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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-15
Andrew and Ln1ogene LITTLE CONFERENCES EXPERIENCE OF A COUPLE PfIIIOs0rEiTC, THOUGH MARRIED WIT
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it' so ] had to squirt oil into it with the oil can from my sewing machine, and ] tried that and that did not help
 Then l was tired taking other peo- ple's advice. so I thought out something all by myself I took the works out again and laid them out on the Kitchen table and went all over them with the vacum cleaner. When I turned on the motor it sucked out one or two of the little wheels, but I took them out of the dust box of the cleaner and put them back where they came from ana put the works back in the clock an6 started it up again, but it only rxt weakly for few seconds and stopped and I haven't been able to get it to a. since. For the life of me l cannot see what is the matter with it."
 Nor I' agreed Andrew. After the treatment it has received at your hands 1 see no reason why 1t should not run It l were it l would run every timt you approached You have certainls done everything you could think of t. 1t and several things 1 would neve have thought of I don't think l shal send for the jeweler, however for am sure he would never think of doing half the things you have done. I wlis Just buy a new clock"
 (Copyright, Twenty first Century Press Inc. Times Bldg, N Y. City, David Holsnes--The friends of Mir and
 Mrs W. D. Holmes will regret to
 learn of the death of their son. David
 which occurred in Philadelphia
 where he was a student at the Uni
 versity of Pennsylvania
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DAILY NOVELETTE,

(By author of The Poison Pea Mys- tery; or, Nine Dead Pigs" "rIe Loved Her Knot: or, A La Psyche" "A Tale at Both Ends; or. The Elephant" NO Kick Coming; or, The Future Mince Pie," "The Great Court Case; or. Tis Mnce vs. 'Tain't Mince." Caught in the Currants: or, The Grocer's Son" Good for Noth- ing; or, The Saloon License" His Wild Oat; or His First and Last Spree Car rie Nell, The Candy Kid" and one other.)
 
 My dear" said Mr. Biowsun1, T think the sooner we move out of this apart ment the sooner we'll be somewhere else. The family next door fight all day and snore all night. a smell of onions comes down the duinbwaiter shaft and stays down. A constant draught blows through in winter and none at all in summer And, moreover. I don't like the placer
 And that very afternoon they started flat htihting
 My angel" said Mir Gumsole. "this apartment is an abomination and a snare The family next door snore all day and fight all night. and troupe of tumblers practice seven times a day di- rectly overhead. the floors are full of splinters. the triplets below howl day and night, and, anyway, I don't like it!''
 And that very evening the started flat hunting.
 On the first of May the Blowsums moved into the Gumsole's apartment just as the Gumso1es were moving into the Blowsum's. both families happily expect ant of future comfort and peace.
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to stay with grandmamma' than mar ry himiv
 Miss Shirley flushed. Vivian could be so disconcertingly outspoken at times.
 Don't tell me that YOU care for him, !" went on the candid friend "because can see he bores you quite as much az my two ventures did. And that's saying something"
 'Oh. Vivian Shirley whispered. -sudden longing for sympathy sweeping over her. "Oh. Vivian. [ wish I could escape from-fr from"--
 From his designing, interfering sis- ter-and himself?" supplemented the ether, tranquillv. Well. dear, I Cont olame you. Take the matter into your own hands and'-
 T can't! He's so wen-known and and respected-down in the country-in the part of Surrey where I live He's got an old summer manor house.
 "Money eh?n Vivian raised tenta- tive brows. That puts different complexion on the matter Maybe''-
 Tt doesn'tr cried Shirley. passion ately T don't want his old money, It's just that people do talk so.o She waived over to one of the big studio windows and stared unhappily out at the river. It's all a hopeless mess offp'
 Then why on earth did you get en- gagged to himg' Intense curiosity lay in Vivian's tones
 'Oh, they sort of dragged me into it between them.' saio the young girl weariIy, Mrs. Arnold is an immense ly determined woman-you know the type. She decided that-since David wanted me-he must have me. I think they worked little scene up between them. just so's I'd be caughtw ..
 Perhaps this was hardly fair of Shr- ley. But her nerves were miserably cverwrought.
 "Of all tue silly weak minded girls. interpolated Vivian, with rousing seorn. 'you-Shirlev- are the feeblestl Haven't you got mind of your own. or what?"
 They've gone and announced the news of the engagement" came the dis pirited reply. There isn't anything left for me to dol"
 Except ito be led as lamb to the slaughter" Vivians voice rose, Well. n's your funeral not mine But you're mighty softl"
 Shirley turned appealingly toward her friend.
 T thought you'd be more sympa. tn heticr-
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Andrew remarked Imogene. as the dessert came on the table, you simply must have the jeweler send up to get this dining room clock and fix it. It has at last stopped entirely. It has been running slow and then fast and now it has stopped
 Wait till have finished my din- ner' said Andrew, "and 1 will take a peep into its innards and see If I can't lind spool of darning cotton or a rive=doiiar bill or something you have put there for safe keeping"
 Now, 1t is no use for you to get that clock down and make mess here on the dining table and lose your tenn per beside, she said, T have tried every way to fix it."
 , fou have tried to fix it?" asked An '. as, e"' amazed What did you do to
 Now you need not talk that wayr, sald lmogene. q am sure I know as much about fixing a clock as yo,I do
 First thought it was dirty. so raised the littleAdoor there in the back asd found out Where the works were screwed on to the box. and [ took the screws out and got out the works and eolled them in some old French cleaner Tor half an hour and know it cleaned It. Tor the whole top of the water was covered with scum of oil.
 Then 1 set it out in the snn and dried 1t and put 1t back all right. ex- eept I lost one of the screws which ueld It in the box. but it ran. except that 1t was very slow"
 Discouraged, probablyH injected Andrew.
 Then l told Mrs. Jones about what mad done and she said 1t would rust. so took the works Nout again and put them in gasoline and they began to go like everything. Just as soon as I set 1t in the gasoline 1t began to run llke mad, so took it out for fear it would race and break something
 I put it back in the iron case again and this time it ran as much too fast as 1t had run too slow before
 Then Mrs. Henry said 1t likely need ed oil as had doubtless boiled all the oil out of it. So I took it out again. but l didn't have enough oil to cover
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CHAPTER VIII THE GIRL FROM CHELSEA

