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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03

;arh succeeding interview seems de.
signed t" prove that Penrose and Potterism
ar" apostle and cult.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03

Where are the tin horns Of yp>rcryear;
odd John Grind is again turning the
handle.
Senator Harding is doubtless Injured to
hard Knox
The =. r.. X. peace pact cFectuaIly
UurcS the Plumb plan.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03

Mr.. ProcraStination still appear, to be
IT." hardest working member Of the School
Board.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03

If the United States naval program
big enough and dangerous enough Ia aV'
til" rest Of the world into accepting plan
to abolish competitive armament. the | nite
states naval program will have JUSTINE
itself.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03

May law officers on the scent Of dog.
g"rl"N be spoken of as joint committee?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03

\ former member of the WaacS msseeiI
her boat at Halifax (which any man WIZ.
admit is just like. a woman and thcreupo,
(which is where any man before mentlone,
rcviscs his opinion) chased II in Is9n',
and, since II wouldn't stop, boarded >
through coal shrte. Take it from us ~
wFn them danes sit started they ain" )"
wS Of flstoppin' 'em.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03

Now let the mummerS get together and
pass II vote of thanks to Mr.. Bliss.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03

\ llagrrStown bandit after taking s.
returned $25 to his victim and promised
send him the balance when he found en-
p!oymcnt. We hope it may be SO, but Il
trouble is that thief is SO often also a IIa
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03

After Bartcsville, Okla, girl drpru
county clerk had issued marriage llcenss
and newspaper reporter had sworn to y
and written about it they used it, which va, Ta'
the incest and most romantic thing ths'
could do. No wasted effort in that opera
Iinn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Work and Play, With the Right and
the Wrong Method Of Approach,
Engagement and Retreat in
Office and School
by SARAH -. LOWRIE

NNoW woman hampcrcd by life Of
many viriSsitudcS who used to preface
each nov tale Of woe with
Moming aS it does on top Of everything
, From now on the life of most dwcllCrs in
IN" town is hound 10 be rather pcll nell
nniil IN" lnS>itud" of the first spring day
N'tS some Of us 10 stepping gardcnward.
heard "lif" of leisure" described the
other day aS Il life absorbed in doing twice
~ lnurh for no pay rs any two persons do
Tor "a larry \ wise virgin of my aCquain
rance VIII" meant not to marry made up her
mhd neither TO learn how to play bridge
nor I" handi" baby. She confessed to me
secretly that by these iRuorancrs she hoped
I" D." Iril ir"" TO pursue her life untrammelcd
hA la>t muut" calls tO take a mothers or Il
hlShand'~ pac" in an emergency
d" emergency unwadays i not often of
:" d"m"'t !" nature. II is generally to coll
up al, III" twenty three subChairmcn Of
Your ,HrlNi"n and ask them TO notify their
'"lnnlii'"s "t n meeting or 10 telegraph
A"m opinion Of his 'goingS on" to your
congressional representatives or to go down
~ G">i"r 10 speak at the biennial conference
on III" Church l."agur Of Scivirr
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03
SHORT CUTS

'''.' ''Hr'-
SHORT CIjTS
Wh"r" are the tin horns of yp>rerycar:
'Id Johh 'rlhd - again turning the
MANURE
Senator Harding is doubtless Injured 10
rho y p
h,,,.in. tho nL,h ~ p'u'' I"'I euec'ua'N
''' ''' '"' .unIo pan
WV VI ''"'"" 10 MI hI'S>'
May law officers on the scent OF dog.
G"rI"> De spoken OF as joint committee;
I,,, i, Mr, itocraStihation StlII appears to BE-
p'onI "'''N' "oFN'hs member "l tie School
signed I" prove that Penrose and PotterSm
ar" hpoNil" and cult.
--.-..- -------.
Now that the New Ycor Inns orbievsi
ldIUNt was the best
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Tboro oro ,.;,, ,,,,,- -.-..,..- ..,,-.. +.
Erro,," h Iii no"ir S'aTNIie 'n,"feu feu,L u
''",npr W." VIII ule IL h"lp Is not lorn'
New YORK legislators are planning 10
"uSt the Socialist members. Til" Socialist
party owes these SuperpatriOts vote Of
'hahKs'
Meanwhile the world anXiouSy awaits
ior"lgn policy that will please Hoover laI'
hOot, Hughes, Knox, Reed, Borah, johnson
ana hrahdegee.
The experience of a Chester woman SUE.
i"oi''rMoL!'h armed win hatplnS mig"' S"e
''""''N 'o'''e rcai EXCITEMENT
------
New Yrar's Eve found crovi.,p pear
in Wildwood y INNS historv rcpca,,
other Eve found an apple in Eden.
.-.------ .---0---
There is strong susnicion that the gan!
that was wont TO climb on the water wagOl
ON the first of the year snent itS time th,
Nrar Studvin homo brow iiteroture
If congressional ronrosoutatinu wen
based ON voting STRENGTH rothor thnn popu,
lation it might encourage many uCople II
vote who now ignore their rights and obliga,
tious.
-.-.--- ..---
Rbodo Islord's uou, co,,o,,,,,, ,.;l nd
guns today. There are no guns Littt
Rhody is evidently leading the wpv in thl
matter Of disarmament.
!, ,,.;..I'
H.. ~ ,lH nlicu states naval prog a'n nn, y
80 ohnii.L 'o'"',oti,ii.n rmt" u.v' rits
StotnS "nyo mr"gro, a. iii o"' ns,if
it.aif '''e' ''' VIII ""'' '"'''"
80.
y iiagcrStown band after taking -.
returned SO to his victim and promised
send him the balance when he found en-, m,
n!oyim9rnt, W" hope it may be So but r., ,,'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03

