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New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

only in the South in winter" replied petcl.
 80 you are one of those fellows who believe everything he hears" " exclaimed Mocllcr. "Well, here l am and I'm alive"
 That's it." exclaimed Peter cag- erly. Here you are and you're alive and you ought not to be-"
 You should have heard Mocker laugh then. '1'd like to know why I ought not 10 be alive" said he when he could stop laughing.
 Peter looked a little foolish. He felt d little foolish. "I didn't mean just that, Mir. Mocker," said he. What 1 meant is that you ought to be down South, and because you're not, you ought not to be alive. No, I don't mean that. mean you-you--
 You mean" interrupted Mocker that you don't sec how l can find living up here. Is that it?"
 Peter nodded. "Ycs," said he that's it. How do you keep warm | and how do you get enough to eat?' You have that the wrong way around" replied Mockcr. Eating comes first. Eat enough and yon'l keep warm enough. Don't you know that?"
 Peter admitted that he did. H. i knew that food makes heat and ; warm coat keeps the heat in. H. fknow that he didn't care himsel how hard Jack Frost pinchcd so lonI as he had plenty 10 eat. He re imcmbercd that Welcome Robin ha, said something of the kind. So h. understood what MoCker meant But where do you get enough t cat?" he inquired.
 Right here" replied MockcI i"These berries are very good. Bu icyen with these 1 don't suppose would have enough if it were no for Farmer Browns Boy. Farme Browns Boy has a feeding shelf jus for me on the other side of tn house. So I do not have to worr about getting enough to eat Hay ing enough 10 eat, do not have | worry about the cold, really hay enjoyed the winter so far"
 Where do you sleep?" inquire Peter.
 That" replied Mockcr, lis SC cret."
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New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
"Do l Sthi Love Him?" Katherine
 Queries

Katherine was silent SO long after she had faltered out, "Nou know all about the rest Of it." that l finally realized she was-perhaps uncOn- seiously--waiting for the encourage ment of question from me, 1 wrenched myself back with jerk from my retrospective mental jour ney over the story Of Hal Mrrcdith, his wife Lucia and herself Ns lt had been told to me by tho famous alien ist, and put a tentative query.
 You forget" l said, "thut | have heard nothing of tho Mcrodiths for long time. The last l knew was when Dr. Meredith told me that he meant to win your consent 10 marry him after your present marriage and his Is dissolved. l never dared to question you on tho subject. hut l think now it might help you to have me know and"
 "Oh," she cried, not waiting for me to finish. that always has made me 20 furious--that he dared to imagine l would leave Jack for him or any other man-and Worsc-- dared to say 1t 10 any living being" "
 But" I stanmcrcd, confirmed in my stcadfast opinion of her loyalty to my brothOr- cousin, yet impellcd to persistence by sense of justice both to her and Hal Meredith -- but, Katherine. are you happy in your marriage to Jack' Do you -- do you"
 DO still love him % she finished my query calmly. "I wish, Madgc, that I knew the answer to that ques- tion myself
 "She Is Using Me as a Blind
 "And you know very well that l have not been happy as you put it, for long time. Jack himself .. . but no--I will not say that even 10 you"
 Especially to me. l think you mean. dear girl" l said tendcrly, "because you know that besides my father, Jack is the only relative have in the world. But this is no time for subterfuges or false deli cacy. If l am to help you-and surmise that you sorely need aid we must face facts and call things by their names. Do you think am blind, that I do not know the end of the sentence you just hrok@ off? Jack himself has made it i'm possible for you to have any norma happiness. by his sterness. his un. bending dignity his jealousy and his archaic ideas of your wifely duty tc him as contrasted with his own in- terest In someone else"
 But you forget, Madge," Kath.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
LETTER FROM LESLIE PRES corr TO LITTLE MARQNlSE, CARE SECRET DRAWER
 CnNTINI-E'n
-CONTINUED

