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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-05
End of the Revolution
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

" HE last battle of the RcVolu-
tionary war was fought at
Blue Lick, Kentucky, Au-
gust 20. 1882.
England died hard, and in ways
that were far from being in strict
keeping with international law
tried to postpone the final surren-
der as long as she could. 1t was
in consequence of such tactics that
the battle of Blue Lick was fought.
On the 18th of August, 1882, a
force of several hundred Canadians
and Wyandotte Indians laid siege
to Bryan's Station, some five miles
from the present city of Lexington.
the capital of the famous Blue
Grass region.
The next day a party of $50
frontiersmen, commanded by Dan
lei Boone. John Todd and Stephen
Trigg, fastened to the rescue. not
withstanding the fact that they
were greatly outnumbered by the
enemy.
Upon reaching the near neigh
borhood of the station a council of
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of the men were fording the stream
hard after the rash major.
Crossing without moIestation,
they reached the top of the ridge
when their troubles began in dead
earnest From front and hanhs
they received deadly fire from
the Indians and their Canadian al
lies. They had been ambushod, and
the invisible foe shot them down
like dogs.
Outnumbered three to one, and
presently quite surrounded, they
fought like the brave men they
were until they realized that to re-
main longer was to be annihilatcd,
whcreupon they broke through the
fiery Gordon and escaped as best
they could.
Sixty Kentuckians We're
killed outright and many Of the
wounded were afterward massa-
cred. The loss of the Canadians
and Wyandottes was never known
as they carried away their killed
and wounded.
But the redmen made no more
trouble for Kentucky The treaty
of peace deprived them of their
British backing, and the United
States was left to deal with them
after its own way. The memory
of the brave fight that was put up
by the handful of frontiersmen lin
gered with them. and. with no hope
of help from England. they gave
the Kentuckians grand letting
alone.
Such. in brief. is the story Of me
last battle Of the war of the Rev
olution Beginning away up il
Massachusetts,. the great strugs'
ended at Blue Lick, Kentucky'
region that was an unknown VII
derness when the struggle began
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-05
Let All Go To School.

However, | would have every
man have college education in
order that he might see how lit
tie the thing is really worth. would
have every man rich that he might
know the Worthlessness Of riches.
To take a young man away from
work say at eighteen years of age,
and keep him from useful labor in
the name of education, for four
years, Will some day be regarded
as a most absurd proposition. It
IS the most gigantic illusion Of the
age. Set IN motion by theologians,
the idea was that the young per
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-05

4 MAN asks these questions:
~ rs it not a bluff when an
old maid says that she has
never enNied married woman,
and wouldn't trade places with
one. and that she is happier single
than she would be if she was mar
ried?"
Probably every man in the world
would answer these questions in
the affirmative and say yes; that
every old maid who pretended that
she was a spinstcr from choice was
putting up a bluff that any man
would call, but a woman would
reply to the question by saying
both yes and no.
Undoubtedly the old maid who
SCOTS at marriage and boasts of
her single blessedncss is fbbing,
and putting a gay face on a sad
matter. Every human being
knows. every instinct teaches us,
that men and women are each in
complete without the other and
that it takes both to round out the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-05

sroans over how much it costs to
support d wife.
The spinster sees that she is bet
ter dressed than sister unless sister
happened to marry rich, and that
she looks about five years younger.
Moreover, the spinster observes
that in addition to everything else
that sister does. she has to spend
her time and energy in placating
husband, or else in quarreling with
him, and that, although it is polite
and complimentary to believe that
husband still loves sister, there's
no evidence upon which to base
this conclusion. Apparently it does
not take more than three months
to rub the gilt off the ginger
bread matrimony, and after that If
a man feels any admiration, or
tenderness, for mis- wife he doesn't
take the pains to show it,
Thinks She s Better OFF.
So the spinstcr takes a good.
firm grip on her latchkey and her
pocketbook and says that she's
better off than sister, and that she
doesn't envy any married woman.
And there's no bluff in that. She
is simply telling the truth. nine
times out of ten. when she makes
that assertion. for it is only too
sadly true that ideal marriages are
as scarce az hens teeth, and that
in the whole range of our ac-
quaintances we scarcely know one
couple who have made q success
instead of a failure of matrimony.
In the past the old maids boast
that she didn't marry because she
didn't want to may have been a
bluff and not Neincere, because in
former days every woman had to
marry in order to get a home of her
own. That is not the case now.
Any woman can support herself
as well as a husband is likely to
do II, and so matrimony has be-
come a choice instead of a neces-
sity, and it is because women see
so few good husbands that they
are getting more and more afraid
of marriage. and to believe that it
is better to stick to the peace and
contentment they have than to risk
the danger of heart breaking
disappointment in matrimony
But the single woman knows
that While she may have missed
misery, she has also missed the
highest happiness. She has but
the half loaf and she goes TO her
grave hungering for the love. and
the man. and tho child. and the
home that should he every Nom-
an portion.
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What It Should Be.

