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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11
MANSIONS ROBBED
BY Crooks, Who Confess To Wholesale
Looting in ohio and Kentucky.

Kalamazoo, Mich.-Louis Mandell,
aged 81, of Cincinnati, and Harry SIM
mons, aged % years, of Cleveland,
we're arrested here for burglary OF Ed
ward Woodbury's residence in FASH
ionable quarter of the city Property
valued at several hundreds OF dollars
was found in their grips. The men
have confessed the robbery of the resi-
dence here, and also admit having COM
mitted burglaries at Cincinnati, Ivory
dale, Cleveland and Dayton o. and
Louisville, Ky.
The partnership was formed about
the 1st of March at Cincinnati, and the
men confined their work to the most
fashionable residence districts, select
ing the finest homes for robbery. The
burglars sorted the plunder taken in
other cities, and in the lot from Lou
isville is a gold bracelet marked Ida.
From the stuff taken in Ivorydaie Is
a heavy gold chain, with a cross at
tached, marked Clara A. Sackstedter.
In the Dayton lot are gold lorgnette
and heavy gold pendant. In the lot
from Cleveland a heavy gold brooch
marked "F. N. B." Mandell claims
that jewelry valued at hundreds of dol
lars has been obtained by them, but
all that could be sold was disposed Of
The men refuse to locate the houses
robbed in the various cities.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11

into camp IN an old tobacco ware
house in Sand Hill. The next morning
Mr.. Davis was brought into the city
a captive. He had heea captured the
previous evening by a small cavalry
detachment, some 30 miles from the
city, and was taken By mule team to
Augusta. The party Travelled all night
and reachSd Augusta about six u the
morning. Mr.. Davis was confined in
the Baptist church and my regiment
was detailed to guard him.
within a few minutes after Mr..
Davis arrival l saw him and can dis
tinctly remember his appearance.
From the time of his capture, the
previous evening, until 1 saw him at
six o'clock the next morning, Mr..
Davis had had no opportunity to
change clothing or make his toilet. He
wore what our grandfathers called a
surtout, a long overcoat which came
down to his feet, and was closely but
toned. He also had on cavalry hcots
and, when his overcoat was unbut-
toned, it could be seen that these
came to his knees. 1t was undoubted-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11
ROAD TO SUCCESS
PUBLICITY Is THE MAIL-oRDER
MANS GREAT WEAPON.
MERCHANTS MUST ADVERTISE
Eight Fire with Fire" and the DOL
lars Now Going cityward Will
Stay in the Home Community.

The merchant who would wage sue
cessful warfare against mail-order
competition should study mail-order
methods. The same tactics that takes
the dollar out of the community will
keep it at home.
And what are mail-order methods?
The keynote of it all may be found
in the one word-publicity. The mail
order house advertises. It does not
advertise better goods at less money
than the home merchant gives, but it
advertises persistently. 1t puts its
proposition before the public constant.
ly. 1t recognizes no dull season in its
campaign for publicity. 1t never lets
up.
At a gathering in Iowa some time
ago a mail-Order man explained some
of the system followed in the cam.
paign of publicity. According to this
explanation the mail-order house seeks
the line of least resistance in its
search for business. Whenever they
can find a town in which the mer.
chants are not active advertisers they
flood that community with their liter
ature. When they find town in
which the furniture dealer, for exam
pie, is afraid to use printers ink they
pay particular attention to the subject
of furniture. They are searching fol
the weakest link in the chain of home
defenses.
Something of this is explained by
the conditions the writer saw in &
mill town in northern Wisconsin. The
local paper carried practically no loca
advertising when the size of the towr
was considered, and the stores of the
town were but small affairs. In talk
ing to one of the merchants he com
planned that more than $4,000 wa
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11

