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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05

"A strong, healthy man like you
ought not to court death"
Il do not seek it. My only tempta,
tion Is to see how near l can get to
the Man in the Shroud, as some poet
calls 1t, without being touched. I'll
make you my confessor. You see. II
is like this. A number Of wearied men
recently formed a company whereby
monotony became an obsolete word
In our vocabulary. You must not think
I'm jesting; I'm serious enough. This
company ferrets out adventures and
romances and sells them to men of
spirit l became a member, and the
trip to Bagdad Is the result. One new.
er has to share with the company. The
rewards are all yours. All one has to
do is to pay lump sum down for the
adventure furnished. You work out
the end yourself, unhindered and un-
assisted"
Are you really serious?"
Never more so. Now, Percival Al
gernon has always been wanting an
adventure, but the practical side Of
him has made him hold sdoof. told
him about this concern, and he refuses
to believe in 1t. SO I am going to un-
dertake to prove 1t to him. This Is
confidential You will say nothing. I
know"
"He will come to no harm physical.
ly"
Lord, no! 1t will be mild and In.
nocuous. OF course, II any one told
him that an adventure was toward
for his especial benefit, 1t would spoil
all. l can rely upon your silence?"
She was silent. He witnessed her
indecision with distrust. Perhaps he
had said too much.
Wont you promise? Haven't 1 al
ways been kind to you. Fortune, times
when you most needed kindness?"
II promise to say nothing. But If
any harm comes to that young man.
either in jest or in earnest, will
never speak to you again."
Il see that, after getting Percival
Algernon into an adventure, I've got
to cicerone him safely out Of it. Well,
accept the responsibility. Some
days later he was going to recall this
assurance.
Sometimes I wonder :" pen
sively.
Wonder about what?"
What manner of man you are"
II should have been a great deal
better man had / met you ten years
ago."
What? When l was eleven?" with
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05

Copper sulphate is often used for
destroying the scum-like weeds in
ponds. But precautions must be ta,
ken, for unless the right proportion OF
sulphate is used any fish which may
be in the pond will be injured. THIS
proportion Of copper sulphate used IL
the ponds at Kew Gardens is one part
to from 100000 to 100000 parts a
water. sulphate of copper in pus
vertzed state is placed in a porous bag
and dragged through the water untI
dissolved. The water In st. JamesN
Park. London, 1t might be mentioned,
has for two summers been kept freq
from scum by this method.-Londos
Mail.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05
Ample Sleeping Accommodations.


A man who owns 160-acre farm in
California has discovered the largest
bedroom in the world. One day he
hired new hand and spoke to him
very kindly, welcoming him to the
meals at the family table and telling
him he could have access to all the
reading matter in the house.
But where shall l sleep?" asked
the new employe.
Young man." said the farmer, that
is immaterial to me. You see about
you one hundred and sixty acres, and
any part Of that land which looks
good to you as place to sleep is at
your disposal. The Popular Maya
zine.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05
Wireless Man.

A novelty in the way of maps has
just been issued by the German impe.
rial post office, which has compiled q
chart showing the principal wireless
telegraph stations in the world. The
object is to advertise the facilities
now afforded in Germany for "draht.
lose" telegraphy. German stations
are, Of course, given special promi
nence on the map, and in this connec
ton 1t is interesting to note that the
station at Neuen is claimed to be the
most powerful in existence, its range
being 2,100 miles. This is two hun.
dred miles more than that of EifreI
tower.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05
CHAPTER vIIl.-lcontInued.l

