Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 16, 1922, Page 4

4 78 122 NORWICH BULLETI e e e e Tilated ooy @y Ia e jesr exiept Sunday. Sptemipten priee 1t & Weeki G0 & menthi .09 » o 2y 2R Betenet ot e Paptefios g8 W % Ooma, e e Offlen. 400 s Bdltorial Reems 35-3. Bulietia sop Boem. 354 Wikmests OfDes. 81 Cred 6. . Toigphone BimEER OF THE ASSICIATES PRESS Prew ®_ exchmtvy eatitied || equipment, but it is disclosed from time |doubtful whether it has any value what- o ol yewe Somoth- CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING DEC. 9th, 1922 COXXNECTICUT'S TUBEBRCULOSIS WORK. o ARl Comnecticut has been deeply in- o the work that i5' being this disease, and inas- as it is being done by the state, direction of the tubgrculosis the officials at the sev- it is to be realized that in whici each and every res- the gtate és playing an active ] il H i i aiE B the entire commonwealth the commission when it its annual report that as the work performed there lower death rate from ta- Cqvpecticut for the past #wo years than there has preceding year, or for any g years. 3 Its speak for themseives, goal for which Connectlom e years ggo, and ‘a pgoal %”!% Tl ifstay mn 2 i { i it NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1922 would bs in Kesping with the plan fol- lowed by the railroads in the metropo- lis, and it is. net improbadble that it THE MAN WHO TALKS The local of commerce is to SHALE OIL POSSIBILITIES WHEN PETROLEUM GOES, ‘When the flow of that liguid gold chamber would develop into the establishment of {be commended for its activities in foster- 'known as petroleum gives sign of slack- branch offices about the eity for the fur- :;c the armory exposition of the indus-|ing, and as a consequence the whir and ther accommodation of “the public. This of “eourse calls for the coopera- tion“of the respective theaters, and they. shoul dbe anxious to give their support to the idea becausé of the better feel- ing it stems certain to create among iis patrons, and especially those who have long since harbored the idea that the specuiator. was in reality enly an agest of - the ‘theater. -The idea would doubt- less serfously eripple the speculator ai- though it -might not prevent him from operating on a small scale. The idea, ‘| however, cammot ¢ail to make its appeal) to those who have been done by speca- lators, .. F — . FIRE WASTES. : Probaply- there jga't & eommunmity ‘where ‘evervthing is idéal in the way of preventive measures and fire . fighting to time where there gre those communi- ties which do not begin to approach the ideal, and where ‘the impression is gain- ed that-there is tog great g willingness to take 2 chance. Under those condi- tions when ‘a fire' does break out the chances are excellent’ that it will exact a toll in losses that staggers. There are fires which cammot be at~ tributed to 'negligenoe, etther on the part of those.who would be .expected to giye. consideration . to. preventive meas- ures or those engaged in the enaesvas to:check- them, but when the ety of As toria, Ore,, :is visited by a $15,000,000 blazes, "and conditions ‘syhich prevailed in that city are disclosed, it stamds out “|'as an 'object lesson to each and every community where there are inadequate measures. either for the prevention or. fighting of fires. The. conditions at Asteria are no aif- ferent than are to be found in many in- stances. The dangers of fire are wall known. There is no mystery about tha fact that a blaze kindled jm 2 small ‘way may Tesuit in great property loss and even greater distress to humanity. And there can be no justification for the Pled, when made, that .attenion - had never been directed to the taking = of seps that.jmight have prevemted it. In tog - many imstapees the cause for the fire wasts. lies''in ‘the failure to take 2 lesson from ‘the - eperfence of others. Too ‘6ften” i3 it the case that conditions existing at a fire are simply the repeti- tion of scores of others that have pre- ceded i, and yet they are allowed to w keeping constantly before it. b confidence thet through the. #nethods proposed there cogld be made! # telling fight against .the' white plaguc fip Cannecticut and it is already possible show that it is being -acnomplished. “his doesn't mean that the fight can or that it should "exper- k4 tinvance and furtherance of already being done.. Inas- the. efforts “which have been grege 33! e ¢ there is olegrly set forth $he’ state ‘for - the - fiture. 