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ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY

ROCKVILLE. Md, December IL
Miss Mary williams. daughter of Mrs
Sallie W. Williams and the late john
H. Williams, died Wednesday after
noon at her home in Poolesviile. this
count, aged forty years. She had
been ill about a week. Death was
due to pneumonia following influenza.
She was a sister OF Mrs. Wilson :.
Ward of Rockville. The funeral took
place at o'clock this afternoon from
the family residence. burial being ip
the cemetery at Beallsville.
Riley Fulks, a we'll known farmer
of Gaithersburg district, died Wednes-
day night at his home, near Goshen.
of pneumonia following influenza. He
had been ill about a week. Sur
yiying him are his widow, formerly
Miss Garrett of this county, and four
children. He was a son of the late
William r. Fulks of Gaithersburss.
and was thirty-seven years old.
The trustees of the Rockville Mill
tary Academy have appointed Morris
c. Turner of Baltimore. commandant
of cadets and assistant teacher. He
will begin his duties Immediately
after the Christmas holidays.
Mrs. Hazel w. Cashell of Lay Hill
this county, has announced the mar
rage of her daughter, Miss Frances
Louise. to Claude V. Peel of AUSTIN
Tex The ceremony was performer
December 1s in Austin. Mr.. Peel rs
a son of Judge John r. Peel of Texas
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Cooperation in Palestine.

Norman Hargocd IN Lesile T.
1t is, therefore. with the keenest
Measure that | hear of the success
Of an experiment on a small scale I'M
der war conditions in Palestine. Since
1914 scarcity. disease. deprecated cur
rency. have combined to reduce the
Jewish workers almost to starvation.
purinS the war a small group decided
10 take the most immediate and effec-
tive step. About three wears ago 4aU
workers formed cooperative So
ciety. in order to fight against the rise
in prices Each worker contributed
Ia francs. and with this capital Of
4 500 francs the society began to make
its purchases AS result the men,
hers of the society were able to pur-
chase four times cheaper than the or
binary public. This cooperative So
ciety. "Mashbir." embraces at present
about 5000 persons and has a budget
of $4,000 francs. Their first year of
business showed profit. During the
second year robbery and plumber by
the Turks changed This profit into
loss The third year has now shown
them again paying their way. This
society includes not only workmen.
but also teachers and clerks. 1t has
applied to the commission for a credit
of 10000 francs and for authorize
ton for one of their group to travel
TO Egypt TO make purchases. 1t is.
indeed. on a small scale compared
with the business 1 cited July 6. but
the lesson is the same-the strongest
single answer to the cost Of living lies
in cooperation.
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HAWKS AND DEAD TREES.
A Fact Concerning Them That Will
Astonish Many Persons.

From the Newark News
Random bits of curious knowledge
often come the way of persons who live
in the summer time close by the ocean
edge One gets to know. for instance.
such things as why hawk nests so often
are seen in dead trees. 1t is not that
the hawk, in seeking a home site. by
choice picks = dead tree in which to
build its nest of twigs and things; on
the contrary, it invariably selects live
one The dead tree is the effect. not the
cause of the hawks preference.
Hawks of the kind considered here
live exclusively on fish. Fish are oily,
and so il follows that after a few thou
sand have been diSSected and eaten in
a nest the tree inhabited by hawk
family becomes discouraged and aban-
dons the struggle.
After hawks have used Il lofty bough
as a dining room for two or three years
q tree becomes so greasy hat leaves
find it Impossible to hold on. The Oil
slowly makes its way 20 the roots. COW
eriug them and making the absorbing of
water from the earth out OF the ques-
ton Deprived of oxygen. having no
leaves through which to breathe 1t in,
and of water. because its roots are
creased like a Labor day pig. the tree
gets discouraged and gives up the fight.
The hawk is successful nSnefIHan,
and were its task done with the catch
ing of fish its lot would be, an enyiable
one But live fish is nqf desirable as
the niece de resistance of A hawk dinner.
so the bird that catches one always
flies around until the fish Is dead. This,
We are told. is the inyariable practice.
Sometimes fish expires quickly.
while at other times a hawk must fly
around fo- hours before it can return
home TO the waiting family. There have
been times when the fish have displayed
stamina greater than the birds. This
may explain why hawks seldom pounce
on the croaker. most tenacious OF life
of all fish in the waters roundabout.
There is 4 we'll attested instance OF
hawk which started to fly around with
n croaker il had caught. and after flap
ping about Il whole afternoon and half
night fell exhausted on the beach. Fish
ermen who were attracted by the I'M
usual occurrence found the hawk dead.
while the croaker, fast in the hfeless
talons had not croaked.
And if the horse radish doesn't get
into the kitchen cabinet and eat all the
rolled oats well tell you next about the
flying fish and the pet eel
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Cupid Still Doing Business.
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Copyright, 1879

