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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
Copyright, 1919, King Feature Syn
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CHAPTER CCCLIII.
Can 1 be sure that the man they
burned was my father" l repeated
after Father Andrew. why it was
-surely-waSn't it"
That's what we can't prove un-
less you saw him, unless you're
sure" said Father Andrew. Your
mother thought it was. But there
is a man alive to-day who claims TO
be your father. He says the man
who was killed in the railroad
wreck wasn't Lucky Lee at all :
but the Clothes" l interrupted.
'I saw them. I knew them. The
coat the reporter made me touch
was one I'd seen my father wear.
I'm afraid that proves nothing,
replied the man I had thought OF
as my father through all the young
years. HE had orner suits. He
might have given the one you saw
to a pal who was in hard luck.
You remember that the money he
had Won wasn't in his possession
when they brought the body home
to you"
Eyes. I remember that" I mur-
INJURED, wondering where all this
was leading us. But we thought
he had been robbed"
me that. But you don't know that
he was robbed. You can't prove
it."
"You mean that I can't prove 1T
in a court of law that the body we
buried was my fathers? You mean
that 1 can't disprove the claim OF
anyone who chooses to say he's my
father"
Father Andrew shook his head
sgadly.
"You speak bitterly, dear" he
said.
"I feel bitter!' I cried. "I don't
want the ghost of a disreputable
past rising now. I have nothing
father. l had a starved childhood.
Red plush and shameful affluence
one week. The hall bedrooms of
cheap boarding houses the next.
And my poor little mothers shame
and sadness through it all. Then
death released me. And soon you
came. / grew to think of you as
my father. I'm proud to think of
you as my father"
Barbara Anne, you'll always be
my little girl, no matter what hap
pens. No other mans claim can
make you stop being my daughter.
LUZ nave SOO "lldl may De
the condition of the man who
brought you into the world?"
rs he poor?" 1 gasped.
"Yes, dear. Poor and old. And
he says in his need he heard of you,
the daughter out of whose life he
went because he felt he was de-
grading it. If this man actually
did that much for you once, can
you deny his claim on you now?"
asked Father Andrew gently.
If this is my father then when
he pretended to die he deliberately
left us to starve," I replied bitterly.
He had the money he won at the
races. He didn't even share that
with us"
Then the most terrible shame
surged up from my heart and I
cried: "Oh, what am 1 saying? 1t
doesn't matter what he. did. You
say he's poor and old. And I have
so much. If this is my father, Jim,
1 will help him. He must be taken
care of. Well do everything-Per-
haps 1 ought to go to Canada with
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17

With the advent of top coats,
which this season of the year her.
aids, one-piece street gowns once
more make their bow. Modish fab
RIGS for these are velveteen, paulette,
jersey, serge and tricot.ne. Nor is
a gown to be seen which is not en-
broidered, braided or corded.
Women evidently have no intention
of being sober-clad moths, but
rather gorgeous butterflies, judging
by the newest of these one-piecc
gowns. Most of them are enliver.ed
by some establishment of scarlet or
cerise. The one pictured is fash
.oned of navy blue tricotine, cut in
the long Russian blouse effoct. 1t Is
trimmed with fine black silk braid
and heavy scarlet slip floss. Trico-
Uncovered buttons ornament the
skirt and sleeves. A front opening
effect is simulated by tiny row of
gilt buttons applied to u narrow
inset of cream satin. A shallow
cream satin collar falls from the
back, sailor fashion. The distinctive
feature of this mode is the quartet
of tucked pockets. The gown closes
at the shoulder and side, a narrow
belt of the tricotine confinirg the
loose waistline.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
LITTLE TALKS BY
BEATRICE FAIRFAX

