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The Washington times., 1924-09-24
WE BITE ONCE, ANYHOW.

'.OPTOMETRIST" springs that
old and famous question on the
column: what happens when
an irresistible force meets an inn
movable bodyi"
We are willing to bite and let
the fans bite, too. Tell Us what
does happen.
The Washington times., 1924-09-24
FALL FACTS AND
FALSE F4ANCIES

@A4kh1E NAv 1880
1EaSy thoughts. like the acorn from
the oak. fatl . talEo root ana
SeSS corn tESG srows u. instsad
Of out.
what are yon etudylng9" said l4xs.
NewYiCh to her son. @AOA0CuleDs
mother" was the reply
An yeaS when We were abroad j
tried 10 ret Jour father TO use.
ones but. he cOuIdn't keep IL y
his eye.e
n rot along before I met you. ana
I'tl rot along now you're gOne."
enid the hn1bands a. he etagEerod
pint ~ corn.
a WOnaM doctor visiting her sister,
newly wed, found her In dietFees..
cooked . meal for Precious, and !
made m awful mess,
ny 0aEling ConIdmst eat ~, and Just
DAf down and Cried
Never aaind. n sald the doctor cheer
fully, my first patient died.
OLD SOCKS.
The Washington times., 1924-09-24
r n y N A q p APH ..

n Y ~ a q - a r II 3.
wise Bov .fAf O4sebSH gene
"Gee di6 sou ses WGItsr's csrUe
Dumb Zen (dsttoj Goodmess.
SDhGt q shame, and he had y SpcfIs-
ING 20 NICELY, too r.
sign seen ~ a local baioiMess
bowse: Ladies, zoe Garry hi0hest
n quality Of ladies', hosiery IL the
city. OMoe yOts tyA our koaiefv
vob'H Mever tceGr GsytAis0 eJsew
WheR q yossND man falls n JoVe
ne 0Oes Cndsy, biie tcheN Ne tnils
~ Jove Ao drives everyone eloe
Thomas a. EDISON sIeepe only Jo1tr
h0tsrs per day, but sonse teIloiCe zoe
kNosU seem TO hGpe trOSbIe - keep.
Ia0 atC0ke that long.
Some MseM are msUer oble to Gp-
prectGte their tCsVes WMtiI they sen
their tGlllsg Ns6chiHe6l
JOE II. HOLMAN.
-1
SyrewF,u v.us uU Tf.rrnrreAxrrrN MfNA
The Washington times., 1924-09-24

There is 8 gAIs1em In her face,
Where Mliea and plnk roses grow;
The drug St0Nts buy it By the cane,
ITS quite expensive, yOu knwO.
I. NOAH LOTT.
The Washington times., 1924-09-24

The money deVil e getting
raped b. politicians on all
sides, but 4DheR he sends IL a
check to the campaign fund
they feel like kissing him.
OKLAHOMA PETE.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23
CHAPTER DISCONTINUED

Crouching low, they glided,
hoiseless as shadows, to the quar-
ter-decK rail, and thence slipped
without sound down into the waist.
In the vessels waist they hung
awhile, until Mr.. Blood had salts
fIsd himself that no other sentinel
showed above decks but that incon
venient fellow in the prov. Their
first attention must be to him MIR,
Blood, himself, erept forward with
two paRlons, leaving the others
in the charge of that Nathaniel
Hagthorpe whose sometime com
mission in the Kings Navy gave
him the best title to this office,
Mr.. Blood's absence was brief.
When he rejoined his comrades
there was no watch above the
Spaniards' decks. Meanwhile the
jewellers below continued to make
merry at their ease in the convic-
ton Of complete security. Suddenly
out of an uncouth pack of savages
that beset them, stepped slim, tall
fellow with light-blue eyes in
tawny face, eyes in which glinted
the light OF wicked humour. He
addressed them in the purest Cas-
lillian.
"You will save yourselves pain
and trouble by regarding your
selves my prisoners and suffering
yourselves to be quietly bestowed
out Of harms way" 4
Name Of GOd!" swore the gun.
Rer, which did no Justice at all to
an GmaZement beyond expression.
III you please" said Mr.. Blood.
and thereupon those gentlemen Of
Spain were induced without fur
Their trouble beyond a musket prod
or two to drop through q scuttle to
the deck below.
It was soon after sunrise that
the rebel-convict who paced the
quarterback in Spanish corselet
&Rd headpiece. a Spanish musket
on his shoulder, announced the
approach of boat. 1t was Don
Diego do Esplnosa y Valdez CONS
Tag aboard with four great treas
ure-chests, containing each twenty
ave thousand pieces of eight, the
ransom delivered to him at dawn
by Governor Steed. He was acI
companied by his son, Don Este
ban. and by six men who took
the oars. y
DoH SDiego mounted the ladder
and stepped upon the deck, Alone
and entirely unsuspicious. Before
he could even look round, and sur-
vey this guard drawn up to receive
him, a tap over the head with a.
capstan bar efficiently handled by
Hagthrope put him to sleep with
out the least fuss. He was carried
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23

SYNOPSIS.

