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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14

last ball-the night before It hap
pened. The fourteenth of May used to
be sad, but now. do you know, look
forward to it, / always have a lot OF
jessamines that particular day-I1l
have Shirley get me some tomorrow
and In the evening, when go down
stairs, the house is full of the scent
Of them. All summer long it's roses
but on the fourteenth Of May 1t has
to be jessamines. Shirley must think
me a whimsical old woman, but In
sist on being humored."
He smiled, a little bleakly, and
cleared his throat
isn't 1t strange for me to be talk.
Ing this way now!" she said present.
ly. Another proof that I'm getting
old. But the date brings It very close;
1t seems, somehow, closer than ever
this year.-Monty, weren't you tire
mendously surprised when married
Tom Dandridge?"
II certainly was
IN tell you a secret. was, too
I suppose l did 1t because Of q sneak.
ing feeling that some people were feel
ing sorry for me, which never could
stand. Well, he was a man any one
might honor. I've always thought q
woman ought to have two husbands:
one to love and cherish, and the other
to honor and obey. had the latter.
at any rate"
And you've lived, Judith" he said.
YES" she agreed, with little sigh,
I've lived. I've had Shirley, and she's
twenty and adorable. And I've had
people enough, and books to read, and
plenty Of pretty things to look at, and
old lace to wear, and I've kept
my figure and my vanity-Tm not too
old yet to thank the Lord for that!
So don't talk to me about worsted
shawls and horrible arctics. For !
won't wear 'em. Not II know my
self! Here comes Shirley. She's
made two juleps. .and II you're gen
tleman, you'll distract her attention
till I've got rid Of mine in my usual
way"
.
The major, at the foot Of the cherry
bordered lane, looked back across the
box-hedge to where the two figures
sat under the rose-arbor, the mothers
face turned lovingly down to Shiriey's
at her knee. He stood q moment
watching them from under his
slouched hat-brtm.
You never looked at me that way.
Judith, did you!" he sighed to him
self. It's been long time, too. since
I began to want you to-'most forty
years. When It came 10 the show
down. I wasn't even as At as Tom
Dandridge!"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14

have had our secrets before. eh. Mon
tyr
Yes, Judith, We have"
She bent toward him, her hands
tightening on the cane. After all,
It's true. Today am getting old.
may look only fifty, but feel sixty
and I'll admit to seventy-f1ve. It's
Joy that keeps us young, and ! didn't
get my fair share Of that, Monty
For Just one little week my heart had
Il aIl-all-and then-well, then 1t
was finished. It was finished long be-
fore I married Tom cambridge. II
isn't that I'm empty-headed. It's that
rve been an 'empty-hearted woman.
Monty-as empty and dusty and DESC
late as the old house over yonder on
the ridge"
= know, Judith, l know"
You've been empty in a way, too"
she said. But it's been a different
way. You were never In love-really
in love, I mean. Certainly not with
me, Monty, though you tried to make
me think so once upon a time, before
Sassoon came along, and-Beauty Va
liant"
The major blinked, suddenly
startled. 1t was out, the one name
neither had spoken to the other for
thirty years! He looked at her IT.
tie guiltily; but her eyes had turned
away. Everything changed then."
she continued dreamily, everything"
The majors fingers strayed across
his waistcoat. fumbling uncertainty
for his eyeglasses. For an instant
he, too, was back in the long-ago
past, when he and Valiant had been
comrades. It had been a curious
three sided affair-he, and Valiant and
Sassoon. Sassoon with his dissipated
fair and ungovernable temper and
strange fts Of recklessness; clean.
high-idealed. straightaway Valiant;
and he-a Bristow, neither better nor
worse than the rest Of his name. He
remembered that mad strained season
when he had grimly recognized his
own cause as hopeless, and with burn
ing eyes had watched Sassoon and
Valiant racing abreast. He remem-
bered that glittering prodigal dance
when he had come upon Valiant and
Judith standing in the shrubbery, the
candle-light from some open door en-
goldening their faces: hers smiling. a
little fiippant perhaps, and conscious
Of her spell; his grave and earnest,
yet wistful.
You promise, John?"
II give my sacred word. What
ever the provocation, will not lift
my hand against him. Never, never!"
Then the same voice, vibrant, appeal
ing. judith! 1t isn't because-be-
cause-you care for him?"
He had plunged away in the dark
ness before her answer came. What
had 1t mattered then to him what she
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
was an ideal hunting lodge for palace
iithic man, was the most westerly out
ost Of the race in Europe.
Retold for Tourists.

