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you'll take back less wool than you
brought with you"
"Meaning?" inquired tho youth,
adjusting his eyeglasses.
DO you know who that bunk is
you just"
That bunk al you roughly term
him.. said the young man in a mod
ulated baritone. us Mr.. Hotchkiss
well known in the Goodfellow
His ra,ne was Mccosh when
met him. Now. listen to mother
There atn't any time to feed the
chickens. I'm telling you. You've
Just fallen for a man who's q profes-
sional walnut-pusher, a dot-and-carry
card-holder, a life member of the
Gold Brick Layers Union-in plain
you left your brains the other side
OF the Ohio river I'll wise you
You've been bilked. trimmed-'
But he came to New York with
the highest references"
Splash! I've q good mind to
touch you for a thousand myself
How much was in that check you
just signed?"
"Forty-five hundred and fifty"
Get your bank the first thing in
the morning and stop it."
Lord" groaned the callow one
ITS on the Night and Day Bank"
'Telephone-hot foot, kidw
The sedate grill-room was en-
livened by the sight Of a red-headed
enthusiast dragging a dazzled youth
across two chairs toward the tele-
phone booth. A few minutes later
Betsy, to her relief. beheld her hus-
band returning calmly with the new
found hick.
"Now, Marcus" Brian was saying,
we've got to kite it over to the
Night and Day and identify you
Friend wife and I'll tag along to see
that the rest of your wad don't jump
out of the window"
The hick had q taxi-waiting by
the hour apparently-outside. AS
they bumped over New York's as
phalt, which, like her sky line. is pic
turesque but uneven. Betsy tried to
soothe the stranger with common.
places.
Doesn't it seem grand in New
York after the country" she asked
. 1T does" said the hick forlornly.
When he emerged from the sleep
less portals Of the Night and Day
there were tears in mis- pale orbs.
suggestive of sea food.
'They fixed it-but it hurts me to
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ing to tip him in public. Those are
a few rough rules which may keep
you a while out of the Order of Straw
along the Great White Graft, says
Uncle Obe.'"
THAT was thoughtful of him."
Betsy intimated.
yves" agreed Brian grudgingly.
But it makes me kind o. sore. What
brand o. Holsters do those N York
dudes eat that makes 'em so fired
brighter'n the rest O. the country?
Can't an Indian from another reser-
vation blow in with his war-paint
and not"
They're naturally lots more ex-
perienced than we are, living as they
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V Pullman seat 25 and thus
addressed himself to the
somber orbs Of light becomingly set
in the features Of the very new Mrs.
Blaney, that lady being comfortably
cushioned in Pullman seat 81.
"Sugar-boy-dearw responded the
previously matter-of-fact Betsy.
Then, with a momentary lapse into
sanity, she whispered: Brian. the
whole car Is looking at u.s."
Responsive to the warning. Brian
made sudden movement. and several
handfuls Of rice olattered to the floor
from various parts Of his clothing.
Darn that godspeed stuff" he
the worse I hate Japs."
He removed his hat and shook
tterefrom a miniature hailstorm.
The entire car tittered-there was an
excursion Of rather young Boston
schoolma'ams returning from San
Bruno. Brian blushed to the roots
Of his auburn hair, then his cheeks
wrinkied to a broad grin. Hiss was
one Of those natures to whom pub
1icity in any form can never be quite
tlistasteful.
Enjoy yourselves. girls!' he
smiled, bowling to his appreciative
audience. On the lapel of his coat
hung a bright blue button nearly as
large as a saucer and labeled:
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Can0pied Fields.

TRAVELLERS in the Connecticut
valley may sometimes see many
slres covered with white cheese!
cloth supported, at a height OF nine
feet from the: ground, on a frame
work Of posts and wire. Under these
vast tents Sumatra tobacco is grown
Experiments conducted by the De-
partment Of Agriculture led to the
use Of this system of protecting the
tobacco plants. and the results have
been found excellent. The light.
candy soil along the Connecticut river
is well suited for the growth of Su-
matra tobacco.
The United States government fur
nishes the seed and supervises the
cultivation. preparation and sale OF
the product, the farmers paying the
cost and receiving the profit. That
the great cloth canopies can with
stand storms was proved last year.
when a hailstorm caused much dam
age to crops In open fields, but the
acres of covered tobacco escaped in
Jury. The cost Of the shades Is sew
eral hundred dollars an acre.
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Graphite Paint.

