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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-04-04

knows yer. rs er.gwine ter make 20
nanny gi' ye de worses whippin'
yer eber got an rs gwine ter take
dis here William right ober ter Miss
Minerva. Amt y'all shame er yer
selves? Er tamperin' wild de ha'r
what de good Lord put on er colored
pusson's head an er-tryin' fer ter
scarify my feelln's like yer done. An
yer hear me. Is gwine see dat some
body got ter scarify yer hides"
IF that amt just like you, Billy"
said Jimmy, you all time got to per-
pose to make niger heads yeller and
you all time getting little boys in trou'
Bile. You bout the smart Alexist jack
rabbit they is"
"You perposed this here hair busi-
ness yoself, Jimmy" retorted his fell
low-conspirator "You's always blam.
in yo' meanness on somebody else
ever sence you's born"
"Hit don't matter who perposed
hit" said Sarah Jane firmly; mean.
ness has been did, an y gotter be
structified on de place pervided by
natur' fer ter let my chile erlone."
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to know more'n me and Miss Cecilia.
One time they's a man name William
Tell and he had a little boy what's
the cutest kid they is and the devil
come long and temp him. Then the
Lord say, William Tell, you and Adam
and Eve can taste everything they
is in the garden 'cepting this one ap'
pie tree; you can get all the pears
and bunnanas and peaches and grapes
and oranges and plums and persim,
mons and scalybarks and fig leaves
and bout a million other kinds of
fruit if you want to, but don't you
tech a single apple And the devil
temp him and say he going to put
his cap on a pole and everybody got
TO bow down to it for idol and if
William Tell don't bow down to it he
got to shoot apple for good or evil
m his little boys head. That's all
the little boy William Tell and Adam
and Eve got, but he amt going to fall
down and worship no gravy image on
top pole, so he put a tomahawk in
his bosom and he tooken his bow and
arruh and shot the apple plumb th'oo
the middle and never swinge hair
of his head. And Eve nibble off the
apple and give Adam the core, and
Lima all time 'sputing bout Adam and
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-04-04

where I is. Maybe II you'd put some
o. that on your head 'twould take the
curl out"
"'Tain't nothin' a-goin' to do It no
good" gloomily replied Billy. 'Twould
jest make It yeller'n what It's now.
Won't be a pretty sight when puts
on long pants with these here yaller
curls stuck on topper my headH I'd
'nuther sight ruther be bar-headed.' -
"Bennie Dicks got bout the kinki.
est head they is"
Bennie Dick was the two-yearold
baby of Mrs. Gamers cook. Sarah
Jane.
1T sho' is" replied Billy "WouldA't
he look funny If he had yaller lair,
cause his face is so black?"
81 know where the bottle is" cried
Jimmy, snatching eagerly at the sug
gestion. Let's go get it and put some
on Bennie Dicks head and see If it'll
turn 1t yeller."
Aunt Minerva don want me to &c
over to yo' house." objected Billy.
you all time talking bout Miss
Minerva won't let you go nowheres;
she sure is imperdunt to you. You
bout the 'fraidest boy they is.
Come on, Billy" pleaded Jimmy.
The little boy hesitated.
Il don't want to git Aunt Minerva'e
dander up any more'n Jest natchelly
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-04-04

was a Yankee man came long las
fall a-sellin' some stuff in a bottle
what he call 'No-To-Kink' what he say
would take the kink outer any mig.
gers head. An Aunt Cindy bought a
bottle fer to take the kink outer her
hair an me an Wilkes Booth Lincoln
put some on us heads an it jes' make
mine curlier'n what it was already rs
Shame to go roun' folks with my cap
Off, a-lookin' like frizzly chicken
Miss Cecilia say she like it though,
an We's engaged. We's goin' to git
married soon's puts on long pants II
How long you been here, Billy ?''
asked the other boy.
We'll, l don't know perxactly. but
been to Sunday-School four times
| got engaged to Miss Cecilia that
very frs Sunday, but he did n know
it tell l went over to her house the
mex day an tol' her bout it, She
say she think my hair is so pretty"
pretty nothin'," sneered his rival
"She JUS stuffin' you fulIer'n a tick
with hot air. 1t just makes you look
like girl. There's a young lady come
to spend a week with my mama not
long ago and she put somepin' on her
head to make it right yeller She left
the bottle to our house and | know
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-04-04

