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Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-24

eyes shone In the bright fire light.
''I've solved that" she said. "You
know you studied forestry / told
the supervisor at the station how much
you knew about It. / wasn't going to
tell you until-until certain things hap
pened-and now they have happened,
can't wait another instant. He said
that with little more study you could
get into the forest service-take an
examination and become ranger.
You're a natural forester If one ever
lived, and you'd love the work"
Besides" Lennox added, at would
clip my SnOwbird's wings to make her
live on the plains. My big house will
be rebuilt, children. There will be
fires in the fire place on the fall
nights. There is no use Of thinking
Of the plains"
sand there's going to be a smaller
hOuse-just cottage at first-right
beside It," Dan replied. He could go
back to his forests, after all. He
wouldn't have to throw away his birth
right, fought for so hard; and 1t
seemed to him no other occupation
could offer so much as that of the for
est rangers-those silent, cool-nerved
guardians Of the forest and keepers of
its keys.
For a long time Snowblrd and he
stood together at the edge Of the fire
light, their bodies warm from the
glow, their hearts trimming with words
they could not utter. Words always
come hard to the mountain people.
They are folk of action, and Dan, rath-
er than to words, trusted to the yearn-
ing of his arms.
"We're made for each other, Snow
bird, darling" he told her breathlessly
at last. "And at last can claim what
I've been waiting for all these months"
He claimed it; and in open defiance
to all civil law, he collected fully 100
times in the next few minutes But 1t
didn't particularly matter, and Snow
bird didn't even turn her face. May
be you've forgotten you claimed It
when you first came back, too" she
said.
So he had. 1t had completely slipped
his mind, in the excitement Of his fight
with the wolf pack. And then while
Lennox pretended to be asleep, they
sat, breathless with happiness, on the
edge of the sled and watched the dawn
come out.
They had never seen the snow so
lovely in the sunlight.
1.-THE ENID
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-24
sarnstabIe's Old Bell.

In the courthouse at BarnstabIe
Mass, is an old bell. cracked and
silent. which may be, and probably is
the oldest bell in the United States
So thinks Mr.. Alfred Croker, clerk OF
courts of Barnstable county. The date
1875 is still plainly visible in the pho
tograph recently printed in the Bos-
ton Evening Transcript.
BY this date, however, the old bell
had seen nearly a quarter Of a CEN
fury of life in England before It came
to America and Begin calling wOr.
shippers together in the church at
Sandwich town. Gratitude bought the
bell in England, for IT. came as a gift
from Mrs. Peter A1olph, whose hus-
band, Captain Adeiph, was lost in the
wreck of his vessel on the Massachu-
sets coast in 1897 despite the efforts
of the people of Sandwich.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-24
We WIn Tako 4 Easy From New on."

ence with only Death and Darkness in
the end. And because 1t is the voice
Of the wilderness itself, the tender
foot that camps in the evergreen for
est Will listen, and his talk win die at
his lips, and he will have the begin
nings of knowledge. And perhaps he
will wonder If God has given him the
thews and fiber to meet the wilderness
breast to breast as Dan had met it !;
to remain and to fight and to conquer.
And thereby his metal will be tested in
the eyes of the Red Gods.
Snowbird stood waiting in the snow,
arms stretched to her forester as Dan
came running through the wood. But
his arms were wider yet, and she went
softly into them.
1--WE will take it easy from now on,
Dan Failing told them, after the camT
was cleared Of its dead and the ire
was built high. 1--WE have plenty Of
food; and we will travel a little while
each day and make warm camps at
night. Wen have friendship fires, just
as sometimes we used to build on the
ridge"
But after you get down in the val
leys7" Lennon asked anxiously. "Are
you and Snowbird coming up here to
liver
The silence fell over their camp and
a wounded wolf whined In the dark
ness. do you think / could leave It
nOw7" Dan asked. By no gift of words
could he have explained why; yet he
knew that by token Of his conquesL,
his spirit was welded to the dark for
ests forever. ''But heaven knows what
I'll do for a living
snOwbird crept near him, and her
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-24

PURE RIBBON SUGAR CANE SYRUP, hest
cheapest from producer; sample 10c; prices
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-24

Matrimonial Hurdle.
Knick- Does his wife handle the
reins2
Knack-she did until he jumped
over the traces.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-24
STORM DOOR.