! Peter Blood, young Irish physi-
sian, "a arrested as a Monmouth
rebel by soldiers Of King James
a,sd sentenced to death by the
SIoody Lord JefreYs. The King,
ko1oever, realizing the need of man
poDsr in the colonies, orders the
rsbsls-cOnvict sent to the Barba-
does to be sold as Slaves. Blood
and hiss friend Jeremy Pitt, tOith
6fsv others, are shipped to Bridge
to46a. There Colonel Bishop, mild
cary commander, at the behest of
his niece, ATGbelLG Bishop, pur-
ehGsed Blood for ten pounds t0hen
Ne learns that he is a skilled physi-
sian. ArabellG offers her friend
ship to Blood but IN his olO71 bitter
hess Over the cruelty of has posi-
sion 10 does not at first understand
che true character Of ArGbeIld.
Later he comes to kno10 her true
sOOrth. A Spanish galleon com
snamded By Don Diego de EspinosG
Valdez attacks Bridgeto10n and
che Spunidrds sack the city. Blood
sdvss Mary Trail from Spanish
ru6fan and sends her and ATabellG
to safety back Of the tolOn. He
then mdrshals his feILo1O rebels
comvict together and they capture
the cdHeOn lChile the crel0 is feast
ing and ravdging the city.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23

side the match and the incident
could not be held "a rub of the
green"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23
HUGE QUANTITY
CROSS TIES USED

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-Ac-
cording to data collected by the
Bureau of the Census in co-opera-
ton with the Forest Service, De
partment of Agriculture, it is an
nounced by the Department of com
merce that 1876, 916,117 crossties
were purchased by steam and elec-
trio railroad companies in 1928, as
compared with 123,766,000, this h
ing an estimated figure, in 1915,
and 5,053, 900 in 1911.
The number Of poles purchased II
1928, the report says, by steam anf
electric railroads, electric light ani
power companies, and commerce.
| telegraph and telephone companl9
was reported as 3,060,794, the fig
ures for 1915 and 1911 being A.
| 077,964 and 3,418, O2O, respectivel
| No report was made for last yea
| of purchases by small rural te!o
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23
UPPER AMAZON
DRAWS AMERICANS

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Sept.
%. "a. P)-Dr. NJ. W. Stirling, it
has been learned here, IS soon to
start on trip to South America,
where he will spend several months
in the unexplored regions of the
upper Amazon, taking photograph:
of the life and customs of the Local
Indian tribes.
DIR. Stirling, who was formerly at.
tached to the Smithsonian Institu
ton. excavated number of Indiat
mounds near st. Petersburg earh
this year. AS a resule of thes'
labors he was able to report Jh'
discovery of new methods of Indial
burial, and various interesting find
of pottery.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23

away to his cabin, whilst the treas
ure-chests, handled by the men he
had left in the boat, were being
hauled 10 the deck. That being
satisfactorily accomplished, Don
Esteban and the fellows who had
manned the boat came up the lad
der, one by one, to be handled with
the same quiet efficiency.
With Colonel Bishop at their
head, and gout-ridden Governor
steed sitting on the ruins of a wall
beside him, survivors on shore
glumly watched the departure of
the eight boats containing the
weary Spanish rufflans who had
glutted themselves with rapine,
murder and violences unspeakable,
The boats pulled away from the
shore, with their loads Of laughing,
jeering Spaniards, who were still
flinging taunts across the water at
their surviving victims. They had
come midway between the wharf
and the ship, when suddenly the
air was shaken by the boom of a
gun. A round shot struck the
water within a fathom of the fore
most boat, sending a shower OF
spray over its occupants. A sec
ond shot came to crumple one of
the boats into splinters, fiinging its
crew. dead and living. into the
water.
The tesolute Ogle was making
excellent practice, and fully justify
ing his claims to know something
of gunnery. In their consterna.
ton the Spaniards had simplifed
his task by budding their boats
together
If the Spaniards understood moth
ing Of all this, the forlorn islanders
ashore understood still less. until
TO help their wits they saw IL Gag
of Spain come down frol . Ae
mainmast of the Cinco Llagas, aa(
the flag Of England soar to is
empty place Ogle, however, con
tinued to give proof that his know
edge of gunnery was not Of yes
terday. After the fleeing Spaniard'
went his shots The last of thei
boats flew into splinters as
touched the wharf, and its remain
were buried under a shower O
1oosaned pRasonry.
The mystery of the succour tina
had come at the eleventh hour t
yreak vengeance upon the Spar
iards, and to preserve for tn
island the extortionate ransom
a hundred thousand pieces Of o'@h
remained yet to be probed TAi
the Cinco Llagas was now
friendly hands could no longer
doubted after the proofs 1t b.
given. 1t remained to ascert2
the precise identity Of these M
terious saviours, and dc them
ting honor. Upon this GRAND we
Colonel Bishop as the GoVerno
deputy. attended by two officers
AS he steoned f~Cm -2a ,18f
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23
a0A~1 II Romance 9rnse Spanish. 2rain ~447lsn,
CAPTAIN BLOOD 255t
XII Dir RAFAEL SABATINI -

