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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-12-02
DAILY SHORT STORY

the citizeness laughed approvingly.
AS for me, j brought in more wine
and waited for my revenge.
Il had not long to wait. The
people grew tired of their masters.
The estate was burned. The old
baroness died; the lawyers found
the estate was impoverished. And
anyways, whe nthe count asked the
little baroness to marry him she
! refused, until she could bring him
a dowry such as was fitting.
when the king fell they sought
safety in flight. 1t was to me they
turned for aid. They had praised
my fidelity in staying with them
alone when all the rest had fled.
They trusted me implicitly. 1t was
| who delivered them to the citi-
zens' committee at Versailles.
But after they were cast into
prison could not rest until had
seen them again. wanted to
taunt them, to remind them of that
kick. l secured the post of turn
key. Every night l had to write
off the names of so prisoners for
the breakfast of Madame Guillo-
tine next morning. And ever | kept
their names at the bottom of the
list, to gloat over their misfor-
tunes.
You think they came to me to
help them? All, gentlemen, those
cursed aristocrats seemed to be
possessed of devils. It was An
tome, you pig just as Of old. And
afterward it was Citizen Antoine
in mockery. Cursed aristocrats!
They know how to laugh so it
hurts worse than a blow.
Never have seen such devilish
courage. had thought that they
would cringe before me, but we
might have been back in the castle
before the revolution, gentlemen.
And they laughed at me-when
they were not laughing one with
the other.
$50 at last / grew tired. Mon
sieur the Count de Perigord and
Mademoiselle the Baroness de la
Foucauld.' said one evening, 4
shall have much pleasure in con-
Quoting you to the guillotine to-
morrow morning at O.
"YOu know my duties, gentle
men, were to escort the prisoners
to the prison gates and turn them
over to the captain of the. guard.
There was no centinel. Why should
there be? None could escape save
through the gates, and l had the
keys.
81 awoke them at and told
them to prepare. Then I conducted
them into my office In order to
show them the warrant for their
execution. No they could not have
overpowered me; we could hear
my conferes at breakfast in the
adjacent room
Suddenly the count fixed his
eyes on mine. very fiercely, just as
he used to do, so that | felt con-
Fused. Pig of a butler he whis-
pered. give me those keys In
stinctively my hannd went to my
waist; thought for the moment
they were the keys Of the wine
cellar. Quick. pig he cried. And
then--he kicked me.
And before l had recovered my
self they had passed through the
door and locked 1t on the outside.
Gentlemen, was foaming with
fury. All! If l could have laid
hands on him. But he knew better
than to face Antoine Bonchapeau
whom he was anraped ~
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fan should match the gown as far
as practicable. The variety in the
shops is endless.
Dark blue wool serge is recon.
mended for suits for little boys.
The fabric washes well.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-12-02
THE NEW VERSES.

/ love thy inland seas,
Thy capes and giant trees,
Thy rolling plain;
Thy canyons wild and deep,
Thy rocky mountains steep,
Thy prairies' boundless sweep,
Thy glorious main.
Thy domes, thy silvery strands
Thy golden gate that stands
Afront the west;
Thy sweet and crystal air,
Thy sunlight everywhere,
o, land beyond compare
l love thee best.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-12-02

A swallow, returning from a
winter in the Bahamas. and ever
strong for the compapionship of
man. built herself nestsky under
the caves of snake charmers
bungalow at Hackensack, and
there In fancied security hatched
seven young swallow-lets As soon
as they were IN the pinfeather
stage, d serpent came along and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-12-02

absorbed the whole litter. The
swallow, finding herself touched
for her progeny, set up holler
and exclaimed: "Wow. things are
surely breaking badly for me when
a place supposed to be- unhealthy
for reilptes is used by them for
their dining room"
Umbrellas have been stolen
from police headquarters
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-12-02
"AMERICA" FOR A 1908 AMERICA

: DR.. Henry Van Dyke of Prince
kon university has written two
more stanzas to the national hymn
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-12-02

SAmerica." They are to follow the
Immortal stanzas written in 1882
by DR.. Samuel Francis Smith.
When my Country. 'Tis of Thee"
WAS written the United States as a
bountry didnt amount to much be-
D0nd the Mississippi. and DIR. Van
Dyke. In his verses, which appear
above. extends tho limits to the
Soideu gate.
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A WORD FROM JOSH WISE.

9TH tie s o
friendship ar e
fastened with a
v cry loo S e
knot"
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"Sweedling" is coined word in
vogue in England. 1t means swind-
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1908-03-19
HELD on SERIOUS CHARGE.
Two Keyscr Men Arrested BY the Pos
tai Authorities.

