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Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11
PAT FOUND WAY TO KEEP 1T
Resorted to Simple Device to Keep
Companion From Spending His
Own Money.

A Scotchman and an Irishman once
set out together on holiday. The lat
ter was a steady, frugal man, the for.
mer was careless and spendthrift.
Conscious Of his own weakness,
Sandy entrusted all his money to his
friends charge, with a strict injunc-
ton not to give him back more than a
stated sum for expenses each day.
After few days Sandy thought his
daily allowance inadequate for his de-
mands and pleaded for an increase.
but in vain.
Holidays over, the Scotchman in.
formed Pat that, after the latter's re-
fusal to comply with bis wish, he got
out Of bed every night, when he found
the Irishman asleep, and made an ex-
tensive search to find the cash, but
could never succeed, and inquired of
him where he kept it.
SWELL" said Pat, II allowed you to
go to bed first every night, and as we
occupied the same room, had no diff
hculty in putting my purse, unob-
served, into one Of your pockets. was
first up every morning and took pos
session Of it again"
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11
LONELY VIGIL OF 80 YEARS
Sons Iona Wait for Mother Who Met
Her Death When He Was
an Infant.

A story Of pathetic devotion seldom
equaled in the history Of the noun
tain country Of the South is being told
Of Erwin Hicks, who died recently
near Elk Park, N. O., after waiting for
80 years for the return Of a mother
who had met death when he was just
old enough to know he had a parent.
Thirty years ago the mother went
out from the humble mountain cabin
near Elk park with the promise to En-
win, her only child, that she would
bring him treat Of candy, as was her
custom when going to the village store.
But she was run down and killed by
train on the Western North Carolina
railway while on her errand.
Either the fate Of his mother was
not communicated to Hicks or else he
failed in his immature mind to grasp
the fact. So for 80 years he had
watched and waited at the gate to the
mountain home for the return Of the
mother.
Finally his mind was affected by the
worry, but this did not prevent him
carrying on his lonely vigil, and every
day neighbors could see him lingering
at the gate in an appearance Of ex-
pectancy.
Neighbors in later years had en-
deavored to persuade Hicks that his
vigil was in vain and that he should
give his mind to other channels, but
nothing could be done to convince him
that the mother of his childhood would
not return and that it was his duty to
be at the gate to meet her.
But finally the patient watcher was
taken ill, and though tenderly cared
for by neighbors, he died. His body
now rests alongside that Of the mother
in the little country churchyard near
the town.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11
Crows Holding Their Own.

There has been hostility between the
farmers and the crows ever since there
were farmers in New England, but the
number of crows, so far as anyone
knows, has not decreased. They are
efficient, they are able to care for
themselves and are likely to hold their
own, no matter how much the popula-
ton may increase. More than that,
despite the severity Of winter, each
crow looks sleek and well-fed, perfect
ly at home and contented with its sur
roundings. The English sparrows and
the starlings may seek shelter during
severe weather, but, no matter how
cold or stormy it may be, one finds
the crow doing business as usual. If
the quail and ruffed grouse were as
hardy and intelligent and possessed
with an equally catholic taste for food,
whole volume Of game laws might
be done away with.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11
DUTCH POPULARITY

COMMENTING on the statement of
~ the Dutch Minister at Washing
ton, that Holland is ready to swap 80,
600 tons of shipping for foodstuffs, the
semi-official Niewe Courant says:
1T is rumored lately that Amer
lea has now taken over the job Of
rationing the little neutrals for the
Allies, as Britain no longer wants
the odium of this job. This does
not sound possible, as America is
now making herself anything but
popular, but it is logical insofar as
America is the greatest producer of
foodstuffs and raw materials needed
by European neutrals. p"
Too bad The thrifty Dutchman who
has been coming money by reselling to
Germany at fabulous prices war supplies
furnisht by the United States, cody in
forms us that if we don't keep it up
and thus help Germany cut our own
throat we will become unpopular y
Rather a high price to pay for Dutch
popularity.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11
SINGING CALLED LOST ART
It Is Now Confined Chiefly to Profes
sionaIs, Drunkards and Phono.
graphs, Says Writer.

