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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-05-09

WY NERVES ARE 1Otn9 WIN WY Osu
Age" He Apologized. "That Sup.
port Seems Too Fragile"
trived to keep sane without becoming
a prig,"'. she remarked.
"You know whyY' he reminded her.
Francis Ledsam has been tremen-
dous worker. 1t is work which keeps
man sane. Brilliancy without the
capacity for work drives people to the
madhouse."
"where we are all going, 1 suppose"
she sighed.
mot you," he answered. "You have
just enough don't know what we
nioderns call it-soul, shall say?-t0
keep you from the muddy ways"
She rose to her feet and leaned over
the rails Sir Timothy watched her
thoughtfully. ~ Her figure. nOtwlth-
standing its suggestions Of delicate ma
turity, was still as slim as a young
girls. She was looking across the
tree-tops towards an angry bank
of clouds-long, pencil-like streaks Of
black on a purple background. Below,
in the street, taxi passed with grind
ing of brakes and noisy horn. The
rail against which she leaned looked
very flimsy. Sir Timothy stretched
out his hand and held her arm.
my nerves are going with my old
age" he apologized. THAT support
seems too fragile"
She did not move The touch Of his
fingers grew firmer.
"We have entered upon an allegory."
she murmured. "YOu are preserving
me from the depths"
He laughed harshly.
81" he exclaimed, with sudden
touch of real and fierce bitterness
which brought the light dancing into
her eyes and a spot of color to her
cheeks. 81 preserve you! Why you
can never hear my name without
thinking of sin, of crime of some sort!
Do you seriously expect me TO ever
preserve anyone from anything?"
''You haven't made any very violent
attempts to corrupt me-" she reminded
him.
Women don't enter much into my
scheme of life" he declared. '"They
played a great part once. 1t was a
woman, think, who first headed me
off from the pastures of virtue"
ST know" she said softly. at was
Margaret's mother"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-05-09

Healing medicines and deadly explo-
sives lie latent in every lump of coal.
and science is extracting one or the
other in thousand laboratories over
the world each day. Half the drugs in
the pharmacopia probably are coal-tar
products. While one laboratory may
be extracting salicylic acid. for govt.
for instance, or aspirin for congestion
and rheumatism, another chemist will
be distilling the products from which
INT Is made or even lyddite, the pow
erful explosive first used in the Sudan.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-05-09

ner. He beats women, and has estab-
lished perfect reign Of terror In the
court and neighborhood where he lives.
I fear must agree with you that there
were some elements Of morality
conforming, at any rate, to the recog-
nized standards of justice-in what ]
did. You know, OF course, that ! am
a great patron of every form OF box
ing, fencing and the various arts OF
self-defense and attack. just took
along one of the men from the gym
nasium who I knew was equal to the
Job, to give this fellow lesson"
HE did 1t all right" Lady Cynthia
murmured.
"But this is where think I re-
establish myself" Sir Timothy con-
tinued. the peculiar nature Of his smile
reasserting itself. II did not do this
for the sake of the neighborhood. I
did not do it from any sense of JUS
tice at all. / did 1t to provide for
myself an enjoyable and delectable
spectacle"
She smiled lazily.
"That does rather let you out" she
admitted However, on the whole I
am disappointed. / am afraid that
you are not so bad as people think"
"People" he repeated. Francis
Ledsam, for MISTAKENLY son-in-law
in poser
Francis Ledsam Is one Of those few
rather brilliant persons who have con-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-05-09
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cspyrishe By Llstls. Brown and Company

