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Our Record

Our Record
The administration Of the Continental has drawn
from competent critics, such comments as these:
II do not think it has been matched in the first
years experiences of any other life insurance cor.
poration "-MSeg II. DalGsOn C5nsaltng ActtGry,
erpert aduiser of the Arnaarong heyestigatng Com.
naittee
"a good showing. especially for new company"
BestS Life Insurance Reports.
"A remarkable Eecord."-TAe Spectator (Instr.
ance) Nea0 York.
IAN extraordinarily creditahls FecoFd-probaby
Observation-Disclosures of the skill, enterprise,
rigid economy and integrity of the management"
The Chronicle (Irsuraacel NesU York.
Success
At the close Of March, just sghteen months after the
company opened its door it had It's books less
than two and quarter millions of insurance principally
on the lives of citizens of this peninsula.
Security
The resources OF tbs company now aggregate some
$l50O00 of which more than $I00000 is deposited with
the State Of Delaware for the protection Of poCyhodes
Under the law this deposit must be increased with the
growth of the companys business and in consequences
thereof the Delaware Insurance Commissioner executes
on each policy issued. the following certificate:
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The Directors

At least one director selected from every county
very name should at once command the compleest eon
dence in the proper administration of the companys
affairs 50
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State of Delaware

1T8uTdnce Department
This Policy Is registered and secured By a de.
post Of approved securities arih this Department
as prOuided By lda.
'"'''''.', Insurance. Commissioner
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WILBUR w. HUBBARD, cHEsTERToWN, Nd
:. :, vice Prssideas Arbbard Fertilizer Co.
WILLIAM E. KURTz, WILMINGTON, DEL.
Attorney -at-Law.
JOSHUA w. MILES, Princess ANNE, ND.
President Bank OF Somerset.
JOHN S. MULLIN, JR, WILMINGTON, DEL.
James T. MulIin 4 Sons
GEORGE 4. SALISBURY, WILMINGTON, DEL
End President ol tie Company.
De COURCEY w. TH0M, cENTRKyILLE, ND.
President Maryland Portland Cement So.
DIR. r, W. TOMLLNSON, WILMINGTON, DEL.
Medical DireCtoF Of The Company.
GEORGE W. WoOLFORD, oAmBRrDeE, ND.
President Eastern Shore Trust Co.
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LETTER 70 W. d. BRADFORD
Middletown. Del.

Middletown, Del.
Dear Sir: Suppose you are feeding pigs
milk; how much will you gain by water
ing milk quarter 2 half? threequarters7
100 quarts whole milk they sleep
so Of milk and 20 Of water they squeal
80 so more squeal
25 rs still squeal
o !" 100 no squeal
Suppose you are painting house; how
much will you gain by paint adulterated
quarter? half? three-quarters
10 gallons Devoe put-on $50
Is | not paint 70
20 /" I" 100
40 /" 200
The cost Of paint put-on is about SIS q
gallon. no matter what paint you buy.
But nobody really gets 40 gallons on q
10-gaIon job; 90 nobody really pays 5000
for painting $50 job; be stops at about
$lO9. Two cost Of 4-paint-and trash
doesn't make good job; nor three; nor
four.
These lessons are useful
Yours truly
IN FW DEyoE & co
P. s.-J. T. McWhorter & son sell our
paint.
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DIRECTORS

PHILIP BuRNET, WILMINGTON,
President Of the Company.
DIR HIRAM R. BURTON, LEwEs,
Ex-Member of Congress.
JOSEPH L. CAHALL, DOVER, DEL.
Ex Secretary of State
HARVEY / COOPER, DENTON,
President Denton National Bank
j. HARRY C0yINGTON, EAsToN. ND
Member Of Congress.
JAMES E. ELLEGO0D, SALISBURY, MD,
AttorneyatLaw.
DIR. CHARLES NJ ELLIS ELKToN, ND
President National Bank Of Elkton
GEORGE II. HALL. MILFORD, DEL
Vice-Presidens Milford Trues Co.
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Suppose you are painting house; how
much will you gain by paint adulterated
a quarter half? three.auarters
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TIM TRANqoRrrr, sl.OO psF yss
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MIppIErowE, DEE, APRIL II, 1908
Local News

