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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1924-12-13
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Christmas!" 4

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there was wonder and hurt But she
could not talk about 1t now. Rs
When the Woman left her in the
white bed by the window. she cautious
ly opened it so the Snowflakes could
come in. And then. with a great sob,
she told them her troubles.
In the big room with the bay win
dow, the Man paced restlessly back
and forth and the Woman sat by the
table with workbasket and mending,,
But her hands lay listlessly in her lap
and she gazed into the fire.
Once her face frightened and she
murmured aloud, "But Father and
Mother never forgot us, and Of course
they will send something for the
Child" A tSfs &
The Man wheeled about with a
scowl. +We won't receive anything
from them. Do you think we would
accept presents, when we are not send,
ing any? have written them that we
are not to have any more Christmas
celebrations"
' "Oh,' gasped the Woman. "You do
not mean we must send back every
thing we get?"
The Man hesitated. Then, DIS though
he were sick of the subject, II. don't
know. It is all your doing. It is you
who has nervous prostration at Christ.
mas after worrying about presents"
Il do not" she denied hotly. sand
you suggested this anyway. wish we
had never heard Of Christmas!"
Their Christmas Eve was spent in
quarreling, and that night they
dreamed of horrible plots that, Santa
was planning against them.
A pale moon with icicles on his whis-
kers watched over the little village.
The Snow Lady was asleep and the
Snowflake Imps had settled down to
rest. One cottage cleaned colder
and whittier than the others and seemed
to stand apart as though not Of them.
The Spirit of Christmas tried the door
softly.
"Why. it is barred against mel" he
murmured sadly. "This will never do"
So he walked about looking for a
place to get in until he came to the
window where the Child slept. Ten.
derly he sprinkled happiness and joy
upon her until her lips parted in a
smile. Then he flew past her to where
the Man and the Woman slept. To
them he gave of all his essences.
The Woman wakened first. and with
strange new feelings, she called the
Man. They gazed long at each other
Merry Christmas" whispered the
Woman.
And with wonder and joy, peace and
good will all mingled together. the
Man took her in his arms.
1--WE must have Christmas. after all. '
he said. And the Woman nodded. her
eyes beaming with happiness. II must
60 to the shops and bring Santa Claus
for the Child before she wakes"
"Wait," cried the Woman. and laugh.
ing. she brought from their hiding
place an assortment Of beautiful toys
Mother and Father sent them anu I
just couldn't send them back"
With shining faces and happy hearts,
the Man and the, Woman hung stock
ings by the fireplace and heaped them
with playthings.
1--WE will tell her she had bad
dream" said the Mae.
mo" said the Woman softly. NV.
will tell her that Santa Is the ga'.
Christmas fairy. Mfo will always
welcome here
&C. Ij.i. Western Newspaper Union.t
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1924-12-13

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s-'slAs> s>e@M
TIN THE lit gS
A tie village Sasa, ,HEfs\
A&NS below the SESSSXa (TSf
HfS& hill the snow and N 7
Ice covered N}&M&
houses seemed snug UExEl
: ! ! !: !: !: !; ! ! : ! !
Cling up together EME&
among the fir trees in MzYEIa}
order to keep warm. y/7EBSSX
The fir trees. locked M 49, n
their long arms to- x,~A(INY
gether and moved rest YNly
lessly to and fro, moan ~
ing now and then. 9th EEzA
er trees, hop e lie ssly w
bare and cold, shivered
in the wind and cracked their icy
branches The, beautiful Lady Of the
Snow with all her Snowflake Imps in
attendance fitted about the village
street, sliding gayly down the shop
windows and flirting with the passers-
by.
The Man and the Child made their
way through the drifts toward the
group of houses. The Child ran and
danced about, now in front, now be-
hind the Man, shouting and laughing.
She loved the white old Winter and in
return Winter had commanded all his
subjects to be kind to her. So the
Snow Lady kissed and caressed her
and the Snowflakes played about her
merrily, touching her cheeks softly and
making them rosy. A
But the Man hated Winter and now
he hurried along, giving no heed to the
beauties about him. wishing only. for
the warm fire in his cottage. The
Snow Lady tried all her charms on
him, but he only pulled his muff1er
tighter about his throat and his cap
more firmly upon his head and went
on. Then the Snowflake Imps flew at
him furiously. They stung his face
and buried themselves inside his muf-
fer. The North Wind tormented him,
too, blowing up his sleeves and twist
ing his great coat about his knees un-
til he stumbled and muttered under his
breath. When the Child laughed at
him and would have thrown snow in
his face he reproved her gruff1y.
The Man was threshing over in his
mind question he had discussed with
the Woman only the week before. They
had decided to have no Christmas this
year. It was foolish, very foolish to
wear ones self out thinking and plan
ming presents for all ones relatives
and friends for months before, and
then perhaps not be ready when Christ
mas came. They would not allow
their child to keep her BELIEF in the
foolish Santa Clause myth which they
had told her so long ago.
This was the hardest part, for both
the Man and the Woman dreaded to
tell the Child, and they put off the task
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1924-12-13

