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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
NO SYMPATHY FOR PRoDleAL.
New York Man Tells How He Would
Have Treated Him,

81 went to hear DR.. Hills sermon on
the PrOdigal Son last Sunday night"
said an enthusiastic Brooklyn man to
4 practical New Yorker, "and tell you
he made a brand new point on the
parable Of the Prodigal Son"
What was that?" asked the New
York man.
1T was about this matter of helping
along a man who had made a mistake.
His idea was that after a man had re-
formed it wasn't fair to bark back to
the time when he was all wrong. DR..
Hills said it was wrong to mock by
referring to a mans past. For ex-
ample, he put it in this way: Finally,
the night of the feasting on the fatted
calf was past. and the next morning
had come-the morning after There
is always the morning after. Tie
affairs of the farm work must be taken
up again. The same routine must go
on. The time had now come for the
elder brother, who was the boss, to
set the younger brother to work; he
must assign the prodigal son to his
duties as he would have them to do In
the future. So, he could say to him:
Go feed the horses or, Go tend the
sheep or, Go milk the cows, but not
word must he say about the swine.
The prodigaI had been tending swine
The elder brother must not mention
the swine; not a word about the
swine. Anything but that"
q don't know about that" said the
practical New Yorker. There are two
ways of looking at it. l think if had
been the elder brother, should have
said: Now, look here! You drew your
patrimony like hog; you went OF by
yourself and blew it like hog, you
have come home on the hog; now it's
up to you TO go out and mind the
hogs"
And the Brooklynite laughed in spite
of himself.-The Sunday Magazine
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
Durability of Glass.

1t does not seem odd to find inscrip-
tions written ages ago still visible on
the Tower of London, or on the steeple
of some cathedral, but one would hard
ly look on fragile panel of glass in a
common window for characters 200
years old.
A notable case in point is that of
the old house in London wherein the
notorious Jack Sheppard once lived
as carpenters apprentice. One OF
the window panes still bears an in
scription cut in it by glazer's dia.
mond, recording the name and address
of a man who preceded Jacks master
in that house.
The inscription is: John Woolley
Brand, Painter and Glazier, March IL,
1906"
That was nine years before the
coming to the house of the famous
Jack Sheppard, and over 200 years
ago.-Sunday Magazine.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
Home of rokav Cranes.

THE greatest grape producing re-
gion in the world is the title claimed
by San Joaquin county, California. The
average yield in France is 2.7 tons to
the acre. The average for California
is two tons an acre, while that for
San Joaquin county is four tons an
acre.
Lodi is the center of this district,
shipping last year grapes to the value
of million and a half dollars. AS
only two-thirds of the Lodi vineyards
are now in bearing it is declared that
their yield will soon reach six tons
an acre, almost three times that of
any other region in the world.
The Flame Tokay is the great Lodi
grape. In September last year the
town held a Tokay carnival, lasting
three days, the whole town being
decorated with vines and grapes and
the streets lined with booths where
every step of the history of the grape,
from making a cutting of a vine 20
loading and icing cars, was illustrated
by the actual work.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
A Jefferson Davis Speech.

On August 2, 1870, party of young
men engaged a band and serenaded
Jefferson Davis. After the band had
played Dixie" and MY Maryland" -"
MI Davis spoke these words:
"My friends, l thank you for this
cordial greeting. Thrown like wave
on a restive ocean, it is something 20
receive this good old Virginia well
come. AS long as my heart continues
to beat it must be still responsive to
the warm and cordial feeling of Vir-
ginians, which / have experienced in
some of the contingencies of my life.
This manifestation of your good feel
ing towards me comes from your gen.
erosity, and not from any merit of my
own. May God in his infinite mercy
preserve you from every i'll, and may
your prosperity and happiness be as
wide as your borders-may your
homes be peaceful, is the earnest
prayer of one who has no more to
say to you on this occasion. Eugene
l.. Didier in Spare Moments.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
lest of the GYroscone.

