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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-07-01

NSN limiting the legal celebration
of the day to speeches, parades and
fireworks of a quiet and unexciting
kind, thought it incumbent on herself
to make life as bearable as possible
for as many as possible of the small
boys of the neighborhood
She began with her Sunday school
class as a nucleus, and invited them to
a picnic; and each and every one of
them asked permission to bring
small brother or friend. Her own
brother, Tom, home for a visit, prom
ised to come for her and help her
bring the children home at sunset.
Elizabeth, as soon as the morning
parade was over. started out undis-
mayed with some twenty irresponsible
boys in her wake.
Now, boys" she said as she gave
each of them a flag, a paper drinking
cup and a small box of provisions
when they were all settled safely in
the open car, we're going to play
soldiers. These are our rations. I'm
the general, and III appoint the two
boys who behave best on the way out
captains to help me manage things.
You know, soldiers obey, and that's
what you must do
IF we're soldiers, we can fight, |
can't WEI" demanded Peter Dolan, the
fierce light of born warrior shining
in his red-brown eyes
"Jimmy's cat ate my singin' canary.
You ought to have seen it-just two
bites"
Jimmy's placid round face darkened
into a frown. Probably the canary
bothered him; it shrieked, 1t didn't
sing" he vouchsafed. Surreptitiously
he kicked Peter
Now, get out" exclaimed that hot
headed young man, "or I'll"
See here, boys" interrupted Eliza
beth, we're not going to fight, and if
you act this way Ill turn around and
go home this minute. Remember what
/ said about the captains"
Then and there, with the tact that
makes a successful general, Elizabeth
decided that she would appoint Jimmy
and Peter, the two most unmanage-
able of her soldiers, captains.
The first real hitch in Elizabeth's
plans came at the fork in the road
Elizabeth started on the path to the
right; the two captains, voicing the !
opinion of the whole army, advocated
the path to the left
Please, Miss Elizabeth" pleaded
Jimmy, there's rock out there
where the Indians used to build fires t
or signals. Please let's 60" $
And in the end Elizabeth found her. t
elf mildly following her mutinous
lrmy to the spot in the world where t
he least wished to be- Just year
Igo today Robert Willis and she had e
wandered up the same path. They b
lad stopped to rest on the famous In
ian stone, and while they we're there ="
lobert had surprised Elizabeth by ask a
ng her to be his wife. She had re
used him, for she had not trusted d
erself and had thought that the h
uick, warm feelings which came to p
er with his words would leave her.
'oday she realized her mistake. She I
ad purposely brought the boys to the Ii
Dot of the valley. But she had meant OF
} walk up the path on the right side II
, pretty spot where she knew she b'
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-07-01
IS A GALA DAY
IN MANY LANDS
Numerous NationaIities Join With
the United States in the
Celebration of Their
Independence. ,,
pHoTor FRANK FoURH,Ex

r HE Fourth OF July is here again
with the usual round of festivi
ties, beginning with the morning rain
that threatens to spoil the day, but
never does, and ending with the glori
Gus fireworks at night, write Frederic
J. Haskin In the Chicago Daily News
Nor are the orator and the creased
pig conspicuous by their absence. This
is an old, old story here at home, but
how our Independence day is cele-
brated abroad, in many different
lands, is story that is seldom told.
/ WhereveT Americans go they take
their Fourth OF July with them 1t is
not TOO much to say that the strange
folk among whom We carry our na-
tionaI custom soon learn to watch for
the day with great deal more inter-
est than they do the holidays of the.
other countries their own holidays
excepted, of course Even under this
head, however, our day completes with
their own time honored iollitications
for the simple reason that MANY of
the countries have no independence
day OF their own.
Foreigners Are Friendly.
Most foreigners are utterly indiffer-
ent to the comings and goings of other
nations. they who should be their
brothers, or else they exhibit only con-
tempt for everything that does not
conform to their own peculiar way of
doing things This is not so of the
81 T,,Ixr oil
seem to have for our great event of
the year a feeling that varies from
kindly tolerance to spontaneous enthu-
siasm.
This is interesting in the light OF
the fact that so many other lands
have their own independence days
With the possible exception of
Frances, however, they attract no
attention outside of their own coun-
try. Norway has two independence
days, May IL and June 5. The French
date is July ID, which commentaries
the fall of the Bastille in their great
revolution. Other independence days
are:
Brazil, September Z; Mexico, Sep
tcuDSI 10, OIu6 udys may %, OhiCs
September 1S; Colombia, July 20;
Haiti, January /; Cuba, February "a. |
The Cubans also look to our indepen- |
dence day as theirs in a sense, since |
we are the givers and guardians OF |
their liberty. July 20, the day on |
which Colombia makes merry, is the |
of Gen. Simon Bolivar, the !
who freed Venezuela,
New Granada, Peru and Bolivia from
the yoke of Spain.
Bolivar united Venezuela and New
Granada under the name of Colombia,
Of which nation he was president for
nine years, until his death in 1880. Bo-
ivia was a new state carved out Of
what had been royalist Peru and so
named in honor of Bolivar, who was
llso its president His birthday serves
Is an additional national festival in
Peru and Bolivia and is
Generally observed in more or less
,hicial way all over Central and South
america.
Fourth Marked in China.
Perhaps China is the foreign coun-
ry where the American Fourth of
uly is more generally observed than
nywhere else abroad 4 In the cosmo-
olitan city OF Shanghai our natal
ay is the cause OF an international
tie, A big reception is held by our
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-07-01
G:L.IzABE: tbs
SANE FOURTH
JANE OSoOQN