Eve and William Tell amt IN the
Bible They're our first parents"
"Sow, Billy. you tell tale and then
It will be my time." said Lima with Z
Observation-Disclosures air.
Once they was a or witch" said
Billy, what got outer her skin ev'y
night an lef' II on the berth an
turnt herself TO q great. big. black cat
an go up the chim'ly an go roun' an
Rde folks fer horses, an set on ev'y-
body's chis' an suck they breath an
kill 'em an then come back to bed
An can't nobody ketch her tell one
night her husban' watch her an he
see her jump outer her skin an drop
1t on the berth an turn to a'normous
black cat an go up the chim1y. An
he got outer the bed an put some salt
an pepper an vinegar on the skin an
she come back an turnt to oman
an try to git back In her skin an
she can't cause the salt an pepper
an vinegar mos burn her up, an she
keep on a-tryin' an she can't never
snuggle inter her skin cause it keep
on a burnin' worser n ever, an there
she is a oman 'thout no skin on. So
she try to turn back to cat an she
can't cause it's pas twelve erclock,
an she jest swivvle an swivvle tell
| finely she Jest swivvle all up. An
that was the las of the ole witch an
her husban' live happy ever after.
Amen"
"Once upon q time," said Lima,
there was beautiful maiden and she
was in love, but her wicked old pa,
rent wants her to marry rich old
man threescore and ten years old
which Is most all the old you can
get unless you are going to die; and
the lovely princess, said, No. father
you may cut me in the twain but
will never marry any but my true
love- So the wicked parent shut up
the lovely maiden in a high tower
many miles from the ground, and
made her live on turnips and she had
nothing else to eat; so one day when
she was crying little fairy few in
at the window and asked, Why do you
weep, fair one? And she said, "A
wicked parent hath shut me up and
l can't ever see my lover any more.
So the fairy touched her head with
her wand and told her to hang her
hair out of the window, and she did
and 1t reached the ground. and her
lover, holding a rope ladder in one
hand and playing the guitar and sing
ing with the other, climbed up by her
hair and took her down on the ladder
and his big black horse was standing
near, all booted and spurred, and they
rode away and lived happy ever
after"
How he goin' to clam up, Lima, y
asked Billy, with rope ladder in one
hand and his guitar in the other?"
81 don't know" was the dignifed
answer. "That is the way it is told
in my fairy-tale book"
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His PreferAnce.

A distinguished eye surgeon tells a
good story of his hospital days. Three
other young, newly Nfedged oculists
and himself were chatting in their
quarters in the hospital when the con-
versation turned, as was natural in
young men, upon the beauty OF differ
ent colors of eyes. One championed
the superior brilliancy and sparkle Of
the blue eye; another the depth and
fire of the brown, while the third was
all for the clear, cool light Of the
hazel. After they had exhausted their
eloquence, with the usual effect of con-
frming themselves in their original
opinions, the fourth young sawbones
suddenly broke in:
Il don't care hang about your blue
eyes, or your brown eyes. or your gray
eyes! Just give me sore eyes and
plenty of 'em-and I'll be happy!"
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NWWILLIAM GREEN HILLS
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when he come down some bad little
children say, Go long back, bald
head!' and they make pock-mocks on
him. Seems like everybody treat him
bad, so he cuss 'em, so / never see
anybody with bald head 'thout run,
cause don't want to get cussed. So
two Teddy bears come out of the
woods and ate up forty-two hunderd
of EN-"
why. Frances" reproved Lima,
you always get things wrong. l don't
believe they ate up that many chill
dren."
Eyes, they did too" championed
Jimmy, "'cause it's in the Bible and
Miss Cecilia 'splained all bout 1t to
me, and she's our Sunday school
teacher and bout the bullyest 'splain.
er they is. Them Teddy bears ate up
bout a million chillens, which is all
the little boys and girls two Teddy
bears can hold at time"
Il knows a man what ain't got nc
hair t all on his head" remarked
Billy; hes conjure-man an me
an Wilkes Booth Lincoln been talkin
to him ever sence we's born an he
amt never cuss US, an l amt never
got eat up by no Teddy bears neither
Huccome him to be bald? He's Out
in the fiep one day a'pickin' cotton
when he sees a turkey buzzard an he
| talk to her like this:
say turkey buzzard, say,
Who shall l see unexpected to
day.?
IF she flop her wings three times
you goin' to see yo' sweetheart, but
this-here buzzard amt flop no wings I
all; she jes' lean over an th'ow VI
on his head an he been bald evel
sence; ev'y single hair come out"
did you-all hear bout that Italian
Dago that works on the section gang
eating a buzzard?" asked Frances
"Naw," said Billy. Did it make
him sick?"
That 1t did," she answered; che
sent for Doctor Sanford and tells him
Me killa de big bird, me eat-a de big
bird, de big bird make-a me seek"
Them Dagoes bout the funniest
talking folks they is" said Jimmy
but they got to talk that way cause
it's in the Bible. They 'sputed on the
tower of Babel and the Lord say Con
found you'll Miss Cecilia 'splained il
all to me and she's bout the dandies
splainer they is"
You may tell your tale now
Jimmy" said Lima.
"I'm going to tell bout William Tel
cause he's in the Bible" said Jim
my. Once they's a man name
William Tell isn't in the Bible,
declared Lima
"Yes, he is too," contended the lit
tie boy, Miss Cecilia 'splained it tc
me. You all time setting yourself VI
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-04-04
SHE QUIT COFFEE
And Much Good Came From It..

