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Smyrna times., 1923-12-05

Cheswold, 4.52 miles; Leipsic-Smyrna,
6.26 miles; Hollandsville-Felton, 5.95
miles; Clayton, O.62 miles; Harbeson-
Sunshine, 4.43 miles; Sunshine School
Lewes, 4.58 miles; Reliance-SeafOrd,
4.42 miles; REPRESENTATION, 5.17
miles; Frankford-Omar, 800 miles;
Cannon Contract Z, 1.55 miles; Dublin
Hill-Bndgeville, 2.24 miles; Clarke's
Cross -Bridgeville, 2.O6 miles;
Gainesville Bethany Beach, 2.80
miles; Dagsboro, 0.96 miles; Green
wood, LAB miles.
To Build IS Miles of Road in 1924
The program for 1924 road building
throughout Delaware calls for rs
miles of highways. In addition to
this there are II miles of contracts
left over from this year, when the
program called for the building of 100
miles and only SO miles were COM
pleted. Had the road building pro-
grOm commenced this year in March
instea of May, the Highway Depart
ment would easily have been able to
complete the entire 100 miles of roads.
AS it is the road-building program for
this year will be Is miles, plus 13
miles or SO miles of highways.
One of the big jobs to be accom-
plished this winter is the construction
of the preliminary work on the bridge
at Nanticoke, The bridge will cost
4 4 81
variety. 1t will be gotten into shape
this winter so that it can be quickly
completed in the spring.
The first stretch of road to be be-
gun in the spring by the Highway
Department, will be that leading from
the road to Lewes to Rehoboth. There
is now a good highway to Lewes and
the plans are all laid for the compile
ting of a new stretch from the Lewes
Smyrna times., 1923-12-05

all of the roads that are .:.- !" hi
but have under conSldeI9-Ys rsr
mendations are reasons .,i NJ \ .
amount Of highways S1ou.1 u, NJ
structed from sections Wl.Ii' Il. S,i
ell is the heaviest and I.tia, 5at n 4
greatest. With the cOl,ly5 ,dSl Dsla
highway program Tor ~ ..tire D
will have highways eoni''' i, S
portant cities and towns -
Smyrna times., 1923-12-05

,.,s q Dove ?
Alfred u IlopA'',' ,,;ss SlsS
ware merchant, and Mss Gn.t
Hopkins, stenograpne' C.rjssy
Denney, were married = .,,isv D
Jersey, at II o'clock Sn'.'ir5 ,ir,p
inc. After spending some = 'i',s u
south the young coupe
Dover.
Smyrna times., 1923-12-05
Saving in Concrete

One of the most important items in
the construction of highways in Del
aware in the past year, and which is
due to the able management of Engin-
eer Buck, is the saving and strength
ening of concrete highways through a
more even distribution of cement. 1t
used to be the fashion to build the
highways with the cement thickest in
the center of the road. Engineers
now know that this is not the most
efficient way. A little over a year
ago Engineer Buck had his attention
called to the experimental stretch Of
road in Illinois at Bates station. The
highway engineers of this middle
western state, took a short section of
highway and built it with less cement
in the middle but pouring more ce-
ment on the sides where it was apt to
wear away quicker After building
the road, which cost 100000, automo-
bile trucks were driven continually
over this section day and night until
it cracked and broke up, some sections
cracking quicker than others and the
reasons were plain, the engineers
gaining vast experience because of it
Mr.. Buck returned to Delaware and
Immediately revised his plans fol
Evening star., 1923-08-26

one cents in my pocket. But, you see,
I was standing in line with a lot of
other young fellows down by tho
Union depot about to enlist in tina
Army for three years. And saw
that extra penny on the walk not
three feet away. 1 saw 1t because it
was brand new and shining in tho
sun like gold.'
The Alabama night had settled over
the street, and as the blue drew down
upon the dust the outlines OF the
two men had become less distinct, so
that 1t was not easy for any one who
passed along the walk to tell that one
of these men was of the few and the
other of no Importance. All the de-
tail was gone-Abercrombie' fine
gold wrist watch. his collar, that he
ordered by the dozen from London,
the dignity that sat upon him in his
chair-all faded and were engulfed
with Hemmick's awkward suit and
preposterous bumped shoes into that
pervasive depth of night that, like
death. made nothing matter, nothing
differentiate, nothing remain. And, a.
little later on, passerby saw only
the two glowing disks about the size
OF penny that marked the rise and
fall of their cigars
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1923-08-26
A Pound of Silk.