The postal authorities have arrest
ed George Harmon and William Cha
ser, Of Keyser, W. va, on the charge
Of sending threatening letters through
the mail. It is alleged that the men
pawned a monograph to T. H. Davis.
4 Keyser jeweler, but becoming dis
satisfied with the araount they receiv-
ed for it they began writing letters
demanding first SIS and later $500.
Not hearing from this appeal, It is
claimed they threatened his life un-
less the money was forthcoming They
have been taken to Kinkwood, w. Va.
for trial before the federal court
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fident there would have been dozens
of men ready to help me even out of
the country. They understood that
had only one course to pursue, and
that was to stick to the mother OF
my child. expeced bounding, and
instead, received nothing but kind
ness and offers.
Here in San Francisco we are liy-
ing. The financial depression hit us
hard and we were forced to tele-
graph for money. Certainly. do
not like to do so, but needs must
when the devil drives.
Such is my story. No worse or
better than thousand Of others. And
now all ask is to be allowed to live
my life not as Jere Knode Cooke,
unfrocked pastor Of st. Georges
church, but as Jerry Balcolm, paint
er and decorator, who draws
weeks wages for weeks work. and
who has learned to believe that
dinner of herbs with love is to be
preferred to the stalled OK in the
tent Of king.
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Saturday March Il, 'OS

at 1.30 p. M, that certain lot or parcel
of real estate, now occupied by the
said Chas. +. Hughes, situated and To-
Gated on the Northwest corner of
South Maple Avenue and West Steph-
en- Street, in the town of Martinshurg,
County of Berkeley, and State of West
Virginia, and being the same property
that was conveyed to the said Chas. F.
Hughes by Josiah d. Barnard and wife.
by deed bearing date the goth day Of
June, 1897, and duly recorded in the
County Court Clerks office.of Berkeley
County, West Virginia, in Deed Book
No. 81, Pages 440 and AL. to which
deed further reference is hereby made
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HE JOURNAL SALE REGISTER

The following is list Of the sales
thus far scheduled fof Berkeley ano
Jefferson counties:
March 19-Jacob Sites. near Tallin.
Waters.
March ID. M. Bender, three miles
north of Summit Point.
Marcr Pop. w. Ramsburg, admir-,
near Arden.
Marcr 2O.-----J- c. Carter, near
Harpers Ferry.
March 2l--John Sutton, near Mar
tinsburg.
March % John Rogers. near Ger
rardstown.
March 90 Charles e. wheeler, near
Shanghai.
March 24.---c. E. Ridgeway, near
Ridgeway
March 25.---H. T. Pitzer, near Arden.
March 2e.---R- H. Marshall & Son,
near Bunker Hill.
March 25-J. L. Broy, Winchester
avenue. this city.
March William Busey, near
Leetown.
March 27.---Louis Michaels. near
Arden
Marcr so.---August swartz, west o;
Leetown
March si.---P. N. Neal, near Bill
myers mill.
April REV. John U. Evers, near
vancIevesyille.
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PUBLIC SALE
OF VALUABLE
City Residence Property

BY virtue OF the authority vested in
the undersigned trustee by a Deed OF
Assignment, dated the 29th day Of
February, 1908, executed by Chas f..
Hughes and wife, to Il. Vernon Aler,
Trustee, which said instrument is of
record in the County Court
Clerks Office, of Berkeley
County, West Virginia, in Deed
Book No. 116, Page -, the said
trustee will offer for sale at Public
Auction, at the front door of the Court
House, in Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, West Virginia, on
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In the best Of condition 1t is COM
paratively new house, contains seven
good rooms and a fine cellar; also
electric lights and other modern inn
rrovements. The outbuildings con-
sist of smoke house hen house and
other buildings. Has cistern and n.y.
lrant water, and also a number Of fruit
trees on the premises. It is improved
by concrete pavements on both streets.
Size Of lot IS by IS feet This pro-
perfv Is within one block of the
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1908-03-19
LIFE STORY OF ELOP|NG MINISTER

