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The Sentinel=record., 1918-02-03
HOME SERVICE
 WORK IS BEGUN
ORGANIZATION BEGINS TO LOOK AFTER WELFARE OF TAMIL IFS OF SOLDIERS GONE
 TO WAR.

Mr A E. Rhine. chairman Of the
 Home SerV-ee Section of Hot Springs
 Red Cross chapter. announces that
 hls section Is prepared to give full and complete information in regard
 to the War Insurance Bill recently
 enacted by congress. The National
 American Red Cross has sent all nec-
 essary information 10 the local chap i ter and will send all future rulings
 of the government department as the,
 are made. Every family having d
 soldier or sailor in our c3untry's ser | vice will be interested in this bill, as t provides funds for the dependents
 or soldier, makes provision for cheap government insurance to be paid 10
 the beneficiary named by the soldier
 and arrange for the payment of fixed
 sum of money to the soldier and to
 his dependents should he be injured
 or ma'med while in the country's ser vice
 For example, q privae who has wife and two children would nave to allot $500 (half of his pay) for their support On his doing that, the goy- ernment will give separation allow ance of $500 for the wife, 5000 for the first oh Id and $750 for the sec ond, The soldiers allotment added
 to the government separation allow ance would bring $47.50 regularly each .montn to his dependents He cannot be compelled to make aLotments to his mother, father, sister or brother, but If he voluntarily makes such al lotment, the government in some cases will make a separate allow ance for such dependents.
 A member of the Home Service Section will be at the committee of flee at the Como Trust Company every day from l:30 to ,. prepared to give information on this bill The Home Service Section is about to send a letter to all the families in this county having members of it in the war, tell ing them that this advise is avail able.
 This is a splendid piece ot work on tho part Of our chapter as the provisions of this War Insurance Bill arc so intricate, that some families may not secure the benefits of it's operation without this very necessary advice.
 The members of the Home Service l Section are; 4. E. Rhine, chairman; Mrs. J H. Chestnut. secretary; Dr. 1 John s Wood, Mrs, Stella Van Dyke, l Miss Edith Katz Mrs Al Bailey and | Miss Aafton Williams. Judge C T ! Gotham and MT Barry Randolph have l volunteered their services as legal l advisers to the committee.
 The Home Service Section will hold | an open meeting next Monday even ing at 8 at the Red Cross headquar 1 ters. Those interested in social ser vice are particularly invited At that meeting the scope and the poss.bili- ties of Home Service will be eX- plained in an effort 10 organize q Home Service Training Class. Such work Will create an opportunity for serious minded young women to be of great service in their community Goth in times of peace and of war At the present hour their services are especially needed If you are interested come to the meeting neXt Monday night
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TO THE PUBLIC.

The firm of Brey and Chilcott has this day been dissolved MT Louis Breys interest having been purcheG by Earl S Sauls, and the firm will be known as Sauls and Chiicutt. The new firm assumes all indebtedness and win collect all outstanding ac- counts
 LOUIS G BREY,
 CLAUDE CHTLCUTT Hot Springs, Ark. Feb l. 1918
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NOTICE

Judge c. T, Gotham, candidate for circuit judge, leaves for Montgomery county this morning O inaugurate his campaign, requests US to an nounce that he has effected arrange ments with Judge A. Curl to have charge of his office and to attend to his business during his absence from the city. It
The Sentinel=record., 1918-02-03
Williams Kidney and Liver PiH.

Have you overworked your nervons system and caused trouble with your kidneys and liverf Have you pains in iolus, side and back2 Have you a habby appearance Of the face and under the eyeA7 If 80. use WILLIAMS KIDNEY AND LIVER PILLS. For aale by all druggists. Price 50 cents., WILLIAMS MFG. cO.. Props. Cleveland, 0ha
The Sentinel=record., 1918-02-03

For corsage bouquets, see Johnson Floral Co Tel Gl8W, l-26-tf
The Sentinel=record., 1918-02-03

See Alanhatlans Tn ''The Hills of Arkansas" al the Grand Monday night.
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LOUIS c, BREY.

