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The Ely miner., 1926-12-24

Riotous thoughts ran through his
mind as the slow moving train ad-
vance5 toward the village. For the
time being bis errand and not what Its
outcome might be outweighed the
gloom of the impending doom that
hung over his own life. His thoughts
were on another's trouble rather than
his own. He wondered If perchance
she might already be married. People
did such things on Christmas Eve, and
1t was late fall when he last talked
with Margaret. With the thought
came a Tightening about the muscles
of his heart. 1t was the first warn
ing, Tom knew.
The train fairly crawled. 1t was an
hour late. Tom remembered 1t was
always an hour or so late on Christ
mas Eve 1t had been so every year,
he recalled He was surprised that
he hadn't thought Of that before. In
the maze Of his harassed brain he
hoped the deadly odor would not take
effect too soon. He had too much to
do first.
At last the train drew in at the sta.
tion. There was no taxi. Toere never
were taxis at Smithsville; but other
years Margaret had met him. He
stepped out, almost expecting to see
her laughing a welcoming Merry
Christmas at him. He almost felt dis
appointed, and again that queer little
copootiop ohnut bio boart ropo1linp t0
him the Importance Of losing no time.
Without reason, from force of habit,
Tom went directly to the old house OF
Margarets aunt The house was In
total darkness but Tom gave the old
fashioned bell vigorous pull and its
the chill wintry air-not at all like a
Christmas chime came the unsolicited
thought to Tom. The house was dark,
it might be empty, but Tom was going
to be sure. Again and again he pulled
down the bell. Ages it seemed to Tom
before light appeared and big, burly,
Peter Kline, arrayed in night apparel,
threw wide open the door.
"Is some one sick or dying this night
| that you raise such hullabaloo at a
mans door?"
He lowered the lamp and peered at
Tom:
$50 it's you? I'll be gol-darned.
What's ailin' you? Come in Come'in r
He fairly pushed Tom in, banging
the door behind them.
All the time Tom had been asking
for Margaret, but Peter apparently
heard nothing until they were in the
cozy living room where embers still
| glowed in the old-fashioned fireplace.
| 'Is it Margaret you're seeking? Glad
enough 1 am that you've come to al
last Married to me, did you sayi
Certainly not. I married the Widow
Stone at Thanksgiving. I'm not the
sort of man that wants to marry @
girl who loves some one else. Marga
ret lives over at Neighbor Lewis
Some ones up" Peter unceremoni
ously ushered Tom out into the night
Tom never knew quite how he got
across the street to the Lewises', bu
it was Margaret herself who opened
the door. Neither did he know how
it came about that Margaret was Ii
his arms.
1t was later when they got theil
breath and senses that Tom remem
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
Boon to Musicians

A German inventor claims to have
solved the problem of turning the
pages of musical selection, an op-
GRAFTON which has always bothered
members of bands and orchestras.
The invention consists of lever op-
Grated with the foot. The lever is
attached to the music stand in such
a manner that by stepping on it the
page is turned.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
Celebration of Christmas

Although the celebration of Christ
mas was at one time forbidden by
the Puritans, it may be said that 1t
has been genegdly observed through.
out Christendom for many years. 1t
is regarded as the feast of the Prot.
estant, Roman Catholic and Greek
churches Such customs as those OF
having Christmas tree. decorating
with holly and mistletoe are almos
universal. In many European cour
tries carol singing u Z feature
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
Heavy MOSQUITO Bill

Statisticians claim that every man,
woman and child in this country paid,
on the average, the sum of 81 cents
last year just for the privilege" of
being bitten by mosquitoes. The ma
tional mosquito bill, they claim, was
$1O0,OOO,0O0. This sum represents the
damage done by malaria mosquitoes
in causing some 100000 cases of
chillS and fever.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
Shakespere Revised

Colonel Picot, head of the Gueules
Cassees and the French War Grip
pies association, was asked by a
girl reporter in New York if he liked
his country's fashions.
"Yes," he answered, ''they are
beautiful. At the same time" and
Colonel Picot chuckled- sat the
same time, while you're admiring our
French fashions you can't help MUIR
muring to yourself:
"'Clothes make the man and lack
Of them the lady,"
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24