sent from that community to the Chi
cago mail-order houses each month
THAT is easily twice the amount that
is spent in all the stores in this town
put together each month" he explain
ed. Merchandising don't pay in such
a place as this"
A few hours later the writer was
talking with the publisher of the local
paper, and the conversation turned to
local advertising, or rather the lack
of it.
81 was very much tempted to accept
a proposition which l received from
one of the Chicago mail-order houses
a few days ago" said the publisher.
81 still have the proposition here on
nv desk. They offer me a cash co9-
tract at my regular display rates for
1900 inches, to be used during the
year. and in addition to the cash ad-
vertising they offer me small COM
mission or all the new business Sc
cured in this county during the life
of the contract. They say their busi-
ness in this county during the last II
months was approximately $4,000 per
month, and l would secure a small
percentage on all business done over
this amount during the next IL
months"
Have you shown that proposition
to the merchants of this town." l
asked.
81 have, and it didn't move them"
he replied. They simply say it don't
pay to advertise. I would stump at
the offer if it were not for the fact
that | cannot bring myself to the point
of doing that which l know will help
to kill this community" 4.
There was an illustration of mail
order methods. The wide-awake MAIL
order man proposed to reap golden
harvest from the field the very-much-
asleep local merchant would not cul-
tivate.
Does it pay to advertise?
The more than 100000 that finds
its way to the Chicago mail-order
houses each year is garnered by q
campaign of advertising. You, MT
Local Merchant, claim, and rightly
that you can sell the same goods for
the same, or less money, than the
mail-order houses offer, but at the
same time you complain because the
mail-order man gets the business.
Why do they get it? Because theJ
advertise.
They not only advertise, but theN
advertise in your field, and they ad
vertise in your Held because you dt
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11
Sikh Burial Rites Observed.

A strange religious cetOnony was
observed last week just outside the
city of Nelson in British Columbia,
when the body of Sunder Singh, ex-
sergeant in a Burmese regiment, was
burned on funeral pyre according to
the rites of the Sikh religion, which
somewhat resembles Brahminism
Every Sikh corpse must be disposed
of by fire and water. Sunder Singh
was one of a party of 20 Sikhs, most
of them also ex-soldiers of the Indian
empire, who were employed in con-
struction work by the Canadian Paci-
fic railroad. He was killed on the
track. His body was carefully pre-
pared for the pyre and the other Sikhs
went through their religious ceremo-
nies while it was being consumed.
Later some of the bones were gath
cred up to be sent to Amritsar, India,
to the widow and father of the dead
man. The remaining bones were then
taken down to the riverside and flung
into the water with more religious
rites.-Springfield (Mass) Republic
can.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11

cred with white foam aud had evident
ly been ridden long and hard.
We didn't know what to do. The
train must surely have come in ahead
of time, and the tidings of a great bat
tie come with it. All the other Offices
were in an uproar; the Ledger had
the story, they didn't.
There was no time to waste, how
ever. Reporters were ordered to
mount at once and spare nothing to
get to the train and back again.
Away we tore; only to find, upon
reaching the depot, there was no train.
We looked around us, asked questions
and marveled. What could it all
mean? Slowly and sadly we returned,
with the only belief that we would see
it all explained in the Ledger.
But there was no Ledger on the
streets. And this is the reason why:
Some Ledger reporters had gone to a
stable about ten blocks out Chestnut
street, secured a black horse and
soaped him all over. Then one OF
them mounted and rode to his Office
with rush and clatter, as though
Gen. Taylor and his entire army had
been captured. When we discovered
the joke we certainly felt like pack
of newspaper fools with an adjective
patched on to the word. l forgot tc
add that the day was April l."
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11
sTAIR-cLIMsINe AN ART.
Grace and Muscle Result From Do
ing 1t Properly.

All the beauties of olden days were
painted upon the stairs. They fully
understood the artistic value of
graceful pose upon a handsome stair
case. j.
If woman knows how to go up
stairs gracefully she borrows height
and dignity and shows off a hand
some gown adyantageously.
Stair pictures have been very
much the vogue in the East the last
season. Many society women have
posed in this fashion and made love-
ly pictures. Pose and gown are the
essentials.
Many women go up stairs awk-
wardly and ungracefully. They think
chiefly of the climb, and not of how
they look.
The figure should not be rigid, but
the shoulders should be held erect.
One should keep the shoulders well
back in descending and the head well
up.
From the standpoint of physical cul-
ture there is nothing quite the equal
of stair climbing. 1t strengthens the
heart; makes the liver active and lim-
bers up the muscles. 1t is the most
| graceful of all exercises.
Most women take pains to do as lit
tie of it as possible.
The physical culture rule is to climb
with the knees without making use Of
the muscles of the back But this Is
very difficult The knees grow very
tired. There is distinct art in throw
ing ones self forward until one goes
up naturally and easily. But one must
not double up nor bend the shoulders.
Most women puff when going up
stairs. But this is a sign of weak
pair of lungs. Others groan and grunt,
but this means tender muscles and a
weak heart. The woman VINO arrives
at the head Of the stairs dizzy and
painting is in bad need of course in
physical culture. And the woman who
cannot climb at all is in a sad condi-
tion physically. She should begin at
the very lowest rounds of the gym
nasium ladder.
1t is worth any wOman's while to
learn to go up stairs easily and grace
fully.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11

