The Mount Holly news. [volume], April 08, 1919, Image 1

About The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942

Image provided by: Rutgers University Libraries

                
ESTABLISHED 1879
rm
HOLD
©M!
You* government asks you very ear
nestly not to sell your Liberty Bonds
unless you have to. To part with your
Liberty Bonds means-giving up your
pledge of patriotism and citizenship,
and handing your responsibilties and
privileges over to some one else. Lib
erty Bonds will be worth much more
mpney presently and it is good busi
ness to hold them.
If you must sell, get the full market
Price. Go to a responsible banker
and let him give you information and
advice. Do not sell to just anyone,
who may not treat you fairly.
loont Holly Lodge Directory
Mount Holly Lodge No. 14, F. & A. M
Masonic Temple
Meets Mondays on or before full moon
Josepb W. Colkitt, Secretary
Mount Holly Lodge No. 848, B. P. O. Elks
Kelsey & Klllle Building
Meets first and tbird Tuesday In eacb month
Harry L. Walters, Secretary
Mt. Holly Lodge No. 737, L. O. O. Moose
Meets every Tuesday at Moose Home 0
Walter H. Mason, Secretary
Picahontas Tftbe No. 18, Imp’d O. R. M.
Meets ever; Monday In Red Men’s Hall
John B. Dobbins, C. of R
N. J. Lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias
Meets every Friday In Red Men's ball
Samuel C. Stanton, K of R. aud S.
Marion Circle No. 9, Brotherhood of
America
Meets every Wednesday In Red Men’s Hall
John Throckmorton, Jr., Secretary
Mount Holly Camp No. 78, Woodmen of
the World
Meets second and fourth Tuesday in Kelsev
A Klllle Building
Irving C. Gasklll, Secretary
Bright Star Lodge No. 15, Shepherds of
Bethlehem
Meets Mondays in Kelsey & Klllle Building
Anna M. Rossell, Scribe
Mt. Holly Court No. I, Imp 0.0 Foresters
Meets second and fonrtb Tuesday, Red Men's
Hall
Tllden Bldwell, Recording Secretary
Mt. Holly Temple No. 5, Masonic Tie
Meets every Thursday In Red Men's Hail
Mrs. M. I. Pearson, scroll keeper
Gen. A. E. SUiras Post No. 26, G. A. R
Meets every Friday in Dill's Hatl
Tbeodore Neely, Adjutant
Ladies’ Aid of the G. A. R.
Meets second aud fourth Tuesday In Dill’s Hall
MIsb Lorena Bates, Secretary
Washington Council No. 10,Sr. O. U. A. M.
Meets every Thursday In Odd Fellows hall
Gasklll building.
John N. Carty Secretary
Santa Maria Council, No. 1179 K. of C
Saint Mary’s Hall, Wist Washingtons*.
Meets first Sunday of the month at 2 p. m.
Tuesday after the third Sunday at 8 p. m.
Carlton F. Madden, Secretary
Washington Council No. 5, Jr. O. IJ. A. M.
Meets every Tuesday In Red Men’s Hall
Herbert R. Smith, Secretary
Washington Camp No. 71, P. O. S. of A.
Thursdays In Kelsey A Klllle Building
Samuel £. Golder, Secretary
Mt. Holly & Unity Lodge No 19 I. O. O. F.
Meets every Wednesday In Gasklll Building
John B. Herbert Secretary
Camp 69, Patriotic Order of America
meets every Wednesday evening In the
Kelsey A Klllle building.
Lena Welae, Secretary
Professional Cards
Or. ATWOOD
DENTIST
25 Main Street, Mount Holly, N. J
Fillings of all kinds. Teeth with or without
plates, crown ar d bridge work. Teeth regu-*
laled. Plates repaired. Nitrous oxide gas
administered. Teeth extracted In your own
nome.
Samuel A. Atkinson
Counsellor at Law, Solicitor and
Master in Chancery
No. 108 High St. Mount Holly, N. J.
WILLIAM H. HEISLER, Jr.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
106 HIGH ST., MOUNT HOLLY, N. J.
Evenings at Pemberton, N. J.
JAMES LOGAN
CIVIL ENGINEER
OFFICE: Second Floor of Hawkins’
Insurance Rooms. Mount Holly
BELL TELEPHONE
Dr. E. D.Prickitt
Office and Dispensary at
1ST Main St., Mount Holly
All prescriptions can be renewed and
his special preparations obtained
Robert Peacock
Attorney at Law
117 Main Street
Mt. Holly, N. J.
237 High Street
Burlington, N. J.
