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CURTIS R. MORFORD, ExecutOr of the Estate of

C. O. Morford. deceased.
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giStercd temporarily at the Hotel Sew ard until they secure a residence.
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Electric Sewing Machine motors at Graefs.
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National Water Motor Washers at J. L. GraefS.
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Elaine Eoccue and Pearl Oil at Graef'S.
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Sled, for boys and girls a' GracIt.
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Ice CrCcpers and skates Gracis
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RAYO lamps with shades $50 at GraefS.
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FLASH LIGHTS and batteries at J. l.. Gracfs.
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Fishrrmcu's Supplies al Graefs
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a wide bertha very wide one. A caravan
painted like a cubist landscape, or made In
some unusual shape. such as that of book
with an illustration on the side, would have
attracted more attention than such labori-
Gus headlines. It's curiosity that we want
to excite
But this is DEPRESSING. The Caravan, as
I said, chose New England for its route,
visiting such towns as Plymouth, Province
town and Hyannis on Cape Cod; Kenne-
bunkport and Portland, Me-; Portsmouth,
Bethlehem and Breton Woods, n. H.; st.
Johnsbury Manchester and Barre, VT, and
wound up at Lake Placid, n. Y. Herein
lies another mistake OF this Caravan. /
notice that a large majority of the towns
visited are we'll known summer resorts, even
literary colonies. The people migrating
from Boston and New York to the Maine
coast, the White Mountains and Lake Placid
for the most part read books. They are not
buying a book for the first time when they
saunter out from the shaded and pllared
porch OF the Hotel Equinox at Manchester.
VT. and pick out a recent volume OF verse
from the Caravan. Again, our purpose is to
create a book desire, isn't II. not, except in
the natural course of events. to feed one
already created? The Caravan I hope some
day to see will ride into villages of which
you will say, "Livermore Falls? Never
heard of It,"
1 recall one night this summer when, COM
ing home in the car. we lost our way and
climbed for several miles up a stony noun
tain between black trees with here and
there a birch flashing out pale before the
headlights. We came at last TO a clearing
and a farmhouse, and turned the car half
into the yard to ask the first person to
appear where we were. The light from our
lamps shone full on the barn and out of the
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very simple. Once let II be said that Abra-
ham Lincoln's father was Abraham Enlov
any community that had an Abraham Enlow
In 1908 can easily start story that Lincoln
was begotten there. Whether Abraham En-
low was fourteen or eighty makes little diff
ference; some even OF his descendants will
ahet the rumor that links their name to that
Of Lincoln.
Not only are innumerable Abraham En-
'ows produced by the laudable desire to pro
ouce worthy male parent for Abraham
Lincoln. but nearly If not quite as man,
Nancy Hankses have been discovered also.
and each OF them in dangerous propinquitv
TO an Abraham Enlow. Mary and her little
lamb are not more invariably together than
the Abraham Elbows and the Nancy
HAnkses. Everywhere that Abraham went
Nancy was sure to 60 Without exception
all the Abraham Elbows were men ready to
betray poor girl, and invariably each and
every several Nancy fell prompt victim 10
his seductive snare.
And each Nancy ultimately married
Thomas Lincoln, the same Thomas Lincoln.
Solomon in all his glory had hardly more
wives than Thomas Lincoln, If all these
stories true; but Solomon did not have
to call them all by the same name. 1t Is
impossible to supply a sufficient number of
Thomas Lincolns to meet the demand of the
numberless Nancys in distress, and 1t is sad
could adequately support one wife in having
thrust upon him a harem Of young women
who had loved not wisely but too well, and
who depended solely upon his chivalry to
save them from disgrace.
There is still another and yet more inter-
esting possibility for the makers Of genealo-
ey to order. Abraham Lincoln was born in
La Rue county, Kentucky, Feb. IL, 1909
jefferson Davis is alleged TO have been born
in Christian county, Kentucky, June 3, 1908.
Seven months is the time and sixty miles
the distance which is alleged to have sepa-
rated these two men at birth 1t is prepos-
ferrous that so brief an interval of time and
so short distance should stand in the way
of the devotee Of truth. What is more easy
than to prove that these two men were
twins? AS to Jefferson Davis's birth there
are as many stories as about that OF LIN
coin Both were tall men; both were by
nature kind hearted men. There are re-
semblances enough for the purposes of the
story, and few more can be invented. Con-
trasts, also, are abundant"
And the author adds this laconic footnote:
This chapter is not as original as I SUP
posed when | wrote It, Mr. Hugh Mcclellan
informs me that his father a Confederate
officer. often heard in the army that Abra-
ham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis had com
mon father; and have found traces of the
Henry Clay story also"
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as to Identity of Lncons Dispele(