The Bale Geneva express, says the
Standards Geneva correspondent, was
overcrowded the other day and trav-
elers had to stand in the corridors OF
the second class coaches. One tour
list saw a seat vacant, but covered
with luggage and asked a passenger
sitting near whether the seat was
occupied" YES" replied the stran-
ger, "the man Is in the restaurant
wagon and will return soon"
There the matter ended until the
express reached Lausanne. when the
owner Of the baggage prepared to got
out.
Pardon me-" said the tourist, that
luggage does not belong to you" and
called the guard. The latter sided
with the tourist and the whole matter
was placed before the station master
The selfish traveller had to prove
piece by piece, that the luggage or
the seat belonged to him. and he I'm
ally was obliged to pay Tor two. go
ond class tickets.
u h So. Il aa-.A as II
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
CHAPTER TX.
Damory Court.

Damory Court.
Oars Danny Co'ot smack-dab
ahaid, suh.''
John Valiant looked up. Facing
them at an elbow Of the broad road.
was an old gateway of time-nicked
stone, clasping an iron gate that was
quaint and heavy and red with rust.
He put out his hand
Wait a moment" he said in a low
voice, and as the creaking conveyance
stopped, he turned and looked about
him
Facing the entrance the land fell
away sharply to a miniature valley
through which rambled a willow-bor-
dered brook, in whose shadows short
horned cows stood lazily. Beyond,
whittier wound the Red Road, he
could see a drowsy village, with
spire and a cupolaed courthouse; and
farther yet a yellow gorge with q
wisp of white smoke curling above
it marked the course Of a crawling
far-away railway.
"Et's er moughty fine OIL place, sub.
mid dat big revenue oh trees" said
Uncle Jefferson. But All reck'n ct
aim got none OBJ de modern conniv-
ances."
AS Valiant jumped down he was
possessed by an odd sensation of old
acQuaintance-as If he had seen those
tall white columns before-an illu-
sory haR-vision into some shadowy,
fourth-dimensional landscape that be-
longed to his subconscious self, or
that, glimpsed in some immaterial
dream-picture, had left faint-etched
memory. Then, on sudden, the vista
vibrated and widened, the white col
umns expanded and shot up into the
clouds, and from every bush seemed
to peer a friendly black savage with
woolly white hair!
"Wishing-House!" he whispered.
The hidden country which his fathers
thoughts, sadly recurring. had painted
to the little child that once he was,
in the guise Of an endless wonder
tale! His eyes misted over, and 1t
seemed to him that moment that his
father was very near.
Leaving the negro to unload his be-
longings, he traversed an overgrown
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
WASN'T ENTITLED TO MEDAL
President Of Anti-CrueIty Society
Made Decision Positively Brutal
In its Frankness.

J Mrs. Waldorf Astor at tie port Of
New York declared the other day that
she never wore aigrettes or the feath-
ers Of song birds, or the plumes OF
anything that flies. Yet she was wear
ing sables at the time; her boots were
of calfskin; her gloves were kid, and
she would go to the Ritz-Carlton for
luncheon and swallow tiny, living oys-
ters, afterward eating young trout,
outlets of lamb, grilled quail, and so
forth and so on. Oh, consistency"
The speaker was DR.. l.. G. Wither-
spoon, the San Francisco dietician.
He continued:
Man Is cruel toward the animals.
There Is no denying it. And hence
Mrs. Waldorf Astor is rather foolish
to prate of her kindness as regards
aigrettes when, on her behalf, we
slaughter daily birds and sheep. sables
and seals, fish and kids.
yes. as the world is constituted.
my talk OF kindness toward animals
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14

called to an affair as delicate as it
was urgent.
He quickly made up his disguise.
For his bourgeois melon hat, he sub
stituted cap. the classic cap Of the
Apache. He then jumped into an
auto.
He was not recognizable, or rather
he would not have been II the hon
orable inspector had not retained
upon his breast the red ribbon of the
legion of honor, ribbon that he had
heroically won at Shoisy-la-Roi, under
tragic circumstances that no one has
forgotten.
And the malefactors In the midst of
whom this disguised officer insinuated
himself could not refrain from laugh
ing and are laughing yet at this man
clothed like one of them and decorat-
ed with the legion Of honor!-Le Cri
de Paris.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
spurns Three Pennies.

