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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-20
MRS. STRAIGHT GETS Sc. 900. 900.

Mincola, n Y, Dec 20--Major vii.
lard d. Straight, the young fnancier and
diplomat, who died Of pneumonia recently
IN service, left the bulk of his fortune,
approximating s5,O00,OOO, to bis wife,
Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight, re-
questing that certain mutual agreements
for financing and aiding certain institutions
be observed
Financial support for the New Re-
public magazine, which Major Straight
helped to found, is requested during Mrs
Straight's lifetime and for ten years after
her death II is also requested that his
widow do such thing or things for Cornell
University"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-20
Sore Throat Prudence

Your medicine shelf is not well stocked
without bottle of TONSILINE, for you
don & know what moment it may be needed
to relieve a sudden case of Sore Throat.
Relieving Sore Throat is TONSIIJNE'S
special mission 1t ia made for that-ad-
sertised for that-eold for that one purpose.
TONSIl-NE is the National Sore Throat
Remedy. 1t is sold in every State in the
Union. You will need TONSHJNE x~
one of these days, or some night IN
when the drug store is closed
better have bottle ready at home h
when you need it most. 25c. and ,1
SOC. Hospital Size, 800 Your I'll
druggist sells TONSILINE. ~
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-20
Good Resolution TO Break

OF course YOU have made UP Your
mind Just as people often do that there
will bc no Christmas at our house
this wear Well there should be and.
as usual, there will Charleston
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-20
Oar Cheerful Credit Plan

viii help many people to realize
their hearts desires. All comforts
and conveniences that YOU once wished
for you can get. No need to sacrifice
any OF them because of lack of funds.
This We make possible by our Cheerful
Credit Plan, enabling you to get
clothes for the entire family on easy,
convenient payments.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
roo MUCH For LOCOMOTIVE
British "7'ank" Not Easy 20 Push
From the Track, as One Troop
Train Discovered.

"Our work on the light railroads"
writes lieutenant in the Fourteenth
engineers, els becoming more fasci-
mating as we get deeper into it. The
volume of traffic is constantly in
creasing, and at the present time we
are able to handle little but ammuni-
ton and supplies Car shortage
seems to be or chief difficulty.
'We have considerable trouble
with tanks crossing our tracks at
the most unexpected places, and you
can imagine what it does to our
track. One night recently one Of
our troop trains struck a tank
which was crossing the track without
lights. The train came to dead
stop, the impact throwing the EN-
gineer and fireman out on the
ground, slightly stunning them. The
tank, however, did not stop, but con-
tlnued on its way, and as soon as
it cleared the track, up starts the en-
CINE, breaking away with one car,
and before anyone realized what had
happened was running wild down
the hill, After running wild cou-
pie Of miles she turned over in the
ditch. Fortunately, no one was seri-
ously injured.
"The tanks certainly are wonder
full machines. There is not much left
of the barbed wire entanglements
when they get through with them.
So far the Germans have not made
use of them. Railway Age.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
TO INCREASE FOOD SUPPLY
Stimulation of Production Is a Matter
to Which All Nations Are Giving
Their Attention.

Efficiency work in the future will
be applied to the earth itself as well
as to its inhabitants, and increasing
population will make necessary the
utmost stimulation of food produc-
ton, as well as such change in prod
ucts as will give the greatest nutri-
tive value from the area cultivated.
The sea as we'll as the land will be
coaxed to greater yield. Food from
the sea is notably important to the
British isles and DR.. E. j. Allen
finds that Britain's fisheries claim
4711a per cent of the value of all fish
landed in Europe, the share of
France being 10 per- cent, Norway
10 per cent and Germany and Hol-
land only Z per cent each. The fish
ing area of the British steam trawl-
ers has been extended until it reach
es northward to the Faroes, Iceland,
the Barents sea, and the White sea,
and southwark through the Bay Of
Biscay to the banks Of the coast of
Morocco. 1t may be expected that
scientific methods Will add greatly to
the productiyeness Of this great area.
In the North sea, the annual yield
is not more than IS pounds of fish
per acre, worth about 35 cents; but
the catches of fishermen in inclosed
harbors rise to 80 pounds per acre
per year, and fresh-water carp ponds
produce as much as IS pounds. Mus
sci beds yield 10000 pounds annual
ly per acre, or about $40. On cult
waited land, it is added, young bull
locks give an average annual value
of 70 pounds Of beef per acre.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
SOLDIERS WIFE KEPT HOME
British Judge Refused to Elect Fam
lily Because Rent for House
Was Overdue.