~ LIzABETH PRICES father
s was the chief instigator of
the movement for a quiet
49, Fourth" in Dalesville; so
u Elizabeth, when the town
$& council passed an ordinance
f-~X limiting fhe legal celebration
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-07-01
Fourth Marked in China.

Perhaps China is the foreign coun-
try where the American Fourth of
July is more generally observed than
anywhere else abroad 4 In the cosmo-
politan city OF Shanghai our natal
day is the cause OF an international
fete, A big reception is held by our
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-07-01

MYTH the attention of America d.
w rected toward the European con.
f1ict it is interesting to look back
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-09-30

suggested the smoking-room and a
cigar, and Griswold went willingly.
From that on the path to better ac-
quaintance was the easiest Of short
cuts, even as the mild cigar which
Raymer found in his pocket case
paved the way for a return of the
smokers zest in the convalescent.
Without calling himself a. reformer.
the young ironmaster proved to be a
practical sociologist. Wherefore, when
Griswold presently mounted his own
sociological hobby, he was promptly in
vited to visit the Raymer foundry and
machine works, to the end that he
might have some of his theories of the
universal oppression of wage earners
charitably modified.
>~"Of course, don't deny that we're
long way from the millennium yet"
was Raymer's summing up of the con-
ditions in his own plant But |. do
claim that we are on a present-day,
living footing. So far as the men un-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-09-30

the indulgence helped him to push the
Yellow-Dog period into remoter past.
After time the smoke cloud be-
came articulate, rumbling forth chuck
lings and Elizabethan oaths, mingling
with musings idiomatic and profane.
by CAD, believe she thought she
was fooling mel do, for fact! But
It's too thin. OF course, she wants to
make the women kowtow, but that
amt all there is to it-not by a jugful.
But it's all right; she plays her own
hand, and she's bully good and able
to play 1t. If she's after Raymers
scalp, he might as we'll get ready to
wear a wig, right now. I'll back her
to win, every time"
Accordingly, when Mr.. Edward Ray.
mer came out of the presidents room
at the Farmers and Merchants bank
the following morning, he was tread
Ing upon air. For in his minds eye
there was a fair picture Of a great
and successful industry to be built
upon the substantial extension of
credit promised by the capitalist
whose presence chamber he had just
quilted.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-09-30