not. 'fhey select towns, or special
lines where they do not have to meet
the competition that is offered by To-
cal advertising, and they make adver-
tising pay.
We want the people to trade at
home; We want them to build up the
home community; we want to see the
dollars kept in circulation here that
one and all of the local people may
prosper. We do not want to see the
fortunes of the city mail-order man
built at the expense of the lncal COM
mulity, but we know absolutely the
value of publicity, and we know the
mail-order houses will capture the dol.
lars If the local merchants will not
fight fire with fire; will not show the
public what they can buy and at what
price.
Let us go back to this northern
Wisconsin town and see what oppor-
tunities the merchants there were sac
rificing. 1t was a mill town, and in
no way an agricultural community.
There were not 20 farms within ra-
dius of as many miles. The industry
was lumber, and the money to run the
mills came from the city. The nearly
1000 employees were paid in city
money, and with little effort on the
part of the merchants in that town
this money might have been kept in
the town. 1t might have been made
to build a permanent prosperity. But
no, the merchants left wide field for
the mail-order houses which they i'm
proved, and the money that might
have built a town that would have
stood after the lumber interests are
gone and the mills are closed has been
| allowed to return to the city from
which it came, and now every lofty
pine that falls but drives another mai
in the coffin of the town, and all be
cause the merchants did not believe il
would pay to advertise.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11
Applied TheoloqY.

Little Willie Trundy, of Searsport,
Me-, stood at the window one day,
watching his grandfather NOW a piece
of grass near the house. After watch
ing him a few minutes, he turned to
his grandmother and asked if God was
everywhere.
Yes" said she, God is everywhere.
"Is He here in this room?"
Yes"
Willie pondGred moment, then
rs He out in the field where granny
is?"
Yes, Willie, He is everywhere"
Quick as fash came the response:
That He'd better be careful or gram
py II cut His legs off,"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11
How Flowers Were Named.

1t is interesting to know how certain
flowers got their names. Many were
named after individuals. For instance,
fuchsias were SO called because they
were discovered by Leonard Fuchs.
Dahlias were named for Andrew Dahl,
who brought them from Peru. The
camelia was so called for missionary
named Kamel, who brought some mag
nificent specimens of the flower to
France from Japan. He called it the
rose of Japan, but his friends changed
it to camelia. Magnolias were named
in honor of Prof. Magnol De Mont
pelier, who first brought the beautiful
trees to France from America and
Asia. Because they tremble with the
wind is the meaning of anemones. The
Latin word to wash is lavare and Law
ender received its name because the
Romans put the flowers into the water
when they washed to perfume their
hands.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11

Among the curious sights some
times witnessed by entomologists are
the professions" formed by the lar
vac of a moth inhabiting pine trees in
some parts of France. They march in
single file, and the leader spins a
thread which is added to by its follow
ers. A procession consisting of ia
of these larvae was seen last April in
the woods near Areachon. The pro-
cessions are formed both at night,
when the creatures make excursions
from their nest to feed on the young
leaves, and in the daytime, when they
descend to the ground to seek a place
in the sand where they may burrow
and pass to the pupa stage. A kind
of fly was observed attacking the
procession above mentioned, to lay its
eggs in the marching larvae.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11
BOSOM OF THE MOT HER,
Who Leaped To Death, Was the Ten
der Cushion That Saved Her Babe.

