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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-30

W. S. Barstow, owner of the
Yacht Freba, and Mrs. Barstow,
of Great Neck. N. Y, who were in
Havana for the Christmas season,
returned on the Cuba yesterday
and boarded the yacht which was
berthed at the P. and o. dock.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-30

DIR. Angel SAe6sta = Betancourt,
representing lodge Units of the
Caballeros de la Luz, in Cuba, ar
rived yesterday on the Steamship
Cuba from Havana, to attend the
meeting Of athsi Sovereign Grand
Lodge of3the p orgganizatiOh,p now
converting IN Key West
B. M. Duncan, chief engineer
for the Overseas Road and Toll
Bridge District, left yesterday
afternoon by plane for Miami and
from there will go to Jackson
vile in connection with bridge
matters.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-30

E. H. Cato, Jr., who was spend
ing while with relatives in Ha-
vana, was a returning passenger
on the Steamship Cuba yester-
day.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-30
CLASSIFIED
C0LU M N

WANTED-Butcher for local
store. Write qualifications
stating age and salary expected.
Box ID, The Citizen. dec3O-1t
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
The Judgment of Paris

In Greek legend, Paris was the
son of Priam, king of Troy, and
Hecuba. When Eris, or Discord,
threw golden apple inscribed
"For the Fairest," among the
guests at the nuptials Of Peleus and
Thetis because she had not been
invited, it was put up to Paris to
decide which of the claimants,
Juno, Venus or Minerva should
have it. Juno promised him power
and riches; Minerva, glory and re-
nown in war, and Venus, the fairest
of women for his wife, each at
tempting to bias the Judge in her
own favor. Paris finally decided
in favor of Venus, making the other
two goddesses his enemies. Under
the protection of the goddess of
love, he soon afterward sailed to
Greece, where he was Hospitality
received by Menelaus. Paris alb
duction of Helen, wife of Menelaus.
was the cause of the siege of Troy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03

Patrick, as l have said, beat me in
the race for scholarship and was
graduated at the head. However,
although he was salutatorian, /
was valedictorian. Ace never stud
led. He was nevel in danger of
reaching the head of the class, but
not once did he fall below the mid
die. How he remained so far above
it was a miracle. He had a good
mind, an instant and retentive
memory. Anything he could read
in fifteen minutes before class
opened, he could remember. The
rest was winning audacity and a
charming impudence. He was be-
yond discipline. Yet the teachers
all adored him.
Ace might have gone far, but he
was not ambitious. Except for his
one splendid adventure, all he
wanted out of life was easy money
for lavish entertaining.
The Blaikies had always been
important people in Plymouth
county. Their house is without
doubt the most beautiful in Satuit.
The gardens are the pride of the
countryside.
Inside are gathered the inherit
ed family treasure, in furniture,
pictures, books, of nearly two CEN
turtles.
The Blaikies had always had
money and very soon Ace began to
entertain. At first, it was chill
dren's parties-candy-pulls and the
like; later it was dances and plen-
ty of them.
Ace went to Harvard; Harvard
was a tradition in the Blake FAM
lily. He went to Harvard Medical.
Instead of finishing off in Germany,
as most doctors did in those days,
he chose to study in Paris. He
was there when the World war
broke. In the autumn he joined
the Foreign Legion. He was wound
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
The Early Typewriter
XHIHEN the typewriter first w

W. HEN the typewriter first was
w invented, people considered
themselves insulted when they re-
ceived typewriter letter. They
jumped to the conclusion the writer
thought they could not read PEN
writing!
The first typewriters, incredibly
rickety machines that we're always
getting out of killer, began to APP
pear in America during the 1865.
Most business men laughed at them
and said they wouldn't trade one
good quill pen for dozen of those
new-fangled contraptions. Only
few wise acres and journalists al
lowed that they might have some
future. But one crackpot became
so enthusiastic he predicted that
the day would come when a school
boy would only be taught to write
his name with pen because he
could write anything else by "play-
ing on literary piano."
The early skepticism was partly
justified. Up to 1870, a typewriter
cost $3.50, and a ribbon could be
had only by buying a roll of silk
at dry goods store, soakirl.; it in
ink and hanging it up to dry. Mark
Twain was one of the early type
writer converts.
Christoper Sholes of Milwaukee
is said to have built the Erst really
practical machine. The sentence he
tapped out time after time while
testing it in his little machine shop
was "Now is the time for all good
men to come to the aid of the
party"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03

