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Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03
A FINE NiGHT-CAP
The Best Thing in the World to Go to
Bed and Sleep On.

my wife and find that teaspoon.
fuls of GrapeNuts and cup of hot
milk, or some cream, with it, makes
the finest night-cap in the world" says
an Allegheny, Pa, man.
1--WE go to sleep as soon as we strike
the bed, and slumber like babies till
rising time in the morning.
1T is about years now since we be-
gan to use Grape-Nuts food, and we
always have it for breakfast and be-
fore retiring and sometimes for lunch
l was so sick from what the doctors
called acute indigestion and brain fas
before began to use Grape-Nuts that
could neither eat, sleep nor work with
any comfort.
Il was afflicted at the same time
with the most intense pains, accompan-
led by racking headache and back
ache, every time tried to eat any
thing. Notwithstanding an unusual
pressure from my professional duties.
was compelled for time to give up
my work altogether.
"Then | put myself on a diet of
Grape-Nuts and cream alone, with an
occasional cup of Postum as a runner
up, and sometimes little dry toast I
assure you that in less than a week
felt like new man; | had gained six
pounds in weight, could sleep well
and think WELL
THE good work went on, and was
soon ready to return to business, and
have been hard at it, and enjoying II
ever since
Command me at any time any one
enquiries as to the merits of Grape
Nuts. You will find me always ready
to testify" Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, sFhe Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. There's reason"
Ever read the above 'etters new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of huna9
interest.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03
BIRTHPLACE OF METHoDIsM
This Old Chapel Is to Methodists
What independence Hall Is to
Americans.

Frederick, Del.-Barratt's chapel,
near this place, is to Methodists what
independence hall is to Americans 1t
was in this chapel Bishop Coke and
Asbury first met in America, held a
council with eleven preachers. and
arranged for the organization of the
Methodist church as it exists today
During the year 1880 the chapel was
erected on ground donated by Phillip
Barratt, who was one of the men who
entertained and protected Asbury dur
ing the revolution. After Barratt's
death Asbury visited the chapel and
made the following entry in his diary:
II preached in Barratt's chapel and
baptized some children. l had power
lu 1eenngs oil sympathy for the chill
dren and grandchildren of that holy
man in life and death, Phillip Bar
raft"
It was on Sunday, November IA,
1874, that plans were discussed which
resulted in calling the first confer
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03
Jap AlRsHlP DREADNAUGHT
Greatest Aerial Machine in the World
With Speed of Seventy Miles
an Hour.

San Francisco.-Japan is building
the greatest dirigible balloon in the
world. 1t viii be 500 feet long, ex,
ceeding by 80 feet the length OF the
British dirigible launched recently at
Barrow
1t will be little more than so feet
in diameter and will be fitted with
six motors, each OF 120-horsepower,
80 that its total driving force will be
equivalent to 720-horsepower. or about
twice that of the motors on the Brit.
ish airship.
These engines are expected to be
capable of driving an airship OF its di-
mansions against a wind of 40 miles
velocity, that is. storm wind at the
rate of 80 miles an hour But if there
should be no wind it could force its
way through the all at speed of 70
miles per hour.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03
CHAPTER XIX.

