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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
Bird Sings Yankee Doodle
DrdiCS Music World to Cage
sACRAMENTo. Calif- D.

SACRAMENTO, Calf. Dec. IS
Yankee" is the only bird in the
world that car whistle tune
through from beginning to end. Il
belongs TO Mrs. Fred L. O'Brien Of
this city.
The bird is a roller canary. Il
whistles Yankee Doodle" with
out missing q note.
AT the age of three months, Mrs.
O'Brien separated Yankee from her
other birds. and started training him
to whistle. She kept him in semT-
darkened room and over an over
again, she whistled Yankee Doodle"
for him. He started to learn almost
at once. After 10 months training.
he had the tune letter perfect. He is
now year and half old.
Yankee has set a world record.
and bird men from every country
have come to Sacramento TO hear
him perform. Mrs. C'Brien says
bird specialists are the most in
credulous over the stunt, until they
actually hear it.
The bird will start without
prompting, and If his audience
shows appreciation, will whistle it
over and over. If Mrs O'Brien
starts to whistle it he waits with
head cooked, and when she stops
picks up the tune and finishes.
Mrs. O'Brien has twice been Of
fered $1,000 for Yankee. by theater
men. She has refused absolutely to
part with him.
This year. Mrs O'Brien has start
ed to train some of Yankees des-
cendants to whistle. Five birds with
whom she started several months
ago have the tune all but a few bars.
Twelve others in training a shorter
time, can whistle a few bars.
Mrs. O'Brien has $50 birds al
together and everyone of them has
name. Pedigrees of all birds are
kept. Mrs. O'Brien cares for them
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
SCRAMBLED METAPHORS.

A political speaker said that 1.-THE
present government has sOwn a har-
vest which IS coming home 20 roost.
Another said that the fioodgatea
OF irrehgion and lntemperance are
stalking through the land arm in
arm"
A third that "he (Mr. Balfour) is
q mere hgurehead with his hand on
the rudder."
But 20 Bishop Knox we must
award the prize. He said that MIR.
McKenna's sword was an "over-
loaded pistol which. being hung up
in a tight corner lest it should burst
pretended TO be dead until it got W
and trotted home on the friendly
back Of the bishop Of ST. Asaph.
Boston Transcript
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
WHAT DICK8- FELT IT NICE
SARY To ASK NfADCE

oAh1 ~ AsStA h-ADtHI.
Well. what do you want 20 know
about that! What's eating his Nibs.
anyway"
This was Dicky's fippant COM
ment az soon as the door had closed
behind Or. Petit. But / knew thai
beneath his fiippancy he was ques-
tioning the meaning of the physi-
clans apology at parting.
AS for myself I was furious. DR..
Petit was either crassly stupid. or
he had permitted his offended dig
nifty and his dislike for Dicky TO be-
tray him into petty exhibition of
bad taste. Whatever Dicky's par
don for bringing me home was the
height OF crude ahsurdity.
1t was not the first time the ply
stefan had sounded this ridiculous
note since my arrival at the TIGER
farmhouse. 1 could not quite IA
thom his meaning, unless-my
cheeks burned at the Amos unavoid-
able inference-he was bent upon
disabusins both my mind and
Dicky's Of any slightest vestige of
the feeling which 20 my great en-
barrassment. ne had shown only too
plainly in former years, and which
had been the cause of so much fric-
ton between my husband and my
self
OF course. I realized the reason
behind his action. His infatuation
for beautiful, witty Claire Foster
was written in large characters all
over him. But had seen other men
infatuated by banally ridiculous in
the particular fashion DR.. Petit had
adopted.
A Quandary.
/ cas-, an apprehensive eye toward
my mother-in-law's corner, and was
relieved, indeed, to find that she had
left the room. Dicky say my look
and grinned maliciously at me. 1
bit my lip savagely TO keep back the
quick. Inundated tears, fOr-if L
read his glance aright-he. too, had
| fathOmed DIR. Pettit's purpose.
Ny father rose abruptly, murmur-
ing something about the moonlight
outside. and left the romo with his
/ face carefully averted from mine.
Had he, also, comprehended the in
ner meaning of the physician
words?
Dicky eyes me quizzicaly whe
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
BOOKS FOR THE EVENING
AT HOME

When the wind whistles outside
when the crate fire burns merrily
there IS nothing more enjoyable thar
a good book. At the Book Shop
119 y. Michigan St, you may selec
any type OF book that suits your
fancy-fiction. travel history IN fac
any subject in which you are inter
ested is covered by the books IN on
very complete stock. 359-t
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
CANNED FOODS.

