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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08
A Test for Coal Gas.

Do you suspect your hot-air furnace
Of leaking coal gas into the heat flues
and into the house? A simple and eff
fective way of testing for this trouble
is to throw upon the furnace fire a
large wad of cotton which has been
saturated with oil Of peppermint and
thickly sprinkled with sulphur to
make it burn quickly. Close the fur
mace door tightly and have some one
who has not smelled the prepared cot
ton wad try to detect the odor in the
rooms above. If it is found you will
need new drum for your furnace
without delay.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08
WHILE ENTERTAINING A DUKE.
A Few Suggestions Made by Writer
in Lippincott's.

Many people are unnecessarily en-
barrassed while a duke is visiting
them. This is a great mistake. OF
course a duke is duke; but, then.
there is no reason why he shouldn't
be treated with a certain amount Of
respect
To do this it is not necessary to re-
spect him too much. Treat him with
as much respect as you think he will
stand. but do not lavish it upon him.
If he leaves his boots in front Of his
door at night, do not feel that 1t is
incumbent upon you to get up at six
o'clock to shine them. Wait until
seven, anyway. He will never know
the difference.
Let him be alone with your daugh'
ter as much as he likes. If he resents
this, tell him he can get even later.
This might under some circumstances
seem too candid; but 1t is better to
meet him in a frank and open-heartet
manner.
At night, before the duke goes to
bed, sneak into his room and turn on
all the steam. Being an Englishman,
he may not understand this sudden
warmth ON your part, but you can ex-
plain to him the next morning when
he fans himself down to the breakfast
table, that it's only foretaste OF
what he may expect later. Not being
able to see joke, he will probably
think that you mean to pay all his ex'
penses to Palm Beach, which will re-
store him to his good humor.
When you have duke on hand, do
not talk too much about your ances'
tors. or rub 1t in about your family
1t might make him feel uncomfortable
No duke likes to feel that he Is marry
ing above him.
Naturally you will provide him
while he is with you, with the neecssi
ties of life. 1t is extremely embarras
sing when you invite some of your in
innate friends in to see your duke tC
have him sit on the end Of your daven
port couch with fringe on his trousers
and false bosom to his shirt. FeeC
him, therefore, on good nourishint
food, and make him as respectable a.
any duke can ever be made.-Lippin
colts Magazine.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08

was missing, and Gen. Lorenzo Thom-
as told me he had gone to Port Glib
son. l was to remain where was un-
til he came back. Gen. Thomas was
pale and looked worried Every little
while we would hear Ghe firing of can
non.
Some troops were ueing formed on
the bank to march away to battle, and
rabbit ran along the line between
them and the river. l asked Gen.
Thomas to let me go ashore and catch
the rabbit The rabbit mad disap-
peared, of course; but l got on land.
| Disobeying orders, l started for Port
Gibson, some II miles distant. HaV-
ing no horse, walked
In the afternoon met a battery that
was getting ready to go into action.
stopped for awhile, but artillery tiEe
didn't interest me very much. Sever.
al regiments of infantry were fighting
In the low ground below, however, and
l went to them.
| Presently the climax OF tue battle
occurred | saw our troops rush for
ward and l knew the enemy had given
way. Night came on, and l walked
among our men in the moonlight.
followed four soldiers who We're car
rying a dead man in blanket.
Soon | was at little schooihouse
that had been turned into hospital.
Surgeons were tossing amputated
arms and legs out of the windows.
The yard of the schoolhouse was filled
with wounded and groaning men, who
were waiting for the surgeons.
picked my way among them to the
side Of the road and sat on tho
roots of tree. l was hungry, thirsty
and worn out, and, worse than all, I
didn't know whether my father were
living or dead.
No boy was ever more utterly
wretched. l had seen my first battle.
Then an orderly, who had been carry
ing messages for my father, rode up.
He took off his saddle, gave it to me
for a pillow, and covered me with his
saddle-cloth In a short time he re-
turned and took me to my father,
whom l found sitting on a camp-stool
back of the schoolhouse, drinking a
tin cup of hot coffee l expected to
get sharp reproof for my disobedi-
enCe
"How did you get here?" he asked.
81 walked"
He looked at me for a moment, and
then said: Il guess you will do"
And there was no anger in his face.
, Maybe l was mistaken, but l half be-
lieved he was not sorry that left the
gunboat.
The next day l was given IAN enor-
nous horse grown white with age as
my father says in his memoirs, and
( rode back to the gunboat. Charles A,
Dana, then an officer of the war de-
, partment and afterward editor of the
New York Sun, riding a raw-boned
I mate of my horse, went along with me
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08

the French officers she implored him
to deny the accusation. The secret
might have been buried with him but
for a subsequent discovery that his
wife had repudiated the orthodox re.
ligion and had become a Roman Cath
olic. He became embittered and mo-
rose under the shock, cut her off in
his will and left sealed package con.
tanning the truth about the Moscow
fire only to be opened and made public
a century after the date Of his mar
riage. This duty has fallen to Count,
ess Lydie Rostcachine to carry out.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08
The Archhishon and the Bulls.

