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Lincoln Highway.
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and towns on the Lincoln Memorial
Highway between New York and Get
tysburg are given in a letter written
by Robert N. Harper, chairman of
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ton, 1). C., in answer to a request
made by Chairman Weller of the
State Roads Commission. Mr. Harp
er’s letter to Mr. Weller, in full, is
as follows:
"In con pliiincc with my promise
to you, 1 beg to advise you that the
distance over the Lincoln Highway
route, from New York to the Dela
ware line, via Elizabeth, Trenton,
Philadelphia, Chester, Wilmington
and Newark, is 147.2 miles; from the
Delaware line, via Elizabeth, Tren
ton, Havre de Grace and Belair, is
511.8 miles; through Baltimore City,
7.5 miles; and from Baltimore to
Washington, via Elkridge, Laurel,
Hyattsville and Bladensburg over
the Baltimore-Washington Boulevard
is 40.1 miles, thus making the dist
ance from the Delaware line to Wash
ington 107.2 miles and from New
York to Washington 251.40 miles.
"The distances from Washington
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upon are as follows: Washington to
Bockville, over tin: Rockville Pike,
14.5 miles; Rockville to Ridgeville,
through Gaithersburg, 22.. S miles;
Ridgeville to Frederick 18.0 miles;
from Frederick to the Pennsylvania
line, via Tburmont and Emmitsburg
2G.1 miles, and from the Pennsylva
nia line to Gettysburg it miles, thus
making the total distance from Wash
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entire distance from New York to
GettysUng, via Philadelphia, Balti
more, Washington and Frederick is
thus 840.7 miles.”
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wrist, ankle watches to be worn over
the new fancy high top boot, silhou
ette gowns shorter, wider and thin
ner than ever, the Joffre opera wrap,
a cape named after France’s military
genius, and a high crown hat worn
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well over the eyes in front and re
vealing the coiffure astern, are just a
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defenses it was brought out that this
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miles of coast line.
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important subject before the confer
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In the Circuit Court for Frederick Coun
ty sitting in Equity.
July Term, PJIS.
In the Matter of the Report of Sales
filed the 17th day of August, 1915.
E. McClure Rouzer, Assignee of
Mortgagee
on
Petition.
ORDERED, That on the 10th day of
September, 1915, the Court will proceed
to act upon the Report of Sales of Real
Estate, reported to said Court by E. Mc-
Clure Rouzer, Assignee of Mortgagee,
in the above cause, and filed therein as
aforesaid to finally ratify and confirm
the same, unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown before said day; pro
vided a copy of this order be inserted in
some newspaper published in Frederick
County for three successive weeds prior
to said day.
The report states the amount of sales
to be $1,627.50.
Dated this 17th day of August, 1915.
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LINDA MAKES PIES
By CECIL THOMAS.
In the farmhouse kitchen Linda
Barnard rolled out pie crust and sang
like a bird at the top of her sweet
soprano voice, “Can she .make a
cherry pie, Hilly Boy, Billy Hoy?”
and so on through several verses in
which werb rehearsed the domestic
virtues of Billy’s fiancee.
And Linda w-as making cherry
pies herself, but her blithe song was
not addressed to any especial aud
itor. She sang because she was
happy.
Upstairs In the largest front
chamber sat the first boarder of the
season. He was sitting at a table
drawn up to the window, and he
was frowning over the pile of papers
before him. He was not bothered
over the work —that was an ever
recurring Joy—but it was Linda’s fre
quently, reiterated vocal query that
Irritated him.
“For heaven’s sake, can’t a fellow
get away from a racket?” he peeved.
"Here I am Isolated in Green Center
because my apartment was made
hideous with undesirable noises—a
mechanical piano overhead, a phono
graph on one side and a cornet on
the other —and here tho maid of all
work chirps like a canary all day
long! Hut her voire Isn’t half bad,”
he admitted grudgingly.
“Can she make a cherry pie, Billy
Boy?”
Billy Walnrlght put his head out
of the open window.
“Take It from me she ran make
a cherry pie, Melissa!” he called
down at the glngham-clad figure work
ing tho pump handle. "Ring off!”
He gasped as the sunbonnet dropped
back and a bewitching face was up
turned to his.
"My name Is not Melissa." she said
sweetly. "Who Is Melissa?”
Billy’s face was crimson, but his
chagrin added to his temper.
