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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-04-29
WOMAN IS ATTACKED BY CAT
Widow Of Connecticut Eye Specialist
Fights Animal With Pair
Of longs.
LOVED BY WOMAN
TWICE HIS AGE
Nurse Becomes infatuated With
Boy Because He Resembles
Her Lost Son.

Akron. O.-Mrs. Lillian SwaZee,
forty-two years old. trained nurse, Is
held at the detention home on statu-
tory charge because she fell in love
with a sixteen-year-old boy at a Find
lay (O.) orphans home and then came
to Akron to live with him, according
to Mrs. Grace X. Hill, policewOman,
who made the arrest The two have
lived in Akron three years as mother
and son, according to Mrs. Hill.
They were arrested as they were
returning home from q grocery, walk
ing arm in arm, apparently devoted to
each other. At first both were reluc-
South NOrwalk, Conn.-Mrs. Jane
A. Meek, widow of DR.. James A. Meek
New York specialist. was attacked b!
her pet cat here and had to fight the
animal with pair of metal tongs. She
is under medical care. while the cat IL
under observation. Mrs. Meek's legs
arms and face were bitten and torn by
The cat, which seemed to become fren
lied suddenly while playing with IA cat
nip ball.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-04-29
MOTHERS FAITH REWARDED
Son Returning After She Had Kept
Light Going for Ten
Years.

Asbury Park The unwavering
faith of mother that her boy would
return after an absence Of ten years
exemplified by lighted lamp that she
has kept constantly In her window
since his disappearance, has been re-
warded. A telegram was sent to Ber-
nard Harvey, living near Los Angeles,
Cal, bidding him to hurry East that
he may spend the holidays with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Har-
vey of Oakhurst. near here.
The telegram follows the receipt Of
a letter, the first word received since
the lad ran away to sea ten years ago.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-04-29

tant to tell their story, but Mrs.
Swazee. 1t Is said, finally told 1t, while
the boy, now nineteen, stood looking
ut the floor In an adjoining room.
~ went to work in the Findlay home
to be near my fifteen-year-old daugh-
ter. While there I saw a boy who
was the image of the son had LOSE
shortly after my husband died. My
mothers heart went out to him and
/ loved him as a mother" the nurse
said, according to Mrs. Hill.
"Three years ago." she continued,
II came to Akron and he came to make
his home with me. He was an orphan.
l worked as a nurse in Akron hospitals
and made living for him because
loved him.
II do not know what to do. The
whole thing shocks me now. But
still love him. None but mother can
know how my heart went out to the
boy when l saw in him the picture Of
my own son." she said.
Police are puzzled as to how to treat
the case.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-04-29
POSTAL IMPROVEMENT
week IS OBSERVED
May I Sees lnaugurated First
General Campaign of
Kind in Service.

without the Postal Service, business
would languish in a day, and be at a
standstill in a week. Public opinion
would die Of dry rot. Sectional hatred
or prejudice only would flourish. and
narrow-mindedness thrive.
1t Is the biggest distinctive business
in the world and 1t comes nearer to the
innermost interests of greater num-
Der Of men and women than any other
institution on earth. No private bust
mess, however widespread, touches 30
many lives so often or sharply; no
church reaches into 80 many souls.
futters so many pulses, has so many
human beings dependent on Its min
istrations.
"Postai Improvement Week" has
been set for May l. by the Postmaster
General. This Is the first general cam
paign Of Its kind in the Postal Service
for several decades. Business men
and their organizations, large users Of
the mail, newspapers. motion pictures.
advertisers, and the entire organlZa-
ton Of $4,000 postal workers are to be
enlisted in this countrywide campaign
Of interest in postal improvements.
Your help 10 vital. Address your let
ters plainly with pen or typewriter.
Give street address. Spell out name
Of State, don't abbrevlate. Put your
return address In the upper left hand
corner Of envelope mot on the back)
and always look at your letter before
dropping In the mail to see II 1t 10
properly addressed. This caro- In the
use Of the mals ls for your benefit and
speeds up the dispatch and delivery
Of mall matter.
II you have any complaints Of poor
service make them to your postnla ster.
He has Instructions to investigate them
and report to the department.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-04-29
The WEARY WAY