The man was a slender, good
looking chap with the eyes of a
dreamer and a sensitive, rather
weak mouth and chin. Across the
table from him sat a woman whose
tawdriness of face and dress I've
never seen surpassed. Painted,
smoking, cheaply conspicuous-sh
seemed a companion no decent man
would select.
The man with her, however,
looked at her lovingly and proudly
and turned to bow to Mark Lonsdale
with absolute composure.
Mark" cried his sister Ellen
with asperity. How can you bow
to a man who has such a-creature
with him?"
That's Dick Milton and his
WIFE," replied Mark quietly.
His wife? That awful person!
A friend of yours married to such
a woman! Oh, Mark, promise me
you'll never-fall for any one like
that? Tell me you wouldn't. You're
not like him, are you? A coarse
brute"
I'm not like Dick Milton" said
Mark. I'm. not an idealist."
"Idealist?" 1 repeated, seeing that
Ellen was too shocked and disgusted
to reply. Meaning a romantic
dreamer? A mar who has beautiful
concepts in his imagination?
Something like that" replied
Mark gratefully. HE dresses up
that girl Ellen thinks dreadful so
that to him she seems like all the
beauty and loveliness in the world.
1 mean he hangs his dreams on her,
clothes her in them. He sees her
as he likes to think she is. AS he's
always wanted a woman to be-"
He's a horrible coarse creature
to care for her. It goes to show
what men are!"' sneered Ellen in
her most acid voice.
Mark flushed, but he tried again.
In Search of Beauty
You don't interpret us right,
Nell. We men folks are q kind of
foreign language to you, and you
don't get the idiom of the country
when you try to translate us. Lots
of us are looking for beauty and
sweetness and fineness, and we dig
1T up in the most unlikely looking
places. Now Dick probably thinks
that paint is a healthy color. And
her coarseness he calls vitality. And
her cheap coquetry he takes for
womanly tenderness. That wife of
his is most likely clever enough to
play up to what she finds he wants,
and he interprets her differently
from what we do. I don't think he's
ever seen anything just as it is. He
always gets a slant on things that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
"When q Girl MQrrieS"
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, you. I'll do that. For you think
| the man in Canada is-my father
don't you?"
I'm afrand So agreed Father
Andrew.
THE telegram said So" l gasped
will you read it, dear?" asked
Father Andrew handing me the
crumpled bit of yellow paper.
1 smoothed it with one hand and
held it against the steering wheel
of my car, which I'd drawn up in a
little green cove in the roadside
Then with blurring eyes, 1 read:
mo money to travel. Will meet
/ you here at shack in the woods.
! Long to see my daughter again. AS
soon as strong enough will go to
her. You must provide funds and
look out for me. Pretty sick yet
Team will meet you Monday. Lucius
| Lucky Lee.
You wonderful man." I cried
turning back to Father Andrew.
You're going to make sure. To
spare me the first edges of the
shame and humiliation-until we
have to be--certain."
Suddenly 1 broke off. The mean
ing of the terrible trouble in Father
Andrews eye came over me with a
| flash. 1t wisn't pity for me. 1t
wasn't sorrow for himself. even
though there should be some one to
claim the place that had so long
| been his in fact as well as senti-
ment. There was some one else to
whom all this must mean far more
than it could to either of us.
"Oh, Father Andrew, forgive mel"
I cried. Forgive me-"
i've nothing to forgive, Barbara
Anne" he said. mo one could have
expected aught different. It's only
natural that you shouldn't rejoice
to think that one who shamed you
i in life as in death has perhaps
come back from the grave. He was
gone and forgotten. And you were
| too honest to pretend that this
| strange return can make you
| happy. You didn't try to lie to me.
Why should you? I say there's
nothing to forgive, and your offer
! to go with me is like the dear heart
| that's planning already to make a
| poor old reprobate last days happy
/ if she finds him her kim
| I'm not asking you to forgive
me for that I said. I'm asking
you to forgive me because I for
| got the one to whom this means so
frightfully much more than it ever
can to me. Father Andrew, my
hearts aching for Neal"
''I dreaded the time when it would
come to you" he whispered huskily.
| That's why you made them
promise not to be married until
you return," I said. you want to
be sure. You want me to see this
man who says he's my father-and
to make sure"
"I want to make certain" said
Father Andrew gently, that when
I married my Martha, the sweetest
woman who ever suffered through
scoundrel-I want to make sure
| that when. she gave me Neal-there
wasn't another man alive who was
her husband in the sight of the
law"
Ito be continued.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17