Singing, as far as most people are
concerned, Is a lost art. Thousands
attend operas, recitals and musical
comedies, tens Of thousands wind up
monographs; but as for singing them
selves informally at their work or play
they have forgotten how. In times
past people Of all ranks sang together
as a matter of course. Sailors sang at
their work, peasants, shepherds, cow
boys-all had their favOrite and ap-
propriate songs. The songs Of chill
dren at games, the lullabies Of moth
ers are in the collected ballads and
folklore Of many peoples, says the In.
dianapolis News.
"The pastimes and the labors of the
husbandman and the shepherd" says
Andrew Lang, "were long ago a kind
Of natural opera. Each task had Its
own song; blowing, seeding, harvest.
burial-all had their appropriate bal
lads or dirges. The whole soul Of the
peasant class breathes in their bur-
dens as the great sea resounds in the
shell cast up on the shore"
Nowadays the whirl Of machinery
makes all the noise. The workers In
mills might find it unsatisfying to sing
at their work, but it is doubtful If they
would sing even If their voices could
be heard; while singing in an office or
store would pretty surely be stopped
by the "boss" or the police. Thou
sands congregate every night in the
silence of moving picture theaters, and
even in the churches where singing by
the congregation used to be customary
the attendants now usually listen in
silence to a paid singer.
Singing in this age is largely con-
fined to the professional performer,
drunken men and gramophones.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11
RUSSIA'S SAVIOR

It'll E'S quickly turning whirliglg,
what amazing changes it discloses !!
A few months ago that weak-brained
autocrat, Nicholas II, was Lord Of life
and death to 100, 100000 Russians-to-
day, he is dethroned, driven from his
pala ees and virtually a prisoner in his
own land.
A few months ago, the Jews were a
banned and prosecuted race in all
Russia, deprived of almost every priv
lege, herded like cattle in certain re-
stricted quarters to-day, member of
that despised race, the patriot Keren-
sky, is by the unanimous voice of the
people and of every party, named Die
tator Of all Russia during the war
If any hand can save Russia from her
self and her foes, it is this superb COM
moner, gifted with the genius of leader
ship-at once a wise statesman and
bold soldier.
The other day 10, 900 Cossacks marched
thru the streets of Petrograd in bril-
liant military procession to bury eight OF
their comrades slain in the late anars
chist uprising promoted by German
gold.
"Glittering with purple and gold' the
high priests paraded in their clerical
robes, while the military chieftains-in
full uniforms mounted on their richly
caparasoned horses, added all the ''pomp
and circumstance of glorious war.
A short distance behind the last
hearse, dressed in suit of ordinary
Khaki and bare-headed, walked the great
est national figure of the day-the COM
moner patriot Kerensky, quite without
guard and Drawing the peril of anarchist
Lombs, his sufficient protection the
thousands of enthusiastic citizens eager
ly pressing to see the face of their hero
as he passed in this simple fashion thru
the streets of the Capital where the
pompous Gear was won't to ride in royal
state the imperial conveyance fanked
on all sides with armed soldiery. Yes
the whirligig of Time works wonders
stranger than fiction"
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11
A GERMAN JOKE

Until the middle of the last century
~ English literary CRITICS were wont
to declare that Germans were quite
lacking in any sense of humor, and that
a lest was with them almost an impos-
si5ility.
However that may be, we give below
q concrete example of German under
sea boat joke which, if we may judge
from the frequency Of its repetition,
must immensely tickle the Teutonic ris-
ibles:
"Thirty-eight members of the
crew of the steamship, Belgian
Prince, were drowned in deliber-
ate manner by the German subma-
rine which sank it, according to the
account given by survivors VINO
have reached British shores. The
chief engineer of the steamer, who
many times after the steamer was
torpedoed was perilously near
drowning, gave the following nara
tive of his experiences:
"About 8 o'clock on Tuesday
evening when we were 200 miles off
land | saw the wake Of an approach
ing torpedo. The vessel gave
lurch as she was hit and | was
thrown to the deck among the de-
bris. The vessel listed heavily and
al of us took to the boats.
1.-THE submarine approached and
sheled the vessel and then ordered
the small boats alongside the sub
marine. The skipper was sum-
moned and taken inside. The
others were mustered on the deck
of the submarine.
1.-THE Germans removed the life
belts and the outer clothing of all
except eight of us smashed the life
boats with axes, and then re-entered
the submarine and closed the
matches, leaving us on deck. The
submarine went about two miles
and then submerged.
II had lifebelt. Near me was
an apprentice boy of 16, shouting
for help | went to him and held
him up until midnight. but he be-
came unconscious and died of expo
sure. l was picked up after eleven
hours in the water by a patrol
boat"
The second engineer also escaped.
The only other known survivor Is
too i'll in a hospital to tell his story.
Smashing the life boats and then d. :
priving the poor fellows Of their life
belts and leaving them to drown without
one poor chance of being pi,k ID up,
must have seemed to those German wits
the most laughable thing in the world
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11
Should Use Judument.