When YOU heat canned foods
empty them from the can and heat
them IN a double boiler. Heated in
the can, even though put in water,
there is often enough liquid in the
can 10 cause enough steam for an
explosion.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
MADE A BIG Hrr WITH FATHER

There was rejoicing in one South
Bend home Christmas morning when
Dad discovered that the old watch
he had given Mother TO have re-
paired came back to him new
South Bend watCh-with a purple
ribbon. You see. she traded fl I'm
at a bargain. You can do the same
359-t.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
PROBLF,NIS EyERYWHERE.

There are problems on every
hand"
II have sat up nights with some
Of EN-" conhded Cactus Joe.
Which has given you most cor
Cern2"
"Tryin' TO make a 4-card flush
beat three OF kind. WAS hington
Star.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
nIrRKIsH RA1H ~ TOWN

There's only one Turkish bath in
town and it's a good one. Call at
the basement OF the Farmers Trust
bldg. and steam all the sluggishness
from your system. South Bend
Baths. 346-tf
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
HOLIDAY FLOWERS.

For your Christmas and New Year
parties-for any holiday affair YOU
should sprinkle the house with
wreaths. ferns, potted plants, etc
Call Adam Beehler. Main 1899.
359-tf
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
BOYS AND GIRLS SHOES

Boys and girls School Shoes, in
Guiding all the standard makes OF
high grade footwear. t195 and up.
at the U. S. Army Store. $40 S.
Michigan st. 34S-tf
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
CORSAGES FOR FORMAL
PARTIES.

Our stock Of fresh cut flowers en-
braces some combinations that will
be ideal for corsages. Sweet peas,
roses, violets, lilies Of the valley
all arranged in a fetching manner.
Call Williams the florist and place
your order now. 359-tf
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26

Minstrel entertainment and dance
given by the o. o. F. l.. Melville hall
Dec 2Tth. s p. NJ. Mrs Hugo ]. Kra-
1oveo soIoist, of Chicago. Admission
csc. 500
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26

DR.. F. r. Carson is now open for
business in his new dental parlors.
125 w. Washington av.. Main $40.
347-tf
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
SPECIAL PRICES

Due 70 over stock OF high priced
Violins we are making special tern
also on high grade Guitars MandO-
Inns and Tenor Banjos. The c. W.
Copp Music shop. 355-tf
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26

g percent Reduction sale. ver-
mons 334-tf
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
J. OBRIEN

MRS. FRED J. O'BRIEN
AND HER WRESTLING CANARY.
YANKEE"
as if they were babies. and II is her
infinite patience with them that has
/ secured her marvellous results.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-28
AT THE LIBRARY

The biennial inventory of the
public library will begin today, the
institution being closed during the
week that the inventory is being
taken. The task is an enormous
one. 1t means taking each OF the
5000 volumes from the shelves,
checking them with the files, clean
ing and repairing them and putting
them back on the shelves.
While the library is closed to the
public during the inventory the
rooms will be thoroughly cleaned.
The city manager has provided a
man who will freshen UP all of the
walls and clean up all of the chairs
and reading desks. When the
library is opened again everything
will be spick and span.
Twenty new volumes have been
received lately and will be cata-
logued during the inventory. Re
views of a few of the new books,
both fiction and non-fiction, Will
appear in the Journal book corner
next week and the remainder in the
following weeks. Some Of the new
volumes are late fiction works for
which great demand has been maae
by the reading public.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-28
NEW FEDE RATION
Of UNIONS WILL
De FORMED SOON
nv The Assncinrt~ Crcss.l

New York. Nov. 27.--Plans for
the formation of the new federation
OF Independent labor unions and
groups to be known as the United
Labor Council of America. in OPP
position to the American Fedora
ton of Labor, was announced to-
day. The official call for gem
eral convention here January Z to
8, at which a permanent organiza-
ton will be effected has been is
sued by provisional executive
committee and several local unions.
Labor organizations outlawed by
the American Federation and ask
ed to join the movement claim a
membership of more than 100000
workers.
The convention call referred to
"the treachery of reactionary lead
ers" and declares that the purpose
of the new organization is to com
bat the intensified attacks Of en-
ployers by organizing workers into
industrial unions managed through
shop delegates committees and to
establish a closer means of coop
Grafton among unions which sub
scribe to these principles, to merge
unions of allied crafts into indus
trial organizations and to amalga-
mate all existing progressive labor
organizations into one body Tor the
mutual protection of all,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-28
NJ YSTERY
The Dream of Life in a
Romantic Setting.
Cobweb. by George Agnew Cham