At the time Archbishop Ryan was
selected for the position which he now
occupies with so much distinction
there was some difficulty concerning
the official announcement of his ap-
pointment. Three or four weeks
elapsed, and still the papal bull had
not reached him. One of his friends,
who was deeply concerned in the doc
ument, said to him with much solici-
tude:
your grace, what do you suppose
has become Of your bulls?"
II don't know" was the smiling re-
ioinder, unless they are grazing on
the Alps. ."-Lippincott's.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08

original charge against hi mand says
his denial was due to influence exert
ed over him by his beautiful wife.
Just before the city was taken he
had sent her to distant province for
safety and on the evacuation by the
French he had implored her to come
back "to husband who worships you
and who respects you beyond all 9TH
ers." At the time the count was At
and the countess 35. In his letters to
her he had frankly admitted that he
had given orders to fire the city.
When he was accused of the deed by
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08

A Chinaman who had been robbed
by a woman on the Bowery was try
ing to describe her at the police sta.
ton.
Cant you remember how she was
dressed?" asked the lieutenant at the
desk. What sort of hat did she
wear?"
For moment John seemed puzzled.
Then his face frightened.
"He dead-she glad" he confidently
announced.
And now the police are looking for
a woman with Merry Widow hat
Everybody's Magazine.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08
WHO BURNED MOSCOW CITY2

Rostopchine was said to have been the
incendiary. In 1898, however, he pub
lished pamphlet, "The Truth Con-
cerning the Great Fire of Moscow" in
which the blame was laid at the door
of French soldiers made mad with vod-
ka. Now, however, the granddaughter
of the governor-general, Countess
Lydie Rostopchine, in biography OF
her grandfather, substantiates the
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08
Too Many Tips.

so you're looking for work again."
"Yessah." replied Mr.. Erastus Pink
ley.
Il thought you had job with a
tailor"
"Yessah. | thought l was gwinter
make my fortune out o dat job. De
tailor would stan a customer up an
take tape measure an begin to call
out numbers"
"Of coruse."
Il followed i'm as long as l could
But. deed, boss, my salary warn't big
enough to play all dem policy gigs!
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08
GEN. GRANT AND HIS SON.
Boy Who Is Now General in Army
Tells Of Early War Experience.

en-. FREDERICK
DENT GRANT.
eldest son Of the
great civil war
commander, re
Gently described
to a reporter or
the Philadelphia
Record his own
first battle" He
had left Memphis.
where his myther
and the chiparen
were to join his
father.
l lef. her, and
found father on a
gunboat in the
Mississippi river.
We slept on deck.
One morning he
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08

In the meantime the dies were cast
by the engraving bureau. This en-
craving required the greatest care
for a single deviation in lines upon
the copper plates meant that the
bill would be thrown out and the
entire plate would necessarily have
to be made over again. Dozens OF
experts were put to work upon the
plates. The dies made, the work
of testing and finally printing was
entered into. II was perhaps a
month after the measure was passed
before the presses were set in mo-
tion in the printing Offices turning
out notes of great and small de-
nominations.
An army of clerks was rendered
necessary to keep tab on the plates,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08
Confession CT the Incendiary as Sequel
to a Story Of Love and Hate.

Historians of Napoleon's invasion of
Russia have for more than a century
been trying to discover whose hand 1t
was which applied the torch to Mos
COW or gave the order for the confia-
grafton which precipitated the French
cmperor's retreat, says the Washington
Pest. At the time Count Theodore
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08
ONE MANS MYTHICAL REASON.
After Several Hours He Remembered
His Dinner Engagement.

Dinner had been ready and waiting
20 minutes. The wife of the tardy
guest was very much embarrassed
Just to think that her husband was
so rude as to be late at a dinner en-
gagement and keep all the guests
waiting! After a while the belated
one arrived, redfaced and perspiring
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08

The plaster cast of the heroic figure
of William Harry Harrison has just
been completed by John H. Mahoney.
an indianapolis sculptor, and has been
shipped to Vermont, where 1t will be
copied in granite by Mcdonnell &
Sons. The final figure will be eight
feet tall and is to be placed at the
base of the Tippecanoe monument
shaft on the Tippecanoe battle
grounds. Both the shaft and the
statue will be of Barre Vermont gran
lite. 1t is the plan to dedicate the
monument November Z, which will be
the ninety.seventh anniversary of tia
battle.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08
Takinu No Risk.

