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The Washington herald., 1921-01-08
MOBILIZE CREDIT,
MERCHANTS aim
Retail Mems Organization to
Discuss City's Resources
At Dinner Meeting.

Intensive mobilization of the
credit resources of Washington will
be discussed by more than 100 mer-
chants of, the city at the second
dinner meeting of the Associated
Retail Credit Men in the Raleigh
Monday night
Francis G. Addison, jr., vice presi-
dent of the Security Savings and
Commercial Bank. will address the
meeting on "Co-Operation." Francis
\. Wholley, executive secretary of
the Better Business Bureau, will
speak on The Retail Credit Man
Man as a Business Builder"
Charles NJ. Keefer, president of
the Credit Mems Association, stated
in an announcement to every mer-
chant in the city that the charter
of the organization would be closed
at the meeting, and all who Joined
at that time would be entered as
charter members. Stephen H.
Takes, secretary of the association,
will receive reservations.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-08
LITERACY TEST
BARS ARMY VET
FROM U. S. SOIL
Department of Labor to
Rule on Detention of
Former Yank. = ,

Whether an American soldier,
wounded while lighting in France
and discharged with the notation
excellent record" will be able to
enter the United States without
passing the literacy test is up to
Acting Secretary of Labor Row
land B, Mahany.
Demetrius Robos, so years old,
who served with the Yanks in
France and was severely wounded
while fighting as a corporal in the
United States army, was halted last
week at Ellis Island because he
could not read forty words in any
language. When asked II he under
ste cd the English language, the
overseas hero replied:
Il understood orders in the army"
His case was taken to the Immi-
grafton Bureau and yesterday his
appeal was sustained. The appeal
will go before Acting Secretary Ma
hany for signature this week.
On Robos' war record in the War
Department are the words excel
lent record" The files further dis
close that on July IS, 1918, Robos
was severely wounded while fight
ing in the Argonne Forest offensive.
He was discharged from the hospi-
tai November IL of the same year.
Robos was born in Greece in 1883.
He came to this country and worked
as a bricklayer in Philadelphia
where he enlisted in the army in
September, 1917. He is now at
tempting to reach his brothers
home. 919. willard street, Philadel-
phia.
The immigration Bureau was
flooded with requests for Robos
entrance, including appeals from
Representative Peter F. Tague of
Boston; Edward S. CLAWS. ,presi-
dent of the Combined War Veterans
Conference, and the Thomas Girard
Post of the American Legion of New
Orleans.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-08
PERRYGO'S DEATH
SET FOR MAY 20
Youths Attempt at Smile
Fails When Court Passes
Sentence.

Edgar Randolph Perrygo, IS years
old, conyicted of first degree muir
der in connection with the killing
of Mrs. Mary Emily Faithful, a 60
year-old recluse, was sentenced by
Justice Gould, in Criminal Court,
yesterday, to be hanged May 20.
Perrygo is the youngest slayer to
receive the death sentence in this
Jurisdiction. He is the son of an
Oxen Hill, Md, farmer.
When the court passed sentence
upon him the boy tried to smile and
look Indifferent, but failed. He had
nothing to say when the clerk CALL
ed upon him.
Mrs. Faithful was struck on, the
head with an iron bar at her home
on February 3 last. and died two
days later. The alleged motive for
the killing was the. obtaining of
money which the aged woman was
known to keep about her clothing
Perrygo, in his confession, said he
wanted the money, to get married
with. His defense was insanity.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-08
D. LAWYER sues
CONTRACTORSHE HERE
Claims 10 Per Cent Commits.
sion on Appropriation
By Congress.

A second suit in equity which in
wolves the alleged failure OF con-
tractors and builders to pay for the
services of attorneys engaged to aid
in obtaining from Congress appro-
priations to cover their losses on
government buildings caused by the
entry of the United States into the
war. has been filed in the District
Supreme Court here.
This time it is William E. Hum
phrey, a Washington lawyer. He
sued Otto W. Lindberg. a contrac-
tor of South River. N. j.. for the
alleged failure OF the later to pay
him 10 per cent of an appropriation
of $4,000 by Congress to cover
losses sustained on the erection OF
a pOstOffice and customs building at
Birmingham, Ala.
Secretary of the Treasury Hous-
ton and Treasurer Of the United
States Burke are named as code
PENDANTS. The court is asked to
restrain the defendants from de-
manding and receiving any or part
Of the money until the matter can
be aired in a court of equity. The
court issued a rule requiring the
defendants to appear January 81
and show cause why the prayers
in Humphreys petition should not
be granted
The first contractor. to be so
sued was the Charles McCaul Com
pany, also engaged on the Birming-
ham work. This concern claimed,
in its answer. that their two attor-
neys were not entitled to a 10 per
cent commission on the ground that
they were lobbyists and as such
had no claim in a court of equity
The Washington herald., 1921-01-08