Toledo. - Because he assaulted
L. E. Steas, a passenger, who had
rendered three cents as fare, C. w.
Webster, street railway conductor.
narrowly escaped serious handling by
a mob of more than 200 men and boys.
When Steas proffeTsd 3 cents as the
fare, the conductor, it is alleged, made
an insulting remark about the offer.
Steas resented, and according to wit
nesses Webster began pounding Steas
on the head with his ticket punch.
Steas went to a physicians Office,
where 10 stitches were required to
repair his scalp. Webster was charged
with assault and battery.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14

strikes me as absurd-reminds me, in
fact, Of the Anti-Cruelty Society of
Nola Chucky.
A man with big club appeared ut
the annual convention of this society
and demanded the annual medal, or
first prize.
What kindEess,' the president
asked him, what kindness have you
shown. my man, toward Sha lower
animals that entities you & our
medal?'
Wal, yer honor said the man, I
spared the life of bar. l might "a
killed him with this here club. But
let him or
Where was this bear?" the presi-
dent asked. Where was he, and what
had he done to your
He'd killed my wife, the man re-
piled.
'Ho, hot cried the president. And
you demand our gold medal? My
friend. you've been sufficiently re-
warded already"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
~Gs Takes Pastor at His Word.

Geneva. - "If you would pick
out some nice girl of whom l ap-
prove and come to my home, would
marry you free" said Pastor C. w.
Hardendorf to G. H. Swan, Geneva's
richest young man, about year ago.
Mr.. Swan met his pastor on the street
Wednesday and explained that he de-
sired advice on an option he held. He
promised the pastor he would call at
his home next day for guidance.
At noon the young man appeared
at the pastors home and placed
a document before him. The "op-
ton" proved to be a license per-
mitting Gary H. Swan to wed Miss
Hazel G. Barnard, one Of Geneya's
prettiest young women. But Rev.
Hardendorf was game" and in a few
moments the "option" was closed and
Mr.. and Mrs. Swan were speeding to
Cleveland on a honeymoon.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14

hams Vegetable Compound. After TAX
ing the third bottle of the Compound /
was able to do my housework and today
1 am strong and healthy again. will
answer letters if anyone wishes to know
about my case. Mrs. JOSEPH AsEL1N,
628 Monroe st. IN. E., Minneapolis, MINI.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harmful
drugs, and today holds the record Of
being the most successful remedy we
know for woman's ills. If you need such
a medicine why don't you try it?
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound win help yOu,write
to Lydia E. E.Pinkham MedicineCO.
(confidentiaD Lynn, Mass, for adj
vice. Your letter will be opened
read and answered by a woman
and held I'm strict confidence.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14

had replied? And that very night had
befallen the fatal quarrel!
The major started. How that name
had blown away the dust! That's
long time ago, Judith"
Thirty years ago tomorrow they
fought" she said softly, Valiant and
Sassoon. Every woman has her one
anniversary, suppose, and tomor-
rows mine. Do you know what I
do, every fourteenth of May, Monty?
keep my room and spend the day
always the same way. There's little
book read. And there's an old hair
cloth trunk that I've had since was
a girl. Down in the bottom Of 1t are
something's, that take out and set
round the room and there
is handful Of old letters I go over
from first to last. They're almost
worn out now, but could repeat them
all with my eyes shut. Then there's
tiny old straw basket with a yellow
wisp In 1t that once was a bunch of
cape jessamines. l wore them to that
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
Frees Murder suspect.