EXPERTS in such matters assure
us that silk that comes from
abroad sometimes has a surprising
way of changing weight. It is inter
esting to consider one consignment
that came from Japan. A leading
chemical expert vouches for the truth
of the figures, and. for the sake of
simplicity. takes one pound as the
standard In describing the change. 1t
must be remembered that what was
true of the one pound was true of
the whole consignment.
The raw silk weighed sixteen
ounces to the pound when II ar
rived. After it was washed and dried
it weighed twelve ounces. 1.-THE willy
JAPANESE" one naturally exclaims. but
wait. The twelve-ounce pound was
passed through a bath OF bichIoride
of tin and then through a bath of
sodium phosphate. Those baths were
repeated alternately a number of
times. and then the silk was placed
in a bath of aluminium sulphate. Back
1t went to the tin and phosphate
baths and the swollen fbers were
charged<with more loading" Then
it was treated to a bath of silicate
of sodium. After that it was dyed
a rich black with logwood, which
added a little more weight. Finally
1t was oiled in order to give it luster.
The result was ninety-six ounces OF
beautiful black silk" of which
twelve ounces were real silk and
eighty-four ounces were loading.
Evening star., 1923-08-26

another, but you .zist have to believe
that IT seemed about as important to
me just then as though il were a
hundred dollars.
Then I saw a couple of men talk
ing in front Of Moody's soda place,
and recognized one of them-Mr.
Burling-who'd been a friend of my
fathers. That was relief, / can tell
you. Before I knew it / was chat
tering to him SO quick that he
couldn't follow what I was getting at.
Now he said. you know I'm a
little deaf and can't understand when
you talk that fast What is II you
want, Henry? Tell me from the be-
ginning
"'Have you got any change with
your" 1 asked 'him just as loud as
dared. L just want Then 1
stopped short; man a few feet away
had turned around and was looking
at US. 1t was Mr.. Deems. the first
vice president of the Cotton National
Bank"
Hemmick paused, and it was still
light enough, for Abercrombie to see
that he was shaking his head to and
fro in puzzled way. When he spoke
his voice held a quality of panied sur
prise. a quality that it might have
carried over twenty years.
L never could understand what it
was that came over me then must
have been sort of crazy with the heat
that's all / can decide. Instead of
just saying, 'Howdy' to Mr.. Deems.
in natural way. and telling Mr..
Burling I wanted to borrow a nickel
for tobacco. because I'd left my purse
at home. / turned away quick as a
flash and began walking up the street
at great rate, feeling like criminal
who had come near being caught.
Before I'd gone a block was
sorry. / could almost hear the con-
versation that must've been taking
place between those two men:
What do you reckon's the matter
with that young man. Mr.. BurIins
Evening star., 1923-08-26
Radio Controls Planes.

THE immense possibilities of flying
controlled by wireless from the
ground were shown in the most
striking fashion at Etampes aero.
drome. Seine-et-Oise. France. when
large Voisin bombing machine with
3oe-horsepower engine and a heavy
load took the air entirely under
wireless control. and after flying for
half an hour at a height of 1900
feet was brought back to its starting
point, where 1t glided down in
perfectly smooth landing.
Under the machine is an aerial
which receives the wireless waves.
These are sufficiently strong to work
the series of levers which guide the
machine absolutely independently in
the air. During this flight there
were two engineers in the machine,
but they never touched the levers
and simply sat there as witnesses of
the perfect accuracy of the ma
neuvring.
Capt. Max Boucher OF the French
army, who has been experimenting
these pilotless flights at Etampes,
says that he sees a great future for
the invention once it has been per-
fected sufficiently to enable the con-
troll to be exercised at an indefinite
distance.
1t could be used not only for di-
recting huge feet of bombing ma
chimes which could be directed to-
ward an enemy capital, there to
drop their bombs and to return to
their own aerodrome for a fresh
supply, but also for everyday peace
able commercial purposes.
Mail planes with special motors
thus directed could be controlled TO
fly in the upper regions of the atmos-
phere where no pilot could breathe,
and yet where the air resistance is
so slight that immense speeds could
be obtained. Capt Boucher says
that he hopes it will soon be possi-
BILE thus to send mails from Paris to
Algiers in four hours, and that with
in ten years 1t might even be possi-
BILE to send a mail plane direct to the
near east by wireless control.
Evening star., 1923-08-26
The Benin Bronzes.