Before glOating too much over the cu'
made by the House appropriations com
mttcr in department estimates. let it be- r.,
mrmbrrcd that departments expecting GU
invariably ask for more than they hope "
get.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03

n.un. .r'" rr'a'0.".. Ina."i. = II makes
q rpurporrion"rn' und"" thc uow census
without deriving anr state Of rSDrcsonta-
tivs Ponn~, lvania will get fnrr {cw Nom
bcrsl tn ,fatr Legislature Is M likely IN
acf until II ls known whether national
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06
FLOWERS HIDE GREAT GUNS
Monster Weapons of War at Gibraltar Covered by Beautiful Clusters
 of Acacia Blossoms.

While the rock of Gibraltar, viewed from the ocean, is impressive, strong. gloomy and forbidding, flowers grow about lhe steep walls, and the great Victorian batteries, occasionally fired, are screened and sheltered by acacia blossoms. Here are concealed 100- ton guns. sinister and threatening marking the highest achievement in gun development by British engineers.
 The north and northwest sides of the rock are honeycombed by fortifi- cations. There is town and harbor on the west protected by batteries and forts rising from the base to the sum- init of the rocks. Modern guns of the most formidable pattern frown from the heights. The town is inhabited by a British colony of about 25,OOO persons, according to the 1911 census. Everything is under strict military regulations.
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06
Altar of Roses.

The climatic conditions in the low CT mountains of Bulgaria are favor able to the production of the best va rieties of oil roses. The variety most grown is the red damask rose, na- tive of Persia, and, in the times of our fathers, very popular in America.
 Catharine de Medici, who was pas sionately fond of the odor of roses, se- lected the then called Valley de Var for their growth and small factories were established there. Today this little valley in the south of France leads not only in the production of roses, but of other odorous oil-bearing flowers. The chief town in the valley is Grasse, and is the center of the greatest fiower-oil industry in the world.
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06

time. I didn't hurt Red Kelly none !; just shook a little sense into him, but reckon it'll be a week before Cowan gets out much. Then I come down here."
 ''To ask me to marry you?"
 That's the idea. I told 'em I'd do it. Faint likely you'll feel now the same way you did at first, but if you do, then I'm in the game. I ain't got much; I told you all bout that, but if you're mind to rough it up on the Cottonwood, I'm here to go shares with you"
 The girl gazed at him in silence, her breath coming quickly, almost in sobs, strange, misty light in her eyes.
 "You-actually want me to marry you?'
 Sure; that's what come back for"
 ''Are-are you after that twenty-five hundred dollars?"
 "H-I, mol" emphaticaIly. q forgot to tell you bout that. I won't take d-n cent of it. That's what I told them hounds an I'll. tell Mccarthy the same thing. I ain't that kind to mar ry no girl cause she's got coin. The five hundred is yours, fair an square, but there don't none O that two thou
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06
A desolate homecoming.
CTo BE CONTINUED
EQUIPPED TO RULE OCEAN
Monster That Lived 100000 Years Ago Must Have Been a Terror
 to Other Fishes.

