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New-York tribune., 1921-11-20

tender, the lmmOraller | think
prohibition is. Leavin aside the
bootleggin' an wood alcohol an millonaires'
cellars an all such-lke arguments, prohibi-
ton is that immoral that / shouldn't be sur
prised if some day they passed law
against it.
'You take these burglaries an stick-up
jobs, now. They got SO raw they had to 60
an order out a thousand marines to guard
the mail trains. What's the reason o such
doin's, ask you; an, at the same time, tell
you it's prohibition, no less. That's what it is.
Most every young fea now an then feels
like he's gotta turn off trick He may feel
like he's gotta kick the stuffin' outa some bird
or he may feel like stckin UP a mail train.
Now, in the old days, when he got thai
feeln' what did he do? First thing he does
ne drops in at the place the corner to take
a snifter, an he finds the boys all lined up al
the bar, an gets to passin' the time O day
an buying round or so now ar thes.
About the time the first round Is on tbs
house he's feelin' pretty cheerful again Hct
friends with all hands. He don't want to kick
the stuffin' outa nobody, an he'd walk clean
around mail train if he found one lynn on
the sidewalk
BY the time the second round is on the
house he's forgot all about his first plans fer
pleasant evenin'; an. when somebody says
come on down to Andy's an shoot some pool,
he's one o the first ones outa the place.
HE may get stuck at pool an he may be
little mt up, but SO fairs morals go he's
Q, K. He amt beat up nobody an he aint
held up no mail trains He's as moral as the
next man or, maybe, moraller
But now, when fella gets yen to do
somethin' like that, he can't go an stimulate
his morals like they ought to be stimulated
with one foot on the rail an an elbow the
bar, Even if he tries to do the right thing,
the kinda drinks he can buy fer SO cents
throw amt stimuatin' to morals scarcely at
al.
Instead OF gon' to the place on the cor
ner to get meralled up he goes scoutin' around
fer the bird he aims to kick the stuili.a aa-.a.
an ter. to one he finds him. It's lot easier
to find the bird you're lookin' for these days
He's apt to be where he belongs.
"Or, if it's stick-up he was set on, he
just goes right out in cold blsod an sticks
up the mail train, or whatever it was, wh-s
the fits on him. If he gets enough out of it
ne sets up as bootlegger, maybe, an can 1--we
respectable the rest of his days
"Rut it amt moral; no, sir, it amt near
so moral what it used to be. not even II hs
does get to be a bootlegger.
"The way things was in them good old
to Hayti."
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
* A SIX revenue agent to guess, and
IA he'll probably say there may be
A "a fifty moonshine stills operating

MY IHoohsnlne stllS operating
in New York to-day"
before the reader makes any slurring re-
marks about the eyesght of prohibition en-
forcement operatives it might be we'll to ad-
nit that the foregoing statement is quoted
from Sunday story printed in The Tribune
in July, 1915. The estimate of fifty was
good guess then, but that was before the Con-
stltutlon was amended for the eighteenth time
They called it "moonshine' in those days, bor-
rowing the term from the Virginia noun
talns, and the slang appendices of the die
tlonarles held no such expression as "home-
made hootch" The bootlegger of to-day would
consider the New York "moonshiner" q most
arrant piker.
Hut the writer possessed prophetic streak
we'll be making our own moonshine in little
tin stills on our kitchen stoves if the prohi-
bitionists have their way he wrote Well.
the prohlbltlonists have had their way. With
this an introduction let the rest of the
1916 story follow:
Ra!ding moonshne stills isn't diversion
confined wholly to the mountain districts of
the South. 1t can be done and quite success
fully, too right here in New York. Here's
how it usually happens:
Dear Sir" bugins a letter addressed to
Colonel L. G. Mutt, revenue agent in charge
of the district of New York, ~ think YOU ought
to know what's going on in the cellar of No. -
East Houston Street. The man who lives on
the first floor rear is making moonshine
whisky there and selling it to the saloons
along the river 'front.' Sometimes my wife
and ! see him carrying away hig jugful
of it,
Having digested this and made a mental
note OF the absence OF any street address or
the means of Identification of the writer. who
signs himself "A Friend" Colonel Mutt siehs
and pushes the button of an electric bell. Into
MS private Office steps man who looks as
little like the revenue agent of moonshine fact
and fiction as could be imagined. He's smok-
ing cigar All revenue agents smoke cigars
1t seems, perhaps because they know where to
pick out the coed ones
Jones'" says the chief agent, "have we
cut any stills lately?"
Cutting" still is revenue Office iareon
for destroying one.
"Not for more than week, sir.n replies
Jones. q didn't cut that French one we
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
MAXIMS OF
MARTY MCMAHON
By Robert B. Peck

