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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-21
SAYS TyPHUS CASE
WAS DEVELOPED HERE
Woman IN Boston Was Taken III
IN Wilmington on Way
From Florida.
uy Asso,iatod Press 10 Every Evening

hN Associated Press 10 Every Evenins
lioston. Dee. FLA woman. 80 years
~ aRc. who had lust made "A trip 10y
water and rail tn Jacksonville. Flori-
ia and return. has been found to be
suffering from t.phus, Health Com
missioner Woodward announced to-
unN. Adequate precautions have been
taken here. he said, 10 prevent spread
- the disoase.
The woman was taken IN at VIII
mlnsion, Delaware, on tho return trip
and came Immediately 10 q Boston
hospital the commissioner said.
SO Far az he wes informed the case
wss tho only one IN this part Of tho
country. ho added.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-21
RELEASE GREEK GIRLS.
Through LAorts OF L. 5. Senators
They VIII Land Tomorrow.

Through the efforts of United States
Senators du Pont and Ban, il was
learned today. two Greek girls. bound
Tor Wilmington, who have been de-
tainfd at Ellis Island, VIII be released
tomorrow. They are coming here to live
with reia'ivcs ar,d friends
Ono, Miss Marie Salrakou, is TO wed
'sint nuif al Wilmington.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-21
DENIAL ny HrAITH OFFICIALS.

Both the city and state Board OF
Health Offices today denied knowledge
~ typhus ease originating here. Z
was stated that II such was fact
q wnt not reported a, the health Of
Aces.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-21
Amusemenis TonIght.

Playhouse The Juloved WIFE"
Gsrrick Vaudeville and pirr1rcs
Queen" Dangerous Lies.
Nlajestics-.'r Fox.
Arcadia Lessons In Love"
Savoy Everything for sale"
Parkway ay--"frhe Guilty Con science
Auditorium Dancing
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-21
DANIELS THREE POINTS
FOR PARLEy'S SUCCESS
Ty Assoclata1 preea

Ey Nssoclated TfeHf.
Charlotte, N. c., Dec. si.--un-
less the submarine is destroyed
root and branch" an agree
ment reached for reduction OF
land arrnaments. and the air
craft problem solved. the Wash.
inston conference VIII have
failed TO live up 20 It's fun duty
and privilege" Josephu- Dan
iels, former Secretary OF the
Navy. declared In an address
last night before the Charlotte
Rotary club.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-21
SHOP EARLY

SHOP EARLY--for your own
convenience and comfort.
SHOP EAklY--to make your
selections from a fun line OF
merchandise.
SHOP EARL1--tS have more
time TO mako your purchases.
SHOP EAELN---ir the day. be-
fore tbe sales force IS tired
ont
Slloi EAEl.N--in the day 10
Kisc those in Offices a chance
~ tho afternoon.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-21

Ia, Clover Dairy "Safe Milk" for
The school child's body and mind
builder. Phone 1sio-i5ii.--Adv.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-21
Weather Forecast.

BY Associated Press TO Every Evening.
Washington. Dec. 21.-weather forecast
for Della are
Partly cloudy and much colder tonight.
Thursday, fair and colder; fresh 20 strong
northwest winds.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-21

just a minute OF your time 10 tell
10000 people what YOU Every
Evening classified ads do the rest
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-21

Open evenings until Christmas.
Collins s Meyer. lel W. Sth st.-Adv.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-21

Read The classified ads t.o.-Adv.
Evening star., 1921-12-11

There was nD harm in, the letter.
Only in the way it was worded.
Your wife was good as an angel.
And You know it. But she wrote like
i fool. Sit down. We are not going
to talk about heri'
'Well. what are we going to talk
about?" said Cover, with a certain
insolence.
X X 4
"a BOUT the draft-in the Chin
ney." said Charnock. "Sit
down-don't be fool. Mine is the
only loaded gun in the gunroom-the
only one, perhaps. that has notch in
the stock. Sit down. you overbear-
ing, insolent. pot-bellied swine, and
listen"
Charnock, it seemed, was rising
superior to his surroundings with a
vengeance. His cold, unblinking
Evening star., 1921-12-11
The Man in the Ready Made Suit

found and that you would once more
be driven forth. But winter came and
went. and it seemed to you that the
document must surely have perished.
Your conscience never troubled you.
only the fear of being ousted-pried
like some sinking grub from the rich
fruit on which you were fattening."
always admired your imagina-
tion," said Cover.
X X X
LIE had been thinking as rapidly as
he could. and Mad come to the
conclusion that since nothing could be
proved against him, nothing could be
known.
why not take this tale of woe to
some one who'd enjoy listening to
it?" he said. II don't. Buttonhole
some discontented person and do the
ancient mariner. You expected a
Evening star., 1921-12-11
By GOuverneur Morris;