derstand loyalty, lhey are loyal; part1
ly to my fatherE memory; partly. 4
! hope, TO me. We have never had @
strike or an approach to one, or dis
agreement that could not be adjusted
amlcably. Whether these conditions
can be maintained after we double
our capacity and get in a lot of new
blood, | can't say. But l hope they
can"
You are enlarging?" said Griswold.
Raymer waited until the only other
man in the smoking den had gone
back to the drawing-rooms before he
said: Eyes; caught the fever along
with the rest of them a few weeks
ago, and I'm already beginning to
wish that l hadn't"
you are afraid of the market?"
"N-no; times are good, and the mar
| ket-our market, at least-is daily
growing stronger. 1t is rather a mat
ter Of finances. l am an engineer, as
my father was before me. When 1t
comes to wrestling with the money
devil, I'm outclassed from the start"
There are good many more of US
in the same boat" said Griswold, leav-
ing an opening for further condolences
if Raymer chose to make them But
the young ironmaster was looking at
his watch, and the condolences were
postponed.
I'm keeping you up, when | dare
say you ought to be in bed" he pro-
tested; but Griswold held him long
enough to ask for q suggestion in a
small matter of his own.
Now that he was able to be about,
he was most anxious to relieve Miss
Grierson and her father of the charge
and care of one whose obligation to
them was already more than noun
tain-high; did Raymer happen to know
of some quiet household where the
obligated one could find lodging and @
simple table?
Raymer, taking time to think of 1t.
did know. Mrs. Holcomb, the widow
of his fathers bookkeeper, owned her
own house in Shawnee street. 1t was
not a boarding house. The widow
rented rooms to two of Mr.. Grierson's
bank clerks, and she was looking for
another desirable ledger. Quite pos
sibly she would be willing to board
the extra ledger. Raymer himself
would go and see her about it.
1T is an exceedingly kind-hearted
community, this home town of yours,
Mr.. Raymer" was the convalescent's
leave-taking, when he shook hands
with the ironmaster at the foot of the
stairs; and that was the thought
which he took to bed with him after
Raymer had gone to make his adieux
to the small person who, in Griswold'S
reckoning, owned the kindest Of kind
hearts.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-09-30
CHAPTER Xl-Contlnued.


He amt the man to go to his
womenfolks when he gets into hot wa
ter. He'll keep 1t to himself; and
they'll go on bluffing you, same as
ever"
Miss Grierson pulled on her gaunt-
lets and made ready to go, leisurely,
as befitted her pose.
THAT Is where you are mistaken"
she objected, coolly. 1T isn't very
often can give you a business tip,
but this is one of the times when
can. When John Raymer died, he left
an undivided half of his estate to his
wife, the other half to be shared
equally by the children. At the pres
ent moment every dollar the entire
tamily has is invested in the iron
plant. You will let Mr.. Raymer get
himself into hot water, as you call 1t,
and then, when I say the word, you'll
reach in and pull him out"
When she was gone, the president
selected another of the overgrown CT
CARS from box In the desk drawer,
lighted 1t, and tilted back in the big
armchair to envelop himself in a cloud
Of smoke. 1t was his single expensive
habit-the never-empty box of Brob-
dingnagian cigars in the drawer-and
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-09-30

lie is Wahaska's best-beloved DOC.
tor Bertie;' otherwise Doctor Herbert
c. Farnham"
Doctor Farnham? not Miss
Char" He bit the name in two in
the middle. but the mischief was
done.
Yes; Charlotte's father" was the
calm reply. Then: Where did you
meet Miss Farnham?"
Il haven't met her." he protested
instantly; "she-she doesn't know me
from Adam. But have seen her. and
happened to learn her name and her
home address"
"Oh," said the small filter of deduc-
ton pegs; and afterward she talked.
and made the convalescent talk, point.
eddy Of other things.
This occurred in the forenoon OF
pleasant day in May. In the after
noon Of the same day Miss Grierson's
trap was halted before the door of the
temporary quarters of the Wahaska
public library. Raymer saw the trap
and crossed the street, remembering
what he would otherwise have forgot.
ten-that his sister had asked him
to get book on orchids.
Miss Margery was in the reference
room, wading absently through the
newspaper files. She nodded brightly
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-09-30
SYNOPSIS.

Kenneth Griswold. an unsuccessful
writer, because of socialstic tendencies
holds up Andrew Galbraith president Of
the Bayou State Security, In the presi-
dents private office and escapes with $780,
900 in cash. BY original methods ne es-
capes the hue and cry and goes aboard
the Belle Julie as a deckhand. He unex-
pectedly confronts Charlotte Farnham OF
Wahaska, Mimi, who had seen him cash
Galbraith's check in the bank Charlotte
recognizes Griswold, and decides to de-
nounce him. She sees the brutal mate
rescued from drowning by Griswold. She
talks to Griswold and by his advice sends
a letter Of betrayal to Galbraith anony-
mously. Griswold is arrested on the ar
rival of the boat at ST. Louis, but escapes
from his captors. He decides on Wa
haska, Mimi, as a hiding place, and after
QUILTING himself properly, takes the
train. Margery Grierson, daughter of
Jasper Grierson, the financial magnate of
Wahaska, starts a campaign for social
recognition by the "old families" of the
town. Griswold falls Ill on the sleeper
and is cared for and taken to her home
in Wahaska by Margery, who finds the
Gtolen money in his suitcase. BrofIln,
detective, takes the trail Margery asks
her father to get Edward Raymer into
financial hot water and then help him
out Of II
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-09-30
CHAPTER XIV.
Broffln's Equation.

