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Al Spartan Mother.

Paris. When two French soldiers
returned to Paris and couldn't give a
good reason for 1t, the mother Of one
locked them In room and called the
police. They were arrested as de-
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To Drive Out Malaria
And Build I'm The System

Take the Old Standard GROVES
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking. as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it IS
Ouinine and Iron in tastA5ess form. The
Ouinine drives out malaria. the Iron
builds up the system. SO cents. Adv
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-13

When a reformer gets into Office he
is generally content with few alterar
tions of things.
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Somehow q man who doesn't know
right from wrong nearly always does
wrong.
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The British troops in the trenches
have recently been using a sort of
bomb that resembles an Indian club.
1t consists of stick about two feet
In length, with black ball filled with
a deadly explosive at the end. II han
died correctly the bomb will. explode
upon hitting the trenches and will
scatter small shot In every direction.
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LESSON FOR MAY IS
DAVID SPARES SAUL.

LESSON TEXT Samuel 26:5-16
GOLDEN TEXT-Love your enemies, do
good to them that hate you.-Luke 6:T
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INTERNATIONAL
SUYl1YS0lDOL
LESSON

(By q. O. SELLERS, Acting Director OF
Sunday School Course, The Moody Bible
Institute, Chicago, Ill)
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Proprietorship.

Proprietorship.
Can woman keep secret?"
YES; unless it's some other wom-
ans"
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perdue. now and again chucklim
impisNly to herself in anticipation Of
the time and the event she was bidlng
vita such patience as she could mus
ter.
The whistle Of a locomotive over
taking the freight sounded the signal
for her to take action on her cherished
plan.
Rising, she glanced out Of the open
door. A curve in the track below the
freight, laboring up a steep grade, en-
abled her to catch a glimpse of head
light, followed by a string of lighted
windows, indicating a single car: the
special, beyond a doubt.
Without hesitation, since the train
was not running at speed, she dropped
out to the ballast, wheeled smartly
about, caught the handbar at the end
Of the box car as it passed and swung
herself up between 1t and the caboose
A trifle later the freight gained the
summit of the grade and began to run
more smoothly.
Climbing to the top Of the box cal
she peered keenly through the gloam
ing, which was not yet so dense thai
she might not discern two heads pro
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-01-21
CHAPTER xxxIV.
Hand Car.

Hand Car.
"Well!" Mr.. Barcus broke a silence
whose eloquence may not be translated
in print-"can you beat it?"
Not with this outfit" Alan admit
ted gloomily.
"But-damn it!--we've got to-"
"Profanity-even yours, my friend
won't make this Pullman move without
an engine"
"All the same, we can't stop here
like bumps on log, waiting for that
gang of thugs to sail up in the light
engine and cut our blessed throats"
Mr.. Law answered this unanswer-
able contention only with a shrug.
Then, stepping out on the forward
platform Of the Pullman, he cast a
hopeless eye over the landscape.
Raw, rugged hills hemmed in the
right of way, hills whose vast fanks
we're covered with dense thickets of
mesquite, chapparal, sagebrueh and
cacti, the haunt of owls and rattle.
snakes and-solitude. No way of es.
cape from that pocket in the hills 9th
er than by the railroad itself.
He lowered his gaze to the tracks
and siding-and started sharply.
"Eh-what now?" Barcus inquired
with interest.
Some thoughtful body has left al
old hand car over there in the ditch,
Alan replied. Maybe it isn't beyonC
service"
with me supplying the horsepower
l supposed"
Horse isn't the word" Alan COZ
rected meticulously; and escaped tn
others wrath by dropping down to tn
ballast and trotting over to the ditch
where the hand car lay.
Looks as If it might work." he ar
nounced. "Come along and lend me
hand"
"Half a minute" Barcus answered
lodging suddenly back into the car.
When he reappeared, after some fiv
minutes. Rose accompanied him, an
Barcus was smiling as brilliantly q
though nothing whatever was wron
with his world.
Sorry to keep you waiting, old top
he explained; but was smitten wit
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CHAPTER xXXV.
Caboose.