Teacher-"When little George Wash
tngton told the truth about cutting
down the cherry tree his father for
gave him. Now, Henry, what lesson
does this teach us7" Henry-"It
teaches US that we should learn when
to tell the truth"
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11

We All Have Felt It.

In a reading class the word Ids.
couraged" was encountered. The
teacher asked the pupils what they
understood by the meaning Of this
word. Lawrence replied: swell, it is
just the way you feel when you make
something nice and it up and busts."
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11

WANTED.-Experienced solicitors
for the city of Middletown to represent
large Fraternal and beneficial organiza-
ton. None but men of high character
and ability will be considered. Excel
lent opportunity for the right man.
Would prefer party with executive abil-
ity capable of taking exclusive control
of County and all towns, and directing
force of assistants. Small bond re-
quired References exchanged. No ten
dollar per week men need apply. Ad-
dress with references, T. G. W.
Box GAL. SALISBURY, Md.
FOR SALE.-Two horse power In
ternational gasoline engine, in good
condition. Will be sold cheap. Apply
to THIS OFFICE.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11
Generally.

"Who is that young man who says
he does not care to play tennis because
the exercise is too violent?" '"That Is
the boy whose father thinks that when
he gets through college he ought to go
out West and punch COWS Tor 4 9pell.f
rudge. ..s...asasslfssaanr,nnufE
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11
Measure Of Culture.

Culture Is not measured by the
greatness of the field which is covered
by. our knowledge, but by the nicely
with which we can perceive relations
in that field, whether great or small
R. f. Stevenson.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11

Bruise thoroughly one handful Of
green sage leaves, boil them in gill
Of vinegar for ten minutes; apply to
the sprained joint as a poultice be-
tween folded muslin. Rest the joint
% much as possible.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11

Peach and Truck baskets, Georges
Creek Bituminous Coal stored in our
warehouse for immediate delivery.
Send your teams along.
Jesse L. Shepherd.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11

FOR SALE-A very fine organ.
Price $500. Can be seen any time at
the Middetown Opera House. Call at
THIS OFFICE
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11

For SALE.-Four burner, gasoline
stove in good condition. Will be sold
cheap. Apply at THIS OFFICE.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11
PAID LOCAL ADS.

FOR SALE--Wagons and dearborns.
j. C. GREEN.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-03-16
GRAIN STOCKS SLUMP
STOCKS ON FARMS MARCH I
SHOW BIG DECREASE.
Wheat Drops Million Bushels Below
1861. s. Report Shows That
Prices Are Higher.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
nDenver.-A summary of the March
crop report for Colorado as compiled
by the Bureau of Crop Estimates,
United States Department Of Agricul-
ture. is as follows:
Wheat-Estimated stocks on farms
March l. 100000 bushels, compared
with 3,167.000 year ago, and 1885,
900 two years ago. Price March l to
producers. $1.50 per bushel, compared
with 81 cents a year ago. and $1.20
two years ago.
Corn-Estimated stocks March /.
100000 bushels. compared with A.
s50.0O0 year ago, and 4.03s.00G two
years ago. Price March 1 to produc-
ers. 81 cents per bushel, compared
with 65 cents year ago and 68 cents
two years ago.
The percentage of the 1916 corn
crop which was of merchantable quail
ity is estimated at so per cent, COM
pared with 60 per cent OF the 1915
crop. and 81 per cent of the 1914 crop.
Oats-Estimated otocks March /,
10000 bushels, compared with g.
$4,000 a year ago. and 4,290,0Oo two
years ago. Price March to produc-
ers, 65 cents per bushel. compared
with As cents year ago. and 4S cents
two years ago.
Barley-Estimated stocks March 1,
100000 bushels. compared with
1,166.000 year ago. and 1,031.000 two
years ago. Price March 1 to produc-
ers. SS cents per bushel. compared
with SO cents a year ago, and 60 cents
two years ago.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-03-16
New Mexico.

