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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
The Main Question

A man was arrested on the charge
of robbing another of his watch and
chain, says the Philadelphia Public
Ledger. 1t was said that he had
thrown bag over his victims head,
strangled and robbed him. There was
so little evidence. however, that the
judge quickly said: Discharged!
The prisoner stood still in the dock,
amazed at being given his freedom so
soon. You're discharged" repeated
the judge. You can go. You are
Free" Still no word from the pris.
oper, who stood staring at the Judge.
Don't you understand? You have
been acquitted. Get out!" shouted the
Judge. Well" stammered the man.
do l have to give him back his watch
and chain?''
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
RULES OF UP-To-DATE zoo
Compiled for the Benefit of Visitors
Who Without Proper Guidance
Might Get Into Trouble.

All persons are prohibited from
playing with the animals If yoC are
a monkey, don't recognize your friends
at the zoo. Fraternizing with the anil
mails is considered a serious offensep
no matter if the animal shows more
intelligence than the one trying to
torment him.
1t shall be unlawful to stroke the
whiskers of Caesar, the male lion, or
to pull the tails of any of the lions at
any time. Visitors must not interfere
with the food that is given the lions
or put their hands into the mouths OF
the beasts.
Making eyes at the bcboons and
shaking hands with the monkeys are
not permitted at any time. Visitors
must not pull the horns of the buffalo
or strike the ears of the ostrich.
Children are warned not to ride on
the backs of the deer.
Violations of these park regulations
will be punishable by solitary con-
finement in the dog pound for six
months.-Springfield News.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
esrman Scientific Discovery

All the German scientists are not
at the front, nor has the war wholly
stopped the research work of those
who remain at home A new element
is said to have been discovered by
Professor Goehring of Karlsruhe,
whose name is known in the realm of
physico-chemical experiment. Accord
ing to his claim, uranium, itself orig
inally supposed to be an elemental
substance, has yielded to disintegrat-
ing tests and has given off simpler
substance, to which Professor Goeh-
ring gives the name of brevium. The
new element belongs to the radio-ac-
tive group, but it is yet too early to
assign it position of relative i'm
portance or to Judge Of its possible
scientific and commercial value,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
cnnorets or Earthworks.

The Engineering Record says that
every new war offers great scope to
the skill Of the engineer. One prob
lem, for example, that needs to be
solved Immediately is to find the ma
terial that will best resist modern high
explosives. Concrete, the mainstay
of modern Notifications, Is obviously
almost useless--at least in its usual
form. A few shells charged with high
explosives knocked to pieces the tur-
rets of permanent concrete forts, or
If they did not hit them, toppled them
over by completely shattering their
concrete bases. Temporary earth
works. on the other hand, and one or
two forts heavily banked with earth,
resisted attack by such shells with
measurable success shell pene-
trates concrete, and then exploding,
rends the whole mass, whereas on en-
tering earth it merely blows out big
hole, which the falling dirt partly fills.
In our Civil war an active shoVeling
party could quickly repair any damage
to an earthwork that even heavy bonn
bardment could do. The question now
is whether concrete can be so re-en-
forced as to stand the shock, or wheth-
er recourse should not be had to some
improved form of earthwork. Certain
ly it is true that a few feet of loose
dirt, or even of Nnow would stop a
bullet that would pierce a halfinch
iron plate, and the same principle
seems to hold good for heavy projec-
tiles.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
Exact Copy of Wrapper
WANTED TO SEE THE RESULT
Little Willie Evidently Had at Some
Time BeheId a Slot Machine
in Operation.

There are some very funny things
in big store besides the things the
girls say about he floorwalker or
the fancies the ribbon-counter boys
have about the personalities of buy
ers and heads of departments.
For instance: The other day
small lad, with an unmistakable stamp
of the country, was trailing his moth
er along through big store. He was
hanging back, and she was pulling.
The boy never had been in a big
store, and the place was full of many
wonders.
All of a sudden the pulling and lag
ging became a stubborn, and pro-
nounced utter stoppage.
Come on, Willie" said the mother.
"Aw, nav, wait" begged the boy.
NO." protested his mother What's
the matter with you?"
Look" cried the boy. He was
pointing to a young man leaving an
employees time clock, which the
young man had just punched.
Wait, maw," continued Willie. Il
want to see what he wins"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
ShrapneI In Warfare.