Perhaps my friend may have some
thing to say about that"
The man of war was beginning to be
worked up.
where's your big friendY' he shout
ed. 'Come on! I'll take ON the two,
Of you"
The man who had met Sir Timothy
in the street had risen to his feet. He
strolled up to the two. Billy the Tan
ner eyed him hungrily.
"The two of you. dyer 'ear?" he
shouted. land 'ere's just flick for
the toff to be going on within
He delivered sudden blow at Sir.
Timothy-a full, vicious, jabbing blow
which had laid many man of the
neighborhood in the gutter. To his
amazement, the chin at which he had
aimed seemed to have mysteriously
disappeared. Sir Timothy himself was
standing about half-a-yard farther
away. Billy the Tanner was too used
to the game to be off his balance, but
he received at that moment the sur
prise of his life. With the fat Of his
hand full open, Sir Timothy struck
him across the cheek such blow that
it resouDded through the place, blow
that brought both the inner doors ajar,
that brought peering eyes from every
objection. There was moments 81
lence. The mans fists were clenched
Low, there was murder in his face.
Sir Timothy stepped on one side.
Il am not fighter" he said coolly,
leaning back against the marble table.
my friend will deal with you"
Billy the Tanner glared at the new
conner, who had glided in between him
and Sir Timothy.
"You can come and join in. too" he
shouted to Sir Timothy. "Ill knock
your big head into pulp when I've done
with this little job!''
The bully knew in precisely thirty
seconds what had happened to him.
So did the crowds who pressed back
So did the barman. So did the land
lord, who had made cautious appear
ance through a trapdoor. Billy the
Tanner, for the first time in his life,
was fighting better man. For two
years he had been the terror of the
neighborhood, and he showed now that
at least he had courage. His smatter-
ing of science, however, appeared only
ridiculous. Once, through sheer
strength and laundering force, he
broke down his opponents guard and
struck him in the place that had dis
patched many man before-just over
the heart. His present opponent scarce
ly WINGED. and Billy the Tanner paid
the penalty then for his years of bully
ing. His antagonist paused for single
second, as though unnerved by the
blow. Red fire seemed to stream from
his eyes. Then it was all over. With
sickening crash, Billy the Tanner
went down upon the sanded floor. 1t
was no matter of count for him. He
lay there like dead man, and from
the two doors the hidden spectators
streamed into the room. Sir Timothy
laid some money upon the table.
"This fellow insulted me and my
friend" he said. "You see, he has
paid the penalty. If he misbehaves
again, the same thing will happen to
him. ! am leaving some money here
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-05-09
His Contents

"You do not know what may be in
a stupid looking boy, and" began
the presiding elder.
'That's plumb fact. Parson I" in
dorsed Gap johnson of Rumpus Ridge.
there's my boy, Blister: the little
cuss eats all we give him and mighty
nigh everything he can steal. Kan
sas City Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-05-09

Statistics may not long settle any
thing. They change.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25

net loss of the first shipment was less
than j per cent. Stockton attributes
the success of that to Providence
alone.
For a while the traffic was ~undis-
turbed, then d'Annunzio broke loose
in the Fiume, and Trieste lay under
threat of being in the war zone. Not
a car Of food could be gotten out while
that continued. So the port of entry
for the Austrian food was changed
to Rotterdam. This caused new prob
lens of transportation. as ii had to
come by the Rhine, by rail, through
troubled Germany, TO Hamburg.
thence by barges down the Danube.
He surmounted every difficulty, seven
to dock handlers strikes, as the only
thing that went through Mannheim dur
ing such a walkout time were Ameri-
can relief supplies. 4
A system Of food cards was provid-
ed for the undernourished youngsters
of Austria and Stockton says that the
saddest sight of his life was to see
some little one deprived of his food
card after having been pronounced
safely past malnutrition. Vienna was
dotted with 43 American kitchens, the
largest providing meals for 1900
children. All this work was done un-
der supervision of four Americans,
one of whom was the youth from
Jacksonville. A total OF 1000 Aus
TRANS were employed, the most OF
them volunteer workers.
Stockton is the scion of famous
family of Southern fighters and states
men. He was a Rhodes scholarship
man from Florida, and took his de-
gree of law at Oxford. During the
World war he attained the grade Of
senior lieutenant, q. s. n. He returned
TO Jacksonville in October, 1920, fol-
lowing his service In Austria, and has
been identified with a real estate firm
since that time. He has taken an ac-
tive part in Legion affairs. both local
and department.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25

