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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
SYNOPSIS.

Agatha Redmond, opera singer. starting
for an auto drive in New York. finds a
stranger sent as her chauffeur. Leaving
the car, she goes into the park TO read
the will Of an old friend OF her mother.
who has left her property. There she Is
acoosted by a stranger. who follows her
to the auto, climbs in and chloroforms
her. James Hambleton OF Lynn, Mass.
witnesses the abduction OF Agatha Red
mond. Hambleton sees Agatha forcibly
taken aboard a yacht. He secures tug
and when near the yacht drops over
board. Aleck Van Camp. friend OF Ham
bleton. had an appointment with him. Not
meeting Hambleton he makes call upon
friends, Madame and Miss Melanle Rey-
nier. He proposes TO the latter ana Is re-
fused. The three arrange coast mp
on Van Camps yacht. the Sea Gun.
Hambleton wakes up on board the Jeanne
pArc, the yacht on which is Agatha
Redmond. His clothes and money Delt
have been taken from him lie meets
man who introduces himself as Monsieur
Chatelard who Is Agatha's abduct0r.
They fight. but are interrupted by me
sinking OF the vessel. Jimmy and Agatha
are both abandoned by the crew. VINO
take TO the boats Jimmy ana Agatha
swim for hours and finally reach snore
In q thoroughly exhausted condition he-
covering slightly, the pair find Hand, Inc
chauffeur who assisted In Agathas ap-
duction. He agrees to help them. jim ~
delirious and on the verge OF death. hahd
9oes for helm.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
rugged, and finally It curved over the
distant fields.

rugged. and finally II curved over the
distant fields.
But the old red house was the tails
man that brought back to her mind
the familiar picture. She wondered
IL 1t lay over the hill beyond that
rugged road. She closed her eyes
and saw the green fields. the mighty
balm-of-gilead tree, the lilac bushes,
and the dull red walls OF the house
standing back from the village street,
not far f. I'm the white-steepled church.
She could see 1t all, plainly. The
thought came to her suddenly that II
was home. 1t was the first realization
she had of old Hercules Thayer's
kindness. 1t was home for her who
had else been homeless. She Rugged
the thought in thankfulness
Now. Miss Agatha Redmond, II
you will come"
The eternity had ended; and time.
with its swift procession Of hours and
days. had begun again.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07

advantageously converted into a book
case by having a carpenter set up a
vertical board on each side of the
door-jamb and upon these boards-to
the saving Of the door-frame itself
nail the cross-piece upon which the
book-shelves are to rest Then have
your woodwork painted or stained to
match the door behind it, and hang a
curtain of canton flannel. denim. or a
more ornamental and servicable ma
terisl from a rod fastened just inside
the door-jambs. II the recess be good
and deep; If shallow, as the dorset
tings- are apt to be in our newer
houses. have the rod fastened across
the outside of the door-recess. A
door thus treated will accommodate a
surprising number of books.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
TO MAKE STANCRlON DEVICES |
Will Enable Any Man to Arrange
Convenient Bars.

To make the closing device take
and four inches long; bore half inch
hole through thsm edgewise. nail one
to each of the stanchions. and one
to each post forming the other side of
the stanchion.
Take a threeeighths inch rope, put
1t through the hole in the stanchion
No. 1 and tie a knot; pull it through
the block on the first post and meas
ure to the next stanchion. tie another
knot and pull through block. and so
on to as many stanchions' as you
have. The stanchions should all be
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
Wouldn't Do.

Here's some nice fresh Holsters,
num-"
mo fresh Holsters for me. Have
you some that are not freshr
why. mum. everybody insists on
having fresh lobsters."
MY sister Is visiting at our house
and she says fresh Holsters give her
a pain"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
Soil for Vegetables.

Soils that are heavily MANFRED for
cabbage, lettuce. celery and other
crops will not need very much manure
the following year when planted with
tomatoes, peppers and root crops, es-
pecially If a fair amount Of CONNER
cial fertilizer is used.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
Selecting Matching Eggs.

Great care should be exercised that
breeding stock. young chicks or eggs
for Matching be secured from fiocks
which are free from white diarrhoea
infection.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
Good Vegetables.

Golden Bantam. sweet corn. Swiss
chard, Golden sch. tlanching celery,
purple eggplant, Kohl Rabi, White
Japan muskmelon, Sweet Hear water
melon are all vegetables that are
worth trying
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
Unpopular Farming.

