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Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
$1,000 In Jewels Stolen.

Hagerstown.-A diamond lavalliere.
valued at $4,000, and a pocketbook
containing 500, the property of Miss
Mildred Price, this city, who, about a
year ago, fell heir to a large fortune
ill the neighborhood of 100000
by the death of friend, were stolen
from the safe of the Caskey Baking
Company, where Miss Price is en-
ployed. Miss Price informed the DO.
lice that she had placed the lavaliere
and purse on top Of the safe and that
Miss Mary Gallagher, another employee
OF the company, later placed the valu-
ables inside the safe and locked the
door. Miss Price and Miss Gallagher
who were at work on the second floor
after the valuables were placed in the
safe, heard noises on the first floor
and, descending, saw man, who
asked for a drink of water. After TAX
ing a drink he Immediately left the
factory. William r. Caskey, owner
of the bakery, who returned from a
trip out of town, opened the safe at
p NJ. and then Miss Price found her
property was missing. Miss Price was
employed at the bakery before re.
ceiving her fortune and has continued
her employment there, notwithstand-
ing her sudden acquisition of wealth
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
ESTIMATOR
GUARANTEED
10 INSTANTLY RELIEVE
ASTHMA.
OR MONEY RefUNDEO-ASK ANY DRUGGIST
GENERALLY PAYS TO "STICK"
Man Who Is Constantly Changing Jobs
ls Not Usually an Employee Of
Special Value.

A Kansas editor complains that mo
body sticks" in these times of plenty Of
Jobs for all. The statement is too sweep
ing, says the Portland Oregonian, but
there is truth in it. A good many do not
"stick" who ought to do so. They
ought, in the first place, to cultivate
the habit Of sticking. Some day jobs
may not be so common, and it will sur.
prise some of the wandering ones to
find that they have not learned enough
about any one trade to make them val
liable to any employer. The young man
who is doing one thing today and an
other the day after tomorrow is over
looking the chance to establish himself
In q career, and he Is breeding in him.
self the spirit of dissatisfaction which
will make it hard for him to be happy
In all the years to come. Nothing can
be said against quitting one job for 4
better one; ambition ought to be en-
cOuraged; but the worker ought to be
sure himself that the change is for the
better and not merely for the sake Of
change. Employers nowadays know
how great Is the loss to industry re-
sulting from mere aimlessness.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
Orchardist Appeals.

Havre de CARBOHYDRATES E. Bryan
who resides at Mount Pleasant, near
this city, has issued a call to the
teachers and pupils of the city and
county to help him harvest his apple
crop. He is offering the pupils while
the schools are closed during the cpl
derlic of influenza 20 cents per hour
to pick the apples from the ground;
women teachers, 80 cents per hour to
pick what they can from the tree while
standing on the ground, and all help
SO cents per hour to pick the apples
from ladders.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
Crisis At COLLEGE Over.

Emmitsburg.-Nith 16O students of
Mt. st. Mary's College suffering from
influenza and complications, attend
ing physicians here have been facing
a serious situation. However, lates.
reports from the College are to the
effect that the crisis is past and it is
felt by Lieut.. Wortin, physician from
Camp Colt, who has been in charge
here with DR.. J. B. Browner, the local
College attendant, that not a case will
be lost.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
STATE
CAPITAL
Tobacco Crop Passes Records.

