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The Winslow mail., 1921-08-19

of stone which had been used in
separate layers in the laying of
macadam, thus filling in the crevices
and making a foundation with the
compactness of solid rock and using
bitumen for surface, making the
pavement waterproof and durable.
It took two years of thought and
laboratory work to develop his new
idea, for he not only had to work
out the details of the construction
but he had to devise the apparatus
With which to make his tests and
the equipment with which to lay the
pavement
Like all other inventions, his idea
was ridiculed by the public and
sneered at and pronounced absurd
by the engineers of the time A great
deal of literature was sent out to
try to offset any attempt to try this
new construction, but public opinion
soon changed when in 1901 the ex
pertinent was made.
Mr. Warren had his new construc-
ion patented and as it was made up
Of bitumen and stone he combined
the Latin word "bitumen" and
and called it "bitulithic.'
To all inventions as time goes on
there are new improvements and ad
ditions made. In 1910 Edwin G..
Wallace discovered that denser and
better wearing surface could be Sc
cured by placing the coarser btu
minous mixture at the bottom, where
the greatest stability is required
and the finer bituminous mixture
near the surface, where the greatest
density is required, thus making the
mineral aggregate not only in the
right proportion but also placing
them in their proper relation to each
other. This invention was patented
and has come to be the standard
Warrenite bitulithic wearing surface
of which during it's first 20 years OF
existence there was total of 49,
$50, ,407 square yards-or it's equiva-
lent of 4,463 miles of roadway, 80
feet wide between curbs-laid, in
Guiding practically every state in
the United States and provinces of
Canada.
This is the kind of paving with
which Ell Paso paved all of its bus
mess district in 1905 and which it
has since been laying almost exclu-
sively until it now has 1901 ,499,65
square yards in the city and county.
The Ell Paso Times.
The Winslow mail., 1921-08-19

The country is beginning to rea-
lize that a return to normalcy means
not the artificial readjustment of
business conditions, through legisla-
ton, but rather readjustment that
will come only through the applica-
ton of the sound principles Of in
dustry, thrift and economy.-Samuel
R. McKelvie, Gov of Neb
Charlevoix county herald., 1921-06-03

the best right in the world. he is my
husband"
1t was out at last, and the boss
poor little house of cards that / knew
he had been building all these months
had got its knock down In just those
four quietly spoken words. AS well as
I knew him, I couldn't begin to guess
what he would do or say. But he was
such a splendid fighter that I might
have known.
II heard, no longer ago than this
afternoon, that you were not-that
your husband was still living" he
said, speaking very gently. II didn't
believe it-not fully-though l saw
that there might easily be room for
the belief II makes no difference,
Sheila. You are my friend, and you
are blameless. But before we go any
farther i want you to believe that
I wouldn't have been brutal enough
to give you that bit of paper IL had
remotely suspected that Collingwood
was the man.
Charlevoix county herald., 1921-06-03

"Of course you accepted" said the
boss. meaning just the opposite.
The major chuckled again. 1
talked with him long enough to ma
out about where he stood. He thinks
he's got you by the neck, but, IKE
most men of his breed, he's a paltry
coward, sub, at heart"
The boss laughed. what Is ne
afraid OFF,
'He is afraid Of his life. He told
me. with his eyes buggin' out. that
than was one man heah In Portal
City who would kill him to get pos
session of certain papehs that were
locked up in the cash vault OF the
Security National"
The boss was pulling on his gloves.
81 didn't give him any reason to
think that / was anxious to murder
him." he said.
"Oh. no, my deah boy; 1t isn't you,
at all. It's Howie Collingwood. That's
where we land afteh all Is said and
done. Youth hands are tied, and we've
got this heah young maniac to deal
with. If CollingwoOd gets about three
fingehs of red likkeh under his belt,
why, trah's one murder In prospect.
And if Hatch has any reason 70 think
that YOU can still get the underholt
on him, why, thah's another. I'm glad
you've seen fit to take Ripley's advice
at last, and got you bodyguard.'
"What's that?" queried the boss.
But the query was answered minute
later when we hit the sidewalk for
the tramp back to town and Tarbeli
fell In to walk three steps behind us
all the way to the door Of the rail-
| road club.
1t sure did look as If things were
| just about as bad as they could ever
be, now. Hatch once more on top,
! the whole bottom knocked out of the
railroad experiment, our good name
for political honesty gone glimmerng,
and, worst of all, perhaps, the boss
big heart broken right In two over
those four little words that nothing
could ever rub out-"he Is my hus-
band" l didn't wonder that the boss
| said never word In all that long
walk downtown, or that he forgot to
| tell me goodnight when he locked
himself up in his room at the club.
Charlevoix county herald., 1921-06-03
CHAPTER XIV
The DipsomanIac