For once, in way, it fell out pre-
cisely as Mr.. Law had planned and
prayed.
Constrained to pull up in order to re-
move the obstruction from the track,
the train crew of the freight choked
down it's collective wrath on being pre-
sented with sum of money. In the
homes of further largesse 1t lent its
common ear to Alan's well-worn tale,
which had so frequently proved useful
in similar emergencies, of an eloping
couple pursued by an unreasOningly
vindictive parent; and had its hopes
rewarded by the price Alan bargained
To nay in exchange for exclusive use
Of the caboOse as far as the next town.
So that it was not more than ten
minutes before Rose was settled to
rest in such comfort as the cabOose az
forded. while Alan and Barcus sat
within its doorway and smoked.
Neither he nor any other aboard the
freight suspected for an instant that
in the box car next forward Of the ca
boose, a woman in mans clothing lay
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away from his compartment at the
same time, was Jared wide awake by
sight of the foreboding countenance
she wore; and after a moment OF doubt
followed her back to the lounge at the
rear Of the car.
He got there in time to see her at
rigid standstill, staring steadfastly at
the two figures so close together on
the observation platform. But on
his appearance Judith shook herseh
together, snatched up magazine, and
plunged wrathfully into an easy chair,
burying her nose between the pages OF
the publication with every indication
of deep interest in its text.
Mr.. Barcus, however, had learned
the lesson of bitter experience to the
effect that the outward bearing OF
Miss Judith Trine was no sure index
to her inward humor-unless, that is,
it might be taken to indicate the d.
rect contrary of its semblance;
though even this was no reliable rule
Reminding himself Of this, he there
fore invented a morbid interest in an
other magazine-round the edge OF
which he kept a wary eye upon the
young woman.
For all her evaporation, Judith con-
tanned herself longer than might have
been expected. Her continued show
of placidity, indeed, lulled Barcus into
dangerous feeling of security. Per
suaded that she meant to behave, he
gradually ceased to watch her as mar
rowly as at first, and lost himself in a
morose reverie whose subject was the
seemingly permanent mourning into
which he had plunged his face and
hands for the purposes Of his mas
Misunderstanding them a shade oi
ebony upon which soap and water ano
scrubbing had no effect whatever. And
he had invented a most excruciatine
method of revenging himself upon the
druggist who had taken advantage o.
his confidence and sold him the in
eradiable dye-when he was reused BY
the sudden flight Of magazine across
the car. missing his head by bare
two inches, and the bang of chall
overturned by Judith as she jumped
I'D and flung herself furiously towart
the door.
Just what had happened on the oh
servation platform Barcus didn't know
but he could readily believe that tn
lovers had Just indulged in some espe
cially provoking and long-drawn-ou
caress.
He overhauled Judith none too soor
In another moment she would hav
had her sister by the throat--if he
purpose had not been to throw Ros
hodilv overheard, as Barcus suspected
Happily. he was as quick on his fee
as Judith on hers; and almost befor
he had grasped the situation, he ha
srasped her-had seized her arms an
drawn them forcibly behind her bacl
at the same time swinging her roun
and endeavoring TO propel her bac
through the doorway.
It was a man-si2e job. For the ens1
ing five minutes he had his hands fu
OF violently reSentful and superb
able-bodied young woman. Only wit
. the greatest difficulty did he succee
. in wrestling her up the aisle and
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CHAPTER XXxIII.
Pullman.

ThllHlaUs
Come inside" Law suggested, "and
introduce me to the brakeman. l pre-
sumo I've got to fix things up with
him"
IF there's really any doubt in your
mind as to that" Barcus said, rising,
Il don't mind telling you you're right"
He paused as Alan entered the car
before him and was greeted by storm
of vituperation that fairly blistered
the panels of the Pullman. Mr. Seneca
Trine, helpless in his invalid chair,
thus celebrated his introduction to the
young man whom he had never before
seen whose life he had schemed to
take these many years.
Alan made no effort to respond, but
listened with his head critically to
one side and an e eKasperating expires,
sion of deep interest informing his
countenance until Mr.. Trine was
out of breath and vitriol; when
the younger man bowed with the slight
est shade of mockery in his manner
and waved tolerant hand to Barcus
He has, no doubt" Alan inquired
his own private cell aboard this carp
"Yas, suh!" Barcus agreed, aping
we'll the manner of his apparent caste
and color. "Aint dat de troof?" he
chuckled.
Take him away, then" Alan re
quested wearily-"if you please"
"Yas, subj" Barcus replied, with
nimble alacrity seizing the back of the
wheeled chair and swinging it round
for spin up the length of the car.
Before Trine had recovered enough
to curse him properly, the door to his
drawing room was closed and Barcul
was ambling back down the aisle.
His grin of relish at this turning O
the tables on the monomaniac proved
however. short-lived. 1t erased itsel
in a twinkling when Judith shoulderet
roughly past him, wearing a sullel
and forbidding countenance, and fun
herself into the drawing room will
her father.
storm signals" mused Barcus
What possessed our dear friend t
bring that tigress along, I'd like I
know? He might as well have loade
himself down with five-gallon can q
nitroglycerin."
The cause of her temper was nc
far to seek: at the far end of the ca
Alan was bending solicitously over th
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CHAPTER xxxll.