Husband and wife children and
home, are the materials out of
which real. lasting, soul satisfying
happiness is made, and no matter
what else one has, if one lacks
them. one has missed the best that
the gods have to beStoW.
There is no other JOY on earth SO
exquisite as the companiouship of
the man and woman who are mated
as we'll as married, who have every
thought in common, and who find
in each other an eXhaustless we'll
of sympathy from which they may
draw at viii. There is no other in
terest in life so intense and indy
ing as that which people have in
their children; there can be no
happiness so sweet and serene as
that which comes from the feel Of
little chiidren's arms about ones
neck and the touch of baby's
hands within ones own.
There can be no occupation So
absorbing and SO worth while as
the making of beautiful home to
be a shrine for this lovely family
life
This is what maria ge should be.
Ii is the ideal that VIC al see in
our dreams 1t is the will-o'- the
visp that beckoue millions into
matrimony, and IL is foolish for amy
man or Woman to say that no or
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-05
College Degrees
By EBERT HUBBARD
DOWNRIGHT. 1912. by Inferno tioral News SerNica

into a pupa-like condition of nu'-
lily.
In the smaller colleges many in
stances are found of student,
working their way through school
My experience leads me to believe
that such students stand a very
much better chance in the worlds
race than those who are made ex-
empt from practical affairs by hav-
ing everything provided. The re-
sponsibility of caring for himself ia
a necessary factor in mans evo-
luton.
And the point of this preach
ment lies right here-tnat to make
a young man exempt from the
practical world, from eighteen to
Twenty-Five is to run the risk Of
running him for life Possibly YOU
have taken opportunity from him
and turned him into a memory ma
chine.
There are persons who are al
ways talking about preparing for
life. The best way to prepare for
life is to begin to live.
\ school should not be prepara-
ton; a school should be life.
Isolation from the world in order
to prepare for the worlds work is
folly. You might as well take a
boy out Of the blacksmith shop in
order to teach him blacksmithns.
Is the Useful Man.
Any college that does not teach
its pupils to work at practical.
useful tasks, IS a make believe. and
every college student knows it,
From the age of six or seven and
upward the pupil should feel that
he is doing something useful, not
merely killing time; and so his
work and his instruction should
60 right along hand in hand.
The educated man is the useful
man.
And no matter how many college
degrees a man has, if he can not do
something that the world wants
done, he is an educated ignoramus.
and is one with the yesterdays,
doing pedagogic goosc-step adonn
the days to dusty death
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-05

Q Q long as some men who are
~ not college bred take first
place on the roster of fame,
and other men who are college
bred, working alongside of them,
sink out of sight, most thinking
men are quite willing to admit the
so-called higher education is not
a necessity.
OF the college men who sue
coed, who shall say they succeeded
by and through the aid the college
gave, or in spite of it?
Yet many men who win will vail,
IF l only had the advantage of
college training"
If so, it might have ironed all the
individuality out of them.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-05-02
Synopsis.

The scene at the opening Of the story IL
laid In the library of an old worn-out
southern plantation. known az the Bar
pny The place il to be sold. and its
history and that, OF the owners the
Quintards, IL the subject Of discussion by
Jonathan Crenshaw, business man., q
granger known as Baden, and Bob
fancy, farmer, when Hannibal Wayne
Hazard, a mysterious child Of the old
gouthern family, makes his appearances.
Yancy tells how he adopted the boy. Ma
khaniel Ferris buys the Barony, but the
Quintards deny any knowledge Of the
boy. Yancy to keep Hapnibal. Captain
Murreli. friend OF the Quintards, ap-
pears and asks questions about the Bar
Ony. Trouble at Scratch Hill. when Han
nibal Is kidnapped by Dave Blount, Cap
tain Murrell's agent. Yancy overtakes
EBlount, gives him a thrashing and secures
the boy. Fancy appears before Squire
BALKAN, and Is discharged with costs Tor
the plaintiff. Betty Malroy, friend OF
the Ferrises, has an encounter with cap
tain Murrell. who forces his attentions on
her, ana is rescued by Bruce Darlington.
Betty sets out for her Tennessee home.
Carriginton takes the same stage. fancy
and Hannibal disappear. with MurreH on
their trail.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-05-02
Black and White vs. White and aIaek

Black and White We. White and Black.
For many years large department
store has spent thousands of dollars
on placards with which almost every
article Of merchandise is ticketed
throughout the store. and only with
In short time did they realize the
amount Of money that was being
wasted m using the white cardboard
with black lettering.
These white cards soon became
soiled and shop worn If allowed to re-
main in place any length Of time. The
cards which are handled by custom
ers in bins. trays, etc. are even more
80. BY substituting the black card
board with white lettering this store
has overcome this diflculty to very
great extent The show cards are
always clean. fresh and brightiooking
and they last many times as long.
saving the firm several hundred dol
lars in the course Of year.-Busi-
ness
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-05-02
The Jefferson Co. Mutual
Fire Insurance Col
Established 1878.
JOHN A. WASHINGTON. Secretary.
Office in Citizens Office Building,

Charles Town, W. Va.
Offers to the people of Jefferson county
insurance in safe company at the ac-
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cheaper than the rates usually CHARGED.
and keeps the money at home. Good
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Friday.
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old Joke Had No Intention Of Max
Ing a Very Long sojourn In
Discard Land.

