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PAPER HANGING.
MOTORCYCLES REPAIRED.

READING Standard and Thor motor
cycles Expert repairing on al makes
Used machines a reasonable prices VII.
mlneton Cycle Co. 1906 Market street ID
1867 J
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516CLANTON STREET.
bath veranjs Rot hea gss and electro lots garages
POSSESSION so DAYS.
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ELECT RlCIANS.
HOTELS
PRINTING. ENGRAVING. .EMBossMG

! am now prepared 70 give good service in
PRINTING. Both quality ana delivery.
g.. II. Gray. Printer. II 4. Eighth street
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sos WEST 10TH STREET.
path, veranda, hest, gus, cement -eIar.
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1890 TATNALL STREET
Seven rooms bath. veranda hct cement caar ward
POSSESSION 30 DAYS
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913 WEST 7Tf STREET.
light rooms bath, veranda, aeat, gas. zrFe yard
POSSESSION 30 DAYS
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BICYCLE REPAIRING

BICYCLE REPAIRING FuI. line of BIZ
cyclic accessories baby carriages repaired
and retired iimlngtan Cycle shop 502
" Front street.
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HAIRDRESSING
MASQUERADE SUITS.

MASQUERADE SUITS and w!es TO hirs.
Specialists In paints and aat. .,>Ips. Frank
Biesinger. corner Fourth and y. .aat streets.
Phone G259 "
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DOLL HOSPITAL.

DOLL HOSPiTAI.-icais and wigs. Comb
iuKs made up in any style OILS W. Sow
nth street. 7I2 Walnut street. Phone 292 81
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things to do, but let's do it most because it's
the thing to do when Christmas is doing
Let's make 1920 Just ono Of the who0p-
hoIlcringcst ones that have brought bunch Of
happiness on new years. Let's be regular folks,
you and l.
LIVE IN WILMINGTON AND SHARE lN WfTMINCTCN
WONDERFUL PROSPERITY
Millions and Millions Of Dollars Are Invested
WIrn0gtons mammoth industries and rnIcr@ more pdH
invested assuring permanent prosperity and IN unparalleled N
Make your money grow BY planting II 0 he fefe~t rov1
enough for city of 10000 people where atv vauc n
increased 100 per cent n ho last II months and W 7oav0g
Marshal Foch has taught ttat attac .f4 lefe7
We believe that the principle as correct Il business as II n
tary science.
1917 LANcAsTEP AVENUE
515 LINCOLN STREET.
rooms bath veranda porch alley in
10 WEST TWENTY FIFTH sTPEET
" ''''' 49, NNEDfArE possFssfoN CEMENT '''''
rooms cement arv. ward
POSSESSION DAYS
ESQ WASHINGTON 5rPEET
sS rooms BATH Ternae a saes Para .eat 4 f9s and ee
o1s WEST 7TH STREET.
Eight rooms. bath, veranda. aeat gas lrrre yard-
1722 HANCOCK STREET.
Seven rooms, bath yeranda, heat cement cellar.
SO WEST Sd STREET.
POSSESSION % DAYS.
r722 WEST 18TH STREET
~ rooms o'' 'e'an'a P55sE5f6S e "a @.1n 5 6tys 5aF
t71o WEST STREET
Ten rooms baths heat gas and electric cellar verapiA
1872 WEST 20 STREET.
Eight rooms o''o '''a91 f0ssFs9I5S ISL g. d 5s 5\Ys Se'
81 WEST SD STREET.
e's" ''''z '-" PossEssf5E g % -i5 b5Ts .'.s''e
222GRAY AVE
S rooms o 'i'n4a PossEsI6l ST If 9ea' 5 zy 81 >e4 >oea
2121 WEST 4TH STREET
's' l@SiEDf1TE FoSsEssfoS IS ss55
sos WEST 4TH STREET
Eight rooms, bath, heat, and electric
sos WEST 10TH STREET.
Seven rooms bath, veranda nest 1e1ar
516cLAYToN STREET.
Eight '' 'A'n ef Pcss2S6S rs @ e % 7Ys n nd electro % saa
s2s AD ANS STREET.
Eiga' rooms bath veanda heat gas and electric Hent o
zoos VEST zrH STREET
Seven rooms, bath heat cement cellar,
13I7-152t-1325 VANDEVER AVENUE
Five t,oms beth, vcranda, heat ceisr.
POSSESSION 80 DAYS
OILS LOMBARD STREET.
POSSESSION 80 DAYS
5o5 POPLAR SIT Rect
Light rooms, bath and electric
-oS POPLAR STREET.
Seven rooms bath acat cement cellar,
oil EAST 17TH STREET.
Five rooms, bath, porch, heat, c,lEAt
8TH AND WILSON SIS.
STORE AND DWELLING.
Eleven rooms. bath and electric
18TH AND THATCHER SIS
STORE AND DWELLING.
t.SlF rooms, BATH and electric, cement cellar
21o WEST TrH STREET.
Brick store and apartment electric, steam heat
1928 MARKET STREEr
Nine rooms bath. hot water heat gas and electric.
POSSESSION DAYS.
MUNDY & COMPANY
Phone sO60-SQ6t 706 MARKET STREET
t5eu Rents MOTtVaa
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AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE.