w. II. RANEY.
Attorney general OF Canada, on
a visit here from Toronto for
the purpose of studying the
American parole system. Fol-
lowing consultations with Pro-.
baton Officer Steele. of the Dis
trict Supreme Court and Judge
Kathryn Sellers of the, Juvenile
Court, Raney will go to several
other large cities in pursuit of
his subject.
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'I'd kill you, only / haven't
time"
(To BE Continued
KNOW ALL ABOUT WEATHER
Animals, in the Construction Of Their
Houses, Show They Can Fore
tell the Seasons.

The weather man has co-partners
in the prediction Of bad season in
the wild animals who qualify as
weather prophets for the experienced
out-of-doo man.
wrappers believe firmly in the abil-
ity of wild animals to forecast wealth
err conditions" says the Hunter-Trad-
er-Trapper, published in Columbus, O.
"The type of house which the musk
rat builds for the season indicates the
kind of weather he expects. When
the muskrats build large houses. with
thicker walls, a cold winter is TO be
expected. If the houses are made I'm.
usually high, much snow and high wa
ter will come.
"Just before a storm, all animals
are unusually active and travel fast
and far. Even human beings notice
a difference in their feelings just be-
fore a storm, especially If they are
troubled with rheumatism or other all
ments of a like nature.
ut is reasonable that nature has
provided animals with a sixth sense
for forecasting weather conditions
which mean so much to them"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-01-28
CITY OF CHASTITY LEGENDS
All Sorts Of Blood-curdiing Stories
Current in the Mexican Metrop-
oils, and Believed.

Mexico City is a city of legends,
ghostly horrors, most of them estab-
lished at least upon a basis of truth.
One of them is about the deeds of
Don Juan Manuel who had the merry
habit of stalking the streets in his
cloak at night and asking the first
man he met what time it was. Upon
being answered, 1T is eleven by the
. clock" he would reply: "You are
very lucky, for you know the exact
hour you die" Thereupon he would
stab the chance-met stranger. He had
dearly loved nephew, and one night
he met him in the dark, and not rec
ognizing him followed his usual Gus
tom of homicide.
The next day, mad with grief, Don
Juan went to the priest, who ordered
him to say his beads at midnight be-
fore a church and near thespublic gal
lows. He tried three times before he
was able to do so, and then, the le-
gend says, angels took him and hanged
him. The basis of the story lies in
the fact that man of the name of
Juan Manuel did stab at least one
man, and his body was found hanging
on the public Gallows without any
explanation ever being made as to how
it got there.
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| hundred hands still 1tcnlng TO get aL
him. They beat his face; his body
wherever a fist or q club could reach
him. A stick of stove wood in the
hands of lanky woodchopper laid
open an ugly cash across his head.
Half-dazed, he was trying to wink
the blood and mist out of his eyes
when a roar was heard on the out
skirts of the crowd, and the stocky
form of the old Boss was seen fight
ing his way into the circle. He had
probably gone up to Fallen Rock, as
he had promised the night before
missed the Pearlhunter, and come on
to the village. He fought we'll, ana
opened q narrow swath. halfway
through the circle to his friend. But
just there somebody struck him above
the ear with the fiat of barrel staye.
The ripple subsidized; the swath closed.
The Pearlhunter's last friend was
down and out.
The rope was flung over nmD.
Half hundred hands, some of them
wOmen's hands. stretched up ready TO
pull. Half hundred hands did pull.
The rope tightened-slowly. A hush
fell on the mob; hush so deep tnat
the creak of the Tightening rope could
be distinctly heard That last hnai
scene. the last stroke that stops life
lit is a solemn moment; even TO a
mob. The Pearlhunter was lifted;
the last light tips of his toes left the
grass; flames ran up and down his
spine; the world turned black.
There came4a sudden dash Of hoofs,
and a man rode straight at the mob.
1t takes a hardy person to Withstand
the charge of horse. The crowd
parted. The horseman reached the
dangling man, and with one slash OF
huge iackknife, cut the rope.
The stroke came barely in time.
The Pearlhunter, only saved from
crumpling down to the grass by the
arm of the horseman, dropped limp
and gasping against the side Of the
horse. Slowly the world quit Keeling !;
the light came back; he raised his
eyes; caught the glitter of sheriff
star upon the vest of his rescuer.
1t is marvellous how one brave man,
with the law behind him, can awe a
mob.
"Who is this man?" yelled the
sheriff.
A man, whose mouth had been
mashed by butt Of the Pearlhunters
head, clawed the red mask up from
the ground, trampled and soiled, but
still unmistakable, and held it high.
The sheriff started; glared hard at
the Pearlhunter.
can so it's you they've roped!'' he
growled. Damned if I hain't a no.
ton to let 'em finish the job"
A snarl ran through the mob. They
surged forward. The sheriff drew his
revolver again, and cursed them back.
"Red Mask or red devil!' he
stormed, 'he's entitled to a trial UNI
der the law: and trial he'll git"
The moo muttered ominously but
fell back, leaving some little space
about the horse. The Pearlhunter
was the tallest man there. His height
enabled him to see with tolerable
cIearness to the outskirts of the
crowd. He swept his eyes over the
heads of the others like a man looking
for something he fully expected to
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NOT THE GIRL OF HIS HEART
FOR a Moment Lonely Youth Had
Hopes, but Alas! JOY Was
Not for Him.

