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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22
OMAN OF THE IRON MASK"

rr6rn the Detroit News.
 The Man of the Iron Mask" is Tan, ous parsonage who was kept a prisoner in two or three French pris- ons in the time of Louis XLV, and wno excited a curiosity correspond iag to the care with which his iden- tYtv was concealed. His first prison W As the castle of Pignerol, of which S4nt-Mars was governor. In 16s6 he as carried by Saint-Mars to the isles of Saint Marguerite; and the sa me precautions were observed as upon his first journey. Saint-Mars Having been appointed governor Of the Bastile in 1898, carried the pris- oner with him there. but still masked. An apartment had been prepared for him more convenient. and furnished with more care than those of the other prisoners. He was not per snitted to take off his mask. which, by the way. was not iron, but black velvet, even before his physician. In other respects great attention was shown him, and nothing which he re- ouestsd was refused him. Ills edu- cation appeared to have been care fully attended to; and he amused his leisure by reading, and playing upon the guitar. This unknown person died November 1s, i703, without hay ing been severely ill
 Around the story of the Man of the Iron Masks Dumas built one of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22

From the New York Times.
 61 TWENTY-FIVE years ago .
 French illustrated paper pub-
 S lished a delightful sanguinary front page cartoon, portraying dread event that escaped detection on this side of the water. Half dozen cowboys in widest western re- galia, their boots full of feet, their hands of revolvers, were popping away at harmless citizens at the Manhattan entrance of the Brooklyn bridge. The ground was strewn with slain, and affrighted men and women were flying from the busy assassins. Thus the romantic hu- morous artists looked across the sea for genial subjects.
 Now France finds more than enough pages of crime at home. For some months there has been an un- usual number of sensational acts of violence. The French counterpart of the Sullivan law seems to be highly honored in the breach, as here. The war accustomed folks to being lit- tie careless with firearms. The sem timentality of jurors, the delays of magistrates, 4he futility of the po- lice, and various other causes have been given for the frequency of these French crimes of violence. Some times. as in the case, famous for few days, of robbery and murder on the Marseilles express, the police .pinched" the assassins while the press and the public were declaiming ahont the stupidity of the police. In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Making Money on Sunday


 w. o. Broyles. candidate for pres ident of the city commission, said:
 T went down to my hog ranch the other day and found those hogs talk ing on flesh on Sunday and roofing Bermuda grass as though it was a week day" The terrible part of it Is that they're making money for me on Sunday--and I don't know how to stop 'em from working. I want to know if I'm going to be made to answer for this.
 Tt really means 500 pounds of meat I'm growing on sunday-fcr each one of the pigs takes on d pound a day on an average, and I've sot 500 down there in the/rfver bot tom"
 Mir. Broyles is known as the King of Creswe1l,' and owns 1.e5O acres of land in and around the town He has hobby of selling pork to his friends at 10 cents pound. About the end of the season he puts up a dozen fine hogs and feeds them on chestnuts and he ayers there isn't any meat like it on earth for fiavcr, and the lard tastes like vanilla ice cream---or ambrosia.
 "The reason,p said MT. Broyles, Fl started to raising hogs was because 1 heard some fellow had made a million dollars out of them, and figured Il could make A half million anyhow. I made s7,o0o of that last year. The only thing find necessary for raIs- ing them is to keep them dipped, vac cinated, give 'em fresh water, show tem the Bermuda pasture and blg-l ger hog to grow by"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22

sign her to perdition. Common sense and the future of Ireland demand that he accept the British offer and stop quibbling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22
s THE ORIGIN OF "TARIFF'

When travellers. sailing through the Straits of Gibraltar. round the south ernmost-p point of Europe. they see the little town of Tarifa. It's people used. to force passing merchant vessels to pay tribute. The name of the town. becoming the French tariff stld the English tariff, Is now applied. as 1t was by the Spaniards and Arabs, to the tributes or. rates or customs du- ties to be collected on merchandise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22
sUMMIER

By John Drinkwater.
 Though simmer long delayeth
 Her blue and golden boon, let now at length she staycth
 Her wings above the noon; She sets the waters dreaming
 To murmurous, leafy tones. The weeded waters gleaming
 Above the stepping stones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22
THE "HoME- MADEn SPIRIT

