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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23

grove from a yard of felt but 1t sound
ed good and he used it, Think, Maize,
of being compelled to pluck rubber
gum with those fragile lily stalks he
said Think, Gertrude, of making
bean bread for some chocolate-frosted
brute that remembers when he walked
on all fours. Now if can obtain the
backing of one party we are that much
stronger, and will come out all right.
Remember, Tiberius Smith always
wins. Why, children, once l fell so
low that l was forced to join an Uncle
Toms Cabin company and play | was
ice in the Ohio river Did l stay ice?
Ask me. To-day you behold in me the
sole owner of The Dear Gazelle" op-
era troupe, and president protein of
Iscanlati, or whatver name under
high heavens they call it.
"Of course there was a lot of horse
sense in Tbs talk, but knew he was
playing president just through his lust
of empire. He told me afterwards
that if he could have held down the
job, he had intended to map out canal
route and sneak a stake from Uncle
Sam.
But to return to the well-filled inn
and the homesick allies of the insur.
rectionists That afternoon Tib and
Jones reconnoitered the only approach
from the interior: the only road over
which the enemy could come. This
ran dead against big white cliff, and
then swung sharp to the left and made
a Decline to the beach. Tib deployed
the native troops far out beyond the
cliff, with instructions to hike back to
the hotel if they scented the foe. In
casual way he led them to believe
that they wouldn't have to do much
fighting. Just take prisoners after the
new president had shaken a little
parlor magic out of his cdff This
pleased them immensely. and they
said we were their saviors. Jupiter
Stators, and all that kind of stuff.
But we were in very disagreeable
situation. The warm climate didn't
make the 'Gazelle' rags so bad for the
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23
Yellow Waters.

TibeTiuS was so cheSty that he wanted
to pursue the enemy and incidentally
annex San Salvador. But as white
cliffs aren't always handy, we held
him back.
We'll, three days passed and our
stage costumes began to look tar
nished. Then came the second at
tack Our scouts said it was a differ
ent party, and when they approached
the pass it was hardly dark enough
to operate the machine. Tib com,
manded us all to follow him. and ar
ranged us in a semi-circle position
for the curtain raise in act H.
Nov warble! he commanded, and
we did, with fringe of lime-light
playing over our rich vestments and
scared faces What the enemy thought
on seeing 2S fays all covered gold and
cut glass, giving the serenade, will
never be known. But it staggered EN-.
Maize Adams and the other Venuses
sang and looked like angels, and the
brownies didn't care to buck up
against a celestial choir without any
investigation.
IF you can hold 'em few minutes,
We'll win in a canter,' cried Tib.
"At that we all stalked forward a
few PAGES with the best lilt of the
whole piece pealing from our ruby
lips. Then came the welcome order to
81 Foi f,,I olJ
picture gallery began to squirt photos
on the cliff What with the bowling of
the ballet, the hoarse cries of Jones,
the bugle calls and prancing pictures,
the brownies were held up for fair.
See 'em run! cried Banana Jones.
Then, just as the old One Hundred
and FOrtieth infantry began tramping
by. we all, with one common impulse,
insane with elatiOn, charged the par
alyZed ranks in the brush With one
long-draWn-Out scrcech they fed, but
not before one beggar gave me a cut
in the leg with a big cheese knife.
Tiberius would run amuck, and soon
distanced us, the twinkiing and clang-
ing of his tin suit only revealing his
whereabouts. When the company
caught up with him he was trying to
lift a good-siZed chest in his arms.
Its probably full of tortillas,' re-
marked the pirate, after we had re-
turned to the hotel.
"'T think, children, it's their war
chest, gasped Tiberius. who had been
unable to carry it alone.
1--WE tore off the cover and there
were rows upon rows of yellow waters.
We divided EN- up equally and Jones
said each ones share amounted to
about $1,500.
Whether it was the loss of their
funds, or the moving pictures that
turned the trick. we were not destined
to learn. For on the seventh day a
little vermin-infested tub poked her
nose into the harbor, and we all
shipped for San Jose. where we picked
up some civilized rags and caught a
Frisco steamer"
Copyright by Joseph 3. Bowles)
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23