ed that winter; when he recovered,
he volunteered for aviation. He
flew with the French army, until
we entered the war. Then he joined
our army. He became an ace
strange how life fulfilled the proph-
ecy of his nickname! He had five
enemy planes on his record. He
believed, himself, that he had
brought down two or three more;
but that, he could not prove. When
he came back from France, the
town gave him a party-no one in
Satuit missed it. We asked him
to come in uniform wearing all his
decorations-the French and Bel
gian Croix de Guerre, the Me-
daille Militaire, the Legion d'Hon-
neur and the DISC. I thought him,
that night, the handsomest male
creature ever laid eyes on.
Then Ace settled down to a prac-
tice in Satuit. Of course he could
not make money in so small a
place, but instantly he became a
great success. Personality helped
here, his own tremendous strength,
his robust vitality. For with Aces
entrance to a sick-room came a
gust of health-giving air. But per-
haps his greatest asset was that
sympathy with the sick, the old,
the weary and the discouraged. 1t
even helped that he liked girl-ba-
bies so much. However fathers
felt, mothers always knew an in
finite pride when they pleased Doc
tor Blake by bringing forth a girl.
But for other reasons, the coun-
tryside adored Ace. One was his
reckless generosity. Anybody who
wanted to sell tickets, or to get up
fund for charitable purposes
made a Decline for Ace.
Nothing illustrates Ace more per-
fectly than the story of his treat
ment of Tom Boylan. Tom was the
village drunk. Ace was always
having to take care of him, free of
course-Tom had no money-for
alcoholism. Once he brought Tom
through delirium tremens. Yet
when Tom got well, Ace always
gave him his first drink-after Tom
had begged long enough for it.
And yet -. And yet Some
thing had happened to Ace-I don't
mean to his body. Something had
happened to his soul.
In the meantime, I had married
Mark Avery. / used to talk Ace
over with him. My husband, who
was nerve specialist like Doctor
Geary, with an office in Boston.
had served as a physician in the
World war. He had great wis
dom. He said to me once, MARY,
the strange thing about ~ar is that
it frequently ruins good men and
rehabilitates bad ones. Men are
returning to this country on every
transport, who, if they had not
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
SYNOPSIS

Mary Avery, widow who lives in the har-
Dor town of Satuit, Mass, with two negro
maids, Sarah Darbe and Bessie Williams.
writes a manuscript describing the famous
Second Head murder, which occurred on her
estate. Next to Mary live Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Stow who every year give a summer masquer-
ade party. One of the guests of this function
is murdered Nearby live DIR. and Mrs. Geary
and their married daughter Edith and her hus-
band Alfred Bray; Doctor Myron Marden and
his STEP granddaughter, Caro- Prentiss, beau
tiful young girl who was born in France. Next
live Paul and Lora Eames and their daughter
Molly. Molly engaged to the murdered
man, Ace Blaikie, She had been engaged to
Walter Treadway, who had been the murdered
mans secretary, but the engagement sud
denly broken and he had left town. Other
neighbors the Fairweather sisters, Flora, a
hopeless invalid and Margaret. All but the lat
ter two attended the masquerade. Mary's eight
year-old niece Sylvia Sard is visiting her for
the summer. The wooded part of Mary's estate
is called the Spinney. In it is tiny log cabin.
Near stone wall is tiny circular pond called
the Merry Mere. This is the day of the
querade and excitement is high. Mary decides
to take Sylvia, who is an unusually observant
child. Caro- Prentiss and Molly Eames drop in
during the afternoon. Soon Blaikie, Doctor
Marden and Bruce Hexson, friend of Aces,
arrive. Molly is impatient to leave and they
all excuse themselves. AT the party Sylvia
Identifies each of the masked guests as they
arrive. Ace comes CARRIED as Julius Caesar.
Molly Eames appears as a Snow Queen,
companied by in armor whom Sylvia
Identifies Walter Treadway. They dance
together continuously. Caro- Prentiss and Mar
den arrive dressed in Revolutionary costumes,
the doctor wearing jeweled shoe buckles. When
the guests unmask, Ace, Walter and Molly
have disappeared. When Mary Avery leaves
the party little after two, neither Molly and
Walter or Ace Blaikie had returned. Sarah
Darbe confdes to Mary that someone ap-
parently had spent the night in the Little
House. Sylvia finds shoe buckle in the Spin.
ney and Mary drops it into a jewel box and
forgets it. Sarah walks down to the Little
House and returns screaming. She has found
Ace Blaikie stabbed to death in the Spnney.
Mary summons Patrick O'Brien, chief OF po-
lice. who had been a schoolmate of hers and
Aces.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
Uncle MiA
Says: ~
That Is Perfection

