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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-08-06
SYNOPSIS

Johu Valiant. rich society favortte.
suddenly discovers that the Valiant cor
pOration, which his father founded and
which was the principal source OF ms
over his private fortune to the receiver
for the corporation. His entire remaining
possessions consist of an old motor car. a
white bull dog and RamorY court ,b AN neg e
Damory court he meets Shirley pand-
ridge. an authenticated beauty. and de-
cides that he is going to like Virginia Inn
mensely. Shirley's mother, Mrs. Dand-
IniSccnces during which II is revealed
that the major, Valiants father. and
man named Sassonn were rivals for the
hand of Mrs. Daulridge In her youth.
Eassoon and Valiant fought duel on her
account In which the former was killec
Valiant finds Dlmory court overgrowt
with weeds and creepers and decides y
rehabilitate the place. Valiant saves
Shirley from the bite of n snake, which
bites him. Knowing the deadliness OF the
bite, Shirley sucks the poison IRON the
wound and saves his life. Valiant learns
for the first time that his father LETT var
ginia on account of n duel in which Doc
tor Southall and Major Bristow acted as
his fathers seconds. Valiant and shirley
become good friends. Mrs, Dandriage
kirst time. Valiant discovers that he has
Q fortune In old walnut trees. The yearly
tournament a survival OF the 1ousting OF
reucal times, Is hel1 ~ Ddhloty W ~
the last moment Valiant takes the place
of one of the knights, who Is SICK ana
enters the lists. He wins and chooses
Shirley Dandridge as queen of beauty to
the 1ismay OF Katherine Fargo. q former
sweetheart who Is visiting In virginia.
The tournament ball at Damory court
draws the elite OF the countryside. Shir-
tey is crowned by Valiant as queen Of
beauty. Valiant tells Shirley of his lore
Gnd they become engaged. Katherine
Fargo, determining not to give up Vail
ant without a struggle, points out to Shtr-
ley how terrible It would be for the wom-
an who caused the duel to meet Nalaut'
who looks so much like his father.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-08-06
REMEMBER NAMES AND FACES
important Business Asset That Any
Merchant VIII Do Well to
Cultivate Assiduously.

Can you remember names and faces?
II you can, you are cultivating one Of
the most valuable of business assets.
Teach yourself to remember names
and faces. Impress your clerks with
the Importance of doing likewise. A
good rule to follow in remembering
names Is to write down the name Of
your new customers when they leave
your store or when you go home at
night. II Mrs. Smith comes into your
store and you greet her with kind
How do you do, Mrs. Smith," she is
happy. You have appealed to her
vanity. You have singled her out
from the rest. She is not just Gus
toner" she is Mrs. Smith. She has
a new personality and she will repeat
her visits to your store. Even II she
only wants to make a fye-cent pur-
chase she will go out Of her way to
come to your store If you remember
her and call her by name when she
comes in. But don't allow clerks to
overdo courtesy. Many women are
easily frightened by a display Of too
much politeness and will drop your
store as a buying place If they think
your clerks are getting too familiar.
However, the study of names and faces
Is a part of the business that should
not be overlooked.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-08-06
STOOD FOR ANCIENT SPELLING
Dean Swift About the First to Thun.
der Against "Reforms" in
English Language.

In the eighteenth century we find
Jonathan Swift, whose mastery of
prose is one Of our delights. writing as
the very first article which appeared
over his acknowledged name "A Pre-
posal for Correcting, Improving and
AscUrtaining the English Tongue" He
lamented that the English tongue was
becoming debased, but he attributed
the cause. in part, to the liberties
which Dryden and the other poets Of
the Restoration had taken in shorten
ing their syllables by omitting those
very e's which our spelling reformers
would eliminate.
These gentlemen" wrote Swift. al.
though they could not be insensible
how much our language was already
Overstocked with monosyllables, yet
to save time and pains, introduced
that barbarous custom Of abbreviating
words to ft them to the measure of
their verseS-so that most of tho hookS
We eco nowadays are full o. thara
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-08-06
First English Martyr.