2y have been its doubts in mumevemn ts of the Yari- of which this county bas |/ : f g k g §i OEBISTMAS CAROLING. bgal to others whe are not -bound by Hnglish ties. They have recognized the agoropriatepess of the group smging through ‘the streets on Christmas “eve; 4pd it 45 pot mprobable thet much re. Wpongidility for the rerival was due to #inging - efforts and the that was ‘astaiged in connec- the 2 Depuier appeal. the Tevival of sarcling ‘has ‘made is in- fact .thet while there in this gountry where WRS reported ' in €61 which had -apparently inspired and jéined the procession ear. ether the idea has taken root, whether its growth was temporary will be 14 ot il i < sy i3 | | f : g : any let up. Rather does’it call|’ idea of commupity Christ-|. exist under -that greatly mistaken idea that “nothing Bke that could ever hap- P 40 my rty,”". without first meking -certaln. that such -was the case. ** It may’ be the sitiation some day that les of Norwich and vicinity. It was probably an eye-opener to the majority of the people that our industries were 80 numerous and varied. The real in- dustrial worth of one’s own city is a matter in which both optimism and pespimism are likely to function. The extremists on one side are apt to claim an exaggerated merit for the home town or city, while on the pessimistic side, others are ready to make an invidious comparison between the home city and almest any other place in the state. It is pot a question whether New London, Middletown or Meriden could have done better or not so well, but whether judged by its own merits it was not an excel- lent exposition. From the comments heard &n all sides it must be pronounc- ed a success. This judgment was based on jts intrinsic merits. Our industries are as varied as they are excellent. Undoubtedly public opinion is very powerful, but in the last analysis it is ever. The reason is that every con- ceivable question may be viewed from : as many angles as there are people, and no two opinions are just alike. Besides that opinions on different matters change with the progress of knowledge. Views in one age of a certain matter are mod- ified in the next as more is known about it. For illustration take the innocent, slowly-falling snowflake. Ts it bane or blessing? is it to be welcomed or spurn- ed? Fifty years ago the scientist would have said: “Snow is to be hailed with delight ; it is the ‘poor man’s manure.’” Today the scientist says: “The fertiliz- | ing value of snow is all bosh!” Ask the ! school boy with his new sled and his| glowing face answers. Ask the boy’s father with a hundred-foot sidewalk to | clean, and his scowl is significant. Poets ! hum of the country’s miliions of flivvers and motor busses and tractors seem like- Iy to desist for lack of fuel, the far- stretching reserves of oil shale in the | United States stand out as the most im- portant resources of substitutes for pe-, troleum oils, states the TUnited bureau of mines. These shales, veritable untapped reservoirs of oil, underie enormous areas of the country. Those of the most economic importance occur in Co’orado, Nevada and Wyoming. Great areas of black shale occur, however, in various eastern states, notably, Kentucky. Indiana and Ohio. The great economd importance of oil shales is that, when the industry is properly developed, the Unit- ed States will have 8 new domestic sup- ply of mineral oils, which cannot be cut i off in time of war, and which, come what may, will always be ‘ready to help meet the nation’s demand for oil, no matter what the world’s petroleum situation may De. The tuture of the oil shale industry in this country, the bureau of mines consid- ers, will depend primarily upon the rela- tive supply of, and demand for, petroleusn products, particularly in the regions re- mote from seaboard. There is good rea- son to believe that in the next several years the domestic production of petrole- um will decrease, while the demand for its products will increase, and oil shales can well make up the deficiency of erude petroleum as a source of refined mineral oil products. Even under the most fav- orable condition development of an Amer- ican oil shale must be slow, aithough this can be hastened by the employment of highly-trained specialists, the proper kind of experimental work, and sincere co-op- " eration and mutual helpfulness among the oil-shale operators. States | g0 into ecstacies over its spangled| Large sums of money will have to be beauties, but not trolleymen—as far as invested before the oil shale industry be- heard from. | comes one important commercial consid- Opee again the Armenians are becom- | eration. It is probable that the invesi- ing the cynosure of all human eyes— | ment necessary for an oil-shale retorting American eyes as well as European eyes. 8nd