A6THE more I think about it," said
Marty Mcmahon, the retired bar
IL tender, "the immoraller l think
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17
SOUTHWEST TABLE

Mr.. and Mrs. c. Z. Richards enter
tained at Sunday dinner h. +. Stew
ems and family, Emi. Samuelson and
family, kagar Smytne and fanny aad
-'4r. and Mrs. j. b. Richards.
Mrs. Adolph EeckhoUl mas been
having severe siege OF rhuematism m
during the past week.
About one hundred and fifty were
out to Community CIuD last Friday
evening. 1t was quite crowd con-
sidering the condition Of the roads.
VIM. Schultz, G. c. Benson and Sid
Lanckriet were Juiesburg visitors last
Monday.
The infant son of Ed Lanckriet has
pneumonia.
Eddie McKeown was business
visitor to Juiesburg Tuesday.
There is no school in Liberty
School this week, owing to sickness
and death Of the teachers mother.
j. b. Richards called at NJ. T., AL
lens Monday morning.
The Loebe children spent Monday
at the VIM. Schultz nome, there being
no school.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17

ThsssAay.
Enc LIZ sAl family vsss jules
burg choppers fhsrsiay.
Ihese vas - school at Pleasant
Hill Monday.
Pete drown and family visited al
the L. W. Humphrey nome Sunday.
Carl Halquist and vie were u.es.
burg visitors Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Arms visited
Thursday with Mr.. Arms father.
-ar. hawkfeIdt transacted business
IN JulesDurg Saturday.
Jake Hoffman DItchered Monaay
There was a social ga-aering at l..e
Fred Ebae home Sunday. 1nose pres
eAE were JAKE hoffman ana Ia.u.4y
frank kub.nk and family and Ernest
P.sn and family, George and huth
Skinner and harry and Raymond
harley.
Miss Miriam Hoffman attended the
bashet ball game at JuiesoIrg rr.aay
night.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17
PRAIRIE VIEW NEWS

! The near neiGhhoes assisted Alvis
ClAypool in his buteheFin4 WORK Z
few days last veek.
Alex Lawson has been hauling mil.
let to Sedgw the past week.
Skeets AilIer has been very i'll in
the daxtun hospital the past week
He now has an abcess On his arm
which has developed into blood poison
We hope to hear of his recovery soon
Mrs. Gust Johnson called on Mrs
Charlie Arines Saturday ternoon.
Mrs. Alvis Claypool is expected
home this week from Fresno, Calf.
after an extended visit with relatives
The south side ladies' club met al
the Fred johnson home Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Axes and
Rev. Loveless attended prayer meet
ing at Ray Stockham's Tuesday, Feb.
9th.
Roy kenney hauled millet for Alex
Lawson the past week.
Mrs. Alexander and Roy and Ray
were Sedgwick visitors SATURDAY.
Mrs. " alter hcnney visited at the
Arthur Miller home one day last
week.
Mrs. Skeets Miller visited her hus-
band at the HaXtun hospital Satur-
day.
o. S. Thunderstorm from Julesburg
was a Prairie View visitor Saturday.
David Connerly was business
visitor to Sedgwlck Friday.
Frank Barry and Jess Connerly
pulled their corn shelter home last
week as the corn was too wet 10 shell.
John Wegman was business visit
or to HaXtun Saturday.
The rOaCs are almost impossible on
the south size at the present time.
Leonard Donaldson of near Haxtun,
visited at the p. j. Donaldson home
Saturday evening and Sunday.
The attendance at the Prairie View
Sunday school Sunday, Feb. 18th, was
56.
George Wegman and Charlie
Daugherty were in Haxtun a few
days last week staying with Mr.. Mil
ler, while he was in the hospital.
Rev. Loveless preached at the
Prairie View school house Sunday
morning and evening.
A few friends gathered at the
Charlie Arnes home Sunday and
played finch.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17
OVID NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine Cannady visit
ed with Mr.. Cannady's sister and
family, MIR. and Mrs. P. O'Connor on
Wednesday, it being Mr.. O'Connor S
birthday.
G. A. Hogan was a Julesburg busi-
ness visitor Wednesday.
Mrs. Drummond is on the sick list
again, but is better at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Parker were
in Julesburg Wednesday.
Mrs. Raymond Jones of Fasco,
Kansas, arrived in Ovid Thursday
evening to visit her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. Dunlap.
wick on Monday evening, atteding a
dance.
L. NJ. Hogan was in Julesburg Sat
urday.
The new elevator burned Saturday.
There was about car load OF millet
burned with it.
Mr.. Kenneth O'Connor was on the
sick list Monday.
The play given by the high school
in Ovid on Friday evening was huge
success. There was big crowd, even
if the roads were bad.
Mr. ana MIS-. Horace Parker'S. lit
tie girl, Patricia, was quite sick the
last Of the week, but is better at this
writing.
r. C. McNally's visited with MIR.
and Mrs. L. NJ. Hogan on Sunday.
Rays mother and their friend, Mrs.
Bagcock was with them. All enjoyed
turkey dinner and ice cream.
G. A. Hogan is having his house
shingled- Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Dunlap and Mrs.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17
catarrh Cannot Bs cured

~ LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as ID
cannot reach the seat q the dseas
Catarrh Is a local disease, greatly inf.
enced by constitutional conditions. HALL
1t is taken internally and acts throag
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces OF u
System. HALLS CATARRH MEDIClNt
Is composed Of some Of the best toms
known. combined with some of the ta
blood purifiers. The perfect combinatiu
Of the ingredients in HALLS CATARRA
MEDICINE is what produces such wos
derful results in catarrhal conditions
Druggists sc. Testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co.. Props, Toledo, O
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17

The people who predicted that the
United States government was going
to be overturned by revolution in
1920, have now postponed the date to
1924, at which time they will be free
to postpone it again to 1923.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17

Jones autoed over south of Sedgwick
Sunday to visit daughter and son
of Mrs. Dunlap's. Mrs. Jones remain
ed until Wednesday.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17

At the theatres the womens' hats
obstruct the view of the stage, but
at church they may prevent the min
ister's seeing the men when they fall
asleep.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17

Intense Indignation is felt at the
reduction Of congressional delegation
In several states, by the politicians
who are aspiring for seats in con-
gTsss.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17
PUBLIC SALE DATES

The following is list of comi1g
public sales, furnished the Grit-Ad
vocate by Auctioneer H. NJ. Gilchris,
and which will be cried by Mr. Gil
christ:
February 17-C. B. Douglass, Bru.e
February 23-B. N. Kellogg, JULES
burg.
February 24-Lawrence Petersy
southeast of Big Springs.
Business girls in dressing for the.
work, should be reminded that the,
are not hired primarily to fasinat
the men at the office.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17
Feb. p
FAMOUS
BIRTHDAYS

Abraham Lincoln and
George Washington made
history with their keen cut
ting axes. Lincoln broke
all records for rail splitting
and Washington completely
ruined his fathers cherry
tree. No doubt they used
Keen Kutter Axes. Altho
splitting rails and cutting
down cherry trees are out
of style, there are many
other uses for a good axe.
Mems Single Bit Axes S2.25-2.75
Boys. size Axes -S1.40-1.50
Genuine Boy Scout Axe $3.50
Axe Handles -5O-6O-90
Our prices are being re-
marked promptly with the
market.
No. 3 Galv'd Tub --$1.60
loot. Galv'd Pail --35c
17-in Coal Hod, galv'd ----70c
5-gallon galv'd Oil Can --$1.40
Extra heavy husking mitts zoe
D handle spade -------$1.75
Hand Power Vacuum
Washing Machines $4,000
Wood or Galv'd Tub
r. S. DYE
Hardware
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17
AS to Party Lines

Numerous tests have proved that five
cient to complete ordinary transaction bv
telephone
Courtesy IN the use of line will all persons
titled to telephone service to their share
Occasionally a line nerrned hv
another Please anooov
kindly DO not retort with Get off similar remark
if neighbor accidentally Interrupts
Nor kind act neghbor more than
FIVE MINUTES while til line unless vour corvers.
ton important Please is entitled n an
equal amount of service
Telephone will enable your neighbor to cone his
conversation than he eoino hold ~.
line all
AS to Long Distance
lisa real pleasure sit the evening and talk
with friends distant points Manager for EVENING
and NIGHT Under rates TALK ct1rAD,
The Mountain States Telephone and Te,eoronh ~
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-02-17
MONEY TO LOAN