From the Savannah News.
 Birmingham is just now in the midst of a campa sn to impress upon its own people the importance of us~ ing in every instance homemade articles. The Chamber of Commerce of that city has compiled list of the things which are manufactured in Birmingham---article ofl food, Of clothing, of household use, luxuries and necessities, proprietary articles and novelties. It $ long list. House wives of Birmingham are asked to sign up pledge to stand by the home made programme; to insist when they buy on having the home made article; and to boost, commend and recommend the homemade goods.
 Savannah is perhaps more general ly loyal to the local manufacturers than many cities, but it will be well if Savannah reminded itself from the Birmingham example thatE this
 
 good business as well as fine civic spirit. The home made article is as good as any other, probably better than most others; 1t is made at home from home made raY materials in most cases for the especial demand of the home trade; the goods fit the onsumers The price of the home made article is as low, usually low CT, than the foreign made article of the same quality---for obvious busi- ness reasons. Constant. consistent. enthusiastic support for the home factory, the home mill and the home shop keeps those institutions going and prosperous; the homemade spirit keeps the money at home to do It's multifold work over and over again. It Is good business all round for the home folks to set the home made spirit--of buying and boosting the Ia A ,,, article
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22
OBJECT TO OIL


 By Science Service.
 Tar and oil floating on the ocean and being driven in the beaches is be- coming national menace, both to bathers and summer visitors to sea side resorts and to marine life and vegetation along our shores.
 In the vicinity of New York, in Del. aware bay and in lower Chesapeake bay and along tho southern gulf coast, the waste oil thrown out by l. tankers, oil-burnlng steamers, shore gas producing plants. and even small launches has become so plentiful that it has ruined bathing in many places and threatens to exterminate the food fish, oysters, clans, crabs and lob sters that are part of our natiohal food supply.
 Secretary Hoover declared that un- less conditions are promptly reme- died, our shore fisheries at least will steadily decline and in few years will be almost altogether ruined.
 A bill now before Congress, intlo- duced by Representative T. F. Apple by of New Jersey, that makes It ille- gal to pollute the navigable waters of the United States by oil and other refuse matter.
 The oil is thrown into the ocean by tankers and oil burners that wash the waste oil and sediments out of their tanks. Oil refineries and gas plants on shore and rivers are also offend CTS, and in many cases slow leaks in petroleum tanks on the water front contribute their share of the trouble
 The oil pollution is not confined to the ocean shores, however. as some in land streams are covered with oil, as well as polluted with sewage and trade wastes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22

If Secretary Weeks doubts that the south wants Henry Ford to have Muscle Shoals he hasn't been reading his mail lately.
 Wayne B. Wheeler seems to think he's bigger than Congress, and some congressman seem to think he's right.
 < < x One of the greatest weaknesses of the American people is the habit tt drawing up resolutions.
 ~ < < A few machine guns placed in stra- tesic positions seldom fall to have | sedative effect on mob.
 x # # Russia is not the only country in the world where poets starve. They merely die sooner there.
 # x x Maybe bobbed hair would not be ridIculed so much if 1t were not af- fected by male pianlsts.
 * x k With two murder mysteries to solve, Los Angeles is getting more than her share of publicity.
 T 4 4 Suzanne and Molls may meet again. Georges and Jack never will.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22
 "DARLING NELLY GnAY-

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Darling Nelly Gray" the famous Civil war ballad, was composed by Benj. R. Hanby. who was born at Nashville, Fairfield county, in the early '40s. He was the son of a United Brethren minister. The elder Hanby was an avowed abolitionst and was said to have been one of those who were connected with the mythical underground railway" by which thousands of the slaves of the southland made their escape to the free land of the north.
 There is no doubt that the raising of young Hanby In such a home at- mosphere gave to him the inspira ton to compose Darling Nelly Gray" a song that was destined later to be taken upon the lips of the union army and carried forward to victory the cause the ballad plead for. History now~gives much credit to this fla nous old war ballad in the triumph of the black mans cause.
 At the age of Is the Hanbys moved to Circleville and later to westerville, where young Hanby completed his education. He then returned to Rush. vile and taught the village school for eight years, and it was during this period he wrote the song that will live forever in the hearts and on the lips of the American people.
 There are still living few of those who went to school to the fa- nous writer; all around the so mark. Mrs. George Flegal of Lam caster was a pupil.
 Benjamin R. Hanby died at an carly Axe following the Civil war -,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22
E EXCEPTION