focus or clearly enough to judge
her? Or suppose he's an idealist, as
Mark says-one who believes in
goodness and is too simpleminded
and unworldly to measure the
tawdry and common as we do?"
You mean, then," said Ellen
slowly, that just because he is
sweet and gentle, a man sometimes
marries a woman whose attraction
for him would make me think him
a brute?"
YOU" 1 replied, "and other good,
pure, decent, intolerant women, you
snub and sneer at a boyish ldealIst
and then sneer more when the
woman who acts as a lay figure for
his dreams wins out. That boys a
tragedy, not a joke or an object of
scorn. His sense of values
is wrong. And he stood up for the
imaginary instead of the real"
A sudden tolerance came into
Ellen's hard good" face.
II hope he keeps his rose-colorcd
spectacles." she murmured. For
if he ever sees true-how he will
pay"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
GOING TOO FAR

"I believed Second Lieutenant
Nibbs when he said he captured
Germans single handed
and took part in a number of other
exploits, but 1 found that
there was limit to my credulity."
"Yes?"
HE must have thought I'd swaI-
low hook, bait and sinker, but l
had to laugh when he said he was
idolized by his men. ."-Birmingham
Age Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
BREAKING THE SET

The woman district visitor trying
to get friendly with little Johnny.
do you think your nanny would
let me buy you, johnny" she asked.
Buy me what? An airgun?" asked
Johnny quickly.
NO! Mo-" laughed the district Wis
itor Would she let me buy you
from her and take you away with
me?"
"She might" replied Johnny. But
I'm afraid you haven't got enough
money"
We'll, about how much do you
think she would ask for you?"
"A thousand pounds" promptly
answered Johnny.
"Oh, but that seems an awful lot
of money" eXpostulated the woman.
Are you quite sure you're worth as
much as that?" .,
We'll, p'r'aps not" admitted
Johnny, but you see, there's six
of us, and if mummy sold me it'd
break thesset. London Tit-Bits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
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Itching, Terrifying Eczema =?

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17

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The pattern is cut in sizes:
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ial.
A pattern of this illustration mail
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
QUITE SUITABLE

The woman was buying a gun Tor
her little boy as present.
"I want n really nice one, please"
she said to the shopkeeper.
"Yes, madam" he answered; ''how
will this one do?'
What do you put in it?" asked
the customer.
Just ordinary caps or l have an
other one here that shoots slugs."
The woman looked delighted.
"Oh, I'll take that one!" she ex-
claimed. THAT will be quite suitable.
We have a large garden and there
are lots of slugs in it," - Edinburgh
Scotsman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
This Question Is Ever on the
Lips of the Afflicted

Eczema, letter, Erysipelas, and
other terrifying conditions of the
skin, are deep-seated blood troubles,
and applications of salves, lotions
and washes can only afford tempo
rary relief, without reaching the
real seat of the trouble. But just
because local treatment has done
you no good, there is no reason to
despair. You simply have not
sought the proper treatment, that
is within your reach.
You have the experience of others
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
CALLING 1T SQUARE

She-Truly, am the first girl you
ever kissed?
He-You are a darling, and it
makes me happy to hear you say 1
am the first man that ever kissed
you.
Shelf 1 am the first, how does
1T happen you do it so expertly?
He-And if 1 am the first, how do
you know whether l do it expertIy
or not?-As You Were.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17

A tiny bottle of "Freezone" costs
so little at any drug store; apply a
few drops upon any corn or ,callus.
Instantly 1t stops hurting. then short
ly you lift that bothersoma corn or
callus right of with you: fingers
TRULY No humbugi
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
(To be continued.)
ANYTHING TO OBIIGE