On Bonds, Liberty or Munich
pal, 8 per cent interest, 3
months to l year. Will put
bonds in escrow in any Den
yer Bank to guarantee safe
return. Write us what you
have and what you want. Al
so buy Liberty Bonds at cash
market.
OLDHAM MTG. co,
628 Symes Bldg.
Denver Colorado
The L'Anse sentinel., 1921-04-29

last winter. l spent several months
In Florida then trying to locate him.
l heard of another fake stock scheme
being worked there. l played like
would be the victim. The man oper-
ating the scheme took me to a house.
They were working on me similar to
the way l was worked on in Fort
Worth. thought might find Furey
there. After reached the place
where l was TO give up my money
knew I would have to stall.
Saved by His Automatic.
"None of the men l wanted were
there, and so l began to scheme to
get out. Il said: why, gentlemen, this
is Sunday. l cannot place money on
Sunday. That started trouble. One
Of them grabbed me. think 1t had
been planned to kill me should any
thing happen.
my wife. before / left home, had
back. She believed that 1 could take
care Of them If l could keep them In
front of me. She thinks l am good
shot. She has seen me shoot hawks
On the fly and kill wolves while they
were running. SO when the man
grabbed me threw him in front OF
me. grabbed my automatic. Then
got dht my AS. l told them just
to start something and l would fin.
ish. And that is how l got out OF
that"
According to NOrfieet. when Furey
was abusing him n New Orleans
Fury exclaimed: "You have ruined the
best deal had ever started" The
deal to which Furey referred was tc
have taken place at Jacksonville
where he was arrested.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1921-04-29
fine CROPS SURE
Farmers in Western Canada
JubiIant at Prospect.
Splendid Winter Weather Has Put the
Naturally Fertile Land In Splen-
did Condition, and Bountiful
Yields Are Assured.

"Wiat delightful winter we have
had" is an expression that could be
heard almost anywhere when the
topic of the weather became the sub
ject OF conversation. Not only In the
Middle West and down east" could
1t be heard, but also In the Far West,
up In the Canadian West. There
the same remarkable features that
brought forth wonderful winter ex-
listed. Reports from all parts of the
country, from famed Medicine Hat In
Alberta to Winnipeg in Manitoba, In
dlcate that all through the winter
season very little cold weather was
experienced. In December, we read
that golf playing had put into the dis
card all Ice sports. that farmers were
caught "red-handed" plowing their
fields. In January. the Alberta yeo-
man got out his tractor and In his
shirt sleeves was seen preparing
ground for the 1921 crop. During
February, In Saskatchewan, one
farmer narrowed fifty acres and
planted the seed "Why, yes, Of
course, In March," said an Iowa
farmer. who had just heard from his
son, who was looking after the West
ern Canadian farm, "my boy writes
me they had some. snow, and few
cold dips, but what did that matter7
The cattle and the horses came
through the winter in better condition
than they looked three or four months
ago. Grass was plentiful on the prai-
ries, the stubble was rich and valu-
able as food, and the straw stacks
and groves proved ample for shelter"
Spring Is now fully upon the West
ern Canada farmer, his machinery Is
all in shape for springs work, and
he is looking forward to IN excellent
crop year. Last fall there was
splendid lot Of moisture that perme-
ated the ground sufficiently to leave
perfect seed bed. Indications are
now that the crop will 60 in in the
condition required for successful ger
mination. Then, with the heightened
days of May and June. the many
hours of sunshine that they bring. ac-
compan!ed by showers Of rain, and
with II soil Of which there Is none
richer nor more generous, there viii
be seen preparing for rlpenIng har-
vest the hundreds ot thousands of
acres Of wheat. oats. barley. rye. al
falfa and corn that will make the
hearts of the Western Canada farmers
swell with pride rs they reasonably
look forward 10 an abundant harvest.
There Is great deal that can he
said in favor of the climate OF West
ern Canada. The most important is
that rlg1fse who live there, and have
lived in other countries. prefer IL 70
sny -B+T have experienced elsewhere.
l. Is true tie winters as a rule are
calder tlGpu ARE those In countries
lyanE much further south but Il is
plso t-ue Cint they EHs tempered ny
dryness VI the nti4usphere that
mikes Il lower femissrpSure preferable
10 tmrt Eeveril degrees higher where
greuIer humidity prevails. Enerra-
tion and listlessness ISe unknown
the mir is bfacing. but the cold is not
penetrating. Then the summers and
the autumns-they coHd Not be more
Observation-Disclosures.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1921-04-29
P|IISBURG man MAKES
WONDERFUL STATEMENT.
Declares Tanlac Enabled
Him to Eat Better, Sleep
Better and Work Bet
ter. - Has Gained Thirty
Pounds.

