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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
Clements Story of the Rescue

Taken to the house of DIR. Lindsay,
Myrtle was for long time unconscious
and when she did recover consciousness
her nervous system had received such
a shock that she wandered continually
in her mind.
She was just at that age and of that
temperament liable to render such ex-
periences as she had recently passed
through destructive of the intellect IL
they do not cause death, and for some
days Myrtle was in precarious con-
dition.
Clement completed his letter to Su-
can, told her that since he began it he
had effected the rescue of "a person"
and told the story.
Susan showed the letter to Master
Gridley; she was sure Clement was al
most killed. and, as was customary
with her, weNt to the Master of Arts
in her distress.
"A person." thought Gridley he does
not say whether a boy or a girl Let
me see that date and the hour. Hum,
yes
Then to Susan, 81 think I will make
a trip to Alderbank and see II your
friend Clement is all right"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
BY
Oliver Wendell Holmes

OHbow and entered into an almost se-
cluded life with ner aunt and Cynthia
Badiam at The Poplars.
Bradshaw also returned to Oxbow and
continued mis- persistent attentions to
Myrtle. 3ut she held him off now,
sometimes even refusing to see him.
From Mrs. Kitty Pagan, who worked
for Miss Silence, Gridley learned that
there was some secret understanding
between Bradshaw and Cynthia.
Kitty Pagan was devoted to Myrtle,
disliked Cynthia and had come to re-
gard cridley N.Y. ties protector. So
to him she went with her story. and
Master Gridley tcld her to watch.
Kitty Pagan did watch-and she lis
tened. Bradshaw came to The Poplars
and saw Cynthia alone.
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Free at Last

When she had left the villageSfar behind
her, when the broad meadows began to
appear on every side, with the stars
above her and the stars shining in the
water below her so that she seemed to
be floating between two ornaments, she
felt that she was free! free! and broke
out into the only hymn they had taught
her which she ever liked and one which,
she felt, admirably suited to the oc-
casion, Sound the loud tymbrel DER
Egypts dark seas
And this was the reason that Oxbow
village awoke to sensation the next
morning and that no trace of the missing
girl could be found, though they searched
for several days and even sent men as
far as Boston to see il she had sought
the great city or taken ship there for
foreign parts.'
The Rev. Joseph Bellamy Stoker
preached a most improving" sermon on
the occasion, and his aged colleague, the
good old parson, the Rev. Eliphalet Penn
berton, busted himself in comforting those
that mourned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
Taking an Interest

There was one young man in Oxbow,
10 years older than Myrtle, who took
lasting and abiding interest in her. In
the event of certain contingencies he
had determined to marry her-and he
was cold calculating young man who
laid out for himself logical course of
action in life and followed it with ad-
mirable persistepcy.
- This was William Murray Bradshaw.
young lawyer, who had recently been
taken INTO partnership by Lawyer PEN
hallow, who left considerable of his
business in the hands Of his careful
and able young partner.
Lawyer Penhallow had had the set
ting up of the estate of Malachi With
ers, and was still prosecuting a claim
winch that estate had to large and val
liable lands in the west. Towns had
grown around the land, mines opened
near 1t and railroads built skirting 1t.
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The BEST PeopIe"

Miss Silence Withers, the aunt referred
to, was a spinster of uncertain age" and
OF the most orthodox and narrow minded
variety.
The Wthers family had lived in the old
homestead for many generations and the
big house was filed with old furniture
and old paintings. They were the best
people" in the village.
Myrtle's mother had married Captain
Hazard of the ship Orient Pearl, who
had taken his bride out to India, where
Myrtle was born and where both her
father and mother had died of the chol-
era.
Another sea captains wife. relative of
Captain Hazard, had brought back
the child, while still q mere baby
and turned it over to its natural pro-
tectors, Silence and Malachi Withers.
Malachi and his sister had inherited the
old house and considerable property and
money besides. and both were fond of
dwelling upon such cheerful subjects as
original sin and infant damnation, firmly
convinced that predestination had doomed
the Vast majority of people to the bot
tomless pit.
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Her Secret Revealed

GAS We go over" said he to the boy,
put your arms around me, under mine,
anc don't let 60"
A sliding away from beneath them
of the floor on which they stood as the
drop falls beneath the feet of felon
a great rush of air and mighty, awful,
stunning roar-an involuntary gasp, a
choking flood of water that came bel
lowing after them and hammered them
down into the black depths so far that
the young man, though used to diving
and swimming long distances under
water. Had well nigh yielded to the
fearful need of air and sucked in his
death in so doing.
But they came to the surface at last,
they reached the shore, the boy uncon-
scicus and borne by Clement He
loosed the ribbon that was around the
neck, he tore open the checkered shirt
the story of Myrtle Hazards sex was
told.
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Oxbow's Sensation

