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Canton Waddington

Massena Northern New York Teachers To Meet In Potsdam Oct. 6

Hammond Prescott

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87th Anniversary Of N. Y. State Teachers'

Association Planned Hugh C. Williams of Can-. • ton- to Preside at St; Law­

rence and Franklin Coun­ty Meeting

The S7th anniversary of the New-York State Teachers Association, is to lie celebrated in October and November by district meetings in eight sections, of the state. Plans for t h e northern district meeting, to be held at Potsdam, on Thurs­day and Friday, October 6 and 7, Tiave Just been announced by Hugh C. Williams, supervising principal in Canton, -who is president of the district. The meetings in the northern, -district are held each, .year a t the s ta te normal school a t Potsdam. The northern dis­trict ' comprises all of the schools In St. Lawrence and Franklin couonties.

Cooperating -with Mr. Williams in the preparation of the program a r e . t h e other officers of the dis­tr ict : Ceylon J. Wheater , prin­cipal, high school, Chateaugay, vice-president; and Charles R. Van Housen, state normal school, J'otsdam, Secretary-treasurer.

The officers have been assisted by t h e executive committee com­posed of Dr. R. T. Congdon, prin­cipal, state normal school, Pots­dam; H. H. Lamberton, superin­tendent of schools, Malone; Rose M. Libby, district superintendent of schools, Canton; Bessie Thomp­son, Gouverneur; A. J . Fields, district superintendent of schools, Potsdam- o . H. Voelker, state nor­mal school, Potsdam; R, E. Win-. «r, principal, Ogdensburg Free Academy; E. Harold Cole, prinr cipal, high school, Potsdam.

"Various other activities of the convention have been arrange* by several committees "with the follow­ing chairmen: Nominations, -Car­los S. Blood, Heuvelton; "resolu­tions, R. H. Wiber, Ogdensburg; information, and entertainment, Charles R. Van. Housen, Potsdam^ exhibits, Dr. R. T. Congdon, Pots-'

• d a m . • ' * ' The meetings will be divided into,

five^ different groups, with' chair­men a s follows: Elementary, Bes-. sie Thompson, Gouverneur; rural,. Rose M. Libby, Caiiton;. "high, school, Ralph E. Wiher, Ogdens­burg; demonstration teaching, 6 . H. Voelker, Potsdam; and elemen­tary principals, May E. - Richmire,

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ing •will be a t the s tate normal school and all: the meeting's will be held in the normal school and

"" hi 'gf scfiool~6uildings. • • - • On Thursday morning, October

6, the elementary teachers will hold as general meeting in the state normal school* auditorium. Hugh C. Williams^ .president of the dis-

-trict will preside. At the same hours .the high school teachers will meet in." the 'h igh school audi­torium where Vice-President Cey­lon J. Wheater will preside. -On Friday afternoon, October 7, there will be a general session of all teachers in charge. . At 11 q'clack on .Thursday morning the teach­ers from the several supervisory districts will meet, with tbe sup­erintendent of the district in

, charge. President^ William has arranged

for speakers for the general ses­sions on Thursday and Friday. On Thursday, morning Dr. George M. Wiley, assistant commissioner for secondary education, of the state education department, will address the teachers on "Democracy—A Challenge to Education" and Dr. Hughes Mearns of New York Uni­versity will lecture on "Unguessed Gifts."

Dr. Wiley. will speak ' again • on Friday morning, having for his subject "Some Guide Posts in Secondary Education," " together with John F . Hummer, assistant superintendent of schools a t Syra­cuse, who will talk on "A School for Animals" and • Dr. Avery W. Skinner, director of the examina­tions and inspections division of the state education department, with an address, "The Trend of "Modern Education." On Friday af­ternoon W. Howard Pillsbury, president of the state association will bring to the 'teaqhers the greetings of the state association.

Thursday afternoon will be given over to section programs. The ele­mentary group is subdivided into Tarious sections in charge of chair­men as follows: Art, Bell G. Jamie-

. son, Ogdensburg; Elementary, Scott L. Brown, Gouverneur; Kindergarten, Norma B. Klein, Msasena; Music, Kenneth L, Mar-

. -quis, Malone; Special Class, Mrs. A. L. McGuire, Ogdensburgt; Visual

•' Instruction, Kate L. "Humphrey, Massena. • • • - - .