Al Joke, whose career had been long
and whose hoary whiskers wellnigh
dragged on the ground. was at length
driven out of circulation and in due
course arrived at the border OF Dis
card Land. The Inhabitants of the
locality met him and gave the old
Joke their heartfelt sympathy. Among
those nsesent were broken New,
Years resolutions. musty I. o. Us, for
gotten fads and fashions, moss-growu
political crises, WORKOUT enthusiasms.
silenced slogans, VOWS of eternal con-
stancy with their backs broken, en-
dorsements on notes of boyhood
friends, popular songs Of ryesteryear.
faded love letters. shru1ken reputa-
lions, moth-eaten notices. hushed clar,
ion calls. and many others OF their
Tx.
who enters here leaves hope be-
hind, they informed him. Like the
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-05-02
CHAPTER VII.

On the River.
Betty stood under dripping um-
brella in the midst OF downpour.
Just arrived by the four-horse coach
that piled regularly between Wash
ington and Georgetown, she had
found the long board platform beside
the canal crowded with her fellow
passengers. Suddenly she became
aware of tall. familiar figure moE.
ing through the crowd. 1t was 8fuce
Darlington. At the same moment he
saw her. and with casual air that
quite deceived her. approached.
You're leaving tonight?" he asked.
"Yes-isn't 1t miserable the way 1t
rains? And why are they so slow
why don't they hurry with that boatT'
ITS In the last lock now" ex-
planned Darlington, and gathering up
Betty's hand luggage, he helped her
aboard.
BY the time they had reached
Wheeling, Betty had quite parted with
whatever superficial prejudice she
might have had concerning river-men.
This particular one was. evidently a
very nice river-man, an exception to
his kind. He made choice Of the
steamer on which she should continue
her journey, and thoughtfully chose
The Naiad-a slow boat.
II haven't thing to offer her-tnis
is plain madness d mine!" he kept
telling himself, and then the express
sion OF his face would become grim
and determined. No more Of the river
for him-he'd get hold Of some land
and go to raising cotton; that was the
way money was made.
Slow as The Naiad was, the days
passed much too swiftly for him.
When Memphis was reached their
friendly intercourse would come to an
end. There would be her brother, OF
whom she had occasionally spoken
he would be pretty certain to have
the ideas of his class.
The days, like any other days, dwin-
died. The end of it all was close at
hand. Another twenty-four hours
and Darlington reflected there would
only be good-by to say.
I'VE will reach New Madrid to-
night" he told her. They were
watching the river, under a flood of
yellow moonlight
Darlington, with his back against a
stanchion, watched her Disconnected
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-05-02

Der Of bills of exchange drawB by
American bankers on their European
correspo ndents. together with a num-
Der Of blank forms Of such bills.
When We received the property"
said Mr. Butler. we sent the signed
bills Of exchange to the banks which
had issued them, asking payment to
be made to US. In reply We were in
formed by all Of them that the bills
were forgeries! Evidently Hermann
Schneider was planning to reap har-
vest in Europe with his forged bills.
when death, himself reaper. cut him
down."
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-05-02

Encountered By his belongings. but
with no mind to sacrifice them, he
stepped out upon the shed and made
his way down the slant OF the roof to
the caves. He tossed his bundle to
the ground and going down on his
knees lowered. his rifle, letting the
muzzle fall lightly against the side OF
the shed as 1t left his hand. then he
lay fat on bis stomach and. feet first,
Wriggled out into space. When be
could no longer preserve his balance,
ne gave himself shove away from
the caves and dropped clear Of the
building.
AS he recovered himself he was
sure he heard door open and close,
and threw himself prone on the
ground, where the black shadow cast
by the tavern hid him. At the same
moment two dark figures came from
ABOUT corner Of the building. He
could Just distinguish that they car
ried some heavy burden between them
and that they staggered as they
moved.
They passed out OF sight, and
GREATNESS and palsied, Hannibal crept
about a corner of the tavern. He
must be sure!
presently he heard a distant sound
"a splash-surely 1t was a splash
A little later the men came up the
lane. to disappear in the direction OF
the tavern. Hannibal peered after
them. His very terrors, while they
Wrenched and tortured him, gave him
desperate kind of courage. AS the
gloom hid the two men, he started
forward again. He reached the end
OF the cornfield, climbed a fence, and
entered deadening OF timber. In
the long wet grass he found where
the men had dragged their burden
He reached down and swept his hand
to and fro-once-twice-t third
time his little palm came away red
and discolored.
There was the first pale Fremont
ton of dawn In the sky, and as he
hurried on the light grew, and the
black trunks Of trees detached them
selves from the white mist that filled
the woods and which the dawn made
visible. There was light enough for
him to see that he was following the
trail left by the men, He emerged
upon the bank OF the Elk river, white
like the woods with its ghostly night
sweat
The duh beat 6f the child's heart
quickened as he gazed out on the
swift current that was hurrying on
with its dreadful secret. Then the
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-05-02
Miedom.