A practical test of the use of the
gyroscope for steadying vessels at sea
was made recently in England on the
Seebar formerly first-class German
torpedo boat, with displacement of
56.2 tons. The apparatus installed
consists of heavy fly-wheel rotating
about an axis, and carried by a frame
which can oscillate about horizontal
axis, the oscillating motion of the
frame being checked by brakes. The
wheel is 40 inches in diameter, weighs
1,106 pounds, makes 1000 revolutions
per minute, and is steam driven. The
periphery is provided with blades and
works like a turbine, the wheel being
inclosed like casing. In the tests
with the gyroscope out of action the
roll was ID degrees. while the boat
was kept steady with the machine
acting.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12

Winfield is sore perplcxed. The
question which is now agitating the
minds of the people there is whether
Frank Mendenhalls bulldog committed
suicide or died in a foolish effort to
keep friends from harm. The pup was
with a gang of men who were setting
off dynamite charges, When they lit
the fuses for the first charge they nat
uraily ran to place of safety. The
dog went with them part of the way,
but turned back and began to fight the
burning fuses He chased them up
until they got right to the charge and
then--well. the rest of this tale is TOO
sorroWfu to relate. There was not
enough Of his dogship left to permit of
BURIAL Kansas City Journal.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12

Wiz faces of fury and hearts full Of
hate
They would curse the dear pigs, I'm
ashamed to relate.
They invoked all the planets and far
as they knew,
The fixed stars and comets, the sun
and moon, too.
Next the wraiths that inhabit the
winds and the floods,
Then they danced holy jigs in the
scantiest of duds.
But the pigs took no notice, but ate all
the more,
And the Druids saw Fate was now
hard by the door.
Then they prayed to the giants that
ravaged the isle
When ten foot of spine was the height
of the style.
There was one who from Mona Oft
waded to Wales,
And one who in coughiu produced the
wild gales.
Another in sport tried to bridge the
'lbdd
The Causeway in Ulster bears witness
to-day.
Then the one who at Powerscourt
drank up the fall,
An the one who complained Devils
Bowl" was too small.
The priests cursed the pigs loud and
long but no matter,
On the snakes and their eggs they
grew fatter and fatter
Oh. those were great times when the
factions forgot
What side they were of, and what side
they were not.
The thousand would follow all jeerin'
the while
The Druids who could them no longer
beguile
When rivers they'd reach as the Bann
or the Boync,
Baptized. they the ranks of believers
would join.
II was Patrick alanna, me turn at We
plaise
Wild guyin an Gospel the land was
ablazc.
Such dippin' an plungin baptizin'
cOnfcssiu
Such prayin' an prcachin'. such prim.
pin an dreSsinH
1t was good for their souls aud their
bodies by token
The record for bathing his saiutship
had broken,
And thousands who'd never been lath
erred or rubbed
Had their skins an their sowls now
most thorouShly scrubbed.
For the saint told them plainly for ecr
they We're shriven,
That nothing onCIanely was welklm
IN heaven
So the pigs ate the snakes aud rooted
up eggs
From the round hill of H0wth down
to RaIIy.kil negs.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
Preserved in Oil.

The Illustrated London News recent
ly reproduced a photograph of num-
mifed rhiuocoros-- presumably the
woolly Siberian species--discovered
in the oil strata OF Austrian Poland.
The skin of the head, OF one fore
limb, and of considerable portion of
the body is preserved. and appears to
be in wonderfully good condition. The
preservation of the soft parts is due,
of course. to the oil in the stratum,
which has probably converted much
of the tissues into kind of adipocere.
Although horns Of the aurochs have
been discovered in peat, says a writ
er in knowledge. this is the first in
stance that has come under my mo-
tice Of the preservation Of the skin
of an extinct animal in oil.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12

N-ho can forget the great seats of
learning which adorned Ireland before
the period of her strife? These drew
men from far and wide to drink from
Che fountains of her knowledge, to sit
in tho light of her leaders Of Thought
ami 60 receive from her lessons Of sci
'ence. as men came from AL parts Of
Egypt to receive the full ear of corn
from Joseph. Are not the names Of
Sheridan Oliver Goldsmith and Tom
Moore an ornament to the worlds Iit,
eTature? And who can read the
speeches of Curran, Grattan and She'll
and fail TO recognize true eloquenco.
or those of Edmund Burke and Daniel
O'ConneIi and not realize what IRE
land might have been under favorable
conditions.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
He Won't Always Be One.

