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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-04-14

MISS Violet MCscreau. one OF tho
daInticst and most fascinating actresses
or the younger set on the American
stage to-day. will hc seen in the title
role in the charming play "Tchccca or
Suuuyb-0pk Farm ~hich will ono o.
three days engagement 40 the Court
theatre. commencing Thursday night.
April 10Th. with special watiueea Friday
and Saturday. Miss Mrrrrcau has
beauty. freshness. and vivacity and her
lrtrruro tatiou Of The dcliEhtful part of
ErhrrCu has been OF such quality ta CO.
place her fu tho lmrIirIf or attruufr.
Tho production which Manager Tfiuirr
Nrsnrsau. will include james o. Gallo
vaU. az the IuvIaI whofc-eoulsd stage
driver comforting EfEsrUH HH Hlr
troubles HrI PLAYING fna rHrfir diplomat
Tor tll EI.rThpTu. John HOGAN. HARRY
Iu"FHrfr. Agnes ITufn" SARAH I.is.H.
stone. Errrfrr caldwell aud Dorothy
krIEhUeF round up The cast
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-04-14

special Dispatch To the Intelligence
PARNEltSFI'Gt G. W Va. Aurft fg
William Hamilton. third son OF Ex Con-
cresSrnsn John VI. Hamilton. died this
morrl-g tu hospital at Akron. O. from
acute Brights' disease. The remains ar
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-04-14

as they resource the union and IN
foreground working conditions hermit
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-04-14

Three hIE capacity audience rH.nr1
frH popular DrrheIm fnfHfer ,sHfrrI4r
.lt.rnuYu lud last uirlt to give E..rlr
wallace Bennett a Wheeling Gn.. r
warm welcome Bennett and Dbl. rnrrn..
Inr partner Mile TuIeftL presented
fur'r latest raI1rrilir 0TrrInr com.
s.eurE ~ fancy hllf room darssa. Boo.
Guiding fhr famous tango. ufNIfH... tho
hesitation and Ha vrU Tho ramuI. SIR
and Mrs. vernon Castle dance. DEL most
drlirhffui dancing Offering auI George
Hrurrff proved himself H most artistic
dancer IN rHrrr respect 'f.uUIr efr.
.rura. "a dainty aIrrIUC .n.nr.IIrrnr. .H.r
.r rruI splendid .rirrf.1rH fHHf won fHr
Der much appliance guH Campbell anI
company gave bully rrrfurmIu.r enc
Nf rd Vow Years NelnIIra"
one RI che funniest nrfa Uu tHs ..#t.f
Willie stage Ia fHr ono chat Tho -rfsf
team nf frrudrra and Fourlrff ars CO...
frr.rr Tho audience ruHrrd .rrrHnIrH.
tNfu some more A. 1 rnfnrHIlrrr fUn
adv enl ~ thr team Ia miles ahead %
Irf Thing WIrrIur Doe seen Ir reHI..
MHrfnr. navarro HuI MHrrHH three
clever BOYS uIfH Hu 4rruIHfIr afurt
WIfh plenty Of comedy closed fnr show
making Dr. an IIrHf Faafrr .HuIe. .fIr
bin HI tHr wa. through
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s.,, s",aps.ss'is .15''o,,n 20 s ,,'...i
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n there Is one thing you need II
Is combination vacuum cleaner
and carpet sweeper. Eliminates all
dust and gives better results In half
the time. Brings out the original
colors in old carpets or rugs. Does
away with taking up the floor COW
erings at house cleaning time by
pulling the dirt from under your
carpets and rugs.
The machine pictured above is a
three bellows combination vacuum
cleaner with a complete carpet
sweeper underneath. Our price is
$50 delivered anywhere.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-06-25

was In search Of Yes, thank you q
small whisky as before. "-Loodon Tit
Bits.
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GOT THE RIGHT EXPRESSION
Experiment Was Painful TO T~raeedlan.
but He Gould Not Hesitate When
Art Called Him.

