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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-20
So Big
And Yet So Small!

Seen by ITSELF Swift & Company is
one Of the largest manufacturers and
distributors of animal food products in
the country.
Seen in relation to the total food bust
ness of the world, its size dirninishes to
small proportions.
We handle only about ~ per cent of
the total output of the hundreds of pack
ing plants under federal inspection, and
only about IL per cent of the total meat
supply of the nation.
We handle only about per cent of
the total quantity of butter, eggs, and poul-,
try sent to market in the United States.
Our tanneries handle less than Is per
cent of the hides made into leather in
the United States.
Our soap factories make less than 10
per cent Of the soap output of the nation
This is done in keen and open
competition with every concern handling
these products, and att profit of fraction
of a cent per pound.
In the meat packing industry there is
nOOne dominant concern handling large
proportion of the output.
Swift & Company, u. S. A.
Richmond Branch 1863 Union Street
A. F. Flubacher Manager
" 1917. ~
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-20
S @ c I E. T Y

MRS MrNErREE FOLKEs
n..s4enee .rhone Randolph Madison 1924
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-20

Last night the men folks OF High
lana Park. presented the Woman
Less wedding at the high school
auditorium. The entertainment was
given for the benefit OF the berinner's
department of the Highland Park M.
F.. church land was well attended
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-20

Miss Elizabe Warren is in Phila-
dflphia attending the lawn tennis
tournament. now in progress at the
Philadelphia Cricket club.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
The Charm Works


TNHE huge grasshopper army, hop
ping and eating, was sweeping like
river toward Farmer Dalton's corn
field, as il about to swallow it up, when
the song of Peggy and Billy made itself
heard among them.
Fair fields lie beyond the lake,
Would you of their JOY partake?"
That was just the kind of song to
make the grasshoppers stop and take
notice. They didn't care snap about
the pleading song that the children had
first sung, but when they heard about
the fields where "eats await" they were
ready to listen.
The onward march of the army
halted. The ranks turned toward Peggy
and Billy, and soon the grasshoppers
were crowding around them so thickly
that they could scarcely breathe.
"Our charm is working,' whispered
Peggy to Billy. They are under our
spell just like the rates of Mamelin
Town were under the spell of the music
of the Pied Piper.
eyes, but the spell will be our ruin
If we do not do something in a hurry"
answered Billy. 1--WE must stop their
crushing in upon us this way"
eve will lead them to the lake."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

TT WAS the famous old conversation
l. love lozenges, the sentimental
coughdrop, that put Worcester far in the
lead as a center of commercial sweet
ness in the parlous days that followed
the Civil War.
A brilliant Worcester youth who
worked in a candy factory invented or
discovered the 'love lozenge" and sew
eral Worcester candy men made a for
tune out of it in connection with other
sweet goods. The sentimental cough =
drop was modelled in Worcester's past
and gone candy makers, Marsh &
Royce, while the conversation. lozenges
helped to make wealthy Moses d. Gil
man and his successors in the candy
business.
Mr.. Gilman is seventy three years
old, but probably, if he lives to be la
years old, he will never see another such
epidemic of. activity in the candy mar
ket as that which ushered in the love
lozenge. As a short cut to quick love-
making it had the sentimental cough
drop beaten all hollow.
The coughdrop was stamped with the
one talismanic word kiss" but thu
conversation lozenge of forty or fifty
years ago had different sentence oil
word on each piece OF candy to sui
most any condition that might arise
The lozenges were fiat and were neatly
printed in sweet red
The city was full of worthy young
men lately discharged from the UnioI
army, eager to take hold and make
homes for the dearest girls in the world
but most of them, like all heroes freshl!
back from the firing line, were bash
| full.
So this genius in the candy business
invented or evolved heart shaped fla
lozenge. on which he inscribed in cochi
neal ink, 81 love you."
The heart shaped love lozenge looket
so good to him that he invented a who'll
lot of similar designs, including "I'n
ready, but not rough" want to b
my queen?" Good for one kiss,
"Dost love me?" when may l Sc
u home?" YOU'RE the only one," an
a whole barrel of similar short, snapp
short cuts to courtship.
; The love lozenges went with whirl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