Dered MS real
mission, and the
futility of the
love he had been
so slow in realiz-
Ing broke upon
him. The stab at
his heart woke
h i'm completely
from his dream
and he poured
out to Margaret
the tragedy that
hung over them.
III e h a d n t
t h o u G 1T what
Margaret would
do, but he was
entirely u n pr e.
p a r e d f or the
hurst of gay
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
Long Journey Home

Ben Cox, who lives northwest Of
Salisbury, Mo-, travelled six miles to
come to town. He remained In Sails
bury a few hours and then Travelled
eighty-five miles home. The answer
is that during Cox's visit in town
heavy rains swelled the streams so
that when he started back he found
them out of their banks. He was
obliged to detour and approach his
farm from another direction.-Indian-
apolis News.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24

a friend or MS IN
l n d la with a
pressed flower In
it. In fact, he had
the letter in his
pocket and showed
it to the doctor,
saying:
"Yes, that flower
has a peculiar
odor. I thought
of it this morning.
But how in the
dickens could you
tell 2"
But the doctor
was all business,
He calle d the
flower by a long,
botanical name
w b lie in sup
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24

Watch Cuticura Improve Your Skin.
On rising and retiring gently smear
the face with Cuticura Ointment.
Wash off Ointment in five minutes
with Cuticura Soap and hot water. 1t
Is wonderful what Cuticura will do
for poor complexiens, dandruff, itching
and red, rough Observation-Disclosures.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24

TIT WAS so cheerful when the un-
known crowds were left behind
and the known ones appeared. That
was on the last part of the journey.
Dexter Lyons had been travelling all
day and now it was dark and the lamps
on the little branch line train were
lighted and all the home-comers from
all directions had met. Everyone knew
everyone else on this train and the
conductor knew them all.
The stove at the end of the train was
burning almost too warmly. The train
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
Old Type of Girl

Gert-"Did you ever see anybody
wear such old-fashioned clothes as
Mayme" Myrte-"Say, she even
could carry her money in the old
farm stocking bank and it wouldn't
be seen."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
Fire Loss Enormous

1t is estimated that $750000,0 900
worth of property was destroyed by
fire in 1924, and one person every
half hour lost his life.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
Virtues ReUard

Bonem-After my death, the world
will realize what / have done.
Sympathetic Friend-Well, don't
worry about that, old chap. You'll be-
out of harms way then.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24

joggled along The
car was filled with
people, bags, suit
cases, packages Of
all S b a p e 8 and
sizes. The conduc-
tor took the tick
cts only as a sec
ondary considera-
ton. His first IN
terest was in hear
ing how everyone
had been, what
they had been do
ing, when school
or college began
after the holidays,
when the business
folk must be back
In the cities. Tt
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24

Editor Shannon announces these
Christmas texts from his Commerce
News pulpit:
During the Christmas period pack
up your troubles in your old grip sack
and smile, smile, smile" !"
"Let US not be selfish In our giving.
Away with the spirit you scratch my
back and I'll scratch yours Your
friend, in good circumstances does not
need your costly gifts Only remem-
brance for these. Out yonder in hut
are mothers and children who need
both your presence and your gift&"-
Atlanta Constitution.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
Daughter Speaks Up

Now, daughter, I want you to let
him severely alone"
Mother / can let him alone with
out being severe about it."
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
"DANDELION BUTTER COLOR"

A harmless vegetable butter color
used by millions for so years. Drug
stores and general stores sell bottles
of "Dandelion" for 30 cents.-Aav.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
Up-to-Date

"There,' said the man who had
silenced his opponent, II guess that
took the wind out of his sails"
''Be MODERN" returned his compan-
ion. "You mean let the wind out of
his tires"
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24

One thorn of experience is worth
whole wilderness of warning
Lowell.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
Catty

Muriel-They'ye put my picture up
In the beauty parlor! What do you
think of that?
HAZEL suppose it has Before"
printed on it.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24

Truth is mighty, but a great deal
Of it is suppressed.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24

What will be the worlds largest air
plane designed to carry 100 persons,
and having ten propellers, is now be-
ing constructed in the East.
The Ely miner., 1926-12-24

All great men are in some degree
inspired.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-05
STYLES FOR SPRING