Friday morning is—-given over largely to demonstration teaching, t r a d e s 1 and 2 will have reading demonstrations; grade 3, music; grade 4, library; grade 5,

' geography; grade 9, physical edu­cation; grade 9,.English.

The high school program Is also flivided into several sections, and their meetings will be , held on Thursday afternoon. The chair­men are : Agriculture, W. T. Long, Canton; Classical, Elizabeth Lum­b a l Potsdam; Commercial, George Gallant, Potsdam; English, Mary B. Scripture, Fort Covington; Homemaking, Caroline Fuller,

. Potsdam; Ja&ustrial -Arts.,, T._ .J. Christian' Tupper Lake; Library,

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Jessie M. Fraser, Saranac Lake; Mathematics, Merle D. Livermore, Ogdensburg; Modern Language, Teresa Owens, Malone; Oral Eng­lish, Claire K. Gage, Canton; Physical Training, Fred W. Klee-mier, Ogdensburg; and Science, Arthur E. Yerdon, Massena.

In connection with the meeting there will be exhibits of school work and school supplies. The com­mercial exhibits will be on the fir'st floor of the main building of .the normal school, except those pertaining to high school work which will be exhibited in the high school building. A library ex­hibit. Will be on display In the li­brary of the high school; a kinder­garten exhibit in the kindergarten rooms of the new school of prac­tice" and ?£n exhibit of drawing and handwork in Room 121 of the nor­mal school.

There is to be a School Women's banquet and a School Men's ban­quet, each held" during the conven­tion, of-which particular announce-

-ment will be made a t the first ses­sion. Also during the two days' of the meeting dinners will be served in. many of the churches in the town.

President Williams says that al­most all the teachers in Franklin and St. Lawrence counties; a re members of the s t a t e assocaition and h e expects that- there will be an 100 per cent attendance at this meeting. ' - ""-

The officers of the state-wide as­sociation are : W. Howard Pills-bury, superintendent of schools, Schenectady, president, Mrs. Fran­ces Warner Kroner, Mount Vernon, vice-president; Arvie Eldred, Al­bany, executive secretary, and P.. A. Searing, Rochester, treasurer.

•1 VICINITY EVENTS t <3> $ Sept. 19—Chipman—The Home Bu­

reau will hold its monthly busi­ness meeting at the liome of Mrs. Joe Brown Monday evening.

Sept. 19—Massena— Cretona Chap­ter,-No. 516, Order of the East­ern Star, will hold-its first stated meeting after the summer recess on Monday evening a t S o'clock. The worthy matron, Mrs. David Yolton, desires a full attendance of members at this meeting.

September 20—Waddington— The ladies of the Methodist Episcopal church will serve a chicken pie supper at 5:30 p. m. in the Com­munity room. All are invited.

Sept.. 21—DeKalb Jet.—The ladies of St. Henry's Church will serve a Chicken Pie Supper from 5:30 until 8, a t the Odd Fellows'

• Hall .Entertainment from 8 un­til 2 by Ireton's Orchestra.

Sept. 21—Hermon—Mrs. L. B. Stev­enson of Watertown, president of the New York State Congress of Parents, and Teachers will be the speaker and guest of honor at the opening meeting of the local Patent-Teachers Associa­tion Wednesday evening a t the high school auditorium. There will be a reception at 7:45. A most1 cordial invitation is ex­tended to all interested in this most-important work.

Sept. 22—Massena—The annual meeting of the Massena G. L. F. will be held at the town hall, Thursday evening, at 8 o'clock for the election of officers. Mov­ing pictures of the G. L. F . feed and fertilizer mills will be shown and a "report of last year's busi­ness will be given" by C. N. Sil-cox, of Buffalo.

Sept. 23—Crary Mills—A card par­ty and dance will be held in Grange . Hall. Everybody wel­come.