an of middle age who is unexpectedly
compelled to ''do something" have found
n way through their troubles to happy
useful life. These are some of the
things I shall write about.
Incidentally, I shan't be above steal
ing anything good (saying where I
stole it from) that I get hold of in cur
rent business and trade journals and
books.
I want my readers to help me to
make this the most helpful column pos
sible on making good in business. Send
me in your good ideas, good business
episodes (and don't forget the humor),
and anything worth while on business
that helped you. Let's pass along the
good ideas for the benefit of one another.
Tomorrow I'll have something to say
on the causes of business failures.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
DREADlLAND ADVENTURES--ByDad Daddy
"GRASSHOPPER HOP"

in mad, whirring, leaping. flying race,
with the grasshoppers forcing them on y
and on and on. 1t was like fleeing
before a rushing railroad train. They
had to keep ahead or be ground into
the dust by the mass of hoppers. :
Peggy no longer sang, and neither
did Billy. They needed all their
breath to hop, hop, hop. But the
hoppers rasped out their whispery,
rustling song, even as they raced along
Eats for me and eats for you eats
for all in pastures new"
The grasshoppers were no longer
stopping to eat. They were rushing
with all their might toward the fair
fields beyond the lake" which were
promised in peggy's song.
They came out upon the top of
hill, and down below them lay the oil
covered lake.
when we get to the lake, the hop
pers will fall in and we will be safe,"
painted Peggy.
NO" answered Billy. 1--WE cant
stop. This rush will carry us right into
the oil and water. We will be finished
with, the hoppers."
Peggy felt that what Billy said was
true. The waves of grasshoppers were
surging down the hill with force which
the children couldn't possibly resist.
Peggy and Billy had been caught in
their own trap and there seemed no
chance for escape.
But Peggy, leaping high, saw some
thing ahead which made her shout with
hope.
"Blue Heron is fishing in the shall
low water along the shore" she cried
to Billy. Perhaps he will save u.s."
(Tomorroto toiH be told how tho
grdsshoppcrs 90 stcimming against
their uW.)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

answered Peggy, then she sang the
second part of the song:
Hasten, hasten, eats await;
Hurry, hurry, don't be late"
A raspy whisper ran among the grass
hoppers: Eats for me and eats for
you; eats for all in pastures new"
They surged forward in a mass, and
Peggy and Billy would have been buried
in tangled, fighting heap of hoppers
if they hadn't quickly leaped away.
"We've got to flee for our lives"
cried Billy to Peggy. "We'll be
squashed fat if we DON'T
"Flee toward the lake" answered
Peggy. We've got them coming :"
And they did have the hoppers coming
coming faster than the children wished.
Peggy and Billy took long and desperate
hops to get out of the crush. but the
hoppers hoped after them until. before
they knew it, they found themselves
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

rived no wiser save in 50 far as his
intuitive perceptions, and his steady re-
gard of their faces while they talked
rendered him. But he was more than
ever convinced of his opinion of Bel
knap.
Nearly all of the guests were as
sembled at the breakfast table when
Belknap joined them. Asked, casually,
where he had been, he replied, address
ing all of them generally.
II don't know. exactly, only that
| found the shore. and an interesting
old mill that must be two or three
hundred years old if it's day.
1.-Two hundred and forty two Tom
Clancy announced solemnly. ut was
built in 1916. ! wasn't present, but
I've been told about it.
II ran into a chap while | was there,
and we got to talking, which explains
why / am late" Belknap added, and
thus accounted logically for the Incl
dent in case he had been seen h the
company of that other man.
When they left the table he man
aged to place himself beside Katherine,
to whom he said, in a sharp undertone :
Il must have talk with you, Mrs.
Harvard, as soon as possible, and where
there will be no fear of interruption. "
1--WE will walk down the" she be-
gan. but he interrupted.
NO" he said decidedly, and i'll that
tone of command which he had assumed
toward her Of late which he seemed so
greatly to enjoy for the sole reason that
| he knew that she so bitterly resented
| It. I'VE will ride, if you plcase-or
whether you please or not--in your
roadster and without Il passenger in the
rumble. You will invite me, presently,
to drive with you to some point OF Your
selection"
Katherine turned to face him, to re-
sent, hotly, his assumption of giving or
ders, but already his back was toward
her and he was moving leisurely away.
She flushed angrily, bit her lips, then
smiled, and accepted the situation-for
katherine had decided that morning to
meet Belknap on his own ground,
henceforth, and to puzzle him, even to
receive him. by an outward appearance
of entire acceptance of the incOncGiv-
able situation.
"Oh, Mr.. Belknap," she called to him
and he paused and turned. 1T has just
occurred to me-" she went on, THAI
since you seem to be interested i'll ole
mills, there is another one about twent.
miles from here that is even more inter
esting than ours. If you will go to tn,
garage, I'll join you there, presently
and take you to see it.
"Why can't we all go?" Betty Clanc!
demanded.
"You can," Katherine replied. Sup
pose we do! We will picnic there i
is beautiful spot. l will give direc
tions about the hampers, now, and tn
rest Of you can trail along as soon a
you are ready. Mr.. Belknap and wi
so on ahead in my roadster"
CONTINUED TOMORROW
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