What to do? unused the rogue On
the morrow Mr.. Jones would leave for
Port Said. Ryanne shook his head
and with his cane beat light tattoo
against the side of his shin. Abduc.
tion was rather out of his sphere of
action. And yet. the suppression of
Percival was by all odds the most i'm
portant move to be made. He had
volunteered this service and accom-
plish 1t he must, in face of all obsta-
cles, or poof! went the whole droll
fabric. For to him 1t was droll, and
not chuckle saturninely. 1t was a
kind Of nightmare where one hung in
mid-air, ones toes just beyond the
flaming dragons jaws. The rewards
would be enormous, but these he
would gladly surrender for the su-
preme satisfaction of turning the
poisoned arrow in the heart of that
Canting hypocrite, that SNUG church
deacon, the sanctimonious. the sleek,
the well-fed first-bOrn. And poor Per-
cival Algernon, for no blame Of his
own. must be taken by the sCruff of
his neck and thrust bodily into this
tangled web of scheme and under
scheme. 1t was infinitely humorous.
He had had a vague plan regarding
Mahomed, guardian of the Holy Yhi-
ordes, but it was not possible for him
to be in Cairo at this early date. That
he would eventually appear Ryanne
never doubted. He knew the Oriental
mind. Mahomed-El-Gebel would cross
every barrier less effective than death.
1t was serious matter to the Mos
lem. If he returned to the palace at
Bagdad. minus the rug. it would mean
free transportation to the Arabian
gulf, bereft of the most important
part of his excellent anatomy, his
head. Some day, II he lived, Ryanne
intended telling the exploit tc some
clever chap who wrote; 1t would lcok
rather we'll in print.
To turn Mahomed against Perciyal
as being the instigator would be an
adroit bit of work; and it would rid
him of both of them. Gioconda said
that she wanted no rough work. How
like a woman! Here was a mans
game, desperate one; and Giocon.
da, not forgetting that 1t was her
inspiration, wanted 1t handled with
gloves! 1t was bare-hand work, and
the sooner she was made to realize
this, the better. 1t was no time for
tuning fddles.
Mahomed out Of 1t. there was a GER
tain English bar in the Quarter Roset-
ii, a place Of dubious repute. Many
derelicts drifted there In search of
still more dubious. Dregs,
scum: the bottom and the top Of the
kettle: outcasts, whose hand and
animus were directed against society:
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05

brown hands round the infiders throat
But, patience. Did not the Koran
teach patience among the higher laws
Patience. He could not, madly as ht
had dreamed. throttle the white lial
here In the bazaars. That would no
bring the Holy Yhiordes to his hands
He must wait. He must plan to lure
the man out at night, then to hurry
! MIN into the desert. Out into the des
ert, where no man might be his mas
ter. Oh, the Holy Yhiordes should be
his again; 1t was written.
The cries, the shouts, the tower ot
Babel reclaimed; the intermingling oi
the races OF the world: the English
man, the American, the German, the
Italian, the Frenchman, the Greek, the
Levantine, the purple-black Ethiopian
the bronze Nubian; the yelled women
the naked children; all the color-tones
known to art, but predominating. that
marvellous faded tint of blue, the
Cairene blue, in the heavens, in the
waters, in the dyes.
Make way, o my mother!" .bawled
donkey-boy to the old crone ped-
ding matches.
"Backsheesh! Backsheesh!" in the
eight tones of the human voice. From
the beggar, his brother, his uncle.
mis- grandfather, his children and his
chlloren's children. "Blacksheesh,
backsheesh!"
TO the right" was shrilled into
Ryanne's ear; and he lodged. A
troop of donkeys passed, laden with
tourists. unhappy. fretful, self-con-
scious. A water-carrier brushed
against him, and he whitfield the fresh
dampness Of the bulging goat-skin. A
woman, the long, black head.veil
streaming out behind in the clutch of
the monkey-like hand Of a toddling
child, carried a terra-cotta water-iar
upon her head. The grace with which
she moved. the abruptness Of the col
exchanges, caught Ryanne's rowing
eye and filled 1t with pleasure.
Dust rose and subsided, eddied and
settled; beggars blind and one-eyed
squatted in 1t, children tossed It in
play, and beasts Of burden shuffied
through it.
The roar in front Of the shops, the
pressing and crowding Of customers.
the high cries Of the merchants: the
gurgle of the water-pipes. the pleasant
fumes of coffee, the hardy loafers
Iolling before the khans or caravan
saries; a veiled face at a lattice-win.
dow; the violet shadows in a doorway:
the sunshine upon the soaring
mosques; true believer, rocking and
numbling over his tattered Koran:
gold and silver and jewels; amber and
copper and brass; embroideries and
'ugs and carpets; and the pest of fieas,
he plague Of flies, the insidious
smells.
Ryanne found himself inspecting
the largest emerald in the world.
worth twelve thousand pounds" which
ooked more like a fine hexagonal of
,nyx than a gem. 1t was one Of the
Of the bazaars, however.
md tourists were generally round it
n force. To his experienced eye 1t
vas no more than fine specimen of
quartz, worth what any fool
# collector was willing to pay for it.
from this bazaar he passed on into
he next, and there he saw Fortune.
And as Mahomed, always close at
and, saw the hard lines in Ryanne's
ace soften, the cynical smile become
eGder, he believed he saw his way to
trtke.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05
Reason for Inquiry.

