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The First Touch of War.
We did not encounter any battle
ships on the way over, but I caught
a rather poignant glimpse of the war
as we drew up to the Prince’s landing
stage In Liverpool. Long before ally
regular conversation was possible we
saw a well-dressed woman on the
dock. An Englishman with a voice
worthy of the Bull of Bashan begau to
shout questions at her.
"Have you news of Fred?"
The woman nodded.
"Good?”
The woman shook her head.
“Is he captured?”
She shook her head.
"Wounded?”
Again she shook her head.
And a woman aboard who stood be
side the strong-voiced man fainted. I
don’t know whether she was Fred's
wife or mother. —From a letter to the
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THURMONT, FREDERICK COUNTY, MD., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1915.
Making
Nellie
Jealous
By VERNON NUSORAVE
(Copyright, 1916, by W. U. Chapman)
"I won’t stand it any longerl” de
clared Vincent Brown stormlly.
“Neither would I,” asserted hia
friend and familiar, Tom Rogers.
"Three times and out Is the limit, you
know?”
"Yes,” muttered Vincent gloomily,
glancing across a vacant village block
to the next street, "this Is the third
time she has been out driving with
that fellow. He thinks he’s some,
doesn’t he, hiring the best rig In
town! ”
“She ’ was Nellie Duncan, the belle
of the place. “That fellow” was a sus
pected rival, a stranger, and this, In
deed, was the third time he had taken
Miss Duncan for an afternoon spin.
“Who is he?” Inquired Tom.
”1 hear his name Is Ralston. He is
a civil engineer or something of that
sort, and has some Interest in the
building of that big dam down the riv
er. He can’t be very busy, to come up
here each day and 4 ppend two or three
hours with Nellie.”
“Well, you said you w-eren’t going to
stand It any longer.” observed Tom aft
er a pause.
“And I’m not!” vociferated Vincent,
firing up.
“What you going to do about It, if
I may Inquire?”
“Get even with Nellie. She's either
trying me out, or wants to make me
jealous.”
"Why don’t you ask her which?”
propounded Tom bluntly.
“I don’t have a chance. You see,
it was at a picnic we got engaged.
Her mother Is a contrary, Irrational
piece of goods. Just as likely as not,
Nellie told me, If she saw me atten
tive to her daughter she’d put the
A Last Glance Showed Nellie Still
Staring.
clamps straight on, so Nellie advised
that we keep our affair a secret until
her father got back. She cun coax
him Into anything, see?”
“I do see,” responded Tom, “but I
also see this fellow Ralston cutting
the ground out from under your feet.
You’ve got to have an explanation, or
do something.”
“I'm going to,’’ asserted Vincent
stanchly.
“What?”
“I’m going to make Nellie Jealous.”
“How?”
“By letting her see me with some
girl driving around, Just as she does.
You know that double seated motor
cycle of mine? Well, for an evening
or two Miss Nellie Is going to see mo
go whizzing past her house with a
well-dressed veiled lady seated behind
me on the machine.”
“Why, say!” brightened up Tom,
“that harum-scarum sister of mine
will help you out In that.’’
“Oh, dear, no!” demurred Vincent
in away as if he was frightened.
“Why not? She’s engaged to an
other fellow. She won’t try to lure
you away from this devoted flame of
yours.”
“I don’t want to burn all my bridges
behind me,” declared Vincent vague
ly. “In fact, I—that Ib—l haven’t
much heart In getting close to any
other girl than Nellie, so I —well, I’ve
got my scheme.”
“Have? Then why don't you tell It?”
challenged Tom, but Vincent would
say no more. They parted, and Vin
cent went gloomily on his way, medi
tating deeply.
About the middle of the afternoon
Vincent went to the shed behind his
home where he kept his motorcycle.
Another friend of his, the son of a
local merchant, was waiting for him.
“Got it?” Inquired Vincent eagerly.
“The whole outfit,” was the prompt
reply.
"Will It work?”
“Like a charm!”
The speaker proceeded to open *,
large box. He produced a flexible
'dressmaker's model. It was made of
papier mache, but as he proceeded to
fix up the bald head with glossy ring
lets and adapt a hat, dress and wrap,
the dummy figure assumed form,
grace and elegance.
“Now then, Vincent,” he observed,
“all you’ve got to do is to strap that
model into the hind seat of your ma
chine, put a veil on It and —Isn’t It
natural?”