1t is hard to believe that coffee will
put a person in such a condition as 1t
did a woman of Apple Creek, O. She
tells her own story:
81 did not believe coffee caused my
trouble, and frequently said l liked
it so we'll l would not quit drinking it,
even if it took my life, but was a
miserable sufferer from heart trouble
and nervous prostration for four years.
Il was scarcely able to go around at
El1. Had no energy, and did not care
SSr anything. Was emaciated and had
s. constant pain around my heart until
! thought l could not endure it. I
teit as though l was liable to die any
time.
Frequently had nervous chills and
SSo least excitement would drive sleep
away, and any little noise would up
set me terribly. l was gradually get
ting worse until finally one day, It
zane over me, and l asked myself
what is the use of being sick all the
tine and buying medicine so that /
can indulge myself in coffee?
$50 thought / would see If I could
quit drinking coffee, and got some
Postum to help me quit. l made it
strictly according to directions, anG
l want to tell you that change was the
greatest step in my life. It was easy
to quit coffee because l had the
Postum which like better than l
liked the old coffee. One by one the
old troubles left, until now l am in
splendid health, nerves steady, heart
all right, and the pain all gone. Never
have any more nervous chills, don't
take any medicine, can do all my
housework, and have done great
deal besides.
"My sister-in-law, who visited ne
this summer had been an invalid for
some time, much as / was. got her
to quit coffee and drink Postum. She
gained FIVE pounds in three weeks,
and never saw such change In any
ones health"
There's reason"
Ever rend the above Ietter9 A new
one appears from time 10 time. They
are genuine, trues and full OF human
t1tereat.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-04-04
CHAPTER Viii.
TeIIers Of Tales.

The days flew rapidly by. Miss
Minerva usually attempted to train
Billy all the morning, and by the mid
day dinner hour she was so exhausted
that she was glad to let him play in
the front yard during the afternoon.
Here he was often joined by the
three children whose acquaintance he
had made the day after his arrival,
and the quartet became staunch
friends and chums.
All four were sitting in the swing
one warm spring day, under the sur
vei1lance of Billy's aunt, sewing on
the veranda.
Let's tell tales" suggested Jimmy.
''All right" agreed Frances. I'll
tell the first. Once there's"
Nav, you amt neither" interrupt
ed the little boy. You all time talk
ing bout you going to tell the first
tale I'm going to tell the first tale
myself One time they S."
"No, you are not either" said
Lima positively. Frances is a girl
and she ought to be the first if she
wants to. Don't you think so, Billy?"
~Yas, does" championed he; "go
on, Frances"
That little girl, thus encouraged,
proceeded to tell the first tale:
"Once there S man named Mr..
Elisha. and he had friend named
Mr.. Elijah, so his mantelpiece fell on
top of his head and make him per
fectly bald; he hasn't got a single
hair and he hasn't got any money,
cause mama read me bout he rented
mis- garments, which is clo'es, cause
he didn't have none at all what be-
long to him. / spec he just rented
him a shirt and a pair O. breeches
and wore 'em next to his hide thout
no undershirt at all. He was dreadful
poor and had a miser'ble time and
mean Mr.. Per'dventure took him up
On high mountain and left him, so
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CHAPTER WI.-continued.

