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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-11-25

even with telescopes as much more
powerful than the biggest ones now in
use as the latter are stronger than the
naked eye.
So careful an astronomer as Agnes
M. Clarke tells us that skiff In
vast, unfurrowed ocean could not
be more utterly alone than is our solar
system i'm its little corner of the uni
verse. She continues:
"Yet the sun is no isolated body. To
each individual of the unnumbered
stars strewing the armament. down to
the faintest speck of light, 1t
stands in some kind of relationship"
Spectroscopic studies and sky OBJ
servation alike tell us that our sun
and his family are all headed in a
great migration across the sky to-
ward point between the constella-
lions of Hercules and Lyra.
The speed with which we are trav-
cling in that direftion Is II miles
second. The velocity of an artillery
shell is around 5000. feet a second:
that Of the sun is $4,000 feet. An
artillery shell with the velocity Of the
solar system through space would, ac-
cording to Kippax, penetrate sheet
of steel four city blocks thick.
Is our great family journey through
space along q straight road, or Is 1t
revolving around some greater body,
even as the earth revolves around the
sun and the moon around the earth?
The astronomer tells us frankly that
II the sun has an orbit its curve as yet
defies detection.
Star Cluster in Hercules.
A faint idea Of the stupendous num-
Der of stars that dot the sky and the
staggering distance that separate them
from our earth may be obtained from
fuzzy little speck of light in the con-
stellation Of Hercules. 1t is visible
to the unaided eye only on the clear
est nights; but train a high-powered
telescope on 1t and you will see one
of the finest star clusters In all the
heavens.
Ritchey's photograph of this cluster,
taken with the big 60-inch Mount Will
son reflector, discloses that 1t is made
up of more than $4,000 stars, very
many of them as big and as bright as
our own sun. How far away they are
cannot be said, for they are too re-
mote for measurement with the finest
instruments yet devised. 1t is GER
tain, however that they are at least
so distant that the light coming to the
earth from them this year may have
started on it's hurting journey through
space about the time of Joshua's con-
quest of Jericho.
A glance to another spot In the
armament will afford weak sugges-
ton of the tremendous age of the uni-
verse The central star of the sword
of Orion appears to the naked eye as
merely dim little fellow that might
be passed without a thought But
a telescope discloses 1T as the most
magnificent nebula in the heavens. It's
diameter is thought to be 100000
times greater than that of our sun.
When the sweet singer of Israel
sang that 'the heavens declare the
glory of God and the armament shew-
eth His Handiwork," he had never
seen more than 5000 stars. With the
latest Mount Wilson reflector 100000
600 write themselves upon the photo
graphic plate.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-11-25
Settling His Doubts.

A Boston man Of discriminating
taste, dining at his favorite eating
place, ordered fricassee chicken, took
one look at 1t and called the waiter:
"When does a chicken become a
fowl here?"
The obliging waiter scowled hard
before finding his answer: "When It
is q rooster, sab it's a matter
of sex"
But the patron did not seem con-
vinced, and the steward was sum-
moned. Again the polite inquiry:
when does chicken become fowl,
NJ?
Never, sir, In this restaurant
came back the steward; and the guest
went pleasantly on with his NEAL
Pittsburgh Sum.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-11-25

.See that fellow over in the corner7
He's a famous expert. He knows all
about business. He invented the bud
get system, triplicate record system,
fractional adding machine. two kinds
of doubIe-entry and memory chart"
$50? What's he worried about. bit
ing his nails?"
aOh, he md his wife just had scrap
because he got mixed up and paid
cents too much for pound o. chops,
when she told him to bring steak, and
then forgot to bring the chops home"
-Richmond Times-Dispatch-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-11-25
PLAY GOOD POLO.
Indian Beggars Are Adopts at
'Rich Mans Came"
to Give British Officers "Run for
Their Money"