Cobweb, by George Agnew Cham
berlain (Harper & Brothers)
Water upset the plans Of Napo-
Icon and changed the career of Ritz
Bourne. 1t came in u shower for
the French general but in two
tears for Ritt--two maverick tears
which broke away from the herd
and rolled unhindered down the
pallid face OF the girl Alloway, who
was remarkable because she look
ed it,"
The first tear caught Ritt's atten-
ton; the second. his heart. They
made him marry a girl without
knowing who she was Nor did he
care, so delicately had the finely
spun threads of her past life which
he had been privileged to glimpse
enmeshed him in cobweb of filmy
gossamer.
Mr.. Chamberlain has written O
dashing story Of romance with the
deft light hand of expert crafts
manship. The book is airy with the
buoyancy of youth and is unsoiled
by a single spot of unworthy sug-
gestion. The chief ingredients used
are faith and love and the stories
(for there are really two combine
to outline a working basis for sue
cessful matrimony.
Alloway is Wordsworth's "phan-
tom of delight" The mystery OF
her coming into a great city is par
alleled by the intangible quality OF
her charm. With few direct ad-
jectives Of description the author
has brought the reader face to face
with perfection in feature, dress
and manner. and the girl so pleas
antly sketched would be immedi-
ately recognized (if ever encoun-
tered) in any Of her varying moods
There is in the book the dream
of foreign lands. the potency of va
grant desires. Love is present, but
the mystery of it's source plays hide
and seek with the actual fact of its
existence.
"Cobweb'' is the sort of q book
one wishes to read and then pass
on to another whose friendship and
esteem are dear. G. +. A.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-28
SPENSTERS
Three Generations of Them
Grow Up With Chicago.

The Girls, by Edna Ferber
doubleday Page d Company
There seems to be a movement
among the contemporary fictlonists
Tor the protection and uplift of old
maids. Edna Ferber, whose stories
OF women in business and other
plights are we'll known, has just
published a novel with three Miss
Lulu Belts in it. So eager was the
public to know what Miss t'erber
mad to offer on this subject that
two new editions were necessary
before the book really got on the
market.
Miss Ferber has made her girls"
live in Chicago, when she knows
intimately from the Art institute
to the slockyards. Although she
processes to hate its familiar i'm
perfections, she has made it seem
a hvable place, not at all the
idreary terminal where we WESTERN
ers have to change trains to get
back home. One feels that one could
get around Chicago alone in the
decrepit old electric" of the Thrift
family after one or two rides out
with the girls"
To return to the case of the I'M
wed heroines, aged seventy four,
thirty-tWo and oighteen-an half,
respectively, the authoress doesn't
really do anything about 1t. 1t is
an unsl tisfactory story if one in
sists upon the prescribed fairy tale
ending Of getting married and liV-
ing happily ever after"
The civil war and the later world
conflict robbed the eldest and the
youngest of the girls of their first
and dearest loves, both men, by
| fiction coincidence, of the same
name and undesirable social stand
ing, "nobodies' in the eyes of their
respectable and domineering Thrift
kinswomen. Possibly the middle
girl had her romance when she de-
| fled her family and went overseas
during the war. The comment 1T
brave lie, Lottie. Stick to it," by
lgreat-aunt Charlotte when the real
| story" of the French war orphan is
told leaves the reader In some
doubt.
The first Charlotte Thrift, whose
| father was pioneer in chicago, Is
rare old girl. She confesses to
liking the cigarry odor of & man
around their woman-infested home
and sits up in bed at midnight to inn
bibe a chocolate ice cream soda as
calmly as though it were her usual
night cap. Lottie. the niece, doml-
neered by her mother, wastes ten
years in running up and down on
family errands before she breaks
away. Charley, the grand niece
talks glibly of things Aunt Char
| lotte would have blushed at at her
age and lives comparatively I'M
restrained existence.
In answer to the book hounds,
everlasting query rs it good" |
should reply that 1.-The Girls is an
unusually good piece of fiction. 1t
is easy, interesting reading, just
modern enough in treatment ana
with the woman problem seriously
enough presented to Intrigue read
ers of both sexes. 1.-THE Girls has
already precipitated more than one
heated argument over the tea cups
Il. i. j..
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-28
FARMERS OF "a STATES
MATCHING SKILL FOR
$4,000 GRAIN PRIZES