Tobacco Crop Passes Records.
When the present war is over, whel
shipping facilities are resumed Their
Will be phenomenal call for Mary
land tobacco because of a reported
shortage in all sections of the worl'
where the weed is cultivated.
l. In addition of the worldwide de
mand for tobacco, Southern Maryland
planters engaged in raising the prod
uct on larger scale than ever known
While hampered by a drouth, they
have succeeded in harvesting a crOI
that passes all records Many growers
have been compelled because of the
bumper crop to enlarge their barn
space in order that they could accom-
modate their crop. While the price is
not up to recent standard, growers
believe the price will be even higher
| next season than it is now. owing to
the fact there has been an increase
in the price of the manufactured prod
uct during the past few months, which
appears to be fixture.
At the present time there is no rea!
shortage of tobacco. There are now
over 5000 hogsheads of tobacco of
the 1917 crop which have not been
shipped to any port. This is stated
to be about Is per cent. of the pro-
duction of the state.
The complaint of lack of space in
the Baltimore warehouses still exists
When the crop of 1917 was ready for
shipment there was little or no ware
house space in which to store the
product. and after a few weeks of the
glut. the State Inspector shut down,
on the shipments and allowed the Bay
steamers to bring only so hogsheads
per trip each. This did not produce
the desired relief and an absolute en-
barge was placed on all boats hand
ling consignments that were to go
through the state tobacco warehouse
This did not. however. affect the
shipments Of tobacco to the individual
buyer, who purchased the crop direct
ly from the grower. These consign
ments went directly to the purchaser
without having to pass through the
State Tobacco Warehouse. Other
shipments which were not affected by
this ruling were those from Virginia
which were in the majority of cases
consigned directly to the American
Tobacco Company.
A short time ago the embargo was
raised and the steamers were allowed
to again bring into port so hogsheads
each per trip. This was the result of
the inspector having found additional!
warehouse facilities where he could
accommodate the inbound cargoes.
This condition of congestion arose
when the French buyers failed to take
the normal amount of tobacco off of
the market for use in France. For
several months there were no French
buyers in this port and the price of
the crop dropped number of points. |
After the slump it improved for few
days and then struck an average |
which has held until the present time |
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

the casualties on the Hun side or the line IN
crease and the morale decreases with marked
npidity.
There is no doubt whatever that on the western
front we have a definite, almost an overwhelming.
superiority in the air. It is this superiority In
the air which enables us to bomb Germany and
bring the war home to her, and makes 1t pos
sble for an offensive to succeed. No offensive
can hope for success without cooperation be-
tween all arms and the most implicit trust in the
aviation service by leaders and men alike.
Machines have been developed along definite
tines for definite purposes In the olden days any
machine was used for any duty. In those days it
was only necessary for pilot to fly machine
and have an elementary knowledge of other mat
ters Nowadays anyone can be taught to fly
that is the easiest part Of the training The
difficult part comes with specialization. pilot
has to be taught to fly and fight in small single
scatter scouts He has to be taught, on highly
specialized lines the art of bombing, and last, he
has to be taught cooperation with other arms.
This last duty is of the most difficult to teach
and perhaps the most important of all.
Cooperation by the artillery and the airplane
in 1914 was not efficient. Wireless was considered
sort Of black art. It was not until 1915 that the
matter was really developed and evolved. Its
strides became rapid. Machines and instruments
were improved and wireless cooperation was
thoroughly organized. Wireless is such science
In itself that it is useless to go into it's technical
details. But today there are hundreds of ma
chiHes equipped with wireless and cooperating
daily with the artillery, infantry and cavalry.
Our work with infantry, cavalry and tanks is
also of the greatest importance. system of
signals is devised as between the infantry and
the arplane, and the airplane flies extremely low
to get these messages flies back and gives the
mander accurate information not only as to where
the infantry is, but also to what they may he
In need of.
As began by saying flying is designed to
save life. Take, for instance, a machine Which
flies at a height ranging between so feet and 400
feet, and searches for Information which is in
valuable to the commander of the sector in which
an attack is going to take place. 1t is up to the
pilot of an airplane to discover If the batteries
are active or If they are only camOufaged make
believe. If he can transmit the facts to the
artillery commander, in the one case he ran have
the battery destroyed and prevented from she'll
ing troops and in the case of camOufaged
log he can the battery commander the trou-
BILE of firing at it. On the same lines it is the
duty Of the pilot to see where the trench NOR
tnrs nre in order that they may be knocked out
before the attack begins as well as the machine
gun emp!accments which cause such havoc to
an attack if they have not been previously dealt
with. Last but not least, it is essential to know
If the wire in front of the German trenches has
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
Injuries Fatal To EnQineer,

observation-disclosures r. Sisk, 25
years old, this city, Western Maryland
Railway engineer, who was struck
Tuesday morning at Walbrook by the
Baltimore-Union Bridge accommoda-
ton train, died from his injuries Tues
day midnight at the Maryland Uni
versity Hospital, Baltimore. He had
gotten off his engine and was making
some repairs when he was struck by
the local passenger train. He sus-
taiLed triple fracture of the right
groin. One arm and a leg also were
broken, and his skull fractured.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest GIeanings From Al!
Over the State.
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD

Explosion Wrecks Cumberland Home.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, IL years old.
and Melvin Woodrow, 2 years, children
of William and Eliza Humbertson,
were killed by the collapse of the
front walls of their home on North
Centre street, near the Cumberland
Electric Railway car barn, from an
explosion of gas. The father, who is
one-legged, says he had opened
when the fumes shot out and ignited
from the coal stove. The girl was
holding her little brother in her arms
at the front window.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
Two Drowned BY An Automobile.

Federalsburg.-Two young men lost
their lives by drowning and two others
were seriously injured in one of the
worst automobile accidents that ever
occurred in this section. The accident
occurred at ellis Branch, between
here and Seaford, on the Reliance
road. There is little wooden bridge
spanning the branch, and Brinsfe,d.
who was driving the car, either failed
TO see the bridge or lost control OF
the car as he approached it, as the
machine plunged over the embank-
ment. six feet to one side OF the
bridge, turning turtle as it went over,
and catching the occupants like rats
in trap when it landed in the branch,
which contains about two feet of wa.
for
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

Vegetable Compound cured me so did
not need tho operation. and I am telling
ali nv friends about it."-Mrs. A. w.
BINzER, Black River Falls, Wis.
ut is Just such experiences as that Of
Mr.. Binzer that has made this famous
root and herb remedy household word
from ocean to ocean. Any woman who
suffers from inflammation, liberation,
displacements, backache, nervousness,
irregularities or "the blues" should
not rest until she he's given it trial.
and for special advice write Lydia p.
Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, MASS.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
Governors Niece Weds,

Cambridge.-Miss Frances Hilda
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Winder F.
Harrington and niece of Governo,
Emerson c. Harrington, and Guy l.
Bryan, Jr., were married at the
brides home, the Rev. William Dunba
Gould, rector of Christ Protestant
Episcopal Church. officiating. Mr.. anc
Mrs. Byran will spend the winter ir
Baltimore. where Mr.. Bryan will C.,
advance work at Johns Hopkins I'm
versity of the technical school,
which he is a graduate, class of 1s1.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

The finest variety Of asbestos is
known as amianthus, and the most
beautiful specimens Of this come from
Tarantaise, in Savoy.
In London there are women who
earn livelihood by pawning jewelry
and clothes for other women who are
ashamed to be seen entering pawn
shop
1t is estimated that more than 5000
young women are now employed as
elevator conductors in stores, office
buildings. hotels and apartment houses
In New York city.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
Dies In French Hospital.

Hagerstown.-MrsM Mabel Reid, this
city, received a telegram from the
War Department stating that her hus-
band, Charles Edward Reid 90 years
old, of Company c, Three Hundred
and Thirteenth Infantry, had died OF
lobar pneumonia in France September
p. He entrained from Camp Meade
May % and sailed for France July 6,
and before entering the army was en-
ployed by the Western Maryland Rail-
way Company.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

One householder out of every five in
England is culuvating allotment gar
dens as compared with one in II two
years ago.
A California ranch owner is the in
ventor of a portable iron gate which
can be placed across main irrigation
bitches to divert the flow Of the water
into laterals.
Grease turned into it's sewers by
wool-washing plants is recovered by
the English city of Birmingham at its
Sc wage plant and converted into a
profitable by-pr0duct.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
Veteran Justice "FIu" Victim.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS s, Murphy.
SO years justice Of the peace here.
died of pneumonia. He was 80 years
old. While he was a staunch Demo
crat, he had been continued in Office
by Republican Governors. He was one
OF the best known men of the mining
region. He is survived by five chill
dren, James, Dorothy and MARGARET
at home, and two sons in the army in
France.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
ASSORTED BRIEFS

