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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26

like the bed of a mountain stream,
and the winds made umbrellas sar-
casm. She enjoyed every step of the
walk and reached the theater in gale
of laughter and high spirits. 1t is this
abundant vitality, this capacity for
getting fun out of things which annoy
or bore most people that give COM
pelling charm to her art, and rare,
sweet vivacity to her personality.
For a time Miss Marlowe had house
of her own in New York city, but this
she has now given up. Her only home
is her country place in the western part
of the Catskill mountains. This she
called "Highmount," and from the
windows of the house there is glori-
Gus view of dozen mountain peaks.
The house is a large one of colonial
architecture, part of which, the brick
terrace, the 'theater-going public saw
reproduced on the stage without know
ing the fact, for the first tentative re-
hearsal of "When Knighthood Was in
Flower" was given on the brick terrace
on to which the main living-room of
her house opens. This terrace was so
ShN1AlNC ipl SNOhPiilS tihh iOi NfNib - anu
entrances that the architecture of it
was copied in the reproduction of a
Tudor brick terrace which forms a
part of the stage setting in the first
act of the play.
Her estate consists of 400 acres, and
only the smaller part of her large es-
tate is laid out in lawn, garden and
driveways. That portion of her pos
sessions which she has with admira BILE
taste allowed to remain wholly "unim-
proved" is by far the greater part of
the estate. Still in its original wild
ness, it is criscrossed by mountain
streams, cleft by deep ravines, and
overgrown with network of vines
and forest trees that have never known
the woodman's ak. Here the happiest
hours of Julia Marlowe's life are spent,
and thither she goes Immediately her
professional work ends for the season,
which is usually toward the end OF
May, and there she remains until the
end of September.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26

same steamer. Mrs. Grantley had
told her how worried and busy poor
Tom had been. If she had known
the Grantleys were going at that
time she would have gone too. She
would have enjoyed the trip with
them even if Tom had been too
busy and occupied to take her about.
Dear Tom. He had never encour-
aged her intimacy with Helen Grant
ley. She was not his style of wom-
an, though she was undeniably hand
some and brilliant in a Cleopatra
sort of way. She was so popular
with most men. But Tom could
never bear any woman who made
herself noticeable in any way.
mo woman ever suited him sc
well as his brown-eyed, womanlJ
wife, How often he had said that.
Tom had never dropped his loving
ways. true, they had been married
but two years, but she had known
men who had been positively coarse
to their wives in far less tipe than
that.
1t was so odd that Thurston would
not understand the way she felt. 1t
would be so mean, so disloyal to
poor Tom to forget him so soon.
No-not to forget him, exactly; she
would never do that-bTt to live and
be happy and be loved while he
no, decidedly, Thurston must wait.
Men were so selfish, the best of
them.
eff lou love me-" Thurston had
said, "do not allow mistaken i'm
pulse of conscience to keep us
apart" Conscience! 1t was but a
simple act of justice to the dead.
Tom would have been inconsolable
if it had been she who had died. He
had so often told her she had filled
his life so completely.
How angry Thurston had looked
when she had refused to marry him
so soon. Still she had never admired
him quite so much as when he had
gone away with that black frown on
his handsome face. He had slammed
the door, too One only slams a door
as last resort.
How fortunate she was to be loved
by two good men. 1t was so puz.
zling to know just how to decide
OF course if Thurston insisted she
might shorten the waiting six
months
A cinder snapped and flew out on
her knee. She reused herself to a
realizing sense of her surroundings
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
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SCIENCE IN EATING.
Health md Produce II Good md
Clear Complexion.