Scientific farming" is unpopular Dc
cause it is misunderstood and often
misapplied. But 1t is so simple ana
SO easy to learn that the wonder ID
that it is not more used
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
Political STYLES

Who's going to head the local
ticket?"
The boys want a change"
Yes, know. We've been having
Judge and colonel. suppose this
years styles call for a professor and
a surgeon. hey?"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
Rearing Ducks.

The duck is one of those creatures
that Gamble reared without water, but
ducks will be more profitable and do
better where they are allowed to fol-
low out the lines laid down by nature.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
Market Fowls Early.

There is more profit in getting the
fowls to market early. Prices are .oee
ter, and then there is saving ~
feed
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
Gravel for Fowls.

Sarp gravel should always be sup
piled to fowls that are kept in con-
finement
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
Unused Doors

With slight trouble and small ex-
pense an unused door may be most
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-07
A Great Help.

The poets task would be as hard
AS any ever seen,
II cruel fate forbade the bard
To use the phrase "I ween."
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
THE CASE OF HARRY THAW.

From its beginnings, the Thaw case has been a
disgrace to American administration of criminal law
The two trials the charge of murder were bowling
tarces. In one he saved by a hung jury; in the
second he acquitted on the ground of insanity
and ordered TO an asylum. When he went there il
as in everybody's mind that or later by legal
,echnicality corruption such a coup as has al
last been effected, he would get his freedom. His
there has been marked by efforts corruption
in his behalf, and one head of the Matteawan inst
luton retired under cloud because of one effort
in his behalf
Thaw is the precise kind of dangerous person who
ught not to be turned loose upon the public If by
rason of insanity he is not properly to be subjected
70 the penalty of murder, he is yet, for that very
ason, a more dangerous person to turn loose than
ne murderer in whose behalf the insanity plea could
OF be urged. His unresrained uncomfortable mind
-eekS with the abnormalities that make him liable to
commit another hideous crime at any time oppor-
Unity and the inspiration of his mad hatreds happen
,5 confront him with the victim whom his afflicted
ind may have pitched His case has been in the
ublic mind and the public print without ceasing
he expected has happened. Everybody will suspect
i'll sneer will comment that of course it could not
ave been thus if he had not had money TO fight
md plot for him. Money is all too potent in our
E~ocesses Of justice and the Thaw case is partcu-
arly vicious and degrading illustration of the fact.
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
Society interested in
HiII-CarroII Wedding

Those few member of social Washing.
ton who have not fed the city for the
summer are much Interested in the re.
ported "re-engagcment'' Of Major John
Philip Hill, of Baltimore and Miss Su.
zanne Carroll. the beautiful rcat-grand-
daughter of Charles Carroll, of Carroll
ten. one Of the slgncrs of the Declara-
ton of Independence.
The Hi!l-Carroll wedding was to have
taken place June y. Early in June the
invitations were recalled and announce
ment made that the wedding was in
definitely postponed. Great secrecy was
maintained by all parties as to the rea-
son for this step and intimate friends
Ot those involved declared there would
never be a marriage
The rumOred engagement" of the
couple is occasiOned by the presence of
Major Hill at the Buena Vista Spring
Hill where Miss Carroll and her mother
are staying.
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
HERR AUGUST BEBEL.

In a government like Germany's where the min
try is not responsible to the sentiment of the legs-
alive body, effective parliamentary leadership is not
at all, what it is, for example, in France Herr Bebel
night thunder and reason and denounce but the
government could not be turned out of office by any
lever trick or turn. 1t must be mined and sapped
md invested. Bebel, in France, might have been
as much terror to ministries as CIemenceau has
been, and Clemenceau in Germany would probably
have been quite incapable of building up the power
which has grown into the German Socialist party un-
Ger August Ferdinand Bebels leadership.
Bebel died last week in Switzerland, and the
tribute paid to him by loving and devoted people
whom he had served all his life, was such as a
King might be proud to know would be his part al
the end of his reign. He was beloved by the plain
reope, lot only of Germany, but of all Europe for
they recognized that his fight for humanity and
its toiling masses everywhere; for the hewers OF
wood the drawers Of water the real bearers of the
loads that mtarsm imposes on the backs of the
masses of Europe.
The man had a parliamentary career coeval
with the life of the German empire. He sat in
parliament practically all the time from 1871 down
to his death, save when he was from time to time
locked in Jail for saying things that the government
didn't like, which time he devoted largely to writings
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
THE BICHLORIDF CRAZE.