Both Phones
ROSS W. QUICKSALL,
Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry.
Violin Strings.
44 MAIN STREET MOUNT HOLLY N.
George W. Vanderveer, M. D.
HOMOEOPATH 1ST,
Gfcrden Street, neer Buttonwood, Mount Holly, N.
Orricc Hours
Until 9 A. m.
1 to 'l P. M.
6 to 8 p. m.
Does Insurance P«n
flo^ell’s Agency the Last
I o Months paid losses un
der 37 policies
Partial lists;
PAID
C. C. Wills Est.•-* 6.30
C. C. Wills Kst . 24.00
B. H.Uravatt.46.06
freeholders. 6.00
Dan’l H. Ingllng. 5.04
Sst. N. Tilton.28.50
fctnj. H. Defc con, tornado,
2 losses.40.00
j Hu me Carter, plate glass 5.01
RE’C’D
49.40
.306.66
^187.50
400 00
aoooo
75.60
87 50
40 00
J. 12. Howell & Co.,
Main street. Mount Molly
Future of Flying.
"I’d sooner fly.” was a colloquial
nhrBSfi of two decades ago that was
chen used to express the impossible.
T*he magic carpet of the Arabian
Nights seemed no less fanciful than
the dreams of Langley and the Wright
brothers. In the light of those days
the workers on the heavier-than-alr
machines were looked upon as the
foolish descendants of Darius Green.
They were the same kind of “cranks"
it Jules Verne.
“qibday billions of dollars are Invest
ed In the manufacture of airplanes.—
Louisville Oourler-JeumaL _
JONATHAN H. KELSEY
Counsellor-at- Law
Master itj Chancery, Notary Public
55-57 Main Street, Mount Holly, N. J.,
also Pemberton, N. J.
HERBERT S. KILLIE
Attorney-at-Law.
Commissioner of Deeds
16 S Main Street, Medford
Tuesdays and Thursdays
FIRE
LIFE
PLATE GLASS
AUTOMOBILE
ACCIDENT
TORNADO
KELSEY 8. KILLIE
Kelsey & Kille block 55 Main St.
bell phone Mount Holly, N- J.
ESIE-AJL ESTATE
Properties Bought and Sold and Managed Rents Collected, Mortgages Negotiated
JOS E P H F. L Y N C H
Eyesight Specialist and Optician
17 High Street
Mount Holly
New Jersey
Open Every
DAY and
EVENING
-Formerly With ——————
E. W. RYON, Oculist, Wilmington, Delaware
Win the Victories of Peace
In order to win the full victories of peace, pro
gressive American business men will embrace
the opportunities afforded for the expansion of
trade. ^
The Union National Bank offers you excellent
facilities and invites your banking business.
UNION NATIONAL* BANK
MOUNT HOLLY. N. J.
UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY ESTABLISHED 1871
Capital $100,000 Surplus & Profits $137,753.06
Uniformity of Service
^ | 'HE service of tlfe Mount Holly Safe
Deposit. & Trust Company is uni
formly good—always prompt and efficient.
You are cordially invited to make use of
it by making this Bank your Depositary.
MOUNT HOLLY SAFI DEPOSIT & TRUST CO.
Capital $100,000 Surplns and ProSta $i 12.017.1g
An Interest in
The Business
By faithlul work, intelligent preparation
and earnest saving, many young men now
have an interest in a prosperous business.
An account with us increases your capacity
for saving. 4 f?|
Three per cent, interest paid on Special
Time Deposits of $1.00 and1 over.
CAPITAL S 100.000.00 SURPLUS & PROFITS $370,000 00
TOTAL RESOURCES OVER $2.000.000.00
Keep your Liberty Bonds
Children Cry for Fletcher’s
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has hern
in use for over thirty years, has borne the signature of
ana has oeen made under his per
sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good ” ore but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTOR IA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee. For more than thirtv years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
THI CENTAUR CpMRANV. NEW VOWR «ITV.
How Long Is
Five Minutes?
(Copyright)
Every house iu Ihe little town of Ar
deola had been wiped out by n “great
conflagration.” That a village so in
significant could be tisited by a catas
trophe of sufficient magnitude to war
rant an application of the word “con
flagration” may seem paradoxical, but,
in view of the fact that every splinter
of Its thirty-nine buildings was con
sumed In the blaze, no other word
Would fit.
Therefore the newspapers of YVest
valia chronicled the fire that wiped
out its little neighbor across the river
as “a great conflagration.”
The facts, although given in painful
detail in the columns of-the press the
day after the fire, were brought out
more entertainingly during the legal
proceedings that followed several
months later.