Columbus. Locke Foster. last
of the group convicted of the mur-
der of Celery King William Johnson,
near Carey, Wyandot county, in 1901,
has been pardoned by Gov. James M.
Cox. His freedom was recommended
by the Ohio board Of pardons.
Foster left the penitentiary month
ago, saying he was going to Michigan,
where he had friends. While news of
the pardon boards recommendation
was known, the pardon did not become
public until Tuesday.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14

something draped with a yenOwed
linen sheet. From It's shape he
guessed this to be an elk's head. Dust,
undisturbed, lay thickly on everything,
ghostly floating cobwebs crawled
across his face, and bat fitted out
of a fireplace and vanished squeak
ing over his head With Uncle JEFF
fersons help he opened the rear doors
and windows, knocked up the rusted
belts of the shutters and flung them
wide.
But for the dust and cobwebs and
the strange odor, mingled with the
faint musty smell that pervades sun
less interior, the former owner of the
house might have deserted it week
ago. On q wall-rack lay two walking
sticks and a gold-mounted hunting
crop, and on great carved chest
below it had been flung an opened
book bound in tcoled leather. John
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
Izx<~S1z
S3SflGS Eve SS:IIH9 sosE saHEI!Gs IIUs
DispIeased With BARGAIN.


Jean sorely wanted a kitten, but, her
mother not liking felines, this Joy was
denied her until a severe operation.
became prospective. Then bargain
was made with the frightened child.
"If you will be a brave girl, Jean.
and go through the operation without
fussing you shall have the incest kit
ten can find"
The child. delighted. climbed upon
the operating table and took the ether
without struggle. AS she came out
of the anesthetic and began to feel
horribly sick and weak, she murmured
something. The nuSse leaned over to
catch the family uttered words:
what a bum way to get a cat!"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
MURDERS
FELLOW PRISONER
NEWARK MAN DIES AFTER SLOW
FROM IRON BAR ON
HEAD.
Toledo Conductor spurns Three cenVa
for Fare and ls Handled by
Mob-WeIIsVllIe Bank
Fails.

Columbus - Frank SoltanG OF
Newark, Ohio, a prisoner in the
Ohio penitentiary, was killed here by
Jeff Patterson of Muskingum county. a
fellow prisoner. Soltang was struck
on the head with an iron bar and died
shortly after he was removed to the
prison hospital. Patterson declares
he struck Soltang in self-defense.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
Poultry Men Elect.

Mansfield. - The annual election
of officers of the American Poul.
try association has been complet-
ed here as follows President, e.
B. Thompson, Armenia, N. Y; first vice
president, Joseph Russell, Toronto;
second vice president, A. A. Peters,
Denver; secretary, s.. Theodore Camp
bell, Mansfield, O.; treasurer, U. r.
Fishel, Hope, Ind; members of exec
utive board, A. c. Hawkins, Lancaster,
Mass; Henry Steinmesch, st. Louis,
Mo-, and Earl Hemenway, South Ha-
ven, Mich.
Chicago was selected as the place
for the thirty-ninth annual meeting
Aug. 8 to Is.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
New Evil Laid to the Cigarette.

Lucy Page CASTOR of the Anti-Ciga-
rette league recites the following case
of total depravity." There is no
hope" says Miss CASTOR, "for a young
person who, even when he knows he's
doing something wrong, and knows
the consequences, goes ahead and
does it.
"A Chicago teacher discovered one
Of her little pupils smoking. Willie
she said, do you know what happens
to small boys who smoker
willie looked up innocently at his
preceptress. Yes he replied, coolly;
mother tells me they get poisoned by
Nicodemus.'
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
SYNOPSIS.

John Valiant, q rich society faVorite.
suddenly discovers that the Valiant cor
poration, which his father founded and
which was the principal source OF his
wealth. has failed. He voluntarily turns
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 Damory court, neg
lected estate In Virginia On the way to
Damory court he meets Shirley Dand-
ridge, an auburn-halred beauty, and d.
cides that he is going to like Virginia i'm
mensely. An old negro tells Shirley's for
tune and predicts great trouble for her
on account OF q man
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
charaed With Rluamx.