An outside door on the north or west
side of the house, unless protected by
an outside storm door, always makes
the room on which it opens uncomfort-
able in severe weather. You can take
your screen door and cover it with
two thicknesses OF burlap, tackled on
with copper tacks. Hang 1t the same
way as the screen door and 1t makes a
good substitute for a storm door. In
spring remove the burlap and the door
isaEady for summer duty.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-24
SCRAPS

Germany has 100000 disabled sol
diera.
The earth has but one satellite
the moon.
There is nothing new except what
is forgotten.
India has thirty cities with popula-
ton Of more than 100000.
Savings banks In the United States
hold approximately $6,5O0,000,OOO.
Northern Chill Is rainless. but 1t rains
every day IN part Of northern Brazil.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-24
A Mothers Story
Young MOthors Should Heed
ThI0 Advice

Rienzi, Miss. When commenced
taking Or. Pierce's medicines was Ell
wrecked and run down until / was
not able to do anything, but now I
am getting along well and have e big,
fine, healthy baby boy, Tongue could
not tell how much better felt after
taking these medicines. I took both
the FaVorite Prescription and the
Golden Medical Discovery, also two
walls OF the Pleasant Pellets and had
practically no suffering. ! win always
praise these wonderful medicines. I
would never try to 60 through expect.
ancy again without Favorite Prescrip.
tion."-Mrs. Mary Owen.
Get Doctor Pierce's remedies at any
drug store and you viii soon feel thefP
beneficial effect
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-24
Ner suanloIon-

Mr. Gotham see a Brooklyn wom-
an has applied TO the courts for help
from being loved to death by Ter hus-
band, who. she says. kisses her 300
times a day.
Mrs. Gotham-Can't understand how
a man can do so many wrong things
that he has to apologize as much e.
that.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-24
prawlnu an AudIenee.

Professor Letterkink-Pm delighted
to see so large a gathering in the
house. I never spoke to an audience
Of more than 40 before. Your towns
men are interested in science?
The Local Editor-Not much. But
my cOmpositOr in setting up the ad Of
your lecture on the "COsmic Forces. /"
left the as" out Of "Cosmic."
Evening journal., 1921-06-23
HUNTING IN TIE CONGO.

COUTH AFItlCAN newspapers print weird story from
- the Congo Jungle. The white man has introduced
the high-power rifle into jungle hunting And by some
mysterious phenomenon akin TO teepathy all big game
in the Congo has learned about the deadly rifle and has
heightened the distance to which it will allow man to
approach before taking to its heels.
This puts the Congo native in bad fix He no longer
can get close enough his game to kill it with bow and
arrows spears or poisoned thorns fred from hollow
reed blow gun
Now, the Congo native would starve without his meat
diet Having within his chid-brain OF the cunning
and nvenyeness OF stone-age ancestors here's how
he competes with the rifle
He goes trading post and swaps ivory for steel nails
He drives these nails through board and sharpens the
projecting ends into nsh-hook barbs. A lion ee-
plant, stepping this trap may to tear It OF,
but badly crippled and lamed that he becomes easy
prey for the hunter.
Another native trick is to build huge 'bomba" en-
closure with dry brush heaped in circular wall around
it. An elephant herd is stampeded through the gateway
Then the brush is set ae The older elephants sometimes
break out but the younger can't get through the
blazing barrier. Their feet become badly blisered
that they can't retreat into the jungle the bowling
natives close in with their spears.
Revolving cruelty, you sayf Agreed But doesn't the
Congo native at that rank genteness alongside "cil-
lied" destroying his fellows with poison gas flame
throwers, boiling oil and exploding shells9
Evening journal., 1921-06-23
Kidney and Bladder
Troubles Conquered
or Money Back

