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HARTLY
Items of Personal and Socitl Interest
Cleaned About the NeighborhOod

Items of Personal and S0citl Interest
Cleaned About the NeighborhOod
Hartly. Oct. 25.-The p. o. S. Of a.,
of Hartly will hold lively Eleven So
cial Friday evening, October 28th, at
8 D. M, in the public school building.
There will be various entertainments
consisting Of vocal and instrumental
music, recitations, exhibition drill by
the ladies and a short play entitled
"Kitchen Koten" and other various at
fractions.
Mrs. E. C. DAILY and Mrs. Sybil
Klaes spent Monday with friends in
Georgetown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Price Inman of Phil
adelphia, spent Sunday with Mrs. In
mans parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. G..
Roadway.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kinsey Truitt enter
tained on Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. Lester
Cook.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Schulz enter
tanned at dinner Sunday Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Weldon and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Phast of Phil
adelphia; Mrs. Gilbert S.Patterson of
Wilmington, Mr.. Frank Powell of
Chester and Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel p.
Hall of Dover, were guests on Sunday
of Mr.. and Mrs. W. w. Powell.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Moore of near
town entertained over the weekend
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Dufiield and
twins from Lansdale, Pa, also had as
their Sunday guests Mr.. and Mrs.
Clayton Bedwell.
Mr.. Harley Bodily Caskier of West
Dover Trust Company, spent the
weekend at his home in Showell, Md.
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J. B. DEu
F.. G.. WALLS COMPANY


nom.
Mrs. Maggie Mitchell, Of Philadel-
phia, spent Sunday with her sister,
Mrs. Frank H. Council.
The Deakyneville P. 7. A. will hold
their Halloween meeting at Deakyne-
vile School on Thursday evening, Oct.
27. The public is cordially invited.
Come masked.
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The General Electric is the new
day refrigerator. 1t has done away
with all fans. belts. drain-PiPes and
stufing boxes. 1t has done away
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Mr.. and Mrs. Arlle o'-: n,rs::
wood, Pa, visited tnei rssr J
and Mrs. Z. b. GreeH'
recently.
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SudlersvilIe Man, . i, 81
Athletics, Gets NV. ~
Sudlersvilie, Mo- .optriiibss''j
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was entirely satisfactory to the
young sawyers.
The sight of two children doing
sure-enough work was something
of a surprise to the city.bred wo.
man in the car and she insisted
upon stopping to watch them, At
the end of five minutes she said:
Drive on. They are better off
than / am"
Then she added: "Tn the faces
OF those little boys there was the
sort of pride and grim determine.
ton that marks captains OF in
dustry. Their task was all they
could manage, but they managed
1t. They stuck to it until they
had accomplished what they set
out to do"
1t is from country homes where
boys are trained to use their
hands and brains in useful occu.
patton that many OF the worlds
leaders have come.
The only way to build muscle il
to exercise muscle. The way to
strengthen character is to exercise
the traits that go into the max.
ing of strong character. In.
dustry, will power, carefulness,
faithfulness, diligence and persist.
ence can be cultivated by daily
use of those qualities.
Don't make life too easy for
your child. In the words of that
little boy In overalls, LET him
tote it. It will make a man OF
him."
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By Lucy Lowell

