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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-03-29

you'll see taim in the morning if
your cyesight is good. He won't
move. Was he friend?'
Yes, new acquaintance, but dan
ger made Ys friends"
well, Mr.
"Nerrall," | said
well, Mr. Verrall, he's just corpse
now and not Il good specimen of a
corpse either. You will understand
why tomorrow"
We went through narrow cutting
in the solid rock, the torches casting
weird and fantastic shadows about us,
and presently came to natural cav
ern, high pitched and of considerable
size. \ fire was burning in the cen
ter, the smoke, after thickening the
atmosphere. finding its way out
through cleft in the roof and an
iron pot was on the fire, strong,
meaty smell coming from it, which,
being hungry, did not find unpleas,
ant.
The ground of the cave was of loose
soil, and my companions threw them
selves down round the fire. Organ
motiOned me TO do the same. 1t was
the most primitive meal l had ever
assisted at. but have rarely enjoyed
one so much.
They We're a wild looking crew. not
excepting Captain O'Ryan. They were
powerful men. big limbed. with shaggy
dark hair and mustaches. not i'll loo;;-
ing and rather picturesque than other
wise. They woe somewhat tight meth
er garments and il rough. easy fitting
leather shirt reaching nearly TO the
knees. but cat ~ Mt the thighs to give
perfect freedom to the legs. Over this
they wore Il coat of mail. compromise
between plate and hcil armor. and
long boots of stiT lille. into the heels
of which was fixed spike about half
an inch long. \ low steel helmet fit
ting close on to the head completed
their attire. For arms each man car
ried long servlceable looking sword,
which hung from broad belt fastened
loosely round the waist. Except that
his armor was brighter and that he
had short feather at the side of his
helmet, Captain Organ did not differ
from his comrades.
During the meal was considerably
surprised TO find that | could under
stand my companions conversation.
Organ when speaking to me spoke in
English. or, rather, Irish. with a
brogue, especially when he got excited
which | shall make no attempt to re-
produce in These pages. When talking
to his men he spoke In their language
which was the most curious conglom-
Grafton | have ever heard. 1t was APP
parently made up of several tongues,
with general groundwork of Norman,
French. English, German and Italian
We're represented, and, although there
We're words here and there which |
could attach no meaning to. being a
good linguist. could understand most
of what was said, and If at first was
not so easily understood soon man
aged TO talk pretty freely.
The meal ended. Organ kicked the
fire into n blaze.
"The history Of your strange coming
among US should be interesting" he
said.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-03-29

brought others upon the scene, and
half dozen torches danced fiercely
before my eyes. The sword was sti!l
pointed toward my breast, and con
cluded that in GOODNESS lay my only
chance.
Il am unarmed," l said.
I'VE don't cut courtesy so fine as
that In this Countrywide blow first
and the pardon begging afterward."
He laughed as he lowered his sword
'Who are you, and how the devil did
you get hereT
Just Slid" answered. "A few mo
Ioents ago was on the mountains
somewhere behind me-"
"And. by st. Patrick, you're Eng
fish. with n touch of Irish blood In
YOU for choice"
Pure English"
Faith. and I'm sorry for that. You
are plucky enough to be an Irishman."
l was too bewi'dered TO be surprised
at so strange meeting. My only
clear thought was that an Irishman
WIN ui"Nh SN"iu III COUNT!
known only I'm legend was probably a
very different person from an ordinary
lrlshman ON College Green. II would
be wise TO let him lead the converse
tiOn.
you're my prisoner" he said. "Will
you give me your word not TO attempt
TO escapeT'
certainly"
my name is Dennis Organ. Cap
tain Dennis O'Ryan." he said, motion
Ing me TO follow him.
"a few moments ago | had com
rade, Captain Organ. As we came
down from the mountains he lost con-
troll OF himself end was carried away
Wonder. should like to look for
him."
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-03-29