Perfection does not consist in
doing singular things; but it does
consist in doing common things
singularly well.
Always be sure your friends can
grant the favor before you ask it;
then there won't be the pain and
embarrassment of refusal.
Admitting our faults is half way
to correcting them; but the LATEST
half.
We always feel great admiration
for those clever people who can
mend something when we break
it.
Don't Live for Less
Never allow yourself to live for
anything less than your highest
ideal. If you do, you will deterio-
rate.
All friendships between men are
based on the fact that the two are
somehow happy in each others
company.
Sum total of knowledge gained
from century to century makes
men wiser; and that's about all.
Everyone remembers what a
great man says. So much the
worse for his reputation for con-
sistency.
Sure Realizers
Youths who shave dreams Of
what they are going to be" are
net likely to realize them. Boys
who know what they want and
pursue it are the surest realizers.
The sophisticated person finds
little to enjoy. Everything is old
to him.
a man who knows that his hard
ships made the best part of his
character may not want his son
to have hardshipS.
No two men are exactly alike;
and universal democracy can't
overcome it.
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Twas This Way
@ Q
By LYLE SPENCER
@ Western Newspaper Union.
@ Western Newspaper Union.
Making Slavery Profitable

49, =
T HE invention of the cotton gin
l. was partly responsible for the
Civil war. For it was the first labor
saving device in America that made
slave-holding profitable.
Eli Whitney, young Ya.e gradu-
ate, working down in Georgia, in
vented the gin in 1871. Al So
ciety dinner one night he happened
to sit among group of big planta-
ton owners who were discussing
the high cost of cleaning cotton.
Thinking he was greennoIn, they
kidded him about making device
that would take the seeds out of
cotton cheaply. Everybody laughed
when Whitney said he bet he could
make one.
Ten days later, it was W.litrey's
turn to laugh. He had built a simple
little machine which cleaned cotton
with amazing ease.
News of the revolutionary inven-
ton quickly spread throughout the
neighborhood, and Whitr ey found
himself famous in a week. The
tremendous labor-saving value of
the gin was shown by the fact that
! could clean a thousand pounds
of cotton while the ordinary man
was picking the seeds out of five
pounds.
But the real value of the gin
was even greater than appeared on
the surface. For the first time it
made the growing of cotton profit
able in America Before that time,
less than 200 acres in all the South
were planted in cotton. The cost
of cleaning it was too high. Since
a slave could clean only 300 pounds
a month, he was not worth his up
keep. The cotton gin made him
very valuable.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
The Jack-Rabbit Baseball

old TIMERS say that modern
~ baseball is nowhere near the
game it used to be. They say the
ball players of today are dumb,
that they don't use the headwork
demanded of big leaguers when
Christy Mathewson and the Tinker
to- Evers to : Chance combination
were the national sport heroes. They
ask, where is the strategy and f.
nesse that was the heart and soul
of ''inside baseball Is years ago?
It's gone, all right. Smart base
ball was killed by the ''jack-rabbit"
ball, first introduced into the Ma
tional league in 1909. The secret
of the new ball was its stufing. 1t
was made of a fine Australian wool,
tightly wound around a core of
cushioned cork. It seems like
small change, but it was big enough
to revolutionize the national game.
The jack-rabbit ball made hits
longer and more frequent. So the
artful base stealers and hunters of
yesterday have been replaced by
fence-busters and big-stick men who
believe one lusty cut at the ball is
worth a whole day of subtle man.
agerial generalship. The "smart"
ball player has given way to slug
gers and cleanup men.
Who was the home-run hero of
1908? Honus Wagner, who hit for
the circuit 10 times. Compare him
with the Babe Ruth of 1927 who
dashed out 60 homers. How about
the base-stealers? Ty Cobb stole
rs bases in 1909 and Sc in 1915. In
1885, Frank Crosetti won the base
stealing championship with 20.
The game they play now may
not be such good baseball, but it
makes the turnstiles clatter and the
customers shrek, and that's what
makes it paying business.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
WOMEN WHO HOLD
THEIR men
never LET Them KNOW