Since the death of Georgia banker in dramatic
circumstances, following the accidental swallowing of
6ichloride of mercury, there has been hardly day
when the news dispatches have failed to record
another tragedy of the kind, suicide or accident
odays news tells of young man in Baltimore who
committed suicide taking the fatal dose week ago
and expiring Sunday night
Mankind is VIGOROUSLY initiative especially its
1eranged portion but what strange perversion can
make would-be suicide adopt this method of nger-
1g DEATH prolonged suffering, and mental agony, is
teyond understanding Morbidity is a strange disease
that might we'll be sub bected to scientific analysis.
The Washington times., 1913-08-18

OSbbtdts
Ii, letter carriers in the United
| ~ States are under the supervision
~ of the Federal Government.
And all vacancies are filled by
the United States Civil Service Com
mission. An examination must be passed
by every American citizen who desires
| to enter this service.
Little or no previous training is re-
| quired before one can take up the Work
of a letter carrier. a common school
| education Is sufficient to enable one TO
pass the examinat ton held by the Civil
| Service Commission. All positions are
| tiled from the eligible lists as vacancies
! occur.
OF the personal qualifications the most
| important are promptneSS, obedience to
duSy, and the ability as we'll as the
willingness to stand exposure to all
kinds of weather. This last is very
| important matter. For the man VINO
cannot 90 about in all kinds of weather
| with reasonable safety TO his health
should not undertake the work.
The postman should also be skillful
in deciphering all kinds of handwriting.
II will help him in his work and en-
| hance his efficiency. Carefulness In de-
livering mail is of great importance,
since valuable letters often pass through
| the postman's hands.
New York letter carriers receive a
salary of $500 per year at the start. The
pay is then raised with time and eff
ficiency until the maximum of 1920 IS
reached. An annual vacation of two
weeks with pay is granted every post
man. The salary varies in different
places. There is no retirement pay for
these or any other civil service en-
ployees of the United States Govern
ment.
Letter carriers are not appointed to
positions as soon as they have passed
successfully the required examinations.
Each man serves usually as a substi
tute first receiving 30 cents per hour for
the actual number of hours given to the
service and cents for every special de-
livery letter they carry to its destina-
tion. When vacancies occur these are
filled In rotation among the substitutes.
Sometimes a man is lucky and gets into
the service after short delay. At
other times he must wait fer a con-
siderable time before he gets a regular
appointment
II YOU desire to take up the work of
pOstman all you need is to pass the
civil service examination and qualify
for the position. A little patient waiting
will bring the desired appointment.
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
What's on the Program, in
Washington Today

Concert by United States Marine Band,
L. 5. Marine Barracks, 4:SO p. m.
Concert by United States Soldiers
Home Band. Bandstand. $50 p. m.
Meeting of Unity Council. Independent
Order Sons of Jonadab, to perfect ar
rangements for River View excur-
sion.
Unoin, Typographical Temple, IL.
495 G street northwest. p. m
Meetings evening:
Masonic-Potomac Lodge, No. 5, Ben
jamin B. French, No. Is. Anacostia,
No. u, Pentalpha, No. q, and Mt.
pleasant. No. 80; Orient Commandery,
No. knights Templar.
Red Nen-Osage Tribe, No. s, Fifth
and G streets northwest.
knights Of Pythias-EQual Lodge, No
II Amaranth, No. Is, and Century,
No. 30; monthly meeting, Past Chiefs
Association. Pythian Sisters.
Golden EagIes-Cyrus Castle, No. l,
623 Louisiana avenue northwest
National Union - Potomac Council.
Pythian Temple; Central Council,
Perpetual Building Association hall.
Odd FeIlows-UniOn Lodge, No. II,
Covenant No. Is; Langdon. No p;
and Beacon, No. Is; Naomi, No. l.
and Ruth. No. ., Rebekah Lodges,
social sessions
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
How MiIIiOnaireS
Got Their Start
Charles NJ. SchUdb.

At twelve he drove a country
~ stage at Loretto, Pa He did it
~ because the family finances
forced him to make living for
himself At seventeen he was clerk n
a country grocery at $3.50 week For
tune, n the shape of an official in a
nearby steel company, dropped in at
the grocery one day. Young Schwab
asked him far a job-and got it. A job
as stake driver for an engineering
corps at S6 a week. In half a year
Schwab was chief of that same corps.
He worked his way upward to the
superintendency of the Edgar Thomp-
son Steel Works. and thence, in R92.
when he was thirty, to the superintend-
ency Of the Homestead works Carnegie
was attracted by the young mans per
sonaiity, his knowledge of steel, his
genius for work, and for organization.
And Schwab became one of the Steel
Kings partners. 4 little later the ex-
grocery clerk was made president of
the Carnegie Steel Company at a salary
of $5Q,OoOSa year and with an interest IN
the business.
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
REASONS FOR "UNDREss" DRESSES.