AUToMOBILEs--pa for all makes ~
automobiles. new and secondhand springs.
wheeiss tires tubes aud all parts. ADAMS
street Garage 302 Adams street. Phone
AUTOMOBILES buy second -ha&i
automobiles for parts, any condition.
Adams Street Garage, 3n2 Adams street.
fbone ad42 w.
CHANDLER Limousine 1917 model. OK
cetlent condition throughout. Wti do
Iuonstrate. Price 2f3O0- 90 Orange strast.
Phone 1928.
CARS WASHED and polished for 81. Apply
iohnsons Quick Service Garage. s07-s09
Woliaston street,
ELECTRIC REPAIRS.
MOTORS. starters and Generators.
Armaturo Winding. Fields Rewound.
promptly. Reasnnabe. Guaranteed.
II. H. CANH.
Tenth and Washington ets.
Phone t48 J.
FOR sAI4E-Autocar, two-ton truck.
Cheap. auto Car Service Co. BOG East
Fourth street.
FIvE-ToN TRUCK with stake body. thor
oughly overhaued. firgt-ciass condition.
Have woods hoist and dump body for same
truck kayford 11s,ton truck with cab.
Service station. 7l5 Orange st.
FOR SALE Ford Sedan. self starter, cleo
trio lights, etc. II. n. HOileY. 400 Van
Huron street.
FORD sedan. 1910. Al condition. Cali 1884.
Hudson touring
Chevrolet touring.
Chevrolet roadster.
Ford roadster.
Ford touring.
Above ears may be purchased on our CON
venieut monthly payment plan, If desired.
Act quick SEQ MIR. Ratiedgo 801-0i-06-JS
French street Turn Hall. Open evenings
from to .
LATE 1917 Ford roadster with electric
lights. lieintz.springfield starting system
With locking device; convertible 10 light
delivery truck. Private party. Call Bell $3.50.
TWO 1917 four-cyIindcr Buick touring cars
II. q. Neose. Union Park Garage. 1gs
Union street.
. INDIAN motorcycle with side car. and
five passenger Chalmers. If you wHnt to
sell Your car, hiring il 70 garage. lli2 Tat
nall street
OVERLAND. 6-passcnRer touring. excel
lent running order. electric lights aud
Compile IS $50 a.. real bargain FOR quick
salt. Vest Ninth street garage. 90s}s
West Ninth street.
WINTER T0p for Dodge roadster Phone
40.
l9ls paPeE 3, touring aco sar .1as. a3giIt and
flS West Front street.
USED cars and trucks X to 81 ton. several
dumps Unique easy terms ]. -, Green
ices. agent. SO Washington street.
MUSICAL
MADALENE sCHIEfsCHEE JOHNSON.
pupil ~ Madam ~ueika Nhaw Voi@e Cul-
fure Natural singing taughu. studio Z5I9
Market stree Phone I-g7 W
-
CHTROP0DESTS.
DO YOUR FEET HI Rr GUARANTEES 70
give relisf Electric foo massage treat
mont. Mrs. Gertrude NJ -. 4i9 Market
street
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Let's Do 1t
This Christmas
You and |

If you don't mind, let's get in step with
those folks over on the happy side Of the street.
Let's forget everything about what has gone
wrong of the l01 things that have made
both kind of hard to live with Of late.
Let's just make-beIicvc we are kids again
not the kind Of dolIcd up kids most Of them are
these, days, but the fun-filled ones of those
years ago, when you and wore copPcr-tocd
boots and "Maw" wound red tippets around
our necks, and we ran whooping and whstling
across the lots to the "Big HIP for a ride on
that wonderful new Christmas sled
Let's get back some Of that good old care
frceness. Let's forget life's harping, carping,
hurry, worry, and just be old-fashioncd boys
again Let's do it because it's one Of the good
things to do, but let's do it most because it's
the thing to do when Christmas is doing
Let's make 1920 Just ono Of the whoop-
hoIleringcst ones that have brought bunch Of
happiness on new years. Let's be regular folks,
you and |.
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sINEss OPPORTUNITIES

