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Evening journal., 1915-07-09
PENNSCROVE FAST
RECAIBINC QUIET
Iron Hand of Law Closes
Around Undesirable
Characters
FEWEST ARRESTS ON
RECENT PAY DAY

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
PENNsGRovE. July s-Pennsgrove
fast is regaining its quiet and order
liness Of former years
This is the result of the iron hand
of the law, welded by local and
county authorities, which has closed
around undesirable characters. who
fiocked here when the dupont Pow
der Company's plant at Carney's
Point first increased the number of
its employees Practically all Of these
now have been forced to leave the
town or have been locked up Few
still remain and these are being
watched carefully by police and coun-
ty officers.
Arrests during the past week have
been fewer than at any time since the
DUPONT company began receiving war
orders which resulted in an indus
trial boom that brought hundreds of
laborers here in search of work On
the last pay day. Wednesday, there
was less disorder. according to the
police. than at any time in the past
few months. A number of men were
arrested for disorderly conduct and
drunkenness however. but this mum
Der was great deal less Nhan on
the pay day last month. when scores
were arrested here and in Whining
ton.
Less than a dozen cases we're tried
before Justice of the Peace George
Elkinton yesterday. Most of the Of
Tenders we're committed to the coun-
ty jail at Salem under suspended SEN
tence.
Charged with the theft Of a bicycle
from James Gallager, Joseph Fidah
an Italian. was arraigned last night
Fidah, according to Gallager took the
wheel from in front of a store and
started for a ferry for Wilmington
when he was arrested on suspicion
He was committed to Salem.
While he was asleep on the pier
of the New Jersey & Wilmington
Ferry Company. Charles Belknap was
attacked and beaten by Morris Rob-
inson. who was arraigned on a charge
of assault and battery Both men
we're under the influence of liquor
and fight ensued. Witnesses testi-
fed that Robinson started the rum
pus and he was committed while
Beiknap was released
Tired by being nagged by John
! Perry, who asked him for a cigar
ette in front of French's Hotel, Thorn
as Hoar gave his molestor a shove
which resulted in the latter giving
Evening journal., 1915-07-09
SILENCE
NJ. c. ROBBINS.

To be silent imparts valor.
Gives US courage Just TO wait,
Helps us meet earth's gfeatest trials,
And prepares us for our fate.
II our passions rule our judgment.
And we speak harsh words. you
know.
We win sure repent them sorely
AS the moments come and go.
Oh. It's sweet to know az even
AS you kneel al Jesus feet
That each word has been consoling
To the friends that you should meet.
Words Of kindness live forever.
They can never never die;
They are noticed by the angels.
And recorded up on high.
Just be silent when you're tempted.
Don't return the hasty word
Like a lamb led 10 the slaughter.
We must follow our dear Lord
Should some cruel word cause tea
drops
Let them fall in silent PRAYER,
They will turn 10 priceless Jewels.
They will he recorded -- there.
Words and gestures and commotion
Makes the world full of unrest:
He that conquereth his own spirit
Shall be numbered with the blest.
So be silent-silent under
Provocation that is great:
on the sweet peace that will follow.
II you for the harvest wait.
Evening journal., 1915-07-09

him a beating in which he suffered a
severe cut above his right eve. Hoar
went to a doctor and Perry went to
Jail on q charge of assault and bat
terry. He was committed at hear
ing before Justice Elkinton.
Ben E. Jones. colored, was com
mitted on a charge Of stealing a suit
case valued at 500 from Thomas F..
Devine.
Charged with larceny from the per-
son, Bill Hunter was committed for.
II is alleged. taking 1925 from the
pocket Of Adam Piotrowsh while in
the saloon of French's Hotel.
For striking Andrew J. Richardson
over the head with a monkey wrench.
George Mitchell a Pole. was commit
ted. He denied the attack.
John Mack. of Philadelphia. was
arrested in the lobby OF Hotel French
yesterday on charge Of carrying a
concealed deadly weapon A pistol
/ Noo ApuhA III HIS puhctbSlOn.
Beer ad lib made the boarding
house of Margaret Grimes a popular
centre for powder workers here until
Prosecutor Summerill and his men
spoiled Il all The woman pleaded
not guilty to a charge of keeping a
disorderly house. following a raid,
and was given a hearing before Jus
tice of the Peace Smith Wednesday
night The evidence from reluctant
witnesses was that meals were served
at the Grimes house at so much per
plate with ALI the beer one could
drink" and there we're some thirsts.
Most of the patrons we're men. but
there we're a number Of women
boarders.
The place had been closely watched
by the authorities for several weeks
prior to the raid and as the woman
was held under $500 bail for trial II
is expected that further interesting
developments will come out, espec-
tally as it has been stated that youne
men of prominent families enjoyed
J the meals at the house.
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LUMBER CO. Chief
Hopes FOR PARDON
W. H. Armstrong, lr., Has
Been Seriously III Since
Sentence Was Passed
ASK PRESIDENT
TO FREE HIM

