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New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

dow and jewels and near jewels of the sort
that made Ali Baba wish he had worn smoked
glasses on his treasure hunting expeditions
may be piled in profusion, but the pastry dis
play next door will outblazon the collection
Occasionally men are arrested for hurting
bricks through the windows Of jewelry stores,
but such affairs generally are the results Of
natural mistakes. The robbers really are after
the pastry shop displays. The general glitter
conhlses the novice. The brick is hurled and
quick grab is made for the treasures within
Judge of the thief's feelings when he finds
that, instead of the French pastry he sought, he
is making way with handful of diamonds or
pearls! Disappointment grips him and his
footsteps falter. He is caught and goes
dumbly to jail as gem thief, without con-
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

-
broklng industry is gloomy business.
II If we had it to do over again we
wouldn't. But without making any
boasts or seeming to haunt the spotlight. we
nave more than slight suspicion that in a
single bref tour of inspection we landed on
both feet in the very heart of the industry.
IN other words, we attended "public" auc-.
'lon sale OF pawnbrokers' unredeemed pledges
the only thing public about the place being
the sign outside the door. But~of that we must
tell IN its proper order.
We got into the thing in roundabout wav
Down on the lower East Side, in a catch-as
catch-can three-ball establishment. where any,
thing from worn-out hymn book to pair of
greasy overalls has it's market quotation. wa
engaged in conversation the hatchet-faced
female who passed proprietor of the shop.
Meekly and with Difference we asked the
lady what happens to all the things that people
pawn and never redeem.
They get sold, of course" she snapped at III.
yes but how?"
Say, you don't know nothin'." Her lin
cured IN scorn, and she turned to wait on
customer who wanted something besides free
information.
N"A"S ouo chc uOOI, bowed With shame. we
fet light tap the left shoulder. "Whv
don't you look up the law?" grizzled old man
whispered hoarsely.
1t was good Tip. If the lawmakers have
done nothing else for their country in the last
hundred years they have hedged the pawn
brokers' III with a volume or so of lepislation
mat should make the ordinary man think twice
before jumping into the profession. There is
special paragraph to cover every point from
what time the pawnbroker shall get up in the
morning to how much butter he may spread on
MS biscuit. Nothing is forgotten.
Searching diligently through the "howso-
evers' and "whicheverthans" we came at
length to the statute that had to do with the
disposal Of unredeemed pledges" Translated
INTO plain English, it was all very simple.
Among the legal notices in the very official
newspaper whose privilege it is to serve tho
city in that capacity, there is brief space de-
voted daily to pawnbrokers sales On the
morning of our venture we had the choice Of
attending sale of clothing and other monde
script articles at 10 a. III. on the lower Bovyerv
or sale OF diamonds, watches, jewelry silver
ware odds and ends, etc, at II a. m on the
upper Bowery We chose the latter attraction
There may have been a score Of persons in
The group, divided rigidly by an iron railing
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

Tossing the real stimulus of the crime Some
day prisoner is going to burst forth into a
denunciation which will stir reformers into ac-
ton. He is going to demand that the pastry
cook who tempted him be made to share his
punishment.
Nobody has ever been known to admit that
a piece of French pastry tasted as good as
it looked That is the paradox of French
pastry's survival. The waiter brings tray
TILED with various sorts of French pastry, cut
in all the forms known to geometry You don't
know whether to choose a chocolate-covered
diamond or cake circle bearing a single
strawberry atop wave of whipped cream. No
matter which one is eaten, it is figured that
the other one would have been better There
in, at least in part, is the perpetual appeal
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

ne1ghborhood, dear. Suppose we send Albert
out for little refreshment."
Thinking of the days when Albert would
have been equipped with tin pail instead of
going empty handed the father gives his con-
sent and tosses over a dollar. Albert comes
back with eight cents change and pasteboard
box containing an assortment of French
pastry. The father eats triangular piece of
cake, covered with chocolate. shot full of
ground peanuts and crowned with q maraschino
cherry. Then q little later he eats the only
remnant in the box-half ladyfnger-and his
ruin is complete. He becomes French pastry
addict. Instead Of sending out for small as
sortments he takes his family to the pastry
shop, after the moving picture show is over.
and orders whatever new combination the
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

