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Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14
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a. cult, T. house. barn, outbldgs., large or
chard, etc. w. c. Frederking. Claremont, Va
Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14

Frederick S. Henry, head Of the
language department at Tome Insti-
tute, has been chosen a member of
the committee of seven representa-
tives of college teachers of French and
German, to consider questions con-
nected with the training of teachers of
French and German in secondary
schools in Cecil county.
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An overheated stove resulted in the
home of Rev. Herbert Alexander, at
Slate Hill, being destroyed by fire. The
contents of the home were saved. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
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s. S. Lewis, of Middletown, has been
appointed by County Superintendent Of
Schools DR.. Elmer C. Cross to issue
permits to children who are employed
and under the age required by the new
child labor act.
Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14

W. N. u, BALTIMORE. NO. 11-191A
Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14

The Allegany county school commits
sioners presented a petition to the
county commissioners asking for an
appropriation of $1S9,386.66 to be used
for the erection of new school build
ings, repairs and current expenses for
the school year, extending from Au-
gust 81, 1914, to July 1, 1915.
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por,ozo Il removes superhuous hair instantly with.
heiuOVe ~ out pain; money refunded If misrepre-
Sented Price Soc. Kasie Supply Co. Box ls7 Wlso DSl
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At the recent town election of Mid
dletown, Walter S. Letherbury and
James Redgraves were elected COM
missioners for two years; J. S. Crouch,
treasurer; s. s. Holton, assessor, and
ALFRED G. Cox, alderman.
Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14

The committee to arrange for the
interdenominational camp meeting to
be held at Allegany Grove, on the
National Pike, four miles west of Cum
berland, has fixed July 1926 as the
dates.
Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Rhodes, Of Ha-
gerstown, sustained severe injuries in
a runaway near BoonsborO. Their
buggy, which was wrecked, collided
with a stone fence, against which the
occupants were hurled.
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While making repairs to the stack
at the old Delmar Lumber Company's
plant at Havre de Grace, William
Smith fell a distance of 80 feet, sus-
tanning serious injuries about the
body.
Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14

Barney Thomas, acting assistant
keeper of TangieF Light Station, had
narrow escape from drowning in the
recent storm while endeavoring to
cross to Tangier Island in an open
boat.
Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14

Lime manufacturers of Frederick
county will probably fight the bill in
the legislature appropriating $4,000
with view of having the State erect
lime kilns for burning of oyster shells
into lime.
Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14

Charles H. Kinder, Charles Johnson
and Cove Lynch, a committee from
the Sussex County Levy Court, have
finished the annual audit of the books
of the county treasurer, Jesse T. Wells.
Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14

TO BREAK UP COLDS AND GRIPPE ana
relieve the aches and pain take PARER'S CA p
SULES, &c at druggists or Parr Bros, GoVans-
Baltimore, Nd. Money back II not satisfied"
Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14

Two young men Of Denton were ar
rested, charged with breaking into the
express Office and stealing five pack
ages of whiskey. Part1of the stolen
liquor was recovered by Sheriff Tenn
pie.
Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14

CIRCULARS MAILED with ours. at 81 per
thousand. 6x9 or less, to real fresh mail or
der buyers. We guarantee satisfactory re-
suits. Macon Green Co., Columbia. Tenn.
Middletown transcript., 1914-03-14

Jesse West, 60 years old, for the
past II years postmaster of North East
and former district leader in this sec
ton Of Delaware, died Wednesday
morning after several weeks illness.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-05-19
NOT IN KANSAS SCHEME.

1T was hot summer day." says the
Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. TT was also
dusty. One hundred and fifty men were
riding from town to town in Central
Kansas, in autos, on trade extension
tour. They were Kansas men-mer-
chants, lawyers, doctors, editors
clerks, mechanics, bankers, farmers.
From time to time they stopped at
thirteen towns during the days run.
No one in the crowd spoke Of beer.
No one had any beer. No one at the
thirteen towns offered anyone any
beer. At most of the towns there
were great, deep stone jars OF iced
lemonade on the sidewalks with bright
tin cups hanging from the jars, and
sign up, Welcome, Emporians.' There
was no whisky, wine or beer in the
crowd. No one missed it. No one
spoke of it. For these men, ranging
from thirty to sixty years Of age, had
lived in Kansas thirty years under abb
solute prohibition. Most of them had
never been in a saloon in their home
town in their lives Booze was as re-
mote from their consciousness as car
bolic acid. Booze is not in the Kan
sas scheme of things. No one thinks
of it It's presence or absence is not
| considered by the Kansas mind"
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-05-19
CHAPTER XIII.