Hope that William r. Armstrong,
Jr., one of the FIVE convicted officials
~ the International Lumber and De-
yelopment Company, may be pardon
ed by President Wilson was express
ed yesterday by one Of his counsel,
who has been in communication with
the Department of Justice.
Armstrong escaped commitment TO
prison three months ago because Of
illness, which prevented his removal
from his apartments. on Eleventh
street, below Chestnut. Philadelphia,
where he now is. His four associates
in the swindle, John K. Markley,
Isaiah B. Miller, Colonel Albert G.
Stewart and Charles NJ Mcmahon,
now are serving sentences in the
Eastern Penitentiary.
The lawyer said the pardon petition
filed with the Department of Justice
three months ago still is in the hands
Of the pardon attorney He said,
however, he had been informed un-
officially that the department is be-
coming satisfied Armstrong; case is
different from those of the other Of
fcials, since. he explained. his client
was out Of the company for more
than q year before the prosecution OF
the officials and had no connection
with It at the time of the conviction.
Evidence in his favor. the lawyer said
had not been presented at the trial
and this was sent forth in the pardon
petition. His clients physical condi-
tion. he added. was not used as an
argument for executive clemency.
For five months Armstrong has
been i'll in bed suffering from a COM
plication of diseases. one being in
1ammatory rheumatism. He has
been attended constantly b. DR.
Thomas +. Stelwagcn. Of Philadel-
phia. who. the lawyer said, has made
periodic reports to the Department OF
Justice. The government is keeping
watch on Armstrong through the de-
partment's agents who at stated in
tervals visit the apartments and re-
port on his condition.
According to the lawyer, his client
probably Will have 10 undergo seri.
Gus operation shortly, requiring his
removal 10 hospital. Should the
President refuse to grant the pardon
petition, it is planned to ask thai
Armstrong be taken 10 some special
sanatorium The lawyer said 50 soor
as his clients condition permits he
will surrender himself to the Fedora
authorities end appear before tn,
,ourt for commitment.
Evening journal., 1915-07-09
Full OF Rheumatism?
Your Case is not Hopeless When You
Know Where TO Seek Relief.

n. B. Danforth. Market and Second
streets, or any druggist in this city
will promise to give your money back
II you are not cured of rheumatism
after using two bottles of genuine
Rheuma. To those who know the
wonderful results secured with Rheu-
ma this offer Is not necessary. but
there are many who have failed TO
get results with other medicines and
this offer is made to convince the
skeptical
Hear what T. NJ. Baird. Of Del
ton, Mich, has to say Il was taken
with rheumatism IN my hips and
limbs II was all I could do to walk
or work Last spring I tried a bot
tie Of Rheuma. and three bottles did
the work. am not the only one here
who has been benefited" Rheuma rids
the system Of uric acid. the poison
Gus sediment which is the chief cause
OF rheumatism
BE sure to get the genuine-ask for
Rheuma in liquid form so cents.
Evening journal., 1915-07-09
TRY TRIOLA sMEETs.

Each box contains Chocolate Cow
cred Crushed Strawberries. Crushed
Pineapple and Whole Seeded Raisins.
Special price, PC box. Barr's Satur-
day Candy. Assorted Chocolates. sold
on Saturday cnly. 29c ID. Danforth's
Dependable Drugs. Market and Sec
ond streets.-Adv
Evening journal., 1915-07-09

A Lawn Fete will be held at Fair
view Schoolhouse on Saturday even
ing July 10, for the benefit of Alpha
A. c. and Ebenezer NJ. f. Church. If
stormy. Monday evening.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-28
CHAPTER VIII.
GriswoId Emerqent.