we're accustomed to weighing evidence. Some
OF those who were chiefly responsible were
men Of ability and of character. They be-
lieved this story until it became almost a
religion. Yet the story is sustained by no
evidence which these lawyers would have
accepted as proof in any case in court.
The rumors bringing in the household of
Chief Justice Marshall are somewhat COM
plex One of them relates to the son Of the
expounder of the Constitution and one to an
apocryphal adopted son, who is named as
Nancy Hanks's father. AS to the latter
story Senator Beveridge wrote the follow
ing letter;
Beverly Farms, Massachusetts,
Sept. IT, 1919.
my DEAR DIR. BARTON:
Your letter of September has just been
forwarded to me here, where have been
working to complete the last two volumes of
my Life of Chief Justice Marshall" which
win be published by Houghton Mifflin Co.
OF Boston next month.
II have not run across any record or in
timation that Chief Justice Marshall ever
had an adopted son; and l quite sure
that he never did have one.
II have been all over the ground Not
only is there no letter which refers directly
or indirectly or gives the smallest intimation
Of any adopted son, but there is no tradi-
ton Of any kind in Richmond supporting the
idea, and none of his relatives has ever
heard Of such thing.
ut is just possible that the legend may
have taken It's rise from the fact that when
Charles Marshall, brother of the Chief JUS
tice, died in 1905, he took his brothers. son,
Martin Pickett Marshall, into his family for
a little time. This lad was born between
1894 and 1799
You can, think. be fairly sure that there
is nothing In Mrs. Boyds book. 1t is as
certain as anything human can be that If
the Chief Justice had had such young man
in his home there would be some reference
to 1t. Surely Paxton would have referred
to 1t, for he gathered up not only all the
facts that he could ferret out but many
traditions and much gossip, some of 1t being
far from fact. / am confident there is moth
ing in 1t. Faithfully yours.
"'ALBERT J. BEvERIDGE."
And DR.. Barton closes that case with a
sentence:
$50 far as Martin Pickett Marshall is con-
cerned. one fact which makes it improbable
that he was the father Of Nancy Hanks Is
that she was born eleven years before he
was"
Although the book is for the most part a
grave historical inquiry, the author cannot
refrain now and then from such a bit as
this:
THE process of creating these rumors is
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1t seems impossible that there should be
inherent dislike Of books as books And vet
there Is room for doubt. ! confess to hav-
ing felt uncertain the other day when I
heard high school senior recite the storm
chapter from David Copperfeid, and laugh
ingly tell afterward that she had never read
the book, that the chapter was memorized
from an elocution anthology What's
wrong, that that bite from the book should
have failed TO arouse an appetite for more?
| know from experience that the appetite
for books grows with humoring. Some of
US come even to dislike reading books we
do not own, or at least reading a book we
enjoy and then not owning it. This is due
to the linking together in memory of the
shape, color, story, place Of reading, style.
characters of a book, and we are reluctant
to see one link OF the chain broken. 1 am
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want greater care in the choice of Librarians.
L hear librarians say to a child asking what
she shall read next Ga natural question for
a child to ask when confronted with public
library. "All the little girls of your age are
reading Miss Eugenia Millers The Pale
Lady (or some such book. Why, hero 1t
is on the desk this minute" They haven't
read the book themselves. Their laziness
mental and physical, are responsible for
creating q demand for 1t. And when every
child in the town has read the novel, they
remark, That Pale Lady of Eugenia Mil
Ter must be a fine book. Everybodys read
it." Those who can find nothing better to
do than to sit behind desk and stamp cards
for two or three afternoons a week make
poor Librarians. Theirs is the chance to
create the desire for good books, and the
responsibility is no small one.
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DR.. William E. Barton.