The people of the late Ardeola
blamed the Osifge YTalley railroad for
the calamity, and they were so firmly
convinced that the soulless corpora
tion was the cause of their loss that
thirty-eight of them brought suit
against the railroad. The one ex
home owner who did not seek redress
at the hands of the court was John
Lester, although his home was among
the first to go.
Lester was a lawyer and had been
referred to by the press on several
occasions as “promising.” The other
thirty-eight losers Intrusted their case
to him, and in order that he might
go into the battle as the legal repre
sentative of the people, with no inter
ests other than those Assumed in that
capacity he entered no claim against
the railroad.
It was a very generous net Indeed ‘
considering that the people he repre
sented, haring lost their nil, could pay
no retainer; In fact, the amount he
could recover. If any at all, being en
tirely problematical, no promises of
compensation were given.
That it was to be a bitter fight was
evident. The railroad company, not
satisfied to let its legal representative
at Westvalia defend it, sent down
three of the shining lig'.ts of the law
department to assist him. They were
on the ground the second day after
the thirty-eight petitions were filed,
whipping their case into shape for
trial.
The thirty-eight petitions were iden
tical, with the exception of the name
of the petitioner, and they set forth
that the Osage Valley railroad owned
a bridge extending across ttie grand
river from Westvalia to Ardoola. the
said bridge being a drawbridge, and
the said draw being operated and con
trolled by employees of the said rail
road company.
On the day of the fire—in fact, at
practically the Instant the fire start
ed—the draw of the bridge, having
been opened by employees of the rail
road company to nllow the passage of
a tugboat, also owned by the said com
pany, became clogged, and by reason
of the said clogging of the said draw
the fire-fighting apparatus from West
valia was delayed in reaching the
scene of the fire, the bridge being the
only means of communication between
the two towns; and furthermore, that
by reason of the above-mentioned de
lay the fire gained such headway that
the Westvalia fire department was un
able to check it.
It was upon the facts -set forth in
petitions that the homeless Inhabi
tants of Ardeoia hoped to recover
The first move of the railroad’s attor
neys was to secure a consolidation of
the petitions, agreeing to pay full dam
ages in each individual case if they
lost the case that went to trial.
When Lester agreed to that propo
sition the petitioners became uneasy
lest they had made a mistake in in
trusting their cases to the young man,
and when he called only two wit
nesses—one plaintiff to establish the
fact that the fire had occurred and
the driver of the fire engine to prove
that the open draw had caused con
siderable delay—and then rested his
case, a majority of them were quite
sure that they had made a mistake.
The railroad attorneys were taken
off their feet by Lester’s procedure.
They expected to see the entire mem
bership of each of the thirty-eight fam
ilies on the stand; but they recovered
quickly and began ending witnesses.
The only point they made was that
the draw was open only five minutes.
The operator of the draw testified
positively as to the time, and he was
followed by the bridge flagman with
testimony, equally positive They both
stated that they fixed the time by the
arrival and departure of passenger
train No. 95.
They testified that the train came
into the bridge block at the Westvalia
end at eight-twenty-five and crossed
the bridge at eight-thirty, and the en
gineer, fireman, conductor and. brake
man on No. 95 corroborated their tes
tlmony.
The petitioners were disappointed In
the cross-examination conducted hy
Lester. The only questions lie asked
tended to establish more firmly the
fact tjint the draw was open only five
minutes.
"How much time do you desire for
argument?” inquired the court.
"I am satisfied will) what time thi
other side desires.” replied Lester.
The railroad company’s VVestvalla
representative thought he saw an op
portunity to coin an advantage. Hi
knew Lester’s ability as a court ora
tor. anil even before the trial he hart
intimated to his assistants that tc
choke off Lester’s talk would be a
cided advantage.
A hurried consultation was held by
the four railroad lawyers, and as a
| result the Westvalin representative
stated that five minutes was sufficient.
“I am satisfied with that, also,” said
| Lester, dashing the remaining hopes
' of the thirty-eight petitioners. They
1 had counted not a little on Lester's
\ argument to the jury, and they knew
I that it took him more than five miti
i ntes to get warmed up.
Mr. Stanslmry was selected by the
railroad attorneys to do their talking,
and he devoted Ins five minutes to
I driving home the fact that the draw
had been open only five minutes, and
that five minutes was too short a time
j for the fire to gain enough headway to
■ be beyond the control of the fire de
part meat.