For 40 years, said DR.. Carey, I have
been prescribing Marshroot for Kid
ncy and bladder sickness and now that
have retired from active practice l have
made arrangements with leading drug
gists to dispense this wonderful pre-
scription at a moderate price, on the
money back If dissatisfied plan.
Beware Of kidney disease thousands
die Of it every year who ought TO be
enjoying the blessings Of life and health.
Watch the symptoms. II you have specks
floating before the eyes, puffy eyes,
clammy feet or moist palms, backache or
sideache, YOU ought to get a bottle Of
DIT Carey's MarshrOOt right away.
IT has wonderfully benefited tens Of
thousands OF cases Of kidney and blad-
der troubles and is the medicine you can
always depend upon. Results are guar
antced.
NOTE.-Dr. Daniel G. Carey was a
piacticing physician for many years and
his great Prescription. Marshroot, aided
thousands Of sufferers from kidney and
bladder troubles. Hereafter you can al
ways get this effective Prescription al
n. B. Danf0rths, j. NJ Eckerd's and
an reliable pharmacists the country over
Keep i'm mind the name, Dr. Carey's
Marshroot prescription. No. ~. Nc
other medicine can take its place.
Evening journal., 1921-06-23

Trade with Europe for the ten monuls periou tohou
exports. s3b3OOOOO imports sss2oooOoo The largest
balance was recorded against the United Kingdom which
has been in the throes industrial strike for some
months necessitating a large dependence on outside
sources for merchandise normally produced at home The
total exports from the United Kingdom during the trs
five months OF the present year otaed 3OOooOoo pounds
sterling compared with 530O00OO0 pounds for the same
period Of 1920 During the ten months period in ques
ton we exported 10 the United Kingdom SiSiOOOOOO
worth Of goods and imported from that country sS9i
100000 worth
France ranks next as a purchaser from during this
period We exported 10 France sn0OoOOoo worth OF
goods or about half the value Of those exported during
the similar ten months Of 1919 while imported from
France Si27OoOOOO worth Of goods for the 1924 period
nearly three times the value OF imports from her
during the period There is thus apparent gradual
leveng up in the trade Of the two countries which will
become more marked from
Our exports to Germany display remarkable increase
the handicaps to that trade are considered During
the similar ten months OF 1919 we exported $50 worth OF
goods To Germany this year. s39OOOOOOo worth while i'm
porting from Germany sOoOoO worth Of goods. We are
already ahead OF pre-war normal in sales To this
nation.
our exports to the South American countries continue
to show Increases despite all that has been said to the
contrary They toaed si3sO0OO0 during the 1921 PERIOD
an increase OF siOOOOOOOO over the 1920 period Imports
from those countries for the 1921 period toaled sii2
10000 in value evidencng that this trade is weba-
anced and that could still handle more OF the ma
terials OF that division without detrlmen to ourselves
Trade with the Asatc division shows si79OOOOO in ex
ports TO- and s723OOOOo in imports those countries.
Japan had a hard year, and her balance against was
about S5OOOoOO compared with ssoOOOOOO the year be-
fore This is the division from which the most acute
competition for the future may be expected and for which
adequate tariffs must be devised.
Evening journal., 1921-06-23
Railroads and Their Future

August. 1920, when the exhaustion
Of credit showed its effect on com
modify prices. The increase in rates
cannot be held accountable for the
contraction in business from which
the railroads have suffered acutely.
There may be specific cases, but not
so generally"
The economies to be instituted, he
classed under two headings: zone,
by effecting an organization of the
officials of the railroads as grouped
in each of the four territories now
established by Che Interstate Com
merce Commission; and two, through
centre agency or corporation to
supply equipment to the railroads
without profit to the corporation,
and to perform other services, under
the supervision of the Commission. "
The Commission has laid out the
country in four districts, applying
widely different ratios Of increase or
decrease in rates in the several dis
tricts, he said. with the carriers
already grouped in these districts.
On the aggregate group value of the
property of the carriers in the re-
spective groups the yield from rates
is computed He contended these
and other conditions made It logical
for the carriers of each group to
organize themselves. A group rail-
way board, of not less than five
members, to be selected by each
group of carriers. From among the
carriers Of the groups, men to be
selected to report on advanced
methods of producing economies. .
Three officials are to be selected
from the four Group Boards. twelve
in all, to serve on a National Board,
with twelve additional members
selected from the Trustees OF the
National Railway Service Corpora
tion. This National Board would be
composed OF practical railroad Off
cials and men trained in finance and
general business administration.
This Board would determine ques-
tions of legislation and public policy.
The Group Boards and their Com
mittees are advisory. Neither the
National Board" he said, nor the
four group boards would interfere
with the boards of directors of rail-
roads" The suggestions Of the
Group and Service Boards now pro-
posed should be submitted to the
directors of the respective railroads
thus keeping before directors the
relation OF coordination to econom-
! ical operation.
Evening journal., 1921-06-23
A Coalition Navy
CFrom the New York HERALD }

