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Salmon With White Flesh

THE largest, btSt-KnUWu anu tii0st
valuable salmon is tie Chinook.
found from Ventura bay in California
to Morton sound in Alaska. and on the
Asiatic coast from northern China to
the Arctic. In the spring the body
Of this fish is silver. and on the back
and on the dorsal I'm and tall are
black spots which are nearly round.
In the fall the color OF the nsh turns
to dark red, The average weight of
these fish Is about twenty-five pounds.
but individuals weighing one hundred
pounds are sometimes taken. In some
waters the flesh Of the Chinook
salmon is salmon red" but In south
Columbia q large percentage OF them.
estimated at one-third, have white
fiesh. The fsh authorities say that
no reasonable explanation OF this
phenomenon has been given. -
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:: The Swift Six ::
BY RING w. LARDNER
by onain
Allison. Ill. Jan. l.


EAR BROTHER CHARLEY.
Well Charley the New Yrs. Is
starting in and 1 feel some how
like its going to be lucky yr.
for me and I'm going to try and do my
best to make it lucky. 1 bet they wont
be no throwing away money this yr. like
they was last yr. and by a yr. from
now 1 wont have no mortgage hang
ing on my head but will have the
house all payed for and every thing
clear and a little money in the bank
besides.
Between you and I Charley theys
some money in the bank right now
now and believe me that's where she
going to stay. l got something over
$600.00 salted away and they wont be
another payment on the house dew
till July and nothing to pay between
then and now but regular expenses
that man can pay out OF your salary
il you don't make a monkey out OF
yourself. That's what I'm going to do
this yr. Charley is live close and not
toss my money a round like it was
drunkard sailor.
In the 1st. place I'm going to cut
down on smoking because l fggure
where 1 smoke too much and when a
the habit you get up in the A. NJ.
feeling like a tramp and cough like
you was going to loose lung. And
I'm going to try and make my cloths
last as long is they'll hold together
and If l play cards 1t will be Jest
like that.
The 100000 that's in the bank Is
what Grace give me to keep for her
and she says she was SCARED to trust
herself with that amt. in her own
name or she would be blowing 1t In
for cloths. 1 never seen the woman
yet that could hold on to chunk OF
money but they got to throw 1t
to the birds as soon is they get there
hands on it. So Grace used good
judgment turning 1t over to me and
they couldn't no body get 1t away
from me with a crow bar unlest its to
pay honest debts or some thing.
OF course the $4,000 was part OF
Graces berthday present from her
old man and she can do what she
to me looks like she had better sence
about money than the 1st. few yrs.
we was married.
Happy New yr. and prosterity to
you and Mary.
Your Bro. F. A. GROSS.
Allison. Ill Jan. %.
DROTHER CHARLEY. Well Char
- ley 1 was wandering how long
1t would take before Grace begin fch-
ing for the little hunk of money she
give me to keep for her and its
good thing 1 got it where she cant
touch it or she would be as clean is
q whistle in the side of month.
When I come home last night she
was all exited and I asst her what
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she seen we really had our car and
she couldent hardley believe l know
ed how to run 1t and she says l must
lay of tomorrow and l and her and
the babys and all of US would have
a ride 1st thing in the A. M. So I'm
going to give them a ride LIST. before
I go down town to the office.
While we was eating supper Grace
asst me where was l going to keep
the car. Well Charley that's the 1st:
time l thought about that and OF
coarse a man coulent leave it out all
night in a blizzard or rain storm or
the seats would get spoiled. SO 1t
looks like would half to build me
garage and maybe spend another
$4,000 on that but they aint no
hurry about it because I can leave
her standout on clear nights for a
vile and IL 1t look like its going to
storm I can take 1t down to the town
garage. Grace says 1t might may
be rain or snow tonight and spoil
the seats but I looked at the sky and
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ther orders in alphabet order and be
cr,,p a 2 tha Zaz