of French pastry. 1t is the gamblers chance.
Then there is the prohibition explanation
The pastry shop seems to be doing the best
it can do to make it's whipped cream mixtures
and its spiced cakes take the part of the liquid
refreshment of the saloon 1t can never be the
poor mans club, not while French pastry is
quoted at 80 cents dozen pieces-but it may
be said to be making poor men out of moder-
ately well-to-do individuals who have sue
cumbed to it's influence. The movies have been
taking undue credit to themselves as saloon
substitutes. The pastry shops are entitled to
some Of the glory and not little of the cash.
Let it be supposed that one of the early-day
hard drinkers has come home and is sitting
disconsolate after dinner. His wife says:
There is new French pastry shop in the
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
Details of the Citys Sur.
render and How the
Pastryitis Germ Slipped
Past the City Gates

proprietor with diabolical cleverness hos
thought up since the last previous call
There are some who predict that +bo ru..
pastry craze is going to be of sbort
--'nae IL mas reached its crest and that the
wave Oh whipped cream tarts, chocolate ecla;rs
cream puns and various combinations Of sn;ced
CAKE VIII soon subside, leaving in its vaka ~
enIeeoied cltlzenry. 1t is pointed out that +bs
pastry shop will go the way of the ovster
nouse' winch followed the moccasin prints -
the cigar store Indian into oblivion.
But such belief is not shared by those wh,
are putting money into the new palaces of
pastry that are springing up in all parts of
the city; nor by the pastry cooks who az.
learning the details Of business in which
one must be at once cook, sculptor. na;n+ar
and designer business which M do,,s+
some day will be taught to the ambitions h,
mail and at night school,
You have no idea of the distractions If
the French pastry business" said the ov.s
lord OF one of the most successful and ornoto
OF these establishments Of glitterino fooa
I'VE who bake our own must have the host ~
raw materias-special fours and sugar and
such quantities of eggs-ah, the eggs that
our cooks insist upon having. Then ths
wages that we pay these French pastry Cooks,
1t is something terrific, but it has to he dona
as the public demands only the best.
1t is not alone women who eat Frerch
pastry-not by any means New York men
are eating more and more of it. Mavbe it is
only the men who are restless and who are
trying to find substitute for drink. Of
course, women are our best customers. Thew
want something light for midday lunch or
they wish to carry home some agreeable des.
sert French pastry meets their needs. but
we must never be satisfied with what we have
produced. but always go on stirling for soms-
thing new.'
Ihe French pastry cooks in the big hot.ls
have joined the aristocrats of labor. Automo.
biles Of the glass-inclosed kind are generously
proportloned among them. Every year, when
the hotelmen have their annual show in New
York, the confiseurs have a display of their
own-a sort of glorifed sideshow of French
pastry, set apart and aside from the laundry
machines, dishwashing devices, foor-scrub-
bing machinery and other coarse and common
things on exhibition. Some of the DISPLAYS
are carved figures of cake and ice-some Of
them several feet high.
Perhaps such figures are prophetic Of the
day when the confirmed victim of the French
pastry habit will stroll into the palace of his
choice and order a statuette for his agser
theater refreshment
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
l4E PASTRY WAVE SUCCEEDS THE CRIME w Az
Something in a Historical
Way About the Whipped
Cream and : Piecrust
Plague in New York CITY

NHE Young Man With the Cream Tarts
in Stevenson's story of The Suicide
Club used to arouse lot of sympathy
The reader felt sorry for any chap
who had to eat so many tarts but that was in
the days before the French pastry craze had
gripped New York. Nowadays there are
French pastry addicts who daily outdo the
record OF Stevenson's young man. Eating a
few dozen cream tarts would merely be whet-
ting the appetite of genuine French pastry
enthusiast.
The germ of French pastryitis in New York
has been allowed to rage unchecked. Medical
men have been busy attempting to isolate other
germs, but this one has ravaged the city until
now its dominion is widespread and absolute
On Manhattan Island and in Brooklyn, the
Bronx and every suburb it requires no Buffalo
Bill to get the trail of a pastry cook whose
wares seem to bear about the same relation to
food that jazz bears to music.
At time when Europe is talking in terms
of starvation New York is Haunting food as
it has never been faunted before in any city.
The butchers and the grocers are trying.
though vainly, of course, to compete with the
pastry shopkeeper. The proprietor of the
corner delicatessen store reduces himself to a
state of mental impoverishment thinking up
new ways of making attractive arrangements
of whole hams dismembered cheeses and cans
of caviar. The grocery clerk can no longer
hold his job unless he can qualify as win
dow dresser, and the butchers boy must be
able to arrange steaks and chops in way to
attract the eye. Human ingenuity it would
seem, quite exhausted itself when fish dealer
made daisy out of his wares-smelts being
the petals and the center being can of oysters.
All this food bedizenment is due to the nfu-
ence of the French pastry cook without doubt.
French pastry, according to some of its critics,
lends itself better to decoration than to nour-
ishment. A French pastry shop that runs the
entire scale, including half notes, of this pc
culiarly ornamented kind of cookery. can fill
window with fifty-seven varieties of product
and have a lot in reserve. The jeweler who is
next door to such shop Immediately begins
to hunt for some way of breaking his lease
He knows there is no use trying to make da-
monds compete with pastry when it comes to
show He may fill his window with tiaras and
la vallieres and stomachers. All the pearls from
the fresh water streams of the Mississippi
Valley may be strung in festoons in his win
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