Conneaut. = G. H. Lehman was
arrested here on the charge of
bigamy after he had married local
girl, leaving a first wife in Bowling
Green. He was married at that place
to Mary M. Sears, June 20, 1910, it is
alleged, and was married here last fall.
He was held to the grand jury.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
Hail causes Heaux n.man.

Ashtabula, - In a six-minute del
uge of rain and hail Ashtabula
greenhouses suffered $1,000 damages.
Growing vegetables throughout the
city were stripped, 25 blooded chick
ems in one pen were killed and hail
vs. $ so thick that street cars were
stalled.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
Brands Niece With Hot Iron

Portsmouth. Cruelty and inhu-
man treatment was the specific
charge upon which Magistrate Piatt
fined Mrs. Name Lothrop $40 and sent
her to Jail for 10 days. It was testified
she had used a hot iron to brand her
little niece, Myrtle Carter.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14

Massillon. - Martin Zwick aged
forty-fve, committed five years ago
from East Liverpool and employed as
laborer on the Massillon State hos
pital farm, committed suicide by hang
ing himself to the bedpost of his bed
in his room in Mcmahon cottage.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
Leo Cut OF. Kills Himself

Gallon. - Levi Kicker, aged So,
who had shown signs of mental trou-
BILE, shot himself. He had been an
Erie engineer. One of his legs was
cut off and he had been respondent
for some time.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
Doctors Elect Officers.

Columbus. The annual session
Of the Ohio State Medical asso-
citation has completed the organization
for the ensuing year by electing these
officers. DR.. ]. H. ]. Upham, Colum-
bus, president; DR.. C. D. Selby, To
ledo, secretary; DR.. William F. Lower,
Cleveland, president-elect
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
oentIemanly Piu.

The pigs that are reared in the
neighborhood Of Harvard may be gem
tlemanly and highly cultured but in
this section Of the country they are
very careless about .sthemselves.-
Philsdelphis InQnireE sSaA ~
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
Find Farmer Dead in Creek.

Youngstown. William Mcintyre,
eighty-two, Mahoning county farmer,
was found dead in creek near his
home. He is supposed to have suf-
fcred stroke of apoplexy and fallen
In the shallow water
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
The Highway.

Green-What! Fifty cents toll for
my auto! can go by the other road
for only ten.
Tollgate Keeper-Yep. This is the
highwav-Iudea.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
SUFFERING
TWOLONG YEARS
Mrs. Aselin Was Restored to
Health by Lydia E Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.
Minneapolis, Minn.-"After my little
one was born was sick with pains In

my sides which the
doctors said W ere
caused by inhamma-
ton. / suffered q
great deal every
month thandgrew very
thin. / was under the
doctors care for two
long years without
any benefit. Finally
after repeated sug-
gestions to try it we
got Lydia E. Pink
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
Wasted Day.

OF all days, the one that is most
wasted is that on which one has not
laughed.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
Votes 70 Retain one Saloon.

Bryan.-The village of Ney. six
miles south Of Bryan, will continue to
have One saloon. A Beal law election
Feaulted SO vet and A dre.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
The inspectors DIscuIse.

Some days ago, about i've o'clock
in the afternoon the principal police
saspector Of the Secund district was
The Monte Vista journal., 1914-10-24
1000 POUNDS PER TON :
SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED

The Central and Marsh schools
were closed Tuesday for ten days
on account of the development of
two cases of scarlet fever among
the pupils. Frank Bone, in the
seventh grade, and the little daugh-
ter of DR.. and Mrs. Crawley, in the
third grade, are reported as having
scarlet fever and the homes of each
have been quarantined.
Prompt action was taken by the
board of health to check any spread
of the disease and the school build
ings have been thoroughly fumi-
gated.
The Monte Vista journal., 1914-10-24
What Would You Do?

There are many times when one man
questions apother's actions and motives.
Men act differently under different cir.
cumstances. The question Is, What
would you do right now IL you had Sc.
we're coldf Could you do better than to
take ChamberlAin's Cough Remedy 1t
is highly recommended by people who
have used 1t for years and know it's
value. Mrs. o. Il. Sargent, Peru, Ind,
says Chamberlain Cough Remedy is
worth its weight In gold and take
pleasure in recommending it," For sale
by all dealers.