Thanks" said the ~tragedian. set
ting down his glass and absentmind
eddy %pocketing my change. which lay
upon the bar between us. MANY
thanks for your good opinion, al.
ways study from Nature-from Ma.
ture, sir, In my acting you see re-.
fected Nature herself"
TRY this cigar" said an admirer OF
Nature. reverently. Now. wheto did
you study that expression OF intense
surprise that you assumed Ia the sec.
ond act?"
From Nature. sir; from Nature. To
secure that expression ! asked an In.
mate personal friend 10 lend me Ave
pounds. lie refused. This caused me
no surprise. ! tried several more.
Finally. | struck ono who was willing
TO oblige me. and. as he handed me
the money. ! studied In the glass the
expression OF my own face, | saw
there surprise. but II was not what |
wanted. II was alleged with susplc.
ion that the sovereigns might be bad
| was In despair"
"Well!" said the other. breathlesHly.
Then an idea struck me. re-
solved upon a desperate course. re.
turned the hye pounds to my friend
the next Gay. and on his astounded
c~ountsnAncs ] saw the expression
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-06-25
Korean Marriages.

Marriages between Widows and
bachelors are very much H. favor In
Korea because not nearly so much
money is required from the bridegroom
az in the cast Of his marriage with O
young girl. The ~impocunous bride
groom is scorned by the pare ants of the
girl and he Is also unable to pay for
the elaborate wedding ceremonies
which must take place. All OF this he
escapes b. running on with "a widow
II hhppens In Korea, as la other coun.
tries, that the im~pecty!ous bachelor
Is often more desirabls from every
point OF view but a I%nercenary one
than the well TO do member OF the
community. Consequently. the widow
has a way OF attaching a handsome
young husband to herself that nigh,
well be envied by the young girl.
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enort to recall II. Only the intense
blue OF her eyes, the tawny sweep u
her hair-these and the touch OF her,
the consciousness OF her warm and
vivid fragrance. remained q wrap all
his senses In a mist woven OF gold
and fire.
.
Shirley, meanwhile. had sat some
time beside her mothers bed. leaning
from a white chin~tz.covered chair. her
anxiety only partially allayed by reas.
surancea. now and then STOPPING 10 lay
her young cheek against the delicate
arm In it's lacy sleeve or to pass her
hand lovingly up and down It's outline.
noting with n recurrent passion OF ten.
derness the transparency u the skin
with Its violet veining and the shad.
ows beneath the closed eyes. Emma.
line. moving on soft worsted. shod feet
about the dim room. at length had
whispered.
You go tub bald. honey. stay
with Mis- Judith till she go tub sleep
Yes. go. Shirley" said her mother.
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p XIX.
Night.

Nl1nI
A quicker breeze was stirring as
John Valiant went back along the Red
Road. lie had waited In the garden
at Rosewood TIL Shirley. aided by
Emmaline and with Ranston's anxious
lace lowering In the background. hay.
ing performed those gentle Offices
which a woman's fainting spell re-
quires. had come to reassure him and
TO say good night.
As he threw on his coal In the
bedroom he had chosen for his own.
he felt the hard corner OF tho Lucille
In the pocket. and drawing 4 out. laid
II on the table by the bedside. He
seemed TO feel again the tingle OF
his cheek where a curling straad OF
her coppery hair had sprung against 1,
when her head had bent beside his
own 70 read the marked lines.
When he had undrsssed he sat ar
hour In the candle-blaze. a dressing
gown thrown over his shoulders. striv
Ing vainiy 10 rocreats that evening
call. to remember her every word and
look and movement. For n breath
her face would fuah suddenly before
him. like q live thing: then II would
mystsrously fade and elude him
though he cienohed his hands on the
arms OF his chair In the nsrcs menta.
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had no appetite. Since ] have taken
Lydia F.. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound the aches and pains are all rome
and | feel like a new woman. | cannot
praise your medicine too highly. Mrs.
AUGUSTUS Lyon, Terre Hill, Pa.
II is true that nature and a woman's
worn has produced the grandest remedy
for woman's ills that The world has
ever known. From the roots and
herbs of the field, Lydia f. Pinkham,
forty years ago, gave to ~womankind
a remedy for their peculiar ills which
has proved more eficacious than any
other combination of drugs ever com.
pounded. and today Lydia L. pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is recognized
from coast I coast as the standard
remedy for woman's ills.
In the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, are files containing hundreds Of
thousands of letters from women seek.
ing health - many Of them openly state
over their own signatures that they have
regained their health by taking Lydia
T.. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound;
and in some cases that it has saved them
from surgical operations.
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CHAPTER xvill-contlnued.