Il have a clerk" New York whole
sale merchant remarked the other day,
and he sometimes manages to hand
back a rather good one, though as a
rule he is little short Of stupid, ap
parently AS a matter of fact, l sup
pose he is one Of those dreamy sort of
chaps; and you never can tell about
that kind.
Il was sorry after said it" he con-
tinued; but recently he had made
a most unnecessary blunder, and
lost my temper
81 say, Jones, I sneered. you'd
make a pretty good clerk, maybe, if
you had little more sense!
He looked at me a minute with a
sort of half smile. Didn't it ever oc-
cur to you. Mr.. Brown he said, that
if | had little more sense l wouldn't
be clerk at all? Sunday Mag
aZine.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
IDEA FOR TABLE DECORATION.
Floral Harmony Adds Greatly to the
General Effect.

When one is using a special flower
for the decoration of the table at a for
NAL luncheon or dinner it is artistic to
have the same flowers used as a gar
nish for as many of the dishes as pos
sible.
Thus, if one has daisies and ferns III
the center of the table, have the lamp
shades of green paper, cut in narrow
frond-like pieces to represent ferns.
Serve the oysters in their shells
with a wreath of ferns around the out.
side and lemon nesting in a bed OF
daisies in the center.
Twine the stems of sherbet glasses
in maidenhair, if il can be done just
before sending to the table, otherwise
it will be too wilted.
If you have grape fruit served in
glasses have them standing in a
wreath of daisies, with ferns on the
stems. Or, if the half fruit is served,
let the edge of the plate be wreathed
with a mixed wreath of ferns and
daisies.
The ices should be nodded in the
form of daisies, if you care to go to
the expense, and should have touch
of pistache in them to represent thH
green.
If you do not use nodded ices, then
they will look well served in boxes IL
the form OF paper daisies or covered
with real ferns.
The place cards can be a painted
bunch of the flowers, cut out so they
can be slipped on the top of the COB
let.
The candy and small cakes shousd
be green and white, and if the dime,
is elaborate enough to give souvenirs
you might have the floral centerpieces
arranged in separate lunches Of
daisies and ferns that can be given to
each guest in the drawing room be-
fore she leaves.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
nefendInu portsmouth Harhor

The construction of the new defense
breallwater at Portsmouth, England,
has been commenced. This is a unique
undertaking in order to prevent hos.
tile vessels rushing the naval harbor
under cover of darkness. A row OF
huge concrete blocks is to be dropped
across the shallow sandbanks. These
blocks weigh "a tons each, and placed
end to end will make formidable
wall which no destroyer can jump
There is a fort at either end, one on
shore and one in the sea, and, the only
way of getting through the break
water will he through gap, which
can be quickly closed in case of need
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
Something New, After All.

well, by gosh" said Uncle Cyrus,
they can say all they want to about
there bein' nothin' new under the sun,
but there is, and what's more the
world is CROWN better"
What has led you to this cheerful
conclusion?" asked his nephew from
the city.
Il seen an advertisement in our
farm weekly rot long ago, where it
said to send dollar and find cut what
to do for cold feet"
"Yes?"
Il sent the dollar and got an an
swer this mornin'. 1t didn't say to
warm EN-"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
DESIGNED FOR SLIM FIGURES.
New Modes Something of Despair
for the Stout Woman.

There will certainly be ample en-
ployment for folk who doctor figures
if the present tendencies of fashion
persist. Hips are hopelessly out OF
fashion
The fat woman is in very bad
case indeed, from the point of view
of the fashion autocrat She simply
cannot look we'll in the latest frocks.
Reduce, mesdames; reduce.
If your skirts must cling they give
an impression of supple slenderness.
The new skirt or the new close prin-
cess looks distressingly Objectionable
upon the woman of tightly laced
waist and big hips-is but carica.
ture OF itself
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12

Paris Pattern No. 252, All Seams
Allowed. There has never been
more becoming style for the growing
girl than the one-piecc box-plaited
model, and this is so simple in con-
struction that it will be welcomed with
delight by the home dressmaker. De-
veloped in dark-red English delaine
with the square neck, flowing sleeves
and lower edge of the skirt trimmed
with black velvet ribbon, it is pretty
enough for any occasion. The gulmpe
is of white batiSte trimmed with mar
row insertion of Valenciennes lace.
The pattern is in four sizes-six to
twelve years. For a girl of eight
wears the dress requires 3A yards OF
material 81 inches wide. 2k yards 81
inches wide, or 2N yards AZ inches
wide, as illustrated. One and one
eighth yard Of velvet ribbon 1hs
inches wide for belt, and Az yards OF
ribbon one inch wide to trim;
the guimpe needs 2% yards IS inches
wide, or 11s yard rs inches wide, with
50. yards Of insertion and IA yard OF
edging to trim.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents to
/ Pattern Editor" office of this paper.
| Write name and address plainly and be
sure to give size and number of PATTERN
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
A Ttuht Collar.

