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Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03
"And did he?"

"And did he?'
"Sure; they were bunkies once an
he said JEFF CalkinS never was mar
rled an didn't have no daughter"
well. did l ever say | was his
daughterT
'tNo, q course you DIDN'T, l never
asked, but everybody thought you
must he. What was the old man to
you, anyhowf l reckon ! got u right
TO know"
"You certainly have. but cannot
tell You voTy much. Frankly, ! don't
know. l could not explain even how
/ came hhto his care, That sounds
strange, perhaps, but 1t is true. /
wasn't much Of a girl when he got
me first and rye scarcely been out Of
his sight since. we asked him u
thousand times, but he never would
explain. Once he said It would come
out all light after awhile. 1t scented
to anger him FOR me to ask Ques-
tlons So at last. ] stopped"
"'rhat S mighty queer, Did he ever
tell you uhat your real name WASP"
"Oh, yes; there wasn't any secret
about tut---it was Carlyn."
"0lgoI CHrlyn," he repeated the
words slowly. "sor,er Norwegian
Irish, Al MT it? That Story sounds ra-
Tier IN my to me"
IN, idea is he WAS hiding me from
some % e; trying to keep me from be-
ing tOl md ! decided that was why
he noo we'd about from place TO place
and ar ways lived in such poverty and
alone l believe he had money or
could always get some when needed
Then, ! he seemed TO be afraid all the
time a nd watching for something to
happen !"
"Ana you don't have no recollection
.Iwhlte4 Or Of either your father Oh
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

: "Bnt surely they could never get
down here?"
mot to POnca-no; they wouldn't
go in that direction. But they'd be
mighty liable to come raidin' down
the Cottonwood That's what Shaun
essy said; he told me I'd better run
my stock over into the Bad Lands,
and lie out for awhile, till the soldiers
got the devils rounded up again. |
been thinkin' ever since / ought TO
tell you about it, so. if you thought
best we could turn around an take
you back to Pon,a."
"And then what would you do?"
me? Why 90 on O. course an
take care O the cattle. "Tain't the
first time I've seen Indians"
"Then / am going with you," she
said firmly. 81 am not the least
afraid. wonder If you have an extra
rifle out there"
"Sure," he said, grinning. 81 sorter
like that kind O. talk, little girl. Can
you shoot?"
"Some; I'll show you when we get
out there. Anyway, plense don't turn
back on my account. heard in POnca
that the Sioux were ghost-danclng, but
didn't think about their coming down
the Cottonwood. Dad said they we're
getting ugly, but / don't know where
he heard it,"
This unexpected mention of Calkins
stirred Shelby to ask urther ques-
ton. She was going on with him, that
was evident, and the mystery between
them must be cleared away.
"What was your manner" he asked
soberly.
She glanced up into his. face, sur
prised at the abrupt question.
"My name! Why, don't you known
81 never heard of it; seems sortel
odd, maybe, but | never did"
at is Olga"
"Olga-Olga what?"
"Why. Shelby. suppose"
"No, I didn't mean that. or course
IT'S Shelby now, but what WIS it be
fore today? Twasn't Calllins."
The smile had deserted her lips an,
her eyes were very serious.
"Just what do you mean. please
Have you heard somethlng?"
"Wel). yes, This here sodi er Shau
messy has been in The army lon
while; he vas, fifteen years IN tn
Sixth cavalry. Now happened {,
learn. accidentally from Mccarthy
that Old Calklns was once sergean
in that outfit, so naturally | aske,
Skaunessy If he ever knew him."
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

He takes the position that the laws are
made for those who want them, and
that it is a matter of choice with the
people whether or not they obey Them
He complains that the laws are so
wOrded that they defeat themselves in
the enforcement, and that the laws
were not passed to be enforced. This
is rather pessimistic view, and he
copies an editorial from the Courier
concerning the Indifference of the peo-
pie TO prove his contention.
After quoting our editorial he says ::
THE whole. trouble seems to lie with
our system of law making. City
Council, Legislature and Congress all
enact laws which apparently never
were meant to be enforced. The pol.
iticians seemed to go on the theory
that there must be laws for those who
want them, but that these laws must
not infringe on the liberties of those
who don't want them. Otherwise they
would have been so drawn up that the
authorities could have enforced them
without the necessity of calling upon
the citiZenry for active cooperation.
"'rhe laws against gambling, If
strictly enforced, would place Henry
and the boys in their little 10-cent
limit Saturday night game and Cousin
Sarah and her quarter-of-a-cent
bridge club in the same class with the
handbook operator and the profession
al gambler who set up the crooked and
roulette wheels and the high stake,
lhome-wrecking poker and dice
games"
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03
By Charles Sughtoe
q Western Newspaper Union