EASY money. A lovely, roman.
IA tic phrase. The lure of Some.
thing for Nothing. The thrill of
riches achieved without effort.
But it's only a phrase. Actually
there is no such thing as Easy
Money. When you see a large
slice of wealth which appears
merely to have been showercd
down in some waiting lap you may
at once set to work making up
your mind that there is a lot
behind it which you didn't at first
suspect. Careful planning, skill,
training. hard work. Especially
this last.
The diagnostician who receives
YOU into his office after a long.
awaited appointment, spends 10 or
is minutes listening to your
story. SAYS a few words and per-
haps relieves you Of several hun.
bred dollars for his opinion is one
of whom it often is said. Easy
money. Fancy a man getting
paid that much for a little timer!
But 1t isn't easy money for him.
The effort which he seems to put
forth in return for the stable
fee seems slight only because it
Is so expert-the result of years
Of the hardest sort Of study,
research. toll.
The creative artist--painter,
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pected to see. II Was not the
kind of letter anyone would ex.
pect suicide to sit down and
write.
Stella had used an indelible pen.
Gil, and here and there q purple
mark showed where tear had
fallen on the paper and blurred
the writing.
Dear Gus she had written.
Maybe you'll tear up this letter
the way you've torn up most of
the others I've written to you IN
the last three years. Maybe not.
Anyway. I'LL be where / won't
know or care this time. That's
something.
Dear, don't think I blame you
for not liking me any more. I
know you can't help 1t. You Just
got over it-and I didn't. 1t
seems to me there hasn't been a
minute for the last six years
when / haven't thought Of you.
Gus.
Tragic Failure
Don't get it into your head
that I'm getting rid of myself
because you've stopped caring
about me. That's only part of 1t.
The thing that's really got to me
is my failure in the pictures. I've
been slipping for a long time
and now that I'm burned, l just
know I'll never get anywhere In
them. I'm just giving up. l
don't see anything ahead Of me
but the kind of work don't
hke-and it's New Year eve and
everybody's out having a good
time. Everybody but me, CTS.
1t made me feel pretty low
lie ago to see this Bobbie girl
getting herself all dolled up to
go up to your house. I watched
you start away with her in your
car. and / felt pretty rotten, let
me tell you.
But that isn't why I'm going
to take this poison that I bought
tonight. I've been trying to screw
up my courage to do IL for weeks.
I wish there were some easier
way. but / guess there isn't.
Drowning Is so cold, and I
haven't the money for d gun"
The letter broke off short, there.
Stella had evidently made up her
mind. at that instant, to take the
cork out OF the bottle and
drain 1t.
Poor thing" Bobbie said to her.
self. She was shivering in the
cold wind that blew shreds OF fog
into the room, but she didn't
know it.
The letter painted picture after
picture in her mind, as she knelt
there. Gus in love with Stella six
years before. when she had been
pretty and young and full Of pep
and hope and ambition.
(TO Be Continued Tomorrow
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MAKE YOUR
WILL

only third of the people who
" died last year in the United
States left wills, points out Hugh
Fullerton in an article in this
weeks Liberty. About LAPS 900
persons died in the United States
last year" Fullerton writes. Few
er than 30 per cent of them made
wills, although they left billions
of dollars in savings and insur.
ance. And II the great estates,
protected by lawyers and estab.
lished trusts, be eliminated from
the computation. it is calculated
that not more than 40 per cent Of
the property left reached those
dependents for whom the deceased
wished to make provision.
Less than five years from
now, according to insurance
statistics" the writer continues,
the great bulk of these estates
will have been entirely dissipated.
These statistics have shown that
the average estate disappears
within four and half years after
the death of the possessor.
of the wills left by the IS per
cent who leave them, not half are
made properly; and a great per-
centage of those properly made
cannot be carried out successfully,
due to unexpected changes of con-
dition
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NOIU Go On With The Story