At first I thought I could not live. l had feeling that l was in some way to blame. I wondered if l had given John to Paula the moment l had known little Jack was the child for their love, If the awful thing would have happened.
 One day when l found among some other papers in Johns desk that letter which he had written 10 Paula and had never sent, l knew that however much his heart had stayed, he had always loved her. Paula Perier was the love of John Alden Prescott as he was turbulent and irresistible.
 was the love Of John Alden Prescott as he would have like 10 be.
 was part of his ambition, his dreams of power and she was some thing so powerful he could not put her out of his life.
 There, Little MarQuise, l have given my whole confidence 10 you and I hope you will keep it all the long years of the future, locked in your heart.
 Little Jack at first asked once or twice for Daddy and the ''prctty lady" but he stopped when he found his questions hurt mo. l am sure that he knows now all about it, for he is eight years old, hut ho has never mentioned his fathers name.
 Sydney was too young 10 know anything.
 l would not havo written this cY- cept as a farewell 10 tho old life.
 Tomorrow I am going 10 enter a new one.
 Tomorrow l am going 10 hn Karl Whitney's wife.
 "Destiny always wius,' Karl 'o)l me last night. "Gcslic you Were destined 10 he my wifi when in, world began and you will still h my wife when our souls again fno
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
BEtIN HERE TO-DAY


 HENRY RAND, 5i, Il business man, is found murdered in a cheap hotel in GRAFTON, The only clews are a woman's handkerchief and q yellow ticket stub from thcatcr in Bridgeport.
 JIMMY RAND. lIcnrY's son, goes to Bridgeport, where he and DE, TECTINE MOONEY rac" the tjc&w to q THOMAS tONAETN, who sUys he gave il 10 Il woman named OLGA MANNAEb. Police search for her.
 Jimmy meets anal falls in love with MARY LOWElIn and gets Il job in her office Later he accident .ully encounters Olga Maynard, He meets her ut night and couilontS her with thc evidence against her, She
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

were looking for, you let us know.'
 What do you Mean?"
 "Wo'yo found the Maynard woman, She says you were with her last night, Why didn't you tell us""
 "I was going to bring her down here tonight. Lieutenant, l give you lay word. wanted to talk 10 her alone and Zee whnt ahc was liEc She didn't do it, Lieutenant"
 ",Shc didn't, eh" Web, I'm not go sure. Como on upstairs. Well .H,ud you when we talk 10 her"
 olga Maynard was whitc-faccd without her rouge. Her eyes, sniff, ing rcsllcssly, wore a hunted look,
 She flarcd at Jimmy when h. came in with O'Day, "You told thcm," she accused. "lou said you
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

most politely.
 Hello, Peter Rabbit" exclaimed Mocker. What are you doing over hcrc?"
 I'm over here to sec if you are really you" replied Peter.
 You should have heard Mr. Mock CT laugh. If l am not myself, l certainly am no one else" replied Mocker.
 But you cant live up here in |thc winter" replied Peter. Who says I cant?" inquired | MoCkcr.
 "Why mhy- why, I have always Ihcard that Mocking Birds can live
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couple of cabaret proprietors," ad- mitted O'Day indicating the tele- gram, All right, what did you do next :"
 "That's all. didn't get anywhere, so l took the train Wednesday night back to Bridgeport"
 You didn't stay all night in Graf ton-didn't register al any hotel?" O'Day asked,
 No, I didn't 20 near any hotcl'
 "You'ro not tellin' the truth. You were in Canficld Hotel while you were in Grafton. We know you were"
 "All right, say wasn't, 1 never even saw the Canficld Hotel"
 '"Then how did that ticket stub get in the room? You admit you
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

party go any further and l got out walked home" Mother burst into tears.
 Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Incl | TOMORROW: Mothers Tears.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10


 Nothing would do now but for Peter Rabbit to meet MoCkcr the Mocklng Bird and find out how it was that Mockcr happened to stay over for the winter. Peter was fair ly burning up with curiosity. Early every morning he was over there in the old Orchard watching. Always he saw Mocker go oyer 10 th" vine on Farmer Browns house. That vine was d woodbinr and still held its berries. Finally, carly one morning Peter Ncn,urcd 10 go right over hy Farmer Browns house and sit right under the vine. Presently Mockcl Ithc MockinE Bird arrived.
 "Icno, Mir. Mockcr," said Peter
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
Your Health How to Keep It.
 Causes of Illness
(BY DR. HUGH $. CUMMING) Surgeon General, |, <. Public
 Health Service