For a fact it was, as the two schem
ers perfected the plan—to all seem
ing a charming, up-to-date young lady
occupied the rear seat of the motor
cycle.
It had cost Vincent something to
help out his precious scheme, but he
did not mind that. Just as the sun
went down and twilight came on he
drove out of the shed. The figure was
well strapped on, the gloved hands
rested quite naturally on the handles
In front of It.
Vincent drove on until he came Into
the street where Nellie’s home was
located. As he neared It he gave his
signal horn a blast, Nellie was on the
porch. Vincent pretended not to ob
serve her, but a sidelong glance ad
vised him that she had recognized the
signal of the machine and he saw her
stare fixedly.
A brisk breeze was blowing. Vln
ceift put on power. As he circled di
rectly In front of the house, he saw
Nellie spring to her feet. Her eyes
Seemed glued upon his “young lady”
companion.
“It works!” chuckled Vincent rapt
ly. “Aha, Miss Nellie! who Is the
jealous party now?”
A last glance sideways showed Nel
lie still staring. She had descended
two stops of the porch and was en
wrapt in attention to the disappear
ing machine.
“Devoured with curiosity as to my
new fair charmer!” gloated Vincent.
“What’s that man goggling at?”
A pedestrian, was Indeed, “gog
gling.” He had halted. Ho was star
ing at the machine. Then he slapped
his thigh and burst out Into a peal of
unrestrained laughter. Then, farther
on. two women likewise paused. They
stared, they giggled. Vincent shot a
backward glance at the rear seat of
the motorcycle. He shivered —ap-
palled!
A frightfully depressing discovery
was his. The wind had blown the veil
off the model. Then the hat —and the
wig! The bare poll loomed up.
unique and grotesque. One of the
jointed arms swung loosely, wobbling.
No wonder that observers glared at
this monstrous travesty on humanity!
A whirl of the machine sent the
model sideways. By this time a gib
ing mob of boys were In pursuit.
Hoots and yells of laughter filled the
air. With a groan Vincent dove down
a side alley, gained the home shed,
and prepared to leave town that night
to escape the Jeers of his fellow towns
men.
He returned In a week, but kept
shady, as the saying goes. The next
afternoon, despairingly promenading
In the woods near the town, he was
suddenly confronted at a side path
by Nellie and a girt friend. The latter
was full of mischief and she hailed
him.
“This way, sir!” she ordered with
pretty peremptoriness, “Miss Duncan
wishes an explanation of your erratic
adventures with that young lady who
went to pieces.”
Vincent flushed and trembled and
stammered. Nellie was calm and smil
ing. There was a knowing expression
In her bright eyes which Vincent re
sented.
“I guess you know what I was try
ing to get at,” he floundered. “I would
have had a real girl on that machine
If—lf I didn’t think so much of—that
Is—”
“But what had Nellie done to be the
subject of such a peculiar experi
ment?” challenged Nellie's compan
ion.
“I guess Mr. Ralston can tell!” mut
tered Vincent.
“You mean my married cousin?”
spoke Nellie Innocently.
“Your married cousin!”
“Surely.”
Vincent drew a step nearer to his
fiancee.
"Is your father home yet, Nellie?”
he inquired meaningly.
“Yes. Vincent,” she replied demure
ly, and lowered her eyes.
“Then, unless you think I’ve been
the biggest dolt In the world. I’d like
to call on him.”
“Do, Vincent!” whispered Nellie,
taking his arm and looking lovingly
up Into his face.
Deadly Evidence,
A Louisville business man was rum
maging through his pockets. He
turned to his wife with, “You never
put anything where it belongs.”
“Why are you scolding me now?”
asked the wife, mystified. ‘What have
I done that’s wrong?”
“Well, you see,” he replied, coolly,
“on several occasions I have found my
knife and my keys In my right hip
pocket: why don’t you learn that 1
wear them on the left side?”
And his wife has wondered ever
since just how much he knows. —Lou-
isville Times.
Woman Printers of Early Day*.
Several colonial newspapers were
published by women. Benjamin Frank
lin’s sister-in-law, at Newport, printed
for the colony, supplied blanks for the
public offices, published pamphlets,
and in 1745 printed for the government
an edition of the laws, containing 340
folio pages.
Margaret Draper of Massachusetts
printed for the government and coun
cil, In South Carolina a woman was
appointed printer to the state after the
close of the Revolutionary war.
Domelbuin
THelpsT
CITY HELPED BY NEWSPAPER
Prominent Man of Mobile, Ala., Gives
Testimony to Good Work
by Press.
