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Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-06-23
CHAPTER XIV
The ~Dipsomaniac

In a day when punched money, how
yer arrogant it may be, has been
taught to go sort of softly, the Hatch
people were careful not to make any
public announcement Of the things
they were doing or going to do. But
bad news has wings Of it's own. Mr..
Ndrcross was still in the midst of his
mail dictation to me the morning after.
the bottom-all the different bottoms
fell out, when MI. Hornack came
bullying in.
Whats all this fre-alarm that's
been sprung about a new elevator
trust?" he demanded, chewing on his
cigar as if it were something he were
trying to eat. tits all over town that
BE. S. & w. has been secretly reorgan-
ized, with the Hatch crowd In control.
I'm having a perfect cyclone of tele-
phone calls asking what, and how.
and why
The boss reply ignored the details.
We're in for 1T again. he announced
briefly. .The local companies couldn't
hold on TO a good thing when they had
Az. The stock has been swept up,
fiyst into little heaps, and then into
big ones. and now the Hatch people
have forced a practical consolidation"
rs that the fact?--or only the way
you are doping It out?' queried the
traffic manager.
IT liz the fact. Hatch came here
last night to tell me about it; also.
to tell me where wa were TO get on
Hornack bit OFT a piece % the cbewed
cigar and took y fresh hold on II,
docs he think for one holy half
minute that we're going to sit down
quietly and let him undo al the saed
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-06-23

that the Hatch people have reached
out and taken in the G. s.. & VIZ"
.Hornack was telling me something
about it; yes"
ut is true and the fight is on. You
see what Hatch is doing. At one
stroke he gets rid of all the local en-
ployees of G. S. & W., who have been
drawing good pay and who might make
trouble for him a little later On, and
fills their places with strike-breakers
who have no local sympathizers."
"But there will be another result
which he may not have counted upon"
Mr.. Van Britt put in. 'The blanket
cut serves notice upon everybody that
once more the old strong-arm monopoly
is in the saddle. The newspapers will
tell us about it tomorrow morning.
Also, a good many of them will be
asking us what we are going to do
about it; whether we are going to
fight the new monopoly as we did
the old, OF stand in with the graft, as
our predecessors did,"
"We needn't go over that ground
%again-you and I, Upton" said Mr..
Norcross. "You know where I stand.
But the conditions have changed. We
have been knitted in the back" And
with that he gave the stocky little
operating chief a crisp outline of the
new situation precipitated by the
Dunton-C ollingwood political bribery.
MI. Van Britt took it quietly, as he
did most things, sitting with his hands
in his pockets and smiling blandly
where Hornack had exploded in wrath
full profanity. At the wind-up he said:
sold Uncle Breckenridge is n too
many for you. Graham. You can't
stand the gaff-this new gait of
Hatch's; and neither can you 60 be-
fore the people as the ccuse of your
president-and hope to hold your job.
The n thing for you to do is to lock
up your office and walk out"
Upton, if I thought you \meant
that-but I never know when to take
you seriously"
1.-THE two enginemen who a ove1
tuC ldAlSllilou , PCT SO" hdu nv SuSl
difficulty, l assure you. And isn't il
good advice? You know, as we'll as ]
do, that Chadwick is holding you here
by main strength; that you can never
accomplish anything permanent while
Dunton and his cronies are at the steer
i%ng-wheel. 1t might be different if yor
had the local backing of your con
stituency-the people served by the
Short Line. But you haven't that; uI
to date. the people are merely inter
ested spectators"
"Go on" said the boss. frownint
again.
"They have a stake in the game
the biggest of the stakes, as a matter
of fact-but it isn't sufficiently ap
parent to make, them climb in ant
fight for you. They are saying, witt
a good bit of reason, that, after al
is said and done. Big Money-Wal
Street-still has the call, and an,
twenty-four hours may see the whole
thing slump back into graft eant
crooked politics"
"It is so true that you nmight b.
reading it 1T of a book" was the boss
comment. And then: whats the an
swer?"
ta
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-06-23