Choice Seed Oats for sale at
EVANS FEED STORE.
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heen shot in cowboy quarrel. and she
has come home Long before Hale had
procured license to marry June and
had engaged old Uncle Billy. neigh
Dor, to perform the ceremony, and so
right here and now it is done.
The moon had risen, The big pine
stood guard on high against the outer
world. Nature was their church. and
stars were their candles. And as if
to give them even a better light, the
moon had sent a luminous sheen down
the dark mountainsde to the very gar
den in which the,flowers whispered like
waiting happy friends. Uncle Billy
lifted his hand and a hush OF expec-
fancy seemed to come even from the
farthest star.
Is there anything lacking to make
this the great American novel2 Yes,
one thing. 1t lacks humor. one does
not miss humor in tne reading of the
book. but when 1t is finished one has
a sad sort Of feeling mixed with happi
ness. for the ending is quite satisfac-
tory and the evil characters are all
put out of the way. but one misses a
laugh and even sayety there is no
gayety in the book That is its only
fault, and many readers will not see.
thatNone.
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young Russell won his in this battle
but his friend knowing the mOdesty
of Russell. tells the story to the world
for the first time OF how his friend
reached the inner breastworks of the
federals and planted his colors there
The story has little literary value. but
is sure to be of interest to all southern
soldiers (The Neale publishing COM
pany. New York. Price s125)
The Travels Of a Lady's Maid" is
the not very alluring title of a book
by "A B." The maid is Scotch girl
of fair education who is maid 10 an
earl's daughter. the Lady Emily. In
this capacity she goes TO America with
her mistress and across the continent
to Japan, India. Egypt, Greece and
Italy. Nothing much happens but the
maid is a wise girl and makes many
amusing comments upon the people and
places they see. A little love story is
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her husband is not arranged for yet.
and he makes number of jesting re-
marks upon the subject and thinks no
more about it.
Lloyd is fearfully bored by the so
ciety life which his position has thrust
upon him; his friends show him too
much attention and are constantly
making him miss trains for somewhere.
1t only seems to be necessary for him
to announce that he is going 10 take
a train for anywhere, when his friends,
especially women. crowd around and do
things which force him TO miss that
train Much is made of this humorous
situation several times in the book.
Finally he succeeds in getting away to
a retreat in Normandy, where his ad-.
Venture in exile really beg4us as1d de-
veteps Fhls pa r tic book IS etastF'lil-s
ing. The author paints as pretty q.
picture Of Normandy life aud the cotrif-
try and the charming and simple people
as can well be imagined. Mere Lafosse,
who was care taKer in the old castle
which Lloyd had rented, is a delight.
She has four sons, -four soldiers of the
republic. and she. has much to say of
the four Also she is q wonderful cook,
and not once during Lloyd's stay there
does he hear of boiled a. fried or
scrambled eggs or any other familiar
way of cooking them. but every day he
has eggs beautifully disguised in some
way a la Normandie Mere I1afosse
has handmaiden. Zoe and her poor
little pitiful tale, meager as it is, is a
heartbreaking tragedy. The author
might SO easily have made one comment
too many, and shows his rare good
taste in just enough on the subject
Lloyd meets lady who fits into his
dreams perfectly. She is a picturesque
little cheese maker of Breteche. known
far and wide as Nine. La Sainte and
his adventure with her is sentimental
and in its well managed PLAY ut cross
purposes, has all the elements of com
edy. IT will well repay one to read
this entertaining little story. It is
sweet and clean, healthfu and amusing.
and we shall watch for more from this
authors pen.
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stration of gladness. but the government
beat the people back into submission
again by getting up false parades and
shouting Down with the constitution,
much of which was told in our own
newspapers at the time.
A passage which describes the treat
ment of victim by the mob shows that
the reports which reach America now
and then of some of the horrors follow
ing a demonstration are scarcely vivid
enough
With bent backs. swinging their
arms and legs. groaning with the strain
of excitement. uttering tired. hoarse ar
ticulations. they stirred busily in the
street. like large. shaggy worms. as
they dragged over the stones the body
of the fair haired youth. already crushed
and torn. They kicked at it, trampled
on its face and chest. pulled its hair, it's
legs and arms and simultaneously tore
him in different directions Half bare.
covered with blood, IL tapped against
the stones. soft as dough. with each
blow losing more and more semblance
of a human figure"
Like the rest of Gorky's creations. he
takes him through to death. The poor
thing goes quite mad at the last and
tries to commit suicide by hanging him
self by his suspenders, but they break
and he rolls down an embankment to
railroad track.
Something hard and wide struck his
back. He fell across the sleepers be-
tween the red cords Of rail, and the
harsh. iron rumble crushed his feeble
screams"
One can understand that IN Russia.
perhaps. the book might be Of interest.
1t would rouse the interest OF reform
ers. for surely they are there. as every
where: but here the conditions are SO
alien that il only rOuses feelings Of
horror that such things can be.
The design on the cover is a repro
duction of Gorky's book plate drawn BY
Ephraim Nose Eilien. and represents
powerful Russian breaking the knout
across his knee and standing triumph
antlv on the book Of knowledge. This
book is an appeal to grant education to
the muzhiks of Russia. That will do
more than any other one thing to anne
lior1te the shocking conditions now ex-
fsting there.
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1.-THE Spy"