See lManhattans in "The Hills ot at the Grand Monday night.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Couperus S ''Adriaan'

DIR. ADRIAN. BY Louis Coreerus. Translated
32l. Dodd. Mead & Co.
To the optimistic mind, this fourth
will seem the best volume of all the
series of "Books Of Small Souls" That
is because it is devoted chiefly to the
growth of one of those souls, or of one
among them, into greatness. The
family was not altogether degenerate,
The Van Lowe blood was not utterly
exhausted. There was saving rem
nant in this one, and to the portrayal
of him and mis- ascending progress Mr..
Couperus devotes his exceptional abili-
ties with fine success. There is much
that is sombre and there is not little
that is tragic in the tale, and there is
a burden of psychological analysis that
may seem wearisome to the mere
seeker after entertainment. Again
there are long passages Of nothing but
dialogue, drawn out to an all but inter-
minable length. Through it all, how
ever, there runs an ethnic strain Of
humanity, which invests it with COM
pelling interest.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
A Grub Street Romance

HIS GRACE OF GRUB STREET. By 9. v. Nc
Fadden. l2mo, pp 3ll. The John Lane Com-
pany.
O1dtime romances, particularly tnose
30 Tho seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
+,,r;es are often marred with one Oh
+yo faults. Either there is too strained
an attempt at reproduction OF what Is
c,,r,osod to have been the speech OF
those davs. with most stilted and IAN
tastic result, or there is no such at
tomnt at all, and men and women OF
century or two ago are made to talk ex-
act,v as do those of to-day, with an
equally unsatisfactory result. IL IS
gratifying to record that in the pres
en+ work Miss McFadden has fallen
nrev to neither Scylla nor Charybdls,
Int has written in style which IS en-
tirelv easv and natural, and which yet
has the unmistakable SAVIOR of the olden
dars in which the action of her ro-
nance is placed.
The tale itself, apart from the man
ner of it's telling, is eminently interest
mo. It deals with the aspirations OF
gallant and generous Grub Street scrib-
Bier. an intriguing and venomous spy, a
wealthy patron of the arts and a brave
and womanly heroine. The action is
.pvnoditlous. the motives are plausible,
The dialogue is briskly fluent, and the
entanplements and unravcllings of the
somewhat intricate plot are pleasantly
marked with dramatic surprise. 1t IS q
thoroughly interesting ard delightful
work.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30

study and to observe as those of their
brothers.
Miss Havard, who is herself an Of
ficer's daughter, living at an army post,
has here given charmingly natural
and lifelike account Of the feelings and
the action of girl who is the daughter
of one soldier and the sister of an
other, when her adored brother is
called to active service in France, and
is captured by the Germans. She dis
closes the very heart of her heroine,
which is brave little heart, as it needs
to be to fight the battles which fate
forces upon her. There is fine avoid
ance of the artificial childlness, of the
over er-sentimentality and of the exagger-
alton which are too common faults of
chldren's books, and thus a literary
style is formed which is not at all
above the child and not at all below the
adult. 1t is, we believe, Miss Havard's
first venture in book form. 1t is Ger
tainly so successful as to forecast much
pleasure for the reading public, young
and old, in her further efforts.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
The Quest Of Happiness

THE I., MERRY HEART BY Helen Raymond Abbott
tury Company.
One of the keenest yet kindest critics
we ever knew had an insuperable OBJ
lection to the word Wholesome" used
in any sense; but at the risk of the
displeasure of his revered shade we
are inclined to apply that word to the
book before us, and to do so not in its
ordinary sense, but in dual senses, the
one archaic and the other provincial.
We mean that it is healthy, vital.
clean; and as such it is much to be
commended. But it is also more than
that. 1t is deft and penetrating
study of phases of New England life,
which are real and which ares i'm
portant in the psychology and the
sociology of that important part of the
nation. In its delineation of character
of speech and of action, it is very true
to New England ifc. The plot, if so
we may call it, is simple but not lack
ing in interest, and the appeal to hu-
man sympathy is strong. AS an au-
thor's first work, we must regard it as
exceptionally full of promise. Indeed,
it would be praiseworthy as the mature
work of a practised writer.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
For Creeping Flesh
A Mystery Story Full Of First
Rate Thrills