From Life.
 The telephone company always gets your number right when 1t ad- dresses the monthly bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22
TROUBLES or THE RICH

From Life.
 Mrs. Gramercy: My Husband can't sleep on account of the business deprsssion,- 5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22

were normal, it would be a national disgrace to have our war veterans pleading in vain for a chance to earn living. Even with conditions as they are at present, every en- ployer who has spark of gratitude for the sacrifices made by our ex- service men during the World war should give them the preference when he has vacancy to be filled. Dora, In Walker, Is a Progressive Town l ZINE of the prettiest and most NV progressive of the towns on the coal seams of industrial Ala bama is Dora, in Walker county. The current issue of the Jasper Mountain Eagle presents the claims of Dora to prominence in a four page section of interesting illus trations.
 Dora is the center of a mining population of 10000 and has grown from total of 2,o1O citizens in 1900 to 5,015 in 1920. It is, city of churches and schools. The Baptists have a fine new church and con struction has begun on a $40, ,000 school. The town has an ample water supply and is furnished with light and power by the Alabama Power company.
 In addition to the mining indus try there is excellent farm, land about Dora and diversified farming is practiced. It is delightful home place as well as an enterprising in- dustrial center.
 A woman who killed Chicago publisher in quarrel over a minia- ture of George Washington died re- gently in an asylum. At the time she was sentenced we commented on the fact that she was neither young nor good looking.
 x q '
 Mir. Harding says "The shipping board situation is wholly an inheri- tance from the previous administra- tion." Admitting that, for the sake of argument, what is the present ad- u.nistration going to do about it?
 E F F
 Occidental ideas are still impress ing oriental minds. It is reported that the maharanee of Kapurtha,a has obtained a divorce from the ma harajah because he won't give up his harem
 Hudson Maxim claims he discovered the theory of relativity when Fin 4 stein was 10 years old. He must have slowed 1t away in an old sh- toned roll-top desk.
 * < E
 It probably never occurred to ehs signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence that Congress would ever get into a souabble over the sanctity of the American home. q Y
 When elderly ladies comment on the shocking behavior of young women of today we should not over look the fact that they are elderly ladies.
 Y < x
 President Harding used to do ol1 jobs of painting. Fortunately he eot out of, the business before lead pois. oni1s impaissd has AAalth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22
The better part of va1our is discretion, --Henry ".
 < # x

A MORNING PRAYER
 If, Lord, I cannot understand the reason for the burden which thou hast laid upon me, at least let me bear it patiently and in faith. Amcn.--M. s. II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22

A woman who killed a Chicago publisher in quarrel over a minia- ture of George Washington died re- gently in an asylum. At the time she was sentenced we commented on the fact that she was neither young nor good looking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-22

President Harding used to do oI1 jobs of painting. Fortunately he got out of,the business before lead pcis. oni1s impaired hl~ AAAlth,
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09
Personal and Social
Feople Who Come and Go
and Their Social Doings

Mf. and Mrs. F. Irving Walls and
Mr.. and Mrs. Pusey. of 2 wills, ,s 20 aila M
moIofed IwIGfed to Smyrna Sunday in M,
walls new Marmon car and raco;vaJ
'he greeting of relatives and friendS
MRS. Alfred E. Fowler. of PaInu,.a
N. d. who has been ill threatened With '
pneumonia 7, IS we are glad to report on
the road to recovery. 0D
Miss M. F. Carey, Philadelpbia is
visiting her father, James H. Frazier
near town, and daughter. Miss Mi
cred ii. Carey,of The Plains. RidoaI,
Nd, after trip to Havana C,bs
Aey West, Miami, Palm Beach and
Jacksonville, Florida, also Wasbing-
ton, d. G., for the inaugural.
Mrs. r. F. Corley and Mrs. Bertha
Bailey Clifton entertained ten tables
OF cards at the home of Mrs. CorIev
on Main street Saturday afternoon
which was one of the most delightfnI
social events of the season.
Mrs. w. F. P. Jacobs, of this town
who is spending the winter with her
daughter in Philadelphia, is quite i'll
and is in hospital for treatment. Her
many Smyrna friends wish her speedy
recovery.
Mrs. Cummins E. Speakman has
started dancing class composed of
little folks which has given iov to a
number of parents. The class num-
bers a dozen or more.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Speakman. Mr.
and Mrs. w. w. Price were guests at
dinner party Friday evening, given
by Mrs. F. |. Walls and Mrs. Cook at
the Wilmington Country Club.
Mrs. F. w. Broadway, of Whining
ton, has been a guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leland Harmonson and Mr.. and Mrs.
Warner w. Price the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward G.. Walls have
returned from a motor trip to Phila-
delphia, Palmyra, Media and Will
mington.
Mr.. and Mrs. John P. LeFeve and
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jackson, of Dover
were dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Warner Price in Smyrna Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest P. Collins are
sojourning for week at Atlantic
City, N. J.
Rev. Edwin Gardner, of Marydel
has been spending several days with
his mother.
Mrs. Jason B. Moody, of Houston
Texas is visiting her parents, Mr.. anC
Mrs. Presley Ford.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09
HONOR TWO DOVER WOMEN
Mrs. Smithers and Mrs. Stevens CeIe-
brate Birthdays on Thursday