officers earnest attempts to enforce
that law. Even the editorial columns
of the daily press seem permeated
with thinly veiled effort to create
a sentiment against the effective carry
ing out of the provisions of the Vol
stead Act. This seems to be the
burden of the writer of the column a.
bove referred to. The directing of
public sentiment against the enforce
ment Of the law to him seems right.
but he views 1t as useless to try to di-
rect public sentiment toward the rigid
enforcement of law.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

1t is the duty of every newspaper
in the land to encourage a spirit of
respect for law, and to urge strict
enforcement of all the laws. The
newspaper that seeks to discredit 4
law that is one of our statutes is en-
couraging anarchy. A law may be
so bad that it becomes the duty of the
press to demand its repeal, but so long
as it remains statute ii should be
respected and Obeyed. But the Vol
stead act Is law that came in re-
Sponse to the decades-old demand OF
the Christian people of the nation,
and only law violators are dissatis-
fed with its purpose. 1t is one law
that should have the earnest. active
support of every good citizen.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

Laws may be imperfectly drawn,
bw so long as they are laws they are
entitled to the respect Of the good cit
izens. If they are imperfect the peo-
pie may have them amended at will
II they choose to do so. The men
whom the people elect will heed the
wishes of the people If the people will
let them know that their political fu-
ture depends upon their faithful dis
charge Of duty. Laws may be dis
tasteful to n great many people, but
that Is no reason why the law should
not be enforced. 1t is said that the
liquor interests have put up fund Of
more than $3'O00000 to be spent in
propaganda to make the Volstead Act
odiOus, and that most Of that sum
would be spent in newspaper propa-
ganda. You frequently hear 1t said
that there Is more drunkenness now
than before prohibition. That is not
borne out by the facts. 1t Is com
pletely the reverse of the truth. But
that don't keep the liquor people from
spreading the report, and don't keeY
the newspapers from featuring each
crime.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

m0thGTT"
"Not of my mother; she may have
died when | was baby, but can
remember my father although l never
saw him very often. He was tall
man with iron-gray hair and mustache;
once | saw him in uniform"
"An officer, likely"
81 think so. | was at school then
and am sure the lady principal called
him colonel. l never lived with him.
but always at some school, first one
and then another. am sure l was
in St Louis when Calliins came for
me and took me away. That is actu-
ally everything know about 1t; since
then we've just moved around from
place TO place
They fell into silence and rode on
thus for hours, seldom speaking, each
engrossed in their own thoughts. 10
ward shutdown they came into more
rolling country, with patches OF green
grass, and the trail wound In ana ou'
among shallow depresslons, yieIdhI
greater variety of scenery. Just be
. fore dark they toiled up over higl
ridge and from the summit looked fO
some distance down the valley Of th'
Cottonwood. The trail ran slantingl!
down the side of the bluff, zigzagglni
here and there in search Of easier pas
sage. and it was necessary to descent
slowly. Consequently it was an hou
after dark when they finally drove u
TO a small cabin surrounded by trees
hundred feet back from the stream
and the driver announced their arrival
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03
CONDEMN HIGH PRICED
STOCK FOODS
Prominent Hog Raiser Says Prices
Charged Are Unwa raaiaG--
Makes His Own Hog Food,