THE growing exclusion Of lead
from paint on the ground of its
poisonous character has led to the
Introduction Of graphite as q substi-
tute, particularly in the place OF red
lead In the painting OF iron. Mixed
with linseed oil. graphite protects the
iron we'll against rust and is much
cheaper than red lead. So many uses
have been found for graphite, which
not many years ago was employed
almost exclusively for the manufsc.
ture Of lead pencils, that large guam
titles are now made with the electric
furnace, the natural deposits Of the
mineral not being sufficient to supply
the demand.
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road legislation. finds surcease from
his onerous duties in Congress In
growing flowers. For many years he
was a conspicuous prize winner at
During the war when there was an
appeal to the people to save on coal
consumption he shut up his green
houses. He has another hobby-hos-
pital work. He is chairman of the
board in his home district. and has
given considerable personal attention
to the plans for hospitals for the
world war heroes.
Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary OF
State, who will be an outstanding
figure in the international conference
for limitation of armament, is used to
overcoming obstacles. not only be-
his own way in life. but because for
many years his one recreation was
mountain climbing. Some sixteen to
twenty years ago he was wont to go
to Europe every summer and go
strolling in the Alps Then when his
law practice tied him down he used
to go into Maine and tramp the
woods and scale the mountains.
When he was elected Governor of
New York fifteen years ago it put "A
stop to his recreation. but he had his
family in the Adirondacks for a
couple of summers. and occasionally
he would go out with his son and
some of his college chums and scale
tho mountains:
He started to play golf in 1899, but
has never been able to give it enough
time so that he could get to be Il
really good player. He tries to play
three times week now at the Chevy
Chase Club. He goes out at am, so
as to get to his office in the State De
artment by 10-usually he gets there
,net
often with Secretary Wallace Of the
Department of Agriculture.
Secretary Hughes plans to walk
about three miles every day, whether
he plays golf or not. He generally
walks to and from his office. For
| more than twenty years he has been
! taking setting-up exercises and H.
all that time has never missed a day.
except when he was travelling in a
Pullman car.
| Since March he has been away
! from his desk only two days-Labor
President To William and Mary Col
lege.
Discretion was the better part OF
valor for Representative Thomas J..
Rlanton of Texas the other day when
| he made an exchange of the Short
and ugly word" with Representativf
William J. Burke of Pennsylvania.
Representative Burke has wide rep
utation as a "strong man." and is
credited with 1900 ring battles in his
home state"
4 X \ X
c. W. Holman, secretary of the Ma
tional Milk Producers Association.
and c. s. Barret, president of the
National Farmers Union, had break
fast together recently in Washington.
They both ordered cantatoupes and
the waiter brought each a small hall
of a melon. Now MIR. Barrett raises
cantaloupes as side line. After he
had finished eating his half he picked
up the menu and found they were
80 cents. Il wish / could sell my en-
tire crop for cents EACH" he re
marked with a sigh. 80
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Capital Sidelights
BY WILL 2. KENNEDY.

Here's man who finds 1t cheaper
to travel than to live at home,-Rep-
resentative Ackerman of PlainfieId,
N. j., who happens to be first man
On the House roll call. He is the NEST
Travelled man in Congress, but that
isn't because he has found 1t cheaper
to travel, for he is very wealthy and
doesn't have to economize He spent
the summer in Europe, and says that
while travelling around there he
actually saved enough from his nor
NAL living expenses to amortize the
first cost of getting transportation
across the ocean.
For a railroad ticket from Bologne
to Berlin, a distance of 3f2 miles
where the fare before the war was
$3.50 to SIS, he paid So. A sleeping
car stateroom now costs less than
IS cents. In Vienna a first-class seat
in the orchestra for the opera costs
about so cents, or less than the tax
paid to the United Stataes government
alone for seat in the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York. He has the
checks showing that an afternoon
tea for two in a first class hotel IN
Vienna cost less than 20 cents and
course dinner for three cost about
80 cents.
Representative Ackerman brough'
back to this country some Of the first
tokens issued by the Chamber Of
I Commerce of France in retiring tn
wartime paper currency. He has Civ
en- some of these to his close friends
as pocket pieces. AS a member of tn.
foreign affairs committee he was able
| to give Chairman Fordney of the way
and means committee first-hand IL
formation regarding the startling dc
probation of enemy currency. n
! brought back a 10000 kronen note
| lAustria-Hungary, which was wor
| more than $4,000 in gold before /.
war. He puT~sAsed it for less than
When he reached France on his "
home he could not get any of
| financial institutions to buy 1t at
| price. He says 1t is now W"
about SO.
X X X
Representative Samuel f. Wiz
OF Massachusetts, who is chairH.
the House interstate and forciE..
merce committee. in charge e"
Evening star., 1921-11-06
BY WALLACE IRWIN

