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Evening journal., 1914-06-04
FINANCIAL ANp oOMMERCIAI.

BY The United Press.
NEW YORK, June 4-The stock
markets opening was moderately ac
tive. Stocks were strong except in
the case of New Haven and Lehigh
Valley and especially heavy selling
in the latter It seemed TO be In
the nature Of liquidation. Either
stock was poor.
New Haven opened at CT. oif-5-2-----
G.. T. HUDSON and Company say
ION any further bulge, take profits
on stocks"
r. ID Lackey and Company:
Stocks are cheap and should be-
bought on all recessions."
Evening journal., 1914-06-04
Personal.

Miss Ethel Boggs has spent the
week with her aunt, Mrs. Herman
Elliott at Rockland.
Evening journal., 1914-06-04
WOMAN COULD
NOT SIT UP
Now Does Her Own Work.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound Helped Her.

Ironton, Ohio. -" ! am enjoying bet
ter health now than have for twelve
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14

WHAT A WRITER SAW.
A short time ago | noticed him as
he came into town, with his wagon
full of vegetables, and chickens, and
eggs. He found ready market for
his produce, and thought how happy
his little ones would be when he re-
turned home in the evening with toys,
and dresses, and shoes, and food for
the morrow, and some clear money in
his purse. / thought could see his
wife standing in the doorway to give
him a cordial greeting on his return,
SO DESTROYS was l that he should make
the home ones happy and contented.
could almost see his cheerful face as
he returned to his family after days
absence. So / thought, and returned
to my work But evening came, and
he passed by my window again. He
had nothing l thought he would have.
The bed of the wagon was bare. No
little shoes, nor food for the morrow,
nor money in his purse, dare say.
The man was drunk He had changed,
and this changed my thoughts of his
home. l could see the children shrink
ing from his approach, and the wife,
so care-wOrn and sorroWful. She
could not meet him with the tender
smile with which she had intended
greeting him. He was breaking her
heart, and preparing to make DESC
late home for his wife and children
w. H. Engler
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14
COST OF A BOY.

COST OF A BOY.
CBy MRS. ELLA A. BORLE, President
New York State w. C. T. u
If were to place money value on
what that mother does for the boy
from the time he is born until he is
twenty-one years of age, am not put
ting it too high when l assert it is
worth say two dollars a week-you
could not hire 1t done for that-which
means that the mother has invested in
the boy from the time he was born
until he is twenty-Cne years of age
more than twenty-one hundred dollars
in hard work
What has the father done for the
boy? He has provided the home, the
food and lodging, paid the doctors
bills, paid for his books, his clothes,
his schooling, and his bills when he
went to college, so that when I make
the average amount expended by the
father 800 per year my estimate is
low. This means that when the boy
has reached twenty-one years of. age
his father and mother have expended
upon him in cash and hard labor more
than $4,000.
If l had house valued at $4,000
and some one were to destroy it by
fire, / would have the man arrested
and sent to the penitentiary, but if 1
had boy, and house, 1 would a
thousand times rather some one would
set fire to my house and burn it to
the ground than have the saloon get
hold of my boy and ruin him body and
soul. Wouldn't you?
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14

today" he confided to the dog, as he
tramped through the lush grass. eff
you see me ladle the muck out of
that fountain with my own fair hands,
don't have fit. I'm liable to do any
thing
His eye sNept up and down the
slope. There probably isn't a finer
site for a house in the whole South"
he told himself. 1.-THE hving-rooms
front south and west Well get
scrumptious sunsets from that back
porch. And on the other side there's
the view clear to the Blue Ridge"
He skirted the lake. only to grub
out some of the lilies-there's too
many of them-and straighten the
rim-and weed the pebble margin to
give those green rocks a show. I'll
build little wharf below them to dive
from, and-yes, I'll stock it with
spotted trout
He was but few hundred yards
from the house, yet the silence was so
deep that there might have been no
habitation within fifty miles All at
once he stopped short; there was a
sudden movement in the thicket be-
yond-the sound of light fast footballs,
as of some one running away.
He made lunge for the dog, but
with growl Chum tore himself from
the restraining grasp and dashed into
the bushes. "a child, no doubt" he
thought as he plunged in pursuit, "and
that lubberly brute will scare it, half
to DEATH"
He pulled up with an exclamation.
In a narrow wood-path little way
from him, partly hidden by wind
fall, stood girl, her skirt transfixed
with a wickedly jagged sapling. He
saw instantly how it had happened;
the windfall had blocked the way, and
she had sprung clear over it, not
noting the screened spear, which now
held her as effectually as any railroad
spike.
In another moment Valiant had
reached her and met her face, flushed,
half defiant, her eyes a blue CLEAN of
smoldering anger as she desperately,
almost savagely. thrust wild tendrils
of fiame-colored hair beneath the
broad curved brim of her straw hat.
At her feet lay great armful of cape
jessamines.
A little thrill, light and warm and
joyous, ran through him. Until that
instant he had not recognized her.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14
SMALL PRoEIr no .EARMER.