In the National museum at Wash ington is exhibited the skeleton of a | zeuglOdon-a monster which in life was seventy feet long and which must have been ruler of the seas during a bygone epoch. There is good reason to believe that this alarming creature dates back fewer than 100000 years, says a bulletin.
 With an enormously long tail and powerful swimming paddles. the zeu- glodon must have been able to swim at the speed of an express train. and its great alligatorlike head was armed with huge carnivorous teeth.
 It was manifestly a ferocious and predatory brute and presumably fed on fishes and porpoise. The head was four feet long and In the front part of each jaw were eight teeth for seiz- ing and tearing. which were supple mented by series of saw edged cut ting teeth at the back.
 The zeuglodons were mammals, re lated to modern whales. They must in their time have been very numerous. judging from the quantities of their bones dug up in Mississippi and Ala bama. where in places there are so many as to interfere with blowing. Farm wal are built of them.
 Apparently the creatures, which are denizens of warm seas. died and were washed up into shallow waters that afterward became dry land. Drifting sands covered their bones, preserving the latter to some extent. Their teeth (loose in the jaws like those of alligators) are found scat tered about in the neighborhood of the bOneS
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06
Sounds Rather Sad"

look most attractive in the pond: and brooks and small lakes, and WI look, too, like flowers who have gone in wading.
 "For we're not entirely in the water as creatures are who would go 1T swimming.
 But we're like creatures who go 1T wading. Part perhaps, little less than half of us is right in the water and the rest is standing above that part None of us last more than 6 day"
 Dear me-" said the Fairy Queen that sounds rather sad"
 Tt isn't sad" said the blossom which had been talking to the Fairy Queen. Tt isn't sad at all because we don't feel sad about it. If we did feel sad, then it would be differ 'ent.
 But we don'tl No, we're quite happy to have our one day of bios soming.
 "Then we fade and wither But there are always other blossoms to take our places. Oh yes, there are plenty of us blooming all the time.
 'When the humble bee comes to call on us he takes some of our pollen, which means the yellow dust we wear upon our plants, and spreads it over some of our relatives and drops it just where it will strengthen and help them.
 Isn't that smart of MT. Rumble Bee?"
 i've always thought the Rumble Bee was smart" said the Fairy Queen.
 .We like ponds and streams and brooks" continued the PickerelWeed blossom. "We love the coolness of the water. We love to be in wading all the time. And though each blos- som only lasts for day, we feel that will keep on blossoming and having bright blue flowers on our stems.
 We know that the flowers will be happy to be in the pond. And we know, too, that the leaves are always proud of having the pickerels come and lay their eggs in them.
 We've heard the leaves whispering to each other and saying, We've got to guard over Mrs. Pickerel Fish's little eggs. That's both an honor and an opportunity. For an opportunity is when one gets chance to do some thing fine for his family, for others or for himself And we, the leaves, have an opportunity of helping others
 "Oh yes," ended the Pickerel-Weed blossom, "my day is over, but it has been a happy day, and there are lots and lots of us to come"
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06
WHY DRUGGISTS RECOMMEND
 SWAMP ROOT |,

For many years druggists have watched with much interest the remarkable record maintained by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder medi- cine.
 It is physicians prescription.
 Swamp-Root is a strengthening medi- cine. It helps the kidneys, liver and blad- der do the work nature intended they should do.
 Swamp Root has stood the test of years. It is sold by all druggists on it's merit and it should help you. No other kidney medicine has so many friends.
 Be sure to get Swamp-Root and start treatment at once.
 However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,, Binghamton, N. r., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper.-Adv.
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06
~rLL MARRY YOU"

Synopsis.-Tom Shelby, rancher, rides into the frontier town Of Ponca looking for a good time after 9 long spell of hard work and loneliness on the ranch In stead. he runs into a funeral-that of Dad Calkins, a retired army man of whom little is known. A girl, still in her teens, survives Calkins. Mccarthy, a saloon keep CT and Ponca's leading citizen, de cides that the girl. now alone in the world, should marry. Shelby starts a hunt for eligible husbands and the minister goes to confer with the girl. She agrees to pick a husband from the score of men lined up in her home. To his con srernation, she selects Shelby, who had gone along merely as a spec tator He declines the honor. In- dignant. the girl dismisses the as- semblage.
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06

