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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
Discrimination Needed.

'That girl must have great sense
Of humor. She is laughing all the
time"
"That's the trouble with her sense
Of humor. She doesn't know when
not to laugh"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
S7F- a WoaaAra Way

Yesterday sfteTnuon az AID
o'elock." said old Festus Peter, my
favorite niece killed her husband"
"Whatf' cried the listener. Surely
you do not mean"
"She killed him seven times and In
as many different ways before she
opened the telegram at AIS and
learned to her relief that he had con-
cluded his business with unexpected
ease and would arrive home on the
midnight train last night instead of
some time today"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
Curse Of Riches.

"This multimillionaire was once a
poor boy"
"The adjective still clings to him"
"How is that?"
People say, Poor old dufferi With
all his money he can't buy farm
hands Appetite"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
Her Hard Lines.

Mr.. Flatbush-She has very diff
cult part in the new play.
Mrs. Flatbush-Dif1icult? Why, she
doesn't say word.
"Well, isn't that difficult for
WOman?"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
His No Mans Land.

"What are your impressions Of No
Mans Land?"
II didn't get into the war;" answer
ed the morose citizen. "My only vivid
idea of No Mans Land is home while
spring housekeeping is going on"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
Habit

~Do you think party lines are being
edacedT'
NO." said Senator Sorghum. IA
mans party 10 something like his fam
ny relations. There may be some
fierce differences Of opinion, but they
don't prevent those concerned from
having to admit that they are still kim
folks"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
The First Consideration.

"Ss SS'teNdSt 0Iiotas
is this a progressive town" asked
the visitor.
YES, indeed Why, we have dozens
OF skyscrapers, imposing public build-
ings. good schools, fine churches,
broad. well paved streets, a pure wa
ter supply and"
"Quite so, quite so. But how are
your golf LINKS"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
A Safe Bet.

Lawyer-You want divorce on the
grounds of insanity; but are you sure
your husband is insane?
Woman-Welf, if he isn't now, I'll
live with him until he is--so get the
papers. ready.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
Wasting Time.

"In their quarrel he threw an alarm
clock at his wife,"
@He ought to be ashamed of him
self to throw away his time So"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
Sure Glue.

"Eow did you guess at once that
Genes was married mani"
Because he Is such a good listeneE.n
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
PROVING an Abb.

Proving an AIIba.
FlatbVsh-Do you think a man can
be talked to death?
Bens0nharst-No, I don't.
Why don't your
Well I've got photograph. a par
ret four laxative kids apd a wife,
and. say, I don't look like a dead enc,
do e.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
A GREAT IMPROVNMENT.

A GREAT IMPROVEMENT.
"Well son. I see you're changed
considerable since you left home for
coilege-s'pose you've made wonder
fun Improvement"
yes father, can play guitar
and sing harmony as well as any,
body at school,"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
Flying High.

Flying High.
"You know we promised golden
aCpae to the most beautiful gipl ut the
bail"
"Weile"
"The jeweler hasn't finished It.
What shall we DOE"
%eWhAt do we care for expenSe2
Award her q real apple"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
MATCIILESS.
mentative.'

His Wife-Couldn't you match
that sample Of silk I gave you?
Titus Wadde-It can't be done.
The only thing like it costs six doll
lars a yard.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30

The Crucial Moment.
The time when life's affairs begin
To seem entirely wrong
Is when you've started butting In
Where you do not belong.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
Shoe Tongues.

Shoe Tongues.
Mrs. Flatbush-Do you like sandals2
Mrs. Bensonhurst-Oh. yes; love
them.
"Then you do wear them some
times?"
"Wear 'em? Wear what?"
"Why, sandals"
"Oh, excuse me. thought you ask
ed me If liked scandals"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-10-30
Poor Man

