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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-06-28
WOMAN FORCER
CONFESSES SHE
LIVED DUAL LIFE
Philadelphian Was Wife of
Carpenter Days and Bride
of Banker at Night.

Philadelphia. Pa.-The wife Of a
carpenter in the daytime, and the
bride of a wealthy banker at night.
Mrs. Anna Beswick. fifty. is awaiting
hearing on charges Of forgery,
which. In an alleged confession given
out by the police, she said she was
forced to commit to obtain money for
blackmallers, who had threatened to
expose her dual life.
Had 10 Children.
Apparently neither Samuel Il. Bes.
wick, by whom she said she had 1s
children, nor William Q. Martin, vice
president Of suburban bank, who she
declared she had married last Feb.
ruary, and from whom she said she
had taken at least $4,000 to pay for
the blackmailers' silence, knew Of her
double life. Martin married her, she
said, In the belief that she had been
divorced.
Mrs. Beswick was arrested outside
the courtroom Of Judge ]. Willis Mar.
tin, whose name she 10 alleged to have
forged to letters through which she
is charged with having obtained
5000 from William Shuman and
Ralph Hawthorn, who had the war.
rant issued for her arrest.
Alleged BIaekmaIIers Held.
Mrs. Beswick named Herbert Rus.
sic, John Mccoy and Erwin Hamilton
as her alleged blackmailers. They
were arrested Oh charges Of ext0rtlOn
conspiracy and blackmail. Mrs. Bes-
wick said they had learned Of her
double life through driving her In q
taxicab from the modest home Of her
children and their father In West Phil
adelphia to the more pretentiOus resi-
dence Of Martin in Fox Chase. a north.
ern suburb. Mrs. Beswick told the
police she had paid these men at
least $4,000.
The police learned from the WON
ans first husband that she had served
six months In prison In 1917 for check
forgeries.
Martin appeared stunned when he
was summoned to the district att0r.
ney's Office. He told the authorities
that Mrs. Beswick had gotten "a lot
Of money from him, but that he could
not state the exact amount.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-06-28
Ford Car No. 10000. 600
VIII Tour Lincoln Hghwa,

Selection Of the Lincoln Highway
as the official route of travel for Ford
Car No. 100000 on its trip from,
New York to San Francisco brings
the worlds most popular road and the
worlds most popular car into a new
and more intimate association. :
Of course, Ford cars have sped
over this great ribbon Of great gray
stretching from coast to coast ever
since it was first laid out and it would
be interesting to count the Fords that
will meet the ten million car on its
journey.
But supposing the other 9,999, 1893
Fords were suddenly to appear and
endeavor to get on the Highway with
Car No. 100000.
Well, there'd be hurry call for all
the traffic cops in the country and
just how long it would take them to
bring about any semblance Of order
no one could even guess.
Anyway, let's give them the credit
of doing a good job and finally lining
up all the 100000 cars, six abreast,
which would make line 33 feet 8 in.
across.
Then even with the cars standing
end to end they would cover the entire
1906 miles of the famous highway
and there would be 1,151, 1920 cars en-
tirely out Of the picture, unless the
cops were not too tired to park them
on either side of the road so they
could see the rest of the family on
parade.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-06-28
older fowls especially and cleaning
and disinfecting the premises.

Where does the annual crop of
flies come from, is a question fire.
quently asked of the Bureau of En-
tomology, United States Department
OF Agriculture. The prevailing O.
pinion that the house fly lives through
the winter as an adult, hiding in
cracks and crevices of buildings, ap-
pears to be erroneous. Under outdoor
conditions house flies are killed dur
ing the first really cold nights-that
is, when the temperature falls to a.
about Is or 10 degrees F. In rooms
and similar places protected from
winds and partially heated during the
winter flies have been kept alive in
cages for long periods; but they never
lived through the entire winter. There
Is no reliable evidence whatever that
adult house flies emerging during
October and November pass the win
ter and are able to deposit their eggs
the following spring, although they
may continue active in heated build
ings until nearly the end Of January.
On the other hand there is evidence
that house flies pass the winter as
larvae and pupae, and that they
sometimes breed continuously thru
out the winter. In experiments at
both Dallas, Texas, and Bethesda,
Md, house flies have been found E.
merging during April from heavily
infested manure heaps which had
been set out and covered with cages
during the preceding autumn. In the
Southern states, during warm per-
icds in midwinter, house flies may e.
merge and become somewhat troub-
lesome; they frequently lay eggs on
warm days.
The second way in which the house
fly may pass the winter is by contin-
uous breeding. House flies congre-
gste in heated rooms with the ap-
proach of the winter season. If no
food or breeding materials are pres
eht they eventually die. However,
where they have access to both food
and suitable substances for egg lay
ing they will continue breeding just
as they do outdoors during the sum-
ner. Even in cold climates there are
undoubtedly many places, especially
in cities, where house flies would have
opportunity to pass the winter in this
manner.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-06-28
Autoist Has Miraculous
Escape While on Cliff