Half an hour or such a matter after
the hue-and-cry runaway from the
curb in front of the saloon two doors
above Mr.. Abram Sonneschein, dealer
in secondhand clothing and sweat
shop bargains. saw a possible Gus
toner drifting across the street, and
made ready the graphing hooks of
commercial enterprise.
There was little suggestion of the
tramp roustabout. and still less, per-
hapS, of the gentleman, about the per-
son who presently emerged from the
Sonneschein emporium. A square far
Their on he selected a BARRIERS shop of
clearly promise. An hour later, reach
ing the retail district, he strolled past
many brilliantly lighted shops until
he found one exactly to his liking. A
courteous salesman caught him up at
the door, and led the way to the des-
ignated departments
BY this time Mr.. Sonneschein's hes
liant and countrified customer had I'M
dergone a complete metamorphosis.
No longer reluctant and hard to
please, he passed rapidly from coun-
ter to counter, making his selections
with manlike celebrity and certainty
and bargaining not at all. When he
was quite through, there was enough
to furnish generous travelling ward
robe; a head-to-foot change of gar
MEETINGS with surplus to fill two
lordly suitcases; so he bought rhe
suitcases also, and had them taken
with his other purchases to the dress
ing room
All traces of the deck-hand Gavitt
and of the Sonneschein planter-cus-
toner having been obliterated, there
remained only the paying of his bill
and the summoning of a cab Oddly
enough. the cab. when it came. proved
to be four-wheeler driven by little,
wizen-faced man whose thin, high
pitched voice was singularly familiar
The Hotel Chouteau?-yis, sorr.
VIII you PLACE hand me thin grips?
L can't lave me harrses'-
The drivers excuse instantly tied
the knot of recognition, and the man
who had Just cremated his former
Identities swore softly
All things considered, it was the
Griswoid of the college-graduate days
the days of the slender patrimony
which had capitalized the literary be-
ginning-who presented himself at
the counter of the Hotel Chouteau at
half-past nine o'clock on the evening
of the Belle jules arrival at St Louis.
wrote his name in the guest-book and
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| Griswold took the handkerchief
bundle. and the mere touch of it put
| new life into him.
where is the fellow who was chas-
ing you, Mose?" he asked
rs new gwine tell you dat; no, sub
Las time 1 seed him, he's des t'arin'
off strips up de levee after turrer fell
lah."
What other fellow?"
The negro laughed and did double
shuttle at the mere recollection of it.
"Hi-yahi Turner fellah is de fellah
what done TUX my job. Hit was des-
away: when 1 t'ink dat white man
gwine catch me, sholy, 1 des drap
down in de darkes' cawneh 1 kin fin; ;
OATS what I done. vas, sub. He des
keep on a-goin', spat, spat, spat, an
when he come out front de Gineral
Jackson over yondeh. one dem boys
what's wukkin' on her, he TUX out.
an dat white man des tu'n hisself
loose an mex his laigs go lax he
gwine shek 'um plum off; vas, sahi"
Griswold suffered another lapse into
the humanities when he saw the list
of participants in his act growing
steadily with each fresh complication,
and he said, I'm sorry for that,
Nose"
New you min bout dat. Cap'm.
Dat boy he been dom somepin to mex
him touchous, Iess'n he new TUX out
dat-a-way, no, subj"
Maybe so. Well, we can't help it
now. Here is the twenty 1 promised
you"
Tank you, sub: tank you kin1y.
Cap'm. You-alTs des de whites white
man ey' 1 knowed- You sholy is"
What are you going to do with
yourself. now?" Griswold inquired.
Who, me? rs gwine up yondeh to
dat resteraw an git me de bigges'
mess O. fried fish 1 can hol'-dat's me;
vas. suh.'
"McGrath says he'll pay you levee
wages if you'll come back to the boat
and help get the cargo out of her"
Reckon 1 amt gwine back to de
Julie; no, sub. Dat'd be gittin' rich
too fas' for dis niggeh. Goodnight,
Cap'm Gravitt; an tank you kin1y,
sub"
Griswold went his way musing upon
the little object lesson afforded by
the negro's determination. Here was
a fellow man who was one of the
feeblest of the underdogs in the great
social fight; and with money enough
in hand to give him at least a breath
ing interval, his highest ambition was
a mess of fried fish.
The object lesson was suggestive, if
not specially encouraging, and Girls
void made a mental note of 1t for
further study when the question of
present safety should be more salts
factorily answered.
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feet, though he did awake drowsily
later on at the sound of voices in the
aisle, awoke to realize vaguely that
his two table companions of the Hotel
Chouteau cafe were to be his fellow
travellers in the Pullman.
The train was made up ready to
leave, and the locomotive was filling
the great train shed with stertorous
hissings. when a red-faced man slipped
through the gates to saunter over to
at the porter.
much of load tonight, George?"
mo, sab; mighty light; four young
ladies goin' up to de school in Fari-
bault, Mistah Grierson and his daugh-
ter. and a gentleman from de Chou
teau.'
"A gentleman from the Chouteau?
When did he come DOWN."
The porter knew the calling of the
red-faced man only by intuition; but
Griswold's tip was warming in his
pocket and he lied at random and on
general principles
Been heah all de evenin'; come
down right early afte' suppeh, and
went to bald like he was sick or tarr'd
or somethin'."
Little. smooth-faced, narr enlisted
gentleman; look like he might be"
But the train was moving out and
the red-faced man had turned away.
Whereupon the porter broke his simile
in the midst, picked up his carpet
covered step and climbed aboard.
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matters, but / am going to try to make
up for it in the future. I'm sorry you
couldn't come to US last evening
Please tell your mother and sister
that 1 do hope we'll meet, sometime.
1 should so dearly love to know them.
Thank you so much for everything
Good-by"
Raymer watched her as she drove
away, noted her skillful handling of
the fiery Kentuckian and her straight
seat in the flying cutter, and the smile
which day or two earlier might have
been mildly satirical was now openly
approbative-
She is shrewd little strategfst."
was his comment; but all the same
she is a mighty pretty girl, and as
good and sensible as she is shreud-
1 wonder why mother and Gertrude
haven't called on herr"
Having thus mined the Raymer out
works. Miss Grierson next turned her
batteries upon the Earnhams. They
were Methodists. and having learned
that the doctors hobby was a strug-
Cling mission work in Pottery Flat.
Margery called the paternaI check
book again into service, and the cut
ter drew up before the doctors ofice
in Main street
CTO BE CONTINUED
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CHAPTER TX.
The Goths and VandaIs.


