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Evening star., 1939-02-26

OSiolS .iio ulooPENai eIiNC, q 0SiSlIidi
young man. Full of life, too, and cour-
age. Now you tell me that he has
returned "a blackmailer - that he
has threatened you. Wasn't he once a
little - forgive me, Sybil - a little in
love with you?'
He was or thought he was" she
admitted. "You would not think so
now if you heard him talk if you
saw him!"
Let me see" Besserley went on, Il
must understand. This Austrian -
Ferdinand krashki -"
II have told you" she interrupted.
Il have confessed. He was my lover
I And Tresillian - this boy, Lionel:?"
J He hoped to be. If you saw the
wreck he is now, Samuel, you would
understand the horror of that half hour
Il spent with him. What am to do? He
works now in rags and filth at these
.hideous memoirs in which he threatens
to disclose the whole story of those
days. The letters wrote to him - oh.
what foolish things woman can do!
They are at the bank addressed to my
husband. One of them speaks of the
papers l stole from the Embassy safe
for Krashki."
I did Tresillian know that you loved
nxrashki?"
A"He guessed. perhaps l should say
feared" she acknowledged. HE never
realized the whole truth until the trial."
Besserley leaned back in his chair:
F'Tresillian made no defence. if l re-
member rightly. He was tried by a
French Court and sent to Devils
Island for life"
"He saved the life of a jailer last year
during mutiny of the convicts. They
set him free some months ago."
"You say that he refused your
money!"
"IIe laughed at me. He must be
starving, Samuel. l never dreamed that
"a human being could live in such filthy
surroundings Tresillian - for whom
nothing in Paris was good enough! Now
he is like a wild animal. God knows
what l went through in that room"
God also knows" Besserley re-
minded her, what he must have gone
Through during the last seventeen years
whilst you were the uncrowned queen
Iof your country"
She crossed the few feet between
their chairs, fell on her knees and
;.lutched at his hands, why are you so
;trange" she cried. Don't you realize
hat unless something can be done l am
ruined woman? My husbands career
fS1ll be ended. will be robbed of every
thing in life. Are you not sorry for me?"
She gripped his arms but they were
lnyielding. "Sybil." he said, Il have
Aelped many people in my time, people
for whom have had sympathy. In this
matter my sympathy is not with you -
J it is with Lionel Tresillian."
She seemed on the point of collapse.
What is Lionel Tresillian to you?" she
sobbed. I'VE have been friends all our
lives - and you say that your SYM
pathies are with the man who threatens
mer'
Besserley rose to his feet and walked
slowly up and down the room.
you mean that you will not help
me, you will not 60 to him or to the
law, to some of those great people you
know who might sweep him away -
back even to Devils Island -"
Stop"
His interruption frightened her. Il
do not understand, she faltered.
Evening star., 1939-02-26

quiet reply. What filthy den this is!
Not a chair that would bear my weight" J."
Tresillian laid down his pen. He rose
to his feet. Get out of this!"
when l get out" Besserley re-
joined, Il shall take you with me-"
Tresillian stared at him. my Godv'
he exclaimed. Its Besserley!"
Right! Glad you've kept your
memory at any rate. Mind if smoke?'
Get out of this"
mot chance" Besserley produced
a case and lit a cigar. He offered the
case to Tresillian, who stood staring at
him like statue.
What do you want here?" the latter
demanded.
"A great deal. can see it won't be
easy. My immediate intention is to
wrap you up in my overcoat and take
you to my fiat"
Tresillian's laugh had something in
it of insanity. "You always were a
meddling ass" he sneered. How are
you going to get me out of this -
carry me?"
Il could do that if had to. When
you have lived a Christian life for a
month should not like to try it,
though" he went on. Better smoke
one of these cigars whilst we are talk
ing, Lionel"
Tresillian looked at the case and
shook his head. Il should be sick, he
groaned. Il have had no food for
twenty-four hours"
mo money!"
Heaps if l cared to 60 and look
for it."
Writing your memoirs, hear"
Tresillian's voice shook with rage.
80 that woman has been after you"
he shouted. Il expected something of
that sort. Damn her, and damn your
Interference! Look here, am prepared
for something of this sort. He opened
a drawer of the table and drew out a
revolver. Il spent some of my good
conduct money on this" he confided.
six cartridges all in their places and
l can still shoot pretty straight. l am
not to be interfered with, Besserley.
l would shoot you as soon as swat a
fly upon my table Get OUT"
Besserley watched his cigar smoke
curl up to the ceiling. Get it off your
chest, Tresillian," he said. "You would
never shoot man sitting down and l
will stop here until you are sane again"
Read some of those pages" the
other Knocked. You will see am sane
enough. Beautiful English. l have not
lost the trick of writing. Would you
like to read page?"
wouldn't touch the filth"
Perhaps you will say what you have
come for them"
For one thing, to remind you that
you we're born gentleman. Gentle
men do not write memoirs like yours.
They don't send a woman's letters
to her husband. They don't do either
of these things if they are in their right
mind. If you did them the person you
would shoot afterwards would be your
self. l am going to remind you of a
few things. Your father is dead. Your
mother is still alive. Your sister has
two splendid sons. There is good deal
of family left - Tresillian family -
my friend"
You are going to be surprised in
minute" Tresillian warned him. IF
you don't get up I shall shoot you
sitting"
(Confinvsd on pogs 16)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25