The Toltec OIL Company at depth
of 600 feet struck another strata or
oil sand
The Oaks Company has started
work on the Maud S mine in the Mo-
gollon district.
On the Mitchell group, near Cooney.
a crosscut tunnel has encountered two
feet of mill ore.
The oil excitement has been revived
again in the Pecos valley and a num-
ber of prospectors are looking over
the ground.
Developments on the Bearup group
north of Cooney are very encouraging
with three feet of mill ore in face of
tunnel now in seventy feet.
The extensive new mill and power
plant of the Hanover Bessemer Iron
and Copper Company. between Hano-
yer and Fierro. was gutted by fire.
The best drifting record for the Mo
gollon district was recently made at
the Last Chance mine by Mogollon
Mines Company when the 900-foot lev.
ell was advanced twelve feet in TWEEN
ty-four hours.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-03-16
Arizona.

It is proposed to reopen and develop
the old Socorro mine at wenden.
Development has begun on the Black
Cat group of claims southwest OF Sa-
lone.
Good news from the Verde Combin-
alton is carried in the cutting in the
shaft of well defined quartz out
crop.
New strikes are the order of the day
In the Cunningham Pass district. the
latest reported being from the old
Critic mine.
Bisbee-Tombstone Copper Mining
Company is preparing to sink two
shafts on its property west and north
of the Warren district.
The mill of the Leviathan Mines
Company is now turning out 40 per
cent molybdenum which is sold at
Yucca at $1,000 per ton.
The Samoan mine, lying south OF
the Lucky Boy east of Chloride, is
soon to be tapped by tunnel 1,400
feet long at a depth of approximately
700 feet.
The Ajo district. located in Pima
county. forty-two miles southwest of
ella Bend. is rapidly coming to the
front as one of Arizona's great mining
centers. The immensity of the ore
bodies developed IN this district ia
phenomenal
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-03-16
WHY THE SHAMROCK is WORN
Custom Not Only In Honor Of the Saint
but In Remembrance Of Days
Of Famine.

Few who put sprig of shamrock
in their buttonhole on the 18th of
March realize that these little green
leaves more than once kept the Irish
from death in dire famine times.
In 1896 the poet Spenser declares
that the war had brought the miser-
able inhabitants of Munster to a point
where they "fock to plot of water
crosses or shamrocks as to a feast"
In his "View of Ireland" he describes
this as the depth of ruin to which a
land formerly having abundant corn
and cattle had been plunged.
The troublous times continued and
the shamrock is mentioned as an ar
ticle of food again and again. Fynes
Morrison, in 1893, writes that the herb
Is still ''being snatched out of the
bitches for food"
Withers In ABUSES Stript and
Whipt" (1613) sings:
And for my clothing in a mantle go
And feed on shamrocks as the Irish doe.
Not until later was the shamrock
used as the national emblem of Erin.
Nathaniel Colgan, member of the
Royal Irish academy, says the earliest
record of the wearing o. the green
is contained in the diary of Thomas
Dinely, who wrote In 1887:
"17th day of March yearly is st.
Patrick, an immovable feast, when the
Irish of all stations, and conditions
wear crosses In their hats, some of
pins, some of green ribbon, and the
vulgar superstitiously wear sham
rogues, three-leaved grass, which they
likewise eat (they say to cause n
sweet breath). The common people
and servants also demand their Pat
rick's groat of their masters, which
they go expressly to town, though half
dozen miles off. to spend, where
sometimes 1t amounts to piece of
eight or "A cobb apiece, and very few
of the jealous are found sober at
night"
A later reference to the wearing of
the shamrock appears in the works of
DR.. Caleb Threlkeld, botanist of the
early eighteenth century. He says
"The people wear the plant in their
hats in commemoration of st. Patrick,
believing that st. Patrick used the
three-lobed leaf to explain the Chris
tian Trinity. This belief is generally
said by antiquarIans to have arisen
in the fourteenth century, almost n
thousand years after the time of Pa
tritius," who died in A. d. 493.
In that year. says the Annale OF
Ulster, "Patritius, the arch-apostle of
the Scott Qrish) rested on the 18th
day of the calends of April March
I'D in the one hundred and twentieth
year of his life, the sixtleth year after
he had come to Ireland to baptize the
Scott"
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-03-16
Colorado.