In the day of it's beginnings Wa
haska was a minor trading post on
the northwestern frontier, and an out
fitting station for the hunters and
trappers of the upper Mississippi and
Minnesota lake region.
Later, it became the market town
of a wheat-growing district, and a
foundation of modest prosperity was
laid by well-to-do farmers gravitating
to that county seat to give their chill
dren the benefit of a graded school.
Later still came the passing OF the
wheat, re-peopling of the farms by
a fresh influx of home-seekers from
the Old World, and the birth, in Wa
haska and elsewhere, of the industrial
era.
Jasper Grierson was product of the
wheat-growing period. The son of one
of the earliest of the New York state
homesteaders in the wheat belt, he
came of age in the year of the Civil
war draft, and was unpatriotic enough,
some said, to dodge CONSUMPTION, or
the chance of it, by throwing up his
hostler's job in a Wahaska livery sta
BILE and vanishing into the dim limbo
of the farther West Also, tradition
added that he was well-spared by
most; that he was ill-spared, indeed,
by only one, and that one a woman
After the westward vanishing. Wa
haska saw him no more until he re-
turned in his vigorous prime, a vet
eran soldier of fortune upon whom the
goddess had poured golden shower
out of some cornucopia, of the Colorado
mines Although rumor, occasionally
naming him during the years of alb
sence. had never mentioned wife. he
was accompanied by a daughter. a
dark-eyed, redlipped young woman. a
rather striking beauty of a type un-
familiar to Wahaska and owing moth
ing, it would seem. to the grim. gray
wolf Jasper.
Since the time was ripe. WahaskE
did presently burst its swaddling
bands Commercial enterprise is
sheep-like; where one leads, others
will follow; and the mere following
breeds success, If only by the sheer
impetus of the massed forward move
ment- Jasper Grierson was the man
of the hour. but the price paid for lead
ership by the led Is apt to be high
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CHAPTER vil-contInued.

McGrath found his handouts and
tried the key in those upon Griswold s
wrists. 1t fitted.
Now ye're fut and hand loose, I'll
say to ye what / wouldn't say to a
cripple. Wan is that ye're not Gavitt;
ye're NO more like him than l am. Let
that go. we've been up to some devil
try. But that's all over and gone.
Whatk ye be doing next?'
GriswoId took a leaf out of the past
Safety In a former peril had grown
out of breakfast deliberately eaten
I'm a cafe next door to the Bayou State
Security
What would I do but finish my job
on the JuIie?" he said, pushing the
theory. to its logical conclusion.
The mate shook his head Eye
needn't do that: the cops might be
coming down here and running you in
again. How much pay have We drawn 2"
mot, any"
McGrath took a greasy wallet from
his pocket and counted out a deck
hands wages for the trip.
Take this. and I'll be getting it
back from the clerk. 1t might not be
good FIR We 90 show up at the office"
Griswold suffered a sudden return
to the meliorating humanities.
I've been calling you all the hard
names l could lay tongue to. McGrath,
and there have been times when |
would have given the price of a good
farm for the privilege of standing up
to you on a bit of green grass with no
body looking on 1 take it all back
You say you haven't forgotten; nei-
ther will forget. and maybe my turn
will come again. some day."
Go along with you" growled the
Irishman. whose very
had a tang of brutality in it,
eff you're coming across the naygur.
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SYNOPSIS.