David Lloyd George, the Prime
Minister Of the British Government.
told the conference of the imperial
premiers in London his aims and the
aims OF his country to Cooperate
with the United States both for the
good Of the two great English-speak-
ing peoples and for the good of the
world. The following words illu-
inmate his thought and policy:
"Friendly cooperation with the
United States is for US a cardinal
principle, dedicated, by what seems
to us the proper nature of Things, by
instinct quite as much as by reason
and common sense. We are ready to
discuss with American statesmen any
proposal for the limitation of arma-
ments which they wish to set forth,
and we can undertake that no such
overtures will find lack of willingness
on our part to meet them"
At the same time while stating his
governments desire to avoid COM
petition in aruaments and to act in
harmony with America to that end,
Lloyd George frankly declared that
Great Britain never could so cut her
sea power as to expose herself, her
colonies and her dependencies to
danger. His words on this question
were:
1--WE cannot forget that the very
life of the United Kingdom, as also
that of Australia and New Zealand,
is built upon sea power, and that sea
power is necessarily the basis OF the
whole empires existence. We have.
therefore, to look for measures
which our security requires We can
not possibly be content with less.
why not a coalition navy, Mr..
Prime Minister, maintained by both
great sea powers? Each of these
to be operated in the proper sphere
of. each, each TO be the master of it's
own ships and guns, but each to be a
part of the combined sea power of
the two.
A coalition between these two ma
tiors would be as natural as II
would be formidable. They have tho
same language, they have the same
point of view. Their laws are based
on the same fundamental principles.
And a coalition navy of the United
States and Great Britain could as
sure peace for the rest of the world
as well as for themselves.
With such naval cooperation,
Great Britain and the United States
would each be justified in maintain
ing much smaller naval strength
Evening journal., 1921-06-23
MACCABEES TO MEET
DEPUTY COMMANDER

Special to The Evening Journal.
NEWPORT, June 2s.-The OFF,
GERS Club of the Woman's Benefit
Association of the Maccabees, held
its monthly business meeting and
social on Tuesday evening. at the
home of Miss Bessie Maclary.
Plans were completed for the re-
ception and banquet to be given
July 1, in honor of Mrs. Minnie KEEP
pinger. of Chicago, Ill. deputy su-
preme commander of the Woman's
Benefit Association Of the Macca-
bees.
A business meeting win be held
Friday afternoon, July l, from to
o'clock. at the meeting room, A.
o. U. W. Hall, with Mrs. Keppinger
in charge. A class of new members
will be initiated. In the evening, at
$50. a banquet will be served at the
Lambros. At s o'clock a reception
will be held in the New Century
Club. Those present were:
Mrs. Laura Shilling, Mrs. Eliza
beth Hartmann, Mrs. Barbara White,
Miss Mildred White, Mrs. Della
White, Mrs. Mary Tribbitt, Miss Re
becca Hirzel. Mrs. Lillian Foster,
Mrs. Mary Foster. Mrs. Sophia Bull
len, Miss Dora Singles. Miss Mary
Hirzel. Mrs. Reeder. Mrs Mary
Ward, Mrs. Baldwin, Mrs. McCon-
nell. Mrs. Gooden and Mrs. Margaret
Biddell.
Evening journal., 1921-06-23
Physician Explains Who
Should Take Nuxated Iron
Practical Advice on How To Help Build Up
Great Strength, Energy and Endurance

Lack OF iron in the blood not only
makes a man a physical and mental
weakling, nervous. irritable easily IA
tigued, but il utterly rObs him Of that
virile force, that stamina and strength
OF will which are 80 necessary to success
and power in every walk Of life" says
DIT James Francis Sullivan, formerly
physician OF Bellevue Hospital (Outdoor
Dept). New York. and the Westchester
County Hospital. 1T may also transform
beautiful, sweet-tempered woman into
one who is cross, nervous and irritable.
I have strongly emphasized the great ne
cessity Of physicians making blood ex-
aminatiOns Of their weak, anemic, run
down patients. Thousands OF persons 20
on year after year suffering from physi-
cal weakness and a highly nervous cOndi-
ton due to lack of sufficient iron in their
red blood corpuscles without ever realiz-
ing the real cause OF their trouble. With
ont iron in your blood your food merely
passes through the body something like
corn through an old mill with rollers so
wide apart that the mil can't grind.
For want of iron you may be an old
man at thirty. duh OF intellect, poor in
memory, nervous. irritable and all run
down, while at 80 or 80. with plenty Of
Evening journal., 1921-06-23
MISS cANNoN,s NEwnsr HoNoR.