Fairfax, Wash.-C. G. Sheldon Of
Seattle had miraculous escape re-
Gently when his cars steering gear
broke at the top Of a 25O-foot cliff In
the White, river canyon. The automo-
bile turned over and hung, teetering
on the brink Of the drop, near the high
trestle across the canyon. Sheldon
crawled out, with his dog, practically
unhurt. A minute afterward the auto
0verbalanced and fell into the abyss.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-06-28
Opens Cell With Wood Key

Marble Hill. Mo.-In Jail for robbing
the bank where he was employed as
cashier, r. 4. Burgess, Of Marble Hill.
whitfield his way to freedom. He made
a wooden key, unlocked his cell door,
and walked away when the jailer was
absent.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-06-28
Acquitted Man Stays in Jail

Frlcksboro. N. J.-Rather than re.
turn to his home, Thompson Dickson
aged farmer Of Fricksboro, acquitted
on q charge Of having murdered his
fifteen-year-old daughter. continues to
make his home at the county jail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-19
AN ACCEPTABLE AUDITOR

The appointment of Mir. F. Hopkin- son Smith, under recommendation of the bankers committee, to audit the books in the public improvement department of the comptroller's office, develops pub lie confidence that thorough and re- liable audit will be made. MT. Smith is one of the best known public account ants in the South, is man of high ca pacity and unquestioned integrity. He has never been connected with the city government in professional capacity.
 A recommendation by the bankers committee which is of special impor- tance is that Mir. Smith be engaged to make a complete audit of the affairs of the city government in all it's depart ments at the close of the fiscal year, an audit which is customary. After exam ming the affairs of the public improve ment department, which covers sub stantial part of the financial affairs of the city, the auditor would be in posses sion of much information, which would have to be verified by any other man appointed for a general audit, and thus there would be considerable economy to the city in retaining him. The recom- mendation is timely and constructive, as coming from experienced business men who are directly concerned for the pub lie welfare and the city's credit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-19
Want Fall
Mother Gifts

(DuBose Heyward in Skylines and Horizons) You could not give me toys in those bleak
 days;
 So when my playmates proudly boasted theirs, You caught me to the shelter of your arms, And taught me how to laugh away my tears. Having no books. you sang a shining word Into my open palm, and closed it tight . |. So, when the neighbors' children shouted by, Their hired nurse-maids herding them like
 sheep,
 Then, that old, dauntless look of yours would
 leap,
 And, leading me beneath the western skies. You woke their mirrored glory in my Now autumn years are blowing swiftly by, And come eRpty-handed from my quest; Save for captured wrath of sunset sky, A star or two, and last and loveliest, The little shining word you gave to me Treasures no human hand may ever hold, But you first knew their wonder and their
 worth
 You who have made me rich with more than
 gold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-19
A LORD BYRON MEMORIAL

A direct appeal has been made by the Poetry Society of London to the Amer ican people, to aid in the establishment of an English memorial to Lord Byron. The appeal will doubtless strike a respon- sive chord in the hearts of many of the older Americans who have long admired the spirit of liberty in the works of the author of "Childe Harold" A popu- larity was accorded the British bard in America which has been equalled by that of few poets of the eighteenth and nine teenth centuries. Byron has been quoted perhaps more frequently on the floor of the American congress than any other poet,
 His vogue in America was founded on the same cause that made him unpopular in his own country. The secret of his countrymen's animosity to the poet-peer was not because of the irregularity of his personal life. Morals had nothing to do with it. The feeling was of po- litical nature. The poets democracy, his spirit of liberty and strong af1tagonism to oppression which were breathed through his writings were not in accord with the dominating influence of his time as regards governmental theory and action. Byron was an exponent of more liberal treatment of the people, and less latitude for the arbitrary classes in power.
 For this primary reason the works of Byron were long more numerously found in American libraries than those of any other writer of his period. He was more than poet; he was champion and de- fender of popular government. Not only in England, but in America, the stamp of his influence was long seen in the drift of the nation to broader systems of democracy and greater popular liberty. Whether this will cause a generous re- sponse to appeals for cooperation in the establishment of the proposed memorial will doubtless depend on the endurance of the American peoples memory. If the enterprise is clearly put before the educated American on this broad ground, it will doubtless succeed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-19
THE OUTDOOR MARKET