ther orders in alphabet order and be-
gun at the ZEE.
But theys thing sure that I'm
makeing them birds give me plenty
of driveing lessons and I'm getting 80
now can go any where's without
the man telling me nothing and he
says ! picked 1t UP quicker than any
is that Grace thinks I will half to.
start takeing lessons after / get the
car and she don't know that all ready
can drive as good Is any body SO
1t out home that night and she will
be the most surprised woman in the
world.
Well Charley I suppose I should
ought to be thankful that amt rum
ming up no gasoline bills put 10 pe
ter in John DIS mouth IL they'd give
me some thing to use gasoline Tor
besides takeing gravey spots out OK
my heavy overcoat.
My kindest to Mary. r.
i = + +
Allison, Ill. March 8.
DRO. CHARLEY. Well Charley II
- you was here tonight could give
you a little ride and l wisht you was
here SO as ! could have a excuse to
go out and ride a little myself but I
don't dare go out alone because Grace
would feel bad and wisht Id called
her up from down town when I know
ed the car was here and then sne
wouldent of left the girl that stays
with the children go over to the dutch
church to a dance but / wanted to-
surprise Grace SO she dident know
what was comeing off 80 she left the
girl 60 and now we got to stay IN
ourself and Of course it's a pretty cold
night to drive down about zero or
little better but wouldent care how
cold 1t was II I could jest get hold
of that wheel.
They called me up as soon as l got
back from lunch today and told me
my car was in town and asst the CHIEF
to leave me beat 1t for the p. NJ. and
I got there and was going to take
her right home but when give them
the $4,000 that I borried off of the
chief to pay the bal. what l owed
more. 1 asst what for and they says
to pay for the freight from Detroit
to Chi. So I says l bought the car
in Chi and not in no Detroit or no
other place. So they says Yes but
the cars made in Detroit and when
freight. So / says Yes and stamps
Is made in Washington but they cost
3 cts. weather you buy them here or
there so we argude back and 4th. and
they says / couldent have the car
unlest I payed for the freight and
finely got tired Of argueing and asst
them II they'd leave me take the car
and they could charge the freight to
me and Id pay 1t next month and
they says that was o. X. So then
they asst me did I want a extra tire
so says yes and they hung 1 on the
back Of the car and the man says
that would be $1,000 more so / says
they coud take 1t right of again SO
by the time I finely got started it
was dark and hadent never handled
a car In the dark before but / got
along great but my hands got pretty
near froze.
wasent thinking when got to the
house and I run right passed and
forgot for a min. how to back up so
I run a round the blk. and the I'd.
time~1 stopped o. K. in front of the
house and then I tuted the horn and
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a Turkish bath, he has all the appear
Ance of youth It is a tragedy that
smile so agreeable should give way
at times to a frown as black as mid
night; that the freshness of his com.
plexion should yield to an almost
jaundiced yellow, and that the fHn
and frolic of the spirit should flee
away. so suddenly and for such long
periods before the witch Of melan-
choly.
world no historian will be able to
speak with unqualified approval. His
political purpose from beginning to
end, am entirely convinced, has been
to serve what he conceives to be the
highest interests of his country. L
regard him in the matter of Intention
as one of the most honorable and
courageous men of the day. But he
Is reckless in the means he employs
to achieve his ends. I should say he
at all; doubt very much II he asks
himself II anything Is right or wrong.
i should say that he has only one
question to ask of fate before he
strips for fights this thing going
to be success or failure?
In many matters of great impor-
tance he has been right. so right that
we are apt to forget the number Of
times he has been wrong. Whether
he may not be charged in some measr
whether he Is not responsible for the
great bitterness of international feelings
which characterized Europe during
the last twenty years. is a question
that must be left to the historian.
But 1t is already sapparent that for
want of balance and moral contin-
uity in his direction of policy Lord
Northcliffe has done nothing to e1e-
vate the public mind and much to de-
grade 1t.
He has jumped from sensation to
sensation. The opportunity for a
fight has pleased him more@than the
object Of the fight has inspired him.
&C English public opiniQn spirit to
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Tides in the Stars.