nELANvAFE women cannot fail to be sratined espe-
~ cally by the high honors that have come TO Miss
Annie Cannon, formerly Of Dover but for many years
connected prominently with the astronomical observa-
tory at Harvard University.
She is recognized in all parts OF the civilized world as
being one OF Americas leading astronomers. The most
recent Of many honors that have to her is that
Of doctors degree in mathematics and astronomy
from the Groningen University Holland It the first
time that that institution has conferred such honor
upon a
Miss Cannon received an honorary degree from the
Womens College OF Delaware at it's first commencement
She is member Of the London Astronomical and Astro-
physical Association, and is its only woman member.
Since she has at Harvard Observatory she has worked
out chart Of the heavens that regarded masterpiece
Of its kind.
The career Of Miss Cannon shows what an intelligent
woman can do when she decides upon her career and
sticks to it with everincreasing enthusiasm and nte
gence.
Evening journal., 1921-06-23
MADE IN GERMANY

A CLEVELAND manufacturer sells certain machine
n for si09 It costs him SO make IT, The other day
he got letter from firm in Germany offering TO dupli-
cate the machine and deliver 10 Cleveland for s2i.
year ago. this would have given American manufao-
turers heart failure But they're setting to IT,
Next time your wife buys pair OF cheap gloves, turn
them inside out and youn probably find Made in Ger
many rubbersamped in very small letters So it goes
even to highgrade German safety which just
appeared in the United States retailing at s2 cents
Last year Americans imported sos S3623O worth OF
goods from Germany
While we sold them about three and third times as
much, German competition is becoming steadily stier
The shoe pinches most when try 10 sell American
goods abroad in competition with the Germans.
Committees in Congress, framing tarin bn are study
ing the following table, prepared from Official sources
comparing American wages with German wages in terms
OF American money
Evening journal., 1921-06-23

WASHINGTON. June 23-S. Davies
Warield. President of the National
Association Of Owners Of Railroad
Securities, testifying before the Sen.
ate Committee on Interstate Com
merce now investigating railroad
conditions, declared that only throuh
far-reaching economical methods
for conducting transportation and
obliteration OF old-time prejudices
can rates and fares be made salts
factory to the people, compete with
other forms of transportation and
produce the return essential to en-
able the roads to finance their
obligations.
He stated that a return on rail-
road property in the aggregate less
than that provided in the Esch-
Cummins Act would not maintain
transportation, and any attempt to
impair the provisions Of that act
would be menace to the successful
operation, in the public interest, OF
the transportation system.
The question for the moment is, '
said Mr.. Warfield, "Can sufficient
revenue be obtained from rates and
fares that will be considered reason
able by the public and the shippers
and will these rates bear a relation
70 the price obtainable for the ar
ucles transported that will not i'm.
pede commerce.; or will part OF the
money required to meet the necessi-
ties of transportation have TO be
supplied, in the public interest, by
taxation" The latter, ne said
means Government ownership, and
unless effective railroad organization
is contaminated to introduce rigid
economies this could not be avoided
Discussing freight rates he show
ed where the war produced abnor-
mally high prices and high rail oper-
ating costs. When dehation set in
prices broke precipitately and the
unprecedented and Unforeseen era
Of business readjustmnt, he said, was
the real cause of the loss Of business
to the railroads.
THE exhaustion of general credit
was manifest before the increase in
railroad rates." said Mr.. Warheld
There had been a progressive de-
cline in the reserve ratio Of the Fed
eral Reserve banks from the peak
Of August, 1917, caused by the ex-
pansiOn OF bank credits of over SO
per cent. to below 40 per cent. in
the early part Of 1920, the increase
in railroad rates was not made unit