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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13
The StampIess Man.

did you ever stop to think how
helpless a man is without postage
stamps?" inquired the man with the
armful of packages the other day.
I'VE use stamps lots of times without
thinking about it-don't realize how
many things we mail from day to day.
But awhile ago l started to mail a
big bunch of Christmas packages, and
wanted about so cents worth OF
stamps. The hotels were all sold out
or nearly so. l stopped at three drug
stores without finding a single stamp
and then l made for the post Office
substation down in the arcade There
was a line of people there half block
long. l couldn't wait there and 1 went
on down to the post office. The line
there was just as long.
"Well finally got my stamps but
it took me about two hours altogeth
er. l never had any idea man could
waste so much time just over the
postage stamp problem in town this
ze."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13

tries come into existence 30 give en-
ployment TO a greater number Of peo-
pie, and thus carrying on an upbuild
ing process.
In summing up conditions as they
relate to the community and the home
town. It is Patent to the man Of intelli-
gence that the patronizing of every
home enterprise best subserves his in
terests, as well as the interests of all
of the community. The patriotic man
who would be model citizen will
make it his rule to put forth every
effort to build up the local community.
This effort should be directed to the
patronizing of every home industry;
to keep within the community as far
as possible all the earnings of the peo-
pie; to invest surplus capital in home
enterprises; to improve the schools,
the churches, the roads, develop every
resource of the place; and with in
creased prosperity of the town more
happiness, more contentment and
more wealth results to all the worthy
ones comprising the community.
d. NJ. CARR.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13
much to get acquainted with in a big

much to get acquainted with in big
strange world.
The other children talked knowing.
ly about st. Valentines box. Next
day they filed in one after another,
and into big wooden box they
dropped white envelopes. When
school was about to be dismissed the
Beautiful Lady who took care of all
the children opened up the mysterious
affair and took out the envelopes one
by one, calling the name of the little
boy or girl. N"-
You held your breath. When would
yours come? All! exquisite moment
of anticipation! Your heart-such a
tiny little silly, lovable heart, too
fairly ceased to beat, for every mo-
ment you expected that your name
would be spoken. The other children
were busy showing their white lace
valentines, and never noticed the wist
full little face in a far-back seat.
1t was all over. The box was empty
The Beautiful Lady closed her desk
The children ran for their hats and
coats You placed two soiled fat lit
tie hands to two very moisty-misty
eyes and felt your first great sorrow
You did, didn't you? Well, If you
didn't, did.
The heart Of child is so sensitive
a flower. A thought will crush it-s
tear will bruise it.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13
A TIMELY INSPIRATION.
YeIp Of Little Dog Restored the Scat.
tered Wits of Soldier Orator.

At the celebration of July 4, 1861,
Gen. Morris Schaff, then a cadet, de-
livered an address in the chapel at
West Point, and he gives place in
his recent book: The Spirit Of Old
West Point" to funny incident con-
nected with the delivery of his
speech.
1T was called an oration,' Gen.
Schaff writes, but how | should hang
my head if any one were to repeat
some of 1t to me now! committed 1t
to memory, and never feeling very
sure of myself, concluded to put the
manuscript, roll of little note paper,
in the breast of my coat, so that II
worse came to worst, could pull it
out and read 1t.
while the Declaration was being
read l tried to think how my speech
began, and to save my life could not
recall three sentences. AS the reader
drew to the end, my perplexity deep
ened The band then played a patri-
otic air. The orator was introduced.
and the fellows applauded as he rose
in dazed confusion.
There was a great crowd present.
filling the aisles. A little dog had fol-
lowed his people up into the choir.
and just as l was about to carry my
hand to my breast to extract my
speech-for my mind was perfectly
blank-some one stepped on the dogs,
tail, and out came a couple Of sharp
yelps Whereupon the whole corps
broke into a good laugh can see
three or four of them laughing now
Well, it brought me to my wits, and
off went the Grafton with hang.
Il have no doubt the 'oratinn' was
dripping with metaphors and SMILES,
| for when my little intellectual lamp is
| lit, they come flying in like moths at
night. Now there was nothing that the
academic board and instructors in my
day, save one beloved exception.
despised SO much as fgurative Ian
guage. The sudden pallor. curling lip
and oh, spare us! look Of disgust that
attended its use was so obvious. how
ever. that a cadet rarely made use OF
metaphor a second time.
We'll. while | was delivering the
address. my eye fell on the face OF
Church. the professor of mathematics.
He was scanning me with that cold and
entrenched expression worn by some
one in almost every audience. We're
/ to have given II in translation ir
would have been in these terms:
From all oratoTy. and above all
from Kirkersville oratory, deliver
us!'"
Gen. Schaff came from Kirkersville.
Ohio. and he says elsewhere in his
book that from the day of his admis-
sion to West Point to this. everybody
has smiled when the place is men
toned And yet, from within Il radius
of Is miles of Kirkersville. came Sher-
man, Mcdowell, RoseCrans, Curtis.
Griffin. Brice and Charles r. Woods
all graduates Of distinction.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13
WHERE PRICES RUN HIGH.
Mothers Suggestion Helped George
Out of a Predicament.