Therefore the to al destruction of
i the town must have been due to other
i causes with which ilie railroad com
j pany had no‘connection. Though short.
| it was a splendid argument, delivered
in Stansbury's most captivating man
; ner, and it carried conviction to the
minds of ihe jury.
While the railroad lawyers were con
gratulating their orator the eyes of the
! petitioners were on Lester. It was his
I turn to talk. Stanshtl-y's masterful
, argument would lie picked to pieces
I and his laurels dragged in the dust.
| Lester rose from his seat, and with
| the customary “if the court please.’
| and “gentlemen of the jury,” he ad
. dressed them from his place at the
table.
“My Wend of the other side, with
eloquence that would move an image
of stone, has convinced you that tfle
draw of their bridge was open only
five minutes, and that in that short
time tlie fire could not have gained
sufficient headway to be beyond the
control of the fire department when
ft finally reached the scene. Will
one of you gentlemen kindly take
out his watch?"
The juror on the left end of the first
row produced a large silver tlme
: piece.
“Now,” continued Lester, “will you
kindly call time when my five minutes
is tip.”
He parted the tails of his Prince
Albert and sat down.
The petitioners were panic-stricken,
i Was the man mad? He was wasting
valuable time. Why didn’t he pitch
into Stansbury’s argument and tear
it into shreds as he did the arguments
! Jn the debate last year? Why didn’t
; he say something? But Lester settled
himself comfortably in his chair, closed
his eyes and idly twirled his thumbs.
The juror holding the watch low
ered his hand to rest in on his knee,
and the court crossed and recrossed
, its legs. The railroad lawyers were
nettled. They scented.danger and put,
their heads together for a whispered
| consultation.
The other jurors craned their necks
to see the watch. The juror holding
it looked it in the face with a puzzled
expression on his own; then he put it
to his ear to see if it was running.
The judge uncrossed his legs and
tilted back in his chair, and Lester
] continued to twirl his thumbs.
The silence became oppressive. All
eyes except Lester's and the timing
juror’s were fixed on the big clock over
‘ the bench. Surely the juror’s watch'
must have stopped. He examined the
1 second-hand closely to satisfy himself
that it was turning. It was moving,
but so slowly that he thought the
j watch must be running down.
! He wound it industriously, and the
noise, magnified by the deep silence
of the room, resembled the clattering
! ratchet on a slaeking-off windlass. The
spectators began to get fidgety, piere
j ing the silence with heavy sighs, nerv
ous coughs and much nose-blowing.
Finally the juror called “time,” and
1 the court led a concert of sighs like
' escaping steam. Lester came to his
I feet.
“Now, gentlemen,” he remarked dry-,
ly, “you know how long the draw was
j open. It is for you to decide whether
or not five minutes was long enough
for the fire to get beyond control.”
In considerably less than another
five minutes the jury was in with a
verdict for the plaintiff, awarding ev
ery dollar demanded. Thus was silence
golden.
,
Origin of Household Words.
Anyone Interested in the history of
dress might find amusement for many
an idle hour simply in searching out,
the meanings of many of the words
used by dressmakers and haberdash
ers. Take the simple word corset. You
will find that it is a diminutive of
“corse,” or body—a word which we
still have in corpse and corps. And it
was early used in the plural, as we do
now, first to indicate an entire gar
ment, and then merely the stay portion
of such a garment. Similarly “bodice,”
which has recently been revived as a
substitute for the overworked “waist,”
is merely a plural for body, the term
originally being “a pair.of bodies.”
Ben Franklin’* Advice.
"If you wouid be wealthy, think of
saving ns well as getting. Let us then
be up and doing, and doing to the pur
pose. One today is worth two tomor
rows. Never leave that till tomorrow
which you can do foday. We may
make these1 times even better if we
bestir ourselves. Industry need not
wish, and he that lives upon hope
will die fasting.”—Benjamin Franklin.
The Race’s Need.
Take the human race as a whole, its
chief need is not more land, but more
sense, more industry and a more int<
llfjent use of what it has alreud'
Houston Post.
HUN SLAVE DRIVE
How Kaiser’s Minions Deported
Belgian Peasants.
w" -
* ’
Un.\ tunate People Herded Along
Hig. ways Like Cattle—Dapper
Lieutenant Found Much That
Was Amusing in Spectacle.
John Lowrey Simpson gives a vivid
little pen-picture of a German depor
tation of civilian Belgians in Cen
tury :
“So we slackened pace, rolled by
the outlying dwellings, and with a
scuffling of brakes slewed around the
corner into Waeiheni — Waelhem,
wrecked in a battle. Up and down
thejong street, gaunt husks of tiouses
leered gruesomeiy. Perhaps the va
cant stare of houses ruined in a bat
tle Is distinguishable from the vacant
stare of houses ruined out of a battle.