Light En9'ne'
Toward the close Of that summers
day 1t was the whim Of that arch-man-
ager of theatricals whom men cali
Fate to stage an anticlimax in the
midst of a vast and hilly expanse Oh
desolate middle western country
rude and rugged disk OF earth whlcn
boasted no human tenancy WITHIN
circle of its far-fung horizon ana was
bisected, not neatly rather Irregular
ly, by the flowing double line OF steel
ribbons which marked the railroad's
right Of way over the old santa re
trail.
So much for the stage: the light ell
fects were provided exclusively by the
crimson and purple and gold OF por-
tentous sunset; the properties EN-
pioyed were simply special train anu
what is known as light engine (mean-
ing a locomotive unhandicapped by
cars): audience there was none, II one
except the actors-who were one ana
all far too deeply preoccupied with the
Interpretation of their several roles
to be aware or the SNOW
They we're not many in number:
perhaps half a dozen aboard the spe-
Cial train-which was making away as
fast as 1t could run toward the glory
Of the sunset: as many more aboard
the light engine-which had sudoen-
" slowed down from a headlong pace
and suuatted on it's launches with an
air of conscious recitude, as one VINO
has won a hard race. 1t was pantlhe
violently. partly to keep in its part
partly to drown out the clamor OF hu'
man squabbling within its cab. IN TINS
effort it was successful only in so far
as concerned the jackrabbits and oth
er retiring denizens Of the land; tne
human actors never missed a cue.
1t was the engineer who started the
trouble. After bringing his monster
to a full pause, he turned upon MI
passengers and-not without plauslpl'
excuse-violently indicted Mr.. Alal
Law for abuse OF his and his hre
mans trustfuIness. This the said nre
man (climbing forward over the ten
der) vigorously applauded.
They had been engaged, both gentle
men asserted vigorously, for nothln
more dangerous than a quick ru
across the prairies, in furtherance G
the unspecifled plans Of Mr.. Alan La'
and his companion, Miss Judith Trim
After starting out, they had wickedl
and maliciously been bribed by tn
said Law to put on speed and catch u
with the special, in order that he migl
rescue from the latter young wonNa
his bride-to-be and the sister OF Mi:
Trine,
But-and here was the grievance
they hadn't bargained to be shot
with pistols. And precisely that ou
rage had been put upon them duriI
and subsequent to the moment of re
cue.
1t was unhappy Mr.. Barcus who pl
clp!tatnd the affair This gentlem;
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the door Of her compartment, where
an even more furious resistance tor
some additional minutes prefaced the
ultimate closing Of the door upon the
maddened Judith. Even then he might
NOT draw a free breath: there was no
way of locking that door from the out
side. and he dared not leave go the
handle, lest the girl again fly out and
renew the battle.
Waving aside Alan's proffer OF as
sistance, he acidly advised that gen.
tIeman to return to his post Of duty
and not let his infatuation blind him
N what might at any moment loom
IN on the track behind them, Barcus
stoutly held the door against the girls
attempt to pull it open and through
another period when she occupied her
self with kicking it's panels as If hope
full of breaking a way out A long
nause followed. He heard no sounds
from within. And wearying, he won
dered what the devil she was up to.
Then her voice penetrated the barrier,
its accents calm and not unamiable;
"Mr. Barcus!"
.Hello!" he replied, startled. What
is it. Miss Judith?"
please let me out"
mot much"
"Oh-please!"
Struck by the fact that she hadn't
lost her temper on hearing his refusal
he hesitated
"Will you be good If l let you outf"
Perfectly"
mo more shenanigan?"
II promise"
Word Of honor?"
"If my word of honor means any
thing to you-you have it."
well i" he said dubiously.
In the same humor he turned and re
leased the knob; promptly Judltl
opened 1t wide and swept out into IN
corridor, her mood now one OF rear
fetching mockery.
Thank you so much!" she laughe
into his face of discontinue; and oroI
ping him an ironic curtsy, she turne
forward and swung into the drawn
? room occupied by Trine.
wonder what she put that on tor
he speculated, with reference 10 IN
, ankle-long Pullman wrapper which u
dith had seen fit to don during ne
a period of captivity. Heaven kno"
! it's hot enough without wearing nor
4 clothing than decency demands
8 But you never can tell about VOL
y an l bet a dollar I've made
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blithering ass of myself-letting her
loose at ALI"
He took his doubts aft, communi-
eating them to Alan and Rose.
And his long conference with Alan
and Rose on the observation platform
afforded Judith ample opportunity In
which undetected to suborn the train
crew to treachery.
Whether she did or not, this is what
happened in the course Of the next
hour: the special was forced to take a
siding to make way for the California
limited, east-bound; and when this had
passed, the engine Of the special
coughed apologetically and pulled
swiftly out, leaving the Pullman stalled
on the siding.
From the rear Of the tender the
brakeman and fireman waved affecting
