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Aahhs DSlOEe.
well, Joe. I asked them guys what the
globe and anchor stood for on their caps
and one guy speaks up and says 1t means
that the marines fight all over the world"
ITS cute little thing, the marines
insignia. Looks something like a boiled
huckleberry pudding with couple Of fish,
hooks run through 1t, or like a lady hen
hawk trying to hatch out fractured door
Knob. I'm sure you get me Gladys Also
the marines may be identified by their
motto. Just where they wear that I've
forgotten for the moment, but you're sure
to find It somewhere about them il YOU
look close. 1t is 'Semper Fidels. No. It
has nothing to do with fiddles One "a
GLADYS. II is a phrase taken from the
Sioux dialect, l think. meaning literally,
Where do we go from here?"
The story of "Bluebeard" and his
seven wives, which many will recall
having read long ago, is still going the
rounds. The fable appears to have
originated in France, but it has turned
up almost everywhere in the wide
world.
Now 1t appears that the Virgin IS
lands have "Bluebeard" Of their own,
whom they claim as the original dyed
ln-the-wool villain Of chlld-lore.
Corporal Lester F. Scott of the
Thirty-ffth company, United States
marines, who is stationed at Charlotte
Amalle in the little island recently
acquired by the United States, writes
as follows Of the people and their be-
liefs:
ION the west shore Of the bay lies
settlement of French people called
Cha-Chas. These people came orig
inally from the Dutch and French
Leeward islands. They have not
married with the negroes, and they
live to themselves, resenting any out
side interference with their affairs.
'They are hard drinking race, yet
they are the most Industrious people
on the island. and are especially good
canoemen. Their boats are long, mar
row affairs made out Of scraps of
wood. They supply the town with fish
and the women make straw hats that
fnd ready sale among the negroes.
"They will never rise any higher
than the true beach-comber, because
the race has degenerated, due to In
termarriage in so small colony. With
their rudy faces. stiffiy starched blue
shirts, tight white trousers and broad
brimmed hats, they present a curious
and unusual appearance.
ION the crest of two OF the three
hills Of Charlotte-Amalle nestles the
famous old castles of Bluebeard and
These are the two places
Of interest on the island. The old
buccaneers were alike as two peas In
their habits, but the castles are In
no way similar. Bluebeard's castle Is
the more massive and Is separated
from Blackbeard's by distance Of a
half-mile. After the death of the
two pirates, secret tunnel was found |
hnnecting the two castles.
1T is reported that 1t was through |
this secret tunnel the two exchanged |
the women they had captured on !
ships"
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whether we shall actually have rati.
fed or not, because peace will Men be
a fact"
The president may go ahead any.
how and name the member of the repa.
ratlons commission, and 1t was report.
ed that Bernard Baruch Is TO be his Sc.
lection.
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The peace conference h now attend
Inc to Bulgaria. The delegates from
that country arrived In Paris from
SOFA Friday and were CHARTERED At the
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1919-08-01
" HW MS ar AgBNcG4NEZ6

HNH, the English and the Irish and
the 'owlin' Scotties, too
~ The Canucks and Austrilee'uns.
and the 'alry French poiu;
The only thing that bothered us don't
bother us no moro,
It's only wy In ell we didn't know the
Yanks before"
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well, Joe. asked them guys what the
globe and anchor stood for on their caps
and one guy speaks up and says 1t means
that the marines fight all over the world"
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Sweden IS expected to make a loud
wall over the report of the Baltic COM
mission Of the peace conference. II
recommends that the Aland islands at
the mouth of the Gulf Of Bothnia,
which Sweden has claimed. be neu-
tralized under the guaranty of the
League of Nations. The Swedes are
not in high favor with the allies and
any protest they may make Is not like.
ly TO be considered.
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suburb of Neuilly. The French troops
have been taking care of Bulgaria late
ly and when the other day some of
them were attacked by Bulgarians
French regiment occupied Sofia and
dsarmed the local garrison.
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The city of Washington was greatly
upset early In the week by mob riots
that amounted to a race war. Whites,
angered by alleged attacks on women
by colored men, made indiscriminats
warfare on the negroes. and the latter
retaliated In kind. Several persons.
including two policemen. were killed.
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All the world Was startled and
shocked by the unique airshIp dIsasteI
In Chicago. A dIrigible balloon was
making experimental lights over the
loop district Of the city when II bursi
into flames and fell through the roof Of
one OF the largest banks. Ten EN-
ployees OF the hank and three mer
who were IN the car OF the balloon
were killed and more than q score wers
injured. The cause Of the accideni
was q mystery.
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Half Your Living
Without Money Cost