Sept. 24—Dekalb Junction—A mu­sical festival, one of a series of four entertainments to be pre­sented under the auspices of the local school will be held in Cole's ' Hall. The entertainers will be "The Lombards," radio favorites. Prices are reasonable.

Sept. 26—Old DeKalb—A harvest . sale and . roast turkey . supper will be served by the Ladies' Aid

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Governor Sends Greetings to Jews

Albany, N. Y., Sept. 17—(AP)— Jewish residents of New York state have received New Year greetings from Governor Roosevelt.

In a statement issued a t the Governor's office last night, the executive told the Jewish people it was his "sincere wish" that "their hopes and prayers be fully ans­wered, that contentment and pros­perity be their lot."

The feast of Rosh Hashanna, the Jewish New Year, will be cele­brated October 1 and 2.

of the M. E. Church in Grange Hall from 5:30 o'clock until all are served. Mrs. Robert White is chairman. The harvest sale will be held upstairs. A pure bred Holstein bull calf will be one of the many things auctioned off. Sale will s tart after supper. All

. are invited. The committee in charge for the Harvest Sale is Mrs. Miles Griffith, Mrs. D. Ash-ton Moore and J. Newman.

Sept. 29th,Rensselaer Falls — The .. iftdies. Aid Society of the Con­

gregational church will hold a roast pork supper in the church parlors. Supper will be served from 5:30 until all are served.

Oct. 6.—Heuvelton—A chicken pie supper will be served by the Ladies of the Methodist Episco-

- pal Church in the Town Hall. An entertainment will also be given.

l-owdcr flasks like these were the Immediate successors to the Old-time power horns.

A Chat on Antiques

B y A n O g d e n s b u r g C o l l e c t o r

Although the flasks illustrated today are for gun powder and made of tin, they are almost iden­tical particularly the one on the left in shape and size with those made of glass which have been added to our interior decorating with such charm. These old flasks filled with ivy and .placed where the light catches them are very pretty indeed. Some collectors place them directly in a window on glass shelves but if you are not sO minded they are very at­tractive on small hanging shel­ves or on the end of a low book­case- Those which have the smooth "thumbed" neck are the most valuable and in most cases the prettiest.

The color is usually on the pale gree t or amber shades—varying largely with the quality of the glass and the locality in which it was made. They have a horn of plenty, or a bundle of wheat or the head of George Washington on the side (although there are some which read: "Success to the Rail­road" and others mindful of his­toric events which, seem to have value if not beauty.) In Selecting them it seems just as well to get those which are good from the standpoint of antique value as well as those which appeal to your artistic sense but if you can't re­concile the two my vote would be for beauty. Remember that they break quite as easily as less valuable pieces and unless you are going in for collecting in a large way—with whole rooms devoted to one thing, such a s lustre or pewter or glass—it i s well to confine your antiques to what you can reason­ably use or display without creat­ing a sense of disorder In the mind of the beholder. In the case of these little flasks if you are guided by shape and color and condition you are apt to get very worthwhile ones.

Coming to Sheraton we are fac­ed with perhaps the most tragic figure of all. He was born poor aud died poor and yet his designs not •only were widely adopted during his life but are today-the basis of most modern furniture. They combine lightness with grace and strength; they have size without bigness and they have distinction without being obtrusive. And what is even more, they are invariably in good taste. The abundance and character of his work show that he was not lazy or vulgar. '"One cannot say that lie was too much of an idealist of dreamer, he-cause his furniture combines beauty with the utmost practicab­ility. He probably lacked the busi­ness sense—the ability to "put it over" for his own benefit." Thus one authority puts it and it seems to sum it up very well. A man who was unquestionably a genius, an artist of the highest rank and to whom the world ATOS coldly in­different as a human being. It seems such irony that the fame he now enjoys was denied him in his life time. How far it would have gone toward the bare necessities which lie sadly needed!

In his last years he was forced to adopt the Empire influence which was sweeping all good sense before it. Once more you can lay the blame where it justly rests— with the buying public. Sheraton as well as Phyfe deplored this "foolish staring after French fash­ions" and fought against it as long as he could, so when we come to his later pieces do let us remember that they were not of his choosing and do not represent the real Sheraton.