Two of Dover's honored citizens,
both widows, celebrated the anniver-
sary of their birth on Thursday, both
having passed the three score and ten
period of life-Mrs. Sallie C. Steven
son, widow of the late Edwin M. Stew
enson, one of Dover's former promi-
nent business men, and Mrs. Mary
Smithers, widow of the late Hon. N.
B. Smithers, former Secretary of
State. Both Mrs. Stevenson and Mrs.
Smithers received many tokens as we'll
as personal congratulations during the
day. Thursday evening, fully 100
friends Of Mrs. Smithers surprised
her at her home on State street, where
an evening full of happiness and re-
joicing prevailed. During the eevning
a poem was handed in at the Smithers
residence by another of Dover's hon
ored and distinguished citizens, also a
widow, and real poetess 1t was a
birthday greeting to Mrs. Smithers, on
the anniversary of her 87th birthday.
The author of the poem is Mrs. Eliza
beth Watson, widow of the late Ben
iah Watson, a former prominent at
torney-at-law of Dover, and sister of
Mrs. Harry A. Richardson, of that
town.
The poem which was read and ap-
preciated by all present, Mrs. Smith
ers perhaps being the more apprecia-
tive, was as follows:
illZmGilkSnu,. C etaoin etaoinn I
Don't count the miestones as they hurry on
They're but the signboards Of the years agone
just Wisdom's pointing finger reared on high
To bid US shun life's pitfalls-You and /.
What if life's sands are running out so fast
We've caught their happy sunshine as the
passed.
We've told rfe's beads. beyond the cross wei
try
To reach the crown we long for-You and :.
Iife'ssunset hour holds reveries galore
And memories storehouse opens wide the door
On moving pictures of the days gone by,
| That we may live them over-You and l.
Our hearts still hold the loves of early days
Undimmed by heavy mists of sorrows tear
J And while the hearts that love US tarry mig
Wen walk our way rejoicing-You and l.
When in the great beyond somehow, som
where
We find our loved ones waiting for us ther
Then will we know nor need to question why
We stumbled az we journeyed-fou and l..
When we have tolled our years og 10 the en-
Perhaps it may be given to us old friend
To gsy TO earth and friends last good-ps
And Gross the Bar together-fou ana l.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09
Wed. March l6, 1921
At 10 o'clock A. M.


so head of horses, mules and ponies |
10 pairs of first. class mules ranging
in age from 5 to 8 years old, well
mated and weigh from 2200 to 2400
pounds. Are as good as money can
buy.
20 head of good shaped horsesmost-
ly mares, ranging in age from 5 to
8 years, weighing from 1000 to 1900
poaunds.
8 PAGERS. Special mention is made
of one team, horse and mare, and 8
years old, weighing 27O0 pounds.
white horse, years old broken
in all harness. a first class saddle
horse.
The bay pacing mare "Julia" which
have used six years myself and
which has always been reliable and
admired by every one who knew her
While she is IA years old, she is still
worth the price of three horses for
any one in need of family driver.
4 ponies. The balance are lot Of
second hand horses and mules to suit
anv one wanting a cheap team. The
same as are sold at all bazaars where
secondhand stock is sold. All my
stock is from this vicinity and is ac-
climated. No sick ones.
2 handsome Angora Goats.
Farming Implements
2 top buggies, J. open buggy, farm
wagon, 1 horse and cart.
1 cement horse trough,
large wooden horse trough as
good as can be made, harness, blank
, etss saddles. Everything used around
a stable.
This is a clear-up sale and every
thing will positively be sold.
TERMS-Eight months credit by
purchaser giving note with approved
endorser. o,c
, D. P. Hutchinson, Auctioneer.
. w. H. Collins will be at the stables
Z from now to the date of sale to bu.
and take other stock in exchange.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTES
Miss Bertha Harlan, of Wilmington, to
Address MidweSk Service Tonight