refining plant will approximaie They are the chief race of the Orient $3,000 per barrel of shale-oil daily capac- upon whom the Turks seem to wreck their most diabolical wrath. Territory s most responsible for Armenia’'s mis- fortunes, although politics and religion have much to do with it. Armenia has been a Christian nation since the days! of Gregory thie Illuminator in the latter part of the third century, when the; better part of the people were converted. : Under the reign of King Tiridates the whole nation became Christianized in the beginning of the fourth century,! Ever since they have held most staunch- ly to the faith, and because neither ca- joling nor threatening can swerve them, they have been compelled to endure the ytmost crueities from the Turks. Mu- tual jealousies have kept the European nations from g with authority. Gladstone was the only man in the nine- teenth century whom the Turks fear- ed. But leaders with Gladstone's mor- al power have not been numerous in laws Will' exist imposing serious penal- ties for ‘faflure to respect fixed fire-pre- vention * regulations. _ HELPING EUROPE. In connection with the imternational situgtion * this 2 has taken the “view that it will have nothing to do Wwith it. It has insisted that it was not prepared to mix up in all the troubles of Europe at the pres- ent time any more than it has been willing to in the past, It bas not shown itseif responsive t> the jdea of cancelling the debts of the European ' countries inqurred because of the ‘war. "It has’t however taken the Dosition that it was going to insist mpon their immediate payment, or in fact that i it could be demopstrated that it|Plished 'Was necessary -that. it wouldo't listen to some reduction. . The view that has been taken is that unless 1t could be shown that Europe would collapse with- out it, ‘the idea of cancelling the debts would simply be an invitation to these countries to devote their momey to the provision of the means for fiying a5 each other's throgts the guicker. Stateménits have been” made and de- *elopments ‘ have “ occurred which make it apparent that further appeal is to be made to this country to lend fts ‘aie m the adjustment of “he economic ‘situa- tion' in Burdpe. That the goevrnm is in touch with conditions more closer ly than some other agencies is to be ex- pected. When it summons the ambas- sador to Great Britain to return for 3 conferepee it -is evident that it is de- sirous - getting “in -still -closer touch, That thiscovntry would have much in. fluencs in’ connéction- with the adjusi- ment of the probléms which have lom; remained unsettled is evident. Condi | tions across the water are apparently might suspect some sinister motive. As being brought to a mew focus. If we tangied upon in Europe's affairs there’s 1o guestion bt whet we are ready to .make 2 .Dprpper . response, EDITORIAL NOTES. ‘The “idea of abolishing the phony fome .run, will ‘appeal to many baseball e ‘With December half gome the only thing to worry about js that winter ig Europe in this century. “A eity that is’set om a hill canmot be hid,” says the Good Book. Nejther can 2 man who occupies a big place, provided he is big enough to fill it. We have repeated evidence that a man of real power to benefit his fellows can- not long remain in obscurity. . Some time ago when Greece conceived the idea that her deposed king could do better than the great Venizelos, she relegated the latter into obscurity. But recently with ber amy overwhelmed in Asia Minor through incompetent leadership, and with the home ministry making a bad mess of it, “then they cried unto Veni- zelos in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses”—at least he gave to the nation something like in- telligent direction. The same is true of Dawid Lioyd George. He fell from pow- er because he could not have accom- the impossible. But he was al- r too big 2 man to be shélved. He is returned to parliament unopposed, and although the leader of am insignifi- cant party, whenever he rises to speak he is greeted with a prolonged ovation. Some things camnot be hid. Strange things happem every day, and among the strangest are the freaks of motor vehicles. Usually they vent their spleen on telegraph poles and stone walls and other things equally soft. Up to Dec. 11 they have respected the “cloth,” and let churches alone. Had this ven- ergble building been a sentient being it must have felt that at last, ynder the terrible impact, “the gates of hell were going to prevail” In this case, however, it was only the gates of the chureh that were not “prevailing.” Surely the sppearance of the damaged truck