There is nothing which gives
greater discomfort than a tight collar
and one frequently finds a new linen
one tritle small after it is laundered.
Small white rings can be sewed on the
back and ribbon run through them and
tied, making a neat finish, or ribbons
can be sewed on the ends of the col
lar and tied. Four eyelets worked in
the ends of the collar and threaded
with ribbon will make neat finish.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
Gladly Received the Word

From the entry OF st. Patrick. bear
ing the message of peace and good.
will, lrcland's record assumes more
precise form The efforts of the apos.
tie of Ireland were attended with a
success at once pleasing and astound.
ing. And the docility with which the
peopl" submitted to the word
preached by him is an evidence OF
theig high regard for natural virtue.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
comparison for Misfortune.

Never repine at misfortune. or envy
the happiness Of another. since 1t is
impossible for any man TO form Il
right Judgment of his neighbor's suf-
ferings; for which reason determine
never TO think too lightly OF another's
complaints, but regard the sorrows OF
ones felluw.creatures with sentiments
Of humanity and compassion.-Addt
son
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
An Achievement.

"And you dare to criticise the finan-
cial ability of the government" ex-
claimed the energetic citizen.
I'm not criticising. But l fail to
see any extraordinary brilliancy"
THAT shows how unappreciative
some people can be. What other gov.
ernment has turned out $40 gold
pieces, whose value went up to $50
inside Of a month";"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
Severely Practical.

"Oh, promise me that some day you
and I will take our love together to
that sky" sang one of the boarders
in our boarding house, sentimentally,
Sunday evening in the parlor.
You'll have to buy an airshir, Mr..
Pipes, won't you?" asked little Tom
mia Smith N all seriousness.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
His WAY of PUTTING Il.

A boy came home from Sunday
school one morning and said: MAN
ma, Persian is going to talk this
evening in his Clothes"
why, of course, DEAR" mamma re.
piled, with smile.
But l mean in his own clothes, -
declared the child. "The minister
said SO"
1t was the little fellows way of in.
terpreting the expression lin his ma
tive costume"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
Veil Hints.

Throw your wells away in time, if
they are cheap ones.
Don't wear them after they have got
so streaked with dust that they spoil
the complexion.
If they are of the costly kind, dip
them in an odorless cleaning fluid.
Shake out vigorously and put to
dry on the bed or ironing board,
stretching and pinning down the cor
ners to countepane or covering.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
Prudence.

why do you always announce your
intention of going to Europe at least
six months in advance?"
Because" answered Mr.. Dustin
Stax, Il am largely interested in
finance, and have to avoid anything
that might in the least suggest the ap-
pearance Of haste"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
Couldn't Be snobbish

Mrs. De Style-Tve been sending
Mary to a fashionable academy, but
she doesn't seem to get on very well.
Uncle Jerry-No? She's a pretty
bright girl.
Mrs. De Style-Oh! she's bright and
very sensible, but
Uncle Jerry-Ah, l guess that's it.
She's too sensible to be affected by 1t.
Catholic Standard and Times.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
This attractive afternoon gown is

This attractive afternoon gown is
made of Copenhagen blue chiffon voile
and the skirt tucked over the hips and
across front has an overskirt effect
near bottom. The kimono bodice
crosses in surplice fashion, each side,
as we'll as sleeves, finished with
wide band of self-tone satin, bordering
which are cream lace motifs, run with
gold thread. An embroidered net
matching the motifs in color fills in
the V neck and blue dotted chiffon
frills serve as finish to the short
sleeves.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
That's Aisy. Says Patrick, This Dear
Little Plant"

the Downs,
And Slieh,na.rson grandly Killarney's
lake crowns.
There was routin an prcachin an
laughter an prayer.
No wonder for Satan to leave must
prepare.
For barrin the Saxon and whisky III
say
Saint Patrick has rid us of evil to-day.
SO now you all know how the snakes
met their doom.
And the class will its studies in Gaelic
resume.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
For Crepe De Chine.