Shirley was walking with Mrs. Ar mold in Regent street the following afternoon
 The latter lady was in high good humort for Shirley,s engagement with Ter brother was now ''un fait ac- eompli"
 We really ought to -be looking at rousseaux. I supAose the wedding will take place fairly soon?' Intense curiosity shown on the lady's coun- tenance. There isn't any reason why either of you should wait"
 "Oh. 1 don't know" said Shirley, iansuidly. ''Perhaps In the autumn that would be time enough"
 "Chrysanthemums and autumn feaves--that ought to make pretty wedding!' Mrs. Arnold turned to Shirley Will you have little pages and little girl attendants. dear? Or g~own-up bridesmaids"
 T II have to think it over.' answered shirley, trying to infuse little in- ierest into her reply.
 But she felt immensely troubled. For this trial engagement'' had developed Into kind of octopus. whose tenacles Srlpped her around on every side.
 To begin with. Mrs. Arnold had spent the entire morning st the telephone spreading the glad tidings everywhere. Already Shirley had received three ttiegrams or eOngratulation.
 She would have been infinitely more worried had she known that tomor- row there would be notice in all the principal London papers announc Ing her forthcoming marriage.
 Let's have a cup of tea, dear With a proprietary air Mrs Arnold swept Shirley into Fuller's.
 They climbed the staircase to the balcony. The placs was crowded. Not a vacant table.
 In an alcove in one corner sat q rather odd looking coupIe-a man and q girl. The girl was thin and tenn reramental l-with straight. bonbed halr, restless dark eyes. and all-in one Piece frock CT q -Heer "art-y' color iaucf be-decorated py strings of beads The man had longish hair required shave, and woresa loose flowing tie O. dull green siade. Both were smoking cigarettes.
 At the sight of Shirley the girl rose
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10 YES GAMBLE
By MAY CHRISTIE