The first martyr to Christianity in
England was St. Alban. He lived in
the third century and was a soldier
under the emperor Diocletian before
he embraced the new faith. After leav-
ing the army he returned to Britain
and became the first English victim
of the persecution of Diocletian, who
prohibited Christian worship on PEN
atty of death. Alban was beheaded
in the year 2S6. During the following
years of the emperor's reign and the
administrations of his immediate sue
cessors thousands of Christians in all
parts of Europe were put to death.
Houses filled with Christians were set
on fire and many other followers Of
the faith were bound together with
ropes and cast into the sea.
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DEPENDS ON THE LIGHTNING
Why Length and Strength Of Thunder
Peals Have Different Qualities
Of Sound.

Lightning is the glare Of a prodi-
gious electric spark that is turned
loose from some place no longer
strong enough to hold 1t and forms a
tremendous blazing arc as 1t leaps
from cloud to cloud or from cloud to
earth. The little spark OF a labora-
tory machine makes a'crackling noise,
and the gigantic one In the sky makes
a correspondingly great one as it tears
through the air and sets up vibrations
of tremendous intensity.
But it is noticeable in a thunder
storm that the thunderclaps are OF
very different loudness and quality Of
sound. The length and strength of
a thunder peal, as a meteorologist
points out in knowledge, depend main
ly on the size of the accompanying
lightning discharge, but the loudness
and sharpness of the crack that comes
before the peal depend chiefly on the
direction taken by the electric cur
rent relative to the hearer.
The first crack. or rending noise
comes from the fash itself; the peal
that follows consists of echoes from
the clouds or mountain sides when
hills are near. Furthermore, the noise
of the actual flash comes to US from
all along the lightning's path. We
hear first that at the beginning OF
the fash and later the noise made
toward the end of its path. When
this is short and we are so situated
with reference to it that the whole
report reaches our ears almost stimuli
taneously, say in a quarter of sec
ond, it sounds like one terrific thump
or crash. But If the electric arc Is
long and the noise takes two or three
seconds to reach US completely 1t
translates itself into a long tearing
roar. Thus you may judge Of the
character of lightning flash from its
own report of proceedings.
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HeaIthoqram.

1t is not necessary to know the riti-
mate cause of cancer in order to con-
troll the death rate from 1t. Many of
the conditions under which the dis
ease develops may be remedied by in
creasing the knowledge of cancer.
Campaigns of education have as their
object the spreading Of information
about the disease. The American So
ciety for the Control Of Cancer has
recently been formed to encourage and
direct this kind of educational activ-
ity. The society plans to cooperate
with all existing agencies engaged In
studying the disease and to publish
in every city, town and village the
message Of hope which lies in the
early recognition and proper treat
ment of cancer.
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CHAPTER xxvlll.-continued.

Young mars feel way UP In de
clouds dis day." he said to Aunt
Daphne. "He wake up ez glad ez
of he done 'fessed 'ligion las night.
Well, all de folkses cert'n'y Joyed
deyselves. or Mistah Fargo done eat
bout forty uh dem jumbles. All heah
him talkn' ter Mars John. 'Reck'n yo'
mus hab er crackahjack cook down
heah.' he say. Hyuh, hyuh!"
"G'way wild yo' blackyardtn'!-"
shifted Aunt Daphne, delighted. Don
Reed ter come eroun' honey-caffuddlin'
Me!"
Oats whut he say" insisted Uncle
Jefferson; he did TO- er fac'!"
She drew her hands from the Suds
and looked at him anxiously "Jeff'son,
yo' reck'n Mars John gwineter fotch
dat Yankee CONAN heah ter Danny
Co'ot, ter be ouah mistis?"
"Humph!" scoffed her spouse. Dat
highfalutin' gal whut done swaller de
ramrod? No suh-ree-bob-tall! De
oldah yo' gifts, de mo- foolishah yo'
citations is! Don yo' TEX no mo-
trouble on yo back den yo' kin keek
off'n yo' heels! She ain gwineter run
dis place, er OF Devil-John tuhn ovah
In he gravel"
Sunset found Valiant sitting in the
music-room before the old square pi-
ano. In the shadowy chamber the
Keys Of mother-of-pearl cleaned with
dull colors under his fingers. He
struck at first only broken chords, that
became finally the haunting barcarole
of Tales Of Hoffman," 1t was the
air that had drifted across the garden
when he had stood with Shirley by
the sun-dial, in the moment of their
i1rst kiss Over and over he played
1t. improvising dreamy variations, till
the tender melody seemed the dear
ghost of that embrace. At length he
went into the library and in the Grim
soning light sat down at the desk,
and began to write:
Dear Bluebird Of Mine:
Il can't wait any longer to talk to
you. Less than a day has passed
since we were together, but it might
have been cons, if one measured time
by heart-beats. What have you been
doing and thinking, ! wonder? | have
spent those cons in the garden, Just
wandering about, dreaming over those
wonderful, wonderful moments by the
sun-dial. All, dear little wild heart
born Of the flowers, with the soul Of
bird (yet you are woman, tool that
old disk is marking happy hours now
for me!
How have | deserved this thing
that has come to me?--sad bungler
that have been! Sometimes it seems
too glad and sweet, and am suddenly
desperately afraid shall wake to find
myself facing another dull morning
in that old, useless, empty life Of mine.
am very humble, dear, before your
love.
Shall tell you when it began with
me? Not last nlght--nor the day we
planted the ramblers. (Do you know,
when your little muddy boot went
trampling down the earth about their
roots, wanted to stoop down and
kiss 1t? So dear everything about
you wasO Not that evening at Rose
wood. with the arbor fragrance about
us. Il think shall always picture you
with roses all about you. Red roses
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Why Popes Change Names.