Girls who value good complexion
and cheerful spirits are advised to
eat plenty of spinach. 1t contains
salts of potassium and iron and other
wholesome ingredients. The iron in
1t is easily assimliated. A vegetable
not generally made much of by
housewives because it is among the
less expensive kinds, it is put in first
place by the food experts and de-
serves more prominence in public es-
TEEN.
ries are urged to eat mustard. The
seed of the mustard plant is credited
with very quickening, livening prop
critics said to have direct influence
on those brain cells that have to do
with forgetting and remembering.
Nervous folks ought to partake
often of cheese, which acts as a seda-
tive They should beware of eating
cheese to excess, however, as it is a
tax on the digestion. Only moderate
consumption is efficacious.
A too steady diet of potatoes in
tuces fatigue of both body and mind.
Apples are now held to contain
much sustenance for the brain and to
have an exhilarating effect on the
spirits. Apples contain phosphorus
and also malic acid, which is most
beneficial for people under mental
strain or who habitually do work
which prohibits exercise. The apple
should not be munched between
times, but taken as a component part
of the regular meals.-N. Y. Sun.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
SOLDIERS COFFIN BOA7
A Novel Means OF Conveyance Which Was Used
TO Cross The Potomac

The man refused to do so, saying that
he had taken the oath not to aid the
southern cause. He told Mr.. Hume,
however, that he would show him the
conveyance Yankee deserter used in
getting across the river. Mr.. Hume
was glad to accept anything, but was
much surprised when the fellow
showed him coffin case. There was
nothing else to do but use it and Mr..
Hume got across the Potomac in this
case. He then went 40 miles into the
federal lines and learned of Burnside's
movement. He went to Washington,
his home, and spent two days. He was
anxious to get his information to the
commanding officer, and started again
across the Potomac.
Here again the scout wanted to get
boat to cross and offered fisherman
$120 for his boat. The fisherman re-
fused to let him have it. He then tried
to find the old coffin case and did so,
but it was of no service then. A farm
er had discovered it in the river and
made chicken coop of it. The federal
troops learned he was in the neighbor-
hood and he had to take to the swamps
for awhile. In desperation he de-
termined to make another effort to
cross the river. He learned that the
Yankees had all the boats piled in a
pyramid on the banks. During the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26

Frank Hume, resident of Washing
ton, ID. c., confederate veteran, lately
in the city for the reunion, has lived
in Washington both before and since
the war. When President Lincoln
called for 90-day troops to suppress
what he believed then was small re-
bellion, Mr.. Hume left Washington and
gave his service to the south, says the
New Orleans Timcs-Democrat. He
was then only II years of age. At
the first battle of Manassas he Joined
the Twenty-frst Mississippi under
Gen. Barksdale. He was with Gen.
Barksdale from that time until the
death of the general. He participated
in many battles in Northern Virginia.
After the battle of Chickamauga he
was in winter quarters at Knoxville,
and the suffering of the soldiers at
that time, Mr.. Hume said, equaled that
of the soldiers of Valley Forge. They
were without sufficient food and
clothing, and the intense cold caused
much suffering. Mr.. Hume said that
the only clothing he had at that time
was one pair of cotton drawers and a
jacket. He Jared better than most
of the other soldiers as to shoes, be-
cause he took a pair from a dead
Yankee.
Mr.. Hume said the only way his COM
rades could get shoes was to cut the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26

register him. The only clew to his
identity was plain silver ring bearing
the inscriptions: 81. Mullan, Co. II, 9th
Mass. Vols" The ring was left in Mrs.
Blanchard's possession, and of hun
dreds of articles of dying soldiers of
which she assumed charge, it was
the only one she was unable to place
in the hands of relatives. In 1900 Mrs.
Blanchard sent Tor Mrs. Mary Stark
Barrows, of Syracuse, and gave her
number of war relics and tripkets, in
cluding this ring, at the same time re.
lating it's history, Mrs. Burrows wrote
at once to her sister, Mrs. Emma Stark
Hampton, who enlisted the aid of Mr..
T.. B. Stillings, of Boston, who is un-
firing in his endeavor to assist a COM
rade or his relatives. Through his ef-
forts the family cf the young soldier
was located, and Miss Maria Mullan, Of
Milford, his nearest relative, became
the possessor of this treasured relic.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
1aE S1RGATaT : p y aTkllfS
A Lifetime LOVE.