Worldly Aunt-See here, Edith!
That young man to whom you've en-
yaga1 yourself is his future as
sur sd?
E,. h--cb, yes, auntie! He was
81. u child.-Judge.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08

There are in London a number Of
great houses doing worldwide busi-
ness in orchids alone. Most of the
plants c1me from Brazil. In the botan-
ical gardens of Rio de Janeiro there
are ever 5000 varieties OF orchids.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08

paper and invoice the notes to the treasury
department AS fast as the bills were turned
out by the department of printing Superintend-
ent Ralph, who is in charge of the entire bureau,
personally inspected samples and ordered them
turned over to the treasury officials They were
then stored in the vaults in the treasury Offices
and are now ready to be turned out to
/0) banks enrolled in the emergency cur
h rency associations.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08
4 IN a RIM O7T 4 R4zNR.
VN0WK7LK, Hk5RORED VIII
IW BE- AN0DED oS

tor, and their aides in
the role of the opposing
minority. Everyone ia
miliar with parliamen-
tary rules of congress
knows that speeches are
limited in the house, but
in the senate a man may
hold the floor for
months, providing he
has something to talk
about.
Senator La Toilette,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08


a memorable speech because of its
length. Then Senator Gore took his
place and spoke for quite while longer.
All this was done to Keep Senator Aldrich and
his friends from putting passage the compro-
mise measure. 1t was regarded a certainty
that the bill would pass and so the oppositon's
idea in the beginning to keep on talking until
midnight March g. 1909, in shifts of eight hours
each.
Whether it was by prearrangement or by acci
dent few will ever know, but the fact remains
that when one of the filibuster aides neglected
his cue, an Aldrich supporter jumped into the
breach, secured the floor and made the motion to
put the bill on passage. 1t passed and ended one
of the most spectacular fibusters which legisla-
tive circles of the country have ever recorded.
For that reason the United States now has $780,
900 900 in emergency currency ready to put out
at an instants notice to stem the tide which
panic would bring upon the country.
Then came the work of engraving bills of every
denomination in the Offices of the bureau of en-
craving and printing. First the rough paper was
received 1t was cut up into strips upon machines
which cut many thousands of notes at one time
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08

financial panics in the bud. Great
progress was made by the treasury
officials in getting the monster bun
dies of notes into shape to be issued
at a moments notice.
Hardly had the bill which created
this emergency currency passed the
gauntlet held up by congress when
treasury officials were at work to put
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08

: FICIAL currency
stretchers of the Uni
ted States government
have ready s5OO,OOO,OOO
in emergency notes,
created by the Aldrich-
Vreeland law, which
can be put out at an
instant's notice to nip
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08

the man who takes but little rest from
his labors, spoke for 1S hours. 1t was
a memorable speech because of its
length. Then Senator Gore took his
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08
UNCLE SAM $5OO,OOO,OOO
= WEATHER T
By ELLIOTT D. YOUNG
Treasury Officials Coin Great Amount of Emergency Ctrrencr

Cash Must Be Ready
for Distribution, Under
Aldricb Vreelond Act,
By the Time Congress-
Meets HosO the 6Uork
Of Getting Money in
Shape Is Accomplished.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-19
INCREASE IN CASH
NEW YORK BANKS HAVE PLENTY
 OF MONEY.
The Weekly Statement of Clearing House shows That the Banks
 Have Twenty-twO Million
 Over Required ReRerYe.

over Required Reserve. New York. Jan. 1S-A tremendous How of cash from the banks through. out the country to the New York city banks was indicated today by the bank statement which showed an increase Of $26,1S5,S00 in the amount of cash held by, the New York clearing house institutions.
 This increase in cash is not thought to be record one but 1t is believed to approach within few millions of the largest increase ever recorded in single week in this city. Financers declare that it showed clearly that the interior banks were entirely assured by the showing of the banks last week when for the first time since October surplus of reserve was esta blIshe ed in place of the deficit which had long existed. Tn consequence the interior banks were sending their surplus and cash to New York where 1t found em- ployment not only in the stock market but in financing at least one large bond issue by the New York Central and Hudson River railroad.
 The return of this amount of cash of the interior was regarded by bank CTS in New York as the end of the pre- vious disposition to withhold cash in the interior and as showing that there will hereafter be no shortage of funds Tor all legitimate purposes An In- crease in the surplus reserve this week of si655i425 brings the surplus up to $22, 2,635,475, shows that the position of the banks is greatly strengthened over last week, notwithstanding the renew ed activity in the stock market and the increased loans Incident thereto. The statement of clearing house banks for the week shows that the banks hold s2e.s35,f76 more than the requirements of the 25 per cent. re- serve rule This is an increase of $1e,- 5b1.425 in the proportionate cash re- serve as compared with last week. The | statement follows:
 Loans, sl.136,s77,7Oo; increase. s. 52s,100
 Circulation. s7OsiO,4OO; decrease. sl.-
 Legal tenders. sss.I55.4 400; increase
 Specie. sa2s.OsT,sO 200; increase. sss,'
 Reserve. ssss.1sa,sOO; increase. sss.-
 Reserve required. $s72,54Z12S; in crease, e9,634.375. -
 Surplus, s22,ss5,475; increase Sls' 551425. crease. $16,265,02b.
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until Sunday evening when it will be perfected in connection with the union service to be held at Baptist Church with Rev. Mir. Smith, Superintendent Of the Louisiana Anti-saloon League.
 Charles A. Frank of Albany. Ga. is in the city.
 Mrs. Tom Wade has returned from a visit to China Grove.
 J. o. Stakeley of Atlanta spent sew eral days here this week,
 Miss M. E. Ramsey has returned from a visit to Mrs. c. B. Keller at Eufaula.
 MT. and Mrs. A. J. Stokes and their grandchildren were out driving a few days since when the horse stumbled. became entangled in the harness and pulled Mir. Stokes over the dashboard, hurting his shoulder. One of the chill dren had a front tooth loosened and its upper lip cut.
 Mrs. F. H. Sessions is visiting her son, L.. F. Sessions, in Ozark.
 Mrs. P. L. Cowan has been critically sick the entire week and MT. Cowan has suffered much with an abscess on the ball of one of his eyes.
 Mrs Keeble and children. who have been visiting Judge and Mrs. Frazer,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-19
THE STOCK MARKET