into the vessers waist, the C22on5l
beheld there, beside the main
hatch. the four treasure-chests, me
contents of one Of which had been
contributed almost entirely by
himself. Ranged on either side,
athwart the deck. stood score o.
men in two well-ordered files, with
breasts and backs of steel polished
Spanish morions on their heads,
overshadowing their faces, and
muskets ordered at their sides.
A courtly gentleman advanced to
greet him-a lean, graceful gentle
man, dressed in the Spanish fash
ion. all in black with silver lace, a
gold.hilted sword dangling beside
him from a gold embroidered bald
rick, a broad castor with sweep
ing plume set above carefully
curled ringlets of deepest black.
"Be welcome aboard the Cinco
Llagas, Colonel, darling" voice
vaguely familiar addressed the
planter.
"Peter Bloodl Was It you
then 2"
myself It was-myself and
these, my good friends and yours"
"Gad's my life!" he crowed on a
note Of foolish jubilation. "And 1t
was with these fellows that you
took the Spaniard and turned the
tables on those dogs! AS Gad's
my life, you deserve well for this"
81 am entirely Of your opinion"
said Mr.. Blood. )"The question is
how we'll we deserve, and how
grateful shall we find you?"
"Why-his excellency shall write
home an account of your exploit
and maybe some portion of your
sentences shall be RENTED"
"The generosity of King James
is we'll known" sneered Nathaniel
,Hagthorpe, who was standing by
and amongst the ranged rebels
convict some one ventured t.
laugh.
And one intervened-the brawny
.one-eyed Wolverstone, less merci
fully disposed than his more gen
tlemanly fellow-convict.
"String him up from the yard
arm" he cried. Mr.. Blood turned
"Tf you please, Wolverstone,
saId he az conduct affairs in m
own way. That is the pact. YOU
please to remember it." His eye
looked along the ranks, making
plain that he addressed them al
ar desire that Colonel Bisho
should have his life. One reaso
is that I require him as hostage
If ye insist on hanging him, ye'
have to hang me with him, or l
the alternative I'll go ashore"
CONTINUED in our next issue).
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23

Days are getting shorter right
along now, but the distance from
payday to payday reamins the same
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23
MfAFIIEg GE COSTS IVFI T
OGulYoUFH SIX AIRS

ATLANTA, Sept. 23.-Because
E. A. Steele, college student and
fraternity man, CT Jacksonville
Ind, could not wait just few min
utes, he will spend the next six
years, and maybe longer, in the
convict camps of Georgia.
Steele was sentenced Monday in
Fulton Superior court by Judge w.
E. Thomas, of Valdosta, to serve
from two to three years in each of
three cases of forgery. judge
Thomas few days previously had
fixed as punishment in the same cas-
es the payment of $3.50 fine.
According to the story brought
out in court Monday, Steele was or
dered to pay fine Of $3.50 in the
three cases, after his mother had
Travelled all the way from their home
to make a plea to the court in her
sons behalf. Steele was ordered to
await in the detention room, affer
the sentence had been passed, while
his mother when to nearby telo-
graph office to wire for money to
pay the fine.
In the meantime, Steele sneaked
out and made good his escape. De-
tectives told the court that his first
act after leaving the courthouse
was to appropriate an automobile
belonging to Fred E. Smith, of 361
! Pcachtree street. Detectives Poole
and Smith recaptured Steele Satur
day and returned him to court Mon
day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23
LARGE EAGLE GOBBLES
UP A GOLF BALL

TALLAHASSEE, Sept. %. "a
PA possible eagle on the course
of the Tallahassee country club here
was made impossible by a real
eagle, the big bird swooping down
on the eighth green to seize a golf
ball as it was trickling IN the gen
eral direction of the cup. Fred c
Elliot was the victim and gained
scant comfort from the assurance
that the eagle was can agency out
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23