Establishment of the outdoor market adjacent to and in conjunction with the municipal market should afford benefits not only in encouraging the habit of con- centrated buying and saving time, but, what is of special importance, in making the municipal market a success in it's function of serving the public by bring ing together the producer and the con- sumer. Failure to do this has been one of the obstacles to it's success. The out door market will enable producers of vegetables and other food products to sell their wares directly to the consumer, who will be offered fresh products at reasonable prices. Thus the habit of going to market.will be formed by many, and the municipal market will receive a larger patrdnage.
 Whether or not the municipal market is directly paying proposition from a standpoint of investment is not the chief consideration. The city government is not in the business of making money through speculation in the public funds but has an obligation to provide those things that make for the public conve-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-19
Brief Nature Studies
By J. OTIS SWIFT

The Paterson Ramblers, on a hike from Tappan to Alpine, gathered about a member who had picked up and held in hisspalm a little elongated, tapering beetle. It was lying on it's back, evidently thinking over it's cap ture. Suddenly with little snap it elated, jumped into the air and landed on its legs. It was a cick-beetle, member of a famous family, Elateridae, which includes the re- markable fire-beetles of the tropics. It is called variOusly elater, skipjack, spring beetle and snapping beetle
 The noise when it jumps is made by quick movement of the prOthOrax. Two segments of the thorax are loosely hitched together and a horn on the neither thorax furnishes the spring. The Elateridae usually have pectinate or serrated antennae. The larvae are generally hard-shelled cylindrical worms found in de- caying stumps or in the soil, and are called wireworms by farmers, who recognize them as bitter enemies
 Gardeners are familiar with the slender smooth, brownish-yellow worms that work havoc with seeds in the ground and roots of plants
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-19
Reading Everything
By JOHN CARLYLE

Are you one of those persons who are wearily trying to keep up with all the new books? It's no use. You can't do it.
 A great many of us can't get away from the idea that it is a credit to us to read everything. The books we haven't money to buy or time to read we read reviews about. We try to find out about them somehow.
 It isn't worth while. We are not making good use of our time.
 There hasn't been any better thinking for two thousand years than there was in Plato's day. Aristotle did as clean-cut, useful think ing as we have been able to observe before or since.
 And very likely there isn't clerk in your office or a man in your shop who hasn read more books than either Plato or Aris- totle.
 Or there isn't a bookkeeper in this town who doesn't own more books than Plutarch or Pliny or Hannibal or Caesar. For that matter, how many of your friends are there who haven't scores of books for every one in the home of Abraham Lincoln?
 William Shakespeare had more imagina- tion, more mind and more memory, clearer beauty of style and a surer touch for poetic expression than any other writing man who ever set down the English language. But Shakespeare didn't have books enough to last SenOOlDOy InIOuSH NuNolAOA' NAA@N ~-'~S doesn't take many books.
 The important thing is to read some books, not many books.
 The important thing is to read something worth understanding and worth learning, and to read it until you have understood It ana learned it. |;
 The important thing in this everyday job of living is to know what we are talking about.
 To know what we are talking about means to get the hest thought on the most impor- tant matters That doesn't mean to try to pick up everybody's thought on everything It just isn't worth while.
 A group of writers gave a dinner to one of the most prominent journalists in America not many nights ago. The journalist is a rare book collector. So his friends decided to give him book worth having and worth reading They looked about for a long time.
 Finally they decided on the King James version of the Bible, and gave him that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-19
THE LAFOLLETTE APPEAL

It is difficult indeed to figure how Mir. LaFollette's boasted platform, as respects it's chief triangular appeal, can command serious consideration from the intelligent voter in the ranks of either the farmers or organized labor. The di- rect inconsistencies in the appeals can not be reconciled by any system of log ical analysis. He asks the support of that part of organized labor which favors government ownership and operation of the railroads, on the ground that under such a plan railroad wages would be in- creased, and out of the other corner of his mouth solicits support from the farmers under the promise of lower transportation rates. Railroad wages are regarded as a considerable item in rail- road overhead. If they are to be ma terially increased, how can transporta- tion rates to the farmers be lowered? The chief reason given by the railroads at this time for the high cost of trans portation is the high rail wage.
 4~nother appeal from the ambitious presidential aspirant is to the war period defeatists, a very large proportion ot whom sympathize with the Russian Soviet system of government. Organized labor in this country is firmly opposed to the SOVleL government anu all O4 AGS OAAOA SI to establish a foothold in America through covert agencies and influences. This paragraph from recent issue of "The Labor World" which represents organized labor in this country, does not !. hsrmonize with Mir. LaFollette's appeal to labor: "At this time, when the world needs sober, sane men who think and ponder we'll before they step, it would be well for all who think they have a grievance to look at Russia, then look deeply into the LaFollette program and ponder we'll before you follow. LaFol- iette's progressiveism leads to socialism, communism, revolution and world dis integration."
 Certainly American farmers have no moral or material reason to sympathize with Russia and it's disastrous govern ment. Russia offers no outlet to the American farmers product. What lit tie Russia can buy may or may not be paid for. If the Russian government hasn't character to acknowledge and un- dertake to care for it's obligations, what may be expected of the private or in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-19
To AUert Nervousness
By H. ADDINGToN BRUCE