BY Maxim Gorky Published by B. ".
Huebsch New York Price $3.50.
VIII anybody finish this book but the
reviewers who are paid to do it? And
if any one does will it be possible to
say u word in it's praise? And. further,
can it be a true picture of Russia TO
day. az it is claimed to be?
The book deals with the social and
political conditions and shows all the
inner workings of the terrible secret
police system which people out in the
world have half heard and, even then
considered gross eXaggeration.
When a country has reached the stage
which Russia has attained today any
story purporting 10 show up any one Of
the fragrant abuses is sure to offend,
but of all the realistic pictures which
Gorky has done this one is the most de-
pressing, the most diseased and loath-
some, of all which have appeared 1T Is
a novel which one feels must have lost
much in translation; not that the trans
lator, Thomas Seltger. has sighted his
work in any way, but GOrky's realism
does not lend itself TO translation for
English or American ears.
Briefly. the story presents Jevsey
Klimlov, an orphan lad. who spent a
few brief years of earliest childhood
with an uncle. They are all of the
muzhiks, which we understand is of the
slams. The boy is mentally deficient.
whether from abuse and neglect or con-
genitally. We are not told. His uncle
takes him to town and leaves him with
an old man who sells books. He is a
horrid. repulsive old man. who has a
beautiful house keeper. Jevsey soon
learns that the house keeper is the old
mans mistress by watching through tbs
keyhole. and some of his discoveries are
Ssnf fo1f lferr1
shocking to occidental ears. Jevsey
hates the old man and thinks the
woman beautiful therefore he is not
shocked when she grows tired of the old
man and smothers him one night The old
mans book shop had been a trap for
revolutionists. He sold forbidden books
and then sent the names of the buyers
to the secret police. As the boy Jevsey
begins to understand this he slowly
drifts into the life of spy, too. The
beautiful house keeper becomes the
mistress of "a friend of the old man.
but tries to seduce the boy Jevsey at
the same time When Jevsey realizes
this he hates her; he had put her on a
pedestal before this and worshiped her
blindiy. Jevsey becomes a professional
spy. hired by the government. He is
pictured as betraying always the peo-
pie who have befriended him. but he
does it reluctantly and one pities him
for it and feels what Gorky says. that
the coy is depraved from Ignorance. not
from viciousness-tha the poor weak
ling never had a chance.
The story is almost of today the eli
max being of the time when Father
Gapon led the demonstration in St
Petersburg Gorky says that the city
he does not say st. Petersburg-was
free for two whole days and nights and
that the people made a great demon
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DEAR GOD, AND GrlAf2D HIT E&rERrloRE
from &c TfrE TRAIL OF TIE 1crzE>SCrTE PINE -
by eOFEN EC5CeA.
AHO REEss HIrr.