Everyone knows that as soon as a
cardinal becomes a pope he is no
longer known by his own name, but
takes a new one. This custom origi-
mated out of reverence for st. Peter
Piux X, for instance, was Giuseppe
Sarto-in English, Joseph Taylor-be-
fore he took up his residence in the
Vatican.
This custom, now a law of the
church, had it's origin in 8S4, when Pc
ter di Porca became pope Of Rome. He
held that it would be presumptuous to
style himself Peter II. Before that
time many popes had changed their
names, but it was not obligatory for
them to do so. Sergius II not only
established a precedent in this direc-
ton, but he set an example which all
pontiffs have followed in that none Of
them has ever retained or assumed
the name of Peter.
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the color of your lipsD No, 1t was not
then that It began-nor that dreadful
hour when you fought with me to save
my life-nor the morning you sat your
horse in the box.rows in that yew-
green habit that made your hair look
like molten copper. No. 1t began the
first afternoon, when | sat In my mo-
tor with your rose In my hand! 1t
has never left me since, by day or by
night And yet there are people in
this age of airships and honking high
ways and typewriters who think love
at-flrst-sight is as out-ofdate as our
little grandmothers' hoops rusting in
the garret. All, sweetheart, l, for one,
know better!
Suppose l had not come to Vir-
ginia--and known you! My heart
jumps when I think of 1t. 1t makes
one believe in fate. Here at the Court
found an old leaf-calendar--it sits
at my elbow now, just as came on it.
The date 1t shows is May 14th, and
its motto is: Every man carries his
fate upon a riband about his neck
l like that
That first Sunday at St. Andrews,
l thought of a day-may it be soon!-
when you and | might stand before
that altar, with your people (my
people, too, now around us, and ]
shall hear you say: I, Shirley, take
thee, john And to think It is really
to come true! Do you remember the
text the minister preached from? 1t was
But all men perceive that they have
riches, and that their faces shine as
the faces Of angels l think l shall
go about henceforth with my face
shining, so that all men will see that
have riches-your love for me, dear.
Il am so happy can hardly see the
words--or perhaps 1t is that the sun
Uncle Jefferson. Send me back just
a word by him, sweetheart, to say l
may come to you tonight. And add
the three short words l am so thirsty
to hear over and Overcome verb be-
tween two pronouns-so that l can
kiss them all at once!"
He raised his head, little flushed
and with eyes brilliant, lighted a
candle, sealed the letter with the ring
he wore and dispatched 1t.
Thereafter he sat looking into the
growing dusk, watching the pale
lamps of the consultations deepen to
green gilt against the lapis-lazuli Of
the sky, and listening to the insect
noises dulling into the woven chorus
of evening. Uncle Jefferson was long
in returning, and he grew impatient
finally and began to prowl through the
dusty corridors like a leopard, then
to the front porch and finally to the
driveway, listening at every turn for
the familiar slouching step.
When at length the old negro ap-
peared, Valiant took the note he
brought, his heart beating rapidly,
and carried it hastily in to the candle
light He did not open it at once, but
sat for full minute pressing it be-
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tween his palms as though to extract
from the delicate paper the beloved
thrill Of her touch. His hand shook
slightly as he drew the folded leaves
from the envelope. How would it be-
gin? My Knight of the Crimson
Rose" or Dear Gardener" (She had
called him Gardener the day they had
set out the roses) or perhaps even
Sweetheart" 1t would not be long,
only mere Yes" or Come to me-"
perhaps; yet even the shortest missive
had it's beginning and its ending.
He opened and read.
For an instant he stared unbeliev-
ingly. Then the paper cracked to a
ball in his clutched hand, and he made
q hoarse sound which was half cry,
then sat perfectly still, his whole face
shuddering. What he crushed in his
hand was no note of tender love-
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EDWARD SASSOON.
Forgive US our trespasses.