Figured silk or bright cretonne and
gay ribbon are used to cover and fin
ish off this pretty tea cozy. Every
hostess hopes one Of these will be
among her gifts Of little housefurnish-
ings-that Christmas time is relied
upon to bring. They are easy to
make-fashioned of two pieces joined
at their curved edges.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1924-12-13

Happy is the home-maker who re-
ceives pretty lamp or candle shades
at Christmas time-nothing helps
more to deck out the house and make
it cheerful. Here is a new shade
made of thin silk, or fine crepe paper,
in two colors, rose and light blue. A
wire frame is first covered with the
rose color, put in plain, and over this
the light blue is plated. Gold lace,
silk or paper roses and four tassels
finish off this novelty in shades.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1924-12-13

This brilliant affair in bags for eve
ming wear is made of narrow. metallic
ribbon folded into points and sewed to
"a foundation. The metallic ribbons
combine silk in many colors with gold
or silver threads. Two oval pieces
Of silk, about eight inches long and
five wide, in the color Of the ribbon,
make the foundation. IS
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VICTORY ASSURED
FOR DAM PROJECT,
BUT MAY Be LATE
Politics to Delay Boulder
Canyon Bill Until After
Adjournment,
Times Washington Bureau,
1922 New York Ave.

WASHINGTON. May 31.-A ten
tative, though not immediate, victory
is in sight for the Swing-Johnson
Boulder canyon bill, with its policy
of public power development.
The House Irrigation Committee
will report the bill favorably, it is
practically assured. although that
report will probably not be made
until after the summer recess of
Congress.
The reason given for delaying the
report in spite of the fact that COM
mittee members are said to have
favored the bill when it came be-
fore them in executive session, is
the short time remaining before Con-
gress adjourns.
Although hearings have been in
progress continuously since Jan. 1,
all the documents to be included in
the record are yet in the commit
tees hands and thus it is practical
" impossible to finish printing hear
ings. write a. report and get the bill
to the House.
Before Adjournment
Furthermore, the committee hopes
that in December the troublesome
issue Of the Colorado River compact
will have been disposed of. Arizona
is to vote on the compact in Novem-
Der, and if she approves it, the rea-
son the upper basin States have
given for opposing the measure will
be removed.
Finally, and perhaps most i'm
portant of all, elections will be over
when Congress reconvenes. and it
may be less troublesome for mem
bers to vote on a bill they concede
to be meritorious but which bears
the name of Hiram Johnson and
bears also the disapproval of Cabi-
net members on the Federal power
commission.
The bill proposes to solve flood
and irrigation problems of the South
west by building a 605-foot dam near
-soulder Canyon in the Colorado
River. Development and sale of
power by the Government will repay
ts9 $4,000. 600 to be expended in the
worn
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At present it did not occur to her
that she had perhaps failed to under
stand him, too.
She read the message again. It
had ben sent from Alaska, the far
North, thousands of weary miles
distant from her and thousands Of
miles farther from the corner Of the
earth where she had thought he had
been hiding. She had not dreamed
but that he had fed to South Ameri-
ca, as Ivan Ishmin had advised. Ger
tainly he had gone to Savannah and
had boarded the disreputable trader
Of which Ivan had told him; but
some adventure of the journey had
fetched him up in the far North
rather than in Rio de Janeiro. The
letters Ivan had given him to his
great friends in the Brazilian capital
letters to facilitate his fight back
to the frOntier-had evidently been
no use to him, after all.
For months past Dorothy had
lived in constant fear of his capture.
Such news she had expected in the
telegram today, that in spite Of
Ivan's heroic efforts to cover up the
fugitive's tracks, the arm of the law
had seized him at last. Ivan had
withheld his testimony to the very
last, running the risk Of being hailed