1 to her feet and waved enthusiastically.
 Who on earth is that young woman?'' Mrs. Arnold adjusted her lorgnette. An extraordinary young | creature 1z' she added. staring through the glasses.
 ''why-why = it's Vivian" A rleased flush mounted to shirley's cheeks. She used to be at boarding school with me. l heard she'd come 10 London to study art-she's such a darling'-
 "A freak. you meaA.s Mrs. Arnold tried to hold Shirley back. You are I not going to speak to her
 But Miss Vivian in a couple of strides, stood right berore them, beam ing.
 Why. Shirley Marsh-L'm just de- ightedi of all the pieces of good luck" She nodded patronizingly at Mrs Arnold. while that lady gasped. There are two vacant seats at our taDle-come on over a once,"
 Shirley effected the necessary in- troduction, and pretty soon she and Mrs, Arnold found themselves at the little table in the alcove. seated op posite Miss Vivian and her long haired friend
 I've got the sweetest little studio lin Chelseal Whenll you come and { see me%' Miss Vivian punctuated her remarks ev series of ierky undula- tons. At every movement the glitter ing strings of beads she wore tangled together. To Mrs. Arnolds critical eye Bohemia was writ large on the young woman's toreheadi
 Awful l must get Shirley away rom herr the former thought
 But shirley hadn't looked so happy or so anirs ted-fN- a iNg time
 s"Vivian. let me come and see you after tea. I've got to catch train down to Surrey at T:30 But there's lots of time between now and them \
 Thereafter ensued a conversation which vaguely disaueted Mrs. Arnold Nlyian's 'career' was obviously stim- ulating Shirley. She recellected that young lady's previous "hankerings.. The matter must be dealt with-here and now,'
 Miss Marsh is engs ged--she's short " to be married Mrs Arnold hurled ner news like a little bomb on Vivian
 The latter damsel dropped her cigar cite on the white tabieclot1f where it started merrilv to burn little hole Her lips had fallen apart in sheer as- tonishment. and dismay gleamed sn her dark eyes
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.NOT \ woMAN.S MAN.
 Hes dear ~oaA fel1ow.p refoined the latter danse, with knfhusiasm
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NEWS EVENTS AND FEATuRES FOR WOMEN READERS

SI years ago don't you remember how you and l planned OUT 'careers2ro l as painter-you as-1et me think-oh. yes, a writer! Oh. Shirley. I'm so dis sppointed"=
 Mrs Arnold rose to her feet She eoulont stand this sort of conversa- uon any longer.
 ve quite forgotten an appointment ! ehat have at home. You must excuse me, shirley She nodded coollv to arirley's new-found friends. Then;
 Dont forget that David will be wait lng Tor you at the train tonight"' She swept away.
 w hew-wF murmured Vivian. i've Tsluen tly put my foot in it. Who's DaNid, Shirley?"
 "Her-her brother stammered shir-
 The man that you're engaged tor
 Shirley nodded miserably.
 Vivian gave her merry laugh. Sheer up my dear-don't look so neral. Though"-her voice shook o,, q candid note-'personally shouldn,t care to have such a super -dreadnausht for a sister -in-law.s . ii'
 Shirley looked vexed.
 Maybe yfStll think b&&r of if ; went on Vivian. ip her half f-bantering Way I'm not going to allow YOU to throw- yourself away Shirley. dear," slabs of iced cake.
 Vivian. Shirley and the lonr-haired srtist known as Jimmy" partook or hearty meal
 Thep Jimmy rose. He lifted a square, flat packet I. om the floor.
 II have to leave you now I've goi 10 go and see those art editors this afternoon before their offices close" 9ood luck to YOU. old boy,' cried NlVlan, boisterously. He nodded to the two of them and departed.
 "A dear boy-awfuily clever--but "ltn no capacity for making moneyip explained Vivian after he had gone. She leant a little forward. with her oark eyes fixed on Shirley.
 Why don't you leave matrimony alone for bit and have shot at a career? It's lots of funr'
 I'd love to come down and see your studio, murmured Shirley
 Together they left the tearooms. halied taxi in Regent street and sped toward Chelsea
 Now that I've bumped into you I'm Eoing to keep q weather eye on vour, MISS Vivian adjured her She was genuinely attached to Shirley Marsh. As for the latter. she began to feel considerably revived. She had suf- tIciently strong streak of the Bohemian IF her to enjoy Miss vivian's point or siew. her independence
 My studios in the oldest building on the river front" proceeded Vivian eagerly. land the most delightful kind of people work there too! I've lots of friends
 Ihey were whirling down Cheyen- walk now.
 Look! There's one of the cleverest artists in the quarter-and the incest. too Vivian pointed out a tall young man who was walking in q direction racing the taxi. Take a good. square look at him, my desr-for Dalton is a geniusr
 lnvoluntarily Shirley swung around. For single moment her eyes met Inns He started flushed and raised his hat.
 But Shirley with a look of supreme contempt on every line of her pretty Iace' stared at him haughtily and de- loerately cut him dead
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and you may publish my testimonial. Y Mrs. GEO. A. Zoos, I'll S. 9th St.. Goshen, Ind.
 The experience of Motherhood is . trying one to most women and marks distinctly an epoch in their lives. Not one woman in hundred is prepared or understands how to properly care for herself. Every woman at this time should rely upon Lydia, E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, most valuable tonic and invisorator of the female organism.
 In many homes once childless there are now children because of the fact that Lydia F. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound makes women snormaL. healthy and strong and this good old fashioned root and herb remedy con. tsins no narcotics or harmful drugs.
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U. s. Submarine Reached
 Off Lower California
By Associated Pros,