"The late Henry o. Havemeyer," ="
said sugar jobber of New Orleans,
possessed in a marked degree the
kindly virtue of charity.
"On my last visit to New York
it was some months before the panic
i spoke harshly of a millionaire who
had been accused of double dealing
in a banking transaction.
Said Mr.. Havemeyer: Let us not
condemn this man unheard. Remem-
ber that his guilt has not yet been
proved, nor has he yet told his own
side of the story
Then Mr.. Havemeyer laughed and
said that in the most untoward condi-
tions accused men were often able to
clear themselves. He told of young
girl who a week or so after Christmas
complained bitterly to her mother:
Mamma, l doubt if shall be hap
py with George. fear he is of de-
ceptive nature
Why, darling, what do you mean?'
the mother asked.
well, mamma, said the young girl
earnestly, you know that collar pin
he gave me for Christmas? He swore
to me that he paid $25 for it, but to-
day saw its exact counterpart priced
at five dollars at a jewelers.
"'Ah, but, my child said the moth
er, you must remember how very re-
ligious George is. Undoubtedly he
bought the pin at a church fair
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13
Built un by Advertising.

Enterprise Of high order ever de-
serves admiration. No one for a mo-
ment can doubt the ability of men
who, starting on less than 800, can
within rs years build up business
amounting to more than 100000, ,00O
annually. This is the record of the
managers Of the worlds greatest mail
order house. There Is no secret about
this great success. 1t is simply a mat
ter of judicious advertising. The mail
order house is an example Of persist
ency, of careful, shrewd and highly
attractive advertising. The mail order
field is the world. The field of the
local merchant is comprised within ap
proximately a hundred square miles.
The mail order houses attract trade
from the local merchants hundred
square miles wherever the local mer
chants are found lacking as wide
awake advertisers. But in the dis
tricts where there are live storekeep
ers, who realize the value of printers
ink, there Is no profitable or productive
field for the mail order houses. 1t mat
ters not whether it be the biggest
mail order house or the smallest store
In a little country town, advertising
principles apply 10 one az we'll as t,
the other.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13
BunqIe's Bad Break.

= Mr.. Bungle always takes deep and
sympathetic interest in the welfare of
his fellow man. While out for stroll
one day, he met friend who seemed
In great hurry.
Hold on, JONES'" said Bungle, grab
bing his friends arm, "why this
rush?"
"Bungle," said Jones, removing his
hat and wiping his brow. I'm hot
footing it to specialist; believe my
brain is affected"
Mr.. Bungle, to allay the fears of his
friend and show the customary com.
miseration, said, jovially:
"Pshaw, Jones, you shouldn't worry
about such little thing as that"
"Wh-hat?"
Il mean you shouldn't let such lit
tie thing as your brain-that is, Mr.
Jones, you shouldn't get so excited
over nothing-of course-ah, good
day, Mr.. Jones!"-The Bohemian.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13