“The Mobile chamber of commerce
for the last couple of years has not
taken any page space in newspapers;
but we have had occasion recently to
have a great deal of newspaper pub
licity on several matters and the re
sults from It have been far beyond
our expectations.
"Within the last two weeks we had
a campaign for the raising of better
live stock, which was pommented on
by the newspapers throughout the
country, and brought up scores of In
quiries from all parts of the United
States. Without this newspaper pub
licity our campaign would have been
for naught, as it was through the
newspapers that the Interest was
aroused, and today everyone in this
section is talking cattle raising.
“Another Instance:
“Some weeks ago we inaugurated a
movement to celebrate a day in honor
of the Satsuma orange, grown In this
section, which Is a recent Industry.
Our purpose was to advertise It
through the stores, hotels, etc. We
did not think our first attempt would
be a big success, hut the newspapers
took up the matter with a vim, and
the attendance from surrounding sec
tions was far In excess of what we
anticipated.
“This was all accomplished entirely
by the newspapers, and without their
co-operation we do not believe we
could have had such success.’’—
George G Card, secretary of Mobile
Chamber of Commerce.
IMPROVING THE BACK YARD
Women’s Municipal League of New
York Is Making Elaborate Plans
For the Season.
Wasted back yards are to be Im
proved by members of the Women's
Municipal league of New York. Sev
eral of the members have taken
courses In landscape gardening to pre
pare themselves for the work of plan
ning other people’s back yards. Even
the tiniest space of earth may be cul
tivated in some way, and where soil is
lacking, flowers and shrubs In pots
can be used with good effect.
A specimen garden is described bv
Mrs. Robertson Jones, chairman of
the gardening committee of the
longue. First of all, the back fenn
is to be painted green, and a gardei
seat of lighter green put at the cen
ter. Trellises for honeysuckle are at
cither side. Stone jars containing
small box trees will mount gnard
over each side of the path, with row's
of barberry hushes leading up to them
This Is an all-year garden, for the
honeysuckle leaves stay on until De
comber, box Is an evergreen and the
barberry bushes have leaves In sum
mer and red berries in winter. The
cost pf this garden complete Is about
S4O, Including labor, plants, painting
bench and jars.
Members of the league are trying
to induce the owners of whole groups
of houses to Install these miniature
gardens, so that each family may have
its own small rest-spot and play-space
for the children.
MOVE IN RIGHT DIRECTION
Annual Clean-Up Exercises Have Been
Taken Up With Enthusiasm That
Is Commendable.
The good influence of the painters
ns a factor for health and cleanli
ness Is manifested In the statement
that largely through the persuasion
of the national organization 2,200
cities and towns have begun annual
clean-up enterprises, and this sea
son it Is expected that about 800 more
will adopt the slogan. With 3,000 cit
ies and towns scouring and scrubbing
and painting simultaneously It may
be said that the United States has
got the habit of cleanliness. This habit
once formed will endure. It will make
for a healthier, better country. It
will set a standard of appearance and
sanitation that must necessarily result
In the years to come in better citizen
ship, through sounder health and a
more definite consideration for the
general welfare. Washington has
been cleaned up each spring during re
cent years and Is proud to have been
one of the first to go after the disease
carrying fly and to rout out Its breed
ing places. It has yet to acquire the
painting habit, but that will surely
follow.
Had No Chance to Grow.
Trees planted along the main streets
of a Massachusetts city failed to show
any growth for two successive years.
Then some of them were dug up to be
transplanted, and It was found that
the trees had been planted Just as they
came from the nursery, with the roots
all bunched together and wrapped In
burlap.
Planning for Good Housing.
Architects and draftsmen have been
invited to take part In an architec
tural competition instituted by the
housing commission of the city of Los
Angeles to secure plans for tenement
houses
IMISS GWENNO BOOTS |
By IZOLA FORRESTER. 1
(Copyright, 1915, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
Gwennle left them herself under the
bed In the hotel room the night be
fore she sailed for England. They
were very new boots. She had had
them made specially for all those won
derful tramping Jaunts she had been
planning for months.
“1 don’t see what, you can do about
It now,” Amy said. In cousinly apathy,
sitting back in her steamer chair.
"You can write to the hotel to save
them for you.”
“Save them!” repeated Gwennle.
"Where are they now? Probably the
chambermaid grabbed them.”