THE MAN WITH THE CLUB FOOT. BY valen
tine Williams. l2mo. pp 1928. Robert NJ. Nc
Bride Il Co.
The next time you browse in a book
shop or circulating library, tired, not
wanting to be instructed or worried by
problems, but just seeking entertain
ment, try "The Man with the Club
Foot" 1t will convert even the Philis-
tine who "hates detective or mystery
stories" The man who buys such
books and then throws them aside af
ter the third chapter with weary
sigh and the exclamation 81 can always
tell after the first thirty pages how
they will turn out!" viii! not subject
this book to such treatment. lie will
be SO engrossed in trying to discover
what can possibly happen next that he
will more than likely incur the dis
pleasure of the Fuel Administrator for
burning the midnight oil.
The story is simple enough. Des
mond Okewood, captain of the British
army, invalided home to recuperate
from wounds, suddenly gains posses
sion of a mysterious paper which he
believes is a message from his brother
Francis, spy, who has been swallowed
up and lost in darkest Germany. The
message is cryptic and its translati on
bit farfetched, but it LEAFS to enough
excitement to Keep the reader enter
tanned for 366 pages. Okewood is un-
able to obtain accommodations at the
large hotel in Rotterdam where he
seeks them and is sent bv the German
porter, who mistakes him for Ger
Germans. Here he meets the mysteri-
Gus DR.. Semlin, and we come upon the
oic device of pers )nal resemblance.
The story moves so rapidly that de-
vices old or new are secondary to the
interest it excites DR.. Semlin dies at
the door of Okewood's room and Oke-
wood becomes, to all outward intents
and purposes, DR.. Semlin. With the
credentials Of that worthy he starts to
find his brother. The chase takes him
into Germany, brings him in contact
with that mysterious person, The Man
with the Club Foot, and into the pres
ence of the Kaiser himself. 1t is not
fair to disclose anything more, but
there is really thrill to every page
and something happening all the time
OF course, the tale is impossible; but
who wants a possible mystery story :?
vim and go that the reader is whirled
along, engrossed, and not at all con-
cerned with probabilities. A book for a
rainy night, when you are tired and
want to be amused; but if you are a
woman you will be afraid to press the
button and turn out the light when you
have finished
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Book ks: Auth ors:
Hearts Of New England
Mary f. Wilkins Freeman at
Her est

EpFGEmATER F5asman ;r,I, PEOPLE BY Mary E. wilkin.
Harper & Brothers.
People, not places, are the thc me-
True, there are -four .illages described
in these dozen short stores-we detest
that non-describins phrase, but can
find in the Thesaurus no substitute
with all their indvidual peculiarities,
so perfectly that. we can see them
even with our eyes open. We breathe
their air, we 49, Il, their streets, we
talk with the 'ople, we feel the
radical differe. amor g them. But
above all we realize thai it is the peo-
pie who make the villages, that give
them their individuantcs, that accent
uate their differences. So it is fitting
that we find these Ecgewater People to
be the members f the various branches
of the Edgewate. Family, and not mere
ly people dwelling in place of that
name.
In was in her pc trayal of New Eng
land village folk that Miss Wilkins first
won distinction in the realm of letters.
1T is IN precisely that same work that
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
From Ranch to Salon

OR. EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS.
By Nina Wilcox Putnam and Norman JacoDsen
illustrated l2mo. ID. l73. The ]. B. Lppincott
Company.
The breezy and sometimes extrava-
CANT tale of "a girl from a California
ranch who "breaks into" fashionable
metropolitan society Her arlstocratlc
aunt. whom she is visiting is at first
unspeakably shocked at her unconven-
tional behavior but the native wit. the
GOOD heart and the aggressive patriot
'sm of the girl win favor at the end;
# is an amusing tale, we'll calculate
to hold the readers attention from
start to finish.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Romances by Miss wilkins,
Miss Harraden and Others
By Willis Fletcher Johnson

a dawning appreciation OF the beauty
and worth of spiritual treasures; with
material disaster and spiritual victory
both eliminating in the ultimate
eTent.
1t is a more extended and elaborate
work than "Ships That Pass in the
Night" and it displays a more ma
ture and confident style without any
loss of originality and spontaneity
Indeed, it possesses all the fine quail
ties of Miss Harraden's former works
with the added wealth which accrues
from sympathetic observation and
fruitful experience. 1t is marked with
delightful vein of humor. which does
not in the least clash with it's haunt
ing pathos and irretrievable tragedy;
and with that intense humanity which
is always irresistible in its appeal to
interest. If it seems to lack some ele-
merts of popularity, so much the
worse for the popular taste. 1t would
be most auspicious thing if romances
Of this fine quality could infallibly
rank among the "best sellers" not only
of the week but Of the year and of all
time
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30