"I thought it was tho cook," he said
snappishly.
“Isn't that funny?” gurgled Linda.
"Why, I’m tho cook.”
“You?" he gasped.
Sho nodded. “I’m sorry you don’t
like cherry pie," she added dolefully.
“But —but I do like It,” he stam
mered. "It’s my favorite pie—that
and lemon meringue.”
"You like lemon meringue pie. too?
I’ll remember that —and rice pud
ding?”
"I loath It!”
"Prune pie?”
“Beastly.”
"I'm so glad to know what you like,”
Linda smiled wickedly as she went
Into the house with a great pitcher of
water.
"Funny I never saw her hefore—
certainly she wasn’t around last night
when I came,” mused Billy as he
went back to his work. Hut tho
papers had lost their charm. Linda's
charming face intervened and ho
found himself listening for tho sound
of tier voice.
Hut tho Billy song was silent; pres
ently there fluted up through the
window tho rich strains of a bird
song—a mellow, throaty warble that
one associated with southern fields and
the call of the mocking bird.
“I wonder—" gasped Billy, going
Inquisitively to the window that over
looked the side porch where the pump
stood.
He recognized old Mr. Barnard be
fore the kitchen door with a basket
of new-laid eggs from the barn.
The whistling stopped abruptly.
“Whistling gals and crowing hens
never come to any good ends!’’
laughed the old man through tho
screen door.
"You haven’t any crowing hens on
the farm, Uncle Hen,” said the girl
merrily, “or you wouldn’t be bringing
In that evidence of their Industry.”
“Three dozen and three,” counted
Uncle Ben. now Inside the kitchen. "I
hope you’re giving Mr. Walnrlght all
the eggs he wants."
"Certainly, dear,” Billy heard her
answer. "Isn't it odd, Uncle Ben, he
doesn’t like cherry or lemon meringue
pie and he adores rice pudding?” She
laughed gleefully.
Billy shook his fist.
“Well,” yawned Uncle Ben "If milk
puddings satisfy him, all right—
there’s plenty of milk and eggs on
the place—but, for goodness sake,
keep the pies a-golng, Linda. Um-um!
Do I smell cherry pie?”
"You surely do!” she cried gayly.
Hurry up, Undo Ben, dinner’s most
ready."
Billy went back to his table frown
ing.
“If there’s cherry pie in the place,
I’ll have some!” he muttered darkly.
Presently came the resonant clang
of the dinner bell wielded by Linda’s
strong, young arm.
Billy, scrubbed and brushed to
healthy, wholesome perfection, In his
gray flannels, found a small round
table set for one In the middle of the
big dining room. It was an oasis in
the midst of a desert waste of rag
carpeted floor.
It is very lonely, Indeed, to bo the
first boarder. But Billy admitted to
himself that he had yearned for soli
tude when he chose Green Center in
which to complete his story.
Linda waited upon the table, de
mdre in white frilled apron, with her
bonny brown hair breaking rebellious
waves over her ears.
It was a well-cooked meal, and It
was daintily served. Bill enjoyed
every crumb o( ft until ynda’l |
cooed In his ear, "Will you have Hce
pudding or prune pie, Mr. Wain
right?”
Hilly looked up defiantly.
"if you please,” he said decidedly,
“I’ll take a piece of cherry pie!"
"Pie?” repeated Linda. “Yes, sir,”
and she tripped away.
Hilly’s eyes were dreaming over the
roses in the garden when suddenly he
dropped his glance to his plate.
Hefore him were a cup of coffee and
a piece of prune pie!
It was a rather delectable looking
piece of pie and the top was piled
with whipped cream.
Hilly's face went red; his eyes
flashed angrily. Then a smile ap
peared at the corners of his well-cut
lips. He tasted the pie. It was good
—served in this fashion prune pie be
came a toothsome feast. Hilly ate it
all and then watted for Linda to re
appear. There was no bell on the
table and he must perforce wait
patiently until she came again.
When she came and saw Hilly’*
empty plate ho surprised a puzzled
gleam in her eyes.
"Please, may 1 have another piece
of pie?” he pleaded. “I never tasted
prune pie before. It’s simply great!”
"I'm glad you like it.” libbed Linda,
as she sped away to bring him a sec
ond piece.
After that, ns she flew about the
kitchen, her pretty eyes flashed
dangerously.