Chicago, Nov. 27.-Thousands OF
farmers of twenty-four states anu
half a dozen Canadian provinces
are matching skill for the $4,000
nremium list offered by the Chica-
90 Board of Trade for the best
SAMPLES of corn, wheat, oats, bar
lev. rye, seeds and hay grown
during the current year. The decl-
sion will be reached at the third
international Grain and Hay snow
which opens here today
Agricultural colleges, crop asso-
Citations, experimental stations, the
United States department Of agri-
culture and Canadian provincial
departments of agriculture are
represented by extensive exhibits
showing the handiwork of wizards
of the soil throughout the produce
tive stretches of the continent.
Prof. G. I. Christie, Purdue,
university, superintendent Of
the exhibit which is held in
connection with the international
Livestock exposition, declared that
the number of samples had in
creased 1000 since last year
Standing sentinel at the entrance
of the grain show is thirty-foot
ear of corn. To build this SYM
boil Of the corn belt sixty bushels
of corn were required. This single
freak ear, hog-raising statisticians
declare, would fatten from six to
nine hogs from 107 pounds each
to 227 pounds each in siXty-six
DAYS,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-28

Of WEST TEXAS
LEAGUE PLANNED
tgy The Associated Press.)

Sweetwater, Texas, Nov. 81
Eight clubs to compose the reor-
ganized west Texas baseball league
next year will be chosen in Sweet
water tomorrow. -Four of the clubs
will be San Angelo, Ballinger,
SweetWater and Abilene, all of
which finished last season. The
other four VIII be selected from
Amarillo, Plainview, Lubbock,
Stamford, Drownwood, Coleman
and Big Springs.
New entrants will not be charged
for their franchise, according to a
previous announcement by the
leag but each of the eight CLUBS
will post $500 for bonus, half or
which will go to the players on the
club winning the first half of the
split season and the remainder to
the players winning the second half.
to eliminate jockeying. To guar
antee players salaries and other
league expenses, each club will de-
post $1,000.
To prevent oversteppinG the new
club salary limit of $1,000 monthly,
reduced from $4,000, and the
player limit of fourteen men, which
is a one an-cut. both to include
manager, officials and players OF
each club must make an affidavlt
monthly that players received only
the salaries stipulated in the con-
tract without bonuses. The PEN
atty for the first violation is to pc
a $500 fine and expulsion Is the
penalty for the second violation
Each team is to carry five men
who have played higher than class
D baseball and must have flVe
"rookies."
Clubs on the road are to receive
only SIS daily guarantee, without
a percentage of the receipts. !,
A new president is to be named
for the league tomorrow. r: a.;
Hodges, of Abilene, has signltieu
his Intention of resigning and ne
will be succeeded by man who ID
not a resident of any town in the
league. The new president Will
give $4,000 bond and will be re-
CURED to furnish monthly reports
on receipts and disbursements ana
weekly averages.
Sunday baseball will be optional
with the towns.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-28
TWO MIRACUL0USLY
ESCAPE DEATH WHEN
An ICE GORGE BREAKS

Lake City, Colo, Nov. 27.-Ma-
rooned on a sand bar when an ice
gorge broke in Hanson creek, near
here, yesterday, Manager j. Crane
and John Atkins, of the New. Hld
den Treasure mine, miraculously
escaped death.
Atkins was alone on the sand bar
until Crane attempted to rescue
him. The mine manager was
caught in the current and carried
down stream and through a long
water pipe. He fell out from the
pipe, which was half filled with
water, onto pile Of rocks where
workmen reached him with a rope
and pulled nm to safety. Atkins
was saved similarly
Crane was badly bruised and re-
moved to a hospital. His condition
is not critical.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-28
Book Corner About Writers and NelU Volumes
DIVERSIFIED COMMENT
ON "THREE SOLDIERS"
BY JOHN DOS PASS0S