Mrs. Freeman here reappears at her
very best. Never has she done more
perfect work than in this volume, and
never has she been truer to the tri-
umphant principle OF her exquisite art
She simply tells story, apparently
just for the story's sake. The charac-
ters and the incideA do all the rest.
Local COLOR is developed, people are
chologically analyzed, social PROP
lens are discussed and solved, all with
out the slightest appearance of trying
to do those things. The things do them
selves, just as in real life, and we, de-
lighted and enraptured, stand by to see
the working of real life and not the
artifice of never-so -deft a workman. 1t
is q marvellous treat that the author
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Grewsomely Great.

WE OTHERS. BY Henri Barbusss Translated
by FItzwater Wray. l2mo. pp. ga. Z. Z. Dut-
Nobody of all the multitudes who
read his "Under Fire" will dispute the
extraordinary talent of Mr.. Barbuss
particularly in the realistic portrayal
of poignant passions and strong dra-
matte crises. In the present volume his
ability in that same direction is again
powerfully displayed. We cannot help
admiring it, as unsurpassed in our day,
at least since the pens of Maupassant
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Chance Adventures

THE LAWS OF CHANCE BY z. f Mills Young
l2mo. pp. 30s Tho John Lane Company.
The story of a young man who goes
to seek his fortune in the British colo
nies and on the voyage to Capetown
makes chance acquaintance destined
to transform and control the whole
tenor of his life. Other interesting ac-
quaintances are made in South Africa,
and there are some dramatic scenes at
the diamond mines and on the garroo.
Miss Mills Young knows her South
Africa and reproduces its "ocal color"
with good effect in a tale of more than
ordinary interest.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
A Soldier S Sister
The Heart of Things at an Army
Post in War Time

Aline Hazard. illustrated. limo. pp. 236. The
Penn Publishing Company.
This volume in the "Army Girl
Series" is intended, as we are told, for
reading by girls of from ten to fifteen
years. We should hope that they would
be interested in it. But we should also
be greatly disappointed if girls-and
boys, too-of from fifteen to eighty,
were not equally interested in it. 1t
touches upon phase Of the war which
has not hitherto been much exploited.
We have heard much about the impress
sions produced upon boys by the war,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Gems of Great Price
Beatrice Harradens S Psycho-Pa-
triotic Romance
WHERE YOUR HEART IS BY Beatrice Harra
l.Inn 90 Da.Id Mad X Co

WHERE YOUR HEART IS BY Beatrice Hara-
den. limo. pp. S67 Dodd. Mead & Co.
Any romance by the author of
"ShIps That Pass III the Night" might
be expected to display q certain quail
ty which many superhcially mistake
for morbidness, but which is in fact
entirely natural and healthful. 1t
might be impossible to define it in a
word or phrase. but it may be de-
material fate, in which the latter is
materially and the former is spirit
ually victorious. In the earlier work
which we have recalled we saw pure
heart-love beating in vain against the
barriers of q hopeless physical malady,
though the barriers were equally fu-
tile to destroy the passion. In the
present work we have a sordid, selfish
love of material gems in opposition to
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30

and Bierce were stilled. Yet we can
not help shuddering, too, at the ap-
palling grewsomeness of some of these
brief tales. 1t is a grewsomeness, too,
unrelieved by humor or playful fancy.
They are called stories of Fate, Love
and Pity, and they are; but Fate IS
dominant and all pervadlng, and 1t Is
generally fate of gloom and terror.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
p III bli S n ers-N G w S:

gives us in this volume; such as in !
fidelity to truth and therefore to
beauty has been surpassed by no other
chronicler of New England's heart.
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28

Smyrna can never do without a gas
plant. Residences and business places
are dependent upon it. While it
would be ideal for the Town of Smyr-
ma to own and operate it, and the op-
portunity is ripe now for them to ac-
quire it, it must be continued by some
body. There is regret that so strong
and able a Company as the Frost Gas
Company IS to let go of the plant but
if this is decreed surely some individ-
ual or Company can take it over and
continue this old and established con-
cern. Smyrna cannot do without a
gas plant.
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28