William Freeman of Remington
Road, applied at Lambeth County
court for possession of house oc-
cupied by John Barnard O'Reilly
and his wife. He stated that rent
amounting to 1854 was owing.
Judge Hodges Ito Mrs. O'Reilly)
Where is your husband?
Mrs. O'Reilly-In the trenches.
She added that her income was
half what it was before the war, and
that she had lived in the house with
her mother 30 years, and since she
was married, IA years ago.
The Judge Ito Freeman)-And
now you are wanting to turn these
people out after all these years, while
the husband is fighting for you?
Freeman-There is large
amount of rent owing, and | want
possession of the house.
The Judge-Tf it had not been for
this man and the likes Of him you
would not have any house at all. l
will not make mn order for the pos
session of any house against a man
fighting for his country.-Lloyd's
News, London.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
WILD FLOWERS UNDER GLASS
Their Proper Development and Pro-
duction Being Given Attention by
the Government.

The flowers that bloom in the
spring, though never lacking appre-
citation, have not hitherto been culti-
vated-the familiar wild flowers,
that is to say. But it is beginning
to be different.
"Double" buttercups of several va
rieties are now being grown in green
houses and are in much demand. Be
fore long, doubtless, the dandelion
will be cultivated. There is no rea-
son why it might not be developed
into magnificent bloom six inches
in diameter, with curly, golden pet
ais. The original wild chrysanthe-
mum was hardly bigger than the
dandelon of today.
Indeed, dandelions are already
cultivated in New England, though
only as a spring vegetable. I'M
proved field daisies are now grown
on large scale in hothouses, and in
winter fetch high price at the
florists.
The government plant bureau has
recently found out how to grow the
trailing arbutus' (most admired of
all spring flowers) under glass, and
before long its cultivated blooms
will be on the market in winter.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13

lem court recently. The charge was
that Mr.. Sessa, who keeps a station
cry store in Harlem, sold a package
Of cigarettes to a boy eleven years
old. Don't you know better than to
do thing of this kind" asked the
court. "Thees boy" explained the de-
PENDANT, ''hees chew tobac maybe two
year. I toP heem hees no right for
do dis Thees day he come an
t'row away big pieca chew tobac. He
says cigarette ess bettera for de
stomache. | theenk so, too, so joos
for help out l soP dees to heem."
ooh, you did ?" said the court, 'well,
the records show that you sold Gig
arettes to a minor last year and were
fined $25. What have you got to
say to that?'' ''Joos like l say" an
swered the oppressed Mr.. Sessa,
''thata boy what you mean, hees
smoke big cigars ever since he BEN
two years old. Even hees mama she
ees glad when I sell for heem on'y
cigarette" After which the pre-
server of Harlem's boyhood was held
in $500 for trial.-New York Sun.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
STOPS TOOL IN REVOLUTION
Operation of Safety Brake on Motor
Prevents Injury by Automatically
Shutting Off Current.

According to the publication,
Safety, electric tools are generally
provided with very powerful motors,
in order that they may be capable OF
performing the heaviest work en-
countered. AS long as the work is
satisfactory, no trouble is expert
enced; but once the bit or drill sticks
or binds the powerful motor immedi-
ately causes the entire tool to re-
volve, with oftentimes injury to the
user. To overcome this danger a
new safety brake has been recently
introduced. This brake is composed
of a special switch and connections,
including a small resistance. Its
purpose is to shut off automatically
the current and at the same time
throw in the resistance in order to
cause a powerful magnetic braking
effect. When, for any reason, the
operators hand is removed from the
handle, the brake stops the revolving
tool in less than one revolution, thus
rendering it harmless. The tool can
not become unmanageable, as imme-
diately upon the release Of the
switch, either by the operator let
ting it go or the handle being jerked
out Of his hands, the device shuts off
the current and stops the tool.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
PREFER TO LIVE IN WlLDS
Trappers and Fishers In Canada FIRE.
quentIy Men of Education and
intellectual Ability.