1t is not good that a man should
live without a woman III his heart.
And on that particular spring day
one of blue and gold bore strange
" sorrowful heart because of my ut
ter loneliness. l sat at my window
and stared out without seeing any
thing.
There was no one in the house but
rhe landlady, myself and the land
lady's daughter-a beautiful, brlef
thing. whom l called the "Pongee
Princess by reason of her blonde
hair an acquisition precipitated
through reckless use of peroxide.
She was calm, pretty and silent.
The more 1 thought of her, the more
she intrigued my fancy. remem-
bered she was downstairs at this very
minute rearranging the pillows on the
davenport that seemed to have spent
a sleepless night. I thought to my
self: "Ah! IL she were only here by
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ground. On this half floor there Is
placed plenty of bedding. so that the
young pigs will be kept dry-wfth EN-
phasis on ''dry"-and warm.
When the farm has such a hog
house, the sows farrow in early spring
and again in the fall, which is as ma
ture intended. Late February pigs are
kept in the warm, sunny house, and
get the start that makes them healthy
and strong when they are weaneG and
ready for the pasture in spring. There
they develop rapidly and are OF mar
ketabIe size when there is small sup
ply and better prices.
One of the modern types of hog
houses is shown in the accompanying
illustration. TT is of frame construc-
ton, set on a concrete foundation and
will hold Ia sows and their filters. The
dimensions are, 4S by 20 feet. To get
the most of the early spring sunlight
this house is run east and west, ana
has double sets of roof windows. one
set to permit sunshine to filter into the
pens .on the south side of the building
and the other into the pens on the
north side.
Two suction ventilators in the root
provide for circulation of fresh air.
without there being drafts near the
floor, where the young pigs and their
mothers are penned. Surrounding the
building is a concrete feeding moor
where the corn and dry feed is thrown
for the hogs.
Accompanying the illustration is the
floor plan Of the building showing the
dimensions of the pens and the feed
ing alley that extends through the CEN
ter.
Too much emphasis cannot be laid
on the need of fresh air, dry beds and
sunshine in hog house. These three
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-01-28
MODERN DESIGN
FOR HOG HOUSE
Proper Housing Is Essential to
Success With Live Stock.
HOGS NEED LIGHT AND AIR
No Type of Farm Building Is Given
More Attention in the Agricultural
Colleges Than Hog Houses
Good Plan Shown Here.
BY WILLIAM A. RADFoRp.