In a day when punched money, how
ever arrogant ii may be, has been
taught to go sort of softly, the Hatch
public announcement of the things
they were doing or going to do. But
bad news has wings of it's own. Mr..
NorcrOss was still in the midst of his
mail dictatiOn to me the morning after
the bottom-alI the different bottoms
fell out, when Mr.. Hornack came
bulging in.
whats all this fire-alarm that's
been sprung about a new elevator
trust?" he demanded, chewing on his
cigar as if ii were something he were
trying TO eat. Its all over town that
c. s. & w. has been secretly reOrgan-
lied, with the Hatch crowd in control.
I'm having perfect cyclone Of tele
phone calls asking what, and how.
and why!'
The boss reply ignored the details.
Were In for it again." he announced
briefly. "The local companies couldn't
hold on to good thing when they had
first into little heaps, and then into
big ones, and now the Hatch people
have forced a practical consolidation"
as that the factor only the way
you are doping 1t out? queried the
traffic manager.
at is the fact. Hatch came here
last night to tell me about it also,
to tell me where we were to get Off"
Hornack bit off a piece of the chewed
cigar and took a fresh hold on It.
"Does he think for one holy half
minute that we're going to sit down
quietly and let him undo all the good
work that's been done?" he rasped.
"He does-just that. He's putting
us in the nine-hole, Hornack, and up
to the present moment haven't found
the way to climb out of it,
"But the ground leases?" Hornack
began. "Why can't we pull them on
him?"
eve might, If we hadn't been shot
dead In our tracks by the very men
who ought to be backing us to win,"
said the boss soberly. And then he
went on to tell about the new grip
Hatch had on us.
OF course, HOrnack blew up at that,
and what he said wasn't for publicas
ton. For a minute or so the air of
the Office was blue. When he got
down to common, ordinary English
again he was saying, between cusses
"But you can't let 1t stand at that,
Norcross; you simply can'tl"
81 don't intend to-" was the even
toned rejoinder 'But anything we
can do will always lack the element
Of finallty, Hornack, while Wall Street
owns us. I've said II hundred times
and I'll say II again: the only hope
for the public service corporation to-
day lies In a distribution of its securi-
ties among the people it actually
serves"
Hornack's teeth met In the middle
Of the chewed cigar.
That's excellent logic-bully good
logic, If anybody should ask you'll But
we're fighting a condition, not theory.
Nobody wants p. s. l.. Common even
at thirty-two. You wouldn't advise
your worst enemy to buy II at that
figure
Charlevoix county herald., 1921-06-03
Continued

"By heavens-TD make 1t interest
you'll The easy-mark candidates were
found and bought and paid for-and
maybe they'll stay bought, and maybe
they won't. But that isn't the point.
For a little more money-my money,
this time-each of these men has made
an affidavit to the fact that railroad
money was offered him. They don't
say whether or not they accepted 1t,
mind you, and that doesn't cut any
figure. They have sworn that the
money was rendered That lets them
out and lets you in. You don't believe
itf I'll show you," and Hatch whipped
a list of names from his pocket and
slapped 1t upon the boss desk. Go
to those men and ask them; If you
want to carry it that far. They'll tell
you"
1 could see that the boss barely
glanced at the list. The glib story
OF the bribery was like the bite of
q slipping crane-hitch-slOw to take
hold. So far as we were concerned,
of course, the charge fell fiat; and
upon any other hypothesis it was
blankly incredible, unbelievable, abb
surd
1.-THE affidavits themselves would be
much more convincing" / heard the
boss say, though even then l should
wish to have reasonable proof that
they were genuine"
Hatch was sitting down again and
his grin showed his teeth unpleas-
antly.
do you think for a minute that I'd
bring the papers here and trust them
in your hands?" he raped out insult
ingly. mot much! But we've got
them all right, as you'll find out If you
balk and force us to use them"
At this point 1 could see that some
thing in the persistent assurance of
the man was getting under the boss
skin and giving him a cold chill. What
If II were not the colossal bluff it had
looked like in the beginning? What
II .. Like a blaze of lightning out
Of a clear sky possible explanation
hit me under the fifth rib, and l guess
IL hit the boss at about the same in
slant. What If President Dunton and
the New York stock jobbers, believ-
ing as they did that nothing but legis-
lative favor would give them their
trading capital in the depressed stock,
had cut in and done this thing with.
out consulting us?
Nla e.ftY Gf1r In q
chair and picked up the paper-knife-
q little unconscious trick of his when
he wanted time to gather himself.
perhaps you would be willing to
give me the name of this briber Mr.
Hatch?" he said. after a little pause
"As If you didn't know 1T" was the
scofing retort. There were two of
them; one who was hired to do the
talking while the real wire-puller
stood aside and held the coin bag
Wen skip the hired man." Then he
turned to the ex-sheriff: write out
the name of the bag-holder for him
Dedmon," he commanded, tearing a
leaf from his pocket notebook and
thrusting it, with a stubby pencil, into
Dedmon's hands.
The man from Arrowhead county
bent over his knee and wrote name
on the slip of paper, laying the sllI
on the drawn-out slide Of the boss desk
when he had finished the slow pencil
ing. The effect of the thing was al
that any plotter could have desired
i saw the boss face go gray, saw him
Charlevoix county herald., 1921-06-03