want to bring harm and scandal on
your own blood.T
Yours and mineE' Charnock laughed
melodiously. Il am thinking OF the
children not because they are cousins
but in spite of the fact. I will not
hurt them simply because her blood
is in them. Understand that. Our
noble blue strain does not count with
me. No. My property shall go intact
to her children"
after your DEATH" sneered Cover.
NO." said Charnock,, after yours
'If that's all that's troubling you.
be assured that according to my will
the property goes to them in equal
shares. So all this hullabaloo is rather
fool work. Who'd / leave the stun
to IL not to them?"
"Your wit works slowly" said Char
mock. "Your deatL in the course Of
Evening star., 1921-12-11
Curious Foods.

CRASSHOPPERS have been eaten
from the earliest times The
Scriptures offer abundant evidence of
this. and the law of Moses is very
plain indeed in its permission to the
people of Israel to eat "the locust
after his kind. the bald locust after
his kind and the grasshopper after
his kind
| There were two ways of preparing
grasshoppers to be eaten. They were
either crushed in wine and eaten
without cooking or their wings were
! plucked of and they were boiled in
, salt water and then dried in the sun.
when they were ready to be eaten.
Ants are eaten in Africa. Junker
relates that the chief of a tribe on the
Masharch, river, in the Sudan. sent
him twenty baskets Of ants for pro-
visions on his journey. They are
pounded into a sort of paste and are
said to taste like liver.
Moths and butterflies have often
been eaten. and the Romans used
beetles as food. Some BRazilians are
said to esteem a bug that feeds on
the palm leaf. In Chile and Peru
one of the national dishes. the chupe
de chiche, is a sort Of stew made OF
potatoes and the chiche, beetle-like
insect that is found in quantities un-
der stonesA along the water courses.
Nearly every specimen of animal
| that has backbone is somewhere or
other eaten by human beings. In the
Andaman Islands the eating Of live
, rodent is deemed test Of manhood,
and no man. it is said, is permitted
to marry until he has accomplished
this feat. The Chinese are not alone
in eating roast dogs. for our own Sioux
Indians have from time immemorial
been very fond of this dish, and CEN
'tury ago dogs were favorite meat
with the negroes Of Louisiana Afri-
can negroes eat the lion, the jaenal
the hyena and the crocodile.
Evening star., 1921-12-11

| lowed, or parked too long in a place
where they was time limit on park
| ing, a special patent locking device
would be put on the car by the cop.
and the only keys to the lock would
be kept in the various police stations
and when the motorist come for his
car and found it locked. he would
half to go to the nearest police sta
tion and give proof that he was the
! owner Of the car and also put up
as much money as the police thought
. the car was worth so in case it
( turned out that he wasn't the owner
why when the real owner showed up
and complained that his car had been
stole, they could give him the money
instead of bothering to look for his
car. This cash bond would be left
! in the station wk. and if nobody
showed up in that time to say the
car was his. the dough would be re-
! turned to the guy that put it up.
THAT is what the dist. commission
er suggested and l don't know
what they done with his suggestions
; but ii they really want to stop speed
! ing and illegal parking you can bet
your life that those two little amend
ments to the constitution would do
| the trick. But it seems to me like
they was other things that motorists
does which is at least as bad as
| driveing too fast or parking in the
wrong place and these other things is
also vs. the law but the offender
generally always gets let off with
! a fine that don't mean nothing to
him whereas the right kind of pun
|! ishment along the lines suggested by
the Washington man would make him
think twice before he miSbehaved
! himself.
Like for inst. they's Il law in most
towns VS.. driveing with a open null
! fer. The people that disobeys TINS
law is always people that likes TO
show Off and make more noise than
anybody else SO as penalty Tor vlo-
lations of this law l would first cut
their tongues out and then make
! them spend a wk. in a boiler factory.
Or suppose a man is caught drive
ing mast a standing still street car.
The way to cure him from this habit
would be to make him back up anu
| get on the car track behind the street
car and follow it around for days.
Or il he was caught driveing on the
left side of the street. why 1 would
make him get on the left hand car
track and drive till he met street
car comeing from the other way and
then see which could push the other
one off the track.
If a man come along at night with
odt no tail light l would make him
back up miles on the right side OF
the road or if his head lights was too
bright 1 would wait till it was time
for the theaters to let out and then
make him drive up and down Broad
way between 40th and 50th st. blind
folded.
Once in a while you read about a
motorist disobeying 2 or laws at
once like for inst. they was a promi-
nent New Yorker got his name in the
papers a vile ago for speeding, drive
ing on the left side Of the street and
driveing vile intoxicated all at the
same time. I never seen it printed
Evening star., 1921-12-11
Ring Lardner Writes of
Capitals Traffic Laws