The type of chair which you are apt to find in this north country which may be called Sheraton is, if yoi will recall a recent illus-, tration, that known as" the Sheivl-i ton Fancy Chair. I t was the cen- '

ter chair in a §roup- of three—the other two being Hitchcock. This type was usually rush seated—the front of the seat swelling in a graceful curve—and the legs set slightly a t a slant and well back from the edge of the seat. They were painted and decorated in gold leaf and some In color. Still others were painted in a peculiar shade of green, with only the thin striping to outline the uprights and the slats for decoration. This green is rather on the grey tone —greener than Robin's Egg Blue (which, was a favorite color for the interior of old cupboards and shel­ves.) and yet once you have seen just the shade of green you rec­ognize It instantly. Perhaps age has mellowed it to the shade it now is but i t is surprising how well i t goes in almost any room. If you are fortunate enough to find any with the paint on enough so that you can use them that way, try them first-ns they are before you decide to have them done over. It is very hard indeed to find such a chair, with arms, but what a worth-while find they are! Th?y curve over, in graceful line and the delicate posts upon which they rest are simply but beautifully turned.

Sheraton and Hepplewhite Sheraton and Hepplewhite were

rather similar in chair backs but they did have one or two distin­guishing features which are easy to learn. While Hepplewhite's were curved Sheraton's were almost in­variably rectangular. The top rail was often straight across, some­times it was gently . curved and sometimes- it was raised a bit in the center. There was a straight rail at the bottom—extending across the back a few inches above the seat—and this complet­ed the frame for his designs. They were numerous arrangements of open work panels or fret work or spindles, sometimes occupying only the center of the frame or extend­ing clear across i t The typical Sheraton leg is round and reeded, tapering to the floor in a little turned ball but you may be sure in distinguishing between Hepple­white and Sheraton that Hepple­white never used the round reeded leg whereas Sheraton did occas­ionally use the square tapering leg which we associate with Hepple­white. However there will be, in that case, some other characteris­tics which will help to identify it for you so do not be too disturbed.

Furniture Becomes Lighter When Sheraton came in, desks

as well as all other furniture be­came lighter in design. The broken arch of Chpipendale gave way to the simple horizontal top, glass was put in the doors, and light woods, much veneering, and inlays were used. Bird's-eye maple trimmed with Mahogany veneer and outlined in ebony inlay was a favorite combination in this coun­try. We are speaking now of Sec­retaries for in them Sheraton created the "tambour" which was not only delicate and beautiful in design but Is the same principle on which the roll-top desk of to­day is based. It (the tambour) was made of tiny strips of wood mount­ed on cloth so that i t was flexible and would roll. I know of two pieces locally owned which have this tambour. One of them is a secretary and is a t present in the shop of a local dealer. For my own reason I know why it is still there —because I didn't have the price of owning it—a price which I has­ten to add is not one dollar more than the piece is worth—no indeed! I t js unquestionably genuine Sher­aton and very possibly English. It is mahogany, with the flat top re­lieved by a dolicct- moulding. Con-csrllng numerous ' nr.all drawers and pigeon-holes is the tambour—

A Story of Mvsberv and Love in The Soufch S

BRUCEE.GRIGGS

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READ THIS FIRST: After finding an oJd alMp's lop in