hardware in his belt, and said: We've
got them all here
I'VE have the kinetograph, re-
minded Tiberius.
"'Whats that? A machine gum
cried Jones, eagerly.
"Tiberius looked at him sadly and
then explained it was merely device
to throw moving pictures on screen.
But pictures won't hurt EN- be-
moancd Jones,
No cried Tiberius, exultantly, but
it'll scare EN- like the deuce Why, man,
in that one big box I've columns of in
fantry, heavy artillery, troops of cav.
airy, little drummer boy, a Red
Cross society, and the Private's Fare.
we'll to His Aged Mother. It's the
most economical method of transport
ing field forces in the world
Then, after he had spoken several
more pieces, Jones saw the illumina
ton. and his hard-baked face cracked
into various smiles. If they'll only
come by night he murmured.
you see, we carted the picture ma
chine around to amuse the audience
between the acts of The Dear Gazelle,
and almost all of the pictures were
war scenes. Fortunately it had es'
capped injury in the explosion, and
only needed to be dried out to be in
fighting trim.
"Rut the rest of us hadn't come
down to Central America to build up
republics. and we were in fair way
to mutiny. Hanscom had just killed
tarantula, and was now writing a
weepy letter to his old mother in
Utica, N. Y. Maize was sobbing that
she did not see any chance of freezing
her digits with Guatemala ice, and
the rest of the bunch were swearing
or sniveling, as the sex demanded
when Tiberius visited us.
Children said he, kindly. list
Why weep? We've arrived here. The
boat is busted. We can't leave till an
other comes. 1t seems two factions
are sparring for the strangle-hold or
this forsaken land. If we remain neu
tral, one side or the other, or both
will pick us up and sell us as slaves
to owners Of the dank mangrove
! swamps' Tib didn't know man
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23

81 beg your pardon" said a tall,
heavily built man, stopping in the
thEong at Forty-second street and
Broadway, and addressing smaller
irascible little man with side whiskers
whose shine he had just spoiled. 81
your pardon, did I step on your toes?'
If" snapped the little man, you
ask merely out of curiosity l can as
sure you that you did step ON my toes
If you only intended to express an
abstract form of apology l have but
to say not at ALL ,"
"Humph!" said the offending per
son to a companion, must a been a
college professor"
He was not. He was, however, a
well-known painter, who was far from
realizing that his retort had been
heard by two good friends.-NeW
York Post.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23
Old Partisan Pigeon Raiser Dead.

A centenarian Parisienne who has
just died lived for the last half cen
tury in the Faubourg st. Honore. She
amused herself by raising pigeons
which all travellers have seen on the
Place de Vendome and the ministry of
marine Her name was Nine. Lottin.
When a child she was watching the
review of troops behind the Tuileries
when she got 80 far ahead of the line
of spectators that as Napoleon came
along he grabbed her to keep her from
being run over and seated her on the
saddle before him on his dapple gray
horse. This story Of late years she
has been fond of relating.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23
THEY KNEW 1T ALL

ing TO, solve the problem of life.
HE looks like young man who
had a great deal of family care on his
shoulders. remarked one OF the
women.
Yes. he's a man that don't get
much fun out of life. sighed the other
woman, sympathetically; Its no
trouble 10 see that, poor fellow"
Well said the FIRST one, who
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23
Bio Price for Key.

Seventeen pounds is long price tc
pay for key. but this sum has been
given by a member of the Rothschild
family for what may be said to be the
most valuable key in the world. 1t is
marked with the arms Of the Strozzi
family and is believed to be the work
of the great Italian artist Benvenuto
Cellini, who f1ourished in the six
teenth century The key is chiseled
out of a block of steel presenting two
grotesque female figures and orna
mented with various scrolls
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23
HYMNS OF 200 TONGUES.
Origin Of Many Sacred Songs Told BY
an English Authority.