Mr.. Van Britt shook his head. II
don't know. If you had money enough
to buy the voting control in p. S. L.
you might get somewhere; but as it
is, you're like a cat in Hades without
claws
''Tell me- said Mr.. Norcross, after
a little pause: You're a native New
Yorker: do you know this man Col
~lingwood?"
"Only by hearsay. He is. what u
English friends call a blooming
bounder'-fast yachts, fast motor-cars,
the fast set generally. It's a pretty
bad case of money-spoil, / fancy. They
say he wasn't always a total loss"
did you ever hear that he was
married?r
s'Oh. yes; he married a Kentucky
girl some years ago: I don't remem-
Der her name. They say she stood
him for about six months and then
dropped out. suppose he needs kill
ing for that
AT this the boss Went Il step farther,
saying 7. "He does, Indeed, Upton. !
happen 10 know the young woman
That was when Mr., Van Britt fired
his own little bpmb.shell, $50 do ~
he answered quietly.
',But you said you had forgotten her
name! !"
$50 | %hnye--her married name, And
what's more, | mean 10 keep on for.
getting H."
There was N mistake about the boss
tr0Wn this time.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-06-23

reached the limit. 1t was Colling-
wood. He was chewing on a dead
cigar and his face was like the face
= : 1890 Pit he was sober.
CONTINUED Next wesr,
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-06-23
Gloves From Interior of Whales.

Soft, pliable "kid," that is az strong
and durable as its genuine prototype.
from the intestines of the whale;
thick sole leather of excellent quality
from the lining of the whales mouth !;
FIVE or more huge split sides of tough
leather from the skin of the beluga.
the common dolphin of the north Pa
cifc-these are only a few of the many
revolutionary products obtained from
aquatic leather, the manufacture of
which has become n of the new i'm
portant industries of the Pacific
Northwest, says Popular Mechanics.
" -
ripe.
First-Class Scout found a little
green snake this morning.
Observation-Disclosures leave it alone. 1t
might be as dangerous as a ripe one.
Rows Life.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-06-23
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I.-Graham Norcross, rail-
road manager, and his secretary, Jimmie
Dodds, are marooned at Sand Creek sid
ing with a young lady, Sheila Macrae,
ness a peculiar train holdup, in which
a special car is carried off.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-06-23

CHAPTER xIV.-Hatch and other own
ers of the Red Tower corporation call on
Norcross and inform him they have proof
that in the recent election the road has
made use of bribery. Hatch gives Nor
cross proof that the actual bribing was
done by Howard Collingwood. Hatch
as the price of silence Norcross learns
from Sheila that Collingwood is her hus-
band, and feels the ground has been cut
from under his feet.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
DAZZLED OLD LONDON TOWN
Becky Wells, Beautiful Madcap, Well
Known Character During the
Reign of George III.

Becky Wells, beautiful English act
ress, Journalist and author, was born
in 1888. Inarriud al eighteen, and a
few months later saw her husband de-
Sert her Tor her bridesmaid. She
went TO London and won success by
her beauty when she went on the
stage. She took up with Edward Top
ham, an eccentric, and they estab-
lished newspaper that thrived on
scandal.
Becky took to wearing furs in sum-
mer and muSlins in winter. which per-
hapS stamps her as a woman in ad-
vance of her age. She hired hackney
coaches 10 drive her To Oxford or
Cambridge for her health, and her
vagaries We're the talk of the town.
She imagined that she was irresisti-
bic and took it into her head to in
fatuate George III, the dull king
whose only redeeming virtue was his
apparent faithfulness to his wife. She
was thrown into jail by her creditors,
and there she infatuated a Moor, son
of the prime minister of Morocco, who
had been sent to prison for contempt
of court. They were welded in jail
with festivities that lasted a week and
which cost the bridegroom $500. Her
husband, Joseph Sumbel, then secured
his release by paying his brother $780,
600 and he also paid Becky's creditors
and took her with him.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Trickinq Fate.

Every HindOO must have a son to
perform the proper rites in his behalf
so that he may be released from pur-
gatory after death. says Asia Maya
zine. Especially cursed, therefore. is
he whose fate it is to be sonless. One
such, Brahnajn. propitiated the god
Vishu and obtained a boon. He asked
for son. but, since a son was not in
the mans fate, Vishu refused. Twice
this happened, but the third time the
Brahmin asked that his merriments
might be shared by gods and men
alike. This was granted. He then
went home, locked his door and, with
his wife. began to sing and dance
Thereupon. all the gods and men, by
the terms of the boon, were compelled
TO sing and dance with him. and the
business of the universe was brought
to a standstill. STOP" begged the
gods. "Only when you grant me a
son." answered the Brahmin. And he
had his way
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
First published in the Hays Free
Press, April IA, 1920.