The white trapper of Canada is
another fiction-ideal gone glimmer-
ing, declares Harry W, Langley. In
Rod and Gun in Canada, he writes;
"And a word about the white trap
per's personality in passing. We are
likely to imagine parsonage of the
type described in the dime novels Of
a decade ago, stunning his kind
when possible and speaking strange
vernacular, who lives in a den in the
wilderness, reeking in rags and filth.
But the more modern pioneers of
the North are on the frontier from
choice, as Boone and Crockett were,
and have carried there the imprint
of their earlier environments.
"a man who was a short time ago
a mining engineer in the employ Of
the Mexican government, trapped
last winter on the headwaters Of
the Paddle river. Another who had
won his sheepskin is trader far
Their down; while if one passes the
falls of the lower Peace he may find,
contentedly fishing from a bark
canoe in the quiet waters around the
mouth of the Little Red river man
who, after ten years in the wilder
ness, still fakes the classics on an
old, one-lunged guitar.
"Why are they here? God knows.
Certainly not from necessity"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
STAND AT TYPEWRITERS.

Officials in the French army do
not believe that the most efficient
service is obtained from members of
the military clerical force when the
latter sit at their desks practically
all day without interruption, says
Popular Mechanics Magazine. Ac-
cordingly the French government is
said to have installed, for the use of
army clerks, typewriter stands so
made that each machine is alternate
ly raised and lowered each half hour.
Under this arrangement the most
sedentary individuals are compelled
to stand while doing part of each
days work. The innovation is re-
ported to have proved very beneficial.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
wILDcAT-PoLEcAT DUEL FATAL.

The hides Of a great wildcat and a
skunk, taken from the two animals
after they practically had killed one
another in a fight, are being ex-
hibited by Joel Townsend of Upper
Hopewell, N. Y. Townsend, who
witnessed the death combat between
the animals, says it was the most
ferocious battle he ever witnessed.
Because of the scarcity of natural
food in their mountain haunts there
is an unusually large number of
wildcats near the settlements about
the foothills Of the Fishkill noun
tains, and it probably was hunger
that drove the wildcat to attack the
skunk, which was feasting on a car
cass Of chicken stolen from a near
by barnyard.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
TURN TO AMERICAN MUSIC
Singers Beginning to Realize That
Harmony Need Not Necessarily
Be "Made in Germany"

For the last so years or more the
American public has been taught to
believe that a successful song recital
would be impossible without the mu-
sic of Schubert, Schumann and
Brahms. To sing Schubert and
Schumann became a fetish with con-
cert and recital singers. The people
who cared little or nothing at all for
music they could not appreciate or
understand, were nevertheless COM
PEELED to swallow it, even though
sugar coated. Excuses made to APP
pease the public were to the effect
that the musical cupboard was bare
without them. Now that public sem
timent, aroused by the war, has COM
PEELED recitalists to set aside their
ultra-German songs and substitute
something else, they have gotten
busy and have found a wealth of
good material, much of which is by
American composers, and American
in sentiment, the Des Moines Capt.
tai observes. Now it is found to be
good enough to sing, by even such
singers as Schumann-Heink and
other foreigners, and has convinced
our musical nincompoops that have
fawned and spooned over everything
foreign, that we have something in
our music worth while after all.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
MONGOLlAN TRADING.

The manner of buying and paying
for Mongolian produce is unique,
Mongolia is still divided into tribes,
and most of the tribal business is
done by chiefs or princes. 1t is GUS
tomary to make contracts in ad-
vance with the princes for any large
quantity of goods, and the princes
collect from their subjects the things
that are desired. These contracts
may be guaranteed by the central
government at Urga, which consists
of a ministry of five men, including
the head lama of Mongolia. 1t is
said that no contract guaranteed by
the central government has ever been
broken, and very few of the contracts
With princes without the guaranty.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
FILIPINO SCHOOL CENSUS.