Polo is supposed to be a rich mans
game, but go to Gilgit, in Kashmir, the
original home of Indian polo. and there
you will see it played even by beggars
and played well.
The great game was brought to
India centuries ago by the Persians,
the countrymen of Omar, who, accord
ing to FITZGERALD, mentions his ma
tional game in his poetry.
Gilgit, a tiny Indian frontier town.
boasts of being the first home of polo
In the empire, and there they play 1t
as it was played by those old Persian
sportsmen.
You need be no millionaire to be a
polo enthusiast in Gilgit. You need
not order your brooches in Saville row
nor buy your ponies at TattersalPs to
play it as it is played there. All you
require is a pony-and that every ma
tive peasant possesses-and a stick,
which you will probably make out OF
cane with your own hands.
On polo days the glad news that
game is about to begin is announced
by some one shouting it In the village.
Soon all the lads of the village appear
on tiny ponies not more than Ii
hands high and with the oldest col
lection of saddles ever seen. Some OF
these saddles look more like chairs
than anything else, while others are
bolstered up with bundles in front to
assist their riders to keep off the
ground as much as possible.
The game is played with an almost
unlimited number of players on either
side, and the polo ground is the main
road There are no goal posts. A wall
at each end of the polo ground serves
as such, and the game is played not by
chukkers but until one side has scored
nine goals or until both teams are ut
terly exhausted.
The sticks at Gilgit differ both In
shape and material from those gener-
ally used. They are fashioned out Of
cane and are L-shaped rather than T
shaped, like those used at Nottingham.
They are also made without point
ed end to their heads, and have no
straps to slip over the wrist. Any
player is allowed to pick up the ball
or catch it In his hand and immedi-
ately fling 1t as far as possible toward
the goal. This procedure, which might
annoy the umpires at Nottingham, Is
made possible by the size of the pom
les.
There are three native teams at Gil
git. the best Of which plays against
the British officers stationed there,
and among which are some very fine
players. On tournament days prizes
are uniformly the same. The first
prize always consists of 200 cartridges
and the second of four blanket over
coats.
There is some difference between
the polo played up and down the stony
street of sun-baked Gilgit by native
Deggars on horseback-many half
naked and in rough homemade sad
dles-and that played on the smooth
and noble turf of Nottingham. Yet
men who know both say that no better
game exists than that which is played
during long, heat-laden afternoons up
and down that dust-embedded street.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-11-25
Did Look Bad.

"Oh, yes, we are engaged to be mar
ried next spring; but / fear she has
not that utter confidence in me that
comes with perfect love-
"Why so?" ~
swell. when a fellow looks back and
sees her testing the diamond in her
engagement ring on the window pane
don't you think he has good cause to
feel bit dubious?"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-11-25
By EDWARD w. PIckARD.

IT APPEARS that the prophets In
Il Washington were all wrong. The
great conference seemingly Is going to
reach and sign an agreement on limlta-
ton of naval armament without waiting
to ssttle the problems of the Pacific
and the Far East. This tendency is
a result of Secretary Hughes down
right action in laying before the con-
ference in its first session the Amer
lean proposal as to navies. Briefly,
that proposal is that the United
States, Great Britain and Japan agree
to suspend naval construction for ten
years, and during the succeeding ten
years build only for replacement; that
all uncompleted capital ships and
many other specified capital ships be
scrapped at once; that the aggregate
capital ship tonnage be limited to 5OO,-
900 each for England and America,
and 100000 for Japan; that the sea
tanned on this basis. There are other
features of the program, but every
one is familiar with it by this time.
The conference. and the world, were
at first astounded by this unexpected
laying of the American cards on the
table, and then the plan was greeted
with loud and universal acclaim. The
delegates of the other nations could
not, if they would, refuse TO indorse
it. and at the secoRd open session
Great Britain. Japan, Italy and
France, formally accepted it ''in prin-
ciple," with minor notifications.
These, as set forth then and later,
were as follows:
BY Great Britain-Limit size and
tonnage of submarines; permit con-
struction of one capital ship year
during ten-year period to retain ship
yard facilities; permit retention OF
more light cruisers and gunboats TO
police the high seas; reduction in
number of naval ship building yards
By Japan-Increase of Japan's ma
val strength TO 20 per cent of British
and American; cessation of construc-
ton of naval bases and new fortitica-
lions in the Pacific
BY France-Allowance of eight cap
ital ships to safeguard French col
onieS.
By Italy-Allowance of six capital
ships TO protect Italian interests.
A committee. of which Col Theo-
dore Roosevelt is chairman, set to
work at once to study the plan and
proposed notifications, and by the end
of the week it was predicted an agree
ment would be reached within two or
three weeks. Among the American
EXPERTS there was considerable oppo-
sition TO the British suggestions,
and the Englishmen dropped the idea
of one battleship year.
Japan's proposition that there be no
more naval bases or Notifications con-
structed in the Pacific was expected.
and perhaps proves a BIT awkward
for the United States. 1t means the
abandonment of work and plans In
the Philippines, Dutch Harbor and
elsewhere which have been considered
most necessary for the safety of our
possessions in the Pacific If not for
that of our Pacific coast. But If Mr..
Hughes general program is accepted
by the other powers it would seem
the United States cannot well decline
to accept this plan of Japan. In the
ship-scrapping proposal America has
been most unselfish and perhaps she
can afford to be as generous in other
matters.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-11-25
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Conference May Agree on Naval
Armament Reduction Plan
Within a Few Weeks.
HUGHES PROGRAM APPROVED