The silence seemed to crash to earth
like great lookingglass and shiVer
into million pieces. The wax dropped
from his fingers and in the superven-
ing darkness numb fright gripped
him by the throat. Shirley had laid
these there, on the grave of the man
his father had killed-the cape jessa-
mines she had wanted that day, for
her mother! He understood.
1t came to him at last that there
was a chill mist cropping among the
trees and that he was very cold.
He went back along the Red Road
stumblingly. Was this to be the end
of the dream, which he had fancied
would last forever? Could it be that
she was not for him? Was it no hoary
lie that the sins Of the fathers were
visited upon the third and fourth gen.
Grafton?
When he re-entered the library the
candle was guttering in the burned
wings of night-moth. The place
looked all at once gaunt and desolate
and despoiled. What could Virginia,
what could Damory Court, be to him
without her? The wrinkled note lay
on the desk and he bent suddenly with
a sharp catching breath and kissed it.
There welled over him wave of
rebellious longing. The candle spread
to a hazy yellow blur The walls fell
away. He stood under the moonlight
with his arms about her, his lips on
hers and his heart beating to the
sound Of the violins behind them.
He laughed--a harsh wild laugh that
rang through the gloomy room. Then
he threw himself on the couch and
buried his face in his hands. He was
still lying there when the misty rain
wet dawn came through the shutters.
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I'm sure hope 1t will" She rescued
the fallen piece of bark and an
nounced: "The collection this after
noon has amounted to a hundred dol.
lars and seven cents. And now, chill
dren, we will skip the catechism and
will tell you a story"
Her auditors hunched themselves
nearer, a double row of attentive white
and black faces, as Hickey with a pre-
limihary bass cough. began in a drawl-
ing tone whose mimicry called forth
giggles Of esctasy.
There were once two little sisters.
who went to Sunday-school and loved
their teacher ve-e-ery much. They
were always good and attentive-not
like that little niger over therel The
one with his thumb in his mouth! One
was little Mary and the other was
little Susy. They had mighty rich
uncle who lived in Richmond, and
once he came to see them and gave
them each a dollar. And they were
ve-eery glad. 1t wasn't a mean old
paper dollar, all dirt and creases; nor
battered Whitley silver dollar; but
1t was bright round gold dollar, right
out of the mint. Little Mary and little
Susy could hardly sleep that night for
thinking of what they could buy with
those gold dollars.
EARLY next morning they went
downtown, hand In hand, to the store,
and little Susy bought bag of goober
peas, and sticks and sticks of striped
candy, and a timber jack, and a gold
ring, and wax doll with silk dress
on that could open and shut its eyes"
"Huh!" said the captious Cozy.
You can't buy a wax doll for dollar.
My littlest, littlest one cost three, and
she didn't have stitch to her back"
"Shut up!" said Hickey briefly.
Dolls were cheaper then" She looked
at the row of little negroes, google
eyed at the vision of such largess.
What do you think little Mary did
with her gold dollar? She loved dolls
and candy, too, but she had heaEd
about the poo-oo-r heather. There was
tear in her eye, but she took the dol
lar home, and next day when she went
to Sunday-school, she dropped it in
the missionary-box.
Little children, what do you reckon
became of that dollar? 1t bought a
big satchelful of tracts for mission
airy. He had been a poor man with
six children and wife with a bone
felon on her right hand-not child
old enough to wash dishes and all of
them young enough to fall in the fire
so he had to 60 and be a missionary,
He was going to Alabam--to canni
bal island, and he took the tracts and
sailed away in ship that landed him
on the shore. And when the heather
cannibals saw him they were ve-e-ery
glad, for there hadn't been any ship
wrecked sailors for long time, and
they were ve-e-ery hungry. So they
tied up the missionary and gathered
lot of wood to make fire and cook
him.
But is had rained and rained and
rained for so long that the wood was
all wet, and it wouldn't burn, and they
all cried because they were so hungry.
And then they happened to find the
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washinaton,s Return Home.