Oh, I am tired of having you dead
Tired of an anguish uncontrolled
never get used to your empty place,
Nor cured of missing your vanished face.
For years young love man mourns a
year
Eou were half of my life for lifetime,
And all of its sunshine, and all of Its
spring,
And The grace and sweetness of every
thing
More love for the asking, old friends and
new?-
Yes; but where is a friend like you?
All that woman and man can be,
Lovers and comrades and friends were
we.
Did our love begin when our lives begun?
Was there ever a day when we were not
ole?
Had we ever separate hope or fear,
Oh, can you, can you, remember dearY
oh, am tired of having you dead
Tired of waiting the word unsa!d;
Tired of the night and tired of the day;
In the house that was Home until you went
away.
oh. lifelong love, don't you mind how we
Plghted our troth for Eternity?
IT'LL Death do part us"-Oh, short and
slight!
When Death has parted, TIL Death unite
OH lifetime love, in your Heaven pray,
That God may speed us our meeting day.
For I'm broken with sorrow uncontrolled
So tired. so tired of having you dead.
katherine Il. Conway, in Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
WAS CHARMING HOSTESS.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston who was
White House Mistress Under
President Buchanan.

The recent serious illness of Mrs.
Harriet Lane Johnston, and the an
nouncement that she win this sum-
mer visit various American resorts
in an effort to regain her health, has
again brought into the public eye
one of the most interesting feminine
figures in American history. So qni-
etly has the famous niece of Presi-
dent James Buchanan lived in Wash
ington during recent years that the
general reading public has had oppor-
tunity to realize that u place is yet
occupied in the social life at the
capital by a woman who was the
most noted of antibellum days, and
the greatest of all the bellies of the
white house.
Mrs. Johnston has, since the ascen-
sion of President Roosevelt to the ma
tion's highest position, been several
times prevailed upon to assist in the
dispensation of hospitality at the
white house, and there is particu-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
MURMURED.

She shivered and she listened to the
muffled fall of the snow against the
window and seemed suddenly cold.
A mysterious, hardly defined sense
as of some overwhelming emotion,
eXhilarating and yet depressing,
surged through her.
She half rose as the feeling be-
came stronger, more tense. She
seemed waiting-waiting for a deci-
sive blow to fall. Tom-Thurston-
Japan. All were revolving through
her and about her in raging flood
of sensation. The papers dropped
from her nerveless hands.
81 have been half asleep, incoming
over the fire." she said, nervously,
rising and trying to shake off the
strange influence that possessed her.
II am all unstrung. / will not look
at these papers tonight"
She crossed the room to her desk.
1t was Toms desk, and she loved
to use it because of that. She drew
out drawer in it sharply. 1t was
one she seldom used. A little bun
die dropped from a recess behind it.
"N[y picture" she said wondering
ly, as she bent to take it out. Dear
Tom, he always kept my pictures
and my letters"
Her eyes glowed with tender tears
! ''If / loved Thurston twice as much
| would still bear your name little
longer, dear, after this" she mur.
INJURED, softly, holding the bundle to
her cheek.
A moment later she stood as il
carved from pulsating wax. She had
seen the face in the picture. 1t was
not her face. Staring boldly back
| into her startled eyes was the
/ laughing face of Helen Grantley
She opened the letters. All! what
they revealed.
A surging wave of fierce, uncon
trolled anger swayed through her
1t was the anger which comes to 6
woman when she first learns thai
she has been deceived where she has
loved and trusted. She crushed ant
bent the smiling lips in the picture
as her clenched hand beat impotent
ly at the empty air.
The flames in the dying fire flashed
UP once, twice, as they greedily
wrapped about the food she flung
them. She looked at the calendar
on the desk and made rapid cal
culation. Then she wrote note.
"But not TO Japan" she thought
bitterly, as she sealed and addressed
it. 'Never there"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
ENJOYS OUTDOOR LIFE.
Julia MnrIOwe, Queen of American
Stage, spends Much of Her Time
in the Open Air.