I do not know. With the passing of
time those more intimate variations of
detail from horror to horror weather
into the general scheme. Waelhem
cowered paie under the chill of the
morning.
“A little horde of country folk |
crammed the roadway and shouldered i
even against the two rows of white
houses. On the doorstoops women stood
clutching their children, the while tip
toeing to catch a glimpse of what
passed ahead. A few stodgy soldiers
with fixed bayonets rounded hack the
crowd into a semicircle; the pg.iple on
each hand clung to the sides of the
buildings i? uy their nails, at rt held
their gt .-.ore obstinately ttan In
the centr . viowds always clirif des
perately '.a -he sides of buildings.
Ahead rusvched—if the word Is. r.or too
proud a one- a procession There are
a dozen m«u, perhaps, ladsn with bun
dies and pecks, clad in the Loose, shag
gy stuffs of Belgian peasantry. The
inevitable colored mufflers straggled
over their shoulders. Their cups were i
drawn tight, ns though to deny the j
cold. Lugubrious defense, pains to no j
avail; for the cold crept into their j
mouths, and one could itercelve their
breaths, frozen and dead. The scat- i
tering of soldiers trudged beside them,
gazing sullenly first at their bayonets,
then ut the file of prisoners. In the
van rode two officers. Their horses
clattered and fidgeted, us though to
imply that mount, like master, was
bored by these people and their trou
bles—foolish troubles, foibles of peas
ants.
“As the company advanced, a per- j
son stood regarding it. He was not 1
attired in rough b’onse and sabots. ,
lie wore a long gray coat with a fur |
collar; ids feet were compressed in j
narrow black boots. Steel spurs twin- j
kled at his heels. A Jaunty round cup i
pel-died ou the back of ills head, a .
scant trifle to one side. Ills mustache |
was cropped till it might have been
molded there on his luce. Under his
eyes drooped dark, heavy rings. He j
sported a morsel of braid on each
shoulder, and the tip end of a scab- i
bard peeked from under his huge coal.
The men lumbered by, and the women
i pressed closer toward him. He smiled.
U* was 4 Gersuga Ueutetumt."
-- 1 ■' ■= \
Madam’s
Maid
*
By S. B. HACKLEY
g>g====_. =.
(Copyright, 1919, by the McClure News
per Syndicate.)
When Katherine Burman and Enid
Shelton, the married sisters, came
home In June, visiting, and found
Roger Cuthbert most any time In their
father’s kitchen, heating up eggs or
helping Judith wash dishes, while the
black cook looked on, encouraging such
folly, they were horrified.
That Roger Cuthbert was the “big
gest” man- on the football team of Col
bert college, the valedictoriun of that
year’s graduating class, a genius in
science and Judith’s worshipful lover,
counted for nothing with the sisters.
One must be rich, or one’s folks must
have been rich, or be akin to the rich,
to put one in their graces.
“What do you mean, Judy,” they
said to her, “having old Lee Ctifh
bert’s boy here under foot half the
time—a paper-hanger’s son?”
Judith’s blue eyes flashed. “All the
nice people in town invite Roger to
their houses, Enid!”
“Perhaps,” she admitted ; “but that’s
to please his class. Now he’s through
college, they won’t. And, .anyway,
there isn’t a parent of our set who’d
be willing to take him for a son-in
law !”
‘There’s one,” Judith said quietly,
“father!"
“Judith Prentice, you don’t mean to
tell us you have any Intention of
mnrrylng Roger Cuthbert?”
“Just that!” she answered.
“When?” they demanded.
“When he gets through at Harvnrd
and gets a place that pays him enough
for us to live on. Meanwhile this va
cation he’s going down South to tutor
two rich men's sons and act as chauf
feur to one of them.”
The sisters’ took heart. They had
feared the worst—Intention of imme
diate marriage. They took Judith
, i
&/XGa4
Took the Rose From Its Vaoe.
home with them and threw her, some
what unwillingly, Into a whirl of so
cial activities.
“You must write me sometimes,
Oliickle,” Roger had told her, “but 1
don’t want anybody nagging you over
letters, so I will send only cards that
all the world may read. But every
card will bring you my heart—all my
heart, Judith.”
Early in September there came a
postcard for Judith. “I am coming
through your city,” It said, “on my
way to Cambridge.’ If you want tcj
•see me—and I’m scared stiff you don’t,
since I have heard of the devotion of)
that Blanchard Knox!—let me know
if I may stop off for a look at you.