Whats all the racket about?"
Woman wants song she's heard,
but doesn't know the name Of"
"Well?"
so were playing over everything
in the shop."-Cincinnati ENQUIRER
Smyrna times., 1919-08-13
TIMES AFTERNOON, AUGUST 18,

icon, who quickly maue france one
Of the best ordered, best organized
and most prosperous lands on earth.
Russla's Mirabeau phase passed with
the peaceful and practically bloodless
dethroning of the czar. Then fol-
lowed the terrorists, Lenine and TrOt-
zky.
Frances reign of terror lasted only
a couple of years.
It does not seem possible that
among Russia's 1S0,OO0,OO0 people
there is not a BOnaparte to catch the
wild horses and put bride on them.
After it was over it seemed an in
credibly easy thing to turn out King
Louis and Car Nicholas.
1t will be just as easy for Russia
to upset her present masters as to
unseat the Romanoffs.
1t is a poor sort of revolution that
can't revolve all the way round and
keep the heels Of both the cZar and
the bOlsheviki off our neck.
Smyrna times., 1919-08-13
FATE OF THE RED TERROR
HeIsheVIsm VIII Most Probably Go the
Way That Was Travelled by
French Revolution.

1t is a ten-to-one shot that Russian
bolshevism will blow up and blow out
as suddenly as French terrorism van
ished a century and quarter ago.
Up to date the Russian revolution
travels precisely the old track laid
down by the French revolution, writes
"Girard" in the Philadelphia Press.
First Mirabeau and his solid type of
revolutionists started the thing and
put the skids under King Louis.
Then along came such blood-letting
terrOrists as Dant0n, Murat and
Robespierre, with their merciless gull
lotine working day and night behead-
ing kings and queens and mobiles.
Then appeared the master, Napo-
Smyrna times., 1919-08-13

The site for the new consolidated
High School is still the talk of Smyr-
na-Clayton and residents of both
towns are expressing their wishes.
Those that oppose erecting the build
ing midway between the two towns,
favor the building in either Smyrna
or Clayton, and not along a country
road" In Smyrna the colony plan
is growing more and more in favor
Both the local and State Board of Ed
ucatiOn have a problem on their hand.
to satisfy all concerned, but let us
hope they will act wisely and to the
best interests of. the schools.
Smyrna times., 1919-08-13
TELEPHONE, NO. 10.

The case against the government
ownership of the railroads has been
summed up in the statement upon the
subject which has been issued by the
National Chamber of Commerce. A
short time ago the Chamber invited an
expression of opinion upon this ques-
tion from the 112O trade and CONNER
cial bodies, and it appears from tab
ulation of the returns which have been
received that ninety-nine per cent. of
those who voted, opposed the PROPOSE
ton which had been submitted to
them. They did so for the several
reasons which all thoughtful and dis
interested students of the situation
have recognized as controlling and
which in the judgment of the National
Chamber must be regarded as conclu-
sive.
In the first place under government
ownership the development of rail
road facilities would be dependent
upon Congressional appropriation
which would be determined by politi-
cal influences and which would antici-
pate the coUnt1y's transportation
needs. If the government were to buy
the roads it would have to issue bonds
to the extent of from eighteen to
twenty billions of dollars and it would
moreover be obliged to furnish from
five hundred million to a billion of
new capital each and every year for
extensions and improvements.
Everyone knows what strenuous ex-
ertions it was found necessary to put
forth in order to secure the success of
the Victory Loan, and the majority
of those who subscribed to it were
animated by patriotic spirit and did
not buy the governments bonds as an
investment. But the bonds whose is
sue the purchase of the railroads
necessitate would have to be sold on
their merits.
1t would be necessary to fix their
interest rate on a commercial basis,
which would hardly be less than six
per cent, that being the rate which
the strongest corporations under the
existing conditions and as a conse-
quence of the abnormal demand for
capital which everywhere prevails are
finding themselves compelled to offer.
This disposes of the argument that
under government operation the roads
could be so economically finance
that great saving in this direction
could be effected.
Smyrna times., 1919-08-13

In the death of J. Edward Addicks,
a notable figure of Delaware has
passed away. He made and lost a
fortune in his career, and while he
never gained the object Of his desires,
seat in the United States Senate
from Delaware, he was responsible
in a more or less degree in bringing
about new constitution for the
State.
Smyrna times., 1919-08-13

The number of automobile licenses
issued for the year 1918 was 1856,
more than 1000 ahead of the total for
1917. Anticipating a larger demand
this year, Secretary of State Johnson
placed an order for $4,000, but this
supply has been exhausted and an
other thousand was ordered.
Smyrna times., 1919-08-13