COME time ago it was reported by q
distinguished astronomer that the
star called XII tGeminorum. which has
long been known as a variable, Is in
reality double, but its two components
are SO close that no telescope Is able
to separate them, and their existence
is proved by the shifting lines In the
spectrum. The variations in bright
ness, 1t is thought can only be due to
the attraction between the TWO stars
raising inmense tides in their molten
or vaporous- globes, which, through
the efforts Of compression or other
wise, displace the spectral hnes.
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often asked to believe. Kennedy
Jones is largely. responsible for the
journalistic fortunes of Lord North
cliffe. =
am disposed to think that 1t is
the romantic quality of his mind
Ali the men about him are unim-
aginatiye realists. He is the artist
in command Of the commercial mind,
the poet f1ogging dull words into a
kind of wild music. Kennedy Jones
could have started any of his papers.
them that living spirit Of the un-
expected which has kept them SO
effectually from dullness. Carmelite
House could give the news of the
world without Lord Northcliffe's help.
but without his passion for the twists
and turns of the fairy story it could
never have presented that news SO
that 1t catches the attention of all
classes.
7 HAVE never been conscious Of great
! ness in Lord Northcliffe. but I
have never failed to feel in his mind
something unusual and remarkable.
He. is not an impressive person, but
he is certainly an interesting person.
One feels that he has preserved by some
magic Of temperament. not to be an
alyzed by the most skillful OF psy-
chologists, the spirit Of boyhood. You
may notice this spirit quite visibly
in his face. The years leave few
marks on his handsome ,tountenance.
He loves to, frown and depress his
lips before the camera, for, like child.
he loves to play at being somebody
else, and somebody else with him Is
Napoleon. i am sure that he chose
the title Of Northcliffe 30 that he
might sign his notes with the initial
"Ne--but when he 10 walking in q
garden. dressed In white napnels, and
looking as II he had just. come from
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have no sine Of cloud in them.
I called up Grace before I got
there and told her to fx 1t SO as her
and the kids could &C when I come
for them and l got out there about
clock and then by that time they
was a few clouds in the sky and 1
says some thing about may be We
better postpone the trip. But Grace
says Not much you don't do no more
got in and l set alone In front and
Grace and the kids behind and away
we went.
Well Charley we was Jest turning
in to Ogden ave. lords town when I
felt a rain drop and l hadent went
LIST splash when she begin to beat it
down a mile minute. Well
stopped the car and jumped out and
tride to get the top up and / couldent
tuge some of the straps and LEVERS
that was holding it down. Sc I giv..
up trying to fix the top and looked TO
both sides Of the st. and it was rain
ing SO hard I couldent see nothing
Lut finely 1 grabbed the kids and run
lords ] side of the st. and Grace after
right into lunch room.
So. they was a couple wommcn
setting in there tn" props wife ana
an other and Lctween them and |
ard Grace We got some of the kids
soked things off and the props wifi.
aug up conpl. llapke.s some
where's and raped the kids up ami
then Grace begin bowling about how
near drownded she was and
thought I'd be better off in the storm
then listening to she bowling so ]
blowed out again and the rain had
let up little but jest enought so as
could see acrost the st. Well
Charley the car wasent nowheres.
They wasent no body a round no
wagons or no st. cars or nothing.
Well Charley they wasent moth
ing to do but brake the news 70
Grace and she got hystericks and the
kids was pretty near as bad. Well
any way Charley when il stopped
raining and the kids cloths wasent SO
wet 10 more We went home on the
st. car and didcnt only half to trans
fer twice.
Its Seen over "a hrs sence the car
was stole and not word about IT
from no where's and they tell me
theys So many Swift Six been sold
in Chi that it aint nothing but luck
hen you identify witch is yourn.
So Grace is upstairs giveing the
kids some hot baths and I been set
ting in the pianos rm. figgureing out
now much that there car cost all to-
gether and I got it figured where il
| stands me $S49.00 and that includs
the garage L III ana tno
storage and the repairs and gasoline
| and llsence and robes and etc
A fine investment that was hay
Charley and 1 guess Grace will know
| enough next time to try and save
her monev and not go splurgeing on
pianos and cars and stuff that they
| cant nobody afford unlest there mil
iionares.
Kindest to both Of you.
Your Bro. F. A. GROSS.
4 X
Allison, Ill. May %.
DRO. CHARLEY. Jest a line Char
ley to leave you know wear get
ting long o. K. and not starveing to
death.
Theys an other interest day on our
mortgage comeing the LIST. of July
| and how wear going to meet it
cont know but we will meet it some
way because we cant afford to loose
our property now because its more
valuable then ever on acct. Of there
being nice garage in the back yard.
Well Charley i bet you'll be su-
prised to hear that I'm piano player
Evening star., 1921-09-11
By "a GENTLEMAN WITH
DUSTER.n
Lord Northcliffe