There is something especially
thrilling about a new evening frock.
Even in it's planning it stands apart
as a dress which must be lovely
above all. Other considerations are
of secondary importance and do not
influence ones choice.
And yet some of the seasons love
liest evening frocks are fashioned
with utmost simplicity-straight-
line slip-ons that have adopted the
fashionable flare and enhanced its
charm in sheer chiffon. GeOrgette
and crepe Roma. A most attractive
model features triple godots and is
beautifully embellished with embroi-
derry in beads. Then there are be-
coming tunic effects in irregular out
lines-one with tiny shirrings and a
sash of self-material tied in bow at
the front and another dropping to a
deep point that suggests an apron.
Or the flare may be confined to a
circular side panel that falls with
drapery-like softness.
Plaits, too, depart from the mar
row way of former fashions and add
smart fulness to the new silhouette.
This trend is illustrated in the
youthful frock of organdy with lace
trimmed fichu collar and in a more
sophisticated type Of frock with
pointed waistline and plated tunic.
From the Designer Magazine for
March.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-05

WHERE, then, shall we go to find
an agency that can uphold and re-
novate declining public virtue?
Where should we go but there,
where all republican virtue begins
and must end; where the Prone
thean fire is ever to be rekindled un-
til it shall finally expire; where mo-
tives are formed and passions disci-
plined? To the domestic fireside and
humble school, where the American
citizen is trained. Instruct him
there, that it will not be enough that
he can claim for his country Lace
daemonian heroism, but that more
than Spartan valor and more than
Roman magnificence is required of
her. that their country has ap-
pointed only one altar and one sac
rifice for all her sons, and that am
bition and avarice must be slain on
that altar, for it is consecrated to
humanity.-William H. Seward.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-05
(Editorial in National Republican,

Editorial in National Republican,
MOST AMERICANS agree with
the statement of Grove Patterson,
editor of the Toledo. Blade, to the
effect that the modern newspaper is
one of mankind's four greatest in
stitutions, the others of course, be-
ing, the home, the church and the
school.
Like other modern institutions,
newspapers often make mistakes,
and the public does not hesitate to
tell the editor about these errors.
But the magnitude of the task of
building the modern newspaper in
so short a time will easily account
for the mistakes, and they are no
more numerous than they would be
in other lines of endeavor under
similar conditions.
People like to criticize public Off
cials, lawyers, and the general run
of folks, but for some reason, they
like best of all to criticize news
papers, The reason may be that
the mistakes Of the newspaper are
always before them, and cannot be
denied or buried At any rate as
Mr.. Patterson said:
1T is the cheap and joyous GUS
tom to criticize newspapers. Nearly
all public speakers from snake
charmers to preachers attack news
papers for the reason that it is the
simplest and easiest way TO get
quick applause. Applause is the
breath of life to luncheon speakers" I"
Yet the newspaper is always in
the forefront, defending the COM
munity in which it lives, and in pro-
noting all things that are for the
community's good. It probably gives
more free service and more honest
service for less money than any
other commercial enterprise. No
man would want to live in a city or
town without newspapers, and the
newspapers themselves are usually
an index of the prosperity and pro-
gressiVeness Of the community.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-05
TRAVELLERS AID SOCIETY
DOING GOOD WORK IN STATE

The Travellers Aid Society is little
known to our readers though it is
doing a helpful work throughout
our State. The offices are in Will
mington with a worker at the Penn
sylVania station week days from 8
to 5. Other days and hours or at
any station, bus line or wharf, by
appointment; telephone call to
Wilmington 78J will bring advice or
help. Any tralveler will receive u
helping hand and will be referred to
like organizations over the world
Last year 729 individuals we're
helped. These included lost children
and old people going to relatives
down the state, children alone, those
without money or tickets, there
were runaways, strangers from the
country looking for work, and imi-
grants going to strange, new homes.
In nearly every town throughout
the State there is a representative
who volunteers to meet travellers
who need help or investigate cases
reported from other cities.
Not long ago the Wilmington Of
flee was asked by Baltimore to 10
cate relatives of a young woman
taken i'll in a strange city. Miss Ida
Draper, who acts as the represen-
tatiVe of Wilmington, after some
search, located the parents of the
girls. She was sent home at their
request, met by the worker and TAX
en- to her people. With the co-opera-
ton of the public health nurse, med
ical and nursing care were arrange
for her.
A little girl from this county had
to go twice a month to Baltimore
for very special treatment at Johns
Hopkins Hospital. She was met each
time in Wilmington, transferred to
the proper train and met in Balti-
more by the Travellers Aid Society.
If you, your children or elderly
relatives are travelling alone, we ad-
wise you to call upon this most
helpful and efficient service. $4,000 is
urgently needed to carry on this
work this year. If you can contri-
butte something it will be most CRATE
fully received. Send check or money
order to Vim. f. Metten, Treasurer
4O42 DUPONT Building, Wilmington,
Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-05
CEDAR GROVE p. 4. A.