On December 4, 1888. Washington
bade farewell to his officers in New
York and rowed across the Hudson to
New Jersey, thence proceeding to
Philadelphia. There he handed to the
proper officers a statement of the
money he had spent out Of his own
pocket after he took command Of the
army more than eight years before in
Cambridge. The amount was $64,315
For his services during that time hes
refused any pay. When he reached
Annapolis, where congress was sit
ting, he resigned as commander in
chief Of the army. and proceeded to
Mt Vernon, where he had been but
once during the eight years and half.
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manglings and authorizations" Dis.
turb'd," "rebuk'd." are among the
words he finds especially unpleasant.
Swift was further annoyed at a fool
ish opinion, advanced Of late years,
that we ought to spell exactly as we
speak; which. besides the obvious in
convenience of utterly destroying our
etymology, would be thing we
should never see an end Of" Also be
noted with impatience in 1712: 1T is
sometimes difficult matter to read
modern books and pamphlets; where
the words are so curtailed and varied
from their original spelling, that who
ever has been used to plain English
will hardly know them by sight" How
many of our new" controversies were
waged centuries ago!
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The Inns of Court hotel, London
which is to become the telephone OK
change for Holborn, began life as the
Blue Boar tavern in Plantagenet times.
taking its name from the crest Of the
De Veres. who owned the land there
abouts. When its neighbor and rival.
the George inn. was demolished under
Queen Anne, the Blue Boar annexed
the name George as its subtitle. +,
was at the Blue Board that Cromwell.
disguished as trooper, stopped .
rsan about to set out for Dover. In
his saddle he found letter frcE
Charles /. which determined hin e
the kings execnAinn
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satchelful of tracts, and the tracts
were ve-e-ery dry. They took them
and stuck them under the wet wood
and the tracts burned and the wood
caught fire and they cooked the mis-
sionary and ate him.
Now. little children, which do you
think did the most good with her dol
lar-little Susy or little Maryf"
The front row sniggered, and sigh
came from the colored ranks. Dem
ar can'bals," gasped a dusky infant
breathlessly. "-dey done eat up all
dat candy and dem goober-peas, too?"
CTO BE CONTINUED9
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When the Shoe Pinched.

She was British militant suffragist
who, after an eight months absence,
turned up in a state of indignation
against the British postofice. The
postmaster general. she complained,
had been abstracting suffragettes' cor
respondence from the post! Some
Of them hadn't received their notices
duly. "Abominable!" The complain
ant had just done time" in prison for
setting fire to letter boxes and de-
stroying other peoples correspon-
dence! Chicago News
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Receiving the Guest.

pray you, o excellent wife, not to
cumber yourself and me to get a rich
dinner for this man or this woman
who have alighted at our gate, nor a
bed chamber made ready at too great
a ecst These things, IL they are curl
Gus In. they can get for a dollar at
any village. But let this stranger.
II Lc will. in your looks. in your &c
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the streets Of our big cities, but there
are plenty Of them in the country, and
the farmer thinks, just as much of a
good horse now as he did in the old
days. So, too, have observed that
our men of wealth, who for time
took to the motor car, are coming
back to the fast trotter and roadster
There is nothing Hike real life when II
comes to sport, and an automobile is
an inanimate thing" = Washington
Post.
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cent and behavior, read your heart
and earnestness, your thought and
will, which he cannot buy at any price
in any village or city, and which he
may well travel fifty miles and dine
sparely and sleep hard in order to
behold. Certainly, let the board be
spread and let the bed be dressed for
the traveller; but let not the emphasis
Of hospitality lie in these things
Honor to the house where they are
simple to the verge of hardship, so
that there the intellect is awake and
reads the laws of the universe
Emerson