THE acquisition by the University
l. of Pennsylvania or "a collection
of bronzes and ivory tusks from the
old savage city OF Benin not far from
the delta of the Niger river in Africa
brings to mind an interesting un-
solved archaeological problem.
The British Museum owns a larger
collection Of the bronze plaques with
figures in relief. which are the most
interesting of all the relics. but Just
what the plaques were used for it Is
not known. Probably they adorned
the walls of houses or of temples.
They are made with so much elabora-
tion and in such high relief that 1t
seems that the workmen must have
used the difficult process of cire-
perdue. Though. the process was
known in ancient times, investigators
are astonished that a people who
knew so little Of civilization as the
Inhabitants of Benin should have dis
covered it for themselves. Appar-
emily that is the case, however; the
process was known in parts of Africa
before explorers visited them. The
quality Of the bronze is so high as
further to puzzle Investigators; and
that no copper is available within
thousands of miles of Benin compli-
Gates the situation more. Still an
other remarkable thing: Many of the
bronzes represent Europeans armed
with matchlocks and swords and
wearing aIcnor of fifteenth century
type.
The kingdom of Benin. which the
British subjected in 1897. was dis
covered about the year 1885; Portu-
guese writer mentions 1t few years
later. Some of the Europeans shown
may be Portuguese. some Semites and
some representatives of the early ad-
venturers into Africa.
Evening star., 1923-08-26
AND CUPID SMILED

chases he saw charming young
woman who was also shopping. 1t
was not his first sight of her. He
remembered that on several occasions
he had seen her on the road driving
her own machine. Twice he had pas
ed her in his fictitious haste. On
one Of these occasions, he remem-
bered, the road was very dusty, and
she won her way ahead of him again.
out of his dust. And he couldn't
catch her.
In the shop the doctor fingered
about this divinity. although she did
not notice him. He finally passed out
and put his bundle In his car, but he
could not resist the temptation to re-
turn to the shop. hoping to catch an
other glimpse of the young woman.
He walked about. but could not find
her. Returning to his car, he drove
away in a maze. No other young
woman had ever set his heart in such
a futter.
TN his bachelor quarters DR.. Lelavan
proceeded to inspect his purchases.
When he opened the bundle the first
thing that came out, carefully
wrapped by itself. was a beribboned
chehnise Of an almost diaphanous fab
ric. He held it up gingerly and
sighed. And there were other breath
catching garments, among them
stockings that seemed liquid in fine
| ness. The doctor fingered over the
| rewrapping of the parcels. What had
happened?
After he had thought the situation
over he rushed back to the garage.
An examination led to the discovery
that the car he had come home in was
not his. In fact, it was a much bet
ter machine.
He hurried back to his rooms and
called up the nearest police station.
DO you know anything about a
mix-up of cars?" he asked.
YES" said the sergeant in charge,
we've just had g. complaint from a
young woman. One of the swells on
,, Murray Hill. She says some one has
taken her car from the street near
the Sellwell Stores and left a poorer
car in it's place. I guess you're the
guilty man, Doc"
"a good guess. I'm sure Of 1t! Where
! Is the young woman?"
shes right here at the station
house-outside in the car-and she's
,, put out about it, I'll say?' She drove
home before discovering the-the mis-
take, we'll call it." The doctor heard
sergeant guffaw. "And she says there
are some mems new things In bum
die in the car. Yours?"
"I'll wager they are! 1 wonder IL
she opened my bundle?"
"She didn't x-ray 1t, that's cinch.
Says she at first thought they were
things of her own she had Just
bought"
will you ask the young lady to
wait for few minutes. sergeant?"
"Sure thing, IL you're coming over"
"Ill be there with her car in ten
minutes"
The doctor and the young woman
both blushed as they exchanged cars
land bundles. And that was how q
|courtship began.
Copyright. iszS)
Evening star., 1923-08-26

would say without meaning any harm.
Came up to me all excited and wanted
to know II I had any money and then
he saw you and rushed away like he
was crazy
And could almost see Mr. Deems
big eyes get narrow with suspicion
and watch him twist up his trousers
and come strolling along after me.
was in a real panic now. and no
mistake. Suddenly I saw one-horse
surrey going by, and recognized Bill
Kennedy. a friend of mine. driving it.
yelled at him. but he didn't hear
me. Then I yelled again, but he didn't
Evening star., 1923-08-26
15H.>- 49, Do You Believe in Luck-Good and Bad?
TWO FOR A CENT - VS. VS.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Tells of Couple of Men
Whose Fortunes Were Strangely Linked

have given me; something even the
niger baggage-smashers were jim
Cling around in their pockets. I must
have stood there about five minutes.
l remember there was a line of about
a dozen men in front of an Army re-
cruiting station they'd just opened.
and a couple of them began to yell:
Join the Army at me. That woke
me up, and / moved on back toward
the bank. getting worried now. get
ting mixed up and sicker and sicker
and knowing a million ways to find a
penny and not one that seemed con-
venient or right. / was exaggerating
the Importance Of losing it, and 1 was
exaggerating the difficulty of finding
Evening star., 1923-08-26