The manufacturers of Intoxicating
liquors quite frequently represent
themselves as Indispensable to the
farmers, on account of the market
they afford him for his grain But
investigation shows that only a very
small part of the farmers total prod
ucts are taken by the breweries and
distilleries. For instance, during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1911, 114,-
5O9,S55 bushels of barley, wheat, rye,
corn and oats were used in making al
coholic liquors. But the farmers
raised, during the year 1910, a total
of 5,143, 1877 900 bushels of these same
grains and this shows that the liquor
traffic uses less than two and half
per cent. Of the five leading grain
crops of the land For every bushel
OF grain used by the breweries and
distilleries more than forty-four and
three-ffths bushels are used for legiti-
mate food purposes.-Prof. John A
Nichols.
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Dzo
>VALIANTSety IRGIlyIA
@ HALLI IIQIINI[ RIVL, pS ssfS as'rzlrr)
ILLUSTRATED 81 LAUREN STOUT

TO- deyselves en- de yuddah things-yo'
o'ny gotter courage EN- en- dey jes'
grows"
Valiant ate his dessert with a
thoughtful smile wrinkling his brow.
AS he pushed back his chair he smote
his hands together and laughed aloud.
Back to the soili" he said. John
Valiant, farmer! The miracle of it is
that it sounds good to me. want to
raise my own grub and till my own
soil 1 want to be my own mani And
I'm beginning to see my way. Crops
will have to wait for another season,
but there's water and pasture for cat
tie now. There's timber-lots of it
on that hillside, too. must look into
that"
He filed his pipe and climbed the
staircase to the upper floor. There
were many bedrooms with great four
posted, canopied beds and old-fash-
toned carved furniture of mahogany
and curly-maple, and in one he found
a great cedar-lined chest filled with
bed-linen and napery. In these rooms
were more evidences of decay. The
bedroom, he mentally chose for his
own was the plainest of all, and was
above the library, fronting the vaga-
bond garden It had a great black
desk with many glass-knobbed draw
ers and book-rack.
He fingered longest in a room
whose door was painted The Hilarium.
1t had evidently been a nursery and
schoolroom. Here on the walls were
many shelves wound over with net
works of cobwebs, and piled with the
oldest assemblage of toys. There
were school-books, too, thumbed and
dog-eared, from First Reader to
Caesars Gallo Wars, with names of
small Valiants scraw1ed on their fly
leaves. He carefully relocked the door
of this room; he wanted to dust those
toys and books with his own hands.
In the upper hall again he leaned
from the window, shifting the far
flung scent of orchards and peach
blown fence-rows. The soft whirring
sound of birds wing went past, al
most brushing his startled face, and
the old oaks seemed to stretch their
bent limbs with faithful brute-like
yawn of pleasure. In the room below
he could hear the vigorous sound of
Aunt Daphne's hard-driven broom and
the sound flooded the echoing space
with comfortable commotion.
He went to his trunk and fished out
a soft shirt on which he knotted a
loose tie, exchanged his Panama for
slouch hat, and whistling the bar
carole from Tales of Hoffman,, went
gailY out. 81 feel tremendously alive
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14