a Chicago bookstore,, Jay Bruce, who tells tlie story% lone Adams, Pillv hightencr, Tom Barry, and Larry Holmes, set out for the South Seas. Before their departure frovy Chicago a strange girl, d. Hiss Wliitney, at­tempts to ootain possession of tlve log, which relates tlu> story of a cruise for pearls by a Yankee sea captain 100 years agio, lone and Jay and Pillif and Tom are married "be­fore tJie cruise. In Tahiti Miss Whitney again appears, this time as Pauo, princess of several islands in the French Society group. She takes them to her island palace wliere Iiarry falls in love with her. Pauo tells them tlve story of the Yankee captain, who vias her great-grand­father and of his tattempt to steal the great black pearl in the eye of the god Nu on the island of Tarea. Meanwhile a man named IAvingston, a cashiered British naval officer, at­tempts to get possession of the log also. He succeeds, but not entirely, as Larry has taken the precaution to photograph the pages. Then Paiio is kidnaped by IAvingston and taken away on his boat. With the aid of natives she is rescued and Livings­ton himself taken as a captive in the fight. Back in five palace, after the fight, Pauo warns IAvingston to give up liis attempt, to find the sacred peart Larry, who is guarding him, is so enraged by /Livingston's atti­tude that he is on ttlie point of slioot-ing him. Tom saves the situation, however, and they tall retire, leaving Uutario, an old naUve, to guard the prisoner. In tlve morning they dis­cover Rutario dead. On tlve wireless lA-Hngston, from this boat, admits members of his crew strucfc down Rutario during the night, enabling him to escape. Me warns tliem to leave tlve island amd return to the states. In return Tom calls him a murderer. Tarry takes Pauo, who was very fond of did Rutario, out to break the news of his death. Tom and Jay remain Hn the tower dis­cussing Larry's lome for Pauo.

L2TOW GO ON WITH THE STOR-Y1

CHAPTER 29 "ALL RIGHT, HERR FREOB," I

told Tom with a grin. "You have discussed two stages of love-li£e— Feverish Infatuation, and the Perils of Propinquity. Do you think each couple gets past tine altar believing they are the exception to the rule, and are due for a lot of bliss?"

"In the main, yes," Tom answered. "OH, ril" grant you there are excep­tions, wliere the first flame burns pretty brightly and steadily as long as they "both, do Hive.' But, they are the exceptions—thla ideal"

"Wouldn't call yourself cynical, would you? Remennber Wldle's line: 'A cynic knows the price of every­thing, but the value of nothing?"

"No, I am not .a cynic. I have dis­covered the value lof several things."

"Tom, stripped oif all the old bjah-blah, matrimony lis at best an arti­ficial institution. I t is essential for only one reason—so that Property may know its Heir. Here in these islands of the South Seas, where there Is more property than heirs yoa don't bear an awful lot about it.

"In these islands, if a man wants a woman he takes her, or she tries to get Wm if she wants him. I ts perfectly natural Why, they didn't know they were naked until the-mis­sionaries came down and put clothes on them—they always thought their bodies wero perfect as they were.

"The old law oE economics regu­lates to a large extent a people's moral code, r i l agree that in our high-speed civilization marriage as an Institution is vital for the pro­tection of women and children—"

"Yov mean that where property and women are scarce, a man sort of brands a woman with bis name by matrimony, tfoereby announcing to the world: This Is mine! Her children shall Inherit my woperty*?"

"Exactly," I saia. "Gives the honor of the family into her keeping."

Tom asked: "In congested parts of the earth it is economically Im­portant, while here, where living Is

easy and property plentiful it is noti particularly essential—thus account­ing for the freer, easier codfe?"

"Precisely! But we are off the sub­ject You were discussing the states of love-life, as we know i t "

"Wen," he mused, "if they get through those first two stages, there wUl probably be children, and that first heat of love is now distributed among them. BUlie has made the football team—the baby has a new tooth. Common Interests.

"If i t s not the kJds. it is at least habit The same friends, the same home. This is not as strange, but it's pretty good. Anyway, people past impetuous Youth, like the rut where it is warm, and -enerally safe.

"Isn't that the "Happy Hver After' stage?"

He shook his head. "Not neces­sarily! The kids have now grown up. and Dad suddenly gets the idea that he is a mere boy of 45 or 50. He goes to for snappy clothes and cute, young 'chicken.' Or it may be the other way around with Mother mak­ing a fool of herself. Neither of them have thought of testing their sex-ap­peal for years. Now, they seem to want a final fling.

"Don't forget that nature does the same thing when she sends the for­ests Into a blaze of glory just before knocking the leaves to the ground, brown and dead."

I commented: "Granted they want to test their sex-appeal when it is generally their 'checks-appeal' So to the divorce court What then?'