the man for whom he was working and upon
whose premises he died.
This discovery completely disposed of the
report and at the same time it illustrated
how a considerable body of fact can be gath
cred in support of a theory that is utterly
untrue and how easily an honest man can
be deceived in his own recollections of the
appearance of a person whom he had known
many years previous to the time of his max
ing statement"
rs for the myth relating to Abraham In
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low of Bourbon county, who is said ID have
paid Thomas Lincoln to assume the pater
nifty of the future President Dr. Barton, af
ter a patient examination of all the facts.
thus characterizes the men who started 1t
and have given it a degree Of currency at
least in certain sections:
1 count this story the more contemplate
because the men who pieced together the
bits and fragments of court house and bar
room gossip Of which II is composed, and
who retold it and enlarged II, were men who
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By SAMUEL HoFFENsTEIN.


WHEN the chill, still night of October
w Alternate broods and blows,
BY gaslight in basement
The tailor sits and sews.
He threads the brassy needle
With narrowed eto eye,
And a dream comes out of the gaSlight
And pulls the thread to the sky,
And winds it round the buttons
The buttons bright as Mars
On the coat of Father Abraham
That laymen call the stars.
And Abraham walks on the heavens
To the sacrificial hill,
And calls to Isaac the tailor
When the autumn air is still.
And Isaac walks with his Father
Brave to the sacrifice,
And is suddenly plucked by an angel
Straight into Paradise.
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black of the inner barn into the light came
two little barefoot girls. made thin and pale
by the glare like the brches In the woods,
and their expression was one of deep Won
der and curiosity and shyness and a Will
ingness to come nearer n we said the word
A book caravan has II within its power to
bring that expression to n child's face. and
to say the word, and TO leave something
more behind than we could leave that night.
Libraries naturally have chance 70 play
large part in stimulating desire for
books Libraries are the most important
centre Of any community next to the schools.
And as tho schools don't serve our purpose
at present perhaps the library can be MADE
to. The library has not built up as highly
organized a system as the school and so it's
faults are the more easily remedied. We
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sIH ONT you like Stevenson" I ask.
My friend fastens her attention
- on some one across the street
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put out at seeing a borrowed or library book
on my table or shelf-unless 1t is an edition
/ am familiar with There is an intellectual
ownership of books that can be as individual
as people are individual. and in a world that
is shouting loud as It Is for liberty here
Is a chance to taste IT,
Il refuse to have anything crammed down
my throat" says the public, and thereupon
swallows what it's fed But II Il takes the
meal OF books that the National Associa 81
ton of Book Publishers is preparing for II
the art of propaganda will have served a
good purpose for once l.. +.
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NO PENALTY, BUT INTEREST
MDEFAUL OF FEDERAL TAX
FOR SLXTYDAY VS. is PROPOSED
Representative Edmonds Moves to Relieve Business
Men Who Are Unable to Meet Instalments
Resolution Gains Supporters.

to take any action on the proposal TO
permit postponement of the last in
stalment Of this years taxes and to
reinstate The so-called met loss" pro-
vision in the calculation Of taxes, sew
eral members are inclined to favor Mr..
Edmondss resolution. He believes
many business men unable TO pay
their taxes will be subjected to heavy
penalties unless Congress comes to
their aid. He plans to ask early action
on the resolution, which reads
Resolved, by the Senate and House
of Representatives in Congress assem-
bled. that all penalties from non-pay-
ment of taxes, excepting interest, en-
forcible under the act TO provide reve-
nue., approved February "a, 1918, and
due December 10, 1920. shall and are
hereby suspended for period of sixty
days and shall be enforcible as of Feb
ruary Is, 1920"
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SEATTLE IN LEAD
AS DIVORCE MART
Reno Loses It's Fame and Is
Not Even Close Second TO
Washington City.
OVER Z DEGREES DAILY
2,430 Granted in II Months
This Year, Murders Result
CRUSADERS Get Busy.