into court himself on the charge of
assisting a murderer to escape, not
telling the tragic story of what he
had seen and taken part in on the
deck of the motor boat until it was
vertically forced from him at the
inquiry several days later, but she
had not dared to believe that Peter
could escape the hue and cry that
was subsequently raised.
Dorothy was known, throughout
her beautiful resident city, for the
unfailing loneliness of her appear
ance-eyes always bright, cheeks
flushed, quaint frocks dainty and
fresh, bobbed curls, clustering in dark
glory about her head and around her
childish, slender neck and throat
but her nearest friends would hardly
have known her now. The lovely
dull-red glow on her brown cheeks
had faded, her sensuous mouth was
drawn and haggard with agony, her
eyes like dark blotches below the
brows.
She bowed her lovely, bobbed head
into the cushion of the divan; and
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HE say it's Mistah Ishmin," the
servant told her stolidly. HE want
to know if you feel like comm to de
phone"
Dorothy hesitated, started to in
struct Nora to repeat a message,
then got up and went to the phone
herself.
MY dear girl, have just heard
the awful news" he began in his
gentle, comforting voice.
AZ just read it, in the papers," he
went on, land I'm wondering if it
would make you feel any worse to
have me come out"
II want you to come very much"
she answered simply.
Perhaps you'd rather wait-I
could come out later just as we'll
you can phone me when you want
me-" he went on, in his instructive,
well-bred effort to put her at her
ease. Maybe you'd like to be alone
for these first hours, but if, later,
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can help in any way. I am always
ready"
No, 1 really want you to come.
And bring the Stradivarius. if you
will. think it will help-to hear
that"
Ivan hung up, and as she waited
for him to come she sent Nora after
the latest paper. She had not ex-
Tected that the news would be made
public so socn. She found the article
on the first page, and saw with re-
lief it was entirely fair:
Pirate Cove, Alaska. Dec. 2-The
body Of Peter Newhall Of Augusta,
Georgia, was picked up dead on the
beach on the north coast of Alaska
Peninsula. He was a victim of the
wreck of the cannery-boat Jupiter
that went to pieces on the rocks in
her effort to aid the auxiliary
schooner Ejgten, which was in dis
tress.
The above news came as a great
shock to the entire city today. Mr..
Newhall was a member Of one OF the
South's most ancient and distin-
guished families; and although the
last part of his life has been over
taken with tragedy. his friends re-
member him for the good friend,
chivalrous gentleman, and social
favorite that he was throughout the
years of his manhood.
Peter Newhall was born in this
city thirty-six years ago, the son of
Colonel Newhall of Gettysburg fame.
He was married two years ago to
Miss Dorothy Stanhope of Savannah
The affair that led to his downfall
occurred in a motor-boat party on
the Savannah River a year ago last
summer. According to testimony
brought out at the inquiry Peter had
sought a bitter quarrel with Mr..
Ivan Ishmin, a violinist Of interna-
tional fame who was spending the
season at Aiken, South Carolina.
When the men were at the verge of
blows, Paul Sarichef, Ishmiu's Sec
rotary, interfered in Ishmin's behalf,
and turning on him in a fury, New
hall was heard to threaten to throw
him out of the boat into the river.
Ishmin himself was the sole OBJ
server of the tragic outcome of the
quarrel, and torn between grief at
the death of his secretary and loyal
ty to his friend Newhall, it was with
the greatest difficulty that his testi-
mony was drawn from him at the
inquiry. Later this same night Ish-
min was aroused by angry voices,
and he left his stateroom to find his
secretary, Paul Sarichef, and New
hall struggling on the deck; and be-
fore he could interfere, Newhall had
hurled the unfortunate Russian into
the water. Ishmin Immediately
dived to rescue him, but he saw the
man go down for the third time be-
fore he could reach his side, Almost
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Belong to Later Period
Bower Donates to End