Miss Bertha Harlan, OF wilmington 10
Address Midwesk Service Tonight
On Wednesday of this week the
regular mid-week service VIII De
changed to missionary service IN
charge of the Helen Eckard Yerkes
Band. Miss Bertha Harlan, Of the
Hanover Church, Wilmington, recent
" returned from China will deliver an
address. All the members Of the con-
gregation are invited to the religious
service, and to the social hour follow
ing. Rev. J. L. M. Eckard, pastor an
nounces the subject of the sermon on
Sunday morning will be Loyalty 70
Faith" In the evening the End IN tne
series of lectures on the History u
Man
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09

..l'on & Jones, who some time ago
'Sased : the Weldon, formerly Jas.
a,aolecker, y drugstore and residence
! .'aln street, are restoring the brick
/. ! a.ural color, painting the wood
Z and making other necessary i'm
'nents. Mrs. G. w. Taylor and
laughter and Mrs. Nellie Row
occupy the residence and the
peake Flax & Linen Corporation
\ i .aken the old drugstore as their
neadquarters in Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09
PUBLIC SALE

The undersigned will sell at his old
stand on South Main street, known as
the, ,Barwick Stables, on
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09

liz Smyrna Times Office is now
|shcIly equipped throughout. Dur
he past week an electric metal
vas installed on our Intertype
Eim which with theS electric
\ added from time to time to
sw machinery have, made US less
zsient on gas and increased the
ncy of our equipment.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09
AUCTIONEER
FOR SALE

High grade johnson County White and
Clouds Yellow Dent Seed Corn; also Irish
Cobbler Yates Red and American Giant Seed
Potatoes.
JAS. T. sHALLCROss
Phone 7lR1s Middletown, Del.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09

iaik HAZEL will not go with Geo.
might & Son April 1st as an
lfed in the Times last week. Geo.
s,otton & Sons, who have had him
aiei mechanician ever since they
been in business in Smyrna, have
Aled Mr. HAZEL to stay with them
1 news is pleasing to the friends
NirOns Of Sections Garage.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09

b Queen Esther Circle will be adj
sed by Miss Mabel Krall, a Y. w.
4 worker, at the home of Miss
B. Beckett on Thursday March
at 7SO p. m.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09

4 a Sons of Delaware dinner held
hladelphia on Tuesday, March 8
F,S. Busser won the first prize
ity dollars for writing the best
lsk.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09

II WOman's Home Missionary So
will meet at the home of Miss
Z Hudson on Thursday, March 10,
|GDp.m.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09

|gr NJ C. Norris advertises in an
l. column her spring millinery
|rng for Saturday next. Mrs.
x recently returned from a show
Ei the latest styles in Philadelphia
\ New York and her spring hats
4 utterns of the very latest which
+ k sold at modern prices. Mrs.
is will be glad to have the women
Snyna and vicinity inspect her
See adv.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09

H. ladies' of Salem NJ. P. Church
1 soH an oyster supper at Abel
T. next Wednesday evening,
|h l6th.-Adv.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09

/, r Lattomus announces her
= millinery opening on Friday
L. March 11th.-Adv.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09

|g,suary light bills now due. 59o
IN an all unpaid light bills April
4 Office hours 2 to 5 p. m. H. S.
|ssmv COllector.-Adv.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09

,...,I-one large xii Sepia pic
1itb every dozen postcards
Ia StudiO-Adv.
Smyrna times., 1921-03-09
uyRNA AND VICINITY
! Items of General Interest Gath
.,ed During tht Week.

j. g, Webb's White Loaf Flour.
.toad satisfaction.-Adv.