First published in the Hays Free
Press, April IA, 1920.
Executors Notice
State of Kansas, Ellis County, IS.
In the Probate Court in and for said
county.
In the Matter of the Estate of LaRue
P. Southworth, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Letters
Testamentary have been granted to
the undersigned on the Last Will and
Testament of LaRue P Southworth,
late of said county, deceased. by the
Honorable, the Probate Court of the
County and State aforesaid, dated the
18th day of April, 1921. Now, all
persons having claims against the
said estate are hereby notified they
must present the same to the under
signed for allowance within one year
from the date of said Letters, or they
may be precluded from any benefit of
such estate; and that if such claims
be not exhibited within two years
after the date of said letters, they
shall be forever barred.
Dated April II, 1921.
C. M. Wann,
Executor of the Last Will and Tesla
ment of LaRue P. Southworth,
deceased.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
GAMBLE WITH BUGS
The Risk on the Farm

Yes, the farmer must gamble with
bugs and humbugs. Chinch bugs,
later bugs, punkin bugs and lot of
other breeds are playing the farm
game against the farmer.
The farmer must gamble with the
weather. He must take the risk of
long wet and dry spells. He must take
a chance on excessive heat at the
wrong time for his crop good. The
extremes of heat and cold at times,
when damage is wrought to his ex-
pected harvest.
One cold rain at a particular time
may ruin the apple crop. An ice
sheet in spring time may smother the
wheat crop. A drouth may reduce
the potato and other crop yield when
prospects seem brightest
The farmer must gamble with the
markets. He must play his game to
beat all these enemies the best he can.
This struggle makes him strong and a
worth while man. He does not ask
for a sissy or baby job. He has one
of the biggest tasks in the world.
There is enough of chance and haz-
card in it to make him poppy man
if he has in himself good lumber that
will not warp, shrink or swell.
The white-shirt fellow in the city
often thinks he is smarter and is en-
dowed with more brains and gray
matter than the farmer. The chances
are that the bugs and worms would
eat him whole, if he tried to run a
farm six months. Even so, the bugs
would regret their bouquet.
The farmer has a man size job. If
he does not have plenty of good COM
mon sense, he had better resign and
go into some other business that is an
easier task and where lame ducks can
make a living.-Ex.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Have you seen those new ''Patsy
Rompers" at Oshants' Variety?
City Commi.sioner. Meeting

The City Commissioners met in
regular session Tuesday night with
all the members present. H. w.
Oshant was chosen as Mayor for the
year. Miss Carrie Meyer having re-
signed as City Clerk on account of
i'll health, Miss Emily C. Johnson, so
long connected with the Citizens
State Bank, was elected City Clerk.
Alex Weltz succeeds John Troth as
City Marshal; Frank McLain con-
tinues as Police Judge; Arthur Wiles
as City Attorney; with the City Man
ager as Fire Chief. They ordered
the Attorney to prepare the, Golden
Belt ordinance at once and present
for passage; passed the bills and list
ened to an eastern Engineering firm
as to the improvements to the City
Water Works.
The selection of H. w. Oshant as
Mayor for this year protends the
building of the Golden Belt Railroad
during his term; yet Commissioners
Hardness and Paul are equally en-
thusiastic, while the City Manager
told them plainly that if Hays expect
ed to improve and push to the 'front.'
If must have this railroad and leave
no stone unturned to secure II.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Early Savings Banks.

was opened in Boston 1O4 years ago,
December Is. 1916. In the same year
an institution called the Philadelphia
Savings Fund society was established.
The third institution of this kind in
America was founded in New York
In 1919. The first regular savings
bank was established in Hamburg in
1878 and the second at Berne, Switzer-
land, in 1887. The oldest savings
bank in the world is in Zurich, Switzer-
land, and is now in its one hundred
and seventeenth year The first regu-
lar savings bank in Great Britain was
opened in Edinburgh 1O7 years ago.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
KNIFE WEEDERS
New Model 21'' Is Now Ready