Shrapnel is most effective against
prone skirmishers at ranges from
1000 to 5000 meters, when burst
twenty-eight to twenty-five meters
short of the target, and against stand
ing skirmishes at the same ranges
when burst fifty-six to forty-five me-
ters short of the target. Black also
points out that a single shrapnel from
a light field howitzer produces a
greater number of hits when the point
of burst is favorably situated than one
nred from field gun.
Shrapnel is also playing a most i'm
rortant part in aerial warfare, and of
these antiaircraft shrapnel, all of
which embody the same general es-
sentials, there is perhaps none more
effective than that known as "Ehrhardt
antiaircraft shrapnel"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08

Judicial corlmendation of the oy.
ster is made ty Chief Justice Mcbride
of the Oregon supreme court in Ed.
wards VS.. Mhunt Hood Construction
company, as follows; "The writer
knows from experience on the circuit
bench that II is sometimes very diff
cult for a JUICE to refrain from max
ing comments on a case during the
progress Of the trial, and especially
where an apparent injustice seems to
have been perpetrated; but after a
reversal or ,wo occasioned BY this
practice he concluded to go, not to the
ant, but to lie meek and lowly oyster,
to consider its ways and be WISE
and to kefI- the judicial mouth shut.
He CONNER DIS the example of the ST.
lent to all Trial judges"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
AFTERMATH OF WAR
UnexpIoded Shells a Source Of
Great Danger.
Are Destroyed With Special Pains
When They Are Discovered, But
Undoubtedly viii Be Cause
Of Many Deaths.

The unexploded shell is one of wars
cruelest dangers, since 1t may kill or
main the innocent and unexpecting-
perhaps years after the fighting is all
over and peace reigns in the land.
Even when unexploded projectiles are
seen and recognized as such, their re-
moval or destruction is attended with
great danger. Mr.. H. Vigneron tells
how the French army in the field is
accustomed to deal with this element.
He writes:
All shells fired by artillery do not
explode, perhaps because their fuses
are not sensitive enough, or because
the ground is too soft. 1t would seem
that from this special point of view
the prize must be awarded to the Ger
mans for the largest number of non.
exploded shells. This is so true that
soldiers on the march are afraid to
run across these shells and that,
where the Germans have passed, care
must be taken lest the wagons strike
an unexploded shell with too violent
shock. The danger persists after
the war is over; and, unfortunately,
for long years we shall have to de-
plore, from time to time, the death Of
imprudentSpersons who have tried to
'unscrew a fuse or carry away an
unexploded shell.
I'm fact, every shell, even if its fuse
is incapable of working and causing
its explosion, is in g dangerous condi-
tion.
By one method of doing away with
them the charge of explosive intended
to burst the shell is placed on the
projectile, parallel to its axis. !.
At the right and left piles of earth are
made with the hands and joined over
the top, pressing lightly on the part
just over the charge to assure con-
tact with the shell. The fuse
is lighted and the soldier retires to a
distance of about 1900 feet, or less
distance behind the earthwork.
IF the shell is buried the excava-
tion is cleaned out so as to disclose
the butt of the projectile; and then,
without touching the shell, hole is
made in the earth along its axis into
which the explosive charge is intro
duced
When the shell to be dealt with
is charged with an explosive, such as
melinite or cresylite, one exploder is
generally sufficient to dispose of the
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
TRAINING italian Soldiers.

The Italian soldier undergoes a
more severe training in some respects
than a friend or enemy in the armies
of Europe. His day begins at 4:30 a.
M, and drill and routine continue,
with a two-hour break of "compul-
sorry repose," until p. m. After that
he has four hours freedom, but must
be back in barracks by nine Cor $3.50
in winter), and is supposed to be abed
when, half an hour later, the bugles
sound the "silenzio." He is extremely
well cared for by the authorities, but
long marches are reckoned among the
essentials of his training, and some
regiments can cover sixty miles at
five miles an hour, and consider it
nothing remarkable.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
shlps Chinese In Sacks.