The Knight of the Crimson Rose.
The row of horsemen had halted In
a curving line before the grand stand,
and now in the silence the herald,
holding a parchment scroll, spurred
before each rider in turn, demanding
his title. AS this was given he
whirled to proclaim it, accompanying
each evolution with blast on his
horn. Knight of the Golden Spur"
Knight of Castlewood," Lord of
Brandon" ''Westovers KING h t."
knight of the Silver Cross: the
names, fancifuI, or those of family es-
tates, fell on John Valiant's ear with
a pungent favor Of medievalism- He
started as he became aware that the
rider next him had answered and that
the herald had paused before him
Knight of the Crimson Rosei" It
sprang to his lips without forethought,
an echo, perhaps, of the improvised
sash and the flower in his hat-band,
but the shout of the herald and the
trumpet's blare seemed to make the
words fairly bulge with inevitabflity.
palled feeling that he had really
spoken Shirley's name, and that every
one had heard. He could not see her
face, and clutched his lance fercely
to overcome an insane desire to stoop
hideously in his saddle and peer I'M
der the shading hat-brim. Lest he
should do this, he fastened his eyes
determinedly on the major, who now
proceeded to deliver himself of the
charge to the Knights"
The major made an appealing CEN
ter to the charming picture as he
stood on the green turf, "the glass
of fashion and the mold of FORM" his
hair thrown back, and one hand thrust
| between the buttons of his snowy
waistcoat- His rich bass voice rolled
out to the farthest corner of the field:
'Sir knights:
"The tournament to which we are
gathered today is to us traditional; a
rite of antiquity and monument of
ancient generations. This relic Of the
jousts of the Field Of the Cloth-of-
! Gold points as back to an era OF
knightly deeds, fidelity to sacred trust
obligation to duty and loyalty to WON,
an-the watchwords of true knight
hood.
I'VE like to think that when our
forefathers, offspring Of men who es-
tablished chivalry, came from over
seas, they brought with them not only
this ancient play, but the precepts II
syrnbohzes. We may be proud. In
deed. knowing that this Is no hollow
ceremonial. but en- earnest that the
flower OF knlghthood has not wtthered
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-05-19
IeIliplel5ll1lo!s
Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)
pIMlNIsHEs RESISTING POWER.

DIMlNIsHEs RESISTING POWER.
The first man to make an expedition
across Greenland was Doctor Nansen-
He and his men had to cross on foot
spending several weeks on floating Ice
For 40 days they tramped over frozen
snow with 80 degrees of frost. In re-
ferring to this journey, Doctor Nan
sen said:
1.-The only spirits that we took were
as fuel for our stove to melt the snow,
that we might have water to drink.
believe the use Of stimulants to be
mistake"
Capt. Edward Parry, after IL years
experience in the Arctic regions, said;
Are ardent spirits necessary? say
decidedly, No. 1t is said they keep
the cold out. 1 say they do not; they
let the cold in"
The whole crew of the vessel that
took Commander Peary to the north
pole, from commander downward,
worked on temperance principles.
| They could face so degrees below zero
and all hardships better without alco-
hol No wines or intoxicants were
taken in connection with their work
In the words Of Sir Benjamin Ward
Richardson, the eminent English ply
stefan: you know that alcohol only
makes the body feel warm, because IT
causes more warm blood to come to
the surface Of the body, there to lose
it's heat and leave the body colder.
You know that cold and alcohol exer'
else the same kind of influence on the
body, and that when working in the
cold, even In the EXTREMIST cold, thai
man will work longest and best who
avoids alcohol altogether"
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-05-19
CHAPTER XIV.
Katharine Decides