Dan Cupid has lost none Of his ancient
efficiency. Time was when he shot his
arrows into young shepherds as they
wheezed upon their oaten pipes on the
; plains of Greece. Judging also from the
frescoes in the dEste palace at Tivoli,
the Medici palace in Florence and vari-
Gus and sundry other ducal habitations
! in Europe. Dan was lively boy also
during yesteryears.
And from the latest reports from the
! newspapers We conclude that even in
| these dull, drab commercial times his
eye is not dim nor his natural force
abated
For the entrance of the gentler sex
into the lists of business has not robbed
eye of its honeyed poison.
When the male walters struck in the
New York hotels their places were filled
by females. who. with the low cunning
work better than the men. The hotel
, keepers and restaurant proprietors
laughed. But their glee was short
, lived. Everything human has its law.
Managers of eating places now are
keeping casualty lists indicating star
ting losses among their woman en-
ployes. Among the 5000 mattresses in
the American metropolis the chief cas-
ualties are caused by our old friend
Cupid. Five hundred mattresses quit
rick kyne, a veteran hotel man, 800 of
these are married, following dining room
acqualntances, an average Of about ten
day. Mr.. kyne is thus quoted in the
news column:
Entirely too pretty, 1t seems to me
that the so-called homely girl has passed
from existence. Girls now know how
to dress neatly and do their hair to
suit their facial contour. The result
is that bachelors enjoying their meals
pretty girls lose their hearts and their
freedom at the same time. The court
ships are usually rapid and romantic,
too
Human nature is about the same,
whether in the hills of Thessaly or the
corridors of a modern hotel Nature
will have her way. We can go on
building skyscrapers, employing women
as stenographers, elevator conductors
and mattresses, but Dan Cupid is doing
business at the old stand.
He doesn't care a whoop in Halifax
for our profit and loss, for our efficiency
systems and modern trends He and his
mother intend that young people shall
meet and gIggle. hold hands and sigh.
Nature. with big N, is interested in
the twenty-hrst century and does not
propose that her plans shall fail for
lack of material.
Foch is great general, also Pershing
and Diaz, but they must take a ba. k
seat in the presence of Gen. Cupid, who.
despite his boyish looks, is some 5000
Years old. lively as cricket more mercj-
less than the frightful Hun-yea, and
whose arrows are just as sharp toda :.
when he is pottlng bald-headed bachc-
lors at the tables Of the hotels and res
taurants. as they were when he was a !.
work with Daphnis and Chloe, or with
Aucassin and Nicolette
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LOOMS BACK FROM FRANCE
Great Athlete Did His Share of
Fighting for Uncle Sam.

NEW YORK, December 26.-Jo Loo
mis- Of the Chicago Athletic Association.
one Of the greatest athletes developed in
this country in recent years. has return
ed from France and is now at his home
in the Windy city.
Loomis has seen more than the usual
amount of service. He first went to
France as the driver Of an ambulance
and had an exciting experience in that
line of field work. That was a year ago
last summer. when the Chicago Athletic
Association sent its first ambulance to
the front.
After six months with the Ambulance
Corps LOOMS returned to America. and
after enlisting was sent to Camp Custer
for training. He was placed with the
artillery branch of the service. and seven
months ago went across again. This
time he was placed with the 120th Dr.
vision of the French Artillery and saw
some hard fighting during the remaining
weeks of the war. He finished with a
first ieutenancy and some high praise
for the work he did.
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TWO CHANCES FOR JOB.
Soldier-Ball Player Applies to Both
Cubs and Sox.