Vallejo. Cal, March 14.-The United States submarine H-1 is beached on Santa Margarita Island. near Mazda lena Bay, Lower California, and her crew has been fifteen hours without water, according to reports received by the Mare Island navy yard today.
 Radio messages were sent by the nayay officials to all ships in the vi- vicinity of Magdalena Bay urging them to go to the assistance of the subma- rine's crew.
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results after I had
 suffered for s O m Q t i m c with female
 trouble. Some years ago 1 had twin boys and took your vege- table Compound be- fore they came; also before my four year old boy was born, and afterwards, and think it fine for such cases. I tell others what it did for me
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ONE W0MAn'S
 EXPERIENCE
Of Interest to Expectant
 Mothers

Goshen, Ind.--'I took Lydia E. Pink
 hams Vegetable Compound with good
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-07-29
BoSSY HAD DELIRIOUS GAG
: Results Of inbibIng Barrel Of Homo
Brew Disastrous to Morals OF
Sedate Old Cow.

Milk, that mild and healthful bever-
age beloved of the young, usually held
In light esteem by the antiprohibition-
list, but
1t happened not long ago-since Jan.
16-in the mining camp of Sand Cou-
lee, Montana. A "Bohunk" miners
wife, apparently seeking to keep her
lord and master In good humOr, mixed
barrel of home brew guaranteed to
develop real kick, and set II out In
the yard to ferment A neighbours
COW happened along and tasted.
One taste led to another, and finally
the barrel was empty. But not so the
COW. She was most decidedly and sat
isfactorily full" Anyway, bossy was
fighting drunk, and she started out to
clean up that mining camp, and sue
ceeded almost completely. But she
met her Wellington In Deputy Sheriff
AdOlphsOn. The COW charged the
sheriff, who lodged.
Then bossy suffered from the hallu-
cination that has afflicted humans I'M
der similar circumstances. She gave
evidence of seeing multitude Of
Sheriff Adolplfsons, and finally firing
herself with aimless charges fell down
and asleep. When she awoke next day
her "jag" was over. But 1t is reported
that her milk sold at a premium for
several days among the strong men Of
the camp.-Wall Street Journal.
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"BEN' FRANKLIN NOT FIRST
Contention Made That New Hampshire
Had the Earliest Periodical in
the United States

! claim that the oldest periodical In
the United States Is the New Hampshire
Gazette, published weekly at Ports
mouth and founded In 1856. the next
in age being the Weekly Mercury. pub
lished ut Newport. r. l., and founded
In 1888. benjamin Franklin did not
found the Saturday Evening Post or
any other paper In 1928. The Penn
>.,lvania Gazette was founded In l128
by Samuel Keimer. who did not make
a financial success Of IT. and sold II to
Franklin. 1t was first called The Uni
versal Instructor In All Arts and Sci
ences and Pennsylvania Gazette. In
his autobiography Franklin says OF
keimer and the Gazette: He began
his paper, however. and after carrying
1t on three-Quarters OF year. with at
most ninety subscribers, he offered II
to me for trifie; and l. having been
ready for some time to go on with II,
took II In hand directly; and 1t proved
In few years extremely profitable to
me-"
Samuel Atkinson and Charles Alex
ander combined the subscription lists
of the Pennsylvania Gazette and the
Bee and issued the first number Of the
Saturday Evening Post on August 4.
1921. and the Gazette and the Bee went
out of existence forever. Thomas Cot
trell Clarke was the first editor of the
Post. All old newspaper directories
give 1921 as the year the Post was
established.
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Simple Telephony.