“Roger.”
“She musn’t see him, Kit 1” cried
Enid, who saw the card on the hall
table. “It will undo all our work if)
that big, good-looking, red-haired crea
ture comes on the horizon now when
we are just getting her interested In
Blanchard Knox!”
Moved by a sudden inspiration,
Katherine opened the hall door and
a window. The high wind swept
through and caught up the card and
carried it out in the yard, where It
lodgedjmder a hydrangea and stayed!
Some “ays later Judith received a
letter from Joyce Christie, one of the
Cuthberts’ neighbors.
“Roger’s gone to Cambridge,” she
wrote; “left yesterday; said he passed
through that town yon are in. He is
looking, oh, so handsome, Judith! Ella
Gands is wild about him! She told
him you were engaged to a rich fellow
down there. Are you.? I don’t think
Ella has any chance, though. Roger
wouldn’t let any of us see the picture
he owned was in his watch.”
“And he didn’t stop to see me, or
write,” thought Judith drearily. “Oh,
Roger, I bop? she loves you!”
That October Judith’s father died,
and when the debts were paid there
wasn’t much left. To her sisters’ cha
grin, Judith declined to live with
either, or to marry Blanchard Knox,
but went V> another city and set up
a modest sewing establishment.
In the sixth year of her work Mrs
Elethea Loring, one of her patrons,
asked her if she would not like to
travel abroad. To travel! Judith’s
heart twisted a bit painfully. Roger
and she had used to plan to see the
worh\, together when they’d got the
[ money!
i “I’m going abroad next month,” said
Mrs. Loring. “My daughter, Lavlse, is
' in England with friends. She has writ
! ten me to bring her a maid. I-”
she went on, a little doubtfully; “I
j thought of you with your exquisite
taste and skill. Would you mind go
ing if Ti pay you more than you ure
able to make here? It would give
you opportunity to see something of
the world, my dear.”
In London they were joined by Mrs.
Loring’s daughter, a beautiful, dark
girl with a fire and dash in her man
ner that was but an attractive veneet
that covered a hnrd and selfish na
ture. They went to Paris, and there
Judith was kept selecting and buying
until her head whirled.
One evening, unnerved and weary,
she came into Mrs. Loring’s sitting
room to find that lady looking at the
photo of a young man with an up
standing shock of curly red hair, a
good firm mouth, and fine eyes,
"One of Lavise’s friends." she ex
plained.
“Where does he live?” Judith forced
her lips into steadiness.
“He is at Antwerp now. His com
pany had so much confidence In his
ability they sent Kim there two years
ago to take charge of their great
plant there. His salary, of course, is
remarkably good, but La vise will not
need to marry a rich man.” She smiled
confidentially. “I hope—I think he
will be my son-in-law one day. But
—not a word, my dear?'
Quite suddenly the Tarings an
nounced they were going to Antwerp.
One evening there came a caller for
I.nvise at their Antwerp hotel, and
Judith heard Roger Outhbert’s voice.
Then Lnvlse called from the little sa
lon : “Oh. Judith, bring me that rose
on the chiffonier!”
Judith stood still a moment, un
certain and trembling. When the im
perious call was repeated she took the
rose from its vase and drew aside the
portiere.
Through the window a ray of the
setting sun turned her bright hair to
gold, and her cheeks above the som
berness of her maid’s black dress were
a delicate rose. Roger Outhbert
thought he had never seen n human
creature more beautiful. He sprang to
his feet and held out his hand.
“Why, Judith—Judith! How glad
I am to see you again!”
“And I you,” she said demurely, ns
she gave him her hand, “one does not
often see an old friend from home in
Europe, Roger.” Lavlse’s eyes sparkled
with quick, indignant fire.
“So you knew my maid in America?
How interesting!” she said, and added
In instant dismissal. “‘Oive me the
rose, Judith; X hear mother calling
you.”
Bate thnt evening, tingling with in
dignation, Judith went to her bedroom.
A little nightboy tapped softly on her
door. Would mam’selle come down to
the office telephone, please?
“Is thnt you, Judith?” came over
the wire. “This is Roger, Judy; and
since I saw you this evening I'm not
going to wait another day to ask you
something I ought to have found out
six years ago. Did you get that card
I wrote you Just before I went to
Boston asking you if I might stop by
to see you at your sister’s home?”
Why, no—I thought you’d got tired
—I mean I thought you didn’t want to
come! I thought perhaps there was
another girl!”
“Thought that all this time?”
“Ygp,” whispered Judith.