Three shifts of men are working in
the Fannie Lee. Fryer hill. Leadville.
Silverton districts ore shipments
have shown no let-up through the win.
ter.
Rico shipments in January reached
thirty-five cars of crude ore, or S75
tons.
Two new coal mines are to be
opened on Wolf creek, near Oak
Creek.
No less than six mines in western
section of Cripple Creek sent out ore
in zero weather.
Bartlett tunnel on Sugar Loaf noun
tain, Leadville. is shipping steady
tonnage of silver ore.
The shaft at the Cresson mine has
been given an additional lift of 125
feet, making the shaft 1.765 feet deep
Queen Bess and Black Diamond, on
Tenderfoot hill. are shipping again
quite actively. Ella W., on same hill al.
SO busy.
Lambing placer, near Two-Mile
bridge in Breckenridge gold district is
the location for another big dredge to
be built soon.
Iowa gulch is the location of very
important discovery. asserted to be
the greatest uncovered in Leadville
district in many years.
Both screenings and coarse quartz
shipped by Ocean Wave, Battle noun.
tain milling eoo 70 son chat 80 ha
sunk another hundred feet
Cripple Creek lessees operating
through the Lee and Empire State
shafts shipped thirty-three cars of ore
with bullion value of $12,012.
Eight carloads of ore day are now
being shipped from the Cresson which
means that between $50 and 300 tons
of ore daily is loaded out from the
mine
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-03-16
Bio Increase in oil Inspection.

During 1915 and 1916 James Duce,
state oil Inspector. inspected 45,867,-
COS gallons of gasoline and refined oil
as compared with 29,250.4S1 gallons
for the two preceding years. These
give some idea of the expansion of
the automobile industry in Colorado
They were given in report submitted
to Governor Gunter by the state oil
inspector. The revenues from inspec-
tion increased from s29,254 during the
first biennial period to s45.S67 in the
last two years. The expenses for the
last two years were si5,293. leaving
a balance to the state of $3O,537. The
consumption of gasoline in 1916 was
19,253.000 gallons, an increase of &c
per cent over 1915. The kerosene con-
sumed last year was 5,518.O00 gallons
against 5.994000 gallons In 1915. The
production of crude oil in the state
during the last two years was 1906
coo gallons in the Florence field and
$4,000 gallons in the Boulder field.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-03-16

1T WAS the foundation of st. Pat
rick's greatness that his renova-
ton of Ireland was not a revolu-
ton. He left old institutions and
traditions untouched, wherever they
could be purged of a taint Of SUPER
stition. There were septs and clans,
laws and judges. bards and kings be-
fore him, and they continued after
him. He built his church carefully.
To disarm political opposition he ap-
pealed straight to the heads OF the
clans. He aimed at the creation of
native clergy. He tried to give ev-
cry community place of worship. At
his death 365 churches lay along the
routes his journeys had taken; 365
bishops were distributed throughout
the land, 5000 priests ministered to
the spiritual wants of the nation. He
attempted to throw into the church
thus suddenly created strong element
Of stability by systematizing 1t on the
models of the canons and making &C.
clesiastical law effective In every de-
partment.
He did not believe In sanctity un-
associated with education. Under him
religion created great monasteries, and
monasteries created great schools. BY.
those schools st. Patrick is factor
In the history of Europe. Even be-
fore he went to Ireland he had seen the
days when Ostrogoths established
themselves in Pannonia and Thrace,
when the Vislgoths sacked the Italian
peninsula from end to end and carved
out Spanish kingdom within the do
mains of great Rome, when the Huns
rode their blazing course up the Dam
ube and the Rhine almost to the
ocean; when the yandals terrorized
Spain and crushed the power of the
empire In northern Africa, when the
Salian Franks took firm grip OF north
ern Gaul. His long life stretches over
n period during which the whfrlwind
OF barbaric invasions swept away all
but remnant of the ancient learn
ings. But now the world went to
school to'Ireland, and the Irish brought
| their school to the world. Religion,
the ancient classics law, history, nat
ural science, agriculture, manual
training, the use of implements and
the forge, all came within the scope
of these intense and practical schol-
ars.
Not without reason has the name Of
st. Patrick been held In venerntion
through these many generations.
There Is nowhere teacher whose
services for learning exerted so wide
an influence In time so critical for
all culture. There is nowhere states
man whose activity so completely re-
formed the character Of any people.
There Is nowhere such national hero
whose fame is sounded across fifteen
centuries and can still stir emotions
of enthusiasm far beyond his nations
shores. There is nowhere a saint
whose teachings are blended like his
with the destinies of his nation.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-03-16
Find Woman Guilty Of Perjury.

Buena Vista.-Mary Lena Vaughn.
ii pretty 20-year-old woman, who was
tried in the District Court here os a
jury after being out only two hours.
Mrs. Vaughn. according to the evil
dence. committed perjury at the July
term of the District Court, held here.
when she was battling for alimony,
during the suit OF her husband for
divorce.