MONICA and Ted Piper turned
AVA toward the open door to listen
to her, and it was while their
backs were turned that Bobbie
saw the letter.
The Letter
It was tucked into the open.
Ing OF the cotton-crepe klmono
that wrapped Stella's body. Just
q corner Of it showed.
Suddenly Bobby knew that she
had to get that letter. Whatever
was in it, had not been written
for the eyes Of the police who.
were coming. certainly.
I've got to get 1t and give 1t
to the person she wrote it to-"
she told herself. cts the last
thing I'll ever be able to do for
the poor little thing"
She knew that now was the
time to do it, too-while the curi-l
GUS eyes of Monica and Ted Piper
were turned away. But it wasn't
an easy thing to do, to touch a
dead body.
1t took every ounce Of Bobbie's
courage to lean down and draw
the square of paper from the
folds Of Stella's cheap unattrac.
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head against the newell post aud
began to cry.
A Horrible Event
"oh, what horrible thing tc
have happen-and on New Years
eve, toop' she sobbed. "Such a
way to wind up the year. And
to think / never heard a thing
until she fell on the floor. / was
sitting in the kitchen, having a
cup Of hot tea after my bath. I
guess / must-a dozed off, and
then all of a sudden / heard a
sort of dull humping noise"
She wept afresh az she remena.
bered just how it had all hap
pened. wiping her little eyes on a
corner OF her gray bathrobe.
Kept calling to her from the
door OF the roorn," she walled. Il
was afraid to go and touch her
Oh, what could have made her do
such a thing?"
Bobbie shook her head.
She couldn't imagine anyone
wanting to end her life, no matter
how hard and cruel that life
might be. Why, it was good and
sweet to be alive IL only because
Of the sun that came up in the
morning, and because the sky was
blue or because IL was starry,
and because it was fun to go
walking in the rain, or to go
window-shopping-or even to sit
down in a movie to see q good
picture. or to read good book
She must have lost her MIND.
Mr.. Mangan," she said solemnly.
Shes been awfuIly blue ard
melancholy ever since she was
burned that time She knew she
couldn't go back to the pictures
for a long time, and it made heT
awfully unhappy. She hated nlan.
touring" She sighed, remember.
ing how Stella had told her only
a few days before how empty life
seemed away from the studios.
suppose she was trying to
tell me how empty everything
seemed to her" she went on think.
ing. II suppose she's been get.
ting ready to do away with her.
self for days-trying to nerve her.
self for it," How lonely people
were, really, keeping their
thoughts to themselves even when
they tried to tell them to other
people! Everybody was like that,
really. Living in a lonely little
world, silently asking for sym.
pathy and understandings, and
hardly ever getting it!
At 1870 Mrs. Mangan locked
up the house. and she and Bob
bic went upstairs to bed.
That is, Mrs. Mangan went to
bed-and. let us hope, to sleep.
Poor woman. she needed sleep.
She felt, she said, as IL she's been
drawn through a knot-hole back.
wardsi
But Bobbie swas farther from
sleep than she ever had been in
her life.
She undressed and got into bed.
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tive clothes with their faded rib.
bons and coarse trimmings.
Without looking at 1t. she
tucked it into the low girdle Of
her pink dress.
II called a doctor, too" Mrs.
Mangan's voice came nearer and
nearer. II remembered there
was one on the next street. We
called him in one time Mangan
sprained his ankle. He'll be
right over"
He was there in five minutes, a
sleepy, pale, dead.tired looking
young fellow with little mus.
taches Ike black wings above his
lips.
He took one look at Stella, felt
her icy little hands, and shrugged
his shoulders.
I'm afraid you called me too
late" he said dryly. But he made
sure with his stethescope.
Eyes, she's Dead" he said, get
ting to his feet. Lets see if we
can lay. her on the bed
With the help of Ted Piper, he
got her on her bed just as the
police came driving up in a big
open car.
They ran across the lawn to the
house, and came flying UP the
stairs-two of them, one in uni.
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Her Folks Thought She Had Lost Her Mind When She De-
cided to Give Up Everything She Loved and Seek
Career in the Moving Pictures