the amount Of each depending on the
type of apparatus purchased.
10. One vacuum tube, UV-201 A,
CV-199 are recommended.
II. One ounce of Woods metal.
Figure shows the details of the
tuning coil, which consists of 100
turns of wire, tapped at the 18th turn
from one end. This coil may be con-
yeniently mounted on the condenser
by using small brackets of brass. The
shape of these bra ckets will of course
depend on what wake condenser is
selected. The coli should preferably
be mounted in position where there
will be least magnetic field encoun-
tered from the coils In the receiving
set. With a well-designed condenser
wavelength Of from about 215 TO
$50 meters will be obtained. The stab
liking condenser must next be con-
structed. This device may easily be
made from the grid leak. If the metal
ends of, the leak are heated slightly
they will come off as they are gen.
orally fastened with Woods metal.
The grid leak element is then removed
and one cap is replaced on an end. A
small piece of cardboard is then cut
TO fit the tube as shown in Figure 1.
A small quantity of Woods metal
or other low melting alloy is then
melted and poured in the glass tube
on one side of the cardboard strip.
This will form a semi-circular rod
firmly soldered TO the cap on the lower
end and extending nearly the full
length of the tube. A small brass
trough, semi-circular in cross section,
is soldered TO the other cap. Figure 4
gives the details of this device. how
it is assembled and how ii looks when
completed.
When completed, a small variable
condenser with a glass dielectric is
obtained which can be readily mounted
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25
Not Good Judgment to
Overload Your Tubes

One of the most common traits Of q
person with his first radio set is to per.
sist in turning up the tubes In an eff.
fort to increase the signal strength
1T can't be DONE" Up to a certain
point increasing the filament tempera.
ture by turning up the rheostat brings
an increase in signal strength. Be
yond that the signal gets mushy, anC
further increase in current won't take
out the mush or produce any louder OF
clearer signal. 1t may burn out the
tube If the minimum resistance of the
rheostat is low enough.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25
TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN FEET
New York Dressmaking Expert Com
pares Women of United States
With Those of Europe.

Slender ankles and small feet
American girls. Slender ankles and
broad feet-French girls. Thick
ankles and thick feet-English girls"
So says Miss Caroline Nunder Of
New York, late of London. And she
adds:
american girls dress so that their
clothes match the trimness of their
figures and the loneliness of their
faces.
French girls, in spite of their ten
dency TO be broad in proportion to
their height, neyerthele SIS dress SO
they are chic.
English girls dress like frumps."
Miss Nunder is twenty-four years
old, and is pretty and slender, with a
bunch Of fair bobbed hair and big
hazel eyes. And she's no idler. She
didn't start ON a shoestring. She
started almost on a spool Of thread, a
thimble and brain full of ideas. And
she now is sort of superdressmaker
in New York, even though she is q
mere child, one might say.
Three years ago she found herself
almost plump smack up against it
Her father, Buffalo man, died. leav.
ing not the fortune that had been ex-
pected, but a few hundred dollars.
With real Yankee pluck. she went
to New York, got a showroom, told all
her friends she was in the dressmak.
ing business and waited. She didn't
have to wait long. Her friends were
mainly young people and they could
wear the same kind of clothes she did.
That gave her big idea. She did
away with the mannequin business
Miss Nunder became her own name
quin. At dinner parties and dances
and theaters she wore some Of her
latest creations. The next day she
sold them and set about designing
new ones.
Now they whisper she has an In
come that runs into Ave figures and
she employs Is people steadily. Right
now she is in Europe, having the time
of her life studying English and
French girls and their styIes.-St,
Louis Times.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25
Crystals Part In
Radio Reception
Purer Reproduction Pos.
sible When Used as De-
tector In Receiver.

The old saying 'as clear as a crys
tall certainly applies to radio recep-
ton and especially in reflex sets the
crystal rectifier is of vital Importance.
1t Is well known that purer repro
duction Is possible with a crystal than
any other known means when used as
a detector in any radio receiver. A
ways cause more or less distortion.
due to its operating at point on Its
characteristic where the decrease In
plate current is not directly proper
tionate to the increase In signal VOLT
age, |. E., that ii Is not possible to adj
just a three-element tube 10 secure
maximum sensitiveness with maxi
mum rectification. There must OF ne
cessity be inductance and capacity in
the input of the detector tube and
there will be some inductance In the
plate circuit of the tube. Because OF
this the tendency of the detector tube
TO oscillate and unbalance the rectify-
Ing action is very pronounced. The
crystal rectifier is not subject TO this
action.
The rectifier employed for success
full reflex work, like the radio and
audio frequency transformers. must
possess certain characteristics If they
are TO function properly.
Rectification in crystals is based on
what might be called unilateral resist
ance or unilateral conductivity in that
the device must offer a high resist
ance TO a current of electricity in one
direction and a comparatively low re-
sistance TO a current in the opposite
direction. The higher the ratio be-
tween these two resistances the great
er the rectifying action. A certain
minimum in one of these values must
be obtained in a crystal rectifier for
reflex work. As comparatively large
currents are handled by the rectifier,
any crystal detector which employs
the granular or light cat-whisker con-
tact feature is prohibitive because of
the frying and microphonic effect pro-
duced by such construction. These
strong currents also tend to cause
oxidation of the contact point. By
proper selection of cat-whisker and
crystal material this is entirely elm
mated. The fixed crystal of the
proper design is therefore absolutely
necessary for successful rectification
n the Erla reflex circuits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25