1t takes two to start Il fight or a
family. and too often there isn't
any difference.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23

Buy Rylsnder Coupon
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23

Gripping story of the United
States Secret Service and Air Pa
troll conflict with Pacific Coast
Smugglers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23

Miracle working wonder of wom-
an S love and sacrifice in the I'M
equal battle with the powers of
evil.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23

Footballs here. We heard a
quarterback telephoning and he
scared central calling the signals.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23

Even though you hear a lot about
self-made men we can't think of
any men who are not that.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23

Would this young woman be
miss Great Britain" if the peo-'
pie across the Atlantic duplicat-
ed America annual nationwide
beauty contest? Many English.
men contend she would, arguing
she is the most stunning beauty
of the islands. She is Ivy Som
erset, daughter of Lord Raglan.
phone lines, of which there are ap
proximately $4,000 in the United
States, purchasing few poles.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-23
mrs. T ". GRAHAM II.
| PASSES 96TH YEAR
Mrs. Graham Is Granddaughter
of Mother Jones' Who Went
to Coffee County in 1873

Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, of Doug
| las, Ga, the grandmother of James
C. Graham, Americas attorney, mas
passed her 96th airthday. which
event was celebrated at the Coffee
county home of her Slaughter, Mrs.
w. f. Sibbett. Regarding the hap
py event, the following story is sent
Us from Douglas:
DOUGLAS, Sept. 2%.-Mrs.
Elizabeth Graham, OF Douglas, who
was born September 13, 1928, cale
brated Saturday at the home of llar
daughter. Mrs. w. F, &ibbett, her
ninety-sixth birthday. Mrs. Graham
is a granddaughter of Mother
Jones'" who came to Coffee County
from North Carolina in 1900, trav-
cling in a covered wagon and bring
ing with her six sons, the three
Ward BOYS and the three Hargrayo
boys. With these sons, she settled
in what is now Coffee county, while
the country was a wilderness and
was inhabited largely by the Greek
Indians.
1t will be recalled that Judge W.
/ P. Ward ordinary of Coffee coun
ty, wrote serial story about tEyt
+ years ago, giving the early history
I of the pioneer settlers of the sec
ton now embracing Coffee county
Mother Jones" was one of the per
sons who figured prominently in thu
early history of this section, and ho7
descendants among the Wards an;
Hargraves have since been promi
nent in this section of the state.
Mrs. Graham is in splendi.
health; vigorous in body and mind
I with the exception of being slight
/ deaf. She speaks authoritative
on events which happened in tn
early nineteenth century, and he
memory is clear on all of the Incl
dents.
Many friends and relatives ar
bestowing gifts upon her on this ot
casion.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-04-24
sheriff,s Sale.

Notice of foreclosure sale by sher-
iff-real property.
E. M. Ehrhardt, trustee, plaintiff,
VS.. Math. Schmidlkofer and Elizabeth
schmidlkofer, his wife; J. A. Schultz
and Mary G.. Schultz, his wife, and
N. B. Miller, defendants.
Under and by virtue of an order OF
sale and decree of foreclosure and
sale, issued out of the district court
of the tenth Judicial district of the
state of Idaho, in and for the county
of Lewis, ON the 18th day of April, A.
D.. 1924, in the above action, wherein
E. M. Ehrhardt, trustee, the above
named plaintiff, obtained judgment
and decree of foreclosure and sale
against Math. schmidlkofer and Eliza
beth Schmidlkofer, his wife; J. A.
Schultz and Mary G. Schultz, his wife
and N. B. Miller, defendants, on the
sth day of April, A. D, 1924, for the
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-04-24

In 1909 the frst clock known to tho
world was placed In the tower OF sau
Husforgio, in Milan. In 1884 CLOCK
was installed in the palaces of the
MOBILES at Padua. This was wonder
OF mechanism indeed, for, besides In,
dicafing the hours. Il showed the
course OF the sun, the revolutions OF
The planets, the various phases of the
moon, the months and the fetes OF the
year.
In l42o an alarm clock made Its an.
pearance. The chroniclers have placed
ON record that this clock sounded a
bell at stated hour, and at the same
time little wax candle was lighted
automatically. How this was done we
are not told, but 1t must not be over.
looked that until about hundred
years ago we had no means of obtain
Ing light other than the finder box
Detroit News.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-04-24