CHICAGO. December rs. - Lieut..
Quinn Williams of the motor trans
port detachment of the United States
Army evidently started something
when he applied in person a day or
two Ego for job as outfielder for the
Cubs He was received by Vice Presi-
dent Veeck and his application was
forwarded to President and Manager
Mitchell.
Yesterday veeck happened to meet
Manager Rowland of the White Sox,
and Immediately the latter declared
that the White Sox should have first
call on this nineteen-year-old soldier.
IT have a letter from him." said
Rowland. He wants to play with the
White Sox. I discovered him last
spring down in Texas. And incident
ally 1 will say he looks capable of de-
veloping into a great ball player. At
least he is a wonderful athlete
1t is not likely there will be any
quarrel between the two Chicago clubs
over the matter. but it does look as if
this swarthy young soldier and all
around athlete is liable to have a
chance to play ball for Chicago next
summer.
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TEACHERS PAY.
By H. ADDINGTON BRUCE,
Copyright, 1881

Few teachers anywhere are D..
anything like the salaries teach..-s
ought to be paid Still worse. ii . e
teachers who ought to be paid tile
best salaries-teachers of very young
children-are. as rule. the most SCAN
dalousiy underpaid.
This doubtless is the result of a ST..
gularly myopic view common among
school authorities. They say to them
selves. in effect:
The younger the child. the easier
it is to handle The younger the child,
the less the knowledge that has to be
impaired to it. Therefore. the young
er the child the less the teaching ex-
perience required. and the lower the
teachers pay should be-"
One tremendously important thing
these school authorities forget
They forget that lasting mental
their formation depends chiefly on the
influences with which the young child
is surrounded. Among such influences
the teacher of the young child has
foremost place
Often-I might truthfulIy say. usu-
aDy-the child comes to its teacher
from home surroundings adverse to
the forming of right mental habits.
No effort has been made in the home
to train the child to use it's mind to
good purpose. Its parents have done
all it's thinking for it. They have
events to spend it's time in play that
makes no systematic demands on it's
mental powers.
AS a result. the child has already
acquired habits of mental inertia.
looseness. hastiness, dissipati ton of en-
Ia Il
and in their stead habits of effort.
accuracy. thoroughness. concentration.
have to be established.
Suppose. now. the child fails into
the hands of a teacher. not merely in
experienced and unskillful. but fur
Their handicapped in giving her best
by personal worries due to poverty.
What is the outlook for the child?
Will il be adequately inspired and
helped TO form the new and better
mental habits it needso
Or will it rather be confirmed in it's
into youth with its mind sealed
against later corrective action?
Common sense and the experience of
many generations leave no doubt as to
how these questions must be an
swered. Yet school authorities con-
tinue to be content with 'inexperi-
enced' teachers for the very young.
and to keep their pay more than pro-
portionately low.
Then they wonder why teachers of
higher grades find it difficult to get
good results from their pupils.
Some day all this will be changed.
Some day more will be demanded of
teachers of the young than of any
other teachers. and their pay will be
a the top instead of the bottom of the
salary scale.
Then things will be as they ought
to be. and our educational system will
be infinitely more effective than 1t is
at the present time.
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Ode to a Side Car.
From the Stars and Stripes

Oh, it's hell to sit in n side car when the
trucks are crashing by,
With never spark in the darkness to cheer
ones straining eve
Save the fash of q shell when it scatters the
mud on the passersby!
When the road is packed with silent troops
it's he'll Of a place to die.
The shells not so bad-they hit you il fate
DEGREES
But it's awful to dash along in the dark and
feel that you're on the "skees''
With a big, wet ditch beside you. and the
orders they need in your hand,
And thousands Of tons of whizxing STUFF that
any moment may land
Wrong side up on your stomach while you are
. finally canned:
When you know that the P. c. before you is
wondering why you delay
With the dope from the general commanding
for the work Of the coming day.
Yes. it's hell to ride in a side car in the dark
OF a drenching rain,
And the only reason mention 1t is that again
and again and again
One hears that the life Of the "gilded STAR
is free from care and pain
A good. clean shot in the Sfxxard or 4 COB Of
gas in the chest
May give you q chance fora gilded and those
soft. white hands that caress.
But the grinding wheels Of q two-ton truck can
make you 4 horrible mess!
80 when You sco6 ut the "giIded StafS," with
it's brooches neatly pressed.
Remember their nights In the side car! They
take their chance With the rest.
]. p. H.. h.. - Div.
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Lard-Easy; middle west, 24.20a
24.30.
Other articles unchanged.