the woman whom the law calls my
wife. There | made my first big
mistake. Physical reasons forbade
me marrying, and when, three days
after our wedding, she coldly inform
ed me that she had married me sim
ply as a stepping Stone n social suc-
cess and that she saw In me one who
was going to rise / recognized the
bitterness Of my lot.
Only ill-mated couples can under
stand my position as husband. The
laws OF church and land may make
marriages, but no law can make
beautiful such an existence. Life
with mockery Of love is hell
In those days, however, believed
in humanity and in the love of hui
mans for humanity. ! possessed the
high and lofty ideals of youth and
endeavored to find in my work what
my home could not offer. | worked
hard. studied mankind from every
conceivable standpoint. | studied
sin, recognizing that if was to be Of
any help to the sinner asking my aid
II must first understand his position.
The snug and prosaic churchgoers
whom ! once openly told that had
visited the Tenderloin in New York
turned up their eyes in holy horror.
My God To them such step was in
conceivable. They wanted to have
me like themselves, SNUG and prosiac
and respectable" all means re-
spectacle. was to be entirely igno-
rant Of the subject had to combat.
I was supposed to fight the flesh and
the devil without any knowledge of
either
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OF course it would have been easv
for me to have lived double life
and escaped trouble by forcing the
girl on the streets or into one Of tlle,
houses in New York city Such a
course the world would probably
have received with approval; but !;
differed from the ways of the world.
| wish it to be remembered that at
this time | was at the height Of my
success. The near future promised
FOR me all the acerdotal world had
to offer. Like other men, / could
have lived my dual existence and es-
capped detection, and eventually wan
dered down the road OF life with a
perfectly respectable skeleton in my
cupboard, taking all the world had to
offer. Instead, threw aside every
thing and took the girl
| do not boast or it as a sacrifice,
but state it as a fact, and ask how
many of my fellow sinners would
dave done the same under similar
circumstances? / threw aside ev-
erything name, fame, honors-aIl.
i knew exactly what the payment
would follow. knew | became a
criminal; knew it all; and ! did it..
Went First to Los Angeles.
We fed from Hampstead to Los
Angeles From the pulpit turned
to the paint brush of my early days.
In the west / was accepted at my
worth as a painter. No one asked
questions. No one troubled me. We
missed the little refinements OF the
old days, the books and pictures and
knick-knacks, but in their place we
were blessed with the company OF
men and women real men and wo-
men, who worked for a weekly wage
and treated man exactly as he treat
ed them.
From Los Angeles we went to
San Francisco, where / pursued my
trade under the name of Jerry Bal
colnl.' and then after months OF saw
ing succeeded in having a tiny fiat
of our own. The sight of our own
home gave me greater satisfaction
than would have degree of doctor
of divinity | was gradually living
down the past, hoping that my wife
would obtain a divorce so that
might marry Floretta Whaley and
thus free her from the fear of ar
rest as criminal, when we were dis
covered by representative Of San
Francisco paper.
West Versus East.
1t was at this stage | learned the
difference between the east and
the west. In the east | would have
been stoned and put in jail; in the
west people came to my aid to help
me out. Men and women whom ]
had never met offered me money
and one and all had the same say
ing You have to make the best
Of d bad deal The west was Will
Ing to give me d chance, and. should
The necessity have arisen, am con
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The Child Floretta WhaIey.

As rector Of St. Georges ] met
Floretta Whaley. She was mere
child then and grew up under nay
eyes. j always regarded her as
child until, one day, awoke to the
fact that she was a woman and tina.
I loved her. AT this stage | might
say that, though sixteen years Of age
Floretta Whaley was one Of the type
that natures early. Her orphan life
and surrounding had made her ~
markably precocious even as a child
and at eighteen she was IN her wo-
the criticism heaped on me in regard
to clipping with one SO Young.
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The Church's Weakness.

Since coming out OF the sacerdo-
tai world and viewing life from the
standpoint OF one Of the masses /
think | have begun to understand
why it is that the church finds itself
falling behind; why, in Christian
land, the overwhelming majority OF
its inhabitants do not attend a
church from one years end to an
other and in their innermost hearts
scorn the men who are supposed tc
be the pastors and leaders
& The physician is allowed to study
all the horrors of diseases; the law
yer must understand the baseness OF
the human mind; the man Of bust
ness must be acquainted with the
trickery OF dishonest rival; but the
minister must be ignorant OF sinners
and their ways. He must LEAD
his flock from the snares Of sin and
yet know less about sin than dc
those in his spiritual care. Should
he dare investigate, should he ex-
anime mankind for himself, he is
damned on the spot. Lies and ru-
mors assails him at every turn. and
the net result is that while some
ministers OF the gospel know nothing
Of sin others know far too much.
From Baltimore was appointed
rector Of st. Georges church in
Hampstead, L. /. The positicp was a
good one and one that highly pleas-
ed my wife. She had there an OPP
portunity to further her social aims,
and it was pleasing to me also, mas
much as it was in accord with my
personal ambition to succeed In a
measure I did. reorganized the
church; bishops dined at my house !;
| spoke on the same platform as the
president Of the United States, and
! was promised the degree Of doctor
of divinity. Such things are allur-
ing even to a minister, and the mar
who says he is not captivated by
them in either a lofty soul or COM
mon liar.
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Jere Knode Cooke, formerly of
Hagerstown, the unfrocked pastor of
st. George church, at Hampstead,
l.. J., wrote the following story Of
his life, with his Justification Of his
|reations with the girl who eloped
a l.x
with him:
To write the story OF my shame
and wrong doing, to lay bare all the
secrets which, though Of sin, are as
sacred, and, sometimes believe
more than those of holiness and vir-
tue; to tear aside the curtain of ST.
lence which has shielded the love OF
Floretta WhaIey and myself for one
happy pear, is to me utterly abhor-
rent Unwilling is the pen; difficult
is the undertaking. The mentality
which for year has been forced to
run contrary to all the laws of God
and man, and which has fought back
every minute, every second, against
the rules laid down by 10000 years
Of convention, has become SO moulded
that even now, as if by force Of habit,
81. still struggles against the inevitable
In bitterness and passion | seek
the solution of the eternal and unan-
swerable query Why? Why should
she give up her happiness? The
primal laws of love and life gave US
to each other. Are life and happinss
nothing more than one long sac
-rifice? | think not. It is only
the weakling who tactily surrenders
and by sacrifice obtains a mild joy
and calmness which he indolently
accepts as happiness The man Of
flesh and blood and heart takes for
himelf and fights back; and If what
he takes is worth the combat he will
fight the whole world. ,
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THE DAILY MARKET REPORT
BUYING PRICES.