THAT he is all through paying fancy
prfces for stock foods and hog rem
edies and that lie is raising some OF the
best hogs ever placed on the market
was the statement made recently b.
Z. II. Beckstead, well-known hos
raiser and authority on live stock,
Mr.. Becksteads hogs are the cny.
Of his neighbors, and haye"topped the
market" for several years in Iowa.
He states that for years he bought
'high-priced hog foods and hog rem
edies, but he is all through pa wing ex
travagant prices for what he can make
himself. He states that what the hogs
need are minerals, and tells the secret
of his wonderful success by explaining
that he takes about five pounds of or
tlinary mineraline (Which is pure con-
eentrated minerals and cost only a
cripple of dollars and mixes samo with
enough bran or filler to make hun
dred pounds. All hogs, and especially
brood sows require minerals as the.
}seep them free from worms lnd In tn
pink of condition, and are initial t.
lfhe growth and well halanc.,
ration. This inexpensive mixtur
iproducs far better results { IN an!
thigh priced so-called stock foods, o..
| Send two dollars to The Mileralin
iChemicL Co.. 1898 North Wells st
Chicago, ILL.,, and they will forwarJ
you by prepaid parcel post, enougl
minerallns TO make a full hundre,
pounds ADV. 550-4
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

1t is true tat many Of the laws lack
in clearness and definition, but really,
what is the difference in the 10-cent
limit poker game, and Cousin Sarah's
bridge club, and the poker games
where the chandelier is the limit? II
is all gambling Every reader of the
daily press has noted the tendency Of
the metropolitan press to headline
the alleged failure of the enforcement
and to make sport of the prohibition
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

We need an awakening M the peu-
pie to their power in demanding law
enforcement. We need the awaken
ing of the common people to the
dangers that confront us hy the non
enforcement of all of our laws, and we
need a citizenship that is not afraid
to come out I'm the open and demand
that public officials recognize their de-
pendence upon public opision for their
tenure In otlice
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

enough to get an Office will defy the
public opinion when the people are a
reused to the sense of their own power.
1t is only when the people are indiff-
erent that politicians are publicly cor
rupt. Even the grafters and political
bosses recognize that, and you will
find the veriest crooks in politics faith
ering some reform.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03
Comrades of Peril.
Continued from page %

me IIIEG I Tad 60 business bringing
sou along at all"
"What was thatT
"Why, just before we come away
! ran into an old friend o. mine in
the army, named Shaunessy. He'd
been NJ in the Sioux reservation,
watchln' 'em ghost-dance, and he says
the bucks up there are gOln' TO raise
Ned before long, an there ain't me-
troops anywhere around sufficient to
hold 'em. It's or Slttin' Bull who Is
stlrrIn' 'em up"
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

Every sincere man in high official
1osition, who sought to be servant of
he people, and who had the best inter.
'sts of his country at heart, has had TO
appeal direct to the people over the
hcods of politicians. A majority of
he American people want law enforce.
ment aud want orderly administration
" their public affairs But they have
not yet reollzd their power ON account
II the partizanship that is engendered
by politicians for selfish purposes
The only hope of the country is the
assertion OF their influence by the peo.
pie, No man with political sense
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

Of West Liberty, as candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Circuit
Judge of the 36th Judicial District,
subject to the action of the August
primary, 1921.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

(Thls interesting story will be con
tinued in our next issue. If you are
not subscriber send Us Sl.JO)
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03
We are authorized to announce

ID. w, GARDNER,
Of SalyerSville as a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Circuit
Judge Of the 3Gth judicial District,
subject to the August primary, 1921.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03
We are authorized to announce
EI0ID ARNC9vV

Of West Liberty rs a .''n
monwealth's Attorney Of the "6tn ~.
dicial District, subject t. -"
primary, 1921.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

We are authorized to announce
j. V. HENRY,
of White Oak, as candidate for the
Democratic nomination for County
Judge of Morgan county, subject to the
action of the August primary 1921.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

We are authorized to announce
ANDERSON LACY,
of Stacy Fork, as candidate for the
Democratic nomination for County
Judge of Morgan county, subject to
the action of the August primary 1921
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

We are authorized to announce
c. p. HENRY,
of West Liberty, as a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for county
Judge or Morgan county, subject to the
August primary 1921.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03
We are authorized to announc~
CLIFFORD G. MAY,

of Liberty Road, as candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Rep
resentative for the Tooth Legislative
district, subject to the August prima-
ry, 1921.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03
We are authorized to announce
n NNrUNT

of West Liberty, as a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for County At
torney of Morgan county, subject to the
action of the August primary 1921.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

The two principal kinds of times are
standard aud wrist watch.-Syesmere
(o) Leader
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

OF Florress, us Il candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Tax Com
missioner (Asscssor) of Morgan coun-
ty. suNect to the August primary, l92l.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03
We are authorized to announce
nnrHIs Guu1t-T II