A very fine lace, as Mechlin, makes
a pretty trimming for crepe de chine,
and medallions of almost any kind OF
fine lace applied are equally desirable.
Self-folds, tucks, wide and narrow
ruchings and cuttings are often ap.
proDriate trimmings.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12

Collars are fitted close and very
high at sides and back. To make the
severe height universally becoming
the collar is made Of lace or net and
finished at the top by baud or edge
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
Settled That Alienation.

4 Nevada judge, being told b. an
attorney that he was no gentleman,
proved the contrary by battering the
attorneys face with the statutes in
such cases made and provided.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12
her Hope.

Every woman hopes that when her
hair gets gray everybody viii be re-
minded by 1t that she has such .
paunE looking face. . Is s..
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12

the advanced spring models which will be much e
with the
the back The illustrated deveoped and
ribbon The
aover lace lining of silk The yoke umpe Of gray k
waist If desired the dress be made all of one material with the gm
particularly pattern
chal mchai aah silks
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12

Twas the days Of the hedge-school;
Mullarky was then
At the side of the ditch the most
dreaded OF men.
Sure the flight of the Bird or the
speed of the hare
To watch for a moment there's no one
would dare.
An when circles and squares on the
dirt ne would trace,
Twas amazin' the larnin' that showed
in his face.
While the thoughts that rcvolved in
his towsy ould head
Were deep and tremendous, himself
often said.
Religion. Of coorse, was a thame he
well knew.
Not your ncw-iaugled notions. but stuff
that was true.
Wild that he taught love for the sacred
ould sod,
thus helpln his kind, an so plasin' his
God.
Now the seventeenth OF March, reCk-
oned then by old style,
The jewel of days in the darling ould
isle,
Was approachin' an so the good mas
Their once more
Gave a taste to the bycs av his lagends
an lore.
Patrick banished the snakes and the
sinners, you know.
70 a place where l hope there will
none of us go.
That's the lagend accepted but have
II right
\ tale that bates that out o mind, out
O sight.
~ Tara he preached to the king and
the chiefs
His DeCalougues, Catalogues, Psalms
and beliefs.
Once the king says to Patrick The
Druids all say
That you're settiu' the minds of me
Firbolgs astray.
How can one be in three, and be one
all the time?-
Come. iaddy-buck, answer in prose or
III rhyme"
>Thars aisy," says Patrick, this dear
little plant,
IPraiEe God! twill be famous the
oceans beyan0-
Has a stalk all in ouc, but divides into
three;
Yet the shamrock is one, three in one,
don't you sec?"
'Bedadt" says the king, that bangs
8anagher sure.
Now, byps Ito the Druidsl ye now
have the nurc."
But the sorra word could those
"'argymin find;
So from then his respect for the
Druids declined
Now Patrick, me bycs. you need
scarcely be touId.
Was funny an tricky. though holy an
bpUld.
whip hand
ItcthoHGht him Of blessings he'd show.
HI on the land.
To rhe king then says he. For the
favOrS you've shown
III put e'er a back and now legs to
your throne.
81,
yOu see
The preachers don't speak such plain
irish as WEI
In youth a spalpeen Taught me hertlin
1t swine
Tonr majcstys pardon, the fault was
not mine.
Vet ne here Introduce the bnncen an
vi SO bail.
Over tnc evils Of Erin the pig will pre-
van
Now the Druids held sarpins as sa,
cred. you SEE;
In england they larncd that, betuuc
you an me.
The would cast up i'll line sometimes
nearly mile
III aods all as one as a sarpints pro.
file.
When this had been done. SOrra one
burst complain
Though the land were his own and his
fathers domain.
II %as sacred. and then Tor the sake
Of his sowl
He must part wild it, harrin a sigh or
a growl
Then the snakes represented were
holy likewise
An bit at their Will all the collcens
an bycs.
Well, the pigs went to rootin'. hedal
il was fun
To watch the ould Druids when their
ruin begun.
~s~~~~-~~~-~~~-~~-~---
The Great Men of Erin.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-03-12

It. is perhaps tco much to expect a
anan with cold feet to extend the warm
hand Of fellowship.