You are cold" he said. isn't that
gown too thin for this night air"
NO. I often walk here till quite
late. LISTEN"
The bird song had broken forth
again. to be answered rhis time by a
rivals In q distant thickct My
nightingale Ia in good voice"
Il never heard a nightingale before
came to Virginia. ! wonder why II
sings only at night"
What an odd idea! Why. II sings
In the daytime. too"
Really But | suppose II escapes
notice In the general chorus. Is Il n
large BIRD"
No: smaller than a thrush. Only a
little bigger than a robin. It's nest IL
over theirs In that hedge-a tiny loose
cup OF dried ~oak.leaves. lined with
hair. and the eggs are olive color.
how pretty tho hedge looks now. all
tangled with fireHy sparks"
Doesn't Il! Uncle Jefferson calls
them lightning. bugs"
The name 10 much more pic
turesQue. But all the darby sayings
are. Do you ind him and Aunt
Daphne useful"
He has been . godsend." he said
fervently: and her cooking has
taught me 20 treat her with passion.
ate respect. He's teaching me now
about f~owers-it's surprising how
many kinds he knows. He's a waking
herbarium.'
Come and see mine" she said.
Roses are our specialty-we have to
live up 10 the Rosevoo name. But
beyond the srbors. are beds and beds
OF other flowers. See-by this big
tree are speed. well and %delphinium
The tree IL a black walnut. It's a
dreadful thing 10 have one as big as
that. When you van something that
costs a lot OF money you go and look
at II and wonder which you want
most, that particular luxury or the
tree. ! know n girl who had two In
her yard only a little bigger thar this.
and she went TO Europe on them. But
30 far I've always voted for the tree.
How does your garden come o n -"
"Famousiy. Uncle Jefferson has
shanghaied . h~altdozen negro gar.
d~eners-from where ! can't imagine
and he's having the tina OF his life
%hectoring over them. lie refers 70 the
upper and lower terraces as 'up.and.
down-stairs.' I've got seeds. but Il
will be q long time before they
flower"
oh. would YOU like aome slIns ~
abe cried. "Or. better still. | can
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Haven't | any privileges AT all! Can't
| even faint when ! feel like II. withou,
calling out the fire.brigade? You1l
panper me to death and heaven knows
! don't need H."
You won't let me telephone for Doc.
tor S%outhall?"
Certainly not"
And you are sure Il was nothing
but the roses?"
why. what else should II be-" said
her mother almost peevishly. II must
really have the arbors thinned out. On
heavy nights it's positively overpower.
ing. Go along now. and wen talk
about II tomorrow. can ring II |
want anything"
In her room Shirley undressed
~thoughtfully. There was between her
and her mother a fine enuou bond
OF sympathy and feeling as rare. per.
haps. as II was lovely. She could not
remember when the other had not
been a ~semi.invalid. and her earliest
childhood recollections were punctu.
ated with the tap OF the little cane
Tonight's sudden in~dispos.tion had
shocked and disturbed her; to faint
at a rush OF perfume seemed to sug,
gest n growing weakness that was
alarming Tomorrow, she told herself.
she would send Ranston with a wagon
load OF the roses to the hospital at
Charlottesville.
She slipped on a pink shell shaded
dressing.gown OF slinky silk with n
riot OF azaleas scattered In the weave.
and then, dragging her chair before
the open window. drew aside the light
curtain and began 10 brush her hair.
All at once her gaze fell upon the
floor. and she shrank backward from n
twisting thread like thing whose bright
sanron.yellow glowed sharply against
the dark carpet. She saw In an In.
slant. however, that II was nothing
more dangerous than n fragment Of
love.vine from the garden, which had
chung TO her skirt. She picked up
the tiny mass of tendrils and with a
slow smile tossed II over her right
shoulder through the window. III IL
takes root" she sad aloud. my sweet.
heart loves me" She leaned from the
sill 10 peer down into the misty gar
den, but could not follow It's fall.
Long ago her visitor would have
reached DamOry Court. She had n
vision OF him wandering. candle In