comprehension Though heaven knows
it is an exciting life those mountain
GERS iedD. and yet the reader Will skip
no line of the exciting nature story. It
is for men and women; there is enough
fighting and gunplay to please the
most bloodthirsty man reader, but so
cleverly handled that it will in no way
offend the representative woman read
er; there is enough of love and senti-
ment TO please the most romantic
woman reader, but handled with such
strength that the masculine reader
can't bear TO skip it. It's good story,
well told, and acts like a tonic to the
weary searcher for diversion.
The Lonesome Pine is a famous old
tree high up in the Cumberland noun
tains Near this tree live old Devil
Judd" Tolliver and his family. His
daughter, June, is the heroine, and is
a little girl at the beginning of the
story. The Tollivers. like the rest of
the mountain people. have an Illicit
STILL" and one morning June is near
the old pine trees and sees strange
horseman coming up the trail. She is
as timid as one of the wild things of
her own mountains, but wise beyond
her years, and she hides and watches
him, and decides that he must be
"rsider," as the searchers for the
stills" are called. IN a very bashful
conversation, almost one sided, 1T
comes out that. he is an engineer, and
has come over the mountains TO look
for coal. He discovers what he is look
ing for in her fathers cabin, and the
old man shows him where he digs his
"hrewood." Very carefully old Devil
Judd" feels his way with the Turin
err" John Hale, to see If by any chance
he is in with his blood enemies on the
other side of the mountains, the
Falins. and finally. being sure, he takes
Hale for hts friend The feud business
is matter of clan loyalty that goes
back to Scotland. They argue this
way: You are my friend or my kins-
man, your quarrel is my quarrel. and
whoever hits you hits me- Hale gets
some options on lands rich in coal, and
floats some companies, and in dealing
with Tolliver makes an arrangement
whereby little June is sent away to
school and educated She has fallen
in love with him on his very first visit,
but he is only fascinated at first by
the unusually interesting child who is
so thirsty for knowledge that it is
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formed in the photographic field. Leav-
ing san Francisco, he betook himself to
New York, then to Boston, Philadel-
phta and st. Louis in turn. During the
worlds fair he was doing splendid work
for the Chicago Inter Ocean, where he
raised the standard of color printing to
a high degree, doing the same for the
New York World. to which he was
called by Mr.. Pulitzer Remaining on
the World for number of years his
next venture farther afield was to Lon
don, where he introduced color pro-
cesses into many printing establish
ments. His successes and his desire
to raise color work to the highest pos
sible standard caused him to commence
his experiments in photogravure six
years ago. About "a years of age at
the present time, he has attained a
cherished ambition at comparatively an
early stage.
Both in Europe and in America pho
togravures in color are made at the
present time by painting colored inks
on the photogravure plate An i'm
preston is obtained by a large amount
of painstaking wiping and dabbing. and
this impression is finished by the re-
touching of each proof in colors. This
process is both difficult and tedious. and
as an artist printer can produce but
three or four Impressions day. ii Is
not surprising that the prices for these
Impressions range from SIS to $50 for
each.
In other cases certain results have
been obtained by the use of illegitimate
methods. The Inland Printer tells of
one inventor who printed the colors by
photography and used photographers for
the keyplate only. a mongrel produce
tion was necessarily the result.
Those who buy so called photograv-
ures in color in art shops are really
purchasing what should be known as
colored photographers, because they are
but prints from photogravure plates
printed with light ink and afterward
colored with water colors. To the I'M
trained eye the difference may not be
BADLY perceptible, but to the eye of the
artist the astonishing delicacy and ac-
curacy of the process invented by Mr..
Saalburg the remarkable clearness and
faithfulness to detail, the reproduction
of all the essential, intimate. distinctive
traits of expression. habit and dress, go
far toward placing this discovery in
the list of those which will have last
ing effect upon printing not only on
this generation but on those to come.
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CHARLES W. sAALBURG, a San
I Franciscan, and color cartoonist
of great originality. bids fair to rev.
vention which makes possible a feat
hitherto deemed to bristle with diff
culties. and one which every inventor
in the land has taxed his thinking
powers to discover--the printing of
photogravure in colors.
S. H. Horgan, writing in the Inland
Printer on this new and startling rev.
citation of the possibilities of color
printing, says:
ITO print photographers in monotone
has heretofore been regarded as the
greatest artistic accomplishment of the
printing press, and it has been used
almost exclusively in the reproductions
of paintings and many forms of art
work The length of time and the
amount of care required in hand press
photogravure printing has, however,
prevented its use for large editions.
I'm the reproduction Of photogravure
of paintings, pastel, etc, the inability
to duplicate the color has always been
a serious objection, and the obstacles
that stood in the way OF the removal
OF this objection, seemed insurmount-
able. When 1t is remembered that after
d
the plate must be heated and the sur
plus ink carefully wiped from the
plate; that a dampened sheet of plate
paper is then laid on the plate, and 1T
is pulled through a press under great
pressure an idea may be gained of the
difficulties of reproducing color. Every
printer will understand how difficult it
would be TO make this dampened sheet
of paper register with other heated
plates in order to get a result in
colors
1t Is this apparently unsolvabIe
problem which Mr.. Saalburg attacked
and which he has apparently solved
Until his patents are granted the sue
cessful and persistent inventor has but
this to say.
-Four color record negatives were
first made from the painting, then four
photogravure plates were made from
these negatives but instead of being
on fat plates they were made on cop
per rolls, which are ready for the press
within 10 minutes Then by improved
presses. inks and registering devices
which I have invented. the paper is fed
into the press without any make ready
from a web, and the printed sheets
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IAN Adventure in Exile"
BY Richard puny Published by B.