There are no less than 100000
Christian hymns, according to DR..
Julian, the celebrated English au-
thority on sacred music, and they
have been written in 200 or more Ian
guages and dialects, says the Philadel-
phia Press.
Most popular among these, he says,
are: Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me; +"
"Hark, the Herald Angels Sing;
Awake, My Soul, and with the Sun,
and when l Survey the Wondrous
Cross"
Some interesting stories are con-
nected with the origin of a number OF
the famous hymns. For instance, it is
told that the English prelate, Bishop
Bickersteth, wrote Peace, Perfect
Peace" at the deathbed of a relative,
Archdeacon Hill of Liverpool. and that
the latter read the verses and compli'
mented them before he passed away.
Just AS | Am" said DR.. Julian, was
written by an invalid, Charlotte Ell,
liott, while she was lying almost help
less upon a sofa. All her relatives
had gone to an entertainment and as
she suffered alone in her home she
sighed that she might be taken away
just as she was and the verses Of the
hymn which thousands now sing
sprang into her mind.
John Byron, the author of Chris
tians, Awake" write that beautiful
hymn as a Christmas offering for his
daughter. He inscribed upon the
manuscript, Christmas Day for
Dolly"
Rock of Ages" it is said, was writ
ten by Augustus Toplady while he lay
sheltered from storm under two gi
gantic limestone rocks, but there is nc
proof upon which this can be based.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23

me II we all didn't after he'd given
the tropics. the Croesus Dons of the
Hlue Pacific and the like 1t was the
Slons that caught Maize Adams and the
other girls.
We'll, we sailed in November from
Frisco. bound for San Jose de Qua
temala From there we were TO take
diligences to the capital Our troupe
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23

-prides herself upon her analytical
mind, his wife's away. Maybe that's
why he looks so forlorn and blue"
And how do you know his wife's
away?" asked the other one, sitting
up and looking at her companion while
still watching the object of their dts
cussion out Of the tail of her eye.
Why" says the Sherlock Holmes
woman. hadn't you noticed his
socks? You wouldn't see a family
man. rs we'll dressed rs he is, wear
ing socks with stripes running both
up and down and across and in orange
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23

ment from the foe, as they halted
Then the cracking in the bushes be.
gan to recede, and Banana Jones
chuckled, They've vamoosed! Best
pictures ever saw
You can safely gamble that the in
surrectionists down on the beach
looked upon us as real warriors when
the sun rose and brought no invaders.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23

and pink, if his wife we're in town.
would you?"
Just then the conductor stopped to
chat with the feverish besocked man.
THAT was a little queen | saw you
with on the car last night" he says,
with a grin. You always manage to
have a goodlooker with you. chr
And the sad,eyed man grinned back
as happily as anybody.
He wasn't married. and hadn't a
care in the world lie had JUST been
thinking about his girl.--Clevelsnd
Plain Dealer.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23
Fresh from Vaudeville.

The Foolish One-What's the DIFF
ference between man who admits
that he wants to get rich quick and
the man who says he has no such de-
sire?
The Wise One-I have never consid.
cred the matter. What is the diff
ference? aaf
The Foolish one-The other fellow
is liar.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23
UseIessness.

"You never change your mind about
anything, do you?"
whats the use," rejoined the
egotist. 81 found years ago that was
iust as liable to be wrong the second
time as / was the first"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23
Women's Sherlock Holmes Theories oi
a Woe-Begone Young Man.

Two women sat in car sizing up
the garments on the women seated
across from them incidentally, their
gaze fell upon one sad.eyed. woe-be'
gone looking young man lie was gaz'
ang dismally Off into space as II try.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23

Many Firemen Required on Liners.
One hundred and fifty firemen are
required on some of the Atlantic
liners.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23

This woman says that sick
women should not fail TO Try
lydia e. Pinkham'S VegetaOIo
COMPOUND as she did.
Mrs. A. Gregory, of 1855 Lawrence
ST., Denver, Col, writes to MIS-
Pinkham:
81 was practically an invalid for six
wears, on account of female troubles
/ underwent an operation by the
doctors advice, but in few months
was worse than before. A friend ad-
yised Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and it restored me to perfect
health, such as have not enjoyed IN
many years. Any woman suffering as
/ did with backache, bearing-down
pains, and periodic pains, should not fan
to use lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound"
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands OF
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
tion, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
zion, dizziness or nervous prostratlon.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands TO
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-23
LISNER WILL GIVE
WING TO HOSPITAL
Merchant Makes Liberal
Promise to George Wash
ington Staff.