The buying prices quoted today by
local grain dealers for cereals are as
follows:
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and offers fine opportunity for eth
Ell modern home, or to those desir-
ing speculation Under the terms Of
the deed the Trustee is authorized to
sell privately if the same can be done
judiciously. Reasonable offers will be
considered.
Terms Of Sale
All Of the purchase money to be paid
in cash on the day OF sale.
F. VERNON ALER, Trustee.
hereby certify that F. Vernon
Aler, trustee in the above matter, has
executed bond as required by law.
HAROLD H. BENDER,
Clerk Of the County Court Of Berkeley
County, w. Va. 5-8t.
Dodd & Hoffman. Auctioneers.
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Damned, But Happy.


| attempt no justification of MY
act, | walked TO mine own damna
ton with my eyes open. The church
has damned me, the world has damn
ed me, and damned | stand on the
isolaed peak OF my love-happy
When | stopped to the mire Of the
pit rose to the glory OF the heights.
am not weak enough to attempt to
justify myself in the eyes of the
world, knowing the impossibility Of
such procedure. The world has
set out its path, which it declares
must be trodden. and those who step
from it as fiagrantly and openly as
have done can never hope to regain
the place in the line That is lost
The ranks closed in and the world
moved on.
The question, however, is whether
happiness lies in the beaten trail
which the millions follow or in the
forbidden land on either side Each
must answer the question for him,
self have answered mine by my
act. On my deathbed shall discov-
er who is right and who is wrong
the millions or myself. There Is
no question in my mind as write
now and glance at Floretta Whaley
sitting by me, softly singing the song
of motherhood to our child at her
breast. Time might, as time has
done, make many differences. OF the
future no man can speak.
skinner to Sinners
In telling the story Of my life
write as sinner in sin to sinners.
Those who are in position to cast
the first stone will find M attitude
Illogical, but my knowleds, Of the
world has convinced NJ that by the
majority will re understood.
MY parents died when was Very
young. but young as was remem
Der distinctly my mother making ne
promise TO enter the ministry. As J
grew older the calling appealed to
me more and more, and | decided to
enter the church. ! was adopted Dy
a man named Cooke, whom I look
ed upon as an uncle, and attended
the public chools. When was six
teen years OF age was apprenticed
to a painter and decorator, and
there learned the trade which am
now following. The little J earned
saved and eventually had enough
to allow me to enter Yale. Life was
an uphill struggle then. ! had to
work my way through college, and
on graduating was appointed curate
~ -
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Grain Market.

Grain Market.
Wheat, 94@ss
Corn. $685.
Oats, per bu., Is
Hay, baled, per ton, SIS
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Produce Market.
Local merchants today quote the
prices they are paying for country
produce as follows:
fard naw n, q
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-01-30
Merico,. Potntn King.

Out on the Chihuahua and Pacific
railroad Is the greatest potato growing
region yet developed In Mexico says
the Mexican Herald. A large market
Is rapidly being opened up the pota-
toes, which are fine I'm quality and of
large size. resembling the famous Gree
ley product, having reputation
throughout northern Mexico. Already
during the present season one Mexican
farmer alone has shipped two carloads
to Monterey.
The leading potato farmer of the
State, in fact, OF the republic, is ole
Coayem. Chinaman of modern pro-
gressive ideas, from whose farm. 1900
feet above sea level, at Pedernales,
right on the continental divide, some
seventy carloads OF potatoes will be
shipped this season. Joe came from
China some years ago bent upon maxi
ing his way up In the world He has
mastered both English and Spanish
and subscrlbes for and
reads the papers in both languages.
Five years ago he bought two acres at
Pedernales "for song" and on time.
lie paid for them out of his first years
crop and his holdings now comprise
several thousand acres.