a British expedition was trying to
clear away, and Grogan was forced
to the eastward through horrible
marshlands. He had In all only four
teen men when he came TO the Dinka
country, and met that queer race OF
swamp folk. They are very tall, some
even gigantic, beautifully built, but
broad-footed, walking with feet picked
up high and thrust far forward-the
gait of a pelican. At rest they stand
on one leg like a wading bird, the
loose leg akimbo with its foot on the
straight legs knee. They are fierce,
too, and one tribe made an attack on
Grogan's party. His men threw down
IN cir loads, screaming that they were
lost, and the best Congo soldier fell
stabbed to the heart, while two others
went down with cracked skulls.
II took the chief" says Grogan, "and
his right-hand man with the double
barrel, then, turning round, found that
my boy had bolted with my revolver.
AT the same moment a Dinka hurled
lllo spear at nOu6Co ~ Jul AC
rushed in and dealt me swinging
blow with his club, which fortunate
ly warded with my arm, receiving no
more damage than wholesome bruise.
l poked my gun at his stomach, and
he turned. receiving second after
wards a dum-dum in the small Of his
back. Then they broke and ran, my
army with eight guns having succeed
ed in firing two shots, / climbed up
an ant hill that was close by. and
could see them watching at about three
hundred yards for our next move
which was an unexpected one, for l
planted a dum-dum apparently in the
stomach of one of the most obtrusiye
ruffians, whom recognized by his
great height They then hurried off
and punched at about seven hundred
yards, and another shot, whether fatal
or not could not see, sent them of
in all directions"
The battle was finished, and Gro
gan toiled on with his wounded men,
famished, desperate, almost hopeless.
oAc uCSCIt lC "
the camp of Captain Dunn, British
officer.
Captain Dunn: How do you dor
Grogan: "Oh, very fit, thanks; how
are you? Had any sport?'
Dunn: ooh, pretty fair, but there
is nothing here. Have drink"
Then we washed, lunched, discussed
the war (South Africa, and eventual
ly Dunn asked where the devil had
come from"
The battle of Omdurman had de.
stroyed the dervish power, and opened
the Nile so that Grogan went on in
ease and comfort by steamer to khar-
toum, to Cairo, and home. Still he
heard in his sleep the night melody
of lions-''The usual cry is a sort Of
vast sigh, taken up by the chorus
with a deep sob, sob, sob, or Curl
Gus rumbling noise. But the pukka
roar is indescribable it seems
to permeate the whole universe, thun-
dering, rumbling, majestic: there is
no music in the world so sweet"
1t is hard to part with this Irish
gentleman, whose fourteen months
traverse of the Dark Continent is the
finest deed in the history Of African
exploration.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25
q IHE O.
AMERICAN
LEGION
tCopy for FMS Department supplied By the
American Legion News Servics.)
HELPED FEED MANY
HUNGRY CHILDREN