must beat Mr.. Hatch to It. You must
be the first to denounce this bribery,
clearing yourself and letting the ak
fall where 1t will"
The boss was shaking his head
bit doubtfully.
at isn't quite so simple as that"
he objected. 81 don't know that I'd
have any compunctions about sending
Collingwood to the dump. If the half
Of what they say of him is true, he
is a spineless degenerate and hardly
worth saving. But to do as you sug-
gest would be open rebellion, you
know; while Dunton remains presi-
dent, I am his subordinate, and II
should expose him and his nephew,
the situation here would become SIM
ply impossible"
"WellT" she prompted.
"Such move would rightly and
properly bring a wire demand for my
resignation, of a nature that couldn't
be ignored-only 1t wouldn't, because
I should anticipate Ii by resigning
ducing the personal element. But the
results to others; to the men of my
staff and the rank and file, and to the
public, which, as you say, is just be-
ginning to realize some of the bene-
fits of real partnership with its
principal railroad; these things can't
be so easily ignored"
you have thought of some other
expedient?"
mo; haven't got that far yet. But
I am determined that Hatch shall not
be allowed to work his graft second
time upon the people who are trust.
ing me. I believe in the new policy
we are trying out. I'd fling my own
fortune into the gap If had one, and,
more than that, I'd pull in every friend
have in the world If by so doing
could stand the Pioneer Short Line
upon a solid foundation of honest own
ership. That is all that is needed In
the present crisis-absolutely ALL"
He was on his feet now and tramp
ing back and forth on the hearth rug.
AT one of this back-turnings l saw
Mrs. Sheila reach out quickly and lay
the bit of paper with its accusing
scrawl on the glowing Goals. Then she
said, quite calm again:
I'm time to come you will accom-
plish even that, Graham-this change
of ownership that we have talked of
and dreamed about. 1t is the true
solution of the problem not govern
ment ownership, but ownership by the
people who have the most at stake
the public and the workers. You are
strong man, and you will bring 1t
about. But this other man-who is
not strong; the man whose name was
written upon the bit of paper / have
just thrown into the fire :"
He wheeled quickly, and what he
said made me feel as If cold wind
were blowing up the back of my neck,
because l hadn't dreamed that he
would remember COllingwoOd well
enough to recognize him in that pass
ing moment on the sidewalk.
'That man." he muttered, sort of
gratingly: II had completely forgot
ten. He was here just little while
ago. / met him as l was coming in.
Did he come to see your cousin-the
major?"
"No," she said, matching his low
tone; "he came to see me-"
"You?"
"Yes. Finding himself in a pitfall
which he has digged with his own
hands, he is like other men Of his kind ;
he would be very glad to climb out
upon the shoulders Of woman"
l guess the boss saw red for a min
ute, but the question he asked had
to come.
"By what right did he come to you,
SheilaT
"By what he doubtless thinks is
Charlevoix county herald., 1921-06-03
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Plenty of COMPANY.