New Model IL Is NOW Ready
Twenty-one years ago, Mr.. Clayton
lived on a farm and made his first
knife weeder. It had wooden run
ners, the knives were hard to adjust,
it was heavy and pulled hard, but it
did good work. Every year that he
stayed on the farm he made a new
model, aiming to decrease the draft,
increase the strength and decrease
the weight, and make all adjustments
simple and easy. Steel runners re-
placed the wooden runners, and from
year to year important improvements
were placed on the machine, mate
rally increasing it's efficiency and
value. While on the farm, Mr.. Clay
ton worked up quite business MAX
ing these machines and selling them
to his neighbors. After he left the
farm he still continued to make a
new model every year, until he has
now perfected his ''New Model FL"
for the coming season. This new
model is a mighty fine machine for
killing weeds and saving moisture in
any listed field, and it would hardly
seem possible that any further i'm
provements could be made upon it.
THE Weeder Factory, Hill City,
KAN" is where this machine is now
ing distance of the factory, can easily
take his car to Hill City and haul one
home. They are soeasily taken apart
that two of the double-row machines
are frequently hauled in Ford car
The one-row machine weighs 80
pounds, the two-row $50 pounds, and
the three-row $50 pounds. The one
row machine sells for $50, the two
row for SEQ, and the three-row for
$50. These prices are for machines
without eveners, and with A-foot side
] knives. Longer knives can be fur
nished as extras, and also eveners, if
desired. Most farmers have ali the
eveners that are necessary for these
machines. All of the older models
will be discontinued after this sea-
son. Two-row machines of last years
model may still be had, while they
last, at $500 to $1,000 less than the
above prices.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Plant Care.

The room in which palms and gera-
NUNS are kept should not be allowed
to get cooler than 40 or 40 degrees.
The palm should be placed in a part
ly shaded spot. but never where it may
come in contact with gas or cold
drauehtS. 1t should never be placed
in The direct rays of the sun. The
leaves should occasionally be sponged
with fiShOil soap and warm water 1t
should not he too well watered, and
perfect drainage is necessary to sue
cessful culture. The geranium requires
plenty of sunlight and its roots should
be kept moist. 1t should be sprayed
with tepid water occasionally to keep
the foliage bright and green and pre-
vent dust from lodging on the leaves.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Record Marx in Idle Fr.igh, c..

In our issue of March 25. we noint-
ed out the significant fact that there
were, on March 8, 421.74s idle
freight cars IN the country. That was
startling record, but the record on
March %, is even more so. On that
date there We're 459,411 idle FREIGHT
cars, the greatest in the history of
American railroading.
1t IS undoubtedly true that the laws
governing the conduct of the rail
roads of the country need revising In
our opinion the revision should con-
sist chiefly in the removal of restric-
lions and the abolition of guarantees.
The roads should be allowed to run
their own affairs in their own way,
being limited chiefly in the rates
which they may charge. Subsidies
should be withdrawn.
But the chief need is in the revision
of our economic laws. If the mines
and the mills of the country were
busy, If there We're some promising
future for the farming interests, the
freight cars would not be idle for
long, What we need in order to
remedy unemployment is an adequate
Protective Tariff. That is the most
urgent need in the way of legislation
1t is all well neough to revise the in
ternal revenue laws and income taxes,
but there are between three and four
million idle workmen in this country
who have no incomes upon which TO
pay taxes. Not only are they idle
but the mines and the mills where
they were formerly employed are idle
too, and the owners thereof are await
ing the action of the Congress so that
they may again begin earning an in
come. Revenue depends upon in
come, income upon employment, en-
ployment upon Protection.-Amer-
lean Economist.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

The tribe of wild geese of Europe
are birds of mystery. Their nesting
grounds. and thus their true homes.
are in the far north. in the wilds of
Spitzbergen. and on the inaccessible
island of Kolguev. II is only as visi-
tors that they come to the British
islands. for in the regions that ap-
proach the pole winter comes early,
and thus all bird life is driven south
ward, flying at incredible speed on the
arms of the north wind as they make
for their winter quarters in more hos
pitable lands
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Peculiar London Street.