“Wireless after them,” murmured
Cecily, the next cousin In the steam
er chair row. “Or, wait, can’t you
send letters back by the pilot? We
haven’t dropped the pilot yet.”
Thus It happened that a strenuous,
somewhat urgent note went back to
the proprietor of the St. Alban, the
select private hotel near Oramercy
Park, and the rest of Mr. Hubert Sea
bury was disturbed thereby.
He had only taken the room for
the night, and had left an early call.
Intending to sail the following morn
Ing for Southampton. The tap on his
door about eleven was disturbing.
"Boots?’’ he repeated, groping un
der the brass bed. "There aren't any
boots here. Whose boots?’’
"Ladies', sir," said the bellboy,
pleasantly "Number threes, black calf
Maybe she left them in the ward
robe.”
All around they hunted until Sea
bury pulled them out from behind a
door. Something like a definite thrill
passed through his hand, wrist, arm,
and so to his heart from those boots.
They wore small yet sensible, distinc
tive yet modest He eyed them re
flectively, approvingly.
“She sailed this morning, and
they’re to be sent on to London,”
vouchsafed the boy, "It's a good
thing the chambermaid didn’t cop
them.”
“I am going to Indon,” mused Sea
bury. "1 could easily deliver them.
1 sail In the morning. Tell the pro
prietor I'll bring them down myself. 1 '
The boat was overdue, and It was
the night of the 7th when he drew up
in a cub before 7 Willoughby square.
Miss Marsh and her cousins had left
for Scotland with their aunt, Mrs.
Cavendish Leland. The address was
Cavendish Lodge. Dunlevy.
Seabury ascertained the exact spot
In the Highlands whore Dunlevy lay,
rested overnight, shunned I>ondon, and
went up on the morning express.
Dunlevy was a jewel nestling In the
heather. He made Inquiries at the
Inn, and engaged a cart to take him
up to Cavendish Lodge. It was a
drive of eight miles. A gardener
seemed the only human being around
the place, He was on his knees, clip
ping at the low hedge
“Mrs. Leland hae gang awa’ for the
week,’’ he said. "To the Isles.”
Seabury took off his cap and wiped
his forehead. Had the young ladles
gone alone to the Isles? They had
Seabury drove calmly back to the inn,
engaged rooms and settled down to
wait, with the boots.
But the days dragged, and he be
gan to fake long walks up over the
hill paths, and through the glens, and
he found that another wandered over
them daily. She was a bonnle High
land lass, too, blue eyed and fair
haired, with away of looking at one
sidelong. He asked the innkeeper
her name.
“ 'Tls a young American niece ol
Mrs. Leland’s,” he said blandly. “A
Miss Marsh."
"I thought they had all gone cruis
ing to the Isles.”
“This one sprained her ankle the
first day she was here. She’s all well
now.”
Seabury went outside and stared at
the surrounding highlands. Twelve
days and more he had wasted. Dog
gedly he secured the boots and start
ed up to the lodge. Yes, the gardener
said, the leddy was there, coming from
the collies’ kennels.
Seabury waited her approach. Four
or five collies accompanied her. Ha
held his precious parcel under one
arm.
"Miss Gwendolln Marsh?" he asked.
Gwennie bowed in grave-eyed sur
prise. He tried to find the proper in
troduction, the best choice of words,
but under the searching look in her
blue eyes nothing came, only ‘Tvo
got your boots.”
"Have you, really?" cried Gwennie,
"the ones I left in New York Oh,
I’m so glad to get them back.”
She reached her hand for the par
cel, but Seabury held on to it.
Gwennle blushed at the look In
his eyes. It did seem good after two
weeks to see a youngster with the
home cut to him.
She held out her hand, and he gave
them to her reluctantly. It was sun
set over the glens when he said good
by to the group out on the lawn. But
Gwennle strolled down the hedge row
with him, and smiled back In hla eyes
when he said softly:
“Good-by, for ,a little while, Cin
derella.”
Good-by. Prince," she answered, “un
til Paris."
The Defense.
“1 can prove that this prisoner nev
er, as charged, clearly uttered these
forged notes.”
"What Is your proof?”
"He stutters.”
Terms (1.00 in Advance
NO. 8.
CHIVALRY NOT YET DEAD
Opposing Aviators Provo That tho
Finer Feelings of Humanity
Still Prevail.