The latest school census in the
Philippines shows that there are
about 100000 Filipino children at
tending school. For them there are
1000 native teachers and 500
American instructors. When the
United States took hold of education
in the islands there were 800 Ameri-
can teachers. At first the Philippine
teachers assumed charge of the pri-
mary work, then the intermediate,
and now some are teaching in the
high schools.-Argonaut.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
START AN AQUARIUM.

For the woman who is fond of ma
ture there can be no ornament in
the living room that will give more
pleasure and interest than the aqua
rum. As a rale, the square OF rect
angular aquarium is better than the
round, because it allows the fish
more different direction of move
ment in swimming. Remember, in
choosing the size, that each fish
should be allowed one gallon of wa
ter. 1t never pays to overcrowd.
Better results may be had by having
two or three varieties of fish in the
same aquarium than by too many
fish of one kind. Pebbles are pref
cradle to sand for covering the bot
tom of the aquarium, as they do not
collect the dirt and become foul
smelling. The aquarium should be
placed on the light side of the room,
but not in direct sunlight, as a thin
green scum will grow on the glass
and render it much harder to keep
the aquarium clean.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
PAPER FROM BARK OF TREES
Was Largely Used in Siam Before the
Country Began to Import the
Cheap Foreign Grades.

Siam now buys considerable guam
titles Of foreign-made paper, but
there was time when a fair guam
tity Of paper was made in that coun-
try. Imports of cheap foreign pa
per-" says Vice Consul Carl G. Han
sen of Bangkok, in a report made
public by the department of COM
merce, "have almost caused this in
dustry to disappear. In the local
paper making the bark of the khoi
tree (Streblus aspera), which grows
wild in upper Siam, was made use
of. The making of paper from this
bark is said to be original with the
Siamese, but this paper, however, is
a sort of cardboard, and was chiefly
used for making folded record books,
while the leaves Of the TALBOT palm
were especially prepared and in
scribed with the sacred Buddhistic
writings in the Cambodian charac-
ters in southern Siam and in the
Laos Pail characters in northern
Siam. Most of the universities in the
United States possess copies of these
interesting books, the best specimens
Of which are gilt-edged and inclosed
In beautiful gold-lacquered covers"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
WEALTHY INDIAN,

One dollar and ten cents a dav.
the pay for bugler i'll the Three
Hundred and Fiftieth machine gun
battalion at Camp Grant, is barely
Cigarette money" for Sidney Ker.
nal, a half-breed Creek Indian from
Muskogee, Okla, who at the end Of
each-2 hours adds SLY to his bank
account as income from oil land roy.
alties. He is the richest man in his
division.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
TOMMY's WOUNDS.

First Gossip-Mrs. Smiths boy
is wounded.
Second Gossip-Wotl The one
wot was detested last November as a
garrison home beauty?
First Gossip-The very one.
Second Gossip-H'ml Wot sort
of wound?
First Gossip-Discussion of the
brain caused by how it 'urts yer
hel.'--London Tit-Bits.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
NICE, JUICY CAMEL MEAT.

Hard times in Germany OCCASION
ally bring unexpected good luck, as
the inhabitants of Zwichau in Sax
ony recently found. Hagenbeck, the
well-known animal trainer of Ham
burg, recently went there to show his
menagerie, but he did not "strike
the hay" because there was dearth
of that article. In short, there was
nothing to feed the camels, and for
that reason four Of them were sold
at auction. A thrifty 'horse butch
er" secured the prizes and sold the
meat across his counters. "The camel
meat" says the report, "found ready
sale. 1t is said to taste like beef, but
is much more juicy"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
A PROOF TO THE CONTRARY.

"The Germans appear to have
taken all the starch out of the Rus
slams"
"Why, I have just been reading
where the latter are making a stiff
resistance"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
COATING ALUMINIUM.

By new electroplating process,
aluminium can be coated with nickel,
silver, copper or other metal. The
process can be applied to sheets, rods,
wire, tubing, etc, and to aluminium
alloys in castings or worked prod
ucts. With nickel plating, hard,
beautiful finish, taking fine non
furnishing polish, is given, while the
aluminium is much strengthened,
with no great addition to its weight.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
IN PATRIOTIC AGREEMENT.