Miss Julia Marlowe's outdoor diver
sions are golf, driving and automobil-
ing. She does prodigious amount of
walking all the year round. Her love
of nature is almost primitive in its in
tensity. Asked once what was her
greatest ambition, she said it was to
lead such a normal life that l can get
up every morning in time to see the
sun rise" Often she will dismiss her
carriage and revel in facing wind and
weather on foot. An acquaintance ac-
companied her from her hotel to the
theater one March night in the teeth
of driving storm. The sidewalk was
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26

hide from freshly killed bullock, and
the soldier would place his feet in the
warm hide while a comrade sewed the
hide around his feet. These could not
be removed, and after some wear be-
came as hard as iron. This was an
example of what the soldiers had to
undergo duringythat winter.
Mr.. Hume was with Barksdale at
the battle of Gettysburg, and was
wounded in that battle. Mr.. Hume
said that Barksdale's brigade went
farther into the federal lines than
Pickett's brigade did, although history
had not recorded that fact. While
very young soldier, Hume enjoyed the
confidence of Gen. Lee and Gen. j. L. b.
Stuart He was put on scout duty by
Gen. Stuart, the object of which was
to ascertain the destination of Burn
sides corps, which was then being fit
ted out at Annapolis. Gen. Stuart was
anxious to learn whether Burnside's
corps was destined for Wilmington or
to reinforce Grants army. He made
the trip through the federal lines, and
had hard time getting the desired in
formation. After leaving Gen. Stuart's
army Hume went to the Potomac,
where he learned that all the boats
had been taken by the federals.
While searching the bank for some
means of conveyance he ran across a
man and asked him to take him across.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26

night the scout hid himself under a
cedar tree. Soon party Of soldiers
came along and the scout decided to
follow them, knowing that he would
learn how far the picket line was from
the boat. After getting this informa-
tion he returned to the boats and took
one from the top. He let the boat fall
and it sounded to him in his anxiety
like a cannon shot. The Yankees did
not hear the noise, and he dropped into
the boat and rowed to the other
side.
The scout then walked to Port Royal.
He went through the Wilderness and he
never saw such scene in his life, he
said. The woods were burning and he
saw men lying on the ground with their
clothing burning and some of them
were still alive. He finally succeeded
in getting to the southern lines, and
entered them to find Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
there. He then learned that during his
absence Gen. Stuart had been killed.
Gen. Lee told him to report to Gen.
Robert L. Lee. Gen. Lee had his head
quarters in little church at Spottsyl-
vania courthouse. He made his report,
and then found his old regiment and
joined it. His regiment had been do
ing heavy fighting, and had lost many
men. He was with Gen. Barksdale
when the latter was shot in the leg by
a shell, which caused his death.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
PATIENT SEARCH REWARDED.
Ring from Dead Soldiers Hand Re-
stored to Relatives After
Thirty-EiGht Years.

The DAYS of Gigs were brought very
near to our own time by a pathetic
incident which occurred at the quar-
terly meeting of the Worcester county
association of the w. r. c. in Memo
rial hall Milford, Mass, April %,
writes Nellie A, Tracy, in the National
Tribune Miss Maria Mullan received
from the band of Mrs. Evans, depart
ment president of Massachusetts,, a
silver ring, taken from the finger of
her uncle, John Mulan, after his death
in the army hospital at Fredericks-
burg, May 12, 1864, This is the story
of the ring: Mrs. Lucy A. Blanchard,
of Syracuse, N. Y, was an army nurse,
and after the battle of the Wilderness
was ordered to Fredericksburg, where
she was stationed at Kenmore house,
the old home. of Mary Washington,
All the furniture had been removed
from the house, and the floors were
covered with the wounded from Chan
cellorsville and the Wilderness.
May Is, 1864, she saw young soldier
lying on stretcher in the yard, badly
wounded, but patiently awaiting his
turn. She ordered him brought in,
and washed him and gave him some
hot soup. He had been wounded by a
ball passing through his chest She
had just left him, and was washing her
hands preparatory to eating her din
ner, when the surgeon called upon her
to close the young mans eyes. He had
died from severe hcmorrhage. There
had not been time to get bis name and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26