“And I—I thought you married that
rich fellow they said you had engaged
yourself to I”
"Oh!’’ cried Judith—a cry that held
heartache, revelation, Joy, all com
mingled. “But Miss Loring, Roger
He answered her unspoken thought
flatly.
i "I’m not engaged to her—and not
going to be, Judith. I have known her
for some time. I know—but these
folks around here don’t speak much
English. She quarreled at you for
recognizing me this evening' didn’t
she? Yes? Well, it’ll be the last time
if you (I’ll risk the listeners,
Judy!)—Say, I'm going home to Amer
ica in two weeks, for the company, and
if you feel as you used to- Oh,
Judith, will you marry me tomorrow?’’
Over the wire went a faint but very
Joyous “Yes!”
Tuberculosis and the Appendix.
A French physician has made a re
port of some observations made by
him on patients in whom there were
to be noted the presence of congestion
nnd other symptoms of pulmonary tu
berculosis existing along with chronic
appendicitis and which disappeared
completely after the removal of the
appendix. The pathologic condition
of the appendix was discovered acci
dentally in one case. In three of the
cases consultations did not accept his
diagnosis until two of the apparently
doomed patients regained their health
after the removal of the appendix.
The third still rejected an operation.
Unprotected Feet.
With regard to feet we confront
a proposition our forefathers were
not familiar with. High shoes or
boots were always worn and the
nnkles protected. We now live in an
age where we prefer oxfords and the
ankles are exposed. Few wear spats
nnd fewer wear heavy stockings. Most
ly silk or other light-weight hose are
worn. How can we expect to sub
due catarrhal conditions if we do not
protect ourselves? The soles of the
feet are more susceptible to cold than
are the ankles.—Exchange.
DESERT FOR MANY REASONS
Every Soldier Who Flees the Colors in
Times of Pease Is Not Neces
sarily Disloyal.
The reversion to peace is welcomed
by most men, but there is a group in
the nrmy and navy posted as desert
ers who. must be uneasy in their minds.
Desertion in the army implies ab
sence without leave for 22 days, and
entails a court-martial if the individ
ual is reclaimed, says a writer in Lon
don Answers.
In time of war it was a serious busi
ness, and a man risks his life almost
as much by running away from dan
ger as by running into it.
But in peace times there is some
times an element of humor in deser
tion from the forces. Men run away
for such trivial reasons, sometimes
merely to join another unit.
Men desert chiefly because they are
daily confronted by irritating restric
tions, personal animosity of superiors
or for private reasons.
Sometimes an attractive uniform
like that of a lancer regiment will
seduce an infantryman. I have in
mind a corporal who was chased by
military police in Aldershot two years
after the desertion, one of the M. P.’s
having known him in his former unit.
A man still living left the navy in
a hurry in 1874. An officer had called
him a liar, a charge he countered with
his fist, for which he was plaeed in
irons. A fire on board that night ga ?e
him his chnnee. He roamed Australia
until his ship went out of commission,
when the charge automatically lapsed.
Discontent with existing conditions
is a frequent cause of a man break
ing away. In 1915 a private who
held an army skilled trade certificate
was deputed to examine applicants for
special enlistment in that branch.
He prepared the tests and examined
the finished work.
Those who qualified were created
stnff sergeants a week later, with pay
amounting to four times his own.
His repeated requests for promotion
w’ere turned down, as he was a regu
lar. While on leave he deserted, join
ing another regiment immediately, and
after 18 months in Saloniki he was dis
charged under an assumed name with
heart trouble.
A kindly C. O. has been known to
give an incorrigible a few days’ leave
and a sovereign, with the advice to
lose himself—in the rosy times of
peace.
FIVE COUNTIES IN LOAN RALLY
Northeant Pennsylvania Prepares For
a Good Getaway.
To complete the organization for the
I Victory Liberty Loan drive, committee
i chairmen fronj the five counties eom
| prising Group C, of the Third Federal
i Reserve district, Lackawanna, Wayne,
j Monroe, Pike and Susquehanna, held a
| luncheon meeting at the Scranton club.
| Speakers from Philadelphia outlined
Ilians for conducting the drive,
i More than fifty Loan leaders attend
ed. C. S. Weston, of Scranton, pre
sided.
Addresses were made by It. H. Lud
low, of Philadelphia, chairman of the
speakers' bureau, and George E. Lloyd,
of Carlisle. The speakers explained
how the drive will be conducted, and
urged committeemen to begin the work
of organization early.
JUST
r—
K-IUS—1 h; Kypori C-,,j
Aft- rtHETlC 40 - SPELLIN'-* 50
s® - un ?pn - m
AFfAlD YOUNG MAN VO'J WILL.