We smile at it, but-''poor hubby
we say, "what handicap he has in
his fight for success"
I<believe that the foundation OF
business success or a business fizzle Is
in the home. In the house that is con-
Quoted in a loving, cheerful, buiness-
like way, you'll find the successful i.dn.
The boy who sells and delivers news
papers and who keeps his sales UP and
his payments collected is emphatically
in business. And splendid training
it is for any young man.
In a word, everybody is Sin business
except those poor unfortunate creatures
who work hard at trying to amuse them :
selves and to spend money, the value OF
which they have no conception because
they never earned any.
My articles are written, therefore, fol
every one, except the trifiIng group men
toned. To business men and women
to housekeepers and home builders, t.
women who while not in business wan
to be, to boys and girls with ambi'
tions to make good, to professional mel
and women, to the shopkeeper, to tn,
| travelling man, to the bookkeeper, to tn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
Candy's Influence on LOUe-Making

Every bashful fellow in Worcester
stocked up with them. Difident rockies
just out of their faded uniforms Of
blue invested in pound bags. Gallant
lads who faced the rebel shot and shell
at Anti6tam and Gettysburg, but who
became speechless when they called ON
the only adorable girl in all this bliss
ful world found the love lozenges a
great help to them in their sparkling.
~ fellow who blushed like a ban
danna handkerchief and who choked
up and suffered dreadfully when he
only wanted to say pleasant evening""
found pound of these lozenges of the
greatest help.
a great favorite was the lozenges with
a picture of Cupid thereon, clad only
| with his bow and arrow, and line
underneath where Danl was flying with
gauze wings, kiss me, quick, dearest"
This most always brought results
and in the years between 1865 and 1870
there was a surprising spurt in the
marriage market. 1t was the little
conversation love lozenge that did it
and there was some talk about getting it
patented and selling state rights.
Worcester became so renowned as a
candy center with sweet nonsense
printed on the Cupid kind that Moses
Dudley Gilman, who was in the West
campaigning in the United States army
against the frisky red man, gave up his
sport out on the plains as soon as his
enlistment expired, and came back to
| m nj IN 90 w hiISi
ness.
1t was an attractive business in those
days and a kid could get a plentiful
allowance of sweet stuff for nickel.
1t was the halcyon day of the big,
round jawbreaker, the candy marble,
the long candy cane and the grab bay
for a cent. Candy was cheap and good
because sugar was selling at twenty
pounds for 81, and no war tax. 1t
was, in fact, the day when the candy
kids taste had not been perverted, and
the grand, juicy morsel of all boyhapd
Was stick of licorice. The kid Nhd
get his licorice in two kinds, the Well
known and justly renowned black strap
that looked like prece of harness and
tasted like a fire in feather factory,
and the other kind that looked just like
small bough off a tree.
There We're also sucking sticks that
were neatly eolored to look like
barbers pole and sold six for a nickel.
The jawbreakers lasted all day. The
gumdropsy never failed to stick a kids
teeth together just at the fatal moment
when dear teach asked him to parse par
simony. 1t always took some time to
get his face loosened so that he could
answer. Until his jaws were pried open
he couldn't parse parsnip or anything
else.-Worceste Telegram.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