We are all at a danger point. On
the use of good common sense in our
1919 farm and garden operations, de-
ponds prosperity or our going broke"
Even at present high prices no one
can plant all or nearly all cotton, buy
food and grain at present prices from
supply merchant on credit, and make
money. Food and grain are higher in
proportion than are present cotton
prices.
It's time above all others to play
safe; to produce all possible food,
grain and forage supplies on your own
acres; to cut down the store bill.
A good piece of garden ground,
rightly planted, rightly tended and
kept planted the year round, can be
made to furnish nearly half your liv-
ing. 1t will save you more money
than you made on the best two or
three acres of cotton you ever grew!
Hastings 1919 Seed Book tells all
about the right kind of a money saw
ing garden and the vegetables to put
in it. 1t tells about the farm crops as
well and shows you the clear road to
real and regular farm prosperity It's
Free. Send for it today to H.. G.
HASTINGS CO., Atlanta, Ga.-Advt.
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seau.
How kind and faithful mother was.
She pinched and saved in every way,
that 1 might not go to my husband
unprovided for. Father, tool never
knew it until long afterward-insist-
ed that his old overcoat was good
enough to last through another win
ter so that 1 might hav another dress,
although he had fully intended to buy
a new one.
Women and money-women and
money! Had I realized how they
were TO be my undoing how my very
life was to revolve about them-I
should have been willing to be clothed
in sackcloth, and considered myself
fortunate if only I might have held
the love Of my husband.
The weeks flew by On the eigh-
teenth of September, Neil came. We
were married the following day in
the little church where l had been
baptiszed, and where l had taken my
fist communion. The whole village
attended my wedding No church in
vitations were necessary. But after
ward, at the house, only the minister,
two of my most intimate girl friends
and Mr.. and Mrs. Carter-Neils aunt
and uncle-had breakfast.
Father made all sorts of fun be-
cause we called it breakfast" 1t
was at twelve o'clock.
"If had to wait until this hour
for my breakfast, I'd get divorce, .
he told mother. l suspect he said it
more TO cheer her up than for any
other reason. Mother couldn't hide
her feelings as well as he could, and
hey eyes had been full of tears all the
morning.
didn't really feel I was Neips wife,
however, until we were alone on the
train, speeding away from all 1 knew
and loved. Then 1 just laid my head
on his shoulder and cried little.
Not because l was not happy; I
guess it was because l was happier
than ever had been, and because
felt bit of sadness along with my
happiness because of father and
mother.
But Neil was so kind. He talked to
me so sensibly about having them visit
US, that I soon was smiling. He told
me of the fun we should have fiat
hunting; but he made a wry face
over it, so I sort of imagined he had
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called it FUN" to cheer me up. But
he had had his raise. When he told
the firm that he was going to be mar
ried, they had given Aim a raise of
twenty-five dollars as wedding
~ 0'eH'' aes a
I felt awfully rich and important.
How we were to spend such a sum
seemed to be a very prodigious ques-
ton. We should be really quite infu-
entail members 70 society, with all
that at our disposal.
When I said something of this to
Neil, he only laughed and replied:
New York isn't Huntington, darl-
ing. Money doesn't go very far in
the big town"
I laughed at him when he talked
that way. 1 knew mother never had
had 1.-THE of that to live on, yet we
had always been comfortable. When
1 said so to Neil he told me:
your people pay no rent; they
burn gas and kerosene lamps. They
have no car fares to pay. Why, dear,
one could live better in Huntington
on fifty dollars a month than in New
York on three times that sum. But
he also told me that the firm who en-
ployed him were very kind to him,
that the head of the firm was an old
friend of his fathers, and that was
the way he happened to be with
them "They will give me another
advance as soon as they think l de-
serve it," he said with all the
optimism of happy youth. I have
other schemes in my head, tool
shall have plenty of money some
day"
"Of course they will! If they didn't
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THE TONE OF NEIL'S LETTERS
MORE LOVING.
CHAPTER Y