form and one in plain dark
clothes.
They took down bits of informa-
ton in their little notebooks as
Mrs. Mangan told them everything
she knew about Stella Delroy.
There really was very little that
she knew about her.
Her real name was Stella
Riggs. and she always told me
she didn't know where her folks
were," she said, shifting. "She
was burned over at the studio
about month ago, and Miss Ran.
som and looked through all her
things for name or an address.
We thought Il she had any folks
anywhere they ought to know
about her. But we couldn't find
anything to show where she'd
come from"
Afraid OF. the Cops
The envelope, tucked into the
girdle of Boobies dress, cracked.
1t sounded as loud as a thunder.
clap to her. Surely the police
must hear it. Perhaps she ought
to turn it over to them anyway.
The name and address of Stella's
people might be written upon it.
I'll take a look and find out
first" she made up her mind, and
very quietly she slipped out OF
Stella's room and across the hall
to her own.
Guilty. locking the door behind
her, she drew the envelope from
beneath her girdle. It was not
sealed, and upon it was written in
pencil: please give this to
Angus MacCloud."
To Gus MacCloud! To Gus Mac.
Cloud! For a moment Boobies
brain could take in nothing but
the fact that Stella had had some
last message for Gus.
But why Gus? She began to
wonder after a while, dazedly.
What had there ever been be.
tween her and Gus that she
shoVld write letter to him and
then take poison? There was a
mystery for you!
"AIl I've got to do to know the
answer, is to open this envelope
and read what's inside" Bobbie
thought, looking down at the
cheap white paper. Her fingers
raised the flap, then pressed 1t
down again. Then once more she
lifted 1t Up
She stopped suddenly, and
slipped the thing under the flow.
cred rug on the floor. 1t was
safe there, for the time being.
Then she threw her velvet cape
on the bed. and went back to the
room where f'tella lay on the bed.
The police were going. The one
in plain clothes was putting his
book away, and then slipping his
glasses into leather case. He
said something in a deep under.
tone to Mrs. Mangan and she
nodded dolefully.
We may as well go. too. We
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She tried to go to sleep. But she
couldn't forget Stella's face, and
she couldn't stop thinking about
the letter that was hidden under
the rug, over by the door.
Very Curious
What was in that letter? What
had Stella had to say to Gus Mac
Cloud, during the last minutes Of
her lonely unhappy life? Would
that letter tell why she had not
cared to live any longer? And had
Gus anything to do with it?
The questions went around and
around in Boobies brain, like mum.
bers in roulette wheel-dizzily,
swiftly, but coming again and
again.
Finally she could stand 1t no
longer. She was the soul Of
honor, but she was also woman.
And women have been madly curl.
Gus ever since the time Pandora
opened the alabaster box.
She switched on the light in her
room, and flung back the rug.
Sitting on her little bare heels
she read the letter that Stella
had written to Gus. The letter
that made a good many things
perfectly clear to her.
CHAPTER XXXVI
The letter was not the hystera.
cal scrawl that Bobbie had ex.'
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The knowledge Test for
Times Readers

Do you know:
l. In what year Wod Series" PLAYED in this
country?
2. What Pillars of Hercules called?
B. What is meant by the phrase "pig in a poke?
a. Who was the "sweet psamist of Israeli"
5. How often does a Sabbatca Year occur?
g. Who called the "Scourge of Cod?
Under whose management did Jenny make her debut
here in 1850?
Match correctly
8. 0ttmar Mergenthaer. arc light
9. c. F. Brush rotary printing nress
10. George Eastman photograph
II. Richard Hoe sewing machine
u Ehas Howe linotype machine
IL. Thomas Edison SNAPSHOT camera
Give the next line:
Ia. 20, to be in England
...................." Browning.
10 my heart leaps up when behold
-WadSworth
TO- For men may and go
-TennySon.
II Say not the struggle naught avaieth
-CIough.
See tomorrows paper to verify your results.
Answers to yesterdays tests
l. John Harvard Comstock 1885, England: g. coward
SON. NJ j. TO- John Bull; Daniel French; 12 Canada 13
mississippi; H. Hungary; ID, Georgia. 16, Belgium.
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ADVERTISEMENT
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A Real Beautifier

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. on doing Just that because he il
q real artist.
Ease always looks easy, but II
always is founded on a basis of
difficulty.
There is one easy money guy,
you say. who makes his on a
whim Of chance and gets away
with it. The gambler. The one
who holds the right card or the
right tip on the market or the
right bunch about that little ole
long shot.
Does he get away with it?"
Listen to what is said OF the
most famous of them all: ''He
made and lost more fortunes than
any man in the world. On the
heights today and down tomor.
row. Why. he cleaned up q mil.
lion on this or that.
And how you ask, ''did he
stand at the end?"
"Oh, he died a pauper." is the
answer.
That's it. Easy money. There's
no such thing. It's a pretty
story to amuse yourself with.
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By L. Lamar Matthews

by Ls Lamar MdCCneWS
noWN the middle of the big
~ road that ran between two
farms came a little fellow in over
ais. He couldn't have been more
than six years old, but he was a
sturdy youngster. His face was
flushed, his eyes were bright and
he stepped along as fast as the
heavy bucket on his arm would
permit.
Behind him came his older
brother, who had reached the adj
vanced age Of nine. He had long
since outgrown his desire to carry
gallons of milk, and he was anus.
ing himself by kicking a rock in
front of him as he strolled along.
Then one of those meddlesome
people who ride in tourists cars
approached and looked with pity.
ing eyes upon the small custodian
of the buttermilk.
"Why don't you take that heavy
bucket from your little brother%
she asked after a minutes CONVEX
sation with the children.
Jaw, let him tote it," said the
big brother, "it'll make a man OF
him."
And in that statement there is
more truth than poetry.
Ambitious undertakings have a
way of developing manliness. Little
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SCHOOL ON
WHEELS