farewells to the indignant faces OF
Alan and Barcus when they showed In
the front doorway.
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chair In which Rose was resting. One
of his arms was around her shoulder.
Her face was lifted confidently to his.
Barcus mused morosely on his ap-
prehension of trouble a-brew, simmer
ing over the waxing fire Of that strange
woman's jealousy. He didn't like the
prospect at all. II only Alan and Rose
hadn't been so desperately in love
that they couldn't keep away from one
another! II only Alan had been SEN
sible enough to outwit the woman and
leave her behind when he started in
pursuit of the special! If only there
had not been that light engine in pur-
suit-as Barcus firmly believed it must
be-loaded to the guards with Trine's
unscrupulous hirellngs!
No telling when they might catch
up!
The fear Of this last catastrophe
worked together with his fears Of Ju-
dith to render that night a sleepless
one for Barcus. He spent it in chair
whence he could watch both the door
to the compartment Judith had chosen
for her own formerly Marrophat's
ouarters) and the endless ribbons Of
steel that swept beneath the trucks
and, shining fugitively in the light
from the observation platform
streamed away into the darkness
astern.
But nothing happened. He mapped
uneasily from time to time, waking
with a start of fright, but always t
find nothing amiss. Ever judith
stopped behind that closed door, ant
ever the track behind was innocent o
the glare of a pursuing headlight.
Nor did anything untoward mark tn,
progress Of the morning-unless, in
deed. Judith's protracted sessions
with her father behind the closet
door of the drawing room we're to b
counted ominous.
Ever since lunch-time the girl ha
been closeted with her father; Barcu
had been getting some well-earned an
soreIy-needed rest in his quarters
Alan standing his watch on the obsel
vation platform, in company wit
Rose; and the train booming alon
+ through an uncouth wilderness of ari
t mountains, barren mesas, and sui
! smitten flats given over to the desolat
i genius of sageDrush.
Whatever had been the tenor Of tn
: communication between father an
daughter, Judith eventually emerge
: from the drawing room in an ominor
l. temper. Barcus, coming drowsil
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truding from the window Of the spc
cial's engine, one on either side.
At a venture, she snatched on her
coat and waved it wildly in the air.
An arm answered the signal from
one window of the pursuing locomc-
tive.
Marrophat of course!
She turned and peered ahead. ThG
freight was approaching trestle that
spanned a wide and shallow gully.
So much the better!
Dropping down again between the
cars, she set herself to solve the prob
lem of uncoupling the caboose.
In this she was successful just as
the last car rolled out on the trestts
Its own impetus carried the cabooee
to the middle OF the trestle before II
stopped.
AS this happened, Alan and Barcus,
already warned Of an emergency by
the slowing down OF the car, and for
some time alive to the fact that the
special was again in pursuit, leaped
out upon the ties and helped Rose to
alight.
Already the last of the freight was
whisking off the trestle, its crew thus
far unconscious of their loss.
And behind them the special was
nlunging forward at unabated speed.
There was no time to execute their
nlan of the first desperate instant-to
run along the ties to safety on the
solid earth: the distance was too
great; they could not possibly make 1t
With common impulse the two men
glanced down to the bottom OF tne
gully, then looked at each other with
ewes informed by common inspiration
Barcus announced in a breath:
Thirty feet-not more.
Alan replied: Can you hold the
weight of the two of us for half min
ute?"
Barcus shrugged: Il can try. W.
. might as well-even II l can't"
. While speaking, he was lowering
, himself between the ties.
"All right" he announced pEiefly.
t With a word to Rose, AASn sl1ppe'
down beside Barcus, shifted his holt
? IN the body OF the latteN and climbed
: down over him until he was supporte'
solely by the grasp OF his two hand
. on Barcus' ankles.
Instantly Rose followed him, sliT
Q ming like a snake down over the tW
I men till she in turn hung by her gras
on Alan's ankles, then released he
hold and dropped the balance OF tn
s distance to the ground, a scant to
q feet, landing without injury.
g A thought later Alan dropped light
|. tn her side, staggered a trife, reco7
= cred and dragged her out of the way.
r Barcus fell with a heavy thump an
went upon his back, but demonstrate
his lack Of injury by Immediately picl
ing himself up and joining the othel
in a mad scramble for safety.
Overhead the special engine, hu
fling onward like some titanic Dol
g. struck the caboose with a crash lii
10 the explosion of cannon. 1t collapse
unon itself like a thing Of pasteboar
g. That it had been constructed
K, more solid stuff was abundant
ID proved by the shower Of timbers, spli
e. ters and broken iron that rained abo'
lie the heads of the fugitives.
is For all that, the gods smiled upC
o, them for their courage: they escape
I'll without scratch.
lg
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mau nf tha Moaern PoeA