24.s osD-NaSS "'o'ie west f-'A
Other articles unchanged.
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.
CHICAGO. December 81 Omitted
States bureau of MANIFESTATIONS
Receipts, $1,000 head: market steady
to strong with yesterdays best time.
Bulk of sales, 17.40a17,SO; butchers,
17.60a17.S5; light, 16.S0a17.70: pack
ing, 16.75a17.6O; throw-outs. 15.50a
1915: pigs, good to choice, 13.50a15.0O.
Cattle-Receipts, 5000 head: beef
and butcher cattle steady to 15c high
er: calves steady. best feeders and
others slow to lower. Beef cattle
Good, choice and prime, 15.90a19.75;
common to medium, 9.50a19.50. Butch
ers' stock. cows and heifers. 7.S5a
Stockers and feeders--Good, choice
and fancy, 10.5oa13.75: inferior. COM
mon and medium, 7.25a1O.50. Veal
calves. good and choice, 14.0oa15 500.
Sheep-Receipts. 10000 head; fat
lambs and yearlings fully % to so
trade quiet. Lambs-Choice and
prime. 15.50a15.S5; medium and good,
14.25a15.50: culls. 10.50a13.O0. Ewes
Choice and prime. 10.50a13.00. Ewes
and good, s.50a9.50; culls, 4.50a7.25.
DAIRY AND PRODUCE.
NEW YORK, December 27.-Butter
Easier; receipts, 1851 tubs. Cream
cry higher than extras. 6s1k; extras
(92 score). 6Sa6SE; f1rsts, 63lsa6S:
packing stock. current make No. ?.
411s.
Eggs-Firm: receipts. 9.645 cases.
Fresh gathered extras. 67a6s: fresh
gathered regular packed extra firsts,
65a66; do. firsts. 63aS4; state. Penn
sylvania and nearby western hennery
white. fine to fancy. Sass; state.
Pennsylvania and nearby hennery
white, ordinary to prime, 70as0; do,
brown, 70a72; do. gathered brown and
mixed colors. 63a6s.
Cheese-Firm: receipts, 1882 boxes.
State whole milk flats, fresh specials,
37a371s; do, average run. 35ha36k.
Poultry, live Steady. Chickens,
80; fowls, 26a35: old ROSTERS, 90; tur-
keys. 3oa3S. Dressed-Steady. West
iern turkeys. 3Sa45: others unchanged.
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London Bank Statement.

LONDON, December 27.-The week
ly statement of the Bank of England
shows the following changes: Total
reserve decreased 1000; circulation
increased f1,343,000; bullion increased
i506.053; other securities decreased
f1,o77.000; public deposits decreased
f5,225 200; other deposits increased
f5.152, 900; notes reserve decreased
f769.000; government securities in
creased f1,S50,000.
The proportion of the banks reserve
to liability this week is 1873 per cent;
last week it was 1926 per cent.
The discount rate is per cent.
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ALLIED PRISONERS SLAIN;
TROOPS PUT ON GUARD

ZURICH, December 81 (Havas).-A
battalion of infantry has occupied
Mannheim. by order of Marshal Foch,
in order to watch the prison camp
near there. where 10000 allied prison.
ers await liberation, according to the
Badische Landeszeitung. The paper
adds that this step was taken be-
cause of the bad treatment Of the
prisoners, several of whom were MUIR
dered.'
Mannheim is on the east bank of the
Rhine. south of Mayence. 1t is with
in the neutral zone east of the Rhine
outlined by the terms of the armistice.
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Potato Bugs.
rom the Kansas City Times.

Prom the Kansas City Times.
Jewel Mayes is author of long ar
ticla asserting that two sure ways"
of killing potato bugs are to spray
them with either paris green or ar
senate of lead, but most of US anna
teur gardeners still will believe that
the only certain ways are to draw
and quarter them or crush them uh-
der ten-ton rollers.
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Hadn't Much to Say.
From the Argonaut.

From the Argonaut. ?
you admit you overheard the quar-
rel between the defendant and his
wife,
"Yis. sor, I do" stoutly maintained
the witness.
Tell the court, if you can, what
the husband seemed to be doing:
He seemed to be doing the listen
::S"
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On the Stock Exchange.
Washington Stock Exchange

SALES
Washington Railway and Electric general IS,
81 600 at 96A.
potomac Electric LIST 5s, 1000 at 9611
81 900 at 96A.
Capital Traction. ) at s71a. Is at s71a.
Lanston, 10 at 65A. at 65N, 10 at 6j5s.
Mergenthaler, 10 at 1914, at 1341a. 10 at
134h.
After call:
Capital Traction. 10 at s7A.
Washington Railway and Electric A, $500 at
72h.
Washington Railway CON-, at so.
Potomac Electric LIST 5s, 81. 600 at 96h.
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Whats the matter with Bilkins?
He doesn't seem to be stirred up by
the war"
"You mis5udge him cruelty. He told
me- yesterday that he was cutting
down his golf to nine holes . day.
Life.
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THE WEATHER.