The pocket was empty. There was a
little hole in the bottom. and my hand
held only a half dollar. a quarter and
a dime. had lost one cent.
We'll. sir. 1 can't tell you, I can't
express to you, the feeling of dis.
couragement that this gave me. One
penny, mind you-but think: just the
week before a runner had lost his
Job because he was little bit shy
twice. 1t was only carelessness: but
there you were! They were all in a
panic that they might get fired them
selves. and the best thing to do was
to fire some one else-drst.
so you can see that it was up to
me to appear with that penny.
Evening star., 1923-08-26

Where 1 got the energy to care as
much about it as / did is more than
/ can understand. I was sick and hot
and weak as a kitten. but 1t never
occurred to me that 1 could do any
thing except fnd or replace that
penny, and Immediately l began cast
ing about for a way to do 1t. l
looked into a couple of stores. hoping
I'd see some one / knew. but. while
there were a few fellows loafing in
front. there wasn't one that / felt
like going up to and saying: Here,
You got a penny / thought of q
couple Of Offices where l could have
gotten it without much trouble, but
Evening star., 1923-08-26

1 didn't enjoy laughing. and it really
didn't seem silly to me at all.
X X
sVITELL. by and by 1 got back to
w the Union depot without having
either seen the penny or having
thought what was the best way to
get another. 1 hated to go all the
way home, cause we lived long dis
tance out: but what else was I to do?
So l found a piece of shade close to
the depot. and stood there consider
ing, thinking first one thing and then
another. and not getting anywhere at
all. One little penny. just one-some-
thing almost any man in sight would
Evening star., 1923-08-26

was-well, what you call jelly-bean.
All ] wanted was to take it easy
through life--and one day 1 just hap
pened to see a sign up above my
head that had on 1t: Special rate to
Atlanta, three dollars and forty-two
cents So l took out my change and
counted tt"
Hemmick nodded. Still absorbed in
his own story. he had forgotten the
Importance. the comparative mag
nificence of Abercrombie. Then sud
denly he found himself listening
sharply:
IT had just three dollars and forty
Evening star., 1923-08-26

they were some distance of, and be-
sides being pretty dizzy, I hated to
go out Of my route when I was carry
ing bank money, because 1t looked
kind Of strange.
$50 what should do but commence
walking back along the street toward
the Union depot, where ! last re-
membered having the penny. 1t was
a brand-new penny, and 1 thought
maybe I'd see it shining where 1t
dropped. So ! kept walking, looking
pretty carefully at the sidewalk and
thinking what I'd better do. I
laughed a little. because / felt sort of
silly for worrying about a penny. but
Evening star., 1923-08-26

banks and especially at. the Cotton
National"
IT remember"
"wen. they caught him. and they
got most of the money back, and by
and by the excitement died down, ex-
cept in the bank. where the thing
had happened. Down there it seemed
as il they'd never get used to II. Mr..
Deems. the first vice president, who'd
always been pretty kind and decent,
got to be a changed man. He was
suspicious of the clerks. the telIers.
the janitor, the watchman, most OF
the officers, and, yes. guess he got
so he kept an eye on the president
himself
Evening star., 1923-08-26
BY J. A. WALDRON.

him, NJ Ia almost most, forge, or otrfn my
~ Hello" but he was going too
fast to have heard me-"
Doctor Delavan? Yes. I saw him.
He'll run up against a traffic officer
and be reminded Of the speed limit.
But he'll say he Is hurrying to the
bedside of a patient and get off. Even
young doctors are privileged as
motorists
This was the comment Of two of
his friends as the young doctor sped
along.
"A patient! I'll wager he hasn't
half a dozen yet. And he drives as
though he had half the town on his
books"
That's all in the game. II a young
doctor can get a car by any means.
and dresses well. he can make a
show that sooner or later will mean
business
"Delavan is on his way, then! He's
a fashion plate-no matter how much
he may owe his taiIor-and he has
another requisite-savoir faire.
like him." -
so do 1. But I can't figure out
how he manages to put on such a
front. OF course he'll get there.
He talked conidentially with me
the other day. It's all right to men,
tion 1t as long as 1 give no names.
Within a week he was called in to
treat two more or less aged spinsters.
,, The physician of one of them was out
of town, and the others was ill.
Delavan thought the old ladies might
keep him on the job permanently"
"Ill bet both of them had seen
him first. That's what youth and a
good appearance can do. Both may
remember him in their wills-if they
have money"
"Oh. both have money. But he
said their complaints were imagi-
nary"
LAS so many complaints are
especially Of women. and particularly
of spinsters. That sort of a thing
is what makes easy going for estab-
lished physicians as we'll as begin
ners. Bills are rendered just the
same. But why don't Delavan marry
some nice girl with money!"
Mice girls with money are not so
numerous. Don't you know? But
Delavan is ready to do that, guess,
II he finds opportunity. He's senti-
mental and all that--fond of the sex
but like most young doctors he is
canny as to matrimony."
y r X X
YOUNG DR.. Delavan kept on at
speed as his friends talked. This
time he was really going to see a
patient-one OF the elderly spinisters,
who At last. after imaginary affiic-
tions, had developed a real disease.
She died on his hands. much to his
regret, but when her will was pro-
bated it was found that a codicil gave
him a little legacy. 1t was enough to
pay his debts and leave a margin
which he needed.
The day after he received the
money DR.. Delavan went shopping.
He parked his car on q side street
where several other cars Of Shoppers
! stood. While he was making par
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-04-27
SHERIFF TAX SALE
GEORGIA-Lee County.