Harry E. Brock of Seattle, who was
arrested recently while driving an un-
licensed automobile carrying two Chi
nese concealed in canvas sacks, con-
fessed that he has been engaged In
thriving Chinese smuggling business
for seven months and that for each
subject brought into the United States
from Canada he received 5000.
Brock was delivering the Chinese
to Hop Quick Co company Of Portland.
Ching Chong Kee, merchant OF Van.
couver, British Columbia, was the Ca
madam agent in the deal.
Brock said he picked up the Chinese
seven miles north of the international
boundary line, walked them ten miles
and used his automobile from Blaine
the remainder of the distance.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
unexpected Chicken,

A stranger arriving in small town.
hailed a passing resident and in
quired:
Can you direct me to a place
where they take boarders ?"
"Hemmandhaws keeps en-" the
man replied.
rs that a pretty good placer
Fair to middlin'."
Have chicken very often for din
ner?"
"Reglar and unexpected.
What do you mean by regular and
unexpected?"
They have chicken reg'lar every
Sunday"
Il see"
And also have it when an auto
mobile Unexpectedly kills one in the
road."-Judge.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08

talk ceased an instant awaiting The
Womans answer. Her fine eyes trav-
eled around the group of faces
stamped by the hollow lives behind
them, and back again to the eager
eyes of her waiting questioner.
Then, like lighted bomb thrown
among them came her reply in calcu-
lating and cutting tone.
Il am sorry" she said. "but you are
quite mistaken. My mother was a
Carter, but not a Carter of Virginia.
She came from a shiftless little mid
die West village, and my father was
the village blacksmith. My mother
was a farmers daughter and, the maid
of all work for some well-to-do folk
in her vicinity. She left school at
fourteen and went out to work, and
when she was seventeen she married
the village blacksmith big, fine fel-
low with plenty of Drawn and little
Of learning. They lived in two rooms
where three children came 20 them-I
being the last
One day terrible accident hap
pened in the shop and my father was
killed. My mother loved him. and she
grieved herself almost to death,
think we saved her-the babies. We
had to be fed and clothA \ and shell
tered you see-it's a way with babies.
So my mother took in washing. We
lived in one room and slept at the
foot Of the bed. We ate our dinner
on a small table by the stove. Some
times there was not enough to eat,
and mother would wish someone
would help us, and often they did
come aid society. or individual. and
eyery time it happened | would go.
out in the back yard and fling myself
In fit OF temper on the ground and
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08

The handsome room was heavy
with ominous silence when The Wom-
ans voice became still. The hostess
of the day had given a resentful ex-
clamation in the middle of the recital
which told The Woman quite plainly
that she did not thank her for her
choice of scene for her confession, and
the Stranger Guest, who had fawned
for The Woman's favor, had withdrawn
quite to the end of the room during
the telling of the sordid little tale,
while here and there smile fitted
from shallow face to shallow face in
derisive comment, and The Woman, as
she talked, both saw and understood
In the two-room house which my
father gave my mother when they were
married there was no foolish pride. In
the one room my mother was after
ward able to provide for her babies
there was no dishonesty She made
a hard fight but it was a worthy one.
And though these years that have
stood silently by while people intro
duced me "a Carter of Virginia-one
of the Carters"-I have been sick with
shame; hot with disgust; miserable
with hypocrisy and deceit. Why. my
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08

claw and paw until was quite ex-
hausted. You see l had my fathers
high spirit, and charity was hateful
to me. When l was fourteen went
to work, and step by step climbed
until / became a mannikin in a fash
ionable importers shop. I
One day a man came in with his
sister. She had won a gown from
him on a wager and he had come to
help her in the selection, or else to
see that she did not pay too much for
it. He gave the former reason for
his coming. She said it was the lat
ter. Anyway he liked the mannikin
better than the gown, and later he
asked me to dinner with him.
"The man is my husband" said The
Woman quietly. 81 was but eighteen
when we we're married We lived
abroad where he sent me to school
for four years before he brought me
back to be the mistress and hostess
of his house"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
GUTW0RM IS DEFIED
Long Island Man Has Found
Way to Save tomatoes.
Ineases Young Plants In Wax Paper
Drinking Cups, After Cutting Out
the Bottom Of the cuP-PIan
Works Well.