The average person thinks of sta tiuicS aS something dull, dry and
 mintcrcsting; something possibly 10 br expected in government report, for instance, but certainly nothing in which to find either enjoyment or stimulation. This opinion of sta tstics. shared by the many is not entirely sound or correct.
 Birth statistics are valuable to q community as whole because by them community is enabled to de- tcrminc its natural increase or de- crease in population by studying the number of births in excess of deaths or vice versa. Birth records are also of great importance 10 your health officer, for by means of them, he IS
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10
By THORNTON W. BURGESS

The skcptic. as he Go2s about, Is pccring through q fog of doubt
 -Air NOCkcr
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

HORIZONTAL 1 The chief or director A burning of the dead II Work of genius 12 Implement l% Needy h sun god 1G Dobatablc 17 Machine for crushing ore l9 Wild duck 20 Small body of water 21 Beverage 92 Avail (gcnerally used with in) 2i Early 25 To sanction 2G Observed 27 Title of nobility @S Card game 20 Finishes S1 Spiders homes 33 Portion of harness 35 Embryo plant S7 Colors 30 Wand 40 Printers measure 42 Roll of film A Devours 46 Point of compass 47 To help 49 TO cntreat 51 High 53 Gait A Wraths 55 End of dress coat 57 To stitch kS To prepare for publication 80 Season G1 You and me G2 To bend G3 Black particles given off by
 smoke G4 Mother Ca Destitute of natural head cover.
 ing G6 orb seen at night CT Cooking vessel GS Makes smooth G9 To repair 70 Coal pit
 VERTICAL
 1 TO annoy
 2 Age
 3 Proposition of place
 TO lower temperature
 To decay
 Deity
New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-24

and other aviation projects. The
establishment, by various communities,
of landing fields and other aids to
aerial navigation is also noteworthy.
The interest of this corporation
primarily lies in the constructor of
aircraft; but at the same time we
realize that this interest is indissolu-
bly, linked with the strengthening of
public sentiment for all forms of air
travel and transportation.
We would be very pleased to hear
community may have for the estab-
lishment of landing fields, air routes,
the operation of aircraft to- points TO
interest hitherto inaccessible because
of natural obstacles, the promotion
of tourist travel in this way, and in
all other questions that might come
to your mind. We will be glad to
cooperate with you in any way pos
sible and urge that you let us know
your needs. Our statistical depart
ment is at your disposal to furnish
you such data as you may desire,
gained from five years of successful
operation of Fokker aircraft on Euro
pean air lines in which time more
than 100000 miles have been COW
cred with excellent results.
Awaiting your advices,
Very truly yours,
FOKKER AIRCRAFT OCRP.
BY E. N. GOTT,
Vice President.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-24
FOKKER PLANES
COMP ANY PLANS
NEW AIR ROUTE

A letter from the FokKer Aircraft
corporation with a factory at Has
brouck Heights, N. j., and offices in
New York City has been received
at the Douglas Chamber of Commerce
and Mines regarding local, plans for
airplane routes and general progress
in the aircraft field in this section
of the southwest.
1t is the desire of the Fokker
concern to cooperate with the local
chamber in any way possible for the
fostering of airplane passenger and
commercial service.
The letter which is of great in
terest because of it's importance to
future development in this section Of
the country reads as follows:
There is probably no scientific de-
velopment of greater interest to the
general public at the present time
than that of aviation. The daily press
holds continual reference to matters
pertaining to aviation in it's various
branches. Up to the present time
aviation has held the center
of the stage but in the last few
months there has bee ma tremendous
impetus for the development of air.
craft along commercial lines, which
s evinced by the enlistment of sub
capital in air transportation
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-24
FINANCE
DRIVE. OF Y. W.
MARCH | TO 6