The Jeffries case suddenly entered
more was deemed of sufficient public
interest to warrant column after col
umn of spicy comment in the news
papers The town awoke one morn
ing to learn that the long-sought-for
witness, the mysterious woman on
whose testimony everything hinged,
had not only been found but proved
to be the prisoners own wife, who
had been SO active In his defense.
This announcement was Supplying
enough to overshadow all other news
OF the day, and satisfied the most
faded palate for sensationalism.
The first question asked on all sides
was: Why had not the wife come for
ward before? The reason, as glibly
explained by an evening journal OF
somewhat yellow proclivities, was log
ical enough. The telling of her mid
night visit to single mans rooms
involved shameful admission which
any woman might well hesitate to
make unless forced to it as last
y.
the alternative of either seeing her
husband suffer for a crime of which
be was innocent or making public ac-
acknowledgement of her own frailty, she
had chosen the latter course. Nat
urally. i, meant divorce from the bank
er's son, and undoubtedly this was the
solution most wished for by the family.
The whole unsavory affair conveyed
good lesson to reckless young men OF
wealth to avoid .entangling them
selves il undesirable matrimonial ad-
ventures. But 1t was no less certain,
went on this journalistic mentor, that
this wife, unfaithful as she had proved
herself to be, had really rendered her
husband a signal service in her pres
ent scrape The letter she had pro-
duced, written to her by Underwood
She day before his DEATH in which he
stated his determination to kill him
self, was, of course, complete v1ndi-
sation for the man awaiting trial. His
liberation now depended only on how
quickly the ponderous machinery of
the law could take cognizance of this
Rew and most important evidence.
The new turn of affairs was nat
arsily most distasteful to the police.
Il there was one thing more than
another which angered Capt. Clinton it
was to take the trouble to build up a
ease only to have it suddenly demol-
lshgd. He scoffed at the suicide let
ter safely committed to Judge Brew
sters custody, and openly branded it
as forgery concocted by an immoral
woman for the purpose of defeating
the ends of justice, He kept Annie a
prisoner and defied the counsel for
the defense to do their worst. Judge
Brewster, who loved the fray accept
I'd the challenge. He acted promptly
IIe secured Annies release on habeas
corpus proceedings and, his civil suit
against the city having already begun
IN the courts, he suddenly called Capt.
Gluten to the stand and gave him
4 eftlling which more than atoned for
an5 which the police tyrant had pre-
gicusly made his victims suffer. In
the iimelight of sensational trial, in
Wl,.cn public servants were charged
with abusing positions of trust, he
showed Capt. Clinton up as bully and
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03
Circumstance; Evidence.

A Scotchman and his wife were Wis
iting in wild, beautiful part of the
country. While driving one day with
gether in the front seat while the lady
sat behind, they crossed high bridge
which spanned roaring torrent An
unusually loud splash caught the gem
tlemen's attention for moment, but
nothing was said. After several miles
the gentleman turned to address q
remark to his wife. but her seat was
empty.
aye" he remarked to his host.
that will be yon splash we heard. >
Housekeeper.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03
OKLAHOMA FEMININE MINER
oree School Teacher and Stenogra-
rAer Now Owns Many Acres OF
Mineral Lands.

Davis, Okla.-School teacher, stenog-
rapher and miner are some of the
things that Miss Gertrude Sober of this
place is. BY being the former two
in winter she has been able to be
prospector and miner in summer, and
now she is president and general man.
ager of mining company and own
er of 1000 acres in the heart of the
newly found zinc and lead fields.
Miss Sober has spent the last II
years in the Arbuckle mountains
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03