Poor Man.
His was indeed a dismal life
And lonely at the end;
He made a lot of money here
But never made a friend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07

wife, ever recommended an English
butler named Parsons to the Wood
worth family here"
l went straight to the Pontchartra L
There 1 ducked for cover, sent a bell
boy for the House detective and showed
my badge.
L want a room on the sixth floor. as
close to 617 as I can get it. Tell the
Office I'm here as Miss Annie Casey.
in case of calls"
Once in my room I ordered some
thing to eat. and ten minutes later
had the satisfaction of beholding
Curate Sam quietly locking his door
and stepping into the elevator.
1 hurried back to my handbag, took
out my spider" my police revolver, and
ten-inch piece of bar steel with one
end tilted up like tack puller. 1t
didn't take me long to master the door
into GIT. Once inside, I bolted that
ried search of the room itself when the
telephone bell rang.
rs that you. ann" an anxious voice
asked over the wire,
Yes" I answered in a husky whis-
per. getting as close to Citrate Sans
voice as I could.
Whats wrong there?" was the
prompt inquiry.
I'm not alone" I whispered back.
Did you put Pip Keefer wiser" ask
ed the unknown voice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07

watching the sleeper's face as worked.
I carefully withdrew my hand, bring
ing with it a blue-barreled automatic.
Then I carefully lifted the coarse
gray-white coverlet. letting it fall
gently over the sleeper's arm. Then
with my safety pins 1 adjusted about
Master Pip Keefer what to every hos
pital nurse is known as restraining
sheet whereby a young girl is able TO
control either the struggles Of an un-
ruly patient or the commissions of a
delirious one.
Then I tiptoed about the room. max
ing a quiet but thorough search. In Pfp's
pockets 1 found a roll of bills muchs too
big for the most frugal of bel1-hops, an
ample bunch of equally suspicious
looking keys, five pawn tickets, and
what seemed to be the floor plan OF
some unknown house. The tickets and
keys and floor plan 1 tucked carefully
away. Then 1 tiptoed to the window
and deliberately raised the soiled blind
The yellow-faced youth on the bed
open his eyes as the light hit him.
What the blazes-" he cried. with
a frantic yet futile effort at compre-
hension. Say who are you. anyway"
he exploded.
It's no use. Pip" quietly told him
You may as well take # easy until
get through with you. I'm Sam Ever
sons steady. and I'm going to know
where he is
| ''What're yuh shootin' that stuff al
me fr? I don't know no Sam Ever
son. declared the indignant Pip.
Then why were you talking to him
this morning? How about that Wood
worth diamond robbery? Il Scar the
liar or are you2"
L don't know nothin about dia-
mondsi"
Then where'd you get 'e:-l to pawn o.
demanded, showing him the tickets.
And what gave you cold feet about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
1.-the Trail of the SWartZdOrp Star

and shook the stone out in my hand.
Instead of the Blue Pear found a
large Cape May crystal imitation.
Then get me to Harper Hospital as
quick as this little ~go-cart of yours
can make it,"
In the office at Harper's I showed my
Protective Alliance badge. ordered a
taxi to be waiting for me. 'phoned Bah
bitt to expect me at Headquarters, and
requested l ten-minute interview with
the patient answering to the name of
Henry Spearman.
That roughneck got me before !
even saw him. His second thumB put
me down and out before I'd even got
hold of my gun. There's only one thing
I seem to remember. AS I swung on
him, before he slugged me the second
time, I imagined I saw a scar some
where in front Of his ear" he told me.
That was enough. In two minutes
was in my taxi and speeding for Bah
bitt-and his office.
First thing" 1 told him. as I care
fully LITE, my watch out and IN
wrapped it. hand this to your Identi-
flcation Bureau man and see whose
finger prints I've got there on the
easel And then find out who drives
taxi number 1880 in this town.
I was already on my feet when the
Identification Bureau official brought
my watch back to me.
sad Sam Everson, alias Curatc
Sam he announced, as he gave ms
the Bertillon record. "Con-man, hotel
thief and penny-weighter.
'Where'd he go?" asked. as Toosey
came in.
ITO the Pontchartrain, and took room
ST." was Toosey's prompt reply. /"A,
Paul r. Garvin. of Chicago
ANY 'phones?"
Three. I'd only a chance to get the
| last one. That's the Norman Wood
worth home!"
That car. Miss Rymal. is owned By
4 diamond p,lisher named Raht, and
! not public cab. as you thought
/ Raht, by the way, was arrested TO
| diamond smuggling from Windsor il
1915. but was discharged. So there
no record against him." said Babbitt.
Thanks" I said to Babbitt as
handed him Toosey's slip. But pleas
phone Mrs. Norman Woodwork ant
say that Miss Elsie De Loche, the in
terror decorator she wrote about. Is OF
4 her way out to her house. Then hav,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07