indi- what it means to butt up against real orthodoxy. This was no ordinary stone wall but the ‘walls of Zion. It would be wiser for trucks, when ben on a rampage, to strike something more ylelding, as, for -instance, - the -Groton monument, Fprt Trumbull, or the Yale bowl. We art glad the truck was laden th oil rather than booze, otherwise we troubled waters. The above event is a reminder of the historic fdet that the church is econ- stantly getting “knocked” In the past, every conceivable instrument has been used, and if in this case knocking had to come it is quite refreshing that it could -be done by & motor truck which has all the glamour of novelty. Thel knocking is not usually against thel “walls of Zion,” but rather against the Ziopjst who operates within. - He s sometimes knocked because he is not as ‘sound” as Jonathan Edwards was a century and three guarters ago, or some will call him a “mossback”. because he does mot belong to the extreme radi- cal wing. Some will knock him because it was oil perhaps it will smooth out the material are alikeé knocked. The church has failed in its mission, The church bwilding is too hot or, cold, too damp or too dry. Such eriticism is rarely made of a | ity. put of petroleum Is at the rate of 400,- 000,000 barrels, and to replace that pro- duction with shale-oil would require near- ly 1,100 shale retorting plants, ach putting through 1,000 tons of shal 1y every day in the year. This is that the shale yields 42 gallons of oil per ton. The total quantity of shale mined would be over 400,000,000 tons, which approaches the annual coal produc- ion. The investment of retorts and re- fineries alone: for an industry . of this magnitude would be over $3,000,000. This does not include estimated cost of lands, portation and marketing facilities; ier does it inelude the cost of develo] subsidiary industries, without which a shale-eil industry could not exist. Oil shale is a compact, laminated rock his ¥hees pointing northeast then stantly they changed to Eoulh\\'es:\, ‘With- out a momient’s warning, one of them be- gan to shoot out toward the northwest, and at the same time the other towards the southeast. At this point pain spread over his face. were fiying wildly as though t . grip something. probably his conscience, for it had been hit badly. Moral: Put sand on your sidewalk, for some men don’t carry it with them. SUNDAY MORNING TALK SEEKING THE FACE OF GOD. ‘When Thou saidst, Seek ye My face; my heart sald unto Thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. Hide not Thy face from me. Ps. 27; 9. There appears to be a good deal of au- tobiography in this psalm. 'The writer, whom we take to be David, traveled back In thought to the past of his life and his backward glances fixes on two distinct objects. At one time he thinks of the past as God’s past, all illumined by.the radiancs of His favor, and helped by the might for His imparted strength; at an- other he thinks of it as his own past wherein he strove to.love and serve his keeper, God; and from both these as- pects of the days that are gone he draws encouragement to have faith that God will be the same, and resolves that he will trust and obey in the future. In the words of the psalm. these two ways of looking at the past are woven into one strong cord, that he may hang his confi- dence and prayers om. There is here God’s voice to the heart. We have here, as it were, summed up in a kind of dialogue of two phrases the whole speech of God to us, and the in most -meaning of all that .devout souls say to God, “Seek ye My face.” Such is the essential meaning of all . God’s words and works. “Thy face, Lord, will I seek.” Such is the essential meaning of all prayer, worship and obedience. The call is “Seek ye;” the answer is “7 will geek.” That is what we have all to do with God's words. He sows His invitations broadcast; we hava to make them our own. He sends' out His mercy for a world; we have to claim each our portion. Nothing in all the world is so blessed as to hear the wonderful be- seeching call sounding in every provi- dence, travering to us from every corner of the universe, speaking to us im the light of setting suns and in the hush of midnight skies sounding in the waves on the beaech and in the rustle of the leavea in the forest denths. whispéring to us in the depths of our own hearts and wooing us to our God. That is heaven on earth nobleness, peace and power, to stand as at the point of some great ellinse to which converge from all sides the music of God's manifold invitations and listen- !ing to them, to say, I hear. and I obey: Thou dost call, am L There