Of Caney, as candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for County Court
Clerk of Morgan county, subject to the
August primary 1921.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03

We are authorized to announce
j. II. WILLIAMS,
Of Forest, as candidate for the DEM
ocratic nomination for CountyAttor1
ney of Morgan county subject to the
August primary 1921.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03
-We are anthorlzed to announce

We are authorized to announce
|. c. FERGUSON,
Of West Liberty as a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Sheriff of
Morgan county. Deputies on ticket
are:
Jim Manford McClain, of Lenox,
Wise Back, Of Eel,
sam Henry Lykins of Caney and
Turner Hamilton, of Dingus.
Subject to the August primary, 1921.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03
We are anthorlzed to announce

JOHN ". COFFEE,
Of West Liberty, MS a candidate for th'
Democratic nomination for County At
torney Of MOrgaa county, subject to
The August primary 1921.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-03
ANNOUNCEMENTS

~ are autuOriz d to announce
CHAS. u. ARNETT,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-10-15

Allah wills that ere her
beauty and love find .
master, the harem shall
rock 10 its foundations!
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-10-15
Coliseum Concert q

Program Sunday Concert-l2:3O
Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven
Second Movement From Unfinished Symphony . Schubert
Soprano Solo, minis Aria" fro la Bohene". Puccni
MISS EMILIA NC ONNANN. Soost =
lntermezzo Forget Me Not" Herbert
Sunset ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ......... Herbert
Walters Prize Song from "The Meistersnger" Wagner
Overture, "The Bat. Strualss
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-19
Book Corner About Writers and NeU Volumes
WILLIAM H. ROBINSON
DELEGATES NEW YARNS
TO HIS BROTHER HERE

William Henry Robinson, an Ari-
zonian who is noted for his writ
lings about the southwest, has just
issued a little volume Of Yarns of
the Southwest" which is dedi-
Gated to his brother, n, F. Robin
lson, of Albuquerque. A number of
1.-THE yarns are reprinted from maya
Zines which have carried a quantity
of Mr.. Robinson's verse and stories.
The dedication reads ITO Her.
bert f. Robinson, who came to the
southwest in stage coach days and
for years took his place in camp
fire circles and snapped yarns and
fables of the desert country" The
author of the book came to this
country himself in 1886 since when
he has been intimately connected
with the life and progress of the
southwest. He is at present secre-
tary of the Arizona state board of
horticulture, and makes his home
at Chandler, AriZ.
Mr.. Robinson Is the author of
The Story of Arizona" which has
been adopted as the official school
history text of the state; The Man
from Yesterday" novel, and sew
eral other volumes which grew out
of his knowledge of the southwest
country. His yarns are a rare
collection of the kind about the eli
mate and the strange animals that
one likes to have on tap to spring
on the folks back home. They are
told in simple narrative fashion
that is easy to remember and to
repeat and they fairly breathe the
atmosphere of the campfire, the
cowboy and the tender foot.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-19

or, as Dr. Emerson put it, between a high and low
standard of health. Unfortunately that is way
point in which doctors, a rule are not inter-
ested, and DR.. Emerson tells why: Mainly because
the profession has not been trained in that direction
That falls partially under the head of proven
tive medicine, and while many florId claims are
made for proficiency in prevention, DIR. Emerson
declares that to be the point in which young
doctors are left unframed. The who is not
ill., but mot feeling quite right" gets little comfort
from his doctor, who, according to DIR. Emerson,
gets out Of the job by telling his patient in cheer
full manner, IT guess you're pretty we'll" Some
thing is wrong and the man knows It. The doctor
knows 1t, too, but just at that stage doesn't know
what to do
When the development has progressed far
enough to put the to bed the doctor is pre-
pared for what is before him. But according to
DR.. Emerson, before the goes that far the
doctor is more less puzzled. He knows what to
do for on his back in bed. but he doesn't
know what to do for who is Just feeling
not quite right" They have not been taught to
think of the difference between relative health AMI
perfect health between high and low stand
ard. A man is "welp long he keeps going
about The treatment of "the almost well man.
is as important DR.. Emerson told his colleagues
as knowing how to treat the man in bed and medi-
cal school teaching must be changed to include
that,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-19
ALL FIXED FOR CHRISTMAS.