BY Richard Duffy Published by b. W.
Dodge & Co.. New York. Price s1.5o.
Richard DUFFY is a new name on the
literary horizon and it has come 10
stay. If AN Adventure in Exile" is
this new authors first writing it is as
tonishingly good. 1t does not show
the hand of the amateur in any way.
The author has described his novel as
a sentimental comedy. There is comedy
of satirical kind. but tragedy as well,
and the sentiment is light and charm
ing. The story has nothing to do with
any problem and is quite clean and
wholesome. which characteristics alone
demand a hearing.
Normandy is the scene OF this little
comedy, but Paris and Tfouyille have.
each little act Of the drama. The
hero is young American OF 30, Lloyd
Avery. and his friends all seem to be
anxious to get him married. At the
very opening of the story Lloyd IS
having a talk with Ills old friend
Mime de Guerville.
You ought to have wife, a
home. DO YOU remember steph-
anie? I wrote to YOU about her
The little schoolgirl who said she
was going to marry an American mil
lonaire because he would be worth
FIVE times as much as French one?''
1t seems that poor Stephanie has
married most unhappily and has retired
to her country place to live quietly and
alone, while her beast of husband
was having a good time in his own
way in Paris. He ought TO be dead.
said the world and his wife, at least
Stephanies world.
Lloyd thinks it little premature for
his friend. Nine. de Guerville, to sug-
gest that he shall marry Stephanie, for
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and vet every detail Of the scene is
pictured with tremendous force.
June has been out in the world at
school: she can see the faults of her
mountain people and can also UNDER
stand Hale's point of view, but the
blood of her people is strong in her
and she feels all the rage of a Tolliver
against Hale for the hanging of Bad
RUFF. She promises her father never
TO leave him. and tho remnants of the
broken family pack up and go west.
Trouble and tragedy seem to have
marked the district for their own Some
of Hale's most promising holdings turn
out TO be pockets and almost valueless;
the English capital backing one of his
railroads gives out and it does not sue
coed in reaching the gap; the boom
town is busted '-everythlng is at skies
and sevens.
Hale goes back to Lonesome Cave
after discouraged and dreary winter,
more for sentiment than anything else
1t is deserted. and he wanders around
saying goodby to all the spots made
dear by June so long ago. And then
Just when he expects to see Dave. the
cousin of June, who had always sworn
TO git Hale some time June comes
Her father has died out west Dave has