THO SOME children in the more
L sparsely settled regions of
Canada, the little red school.
house" is railroad car, says Pop
ular Mechanics Magazine. The
government has fitted up a coach
as a classroom with desks, maps
and other equipment, and the car
is sent out over newly con.
structed lines of railroad to reach
district where a permanent build.
ing has not yet been erected. There
is a teacher in charge Of each car.
The salt trade of China Is a
government monopoly.
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Read This First:

B0BBIE RANSOM dmure little school teacher Is anything but
dreaming Hollywood to
pictures
y extravagant and her family
ANDREW JERROID, lin.
$500 the WIDOW
who to her father and Hollywood with
a purse.
MANGANS boarding DEIROY,
movies.
the MAGNIFICA STUDIOS, where SCHULTZ famous
LOTTIE, wife, her.
MacCLOUD the assistant director falls she with
MONICA MONT, another
live advises Bobbie
he she becomes
jealous.
Gertrude who brought her up
dies Her father SAYS he going the Widow Parn
back to HOywoodand Gus Her father sends
belonged Gertrude
mind to sell them when her money gives Finally she sell
absence, Monica has been part Roy
picture and the strength
But she has money to lend Stella who's been badly burned
BObb gets days work at Magnic where she hears that Gus
has been married and his wife Is dvorcing him She tells Gus she
with Monica again He fails ask Bobbie to Christmas dinner
Stella Andy sends lovely bracelet gift
how much it would bring should
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CEMETERIES
TO BLOOM

MORE than $4,000 graves of the
AVA soldier dead in the cemeteries
of Washington will again be deco
rated on Memorial Day by the
G. A. r. and allied veteran associa.
tions.
The veterans are appealing to
Westinghouse to assist them in
this labor Of love with contribu.
tons. Of cash and flowers. Collec.
ton boxes. in the shape of minia-
ture headstones, have been placed
in many banks and business
places, and the public is urged to
deposit their offerings in these
boxes or send them direct to An
drew Kimmel, 619 A st. s. e.
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'HU Make q Man of Him"

boys who perform errands that call
for strength and steadiness and
dutifulness are just that much
stronger in every way.
AS the automobile party drove
on they passed comfortable farm.
mouse. At the wood pile stood
two small boys. They each held
one end Of an old.fashioned gang.
saw and as they pulled it back
and forth the teeth cut through
the hickory log IN a manner that
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Easy Money! Only a Snare

writer. playwright-who gathers
in enormous prices for some bit
of work is another frequently &C.
cused of being an easy money
getter. The fact OF the matter
is that the simplicity with which
ones product is presented Is the
very essence of difficulties met
and overcome. Not a real artist
but has spent the greater part Of
his life in hard work-and will go
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can't do any good here Piper
Monica said to Ted Piper when
they were gone. But he insisted
upon staying until a black auto.
mobile came rushing up through
the foggy night, and carried
.Stella's body away with 1t to the
morgue.
The house seemed like q differ.
ent place when Bobbie and Mrs.
Mangan went back into it, after
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Monica and Ted had driven away,
too
The chairs and tables, the very
pictures on the walls, seemed
strange and glaring and different.
Every light was on, and all the
windows stood wide open to let
out the strong, sickening smell of
the poison.
Mrs. Mangan sat down on the
bottom step of the stairs, put her
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This Day in Our History

DoSToFFICE MONEY ORDER SYSTEM was established by
Congress May IL, 1864 This to conditions
prescribed by postal laws and regulations is great con-
Venience to the nation -
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Making Career for Ones Self Is Not All Peaches and
Cream as BObbie Ransom Found Out When She En-
tered the Movies at Hollywood

head against the newell post aud !.
began to cry.