MO matter how much your
IN back aches and your nerves
scream. your husband, because he
is only a man, can never under
stand why you are so hard to live
with one week in every month.
Too often the honeymoon ex-
press is wrecked by the nagging
tongue of a three-Quarter wife. The
wise woman never lets her husband
know by outward sign that she is
q victim of periodic pain.
For three generations one woman
has told another how to go "smil-
ing through" with Lydia z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. 1t
helps Nature tone up the system,
thus lessening the discomforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the three
ordeals Of life: 1. Turning from
girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre-
pairing for motherhood. 8. APP
preaching middle age"
Don't be a three-quarter wife,
take LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go Smiling Through"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
"Snow" in HOLLYWOOD

Snow never falls on Hollywood,
yet "snow, of a sort, bothers
cameramen on outdoor sets
whenever the breezes blow in
gusts. This meteorological freak
il due to millions of tiny wisps
of silver foil which blow off the
portable defiectors. Edges of the
sheets of foil are purposely not
glued down, for their waving in
the breeze gives a "soft' light on
the camera subjects.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03

A bedspread, indeed, to call
forth "Oh's" and "Ah's" is this
one, crocheted from hum bic
string. See not one, but two
charming patterns, one a basket,
the other floral, are included in
pattern 1858. One is as easy to
learn as the other; when COM
bined they make any number of
useful linenS-tea cloth, scarf,
buffet set or pillow. In pattern
1858 you will find complete in
structions for making the square
shown; an illustrate of it, of the
stitches needed; material require
ments.
To obtain this pattern send Is
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to The Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept, 259 West
Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y.
Be sure to write plainly your
name, address and pattern number.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
Ask Me Another
q Il General Quiz
g Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.


l. How many times does one
round 220-yard track to make a
mile?
2. Why are detectives some
times called sleuths?
3. What three oceans form part
of the boundary of Canada?
4. The son of what famous poet
served many years on the United
States Supreme court?
5. What is a fageolet?
6. Who were the grand mo-
guls"?
Z. Of what South American
country is Montevideo the capital?
8. What is marten?
8. Who was Jean Ingelow?
10. What was the "Wilmot Pro-
viso"?
Answers
l. Eight.
2. From sleuth, meaning track,
as in sleuthhound.
3. Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific.
4. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
5. A fiute-like musical instru-
ment.
6. Emperors of Delhi.
7. Uruguay.
8. A fur-bearing mammal.
9. An English poet and story
writer (1820-1897).
10. A proposal to bar slavery
from territory obtained from
Mexico.
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what /|lk
cJWV> thinks
about:
This Changing World.

NEW YORK. = They say
l Y poker is dying out, its
place being taken by bridge, a
game played with So cards and
frequently, as between part
ners, with fully 81 times that
many harsh words. ! look next
for a revival of tit-tat-toe. You
can quarrel over that, too.
And out on the dude-ranches, old
cowhands, who once were almost
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
Neglected hx German,
@-WNU Service.