Ahouse party is being given at the
country home of katherine and Bing-
ham Harvard. Among the guests is
one Conrad Belknap. Katherine dis
covers him cheating at cards. Con
WINGED that he is conccaling his real
identity and that he is there for some
eulterior Spurpose, Katherine deter
mines to ferret out the mystery. She
has formerly had experience as. a
Spolice headquarters detective and has
been known as Lady Kate of the
! Police. She intercepts telephone call
Z Of Belknnp's to woman confederate
named Roberta. and, in turn, speaks
Ito the woman. Realizing that he is
suspected by Katherine, Bclknap
threatens to accuse of n crime her
brother. Roderick Maxwilton, who is
believed to be dead. Bingham Har-
ward. who once bore the title of the
Night Wind, becomes suspicious of
Belknap and of Katherine's attitude
toward him. Roberta arrives on the
scene under the name of Senorita
Cervantez. pianist, who is to enter
tain the guests. At midnight kath-
crime discovers Roberta in the grounds
with n strange man whom she be-
lieves to be her supposedly dead broth
err Roderick. Belknap accuses Rob
erta of deceiving him. She admits the
presence of Roderick. Her love for
him is revealed. A stranger named
Carruthers. with a scar on his face,
comes to the house. Rushton. a de-
tective, appears on the scene. Kath-
crimes father suspects that Belknap
is really named Bclding. A man
snamed Belding once was hanged for
numbering his wife. A child sur
vived
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

VIC were brcakfasting your mother men
toned the name of our son, Roderick.
| gathered from the expression of your
face at the moment that YOU had not
known till then that Katherine ever had
Il brother. Is that true
"Why, yes; but"
"Pardon me, Bingham. Perhaps
Kitten should have told you about him {;
possibly she thought best not to do so.
But, now that his name has been men
tined. feel that it is my duty To-
PLEASE, scnator-plCase, father,
wait Il moment. Forgive me for inter
rupting YOU know by your man
ner and your words that it is a sub
ject that you would prefer not to dis
cuss. Will you, to f-ease me, let It
rest where it is? Ir there is anything
that needs to be told to me, Katherine
will tell it in her own good time, and !
prefer that it should be left that way.
have never had occasion yet to see
unwisdom in our Katherine's judg-
ment.'
The senator sighed, plainly relieved ;
and as they started on again, remarked
81 think, bingham, after breakfast
| I'll try that Erin-hawss of yours--that
Irish hunter
do, father. He's a wonder, really
You'll like him-only, he isn't gated
! like one of your Kentucky horses. Ht
is Hello. Now what do you sup
| pose is taking julius off for a cross
country ride at this time of day, anC
ali by himself? Some errand for kath
crime, doubtless"
He had seen julius il the act Of
taking fence beyond the pasture be
hind the paddock-saw him for an in
stant only before he disappeared from
view. and thought no more about it.
Black julius was not, however, on ar
errand for his mistress, although III
was. most certainly, bound upon on'
which he thoroughly believed to be deii
nitely in her interest.
julius did not like Conrad Belknap-
had not liked him from the moment o
his arrival at Myquest-had taken on
of those instructive dislikes TO the MAJ
which are characteristic Of the loya
and faithful colored folks of the SOutl
| whenever a person who is lnlmlcal u
those they serve appears.
He had kept furtive eye upon Bel
knap from the first. He had seen ant
taken mental note of AZ many trivia
incidents rs had Betty Clancy, o.
Tom. or Bing himSC:r; not the sam
ones, perhaps, but as many, or more
and his devotion to his mistress ha
!, made him. even more surely and NOR
quickly than others, determine intui
lively than the man was fly in tn
ointment of that house party, and tina
Katherine disliked him-and for som
inexplicabIe reason, feared him--O
dreaded him--Or at least would be gla
to be rid of his presence at Myquest.
1t had so happened that julius wa
talking with the butler at the mOmen
when the telephone call from Washing
ton came over the wire, and while tn
, butler was gone to summon BelknaE
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
THE BUSINESS DOCTOR
ey HAROLD WHITEHEAD
1.-The Business Career Flint and Bruno Duke
Business