Suggested Minor Notifications Are
Being Discussed-China Pleads for
Recognition as Independent Ma
tion-League Council Gets At
ter the Serbs-Progress on
Tax Revision Bill.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-11-25

xXTHEN the time came to put for
w ward plans for settlement of
the problems of the Far East none
of the great powers seemed ready
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-11-25

DRESIDENT Harding last Monday
L signed without any ceremony the
proclamation of peace between the
United States and Germany and there
is much debate as to whom he will
select for ambassador TO Berlin. First
choice among the guessers is Con-
gresham Alanson B. Houghton of
Corning. n. Y. He was born in Massa-
chusetts fifty-eight years ago, gradual
ed from Harvard and the universities
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25
Denny Faces Fight

With the State Senate called into ses-
sion next Monday to act on Governor
Denny's nominations for vacancies in
the state judiciary, the indications
point increasingly to warm battle
over the nominations. The opposition
will centre on the selection of United
States Senator Josiah 0. Wolcott
Democrat, as chancellor, but it is ru-
mored a fight will develop against
other appointees.
Even those reputed to be close to the
Governor are not predicting an easy
victory for the administration forces.
Tentative polls of the probable lineup
vary by two or three votes either. way
but the one most generally favored pre-
diets the following result:
For confirmation-Senators Bennett,
Handy, Lutz, Prettyman and Robert
son, Republicans, and Hopkins, Latta
and Price, Democrats-8.
Against-Senators Alice, Highfeld,
Palmer, Richards, Short and Walker,
Republicans, and McIntire and Muir
ply, Democrats-8.
Uncertain-In Insley, Democrat.
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25
FOR SALE!

New and secondhand steam
and gasoline traction engines
and thfeshers of all sizes. Also
saw mills and boilers.
w. c.. Runkles Machinery Co.,
1856 Oakland Ave.,
Trenton, N. ].
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25
GUARD THE BENCH

THE voice of the State. Press gen.
/ orally condemns this barter Of q
senatorial toga for a judicial robe. The
State Sentinel scores the swap without
mercv-..a brazen effrontery when
Delaware's presiding judgeship is
placed On the auction block-a nefarl-
GUS political dicker," etc.
From every point of view. however
much few politicians with axes to
grind may seek to defend It, the
wretched sdeal'' can only bring dis
credit upon its authors and upon our
State.
While not censuring Senator Wolcott,
it must be admitted that Re is playing a
role which cannot add to his reputation,
but must, on the contrary, detract from
the high estimation in which he has
hitherto been held by his fellow citi:
zens.
The whole thing is wrong In prIncl'
ple, and can only lead to evil.
While Senator Wolcott may technl'
cally have right to make the ex
change, he should not make it in vie"
of the fact that it involves the Judiciary
of our State whose fair name shoule
be kept like Caesars wife clear above
suspicion"
If, then, the Senator is sincere. a.
we believe, in his demand that the Gov
ernor Withdraw his nomination, he vii
settle the matter by fatty refusing tt
accept that position. His best frlend'
deplore such an acceptance, and I'M
Transcript, as his well-wisher, trusts
he will take this course and thus pu
his condemnation upon an innovation
fraught with unseen possibilities 1o'
wrong and shame.
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25