~ XBOW village was having a sensa-
tion. Myrtle Hazard had disap-
~ peared. The young men were out
in the woods searching for her and the
local poet Gifted Hopkins, had written
a poem which he wet with his tears for
the occasion.
The local paper, 1.-The state Banner and
Delphian Oracle" called by the villagers
the "Banneroracle," had printed adver-
tisements stating the fact, or facts, for
the poem was also mentioned, and implor-
ing some one, anyone, to bring back the
vanished girl.
Myrtle was Is years old, large for her
age. unusually developed, and promising
to grow into a great beauty.
She was piece of color in the other
wise deadly dull, prosaic life of the New
England village and lived with her aunt
at the old place close by the riverside
called the Poplars.
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ten filled with gold and silver. She took
that to herself and likewise a suit of
boys clothing which she found. She was
equipped for her voyage into the great
wcrld now.
AT night, alone in her chamber, she cut
Off her hair dressed herself in the boys
suit, put her money in her pocket, stole
out of the house, boarded her boat and
pulled out into the stream, which bore
her rapidly down toward the sea-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
Means of Escape

One day upon the banks of the river
above the house she found stranded
skin, which had been brought down
stream by freshet There was pair of
oars in it, She bailed it out and MD
1t in a creek beneath the overhanging
bushes.
Ir. spite Of the tragedy which had hap
pened in the great gloomy garrett Myrtle
often explored the flotsam and jetsam OF
generations In the shape of clothing,
trunks and furniture which had been left
there.
Once in trunk she found an old nit
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A Child of Sin

Malachi added to his amiable qualities
by becoming a miser, got the idea that
he was coming to want and ended by
hanging himself in the garret, where
the child Myrtle one day found him de-
pending from a hook
Miss Silence then took to live with her
a distant poor relation, Miss Cynthia Bad
lam. long past the prime of life, gloomy
and soured, and between the two spin
sters they set out to 'break the spirit
OF Myrtle and convince her that she was
"a child OF sin.'
But Myrtle had had among her anees-
tresses women whose characteristics she
seemed to have inherited, whose spirits,
she sometimes thought as she grew old
er actually took possession of her for
good or for evil.
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Seemed All a Mistake

Susan was so absolutely commonplace
so mediocre in every way, so unable
to understand his aspiration to partake
of his thoughts; what could such a
wife be but clog to him?
He shuddered at the thought of being
bound until death do us part to the
uncomprehending mediocrity of Susan
Posey. Yet he said to himself that he
was gentleman and would be loyal
to his engagement, whatever ii might
cost him.
One thing he did not perceive about
that letter-if he had it might have
given him a more cheerful view of the
situation-was that Susan. while she
wrote as If she regarded Clement some
thing great and far off to be worshipued
for wonderful qualities which she could
not understand, yet wrote right from her
heart when she spoke, as she did at
some length Of the ''sweet poetry of
Gifted Hopkins, even demanding of her
idol that he himself break forth into
rhyme for her.
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Holding the Whip Hand

The date was that of the finding OF
the twins on the 5oorsteps of the widow
Hopkins--what the words were does not
matter. But the effect upon Cynthia
was most alarming.
She half tainted, then wept. and when
she had become calmer admitted that
sho was in the power of Bradshaw--he
had been Industrious In gathering the
secrets of his partners law office--and
that he had forced her to conspire
against Myrtle.
She pi oduced the document. It was
fncJosed IN IN envelope sealed with the
firm seal of Penha1low & Bradshaw.
Gridley did not break the seal, but
took the packet to Mr.. Penha1low, who
did break it, and the two had long
consultation. Then an envelope, appar-
emily the same aui hearing the same
seal, was returned to CYNTHIA.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
Floating Downstream

Now leaving all the people of Oxbow
excited over the disappearance of Myr-
tie Hazard. let us hurry to catch up
with that frail skiff of hers in which
she was voyaging down the stream.
As the night wore on she became
filled with strange fancies. Once, when
she was passing a place where a mound
rising out of a meadow was clothed with
thick growth of old trees, she fancied
that she saw dim figures moving about
fire.
She looked and they were Indians,
men and women and among them was
her own duslly ancestress. And they
spoke to her and then faded away and
the dawn began to break.
Then she thought of that ancestress
of hers who had suffered martyrdom by
fire and who--it was a family legend
was wont to appear as the guardian
angel of her descendants in times of
peril, spiritual or physical
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man who had been teacher in a small
college and who had written a book called
Thoughts on the Universe" which had
died a-borning," and was read by no
one now except it's author, who delighted
in it.
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Outside Her Recollection