and Reynolds fs months later
checked the onward sweep of the con
quering legions Of Longstreet
Immediately after the grand re-
view Of May, 1865, the union vet
Grams came here before going to their
homes, and erected to their conn
rades who fell, the first of a thou
sand monuments of the civil war The
trees, now well grown, were planted
at the same time that the monument
was tnclosed and formally dedicated
THE G A. r. veterans came here
in 1902 after the Washington en-
campment, and under the shade OF
the trees voted to ask congress to
purchase the ground and to preserve
the monument forever.
In 1905. on the lofty summit OF
the Piedmont plateau, the Army of
the Potomac, like the Israelites Of old,
after 40 years of wandering, came to
the place cf its birth and was enter
tanned by its former foes.
Robert Morris and Judith Con-
stance now laugh and crow here, and
in the golden future will romp and
play like other children over the
green sward around this rude memo
rial to the patriot dead of the Army
of the Potomac.
Who shall cast the horoscope OF
the future for those little ones? Ju-
dith may marry a foreign prince, but
hope for her a better fortune. AS
for Robert Morris, | venture to place
him in nomination for president In
the campaign of 1852. The south
wants another president, and wants
him bad. Robert Morris would un-
doubtedly have the solid support OF
Pennsylvania and Virginia on the
first ballot. With the Keystone state
and the Old Dominion at his back he
ought to win. In order that there
may be no mistake call the attention
of the world to the fact that start
ed the Henry boom. By that time IL
may be the United States of the
World OF course the originator OF
the boom would expect to be in the
cabinet and he modestly suggests that
he would not be willing to accept any
thing less than the secretaryship OF
the treasury.
IF half century hence it became
desirable to placate our British cous-
ins the future sovereign of the planet
might assume the title of Heury TX"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13
Mot ExorhItant.

The summer resident looked sharply
at Mr.. Jameson's guileless moon face,
and then at the mild and none-too.
sprightly horse he was offering for
sale.
Don't you think $3.50 rather a stiff
price to ask for horse like that?''
asked the summer resident. How
old is he?"
Hes only jest thutty," said Mr..
Jameson, calmly.
Thirty years old, and you expect
to get $3.50 for him!"
Il don't know as expect to get it, u
said Mr.. Jameson, without rancor
"but it seems as If I'd ought to have
full as much as that. 1t don't come
to but five dollars a year, and he's
cost me good deal more'n that most
years. Youths Companion.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13

nearly related to the family of Vir-
ginia made illustriOus by the orator
who exclaimed in the house of
burgesses, Give me liberty or give me
death The charts show that both
families emigrated from the same
neighborhood in the old country, and
Patrick Henry must have been the dis
tant cousin of Hugh Fauntleroy,
Henry l.
"The latter scion Of this now famous
Scotch-Irish stock married Phoebe
Morris, daughter of Robert Morris, the
patriot and signer of the Declaration.
Their son, DR.. Isaac Henry, was COM
missioned by John Adams as a sur
geon in the small American navy of
that day. In the course Of his career
he married Judith Carter, a direct de-
scendant of Robert Carter, one Of Vir.
ginia's early governors, sometimes
known as King Carter They made a
modest and happy home on a small
farm, which had descended to Judith
directly from a grant to Gov. Carter
from the crown of Great Britain.
Surgeon Henry died many years
before the war, but his youthful
bride survived to meet tragic end.
On that bright and peaceful Sabbath
morning she heard the booming sig
nal gun fired from the stone bridge,
and asked her son John whether it
was thunder. The only persons in
the house with her at the time were
this son, her daughter, Phoebe Morris
Henry, and a small colored girl.
They made an attempt to remove the
old lady as the armies encircled them.
but were forced to return. and soon
after a she'll from Ricketts, battery
exploded in the house and she was
wounded to her death. She was bur.
led after the fight was over by SOL
dier hands in her own yard. The
only daughter, Phoebe, was made deaf
by the same explosion, and remained
so to the end Of her life. Her son.
Prof. Hugh F. Henry. seoond. who
conducted private school of high
grade in Alexandria, was a bachelor
He subsequently removed to the farm
and is now resting with his sister by
his mothers side. John, the other
son, who was with his mother on that
fatal 1st of July, had three children
the only grandchildren of DR.. Isaac
Henry and his spouse Judith.
These children, born after the war
were early deprived OF their parents
by death, and were reared by theil
bachelor uncle, !Gugh. who rebuilt
the house on the old site. Singular
ly, they all followed the profession O
their guardian. Miss Ida l.. Henry
Is teacher on the Pacific coast
Hugh F. third, 10 a professional lin
guist, having studied in all the cap
itals of Europe. Prof. Arthur l.
Henry, after teaching a decade il
other states. returned to bis native
county and became principal Of th'
Manassas graded school Here b.
married Miss Lena Herrell. also
teacher, and settled on the Henr!
farm. where they look on daily owe
rhe Geld where two battles ended
Their sheep and cattle Craze quiet
~ on the hill where Jackson stoo'
! like . stone wall and where Syke
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13
SECONDS" OR "oFF" GOODS.
How They Are Disposed OF by Big
Manufacturing Concerns.
d. NJ. CARR.