Once there were two airmen—
youngsters. They bad attended the
same school of aviation, they had
learned to fly together. They had be
come fast friends. Then came the
war. One of them was German. He
went oft to give his services to tho
emperor. The other was a French
man. He joined a French flying corps
—and when he went about his busi
ness of scouting up aloft his constant
fear was that he might find, up there
In the clouds, his friend and school
mate. As a matter of fact the first
time he sighted a Taube he know by
the way It was handled who it was
that steered it. The German recog
nized not less Quickly the flight of tho
Frenchman. Hoth hesitated—swing-,
ing in great circles. Then duty was
too strong for friendship; they
charged each other. No, friendship
was stronger after all —as the French
man was about to strike the German
he tipped his left wing perilously and
glided past almost on edge. The Ger
man did exactly the same thing—and
each flew back to his own lines.
Perhaps, says the Frenchman who
tells tliis pretty tale, chivalry, which
In this grim war of machines has
survived on the sea in the person of
the gallant captain of the Emden, has
found refuge in tho air.
ASSERTS TONSILS HAVE USE
St. Louis Physician Makes a Protest
Against the Too Free Use
of the Knife.
Doctor Ewing, a St. Louis physician,
has raised a voice of protest against
the surgical propensity for the use of
the knife on the tonsils. For a long
time it was the vermiform appendix
which was only In the way, but lately,
owing perhaps to a growing incredu
lity in the public mind, surgery has
turned more to the tonsil as the super
fluous thing which is capable of doing
a great deal of harm and absolutely
incapable of doing any good.
Doctor Ewing Insists that the tonsils
make a nesting place for the phago
cytes, that class of good microbes
which get into the blood to fight great
battles there with the bad microbes
which Infest our systems. The ton
sils, says Doctor Ewing, are recruit
ing stations at which the phagocyte ar
mies are enlisted and from which they
march away to fight for our lives. If
we remove the tonsils out of the rising
generation the rising generation may
be left without phagocytes to fight
their battles for them, and will fall
victims to the armies of evil microbes
which w ill then attack them unresist
ed.
Dog's Hard Fate.
A Gordon setter frequented the pier
of Hastings, N. Y., where tug boats
land for fresh water and the animal
had become a favorite with many of
the tugboat men. For three weeks tho
boats were not able to laud because
of the ico and the dog, apparently not
understanding, had barked his dejec
tion as his friends steamed slowly past
him. The other day a tug which the
dog seemed to recognize steamed past
the pier and the animal, first running
about apparently In u frenzy of ex
citement, finally ran to the shore,
plunged into the water and started
swimming toward tho vessel. The
ice was thick In Its path and at last
the dog was forced to put back. The
animal reach shoal water, but there It
stood, its eyes fixed up stream where
the tug was disappearing. Perhaps
the Icy water benumbed the dog so It
could not move; at any rate It stood
motionless while the Incoming tide
sent the wafer creeping up Its sides
and presently the waves met over its
head. Men who had expected each In
stant to see the dog come ashore real
ized too late to save the animal that
It could not or would not move and
were forced to see it drown.
He Wiggled Cabot's Toes.
How he “wiggled" the toes of the
late Louis Cabot of Milton many times
each night in order to put Mr. Cabot
to sleep, was related by Ralph B.
Chandler, an undertaker, now of Lew
iston, Me., on the witness stand In the
trial of the action of Mrs. L. Vernon
Briggs to break her father’s will,
•which disposed of $2,000,000. At the
time the “wiggling” occurred Chandler
was In Mr. Cabot’s employ.
"Did ‘wiggling* his toes seem to
quiet him?” asked Sherman L. Whip
ple, chief counsel for Mrs. Briggs.
“Yes, sir. It did,” replied Chandler.
Every night Mr. Cabot would give
vent to a series of wild yells, accord
ing to Chandler. “Tie would often wake
up at all hours of the night, at Irregu
lar Intervals, and scream," he testi
fied. —Boston Dispatch to the New
Herald.
One Day of Best In Seven.
The Massachusetts State Federation
of Labor will attempt to amend the
one day’s rest in seven law, which ex
cludes from its provisions employees
of gas and electric manufacturers,
drug stores, livery stables, garages and
other public or seralpubilc servants,
including employees of hotels and res
taurants. The unions have tiled a bill
which would annul the exemption of
hotel and restaurant employees.
Tho Undraped Truth.
Little Lemuel—Say, paw. what does
a paper mean when it says, “further
comment Is unnecessary?"
p aw _It usually means, son, that the
writer doesn't know what else to say.