"You and Zeb Spicer don't argue
as much as you used to-"
NO." replied Farmer Corntossel.
"This fight for world democracy has
put zed in line to be perfectly cor
rect in his political opinions for the
first time in his life"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
HIS OPINION.

"Good morning, judge. Tell me.
sir, what do you think will be the
outcome of the war;"
"Ah, how do you do, Lesterl My
opinion, as you have been kind
enough to ask it, is that the case will
be continued for a time, and then
Germany viii be convicted on the
charge of disorderly conduct" -
Kansas City Star.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
PUT ON THE BRAKES.

"Met your new neighbors, have
you? What kind of people are
they?"
"Newly rich and sporty, They
know the parts of an auto better
than the parts of speech. Boston
Transcript.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
FINE FOR THE FACE.

eve are using artificial pies in all
our comedies now" said the motion
picture producer.
"That's patriotic thing to do"
dyes, and we get better. results
with limitations than we used to get
with the real article. Our property
man has invented a pie that smears
magnifcentlv."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
MIXED WAR TALK.

"Pa, are all those young doctors
in the hospital where we were Ger
man prisoners2"
"0f course not, my boy. why dc
you ask that?"
Because somebody said they were
internes."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
THERE'S A REASON.

The lady of the house, engaging a
new cook, expressed the wish that if
Fido came into the kitchen he should
be kindly treated there.
ooh, yes, ma'am," replied the
cook. E1'll be good to him; indeed.
| always believes in making friends
with the dogs-they save SO much
dishwashing!"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
AN EASY WAY.

"The Prussian minister Of war
says he does not know what the
Americans are capable of doing"
Swell, if he's very curious to
know, all he has to do is to join one
of those surprise attacks on them,
and he'll soon find out"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
GOVERNMENT PIANOS.

In order that all industries in
Italy may be national, that kingdom
is setting up a piano factory de-
signed on the best American and
French models. Before the war the
piano trade was nearly all in the
hands of Germans.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
HANK, THE YAPHANK zap.

Examining 0fficer-And why did
you assault the sentry in this brutal
fashion?
Private Hank (late of the gas
house gahgJ-Well, de guy SEE he
challenges lie, SO l busts him one in
de jaw.-Jester.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
SERIOUS WORK.

dad, l want to go in for war
work"
"All right, girl. But, remember it
means something more than just get
ting your picture in the papers," p
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
PLEA THAT FAILED TO SAVE
Argument Put Forth by New York To-
bacconist Was Ingenious but
Seemingly Not Convincing.

Every time that Angelo Sessa tries
to aid mankind in his own modest
way he is arrested upon some
trumped-up charge that he says does
him no end of injustice. The result
naturally is that he is just about
through with uplift work, and he
made this perfectly clear in the Har-
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
QUICK CHOICE.

"1'll grant you three Wishes" de-
clared the good fairy.
CHATS easy. I'll take a ton Of
coal, a bag of sugar and barrel Of
flour" -Louisyille Courier-Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
A BLACK SHEEP.

"Baa, baa, black sheep, have you
any wool?''
eyes, sir; yes, sir, three bags
full. Pm also boarding sugar and
SALT" she charlottesville Cour-
ier-Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
CHANGING coeNoMENs.

$50 they're calling sauerkraut now
Liberty cabbage"
81 suppose next thing they'll be
calling dancing the german a Lib
erty trot."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
DOMESTIC cAmouFLAeE.

"Mrs. Riley is Dragging about hav-
ing her husband in the trenches"
so she has He's down the street
now fixing gas pipes"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13
HIS AFFAIR.

'I'm in love"
elias Cupid's arrow pierced your
hearth"
"This is a big affair. I've been
shelled with trench mortars." Lou
isville Courier-J ournal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-06-13

Howe-That Mrs. Bisque is
bridge engineer.
Wise-You don't mean it.
@Howe-I certainly do. She has
engineered a good many bridge par
ties.