"I wonder If he really liked that pie
or if he ate it to tease me.” she
thought. “Well, he won’t get one
crumb of cherry pie while I'm here.
How cross he was this morning when
I sang! How surprised he was when
I didn't prove to be a servant! He
called me Melissa. I suppose he thinks
It’s clever to call all country girls
'Melissa' or ‘Hannah.’ ”
After dinner, Hilly tried to go on
with his work, but he found it diffi
cult. Try as he would that tantaliz
ing, "Can she make a cherry pie?”
kept obtruding itself and he could not
banish it. Finally, he brushed his pa
pers Into a drawer and went out into
the open.
Half an hour later he had startled
a blue heron from the rushes down
at the brook and was watching It*
awkward flight Into the blue.
“Green Center Isn't half bad," he
admitted, "but I wish Its presiding
divinity were a trifle more agreeable
to a lone chap like myself. Wasn’t
she hateful about the Cherry pie,
though? I’ll bet It was good stuff if it
was anything like tho prune pie. Ah!
That was a dream!”
Later ho strolled slowly toward the
house. Nightfall was at hand, but
the insistent "Can stie make a cherry
pie?" was still ringing mockingly iu
his ears.
Hilly passed the kitchen, but saw
nothing of Linda. He saw something
else, however, that interested him not
a little. The pantry window was open
- there was a sliding shelf and on that
shelf in plain relief was three-quar
ters of a luscious cherry pie! Reside
the pie was a sliver knife, as if to
make the temptation complete.
One brief moment he paused, and
then —he fell. With a swift movement
he captured the pie and the knife and
bore his booty In triumph to a rustic
bench under a nearby apple tree.
Uncle Hen. on his homeward way,
saw him thus engaged paused and
eyed him humorously:
"Can she make a cherry pie, Hilly
Hoy, Hilly Hoy?" he quavered In a
cracked voice.
“She sure can,” returned Billy un
blushingly, but never for a moment
halting in his work of demolition.
Uncle Ben trudged on laughing,
Into the he use. and presently Linda
appeared in the kitchen door, the
supper bell jingling In her hand.
Billy was disposing of the last seg
ment of the pie when she discovered
him and stood motionless regarding
him with an expression which was
far from hostile.
Billy, his lips stained cherry red,
his face perceptibly flushed, returned
her gaze defiantly. Little half-re
pressed smiles crinkled her face, but
presently she broke into a cascade of
laughter.
“I don’t suppose you will want any
supper after this,” she choked at last.
"Never better prepared for a square
meal in my life," he declared with
amazing bravado. “But I don’t want
to eat it in solitary grandeur. If some
one doesn’t come In and eat at the
table with me I'll go out Into that lit
tie dining room with you and Uncle
Ben.”
“Really!” she returned. "You seem
to have what our old teacher used to
call the gregarious instinct rather
largely developed.”
"I’m lonely," he confessed, “and I'm
fund ot cherry pie.”
"I see,” said Linda, contritely.
“Uncle Ben and Aunt Hannah and I
Uoually take our meals in the little
dining room when there are boarders
In tho house Perhaps you will join
us tonight?”
"Thank you, If I may,” he said
sumhly.
After supper, as they sat on the
veranda, Walnrlght spoke again of
tho pie.
“I’m afraid. Miss Barnard.” he said,
that it will be a hard job for me to
convince you of my respectability aft
er that pie-eating episode.”
Linda flushed charmingly.
It was not until a year or so after
her marriage that Mrs. Linda Wain
right confessed to her husband that
she had put that fateful cherry pie in
the window of the farmhouse pantry
with the hope that the new summer
boarder would help himself to it.
(Copyright, 1915. by the McClure Newspa
per Syndicate.)
RECORD IN FINDING DISTANCE
Longest Line Measured by Triangu
lation in Canada Said to
Be 135 Miles.
The longest distance ever measured
In Canada by means of the triangula
tion system was accomplished Dy the
Canadian geodetic survey in the work
In which it was engaged in outlln
lug the western boundary of the Do
minion. One of the distances meas
ured by the triangulation method was
135 miles In length. By the measure
ment of one side of a triangle and the
reading of the angles on the transit at
the two ends of the measured line—
which angles are formed by taking a
sight at the distant point—the side of
the triangle required to be measured
can be found.