Holland Is laying plans to build up
its foreign trade promptly after the
war.
Doors of Japanese homes are not
hung ON hinges but all are of the slid
ing kind.
Whale meat is now in great demand
and swordfsh steaks are sold in Fan
eun HaA market stalls. Boston.
An Inventor has brought out a ma
ehine Ter accurately fitting new doors
~ frAmes With a minimum of labor.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
Brother And Sister Die

Cambridge.-An hour after the death
OF his sister, Mrs. Edgar Travers, Mad
ison, Frank Willis, of Willis & Dun.
mock, merchants, Church Creek, died
OF pneumonia, following an attack of
influenza. A widow and three small
children survive. A child of Mrs.
Travers had recently died of "1au." An
infant baby was buried with her.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
COLLECTED FACTS

An international engineering con-
gress in the interests of the Neither.
lands East Indies will be held at Ba-
tavia next year.
Elton (EnglanO Rural District coun-
Gil has protested against British labor
Being employed to empty cesspools for
German prisoners.
The British ministry of munitions
has paid over $4,000 toward day nur-
series and institutions since the be.
cunning Of the war.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
THIS WOMAN
SAVED FROM
AN OPERATION
By taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, One
Of Thousands Of Such Cases.
Black River Falls, Wis.-'.As Lydia
e. Pinkham's., Vegetable Compound

00VSO A110 AAOlI1 III
operation, I cannot
soy enough in praise
of it. Isufered from,
organic troubles and
my side hurt me 90
I could hardly be up
from my bed, and /
was unable to do my
homework. / had
the best doctors in
Eau Claire and they
wanted me to have
an operation, but
lydia ID. Pinkham'a
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
A Hard Nut
to Crack

When cold hits you in the head or
throat, it's hard to get rid Of it.
Don't experiment. Break it up
with Hale's Honey of Horehound
and Tar. Prompt and effective.
All druggists, 25cts. bottle.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

A man never realizes the worth Of
his wife until he has to cook his own
meals.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
SHORT NOTEs

Hagerstown.-Mrs. Estella Shippler
fell down a flight Of stairs at her home
here and was seriously injured. Be-
sides being badly scalded by bucket.
full of boiling water which she was
carrying she sustained a fractured
arm and was rendered unconscious
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

Cumber]and.-Lieut. Max Cotton.
former health officer of Cumberland.
has been transferred from Camp
Greenleaf, Ca, to Camp Logan, Hous-
ton, Texas, where he will be in charge
of Sanitary Squad SO with the Fiji.
teenth Regular Division.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

HE allies have been fighting the
Hun for over four years, and the
British empire has sustained 2
100000 casualties, yet, contrary to
general opinion, the greatest life
saver in the present war IS the air.
plane. Without the airplane cas-
ualties increase by leaps and
bounds. With the airplane and
supremacy in the air the casualties
on our side of the line decrease
and the morale increases, whereas
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

IN three months Willard Sheldo-
who is employed in the optical CO..
l'any's factory at Southbridge, h.:
nearly completed a two story hous
working on it Saturdays ana eveair.-
outside of working hours, and expcc;
20 put on the finishing touches ar
occupy the house before winter
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

Hagerstown.-Edward w. Ditto in.
stituted suit for $4,000 damages
against the Mayor and Council, alleg
ing his property was damaged by
storm waters due to a defective city
drain.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

q" Pike's Toothache Drops
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
Itching Burning Skins.

Itching Burning Skins.
For eczemas, rashes, feelings, irrita.
tons, pimples, dandruff, sore hands,
and baby humors, Cuticura Soap and
Ointment are supremely effective. For
free samples address "Cuticura, Dept.
K, Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap rs, Ointment 25 and 5O.-Adv.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

Money is always satisfactory trav.
cling companion.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

The American consul general ir
Genoa has reported in a dispatch O.
June II that the free admission O.
wheat and other cereals and -four hac
been extended to December 81, 1915
Inls exemption was first granted b,
the decree of January 81, 1915, an
since November 81. 1915, has include.
semOliha also.
A new orchid called the Gene..
Persl.ng was the feature of this year
exhibition of the British Horticultur:
Society, and this splendid orchid
quite the craze this season in Lender
1t is handsome mauve blossom. W.
deep purple tones and carries itse'
with special grace and gallan:-y en- !.
stem.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