MRS. HARRIET LANE JOHNSTON.
lar appropriateness, since Harriet
Lane johnson is, with the single ex-
ception of Dolly Madison, the only
woman who, while serving as first
lady of the land entertained any
thing like as extensively as Mrs.
Roosevelt.
While there are many points or
similarity between the social methods
of Harriet Lane Johnston and Mrs.
Roosevelt, both having delighted to
entertain at the white house the mas
ters of achievement in the worlds of
politics, art, literature and science,
as well as their own personal friends,
the conditions under which these two
women have served as hostess at the
executive mansion could not well be
more divergent. Throughout the en-
tire Buchanan administration feel
ing ran high, owing to the gathering
of the storm which later broke in the
civil war, and it was only by her
possession of a magnificent personal
ity, combined with rare grace and
tact, that Mrs. Johnston was enabled
to keep the social atmosphere of the
white house free from those clashes
of sentiment which pervaded every
branch of public life.
The particularly notable event of
Harriet Lanes regime in the white
house was, of course, the visit of the
then prince of Wales. now King Ed
ward, of England. The British royal
family has never ceased to seek
means to manifest it's appreciation of
the kindness which Miss Lane showed
to her royal guest, and upon the oc-
casion of her visit to England during
later years she has been made the
recipient of every social attention.
Particularly was this the case last
year, when she was one of the spe-
cially honored guests at the corona
ton. The queenly young mistress of
the white house quite captivated the
prince of Wales not less by the elab-
crate dinners and receptions which
she gave in his honor at the eXecu-
tive mansion than by the charming
comradarie spirit which she mani
tested when she danced with him on
the deck of the United States steam
er Harriet Lane, returning from a
visit to Mount Vernon, and the teas
ing which she administered when
later she ignominiously defeated the
prince in a bowling contest.
OF late years Harriet Lane John
ston, who suffered a double bereave-
ment in the early death of her hus
band and son, has lived in quaint
old house in the fashionable section
of Washington. The house is filed
with interesting art object and SOU
venirs, among which are the hand
some engrayings which were sent to
Harriet Lane by the prince of Wales
after his return to England These
pictures were the cause of some con-
troversy when Miss Lane, at the con-
clusion of her uncle's administration,
removed them from the white house.
portion of the public and number
of newspapers declared that they had
been sent as a gift to the American
nation and should remain in the pres
idential mansion, but the British gov
ernment hastened to send letter ex-
planning that they had been designed
as a personal gift to. Miss Lane, Mrs.
Johnston's household at the present
time consists of only herself and her
niece, Miss Kennedy.-Waldon Faw-
cett, in ST. Louis Giobe-Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
strnngeIy-Found WAR Relic.

An unexploded four-inch rife shell,
supposed 10 be civil war relic, was
drawn up through the suction pump of
a dredger off the coast. of Florida the
other day. 1t will be presented to the
Jacksonville chapter of the Daughters
of the Confederacy. - indianapolis
News
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
Exe Needs Tender Cnre.

A speck of dust in the eye can be re-
moved by pointed piece of paper or
a camels hair brush, Afterward close
the eyes and bind soft pad over the
lids and allow it to remain until all
feeling of pain is gone.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
remedy for ohapped Hands.

The following recipe is said to be
an excellent one for chapped or rough
ened hands: Four tablespoonfuls of
powdered borax, one-half ounce of
glycerine, one block of gum cam
phor, one-half pint bay rum and one
pint of water.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
The Picture.

Ethel--What do you think of this
landscape, aunty?
Aunt Hannah-Well, er--I don't
think so much of the trees but that
grape vine is pretty good
Grape vine! Why, dear, that is tho
artists signature. ."-Philadelphia Rec,
ord.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
Extravagance Disnppoints.

Panama hats are not to be worn by
fashionable men this summer, says the
Chicago Record-Herald. Now let the
victim who paid $25 for new one last
summer gnash his teeth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
The Morning Beauty walk.

Don't walk too far at first, when taxi
ing up outdoor exercise for the sake of
your complexion. Stop just short of
being tired.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-05-20

Paper gloves and stockings are
now Neing manufactured in Europe.
AS to the manner in which the paper
glovOs are made, little is known: bn.
the stockings have been carefully ex.
amined by experts, and they ere loud
in their praise Of them. It is said
theyswill last-alnoat as long as ordi.
nary stockings, owing to the fact that
the paper Of which they are made was,
during the process of manufacture,
transformed int substance closely
resembling wool, and waa chen woven
aud otherwise treated as ordinary
wool.
= The key Of success is within the
reach Of every one, but some men are
too lazy to reach for it.
TO have nice, curlyshair most any
girlwould be willing to be bald.