Special DespofoL~to TIE NEW York HERALD.
SEATTLE, Dec. 15.-Reno, New. has
lost it's position as the leading divorce
centre Of the United States, and prob
ably of the world. Seattle has taken
the lead with 2,430 divorce DEGREES
granted from January 1 to December 1
this year. The divorce mill here has
been grinding out more than seven a
day, whereas in Reno 991 divorces
were allowed during the same period
at rate of three a day.
The whole State Of Washington has
been stirred by the revelations and the
clergy are leading a crusade for the
enactment of more stringent laws. it
being admitted that the State is the
widest open" in the Union in respect
to easy divorce.
Church and civic circles in Seattle are
much distressed at the city being
awarded the questionable honor OF out
stripping Reno. The shock has been
other figures which show that while
there were 2,430 divorces in the city in
the first three-quarters of the year. there
were but 4,01S marriages. almost one
divorce for every two marriages
One thousand six hundred children
have been deprived of one or both
parents as result of the decrees, and at
the present time fonr of eight murder
trials pending In the city arc the out
come OF divorce actions.
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MARTENS MUST GO,
SAYS PRESIDENT
Secretary Wilson Said to Hold
He Acted Here as Soviet
Agent.
ADVOCATE OF VIOLENCE
Envoy May Be Freed Until
Ship Sails-Courts May De-
lay Deportation.
BIZ ,he Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Dec 15.-Deportation of
Ludwig c. A. X. Martens. Russian So
Wet Ambassador to the United States,
is understood to have been virtually
decided upon by Secretary of Labor
Wilson, who has had the case under
advisement since the conclusion a
week ago Of the hearings in the matter.
Justification for Martens's deporta-
ton is understood to have been found
by Secretary Wilson in the conten- :
tions of immigration and Department
of Justice authorities that the Bolshe-
vik agent held Office under the Soviet
regime. which they say, aims at the
overthrow of the Government of the
United States by force and violence.
This, according to the anticipated
ruling of the Secretary. brings Martens
within Jurisdiction of the act of Con-
gress of October 16. 1918, providing for
the deportation of any alien belonging
to an organization whose purpose Is the
violent overthrow of the Government OF
the United States.
President Wilson. whom Secretary
Wilson has consulted as to his opinion,
is understood to have expressed himself
as willing to approve the determination
of the Secretary of Labor. The ques-
ton of Mertens's deportation is said to
have been brought up at yesterdays
Cabinet meeting ana discussed gem
orally.
Secretary Wilson is said TO plan to
release Martens on his own recogni-
zance until the date set for his de-
parture from the United States for Rus
sia. His return is expected to be made
by way OF Reval. Esthonia. Actual de-
portation of the Bolshevik agent may
be delayed. however by an appeal to
the courts to stay the order of deporta-
ton
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FRANCE MAY RAISE FEE
FOR WISE OF PASSPORTS
Hopes to Stop Stranding of
Immigrants in Paris.

Spccfot Cable 10 THE New YORK HERALD
Copyright, 1890, bv THE NEW YonK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Pnris. Dec. is.
With tho United States. Canada. Ar
gentina and Brazil strengthening their
barriers against immigration from East
ern European States thereby leaving
tens Of thousands Of pennioss aud un-
employed immigrants roaming the streets
Of Paris. French officials are advocating
raising the fee for the wise OF passports
TO the maximum OF $40. recently fixed
by the United states, unless shipping
companies agree TO take responsibility
for immigrants after their arrival at
French frontiers and until they are
safely aboard American bound vessels.
The proposal, however. has raised
howl OF protest from French business in
terests. who assert Il would be impossi-
BILE TO differentiate between Western and
Eastern voya gers, and that IL the pro-
posal were put into effect American
tourists coming TO France would have
to pay az least $50 for vises Of their
passports during an ordinary tour OF
France. Belgium. Switzerland and Ger
many, or almost as much as second
class steamship ticket cost before the
war.
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LEGION WON'T FIGHT
GERMAN OPERA HERE
But Soldiers Deplore Produc-
tion as Veterans Suffer.