With back that aches all day,
With rest disturbed at night,
Annoying urinary disorders.
TITS weary way, indeed.
Doan's Kidney Pills are especially
for kidney trouble. Ask your neigh
Dor!
Are endorsed by Pocomoke City
citizens.
Mrs. George Young. 113 Oak st.
says: II consider Doan's Kidney
Pills splendid remedy for have
used them with good results. My
kidneys were disordered and nv
back was weak and lame. l became
run down and had no energy. A
friend advised me tn woo Doan's Kid
ney Pills and I tried them. My back
was soon free from pain and I feIt
fine"
Coo. at all dealers Foster-Milburn
Co.. Mfrs, Buffalo, NJ Y.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-04-29
COUR ESY

It sticks in human relations like
postage stamps on letters. The
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT ex-
poets it to be used by its postmasters
and employees in dealing with the
public.
Help them in its use beginning
with POSTAL IMPROVEMENT
WEEK, May 1-6, 1922.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-04-29
THANK YOU
A Farmer Cured of Rheuma tism.

"A man living on farm near here
came in short time ago completely
doubled up with rheumatism. hand
ed him bottle of Chamberlain's Lini-
ment and told him to use it freely
says C. P. Rayder, Patten Mills, N.
Y. "a few days later he walked into
the store as straight as string and
handed me dollar saying, give ne
another bottle of Chamberlain
Liniment; | want it in the house all
the time for it cured me.-Advertise-
ment.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-04-29
The Road To Happiness.

You must keep well if you wish to
be happy. When constipated take on"
OF two of Chamberlain's Tablets i'm
mediately after supper. They cause
a gentle movement of the bowels
Advertisement.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
"Cdsh, PLedse!"

~ UR friends of the League of
III Nations are hard up: The
~ finance committee is behind
five million gold francs on its 1921
expenses. 1t would be so simple if
only the United States were in
cluded: Hand the bill to Uncle
Sam.
Uncle Sam has financial prob
lens of his own, and American
bankers are thinking about them.
Refunding of obligations the first
of the year will call for nearly
two billions of dollars. Some prob
ably will come from short notes,
some from a longer loan.
Will Mr.. Mellon, real financial
expert, get by without making
money dearer all over the country?
Meanwhile, those that want to
sell bonds suffer. People with
money are waiting, hoping for bar
gains in United States Government
bones.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
Arctic Explorer Finds Old Pottery

1t was formerly believed that
pottery making was Understood
only by the Western Eskimos,
but Noice found on the islands
abreast of Pierce Point ruins of
a prehistoric civilization-of peo-
pie OF the neolithic age. who had
no knowledge OF metal working,
but who used tools of stone ana
bone, with the exception Of an
occasional knife of copper. un-
douhtedly belonging to the COP
per Tor Blond Eskimos.
After making these investign-
tions Noice sailed eastward and
spent three years with the Cop
per Eskimos. He has compiled
dictionary OF their difficult
language, on which he is the
only authority. His collection
OF archaeological specimens is
now in the Museum Of the Amer.
lean Indian.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
4 Judicial
Don QuirOte

Tormer Justice of the Supreme
Court John H. Clarke says he
u isn't a candidate for Presi-
dent and will work to get the
United States into the League Of
Nations.
The second announcement proves
the wisdom of the former. Just
how the former Supreme Court JUS
tice intends "to influence public
opinion for the League of Nations !"
ism exactly clear.
It doesn't matter much, for you
might as we'll try to bring back the
hanson cab and get rid of the taxi
as to put this country, officially,
into European complications.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
Compulsory Morality

AYINE young men guilty of dis
IN orderly conduct are ordered by
~ the judge to 60 to church on
Sunday for twenty-six weeks. Also
they must read good, useful books
from the public library" and "stay
at home every night unless per-
mitted to go out by the probation
officer"
What do you think of that ju-
dicial sentence? 1t is probably
legal, although there is nothing in
the law books about sentencing a
man to go to church or sentencing
him to read good books. But that
is not important.
Our judges occasionally must try
experiments.
But is the book read or the SER
mon heard BY COMPULSION apt
to be beneficial? 1t would be in
terestng to see list of the good
books" that these young men get
from the library on the judges or
der. Make men want to read good
books. Then you have made the
right start.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
YATE is a peculiar thing.
III We instinctively hate

n We instinctively hate for
i i eigners, or anybody that does
not think, act and dress as we do.
"Who's that man, Bill?" said
one English navy to another as
they loafed along the wharf.
II dunno. Looks like a furriner.
Fave a 'arf o brick at inn"
But that is only the half of it.
Anatole France in "Penguin Is
land" says that the only person we
really, thoroughly hate is our
neighbor.
No hate is so Simon-purc. all
wool and certainteed as the hatred
between brothers, or between man
and wife.
Nobody has got at the bottom of
the psychology of hate yet. Perhaps
one good guess is that hate is
fiercest where he ought to loye
most.
The one we are most strictly en-
joined to love. and the one it al
ways does us the most good to love,
is our enemy.
That is why we hate him.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
WAYSIDE WISDOM
Copyright. Iss1l
by S. E. Kiser
A PHUOSOPHER SPEAKS.