THE SMYRNA TIMES is an Independent paper
devoted 10 the welfare of the town it repre-
sents and the State of which it is a part. 1t
also gives the items of importance of the East
ern Shore of Maryland
ADVERTISEMENTS-THE SMYRNA TIMES is the
business medium not only for the town it rep
resents, but for the outlying district of which it
is the centre, embracing the towns of Clayton,
Kenton, CheswOld, Townsend, Leipsic, &c.
rate of 80 cents an inch for first insertion and
25 cents for each subsequent insertion will be
charged for transient advertising. Locals and
Reading Notices, 10 cents per line per issue.
A special discount on all semi-snnual and
yearly advertisements.
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28

The dog question in Smyrna needs
to be handled. Is there not someway
the law can be enforced? Why not
tax dogs and with the revenue hire
someone to enforce an ordinance.
Taxing dogs is ridding the Maryland
towns of worthless ours and if the
law works we'll on the Eastern Shore
it surely should here.
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28

The Clayton News published by the
Clipper Printing Co,with Milton Haw-
kins as the managing editor came
to our desk last week looking clean
and bright. The News with a patent
inside, has selected Friday as its pub
lication day.
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28

-Telel1hOne. No. 10
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28

Poles. 2 Good Wagons. . Riggings. Dayton
Milk Wagon. Runabout Buggy, Grindstone,
Cross-Cut Saw, Cow Chains. Half Bushel Mea-
sure. Chains. Barrels. Good Feed Boxes,
Feed Trough. Asparagus Packer and three
knives. Grape Clippers. Collars. Brides. sets
of Wagon Harness, Plow Harness, set of Car
riage harness. Horse Clippers. Wagon Jack
Seed Sower. Wheelbarrow, Feed Cutter. Hedge
Clippers. , Bramble Scythes, Cow Sprayer
Hand Saw. Brace and Bits, Hoes. ShOvels,
Spades, Forks. Hedge Knives. Trowels. Straw
Knife, 20 foot Ladder. three-horse No. SO
Oliver Plows. 2 twO-horse Syracuse PlOws.
one-horse Oliver Plow. 2 Coulter Cutters,
Hand Cultvators. 3 Sulkey Cultivators.
50-tOoth Wood Drag Harrow, 3-section Iron
Harrow. and numerous other articles.
Small articles at house-Churn, Incubator
Milk Cans. Separator. Milk Buckets.
TERMS OF SALE
All sums of $50 and under. cash will be re-
quired; over that amount a credit of y
months will be given by purchaser giving
bankable note with approved endorser.
F. Charles LeCOmpte
Rynear Slaughter, Auctioneer.
Charles Clements,
Walter Marker,
Clerks.
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28

We are glad to note Smyrna Town
Council is to give some attention to
Commerce street road-bed. Surely it
is time and will be welcomed with
pleasure.
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28
10 Head Of
Cows and HeiferS

These Cows areall young except one and she
is 10 years old. Balance l raised myself and
they are good grade Cows.
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28
TERMS OF SALE
F. Charles LeCOmpte
LOST.

Between Smyrna and Kenton on Wednes-
day evening. August 14th, a Weed Tire
Chain. Suitable Reward if returned to
T. Z. BAILEY.
Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28
FARMING IMPLEMENTs. &c.

Iron Roller. Hay Rake, Schaber Corn Cutter
Sled Corn Cutter. Tomato Marker, Snow Sled.
mick Binder. new Standard Mower Farmers
Favorite Drill, ready for use Dearborn
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28
FOR SALE.

UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER, No. 5
nearly new.
Apply to
Agent American Railway Express Co.
Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28
THE SMYRNA TIMES
SMYRNA, DELAWARE

Published Every Wednesday Afternoon, by
ROBERT D. HOFFECKER. Proprietor.
Founded by Robert d. Hoffecker, July D, 1884
Editor and Proprietor until February 10, 1907
OFFICE:--Next Door to the FrniI Grove rs
National Bank.
Telephone. No. 10.
Smyrna times., 1918-08-28
WANTED.

A good hOusekeeper to keep house with
three in the family. Apply to
CHARLES +. JONES.
Phone l3O X Kenton, Del.