bell. Early visitors were not so in
frequent as to cause surprise, SO, with
out waiting to remove her apron, she
went to the door and opened it. DR..
Bernstein entered.
Good morning, Mrs. Jeffries," he
said, cheeriy. Putting down his medi-
Cal bag, he asked: How Is our pa
tent this morning."
"All right. doctor. He had splen-
did nights rest III call him"
Never mind, want to talk to you"
Seriously, he went on: Mrs. Jeffries.
your husband needs a change of scene.
He's worrying. That fainting spell the
other day was only symptom. I'm
afraid he'll break down unless"
Unless what?" she demanded. anx.
iously.
willing to give utterance to words he
knew must inflict pain. Then he
quickly continued:
Your husband is under great
mental strain. His inability to sup
port you, his Punishment from his
proper sphere in the social world is
mental torture to him. He feels his
position keenly. There is nothing else
to occupy his mind but thoughts of
his utter and complete failure in life.
| was talking to his father last night.
and
And what?" she demanded, draw
Ing herself up. She suspected what
w md
meet it.
Now, don't regard me as an enemy"
said the doctor in conciliatory
tone. Mr. Jeffries inquired after his
son. Believe me, he's very anxious
He knows he did the boy great in
justice, and he wants to make up
for it."
"Oh, he does?' she exclaimed, sar-
castically
Dr.Bernstein hesitated for moment
before replying. Then he said, lightly:
Suppose Howard goes abroad for
few months with his father and
mother?"
rs that the propositions" she de-
handed
Inc DOCTOR nodded.
i believe Mr.. Jeffries has already
spoken about it to his son." he said.
! Annie choked back a sob and, cross
ing the room to conceal her emotion,
stood with her back turned, looking
nut OF the window. Her voice was
Trembling as she said:
He wants to separate us, know,
tte'd give half his fortune to do it.
perhaps he's not altogether wrong.
Things do look pretty black for me.
cont they? Everybody believes that
ray going to see Underwood that night
lad something to do with his suicide
and led to my husband being falsely
accused. The police built up fine ro-
Rance about Mr. Underwood and me
and the newspapers! Every other
cay reporter comes and asks us
when the divorce is going to take
race-and who is going to institute
tae proceedings. Howard or me. If
business and let us alone he might
forget Oh, l don't mean you, doctor,
You're my friend. You made short
work of Capt Clinton and his confess
sion.' mean people-outsiders-
strangers-who don't know us. and
don't care whether We're alive or dead;
those are the people | mean They
buy a one-cent paper and they think
it gives them the right to pry into
avery detail of our lives" She paused
Tor a moment. and then weat on: so
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03

ence of the Methodist church at Bal
timore, Md, December 25, 1874 Bishop
Coke was preaching in Barratt's
chapel when Asbury arrived. After
the services they went to the house
of Mrs Miriam Barratt. and during
the conversation which followed plans
We're laid which resulted in the
foundation of the present church.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03

a CRATER, bribe-taker, working hand
and glove with dishonest politicians,
not hesitating even to divide loot with
thieves and dive-keepers in his greed
for wealth. He proved him to be a
stop at nothing to gain his own ends
What jury would take the word of
such man as this? Yet this was the
man who still insisted that Howard
Jeffries was guilty of the shooting
of Robert Underwood!
But public opinion was too inteln-
gent to be hoodwinked for any length
of time by brutal and ignorant po-
liceman. There was clamor for the
prisoners release. The evidence was
such that further delay was inexcus-
able. The district attorney, thue
urged, took an active interest in the
case, and after going over the new evi.
dence with Judge Brewster, went be-
fore the court and made formal ap
plication for che dismissal of the com,
plant. A few days later Howard JEFF,
fries left the Tombs amid the cheers
of crowd assembled outside. At his
side walked his wife, now smiling
through tears Of joy.
1t was glad homecoming to the
little fiat in Harlem. To Howard, aft.
er spending so long a time in the
narrow prison quarters, it seemed like
paradise, and Annie walked on air, So
delighted was she to have him With
I,<N IN, -
cites to cloud their happiness. The
close confinement, with it's attendant
worry, had seriously undermined How
ards health. He was pale and atten-
uated and so weak that he had sew
eral fainting spells. Much alarmed,
Annie summoned DR.. Bernstein. who
administered a tonic There was moth
ing to cause anxiety, he said, reas
suringly. 1t was a natural reaction
aftef what her husband had under.
gone But it was worry as much
as anything else Howard worried
about his father, with whom he wss
only partially reconciled; he worried
about his future, which was as pre-
carious as ever, and most of all he
worried about his wife. He was not
ignorant of the circumstances which
had brought about his release, and
while liberty was sweet to him, 1t had
been a terrible shock when he first
heard that she was the woman who
had visited UnderwoOd's rooms. He
refused to believe her sworn evidence.
How was 1t possible? Why should she
go to Underwood's rooms knowing he
was there? 1t was preposterous. Still
the small voice rang in his ears-per-
hans she's untrue! 1t haunted him
till one day he asked point-blank for
an explanation. Then she told that
she had perjuTed herself. She was not
the woman. Who she really was she
could not say, He must be satisfied
for the present with the assurance
that it was not his wife. With that
he was content. What did he care for
the opinion OF Others? He knew-that
was enough II their conversation on
the subject Annie did not even men
ton Alicia's name. Why should she?'
Weeks passed, and Towards health
did not improve. He had tried to find
a position, but without success, yet
every day brought its obligations
which had to be met One morning
Annie was bustling about their tiny
dining room preparing the table for
their frugal luncheon. She had just
placed the rolls and butter on the
table, and arranged the chairs, when
I. Nil Of 70
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03
Bears the
A PeriIous Duty.