The fifth meeting of Cedar Grove,
No. III, P. T. A., was held Wednes-
day evening, February oath.
Owing to the illness of the presi-
dent, Mrs. PendletOn, the vice pyesi-
dent, Mrs. Stanton Deputy, took the
chair. The meeting was opened by
repeating the Lords prayer. The
leader discussed the monthly topics,
good attendance and the work of
the visiting teacher and the teacher,
Mrs. Morris, spoke of the splendid
cooperation of the patrons as the
attendance the first five months had
not been below $3.50.
Recent gifts of the P. T. A. to
the school were a basketball and
paper towels.
Twelve new members were secur-
ed making total Of so.
Posters depicting the life of Lin
coin and Washington crossing the
Delaware were exhibited and COM
mented on as being excellent.
A Lincoln, Washington and st.
Valentine program was given by the
pupils.
A unique welcome in red, white
and blue letters, by eight small pu
pills.
The oath Psalm by the third
grade.
February Days by Stephen Rob
erts, Clara Roberts, jeanette John
son, Betty Corbett, Frances Roberts,
Delbert McColley, Ella Deputy,
Paynter Sharp, Marie Deputy and
Paris Sharp.
Recitation, Guess Who I Am. by
Ella Deputy.
Dramatization, Learning LOngfel-
lows Poems by Howard Wilkins,
Marie Deputy, Betty Corbett, Della
Warrington, Grace Galloway and
Sara McColley.
o, Captain, My Captain, by sixth
grade.
Hatchet Brigade( TRUTH.
Solo, Lincoln Day." by Sara Nc
Colley.
Red, White and Blue Flag Drill.
Colonial Fair, representing six of
the thirteen colonies.
The booth was attractively decor
ated and needle work. flowers, pop
corn, candy, cake and ice cream
were sold.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-05
OUR PROSPERITY

According to the New York Times
the New York correspondent of the
London Times has sent to his paper
a resume of American conditions,
setting out that American standards
of living in 1925 rose to a level
never before approached by any
nation" The year, it was added,
marked the largest material gains
of any peace time year in American
economic history.
The correspondent added that
wages remained high and that there
was increased efficiency on the part
of the workmen and the manage
ment in the great industries to meet
increasing European competition.
OF course every American knows
that America is the most prosperous
and most contented country in the
world, but it is at least satisfactory
yet confirmation from so noted a
foreign source. And in passing, let
us not forget-to give credit to where
credit is due. 1t will be generally
admitted that the present admins
tration in Washington, with its pro-
gram of efficiency, and tax reduction,
and it's rule of interfering as little
as possible with legitimate business,
has had a great deal to do in Great
ing the atmosphere which has made
this season of prosperity possible.
Let it not be forgotten too, that
we are living under a protective tar
iff which has made possible the sta
bilizing of industry and the giving of
Jobs at the highest wages in the
world to American workmen. Free
traders used to tell us that protec-
ton led to ineff1ciency and waste be-
cause it took keen European compe-
tition to put the American manufac-
turer on his mettle. 1t is now gen
orally admitted that American man
ufacturing is more efficient than
ever before, and this leads to the
, belief that maybe a good job at
good wages, with plenty to eat and
plenty of gasoline in the tank behind
the workman's little old automobile
brings on a state of mind that in
duces effectiveness rather than sa-
botage. For the workman like the
student and the professional man,
can't stay on his mettle very long if
he is underpaid, hungry and cold.
The correspondent adds that
things are beginning to look up
little in Great Britain. 1t is to be
hoped that there will be substantial
improvement in Great Britain this
year and all over Europe too. For
the common enemy of America and
all constitutional government is
bolshevism and this thrives best on
poverty and discomfort.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-05
THE BAD OLD MIDDLE MAN

