
learned from them directly to life,
but we know that somehow the most
valuable lessons in our lives come
from them.
We cannot say just what we
learned, but we possess a memory of
, quietness, or ripeness, of wisdom, of
qualities that lie near the center of
nie, ana we feel that to them is due
whatever gain we have made in grace
and moral stature. Greek literature
haa a like effect upon us.
Tom?What do you think oi
Scribbler's latest book?
I Dick?I'd just as lief read the citj
' j directory.
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HAY CAPS FOR ALFALFA ~
Alfalfa should be raked and either
put In the barn or if it la not sufficientlr
drv. nut into bar cocks. It la a mat
ter of economy to have two or three
hundred hay caps (made of six-cent
> cloth one yard square) to nse in case
of bad weather. You may think this
is considerable bother, bat poor alfalfa
is poor stuff, and when we remember
that good alfalfa brings as In
actual results nearly as great returns
as wheat bran, we can better realise
the importance of taking care of It.
If any of us had 500 "hay cocks of
bran" In the field, we would take care
of them, but with alfalfa we think of
It as "Just hay."
These cloths may hare wooden pegs
, or some sort of weights attached to
each corner to hold them in place; the
pegs can be pushed into the hay to
hold the corners fast. Hay caps will
' soon pay for themselves in finer
quality of hay guaranteed .by their
use.
A DANGER.
[ "Do you believe in corporal pun?
ishment?" asked the teacher.
"No," replied the parent. "It's
i liable to make & boy ao anxious to
square accounts aome day that he'll
neglect hia studies in order to spend
time in the gymnasium."
HELPING THE MAGAZINE.
"A very thoughtful poet," said the
editor.
"As to how?"
"Always sends me back my rejection
slips to use on him again."
INEVITABLE.
"The young fellow you see yonder
is a coming man."
"Indeed ! Who is he?"
"The rent collector." *
WORSE STILL.
? "That horrid woman has broken
up my home!"
t "Taken away your husband?"
"No. the cook." ,
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