hand, through the empty echoing
rooms. looking al the voiceless por.
traits on the walls. thinking perhaps
OF his father, OF the fatal duel OF which
he had never known. She liked the
way he had spoken OF his father!
AZ she leaned, out Of the stiffness
there came TO her ear a mellow sound.
II was the bell OF the courthouse In
tho village. She counted the strokes
falling clearly or family AS the slug.
gish breeze ebbed or swelled. Il was
eleven
She drew back. dropped the curtain
10 shut out the wan glimmer, and In
the darkness crept into the soft bed
as " into a hiding. place.
81 o
A warm sun and an air mildly mel.
low. A faint gold-shadowed mist over
the valley and a soft lilac haze blend.
ing the rounded outlines OF the hills.
Through the shrubbery at Damory
Court a cardinal darted like a Grim.
shuttle, TO rock ~impudently from
a neering limb. and here and there
on the bluishiyory sky. motionless az
a pasted wafer. hung a hawk; from
time 70 time one Of these wavsred and
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He was looking at n square. uhcon'
promising wall.safe. with a round hg'
ured disk OF white metal on It's face
lie knelt before II and tried It's knob
After a moment Il turned easily. but
the resolute steel door would not open
though he tried every combination
that came into his mind NO use
he said disgrstedly. one must have
the right numbers
Then he lifted his fretted frame n
smote his grimy hands together Ton
found H." he said with n short laugh
Here am. n bankrupt. with all THIS
outht-clear to the very finger.bowls-
! handed TO me on a silver tray n m
mad ny scat because | cant open the
first locked thing nnd!"
lie ran upstairs and donned a rough
corduroy jacket and high leather leg
gings. Were going 10 climb the NIL
today. Chum." he announced, and no
more moccasins need apply"
In the lower hall. however, he sud
denly stopped stock.still. THE slip OF
paper that was In the china dog he
exclaimed. What a chump am not
TO have thought OF IT," He found II
In It's %pigeonhole and, kneeling down
before the safe. tried the numbers
carefully. first right, then left: IL
2s-94-0. The heavy door opened.
II was right" he exulted ITS the
plate" He drew II ont. piece by piece.
Each was bagged in dark.red Canton
flannel He broke the tape Of n bag
and exposed a great silver pitcher.
furnished purple.blue like n ravens
~wing-then n tea.serviCe. Each piece.
large and small. was marked with the
greyhound rampant and the motto
And to think" he said. that my
great.great grandfather buried you
with his own hands under the stables
when TaEleton's raiders swept the val.
ley before the surrender nj Yorktown
Only wait Till Aunt Daphne gets YOU
polished up. and on the sideboard!
You're the one thing the place has
needed"
.
With the dog for comrade he ira
versed the garden and plunged aCross
the valley below, humming as he wen
The place was painless and owe
grown with paw.paw bushes and sassa
fras. Great trees stood so thickll
In places az 10 make n twilight and tn,
SUMMER spots were masses o.. piEb
laurel. poison.ivy, flaming purple rho
dodendron and wine.red tendrils OF IA
tcrbraided briers. This Was the for
est land OF whose possibilities he had
thought. In the heart OF the woods M
came upon n great limb that had been
wronchcd OF by storm The broker
wood was OF a deep rich brown, shading
TO black He broke Of his song. snap
ped n twig and smcllod II. Its sharT
acrid odor was u~nmistakable. He sud
denly remembered the walnut tree al
Rosewood and what Shirley had said
Il know a girl who had two In hel
yard. and she went to Europe OF
them"
He looked about him; as far ms h,
could see the trees reared. hardy an,
perfect, untouched for n generation
He selected n OF medium size an,
pulling n creeper, measured It's cir
conference and gaging this measure
with his eve, made a penciled calculh
ton on the back OF an envelope
Great Scott" he said jubilantly I,
the dog: that would cut enough I,
wainscot the Damory Court librar.
and build twenty ~sideboards!"
! CTO BE CONTINUED
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Not There for Experiment,