WHEN Hard Luck fingers upon my trail
w And things insist upon going wrong,
I don't sit in the dark and wall.
But | pride myself on remaining strong;
| could mention days that were mighty
gloomy,
have made mistakes when the cost was
dear.
But in spite of all that has happened to me
There's one reflection that brings me
cheer.
NEVER have MANAGED an opera star,
i Nor schemed for power in politics.;
! have lost no eye, and bear no scar
From mixing in brawls as the foolish
mix;
Fortune has given me stony glances,
My investments always, it seems, are
bad,
But whenever I blunder against mischances
| think of the troubles I've never had.
EATE has given me many whirl
Il That was far from pleasing and far
But I've never been sued by "Follies
Girl"
No squandered million disturbs my mind;
I have INDUCED in some foolish capers.
And been too trusting sometimes, fear;
But you'll find my name on no legal papers
And that consider cause for cheer.
IHAVE had to work and I've had to save;
I've never possessed a sinecure;
] have had no leisure to misbehave,
And there are burdens I must endure;
My plans have many a time miscarried.
But my lot, If humble is not so bad;
My wife an orphan when we were
Think of the trouble I haven't had.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
HAROLD NOICE. possibly the (

uAROLD NOICE, possibly the
- youngest living Arctic ex.
plorcr, who claims the record
(six years and two months) for
continuous exploration among
the Eskimos, reports that he has
extended the eastern limit Of
pottery found in the far North.
In March. 1915. he left Seattle on
a motion picture expedition. and
Joined Stetansson on Banks Is
md in August Of that yea. He
accompanied Stefansson on his
two longest ice trips, living off
the "friendly" country for two
years. When Stefansson was
about to return to civilization
Noice organized an expedition
of his own. He wintercl at
Pierce Point. where he made his
most important archaeological
Investigations.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
An Oberdnln,ergdu
"MOUie"
.HE Oberammergau Passion Play
will probably appear in the
movies.

u MOVIES.
That famous ancient play was
started by the villagers of Oberam-
mergau to express their gratitude
for deliverance from a great plague.
Every ten years they repeat the
play. If you are fifty years old,
you can remember that when you
were young having a play every
ten years seemed about the same as
having it every thousand years.
Now the ten years roll around
rapidly.
One million is offered for the
moving picture rights. The power
and usefulness of the moving pic
ture are shown in the fact that
whereas only few thousand every
ten years could visit the distant
German village, millions all over
every civilized country will see the
pictures, and the marvellous pro-
duction will become part of the
education, the MENTAL IMPRESS
SION, of all young people.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
Money Means
Nothing in Europe
By BUGS" BAER

THERE are $4,000 mIllionaires
in this mans country. We
used to think that John -. was
papa of that bullion league.
John has plenty bales OF profits.
He has given away more than
two smoke stacks full Of dimes.
PCT now they claim that Ford
- is six barreIs of taxes ahead
of John. Every time he reduces
price of his flivver he makes
more money.
THAT shows there must be
more money in oil cans than
there is in oil.
DON'T know how those other
~ $4,000 limousine neighbOrd
made their millions. Wouldn't
do us any good to know. What
good is any recipe unless YOU
have ingredients to mix IL with?
7 IKE to call one OF those boys
- daddy or uncle.
OVER $4,000 OF 'Cm. But any
" reckless cafeteria plunger
can become rich II he can bum
price of canal toll to Europe.
EVERY turnstilc twirler in this
~ country can he his own mil.
lionaire. All you need is map OF
Europe and two partly disabled
dollar bills.
TWO thin dimes will flood for
eign financial system and
cause every European bank to
blow its fog horn.
CAREFULLY manicured tour
~ list can exchange his two
dollars for seven million marks
in Berlin. Or he can go to Aus.
tria and become one Of those
kronen millionaires.
WE don't know what kronens
w bring over there. But over
here they wouldn't bring any.
thing but ambulances.
MARKS are worth their weight
AVA in laughs. But rLobles are
down 80 low that beggers are
using wash tubs for tin cups.
EVERY poor man in Europe
- has plenty of money.
THAT'S reason he Is poor.
ONE of our national green
" pennants can be exchanged
in Europe for eighteen million
young Soviet skobbas. Skobbas
are new Russian money. Every
time they change their govern.
ment they change their money.
But their underwear is still trus
to Car Nicholas.
MEET you in Berlin. Where
AVA well all be millionaires in
marks.
WHEN you try to spend your
w wealth, you get two kinds
Of marks in exchange. Black and
blue.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03