The Foolish Virgins regarded one
another ID blank dtsmay. I'VE are
out OF oil they exclaimed.
But the Wise Virgins had bought
for the rise. and now that the bulge
had come they were watching the
ticker excitedly
..Ten points upon the report that
the government will not prosecuted,
they cried gieefully.
Showing that where virginia n.inxle
in affairs. they win ind wisdom cuisS
helpful Puck 49,
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-05-02
foe,th Robbed Foroer q larv..,

Without doubt the most remarkable
estate In collection Of dead mems
chests" IL that Of Hermann Schnei-
der. He died some years ago on board
q steamship while on his way to En-
rope His .chest." outside some few
personal effects. consisted Of unm-
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-05-02
CHAPTER vi. (contInued.)

In the tavern the three men were
drinking -Murrell with the idea that
the more Yancy came under the IN
fiuence of Slosson,s corn whisky the
easier his speculation would be man
aged. Mr. Yancy ON his part believed
that If Murrell went to bed reason
ably drunk he would sleep late and
give him the opportunity he coveted,
to quit the tavern unobserved at
break OF day.
when yo' get to feelin' like sleep,
young boss, Mas'r Slosson he says
show yo' to yo' chamber" 1t was
SiOsson's boy Eph.
Eyes, you can show me my cham
ber," Hannibal said.
/. Eph secured tin candle-sttck with
half-burnt candle in 1t and led the
way into the passage back OF the bar
They mounted fight of stairs and
passed down a narrow hi. This
brought them to the back Of the
building, and Eph pushed open the
door on his right.
This heah's yo' chamber" he
said, and preceding his companion IN
to the room, placed the candle on
chair.
The moon was rising and Hannibal
went to the open window and glanced
out. For moment he considered the
night, not unaffected by its beauty,
then, turning from the window, he
moved his bundle and rifle to the
eoa& - a. Ie6 xubaro tbov would ha
out of his way, kicked OF his trousers,
blew out the candle and lay down.
Yancy had become more and more
convinced as the evening passed that
MurreIl was bent on getting him
drunk, and suspicion mounted darkly
to his brain.
Have drink with mel" cried Slos-
son, giving way to drunken laughter.
The captains dropped out, and |
low it's about time TO- these here
festivities to come to an end. I'm
thinking some of going to bed my
SELF" said Yancy. He kept his eyes
fixed on Murrell He realized that If
the latter could prevent it he was
not to leave the bar. He never shift
ed his glance from Murrell's face.
Scowling now, the captains eyes
blazed back their challenge as he
thrust his right hand under his coat.
Fair play--I don't know who you
are. but know what you want!" said
Yancy, the light in his frank gray
eyes deepening. MurreH laughed and
took forward step. At the same mo-
ment4 Slosson snatched up a heavy
club from the back of the bar and
dealt Yancy murderous blow. A
single startled cry escaped the
Scratch Hitler; he struck out wildly
as he lurched toward Murrell, who
drew his knife and drove it into his
shoulder. Yancy dropped heavily to
the floor.
How long the boy slept he never
knew, but he awoke with start and
a confused sense of things. 1t was
evidently very late. probably long
after midnight-but where was his
Uncle Bob?
He sank, back on his pillow intent
and listening. A chilling terror that
gripped him fast and would not let
him go, mounted to his brain.
Where was his Uncle Bob? Why
didn't he come to bed? Memories OF
idle tales of men foully dealt with in
these lonely taverns flashed through
his mind.
He slid from the bed. and for a
long moment stood cold and shaking.
his every sense on the alert. With
Infinite caution he got into his trous-
ers and again paused to listen, since
he feared his least movement might
betray him. Next he secured his
pack, and was ready for flight.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-05-02
Encumbered BIZ hia haIonpiflra b

ca~ns1x ~ xsxaa4u, .ArNeu4 ca-ns.vy
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-05-02

Why do you call Miss Hauteur.
Miss Zeroir
Because abe has such freeziax
uana1E
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