Neil sent the books and the pic
ture. He answered my letter almost
at once, which made me very happy
that I had not allowed my pride to
make me wait as long as he did be-
fore writing.
The books I not only read, but
studied. When he wrote of them |
was thus able to discuss them intel
ligently with him. They were mostly
light reading, but by well-kown
authors. The picture I placed on my
Ireau. I begged mother to buy me
a. frame for it. She bought me a
very pretty one, better than she
could afford, yet it seemed but a poor
setting for Neil's handsome face.
We now wrote regularly. AS the
fall ran into winter, and the wind
again whistled through THE brown
stalks of the shrubs and the naked tree
branches. 1 longed more for these ex-
nrassions of friendship from Neil.
Although l neglected none OF my du-
tics belped mother, joined in all the
little affairs at the church and at the
homes of my young friends, my heart
was not in any of them, Neil was
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NOW GO ON WITH T0DAYS:
BARBARA AND NEIL ARE MARRIED
CHAPTER VII.

TT may require more to make one
4 man or woman feel JOY or pain than
it does another, but the JOY or pain
they feel is about the, same. So if 1
were happy in my engagement, was
probably no happier than others have
been, yet it seemed to me that no one
ever had been so happy as /, in those
busy summer months preceding my
marriage
l Fewed indefatigably Of neces-
sity there was no elaborate trousseau,
but what had was good of the kind,
and as every stitch was put in with
a thoght of love, l am sure no bride
ever rad more satisfactory trous-
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NEIL TELLS BARBARA OF
HIS LOVE.
CHAPTER VI.

have been thus particular to tell
of my simple home life, so that it
may perhaps win me, if not forgive
ness for what cam eater, at least
some sort of understanding of my
foolishness, my mistakes. For was
also to blame for what happened.
l wanted desperately to go to the
station to meet Neil, that lovely May
day when he was to arrive, but he
had said nothing of my doing so in
his letter, so l RENAMED at home,
anxiously watching from the window.
shaded by the curtains.
My heart almost literally leaped
into my mouth when l saw him
swing up the street, carrying his big
suitcase as if it weighed no more
than a feather. Neil was very strong;
he had gone in for athletics in col
lege. and had been very proud of his
record.
He turned into his aunt's gate, and
my heart went back where it belonged
again. But in less than fifteen min
utes he was with me.
How do you do, Bab!" was what
he said, but the way he held both my
hands, the glad look in his eyes, made
it adequate. Mother was with us, or
| thought he perhaps might have kiss
ed me.
He was to remain less than week.
| almost cried when he told me. But
| was so happy that he was with me,
that / determined to try and forget
how soon he would leave me again.
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constantly in my thoughts.

constantly in my thoughts.
At Christmas he sent me a set of
u. Henry. He was a great admirer
Of that writer, and had said in one
of his letters that he wanted me also
to become familiar with his work. /
was surprised and delighted, but
when in addition 1 received a won
eerful box of American beauty roses
l was so happy cried.
Looks pretty serious to me,
father said, as I arranged the flow
ers. l recall now what a time l had
finding holders for them. 1 couldn't
bear to cut the stems, as mother
suggested, so I placed them in the
big water pitchers we used in the
bedrooms. The only receptacles in
the house deep enough to hold them.
One, beautiful half-opened bud,
l carried upstairs and pressed it
between the leaves of my Bible. That
I would keep always.
AS winter waned and the spring
winds blew softly and warmly over
my cheeks, Neils letters grew a lit
tie more affectionate. Now he often
said something about other girls,
comparing them to me always in my
favor. Once he said:
There is no one like you, Bah. No
one fellow feels is so brave, 50
true, so good. The more I see of
these New York girls the more I
thing of you, dear, and your girlish
ways. Keep all your ideals, Bah.
The world is pretty hard and sordid
at times. We all need something to
cling to-"
He often now wrote somewhat in
this vein Then at times he would
ask me to excuse a short letter, say
ing that the market had gone all to
pieces, and he was terribly busy. I
hadn't the slightest idea what he
meant That he was busy was all
grasp. Or he would say that market
was scooting upward so fast no one
could catch it.
I asked father what he meant, but
he hadn't any more idea than I had.
He answered:
1T is a sort of banking business,
guess"
But as a rule Neil wrote nice, long,
satisfactory letters. And in reply I
also told him everything 1 Thought
would interest him. I, too, allowed
myself a little more freedom as time
went on, and several times I had
signed them with love-" as I had
longed to do at first.
Then one day in early spring when
the leaves and buds were pushing
themselves into warm sunlit world
I almost tainted from sheer joy Neil
was coming!
I went about the house singing in
my heart the refrain: Neil is cons
ing! Neil is coming!" 1t seemed to
me that the soft winds whispered it,
that the birds caroled it. Nothing
else could possibly engage even their
attention, save the one wonderful
fact that Neil ("my Neil" I called
him blushingly) was coming.
1t was the last of May when he ar
rived. The village never had been
prettier, the flowers and shrubs
never bloomed more bravely. had
been sewing for weeks so that I, too,
might appear bravely attired. l don't
know that I have mentioned my one
accomplishment; but 1 was "a wiz
ard with a needle" so mother and
the girls said And put all my in
genuity to work that I might look
attractive to Neil The materials l
had to work with were the simplest,
but they were all I had been accus-
toned to wear, and l had not even
wished for anything better.
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PAGE THREE