THE Booster Has Married Betsy Spencer
L and They Have Started for New York to
Spend Their Honeymoon. The Booster Had
Never Seen New York. Neither Had Betsy.
Their Exciting Adventures in the Most Ro-
mantle City in America-Their Perplexities,
the Strange Condolences That ,Befall Them
and the Wonderful Outcome of Their Expert
ences-Are Told in the Following Story.
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Il trust I'm not making q nuisance
Of myself"
Not yet" replied Brian. turning for
the first time in the direction Of the
scenery.
my name is McCosh-G. Hunter Nc
Cosh." said the florid person. still
smiling. "Any time you want to look
tily away.
"Oh, Sugar Boy. how rude Of you!"
Betsy chided, as soon as the other
man had gone
X X X X
csrTAKE It from me, Betsy" said
Brian, in rather. depressed
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reporter was neither required or
desired I managed to not break down
in public because I once had that job
for several seasons and I wouldn't
number it amongst tho melons OF
journalism.
IRON the middle Of Sept till xmas
q football reporter can't go in his
office without they's bunch OF
letters from students or old grads or
the coaches themselfs and the letters
always starts out by calling you some
say why don't you give more space
to the old Yellow and Pink All we
ask is q square deal. but we amt
getting it. BY q square deal they
mean 5 columns about The old Yellow
and Pink and nothing about nobody
else and the columns has got to be
columns Of glory hallelujah.
&, Maybe it's necessary to mention
that the Yellow and Pink was beat
9S to o last Saturday by the Old
Manve, but you are supposed to ex-
c11ee this on the grounds that Buster
Gifrord, the Yellow quarterback. waH
out Of tho game with q hangnail, but
even at that the old Yellow would
Of rallied and tied the score In the
eettinr started, Jesse James. the head
iineman. called an offside and the
4 yds penalty took the heart out OF
our boys. Coach Dinsiebury says the
penalty was a outrage a. none OF his
men was ever offside in their life.
He had learned them different.
Well friends when man IL q foot
bali reporter he gets acquainted will.
the Lifferent coaches and asst- coaches
and theys a few Of them that 10 a
GOOD fellows aS you want to meet q
smecslly some Of the asst. coaches
and some Of my best friends is asst
coaches and q few head coaches too.
Ana II any Of the last named ID read
Ing this artiole want them to under.
stand that they arc not sne pnss
that M amt reading this article that I
refer % to when I say that they's no
GLASS Of people that compares with
mead coaches when it comes to fair
Evening star., 1921-11-06

poria, and in Keokuk I was black
mailed poor by a rube I tried the
badger game on"
so you're advancin' on New York" "
That's the stuff! The only town In
America where you can catch the hick
off his nest with the golden eggs ex-
posed. I got a cousin doin' well there
on the old glass-ring game"
yes. but look at the competition
Brian objected. There's three hunks
there to every hick. And what's your
homemade mining swindle against
chinery?" .-..
well. I'm gettin' DID," sighed the
swindler. But a fresh train load o
straw arrives at the New York Cen
tral every fifteen minutes. This is
my last stand--maybe I won't have to
keep bar in my old age"
IF you amt skinned poor before
you've been in New York a week,
come around to me and I'll buy some
Of your goods" said Brian kindly,
but with deep foreboding: for he was
still mindful of OMalley's tale of
what greedy Gotham does to the native
outsider.
TT is the conventional thing for the
newcomer in New York to pause
Aladdin-like, mind whirling, eyes
blinking at the magic works.of these
djtnns who have bewitched mankind.
Shall he fly first to the Metropolitan
Museum or shall it be the Metropoli-
tan Tower? Shall he climb the Statue
Of Liberty or descend into the sub
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Jew cop arrestin' drunken Armenian.
the Brooklyn bridge. a fight, a Wall
and Leon Enrol tryin' to light cigar
on q windy corner" tSH'
II saw a hick. Right before my
18th street. and ducked into the
subway just to get taste Of that cele-
think saw, the first thing? A. rube
got up and gave his seat to q lady.
was sitting comfortably on somepody's 9
mother at the time, and wanted to
lead that hick aside and say. Not done,
old chap-not in New York; but l let
him go his suicidal way. Waning-
ford'll get him before morning."
They dined beneath golden cornices.
beside roseate tapestries, eating from
precious plate and draining goblets Of
Don't make any quick moves"
Brian cautioned his wife, because
every time you do 1t starts a waiter
this way, and that costs you IS
extra"
The bill was $19.
Score three" warbled Brian, keep
ing imaginary tab on his cuff. He
led Betsy rather hastily toward the
foyer. 1t was getting on toward 10
o'clock. and round the corner, glar:.
Ing amid the Internal glories OF
jumping, gigantic electric images
stood the Cabaret de rObsterre,
home of jazz.
Evening journal., 1921-11-02