The American Legion will not oppose
tho production OF German opera IN Now
York this winter. William r. Doegau.
OF the legion in New
York state announced last night
Mr Deegan said that opposition last
year was due largely TO the fact that
the producers we're recognized pro-Ger-
mans, and some had been under SUR
veillance during the war. which condi-
ton. he said. no longer exists
The legion deplores, however. that
German opera should be produced while
hundreds of wounded and disabled men
are still uncarcd for and suffering" Mfr
Deegan said
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j. G. BiDDLE GIVES UP
LIFE OF MONK TO WE'D
Ex-Trappist Takes Bride in
p. E. Church, Washington.

Special Despatch 20 THE New York HERALD.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.--The marriage
OF Miss Mary Lena Gaines Of Warren
ton. Va. and James Cornell Biddlc OF
Philadelphia took place this afternoon
in the rectory OF st. Marks Episcopal
Church, the Rev. III. Allen Griffith Off
ciating. Only a few close friends were
present
Mr.. Biddle, son OF the late Thomas
Biddle. once Minister to Ecuador. has
had romantic history. For twenty
years he lived in n trappist monastery IN
Kentucky He met Miss Gaines last
winter in Richmond when she was nurs-
ing her brother. the late c. Fairfax
Gaines, and was with them in Pinehurst,
N. c., when Mr.. Gaines died.
AS n member of the Trappists who
form one of the most austere orders
OF the Roman Catholic Church. Mr..
Biddle has been known as Father
Alberto He is more than fifty years
old. tall and spare of stature. Mr.
Biddle appeared only rarely In the world
outside OF Ciethsemane Abbey at which
he lived. In January. 1919. he visited
Philadelphia TO undergo medical treat
ment
A rigid rule for trappists is perpetual
abstinence from meat. When a Trappist
dies he Is buried without n coffin. The
daily life at Gcthsemane Abbey is
severe. The monks retire To their dormi-
tory at o'clock in winter and at in
summer. They rise az ? and assemble
in the abbey church for prayer They
keep strict silence and each day they
dig shovel of soil from their future
graves
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VETERANS PLEAD FOR
POLITICAL PRISONERS
Ask Wilson and Palmer for
General Amnesty.
Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington. ID. C., Dec. Is.

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. C., Dec. 10.
A new plea for general amnesty for
political prisoners Of the war period was
laid to-day before the President and At
torney General Palmer by committee
representing world war veterans.
Memorials were left at the White
House and the Department of Justice
asking immediate Executive clemency.
The memorials were in general terms
and did not ask action in any particular
case. They were In substance as fol-
lows:
THAT freedom of opinion Is the cor
nerstone of American democracy. guar
anteed under our Constitution, abro-
gated hitherto, but seldom for brief
periods under stress OF what seemed SUI
preme public necessity.
THAT the present espionage law, as in
the case of similar war laws of earlier
periods in many cases has been en-
forced arbitrarily and irrespo v by
officials unnerved under waf ..,iun. so
securing scant justice 20 some individ-
uaig ="
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WEATHER FORECAST
BRITAIN, FRANCE AND ITALY MUST
KEEP DARDANELLES, SAYS PREMIER

ONDON, Dec 15Premier Lloyd in the House of
to-day that whatever the changes the Greek
Government the guardianship the Dardanees Straits
under control of Great Britain France and Italy regardless
whether Constantine Greece Venizelos back
Replying criticism of the
of Mesopoama the challenged anybody
Great Britain abandon the mandate for Mesopotama
mandate Britain
to shoulder the initial COST and added:
We quite clear that if rich oil deposits
the whole world the
balance quite fairly between all nations"