platforms nor any other declarations
can overturn the law Of supply and de-
mand. When carpenters, bricklayers,
steelworkers, plumbers, ETC., demanded
wages that the public thought too high
in proportion to the amount of work
done, the public quit buying the labor
of that class of workmen. Any laborer
can fix the rate of wages he will ac.
cept, but he cannot compel anyone else
to pay the rate. Any man who is de-
sirous of building house can state the
wages he is willing to pay, but he can
not force anyone to work at that rate.
A practical equilibrium in the labor and
employment market will be restored
when those who want work done and
those who want work to do can arrive
at the same ideas concerning the wage
to be paid and the amount of service
to be rendered for the wage. Aside
from few selfish people, the country
in general believes in fair days pay
for far days work, and, conversely.
fair days work for fair days pay.
The sooner an approximate understand.
ing can be reached, the sooner the long
needed building program will be started
and the sooner the army of unemployed
will be at work.
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25
THE PRACTICAL EQUILIBRIUM

DARTY platforms have agreed upon
! the declaration that human labor
il not commodity, but neither party
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25
STATE OF DELLA WARE

OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE
l, A. R. Benson, Secretary of State
of the State of Delaware. do hereby
certify that the above and foregoing is
a true and correct copy of Affidavit
made by one John D. Stellar, register
ing ounce Soda Bottles together with
boxes containing same which bottles
bears the name of H. G. Ingram, blown
therein, together with No. 17O9, the
same having been purchased from the
aforesaid H. G. Ingram. on the twenty
second day of March, A. D. 1921, as
shown by copy of offidavit and made
part hereof duly made and signed by
the said H. G. Ingram transferring the
same to the said John D. Stellar, in
compliance with the provisions of Sec
ton 49, Chapter 100 of the Revised
Statutes of 1915, as received and filed
IN this office the eighteenth day of May.
A. D. 1921.
In testimony whereof. ! have here
unto set my hand and official seal, at
Dover, this eighteenth day of May in
the year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-one.
= A. R. BENSON,
Secretary of State.
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25
Chamberlain Tablets

"Chamberlain' Tablets have been
used by my husband and myself off and
on for the past five years. When my
husband goes away from home he al
ways takes bottle of them along
with him. Whenever l have that
heavy feeling after eating, or feel
dull and played out, take one or two
of Chamberlain Tablets and they fix
me up fine," writes Mrs. Newton Vree-
land. Minoa, N. Y. Take these tab
let's when troubled with constipation or
indigestion and they will do you good.
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25
WAYS OF FINANCING EUROPE

THERE are two ways of Financing
i Europe" One is to lend hum
dreds of millions to European countries
to be expended in any way they see ut.
That is the course pursued by the
former administration, and followed in
a less degree by bankers. and individuals
who have absorbed issues of foreign
bonds. The other plan is to lend money
to exporters in this country to continue
their businesses pending the time when
their foreign debtors settle their bills.
That is the proposal Of the present
Washington government, together with
a variation by which money may be
loaned abroad with the stipulation that
it shall be spent in the American
market.
Americans have grown tired of see
ing their money used by Europeans to
buy wheat in South American countries
while there was huge surplus in the
United States. They also see no rea-
son why money owed to the American
Treasury should be loaned to another
country with proviso attached that it
be expended in the country making the
oan. Yet that is precisely what has
taken place. American capital has been
used abroad to build up commercial
competition with our own merchants,
or to construct navies and maintain
armies that are potential enemies of the
United States, and against which we
have to provide by further expenditures
for national defense. n
It is the policy of President Harding
to finance America first. The agrlcul'
tural interests are crying aloud for fl
nancial relief, which it may be possible
for the Federal Government to grant,
either through the Federal Land Bank:
or otherwise. The frequent issues Of
industrial and railroad bonds shows tht
need in commercial lines for more capl
tai. The government cannot give ali
in those instances, but the bankers VIII
have been underwriting the foreig1
loans floated in the United States ough
to be sure that the power Of the penpl
to absorb those domestic issues at rea
sonaRle rates Of interest is not impaire
by the offerings of foreign securitie
bearing high rates.
America has discharged its full dut
to Europe, both in money loans an
spent blood, and it is now up to the ns
tional government and private banker
and capitalists to cooperate in putin
the United States back on a SCUM
financial basis. With the policy of de
dation rapidly nearing completion, tn
real needs of agriculture, the railroad:
and the industries are becoming NOR
and more apparent, and it is easier
forecast what the financial needs of th
future will be. Let all pull together
meet them, and the world, as well 9
the United States, will be the bette
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25