With the date of the annual fl
nance campaign of the Y. w. c. A.
set for March 1 to 6, members OF
the finance committee have already
made arrangements for this work
Mrs. e. J. Huxtable, as chairman of
finance on the board of directors, is
in charge of this campaign and is
sues her call to those assisting in
the campaign to be at the Y. w. G.
A. Monday afternoon at 2:3O.
The workers will be organized in
to teams with a captain for every
five or six women These women
will divide among them the list of
members and prospective subscribers,
reporting daily on the progress of
their work toward the final goal
This, however, promises to be mat
ter of lively interest since a contest
will be held to see which team can
bring in the most in pledges, and
which gets the largest number of
A daily bulletin of
this will be, shown for the benefit of
all. A newly invented instrument"
the "tri nometer," will show every
one the success of the campaign
from day to day. Watch for the
tri-nometer!'
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-24
APPLICANTS FOR
c. M. CAMPS IN
DISTRICT SOUGHT

The chief of staff, 1O3rd division
has been made responsible for the
procurement of personnel for the cit
izens' military training camps in the
1O3rd divisional area. In securing the
necessary enrolment heg will coop
crate with the civilian aides of the
states of Arizona, Colorado, and New
Mexico.
Dates and locations of 1925 camps.
with quotas, are. as follows:
Fort Logan, Colo, from July to
July 80, quota 300.
Fort Huachuca, Arizona, from July
10 to Aug. 13, quota 100.
Fort Bliss, Texas from July % to
August 20, quota 100.
Applicants must be mentally alert
and physically sound Ages IL to 81
years. Must be native born or must
have made application at least for
first papers of naturalization.
1t is desired to fill our quota in
this divisional area at the earliest
practicable date. All applications are
to be forwarded to the headquarters,
103rd division.
Application blanks and further as
slstance may be obtained from these
headquarters upon request.
In view of the destructive criticism
directed against the reserve officers
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-24

training corps and the citizens mill
tary training camps it is urged that
our reserve officers make Vigorous ef-
forts to counteract this insiduous
propaganda. A flood Of applications
of the c. NJ 7. camps will be force
full answer. We stand pat on the
proposition that the real purpose of
these summer camps is to make good
citizens. If we can make good citf-
zens of our youth we are willing to
leave the rest to providence.
Sincerely yours, David P. Wood, A..
c. S. for personnel for the chief Of
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-24
Standard Oil Awarded
Monopoly In Turkey

LONDON, Feb pa Constantine
pole dispatch reports that the Turk
ish government has reached an agree
ment with the Stanard Oil company
of New Jersey, whereby the govern
ment will get it's oil supplies from
the Stanard depots at Constantinople,
Smyrna and Samsun. This is inter
preted as a monopoly for the com
pany.
The new Turkish monopoly law
forbids the Importation of Kerosene.
gasoline and other products except
through government monopoly. This
law has given concern to foreign
business interests in Turkey and
conferences have been held recently
between officials of the Standard Oil
company, the largest American in
terest affected, and the finance min
lister regarding the future of the
company in Turkey where its invest
ment is valued at $3,5O0,O00.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-24
BIG FIRE IN GUAyMAs.

GUAYMAS, Son., Mex, Feb. "a
Property damage estimated at more
than $4,000 occurred here last night
when fire starting in a soap fac
tory spread to five adjacent build
ings.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-06-03

Quoting from letter in the New York Times,
apropcs of reform by which library and laboratory
and lecture room can be raised to their true func-
ton and authority the writer says, lit cannot be
done where athletic coaches paid, as they are
in many schools twice as much as any professor.
Nc it be done where the college spends as much
the stadium it does all Of its scientific lab.
oratpics combined. ....... In the average Amcri-
can 4dllege everything is done to get him (the stu
denb excited over athletics; very little is done to
hold him steadily to the work he should be doing in
classroom and library"
If athletics dominated the colleges for the physical
Improvement Of the great body of students, it would
be defensblc, but true anateurism no longer exists
in ,ffc. major sports in most colleges; the average
student las absolutely chance to participate in
them; all he gets out of sport in the way Of personal
exercise is in jumping cxctcdly TO his feet during
biz game and shouting, kill the umpire"
These sports maintained for their advertising
value and their financial return. That may be an
unpleasant fact but it is the truth and might jus.
ms we'll be faced first last. To quote from tn
same letter, 1.-THE colleges have gone into the amusc
ment park business, and amusement park, well
managed, brings in tremendous income" This
criticism merely to call attention to the un
wise domination Of scholarship by athletics.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-06-03
Real Achievement