is here the heart’s cry to God founded on both the Divine voice and the fuman echo. “Hide fiot Thy face from me” is elearly a prayer built unon both these elements in the past. God's invi- nd I answer Lo! here The present annual domestic out-| |of sedimentary origin, vielding over 33 per cent. ash and containing organic mat- ter that yields oil when distilled but not appreciably when extracted with the or dinary solyents for petroleum. Oil-shale occurs in many parts of the world, but the shale deposits of Scotland, because of their having been the basis of a commer- cial industry for many years, are the most widely known. The shales worked |at present in Scotland yie'g about 25 gallons of oil and § pounds o. ammonium sulphate to the short ton. Oil shale deposits have been weorked lin a small way in the eounty of Dorset lin England from time to time for cen- | turies. Oil-shale deposits of importance occur in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and in New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. Shale deposits in the provine- es of Allier and Seone at Loire, France, have been worked for more than half & century. Large deposits of -shale exist in Jugo-Slavia, Spain, Sweden, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Esthonia, Brazil and other countries. In the United States, the largest oll shales are in the Rocky Mountain region, and belong to the Green river formation in northwestern Colorado, southwestern Yyoming and northeastern Utah. The: Green River formation contains persist- ent beds up to 49 feet thick that will vield at least 35 gaMons of crude oil to More thorough surveying and | may discover thicker seams of | equal or greater richness. A recently discovered 20-foot seam yielded over 60 gallons of oil to the ten, by laboratory test. In Colorado, the Green River for- mation attains a maximum thickness of about 2,600 feet. | Some beds, most of them too thin to be worked commercially, have yielded up te 90 gallons of cil to the ton in laboratory tests, and it is safe to assume that the Green River formation contains enough le of workable thickness to supply a arge amount of material that for many years will yield over 35 gallons to the ton. These shales will also yi&d per ton up- s of 20 pounds of ammonium sul- , valuable for fertilizer purposes. The oil shales of Nevada occur most- y in the eastern district near Elko and Carlin. They differ physically and chemicaliy from the shales of the Green Ri formation, and are usually some- what lighter in color for the same yield phat ie California deposits, for the most part of hardly true oil-shales, as the greater part of the oil obtained from them oecurs as such, and can be extract- ed by suitable solvents. Their oll yield s greatly, but the average is not ; even the best do not yield much over 20 gallons to the ton, and their ni- trogen content is very low. In laces the deposits are thick, and are ac: | sible; so notwithstanding their low Id of oil, they have commercial possi- ties. i Dillon, Montana, there are oil shale 1 three feet or more thick that | will- probably vield up to 30 gailons of oil to the ton. The phosphate beds, as- ociated with these shales, are possibly of fut importance a commercial ce of phosphates. The black shales of the T _vonian for- mation, capable of yielding possibly economic quantities of oil, are known to exist in the states of Indiana, Llinois, Kentucky, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Tennessee. Shales of the same formation, yielding notable | quantities of oil, have been reported in | Mi , Kansas, and Oklahoma. Oil- shale is known to occur in Texas aiso. The production of oil from bituminous materials was knowa at least as early as 1604 when Ele, Hancock and Portlock distilled “oyle from a kind of stone” from Shropshire, England. As early as 1761, oils were distilled from bituminous jor oil-shales for medicinal purposes and 'as early as 1815, a works in England produced oil and ammonia by the distil- lation of coal. The oil-shale industry has been devel- oped to a greater extent in Scotland than in any part of the world. The amount of capital invested in leases, mines, works, refineries and the like in Scotland is in excess of $12,500,000. In cne opinion of the bureau of mines, those who are en-| gaged or who contemplate investing or becoming-engaged in the oil-shale indus- try in the United States, will make no mistake by studying, in detall, the teeh- nique of the Scotch industry. It has been | inexistence since 1985, and while its tech- nique may not apply in its entirety to} American shales and conditiome, .