Are any of them new?" He hest
tated at this.
Parsons. my butler, might be de-
scribed as a recent arrival in the
house. But he was eleven years with
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. he came to US,
1 know that positively"
WHO recommended him to you?"
Again there was the momentary
silence
Somebody already in my employ
ment-I don't just remember who"
And how about Mrs. Woodworths
own maid, the girl called Lucille? Has
she been long in the house?"
Il fancy not he said, after mo-
ments bought.
Would you mind dropping ne
here?' I said as I opened the door and
motioned to my taxi driver. We came
to stop.
'I am afraid I haven't helped you
much" ventured the motor king.
More than you irnagine!" I told
him. He looked down at my expres-
sionles face for a questioning second or
two. Then he slammed shut the door,
| and 1 noticed that he did so with quite
unnecessary force.
| Straight to Police Headquarters .
I told my taxi driver as I climbed in.
| Miss RymaL" asked Rabbit, as ]
stepped into his Office at Headquarters
did you ever hear of man named
Pareto? A man Of that name tried to
call up your friend Citrate Sam at his
hotel. We ran down the numbe> he
left and found he'd been talking from
drug store, without leaving a trail
So the help we tried to give you didn't
pan out"
How about those phone numbers p
I asked.
Rabbit handed over a sheet from 4
scratch-pad bearing the fruits Of Of
fetal research. 1 glanced over the al
dresses without too apparent Interest
One Of the names 1 saw there wa
| Paddy Moran"
Anything else you want?' nsket
Babbitt.
Nothing but a room at the Pont-
chartrain," told him from the half
opened door. And if this office hap.
pens to want me. be SO good as 10 cal
for Miss Annie Casey. And, ~ tn,
way, please wire our New York office t.
find out if Herman Vandertyl. Or hi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE


these for the information Of Win
although
oed Balmy dismissed from
Inspector SIodn Of
arrested
of
to In
max trend"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07

Sure" I answered. at a guess.
"All right said the voice. and that
ended the talk.
1 was glad to get out of that room
and safely back in my own. There
worked over the handful of fragments
from Citrate Sans scrap basket. All
could get of value after infinite piecing
together was: he Wayne" &C 3T19."
and N the bells"
A familiar look about that '2719"
sent me back to my little list of phone
numbers from Rabbits Office, where
1 found it to be the same as one of
the call numbers there designated.
I was still brooding over my fisk-line
tangle of twisted facts when Teosey
pussy footed up to my room.
What do you want me to do?'- she
demanded.
'T want you to come with me tc the
Wayne Hotel. There. I think. Wen dig
up a bell-hop called Pip Keefer."
When we got to the Wayne 1 found
that my guess hadn't been such a bad
one. young man named Keefer was
ION the bells" there at night. His home
address, 1 found, was OF Schumacher
street. And to that address We hurried
on without loss Of time.
1t was not an inviting abode, being
half cheap temperance hotel and halt
rooming house. So 1 drew off until
Toosey could roughen up her appear
| ance and show an appropriate from
for such quarters. While 1 busted my
self by purchasing a package of safe.
ty pins in a nearby store. she went il
| alone, took a room for a week and duly
reappeared to throw me tie high sign
to follow her.
Some Dump" she scornfully an
| nounced as she shut her door. Then
acting on my instructions. she reop.
ened that door to intercept a coatless
mulatto carrying a tray of empty beel
bottles.
Say, kid. which is Pip Keefer'!
room ~ she casually inquired.
"Pips sleep in twenty mine. But he,
sure kill yuh. Blonde, if yuh go stirrin
him bfore ski"
1 waited until the hall was clear. AM
then made a study of the room mum
bers. Keefer's room. found, was OIL
the floor above. 1 crept up a marrow
stairway padded with worn carpet
came to twenty-nine, and cautiousl.
tried the door.
"Toosey," 1 explained. as I put m
revolver in my waist-front and peck
eted my spider" and safety pins, 'keel
an eye on the hall until 1 get inside.
1 turned the worn old lock bar bacl
without trouble. I closed the door an
tiptoed to the head of the narrow irol
bed. Then I slowly and cautiousl
wormed by fingers under the pillow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07