Till the sun was high John Valiant
lay on his back in the fragrant grass,
meditatively watching a bucaneering
chicken-hawk draw widening circles
against the blue and listening to the
vibrant tattoo of ''pecker-wood' on
a faraway tree, and the timorous wet
whistle of a bob-white. The whole
place was very quiet now. For just
one thrilling moment it had burgeoned
into sound and movement: when the
sweaty horses had stood snorting and
stamping in the yard with the hounds
scampering between their legs and the
riding-coats winking like rubies In the
early sunshine!
Had she recognized him as the
smudged tinkerer of the stalled car?
''She saw me drop that wretched brute
through the window" he chuckled. 81
could take oath to that. But she didn't
give me away, true little sport that
she was. And she won't l can't
think Of any reason, but know. Was
she angry? wonder!"
At length he rose and went back
to the house. With a bunch of keys
he had found he went to the stables,
after some difficulty gained access,
and propped the crazy doors and win
dows open to the sun. The building
was airy and well-lighted and con-
e4ined a dozen roomy box-stalls, a
spacious loft and carriage-house.
The straw bedding had been unre-
moved, mice-gnawed sacking and
rotted hay lay in the managers, and the
warped harness, hanging on it's pegs,
was a smelly mass of mildew and
decay. He found stick, moved away
the festooning cobwebs, and moved
the debris piece-meal
''There!" he said with satisfaction.
There's a place for the motor-if
Uncle Jefferson ever gets it here"
It was noon when he returned, after
wash-up in the lake, to the meal
with which Aunt Daphne, in costume
dimly suggestive of a bran-meal poul-
tice with a bingham apron on, RECALLED
him. Fried chicken, corn-bread so
soft and fluffy that it had to be lifted
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14
JUSTICE TO WIFE AND CHILDREN.

The court was hearing a case of
drunk, third arrest" The judge
turned to the woman who stood near,
whose worn, sorrowful face had
touched his heart. and said: Il am
sorry, but l must lock up our hus-
hand.R The injured wife, victim of
the legalized liquor traf-c, one of the.
many who take the consequences,
while the husband takes the drink
had no thought of touching deep moral
or economic problems, but o. = of
plain, everyday, common sense, when
she replied; Your honor, wouldn't.
it be better for me and the children
if you locked up the saloon and let my
husband go to work."
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14

of Them in and See"
from the pan with a spoon, Drowned
potatoes, and to his surprise, fresh
milk. "Ah done druv ouah OF COW
oyah, suh," explained Aunt Daphne.
e Case she gotter be MIXED, er she
run dry ez de Red Sea fo' de chillon
OBJ Izril"
Aunt Daphne" inquired Valiant
with his mouth full, what do you call
this green thing?"
dat? OATS jes, turnip-tops, sub,
wild er hunk er bacon in de pot. Laws
er-me, ct cer'n'y do me good ter see
yo' git arter it dat way, sub. Reck'n
yo' got er appetite! Hyuh, Hyuh!"
81 have. 1 never guessed it before,
and it's magnificent discovery. How
ever, it suggests unwelcome refec-
lions. Aunt Daphne, how long do you
estimate man can dine like this on
well, say on hundred dollars?"
SER hun'ed do1lahs, sub? OATS er
right smart heap O. money, deed ct is!
Well sub, pens on whit yo' raises.
EFF yo' raises yo' own gyarden-sass en-
chickns en- aigs, All reck'n yo' kin
live Iongah dan dat ar Methoosalum,
en- still hat mos of it in de OF stock
In"
"Ah! / can grow all those things
lyself. you think?"
sYo' cert'n'y kim" said Aunt Daphne.
SsEv'vhodv do. De chick'ns done peck
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14

her hand for the bunch of jessamine
and laid it on the broad roots of
tree that were notified with lichen.
Look there" she said suddenly;
ISN'T that beauty?"
She was pointing to g. jimson-weed
on which had settled, with CLASSY
wings vibrating, a long. ungainly,
needlelike insect with an odd sword
like beak. What is that?' he asked.
"a snake-doctor. If Unc' Jefferson
were here he'd say. Bettah watch
out. Dah's er snek roun' erbout heah.
shot, He'll fill you full of darby
superstitions.
Suddenly the slim path between the
trees took quick turn, and fen away
at their feet. There" she said. This
is the finest View at Damory Court. {"
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14

What a great
and gracious Cos
pei is proclaimed
and made posi-
BILE by the central
fact of Easter;
for without the
resurrection o f
Jesus Christ from
the dead there is
no evangel for the
minister to preach
and no goSpel 10
save those who
might believe =
no salvation from
sin, no sun to
drive away dark
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14
TWO INVESTMENTS.