The daily task of feeding 100000
children was but an incident In the
postwar duties of Gilchrist B. Stock
ton, now post commander Of the Edw.
De Saussure post of the American Lee
gion in Jacksonville, Fla.
Stockton. who was an attache of
the American diplomatic mission In
London at the outbreak of the war.
resigned his post to enter the naval
service, and was made an aide Of Adj
miral Sims, serving in this capacity
until April, 1919. Then the young
Floridan was placed on an inactive
status, and went to Vienna with the
American relief administration. This
was not his first experience in relief
work, as he had volunteered for serv-
ice with Herbert Hoover during the
period of Belgian relief.
When the plans for the feeding of
the starving children in Austria ma
tured under Mr.. Hoover's direction,
Stockton was chosen for the post of
chief of the mission and went about
the great task with the enthusiasm
which has characterized American re-
lief workers.
He arrived in Vienna May 8, 1919.
and Immediately plunged into the serv-
ice of salyaging human life. There
the most unusual problems presented
themselves TO Stockton for solution
The mission had plenty Of available
supplies at Trieste, but the first prob
lem was to get the stuff in Austria,
from what had become a Yugo- Slavia
port. The first trainload gotten
through TO Vienna was consigned to
nobody-there was no consignment Of
1t. OF the SO carloads that were to
come, % were lost, unloaded at wrong
stations, sidetracked, some broken
down. Despite these chaotic condi-
lions, every car was located, and the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25
radio" Cuff Links to
Complete Equipment

Do you need pair of nifty cuff links
to complete your radio equipment?
Here's just what you want.
Take one of your extra binding posts
and remove all the parts from the bolt.
Put the bolt through the side of the
cuff and then slip on the collar of the
binding post When this is on. screw
the cap and there she is. No more los
ing the cuff links for YOU The binding
post Is screwed ON the cuff and hasn't
the least chance to come of.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25

coil. The movable plate is of the con
ventional design, while the stationar,
plate is provided with Tugs at each side
for mounting. The shaft of the vario
meter is replaced by short length o,
one-quarter-inch copper or brass tub
ing, held in place by an anchor plate
TO which ii Is securely soldered. The
rotor plate is mounted on a brass O,
copper rod extending through the tube
and terminated by small knob on the
face of the dial knob, through which
IL passes.
The sketch is practically self-expIan
atory. The idea can be easily adapted
TO any style of instrument and has the
special advantage of not requiring ad
ditional panel space.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25

knots are divided into ten unequal sec.
lions by as many silver beads, repre-.
senting the odd numbers from one to
nineteen. The sections are of different
colors, which were important factors
in the calculating process. The silver
beads between the groups represent the
even numbers from two TO twenty.
Calculations involving tens. hundreds
and thousands are possible by this de-
vice which was first used by the Chi
nese. later by the Japanese and must
have been brought to America by Ash
attic migrations in ages past.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25
Want Ten C. Commandments
for u. S. Citizenship

Ten commandments for United
States citizenship are sought by MEM
bers Of the American Legion In Min
nesota through the Americanlsm COM
mission OF that body.
Prizes aggregating 500 have been
offered through the Minnesota Council
Of Americanism for the best "com-
mandments." In announcing the con-
test TO the Legionnaires. r. X. Doe.
committee chairman, wrote, Centuries
ago Moses formulated ten command
ments, obedience to which was essen
tial to the religious life. Might II not
be essential 20 American citizenship
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25

Is Oscillating the grid coil acts as a
primary of a transformer, inducing
currents in the winding of the output
coil of this stage. Here the current
will divide and reach the grid circuit
over two paths, but due TO the rela-
tive directions of the windings of the
output coil they are exactly out of
phase with each other and so have
no effect on the antenna circuit
Since the panel layout and drilling
plans will differ depending upon the
type Of condenser and rheostat pur-
chased, no definite instructions will be
given. The panel and cabinet should
be sufficiently large to hold the con-
denser, tuning coil and one vacuum
tube. Figure 2 shows how the COM
pleted instrument looks.
The list of apparatus necessary to
be purchased by those who prefer TO
construct their own unit, is as fol-
lows:
/. One panel and cabinet.
2. One tube socket, suitable for
tube decided upon.
3. One rheostat, suitable for tube
decided upon.
f. One glass enclosed cartridge
type of grid leak with clips for mount
ing; one such as sold by the r. c. A.
is satisfactory.
8. One honey-comb coil $50 turns.
unmounted.
6. One 3-inch length OF tubing. 3
inch outside diameter, of paper, fiber,
bakelite, etc.
z. One variable condenser, max.
cap. O004 microfarads. Should have
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25
Keep Tuning Controls
Near Table as Possible

In designing radio receiver. the
constructor should remember that
those tuning controls which are con-
tinuously variable, should be kept as
near the table as possible. This will
allow comfortable operation A set
is often kept in use for hours at a
time, and the owners arms will be-
come tired quickly if they are con-
stantly stretched TO adjust some knob
ten inches of the table.