what they done to him, but suppose
he got fined $1,000 or a $4,000 which
was just chicken food to him you
might say. What they ought to done
would be to first make him sober up
and then lock him in room for
wk. with nobody to talk to but a trsf-
iic policeman.
DENALTlES like the above would
soon put a end to violations Of
crimes of all kinds could be did away
with if the punishments fitted them
like for inst. the way it is now days
man is arrested for boot Logging
and they send him to jail for mos.
or a yr and when he comes out hx
can live in the lapse of luxury on
what he saved up before they got him.
The right way TO deal with this bird
would be to lock him up with bbl.
o. his own hootch and not leave him
out till he drunk it.
Or suppose they's gal murders her
husband or some other lady's hus-
band. Under the present system they
print her picture and 6 times day
for a couple of months and give her
Q columns every edition to talk about
herself and the only real draw back
is when the jury let's her go and she
has to kiss 12 good men and true that
amt washed their face for wk. and
chews tobacco.
Well. friends. YOU won't never stop
the wholesale murder of gents by the
ODD. sex with no such methods as that.
Evening star., 1921-12-11
Few Blind Men Smoke.

."rhe sense Of sight is responsible
to a great extent for the fascination
in smoking" said the psychologist as
he puffed on his cigar. In fact, the
senses of taste and smell come sec
ond 10 sight in deriving enjoyment
from good smoke. The greatest
part of the pleasure q man has in
smoking is seeing the smoke >blow
from his mouth and float in the air.
II have noted that sightless men,
seldom smoke. have asked many
sightiess men why they. did not
smoke, and they replied they could
not derive much pleasure from it. as
they could not see the SPOKE"
Evening star., 1921-12-11

gize and to say: I'm sorry. but ]
| don't own any evening clothes. In
my world they aren't worm" He had
not added. lin my world the clothes
) a man dimes in are often the clothes
he sleeps in
II don't want to look at your guns,
if you don't mind. ] want to talk to
| you. If you don't mind. I'll ring for
whisky"
| Cover burst into his short, harsh
laugh.
| "Then push three times" he said
i"Any bell in this house, pushed three
| times, brings whisky. I tried the
front doorbell on a bet once, and
sure enough, man came with a
tray"
"Ive seen times" said Charnock
! when three hundred cries to heaven
| wouldn't produce thimbleful of wa
ter"
| A man came with whisky and its
perquisites. put them upon a low ta-
BILE. and went.
Say when. The way to enjoy
1
is to be your last-forever.'
"When," said Charnock.
He filled the remainder of his glass
with soda and drank feverishly. Then
he went and stood looking into the
empty fireplace. Presently he leaned
forward and held his hand near the
opening of the fiue. He withdrew it,
I 4
Cover.
THAT chimney always had a strong
| draft" he said.
; whats that?" Cover snapped, and
an impatient, or startled, motion OF
| his hand overturned an empty soda
bottle.
I Il said that chimney always had a
strong draft"
! "All the chimneys in this house are
scientifically constructed"
| 81 am reminded" said Charnock,
"of letter / once had from-from
a girl. 1t seemed better to destroy
/ it. There was a fire going in here.
l chucked the letter into the flames,
and saw it sucked up the chimney,
not even signed. hunted the
grounds all night with lantern. /
even hunted over the roofs-'
| The reds Of Covers heavy face had
a black tinge in the shadows He
looked at the toes of his outstretched
feet, and shielded his eyes with one
hand as if he found the lights Of the
gunroom too many and too bright
Il got the letter back" said Char
mock, but it cost me thousand dol
lars. Or rather it cost my uncle
your father-that. l had to GO to
him with the whole story He was
white about it-white."
! who blackmailed you"
Covers sudden harsh, mirthless,
overbearing laugh was again in evil
dence.
| Her brother" said Charnock
simply. He afterward, thanks to
very strong backing, became q mem
Der Of the United States Senate,
proved a bulwark to certain special
interests, and died in an odor of
( great sanctity. Fell, in short, or was
pushed from an upper window In a
| house Of i'll fame"
Covers face had grown darker and
darker.
"The letter. he said, was from the
| woman l married."
''It was -. =:
by Gawd"
He started to his feet. but was met
and auelled by a. pair :of eyes sud
denly grown hard as steel .
Evening star., 1921-12-11