About this time the defrauded fowl
new from her nest and attempted TO
get cut by her rightful exit. Find
fng It stopped up by a wriggling,
squirming body she perched herself
on the little boys neck and tapped
her enraged wings in his face.
PULL" yelled the child again, help
me th'oo, Billy, fore this fool chicken
pecks all the meat off m my bones"
BiAy grabbed the sticky limbs and
gave a valient tug, but the body did
not move an inch. Alas, Jimmy with
his cargo of broken eggs was fast
imprisoned.
Pull again!" yelled the scared and
angry child. you bout the idjetest
Sdiet they is If you can't do no better
n that"
Billy jerked with all his strength,
but with no visible result.
Pull harder! You no-count gump!"
screamed the prisoner, beating off the
hen with his hands
The boy on the outside, who was
strong for his years, braced himself
and gave a mighty wrench of the
other child's stout extremities. jim
my howled in pain and gave his
friend an energetic kick.
~Lemme go!" he shrieked, you old
tmpe 'dunt backbiter. I'm going to
tell Miss Minerva you pulled my legs
out by the roots"
A small portion Of the prisoners
blouse was visible. Billy caught hold
OF it and gave a strong jerk. There
was a sound Of ripping and tearing
ard the older boy fell sprawling on
his back with a goodly portion of the
younger child's raiment in his hands.
Nov see what you DONE" yelled
the victim of his energy, you ain't
got the sense of a buffalo gnat Oh,
Ohi This hole is bout to cut my stom'
ach open"
Hush, Jimmy" warned the other
child. Don't make so much noise.
Aunt Minerva II hear you"
Il want her to hear me- screamed
Jimmy. You d like me to stay
stuck in a chicken hole all night. Oh!
Oh! oh!"
The noise did indeed bring Billy's
aunt out on a tour of investigation
She had to knock a plank off the hen
house with an axe before Jimmys re
lease could be accomplished. He was
lifted down, red. angry, sticky, and
perspiring, and was indeed a sight to
behold.
Billy got to all time perpose some
thing to get little boys in trouble,
he growled. "and got to all time get
tem stuck in a hole in chicken
house"
my nephews name is William,
corrected she.
you perposed this here yo'self!'
cried an indignant Billy. me an
Wilkes Booth Lincoln don know moth
in t all bout no rabbits eggs sence
we's born"
cit doesn't matter who proposed it,
said bis aunt firmly. you are going
to be punished, William. | have just
finished one Of your night-shirts. Come
with me and put it on and go to bed
Jimmy, you go home and show your
self to your mother"
''Pick up yo' shirt-tail offer the
groun' what tore off, Jimmy" ad
Vised Billy, "an' take it home to 20
ma Aunt Minerva" he pleaded, fol
lowing mournfully behind her, please
don't put me to bed; the major he
don go to bed no daytimes; won
never get me no mo- eggs to make
rabbits eggs outer"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-04-04
Pay for the French Names

as persons who turn up their noses
at eggs with grated cheese, rs cents.
but go into ecstasies over oeufs a la
reine, s1-exactly the same dish" TO
descend little in the scale, says Mr.
Ward, beef and" establishments are
highly profitable; fact which, as be
points out, goes to show that il these
can coin money at five and ten cents
throw" the others can do better.
There is uudeniably a deal OF sound
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-04-04

your medicines to all suffering women. |"
Mrs. MARY HALsTEAD, Platea, Pa,
Box SO.
Here is the report Of another genuine
case, which still further shows that Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
may be relied upon.
Walcott, N. Dakota. .-"I had inham-
nation which caused pain in my side,
and my back ached all the time. Twas
30 blue that felt like crying if any one
even spoke to me. l took Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I
began to gain right away. / continued
its use and now am a well woman. "
- Mrs. AMELIA DAHL, Walcott, N.
Dakota.
If you want special advice write to
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOntl.
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by q
woman and held in strict confidence.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-04-04
Steel Tuberculosis.