Having Clerk Maurice's telegram to
found the Belle Julie backing and fill
ing for her berth at the Vicksburg
landing when, after hasty Vicksburg
breakfast, he had himself driven to
the river front.
Going aboard as soon as the swing
stage was lowered, he found Maurice,
with whom he had something more
than a speaking acquaintance, just
turning out of his bunk in the texas.
81 took it for granted you'd be
along" was Maurice's greeting. What
bank robber are we running away
with now?"
Broffin grinned.
I'm still after the one you took on
in the place of John Gavitt."
"Humph!" said the clerk, sleepily;
81 thought that one was John Gavitt."
mo; he merely took Gavitt's place
and name. Tell me all you know
about him."
81 don't know anything about him.
except that he was fool enough to pull
Buck McGrath out of the river just
after McGrath had tried to bump him
over the bows"
"Of course, so far as you know, no.
body on the boat suspected that the
fellow who called himself Gavitt was
anything but the 'roustie' he was pass
ing himself off for? You didn't know
of his having any talk with any of the
upper-deck people?"
only once" said the day clerk.
promptly.
when was that?"
1T was one day just after the man
overheard incident, little while after
dusk in the evening. | was up here
in the texas, getting ready to go to
supper. Gavitt-we may as well keep
ON calling him that till you've found
another name for him-Gavitt had
been clubbing for the pilot. l saw him
go across the hurricane-deck guards;
and minute later heard him talking
to somebody "a woman-on the
guards below"
you didn't hear what was said?"
81 didn't pay any attention. Pas
sengers, woman passengers, especial
ly, often do that-pull up 'roustie'
and pry into him to see what sort OF
wheels he has. But l noticed that
they talked for quite a little while;
because, when finished dressing and
went below, he was just leaving her"
Broffin rose up from the bunk on
which he had been sitting and laid a
heavy hand on Maurice's shoulder.
you amt going to tell me that you
didn't find out who the woman was,
Clarence-what? he said anxiously.
That's just what I've got to tell
YOU, Matt" returned the clerk, reluc-
family. 81 was due at the second table.
and l didn't go as far forward as the
stanchion she was holding to. All |
can tell you is that she vas one OF
the half-dozen or so younger women
we had on board; could guess at
that much"
Brofhn's oath was not Of anger; II
was a mere upbubbling of disapDoint
ment.
40 BE coNTINuEDo -
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-09-30

when Raymer entered-and was not
in the least dust-blinded by the library
card in his hand
You are just In time to help me-"
she told him. do you remember the
story Of that daring bank robbery in
New Orleans a few weeks ago?-the
one in which a man made the presi-
dent draw check and get 1t cashed
for him?"
Raymer did remember 1t, chiefly be-
cause he had talked about it at the
time with Jasper Grierson, and had
wondered curiously how the president
of the Farmers and Merchants would
deport himself under like conditions
IF you should meet the man face to
face, would you recognize him from
the description" she flashed up at
Raymer.
mot in thousand years." he con-
fessed. Would you?"
mo; not from the description" she
admitted. Then she passed to mat
ter apparently quite irrelevant.
Didn't l see Miss Farnham's re-
turn noticed in the Wahaskan the
other day."
With Charlotte's father a daily visi-
tor at Mereside, it seemed incredible
that Miss Grierson had not heard of
the daughters homecoming. But Ray
mer answered in good faith.
They came up as far as st. Louis on
one of the Anchor line-the Belle Ju-
leland even Miss Gilman admits
that the accommodations were excel
lent"
She nodded absently and began to
turn the leaves of the newspaper file
Raymer took it as his dismissal and
went to the desk to get the orchid
book. When he looked in again on his
way to the street, Miss Grierson had
gone, leaving the file of the Pioneer
Press open on the reading desk. AL
most involuntarily he glanced at the
first-page headings, thrilling to a, little
shock of surprise when one of them
proved to be the caption Of another
Associated Press dispatch giving 20
line story of the capture and second
escape of the Bayou State Security
robber on the levee at St. Louis
The reading of the bit of stale news
impressed him curiously. Why had
Miss Margery interested herself in the
details of the New Orleans bank rob.
berry? Why-with no apparent spe-
cial reason-should she have remem-
bered 1t at all-or, remembering it.
have known where to look for the
two newspaper references?
Raymer left the library specializing
vaguely on the unaccountable tan
gents at which the feminine mind
could now and then fly off from the
well-defned circle of the convention
ally usual. On rare occasions his
mother or Gertrude did it, and he had
long since learned the folly of trying
to reduce the small problem to terms
of known quantities masculine.
Just the same, Id like to know
why, this time" he said to himself.
as he crossed the street to the Manu-
facturers' club. Miss Grierson isn't
at all the person to do things without
an object"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-09-30
CHAPTER XII.
Loss and Gain.