ESTATE OF SARAH E. WATTS, De-
ceased. Notice is hereby given that
Letters of Administration upon the Es-
tate of Sarah E. Watts, late of Appo-
uuinimink Hundred, deceased, were
duly granted unto Daniel B. Jones on
the Twelfth day of March A. D. 1921,
and all persons indebted to the said de-
ceased are requested to make payment
to the Administrator without delay, and
all persons having demands against the
deceased are required to exhibit and
present the same duly probated to the
said Administrator on or before the
Twelfth day of March A. d. 1922, or
abide by the law in this behalf.
DANIEL B. JONES,
Address Administrator.
Townsend, Delaware
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25
ESTATE OF HORATIO W. PHARO


Deceased. Notice is hereby given that
Letters of Administration upon the Es-
tate of Horatio W. Pharo. late of st.
Georges Hundred, deceased, were duly
granted unto Horatio w. Pharo, Jr., on
the Eighteenth day of Narch A. D.
1921. and all persons indebted to the
said deceased are requested to make
payment to the Administrator without
delay, and all persons having demands
against the deceased are required to ex-
hibit and present the same duly pro-
bated to the said administrator on or
before the Eighteenth day of \arch A.
D. 1922, or abide by the law in this be-
half.
HORATIO W. PHARO, JR.,
Address Administrator.
Middletown, Delaware.
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25
For Sale!

One REQ one-ton Truck in good con-
dition, tires nearly new. Eill sell
cheap. Apply to-
TRANSCRIPT OFFICE,
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25
For Sale!

One Ford touring car, 1917 model,
good condition. Apply to
SUMMIT BRIDGE GARAGE,
Summit Bridge, Del.
Phone 237R11.
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25
Cbamberlain's Collie and Diarrhoea
Remedy

Every family should keep this prep
aration at hand during the hot summer
months. 1t is almost sure to be needed,
and when that time comes, is worth
many times its cost. Buy it now.
Dr.. Louis Levinson, veterinarian
Graduate Of University Of Penn
sylvania. Middletown, Del Bell
Phone ll9. North Broad Street.
Middletown transcript., 1921-06-25
For Sale!

Three late model Twin Indian Motor
cycles and side car in perfect condition.
Address
A. S. SHAW,
Cecilton, Md.
The New York herald., 1921-02-25

Under the Executive order the Post
Office Department prescribed regulations
for the selection OF postmasters under
Civil Service. Those regulations have
been the subject Of criticism on the part
Of the enemies OF the Administration
and have been Just as vigorously de-
tended by the Post Office Department
Critics declare the system has blank
eted into office the Democrats who had
been placed there during the four pre-
vlous years Of Dem Jcratic control, to
which the answer las been made that
Postmasters are required TO take period
ical tests and that the law Is not an
nulled which requires nomination and
ratification by the Senate. Anyhow. the
Democrats say. William II. Taft blank
eted into office the fourth class post
masters a far greater number. when he
was President.
The scheme at present provides for a
Civil Service examination OF candidates
for postmasterships and the certification
to the ostmaster-Generalo OF the three
highest ON the list. From these three
he is required TO select one for nominal
ton, subject to the Senate approval
There are groups in both parties who
are glad to be rid OF this post office
patronage and who believe that instead
Of letting down the bars the regulations
for selection OF postmasters should be
revised 10 make them alright against
politics There are some who even go
so far as to suggest that postmasters. as
such. be eliminated altogether and that
the various offices be so reorganized as
to obviate their need. They say this
could be done by dividing the work un-
der chief clerks for various lines. such
rs fiscal affairs. mail delivery and office
organization.