you might leave them and go with
some one else. They wouldn't let you
do that" Such speech showed my
faith in Neil, but proved also how
little 1 knew of business; and of how
easily man could be replaced unless
he were very much out of the ordi-
nary-which Neil was not, at that
time, although no one could have in
duced me to believe that there ever
lived a more valuable asset to a firm
than my husband, Neil Forbes.
Tomorrow AHoneymoon Spent at
Atlantic City.
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You see had come, Bab," he said
later in the evening when we took
long walk, just the same as we did the
summer before.
you had to come" I repeated,
wondering.
Yes. I had to see if you were still
here"
Why, you knew I was. Haven't l
written you regularity"
Yes, but somehow l wanted to look
at you, Bah, to see if 1 had idealized
you too much; or if you were far
ahead of all I thought"
miles ahead, Bah, l don't believe
there S another girl in the world just
like you. You are very pretty too.
Bah. Did you know that? Of course
you did, you have a mirror. And
Bah! you look very sweet in that pale
blue dress; it is like faint moon
beam, in this half light
We talked a lot more nonsense. at
least Neil did mostly listened. Then
when he left me for the night he lean
ed over and kissed me once again on
my cheek. Just a quick brushing of
his lips across my face.
You're a dear, Bah" he said. and
then I was alone.
But somehow I knew that Neil was
beginning to love me. l felt no shame
over that kiss as had over the other.
He had said loving things to me be-
fore he kissed me. I thrilled all over
with the knowledge, and before went
to bed l kneeled down and thanked
God for Neil.
The days passed so swiftly that the
day he was to leave, found me all I'M
prepared to lose him. He had been
tenderly lovelike all the time. l think
mother saw how things were drifting
for she made no demands upon me,
and had been constantly with Neil.
He was to take train about ten
o'clock that connected with his train
at the junction. We took a walk af-
ter dinner, but leither of us talked
much. Without either scarcely realiz-
ing it, our steps turned to the wood
at the end Of the village and we sat
down on the log where Neil had given
me his first kiss. There he told me
how dear l was to him. and asked me
to be his wife. When I said yes"
he took me in his arms and tod me
of his love, how he ha thought lie
UOdld forget me, but hal Eeen unable
to- Ho wsuperior l was to all other
girls, and all the other things which
lovers say. o.
Then after a time when the first
sweet emotion of our love had passed,
he said:
.SCAASs QSoI est. we must 81 anu
tell your father and mother. I fear
they will hate to give you to me, be-
cause 1 have to take you so far from
them
Father and mother weren't nearly
as surprised as I thought they would
be. They acted beautifully, and when
Neil said he would like to be married
in September, they gave their con-
sent. Then until time for his train,
we were alone again. l wept a few
tears, but they were happy tears, and
he wiped them away with his kisses.
tt en- father and l went to the sta
ton with him. l was not to see him
again until he came for me in Sep
TENDER.
I sometimes have wondered if
had l known the unhappiness, the
agony l was to endure with Neil,-I
would have married him? Yet,
knowing all as I know it, I doubt if I
would have had strength to give him
up-my first lover, my Neil!
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A v I z