"Old Man Habit gets to work. They discover that the much longer-for Freedom is. In the main, a mirage —an iUusion. Sometimes this discov­ery takes weeks, sometimes only days.

Dad finds that the chef at the club can't broil a steak like Mother used to. Mother gets to wondering If Dad Is getting those fall colds he is subject to, and wbat xse is doing about i t

"Often, if they are not too stub­born or stiff necked, they go back together again. Then In the last act. Dad is probably grumbling and Mother Is picking away at him. But they have discovered they pretty well like it — and you can't have everything. Old Man Habit And so they go down the MI, side by side, grumbling and nagging, but satis­fied."

"Really, Tom, from' the mature height of some thirty-odd years, you are quite a philosopher," I remarked, banteringly.

"All the same, my friend," he said pointedly, "one doesn't work on big metropolitan newspapers — as four of us in Oils party have—where one watches life funnel through, particu­larly if one is inclined to be ob­serving, without seeing more of liv­ing than the average person by the time they are ready to 'cash in their chips' at 70 or 80."

"I guess you are right at that," I admitted.

"Now you take Larry's present fix," Tom continued. "Ordinarily he is hard-headed and fax sighted. Right now he is suffering from that fevered Infatuation. He thinks that after Pauo, any other woman alive would be like a hang-over after de­lightful intoxication!"

For a few seconds I looked Tom in the eye. Then I asked: "Are ycu afraid that after he comes out from under the perfumed ether of this first stage, he'll suddenly remember there Is a blood strain of Kanaka there—no matter not how hard he tries to forget i t And that .Living­ston, who evidently has blood-line and breeding behind him, irrespective of what he may be now, wouldn't marry her because of it?"

"Exactly." he answered quietly. "That's why I tried to hit him so hard yesterday."

I asked slowly, musingly: "1 won­der if that isn't one of the reasons, j unconsciously — he probably doesn't realize it himself—that makes Larry hate Livingston so violently?"

"Why the 'unconsciously'?'.' "Do you think he realizes t h a t

now?" "Certainly!"

"But it doesn't seem to make any difference!"

"It won't—at least for the time being."

For a moment we were silent Thefi- I softly breathed a question. ""Old you ever see u more ravisbingly gorgeous creature?"

Tom looked a* me QUizicaUy. "Did you think I had lost my eye sight?"

Then for a time we both studied the view which lay spread out below Us. There was something soothing about i t Sunlight drenched the daz­zling white sands -of the beach, palm fringed and studded with tropical foliage. Flocks of mynah bwds flitted about, chattering.

The lagoon, with a blue so deep and'startling, that it seemed that a glass of it held to the light must show Indigo; or that a bit of white silk dipped* into it must be lifted out stained—jay spread before us. Then the blue of the lagoon framed, ex­cept for the harbor channel, in run­ning plumes of white, where t h e breaking seas ceaselessly hurled their water skyward from the crags of the outer coral reef.

"Holmes will have to work jut his own salvation." I. said softly.

."Yes," Tom answered shortly. "There are things that even friends don't monkey with."

"If they are smart." I said. "If they arc smart," Tom echoed Together then we went down the

old winding, wrought iron stair case Luncheon had assumed a n aspect ol importance.

Pilly was to the living room "Where is everyone?" she asked.

"Out walking," I told her. "Did you rest well?"

'T feel, grand," she said, stretching luxuriously.

In silence Tom and I started foi the dining room.

Suddenly she seemed . to . -detect something in the atmosphere. "What's the matter with you gents, anyhow? You larrup along there like the chief mourners just back from a funeral!"

"We have to go to one—that's all" I said dryly over m y shoulder.

She was beside us In a dozen steps. "What are you talking about? Who?"

"Rutario," I announced briefly. "Livingston Tesoaped and his gang murdered the old man m making the getaway last -night"

Her eyes were startled. She fol­lowed us into the dining room as we sat down. I clapped my hands for service and Pakal entered:

'Toast, icoffee, -and a lot of sliced oranges—have the toast well but--tered."

Pakal .went out and .Hilly- asked: "You wouldn't deliberately^ kid a young" girl! would you?" There was. nothing flippant about the question. She was looking at us both intently.