WHAT Is The most curiOIIs street
name in London? Ii would be hard,
perhaps, to find an odder one than
Crooked Usage. in Chelsea, which in all
probability recalls very ancient days
when the pillow was the commonest OBJ
ject in that region. II has been sug-
gested that the straight strips of grass
between the various holdings of land
were known as usages, aEf that we
owe the name TO the circumstance
that one of these cartways or usageS
was crooked. The history of London
street names has endless fascination
and interest
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Starting Slips.

More house plants are grown from
slips than from seeds To do this
take branch half ripe and cut a slit
three inches long. Take OF all the
leaves except the upper two and root
it well in wet sand several inches
thick, putting one and one-half inches
OF the slip under the sand Keep this
thoroughly moist. When the roots be-
gin to grow put your plant. with its
sand. into a pot provided with other
soil. Some slips. such as oleander
and ivy. will root In water.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Mesopotamlan Lanouaoe.

The characters of the language OF
MesOpOtamia, like the Egyptian. were
originally hieroglyphic. and the sew
eral hundred groups of wedges by
means of which the language was ex-
pressed In writing, may now be traced
to the original hieroglyphics. One of
the early picture-wOrds was a cres-
cent and star, and the picture was
employed to express an incanta-
ton or exorcism, or anything capa-
bic of driving the evil spirit from
the body of which 1t had taken pos
session.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
WORKING of Pearl

There are TWO kinds CT shells used
In the manufacture OF small articles,
the porcelaneous and the nacreous.
The former are extremely hard and
can be worked only with the appa-
ratus used by the iapidary. The lat
ter are more generally used and may
be sawed. filed and turned with some
FACILITY The pieces should be roughed
out on common grindstone. After
turning they should lie smoo. aed with
pumice stone and water. and polished
with rotten stone with sulphuric acid
slightly diluted
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
WOMAN BEGAN LONG DISPUTE
ShakesPeare-Bacon Controversy Had
Its Origin in Book Published by
American Author

The long-drawn-Out controversy over
the authorship of the Shakespearean
plays had its origin in a remarkable
book written by an American woman,
Della Bacon, a native of TalImadge,
o.. with a preface written by her
friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. She was
a woman Of intense application and
capacity for esoteric study and her
book was the product of a lifetime
spent in the feverish pursuit OF her
hobby. Her book was entitled 1.-The
Philosophy Of the Plays of Shake
speare Unfolded," copies of which are
now rare. as it has long been out of
print
The book is written in a very labOri-
Gus style, difficult to read. Some of
the sentences are three TO four hun
dred words long, but the entire work
shows evidences of intense study OF
the works of the poet and a mastery
knowledge of the history of Shake
Speare's period.
The intense Obsession with which
she pursued her theories brought her
life To Il tragic end Becoming con-
vinced thar Shakespeare'S secret was
hidden in his tomb at Stratford, she
went 10 reside there to confirm her re-
searches. She was found one mid
night nj the tomb. muttering iDcoher-
emily. and evidently making prepara-
tons TO open the tomb in search of
concealed manuscripts which she be-
heved had been inferred with the body
of the poet. beneath the cryptic in
scription, Good friend, for Jesus
sake forbear to dig the bones inclosed
here" She was removed to an asylum.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
GLYCERINE MIXTURE FOR GAS
ON STOMACH

Simple glycerine, buckthorn bark,
etc, as mixed in Adler-i-ka relieves
ANY CASE gas on stomach or sour
stomach. 1t acts on both upper and
lower bowel and removes all foul mat
ter which poisoned stomach. Often
CURES constipation. Prevents appen-
dicitis. The INSTANT pleasant
action of Adler-i-ka surprises both
doctors and patients. One man who
suffered five years from indigestion
and constipation was helped by ONE
dose. C. A. HARNESS, Druggist.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Seeking a PARAGON.

Here's anF advertisement for a
wife"
''She must be young. rich and beau
tiful. 1 suppose?"
No. but the requirements are al
most as hard to meet. The advertise
ment specifies that she must be 'un-
der forty. immune from the movies
and house broken" = Birmingham
Age-Herald.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Exneriment with Air

A man wished to measure the force
that drives the sap upward in trees
and shrubs. He cut a vine and tied
a bladder over its end. In two hours
the bladder was greatly distended, and
inside of three hours it burst with a
plop. so great was the force that
drives sap upward.