TIME first cargo OF lemons
i from Europe has come In
under the new tariff and.
thanks to the fight made by
Hiram johnson, foreign ielnCns
pay 2 cents a pound duty.
That isn't enough to bother
YOU when you buy lemons.
but it's enough to make great
difference to Americans that
GROW lemons in California
and in Florida.
II you believe that the Amer.
lean CONSUMER should help
he American PRODUCER, II
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
The First Lemons

you think the welfare and
prosperity OF American lemon
growers in California and Flor.
ida more important to us than
that OF lemon growers abroad.
you will approve of that mild
lemon tariff.
And what Is true of lemons
Is true OF many other things.
Under the cloak of the tariff
a great deal OF gouging has
been done for few special
interests. Even so, better
that kind OF tariff protection
than none.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03

OPTIMISTIC estimates have
" declared that five treat
ments, at intervals OF ten days,
should entirely rid any field of
all weevils. including grubs. A
machine can cover twenty acres
Of cotton fields per day. 1t
remains to be seen whether the
practical efficiency Of the appa.
ratus measures up to predic.
tions. The prosperity Of entire
regions hangs in the balance
also the price of cotton goods
In the world markets.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
To Alaska for IUOry
BY Henry Smith Williams =

strange story Of changing eli.
matte conditions on the earth.
When the mammoth roamed
in the region that we now call
Alaska. the climate there must
have been at least semitropical.
adapted for the growth of lux.
uriant vegetation such as now
furnishes food for the African
elephant. Beasts of such size,
vegetarians in habit. required
an enormous quantity Of fod-
der.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03

III slaughtered and treasure de-
stroyed.
According to press dispatch,
dated at London, September q, Ali
Fethi Bey was the Turkish envoy
to the Western European govern
ments when the war broke out
between the Turkish Nationalists
and the Greeks.
He was in London at the time
endeavoring to see Prime Minister
Lloyd George in order to propose
Ieace.
The British government was act
ing as kind of guardian, conserv-
atOr and tutor of Greece and was
using Greece to promote British in
terestS in the Dardanelles and the
Near East.
Fethi Bey, the Turkish envoy
seeking peace, was refused an au-
dience wit hthe British prime min
lister. This man, who held peace
and war in the hollow of his hand
between two ancient nationalities
and had the sparks of great
world war dropping through his
fingers, was referred { oas a little
picayune bureau of Near Eastern
affairs in London, some congrega
tion of nincompoops and subordi-
mates of the British government,
collectors of information, publicity
agents, propagandists and what
not, without scribbe of real au-
thority.
Ali Bey swallowed his pride and
in the interest of peace went down
to the nook in the British foreign
office and told the bureaucrats
there that unless peace could be ar
ranged soon the Turks would have
to turn the Greeks out of Asia
Minor by force.
They laughed at him. They con-
sidered what he said a joke, and
himself joke. The dispatch then
says:
The Turkish diplomat there
upon rose and told the British Of
ficials soberly: Il am sorry that
you have laughed. Turkey has
lost two millions of her people
by the war and there are too
many orphans for US to join in
the laughing at the idea of an
other war. I feel very sad"
Thereupon he departed and dis
patched a cipher message to Mus
tapha Kemal Pasha, commander of
the Turkish forces. telling him to
let loose the thunderbolt.
Kemal Pasha did let loose the
thunderbolt, and thousands are
dead now and still more thousands
are orphans because British Off
cials in London laughed when a
Turkish diplomat warned them that
unless they did something for the
sake of peace war would follow.
This is the government, with
whom we have allied ourselves in
the Four-Power Treaty for the al
legged object of pacifying the East.
That Four-Power Treaty is as dead
as George III, and the election re-
turns indicate that those who are
responsible for it will be as dead as
the treaty next November.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought Job a
s White Pesytei Church
Vacuum Cleaning for
Cotton Fields
BY DIR. Charles Fleischer.