Examination of trustworthy reco~,'
'}as convinced scientists that the
',as been no appreciate change in Z,
climate Of Northern Europe in is,
years.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

Censored" news is the separated
milk of journalism.
Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26

Hrigadier General Charles Frederick Lee,
chef Of the British Aviation Mission now in
INC United States. who has written the follow
ing article is true to the tenets of the Royal Air
p ot ne says everything about the service but
not one word about himself. He is q young
man to have attained such emlnence in his pro-
aession for he was born in Yorkshire on July
"a 1887: His career is exclusively that of the
army II" was educated at Eton and the Royal .
n,a MI. Tar college at Sandhurst served in fam
e eH.table four years in India. and helped to
Strafe the Boche in France in 1914 and 1915
lie earned his army sobriquet, Failing Leaf"
Lee. by reason Of an extraordinary maneuver
was to fall like f1uttering leaf, in a machine
apparently out Of control. but really tempting
undoin 1sa He Is immensely popular not only.
officers in both the British and American
Evening star., 1918-06-16

600, 900, and though a majority of the
voters have twice refused to sanction
conscription, the commonwealth has
sent a much larger proportion of SOL
diers than would have been obtained
under conscription. Australia also.
at the outset of the war. contributed
fully equipped warships to the home
government. It is a source of bound
less pride, too, that 1t was the Aus
tralian forces which ended the career
Of the sea raider the Emden.
The labor party has been dominant
in Australian politics for ten years or
more. Some Of it's legislation, though
at the time considered radical, has
Evening star., 1918-06-16
AROUND THE CITY.

And Polly grouches back:
Hello. colonel"
And that is all there is to an incl
dent that would be too small a thing
to notice-except that it is the small
things that make up life.
Her name was Miss Alfalfa And
she lived way out west in an irri-
gated field. say. of some dry-land
ranchman, or. maybe, a mile above
sea level in Colorado. where the
breezes come straight from Boreas-,
land and where her feet could wade
in snow water melted down from the
mountains, and where she grew up
straight and green and blossommy,
but not content.
She naturally couldn't have been
content, because one day she adven-
tured away from the kingdom OF
Alfalfa and Travelled and travelled
until she came to a train going east.
After she got abroad-don't ask how,
because, IL you notice, people object
to telling their privatest affairs-she
kept on travelling and travelling until
she came to the Union station, where
she got out.
She got out because the Capitol
dome reminded her of her own snow
peaks. And when she glimpsed the
plaza fields of clover blooms, pink and
white, she might have said. with the
classics-even il she didn't-'"This is
the life for me-"
And 1t was. For she married a
white clover bloom, had two children
and lived happily forever after. Same
as fairies. 1t must have happened like
that, for how else could you account
for the sprig a teacher woman picked
up as she was crossing the field and
brought home to another woman
queer. beautiful sprig with blue head
the shape of white clover and with
alfalfa leaves growing on its stem?
Alfalfa's daughter, of course. Or, to
be strictly accurate, maybe her son.
The teacher woman who has to be
wisely erudite-you know hSw teacher
women are-brought in the name OF
Mr.. Luther Burbank. And. of course,
Mr.. Burbank knows a whole lot. But
he likewise has a whole lot more to
learn. For one thing-this is strictly
confidential-that man hasn't found
out yet that you can hatch snakes
from horsehairs.
Which shows how little he would
know about Miss Alfalfa.
MAMIE LANCASTER.
Evening star., 1918-06-16
The Misunderstood Irish.

DATRIcK o'sHAUGHNEssY MA
Is LONE. the San Francisco poet,
said in an address:
'There'll be no bloodshed in Ire
land. The papers have exaggerated
the Irish situation. The visiting re-
porters have been fooled.
"Yes. they've been fooled like the
German tourist of pre-war days who
heard one Irishman say to another in,
a Dublin tram:
"1've been down to Kiimary, be
jabers. and I'm now on me way back
to fitzpatrick
"'Shure.' said the second Irishman,
and it's meself that's just been ID
Kilkenny. Tomorrow. bhoy, I'm goin'
to Kilmore.'
"'Murderersr thought the German.
would to heaven were safe back IN
Berlin" k