Katharine Decides
Katharine left the field of Runny-
mede with John Valiant in the dun
colored motor She sat in the drivers
seat beside him, while the bulldog ca
pered, ecstatically barking, from side
to side of the rear cushions. Her
father had declined the honor, remark
ing that he considered a professional
chauffeur a sufficient risk of his valua-
BILE life and that the Chalmers grays
were good enough for him-a decision
which did not wholly displease Katha-
rine.
The car was not the smart Pan
hard in which she had so often spun
down the avenue or along the she'll
roads of the north shore. 1t lacked
those fin-de-siecle appurtenances which
marked the ne plus ultra of its kind.
as her observant eye recognized; but
it ran staunch and true. The powerful
hands that gripped the steering-wheel
were brown with sun and wind, and
the handsome face above it had look
of keenness and energy she had never
surprised before. They passed many
vehicles and there were few whose oc.
cupants did not greet him. In fact,
as he presently remarked, it was a
saving Of energy to keep his hat off;
and he tossed the Panama into the
rear seat. On the rim of the village
group raised cheer to which he
nodded laughingly,, and further on a
little old lady on timid vine-colored
porch beside church, waved black,
mitted hand to him with sweet old
time gesture. Katharine noted that he
bowed to her with extra care.
That's Miss Matte Sue Mabry," he
said, the quaintest, dearest thing you
ever saw. She taught my father his
letters"
Where the Red Road stretched level
before them, he threw the throttle
open for a long rush through the
thymy-scented air. The light, late
afternoon breeze drew by them, sweep
ing back Katharine's graceful sinuous
veil and spraying them with odors OF
clover and sunny fruit They passed
orchard clumps bending with young
apples, boundless ,aisles of green
young-tasseled corn and shadowy
groves that smelled Of fern and sassa-
fras, opening out into more sunlighted
vistas overarched blythe intense pene-
trable Of the June sky.
John Valiant had never seemed to
her so wholly good to see, with his
waving hair ruffling in their fight and
the westering sun shining redly on his
face, Midway of this squirt he looked
at her to say: did you ever know a
more beautiful countryside? See how
the pink-and-yellow of those grain
fields fades into the purple of the hills
Very few painters have ever captured
tint like that It's like raspberries
crushed In curdled milk"
I've quite lost my heart to It all, :
she said. her voice jolting with the
speed OF their course. TITS perfect
pastoral 30 different from
our terrific city pace Oh
course T. must be tribe duh at times
Iss seesng the Same people al
ways and without the thea
Tar ana tf,s opera and The whtri aboG,
ose-1u4 . fha kind Of hfE
one reads shuzs tu9the pcp
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-05-19

in the world. that in an age when the
greed Of gold was never 50 dazzling.
the spirit of true gallantry> has not
faded but blooms luxuriant In the
sparkling dews of the heart Of this
commonwealth
'Most Noble Knightsl In the name
of that high tradition which this day
preserves In the memory of those
other knights who practiced the tour
ney in its old-time glory! In the sight
of your Queen Of Beauty! charge
you, Southern gentlemen, to joust with
that valor, fairness and truth which
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-05-19