when we entered the new country. On
the way | chatted with Mustapha.
Frequently asked him about various
places Of which he had told me. I
questioned him about the legend and
of the strange men he had seen. He
showed me the fall which he had pre-
viously desc ribed. where he had hid
and where he had had adventures. We
came to rough places. sharp turns and
yawnlng declivities. Sometimes | had
to crawl. and often | grew dizzy and
sick. We reached what looked like
platform. Suddenly | heard Mustapha
shrek. He tried to retrace his steps
and failed. In trying To make my own
footing secure | fell forward. / be-
gan sliding downward To the left
there was straight. sharply defined
black line and nothing beyond it, and
there was the sound of rushing water.
/ succeeded in keeping myself from
being drawn to the left, but | accel-
Grated my speed. The way was hard
and smooth. and dashed down, going
faster than the rolling mass before me.
III WIS On lower lcNeI Inan L WAS,
and | got abreast of it as it came to
the straight black line. Then-good
God. it was horrible AS | passed it
upon my straight course the ball gave
n final bound and shot out over the
black line into space, no longer the
ball. but a man. arms and legs wide
spread.
"Mustapha!' | cried, and my cry
rang out and echoed away into the
silence of the night, but there was
no answer
a moment later / plunged into loose
snow and came to rest. Half stunned,
lay quite still for awhile, and then
picked myself up. wondering if there
were any help for Mustapha.
The sudden red glare of torch
Jared up and daZzled me. l saw the
aleam of it fash pointedly to my
breast along a steel blade, and then n
stentorian voice rang out:
'In the kings name. haiti
Halt! 1t never occurred to me to do
anything else. was dazed and hard
ly able to stand. The challenge had
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-03-29

BILE Compound. 1
was sick three
months and could
not walk. l suf-
fered all the time.
The doctors said l
could not get well
without an opera
ton, for / could
hardly stand the
pains in my sides,
especially my right
one, and down my
right leg. / began
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-03-29

green ciad ana WOODED. unnuIated 70
level countrv. which stretched away
for miles. Green pastures. arabic land,
clusters OF rough stone dwellings here
and there, n river gllntIng in the sun
light and woody hollows made as fair
n landscape as one could wish to see.
Cattle were feeding below us, and
saw some women moving about the
dwellings at the foot Of the hill.
"Your first real glimpse Of Drussen-
land said Organ.
as that how you call the countryT
81 didn't christen II, but that's the
name of IT,
at is very beautiful" said, 'and
doesn't look as IL IL were the seat Of
war"
Things have been rather quiet late
( ly, probably because there's storm
brewing. You sec those women? Wo-
men do most Of the work just now be-
cause all the men are under arms OH
one side or the other"
"And are unprotected women safe In
such times?''
well. won't go quite so far as to
say that but there is a rough sort Of
gallantry among us that compares fair
ly well with that of civilized nations
when war is the order of the day"
"The legend says the women are
beautiful"
"And. by st. Patrick. the legends
right so far! If ever get back to Ire
Ia Il shon
wish myself here again, though the
finest pair of eyes in the old country
were looking Mt me. The women are
all right and. luckily for most of us,
cling to the man who can hold his own
against other men,
us there no marriage?''
"Oh. yes, we get married after the
law of the country. but it's not very
binding here so I suppose most Of us
will pose as bachelors when we get
away, IL we ever do. There's no
breach Of promise and there's no di-
vorce, and If two men quarrel they
Just go to quiet spot and hack away
ut each other until the affair is set
lied. The one who comes back takes
possession of the lady or the money
or whatever they have been fighting
about"
primitive" | said. 81 Judge. cap
tain. that you are comfortably set
tled?''
Trust a son of the house of Michael
Organ of County Kerry for that. I've
had to fight about her twice, and each
time I've crawled home again. Pos
session is something-nine points Of
the law. as they say. but the tenth
point is always in favor of the man
who desires your property and han
ter than you do"
Swords! Have you no firearms in
this cOuntryT
There may be a stray revolver or
two brought in by some of the foreign
ers, but they're not much use without
ammunition, and that's not to be had
in Drussenland."
At a turn of the road | saw again
the snow clad peak which / had seen
so often yesterday. looking far grand
er now than it did from the noun
tains. 1t rose almost abruptly from
the low hills. | mentioned TO my COM
panion how had been struck with it
yesterday.
at is called Khrym, which means
the white knight, and it is supposed
to rule the destinies Of the Drussen-
landers," he said
"They worship it?''
Not exactly, but it is symbol Of
everything that is good and great. The
religion is as curious a jun ole as tha
language. l wonder how far our ad-
vance guard is ahead? l IL ought we
should have overtaken them by this
time"
Continued on page seven
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-03-29