- ex- perience of Scotch operators an:: thelr , methods of solving difficulties in commer- ‘cial operations can be of great value to our future oil shale industry. In 1860 there were in the TUnmtes! States fifty-three companies, mostly in the eastern part of the country. produg- ing oil by the . distillation of. various kinds of bituminous substances. The methods used were crude, and materials treated ranged from bitum.aous and can- .nel coals to some true ol . The . desired product was kerosene or “coal oil,” which latter term survives since the time when most of the keroseme used in this country was really derived from coa] and the like. Some of these companies were only just getting started when the American petroleum industry came into being, reduoing the pri of keroseme to such an extent that “shale-oil” opera- tions became unprofitable, and the plants were abandoned or adapted for use in refining petroleum. In 1916 there developed in the United States a remarkable interest in oil-shales, | and the year marked the beginning of an attempted development of an oll-shale in- dustry in th's country. Since that year an increasing amount of work has beem done on oil-shale, but not commereial ofi- shale operations have been started in this sie bi country, and the industry does pot yet! | exist; except in the literature of promo- Itlon organizations. 1 ) Oneofmmflmr and historic FRISWELL’S The Store With a 50 Year Guarantee of Fairness and Good Treatment Where Your Dollar is Worth 100 Cents. We Hope that You Are One of the Fortunate Persons that Have Been in to Examine Qur Special Blue White Diamonds. We Have Specials at From $50 to $150 that Can Not be Duplicated. Our $35 Ring is a Pippin. Bracelet White Gold, Green Gold Watches and Yellow Gold Bracelet Watches, 15 Jewel, American and Swiss Watches That Will Run and Give Excellent Satisfaction. Toilet Manicure and Shaving Sets That Will Please the Party that It is Presented to. Three Materials, White Ivory, Shell and Amber That Are the Handsomest in the City. ENGRAVING FREE Look for the Name on the Door The Wm. Friswell Co. 25 & 27 Franklin Street THIS IS OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY—STILL GOING AND STILL he is reported to have paid 2 sum not far from one mifillion doilars. Many years ago Mr. Mearns entered one of largest retail mercantile establishments in Aberdeen in the humble capacity of a messenger boy. Today he is tne pro- prietor of the store and a controlling factor in a number of other large bus: ness enterprises. He is now sixty years of age, and it is by sheer hard work and perseverance that he has reached his his present position. His fiew home, Am- boyne Castle, was the ancestral seat of the Marquis ef Hunuey, Scotland’s premier marqus. It stands in five thousands acres of park and woodland bordering on tae river Dee. the l Today’s Anniversaries 1653—Oliver Cromwell was appointed Lery Protector of the English com- monwealth. 1803—The most ceremonious and extra- ordinary divorce in history took place between Napoleon and Jose- paune. 1 1824—Thomas Starr King, she preacher, to whose remarkable powers as 2 writer and speaker has been aserib- ed the joyaity of California to tne Union in the Civil war, born in New York city, Died In San Francisco, March 4, 1364. 1835—New York city was visited by the worst fire in us history, nearly 709 builuings being destroyed. 1858—Capt. Montgomery, with 63 mea, entered Fort Scoit, Kas, and re- leaseu Benjamuin Rice, a Free-state prisoner. 1894—James Black, the first presidential candidate of the prohibition party, died at Lancaster, Pa. Born at Lewisburg, Pa., Sept. 16, 1823. 1897—Joseph McKenna of California was appoinied an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 19104—The fumeral of Paul Kruger, former president of the Traasvaal, togk puace at Pretoria. 1921—The British parliament ratified the Irish peac: ireaty by an over- Whelming majority. Dr. ‘William ‘A. Granville, the retiring president of Gettysburg college, born at ‘White Rock, Minn., $9 years ago todayl Ralph Adams Cram, a noted ieader in the architectural professor in America born at at Hampton Falls, N. H, 59 ears ago ‘today. ¥ Roar hdmiral Austin M. Knight, U, §. N, retired, porn at Ware, Mass, 68 years ago today. Rufus Hardy, for eight terms, the rep- resentative of the Sixth Texas district Congress, born in Monroe County, Mass. § years ago today. Schuyler Merritt, representative of the Fourth Conpecticyt district, born jn New York city. Today’s &rdldln i in GROWING | Stories That Recall Others He Had Enough ‘ Poliieal actiyvity won for one OF wme workers a political plum. Quite