In carrying out this feat it was nec
essary to work at night and to use
powerful acetylene lamps to find the
point 135 miles distant. The transit
or telescope is perched high on a
mountain side in order to overcome the
curvature of the earth s surface. In
a distance of 60 miles it is nec
essary to have an elevation of
2,000 feet in order to see the point at
which the instrument is sighted. In
135 miles the elevation is correspond
ingly greater. This is perhaps the
second largest line ever measured by
this method. The record is held for
measurement across the Mediterra
nean between Spain and the northern
shore of Africa, a distance of more
than two hundred miles.
IOLANTHE IN DIRE PLIGHT
Excellent Reason Why She Could Not
Appear When Her Cue for the
Stage Was Given.
Amateur theatrical companies are
proverbially courageous, and perhaps
that is the reason why the Puddle
combo Thespians selected "lolanthe’ as
the means by which they would aston
ish the natives. As every lover of Gil
bert and Sullivan is aware, one of the
most effective scenes in the opera is
the rising of lolanthe from the bed of
a beautiful river, and it seemed that
this scene would go particularly well.
The queen and fairies had sung their
welcome well, the limeligut was full
on.
'lolanthe! Come, lolanthe!” sang
the fairies.
Put lolanthe did not appear.
The queen waved her wand fran
tically. and the fairies anxiously re
peated-
"lolanthe! Como lolanthe!”
It was a tense moment, and the ex
citement had communicated Itself to
the audience. Again the invitation
was repeated, and then a petulant
voice from beneath the water's silvery
surface was heard:
"Oh. do be quiet!’ It said. “Can't
you see I'm caught on a nail?”
Sea Moss.
Sea moss is a term popularly ap
plied to any of the polyzoa, which are
compound marine animals, several of
which share a common horny skele
ton, or polyzoary, which is plantlike
in form. According to the bureau of
fisheries, several hundred thousand
pounds of those skeletons have been
imported annually from Europe, chief
ly from Prance and Germany, for dec
orative and millinery purposes, and
the supply has now been practically
cut off by the war. It therefore seems
opportune to develop a domestic In
dustry, as sea messes, probably equal
in quality to those heretofore im
ported, are said to be abundant on
our coasts, especially In Now Eng
land. Those with large bushy fronds
are the most valuable.
Eclipses Come In Series.
All eclipses occur in series, the first
one of which takes place at one of
the poles and the last at the opposite
pole. The whole number in the series
of lunar eclipses is completed in a
period of about 570 years while the
entire series of solar eclipses covers
a period of 1,200 years. Yet the time
of the beginning of any of these
eclipses, and the path of totality or
partial obscuration can be calculated
to the moment or the mile. This is a
matter difficult to explain to the ama
teur in language to bo easily under
stood. The statement of the fact is
sufficient. To ordinary students or
observers the reasons for totality or
partial obscuration are much more In
teresting, simply with the passing of
each year.
Amazing Appetites.
If a baby had the appetite of a
young potato beetle it would eat from
50 to 100 pounds of food every 24
hours. If a horse ate as much as a
caterpillar, In proportion to its size,
It would consume a ton of hay every
24 hours. A caterpillar eats twice Its
weight of leaves every day; but a
potato beetle devours every day at
least five times us weight of foliage,
every bit of whicn represents just so
much money to the farmer.
The most destructive of all insects,
however, is the grasshopper, which,
when in good health, consumes in a
day ten times its weight of vegeta
tion. No wonder that whole districts
vre devastated by its multitudinous
swarms. •
Mean Old Thing.
“That fellow Tompkins is a pretty
pltck proposition.’
“What lias he done now? 1,
"He buys all his cigars at a de
partment store and has them put on
his wife’s charge account, and then
when the first of the month comes
around he calls her down for running
up such extravagant bills.
Terms SI.OO in Advince
NO. 26.
I A WOMAN’S CAMPAIGN I
:•! By HAROLD CARTER. g
Public opinion was not enthusias
tically in favor of Raphael when be
came to live in Bast Kemp. Raphael
was an Armenian, and bis color was
that of the lining of a ham sandwich.
Of course bis nationality was not so
much against him as the fact that ha
had foreign ways.