"A cubic inch of air often contains
a million microbes" declares scien'
list. And yet some people complain
Of feeling lonesome.-Boston Tran.
script.
Charlevoix county herald., 1921-06-03

stare at the slip and heard him say,
half to himself, Howard Colling-
woodi"
Hatch followed up his advantage
promptly. He was afoot and strug-
Cling into his overcoat when he said:
you've got what you were after, Nor
Charlevoix county herald., 1921-06-03
Exclusive Business.

Most Of the trouble Is produced by
those who don't produce anything
elee.--Buffalo. News.
The Snowflake herald., 1921-11-18

SpOnSible for the GeOrgiana which is
now so popular In all English-speak-
ing countries.
The French adopted Georgia, but
quickly changed her to Georgine and
GeOrgette. Germany liked Georgine
and took hen over, making her one of
her most popular feminine names.
England has form Georgina and
Portugal is responsible for Georgetta.
In America alone does the original
Georgia seem to flourish.
Georgia's talismanic gem is the
blOOdstone. which has strong therapeu-
tic powers and not only preserves its
wearer from danger and disease but
1t is said to be a curative in hemOr-
rhages and other disturbances of the
blood. Tuesday is her lucky day and
her lucky number. The violet.
signifying modesty, is her flower.
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The Snowflake herald., 1921-11-18
GEORGIA.

~ EORGIA has deeply religious
1T origin among the Marinite
Christians who have tradition
that Georges was Christian sentinel
at Damascus who connived at the es-
cape of st. Paul when he was let
down in the basket, and was therefore
put to death. The next Georges was
CappadOcian saint and martyr Ia
whose honor Emperor Constantine
erected church at Byzantium.
Throughout all early church history
Georgius appears as saint, martyr or
hero until, finally, the famous st.
George of the Dragon legend became
renowned in England.
Curiously enough, though George
penetrated every country of the west,
being adopted by England. France,
Hungary and Germany, the feminine is
uuite a modernism. 1t was not until
comparatively recent years that Anne
of Denmark was instrumental In hav-
Ing a godchild of hers christened Geor-
yia Anna. She was the first English
Georgia, though the name is said to
have existed previously on the conti-
nent. 1t Is possible that this same
Georgia Anna coupled her two names
for the sake of euphony and Is re-
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- guess | dreamed it," he said
dreamed | caught two mice. one in
eacn paw and | was just going to
snow them to you when the trap
clicked"
MRS. Iabby quickly boxed her son
on the ear. "You fell asleen did
your she said. "Now YOU sit here
ana catch two mice before YOU get a
drop of milk"
on trotted Mrs. Tabby with her
other children, while Tommy sat sad
~ watching the hole. Out ran three
mice and Tommy ran after them. He
caught one and then seeing the other
hiding behind barrel he QUICKLY
went after that, while third was so
frightened he ran right into the tran.
could not help it mother" ex-
claimed Tommy Kit, as he proudly dis
played the mice.
THAT is all traps are good for ("
said Mrs. Tabby, ito catch the third
mouse while you are chasing two,
and now you children must catch two
mice and drive the third into a tran.
We will soon clear this place and be
rid of these insulting traps as we'll"
Bat 1t was not long before all the
kittens were sprawled out in the sun
fast asleep, for they had cleared the
mice from the barn; but Tommy, il
he had any more dreams, did not tell
them to his mother.
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The Snowflake herald., 1921-11-18
TOMMY KITS DREAM.

MI RS. TABBY felt highly insulted
W one morning when she went in
to the barn and found FIVE traps
placed near holes where the mice
lived. '"The very idea," said Mrs.
Tabby to her four kittens, "juSt as if
l could not attend to this without
these traps around.
Children, want you to pay strict
attention to what say, for you are
now old enough to help, and 1t may
be that / have given more time to
playing with you than to my work.
Now you must help, / want each
OF you to watch near one of these
traps and when mouse runs out of
its home don't let him get into the
trap-CATCH HIM."
After telling her children this, Mrs.
Tabby sat down to watch near the
fifth trap herself and soon all were
so busy watching for a mouse that
they forgot each other.
Tommy Kit, however, grew tired of
watching and after staring hard a
The Snowflake herald., 1921-11-18