The picture Of the middle man
riding the neck of the downtrodden
consumer has been favorite one in
America these many years. "Elimin-
ate the middle man" has long been
a familiar slogan and the movement
based upon it a popular bandwagon.
There have, of course, been cases
in which there are too many middle
men. And every business man is
familiar with the abnormal condi-
ton in which phantom middle men
are erected for the purpose of ad-
vancing prices beyond their econo-
mic levels.
But sound business requires the
economic function performed by the
middle man. This function it be-
comes a middle man whether he ac-
knowledges the label or not. Only
in the minds of the unthinking does
there exist the possibility or even
the hope that he may be eliminated.
Qualification, however, is needed
upon this point, and it has been
authoritatively supplied by the COM
mittee on methods of distribution Of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce. In report which was pre-
sented at the national distribution
conference held in Washington on
December Is and 16 appears the fol-
lowing assertion on the subject:
1.-THE middle man system Of mar
keting developed for the simple
reason that middle men are able to
perform the marketing functions in
the most economical and effective
manner. The term elimination of
middle men" is slightly misleading,
because when one so-called middle
man is eliminated the producer or
some one else has to undertake the
functions previously performed"
1t need not be forgotten that
there are middle men and middle
men, just as, in another department
Of distribution, there are more and
less expensive routes. The middle
man cannot be eliminated, but un-
economic middle men can be-in
fact they are eliminated when eco
nomic law functions normally.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-05

The motorist who tries to beat the
train to crossing may not have
much wit, and yet he is likely to be-
come a man of parts.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-05

observer recently described these
movements as "An inquiry original
ly announced as a probe usually
turns out to be a poultice."
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-05
Ee@

THE first object Of free people
is the preservation Of their liberty,
and liberty is only to be preserved
by maintaining constitutional re-
straints and just divisions Of politi-
cal power. Nothing is mc1e deceptive
or more dangerous than the pre-
tence Of a desire to simplify gov
ernment. The simplest govern
ments are despotisms; the next sim
plest, limited monarchies; but all
republics, all governments of law,
must impose numerous limitations
and qualifications of authority, and
give many positive and many quail
fled rights. In other words, they
must be subject to rule and regula-
tion. This is the very essence Of
free political institutions.-Daniel
Webster.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-05

SAFER
Stop and let the train go by,
It only takes a minute;
Your car will start again, intact,
And. better still, you're in It.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-05
oUH WASHINGTON LETTER

(From Nation Editorial Association
Especial to Chronicle)
Washington, March 3-With the
tax bill out of the way, Congress is
breathing more freely. 1t was un-
questionably the most important
legislation before the present ses-
sion because Of its economical and
political effects. With thousands Of
bills pending before various COM
mittees, the Senate and House is do
ing its best to sort the wheat from
Evening star., 1926-04-03
SPRINCTIME
BY d. c. PEATTIE.
Crocus.
BN ROBERT CULLEN

Crocuses are out. And with them
surely, Spring is here at last. Cole
and white and blue. they raise tC
the sunlight clearest cups. Suddenly
lawns are bright with them. Sudden
ly childlike, innocent beauty is every
where that they grow.
There is not a native wildhower ir
the month of March that cai com
pare for brilliance and size with the
garden crocus that comes to US from
the Old World, from the time-wrin
kled Mediterranean lands. There is
an island in the Adriatic which is
famous today as it was in the time
of the Caesars for its crocuses. The
Greeks priced the crocus, and before
their time the Phoenician traders and
the Egyptians. For from the bulb
of saffron crocus is derived the splen-
did saffron dye that all the classic
peoples so dearly loved.
Legend has it that in the earlier
centuries the Benedictine Monks kept
the saffron crocus alive in their gar
dens, and that a pilgrim to the Holy
Land stole saffron bulbs from the
Saracens and brought them home in
his hollow palmer's staff to plant
them in Windy Cornwall where saf-
from cakes are famous to this day.
In Nuremburg man, a woman and
a girl were burned alive for adul.
terating their saffron dyes, and the
town of Saffron-Walden, in England,
commentaries a one-time center of
this dye industry. Perhaps from that
delectably titled town comes the
quaint old recipe:
Pare saffron between the two s. Maries dsies
Or set or go shift il, that knOwest the wales.
What yesre shall I doc it. more profit 10
Yeldf
The third in the garden. the fourth in the
field.