Here in my poets hovel Is best
ing my wounded heartily tremblins
singers are writing song Of my suf-
forings' smart--Got that. young tadyI
To the desert I fain would wander;
and there would languish and die
Oh thunder" said the great post.
owe done enough work for today;
tell John to crank my machine, ans
get me my automobile epat"-Msx
IAcht.
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SYNOPSIS.

The trey Of hearts is the "death-slght.
employed by Seneca Trine In the P PIlN az
war of vengeance which through the
agency of his daughter, Judith. woman
of violent passions like his own he WasSss Wt,sD1s
against Alan Law. son of the man wv ".
dead) who was innocently responSlDie iSS -
cripple. Alan is in love with Rose, JN- M
dith's twin and double but In all otner Is
spects her precise opposite. judith WV SNo.
to compass Alan's death; but undSI na,1
matte circumstances ne saves her NE an an
so, unwillingly, wins her love Ineto ~
after Judith Is by turns animated Dy 'n1 ~
old hate. the new love- and jealousy aIo Ol
her sister. She earns her tatheI u
trust and is left behind by him when ne is
journeys West, taking Rose with MN, ~
order to lure Alan away from New ASLH StS,
Alan pursues, Judith accompanying ~,
against his wish, and succeeds IN EeS0N
ing Rose from Trine's special trSih'
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A Millionaire Sheer.

Uncle Joe" Cannon was talking the
other day about education.
Every millionaire today" he sa1d'
wants to give his son college edu-
cation. l remember the time when
our millionaires sneered at education.
AS one of them once said to me. voic'
ing the general opinion:
"'These here fellers with mint OF
knowledge can never coin it into good
hard cash."
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was suffering from severe spratn to
his sense of decent pride, In the serv-
ice of Miss Rose Trine and her be-
trothed, Mr. Law, Barcus had black
eued his face and hands to the hue of
ebony and had garmented himself in
the garb O: a Pullman porter, surren-
dering himself to humiliating service
to those aboard the special, suffering
their insolence and scorn without a
murmur. but with the tides OF wrath
mounting ever higher in his bosom.
And now, when at length he had
won his freedom from that ignomini-
Gus servitude, it was only to be sworn
a, and vilifed, as a common niger. by
railroad hands!
II was the fireman Ito be JUST who
brought the row TO focus by slight
ing reference to that "shiftless and
misbeEouen dings"
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Felt He Had II Coming.

"Why are you SO crazy to take mud
baths? There's nothing the matter
with you"
ITS this way, doctor was brought
up in a lace collar and Fauntleroy
suit. And | always vowed that would
get my share of playing in the mud
some day."-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
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Art is long, but spot cash is what the
artist longs for.