The following after-dinner story
was related by DR.. Henry Churchill
King, president of Oberlin college, be.
fore the Chicago Congregational club
banquet:
Il was standing out in front of one
of the big exposition buildings at the
st. Louis fair, when man came out
Of the building much the worse for
liquor.
What's the name of thish here
building?' he asked as he reeled away.
Il told him the name of the build.
ing.
Thanks, he said. was Just In
1t and wanted to check 1t off,"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05
Lumlnous Metal pIscovered.

For generations the peasants Of
Cornwall have handed down legend
that at night there may be seen a
family luminous metal among the
rocks brought from the mines of the
county. A British scientist has proved
that this story Is by no means based
on imagination. A specimen Of the
mineral autunite, which is also found
in Wales, was sent to him from Portu-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05

gal because Of its shining character.
He finds that 1t closely resembles ar.
tificially prepared salts of uranium.
and that Its luminosity is due to spon.
taneous radjo-activity. The light it
sheds is stronger than that of nitrate
OF uranium. Upon parting with it's wa.
ter Of capitalization the metal loses
its luminosity.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05
Bell of Tragic Memories
UGH as at coronation or the death of

such as at coronation or the death of
a cZar.
Furious at this tacit expression Of
reproach, the czar commanded that the
priest should be tortured and executed
and that the bell should be taken down
and placed beside the body of it's
ringer This order was fulfilled. and
the bell was beaten with clubs by the
entire populace. the Gear Boris being
at their head.
The czar then decreed that the bell
should be exiled to Tobolsk and that
one Of its hangers be removed to in
dicate its disgrace-Harper's Weekly,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05
Retort DIacourteoua.

Stranger docking at the taximeter)
Nine dollars and fifty cents! l told
you wanted to come in the most di.
rect way, and think you've been
driving me round about.
Cabby-Round about, eh? You ought
to have hired an aeroplane.-Judge.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05
We all love peace, when things ART
coming our way.

Constipation causes and seriously aggra
Yates many diseases. 1t Is thoroughly oure(
by DR.. Pierce's Pellets. Tiny sugar-coatet
granules. Adv.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05

Especially where flirting is concern.
ed a little learning is a dangerous
thing.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05

these eXcitements? Is your life moth
ing more to you than something to ex.
pertinent with?"
Truth, sometimes don't know,
Fortune. Sometimes l don't care.
When one has gambled for big stakes,
it is hard to play for penny points"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05

a levity intended to steer him awxS
from this channel.
You know what I meap," he an.
swered, moody and detected.
She opened her purse and dropped
the pendant into 1t, but did not speak.
CTo BE CoNTINUED)
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-05

Don't lie to Se entertaining caIy N
when 1t 4 profitable
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-24
| en- Convicts Do
Harvesting Work

BOISE IDAHO. July 23.-~-To
breathe free air. to see the blue sky
overhead and be free for ten days was
the experience of ten convicts from
the State penitentiary who were re
turned TO that institution last night.
They did not escape or attempt to
escape. They were out on a farm
which the State has leased down the
valley, and they spent the time In
making hay.
only one guard accompanied the
ten men. A cook d convict also, was
taken along. and he prepared the
meals and kept house while the others
worked in the alfalfa fields. The
work was in progress about ten days.
and the men were sorry TO see the
end Of the harvest
One of the men insisted on Sleep
ing outside eff the house on a hay
stack, and every morning before the
others were mp he took q plunge in
the waters OF the irrigation ditch In
the rear OF the farmhouse.
After the work was through in the
evening the men played ball and had
good time in general.
The guard who was In charge Of
the haymakers says that the men from
the prison got the crop up quicker
and better than did the hired hands
working on the surrounding farms.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-24
SHOOTS MAN WHO
WOUNDED MOTHER
son OF NEGRO WOMAN STAYS AS
sAIIAANT--CORONE AND
T.
SHERIFF INVESTIGATE.