Manufacturers who put out their
goods under brands are watchfu' as to
keeping their output up to the stand.
ard. Big concerns whose goods are
widely advertised and are known fol
their excellency will not allow defec.
tive articles to go from their factories.
Everything is inspected, and it must
be perfect before the brand is allowed
to be marked upon it.
In the large cutlery factories, the
silverware manufacturing plants, the
collar and shirt factories, and the like,
regardless of what care is exercised
defects will be found in a certain per.
centage of the work turned out. In
cutlery the temper of blade may be
uneven; the handle may be marred
the lining may be imperfect, and all
such defects cause the knife to be
discarded, that is, thrown out ana not
marked with the brand, if the maker
has reputation to maintain. In shirt
faoRories the defective shirts are
placed aside just the same, and so 1t
is with hundreds of manufactured
articles. All these articles are dead
loss to the manufacturer unless they
be remodeled, or disposed of at cost
covering the expense of the raw mate
rial and the time of employers used
in their making. Thus manufacturers
welcome means of playing even,'
of disposing of this damaged stock SC
as to prevent loss.
In many cases the damaged goods
are sold to "job-lot" men who auction
them off to small jobbers. But the
majority of these goods are sold by
contract to large houses located in the
big cities, and it may be said that
fully SO per cent. of the goods that
these houses handle are either of the
damaged class known as seconds" or
! prison made or contract goods, cheap
| ly turned out in sweat houses.
A number of concerns have con
f, tracts with these houses for all the
"off" goods made. These goods are
wrapped up in such a way as to cover
their defects. The concern buys them
for about 80 to 40 per cent. below
prices at which perfect goods can be
had in the markets. Thus it can be
seen how some concerns can make low
prices on goods that look about as
well as regular dealers carry, but
| which are far inferior.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13

tury. You don't say that you are still
romantic?"
II say this-that my wife can beat
me at argument or scolding or doing
as she pleases whether like it or not.
She's obstinate and pigheaded and
touchy, and the only way can get
even with her is on Valentines day.
Then l get 100 of the meanest bur.
lesque valentines can find and send
them to her, and for the next three
months she's wondering who sent 'em
and treats me fairly well. Try 1t
once. 1t is a good deal better than
threatening her with the family ak.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13
Renuired a Chauffeur.

The applicant for the shoes Of the
dethroned queen Of the kitchen had
asked all the usual questions. Finally
she inquired:
"An' what make of auttymobile have
you?"
"Ours is a Gem 4ur," replied the
lady.
'I'm not familiar with that make Of
masheen," said the applicant; "an' so
of course, would expect your husband
to take me out"
That was the last straw.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13