nature is too uncertain-too far off
perhaps-to fill my purposes. Do you
believe in hell?"
"Do you?"
II should like to see the question
tested-tonight-in your person
! II suppose YOU think I'd come ay.
| ing back to tell you"
1T would be sufficient" said Char.
| mock. IF You found out for yoursel.
that there was such a place. And by
my soul, I think you Will"
! Covers fears were rising; for Char
| mock did not seem to him altogether
| sane.
But you're not going to kill me ?"
Not if you will save me the trouble
1t is fitting that you should kill your
self. First, you are not fit to live:
and second, You know it. I shall
leave my little automatic with you. !
shall join the young people and when
hear shot. 1 shall burn the will
How do l know YOU will?"
Because you know that I will"
The steely eyes glinted with the
firm light of unassailable honor.
"show it to me-
lHere' then. Is that it-or isn't to-
AS if finally acknowledging defeat.
COVE: gave one troubled look at the
document. and allowed his head Ia
fall forward on his breast. Then
treacherous, quick as lightning, he
| snatched at the will, and gave =
sharp cry as if he had been stuns
by a wasp. His hand had closed
not on destructive paper-but on a
tube Of cold steel.
Il was naturally quicker than YOU
said Charnock, mentally and physi.
cally. Circumstances have developed
the faculty in me and diminished
it in you. Here. take the pistol" He
threw it on to the tray among the
glasses and the bottles. TITS cooked
Put the muzzle in your mouth-and
! pull the trigger. I shall expect to
hear a shot In about five minutes"
! 1t occurred to Cover to seize the
weapon and turn it upon Charnock
but the fateful, untroubled, almost
smiling CLINT in the pale-gray eyes
deferred him. Furthermore, it flashed
upon him that Charnocls was so insane
as to believe that. left alone with the
pistol, he, Cover, would actually make
a suicidal use of it. The idea was SO
ridiculous that when the door Of the
gunroom had closed upon the figure
Of Charnock, the wealthy malefactor
was actually able to laugh. =.
He took out his watch, and laid it
on the table beside the. pistol
"Five minutes be IT, he said, and
/ poured a soft drink Of whisky with
a hand that still shook little.
X X X
;TT was a more efficient. more pre-
II sentable Cousin Bill Charnock who
reioined the young Covers in front
Of the big fire in the living
room. His thoughts were no longer
upon his ready-made clothes. He
was no longer abashed and humble
He began to talk as he entered the
room. He told them that they made
a pleasant picture about the fire. He
told them. leaning on the back Of q
chair and looking into the flames
that all the most romantic and ex-
citing incidents of his life were con-
nected with the fires.
Not confiagrations, you know, but
fires under control-fres for cook
Iing-or for warmth-or for destroying
papers
He drlfted into a story. coming in
front of the chair on. which he had
Evening star., 1921-12-11

eyes, his blue. shining automatic
dominated the scene.
'sYou are drunk said Cover.
Cray"
"If l am drunk said Charnock,
lit is with Righteousness. If / am
crazy it is YOU who have made me
so-you who have SO battened and
fattened upon the felony that has
made the waste places of the earth
my home, its outcasts- and unfor-
tunates my companions. l am drunk
with knowledge, the knowledge that
with all your millions you have done
no good in the world, and that l.. for
success, have done a little, and shall
not be turned back now from doing
more.
"You cannot take your eyes off my
little pistol. l return it to its pocket
i in my ready-made suit of clothes. Do
not forget that it is there. Pour out
a drink if you like-it's on the house
the ferret's house See the
ferret-there, over the mantel. He
is worrying the life out of the fat
! rabbit, just as / am going to worry
the life out of you.
"rhis roon,' he continued. in a
milder tone-you might have called
It reminiscent tone-"was uncle's
Office in the old days Here he had
his papers all in order in the old
days, all docketed, all neatly tied
with tape. The night he lay dying.
the doctors about him, his favorite
nephew-though say 1t that
shouldnt-the servants gathered in
the hall, weeping--the night the good
|Hld man. the good friend, the more
than father. lay dying, this room. was
broken into by thieves"
Cover had grown pale as death.
YOU" said Charnock, ,"the worth
less, lying, check-forging son, who
had been forbidden the house and
the countenance of the father, aided
|by a thug, a common thief, second
story man, broke into this room"
prove it, cried Cover suddenly.
prove it-damn you-prove it"
Your friend, the second-story man,
is dead" said Charnock; 'but it was
not for nothing that God brought us
two together in the Painted Desert
not for nothing that I shared my
water bottle with him, and that he
shared the secret Of your great wealth
with me. Prove it? 1 can prove moth
ing in court of law. The, man is
dead But am not arguing this case
before justice. perhaps of your max
ing, or a jury of your peers-if SO be
that you are not peerless in wicked
ness; and arrogance, and bestfality.
Nor am 1 arguing this case before the
highest court of all. I am merely
stating it.
'"The lawyers had been in this room
your fathers secretary; the men of
business-they had left q good fire
going. Hearing steps in the hall, you
had not time to tear your fathers
will to pieces; you threw it whole
'untorn-into the flames. and, to your
horror, you saw it carried, unscathed,
uninjured, up the chimney. You. too.
have searched the grounds about
this house and txe roofs above it for
a scrap of paper. You had the right
you were free of the place from
which your general rottenness and
dishonor had got you driven. There
was no will; it was your house-you
could enter without q jimmy-you
could go by a door.
'At first yeu came and went with
the fear of hell upon you. Each day
tyeu expected that the will would be
Evening star., 1921-12-11