The latest popular pastime Is
defending or attacking John Dos
Passos' book of the war. The
chorus swells.
John Farrar, The Bookman--"A
more powerful study of young
America has never been written
it is good story, too, filled with
dramatic incident and memorable
characters"
Coningsby Dawson, New York
Times-"Insulting the army---it S
either base libel or hideous
truth. Dos Passos has achieved a
nationwide insult"
L. Scott Fitzgerald in the st.
Paul Daily News--"With few ex-
captions, Three Soldiers by a
young Harvard man named John
Dos Passos, Is the first war book
by an American that is worthy of
serious notice"
Boston Evening Transcript
Public opinion will be shocked by
Three soldiers but the art of fic-
ton in America and the Goddess
of Truth have a new and bright
and faithful votary in the artistic
gifts Of John Dos Passos."
New York Times Editorial.-"To
characterize Three Soldiers in n
single sentence. it is one long pro-
test. sinking now to a whine and
rising now to shrek against mil
itary discipline"
Sidney Howard, Lieutenant Air
| Service, A. e. Eft assert that
! the books thesis is convincingly
, presented because the life it de-
picts as actual was just so, and
lives so in the memories Of thos4
who endured it,"
Ralph Hayes, Former Secretary
to EX-Secretary of War Baker
"'Three Soldiers is q sordid tale
Of shackled spirit. broken bodies
and stunted minds"
Harry Hansen in the Chicago
Daily News-"Not for Flappers
The frankest, most outspoken
American book that has been writ.
ten since Christopher Columbus
| left home"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-28
MEXICO RESTOCKING
ITS CATTLE RANGES

Eel Paso, Tex, Nov. 27.-MeXico.
hard times or no hard times, -
restocking It's ranges, but is re-
stocking them at the cost Of the
southwestern plains in the United
States. This is the declaration or
Robert l.. Castleberry, hide and
animal inspector, who watches
every car of cattle that goes
through Ell Paso bound for Mex
leo.
AT the rate cattle are being eX-
ported to Mexico and immature
stock is being slaughtered for beef
on the American side" said Mr..
Castleberry, 'it will not be long un-
til the southwestern ranges will be
very thin and Mexico will have n
fair supply of stock on it's ranges
Cattle shipments to Mexico
through this port are running
about 100 cars a month, with
twenty-eight to thirty animals p
the car, according to the inspector.
This does not include about TWEEN
ty cars of goats month which
pass through here bound for Mex
leo. Most of the cattle are bound
for the markets for slaughter, yet
many of them are going to restocR
the ranges, he said.
The inspector, to further show
that the ranges are. being re-
stocked. said that during the past
three months 5000 head OF horses,
some of which were for the gov
eminent and some for the ranges.
were shipped through here and
that during the same period sixty
were sent through.
carloads of mules for individuals
ut looks as If Mexicans are try
Ing to restock their places" he
said. "Mexicans, as well as Amer
leans, realize that as a cattle coun-
try Mexico cannot be beaten and
when conditions in the United
States and Mexico get little bet
ter Mexico's ranges soon will be
restocked."
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-28
REPORTS THAT BRAND
SPOKE IN SLIGHTING
MANNER ARE DENIED
(By The Associated P-css.)

Washington, Nov. q (by the AS
ISOLATED Press) Emphatic denial
was made tonight by M. Viviani of
France of reports that Premier
BRAND had spoken in sighting
manner of Italy or the Italian del
egation In private meeting Of the
conference. Anti-French demon
STATIONS in Italian cities have been
attributed to publication of these
reports.
II desire to say in the most abb
solute way" he said. that no word
or expression was used by M.
BRAND that could injure the sus-
capabilities Of the members Of the
Italian delegation. The policy of
friendship, constantly followed by
M. BRAND In regard to Italy, is, be-
sides, as sure guarantee that he
could not have taken the attitude
ascribed to him."
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-28
5000 QUART BOTTLES
OF BEER C0NFISCATED

Toledo, Ohio, Nov. 27.-Nearly
5000 quart bottles of Canadian nine
per cent beer were confiscated by
police and prohibition enforcement
officers here today. A lake-going
yacht also was seized. together
with an automobile said by police
to belong to George Dittman, an al
legged rum runner.
The crew escaped.
Dittman was arrested later and
held without bail.