Information dig out the names and ad-
dresses of these two phone numbers.
Get back to that hotel, Toosey, and
keep behind the scenery. But if any
thing happens, have a 1ook-in IL you
can! Then find out Annie Casey-s
room number from the Office and report
to me there"
1 found Mrs. Woodwork a much older
and much stupider woman than I had
expected.
Those diamonds were never even
delivered at this house" she explained
when I had told her my business, 80
how can anybody in here be concerned
in the case?"
Then who in this house knew. they
were coming here, or even to the city,"
only my husband" she said.
And your servants?"
would you mind talking these mat
tiers over with my husband ~ she ask
ed, with her finger already on the bell.
for my spare time today is extremely
limited. 4 and Mr.. Woodwork, you'll
find, is still downstairs"
The bell was answered by a trim
figured lady's maid with demure eyes
and extremely red lips.
Lucille, take this lady down to Mr..
Woodworth' commanded the mistress
Of the house. Yet 1 noticed that she
stood studying that red-lipped servitor
with a new and narrow-eyed intent
ness.
Norman Woodwork proved to be one
of those full bloded, fulfilled, high liv-
ing nephritics with pathetically soften
ed hands and prematurely hardened
arteries.
Mrs. Woodwork has sent me down
to you about that interior decorating
announced
Norman Woodworth's shrewd and
guarded eye studied my face for mo-
ment- Then he glanced down at his
watch
I've got to be at the Chamber Of
Comerce in half an hour" he explain
| ed. can you come in my caro-
I did so, after ordering my taxi &c
follow. I told him. in two minutes
times, why 1 was there
Then what do you want to known
Il infer. from what your wife said
that you yourself engage your help"
Il do" he Acknowledged
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-18
Running a Newspaper.

The Caledonian- Record has received
an anonymous letter from an irate sub
scriber complaining that this paper is
carrying too much advertising and too
little news The subscriber forgets that
through the holiday season every paper
and magazine is crowded to the limit of
its space with Christmas advertising
and the Caledonan- Record is no
exception. The present management
took over this property after it had
been run at loss for many months
because, forsooth, there was too much
reading matter and too little advertis-
ing. The only way a newspaper plant
can pay its, bills is from the receipts of
its advertising columns, and up to date
the nublsher has been able to meet his
bill. promptly because of the generous
support of the merchants of northeast
ern Vermont. 1t would be easy to fill
up page every day with boiler plate
but this would be, in our Judgment, a
waste of white paper at time when
the government is urging all papers to
conserve on news print. The Caledo-
nian. Record is not charitable institu-
tion but we are trying TO run 1t as a
business proposition and we are in
clined to think by the steady increase
of the subscriptions amounting TO over
500 in the past four days that we are
meeting pretty well the desires of the
people of this section.
We propose to print the news when
it is news and all that our readers will
care to read For instance, we pub
lishcd two columns and half on the
Mcleod mill fire when it was news.
We published four columns on the
Beck Haywood automobile case when it
was news. When any news story
breaks that is worth space we will GOV.
er it in such detail as we consider our
readers will be interested. We do not
propose to fill the columns Of our paper
with boiler plate or uninteresting
matter Just for the sake of filling space
and using up white paper.--St Johns
bury Caledonian.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-18
JUSTICE TO VERMONT SCHOOL
TEACHERS.

The public school teachers in many
of the larger communities in Vermont
have gone about their dsagreeable duty
of asking for really living wage in
manner which cannot give offense to
the general public They have been a
long suffering people. For consider,
able period of years and more especial.
~ since 1917 they have seen the cost of
living mounting to great heights while
AT the same time their incomes have
remained stationary or advanced by a
mere pittance when compared with the
approximate increase of 100 per cent in
the necessities of life As Chairman
James HARNESS of the state board of
education said in his frank statement
TO the assembled school directors of
Vermont at the conference in Burling-
ton, the purchasing power of the dollar
has diminished by about one-half since
the advent of the United States in the
war; and the teachers of Vermont have
been getting along on salaries which
are practically the same as they were
before the war. Moreover, were the
prices of commodities to sink to the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-18