A. Lisner. one OF the guests CO honor
at the annual banquet of the George
Washington University Hospital staff,
last night announced mis- intention OF
donating TO the hospital another wing on
the south side. MI LisneF said he had
long appreciated the necessity of d
spacious emergency room, an operating
room, ard better lodging facilities. and
70 provide for these he will contribute
the necessary funds for the construc-
ton Of an addition 10 the hospital.
Mr.. Lisner said that plans soon will
be completed. His announcement was
greeted with loud cheers and express
sions Of gratitude.
The spacious banquet hall on the
ground floor Of the hospital was deco
rated with American flags and portraits
Of George Washington. Behind the
toastmaster's chair a number of flags
formed a huge rosette, and over them
huttered the bun and blue pennant OF
George Washington University.
Those present were DIS. Reynard,
Bynar, Becker, Behrend, Vaughan
Johnson. WellsOn, Barton. Thomas.
Kelly, Stone, Rogers, Ready Magee,
Lowe, Owens. Spriggs, and Messrs.
Weller. Dufour, Kicking, Adams. Ma
ger, Lorenz Johnson. Gwynn, Adams,
Hasbrouck. Lehr and Ewetnam. The
invited guests were the Rev. Father
Buell.. Father Hart. A. IAsner, Gal
laCher, and MacNamee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-23
BegS Policeman
To Lock Him Up;
Feared Murder

I'm down here where the murderers
rove. I want to be locked up. Not
murdered"
With this statement Julius Bowling. a
clerk. sixty-two years old, living on NJ
street. near Fourth street northwest. ac-
-costed Policeman Frye, Of the Fourth
precinct, last night near the scene of
the Kirby II Urder on K street and ask
ed that he be taken n charge.
Frye escorted Bowling to the station
and consulted Lieutenant HollinberEer.
Bowling, who appeared somewhat the
worse for wear and tear. said he had
fifty or sixty dollars in his pocket, and
wished 10 keep it.
Two men came up to me down the
street a few minutes ago and tried TO
tel me funny story" said Downing.
with a wink. They didn't want to see
me laugh. They wanted to frisk me Of
my roll. I was Jerry to the game and
kept on walking until met this police
man. One man has already been muir
dered for his money down here and I
don't want 10 go that way"
Bowling was searched. He had $3.50 ia
his pockets, bills being found in his
coat, trousers, and overcoat. He was
locked up on a charge Of drunkenness.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-23

Hurd Child Inherited Wealth
After w. F. Bakers Sen
SatiOnal Death.

NEW YORK. Feb. z2.-NataHe Hurd.
four years old. helress 10 one-third OF
the estate OF Walter F. Baker, is dead
81 the home OF her parents IN Bogota.
\. J.. Of diphtheria- The little girl ig-
ured I'm the investigation into the death
u Baker at the Hurd home following
dinner with friends in q Broadway
restaurant.
Baker, whose VIII left his brother
only $4,000. became I'll in Browns Chop
House after having dined at another
place. and was hurried to Bogota,
where he died shortly afterward. An
autopsy was performed 10 discover
whether or not he had been poisoned
When his viii was read. IL was found
he had left one-thiTd OF his estate TO
the little girl, and coo TO Mrs. Hurd
The girls illness took a sudden turn
for the worse following exposure after
a fire had been discovered In her sleep
ing room on February l.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-23
HIDSHIP MANS MIND
FAILS FROM STRAIN
Captain of Ball Team Brought
to Government Hospital
for Insane.

Midshipman benjamin Russell LON
bard, OF Hill House. Miss. is confined
at the Government Hospital for the
Insane in this city. suffering from
mental disorder.
Lombard was taken to the hospltal
from Annapolis, Friday night, and
since that time has been under obser-
walton by the hospital physicians. AS
vet no diagnosis Of The case has been
made. When Lombard arrived at the
asylum he was in a highly nervous
state, but under treatment of the ex-
perts he has become more quiet
Lombard was one Of the most promi-
nent athletes at the Naval Academy
he was captain OF the Academy base
nail team last season. but was unable
TO play, owing TO mental derangement
from which he suffered. His condition
IS believed to have been caused BY his
close application to studies and to
athletics.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-23
GIRLS PANIC
FOLLOWS BIG FIRE