Joe Boyer, who rode to victory in
L. L. Corum's Duesenberg in the
500-mile race at the Speedway Fri
day, is on the list of donors to the
$500 fund which is to send an Indi-
annapolis Boy Scout to the Interna-
tional Scout jambouree at Copen-
hagen, Denmark, in July.
Harry w. Krause, in charge Of the
fund campaign, announced Boyer
readily agreed to be one Of the eigh-
teen subscribers.
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HO0Sie9- Briefs

After thirty-one years Of happy
married life, his wife deserted him,
Isaac A. Farmer, farmer living
near New Point, Decatur County,
charges in a petition for divorce.
George Drummer, Kokomo, spoke
to the Marion Kiwanis Club Of ex-
periences on a big game hunting
trip to Africa.
Personal property assessments in
Jackson County this year are s A.
$40 lower than last year, according
to County Auditor Samuel Carr.
Boone County farmers on account
of weather conditions have on,y
been able to plant three-ffths of
their normal corn acreage, it is
estimated.
Verdict of 81 was given Lillian
handbook, Button, who sued the
F. w. Woolworth Company for
SANDER. She was insulted in the
Woodwork store in Fit. Wayne she
charged.
J. B. Rayl has resigned as trustee
Of Prairie Township, Upton County,
on account of i'll health.
Special Judge Ralph Spaugh in
granting Mrs. Rose Lanam, a Col
umbus Divorce, commended her for
her fOrbearance in not sooner resent
ing the tobacco-chewing habit of her
husband.
Rush County American War
Mothers gave a banquet at Rush
vile to ex-service men of the county.
There were III in attendance.
The Bloomington Motor Speedway
race scheduled for Memoial day was
postponed until July 4.
Melvin Mckee. Civil War veteran,
charged with the murder of Willard
Mingous, spent Memorial day in a
cell in the Bartholomew County Jail
at Columbus.
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pear at her best in VANS presence.
She secretly wondered if this were
not. after all, an indication that
what he had begged for was his at
last-her heart.
Had her love gone out to him in
these past, bleak, miserable months
of mourning? He fascinated her,
this master violinist from the East.
And there was no barrier between
them now. The divorce Ivan had
urged upon her would not now be
necessary; the news from far Alaska
had made her free.
Continued in Our Net Issue
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the blessing of tears was hers at
last. The long hours Of the after
noon dragged away. She was miser-
ably alone, her mother was out Of
the city, even old Rose, her cOlored
nanny, did not know of her grief
and thus could not come to comfort
her; and Ivan-On whom, in these
past months. she had begun to lean
was in high communion with the
gods as, his violin tucked under his
clear-cut chin. he practiced lovingly
in his studio.
She was aroused at last by the
sharp ring Of the telephone bell and
the shutting steps of Nora, the sec
ond girl, who went to answer it. A
moment later the servant came to
the DOORWAY
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Send Exnert

MONTREAL. Quebec, May IL
Fhe Canadian-Pacific Railway, col
Onization and development depart
ment, are sending W. L. Burnie, in
dustrial agent, to the British EN-
pire Exhibition at London. He will
be stationed at the company's build
ing, wherein is exhibited the natural
resources and manufactures of Can
ada. Burnie will give authentic in
formation to manufacturers and 9TH
ers interested in the development Of
Canadian trade.
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Hit Beauty Displays

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., May 81.
"A blow was struck at the heart of
bathing girl parades and beauty re-
vues when the New Jersey State
Federation of Women's Clubs, in
convention here, adopted a resolu-
tiol. calling on the women of the
United States to wage a campaign
against such 'promiscuous display
Ing of beauty"
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ROCK STRATAOF
STATE RECORDED
IN DEEPEST WELL
Crystalline Floor Reached at
Depth of $3.50 Feet
DriIIingS Studied,

From samples taken at each five
feet Of the deepest well ever driven
in Indiana, DR.. w. n. Logan, ge-
ologist Of the State conservation de
partment, expects to complete a
stratigraphicaI record from the per
iod which closes the bedrock part
Of the geological history Of north
central Indiana.
This well, according to Richard
Lieber. department director. is at
GreentOwn. in Howard County, and
was drilled by the Chicago Gas and
Fuel Company.
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Alleged Train Wrecker Held