recommended Lydia E. Pnkham's Veg etable Compound and have found great relief since using it. My back is much better and I can sleep we'll. keep house and have the care of five children so my work is very trying and am very thankful I have found the Compound such help. recommend it to my I am very glad to help any woman suf- fering as I was until used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ''- Mrs. MAUDE E. TAYLOR, 5 St. James Place, Roxbury, Mass.
 Backache is one of the most common symptoms of displacemento or derange- ment of the female system. No woman should make the mistake of trying to overcome it by heroic endurance, but profit byMrs. Taylor experience andtr tydiaE. Pinkham' 'sVe egetableC Compound
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06

you'll discover about me, fer the mat ter O that. Maybe it's bout as fair one way as another"
 ''Yes, I suppose it is. You really mean what you have said?"
 T sure do."
 "When? How soon?"
 Tomorrow morning. I aim to get out O here as soon as I can. How is twill you take a chance?"
 His voice was strangely earnest, and his eyes, as she ventured to glance up, were honest and kindly.
 "Yes," she said slowly, "I will, Tom Shelby"
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06

Tom Shelby, an I don't need nobody to take care of me-"
 Shelby laughed.
 You made a mighty poor guess, at that" he said cheerfully, "when you picked me. I'd a took you to a worse place than Ponca"
 ''There ain't none,' positively. "NVhere is it you live, anyhOw?"
 lover on the Cottonwood; bout six ty miles north, up near the reserva- ton. H-Il But it's lonely up there not another white man in thirty miles.
 You are ranching?"
 "Just startin', you might say; run nin' few head on a free range"
 But you've got a house, a place to live in?"
 "Sorter shack-yes; corral an a sod stable; that's bout all. I'd be a dandy, wouldn't I, ter ask a girl to go
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06
A Student Indeed.

q want to be procrastinated at de nex' corner" said the negro passenger to the tramcar conductor.
 "You want to be what?" demanded the conductor
 Don't lose your temper I had to look in the dictionary myself befo' found out dat 'procrastinate' means put off '"-Dallas News.
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06
I:fExl 1g1S!N IHT NARY GRAHAlM BONNER
PIckEREL-wEED FLOWERS.

eve don't smell very sweet, but we're bright and gay and pretty" said the Pickerel-Weed flowers.
 But why have you such a strange name?" asked the Fairy Queen who had come to the pond to talk to the Pickerel-Weed family.
 Because" said one of the blos- sons, they say that the pickerels lay their eggs in our leaves. They like other water weeds, too, but we're among the ones they like, and some how or other, the honor of the name was given to us alone. That is they haven't named any of the other wild water weeds or water wild weeds, or whatever you'd call us, after the pick erelS.
 "They could have named other flow CTS which grow in ponds after the pickerels, because of the fact that the pickerels lay their eggs in different plants.
 But they didn't want to do that. They wanted to give us the whole honor, so that folks would know that the pickerels laid their eggs in our leaves.
 If they lay them in other weeds, no one is the wiser. That is, no one is the wiser from the names.
 "There are other fishes, too, who lay their eggs in weeds, but don't know whether any of the others have given their names to the weeds or nor. don't know and it doesn't interest me. We don't smell very sweet, it is true, but we're gay and very grace full.
 Were tall and our long blue ragged blossoms above our rich-look- ing leaves look very handsome. We
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06
Boy Who Plays Fair.

The boy who plays a fair game now will play the game of life fair; if he goes into business he will be fair, conscientious business man. He will be an honorable competitor with oth- CTS in his line. He will seek to build up his business, but will not endeavor to drag down the business of his com petitors in so doing.
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06
Our Best Selves.

Our best selves are so far removed from the selves of every day that the chances are we should hardly recog- nize them if we met them face to face. The difference between what we are and what we might be is all too often the long descent from sue cess to failure.-Girl's Companion.
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06