There is much speculation in poll
tical centers over the possible BOOM
erang effect of John l.. Lewis's
wrathful personal assault on the
second highest elected officer in the
-white-haired, apple-cheeked,
7O-year-old John Nance Garner. To
nearly all observers, it seemed that
the head of the Congress of Indus
trail Organizations had committed
a huge political blunder, a blunder
likely to do two things: (1) enhance
Gamers chances for the 1910
Democratic Presidential nomination,
and (2) set back, at least slightly,
the fortunes of both Lewis and the
C. /. o.
Lewis's attack came as he testif1-
ed before a special meeting of the
House Labor Committee. The meet
ing had been called to cvonsider pro-
posals for amending the Wages
and-Hours Act to exclude certain
groups of workers from the mini
mum pay provisions Of the law. Wig
orously condemning the proposals
the C.. I. O.. chieftain suddenly as
sailed the Vice President Of the
United States as "a labor-baiting
poker-playing, whisky-drinking, evi
old man.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25
DRINKING ON INCREASE

The United States is confronted
with steady increase in excessive
and uncontrolled drinking, in al
most all age groups from Adde'S
cence onward, DR.. HerbertI. Mossen
writes in the North American Re-
view.
"There are certain figures that
are incontestable," he says, "for ex-
ample, the mounting registrations
in public and private alcoholic
wards and sanatoriums, and the
very substantial increase in the an
nual production of spirituous
liquors.
These statistics would seem to
be graphic and tragic enough to fix
anyone's attention.:
"In 1884, in the public hospitals
of the United States, 40 per cent.
of all patients were suffering from
alcoholic (insanity-almo in 20.
In 1886, the Bureau of Census re-
ported that more than II per cent.
of first admissions to public and
private mental hospitals were alco-
holics.
Distilled spirits (including in
dustrial alcohoD have risen in this
country from production of 241,-
100000 gallons in 1894, to 4S,13S,-
600 gallons in 1887, or almost pre-
cisely 100 per cent. in three, years. 7"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25
Monkeys Learn Barter
system in Record Time

Chimpanzees, like their human
counterparts, quickly learn none
tary system with all its attendant
pickering and boarding, DR.. John
B. Wolfe, Of the University of Mis-
sissippi, has learned.
They learn to work for food, then
for "tokens"-and how to spend
these tokens for food, water, It'd
bits, the psychology professor told
students at Tulane university.
And just by way of education the
professor, during his four years Of
experimentation with the chimp col.
ony at Yale, introduced a token
which would buy nothing. The
chimps discarded the worthless to-
kens.
DR.. Wolfe introduced tokens Of
varied value and vending machines
which dispensed water and food. The
Chimpanzees soon learned which to-
kens bought one, two and three por-
tons Of food and singled out the
ones which bought the most.
They learned to work for the to-
kens, as they had previously learned
to work for food, and began hoard
ing the valuable pieces of tender.
In one experiment, DR.. Wolfe de-
prived one Chimpanzee Of water for
several hours and another Of food
for the same period. Then he gave
the thirsty chimp tokens which
would buy only food. and the hum
cry brother tokens which would buy
only water.
The wise chimps looked at their
money, exchanged the tokens
through cage bars, and went to the
vending machines.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25
Edict Cuts Bulgaria's
Production of Rose Oil