"We can offer you 'corpus delecti' if that's what you demand," Tom said evenly.

"Tom has j'ust been talking to Liv­ingston on the air, and he doesn't make any. bones about it," I stated "He didn't know the old man was dead, but he admitted his men '.cold-crocked' him—said it was necessary. Pleasant person — Mr. Livingston! The old fellow died just a little while ago. • Tom threw the murder In his teeth!" - -

"How did he get out?" She was still looking from one to-the other of us intently.

"Cut a couple of window bars, and sprung them out," I said. • 'T-m knocked all in a heap," she told us. "This Is something of a shock. Did the old man nave any­thing to say before he died?"

"Heck, no!" I ejaculated. "He had a basal skull fracture, and he wasn't doing any talking—" •.

"Ssssshhh—" Tom warned as foot­steps soundea on the broad stone steps in front

lone and Larry came into t h e iroom where we were. Then I heard a door close, to the room where the body lay. and I knew that Pauo had gone in to be alone with her dead.

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in this case composed of alternat­ing dark and light wood—and be­neath the lid, which is supported on two sliding wooden pulls when used as a desk, are three drawers containing perhaps the rarest thing of all—the (original brasses. They are round brass knobs, beau­tifully designed and although rather battered iin their present state, easily made right by a care­ful workman with the proper tools. The legs in this case are square and tapering and are about twelve Inches from the ground. It is very dainty in proportion and can't be much over 50 inches in "heighth. Containing as it does the original brasses the price asked for it — even in these times—is nothing if not reasonable. If you are in doubt try to find one like it—even at twice the price. A year ago, in New England I did see some very lovely pieces—none with the tam­bour however—which could be bought for about $400 to $600 and which in some cases had the or­iginal brasses, but in most in­stances they were American made which a t least in New England made them more valuable. Early American brings twice the price the* same piece made in England a t the same time would b r i n g -that is in the general market—but fine old English plieees authentical­ly made in the shops of Hepple­white or Chippendale or by Shera­ton's workmen, iln his miserable half shop half house will always be valued by connoisseurs the world over.

An American Designer We Americans Will perhaps cli'er-

ish the Early American, things be­cause we feel that they belong to us but aside from, that i t is an In­

disputable fact that the number of genuine pieces of furniture made here in the days of the early col­onists is alarmingly few. Whether it was easier to bring or have brought furniture from the old country we can not say hut it was not for a number of years that we arrived at anything which we might call "American." Duncan Phyfe was our first and last (thus far), designer of furniture whom we may claim as our own. There were, to be sure, splendid shops in Phil­adelphia and Boston which turned out masterpieces after the Eng­lish designs but in nearly every case they were made on order and consequently their whereabouts are pretty well known today. Washington had a tambour secre­tary which he thought enough of to mention in his will but which he called "my bureau"—explaining in the next sentence the term by which it was known to cabinet­makers so that there would be no

mistake. . . . . The second piece of furniture

which I had in mind containing the tambour is in a local dining-room. It is an exceedingly rare sideboard —one of seven which were known to have been made and one of two now in existence. The other is in the Metropolitan museum, accord­ing to the curator of the Boston Museum who is responsible for this information. Although it should be properly discussed un­der this head we mention i t now because of the tambour. I t is con­vex in outline with four legs in front and two behind, and the front of -the legs is inlaid with -a-fine line aud -banded about four Inches from the bottom with a wid-

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.er inlay which, matches the edge of the top. It is mahogany inlaid with Satin-wood. 'Divided into three main sections it has a door on either side-inlaid with a round panel of satin-wood and in the cen­ter compartment "is the t a m b o u r -in this case made of tiny fluted pieces which gave an exceedingly delicate effect. Beneath the tarn- . bour are two small drawers with oval satin-wood panels and little brass pulls and above it and over each door are long drawers having -c

a matching inlay of satin-wood nearly the full length and contain­ing the original" oval brassest Cer- s tainly it is a very'J-eautiful piece— <* a masterpiece of line and work­manship—Sheraton at his best.

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