District of Columbia-Generall
cloudy tonight and tomorrow. prob
ably occasional light snow; slightly
warmer tonight, temperature prob
ably below freezing: gentle winds.
mostly southerly.
Maryland-Generally cloudy tonight
and tomorrow. probably occasional
light snow; little change in tempera-
ture: gentle winds, mostly southerly.
enthusiastically cloudy tonight
and tomorrow, probably light local
SHOWS in north and west portions and
rain or snow in southeast portion;
slightly warmer tonight in north and
central portions; gentle shifting
winds.
West Enthusiastically cloudy
tonight and tomorrow; probably light
local SHOWS; little change in tempera-
ture.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of
the thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four
hours beginning at 2 pm. yesterday:
.z ;de,ds; 90 td I;%,
am. 26; am, 25: IL noon. "a; pm.
80. Maximum. 81, at 1870 pm. yester-
day: minimum, "a, at am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum. 80; minimum. Is.
Baromet ter I Pm So o.:
am, 5000; 8 am, 30.14; II noon,
1910; 2 Pm, 30.06.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose. 1926 am; sun
sets. 4:52 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 1926 am; sun
sets. 1853 pm.
Moon rises. 2:07 am; sets. 12:4s
pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Tide Tables.
compiled by the United States coast
and geodetic survey.
Today-Low tide. 9:45 am. and 1888
p.m.; high tide, 3:11 am. and 3:40 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 1925 am. and
1924 pm; high tide. 4:05 am. and
4:30 pm.
Weather in Various Cities.
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SHORT BUYING CAUSES
SHARP GA|NIN PRICES

NEW YORK. December 27.-Gains
OF l to points in rails, ship
pings, coppers, oils and utilities at
the outset today were regarded as
logical reversal from the excessive
bearishness of yesterday.
The strongest features included
Southern Pacific, Chicago and North
western, United Fruit, Mexican Petro-
leum, Texas Company, Brooklyn Tran
sit. American Smelling and Hide and
Leather preferred.
United States Steel was the only
backward feature, yielding fraction.
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Liberty Loan Bonds.

NEW YORK. December 27.-Quota-
tions on liberty bonds were as fol-
lows:
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Even Opens Windows at Night.

From the Newark News.
Every once in a
mainly gets scared,
sensible laws Of
physical care laid
fist trees bloomed.
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Covering More Urgent.

Short covering became more urgent
during the morning. even the local
utilities proffting by this movement.
ST. Paul. Pennsylvania, Delaware
and Hudson and New Haven were the
only rails to show heaviness, Reading,
Pacifics, Atchison and Lackawanna
gaining l to 5 points.
Further advances were made by
oils, coppers and feathers, and motors
also strengthened. but the most nota-
BILE feature was United Fruit, which
increased it's gain to joints.
Heavy selling of liberty bonds con-
tinued, the fourth Az s falling to the
new low record of 94.24.
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Grain, Produce
and Live Stock.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

CHICAGO, December 27.-Fresh adj
vances in the corn market today re-
suited from scantiness of offerings
and from the fact that receipts were
even more meager than has recently
been the case. Unsettled weather that
pointed to further restriction of the
crop movement operated as an addi-
tional bullish factor. Commission
houses, though, were moderate sellers
on the bulges. Opening prices. which
ranged from Is to ~ higher. with
January, 142h to 1.43. and May. 1.31
to 1.371a, were followed by continued
upturns.
Oats reflected the strength of corn.
Buying, however. was of only scat
tered sort. After opening Is to =
higher. with May, 6sh to 6sA, the
market scored substantial further
gains.
Provisions advanced with grain.
The N, RI Of wa g fairly active
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LONDON, December 27-Money )
per cent Discount rates-Short and
1hree-month bills, 1879 per cent.
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COTTON MARKET.

NEW YORK METAL MARKET.
J NEW YORK. Decembee N.-Metal e.
frhmge quotes lead weak; spot offered At
S9a. Spelter easy; SPOT offered al 500.