II consider Tanlac the grandest
medicine in the world, for have
actually gained 80 pounds In weight
since began taking 1t. 1t has just
simply filed me with new life and
energy and for the first time in years
can sit down to the table and en-
Joy three square meals day like
other people. In fact. Tanlac Inns
made me eat better. feel better, sleep
better sbid work better, and / guess
that's all a man can expect of a
medicine.
Before took TanIac, was Off %
pounds In weight and was so badly
run down was hardly able to do my
work. Nothing seemed to agree with
me and my food invariably s0ured on
my stomach. would always have an
uncomfortable bloated up feeling in
my stomach. and although l. tried
many kinds of medicines, never got
relief until took Tanlac.
81 also suffered considerably at
times from Rheumatism, but this has
all disappeared. In fact, this wonder
ful medicine has made new man out
Of me I'm every way. feel years
younger and can do as much work as
in any day of my lie.
"Of course, I am only too glad to
give you my testimonial because
want other people who are suffering
as I did to take this medicine and get
relief"
The L'Anse sentinel., 1921-04-29
TEXAS RANCHMAN
DOWNS ICON MEN,

did not use my pistol. Furey had
kicked and hurt me all he could. He
was a madman.
after we had put him on the train
leaving Jacksonville he tried to grow
friendly. Standing by the window In
the drawing room he made leap
through the window The train was
moving about 30 miles an hour. He
darted through the window like a
prairie dog darts into its hole. We
stopped the train as quickly as we
could. Furey had been picked up by
a train crew. He offered the mem
bers of the crew $1,000 TO hide him.
They put him on switch engine and
started back to Jacksonville with him.
He was still. handicapped by his hand
cuffs. He claimed he could not walk
for the injury he received in jumping
from the train.
Another switch engine took Pete
and myself back To Jacksonville, and
we again took charge OF our prisoner.
Fuey said ne could not stand the pain
from his leg and did not want to be
put on the train again. told him
that | had ridden the plains horseback
with my leg i'm as bad condition as
that. told him we were going to
take him.
Dodsed Habeas Corpus.
Upon arriving in New Orleans, Nor
feet said. he still reaiized the possi-
bility of being served with legal pa
pers which might cause Furey to be
released 6n bond or which might de-
lay the-trip back to Texas.
Il was careful where l went. We
had 10 spend part of Sunday in New
eOrleans. The papers would have to
be served on me. because | had Sc
cured the requisition papers. went
to church. knew the officers would
not 90 there TO find me. And I heard
/ two of the finest sermons | ever did
hear. left my son at the police sta.
ticn 10 help watch Furey.
Norfieet said that he and his son
were joined by special officers from
Fort Worth before leaving New Or.
leans with their prisoner. Furey was
! brought TO Fort Worth and jailed
there to await trial on the charges on
an Indictment found against him by
the Tarrant county grand Jury.
Before we reached New Orleans,
Norfeet said, "Furey told me he was
sorry he had not had me killed as he
once planned to do. ! think that was
The L'Anse sentinel., 1921-04-29
Negro Kept Hog Farm"
in ParIor Of Her Home

Belle White, negro. was taken
into police court at Dallas, Tex,
on the. charge of violating the
local sanitary law by raising
hogs in the front room Of her
fiat In the heart of the business
district. The discovery that she
had converted. her fiat into a
hog farm was made by her land
lord.
The woman admitted that she
had raised FIVE fat porkers In
the room and that four of them
were slaughtered there and the
meat sold. The remaining hog
was about ready for market. No
fine was assessed, but she was
warned to change her location
IL she wanted to continue the
hog-raising business.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1921-04-29
Thousands Have Kidney
Trouble and Never
Suspect It
Applicants for Insurance Often
Rejected.

Judging from reports from druggists
who are constantly in direct touch with
the public, there is one preparation that
has been very successful in overcoming
these conditions. The mild and healing
influence Of DIR. Kilmer's Swamp. Root 70
soon realized. II stands the highest for
its remarkable record of success.
An examining physician for one OF the
prominent Life Insurance Companies, in
an interview on the subject, made the as.
tonishing statement that one reason why
so many applicants, for insurance are re-
jected is because kidney trouble is 20
common to the American people, and the
large majority Of those whose applica-
tions are declined do not even suspect
that they have the disease. 1t is on sale
at all drug stores in bottles Of two sizes,
medium and large.
However, If you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Bnghamton. N. Y, for Q
sample t,ttle. when writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1921-04-29

The above remarkable statement
was made by Harry M. Allen, resid-
ing ut 1909 Saint Martin Street.
Pittsburg, Pa. well known en-
ployee Of the oliver Iron & Steel
Company of that city. Mr.. Allen Is
a well known member of the United
Presbyterian Church and is highly re-
spected by all who know him.
Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
everywhere.-Adv.