STORE and dwelling in Newark. De1 for
saie GOOD opeDlps for gents furnishings,
,L.ftinE taIiur or general mercnandise
v rijc 4 q. box ~ba. Newark. Del
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thought I'd rather break my word
than see YOU break your heart"
He patted the young mans arm.
You have seen queer looks ana
heard whispers. and men have gone
away without saying good-by to you,
eh? You think that this all means
bad things, eh?"
Il cannot blame them" returned
Aldrich, lugubriously.
mo, that's right-you cannot
blame them" cried the man. grinning
in the face of the astonished officer.
"You will hear what those whispers
meant and why they went away-and
you will not blame them"
He backed away as though he fear.
ed to say too much.
You go on your way, M'ser Aid.
rich, and do not break your heart any
more: because the poor people must
find some way to pay a debt they
owe to a man like you, even if they
have to pay in their blood"
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others the toll in which he mad
plunged himself in that wild energy of
despair, had blessed Aldrich with par.
tlal forgetfulness of his bitter plight
FOR a few days. In his present pros
tration of mind and body he met the
thoughts. Whatever might be the out.
come of his trial by law-and after
his conference with his lawyer friend
he had accepted that ordeal as inevi-
table-the stain of it must remain.
What did it all presage for the love
and the future of Evangeline and
himself? He had dared to face the
impending horror of the Temiscouata
jaws; but he dared not face his
thoughts at that moment.
Through watercourses which had
spent their force, over jagged rents
where the floods had torn their way,
he Jared south with his grim compan.
ion.
Thus he met the twelve men who
were faring north.
They massed in the road and halted
He saw with surprise that several Of
these men were the ones who had de-
serted him. One advanced from the
rest and held up his hand.
You are the sheriff." he asked the
surly officer.
Il am, and you fellows better not
try any funny business" He had
scented a plan to interfere with his
prisoner. For one alarmed moment
he feared a lynching, for these were
Frenchmen.
You have arrested M'ser Aldrich
for killing Vetal Beaulieu? Is that
it?"
That's what the warrant charges"
| The spokesman turned slowly and
solemnly to the group of men and
pointed to one of them.
you will arrest that man there
M'ser Sheriff. He is the man who
killed Vetal Beaulieu."
| He had designated a shaggy, cow.
ering man whose hands We're lashed
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HOiu Acadia Paid a Debt

WHILE Norman Aldrich was riding
" moodily down from the north
toward the settlement where the
grip of the law was waiting for him a
dozen men whose faces We're marked
by grim earnestness were riding up
from the south.
Aldrich found u sullen sheriff still
marooned at the tavern The man
had no taste for wallowing through
streams and climbing hills in pursuit
of such young madman as his pris-
oner appeared to be.
The sheriff tried to be bitter and
sarcastic when his prey was once
more in his hands. He even made a
movement toward the hip pocket that
held his handouts
But the hard, gray eyes of this
young man who came riding from the
north made him blink and falter.
Mud-spattered, hollow.cheeked and
pale with vigils, toll, and fasting, his
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close of the task TO which he had set
himself.
The valley was full of suffering.
There were others to be saved. There
were people to be fed and housed.
There were plans to be made for get
ting word to the outside world, so that
the charitable could assist in this time
Of ruin and despair. They had ac-
cepted him as their captain. They
flocked around him. anxious to be
commanded so that they could obey.
He put himself at the head of the
band he had chosen from the men and
went to and fro in his work of rescue
and amelioration. Day after day
passed Each day imposed new bur
dens on him. He had become the
heart of the work of aid and relief,
all others must be the center of
affairs
The law called on him to go to the
sheriff, so he pondered.
! But that duty in the north sum
moned him with more imperative man
date, for his heart was in his work.
/ Yet, wherever he went, he expected
to behold the sheriffs. grim visage
! appear and to hear his summons.
Suspense was proving too great a
! trial for him.
He could endure the agony OF it all
no longer.
SO, at last, he told his loyal little
band of workers that he must leave
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DREAlNLANDA DADHENTUR Daddy
"THE POISONED SWORD'