Those on the inside, obviously aristocrats of
the profession, lounged in ricxety chairs on an
lnpromptu platform, clustered about the auc-
tloneer, who could be easily identified bv the
tact that he alone sat in his shirtsleeves On
the outside the public" NAV have been
nVe or SIX OF us-acutely alien to the clan.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

hung over the railing and stared goonily ND
at the proceedings
The glum silence was broken only by the
mumblng monotone of the auctioneer and the
staccato mouthings of the clerk.
mo. 664 Gold ring. weighing two and one,
half pennyweight"
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
NEW YORK'S OUEEREST

RYlNG into the secrets of the pawn
broking industry is gloomy business.
n II we had it to do over again we
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
POOR RICHARD RETRACES Hts STRIPS

tne route Poor ran awav from IL;
IN on New York and Philadelphia statue of Bnm;n FI
s way 20 hs The wavl.nd pan4+
arrive in M v more from which city it has started pilgrimage It will
oih nA Saturday following commemion cehration
rnlaaeph to-day the 131s Fankn's ~
vsr om Governors Island Battery City Hail. hee
soet will participate celebration
"sue VIII De taken Boston final destination
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23
TYPEWRITER SETS FULL LINE
OF TYPE BEFORE PRINTING.

An entirely new idea in typewriter
construction is embodied in the in
vention of an attorney who was form
erly court reporter. Like linotype
machine, the new instrument, which
is described with illustration in the
April Popular Mechanics Magazine,
sets up whole line of type before
printing. The impression is made dir
ectly from the linked type, without
ribbon, and the operation is practic-
ally silent. For a 55-letter line, there
are IS perpendicular rows of keys,
each containing 40 characters, making
keyboard 20 by 10 in. The operator
works from left to right, depressing
one key in each column about Is in,
and sometimes setting whole words
with one motion. The line finished, a
lever is pulled, which inks the type
and presses the platen restoring all
parts to neutral
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23

Carlt Payne has moved to Irving
ton
A. NJ. Hardin was in Louisville, last
Friday and Saturday.
Clyde Gibson has a position in
Breckenridge, Texas, at the salary of
81 90 an hour
Noah Shaw, OF Oklahoma, who has
been Visiting friends here for the past
month, returned home last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, of Eliza
BEETHOVEN, visited their uncle, Mr. and
Mrs. S. w. Bassett, last week.
Miss Eva Mae Payne visited her
brother, Marvin Payne, who is at
tending school in Bowling Green, last
Saturday and Sunday. Miss Eva was
joined by her father, Charlie Payne,
in Louisville
Miss Ruby hdksson was in Irv-
ington. last Friday having some dental
work done.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hanks, OF Steph-
enspor:, visited their uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Macy last Sat-
urday and Sunday.
Mrs. Albert Stillwell, OF Stephens.
port sp, IT last Saturday and Sunday
with her aunt, Mrs. Charlie Macy, and
Mr. Macy.
Mrs. Ida Nottingham made me a
present of fine satin finished book
last week for which | thank her.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23