L. ]. Bisbee of Malverne, L. l., has
found a novel use for wax paper drink
ing-cups after they have been used.
He, like many other persons, grows to-
matoes in his garden and has discov-
cred that by cutting the bottom out
of a drinking-cup, slipping the young
plant through what is left and plant
ing so that the cup is half buried in
the earth, the plant win be safe from
cutworms.
Mr.. Bisbee says that cutworms at
tack the tomato vines just at the level
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
All His Fault.

One witness in a recent police
court case was an old Irish woman.
Immediately the prisoners lawyer
asked her a question she began talk
ing, and talked and talked and talked.
Stop! Stop" ordered the magis-
trate, hammering on his desk.
But the old woman still talked on.
Here, you in the witness box, do
be quiet!" thundered the magistrate
again. "Oh, do stop for minute!"
And the old woman still went on.
Then the magistrate turned angriIy
on the lawyer
Look here, Mr.. -" he shouted,
you started her-now stop her!"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
OF Ear More Imnortancs-

Pat and a friend were reading an
account of a. shipwreck, in which they
were greatly interested.
Pat" said his friend, "in case of a
shipwreck, presence of mind is worth
everything else"
"Prisince of moind, ye say" replied
Pat earnestly. Faith, and l don't
agree wild ye. In tonne of shipwreck
absince of body is of far more impor.
tance than prisince of moind. Ma
tional Monthly.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08

entire charge. The precautions to be
observed are the same as when the
shell is charged with powder, but ac-
count must be taken of the greater
distances to which the fragments may
be thrown, which may reach a half
mile.
These facts show how dangerous
may be shell found on a battlefield.
The engineers who go out to destroy
them surround the shell, when it is
of large caliber, with planks, wooden
bulwarks and piles of earth, in order
to limit the danger zone. There is
need for complicated apparatus and
for skilled men. 1t is hardly worth
while, therefore. to risk ones life, and
those of ones companions. by collect
ing unexplodeL shells"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
A W,oman's WAY.

"Sir, we are starting new railroad
and want your daughter to drive the
first spike"
81 have no doubt she will consider it
an honor to officiate"
Thank you. We have provided a
small gold spike. Also silver ham
mer."
''One minute. don't think she could
drive spike with hammer. Better
provide hairbrush. Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08

own butler has been more honest, God
fearing, and decent than /.
But now you all know and l am
glad, glad, glad!"
And The Woman made her farewell
with smile that had lost every whit
OF its twisted queerness, although it
radiated something of the amusement
she felt in watching the varying ex-
pressions of her thoroughly scandal
lied auditors.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
All the same.

Son was reading the financial page
and turned to inquire: What is the
difference between call loan and a
time loan?'' Generally speaking"
said Dad, there is no difference at
all Before you can get fellow to
repay call loan, you have to call and
call again and If it's d time loan. YOU
have to call time and time again"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08

81 read today that on the roof of
bank in Montevideo there has been in
stalled a powerful searchlight which
illuminates every part of the city"
said the sweet young thing.
We'll, all have to say about that
is that it must be poor place for the
sale Of hammocks," replied the young
man BY her side
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
How the Vine Is Planted.

of the ground and never come above
the surface. The cup acts also as a
reservoir, holding moisture in the soil
it contains and letting 1t soak down
to the roots without washing out into
the surrounding earth
He uses the cups, also, in planting
slips of any sort, cutting hole. in the
bottom for drainage, filling with earth
and placing the whole in the ground.
AS the slip grows it's roots destroy the
remnants of the cup.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
One Advan+aoe

Traded your motorboat for an aero
plane, Ell? What's the idea"
well, there's this about an aero
plane-even if the engine does break
down, you're bound to land some
where"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08

The soss-Anybody call while was
out?
Ollie Boy-No, sir
Bos3-Gee! Then I'll have to go
out again. told Brown to call today
and get his money.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
described in Detai,.