An interesting development In tele-
phony is new three-wire wall net
which operates on two ordinary dry
cells, says the Scientific American. The
telephone itself is built for the use
and pleasure of youngsters, The in
stallation Is very simple, as the tele-
phones .fasten to the walls with two
screws and there is nothing more tech
nical for the boy to do than to follow
simple instructions in connecting the
wire with the posts on each telephone
box. The set will operate up to 1000
feet, instead of the usual 100 or 200
feet, IL two additional dry cells are
employed.
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Reality Of Disease Germs.

Replying to protest from Lee
White. publicity department Of the
Christian Scientists, against remarks
on the death from diphtheria of a girl
under Christian Science treatment, the
Journal of the American Medical AssO-
citation says: Had the nine year-old
girl been buried beneath load of
bricks, even Mr.. White would have
suggested, we believe, that before Civ
ing the injured child Christian Sci
ence' absent or present
the bricks should be removed. What
Mr.. White fails to realize Is that
Klebs- LOeffler bacillus is just as ma
terial an object as brick. II does
material damage, 1t Is true, not by its
material weight, hut by the equally
material toxins 1t produces"
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FARM and MOUNTAIN LAND.

At the same time and place the Home
Farm and Timber Land will be sold. The
farm contains
139 ACRES OF LAND,
more or less. This land is il high state
OF cultivation and improved with sub
s'an,ial brick house, bank barn, wagon
sh, d ard ether outbuildirgs. There is a
| If fruit on the farm Farm is stu
atcd half it mile from Western Maryland
railroad. half a nile fICm school and
church. his is most desirable farm
and splendid loca ii IN for rairymen.
Mountain Let No | contains acres of
land, more or less, situated ] miles north
of Thurmont ard adjoins what is known
as St Joseph's Dairy farm. 1t is well
set with timber.
of land. more or less. and is situated one
half mile north of what is known as the
Harmon S, W Mill, and set in young oak,
poplar and locust.
TERMS of Sale on farm as prescribed
by the Court:-$500 cash on day of sale
or ratification thereof by the Orphans
Court, the balance January l, 1921, the
purchaser or purchasers giving his, her
or their notes bearing interest from day
of sale, with good and sufficient security
to be approved by the said executors for
the deferred payments, or all cash at the
option of the purchaser.
Terms on Mountain Land will be made
known day of sale
ALLEN G. FISHER,
VIM. H. LONG,
Executors.
Ed l. S,itely, Auct.
Roy w. Hankey, Clerk jul l5ts
Lunch will be served by the Society of
Faithful Workers of Gre 4g erstown.
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Acids.

Nitric acid which Is used in pre-
pairing the tremendous explosive, tri-
nltrotoluol. is very powerful acid,
and II applied to the skin burns ter
ribly. Surgeons occasionally use 1t
for destroying growths. Hydrocyanic
or prussic acid is probably the most
deadly poisonous of the acids. FOrmic
acid, found In certain insects, espe-
cially In ants. is used as 4 food-by
crushing or eating the ipsects-among
some aboriginal tribes. Possibly malic
acid, or some of the edible fruit acids
are among the weakest Of the acids.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-07-29
PEN-SCRATCH WILL STANDS
Admitted to Probate Following q
Contest.

will which Isaac Frank Stone of
Greenwich, Conn, former president Of
the National Aniline and Chemical
agency, signed merely with scratch
of the pen, was admitted to probate
here by Judge RadfOrd, following
contest in which Grace Stone Lloyd of
Lynchburg, Va, daughter Of the tesla
tor. asserted that her father was Of un-
sound mind when he executed the will.
The estate, as estimated on the petit
ton, amounts to 100000. Grace Stone
Lloyd is to receive $4,000 outright and
the income from 100000. the princi-
pal to revert to her children on her
death.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-07-29

Mexico No Longer Haven for REDS"
Wholesale arrests of foreign bOlshe-
Wiki In several Of the larger cities have
been made by order of the Mexican
provisional government. This activ-
ity Is regarded as indicating that the
radicals who enjoyed Carranza's favor
are no longer popular In Mexico.
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Suits From Cloth Half Century Old.
Suits from homespun, woven by his
mother so years ago. Is the manner
In which Frank Hepp Of Berwick. o.,
= battling the high cost Of clothing.