properly, politically speaking, he ran both thumbs In the plum pudding and thought he was {2 great boy. But he wa® no bookkeeper. His accounts soon got in what might be |called 2 mess. Finally he got word to prepare for checking out He fussed over the accounts for hours and late in- to the evening. “Come on out to supper,” pleaded a friend. “Supper " exclaimed the troubled one. | “I don’t want no supper. I'm full of fig- {ures " | Witey's Little Secret Once on a time in the United State a youngster ran into the house to k' | mother carrying a beaded baz. Th child said he had found the bag in the automobile which his papa had been driv- ing the night before. It was a strange bag. It contained & sum of money. The wile took the money, called a woman friend and the two had a theatre party, a dinner, a good time and—oh, such fun. To this day the maid in the household carries a beautiful beaded bag given t¢ her by her mistress. The husband doet not know there eyer was such a beaded pag and whoever lost it—but then that is another story! Sixteen hundred married boys of 15 years, and 12,384 wedded girls of the same age, are in this country. CURED HER RHEUMATISM Knowing from terrible experience the | suffering caused by rheumatism, Mrs. J. { E. Hurst, who lives at §08 E. Do | St C-97," Bloomington, Ili., is so thankful at having ‘cured hersel{ that out of pure gratitude she is anxious to tell all other sufferers just how to get rid of their tor- ture by a simple way at home. Mrs. Hurst has nothing to sell. Mepely mail your own name and address, and she will gladly send you this valuable information entirely free. Write her at once before you forget. NOTICE SPECIAL MEETING OF GREENE- VILLE HOOK AND LADDER €O, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18th, AT 8 O’CLOCK, TO TAKE AC- TION ON DISPOSING OF COM- PANY’S PROPERTY. ALL ACTIVE AND HONORARY MEMBERS ARE {URGED TO BE PRESENT. BY ORDER OF THE FOREMAN, ELMER E. JOHNSON, SECRETARY. P —— e —— Among the Numerous Worth-While Books In Stock for Immediate Delivery We Mention the Following : “Life and Letters of Walter H, Page” “Letters of Franklin K. Lane” ‘Whatever doubts we may have about tation and my acceptance of both give C2stles in the British Isles bas been . alopg some lipes of human ac- me the right to pray thus, and are DOUght by a merchant who started his | i 5s ‘“A Short History of the World”—Welles ad o :tg;g 43 3 8 a}'} § of a?gg 4 i £ ¥ g‘-{ il £ : it 8F fagir L fis et R } I dren. -{ soeial tivity, there can be none whatever in regard to interest in the welfare of chil- ‘This is not due to apy or economic changes thaf have come from new conditions follow- ing the war, but doubtless as a result | self. of the war, the child eondition in.-Europe has in ' children phaned by war and the - unspeakabie atrocities of the Turks haye arcused all new feeling is doubtless intensified by the pear approach to Christmas, the prominent. The revision of laws in re- W 1o child lakir 4s alomg the of human betterment; the in our homhme of be-{ epic poetry in a college;paper. pubu-.hed by the sophomores. which ran thus: ! “On the street; banana. 0ld man,- Virginia reel.” Not to my Enowledie have I ever seen in good working order might create some physical as well as moral disorder with some o:d men. I heve, however, seen & man of some years struggle ice on the street and I fancy that filled bill 29 well as banina peel. His to dance ‘seemed to strike him all at once, and at the'satme time he seemed to north, south, east pledges of the answer. As to the former, “Thou saidst. Seek ye My face.” “Hide not Thy face from me” is-but the vivid way of putting the thought that God cannot contradict Him- As to the second ground for this pray- er, it rests on my part as well 35 on God’s. It is the eonpfidence that becauss we seek we shall find. He fills the ves- 3els we bring, be they large or smallb My feeblest desire brings snswers cor- Seek His face evermore, and your life will be bright because you will walk in the light of His always. That face will brighten the darkness of death; and when' you réath the land be- yond , you will enter it with the won- derful -hope on your lips, “As for me, I shall behold Thy face In righteousness.” and hesven's heaven will be that * servants serve Him. and see His face. Horlicks INAL Milk Then he began to stoop with 1 jcareer as a messenger boy. He is James : Mearns, of Aberdeen, Scotland, and his new bome in Amboyne Castle, for which e “The Mind in the Making” — “The Story of Mankind” '—Margaret Fuller “Heart’s Justice”—Amanda Hall “This is only a very small list of the bundreds of titles in