0NE does not need to live in
the cotton belt to have
heard Of the boil weevil. This
pestiferous insect invaded the
United States from the South.
west a good many years ago,
and. gradually made it's way
across the Gulf States, playing
havoc with the cotton crop. 1t
has threatened entire regions
with financial ruin. Indeed, the
interests of the entire cotton
belt were jeopardized and, Incl
dentally, the pocketbooks OF any
and all OF us, in a measure,
since we are all users Of cotton
products.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03

mechanical device that is in
effect a vacuum cleaner. similar
in principle to the one with
which every housewife is ia.
miliar.
This suction apparatus Is, OF
course, made on a large scale.
with relatively enormous pipes
and a capacious dust collector.
the whole mounted on wheels,
to be drawn by a pair Of horses.
In front Of the suction apparatus
is a set of spring wire agitators,
to shake the weevils and In.
fected buds to the ground, where
the flexible suction pipes pick
them up.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03

IF you were in quest Of ele.
phant trunks. about the
last place in the world you
would think Of exploring would
be Alaska. Yet it appears from
a photograph issued by the U.
S. Forest Service that ivory
has been found in that unlikely
field. The picture suggests that
successful hunters are exhibit
ing the results OF their prowess.
One pair in particular of the gi-
gantic tusks towering beside
them. could have been grown
only by an elephantine creature
OF such dimensions as to make
the largest African elephant
seem a pigmy by comparison.
But the men who stand beside
the remarkable exhibits are not
hunters. They are miners, and
their great ivory prizes were
dug from the earth. The ami.
mails whose jaws these tusks
once ornamented have been
dead for thousands Of years.
The race to which they belonged
has vanished from the earth
though the existing elephants
are closely related lineage.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
EVIDENTLY A GOOD SALESMAN.

his memoirs, or about as much as Charlie
Chaplin drags down in two or three months
The British premier seems to be wonder In
more ways than one
The Washington times., 1922-10-03

THE suction apparatus is oper-
ated by a ten-horse-power
gasoline engine, driving an ex.
haust fan, and as the insects
pass through the fan they are
dashed against BATTLE plates and
destroyed.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03

EOR the preservation Of tho
ivory tusks, not cold but
dryness is essential. These
Alaskan souvenirs are found in
fairly good condition because
they have been buried deep in
the earth where water reached
them seldom IL at all.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03

THE race Of prehistoric
mammoth did not altogether
perish. however. until the Arc
tic region had assumed some
thing Of its modern aspect; for
the body OF a mammoth was
found in Siberia in the latter
part OF the eighteenth century.
enbalmed in a block of ice. The
flesh of the beast was so well
preserved, after all those cen.
turies, that dogs ate of it.
Frozen flesh is about az dur.
able as ivory itself-so long as
1t remains frozen. The reason.
of course. is that at freezing
temperature bacteria that cause
decomposition of organic tissues
cannot develop.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
We TOWNE GOSSIP
- Copyright. ioaa. By 1tsr Company.
BY X. c. B.

AND THEY were .
dollar.
ON THE bill OF fare.
BUT | should worry.
AND ANYWAY.
THEY'VE BEEN her.
three days.
AND FATHERS
interest.
IN w4Ar they eat.
HAS Grown less.
WITH EVERY meal.
AND THEY'RE
getting SO.
THAT THE two
bright girls.
AND THE little boy.
ARE SPLITTING
portions.
At FATHER's
suggestion.
AND TWO or thr..
times.
I'VE HEARD him
mention.
THE PRICE Of
things.
ON THE bill Of fare
AND JUST last night
At orSntR time.
WHEN THE two
bright girls.
AND THE little hoy.
REPEATED THEIR
order.
FOR THE tall
desserts.
THAT COST . dollar.
FATHER CAN.
CELlEp the order.
AND MADE it pie.
AND MOTHER got
sore.
AND THEY had .
fight.
! THANK you.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03
Stars and Stripes
CROWS DON'T SWIM.

News item says that the English
Channel Is eighteen miles wide "as the
crow flies" "As the fish swms," how.
ever, according to certain swimmers, the
distance seems slightly greater.
The Washington times., 1922-10-03

When we consider present prices this
may not he exactly the land of the free
but is Is certainly the home Of the brave
The Washington times., 1922-10-03

THE great prehistoric beasts
- have been christened Nam
moths. They died so long ago
that their bones have mostly
been resolved to dust, the ivory
tusks alone resisting the ele-
ments throughout the interven-
ing years.
Remains such as these. found
in the geological strata far up
in the polar region. tell a