This romance of the lost king
dom OF Drussenldnd is one of the
most fascinating tales that has
appeared since the days when
Rider Hoggard enthrdiIed the
public with "She" and King
Solomon's Mines. Read and
you will follow a gallant hero of
today into realm where dwell
strange people of the time of the
crusades, a realm ruled by a
beautiful princess, for whose love
fhe Knight of the Silver Star
battles with powerful enemies
and participates in stirring adj
ventures.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-03-29
CHAPTER ii.

MH TOLD him the simple truth.
XXI which must confess sounded
|6lfS6I very much like magnificent
~ lie. Organ looked surprised,
aud his companions whispered among
themselves when l had finished.
IN take my oath | d,dn't coma that
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-03-29
WOMAN
ESCAPES
OPERATION
WasCured byLydiaE. Pink.
hams Vegetable c Compound

Elwood, Ind.-"Your remedies have
cured me and l have only taken six
bottles of Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegeta-
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-03-29

Continued on page seven
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-03-29
CHAPTER |.

T"1HE sun dropped behind the
snow capped mountains to
lS-S-,=St the westward as at the sum-
kXSsSJ nit Of the road | came upon
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-19
Fireless Cooker Improved.

A decided disadvantage Of the fire.
less cooker Is that 1t is not entirely
hreless, for the heat of a stove or
gas Jet Is necessary in order to bring
the food to be cooked to the proper
temperature where the cooking pro.
cess continues after being placed In
the interior Of the cooker. A new form
Of the fireless cooker makes use Of
the electric current for the purpose OF
imparting this initial heat, and the
combination Is said to represent q
great convenience and economy.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-19

know why he wouldn't say 1t. but he
wouldn't say it.
That's rather wonderful to me.
You say he has read enough and
heard a sufficient number of educat-
ed people talk to know better. Yes,
but that above is only simple ex-
ample. These self-made newspaper
men write long, compound sentences
every day that have never been
written before, sentences that are
better than any current literature
produced prior to them. but these
sentences are dramatically perfect.
In spite of all said to the contrary,
the best writing in the world today
appears in the big daily newspapers,
composed under pressure. The Asso-
ciated Press dispatches. eloquent in
their simplicity. but saying exactly
what the author wants to say. are not
surpassed in present day English.
Newspapers coin words and the next
publications of the dictionaries con-
tain them. You would be surprised
to know how few of the Associated
Press correspondents are college-bred
men. | have never seen any figures
about it, but know that the major
ity is with the self-mades. the man
with the ears for language.
was with another one of these
wonderful fellows one day. He lives
in Pensacola and is a star man on
one of the local papers but the gram
mar school was where he said good
bye to tuition He asked a young
man who by the way, wasted lot OF
his fathers money while he was be-
ing chased from one college of the
country to another, where John So
and-SO was. 81 Jaw Bill and he al
the Concordia Club about five min
utes ago." said the man of consider
able college experience but little ed
ucetiOn. The self-made newspaper
man looked me aid winked while
a smile domped over his kisser. He
didn't know that the college man,
who wanted to speak correctly in the
presence of journalists, should have
said 81 saw Bill and him" because
him was the object of the verb saw,
but the self-made newspaper man
was sure that it was time to laugh
when a college man said II saw Bill
and he."
He never writes none WERE" In
stinctively he always writes none
was," which is correct, but he does
mt know that the reason for 1t Is that
none is a contraction Of no one, and
is therefore singular In number,
There Is but one point in this ar
ticle and hope ! have made that
clear, I wanted to show you, il posi-
Bile, the wonderfulness of self-made
newspaper men. wanted to set
them upon a higher pedestal before
you. OF course, they must have all
applied themselves we'll. worked
hard and read much, but | shall al
ways hold that they were all born
with an ear for language.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-19