He had peddled cheap jewelry in the
district for several years when he sur
prised everybody by buying the Drew
cottage and establishing himself there
with bis wife and son, a lanky, ham
colored lad of thirteen. Apparently
be had amassed all the money ho
needed in the peddling line, for be set
to work to raise poultry and vege
tables. which he sold to Hiram Smith,
the grocer.
"Something has got to be done
about those people,” said Mrs. Daunce,
the leader of the social set in East
Kemp. "We’ve got to draw the line
somewhere, or we’ll all be black and
tan before we know where we are.**
Everybody followed her lead obedi
ently. It was not malice —just stu
pidity, and a sense that the Raphaels
were rather out of their proper ele
ment. Mrs. Daunce forbade her son
Harry to go to the Raphaels’ house.
Harry and young Raphael—bis father
had changed his oriental name to
Washington—had played together a
good deal. Harry felt badly about It.
But the word had gone forth that the
Raphaels were to be ostracized.
I can see Raphael now, in Hiram
Smith’s store, always with a smile on
his pleasant face, and a cheery word.
He was the kindest-hearted fellow, and
moat of the men had a good word for
Raphael. It was pre-eminently a wom
en’s crusade, inspired by the desire
to keep the aliens across the river.
Raphael joined the volunteer fire
brigade among his other activities.
The sight of the fat. bearded man run
ning like a boy to every blaze was a
ludicrous one. When they served out
brass helmets —donated by Horace
Daunce—Raphael was the proudest of
the proud.
Harry Daunce had been 111 with
scarlet fever for three weeks when the
great tire destroyed the Daunce home.
There was no need to sound the fire
bell. The flames lit up all East Kemp,
and within five minutes the engines
were out and the horses galloping
wildly toward the scene.
In the front of the crew, his face
wild with excitement, was Raphael,
in his big brass helmet. He was
shouting to the beasts as they gal
loped up the steep bill toward the
furious flames that leaped skyward
out of the burning roof.
The servants had got away, hut Mr.
and Mrs Daunce and the boy were
trapped in the burning wing. Horace
Daunce showed that there was some
thing more than superciliousness In
him that night. He caught his wife
in bis arms and crawled along the
coping, leaped a six-foot parapet with
her, and crouched among the sparks
until they got a rope to him.
The moment he bad got his wife to
the ground be ran back Into the
flames. He had got half way through
the hall toward the stairs when a fall
ing beam knocked him senseless, and
one of the men ran in and rescued
him.
The boy’s white face appeared at
an upper window. He was a chip oS
the old block. He didn't scream or
cry—Just sat at the window and
looked out and waited.
Half a dozen men dashed in, but
Raphael was the first. He vanished
In an Inferno of smoke and flame, and
it seemed an eternity before he was
seen at the window beside Harry.
He seized the lad In his arms and
disappeared within the room again.
Only the colling smoke came out. ▲
crash followed and the whole floor efl
that room fell In. The flames shot up
above the roof tops.
We had about given up hope when
out of the debris there appeared a
figure, the almost nude body of a man.
crowned with a huge, brass, mocking
fireman’s helmet. In his arms, which
were smoldering, e carried a limp
body wrapped In a\ ’anket. He stag
gered out of the fire i td smoke, which
shot forth angry tongues after him,
as If Infuriated that be had escaped
Its malice.
He stood for an Instant gaping va
cantly about him; then he came stag
gering down the steps; and so Ra
phael laid the body of the boy at Hor
ace Daunce’s feet. Inside the blan
kets was Harry, half asphyxiated, but
absolutely uninjured by smoke or fire.
Raphael sat down and looked up at
us. He presented a spectacle that few:
of us care to think about. Mrs. Ra
phael, who had been revived, ran for
ward, but suddenly another woman
shouldered her away. It was Mrs.
Daunce. 13 he took Raphael’s burned
band in hers and kissed It.
"It la nothing,’’ he said, in his queer
accent. "1 am an American now, and
you have all been so kind, so very
kind to my wife and me. And so
Washington, he grow up among
friends, to be on American.’’
His eyes closed, and he fell hack.
I saw Mrs. Daunce trying to comfort
Mrs. Raphael, and I knew that the
woman’s campaign would be abau-i
doned.
(Copyright. IMB, by W. O. Chapman.)
Soothing Subject.
"Here's an article about the na
tion’s ‘sweet tooth.’ ”
“1 presume there is nothing In that
to alarm an ultra pacifist. Go ahead
and read the statistics.’’ ,