Consatenii din comma Vorode-
nil Mici, judetul Fagaras, stabi-
liti in Alliance, Ohio, avizeaza pc
aceasta Gale pc toti tonsatenii de
prin diferitele orase ~le Anne
ricei a lua parte la sedinta care
Sc va tinea in ziua de s16 Martie
1919, la orele 9. Sedinta Sc va IT,
nea in Alliance, Ohio, 1928 East
Broadway Str. La aceasta sedin-
ia voim ca sa infiintam un fond
pentru yaduvele 81 orfanii ra-
masi pc urma acestui razboi. Acei
frati consateni care sunt mai in
departati 81 nu pot lua parte la
aceasta sedinta, sa bine voiasca
a-si trimite parerile dior la adre-
sa mai sus numita pima in ziua
de 16 Mart1e 1919.
In nlmele vaduvelor >si orfani-
lor din Vorodenii Mici:
Consatenii din Allinace, Ohio.
{57-59).
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K4TssERUL ESTE AuTORuk
Ty@ZROTJT,TTT

lONDRA, 10 Martie. - ,,Nu .
lici o flldoiala ca fostul Kaiser
al imperiului German este primul
autor al razboiului. Eel la dori.
81 la condus personal cu toate fu
ria 81 barbarismul posibil".
Aceasta declaratie Sc attribute.
de catra ziarul mail" din Paris,
printului de Monaco. Corespon-
dentul ziarului de mai sus spune
90 MI trebue uitat ca printul de
Monaco a fost un prieten intim
al fmparatu1ui Germaniei, insa
acea prietenie a luat sfirsit in
1914. end printul de Monaco a
TRIMS Kaiserulu o telegrama
fOarte severa.
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A Y I z

Societatca romina Gle ajutor s.
cultura ,,Primtul Carol al Romi-
nici'' din Zelienople, Pa, aduce
la. cmostinta tuturOr surorllor
Societati, Cluburi 81 Parochii, ca
pc ziua de 80 Maiu 1919, vom SER
ba iubileul societatii noastre de
10 ami, cu care, ocaZiune rugam
pc onoratele societati, cluburi 81
parochi a nu aranja .altc petre-
ccri de felul acesta pc sus nn-
mita III
In numel societatii ,,Printul
Carol al Romfniei'' din Zelieno-
pie. Pa:
loan Seisan, presedinte.
Mihail Ferezan, secretar prim.
(57-60(
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c o N v o G A r E.

In conformitate GU art. 9, lite
ra e. din statutele locale, socie-
tatea .,Upia Traiapa" din Erie.
Pa, cmvoaca pc toti fratii mem7
brii a lua parte la sedinta extra
ordinara, care Sc va tinea Dumi-
neca, 16 Martie 1919, la orele
2 p. m precis, in hala societatii
din 1888 Penna Avenues
Deci pc aceasta Gale sunt ru-
gait staruitor toti fratii membrii
a nu lipsi de la aceasta sedinta.
find la ordinea zilei mai multt
puncte care nu s'au putut rezol-
va in sedinta din 2 Martie 1919.
Tot la aceasta sedinta va fl 81 a.
legerea comisiei Halei pc timp de
6 lnni yiitoare 81 a unui prescdin-
tie la societatc, caci actua1ul pre-
sedinte din uncle imprejurari ne
convenabile voieste sa demisio-
neze. Toti acel membrii care fac
gura pc de laturi, unde nu ar
trebui, sa vina la sedinta Sc faca
gura 81 sa primeasca functiune.
In numele societatii Ulpia Ira
lana" din Erie, Pa:
Ilie George, presedinte.
Florean Hada, secretarD
f57-61)
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tunci ell mia aEatat la ce te poate
dnce bantllra, am datNmina cu 81
81 din ziua aceia m am slit 81 M
am mai pus bautura in gura mea
asa cite odata la petrecerile romi-
nesti, dar nu ca sa-mi perd min
tea. OmuI daca are amfbitie este
in stare Gle a Sc comanda pc sine
insusi. De atunci am inceput sa
invat multe, asa ca nu am fost
slit sa lucrez din greu pentru
tralnl meu. Am mceput simti
altfel, capul liber. orr ce am in
vatat nu am ultat.
Pvt. Nick Avram, 9th Co.. 161
Depout Brigade, Barrach 1883
Wap. Camp Grant, I'll.
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Eu Pavel Lupu caut pc fatal
meu Lupu Marcu, care pc cfnd
ii scriam avea adresa: Warren,
Ohio P. 0. B. ZIG. Rog pc toti fra
I'll Romfni care stu ceva despre
dinsul sau char dinsul daca va
ceti aceste rinduri ale mele sa
scrie pc adresa urmatoare:
Pavel Lupu, corpul voluntari1or
Romini. Ircusc Russia, Siberia.