My position" remarked the emit
nent physician, lis one requiring the
greatest tact and diplomacy"
What is the trouble?"
Il feel conscientiously obliged to
tell several of my most wealthy and
influential patients that they overeat."
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03
HOPELESS.

First Motorist-I have driven car
for two years and I've never yet run
down anybody.
Second Motorist (disgustedly)-
don't you quit trying and hire chauf-
feur?-Puck,
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03
Let me fail In trying to do some
thing rather than sit still and do moth
ing.-Cyrus Hamlin.

Why is it that so many people suffer
with Lame Back? Hamlins Wizard Oil
Bruises, Cuts, Burns. ETC., there is moth
ing better.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03

1t is still about as easy to find
man who will sell his birthright for
q mess of pottage as it was in the
time Of Esau.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03
To- DRIVE OUT MALARIA
ND RIIII.l LIP THE SYSTEM

Take the Old Standard GROVES TASTELESS
CHILL TONIC. You know what you taking.
The formula is plainly printed on every BOTTLE
showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in tasteless
form, and the most effectual form. For grown
people and children, 50 cents.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-11-03

important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that 1t
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-02
BOYD TRIAL POSTPONED
Was to Have Started Saturday But
Counsel Could Not Attend.

Brattleboro, May Frank J. Boyd
of Wilmington, who was arrested Fri.
day night April IA, on suspicion OF
having killed John Potter by striking
him over the head with club, was in
dicted by the grand jury in Newfane
last week for first degree murder
Boyd is now confined in Newfane jail
1t was expected that he would be ar
raigned before Judge E. L. Waterman
Saturday and date assigned for trial,
but the states attorney and Boyd's
counsel could not arrange to be pres
ent.
States Attorney Barber was the
only lawyer present at the grand jury
hearing and he examined about 80 wit
nesses, showing the relations which
existed between the two men, events
which transpired before and after
Potter's death, also some of the state
ments made by Boyd after the trouble
in the sugar house.
1t is expected that some gruesome
exhibits will be made when the case
comes to trial before Judge Waterman
and the petit jury, as an autopsy was
made the day following Potters death
by Dr. H. B. Stone of the state labora-
tory, who carried away the wounded
parts of the body.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-02
srattIeboro's Appeal

In order to accommodate Vice Pres
ident E. II. Fitzhugh of the Grand
Trunk railway, a further delay in the
final solution of the railroad situation
at Brattleboro has been consented to
by Gov John A. Mead, President Chas
S. Mellen of the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford railroad and the
Brattleboro railroad committee. Gov
ernor Mead and the committee very
much desired that a conference be-
tween the governor and the heads of
the two railroad companies be held to-
day in the hope of reaching an agree
ment whereby the proposed South
rnon-Brattleboro line could be built
on the Vermont side of the river,
rather than in New Hampshire. Mr..
Fitzhugh wished to give his attention
to matters in Chicago, however, and
although all other interested parties
were willing to arrange for a meeting
this week the president of the New
Haven system courteously promised
to again postpone final action. Mr.
Fitzhugh agreeing to attend a confer
ence next Friday, May g.
Governor Mead has decided upon
his course in the matter. He will in
sist upon a conference as now arrang-
ed, and If no agreement comes out of
1t he will convene the legislature in
special session. He Is convinced of
the justice of the position taken by
the people OF Brattleboro and as gov
ernor of the whole state he will do
his duty in protecting the interests
Of its integral parts.
It is with an entirely new propos-
itlon that the people Of this town and
of this county appeal to the rest of
the state for the consideration that
they feel is due them Their plan for
securing the new line of the Boston
and Maine road for Vermont does not
interfere in the slightest degree with
the terminal facilities of the Central
Vermont company and takes only a
small strip of land, now largely under !
water for which ample recompense |
is provided In the way of new land |
more favorably located.
Mr.. Fitzhugh makes no objection on
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-02
Refreshing Magnanlmity