Much of Bulgaria's income Is de-
rived from growing flowers from
which oils are extracted to be blend
ed later into perfumes. The oils
once were almost precious SUBJ
stances and still are expensive be-
cause flowers and fruits usually con-
tain them only in minute quantities,
making extraction a difficult, tedi-
GUS process, says Technology Re-
view."
A ton of geranium leaves, for in
stance, will produce less than two
pounds of geranium oil; ton of rose
PETALS, 100000 fowers-wi1l yield
only about one-haH pound Of at
tar of roses. Rose oil, therefore, is
worth from $125 to SITS pound, but
in spite of the rapidly growing use of
perfumes for personal and manufac-
turing applications, the Bulgarian
government has issued, over the last
few years, a series of edicts de-
signed to decrease the acreage de-
voted to growing roses, to elimi-
nate entirely the growing of white
roses-which give only half as much
oil as the red variety-and to en-
courage the raising of chrysanthe-
NUNS for insecticide extraction.
The authorities at Sofia believe
that the former market for their
rose oil never will be fully re-
gained; they are probably right.
Natural altar of roses costs more
than $125 pound, as previously
mentioned; it's synthetic twin costs
$3.50 pound.
Bulgaria's loss, however, is the
worlds gain, for the synthesis Of in
Vulnerable aromatic compounds has
permitted the masses not only to
smell as only the rich once could
but has also permitted them to
anoint themselves with scents never
before known to man or beast.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25

Don't Stop Me: The story is MAX
ing the rounds concerning the actor
who was reading a new book about
Lincoln. Lucille Manners, the So
prano, had read the book and to
make conversation, during an idle
few minutes in a rehearsal, started
to talk to the actor about it.
''It's a swell book, isn't it?" re-
marked Miss Manners. ''Have you
come to the part yet where Lincoln
was assassinated?"
"Don't tell mel" shouted the ac-
tor. "Do you want to spoil the
story?"
End Piece: When Milt Herth
moved to his present apartment,
neighbors seeing his electric organ
being carried in and knowing his
reputation as swing organist, be-
lieved themselves in for a lot of
sleepless nights. So imagine their
surprise when they learned that
Milt, when home, plays only the
softest and sweetest church hymns.
He used to be a church organist
back in Kenosha, Wis, and likes the
hymns because they remind him Of
old days.
(Bell Syndicate-WNU Service,)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25
TRAINING COURSE ON
PNEUMONIA

Preparations are under way by
the State Department of Health, be-
fore the pneumonia season opens.
AS preliminary step, DR.. r. HI.
Riley, Director of the Department
announced that an institute, for the
instruction of county health officers,
public health nurses and laboratory
workers, in the newer methods of
treatment of the disease, is to be
Held in Baltimore City, September
%. According to present plans, the
morning session will be held at
Osler Hall, 1911 Cathedral Street,
and will be devoted to a review and
the discussion of various phases, of
pneumonia control. The afternoon
session will probably he held at one
of the local hospitals and will be
devoted to instruction in laboratory
procedure with specific reference to
precautionary measures to be used
in the newer methods of treatment.
The course is being arranged
under the direction of the Pneu-
monia Control Committee of the
State Board of Health-Dr. M. c.
Pincoffs, Professor of Medicine at
the University of Maryland, chair
man; DIR. Huntington Williams,
Commissioner of Health, Baltimore
City and DR.. r. H. Riley, Director
of the Department. Instruction in
the most recent methods of treat
ment will be given by DR.. Perrin
Long of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
and by DR.. Horace L. Hodes of
Sydenham Hospital.
In announcing the arrangements
for the course, DR.. Riley said:
Funds were appropriated by the
last session of the State Legislature
for pneumonia treatment and con-
troll in the counties. In order that
the most effective use possible may
be made of these funds, it is i'm
portant that the county health offic-
ers and the county nurses who will
be assigned to this service be famil-
lar with the new procedures.
Pneumonia ranks fifth as cause
of death in Maryland In the toll
taken of human lives it is exceeded
only by diseases of the heart, the
kidneys, cancer and cerebral hemor-
rhage In the last three years over
10000 cases with over 5000 deaths
from the various forms of the dis
ease have occurred in Maryland.
There were 1896 cases with 1858
deaths in 1896; 3,466 cases and
1888 deaths in 1887; and $3.50
cases and 1851 deaths in 1888.
"For four years special labor
atory service as an aid in the dag
nosis of pneumonia has been avail
able to physicians in the counties,
through the central and branch
laboratories of the State Depart
ment of Health. The Department has
furnished the matching serum for
the treatment of the disease
The serum treatment marked a great
advance in the control of the dis
ease. We are looking forward tc
even greater results from the use
of the new drugs now available. The
funds set aside for this purpose viii
enable the Department to provide
the necessary laboratory aid tt
physicians and to furnish the drugs
for residents of the counties unable
to buy them at their own expense"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25