&5NzSN HERE is no need for secrets IN
@T8 modern business, and that
Nesss1N business prospers into great
N'S1S~ est helpfulness to the public
that sets forth it's case most simply and
clearly.
If underlying plans are well laid,
business develops step by step, almost
unnoticeably better day by day-as
viewed by the daily visitor = until it
emerges into an almost new being.
The White Horse pike was rebuilt,
here and there, with gaps very provok-
ingly left, but working to plan, until
finally the great roadway to the sea was
completed.
In Delaware, the great highway
given the State by General du Pont is in
the same way piece-mealing itself into
what will be the greatest piece of road in
the United States-a streak of smooth
ness the whole length of the State.
Year after year this business has
been working toward an ideal to be
in every way the very best store in
Philadelphia.
1t wasn't enough to lead in few lines
though every unit of leadership was
helping on the ideal. Outposts had to be
established here and there over the
earth-that has been twenty-year task,
and still to be extended. Our Importance
to manufacturers had to be increased
we've had to promote sales to accomplish
that Our three stores-here and in New
York and Milwaukee-have been driven
full speed ahead-and a year or more ago
we joined buying forces with another
group of stores; all in the drive for pur-
chasing power.
This Group of Stores Has an
Annual Output of a
Hundred and Forty Million
Dollars
Now, the millions in PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad investment; the skill of its men
and the amplitude of safety devices is
Evening journal., 1921-11-02
November Selling Plans

Pennsylvania Raro
that there
the offers swift and something and first put OF
safe transportation wherever desire road the Pes didn't then own
togo man has possible to dou
organization the goodappance endurance OF sh
unt means by putting buttonhoes the CT
it anytng-s the SO tnat e cage eose 70 wear
ose that Won can host ho served queny Uncle Sam hin
here daily shopping patent OH anu IL nAeo
. 80 shirt freaksh 1t really doesn't shoV
Ohe ug you uSO "' the offer
is satisfying from which to srr
cnOoere lar supply 10 meet ~ silk hrs-we sold less than
instant needs of large city Great tord doo IN dow T. lent
stocks have been part of the Stores
Development confidently believe Inc ston taV looms large
that day represents work and planning BET
which too people quail
The Gin1beL Store Has the Thea brake won.
Largest Collection of Inc telephone Won
Goods in Philadelphia Lie ''c'0' ,a,A"S 1"''n"' "'
The automobile
Value-giving has been the winning Gimbes won
thing in the whole plan offering n ;+ &c +a od or,
Choice immense stocks built this keptit grow
-A o October, despite pesimiss, brougl
in oofolu GOOD increase business That of it
doesn't interest you, but this does
0e 5 ~ M ln4-sS 4, .. ~ sD Gimbes keep in
creasng business, then there is
Mems clothing and boys business to be had through
where intrinsic quality is effort"
joined with good fashion CO... =, ,
peace-bas price buv regularly at Gmbels they
and OF undoubted quality must be getting best returns for
and all at prices as low as our wit and money spent
work and capital can give "Does it concern me to be
tint build big thing having the my
rocrb public money?the
be by appeal to its judgment and its fashion and draby
personal interest 1t isn't easy To Drive Rusnes Fuor Ha rdor
When Westinghouse his dov Propose January Reduction
Railroad million dollars this
Vanderbilt be harder driving
time waste fool Can Only Win by VaueGvng
=
Evening journal., 1921-11-02

The Want Ads will sell real estate
and rent property to advantage this
month.
Evening journal., 1921-11-02

HERE is no need for secrets in
modern business, and that
business prospers into great
est helpfulness to the public
Evening journal., 1921-11-02

The usual bill
will be sent Decem-
Der first, for pur-
poses of adjustment
if errors appear, but
paym e n t is not
really asked until
January.
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Admini,trntrix,. Notice.