New Jersey, like New Hampshire,
points with pride" to splendid accom-
plishments In progressive legislation.
Governor Woodrow Wilson, master.
full man beyond question, is receiv-
ing his full need of praise for keep
ing his platform promises, but the
Republican Senate, which joined
hands with a Democratic governor
and a Democratic House In passing
the needed reform measures, showed
a magnanimity which is rare and re-
freshing in American politics. Chief
among the reforms were a new pri-
mary and election bill, a corrupt prac-
tice act, public utilities act aimed
to control public service corporations;
a bill providing for commission form
of government in cities, and the EN-
ployers' liability or workmen's com
pensation act. These five were the
principal enactments but in addition
legislation regulating cold storage, the
substitution OF indeterminate for de-
terminate sentences in criminal of.
fences, the rectification of abuses in
weights and measures, together with
and school reforms,
add TO the record Of positive achieve.
ment.-Brattleboro Phoenix.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-02
Teaching Children Not to Be Patriots

Doubtless DR.. j. b. McFatrich
meant well when he proposed that pu.
pills stand when the national anthem
The Star Spangled Banner, is sung"
though we are somewhat surprised
that DR.. McFatrich didn't see that pa
triotic customs are best left to grow
naturally.
However, all the peace at any price
fanatics opened their batteries on Dr.
McFatrich because "The Star
Spangled Banner" is a war song"
and now they have worried him into
promoting an enterprise distinctly I'M
patriotic and even worse.
DR.. McFatrich makes an offer of
money prize for a national anthem.
AS if national anthem could be thus
made to order! And in urging that
Chicago's school children shall give
pennies to swell the prize fund. Mrs
Young, the school superintendent, in
sists that the national anthem, thus
to be made" shall not be a war
song"-not by any means!
What makes such piffle as these at
tempts to substitute national anthem
particularly Objectionable is that
every real national anthem must be
in some sense a war song. It must
express the peoples resolution to die.
if need be, for country or their admir-
alton of heroes who have fought and
died, or their prayer to the God of
Battles for victory in their country's
cause
Every national anthem is one or all
these. America" and THE Star
Spangled Banner" and "The Battle
Hymn of the Republic; The Marseil.
laise" and 'the Watch. on the Rhine"
and God Save the King and God
Save the Emperor Francis" and Men
of Harlech," to name only those fam
liar to American ears-what one of
them is not a fighting song expressly
or by plain implication?
1t must be so, for nations are not
made and saved by painters and ora
tors, and sanitariums but by resolute
men. Nations have not made and saw
ed by philanthropic impulses or by
resolutions that something is wrong
and should be made right but with
blood and iron-with shot and steel
welded by men willing to die that
their country may Lively men whose
only regret in so doing is Nathan
Hale's that they have but one life to
give.
OF all the evil influences that afflict
this nation today we verify believe
that the most evil is that of she-men
and he-women who are teaching our
children that there isn't anything in
their country worth fighting for and
that everything worth living for can
be purchased with money.
These are the Republics real foes,
for they teach children, who are the
country's hope, that the country is not
worth the supreme sacrifice of the ma
tions.-lnter Ocean.