that swordw laughed the Mysterious
Knight.
"oh-eee. but you got stung frst."
groaned King Bird.
Not mel fooled you!' laughed
the knight II caught the Bumblebee
in my gloyed hand and held him until
he was tearing mad, and then let him
loose at you!"
"Then you weren't hurt when you.
threw that flt?" cried Peggy.
mot Bit" roared the knight. II
was just giving King Bird his laugh
first so our laugh would be all the bet
ter. Ho, ho no !"
"Hurrah for the Mysterious Knight.
Hurray for Billy Belgium y cried all
the birds.
"Hee-haw hurrah for his gallant steed
that's me-" brayed Balky Sam, dano-
ing around I'VE fooled you ALL"
"Whee-ee, IL I'd known the Myste-
rous Knight was Billy Belgium. I'd
never have tried that joke" walled King
Bird. "Whee-ee, but that Bumblebes
had hot stinger!''
"I forgive you, King Bird" said Billy.
Now, if you put mud over the place
where you were stung, 1t will help take
the poison out"
"IIa, ha! Eurrah for King Birds
tourney" cried the birds. "It was worth
the admission he wanted to charge. We
will bring you all the insects you can
eat, King Bird"
"Whee-ee, l don't think I'll ever be
able to eat again." groaned King Bird.
"Tm cured of playing jokes" and away
he flew to do as Billy had advised.
And now for home," shouted Billy.
He mounted Balky Sam and took Peggy
up into the saddle with him. Gallopy
gallop away they went and before Peggy
knew it she was back in her front yard
and very hungry for dinner.
I'm tho ncnt story toiH be told tho
strange things that happen to Billy
and Peggy Uhen they 90 fshing.)
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THE PROBLEM OF THE EMPTY
MANSION

MY trouble became serious when Old
A'A ham got thrown out of the buggy
and broke his collarbone and a couple
of ribe, besides minor injuries.
He went to the hospital while tackled
the job of running the whole place.
OF course. I telephoned Bruno Duke,
but he said:
I'm busy for the next few days
working out plans to sell the place. Do
the best you can. I'm not worrying
about it." and he hung up.
Huh 7 snorted to myself "hes not
worrying, but he's not here-and I am"
However, I had to get busy The lar
der was we'll stocked. fortunately. so /
hadn't to bother about buying food for
a day or so.
For two days, with the help Of the
colored cook and the colored head wait
er, managed well-then the demon
Jealousy" once more upset the apple
cart.
with Charles, the head waiter, and they
KEEP company" Charles, however, was
a gay dog, and had innocent flirtatons
with the two maids, especially Estholia.
coal-black negress with a saucy eye
and wholesome laugh.
Lily one morning caught Charles with
his arm around the willing Estholia's s
waist, and there and then things hap
pened
Hearing a crash in, the kitchen, I
went to see what was the matter. There
was the infuriated Lily brandishing a
long butchers knife, chasing the scared
Charles around and around the kitchen.
I did an ungentlemanly, but wise
thing. I showed out my foot as Lily
numbered by and down she went. She
threatened to kill Charles and acted SO
like a crazy women that I took a bold
and perhaps unwise step-and fired her
there and then.
ordered Eagles to hitch Up the buggy
and take her to the station right away,
and she went to her room very ind:g-
nant and very naughty to pack up her
few belongings.
was called to the phone then, and it
was some fifteen minutes before I was
free-and then-and then - surely
found my hands full, for all the colored
help with the exception of Uncle Moses
who was a local mani marched out in a
body, and neither threats nor promises
could hold them.
So there I was with thirty-six guests
in the house, a linen mistress, an old
colored man and little girl who washed
the dishes OF course, there was the
Eagles, but they were no help to me.
I got a Boston hotel employment
agency on long distance and they prom
ised to send me some help-in two days
I'll never forget those two days as
long as live. ! forgave the Kelly boys
for the trick they played on Uncle
Moses, for they offered to help me, ahe
did in a splendid way.
Their good humor helped to keep the
guests pacifled until the new help ar
rived. Their story of the fight in the
kitchen was funny-and they added to i
many little touches of their own, on'
being that I found the cook holding
down Charles ready to plunge the butch
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THE RED LANE sy s.n.s. "o."1% y; ~. psx s.,..,