Ing, before crowded grand stands. But
never in all his life had he 50 desired
to pluck the prize. His grip was tense
on the lance as the yellow doublet
and olive plume Of Castlewood shot
away for a last time-and failed. An
instant later the Knight of the Grim
son Rose flashed down the lists WITH
the last ring on his pike.
And the tourney was won.
In the shouting ard hand-clapp1ng
Valiant took the rose from his hat
band and bound it with a shred OF his
sash to his lance-point. AS he rode
slowly toward the massed stand, the
whole field was so still that he could
hear the hoofs of the file of knights
behind him. The people were on their
feet
The mounted herald blew his blast
"By the Majesties of st. Michael and
St. George" he proclaimed, Il declare
the knight of the Crimson Rose the
| victor of this our tourney, and do
charge him now to choose his Queen
of Beauty, that all may do her hom-
agei"
Shirley saw the horse coming down
the line, its rider bareheaded now
and her heart began to race wildly
Beyond wanting him to take part, she
had not thought. She looked about
her, suddenly dismayed. People were
smiling at her and clapping theil
hands. From the other end of the
stand she saw Nancy Chalmers throw
ing her kiss, and beside her tai
pale girl in champagne-color staring
through a jeweled lorgnette.
1 She was conscious all at once tina
the flanneled rider was very clost
that his pike-point, with it
big red blossom, was stretching up II
. her.
With the rose in her hand she curt
sled to him, while the blurred thron;
cheered itself hoarse, and the ban
struck up "You Great Big Beautifu
DOLL" with extraordinary rapture, t
the tune of which the noise finally sui
sided to a battery of hilarious COZ
CALCULATIONS which left her flushed an
a little breathless. Nancy Chalmer
and Betty Page had burst upon he
like petticoated whirlwinds and pres
emily, when the crowd had lessenet
the Judge came to introduce his Wis
tor.
"Mr. Fargo and his daughter are ou
guests at GLADDEN. Hail." he told he
They are old friends of Valiant's, b
the way; they knew him in Ne
York"
"Katharine's lighting her incens
now, l guess" observed Silas Farg
"See there!" He pointed across tt
| stand, where stood a willowy tan n
, ure, one hand beSkoning to the COZ
course below, where Valiant stood, til
center of a shifting group, round whic
! the white bulldog, mad with recovere
liberty, tore in eccentric circles
AS they looked, she called softl
. "Johni John!"
Shirley saw him start and fac
about, then come quickly toward he
, amazement and welcome in his eyes.
, AS Shirley turned away little lat
with the major, that whispering voic
seemed to sound in her ears-"Joh1
joint" There smote her suddenly Il
thought that when he had chosen b.
his Queen Of Beauty, he had not SEE
the other-had not known she W;
there.
!, A few moments before the day b;
: been golden; she went home throus
a landscape that somehow seemed
have lost it's brightest glow.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-05-19

surprise. She had thought Of this
incident, a colorful chapter whose
page might any day be turned But
it was impossible to mistake his mean
ing. Clearly, he was deeply infatuated
with this Arcadian experience and had
no thought at present but to continue
it indefinitely.
They were passing the entrance OF a
cherry-bordered lane, and without TAX
ing his hands from the gear, he
nodded toward the low broad-eaved
dwelling with It's Towering arbors that
showed in flashing glimpses of brown
and red between the intervening trees.
1.-The palace of the Queeni' he said
Rosewood, by name"
She looked in some curiosity. Clear
ly, if not a refuge Of genteel poverty,
neither was it the abode of wealth;
so, from her assured rampant of the
Fargo millions, Katharine reflected
complacently. The girl was q local
favorite, Of course-he had been tact
rul as to that 1t was fortunate, in a
way, that he had not seen her. Katha-
rine, in the grand stand until after
ward. Feeling toward her as she be-
heved he did, with his absurd direct
ness, he would have been likely to
drop the rose in her lap, never re-
fectfng that, the tourney being local
function, the choice should not fall up
on an outlander.
~ f6n hoy.
back to the present, and she looked
up to see before them the great gate Of
GLADDEN. Hall. She did not speak till
they had quite stopped
Then, as her hand lay In his for
farewell, you are right in your de-
cision," she said softly. This is your
place You are a Valiant of Virginia.
didn't realize it before, but am be-
ginning to see all it means to you"
Her voice held lingering indefin-
able quality that was almost sadness,
and for that one slender instant, she
opened on him the unmasked batteries
OF her glorious gray eyes.
The tournament ball at Damory
Court that night was more than an
event The old mansion was an IRE
sistible magnet The floor of its yell
low parlor was known to be Of delecta-
bic hugenesS. It's gardens were le-
gend. The whole place, moreover, was
STEPPED in the very odor Of old mys-
terry and new romance. Small wonder
that to this particular affair the elect
the major was the high custodian
Of the rolls, his decisions being as the
laws Of the Modes and Persians- came
gaily from the farthest county line,
and the big houses of the neighbor-
hood were crammed with overnight
guests.
By half past nine O'Clock the plla-
lanx of chaperons decreed by old Gus
tom had begun to arrive, and the great
iron gate at the front of the drive
erect and rsistless now-saw an impos-
ing professional OF carriages These
passed up slope as radiant with the
fairy light OF paper lanterns as Japa-
nese thoroughfare in festival season
The ooiored bulbs swung moon-like
from tree and shrub, painting their
rainbow busters ON grass and drive
way. Under the high gray columns Of
the porch and into the wide door,
framed IN It's small lea.aed panes that
g1Owed With the merry iighk within.
-
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-05-19