Especial to The Richmond Virg1nian.J
BOWLING GREEN, VA, July "a
Following dispute OF long standing
over a land boundary line today rear
Bra ndywine. in Caroline county, about
fifteen miles east OF this place, Rob-
ert Sale. q negro. struck Alice Nor
with an axe, and was in turn fatally
shot ty the womsns son. Sheriff T.
h. GIL and COUNTY Coroner X. T.
Glassell have left for the scene OF the
tragedy.
II Is reported that some time ago
Sale removed a line stake which stood
on the boundary between his proper
~ and that OF Alice Morton. and for
this act the latter swore a warrant
AGAINST Sale. Since that time much
I'll feeling has existed between the ~ o.
This morning the Morton woman was
marking the spot from which the line
stake was removed, when Sale came
upon the scene and dealt HIS victim n
blow on the head which rendered her
unconscious Shortly after this the
son avenged the assault upon his
mother by shooting her assailant with
"a shotgun. Sale lived few hours.
The wound OF the woman is thought
to be fatal.
Further details have not been heard
here IT is expected that the boy who
did the shooting Will be brought here
by Sheriff Gill this evening aad lodged
IN the county Jail.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-24
TO DETERMINE
TAKES DUE STATE
AND COMMISSION TO
SELECT FIFTH MAN TO HELP
ADJUDICATE r.. r. AND
81
p. TAXATION.

In accordance with an act of the
legislature. adopted at the last SEES
sion, the governor ana the three
members of the corporation commits
sion will today, or within a day or
two. confer. with the purpose Of Sc
lecting a NTH man 70 act as "a COM
mittee upon the question of a settle
ment between the State and the Rich
mond. Fredericksburg and Potoma C
railroad company for taxes alleged
to have been due FOR number of
years.
This committee has power 10 act
for the State and effect a compromise
of the suit now pending in the United
States court. which was brought as 4
test The amount involved Is APP
proximately million dollars, ana
under the act the Richmond. Fred
ericksburg and Potomac is required
to surrender it's charter and take out
new one. The Richmond. Fred
ericksburg and Potomac ts at present
operating under charter for a stage
coach line.
This act designating the governor
and the commissioners a body TO Sc
lect fifth man, the whole to con-
slider the question Of taxation in ref
erence to the railroad company. be-
came effective in June.
While there are several men under
consideration. members Of the com
mittee would not give their names last
night. feeling that, for obvious reasons.
this was not the time to make pub
lie the names Of gentlemen, any one
of whom might be selected
Both the State and the railroad
company agreed upon the passage or
such an act. each party feeling that
the matter could be settled asreeably
to all concerned.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-24
Is CHARGED WITH
DROWNING INFANT

Especial to The Richmond virgo ian.
ROANOKE, VA. July 23.-~Dora
Mobley. negro woman. was taken to
the Taze@ell Jail today from Cedar
BLUM charged with drowning her in
FAINT child. only few days old. The
body OF the infant was found floating
the Cedar Bluff Wooden company and
suspicion at once was directed against
the Mobley woman.
similar case occurred In Thomp-
sons Valley Tazewel county, yester-
day. The body Of a child only a week
old was found at dam. having been
put in a sack and several heavy rocks
placed In IT to insure the sacks sink
Ing. The hooy OF the child was found
by passer-hy. There is no clue as
to the perpetrator of the crime
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-24
BLOOD STAINED
CLOTHING FOUND
HENRICO AUTHORITIES FORGE
ANOTHER LINK AGAINST
g.
X X. KAUFMAN.

Elood-stained and showing signs q
x. Kaufman, charged with felonious-
~ attacking Peter Tyler last Friday
night was found tucked under the
side Of an icehouse yesterday by an
inmate Of TIE fSurel Reform school.
Although the man still protests tina,
he Is not conscious Of what happened
Friday night. IT is believed by the
HenrtNs county authorities that the
man was not as drunk as he claims
TO have been. They believe he hid the
coat and hat to prevent their being
used against him al evidence.
Tyler was reported much better es-
terday. and IS said to be on the road
TO recovery.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-24
WEALTHY YOUNG
GIRL Vhh|SHES
SECOND DOROTHY ARNOLD CASE
PUZZLES NEW YORK POLICE
DEPARTMENT.