It being well established fact that the functional nervous troubles now so wide spread have their beginnings usually in early life and are largely preyentable, parents hat urally will be interested to learn what special measures they should take to minimize the danger of their children becoming nervously ill. The following suggestions to that end are offered from modern medical research and observation.
 Begin, while children still are very young, 1 to train them to obedience, self-control and respect for authority. It is the uncontrolled, undisciplined, and selfish child who is pe- culiarly liable to grow into the nervous man or woman.
 But the training should be through ap- pealing to the love instinct rather than the fear instinct. Over-development of the fear instinct is a common cause of nervousness. Hence nagging, shouting at, and flogging children should not be the training method employed. Corporal punishment is especially to be deplored when there is any inherited tendency to nervousness.
 So-called tough-minded children may not be harmed by corporal punishment, but ten- der-minded children are sure to be. When punishment is<necessary, deprivation of some expected pleasure is as a rule most effective. And terrOriHing children by dire threats, tales of policemen, ghosts, etc, is particu- larly harmful. Because of the morbid fancies and fears thus excited, imaginative children may forthwith develop some neuFotie trouble On the other hand, a perpetual coddling and Over-indulging of children is equally provocative of nervousness, if only by mak- ing the children too dependent and too self centred. Self-centredness and inability to endure the unpleasant are almost always out standing factors in the causation of nervous ills.
 For this reason all children, and especially the nervously predisposed, should early be habituated to exertion, to the enduring of pain, and to the giye-and-take of group games with other children. That parent is making grave mistake who so over-shields his or her child as to develop psychic softness
 For proper psychic hardening, systematic body building through outdoor exercise, cool rub-downs, cool baths, and attention to hy- gienic requirements in general is of impor- tance.
 The question e diet is one to which the most careful thought should be given. Parents who permit their children to eat too much meat or sweets, who give them highly spiced foods, or such stimulating drinks as tea and coffee, are distinctly laying physical foun- dation for neuroticism in later life, perhaps for neuroticism in childhood itself
 Finally, the influence of what 1 have long called contact educatiOn,' must be men tioned.
 It is idle to expect children to grow up unselfish, courageous, healthfully controlled if the parents with whom they are constant. ly in contact do not themselves display these qualities. Much of the nervousness in evi- dence today is nothing but a striking proof of the deforming influence of imitation when provided with bad examples in the home en- virOnment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-19
4 BottOmIeSs Pit
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

In every heart there is bottomless pit. It IS there we throw, not the things we forgive, but the things we forget
 To forget is as much greater than to f. & give as forgivehess is greater than revenge Of all the praises of God that which seems to be the best is the saying of the Hebrew, that he can forget our offenses.
 To forgive is human, to forget is divine. We forgive many little weaknesses that it is sweet and human to remember they en- dear us to the frail offender.
 But there are other things that we must bury in utter blackness, we must cover with the sands of oblivion as we would cover buried bodies with the earth.
 First, l will throw into this fathomless well all the bitter words those I love have ever Siid against me.
 All. .repugnances and aversions, that at any time have arisen in me toward one I love, shall go in also; together with all quarrels or near quarrels, strained relations, and any thing else that smacks of hate.
 All unclean sights and sounds, and all satyr impulses of the inner breast that haunt the dark forests of the mind, these go ill. All memory of despairing hours, moods of failure, self-cOntempt, pessimism, and other tastes of gall that spell my recollection, would cast them in likewise.
 The envy I have had when others sue ceeded and I failed. the mockery of one greater than myself, the suspicion of one better than I, in they go.
 My moments of silly vanity, my boastings and self-conceits, would drop them forever into this darkness.
 The memory of wrongs done me, treach- cries against me, friends deserting and for getting me, sneers made at me, caustic crit icisms of me, and those who disliked me be- cause they did not understand me and did not approve of me, down they go, and may they never strike bottom.
 If have ever doubted the Eternal Good ness, 1 ask that He forget it. Doubtless He can and will For what would be the good of omnipotence if one were impotent to for get?
 If ever I have hurt any one who loved me, do not ask for forgiveness which is but water-washing but forgetfulness which is soap and lye.
 Alas the pit is open, and ghosts often rise therefrom.
 I would had lid to it.