"Since Tanlac has overcome my
troubles | have gained twenty pounds
in weight and am in better general
health than for years past" was the
straightforward statement made a
few days ago by H. w. Boring. a
prominent and well-to-do farmer liv-
ing at Overland Park, Kans.
During the two years | suffered
! tried everything | knew of to get
relief, but nothing seemed to reach
my case until / tried Tanlac My ap-
petite was poor and my digestion was
so bad | could hardly retain my food.
Nothing seemed to agree with me; in
fact, ! was almost a confirmed dyspep-
tic. My whole system seemed to be
out of shape. | would have pains
across the small of my back so bad
at times | could hardly move around
my nerves were all unstrung and
| would become upset at the least little
thing. | seldom slept well at night
and finally, became so weak and run
down that ! lost weight rapidly
was also troubled a great deal with
catarrh and of mornings had to spend
half hour or more clearing up my
head.
This is just the condition | was
in when | began taking Tanlac and it
certainly has been a blessing to me.
1t just seemed to be made especially
for my case | improved from the
first My digestion now is perfect and
regardless of what ] eat | never suf-
fer any bad after-effects.
ss'Eha po;,c arrncc ,,,, b,cl, ha,-a
tirely disappeared. The catarrh has
left me. too. and my head is perfectly
clear am no longer nervous and rest
we'll at night have regained my lost
weight and am feeling better and
stronger than have in years. | am
going to keep Tanlac in my house so
it will be handy at all times"
Tanlac is sold in Cloverport at
Drug Store, in Addison by
L. d. Addison in Kirk by Mattingly
Bros, in Ammons by H. A. Dutschke
and in Stephensport by E. H. She'll
man Advertisement
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23
HOW ANDREW JACKSON
SCATTERED ANDERSON'S FOES

Andrew Jackson presided at din
ner once following race meet A
crowd of men were waiting their turn
for seats, and the noises were so con-
ficting that no one at one end of the
table could tell what was going on at
the other. Someone in passing Jack
son was overheard to remark: They'll
finish Patten Anderson this time,
sure" Anderson was close friend of
the Generals.
Jackson sprang upon the long table
and strobe through the dishes with
his hand in his hip pocket sinister
sign in those days. He opened his
tobacco box and shut it with a click
so loud it was heard by some of the
bystanders and he reared;
"I'm coming Patten"
Don't hrep cried some of the
spectators.
The cry caught the ears of some of
the hostile crowd They looked up
and down saw Jackson striding to-
ward them down the wreck of the din
ner, with his right hand behind him,
and as a writer says, Slaughter de-
picted in every lineament of his
and Patten Anderson's
assailants scattered.-Kansas City
Journal.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23
Well, He Gets His Moneys Worth

A New York paper is responsible
for the interesting estimate that the
average Bostonian eats two and five
seventies times his height in baked
beans every year-Indianapolis News.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23
LOCUST HILL

Mrs Alvin Mingus is at McQuady
and Glen Dean, the guest of relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Davis and child
rem, spent the weekend near Clover
port the guests of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. ]. M. Beatty.
Mrs. Jeff Butler and children. were
the weekend guests of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Brown, of near
Nook.
Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Davis. who
have been living in Cloverport for the
past year have moved back to their
farm
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Carman were
the guests of his brother. Mr. EVE
Carman, and Mrs. Carman, Saturday
night and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Butler, of Har-
ned, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Hardie Wilson, Saturday night and
Sunday.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23
ACTIVE WEEK IN
WARREN FIELD
One Flowing Well and Several
Other Good Producers Are
Brought In.

Bowling Green, Ky, March TO-
Although the heaviest rain for months
fell over the Bowling Green district
last week, operations in the oil fields
we're not retarded to any extent, and
roads we're in good condition for
travel again before the latter part of
the week.
Warren county developments con-
tinue to go at the full blast despite
the reduced price of crude oil. Among
the competitions for the week is the
Davenport Oil Company's well on the
Johnson lease in the Davenport pool
1t is in the lower sands at 1905 feet
When the drill had gone only seven
feet into the pay the hole filled nearly
to the top with oil 1t began to flow
while the tubing was being set, and in
twelve hours had put 10 barrels of
oil in the tanks.
The Tex-Kan Oil Company has a
flowing well on the Kellar farm, six
miles west of Bowling Green. 1t is
the second completion on the lease
Production was encountered at 1000
feet, with the bit only one foot in the
sand.
The Townsend Oil and Gas Syndi-
cate No. 2 well on the Paschal lease
is estimated at fifty barrels. 1t was
shot with 1870 quarts. The total depth
is go feet
On the Meyer lease in the Glen
Lily. pool the National Exploration
Company has completed we'll No. 10.
1t is below the shale, and considered
the best producer the company has
drilled. After the shooting it will be
placed on pump.
Lord-Welles Company has spudded
in the No. we'll on the Miller place,
Glen Lily pool 1t is an offset to two
wells of the Moran Oil Company, on
the Ennis lease
The Leder Oil Company completed
another we'll on the NJ NJ Ennis lease
at $40 feet. 1t is estimated at forty bar
rels.
On the Lawrence farm. in the east
ern section of the county, the Amfot
Oil Corporation has completed we'll
No. pa 1t is good for seventy-fve to
one hundred barrels.
The drill is two feet in the cap rock
at 1,2O5 feet on the Lester Producing
Company's No. 1 Jackson well, six
miles west of Bowling Green, in the
Posey Hill section of the county. 1t
is expected this well will be completed
within few days.
The White Oak Fuel Company's
we'll on the Hurt farm has a hole al
most full of oil at 1,15O feet Thirty
barrels were baled without reducing
it The same company has good we'll
on the Belcher farm.
The Moken Oil Company, of ST.
Louis, has completed its No. we'll
on the John NJ Morgan farm in the
Davenport pool The pay was reached
at 1,23O feet. The hole filled with oil
and could not be lowered by continu-
Gus bailing.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23
BARES DARK
SECRET OF
CAPITAL LIFE
Assistant Government" Busy,
Says Barrett; Charges For
eign Powers Receive In
direct Benefits.