Marietta. O.-Frantic with fear,
Mrs. Arthur Matthews, clasping her
babe to her breast, leaped from a car
riage in a runaway in the business dis
trict of this city and was instantly
killed. The babe was practically un-
injured, as the mother landed upon
her back, her breast serving as a cush-
ion. Mrs. Matthews neck was broken
and her head shockingly crushed.
With her husband, Mrs. Matthews
and babe were about to ride through
a street crowded with toilers return
ing from their work. The team took
fright and bolted, but Matthews clung
to the reins ard brought it to a halt
a short distance from the scene of the
tragedy.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11

iinction Of being the youngest man en-
listed from Maine as a soldier in the
civil war He was barely Is years of
age when news reached the little town
of jefferson, where Mr.. Bateman re-
sided, that the Lewiston infantry was
to be ordered for coast duty. Mr..
Bateman hurried to Lewiston to try
to join the company. At that time
men were offering large sums for sub
stitutes. Mr.. Bateman was not look
ing for reward, his only purpose being
to join the army. He, however, met a
rean who offered him $10O to go as his
substitute, which he at once accepted,
though he could easily have received
$500 if he had been hunting for it
He served with the Lewiston COM
pany in coast duty for six months, and
then joined the Fourteenth Maine and
was sent to the front, taking part in
Sherman's famous march to the sea
and other stirring scenes near the
close of the rebellion.
In speaking of some of his war ex-
periences, Mr.. Bateman said:
"The story of the capture of Jeffer-
son Davis has never been correctly
told. Malice, prejudice and a mis-
taken notion that misrepresentation
added to the glory of the northern
cause, while serving to belittle and
make ridiculous the southern cause,
have made up a curious caricature
called history.
The general belief in the north,
even to-day, is that Jefferson Davis,
when captured, wore the clothes of a
woman. Just who started this story,
it is difficult to say. But, in the in
famed condition of the public mind at
that time, it proved a report which
found ready credence. The northern
press took the matter up and the
story was sent broadcast.
Now, let me tell you the facts.
can tell you the facts, because it was
my fortune to be in the city of ALL
gusta, Ca, when Mr.. Davis and Alex.
ander Stevens were brought into that
city within a few hours after their
capture. | was a member of the Four
teenth Maine regiment; my brigade
had left Savannah the last of May, '65,
and marched IT'S miles to Augusta
We reached Augusta about the first of
June, at dusk, and Immediately went
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11
A MEXICAN WAR SCOOP"
Newspaper Man Narrates the Story OF
a Trick Upon Other Journals.

! Mai. E. B. Moore, one of West Ches-
ter's octogenarian, though active, citi-
,zens, tells the following amusing story
of a journalistic beat" in the good old
DAYS "befo' de wah." The Public Ledg-
er. as will be seen, played a most i'm
portant part:
ut was way back in AT, when I was
a reporter on the Philadelphia Bulle-
tin. The telegraph was of recent in
yention, and the one and only line in
the country connected the cities OF
washington and Baltimore. A some
sort, Of railroad connected the latter
city with Philadelphia, the terminus
being at Thirty-first and Chestnut
streets. Packets of mail from the ma
tion's capital would be forwarded on
this railroad. and the various papers
had reporters on swift horses await
ing the train, to rush as soon as 1t
arrived to the various offices.
"The Mexican war was in progress
at that time, and, of course, it was the
DIG LulIlR III lllC uCWo A~ IUAAN
tin, Ledger and the old newspapers
were all located near Third and Chest
nut streets. There was much rivalry
to get on the street with the latest
war bulletins from Baltimore, which
as / said, came there over the one
wire from Washington. Many were
the races / have had from that train
"Now for the beat One afternoon
when everything on the street was az
quiet as pastoral scene we heard 9
horse coming down Chestnut street e'
a furious pace. For several squares
we could hear the hoof beats, ant
everybody rushed to the windows tt
learn what was the cause. With
fury the rider plunged up to the Ledg
er building, sprang from his saddl'
and rushed into the ONCE of that pa
per. The horse, a black one, was GOV
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11

body. Alarmed, she applied home
remedies, but the spots continued to
spread. The childs body presents the
appearance of being tattooed. Almost
the entire body is covered, with the
exception of the face, which thus far
has not been affected. While most of
the time the blotches are of mellow
purple, they occasionally change to a
deep plum color or a dull red. Some
blotches are as large as penny, 9TH
ers are no larger than pinhead. ThC
disease is probably caused by a rheu-
matte germ.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11
Only Believe.