There will be sold before the Court
house door in Leesburg, Ga, on the
first Tuesday in May 1923, at pub
lie cutlery, to the highest and best
bidder for cash, the following de-
scribed property, to-wit, or so much
thereof as will be sufficient to salts
fly the within III. ia. All that tract
or parcel of land, situate, lying and
being in the 18th District of Lee
Comfy and being more particular
described as follows:
The whole lot OF land No. II, contain
ing 202.l2 acres,
Said property levied on and to be
sold as the property Of J, /. Wikerson
under and by virtue Of a tax ri. Fa,
issued by r. r. Green, tax collector
Of said county, for State and county
taxes for the year, 1922.
Tenants in possession notified in
he terms Of the law.
This It'll day Of April 1923.
p. G. COXWELL,
Sheriff If Lee County.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-04-27
sHERIFF TAX SALE
GEoRGIA-Lee County.

CEORGIA--Lee County.
There will be sold before the Court
house door in Leesburg, Ca, on the
first Tuesday IN May, 1928 at pub
lie cutlery, to the highest and best
bidder for cash, the following de-
scribed property, to-wit, or so much
thereof as will be sufficient to salts
fy the within III. Fa. All that tract
or parcel of land. situate, lying and
being in the LIST District Of Lee
County and being more particular
described as follows:
100 acres of Of land lot No us in
north west corner
Said property levied on and to be
sold az the property Of II. II. Beas
under aud by virtue of a tax Fl. Fa.
issued by r. r. Green, tax collector
Of said county, for State end county
taxes for the year, 1922.
Tenants in possession notified in
the terms of the law.
This 3lst day Of March 1923.
w. w. MCDONALD
Deputy Sheriff
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-04-27
SHERIFF TAX SALE
GEoRGIA-Lee County.

GEORGlA-Lee County.
There will be sold before the Court
house door in Leesburg, Ca, on the
first Tuesday in May 1923, at pub
lie outcry, to the highest and best
bidder for cash, the following de-
scribed property, to-wit, or so much
thereof as will be sufficient to salts
fy the within Fl. Fla. All that tract
or parcel CT land, situate, lying and
being in the st District of Lee
County and being more particular
described as f3llows:
The whole Of land lot No. 10.
Said property levied on and to be
sold as the property Of j. NJ, Cannon
under and by virtue of tax Fl. Fa.
issued by r. r. Green, tax collector
of said county, for State and county
taxes for the year, 1922.
Tenants in possession notified in
the terms Of the law,
This End day OF April 1923.
P. G. COXWELL,
Sheriff of Lee County.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-04-27
SHERIFF TAX SALE
GEORGIA-Lee County.

GEORGIA-Lee County.
There will be sold before the Court
house door in Leesburg, Ca, on the
first Tuesday in May, 1873, at pub
lie cutlery, to the highest and best
bidder for cash, the following de-
scribed property, to-wit, or SO much
thereof as will be sufficient to salts
fly the within Fl. Fa. All that tract
or parcel of land, situate, lying and
being in the 18th District of Lee
County ard being more particular
described as follows:
80 acres in the northeast quarter of lot
of land No. 207.
Said property levied on and to be
sold as the property of P. q. Coxwell
under and by virtue of tax Fl. Fa.
issued by r. R. Green, tax collector
Of said county, for State and county
taxes for the year, 1922.
Tenants in possession notified in
the terms Of the law.
This End day of April 1923.
GEORGIA-Lee County.
P. C. COXWELL, Sheriff,
Lee County, Georgia.