"Redmanite" is yellow substance.
like sulphur, and named after its dis
coverer, which, 1t is said. may prove
a preventive of steel tuberculosis. :"
steel tuberculosis" it seems. is the
name OF the chemical process which
affects the frames of skyscrapers. and
will cause the tallest and mightiest
of them to crumble and totter within
SO years. T. cheerful scientific prophets
are to be believed. "Redmanite" may
not do ali that is claimed for it. but
at present there are high hopes in
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-04-04

NlSlI when the gate opened, ana
Lima and Frances, their beloved dolls
in their arms, came skipping in.
Jimmy, who had had a difference
with Billy and was in the sulks on
his own side of the fence, Immediately
climbed over and joined the others
in the swing. He was lonesome and
the prospect Of companionship was
too alluring for him to nurse his an
ger longer.
"Auut Minerva's gone to the Aid
Society,"" remarked the host Don't
y all wish 1t met ev'y day Std 'er
jes' me,etin' ev'y Monday?"
Eyes l do" agreed Frances. you
can have so much fun when our ma.
mas go to the Aid My mama's gone
too, so she left me with Brother and
he's whiting love letter to Ruth
Shelton, SO | slipped off"
Mother has gone to the Aid, too"
said Lima.
my mama too," chimed in Jimmy,
"she goes to the Aid every Monday
and to card parties nearly all the
time. She telled Sarah Jane to tend
to me and Sarah James asleep | hear
her snoring. Amt we glad there amt
no grown folks to meddle? Can't we
have fun?"
"Whatll we play?" asked Frances,
! who had deliberately stepped in a
mud puddle on the way, and splashed
mud all over herself, Tets make mud
pies"
Nav, we amt a-going to make no
mud pies" objected Jimmy. we can
make mud pies all time when grown
folks r. looking at you"
Lets play sumpin' what we amt
never play, sense we's born" put in
Billy.
Il hope grandmother won't miss
me-" said Lima. she's reading a very
interesting book"
Lets plan Injun!" yelled Jimmy;
I'VE amt never play Injun."
This suggestion was received with
howls Of delight.
MY mama's got a box Of red stuff
J that she puts on her face when she
goes to card parties. She never puts
none on when she Just goes to the
Aid. | can run home and get the box
to make us red like Iniuns," said
| Frances.
MY mother has a box of paint,
too"
Il amt never see Aunt Minerva put
no red stuff on her face" remarked
Billy, disappontedly.
Miss Minerva, she don't never let
the Major come to see her, nor go to
no card parties, is the reason" ex
planned the younger boy, "she Just
goes to the Aid where they amt no
men, and you don't halter put no red
on your face at the Aid. Wen let
you have some Of our paint, Billy
My mama's got bout a million diff'ent
kinds"
I'VE got to have pipes" was Fran
cess next suggestion.
I MY papa's got bout a million
pipes" boasted Jimmy, but he got
'em to the Office, spec'."
Father has a meerschaum"
Aunt Minerva amt got no pipe. >
Miss Minerals bout the curiousest
woman they is" said Jimmy; "she
amt got nothing tall; she amt got
no paint and she amt got no pipe
Ladies don't use pipes, and We
can do without them anyway" sale
Lima, but we must have feathers; al
Indians wear feathers"
"T'll get my mama's duster," sale
Jimmy.
ME, too," chimed in Frances.
Here Billy with flying colors came
to the fore and redeemed Miss Miner
vas waning reputation!
Aunt Minerva's got great, bis
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sense in Mr.. Wards arraignment OF
ultra-fastidious person who ecstaticaily
pays rs cents for food and rs cents
additional for French name to go
with it, The person of that tempera-
ment is evidently convinced that grub
by a more genteel name would taste
as sweet. and is determined to eat 1t
by the other name. cost what it may.
Why eat "vittles" when. by merely
paying a quadrupie price. one may
have nourriture? Why. indeed! II
French names for Yankee dishes serve
best to keep in circulation the moRsg
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Kansas. where its discoverer. young
Mr.. Redman, dwells.
Breaking a Wisdom Monopoly.

I'm afraid the country suffered .
great loss when they failed to send
our eloquent and able friend back to
congress" Not at all" replied Sena
tor Sorghum. "The sense of the plain
people again prevailed. Why should
the lecture platforms De robbed that
the brainy men may be assembled to
listen to one another. wheye insTae.
tion is superfiuons?"
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Pretty Dirty.

Once year the newsboys Of Lon
don are given an outing some place
on the Thames river where they can
swim to their hearts content AS one
little boy was getting into the water
his little friend said:
Johnnie. you're pretty dirty!"
YES" replied Johnnie, Il missed the
train last ear."--Success Magazine.