Full cc1!ization Of the mighty changes that take
place nt.r.g a generation is found in Louise de Ko-
ven HoHen's new book called Growing Up With n
City"
Mrs. Bowen is an old resident Of Chicago and her
book traces the unfolding Of that monster city from
the mud flats of just one generation ago.
She tells Of an early adventure in philanthropy
when she sent turkey to poor family in whose
home she had found the mother boiling thread spoos
fer soup
A day or so after sending the turkey, Mrs. Bower
called en- the family and found the fowl which wa;
dcader than door nail, dressed in the baby's one
dress and lying in the one bed The family did no.
know what turkey and supposed it some sort
of doll for the baby
Today we still have our slums and our poor But
people do not starve in this country any more nor is
any family utterly poverty-stricken that it could
net recognize the Thanksgiving bird for what it u.s.
Science has made great strides during the last
generation. We fly; we hear across mighty oceans;
machinery does the work OF men. But great as any
achievement is the progress we have made in bet
tcring social conditions.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-06-03
Anne Should Worry

From New York comes the news that "Abies
IRISH Rose has completed its fourth consecutive year
IN the metropolis and is now launched on it's fifth
The show already has run on Broadway-or in it's
Vcinity-for more than 100 uninterrupted perform
ances and seems certain to eclipse the record set by
the London production Of "Chu Chin Chow" which
was shown 1000 times
The critics long since have ceased to wall and
gnash their teeth over the phenomenal success Of
this undoubtedly cheap comedy Seemingly. it is
just lone Of those things that defy explanation and
reflection say the drama scriveners on American
taste.
but Anne Nichols, its author should worry Aside
from the shows uninterrupted run in New York is
the aft that Of road and stock companies nut
it onsand poured's still more royalties into the well.
filled Golfers of Miss Nichols.
otncr piaywrIghts Of the "hgher drama" may
turn up naughty nose at the young lady's not boil
en- but that doesn't bother her. Anne by this time
mas something like dollar for nearly every French
man in Paris, while some Of her artistically minded
contemporaries still unable to support NOR.
than one automobile.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-06-03
1t May BE Necessary
cleveland Plain Dcalcr)


Nothing is likely to come Immediately of Secrc-
tary Melons suggestion Of law to prevent the sale
OF fraudulent securities, but unless the blue sky
laws of some Of the states are soon strengthened,
action by congress will become necessary.
The change which has come over the economic DO
siton of this country in recent years makes more
rigid regulation of security issues and sales more
imperative than in the years before the war. The
Liberty loan campaigns increased the number Of
American investors in securities probably hun
Fdredfc!d. And now that the United States has be-
come a creditor nation our investments of that type
will progressively increase.
Education and the dissemination of information
relative to investment have already saved the public
millions, but millions are still lost every year-onc
estimate places the figure at $780, 0O0-through
the misrepresentation of fraudulent stock and bond
statesmen. Most of US hesitate to see the Federal
government extend it's functions and to undertake
measures Of regulation which properly should be as
sumed by the states. But the business of security
investment has become definitely Interstate in it's
scope Legislation commensurate with it would ap-
pear logical if experience with other forms Of in
terstate business be taken as a guide,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-06-03
HER OWN WAY

unccremoniously in the care Of the
nurse and went to the telephone in
the outer sitting room. Here he held
low-voiccd conversation with some
one.
In few moments he came back
and poor Miss Clcaver was hurriedly
taken down the freight elevator into
a covered delivery wagon. | imMedi
ately knew that an ambulance would
be too conspicuous. 1t all seemed SO
unfeeling TO me.
When asked the doctor if she
was being taken to the hospital, at
first he said no, and then he inform
ed me that Mr.. Robinson had order
ed her to a private hospital where she
would have every care and conse-
tquently have great chance of re-
c0very.
$50 there is only chanco~of re-
covcry,"NR. said in -hushed voice.
81 didn't say that, young woman"
answered the doctor tartly. There
tell by my Appetite he said sudden
ly And. with that he stuck his
long lead-pencil Of a beak quite
twelve inches down in the ground
and pulled UP Mister Cock-Chafer
and ate him.
Handsome is as handsome does"
shid he. Then he went to sleep again
before the Twins could ask him Il
single thing.
tTo Be Continued)
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