Lord NorthclifYe. first viscount (Al-
fred Charles William Harmsworth).
Born, 1855. In Dublin. Education: In
trade schools; trained as q book seller.
and worked In the establishment Of
George Newnes: LII d., Rochester
University. Omitted States OF America.
Proprietor Of the London Times, Daily
Mail and q number Of other journals.
viscount. 1917. Chairman Of the Brit
ish war mission to the Udfted States.
1917. Director OF propaganda In
enemy eountriex f81a.
Evening star., 1921-09-11

TILL MI AEOS WAS ~ AS SVOAD
STAND UP,
the money over to you so as we would
ent be worried about it more then a
wk. or because it would keep me
awake nights thinking about 1t but If
you had 1t we would be sure to be
broke again as soon is you see some
thing that cost the hole amt weather
it was 100000 dollars worth Of fresh
your under shirt. So I says This here
car aint going to cost the hole $500
but we will still have $50 yet to do
what ever we please with 1t or leave
it lay. So she says Yes on $4,000 we
can take a trip to Japan China or save
up the intrest for 10 yrs. and buy
evening paper.
earring on so I says all right keep
your old money and be a miser SO she
says I will tell you what I will do
will leave you buy me that piano to-
morrow and you can take what's left
of Of the $4,000 and spend. it on the
car.
So today she met me down town and
we bought the piano and payed $1,000
cash for 1t and then ]. took her out to
the Coliseum and showed her the
Swift Six and Of coarse when she seen
1t she couldent help from likeing 1t
and they cou1dent no body that seen
it and seen what q bargain 1t Is when
you consider the price we are getting
IL at.
It's fixed SO you don't half to turn
no crank to start the engine running
but jess press your It. on q peddle and
its got red wheels and q reglar set Of
tools under the front seat so a man
can do all your fixing but they claim
1t don't hard.ey ever need nothing done
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A,,,.on M March .,

Allison Ill. March %
DRoTHER CHARLEY. Well Charley
- woAt write you no more letters
about my car Charley because got
no car and who evers got it can keep
1t. And I'm tickled to death that
they dident get it till Grace and the
kids had 1 ride and they dident only
ride about or miles but long
enough to say they road in their own
car any way.
Well Charley will tell you what
come OF. In the first place the car
wasen't ready the day the Swift peo-
ple says il would be ready. but 1t was
1nely ready yesterday and I went out
there early In the P. n and got 1t.
So It was the .nrst day Of spring and
the finest day ever seen for March.
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they isent q cloud in sight and be-
sides 2 above zero is to cold for rain
or snow 5either / so every thing is
safe for to mite.
Well Charley I must get up early
in the A. NJ. and take the family ride
ing and I wisht you was here to go
with us. o you Swift Six.
Regards to Mary.
Your Bro. FRED GROSS.
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GREAT surgeon tells me he
has no doubt; that Carlyle suf-
-fered all his life from q duo
danoI ulcer ssf>ne NAV anecu-
Evening star., 1921-09-11