Striving feebly as one who gathers
up the shards and fragments after an
explosion, Griswold remembered
cloudily the supper of tasteless
courses at the Hotel Chouteau. After
ward there were vague impressions,
momentary breaches In the wall of in
closing darkness. In one of these
Intervals woman had stood beside
him. and he seemed to remember that
Ehe had put her cool hand on his
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-09-30
CHAPTER XIII.
The convaleseent.

After a few more days in the Nor
ris chair-days during which he was
idly contented whtn Margery was
with him. and vaguely dissatisfied
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-10
JOHN p. PURCELL
Sudden Death of Respected Citizen
Yesterday Afternoon.

John p Purcell, who has operate1
a peddler's cart in and around Ber..
nington during the past II years, died
at his home on School street late
yesterday afternoon. Death was due
to heart disease and was entirely un-
expected by any member OF the fam.
lily or the physician who had been
summoned earlier in the day because
OF an attack of Indigestion.
John Patrick Purcell was born in
Ireland 90 years ago and when II
years old came with his mother, Mrs
Nora Purcell, to Bennington where
they had been preceded by other
members of the family.
He was irregularly employed about
the village when boy but when Il
young man took up the occupation of
a peddler in which he was engaged at
the time of his death.
Twenty-five,years ago he was marri-
ed to Ellen O'Neil who with seven
children, Mary l.. of New York, Eliza.
beth f., Nora f.. John j., Anna A.,
Joseph T.. and Francis T., all living
at home, survive. A sister, Miss FL
len. Purcell, resides on Dewey street
in this village.
Mr.. Purcell was an upright citizen
who was generally respected through
out the community. His occupation
brought him in contact with
more than the usual number of peo-
pie and he had large circle of
friends who will learn of his death
with sincere regret and who will SYM
pathize with his bereaved family in
their afIiiction, all the more severe
because of its unexpected nature.
The funeral will be held from st.
Francis de Sales church Friday fore.
noon at 9 o'clock, Rev. p. j. Doheny
and the burial will be /.
he Park Lawn cemetery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-10
BRITISH ISLANDS
SURROUNDED BY
SUBMARINES
Three More Steamers TOrpedoed
By.German Underwater Craft
ONE WENT DOWN WITH 81 men
Attacks Took Place in North Sea,
English Channel and Irish
Sea.

London, March l0.-An official an
nouncement just issued shows that
German submarines yesterday sank
three British steamships. The state
ment follows:
THE steamer Tangistan was sunk
by German submarine off Scarbor-
ough at 1890 o'clock this morning
Only one man of her crew of 3S men
was saved
THE steamer Blackwood was sunk
by a submarine without warning off
Hastings at o'clock the morning of
March 3. Her crew of II was saved.
THE steamer Princess Victoria of
Glasgow was sunk without warning
by a German submarine at 9.15 o.
clock this morning off Liverpool. Her
crew of "a was saved.
The official report announcing the
torpedoing of the Tangistan, Black
wood and Princess Victoria-the two
former cargo boats and the latter
one a coastwise passenger ship-in
dicates that German submarines again
are raiding at widely-separated points
around the British Isles. AS each Of
the boats was torpedoed in period
OF less than nine srrs 1t would
seem probable tbs were
sunk by wr Usss
ScarboroixSh. ts ~ ran
gistan wEs sank az 6sa t!.e ssostn se..
in Yorkshire. Hastings is on the EDe
lish channel in Sussex and Liverpool
is virtually on the Irish sea
The Tangistan, the largest of the
Sunken vessels, was of 1898 tons dis
placement She was built in 1906 and
was owned by the Strick line Of Swan
sea The Blackwood was built in 1907
and belonged to the Tyneside line of
North Shields She was 741-ton
vessel The Princess Victoria was
owned by NJ Langlands & Sons Of
Glasgow She was a steamer of G15
tons displacement and was built in
1895.
The attacks were made during the
early hours of Tuesday morning. Tho
one survivor of the Tangistan was
picked up By a passing ship. The at
tack which sent the Tangistan to the
bottom was made half an hour after
midnight