els of the South, you know
suppose one doesn't realize that 1t
actually exists until one comes to a
Southern place like this. And the
negro servants! How odd it must be
to have white-haired old darby In
brass-buttoned swallow-tail for a but
Ter! So picturesque. At Judge Chal
mers' have feeling all the time that
I'm walking through a stage re-
hearsal."
The car slackened speed as 1t slid
by white-washed cabin at whose en-
trance sat dusky gray-bearded fig
ure. Valiant pointed do you see
him?" he asked
Il see a very ordinary old e.olored
man sitting on the doorstep" Katha-
rtne replied
Mother Shipton. He's prophet and
soothsayer. Uncle Jefferson--that's
my dy-servant-insists that he fore
told my coming to Damory Court If
we had more time you could have
your fortune told"
How thrillingi" she commented
with half-humorous irony.
He pointed to great white house
set in a grove of trees. THAT is
Beechwood," he told her, '-the Beverly
homestead. Young Beverley was the
Knight of the Silver Cross. A fine old
place, isn't it? 1t was burned by the
Indians during the French and Indian
War. My NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
er =" He broke OFF. But then, those
old things won't interest you"
They interest you great deal
don't they?" she asked.
"Yes,' he admitted, they do. YoI
see, my ancestors are such new &C
quaintances, I find them absorbing
You know when I lived In New
York"
Last month"
He laughed little-not quite tn
laugh she had known in the past
Yes. but can hardly believe it;
seem to have been here half lifetime
To think that a month ago I was
double-dyed New Yorker"
tits been a strange experience 70
YOU When you come back to Ne'
York"
He looked at her. oddly she though
'FWhy should l go back?"
why? Because it's your nature
habitat. Inst it?"
That's the word" he said smiling
''It was my habitat This is my home.
Size was silent moment in shee
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-05-19
GODS CYCLE OF REFORM.

The seventeenth century brought to
mankind spiritual emancipation, the
right to think, freedom Of worship;
the eighteenth century brought polit-
ical emancipation, democracy, the
right to self-government, the rule Of
the people by the people, for the peo-
pie; the nineteenth cntury brought to
mankind physical emancipation, the
right to self-ownership, of private con-
tract, to engage, to quit and to the
fruits of toll; the twentieth century
will bring to mankind moral emancipa-
ton, freedom from the Intoxicating
cup as a legalized institution, and the
browning glory of them ALL for there
can be no true spiritual liberty, no
true political liberty, no true personal
liberty to an intoxicated man, people
or nation.-Clinton N. Howard.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-05-19

And now over the futtering stand
All the crowd about the barriers, q
was discernible. Katharine looked
4g1 Ia q. the field. who is that splen-
81 old man giving directions? The
o1c who looks like lion. He's COM
ing this way, now"
THAT'S Major Montague Bristow, ="
said the judge. He's been master of
the heralds for years. The tourna-
ment could hardly happen without the
major"
I'm sure I'd like him." she an
swered. What lovely girl he is
talking to!'
It was Shirley who had beckoned
the major from the lists. She was
leaning over the railing. why has
Ridgeley Pendleton left?" she asked
in a low voice. Isn't he one of the
twelve?"
.He was. But he's ill He wasn't
feeling up to it when he came, but
he didn't give up till half an hour
ago. Well have to get along with
eleven knights"
She made an exclamation Of dismay
.ktsPoor Ridge! And what a pity!
here have never been less than the
number. 1t will spoil the royal
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-05-19
A SAFE PLACE.

A noted citizen of Topeka, Kans,
took his small boy, who up to that
time had not been outside of the sun
flower state, to an elegant hotel in
Washington, D. c. When they came
full upon the bar doing business, the
Kansas boy, with eyes wide with ex-
element and horror, pulled his father
into a corner and whispered: We've
caught them this time, father, caught
them selling it right out in sight. I'll
stay and watch and you hurry and
bring the officers"
When the father explained that
liquor selling was not a violation Of
law at our nations capital, the aston
ished child turned sadly away from
the beauties of Washington and said:
Lets go home to Kansas"