Edith and Flora wrre passing the,,
summer vacation in Tire country.
DO you know" said Edith. "tha
young farmer tried to Kiss me. lie told
me that he had never Kissed any YirI
before" e''
What did you tell him," asked
Flora. ~
why" replied Edith. 81 told him
was no agricultural experiment NJ.
uon."-Harper's bazaar.
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MRS.. LYONS
ACHES AND PAINS
Have All Gone Since Taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg.
etsble Compound.

Terre Hill, Pa.-"Kindly permit M.
70 give you my testimonial in favor OF
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give you the roses already rooted
Mad Charles and Msrerhal Neil and
Cloth Of Gold and cabbage and ram
blers. We have genniums and
fuchsias. too. and the coral honey.
suckle. That's different from the Wild
one. you know
You are too good! n you would
only advise me where q set them
But I dare ssy you thiak me prssum,
ing"
She turned her full face to him.
"'Presuming!' Iou'rs Furnishing ms
now for the dreadful way I talked 70
YOU about Damory Contributors
knew who you were. Oh. Il vas un'
pardonable! And after the splendid
thing you had DONE read about 1,
that same sv~sning-with your money
meant"
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SYNOPSIS.

John Valiant a rich society fsvorits
suddenly discovers that the Valiant cor
porntion. which his father founded and
which was the principal source Of his
wealth. has failed. He voluntarily turn.
over his private fortune to the receiver
for the corporation. His entire remaining
possessions consist OF an old motor car. q
white bull dog and Danory court. n neg
lected estate in Virginia. on the way 20
pemory court he meets Shirley Dand.
ridge. an -hair-d bsalty. and de
cides that he 10 going to like Virginia Inn
mensely. Shiriey's mother, Mrs. pand.
ridge. and Major Bnstow exchange rem.
iniscences during which ~ 10 revealed
that the major. vshsnt'e father. and =
man named sasson ~ere rivals for the
hand " Mrs Dsnfridse In her youth.
bssson and Vsliant fought n duel on her
account In which me former was Killed
Valiant nnds Dan DRY court ~overgrovn
with weeds and cveepers and the build.
tngs In y very mitch neglected condition.
He dscides TO reSnbiiitate the place and
make the land . Noduc- a living for him
Valiant saves shirley from IN. bite OF q
snake. which bi,ss him Knowing the
desdiineaa OF the bite, shirley sucks I've
poison from, the wound and saves his life
Rhlrley tells her mother ~ the incident
and the latter 10 strangely moved n,
bearing that a Valiant is again living nj
Danory court. Valiant learns for the
nrst time that his father left Virgins on
account OF n duel In which Doctor
southali and Major Brstow acted as his
fathers conds
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LYDIA r.. Pink hams
vegetable Com.
pound. hen ! first
began taking il I
was suffering from
female troubles for
some time and had
almost oil kinds Of
aches pains in low.
er part Of back and
In sides, and press.
ing down rnirs. I
could not sleep and
Evening star., 1914-04-19
Y MAGAZINE FOR APRIL 10. 1914

side of Joe. 1t seemed as if l couldn't get
my breath, and the faces of the men seemed
far away and unreal, while sweat formed on
my brow. But l managed to control my
outward appearance and kept saying to
myself, @Now is your chance! You must
sing as you've never sung before! Make it
real!" And so throwing back my head
sang that beautiful old song with all the
feeling and longing l could put into it.
was worried and homesick, and it was
Christmas, and SO maybe some of the longing
to be home crept into my voice; for | know
after l was once started l was entirely OBJ
livious of anything else. When l finished
there was deep silence. The silence held
and l remember wondered, as looked over
the room, whether l had failed or whether
the men were the least bit homesck too
Joe's turning to put back his fiddle broke the
spell, and then came the applause.
Sometime later | found myself outside
with Joe and Thornton walking tow.a 4 their
shack. Thornton had hold Uf my arm and
as I stepped across the doorsill he murmured
to me:
1--WE kind Of changed my mind, my boy
You'd better come and see me in the morn
ing
Evening star., 1914-04-19
l Z

the desk. He introduced himself, and on
learning was collecting was surprised that
| hadn't been given his account, as he owed
the company some seven hundred dollars.
He suggested that l call at his office before
| left Richmond.
after getting through with several deal
ers in nearby farming towns called on this
man. He wrote check and handed it to me
with receipt reading in full of account
| handed it back with the remark that
couldn't sign a receipt like that, as had no
way of knowing whether his account and the
firms books agreed He was quite miffed
about it, called me a young fool, and tore up
check and receipt.
when | got back to New Yorl>(fold
Edmlston, the senior partneg,-.'What had
happened. He didn't say. much more than:
:" Never refuse money. If there's any mis-
take, it can be corrected in some way; but
get the money
"Three months later he sent me on call
back trip through the same section, and
with some additional accounts. | had one
pretty big settlement to make with a dealer
at Woodstock,-an entire carload, including
everything from moving machines to garden
cultivators. The account ran some three
thousand dollars. This chaps notes had
been protested, and l was instructed to re-
cover the goods under the contract. Moth
L
them.
"When l reached Woodstock found my
man had gone to Baltimore and wouldn't
be back for week or ten days. l wasn't
clear as to what | could or should do. Ed
miston didn't like letters or wires Don't
bother me. Do something was his slogan.
So went to the best attorney in the little
town, paid him small consultation fee, and
followed his advice to replevin the goods.
1T took me week to gather that stuff
1t was scattered all over the county, nearly
all Of it on approval l settled for some
of it at bargain prices, gathering about two
hundred and fifty dollars When l had
made some disposition of every piece
looked over my recovered loot in the hotel
barn-and fine looking lot of junk it was.
rusty, muddy, battered, but otherwise in
about as good condition as most farm ma
chinery is after summers exposure ano
use.
Talking with the railroad agent that
evening about a car, he suggested that it
would be better to sell the lot to some othet