Be not downcast if difficulties sur
round you in your heavenly life. They
may be purposely placed there by God
to train and discipline you for higher
developments of faith. If he calls you
to "toiling in rowing" it may be to
make you the better seaman, and to
lead you to holier trust in Him who
has the vessel and it's destinies in
hand, and who, amid gathering clouds
and darkened horizon, and crested bill
lows, ever murmurs the mild rebuke
to our misgivings: Said l not unto
thee, that if thou wouldst believe, thou
shouldst see the glory of Godfrey.
John r. Macduff.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11
New Plant Started.

Dayton, O.-The Citizens Electric
Light Co. turned on The current in its
new power house on East Third street
and a mammoth enterprise, in which
capitalists of Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton are interested, was launch
ed. Adam Scnantz, president of the
Dayton Breweries Co., is president OF
the new corporation. George B. Cox,
of Cincinnati, is a heavy stocllholdGr.
An investment of $2,0OO,0O0 or more is
reported to have been made, as the
company placed all of its wires under
ground. 1t will also furnish steam
heating for residences.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11
FIRE IN BUSINESS DISTRICT
Of Xenia Burned Several Buildings,
Causing 100000 Loss.

Xenia, O.-Fire broke out in the
heart of the business district and de-
stroyed nearly half a block of business
buildings before it was finally got IN
der control. The fire originated in the
Harnish bakery, which was totally de-
stroyed, while the following business
houses suffered great loss: Sanz shoe
store, Fisher meat market, BalGner &
Fletcher, Harmon grocery, William
Harner grocery, Xenia Herald print
ing office, Candy photograph studio
and Downing photograph studio. The
total loss will be over 100000, only
partially covered with insurance.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11

ly an afterthou5ht and a jest to call
the long overcoat woman's dress. At
the time no one thought of doing this.
l talked with his captors about the
capture of Mr.. Davis, and not one of
them mentioned such thing as dis
guise, or woman's dress. Would this
have been the case If he had been
disguised when captured? On the con-
trary, it would have been the princi
pal theme of conversation. Those who
were there at the time did not hear
any mention of disguise until weeks
afterward, when the news came
through the northern papers.
'Mr. Davis was kept in Augusta till
the next day, and then taken to the
steamer Planter, a mile away. He was
guarded by my regiment, through
long line of scoWling faces, and at one
time it looked as though there might
be a repetition of what occurred
when the Sixth Massachusetts regi-
ment marched through Baltimore.
However, we were organized and
armed, and under discipline, while
the 1000 people of Augusta were but
mob. During the march Mr.. Davis
sat in a carriage, and there was per-
petual scowl upon his dark face l re-
member his disdain of all courtesies
offered him, and his refusals to answer
any questions which the officers put
| to him.
Company A of my regiment went
aboard the steamer and guarded Davis
to Fort Monroe This was a snap for
the boys. AS | belonged to company
D was Obliged to trudge back to Sa-
vannah, through the burning sands,
afoot.
"The whole story of Davis and the
! woman's dress is on a par with the
oft-repeated fabrication about Gen.
Buffers stealing spoons in New Or
leans. Butler was very much hated
in the south, and the story found
friends through pure malice. 1t was
so persistently told that thousands of
people in the north finally believed it..
Both of these stories are a sample of
how history is made. If such yarns
can be given credence while the par
ties are living, what must we think of
the history of Caesar and of Hanni-
bal?"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-04-11

you've got a pretty bad headache,
sir, haven't you?" asked the barber,
giving a dry shampoo.
That's just what's bothering me-"
replied the man in the chair. But how
did you know?"
Tell it by my wrists and hands" "
explained the barber. You and are
what they'd call magnetic mediums.
And the electricity in my fingers takes
the pain out of your head. But l get
it. That's why know. My hands are
aching now. don't often strike a
customer like you, however, or I'd
have to go out of business. I'll bet my
arms ache for half hour after you're
gone"