Works Projects Administration
workers will receive a monthly av-
erage of $3.50 more pay after Sept.
/, but there will be about 100000
fewer persons on the rolls.
Officials SO interpreted an order
issued by Col. F. G. Harrington,
WPA Commissioner, establishing go
new wage schedules for five types
of employment in three areas.
Colonel Harrington's order was
designed to put into effect require
ments of the new Relief Act, call
ing for general overhauling OF
WPA wages without changing ma
terially the present national aver
age. That average, Colonel Harring-
ton said, stood at about $5S in
June. The new schedules will in
crease it to about $3.50.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25

The Commerce Department an
nounced last week that retail bust
ness was about $1,0OO,000,000 bet
ter in the first half of 1889 than it
was the first six months Of 1888.
The increase was achieved despite
a fall in prices.
Retail trade for the first six
months of this year totaled about
$17,900,O0O,000, a gain of 6 per
cent over the first six months last
year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25
Political Tangles

Party lines in Congress crumbled,
crashed and divided into blocs, fac
tions and coalitions in the last days
of the past session. Ordinarily at the
close of Congress there are major
moves made by leaders to restore
harmony and patch things up. 1t
was different this time. Lewis's at
tack upon Vice-President Garner,
and the widespread speculation over
a possible rift between President
Roosevelt and Mr.. Farley are
straws in the wind that may swing
state delegations in 1910. Conser-
vative and New Deal Democrats are
headed in different directions right
now. What may happen in the next
ten months before 1910 conventions
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25
A FOGGY POLITICAL SEASON
J. e. Jones

Washington, D. c., August IA
Long lists of legislation that was
proposed to the Congress at it's rec
ent session are listed by the news
paper and correspondents. The lists
show some substantial victories for
the President, including the appro-
priations he asked for his defense
program, the reorganization of Gov
eminent, and a continuance of his
monetary authority and the bill
lion dollar stabilize ton fund.
1t was the greatest spending Con-
gress on record. The President is
recognized as the greatest spender
on record. He was. deniel a good
many spending privileges. He failed
to get legislation for billion dol
lar lending program and an addi-
tional 500 million of funds for the
United States Housing Administra-
ton.
These matters do not prove that
the recent Congress was either eff
ficient or thrifty.
The fact is Congress also grabbed
off lot of the money that in form
er times would have been given to
the President, and they blew it in
there own way. They gained victor
les for themselves, but they didn't
do the taxpayers any good.
So, there isn't very much for any
body to crow about, even though
Congress decided to keep us out
of war" by defeating the neutrality
bill that the President said was sc
essential if we were to remain out
of the forthcoming fight.
After the political fogs in Wash
ington, what's next?
| A national discussion of the is
sues that were SO bitterly fought il
the battles between the Presiden
and Congress is needed. Both side
claim that they were, and are, right
whereas, as a matter of fact aresum
of the past seven months in Con
gress doesn't indicate that any o
them deserve any orchids.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25
Salt is a useful ingredient

Salt is useful ingredient for
seasoning a number of different
ways, says Margaret McPheeters,
Nutrition Specialist for the Univer-
sity of Maryland Extension Service.
1t will be found helpful in bringing
out the best flavor in melons, grape
fruit, cocoa, chocolate sauce, candy,
ice cream, preserves, pies, and pud-
dings. Salt will intensity the natur-
al flavor and Offset cloying sweet
ness or fairness. However, unless a
recipe gives definite amount to be
used it is better to salt to taste"
proceeding cautiously and tasting as
one goes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25
Lights Of Network
by L. L. STEVEN SON