Washington. March l4.-Existence
OF "a new and powerful assistant
Government" in Washington, made up
of the representatives of varied ir'er-
ests is charged in a statement issued
tonight by Charles $ Barrett, prcsi-
dent of the National Farmers Union
and chairman of the National Board
of Farm Organization.
The assistant Government Mr..
Barrett says. "has one advantage over
the constitutional Government. 1t IS
more effectually trained for its work.
1t is an association of specialists
Eminent men and women who know
all the legislative. administrative and
bureaucratic avenue. streets and alleys
in Washington belong to this interest
ing and patriotic collection of men and
women"
Even the goreign Governments are
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23

The oil areas of Mexico already de-
veloped can produce upward of 500,-
100000 barrels annually.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23

not withoue their representatives, ac-
cording to Mr. Barrett, he says:
"Of course. il is improper for a for
eign diplomat to attempt to influence
American legislative or executive ac-
ton. but a way has been found to ac-
complish this Legislative committees
have been created under the names of
educational bureaus or such like.
These have no definite or tangible
connection with any accredited Dip
lomat, nevertheless, the country which
the diplomat represents in the bene-
fciary of their activities.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23
SHERIFF'S SALE
FOR TAXES

Notice is hereby given that I. or,
one of my deputies, will. on Mond1m
the 2sth day of March 1921 between
the hours of 10 a. m. and 9 D. m. IL
the Courthouse door. in Hardinsburg,
Kentucky expose to public sale to the
highest bidder real estate against
which taxes are due as follows, the
amount to be raised being set opposite
the name of persons from whom il
is due:
Francis Allen, Land for the
year 1918 S 3.S2
Wiley Board, Land for the
year 1917 $40
G.. p. Board. Land, Balance on
taxes year 1918 442
G. +. Cole Land for the year
1917, 1918 S14
Robert Hardin, Land for the
year 1918, 1920 2222
Sam Mercer, Land for the year
1919, 1920 27.74
J. F. Neafus, Land for the year
1918 514
Mrs. Susan M. Tucker, Land for
the year 1918 3.62
George Ball, Town Lot for the
year 1918 ITO
Lave Henning, Town Lot for
the year 1918 3.46
M. j. Thomas, Town Lot for
the year 1918 All
J. B. CARMAN, S. B. C.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23
Your Money Back If Rat-Snap Does
Mt Come Up to These Claims.

RAT-SNAP is absolutely guaran-
teed to kill rats and mice. Cremates
them. Rodent killed with RAT-SNAP
leave no smell Rats pass up all food
to get at RAT-SNAP. Their first
meal is their last RAT-SNAP comes
in cakes No mixing. Cats or dogs
won't touch it. Three sizes, Csc, csc,
SIPS, Sold and guaranteed by Conrad
Payne & Co.. Cloverport KY, and B.
B. Beard & Co., Hardinsburg, KY
Advertisement.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23

Rev. Phillip Cook, the new Epis-
copal Bishop of Delaware, was reared
in Missouri, where he was boyhood
playmate of the redoubtable outlaw,
Jesse lanes
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-23
ODD ITEMS
FROM EvERYWHERE.

Floyd Whiskey has changed his
name to Floyd Aquaski because he
was told that the Volstead act pre-
vented the use of his former name.
Postoffice employees noticed his name
in list of unclaimed letters and their
action resulted in his change of name.