Everybody ought to sympathize with the tolit
who behind the counters of stores the last few
days before Christmas-but sympathy is nos
enough. In Albuquerque scores of men and women,
boys and girls try their heapng best to help you
make your Christmas happy. and you do just about
little you to help yourself in that par
ticular. The tired clerk in the store must have
the patience of monument to be able to smile
the day before Christmas at throng Of shop
pers who could have come quietly into the store
week before. finding better and large stock
of goods displayed, of course, and more of the
clerks time at the disposal Of each person.
No merchant could afford to have at midnight
of Christmas eve as large and varied an assortment
of Christmas goods in his store he had on De-
cember l. Nobody expects him to. He ought to
be sold out by Christmas eve There are wise shop
pers who go into the stores early in December and
get ready for Christmas. The whole Christmas
stock is before them; they have great range Of
things from which to choose. And the things they
choose lost to the shoppers who follow them
The moral of this is that you serving yourself
by getting down to the stores early as you can,
you can, to buy the things you will need
for Christmas giving. You not only making
the Christmas burden all the harder for the mer
chants and their employees by delaying, but you
actually hurting yourself. II you have other
for doing your Christmas shopping now, sell
fishness will furnish you one.
The stores do everything In their power to have
displayed at the beginning Of the Christmas shop"
ping very wide variety of holiday goods
That service costs money, and energy, and thought
It is natural that as Christmas approaches the var
iety of goods should lessen, well the quantity
of each variety. There has been many shopper
who planned to buy certain things for relatives and
friends. but who found, when going late to the
stores. that the whole list had to be revised hur-
riedly, feverishly, simply because wiser shoppers
had reached the stores first disappointment in
shopping is unnecessary at Christmas time. but it
happens every year, and there is no body to blame
but the shopper.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-19
IN MOO YAWRK
Wifc's Sis is Taken TO the
Marriage Market.

The Big Town, BY Ring w. Lard
ner. (The Bobbs Merrill Coz
The locale, as us arthurs say, Of
The Big Town, is not Albuquerque,
| (New MeXico) but maybe Ring
will change it as soon as he hears
about our Chamber Of Commerce.
Just at present most of the seems
of the book is layed in New York
City, New York; where Lardner
appears at his best, or in other
words, in a dress suit.
To digress a minute, If may
may? Thanks! If you want to get
a good laugh sometime, hold n
male dress coat up by the collar
and take a profiel view of it. You
wont never scott at womens
clothes again. If it wasn't for the
back of dress coat. it would quail
ify as nothing, concentrated.
There amt nothing in my trying
to give you outline Of The Big
Town, for there is five stories IN
the book, all on the same subjects
and illustrated by May Wilson
Preston. and May adds to the in
terest by putting looks on the
faces of her women that makes
you keep on reading in the hone
that some man will turn up to
treat 'em rough.
The plot starts at Niles, Mlshi-
gan, and If you have ever been TO
Niles you will know at once why
the plot Immediately takes the in
terurban over to South Bend
where the hero is a Creme drum
mer at IS hundred per.
Ella is the wife of the drummer
and a daughter of a tanner over in
Niles who died regretting that he
didn't have but one government to
sell leather to.
The old man left Ella and her
sister Kate 100 and so thousand
dollars to be divided $3.50, and
Kate is brought over from Niles
where the browsing aint so good
for husbands and a big party is
give to show off the new scenery.
Everybody comes who can find
anybody to take care Of the baby,
but the class amt there for Ella.
South Bend is the first stop this
side of Ellis Island, and Kate can't
see big mustaches, so they hop
the Sis Lake Shore for New
York, and from then on the ac-
ton is what you might call cosmo
and metropolitan when they at
tempt to break into society but
don't even succeed in waking up
the night Waterman.
Kate has five chances to get a
seat in the tonneau, one in each
episode, but something always
happens to make flivver out of
what promised to be Rolls Royce,
and 1t Is not until the last chapter
that they are able to get diamond
hitch on what they went to The
Big Town for.
If you like Ring Lardner you
are very liable to like this book,
and even IL you don't tear your
hair about him, you are very LA
Bile to like 1t any ways, because 1t
is in a new strain. It is a pieless
Charley Chaplin. but with all the
fun left in it. 7. B. c.