Part of the exhibit in a Quincy
tMass.) shop window during the
poster campaign was little cottage
with the announcement that:
Henry saved one dollar per week
which he invested in building fund
At the end of rs years he had to show
this little home all paid for
Close to the cottage was pile of
miniature barrels with the legend:
John spent one dollar per week
for beer. At the end Of rs years he
had this pile OF empty barrels to show
and even these he did not own"
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14
COMMON SENSE IN NORTHERN
WISCONSIN,.

There are hundred miles of rail.
road through northern Wisconsin with
but one saloon town on the whole
route This station retained its wet
ness" at the last election by a major
ity of only four votes. And yet north.
ern Wisconsin is the home of the for
eign emigrant, the lumberman and
the copper and iron workers!
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14
The Evangel Of
| Easter
By Rev. FARLEY E. HARTMANN. D. D.
Secretary Of Extension Department
Moody Bible Institute. Chicago

TExT-But they constrained him, say
ing, Abide with us; for it is toward even
ing, and the day is far spent And he
went in to tarry with them. Luke 24:29.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14
OF JAPANESE TANGO GRAPE.

Strikingly oriental in the japanese
embroidered tango Grape and entirely
classic in the loose and simple design
is this gown of black. gold and white
Jet, fur and flowers are mingled, while
the jeweled hair wreath is typical Of
Paris modes.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14
cAAPTER xIII.

John Valiant Makes Discovery.
I'm so sorry," was what he said, as
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14
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SYNOPSIS.


CHAPTER I-John Valiant, a rich So
ciety favorite, suddenly discovers that the
Valiant corporation, which his father
founded and which was the principal
source of his wealth. has failed.
CHAPTER lille voluntarily turns
over his private fortune to the receiver
Tor the corporation
CHAPTER III-His entire remaining
possessions consist of an old motor car,
2 white bull dog and Damory court, a
CHAPTER IV-He learns that this es-
tate came into the family by royal grant
and has been in the possession Of the
Vahants ever since.
CHAPTER Won the way to Damory
court he meets Shirley cambridge, an au-
bUirn-hatred beauty, and decides that he
Is going to like Virginia immensely.
CHAPTER Wan old negro tells shir-
ley's fortune and predicts great trouble
Tor her on account of a man.
CHAPTER vI-Uncle Jefferson. an old
negro. takes Valiant to Damory court
CHAPTER v1II-shirley's mother, Mrs.
cambridge, and Major Bristow exchange
"reminiscences during which 1t is revealed
that the major. Valiant's father. and a
man named Sassoon, were rivals for the
hand of Mrs. cambridge in her youth.
Sassoon and Valiant fought duel on her
account in which the former was killed
CHAPTER X-valiant finds Damory
court overgrown with weeds and creep
ers and the buildings in q very much
neglected condition. Uncle Jefferson and
his wife, Aunt Daphne. are engaged as
servants.
CHAPTER X-Valiant explores his an
cestral home. He Is surprised by a fox
bunting party which invades his estate
He recognizes Shirley at the head of the
party.
CHAPTER XI-He gives sanctuary to
the cornered fox Gossips discuss the adj
vent of the new owner, and recall the
tragedy ia which the elder Valiant took
part.
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wAAr a waIrER SAM.

Conducted by the National Womans
Christian Temperance Union)
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CHAPTER III-His entire remaining
possessions consist of an old motor car,
q white bull dog and Damory court, a
neglected estate in Virginia
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CHAPTER Won the way to Danory
court he meets Shirley cambridge, an au-
burn-haired beauty, and decides that he
Is going to like Virginia immensely.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14

CHAPTER Iv-He learns that this es-
bate came into the family by royal grant
and has been in the possession of the
Valiants ever since
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CHAPTER lille voluntarily turns
over his private fortune to the receiver
for the corporation.
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CHAPTER I-John. Valiant, q rich So
ctety favorite, suddenly discovers that the
Valiant corporation, which his father
FOUNDED and which was the principal
source of his wealth. has failed.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-14