them; and he told them why. He had
noticed strange looks, had heard muf.
fled whispers, and he thought he
understood what all this meant.
Some of his men had left without
telling him that they were going away.
This detection indicated that there
were many who believed the dreadful
charge that had been brought against
him; and lie mourned, and no more
heart was left in him for his work.
He insisted that he must go, and
after a time his men ceased to urge
him to remain.
One man followed him a little way
on the road, overlook him. and whis-
pered TO him:
II am breaking my word to men
who have pledged me, Mser Aldrich,
but when saw you start to ride
away south you looked so sad !
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with bit Of rope.
THAT is Joe Dionne, N-ser Sheriff.
They call him Wild.wit Dionne in the
place where he lives. His head is bad.
His brains flew away a long time ago;
and he killed Vetal Beaulieu because,
so he has told us. it was so COM
manded by the good God who guards
the poor people,
HE robbed, he took away the cows
and the horses, he left the poor peo-
pie without money, and the children
without food" mumbled the man who
had been pointed out. ut was told me
by God that must do what did for
the sake Of the poor people,"
Say, look here! I'm no court to
try law cases." said the sheriff, alarm
and doubt on his face. I'm taking
along a prisoner who has been in
dicted all due and regular. 1 don't
know anything about this other
thing"
"Then you shall know" insisted the
man who had first spoken.
He took off his hat and bowed to the
sheriffs prisoner, a prisoner who lis.
tened with stupefaction.
(TO BE CONTINUEDl
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1t is easy enough to sell goods to the
trade once, but the merit of an article
is tested when the repeat orders come
II you find that the little you can sell
Is disposed of by the trade and that
recorders are more or less easy to get,
then, and not until then, would you be
justified in dropping your confectionery
business and confining yourself wholly
to your specially.
! have just taken a position with an ori-
entail rug firm. ! have charge of their up
prospective customers TO- interest them IN.
our rugs. also to sell to the store trade. Tho
an excellent, location, but ! am. absolutely
ineYperienced, in business. In salesmanship
and. above all. in rugs.
have Just completed Il course in interio,
decoration. and that is the reason for my
employment, as can advise customers as to
he will, teach me rugs. but the rest is up 's q
bnsnesl me This rd rm n has done only wholesale
Of an experiment 1t is quite an opportunity
for me- and am more than anxious to make
ship. Can yor advise me?
,vs SpIr SsIth, customers % must come from the very
should make some special appeal. sG.' what f'de do
',.,I v9u think OF incosing an attractive leafiet
history Of oEen,a PT1ss Pussg and ..o
th3qght of sending list OF books on the
Se''SSt ~ any WHO appear interested.
, Also. would appreciate a suggestion A. To
ihe sort of a letter to send out In order to
insure its at least being read
My ignorance seems quite appalling. In
fact, L wonder where ! get the courage 10
Tackle Isii the JOB. Any advice you may give me
answer letters by mail? II so, ] should
father hear from You in that way than
through the columns OF the paper
L. II. r.
m I've mailed you list of books on
salesmanship. advertising, correspond
ence and retail store management. A
reading of these will prove very helpful
to you.
Your idea of inclosing leafiet with q
letter is, of course. good, but It depends
upon the letter, the leaf1et, to whom they
are going to be sent and what they are
Offering. - :
In other words, yours is problem,
which requires two or three weeks of
careful investigation, and that, of course,
would be impossible for me to give.
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THE DAILY NOVELETTE,
THE UNEXPECTED GUEST
By Manola II. Cutting,

" A TELEGRAM for Mrs. Fenton,"
"A announced Ann as she entered
the dining room, where the family was
at breakfast.
J., Oh mother. do open it quickly I
nope it's nothing serious - exclaimed
from the note she was reading.
IT'S from Aunt Mary" announced
Fer mother. ''and this is what she says:
will arrive at Stonehurst, 4:3O Tues
day, Send Mary to depot. v
Mary Stanton"
oh, mother" walled Mary. "how
perfectly terrible! How can / go when
Ian ! am ,i to be be SO busy all day today? And
days this is the worst-when I have
planned for my dinner party and dance
TINS evening. ! simply cannot spare the
time to go to the station! -
=, Nonsense. Mary said her father
of course you will go, when Aunt
Mary thinks so much of you. and as for
the dinner party and dance" he added,
with wit s.,G TWINKLE ikIt in his eye, II thought
.sprained his ankle and couldn't come
Now! although you have lost the lion
Of the evening, you'll have some one to
hll in your exact number at dinner"
"Oh, dad, imagine Aunt Mary Stanton
in the place of Captain Barker" pouted
Mary, but she laughed in spite Of her
self when she pictured her prim and
proper greataunt in the role of the
debonair young captain.
AS the train rolled into Stonehurst
that afternoon. Mary. who was looking
very sweet and demure in her trim
white costume. left her roadster at the
curbng and walked up and down the
platform. but there were no signs of
Aunt Mary-positively none. She pulled
the telegram cut of her pocket, where
she had thrust it just before starting.
as Aunt Mary, according to one of her
I'whims, always asked to see those she
| had sent previous to her arrival in town.