out there an live? No, sir; that ain't my style, it wouldn't be decent"
 She did not speak for some time, her eyes rowing about the room and then returning to rest on his face. There was no smile on her lips, yet some how she did not look sullen or in different.
 And that was why you said no? You came back to explain? It wasn't because you disliked me, then? Be cause you despised me for doing such a thing?"
 "What. me? I should say not. There want nothing done that wa'n't all right. I don't blame you a mite. You ought to git married"
 DO you really think so?"
 'Yes, I do; this ain't no place for a single woman who wants to be decent, to live in. Besides, you're old enough"
 How old am I?''
 Seventeen. maybe; I ain't much on guessing ages-specially women"
 "I am nineteen" she paused, her teeth gleaming as she smiled. ''I wish you would tell me about yourself"
 He glanced up at her surprised and twisting his hat about in his hands.
 "That won't take long," he said so- berly. q ain't got much history, so to speak. I was born in Kentucky an run away when I was seventeen. Been out in this country ever since, soldering most of the time. and then punching cattle for the Six Stars. Saved a little money and started in to go it alone. That's about all the story"
 "with a lot left out. Why did you leave home?"
 "Oh, they wanted me to go on in school and be a lawyer"
 You finished high school?"
 Sure; what made you think that?" She laughed.
 "Oh, just a word or two; you've got into the habit of talking like these people out here. So have I, for the matter of that When you live with them for years, it's bound to twist your tongue. l can speak good Eng fish when I try"
 An the thing yer want to do most is to get away from Ponca?"
 Yes"
 "Yer sure don't hold no grudge against me for what happened to- night?"
 Her lips and eyes smiled.
 "Why, of course not It was too ridiculous for anything. After you had filed out I put my head down on the table there and laughed until l had tears in my eyes. The expressions on those faces when I picked you out would have made dog laugh"
 Shelby wanted to say something, but his mind seemed to be utterly blank. He could just stare at her dumbly. The silence became so embarrassing that he finally got awkwardly to his feet.
 ''Tm-Pm awfully glad you took it that way" he stuttered. You see, don't know much about girls and so I was afraid you might be mad. I'll have to go now, think, Miss"
 'Pm very sorry, but I'm glad you came. Goodbye, MT. Shelby"
 He took the outstretched hand, con scious of the warm pressure even as he fumbled at the latch of the door. His eyes were downcast and his face famed; nor did he breathe easily un- til he was again outside, alone in the darkness of the night.
The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06

bridges behind him. After what he had said and done only single course remained. Without a pause or re- gret he went straight to the door and rapped. It was no rimid touch of the knuckles this time; he was still too angry to either hesitate or doubt. And there was no sign of embarrassment in word or act when the door opened and she stood there looking at him in wonderment.
 i've come back to say another word to you," he annollRced simply. "Td like to come in"
 Something has happened?"
 Tt has; I've just had to lick two pups who got too gay bout you. They said some things an I said some things. Now I'm aimin' to make good. You said you'd marry me awhile ago i; does that hold?"
 She was leaning against the table, staring at him; Fer face seemed to go white and her hands toyed nervous ly with knife she had picked up,
 "You-you had trouble with two men, over me?" she asked, her voice trembling slightly, "What men?"
 Red Kelly and gazabo named Cowan; they was both here" that?" s
 Sure; not because you didn't take no notice of them; then they got drunk an undertook to ride me; said it was a put-up job between us ter get away with that money"
 'What money?"
 "The twenty-five hundred you was goin' to get. The preacher told you about that. didn't he?"
 She shook her head, evidently be- wildered.
 "Where was I going to get all that money?"
 "Why, Mccarthy was putin it up; he and some other bucks, so as to give you start after you was married"
 She drew a deep breath, looking straight into his eyes.
 You mean those men came here for that?" indignantly. "They were will ing to marry me so as to get that money? Good God I was to be sold Is that actually true? Nobody ever hinted such a shameful thing to me-"
 ''Well, I reckon they didn't mean no harm by that" he tried to explain. You don't just see 1t right. They fig ured that Old Calkins had died an left you without a cent, sorter helpless out here, an that the town owed you decent chance ter git married an settle down. That's what the money was given for"
 But those fellows all knew it. That was what made them agree?"
 q reckon maybe it was-mostly, at least"
 She twisted her hands together, hot. red flush coming into each cheek.
 Well, I'm glad to know that. Now what was it those two men said. the men you had the trouble with?"
 "Well, you see, Cowan was drunk an naturally all worked up. He's sort O good-lookin' chap an thinks he cuts quite a swale with women."
 But what did he say?"
 "Well, he run into me up there on the sJS 'rt now, him and Red Kelly, I was after you for that mol him he was liar an then he sort, let loose remark didn't take kindly"
 What remark?'
 "He-he sorter insinuated that I'd never marry you for any other req son."
 'He did-why?"
 Well" he blurted out desperately, finding no possible way of escape, 'he sorter said you wasn't awful good lookin' an then I pasted him. That's all."
 Her lips parted her eyes opening wide in astonished amusement.
 'That I wasn't good lookingr she laughed. And you actually hit him for that?" q sure. .did; the other pup laughed an he got his dose about the same