BB Times Special
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, May 31.-Em-
NETT H. Sturtz, 20, Coshocton, Ohio,
is being held on $4,000 bond on
charge Of obstructing a railroad
track. Angered when he was or
dered off a freight train, detectives
say. he placed a brake beam across
the Pennsylvania Railway tracks
near Arcola. A repair car was
wrecked.
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Bull Attacks Boy

By Times Special
LAGRANGE, Ind, May 31.-Rob-
ert Rowe, 8, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter G. Rowe, is in a-serious con-
dition today from injuries received
when a bull attacked him and
threw him over a fence. His jaw
was broken and he suffered severe
bruises.
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BEGIN HERE TODAy

Biz Chris Larson. Alaska canne-y
foreman. seeking boat connection for
the outside world In launch. is
driven by a storm into a small cove
He and the hard-drinking Remittance
Man, whom he had met that evening
leave the cove for the open sea in the
eannery launch to answer a distress
signal.
The Remittance Man forces Big
Chris to put on his sea jacket. The
Remittance Man finds comfort in the
tact that ne cannot return to Dorothy
and his home in Georgia. from which
he had fed following a tragic launch
ride On the Savannah River. While so
musing. the ship strikes a reef and he
Is hurled into darkness.
Dorothy Newhall receives at her
home in Augusta, Ga, a telegram
from Pirate Cove Alaska. then faints
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Man, II. WEEDS Fifth Wife

By United Press
ELWOOD, Ind, May 31-John
Stilwen, II, is today the second
husband of Mrs. Sarah Berwick, 81.
It is Stilwells fifth venture. His
first wife divorced him, the second
died. the third was freed by the
courts and he recently buried the
fourth
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had been bothered with my back for
over year, and it would hurt me,
until 1 gould not do my work, which
is keeping house for three and cook.
ing and washing dishes. 7 tell all
my friends if they have any kim
of female troubles to give Lydia E. '
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a.
trial. You may use this testimonial
If 1t will help any one. Mrs. c. R.
Miller, R. F. D. No. 1, Box rs, Ro-
tan, Texas.
In a recent countrywide canvass
Of purchasers of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound over 121, 900
replies were received, and SO out of
every 100 reported they were bene-
fitted by its use. For sale by drug
gists re.-Advertisement
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New Pneumonia Serum

BOSTON, May 31.-An improved
serum, which may reduce the death
rate for pneumonia by 25 or so per
cent, was described by DIR. Lloyd D.
FELTON,, assistant professor of pre-
ventive medicine at the Harvard
Medical School, in an address before
the New England Health ms ltute
recently.
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Boy, 6, Killed by Auto

BIZ United Press
SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 81
John Engle, 6, is dead today from
injuries received when run down by
an auto Friday driven by Mrs. Fred
Zimmerman, Indianapolis. Mrs. Gin
norman was exonerated today by
the coroner. Eye-witnesses said the
boy dashed out in front of the car.
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KLAN OBSERVES DAY
Fireworks, Parades and Concerts
Feature Fair Ground Program

Memorial day was observed by the
KU-Klux Khan in a demonstration at
the fair ground Friday night. Fire
works, parades and band concerts
were on the program. Klan officials
estimated the attendance at 5000.
The crowd filed the stands and
lined the fences. officials announced
the program tonight was discarded
because of a Kan celebration at
MoOresville.
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To Improve Highways

TORONTO, Ontario. May 31.-An
expenditure of approximately S5,-
100000 upon highways during the
season has been decided On
by the provincial government. The
program will be to pave lis miles
Of highways and to grade another
twenty-five miles throughout the
province.
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New Pool Opens July 4

New swimming pool of the High
land Golf and Country Club will be !.
opened July 4, according to plant
under way. The pool, seventy-fivsT
by thirty feet, is of regulation size
for swimming meets.
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they spread. The trouble continued
for three or four months.
4" read an advertisement for CU-
ticsUa Soap and Ointment and sent
for a free sample. / found relief
immediately after using 1t, so pur-
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large box Of Ointment and three
cakes Of Soap was completely
healed. (Signed) Miss Gladys vii
ferth. 612-2nd ST., Milwaukee, Wis.
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Try our new Shaving Stick.
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Portuguese in India

By United Press
LONDON, May 31.-Portuguese
fiiers who have entered the world
race have arrived at Ambilia, $50
miles from Lahore, India, according
to a dispatch to The Times from
Simla.