Mr. William A. Radford vii. answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building work on the farm, for
the readers Of this paper On account of
his wide experience. as Editor, Author and
Manufacturer he is, without doubt, tho
highest authority on all these subjects.
Address all INQUIRIES to William a. Rad
ford, No. 1927 Prairie avenue, Chicago,
Ill, and only inclose two-cent stamp for
reply.
Success in raising hogs depends on
two things well-bred stock, both
soWs and sires. and proper housing.
Well-bred stock is plentiful, and no
farmer in these days of better farm
live stock can afford to breed or raise
scrubs" In every community, espe-
cially in the so-called "corn belt'
states, hogs are one of the principal
farm products, and high-bred, if not
registered purebred sires, are availa-
bile. With a start of one or two we'll
bred sows and the service of a pure
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kept at the highest state of productive

kept at the highest state of productive
ty and in the best of health
The product that farmers turn into
cash with their hogs is flesh. Both
can be obtained with scrub" stock,
put the cost is prohibitive. About the
same amount of care will bring we'll
bred young pig to marketable size In
half the time required by a scrub, !"
and the amount Of feed both consume
per day is practically the same.
Before the days of efficient hog
houses, a farmer considered himself
lucky If half the litter was brought to
maturity. Young pigs are subject to
many diseases and have little Stamina
TO withstand them. Pneumonia is one
of them. The pigs that were Uttered
in the early spring and were not
housed in weather-proof, well-venti-
lated and warm quarters had and still
have little chance of reaching ma
turity
II was with these facts in1mind that
the modern hog house was designed.
And in passing it might be said that
ne type of farm building has been
giyen more attention in the agricul-
fural colleges than hog houses.
The modern hog house is we'll
constructed building. 1t usually is set
on a concrete foundation, with con-
crete floor. The side walls are wealth
er-tight. and the roof is designed so
that a maximum of sunlight can reach
the pens on both sides of the building.
Also some system of ventilation, either
through the roof or by the suction ven
tilators that are used on every modern
dairy barn. is provided. Half of the
floors, whether they be of concrete or
cinders, are covered with heavy
boards, raised slightly above the
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The DickcisseI.

The dickcissel is a small migratory
bird about six and one-fourth inches
long. the male beautifully blended with.
yellow, white and gray, and with a
black throat patch and brown shoulders.
The female is duller. These birds are
very numerous in the middle portions
of the United States, frequenting dry,
bushy fields or prairies. The dickcissel
is a persistent songster, although its
song is weak and has little melody In
July and August, when many birds are
silent, dickcissels continue their plain
tive chant, even on the most sultry
DAYS. Their chanting is simple
chip, chip, che-che-chee." They
build their nests of weeds, grasses,
rootlets, corn husks and the like. They
build on the ground, in bushes and
thistles. and sometimes in trees. The
eggs of the dickcissel are four or five
in number. They are a plain, Blush
white, hardly distinguishable from
those of the bluebird.
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THE LYNcHERs.

Synopsis.-NeVer having known
his father, and living with his
mother on a houseboat on the Wa
bash river, Pearlhunter-the only
name he has-learns from her
part OF the story Of her sad life.
He meets a young girl whom he
mentally christens the Wild Rose.
She eludes him before he can make
her acquaintance. A vacant cabin
on the shore has attracted the at
tention Of the ailing woman, and
they move into it. Their first meal
is Interrupted by the Man-in-the-
Fancy-Vest Pearlhunter strikes
him. Gunplay threatens. The
mother dramatically drives the
intruder away. She says he is the
'Other Man." whom she has not
seen for 20 years. They find a red
mask dropped by the Other Man.
That night Pearlhunter finds the
Blue Moon, a great freshwater
pearl His mother dies without re-
vealing his fathers name. Pearl
hunter and the Other Man meet in
the village; a pistol fight is mar
rowly averted. Pearlhunter be-
heVes him to be the Red Mask
criminal. Pearlhunter rescues Wild
Rose from the Other Man and
meets Wild Man, her father. He
is man of culture, crazed from
conclusion of the brain, the result
of an attack by someone wearing
a red mask. Nobody knows his
identity; he is known at the post
Office simply as Box g. Pearl
~
Blue Moon and send for surgeon
to operate. Wild Rose agrees.
Pearlhunter sells the Blue Moon
for 5000 to Louie Solomon. The
Red Mask murders Solomon and
steals the Blue Moon. Pearlhunter
is charged with the crime.
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Largest Animal.