sum of $5714.10 besides interest ans
aecruing costs, which said decree hai
been recorded in judgment book Of
said court at page Is, l am commanded
to sell the certain lots, pieces or par
cells OF land, situated, lying and being
in the county of Lewis, state of Idaho
and bounded and described as follows
to-wit;
The west half (W1z) Of section sew
en- ~, township thirty-three (3s),
north of range two (2), east of the
Boise Meridian, excepting therefrom
lands decided to the Nezperce & Idaho
Railway company, for right-of way as
shown by page $50 of book &C of
deeds, records of Lewis county, Idaho,
together with all Establishments and
appurtenances thereunto belonging or
in anywise appertaining.
Public notice is hereby given thar
on Saturday, the 10th day of May, A.
d., 1924, at IL clock, a. m, of that
day in front of and at the front door
of the court house of the county of
Lewis, in Nezperce, idaho, win in
obedience of said order of sale and de.
cree of foreclosure and sale, sell the
above described property or 50 much
thereof as may be necessary to satisfy
said Judgment with interest and costs
and accruing costs, to the highest and
best bidder, for the lawful money of
the United States. 47-4
Dated April 18th, 1924.
A. w. Mitchell, Sheriff.
By L. Brown, Deputy.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-04-24
Farm Boys PIP Rise

About eight years ago a farm boy
In remote section of Rowan county,
N. c., Joined pig club which the coun-
ty agricultural extension agent was
organizing, and, as pig club members
DO under the guidance of the county
agent, he fed and cared for a pig,
In this case Poland China gilt. Dur
Ing the next year the county lost its
extension agent. Recently when new
agent came to the county he found, &C
cording to reports to the United States
department Of Agriculture, that the
cub member, J. e. Morgan, now grown
ana on his own farm. had kept up his
emp practices, developed a herd of
roland China hogs Of excellent type,
ana was regarded az the best hog
grower in his community.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-04-24
MYERS PERFORM
UNUSUAL TASKS
Engineering Problsnss Are
Solvsd With Their Aid.

n,vsrs are sometimes called upon K
.srsarm unusual tasks ~ their at
Ennis nj rescue work In the flooded
RsddIng pit show.
Not long ago the police had to call
!, The services of diver to search for
stoIan iswslry in the muddy bottom OF
The Regents canal. and occasionally
snsv are asked to look for rings and
a+hsr ysluableg that have fallen from
pisrs and yachts
WINCHESTER cathedral owes its pres
ant inability to the work Of diver In
ths employment OF . nrm Of wreck
..lyors and treasurs-raissrs he had
q work In pit below the foundations.
olscing bags OF cement in the dark By
ssuss Of touch. Though the idea Of
smuloying diver to restore the solid
NV of the building was last resource.
n was complete success, and one of
ths "stifrsst propositions that . diver
has ever been called upon to tackle"
was brought to satisfactory conclu-
sion.
Ths divers employed In the Redding
plt are using the pipeline type of div
ing dress, but the self-contained type
is frequently used for unusual work.
II was only owing to the existencs of
the self-contained type that the Severn
tunnel was freed from water after 1t
was thought that this great under
taking would have to be abandoned.
After the water had broken into the
workings of the tunnel. II was found
that the sluices at the face were
opened. Diver Lambert and Mr..
Tleuss, the inventor of the special div
ing-dress employed. Investigated, going
100 feet along the tunnel In the dark,
constantly meeting with distractions
and stumbling over sleepers and rails
At last Lambert closed the sluices, or
rather thought he had closed them.
but not knowing that one of them
worked on left hand screw, he shut
enc only to open the other. He there
fore, had to retrace his steps and cor
rect the error.
In Canada some years ago divers
were used In connection with the po-
lice to unravel a disappearance mys-
terry. The manager of mine had con-
stantly been threatened by "bad. hats"
and one day he disappeared.
Divers went down, and there among |
q litter of old machinery they found
the body. The man had been bound |
with wire, weighted. and dropped to
his death In the shaft.
After grim work like this. laying
dock foundations and cleaning ships
bottoms are prosafc tasks.-London
Tit-Bits.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-04-24
Care of Teeth Taught

Here are the rules Of the British
Dental association for the care Of chill
dren's teeth: Be sure the child sleeps
with the mouth shut, and when awake
b-eathes through the nose. From the
age of two let each meal contain some
food that needs grinding. Begin the
child's education In hard foods at nine
months by giving 1t a bone, prefer
ably a chop bone. with little meat
on, to exercise its gums. Do not let
children drink until the end Of the
meal. Avoid many sweets and sweet
biscuits, and only give them as part
of meal. Finish each meal with O
piece of fresh fruit or crisp salad,
or. IL these are not obtainable, stale
crust of bread, with butter Il pre-
ferred, but not with jam.