Notice is hereby given that letters of
administration upon the estate o. Mary
T Howard, deceased, have been granted
to the undersigned, by the Probate
Court Of Jasper County, Missouri, bear
ing date the 9th day Of July, 1921.
All persons having claims against said
estate are required to exhibit them to
mefor allowance, within sixmonths from
the date Of said letters or they may be
precluded from any benefit Of such es-
tate; and ifsaid claims be notiexhibited
within one year from the date Of the
granting OF letters on said estate they
shall be forever barred.
Annie Hardenbrook, Administrators
STATE OF MISSOURI, IS
County Of Jasper
! hereby certify that Annie Harden
brook was granted letters of administ-a-
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BLUE STAR
Mrs. Myrtle Conner

M. T. Order and Dave Bayles
each lost a good wook horse last
week, caused from being over
heated.
The little Misses Thelma and
Evelyn Evans are visiting their
grandparents M. T. Order and
wife:while their parents are visiting
in Colorado.
Mrs. Art Brown and daughter
Helen spent Sunday and Sunday
night of last week with Mrs.
Browns parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sprouts.
: Most everyone from here cele-
brated in Lamar the Fourth and
enjoyed the day and evening very
much.
Mesdames. Wells and Coiner
helped Mrs. Glenn cook for thresh-
ers last week.
Jake Kaderly and family spent
Sunday with j. E. Hull and wife.
Mrs. Order and little grand
daughters spent one evening last
week with Mrs. BERTHE Garner,
A. L. Owen visited home folks
in Carthage over Sunday.
ReneLucas spent Tuesday even:
ing at H. E. Coiner's.
Melvin, the little son of Earl
Garner and wife, who was badly
burned aboutt two weeks ago while
shooting firecrackers is improving
nicely. He is now able to be up
a part OF the time and his burns,
with the exception of one place,
.are healing nicely.
Rene Lucas was helping h is
brothers thresh last week.
Mrs. Taggart and son Lester,
and Orville Taggart and wife Wis
tied one evening last week at H
d. Grim's.
Mrs. M. E. Stockdale spent sew
eral days last week at H. e. Stock
dale's helping cook for threshers
S.. King and family spent Sun.
day afternoon at Earl Gamers,
Mrs. Mary Hatfield, Ross Baird
and wife and little daughter, Betty
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Notice of Final settIemsnt.

Notice is hereby given to all creditors
and others interested in the estate of
Mary M. Hendricks, deceased. that we,
Charles s. Ward ami Thomas B. Harda-
way, executors OF said estate, intend to
make final settlement thereof at the
next term Of the Probate Court of Jas
per County. State lof Missouri, to be
held at Carthage oH the sth day of Aug
ust, 1921.
Charles s. Ward,
Thomas. B, Rardaway,
F Executors.
First published July lat
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Notice Of Final Statement.

Notice is hereby given to all creditors
and others interested in the estate of
Daniel Buerge, deceased, that l, ALI
Buerge, executor Of said estate, intend
to make final settlement thereof at the
next term of the Probate Court Of Jas
per County, State OF Missouri, to be
held at Carthage on the eth day of Aug
ust, 1921.
ALI Buerge, Executor
First published July Tat
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Frank Hardenbrook and son
Howard returned last week from
a motor trip to Washington. Joe
Hardenbrook remained in Wash
ington and is working for his uncle,
a contractor, at Colville. Joe's
wife and baby expect to leave for
Colville soon.
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ton upon the estate Of Mary T. Howard,
deceased, on the date above written.
In testimony whereof l have here
unto set my hand and affixed the seal Of
said court, this 9th day of July, 1921.
[SEAL] Ethel Ritchhart
Clerk of the Probate Court
First published July l4-4t