The way to stop it is for the news
papers and police to work together
Let the last named arrest the murder
ess if they wish, but whether they
arrest her or don't arrest her. let the
papers treat her the same as if she
was a good woman and had did moth
ing all her life but good deeds; lie.
don't mention her name
RING w. LARDNER.
Great Neck, Dec. 9.
Evening star., 1921-12-11

evoked in it those slints that his
young cousin. Bob Cover, had no.
tfeed. For the first time that day
the consciousness of his ready-made
clothes and shoes passed from him.
1t had been very hard to dine in
blue serge and tan. so conspicuous
beside the broadcloth ana pumps. the
low necks and French heels. of his
cousins. 1t had been hard to apollo
Evening star., 1921-12-11

legacy. You were disappointed. Jeal-
ousy inspires your tale. Who would
take your word-against mine?"
"Ah." said Charnock, you haven't
been rich for nothing! Wealth has
taught you something. 1t is not.
how ever. your words that would be
believed over mine-but your money.
But you-you yourself-believe my
,, jealous imaginings-don't you?"
He had for answer only the rich
mans short. ugly laugh.
you married." Charnock went on.
The girl goaded by those who
should have protected her. went pale
to the altar. Her heart was never
yours. One day the old gardener, to
whim she had been kind. sent for her.
He was dying. He had a paper that
he thought she ought to see. He had
found it in the garden. He had had 1t
for a long time. He ought. he knew
to have done something about it. Bnt
he had been afraid.
when She had read the paper
your wife hid it,, Why? Because
she, too, was without honor? No; but
because she was going to have
child. For the sake of her child. she
| hid that paper-and she kept it hidden
for the sake of that child and for
the sake of others that followed. But
last year, when she, knew that she
was going to die. it seemed to- her
better that her children should starve
than that she should go to her Maker
with so low a crime upon her soul.
So she wrote to me, explaining what
she had done, and inclosing the will
that you had thrown into the flames.
But that she never knew-or she
couldn't have kept silent all these
years.
"'Of course, she said in her letter.
If my husband had ever known of
this, you would have had your rights.
It is all my crime-al my selfish
ness"
Come to, the point" said Cover.
What are you driving at?"
Why" said Charnock, II have the
will
You will have to prove that it is
not forgery. 1t will cost you money
to prove that-much money"
He laughed his laugh.
1T will cost nothing. We shall not
appear against each other in a court
of law. Our court is here. Face to
! face in this room, we shall settle our
differences"
Your idea is to despoil me of
everything?"
"Despoil? That is a hard word to
swallow I shall take nothing from
you that is yours-not even your life.
In self-defense, might kill YOU, At
tack me if YOU like, and see."
Covers heavy face worked hard. as
If he were chewing some tough sub
stance. That his cousin really had
the will, he had no real doubt. That
his cousin could really despoil him,
he had some doubts; but they were
not altogether satisfactory. A COM
promise Of some sort suggested itself
as the best way out Of the difnculty
and when he spoke to that end it was
in milder and more agreeable voice.
'Come, old man." he said, you've
had rough deal. what'n you take
for the will?"
"You mean how much money!
Charnock smiled ,sweetly. my con-
SCIENCE" he said, sis worth far more
to me than any amount Of money.
Your children have not injured me
knowfngiy-blood--