Before Myrtle left Oxbow for the
school the village had a visitor in the
person of Clement Lindsay, who came,
of course, to see Susan.
That was natural. and it was also
natural that he should be desirious of
seeing again the young woman whom
he had rescued from the angry wa
ters,
He met her at a party given by
the Eveleths and was introduced to her
by Bradshaw
Myrtle had no recollection of ever
having seen Clement before, but as soon
as she gazed upon Nm she felt a
strange choking sensation and almost
tainted.
They attributed her faintness to the
heat of the room, all but Bradshaw,
who looked on with scowl and saw
that there was some strange and in
explicable sympathy between them.
Only Gridley of all the people of Oxbow
knew that Clement was the man who
had rescued Myrtle, and he kept his
own counsel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
At School in Boston

Clements stay in Oxbow was short,
but he saw Myrtle several times and
went away, feeling in her alone lay the
power to add to the happiness of his
existence and TO complete his being
And with a sinking heart he felt
that he had grown farther and farther
away from Susan Posey.
Myrtle went to the school at Boston.
She seemed now to be fully under tho
influence of the spirit of her beautiful
ancestress. judith Pride. She had
found an antique gold bracelet of that
ancestress while iummaging in the at
tic at The Poplars and wore it as a
talisman.
Then she had reckless spells in which
she felt that the spirit of her Indian
ancestress was dominant in her. The
family guardian angel" martyred
Ann Holyoake, seemed far away from
her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
Twenty Miles Below

Twenty miles below Oxbow village a
youth of 19 arose with the early light
from his bed and. taking out a letter,
read it over and over again with a
sigh.
That letter was from none other than
susan Posey the widow Hopkins rela-
tive and boarder. The young man who
read the letter with a dubious shake
of the head was Clement Lindsay, a
student of architecture and a dabbler
IN sculpture and art generally.
lie was young man of great promise
from whom his preceptors expected great
things. His school was in Boston, but
he was on a visit to mis- native village
of Alderbank where, being an orphan,
lie was stopping at the home of his
uncle, DR.. Lindsay.
Three years before, Clement and
Susan had met and told themselves and
each other that they loved. Susan was
still of that opinion, but Clement had
begun to doubt.
In the past three years they had seen
little of each other and the young man
had broadened and developed had grown
mentally as we'll as physically and, as
he read poor Susans letter it was borne
in upon him that the boy and girl troth
which they had plighted was a great
mistake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
About to Propose

Time passed and she developed into
as great a beauty as her earlier years
had given promise of. Bradshaw went
often 40 Boston and saw much of her
at the house of d fashionable relative
of his whom he had asked to take up
the rural beauty, one Mrs. Clymer
I1etchum
The suit in the matter of the great
W1ther's claim in the west was about
20 be decided.
Bradshaw had somehow, Myrtle
scarcely knew how. come to be regard
ed almost in the light of her accepted
suitor. He had not formally "proposed''
as yet, but one night, at great enter
tainmert. he was just about to do so
hen a voice said: "Myrtle--Mr. Glenn
ent Lindsay"
1t was our Gridley who thus inter-
rupted, and though Bradshaw was an
noyed he felt that. after all, his pro-
posal would rave been trifle prema-
ture--the western suit had not been de-
cided yet. The result of that western
suit seemed. somehow to affect the
strength of his desire to marry Myrtle.
To Watch and Listen
Gridley was in Boston, having taken
Gifted Hopkins there that the bucolic
poet might consult publisher with re-
gard to getting out a volume of his
poems
Poor Gifted was distressed when he
found tina. his great genius was not, as
yet, ripe for the market place, but was
almost entirely consoled when Susan
Posey wept over him upon his return
to OxboW.
After her me@ting with Clement,
Myrtle seemed sud ienly to experience a
change of disposition. From the fash
ionable life in which she had begun to
shine - the belle Of Boston she fed to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
The Wanderer Returns