Denver scientist defends the regime of slit
skirts, no underskirts diaphanous clothes, and the
Ike on hygienc grounds. They
Permit freer air circulation
Impose less weight the hips, and so prevent
backache and kidney troubles.
Permit dust more easily to reach the person,
hecessitating more frequent bathing.
Allow freer movement of the person.
Save labor and cost in materials, washing, and
ironing.
= Excellent reasons. But the real one is that the
ladies like these fashions and when woman
ILL., she WILL whether she wills to vote or to undress
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
CondueStS of Constance
BIZ AIasa Woodward

out fer me when I DO KNOW. I'm a
regular white hope when I get goin' I
got my muscle frum tn next conquest
on tn list.
His name wuz Hiram, an even
though he wuz born down in tn old
Fourth ward he thought he ought to live
up to his name an be a farmer. So he
bought a farm up in Connecticut frum
Il agent. an he made me take a trip
up there to look it ever.
We'll. say, that farm wuznt nothin'
out Il layer NV white oak hay, entirely
corcealin' a quarry. But he sez he
could till that soil all right an raise
things. too. There bein' no soil on tn
horizon. I'd "a thought he'd "a raised
considerable down in tn agents office,
but he went ahead an laid in a stock
Nv farmin' implements an began to
engrave things on those Connecticut
pebbles with plow. l toP him he'd
make more money openin' a tombston,.
foundry, but he wouldn't listen to me.
so one day a farmer, haulin' a load
NV dirt, had breakdown right in front
Nv tn place. An Hiram went am
sprinkled tn dirt in between tn cracks
in some rocks. an sure enough ne
raised a couple Nv radishes.
l HSIl NutLc NuE io HOIulH MIN. lie
made up his mind he wuZn't goin' TO
waste HIS farm on common things like
potatoes an corn an tomatoes. No. He
wuz goin' to grow iuXuries, like arti-
chockes an endive an alligator pears
an probably n tripe vine or a prune
hatchery. too, an make a fortune.
An when he had his fortune made
We wuz goin' to get married an I'd be
the farmerette. That wuZ accordin' 20
HIS readin' Nv the stars. But by gosh!
when ne got to figurin' how many chins
I'd have by the time he'd coax a alli-
gator pear out NV one Nv them young
boulCers | got discouraged. So I pur-
posely lost track Nv where l put my
ten-trip ticket up there"
The Washington times., 1913-08-18

that were even more effective than his parliamentary
service.
Bebel was one of those men who perfectly under
stand how slow humanity is learn the possibilities
of any order save that to which it is accustomed He
did not hate the tories but he worked endlessy to
convince them. He was Socialist through and
through but he was at times so practical witha that
he often had to fight his party as we'll as its
enemies. Thus, it largely due to his leadership
that the Socialists voted for the increased armament
plans of the German government He maintained that
this good politics and patriotism in the circum
stances, though no man hated war and the taxing
of the people to maintain war establishments more
than he
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
Good Stories
The Climax.

~ HERE is a tale told in every big
house party in ireland about an
incident in the seventies \
peer and peeress. in their own
country house, were seated at lunch
with fheir daughter. who was not on
the hest Of terms with them. when she
hroke a long silence by observing:
Mother. | was married this morn
The peeress bore the news with a Sc
we're aspect and observed in chilling
'o"e "et least. before telling such a pri-
vate matter. you might wait until
lanes Uhc foOtman) leaves the room .
,.But. mother. it is James | mar
r"-NeWark Star.
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
Farmer
Hiram