New Tork. Jan. la--Ths stock market Ssx Sssnssd on q sfrens bank statement S ts- n accordance with the rule made last fall rnis ,n sxpsctatioa vas Che principal sustain in sf American smeltinE which was heavily sold while prices wers heavily advancing. Reading was the feature of strength. stec- sd by the announcement of the agreement of the dspartment Of justice to refrain from enforcing penalties asaiast the coal goes Into force on May l, pending a judi cial decision on the constituficnality of the law. This law forbids railroads to own and sompiianes with 1t by May I. threaten ed eerious embarrassments to the coal roads which own coal mines.
 The United States Steel stocks also were strong with notable sympsthetic effeot on sentiment on account of the differences drawn of improving conditions in thes trade. eal'tiis aeencies weekly reviews and hopeful ausuries drawn from this Development for the revival of commercial activity were
 Rsaiizing was ip progress side by side with the new buyipg notably in Northern Pacific and the galns were not fully held
 The gain of upwards of sas,ooo.ooo in cash holdings reported by the banks is 2 revelation of the extent to which boarded funds are rushing back into banking de- posits. The ioaning power of the New York banks is thus expanded. upwards of sI0o. 900. 900. The weeks sliskt loan expan- sion. under the circumstances. seems mod- crate.
 The strong rise in foreign exchanges which continued today with intimauon of possible gold exports, is not likely to Arouse misgivings in the face of this showing This cash gain compares fayorably with the amount of decrease in the week ending Nov. last in the stress of the panic, when cash holdings the clearing house banks ce- creased s30,eoi.s0e. The gaia in surplus reserves of S16ss5i.f3S just falls short of an actual record, which was made in the week ending May 2s, 1904 with gain of SIS. 6sGe5e,
 Bonds were steady, Total sales par value 323e2,000. U. S. 2s, registered declined h. the coupons M; and the ss h per cent. on call during the weak.
 CE.osKNG STOCK HIST.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-19
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left today for their home in N..bv,,,.
Case Under Advi.em.,.s ,.,,,,,.

axtanS leer listening to the testimonv ans Marlr nu11 arguments in the ssss anu ns iastin. 5rainard ys. Judy SIcGehee Sayre toos S .S all day. Judge A. D' slon; The case has twenty scras 2. involved. 'A sne county it appears that Judy McGehee is pov, nylns on the place and Mir. Brainard wishes an eJectment. Late in the af- .srh1on tsH D tne ease of F. M. GIlmer vs. the Tristate Milling Company. of Nash. vile, was called ana is now m trisI
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-19
MnDICOs ELECT OFFICERS.
Bullock County Society Holds N
 Meeting.


 Meeting.
 Union Springs. Jan. ls.-(SpeeiaL )- Che Bullock County Medical Soclesy met here and discussed many import ant subjects.
 OficeTs for the ensuing year are as follows. Dr. F. P. Hixon, President; pr E. II Hayes, Vice-President; pr c. H Franklin, on Board of Health, and Dr. c. M. Franklin, County Health Officer.
 The usual monthly meeting of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was held Wednesday afternoon with the President. Mrs. w. A. Reynolds at which time 1t was decided to invite the JudSon College Glee Club here for performance next Friday evening.
 Miss Vera Jernigan is critically III at the home of her parents. and but little hope Is entertained for her recovery.
 The organization of the Law and or- der League thaE was to hava taken place Thur sday evening, was on ac- count of incIement weather. postponed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-19
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