over the preceding week and the
week that comes after. For days and
days the Small Person sneaks into the
house with unnatural, unhealthy and
suspicious quiet, holding queer shaped
bulging packages under her coat or
smuggled away in the innermost cav
erns of her absurd little muff. The
paste pot appears everywhere in the
house. The paste brush disappears
entirely and is finally found in a state
of suicide and the ink-bottle. You see
something on the floor that looks like
a cherry. You pick it up and it is a
red paper heart. While you are look
ing at it the Small Person trots into
the room, gives you one mysterious
glance, Immediately separates you
from your treasure and scampers
away to hiding place under the din
ingroom table, where she sits for three
straight hours in a billowy pool of
white paper lace, big white envelopes
and numberless samples of scissors.
Then, after these charming hours
of mysterious preparation, the great
day approaches. The mail man is the
Kris Kringle, the Santa Claus, the
good fairy. With bended shoulders he
plods down the street, while the Small
Person has her nose glued so tightly
to the window pane that there is con-
siderable question whether or not it
will detach itself without the aid of
a paper knife.
At last! Hooray! The bell rings.
At imminent risk Of catching every
thing from cold to spanking the
Small Person dashes out of the front
door and fairly leaps into the mail
bag.
She emerges looking like a young
stationery establishment, nothing but
envelopes, big, little and middle sized.
With squeal and scurry she blows
back into the house and opens up her
treasures. There are paper trees filled
with brilliant paper roses, and be-
meath the forest trees sit little cupids
without no clos on at ALL" just as
if it were not February and chilly.
Great big, beautiful white swan cars
more beautiful even than a new au-
tomobile-are dragged out of their
white castings, and 10! when you touch
a little spring somewhere the swan
cars are filled with flowers and all
sorts of wonderful, exquisite, beautiful
things, like birds and jewels and low
ing hearts. Oh, it is very, very de-
lightful, being child on st. Valen-
tines day.
While all this excitement is beating
the quiet home atmosphere into quiv.
ers you sit down in a far.awayt cor.
ner and think of the time when you
were little girl. Perhaps you didn't
have as much attention as the Small
Person; perhaps things didn't some
how come your way-and perhaps it's
because you had so little that you
are ready to make any sacrifice SO
that the Small Person shall have
much. 1t is from deprivations that
you learn what good things mean and
how much they mean.
One day there came strange whis
perings about st. Valentine. You won
dered II he were the man who came
to trim the trees in the orchard. II
was all very new to you, because
everything was new. and you had SC
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13
Necessities Of Modern Methods.

An unofficial estimate places al
about 100000 the number of tele'
phones now in use in the world. This
aggregate has been reached in a little
over 80 years. Modern business would
stagger for a season If the hello" in
strument were to drop suddenly from
availability. Yet such disappearance
would in visible effect scarcely com
pare with an unexpected lapse in the
electric light invention--a develop
ment practically Of the last 25 yeara
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13
Commercial Travellers Interested.


There are more than 100000 COM
mercial travellers in the United
States. These men are trade mis-
sionaries. They are a very necessary
cog in the commercial wheel. While
there are some who take the view
that they are not producers, they are
nevertheless important in the system
of distribution of that which Is pro
duced. The successful travelling man
is a close student of human nature.
His vocation is such as calls for a
high class of intelligence, particularly
as to trade conditions and the lines
which he represents. His keen OBJ
servation of the trend of affairs has
made him pronounced home-trader.
He realizes that his interest lies in
protecting the business of the small
city and town. Were trade in mer.
camille lines concentrated in the
large cities, the field for the traveller
would be narrowed. Thus we find
him a strong combatant of systems
that mean concentration. Circum.
stances have made him as equally in.
terested in protection of local trade
of merchants as the merchants them.
selves, and he is also interested on
this account in the welfare of the peo,
pie who are the customers of the
merchants. The force and power Of
the great army of travellers in the
United States is not to be considered
lightly. Their influence is wide.
spread. They will be found quite
willing to work most harmoniously
with the townspeople and the resi-.
dents of rural districts in the matter
of home protection.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13

In the northern paut Of Madagascar
is the most remarkable. neutral fort
ress In the world. IT. is occupied bF
wild tribe who call themselves the
People OF the Rocks, The fortress Is
lofty and precipitols rock OF enos~
nous size. l,000 feet high and eight
square miles IN area It's sides are -
steep that it cannot be climbed with
out artificial means. Within 1t is AOk,
low. and the only entrance ID hY .
subterranean passage.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13
HIS ONE DAY TO GET EVEN.
Husband Sent 6urIesque Valentines
and Had His Wife Guessing.

"Say, old fellow" said Brown, as
he laid his hand familiarly on Potter's
shoulder, didn't l see you in the
stationer's day or two ago looking al
valentines?"
you probably did, as was ia
there" was the answer.
Buying for some sister or Nicer"
"No-for my wife,"
But you are over so years old and
have been married a quarter OF a cen.