pre-war level, the teachers of Vermont
would not be able to maintain them
selves as they should, nor as the quail
ity of their work and the Importance
of their position demand. But there is
no immediate prospect that the cost of
living will ever come down to the pre-
war level so the handicap placed upon
the teachers will be even more pro-
nounced unless Vermont communities
wake up to the situation and pay their
teachers more. If we are not guided to
that action through appreciation of the
work performed by the public school
teachers then we will be forced TO such
an action or else see the decline of the
schools of Vermont as other states call
away the most capable teachers of Yer
mont 1t is, therefore, case of self
preservation if not of voluntary action
at this time But we believe the right
thing for Vermont towns and cities to
do is to proceed forthwith to increase
the salaries of their school teachers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-18
The War in the East.

To Frank NJ. Corse, former chairman
Of the Russo American Chamber OF
Commerce, who is now in Paris, is cred
tied the statement that in October Ad
miral Kolchak informed the United
States government that unless the al
lies gave him aid he would be obliged
to cede part of Siberia to Japan. This
is more definite than previous rumors
of the same sort, but not necessarily
more true. Kolchak stands for the ter
ritorial integrity of the Russian en-
pire, and has refused to make conces-
sions even to the Baltic states and the
Ukraine. But the cession of territory
to Japan would be different and more
serious matter, and would violate the
principle of elf-determination, which
soviet Russia has adopted, as well as
the principle of integrity. Such a step
might lead to future wars in the far
east, no matter who rules Russia, and
it certainly would not be taken except
as a last resort
1t is evident, however, that Kolchak
is in serious straits, and the capture
OF Novo Nicolaievsk Sunday by the
soviet armies is OF significance because
it is in region, including Tomsk to
the north, where bolshevism has never
been thoroughly suppressed even dur
ing the Kolchak regime. 1t is 800 miles
east of Omsk, which fell Nov. IL, so
that since then the revolutionists have
been advanced at the rate of III miles
day. As much further TO the east
is Krasnoiarsk, another hotbed of revo.
luton, so that the soviet forces are
likely to gain strength as they ad-
vance which no doubt is one motive for
the strategy adopted
While in Siberia winter has ended
large scale operations and the cam
paign has become kind of Arctic ex-
petition by the bolsheviki in the rear
of the unresisting remnants. of kol-
chak's army the miIder climate of
South Russia still admits Of vigorous
fighting, and Denekine, Cossacks and
volunteers" are being driven back on a
front of several hundred miles. At
their maximums, attained in August,
they passed beyond 0rel, 400 miles
from the Black sea. They have now
lost about half the ground gained, and
their retreat seems to be accelerating.
Moscow claims the capture of Khark
off, more than 200 miles due south Of
0rel, and the Denekine bulletins admit
that stand is being made on the Kicy-
Poltava railway, in the sane general
region, but further west, after re-
treat of from 80 to 40 miles on front
of 800 miles.
The line is now where Il was in
June, before the gains which led to the
report that Denekine would soon be
at Moscow. Az the present rate of
retreat he will soon be back at the
line of May 5, running from Rostoff
east by south to the Caspian sea But
if compelled to retire so far his posi-
tion would become even more danger
Gus because of the hostility of the peo
pies of the Caucasus in the rear of that
line. 1t is not at all impossible, there
fore, that Denekine may share the fate
of Kolchak, and for a like reason-the
opposition of the people of the occu-
pied territory. Springfield Republican,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-18

In New York City Christmas trees
about eight feet tall are selling at 81;
table trees" for 80 cents The 30-foot
trees, generally used by schools and
churches, are selling at from $40 to SIS
Ask New England farmers how much
they got for them Boston Globe.
Probably most of the New England
farmers would be ashamed to tell how
small a part they got Of the retail price
brought by the trees in the big city
markets; but the publishing of the
above price list may help some of them
to get more nearly what they ought to
receive next year, or else drive the
choppers out of the business. The
choppers may advance the price as the
New England farmers advance theirs,
until the public refuses to pay any
higher prices; then, if the business is
continued there may be an cqualiza
tion of profits We note in this con
nection that a Brattleboro florist is adj.
vertising perfect" Christmas trees for
Is cents up. OF course, he doesn't have
TO pay freight charges over a long dis
lance, but even the freight charges and
other intermediate expenses do not
warrant charge of prices ten times as
large in the cities.