CHAPTER Wan old negro tells Shir-
ley's fortune and predicts great trouble
Tor her on account of man
Omaha daily bee., 1914-04-19

see them, the wistful, the glorious
eyes of my dead wife, They urge
me to do something, but / do not
yet know what ;"
The current explanation then is
that the only reparation the dying
man could imagine was to leave
her jewels and his wealth to her
friend.
In order to understand this situa-
tion It is necessary to recall the
earlier events of Alfred Edwards's
career. He was of mixed English,
French and Hebrew descent, but in
his true personality he was a typical
Partisan. Years ago he founded the
Matin, a French newspaper, con-
Quoted on American lines, and made
a great fortune with it, His actiri
ties were Napoleonic, and newspa-
per work formed but small part of
them.
He was married so frequently that
Parisians often referred to him with
out ill-feeling as "Bluebeard." Be-
fore he married Lantelme he had had
Omaha daily bee., 1914-04-19

said, We will rehearse these tricks
of death so we may know and tell
how to meet them when they come
not of our own volition. For this we
risk our lives In upside-down flying,
On the vertical tail drop, and so on.
But we eliminate the element OF the
unexpected. 1t is true that we may
be killed doing these things, but we
have not yet been killed-those OF
us who are learning to play Deaths
own game.
For instance, there is my feat
OF flying a mile upside down.
have so learned TO master the
planes under such conditions that
II Unexpectedly l should turn turtle
should still know how to keep
control and save my life. It is the
elimination OF the tiny movement
between the time the unexpected
happens and the time in which the
aviator grasps the situation that
We strive to eliminate. For that
tiny movement is the difference
between life and death"
The tail drop, shown here, Is even
more dangerous than the upside
down flight. The aviator gets into
position by a series of short NOS
ing up" flights. Gradually his aero
plane assumes the vertical. When
it does SO Il is simply let to drop
like stone. Equilibrium Is re.
gained by what is known as a back
volplane. That is, the rudder
planes are so moved that the drop
Of the machine is changed into an
abrupt arc. II this arc is not too
abrupt the aviator regains control.
IL 1t is too sharp the plane strikes
the earth with sufficient force to
destroy ii and most probably its
driver.
This tail end dropping is one OF
the commonest causes Of fatal ac-
cident I'm flying. Sudden heavy
gusts Of wind that cause the up
fitting are frequently met with.
' tha Star Comnapv nraaf prit.ar ID,
Omaha daily bee., 1914-04-19

various trusting persons will lose the
payments he desires me to make to
them, for the estate will go to dis
tant relatives"
From these words and certain
other circumstances Paris has con-
structed a new version OF the Ian.
telme tragedy. This theory is that
Edwards was tortured by remorse
over the death of his beautiful young
wife, and that to make the only
amends in his power he has left his
wealth and the jewels he had given
her to her most intimate friend, who
at one time expressed the greatest
aversion for him.
Lucie Lantelme was exquisitely
beautiful, and the most exquisite
feature of her beauty lay in her
deep. dark, sad, wistful eyes. THE
haunting eyes of Lantelme" they
were commonly called in Paris. 1t
is said that Edwards, in his last
days, when he realized that death
was about to take him, exclaimed:
Those eyes! Wherever / go |
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TBRB Is an extraordinary pic.
ture OF two Of the newest,
most astonishing an6 peril
Gus feats Of aviators. The aero
plane shown dropping swiftly in
the foreground is not falling help
lessly. 1t is dashing to ground as
swiftly as gravitation can carry 1t,
but the aviator, John Nelson, ex-
poets to regain control of 1t before
it reaches earth's surface, where,
unless he does gain control, he will
be dashed to certain death.
In the other aeroplane in the pic.
ture Pegoud, the French aviator, is
seen flying head downward, not be.
cause his aeroplane has turned
turtle, but because he desires to test
flying in that way.
Neither Of these men are doing
their dangerous acts for amusement
or to thrill onlookers. The purpose
is to make flying immune from the
sudden horrible death that takes In
creasing toll of their ranks, by imi-
tating all deaths tricks and so dis
covering how to beat them.
Pegoud, in a remarkable inter
view recently, thus explained the
principle:
"You cannot really learn how to
beat a game until you have passed
through that game" he said. "For
those who fly through the air death
has up his sleeve a multitude OF
tricks, for which the penalty OF not
knowing is extinction or Gripping.
A sidewise veer, a sudden dropping
"a hundred things may cause the
fatal fall. But Deaths great card
is the unexpectedness with which he
plays his tricks.
MANY OF the things that have
caused tragedies have been things
that, could they only have been re-
hearsed once or twice, would not
have been dangerous at all.
Therefore, a few Of us have
COpyriaht 1914