FRED A. GROSS. ASSISTANT
CHIEF OF DETECTIVES, WHO
GAVE UP HIS FLAT In -CHiCAGO iO
BUILD A HOME IN THE SUBURBS
ACQUIRES A CAR.
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- Allison. Ill. March 5.
TEAR CHARLEY. Well Charley the
- cars down to the town garage
rere in Allison and Grace amt had
a ride in It yet and the man says 1t
will be o. X. tomorrow A. NJ. There
fixing up the battery now 30 as the
self starter will work and / would
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about all 1 been doing is boring
money and paying it out and the gar
rage that I ordered built is going to
cost pretty near $4,000 dollars but I
couldent get 1 for no less and the
Swift peoples going to soak me for
a new wheel and a new tire and the
garage says 1 owe them $4,000 and
it would be some satisfaction If /
could fine out who done that dirty
trick about leaving the wind out of
2 but the boys down to Headquarters
jest laughs like 1t was a good joke
and wont squeal on who ever done 1t.
An other thing 1 had to pay for
was the lisence and its costing me
$500 for a lisence to own a car that
1 aint hardley seen let alone get any
pleasure out Of 1t.
The Swift people called up today
and says I could come and get the
car tomorrow. Grace amt had no
! ride in it yet SO any way If the cars
and give Grace and the kids a ride
before some thing else happens but
| I guess its pretty near time for the
| luck to brake the other way hay
Charley. That's what told a fellow
| me some insurance. What kind of
| insurance asst him. He says auto
| mobile insurance. No I says my cars
| cost me enough all ready with out
/ 1t costing me no more. So he says
its libel to cost you a hole lot
more before you threw II you don't
have no insurance. He says its libel
| to burn up or run in to some body
and kill them or some bodys libel to
help themself to 1t when its laying
| in the st. Yes says they'd be libel
| to steal a car that belonged to 1 of
| the detective bureau. So he says No
probily not because it would be like
stealing pennys from a blind man.
But anyway he says the fire insur-
| ence and libilty insurance would cost
$4,000 dollars per annum and $1,000
dollar bills Is jest as plenty a round
| me these days is whiskers on a flute.
Well Charley give our kindest to
Mary and hope lucks been better
with you then l.
Evening star., 1921-10-23

tive" is often all that is necessary.
Children love the "fruity" taste Of
genuine California" Syrup Of Figs
which has directions for babies and
children printed ON the bottle. Say
California" or you may get IN imi.
tation fig syrup. Beware!
Evening star., 1921-10-23

| ability. Uniontown is the center of the
soft coal country" as the great bitu-
| minous region of southwestern Penn
sylvania is known. In the mines and al
/ the coke ovens many thousands OF for
eigners find employment, always q tur-
bulent element that knows no law but
the law Of the mines, violence and
bloodshed when occasion arises to main
tain the right to toll. Probably nc
other part of the country has witnessed
so many disastrous clashes of labor and
capital. often leading to riot and mur-
der. ending with the appearance Of the
state militia.
In the settlement of these struggles
Senator Crow exerted firmness and
Judgment, and it is an evidence Of his
fairness and wise counsel that he al
ways has possessed the confidence Of
the workers and the mine operators.
A state senator for fifteen years,
Mr.. Crow has had q hand in shaping
all Of the important legislation en-
acted by the Pennsylvania general
assembly turing this period and much
of this legislation has been prepared
by him. A forceful speaker, Q trained
parliamentartan and with q thorough
knowledge of the vast commercial
and industrial interests Of Pennsyl.
vania, he has been recognized as re-
publican leader Of the state senate.
For years he has had an ambition to
~ sAiS sSsA&~eS'
Urged by potential party leaders to
become a candidate for governor. he
refused. saying that when he retired
from the Pennsylvania senate 1t
would be to enter the Senate at
Washington. In 1916 he was pro-
posed as a candidate for senator, but
would not oppose Senator Knox.
In 1913 he was made chairman Of
the republican state committee and
year later directed the campaign
for the election Of a state ticket and
the reelection of Senator Penrose.
The struggle for the senatorship was
of nationwide interest. Senator Pen
rose was opposed by Clifford Pinchot.
candidate of the Washington party,
or Independent republicans. and A.
Mitchell Palmer, afterward Attorney
General. democrat Senator Crow or
ganized the voters OF every county
and the success Of the republican
ticket was due in largo measure to
his resourcefulness as a campaign
manager. AS head of the Pennsyl-
vania delegation to the republican
national convention last June he was
a prominent figure at Chicago. In
Pennsylvania he is said to have q
larger personal following than any
other public man. with the exception
of Senator Penrose. Mr.. Crow is
f1fty-one years old. He IS married
and has three sons.