Kenneth Griswold. unsuccessful
writer because of sociaIistic tendencies.
sutsEs-vvith his friend cambridge at Chau-
dferess restaurant in New Orleans and
declares that If necessary he will steal to
keep from starving. He holds up Andrew
Gaibraith, president of the Bayou State
Security. in his private office and escapes
with 100000 IN cash By original methods
ne escapes the hue and cry and goes
aboard the Belle Julie as a deckhand. He
unexpectedly confronts Charlotte Farm
ham of Wahsska. Mimi, who had seen
him cash Galbraith's check in the bank.
Charlotte recognizes Griswold, but de-
cfdes 20 write to Galbraith rather than
denounce the robber to the captain She
sees the brutal mate rescued from drown
Ing by Grswoid and delays sending her
letter to Gaibraith. She talks to Girls
void and by his advice sends her letter
of betrayal to Galbraith anonymously
Griswold as arrested the arrival of the
boat at st Louis but escapes from his
capfors.
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I've had an overdose of excitement,
I guess" he said to himself. f1inging
the cigar away THE best thing for
me to do is to go down to the train
and get to bed"
He went about it Istiessly, with
curious buzzing in his ears and a GER
tain dimness of sight which was quite
disconcerting; and when a cab was
summoned he was glad enough to let
a respectfully sympathetic porter lend
him shoulder to the sidewalk
The drive in the open air was suffi-
ciently tonic to help him through the
details of ticket-buying and embarka-
ton; and afterward sleep came so
quickly that he did not know when the
Pullman porter drew the curtains to
adjust the screen in the window at his
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IL am quite at your service, No
FASTENED to say "Shall l show you
plan of the sittings?"
When the sittings we're finally de-
cided upon she opened her purse
TT is so good of you to take time
from your business to wait on me,
she told him; and then, in naive con-
fusion: IL asked poppa to make out
a check, but 1 don't know whether IL
is big enough"
Raymer took the order to pay.
glanced at the amount. and from tnat
to the velvety eyes with the half
abashed query in them Miss Grler-
sons eyes were her most effective
anything, from daggers drawn to
kisses. Just now the look was or
childlike beseeching. but Raymer with
stood tor thought he did
1T is more than twice as much as
we get for the best locations" he de-
INJURED Wait a minute and I'll write
you check for the difference and give
you receipt
But at the word she was on her feet
in an eager hutter of protest.
"Oh, please don't!" she pleaded III
it is really too much, can't you put the
difference in the missionary box, or in
them the minister's salary ?-as a lit
tie donation from US, you know?
Thus the small matter of business
was concluded; but Miss Margery was
not yet ready to go. From st. Johns
and its affairs official she passed deity
to the treasurer of st. Johns and
his affairs personal Was the machine
works the place where they made
steam engines and things? And did
the sign, mo Admittance." on the
doors mean that no visitors were al
lowed? If not, she would so much like
to
Raymer smiled and put himself once
more at her service, this time as guide
and megaphonist. 1t was all very
noisy and grimy, but If she cared to go
through the works he would be glad
to go with her.
He did not know how glad he was
going to be until they had passed
through the clamoross machine shop
and had reached the comparatively
quiet foundry. One of Miss Margery's
gifts was the ability to become for the
moment an active and sympathetic
sharer in anyone's enthusiasms. In
the foundry she looked and listened.
and was unsophisticated only to the
degree that invites explanation 1t
was a master-stroke of finesse. A man
is never so transparent as when he
forgets himself in his own trade talk;
and Raymer was unrolling himself as
a scroll for Miss Grierson to read as
she ran.
The tour of the works which had be-
gun in passing acquaintance ended in
friendship, precisely as Miss Grierson
had meant it should; and when Ray
mer was tucking her into the cutter
and wrapping her in the fur robes, she
added the finishing touch, or rather
the touch for which all the other
touches had been the preliminaries.
I'm so glad 1 had the courage to
come and see you this morning. We
have been dreadfully remiss in church