Most boys have seen pictures of the
huge lizard which roamed the earth
millions of year ago, and is supposed
to be the largest animal which ever
lived. Searchers in Utah have dis
covered some bones of an animal
which was twice the size of this great
prehistoric animal. A hole 600 feet
long and so feet deep had been dug
when some one claimed the land. The
government thereupon created a ma
tional dinosaur monument, comprising
the locality, which will be protected
until the Investigations are finished.
The work is being directed by the
Carnegie institute, which discovered
and assembled the skeleton of the fa-
miliar dinosaur.-Boys' Life.
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ing loose. He stood studying it. The
legs! He darted behind the stove.
lifted it, and wrenched one loose. hid
it under his rumpled blouse; and went
to the east window to watch the
sheriff's house.
A scratching at the west window
caught his ear. He listened till it
was repeated; crossed the hall and
tiptoed to the window. A nand came
UP to scratch the window ledge again.
The Pearlhunter laid his palm upon
it. 1t was snatched away; but came
back again.
'"That you, Pearlhunter?"
Yes
The man on the outside raised HIM
self even with the window. The Pearl
hunter would have recognized him in
half the light-the Boss. His face
came close to the bars on the outside !;
the Pearlhunter's face came close to
the bars on the inside. The friendly
butt of a six-gun came across the win
dow ledge. The comfortable feel of
it in his fingers gave the Pearlhunter
new lease of, life.
Hide it in y'ur pants leg, or
some'r's." the Boss whispered. "An'
here's some more bullets, an tn caps
an powder flask
The young man grasped the hard
old hand and whispered an awkward
word or two. The Boss drew his hand
back and swore.
"Hit amt no more'n you'd "a done
fer me-" he growled. ''Now listen.
Bull Masterson he's camped three
mile up the river. He's got seven
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men; an I'VE got FIVE, That makes
fourteen, countin' me and Bull We
en- plum upset this derned OF meat
house. An once't we git y'u out, let
'em lay claw on y'u ag'in, If they
devil da'st."
mo, no. the Pearlhunter muttered
"You mustn't do that. You'd cross the
law yourselves"
'Law!'' the Boss snorted in his
hoarse whispers. ."Hit amt tn law.
nor tn sheriff I'm fearin'. Hits them
cussed town yaps. They're wild at
TIL name of tn Red Mask. They
think you're him. and they're like a
herd of deer that's got wolf down.
They're holdin' meetin' right now
blind tn Mud Hen. If they start
ag'in, the sheriff cayn't hold out agin'
'em. That timber-buyin' Teller, him
with tn fiowery vest, pears t be
eggin' 'em on. I'd like t know what
tn thunder"
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Isn't the proposed law to insure the
purity of liquor for invalids likely to
increase. rather than decrease cpl
denies?
Manager Mary Garden of the Chi
cago grand opera has the advantage
she knows every nook and Granny
of a prima donna's excuse.
The high-powered automobiles that
are used to smuggle whisky across the
Canadian line might be called modern
jug-gernauts
Illinois man named Lyon testified
in his divorce suit and was fined $1,000.
Yes, that's what he may have been
doing.
It is definitely announced that
Champ Clark will become profession
al lecturer. The people who We're
Growing over Champs defeat will now
restrain their hilarity.
Greek diplomats gravely deny that
King Tino is to visit Smyrna. They
claim the story that he has date
there is a Pigment of the imagination.
The new century is a fifth gone but
most of US had better make the best
of it.
AS soon as man buys an automo-
bile he thinks pedestrian is some
kind Of nut.
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find. He was not disappointed. In
the outer edge of the crowd, leaning
carelessly against hitch rack, stood
the man he was expecting to see. He
had come out of the Mud Hen at the
beginning of the uproar but had taken
no part in the lynching. He didn't
need to. He had whole town to do
it for him.
The Pearlhunter was not surprised
to see him there. Why shouldn't he
be there, very much interested spec
tator at the final working out of his
well-laid plot, plot that had worked
out so infinitely better than he had
planned? Why shouldn't man come
to see himself hanged? y
And there the Pearlhunter stood.
with the rope around his neck-the
wrong neck-and no proof to put it
around the right one. Something
swelled under the rope; something
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bred boar, careful management will
insure good profit in hog raising.
The second essential good houses
is just as available as good breeding
stock. During the last ten or more
years, architects who have made a
careful study of the needs of farm ami
mails have designed. and local con-
tractors have erected. thousands of
buildings barns, hog houses and
chicken houses-that provide the live
stock with houses where they can be
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CHAPTER VIII.
Silence That Came Alive.

The Pearlhunter was not a man to
be long held down. His day was gone
but the night remained.
The sheriff was to bring his supper
to him. The fact suddenly became
significant, Maybe he'd come inside.
Maybe he'd come alone.
A rusty stove out in the hallway be-
tween the two cells caught his eye No
poker; no lid. The door was fastened
in manner that prevented its being
taken off. The hearth was gone. Moth