Performance of contract' shall commence
within ten (1O) days after execution of the
contract
Contracts Nos. IS and 20 shall be COM
pleted by Sept. l, 1920. Contract No. 21 on or
before Nov l, 1919 and Contract No. % on
or before Dec. l, 1919.
Monthly payments will be made for 80 per
cent. of the construction completed each
month
Bidders must submit proposals upon forms
provided by the Department.
Each proposal must be accompanied by a
surety bond, certified check, or money to the
amount of at least ten (10) percentum of the
total amount of the proposal.
The envelope containing the proposal must
be marked: Proposal for the Construction of
a State Highway under Contracts No. IS, No.
20, No. 2l or No. 22.'
The contract will be awarded or rejected
within twenty (20) days from the date of
opening proposals.
The right is reserved to reject any or all
bids.
Detailed plans may be seen, and index plans
and specifications may be obtained upon de-
post of $4,000 ten dollars which amount will
be refunded upon return of plans and specih-
cations in good condition, at the office of
STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
DOVER. DELAWARE.
Chas M. Upham, Chief Engineer.
Smyrna times., 1919-08-13
PROPOSALS
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF
STATE HIGHWAYS
STATE OF DELAWARE

Dover. Delaware until two C2) o'clock, P. M
September 10, 1919. and at that place an,
time publicly opened. for the construction o
State Highways in New Castle and Ken
Counties. Delaware. involving the followin,
approximate quantities:
CONTRACT NO. 1870 MILES
Frederica-MilfOrd
80 Acres clearing and grubbing.
$4,000 Gu. yds. Grading.
$50 Gu. yds Concrete Masonry.
$4,000 pounds Reinforcement.
500 lin. it. Is in. Reinf. Concrete Pipe
1O2 lin. ft. "a in. Reinf., Concrete Pipe
1O2 lin. ft. 80 in. Reinf. Concrete Pipe
204 lin. fit. SO in. Reinf. Concrete Pipe
80 Bounds.
$500 lin. ft. Piles
5000 lin. ft. Wood Guard Rail
100 tons Stone for Macadam.
1900 Gu. yds. Cement Concrete Roadway.
$50 Joints.
CONTRACT NO. 2O-s.75 MILES
HarringtOn-FeltOn
Acres clearing and grubbing
$1,000 Gu. yds Grading.
325 Gu. yds. Concrete Masonry.
$4,000 pounds Reinforcement.
200 lin. ft. Is in. Reinf. Concrete Pipe
102 lin. ft. "a in. (Reinf. ConcreteS Pipe
68 lin. fit. 80 in. Reinf. Concrete Pipe
6S lin. fit. sc in. Reinf. Concrete Pipe
A Bounds.
1000 lin. fit. Piles.
1900 Wood Guard Rail
so tons Stone for Macadam
1900 Gu: yds. Cement Concrete Roadway
200 Joints.
CONTRACT NO. 21-O.15 MILES
City Line-3Srd St.. Wilmington
1880 Gu. yds Grading.
400 lin. ft. ~ in Vitrifed Clay Pipe
200 lin. ft. "a in. Vitrifed Clay Pipe
300 lin. fit. 80 in. Vitrifed Clay Pipe
800 lin. #. &c in. Vitrifed Clay Pipe
500 lin. fit. in. Pipe Underdrain
1000 lin. ft. Concrete Curb.
700 Gu. yds. Concrete Foundation.
IL Drop Inets
10 Manholes
45O so. yds. Vitrified Brick Pavement
600 tons Stone Ballast for Street Railway
Smyrna times., 1919-08-13

CONTRACT NO. 22-O.65 MILES
City Line-Market Street Bridge, Wilmington.
33,2O0 Gu. yds. Grading.
IS yds. Concrete Masonry.
5000 pounds Reinforcement.
1000 lin. fit. Wood Guard Rail
2,4G0 tons Stone for Macadam
200 So. yds. Penetration Macadam.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-24
One Million Five Hundred Thou
sand Pounds of Powder for
the Feet.

year to make the soldiers and sailors feet
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In Peace and War. for over Is years
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shoes and sprinkled in the foot-bath has
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Thousands of people sent packages of
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