NEW YORK, Feb. PA fire which
caused 80. 600 damage in the very heart
OF the downtown business district. the
region OF skyscrapers. created a panic
tonight among the $50 girl operators in
the COrtlandt teIephons exchange. Only
the quick action OF monitors who locked
the doors and by hard work GAINED the
frightened girls prevented = stampede
to the street from the upper stories of
the high building in which scores prob
ably would have been injured.
The fire broke out IN the second floor
Of the five-story building at 10 Cort-
landt street, in the rooms occupied by
s. B. Rose. importer Of oil paintings
and picture frames. 1t had gained good
Roadway before the fremen- arrived.
The telephone exchange is almost next
door to the Rose store AS the smoke
came IN the windows and the noise of
the gathering Are apparatus reached the
girls there was a rush for exits. PTac-
tically all the operatives deserted their
posts.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-23

been held up oy the revOlutionists to
the popular gaze as ti,s patron Of re-
dictionary organization and a malevoielt
influence upon Emperor Nicholas.
Police Find Stronghold.
The police have discovered on Basil
Island. the headquarters OF the north
eTn organization. The first search.
made by the regular police. was fruit
less. The second was made by the
gendaTmcs. and revealed secret
chamber. in which were found, in ad-
dition 10 "A quantity OF revoivers and
cartridges. TWO powerful bombs of the
finest workmanship and a great guam
THY ot a new explosive OF enormous
force.
The tenant Of the building where this
find was made, who was arrested on
the street with a bomb in his pOckeJ,
has Deen Identified as an accompiice
in the murders If Liel,t. Gen. Pavlof
Maj. Gen. Won der LauniJz, and Gen.
MaXinohslIy. -Four dodgers in the
building, two laen and wo women, also
were arrested and are now confined in
a fortress. The two women arrested
yesterday in Finland are shut up in
the same fortress.
II Is reported that the wife and sister
in-law % a millionaire merchant named
Meshkof. whose house was among
those searched by the police, are be
ing held as members OF the OrganiZa-
ton. NJ. Mcshkoff Is the owner Of fifty
steamers plying or the Eolga.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-23
BIGGER NAVY PLAN
GIVEN HEAVY JOLT
Ministers Protest That 65
Per Cent of People
Oppose 1t.

NEW YORK, Feb. 22-President
Roosevelt's plans for a larger navy are
doomed TO face the opposition Of others
beside Congressman who have cut down
his estimates for additional warships.
New York cIergymen have taken up
the fight against greatly increasing the
navy as unnecessary and needlessly eX-
travagant
A protest signed by 80 ministers and
bishops has been forwarded 10 Sena-
tors and Representatives at Washing
ton. yoicing the objections OF the clergy
men
There is no new danger now threat
eHing the country, the document de-
clares. which was not known last April
when President Roosevelt announced
the navy was not beng enlarged, but
its strength merely being kept up.
1t is as1erted % per cent of the ma
ticual income Is now exT ende,l on war,
past and present. and that an increase
in tho naval budget OF the United States
is certain n TeraTd reductions for arma-
ment by other nations.
The siguers Of the protest express the
belief that they are voicing the sentt-
ments of thousands Of Americana in Op-
posing thu demanu for IN additional
500 OU0,v0 {, the naval budget.
Among the signers are:
bishop Henry G. Potter, Bishop David
II. Greer, Dr. Charles II. Parkhurst the
Rev. Newell DIV ght HIlIs. the Rev.
Stephen :. Wise, the Rev. Thomas z.
SHcer, Toe Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall.
the Rev. S. Parhers TaIkner, and the
REV. Ballington Booth, OF the Volun-
tcers Of America
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-23
.DESTERITY OF DRIVER
AYERTS AN ACCIDENT

Garfield Orley, colored driver en-
pioyed by Hall & Bussey. gFocers. at
212 FOur-and-a-half street southwest.
narrowly averted what might have been
n serious accident for some Of the pas
senEers OF trolley car at Four-and-a-
half and c streets last night
Onley. who was driving a heavily
loaded wagon, attempted to cross the
car tracks at c street. not knowing that
car WAS coming behind His sudden
act in turning his team took the motor
man OF the car unawares. Hi:t by dex-
terously handling his horses. a serious
accident was avoided. Women pas
sengeTS screamed. and some of the male
passengers attempted TO jump of of
the car. The motorman, who threw on
the brakes, stopped the car. but not
until the shaft Of the wagon had been
broken.
None Of the passengers were hurt.