I ASA week | tella my boss | wanta
vacaSh. And da boss tella me he
was gonna TAXA sama ting. So
we decida for sava da expense we go
sama time. You know l tella you one
time bouta stronga pipe wOt da boss
ees gotta? Well, he TAXA dat pipe on
da vacash, too.
We go cen da fieever to da ocean
for da vacash. | dunno for sure, but
for way dat pipe smella now 1 tink
eet hava leetle ones on da road soma
place. Dat pipe ees so stronga now
he breaka ola prohibish law.
l try fiva, seexa time losa dat pipe
on da road, but no can do. l trow
outside one time and den | maka dat
Queeck da air was begin getta fresh
an was no moocha smell But when
we reacha tree four mile down da
road and was no moOcha smell only
leetle bit da boss know hees pipe was
gone. So he maka me go back and
geeva look. L not gotta moocha trou-
BILE for locate-jusa follow da smell
and when almOsta knCcka me down
dat was da pipe
When we reach da sea we go veesit
some frien. Da boss lighta hees pipe
cen da house and everybody go out.
no lika dat way so l te1la heem eef
wanta smoka da pipe go down by da
ocean where ees open place and plenta
weend.
So nexa day he TAXA my idee and
go down by da ocean. feegure no.
body gotta go out eef he smoka on da
beach. But I am meestake cen dat
place lika other one Da boss and
hees pipe was been no more as coopla
hours by da ocean when da tide cou,d
no standa smell and he go out, too.
WOt you tink?
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The Snowflake herald., 1921-11-18
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The Snowflake herald., 1921-11-18


long time at the hole he was to watch
he grew sleepy and, curling up on the
nOor, soon was fast asleep.
Tommy Kit had the mouse on his
mind, though, and so he dreamed
about mice, and In his dream he
thought two fat mice ran out Of the
hole he was set to watch. Up jumped
Tommy Kit and pounced upon them
catching a mouse In each paw.
II guess none of the others will be
As smart as / am" dreamed Tommy
Kik 'Tll run right off to mother and
show her what smart son she has,"
CLICK" Tommy Kit opened his
eyes and there In the trap was
a mouse, and at the sound his broth.
ers and mother turned and looked
Tommy felt very much ashamed, for
there was not a mouse In the other
four traps.
"Why did you let him get past
your scolded his mother. "Your
brothers have each caught one. 1 am
ashamed that a child Of mine should
be so stupid"
"But l did catch two," said Tom
my Kit, not quite sure he had dreamed
it. Il had one In each paw when the
trap clicked. l could not catch three
mother, now could l, for I have only
two front paws?"
1.-TWO mice at the same time!" ex
claimed his mother.
Tommy Kit was now wide awake
The Snowflake herald., 1921-11-18


THE housing problem is a bigger
one now than 1t has ever been
before in this country. There
fore a good many of us are either
buying or building houses and we are
coming up against unaccustomed prob
lens.
The first thing to remember, whether
YOU buy house from total stranger
or from your next-doOr neighbor, is
that the transaction is purely one of
business. It should be carried on In
an absolutely businesslike way. Just
because you know the man you are
buying the house from Ia no reason
why you should not have. everything
about 1t put down in the legal form.
And just because the man who is
buying the house from you is friend
of yours is no reason why you should
feel any offense because he wants to
be purely businesslike about the trans
action.
On the other hand, the well-bred
buyer or seller of a house tries always
to do the courteous thing. If you are
selling a house and know that 1t
would be a great convenience to those
who buy 1t to take possession few
days ahead of the specified time. let
them do so If you can manage to.
Remember when you sell a house
that the garden goes with 1t. If you
want to transplant any Of your favor
ite flowers after the house is sold it
is the courteous thing to ask permits
sion of the persons you have sold it
to. And remember that once the deed
is signed everything about the house
belongs not to you. who have sold it,
even though you are still living in it,
but to the person who has bought it.
And although you are entitled to live
In 1t until the date agreed upon, you
are not entitled to take anything
| away from 1t that goes with the house.
When you buy new home 1t is
quite probable that your friends will
| want to see It, The best way to avoid
unpleasant feeling and to make mat
ters easy for you is to specify a
given date when you will be at home
in the new house. 1t is even some
The Snowflake herald., 1921-11-18
INV IN HI6tEartE5. t I'
THE JURY.

CHORTLY after the Norman Con-
y quest the Curia Regis, or Kings
court, appointed twelve knights
to inquire into and examine various
matters which might come before 1t.
Suitors at the Curia Regis began to
summon these twelve TO inquire into
and judge their suits. Thus, originally,
the jury Latin, juare, to swear) were
twelve men sworn to investigate and
Judge evidence. During the reign Of
Henry w the Jury was restricted to
its present function as judge Of facts
only.
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