NEW YORK, July ga second
Dorothy Arnold case has come to the
hands OF the New York police in the
shape Of the mysterious disappear
ance Of Miss Doreas Iyams Snodgrass.
wealthy and popular young girl Of
Mount Vernon Miss snodgrass left
the home Of her brother law. John
l.. order in Mount Vernon to do some
shopping in New York at o'clock
Wednesday mrning. Two friends saw
her near the Grand Central station
about 10 o'clock the same mornins
Since that time she seems to hare
completely disappeared Sea rch Of
the hospitals and active work by
local detective agency failed to fnd
any trace Of the girl, who was Of a
notably striking brunette type.
Miss Suodgrass was engaged to be
married TO Adolph Schmidt. young
electrical engineer and business assn-
ciate Of her brother-in-l law. The Gri-
ders planned to go to OakIandi Cal,
soon. taking Miss Snodgrass with
them. and Schmidt was to follow
wedding might take place on The
CoaF@
Although ependently wealthy in
her own right Miss Snodgrass had
always had a strong penchant 'ot
medicine, and had devoted much
study 10 nursing as profession. Al
the time of her disappearance. $40 IN
money and diamond engagement
ring Were the only Saluabies she was
known 10 have with her.
III is feared that she had beer
stricken by the heat az she had com.
planned greatly OF the heat during the
recent hot spell. though no trace o
her has appeared az any Of the hos
/ uit AlR
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-24
WIFE DEAD, HE
END HIS LIFE

NEW YORK. July Aldoph f.
LeMouite. who started florist shop
on Broadway in the early sixties, emu
60 his life today in his home in the
Bronx. His wife. who came to New
YORK. with him, and who helped him
build up a successful business among
the social and business leaders of
New Y. TX, lied two month"; ago, and.
with all the perfume gone from the
flowers in his little shop. LeMoulte
ended as life. He knew Lester Wa
lack. the beau brummel of old Broad
way, ind furnished the flowers watch
went TO the tomb With General NJ -
Clellan and Horace Greeley All the
smart set OF old New York got iia
towers from the quaint little uei :
man. ana his l4slness pruspered a.
c,rdingly L,.:ii at his death he W&s
wealthy man.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-24
SHOWING PA HOW

The three reports were rather n
definite, but the fourth was vouched
for by the county paper 1t could
state on the best Of authority, it said.
that Miss Kitty Remsen. daughter Of
the we'll known and highly esteemed
farmer Remsen. had been knocked
down by a running hog and had her
left leg broken. The bone had been
set by DIR. Cummings, the popular
medico, and the patient was doing
well.
Earl Andrews father had given
him a start In life by buying him a
Touring mill. As the sad-hearted
young man ground the wheat into
-four the gossip of the village reached
his ears and gave him cold chills
He had loved and lost. He had meant
to love- but the lost was a different
matter He had rather picked the
fuss for the sake OF the making up.
He even knew Just what he would
reply when a penitent note from Kit
ty brought him back to the farm
house, and with tears in her eyes she
asked forgiveness. He would pretend
to think the matter over for a couple
Of minutes and then say:
Very well, but don't let 1t happen
again"
The sum Of money which that
young man would have given TO put
things back two weeks he figured out
on one of his paper -four sacks at
s3.S5O,224s5 He figured it three
times, so there could be no mistake
about it. The words loved and
lost rang in his ears above the
grinding of the mill.
Pa Remsen had heard all the re-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-24
CANDIDATES WILL
SPEAK IN EAST END

Candidates for the administrative
board have been invited to speak be-
fore the East End Progressive Demo-
cratic club tonight at Eighteen and
Grace streets. Eek Governor A. j,
Montague hhaa been invited TO make
an address in behalf of his candidacy
for a-seat in congress from the Tenth
district. but other appointments inter
ferred.
Though new organization, the Cast
End Progressive Democratic club has
nearly 800 members on It's roll.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-24

Literary fFess'}
After farmer Remsens wife had
strained the evening milk and got
things ready for an early breakfast
che came out on the veranda where
her husband sat smoking and "A;
down ,yith - hurnp and a sfgh. Two
nj, tbroa rninutes naased and then
tho husband remarked.
.1,r, gattin, riled m
- ,,,,,.. -. 49,,
~ a.
N'
but what IN beesWaX mas rued
you Inc spotted cow dloh KICK
You again tonight, qua she
NO, 1t ain the spotted COW II $
inc way Things are soin around th's
house ana the time mas come "heh
| want 10 know all about IL
didn't know as anything dreau-
tul had happened, rep'lea the WIRE
after moment me meals are pc
ing cooked ana the peas mace the
ga me as usual guess you We got
pflchy neat
Ana ! guess you II hl'ty take me
Tor a 1901
LOOK mere pa, sald the "iie IN
soothing way, II "ould pe oetler
Tor you to tehd to the outdoor "ork
and leave me TO manage lnslue' but
II you won 90 II pose - i"Ne "