DR.. Paul Ehrlich, 1854-1915, famed
Jewish-German bacteriologist, re-
ceived more than 30 honorary de-
grees and decorations from foreign
governments and foreign universe
ties, but from his native Germany
only the Order of the Red Eagle,
third class.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03

rough with heifers
and calves, are be-
ing schooled in dis
Greet love : making
and other romantic
exercises to qualify
them for celebrating
Be Good to Debu-
tanteS week next
summer.
And it no longer
excites national in
terest w h en- the
plaintiff in a breach
of nropoica crit or
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
The HOttentOtS

The Smithsonian Institution says
that the life of the Hottentot tribes
in South Africa is centere6 on the
raising of cattle. The wealth of the
members of these tribes is esti-
mated in terms of cattle, ano their
existence is directly connected with
their herds.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
Bell Sounds Mess Call

1t is nice idea to call the family
to dinner or your guests to tea by
ringing musical bell. One particu-
larly intriguing arrangement is in
wrought iron with an old anchor fas-
tened to a wood beam. From the
end of the beam hangs the iron bell.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
Virtue of Patience

The best part of all fortitude is
patience, which, says Ruskin. lies
at the root of all pleasures as well
as all powers. Hope herself ceases
to be happiness when impotence
accompanies her."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
Soap From Che Buckeye

In early Ohio, the buckeye, the
nut after which the state got its
name, was used by the cabinwives
In washing clothes. BY washing the
kernels, the women could produce
soapy substance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
First Train Locomotiua

In 1929 the first train was moved
by an American steam locomotive
IL this country. A year later the first
railroad stock-that of the Mohawk
and Hudson railroad-was listed on
the stock exchange.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
The almighty DoIIar,'

The earliest use of the American
ism almighty dollar" is attributed
to Washington Irving. 1t is found in
"A Creole Village" published in
1897. Ben Johnson is credited with
a similar phrase, almighty goio.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-03
Outwitting the Laundry Man.

OutWltting the Laundry Man.
CEEING a Pullman porter pry
y open a car window with one of
those burglars tools which Pullman
porters carry for that purpose gave
me an idea.
I'm going to buy one to use on
dress shirts when they come back
from the laundry with the little
flaps on the collar band cemented
down over the back button hole. The
laundries may claim it's starch, but
know better-it's concrete and
high-grade concrete at that. 1t acts
like it and tastes like it, as you
may have noticed on licking same.
With the aid of this happy device,
shall save my nervous system, my
salivary juices, my fingernails and
it profanity be a grievous sin
probably my immortal soul as well.
But don't suppose anything can
be done about the eighteen or
twenty pins with which every eff
cient laundry hand pins up dress
shirt before delivering. And per-
haps we'd better not try-it would
reduce the consumption of pins in
this country by from one-half to
two-thirds, and goodness knows the
industrial balance is already upset.
IRWIN S. COBB.
@-WNU Service
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even a suit for alimony, is man.
Or at least such is the impression
which his lawyer, in addressing the
jury, would create.
Soot-Laden Cities.
7 OS ANGELES may have its
~ drawbacks Cloud cries of mol"
from all native sons, including the
foreign-born ones), but she certain
ly spoils fellow for the clinker-
laden, smut-freighted atmosphere of
many other cities.
Take Chicago, where the weather
bureau, if so inclined, frequently
might report two-inch fall of SCOT.
Or Pittsburgh, where chap comes
home for a week looking as though
he'd been cleaning out a soft-coal
stove. New York is nothing to brag
on, either. Leave snow-white pup
out over night and he could pass for
a Dalmatian.
Yet heating engineers say that
proper smoke consumers would pro-
duce such saving in fuel cost as to
pay for themselves in about one
year. Can it be these big city folks
would rather not save money, or
just naturally don't care a dern?
Or possibly the citizens fear they
might collapse their lungs and
choke to death did they start breath
ing something remotely resembling
fresh air?
Cruelty to Wives.
M AYBE you'll remember - it
~ was in all the papers - the
lady who got divorce in Chicago
some time back by alleging that on
the Fourth of July her husband as
sailed her with frecrackers; on
Thanksgiving day he threw turkey
at her, and on Christmas morning
he beat her up with a Christmas
tree.
But assume the union had lasted
until now. You can imagine the
poor woman's anguish if, through
the last political campaign, her hus-
band had made her read all the
polls taken on the election by the
inspired outfits that did take polls
and through that period had COM
PEELED her to listen on the radio to
the average professional broad
caster on football games, especially
the rapid fire descriptionist who
talks all at once and gets so excited
himself that the game, in COMPARE
son, seems but a tame and COM
monplace AFFAIR."
That would indeed be cruel sea-
sonal suffering for any wife.
Outwitting the Laundry Man.
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