the greatest writers in the country
never saw the inside of high school
and couldn't possibly tell you the
difference between noun and a
pronOun. Some of this nation
greatest editors, the most eloquent
writer's in the country, men of enOr-
nous yocabularies and powerful
phraseolOgy. do not know the deriva-
ton of single word they use,
couldn't tell to save their lives the
difference between number and per-
son and they don't know what a
clause is. still they set it on with
commas and never have one in the
wrong place in a sentence. That
thing worried me long time,
couldn't understand it, Maybe it
doesn't seem as wonderful to other
people as it does to me, but for quite
while couldn't understand 1t, and
it bothered me great deal But
| have finally come to the conclusion
that they simply have an ear for
language just like unframed musl-
clans have an ear for music. Inc
self-made newspaper men are lgnor-
ant of the rules of grammar; the
horn musicians cannot read notes. !
have decided that this is the secret
of the success of the self-made news
paper men; they have ears for the
language, were born writers of Eng
lish.
TO be clear | must illustrate by
example what mean. ! was closely
associated with one of these remark
able self-made writer freaks, II
you'll permit that label. He was
as interesting to me as a side show
He had been managing editor and
telegraph editor on some of the larg-
est daily papers in the south. lie was
think, the best letter writer ! ever
knew. He never made grammatical
error. And he did not know parti-
ciple from an adverb He hadn I
been to school but two or three years
when he was boy. looked up to
him like musicians admired Blind
Tom. used to watch his copy and
listen to his speech in an effort to
find some flaw. It was my ambition
to catch him" because every day
he lived on his errorless pedestal |
was becoming more and more con-
vinced that had wasted lot Of
time in college when he was out
reaping the real experience of news
paper life. He never crossed his
wires though The lOng-trained
' musicians used to try to catch Blind
,, Tom, too, but he never struck the
-vrony key. Often, in a hurry, am
not as careful of my speech as |
should be. One day in this friends
presence | said, well, tell you, old
man, between you and i" Like 4
flash he was at me. You mean be-
tween you and me, don't yOu?" he
said. YES" said, II should have
said between you and me- because
me is the object of the proposition
between and me is the objective form
of the prOnOun for the first person.
II don't know anything about that,
he replied, that's all Greek to me.
but I know would never say be-
tween you and L." 1t had grated on
his ears like the sound of discOrd
en- the ears of musician. He didn't
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-19

Peculiar subject for me TO choose,
isn't it? You thought was going to
start off by saying that ! was one.
Didn't you? No, am not one. That
headline is just there to fool you.
In fact, some people have been
kind enough to break the news to
me in a gentle way that ! am not any
kind of a newspaper man, but al
ways had too much ego to believe
that, although most of the people
who have discussed the matter with
me say I'm wrong. So don't like to
talk about it.
No, | am not self-made, friends,
neither did ever plough Most men
you read about were once barefoot
boys and did considerable ploughing
i'm their early days, but didn't. or
course | know that if Col. Mayes
doesn't throw this on the floor floor
IT'D and If it is printed all my chances
ii | ever had any, to ever become a
servant of the people" in a political
way will vanish spontaneously with
the publication of this article because
there's no use in man running TO:
Office unless he's plOughed some and
is "self-made." 1t means a few more
votes. too, If he was once Il barefoot
boy. went bare-fOOted some. like
every other Florida boy, because it
was cool and ! wanted to. Every boy
has a desire to go without his shoes
in the summer time because he does
mt care then how big it makes his
feet grow, but he always regrets 1t
afterwards. | went bare-fOOted for
the fun of it, but always had shoes
if wanted to put 'em on. That's
what is known by lOgicians as a hurt
full admission, but it's good for the
soul as we'll as the sole. ought to
be tomatoed for that last crack, but
am going to leave 1t.
I'm not self-made. went to col
lege until the money ran out. Then
had to scratch. and did SO. TO earn
little I worked some during vacations
but that was always against my will.
MY father carried enough life insur-
ance to send me to college, and al
though he died when l was seven
years old I was able to 60 through the
state university, but for reasons best
known to DR.. Andrew Sledd and me
am unable to prove that now. That
is a fine I'D for the life insurance
men. Send them all bill, Mr.. May
es.
But there are some self-made news
paper men, and some very wonderful
ones. In fact, I believed without hav-
ing any statistics on the subject, that
the majority of newspaper men are
self-made. have known intimately
some of these fellows and it is about
them that l am going to tell you.
It seems to me that of all the self
made men in the world there ought
to be less self-made newspaper men
than any other kind. 1t is easy en-
ough to see how boy can grow up
in any other kind Of business and
earn It, but 1t does seem that a man
who earns his living with his pen,
typewriter. one who receives his
eekly check for juggling with moth
r tongue, would have to have
studied the English language a little
while, anyhow. But know some of
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-07-03
. r@,~s< ~7g3fafE =
Daddy Bedtime.
\t0r11 How Smarty Jack y
IVY Got a Quarter
THc~