Whitehead contributor of this practical
dndn not theoretical knoWedg
fourteen he
selling
Then acted of
College
Boston University.
help continually cck
adrdncing their fortunes, aud small.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
What IS Business?

laboring man, to all such people as these
l hope to be of some help.
Episodes of what others have done,
plans for choosing an occupation, -. ex
amplcs of how business men have Over
come obstacles and solved business prob
lens, stories of how the unframed WON =
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

Julius had not hcsitatcd to plug the
switchboard in such a manner that by
making haste to his own cottage he
would be enabled to listen in" to a
part of the conversation that was to
follow, at least
If Julius had been thoroughly versed
in contemporary slang he would have
said that he did it because he considered
1t an opportunity to get a line on Bel
knap's curves"
Anyhow, he made the most of it, and
although he did not hear the beginning
of the talk, he did hear much of it,
and although he did not get the line on
the curves that he might have wished
for, he did discover that q friend or an
associate of Belknap's in Washington
was warning him against the appearance
at Myquest of man whom they both
had good reason to fear and that Bel
knap was requested to meet messenger
ut stated time and place the following
morning, who would impart such fur
ther information on the subject as was
not wise to discuss by telephone.
julius had heard enough to make him
want to hear more. Also he believed that
the appointed place was such as to af-
ford him every opportunity to do that
very thing if only he could get to it be-
fore Belknap arrived.
There are still in existence in yari-
Gus places on Long Island the pictur-
esque ruins of two century old (and
moreD saw and grist mills. some of them
tide water mills, some of them other
wise, which the owners of the estates
upon which they are situated have pre-
served for their picturesqucncss. The
telephone made rendezvous was at one
such, and was on the inquest estate.
To get to it by following the high
ways (as Belknap had been directed over
the wire), was roundabout route that
covered three miles or more; by the
route that Julius selected, over fences,
through by lanes, and across fields, the
distance was barely n mile.
Thus, he did get there first, so that
he had ample time to tethcr his mount
where it would not be discovered, and
to creep into the ancient editice and
conceal himself before either of the
parties to that arranged interview ar
rived
lie was well hidden, where he could
hear without fear of discovery, when
Belknap, who was the first of the two
to arrive, appeared.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

(Peggy and Billy seek to sdre the
corn fields of Farmer Dalton from a
grdsshoppcr army. With the aid OF
Darter, Fairy -Humming Bird, they
become as small as hoppers, and try
TO lure the army into an oil corered
lake.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
Readers Questions Answered

Nr. Whitehead toiH dnslUer III this column
questions on marketing, buUinD, selling. ud-
UertiSinO, lettcr-tCritin0. business education. y.
and on matters pertaining 70 the choice Of a
UoCdtion. Al questions tDiH be dnSDcred ~
the order Of receipt, No anonymous CORE
spondence can be dckno,olcdged; Reader's
from four TO atteen days for a reply to dp-
pear.
CONTINUED TOMORROW
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
His Journeyinqs

"Whoopler claims to have Travelled
extensively"
"Yes. Ever since have known him
he has been going from bad to worse. y
kansas City Times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

and feller took a shot at me day
before yesterday and ventilated my ear,
and such as that, but l swapped for
running horse last week, and a couple
of my hounds have got six paps apiece.
Ow, ] tell you, they cant keep good
man down !''7-Kansas City Star
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
The Man from Washington
pLACK JULIUS, after, all, had l
1 1, g., h;, ,o;ng

pLACk JULIUS, after all, had his
- labor for his pains.
He could hear every sentence that
passed between Belknap and the other
man at that meeting in the old tide
water grist- mill, but he could not un-
derstand a word of any of it.
The two talked in a language that
Black julius did not know, although
he rightly assumed that it was Spanish
Nevertheless, he was no wiser when
he went away-a full half hour after
the two. had gone-than when he ar
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

got the meai
thing and a.
struck the q
night and Ii
place to pie
fell out of a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

humps and one
the lightning
Ne house luther
More the whole
0ne of the kids
hrnkn hia nrn,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

The next complete novelette-"TI
Say SO."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
The Lady of the Night Wind
THIS STARTS THE STORY

tCopyright. 1910. by the Macaulay Coz
fCepyright. 1919, by the Public Ledger Coz