What lid Joan of Arc wear?"
"She s6re," answered the girl at
the foot of the class, "a suit Of steel.
trimmed with sheet iron, and cut
along lather severe lines."--Louis.
vile Cclrier-J Journal.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
A CARTER OF VIRGINIA

When The Woman had settled back
in the handsomest of her velvet-lined
automobiles her thought travelled
across the years that we're ended, COM
ing up sharply to the elaborate en-
tertainment of which she had been
hostess the evening before, and she
smiled a queer twisted smile for
which there seemed no reason what.
ever, for certainly the dinner had been
a brilliant affair and had gone of with
out a hitch.
There had been the usual wonderful
gold plate and cut glass; the custom
ary perfect cuisine; the same flawless
conduct of servants; a brilliant run
Of repartee, and hostess whose beau
ty and charm was an unceasing won
der to all those whose lives she
touched.
Yet The Woman as she SKINNED
along over the city streets in her
handsome car, smiled her queer and
twisted smile as her thought travelled
back over the highly successful din
ners and scores of other equally bril-
liant entertainments which she had
graced since she became the mistress
of The Mans beautiful home.
When The Womaa's name was an
nounced at the afternoon reception
the hostess of the day turned to the
Stranger Guest and remarked that the
beautiful woman just coming in was
one she should cultivate.
She's Carter of Virginia, my dear.
Belongs to THE Carriers. An invitation
to her house means an open sesame
to society,""
The smile of The Woman as she
heard, became wee bit more twisted
than formerly, and flush mounted
to the roots of her glittering hair.
Refreshments had been served. The
Stranger Guest lowered over The
Woman much as if her souls saliva
tion depended upon the latter's pleas
ure, and other guests at the little gath
ering openly courted her favor.
Our hostess tells me you are one
of the Virginia Carters," fawned the
Stranger Guest, and the flow of small
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
No Chanae.

Was she self-possessed when you
proposed?"
Yes; and-er-she still is!"-An-
SWerS.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
The Grand Smash,

so you bought an auto. How are
you getting along?"
"On crutches."
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
DlnarAnf

Tem-Do you like the Boston hop?
Chem-Naw, l takes Chinese dope
for mine every time.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08

As the sun is to the moon so is
the natural blonde to the peroxide
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-14
LITTLE MARGARET


tcopyright 1913 By W. G. chapman)
Mooney remembered me when I
stepped into his cab. though It was
four or 1--WE years since we had met
AT that time ] rode with him a good
deal / was getting up material for
series Of articles upon the railroads.
Now was merely a claimant upon his
hospitality for the sake OF old times.
] had had a longing to feel the sweep
OF the wind from the inside OF an en-
gine-cab and see the lights fash BY
And the man in charge Of 81 was
Mooney.
He knew me, as I said, and pres
emily began to recall the old route
We had traversed so often. reeol-
lected that Moneys cottage stood two
miles down the track, and that his
wife, a pretty young woman, and their
little girl Of FIVE used to stand In front
and wave to him as the train flashed
past. / waited. Sure enough, the
woman was there, but the child at her
side could not have been four years
old.
Il lost her-my little Margaret"
said Mooney.
I'm sorry" I answered iamely.
yes, we both felt It pretty hard
even though the other came" he an
swered. Il guess she felt It most. We
don't talk about It now, didn't much
anyway-but that sort Of thing hurts
deep enough, especially when you
don't believe in a future life"
What answer could l make to that7
/ did not attempt to. MONEYS state
Of mind must have been hopeless In
deed.
Il said when you don't believe in
nothing more" went on Mooney az.
gressively.
Yes" / answered.
well, I do now" retorted Mooney
sullenly, and suddenly clasped my
hand. Man, you don't know what It
means to me now to think that I
haven't lost her forever. II makes
everything different, somehow.
you see, the wife used to bring her
down to the edge Of the cutting when