Novelette,: She's not unattractive,
yet no heads turn as she passes.
Three years ago, she came here
from well-known woman's college
with an ambition to make journal
ism her career. Though she made
diligent search, she couldn't find a
job. Being broke, she turned to
writing love stories. Though in all
her life she had never had the slight
est heart flutter, in fact not so much
as one man friend, she succeeded in
putting into her work that for which
pulp paper magazine editors pray.
Not only did she sell her first story
but her success continued, the de-
mand for her work being greater
than she could supply. A year ago,
she met young artist. A few
months later they were married.
They are still supremely happy, in
fact, quite mad about each other.
There is just one drawback. Ever
since she met the man she married,
she hasn't been able to write one
love story an editor would accept.
Illegal: Beggars, vendors, must
clans and bootblacks have found
the subways a fertile field of en-
deavor for quite some time. Rush
hours they did not work for the SIM
pie reason that they could not pass
among the losely packed passen-
gers. But at other times they have
proffered their wares, solicited
aims, shined shoes and even put on
concerts and collected, the collec-
ton in each instance of course be-
ing important. And passengers
locked in speeding cars simply
couldn't escape. Various efforts
were made to root them out but
nothing much happened save an &C.
casional disorderly conduct arrest
which brought only q conduct repri-
mand. Recently a new state law,
which makes it misdemeanor to
sell, beg, sing, dance or shine shoes
in subways went into effect and now
passengers have to endure only usu-
al underground discomforts.
New York Mysteries: How taxi
drivers continually quarrel yet sell
dom, If ever, fight How people
can stand all day watching an exca-
walton How New Workers. can
be squeezed to a pulp in subways
yet never complain to the authori-
ties How thousands of small
retail merchants can exc out an ex-
istence What one nights cleo
trio bill on Broadway amounts to
How police officers escape in
jury in the midst of the traffic mael-
strom How movie theater door
men bark raucously all day long
above the roar Of the passing traf-
fic throng without getting a sore
throat The stiffness of Sunday
morning on Broadway All of
which puzzle Joan Edwards no end.
Showmen: George Jessel figures
that during the last 20 years he has
played more than 1900 benefits and
has served as POSTMASTER at 300
banquets. He recalls the time when
having played his fourth benefit in
one night he was on his way to
play his fifth along with Eddie Cam
tor. Naturally it was pretty late
and when Cantor and Jessel arrived
at the theater, they found that ev-
erybody had left. But they had
great routine prepared and didn't
want to waste it. So they called in
the door man and went through the
entire sketch for him. Both claim
that though he was their smallest
audience never had they had one
more appreciative,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25
From Farm To Auto Factory


well, Ma, while you're finishing
up your chores, 1 guess I'll go over
to the north '4O' and cultivate that
crop for next years automobile pro-
duction."
Sounds as if Farmer Jones might
be bit "teched" by the heat of the
MONDAY sun. But don't jump at
any hasty conclusion. For such
imagined discourse isn't SO far
fetched.
Few realize how much of the
material in their cars is grown on
farms. In recent years great many
industrial uses for farm products
have come out of research labora-
tories, opening up new markets for
farmers and adding to their ability
to buy the products of industry.
Here are just a few examples of
the uses General Motors makes of
farm products:
Cotton is used in making lacqaers,
plastics, tires, upholstery, artificial
leather, electrical insulation, safety
glass, felt.
From Corn come adhesives, tex
tile sizing, alcohol, nodded plastics
:. corn stalks make fiber board.
Sugar Cane furnishes alcohol and
insulating material.
Flax yields linseed oil for paints,
soap and foundry core oil.
Goat Hair makes mohair for
upholstery.
Hides mean leather for betting,
upholstery, and many other uses.
And the science of chemurgy-of
adapting farm products for indus
trial use-is still in it's infancy.
New uses are being developed con-
stantly and the many crops so care
fully tended by the Nations more
than 100000 farmers promise still
more new materials for men to
work with, not just to eat or drink
or wear.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-25

Just rs years ago last week,
Europe was plunging into bath of
blood. In the previous week of
1914, Austria Hungary had invaded
Serbia; pious Nicholas II, Car of
all the Russias, had ordered general
mobilization. On August /, Ger
many declared war against Russia,
and on August 8, against France.
On August 4, German troops cross
ed into neutral Belgium; Britain
declared war on Germany.
Last week, as these Hateful Au-
gust days passed again, Europe was
not at war. But in the newspapers
of Europe, preparations for war, and
not for peace, made the biggest
headlines.