SO Gridley went to the village down
the river and brought Myrtle back to
her aunt's house. The girl was still
wandering in her mind. but showed
signs of improving. The past was con-
fused or a blank to her; of Clement
she had no recollection.
There was great sensation, OF
course, in the village at the return OF
the wanderer. The story given out at
The Poplars was that Myrtle had been
capsized while boating down the river,
had been rescued from the water, taken
to the house of a physician and cared
for by some kind woman there.
That was all--it was enough OF the
truth and it satisfied the gossips.
DR.. Fordyce Hurlburt was called.
Myrtle was hysterical and he discov-
cred that he was possessed of mag
netic or mesmeric touch which allayed
her hysteria.
He was alarmed when he realized the
hypnotic power which he seemed to
possess over the girl. He was also
alarmed to find that he was falling
madly in love with her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
On the Brink of the Falls

Clement sat down to reply to tn
letter and had completed page .
pretty cold love making when 4 or
for help came to his ears from tn
river which ran close by the house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
Too Attentive a Pastor

Master Gridley. watching shrewdly.
had a heart CO. heart talk with the doc
tor and persuaded him that he had bet
ter go to Boston on vacation and
leave his good father to attend to
Myrtle's case.
Then the Rev. Joseph Bellamy Stoker
became SO extremely attentive to this
young lamb of his flock that remarks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05

Next weeks one-page classic will tie
The Swiss Family Robinson" By
Johann Rudoff Wyss
Copyright 191S., by Irving King.)
BGosue RRg,Hed cmfwpyetaibosvxA .
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NJ WORLD OF
WORK AND PLEASURE

try mending them with surgical ad.
nesive plaster.
Tr yadding a leaf OF spinach to
"ater IN which peas are cooked; they
VIII Keep a good color.
u brown sugar on a sliced ham
before boiling II. The ham will have
a delicious flavor.
Cleaning a Chenille T~abIeeloth.
Almost the only safe of clean.
ing a chenille tablecloth will be nv
ory-cleaning II: Use a quart OF bran
or cornmeal, mixed with a handful OF
salt. Heat II In the oven without
screening II. then rub II well into ali
parts OF the cloth just as with suds
FINALLY roll up with the meal scattered
tnickly over all parts and put into a
closed box to stand for a day or two
then repeat the process and the sec
ond time should show a decided i'm.
provement effected In the cloth. For
any stains or obstinate soil marks
sponge with a little alcohol or hen
zlne. This will greatly Improve the
cloth. though 1t may not make II like
new. "Ao
Rhubsrb Wine.
Put the stalks through a meat
chopper. Measure five pounds n
add a gallon of cold water. a baI,-
ounce OF gelatin. and the grated rind
OF a lemon. Let stand three DAVIS ana
men add three pounds of sugar LET
IL terment as long as IL will. filling nm
Tor evaporation. Bottle and seal
Suburban Life.
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About People
movements ~ individuals 70 Ano|
From the City.

Miss Claire wIngerter. Miss Re-
gina Lutz OF this city. and Miss Ma
rian kenney OF Pittsburgh, left Sun
day for Atlantic city. where they will
spend a few weeks.
o J.. ]. Coniff and Mr.. Ambrose
List leave for Europe. where they
vii. spend six weeks touring the prn-
cipai cities.
c. W. Kreiter and family have n
cottage at the Moundsville camp
grounds for the remainder OF the
summer.
Miss Emma Gundling has gone to
Atlantic city for n few weeks.
Editor Allen Smith OF the Psrkers-
burg sentinel was shaking hands with
old friends here Saturday.
Mrs. Alex r. Campbell and daugh-
ter. Miss Juliet OF North Main street.
lett saturday for Atlantic city and
other eastern places OF interest.
Mrs. R"bina Eli and son. will de-
part for her western home. Portland.
ore. after I'VE years stay with her
uncre. Hugh Crockard.
Harry Pat;et OF M~oundsyille. has
been spending a few days In Zanes-
Vile on business.
After a visit with friends In Pleas
an; CITY. Miss Vera James and broth
'r. Fred James Of Wheeling. nave re-
turned home.
Miss Della Campbell ~ Mounds
vile. is the guest for "A few days OF
Miss Ethyl Kcyser of Elm Grove.
Mrs. Gus Terion' and son Of this
CITY. are guests Of TanesviIle. co.
friends.
II. II. Hunter of this city. was a
recent business caller in Grafton.
a. &. I.ittlcton. son and daughter
Of Toledo. o.. visited In this CITY last
week. They mad the trip in then
automobile.
J 4. CHIN. the local photographer.
left SATURDAY for Denver. Colo. FOR
a short visit.
Pro. r. n. Patterson Of New York.
the new principal ~ l.insly Institute.
has arrived here Ia take charge OF
ia" work Of rehabilitating the institu-
ton.
MIS-. Edward MrIl Of Elm Grove.
is tn" guest of her sister. Mrs.
Charles Phillips Of Calls. W. Va
Dr. Thomas r Hodges, president
of the state University at Morgan
town. was In his city Saturday en-
rou'e To Wolf Run. where he spoke
At the farmers reunion and picnic.
given under the auspices OF the Mod
ern No"dmen OF America.
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An enloyah.e dance vas given NJ 81
C1sirsville Saturday evening HE ar
rair was arranged late in tn. entnc
ana the yourg people soon decided 20
meet NJ the court house hall. uher. tho
dances are always given An orchestra
was z ged and rendered nurrnpr,,,e
music for The late society dances The
Following were among the young people
who attended
Misses M.ssr
Ruth Cordner. Hugn Bu-.on
IrHa NeH. Law renee Ierren.
rec Cowen. NR,ne NanCurcn.
itacheal Thor1as. RAY corirer.
Elizabeth Thomas, Waiter Fauca,t
Freda Van Horne. Harry Fo,r,r.r
Helen wtliia ne. Fine Miller
Cosete Work nan. Grose Nr,os
LIMA Stellars Marcus EIlrer.
Nilrs Alien ~ Ada Glenn RrpkaW.
ohlo- II. copeland.
Margaret Sh, pherd. Frank Williams
Ruth Johnston.
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Rrennen-nrcMiilnr