u - ACK" asked daddy one evening, "what makes you SO quiet1 You must
be thinking of something very important What is tr
Nothing much, daddy" replied Jack. ~
a "Wen, let's hear 1t anyhow" said daddy. land I'll give you this
nice new quarter"
thinking how t. get some money without working for it."
"Ha, ha," laughed Evelyn; that's the time he caught you, daddy!
"Wen, I've always said that I was a poor business man said daddy u
that's the worst rs cents worth 1 ever had. III get even by telling you a
story that won't interest Jack at all.
dThs is about a little girl named Alice, who had been invited t a party
and who didn't have a party dress to her name. Hr parents could no. anof moro
10 buy her one, and she had o trunkful Of grandmothers gowns IN the at1'
like you have 80 Ter chances Of going to the little gathering looked very slim
"But she as a plucky child. and she determined that she a Just going
to that party and then she started In to think. The first thing, II course w
the material tor her Dress How could she get that2
cat last she recalled that Mr. Jones, who kept the department store, was
awfuuy fond of nice things ITO eat, 30 she cooked a cake that a a dream Oh
Hpbtness and toothsomeness 1t took her a whole afternoon to make it, nc
when she finally put 1t in a box lined with pink tissue paper 1t looked LOT
like a picture than a cake.
E"And Their she trudged OF to Mr. Jones' house, timing herself to get there
lust as be ws finishing dinner.
"And it all worked out just exactly as she had planned, The cool at Mr
Jones, had been in a bad temper, and the merchants whole dinner had been
80 bad that he had Just sent word down to the kitchen to discharge pei: u
vhen he caught a Whit Of the cake that Alice ws carrying he forgot his bad
temper. and after he had eaten the first slice he said, Any little CIR. hat al
hoka az ana a oak 70 that deserves anything she wants out Of my store
$50 Alice told him what she wanted. and he told lei to come aown nss
thing in the morning to the store, and instead OF giving her Just a little whue
dress he gave her everything to go with it, from white slippers o a pretty
hat And I'm told that she was the pretuest girl at the party"
"Huh," said Jack; "u bet she can't make cookies hke Dtnah
but she was Just al clever q . you in getting something Tor nothing ON
mented Evelyn.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-07-03
W0MAN'S WORD
A Bird That La Eearad.

The elster (Plca candata) is a bird
that ~ respected and feared through
out south Germany. 1t belongs to the
raven tribe and Is about the size Of a
dove, with black and white feathers
and long, pointed tail. 1t builds its
nest In orchards, and It's life is sacred.
II 1t Is seen three times In succession
on the same housetop In a place re-
mote from Its home 1t is believed to be
a sure sign of death in that house. II
1t flies over a house where any n is
Ill and gives its peculiar cry the sick
person is sure to die, but II 1t does not
scream the patient may recover 1t is
better for the sick person If the bird
does not come near. No one could be
hired to bother these birds for fear
they might seek revenge, and II by
chance one Of them should die 1t Is a
sign Of bad luck to the owner Of the
property where 1t is found. The
bird is q valuable insect destroyer and
In tuis way probably more than com-
pensates for the reaI It occasions
among the farmers.