vT takes all kinds wv shy domes
- to make a nuttery. don't it?
Constance giggled and smoothed
the powder on her nose.
Gee. if this here joint amt reglar
observation tower fer simps, I'll take
the count, There amt a day passes
but we get one new variety NV kink in
tn koko. AS l have often said. If
only had the power TO produce pen
nifrle Id make my fortune in NEE
molrs!'
You seem to be having an elegant
time all by yourself" I complained.
..Suppose you spread the glad tidings.
= Here's a dame what hasn't got the
Reno dust all cOld-Creamed out NV her
complexion yet" she began, with keen
eniovment, AN her eX-scream an
nounces he's goin to do an dare again.
-th' second bein' tn third tra-la-la in
m first row NV The Melancholy Maid.
So ius' cause she's got rep Ter
doin' original things an bizarre (some
word whatJ Friend Wife goes an gets
nm a swell announcement luncheon fer
tn successor to her place at IN loot
nv the table. Givin ii right here. in
IN, canary room. mind yuh. an all tn
guests is old friends NV her husbands.
Wen. when | heard 1t, | sez' II that $
bizarre. let me buy my goods az
rer'Iar store. Amt IL tn limit? Why,
next thing tn womenll be putting ads.
in m papers fer hubby's next. eX-
nIainin' his good qualities an inter
yiewin' all applicants themselves. be-
fore they cut tn hawser an set him
adrift"
Wouldn't you be as considerate?" 1
Queried.
Me? Why, even II he wuz bitter
memory to me Id muss up her face so
bad she d have to have her features re-
planted, go on tn principle that what
/ don't know won't hurt me. But look
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
A COST-OFLIVING IDEA.

Corn has gone up to altitude records, and is still
,oing Meat is going right along with it, and there
S intimaton that steaks will get to 81 cents the
round, while ham will be an exotic.
Yet we notice that the other chief product of corn
whisky, manages to keep right on selling at the
tandard price of IS cents, two for quarter and the
customer still pours his drink.
Sirloin ham, and highbalis are the leading prod
lets of corn Why does siroin soar while the high
ball hestates? There's question for the economists
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
Hedgeville
Editor
By John I. Hobble

Exc Reynolds says that every mans
idea of a decent income Is twice a.
much as he is getting.
When some men get kicked they
apologize for being in the way.
The less sense an animal or anybody
Rev Frost says that the man who
gets mad when he shouldn't Is no worse
than the one who doesn't get mad when
he should
Deacon Quarts says that the only way
an honest man can get along IN this
world is to marry a rich widow.
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
AmuSementS.

Columbia" OF Graustark,"
S:15 p m.
Poll fs-"Brewster's Millions,' S:l5 p m.
Glen Echo-Amusements.
Chevy Chase Lake-Concert by Marine
Band, dancing and other amusements.
Great Falls-Music and other amuse-
ments.
Luna Park-Dancing and other amuse-
metns.
Marshall Hall-Boats leave Seventh
street wharf 10 a. M, go p. m, and
$50 D. m. a.
River View Park-Boats leave Seventh
street wharf 10 a. m, = and p. m.
Colonial Beach-Steamer st. Johns
leaves Seventh street wharf every
day except Monday at 3 a. m. Sat
urday, 30 p. m.
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
Noted Musicians Put
Ban on Talk of Music

ROME, Aug. lS.-At MonteCatini. a
favOrite health resort, there are at
present the composers. LeoncavalIo.
Mascagni, and -Puccini; the singers.
CarusO and Bonci, and the conductors,
MugnOneX, Serafin, and Galeffi.
These famous musicians, who are
constantly in each others COMPANY
have formed an anti-musiCal society
in which the penalty for speaking OF
music or OF the theater when in each
others company is heavy fine.
The Washington times., 1913-08-18

In every direction one turns in Wash
ington something has happened. Ii
doesn't matter just when-fifty Years
ago. or this a. m. the enthusiastic
guide points it out with impartial en-
thusIasm. And celebrities? Well. Mr.
Common People is the only celebrity l
haven't yet discovered. Maybe I'll find
him tomorrow.
EDITH LOBERT.
The Washington times., 1913-08-18

one day a commercial Traveller went
nm To an old negro in a little town in
the eastern part of the State and said
say, uncle. If you will lead me to
some place where l can get drink
The old darkv looked him carefully
OYER accepted the twoPlIHImkS (aIIGI "a and said:
lie led the thirsty one through the
town on through the suburbs. into the
After they had traversed about five
miles in silence and still nothing in
sight. the man asked:
going after this drink"
IVES gwine over into Kentucky
boss: we cant git nuthin' in dis State "
Judge.
The Washington times., 1913-08-18
THIS& THAT
Wnh Sometimes a Lntae orthe othe,

While l am on my vacation, which
/ am, allow me to introduce Miss
Edith Lobert, a woman new to Wash
ington. Readers, Miss Lobert.
G. S. K.