**<-> GET a Curt THIS Christmas*
J INTERNATIONA!. C.M’TOON CO.
STARCHED OR SOFT
"A RrR OW
IS A DEPENDABLE INDICATOR
OF A SMART SERVICEABLE
COLLAR
CLUETT, PEABODY & CO.. Inc. Makers Troy, New York
NOW IS THE TIME TO ORDER
Roebling Ribbon Fence Wire
“The Fence Wire That Lasts’’
THIS fencing wire is made of good quality steel and
is covered with a heavy coat of real galvanizing
which causes it to give dependable service.
Place your order early and have tiie satisfaction of
using a strong, durable and sightly fencing, when you
fence your fields this Spring.
John A. Roebling’s Sons Company
TRENTON and ROEBLING, N. J.
TEN OiSTRIGTS HAVE HONOR NAMES
AND SPONSORS FOR LIBERTY SHIPS
These Pennsylvania Women Will Christen Four New
Merchant Vessels,
Upper Left—Mrs. Norton Downs, Jr.,
Ardmore.
Lower Left—Mrs. Philip Llpkln,
Coatesviiie.
Upper Right—Mrs. Archibald Johnston,
Bethlehem.
Lower Right—Miss Charlolte Kent
Skinner, Lewistown.
Ten of the twenty suh-districts of
the Third Federal Reserve District en
titled hy their successes in the Fourth
Loan to name honor ships, have chos
en rhe names and the sponsors and
are making great preparations for the
launchings
in each case the selection has neeD
the means ot stimulating interest in
the forthcoming Victory Liberty l-oan
The ceremonies incidental to ihe
launchings will he made opening tea
tures of the new Loan drive.
Nine of the districts which have
selected names and sponsors are in
Pennsylvania The other is in Dela
ware li is required in each case that
the prefix “Liberty” be a part of the
name. There is also a ruling that the
.name of a person, living or dead, can
nol be used.
This is to prevent duplication of
names which would lead to confusion
once the ships are in service. A few
districts have chosen personal names
hut will have another selection.
Among the Pennsylvania districts
Lebanon county has chosen the name
“Quitopahlla.” Tliis is the Indian
name of a small stream in the county
and signifies "Snake Harbor." Its
hanks were once infested with snakes.
The sponsor for the merchantman will
he Miss Fanny Coleman, of Mt. Leba
non.
Chester county has selected the
name “Chester Valley.” Mrs. Philip
Lipkin, of Coatesville, chairman of the
women’s committee, will be the ship’s
sponsor.
“Delro" is the name suggested for
Delaware county. It Is derived from
a combined abbreviation of the words
“Delaware County." The Ship will
he baptized by Miss Marian Lynch, of
Chester.
The Bethlehem District has also se
lectert a coined name. Its ship will
he christened “Berliner" from a e.m
traction of the names "Bethlehem”
and "Northampton." Mrs. Aivh.bald
Johnston, wife of the Mayor of Beth
lehem, will bestow the name.
Montgomery, county south chose the
name “Paul Jones,” but will have to
substitute another. The sponsor for
the ship will be Miss Helen J. C.
Taylor, of Melrose Park.
The Lackawanna, Susqueharna .and
Wayne District favors recognition
of its chairman, C. S. Weston, of
Scranton, and if left to its own
choice would name the ship "Weston.”
Mrs. W. H. Storrs, of Scrantoif will
christen the ship for this district.
The name “Kisbaeoquillus,” derived
from the Indian name of a valley in
the county, lias been selected by Mif
flin In English this name means
“Singing Waters.” Miss Charlotte
Kent Skinner, daughter of the county
chairman, will sponsor the ship.
“Liberty Land” is the name to be
bestowed upon the Main Line (Mont
gomery county) ship. The sponsor
selected is Mrs. Norton Downes, wid
ow of an aviator who lost his life
while on flight duty over the English
Channel.
Lycoming county wHl bestow its own
name upon the honor ship. ‘'Lycom
ing" is of Indian origin and signifies
“sandy stream.” Mrs. Garrett Coch
ran, widow of Lieut. Cochran, 107th
Field Artillery, will name the ship.
New Castle, Delaware, will native
its ship “Llberty-Brandywine.” Mrs.
Pierre S. Dupont, of Wilmington, has
been chosen as sponsor.
Launching dates will be announced
from Washington after appropriate
mimes have been approved. Merchant
ships now being completed at Dela
ware Itlver yards will be designated
to receive the names.