marriage Of Attorney O. Harold Bren-
men. Wheel'1g's solicitor. AMI Miss
Arteile Mcmillan. ~dauct'e- Of Mrs
Katherine Mcmillan. Of Mckce4port has
been made.
The marriage will 10 70 uuIct aTair and
VIII take place at the hoine 81 the bride :
mother. Iul' thtrteentr Nj MCMILLAN
rs 2 ohermirS young woman formerlV of
Washington. Pa. and Sc 4,if'" VOL known
IN this city. where she has been a IRE
que1t visitor
Mr.. Rrenron = a Era fuate ~ the
Washington & JeIersou college and al
so or Harverd Law school Ito is one ~
Wheeling's prominent ATTORNEYS and 4,
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Suggestions.


Spareribs should be parboIled be
Tore roasting.
Dreamed ca~ulihover, served in
green shells. is a pretty and tempting
dish.
IL is best to roast or chicken
wit hthe breast down. II will be more
Juicy.
For Is cents you can buy a little de-
vice designed for sprinkling clothes
evenly.
II n bag OF sulphur is kept in the
bird Gag 1t will drive away lice in
hot weather.
Leftover jelly of several different
kinds mixed together can be used for
cake filing.
Do not put salt in the water in
which peas are cooked. II will cause
the skins 10 crack.
When rubber gloves wear into holes
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nss Andre, MAY Thomas. daughter
snd Ms Henry l. Thomas. Of
Ecno Point. ant Mr. John cecil Zee were
uhited IN wedl"ck Saturday evening at :
$500 AT the nanse Of the First Pres
oyterian church The only a~tterdartS
Ssre MI. aud Mrs =. n. Tsnsy. Ir. Mr..
10 nrs Fee EFT on the : re- train for
N.antiS Sry and other eastern points.
.t wnlSh ~ 7ul mai. their home
IN sne Wlnom' TO a~rSrs-nentS.
rev. W: \ cook performed the cere-
inohy and ths bride was atcENd IN n
trhNenng suit OF brown cioth, with nat
and shoes to -orrerpond Her toGuuet
Vas = corsaU' bouquet Of white roses
~ rec holds "A lucrative position with
.ne Central Grail Company The follow
ING announcements werr .xtsnIed:
John cecil F--
and
Aud ey May Thomas
Married
Saturday. July the twelfth
nineteen hundred and thirteen.
A. Home
September first
Mlllometts Al trtments
Wheeling, West Virginia
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way TO use a-.eu pepps-..

Boil cup ~ rtre tili done. s-t on hack
or stove 10 steam One-qunrter pound
bacon sliced thin and cut in small pieces.
Try IN ln-ge skillet I'LL crisp and brown
aid one small onion cut M fine. add 70
bacon and fry I'LL onion becomes soft.
Ihen put two green peppers cut M fine
with bacon and onion. cover with I'D and
let cook slowly about eight minutes or
III peppers are thoroughly cooked Then
add 70 the Who'll" the rice. serving steam
Ing hot. ~Spriukl~d literally with paprika.