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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-27

TO bo continued tomorrow
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I'm here. and that's thc reason thc
guard-ain't.! -
There was almost awe and admiration
in Dave 1lcnderson's voice.
We got your nerve with you -
he said softly.
Bookie Skarvan chucklcd in his
wheezy way.
Sure !" he said complaccnlly. "AnJ
that's why VIC win. You get the lay,
don't you?"
Ilc was whispering now. You
cant get that cash alone, Dave. I'm
telling you straight they won't let you.
Rut they won't watch ne You know
me, Dave. I'll make It n fair split
fifty fifty. Tell me where the money is.
and I'll get it, and be waiting for you
anywhere you say when you come out
and l,ll fix it to hand over your share
so s they'll never know YOU got 1T
got to make sure it's fixed like that for
my own sake, you can soc that. Get
me. Dave? And I go out Of here now
and tell the warden it amt any good
that can't get you to talk. / guess
that looks nifty enough. don't it,,
Dave?"
There was fy climbing up thh wiro
netting. It zigzagged its course over
the little squares. 1t was a good gamble
whether. on reaching the next strand, it
would turn to the right or left. or con-
tinuc straight ahead. Dave Henderson
watched it. The creature did no one Of
those things. 1t paused and frirtioncd
its front legs together in n leisurely
fashion. After that it appeared 10 be
quito satisfied with its position-and il
stayed there.
Poor Bookic." murmurcd Dave
Henderson. ''Sad, too, | guess il must
b" softening of tho brain -
BoOkic Skarvan's face botched sud-
denly rcd--but he pressed his face still
more earnestly against the wire barrier.
You don't get it," he brcathed
hoarsrly. IL m giving you straight
tip. Barjan's waiting for you. The
police are waiting for you. You
hayen'l got hope. | tell you. YOU
can't get that money alone, no matter
where you put it.
II heard you," said Dave Hcndcr-
son indiffcrrntly.
Their" was silence for moment.
A sort Of anxious cXaspcration spread
OYER Skarvnn'S face, then pcrplexity.
and then flare Of rage.
"Nou'rc II fool. :" lie snarlcd. "You
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-27
FROM NOW ON


Attaboy Bookie grinned. "You
PCT you re listening! We amt for
gotten tnose years YOU aisl inc spent
togethcr; nave we, Davey You know
me, ana know you, kept away
ironi nero until now. cause l didn' I
want en- to get the right dope on the
Detting--didn want 'em to think there
was any chancc OF us playing up to each
otner'
you mcayl you didn't want them TO
get wise that you we're crook. too. I"
suggested Dave Henderson impcrturb-
ably.
Bookic Skarvon bod No false m,dos,v
his left cyelid drooned for tbo sccons
time. " '''>' ''' ''' ''>O''
..yo, ,. A.. :,. r. ..,....
,;,, lou sn. .,1 Ins iuca, DaVe' nc grihnco
st.oin.. asan nnpE We got 10 ngure IN
piaa r. h ,nr pihh. i. haI a tns
p.ny We oepn maklng III waning nvc
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whitenoss about the old fellows face
had n nasty appearance.
His mind went pack 10 Millmln,
working in queer, disconnected snatchcS
of thought. lie was going to lose Mill
man, too Millman was going out
tomorrow = II had always been a
relief TO talk 10 Millman He had
never told Millman where the money was,
of course, but Millman knew what he,
Dave Henderson, was "in" for.
The library hour wasn't far of, and 1T
would help 10 talk to Millman now.
e Only Millman was going out to-
rnorrow-and he was TO bid Millman
good-by.
This seemed somehow the crowning
jcer of mockery that fate was hinging
at him--that tomorrow even Millman
would be gone. IL seemed to bring a
snarl into his soul, the snnrl AZ OF some
gaunt, starving beast at bay, the snarl
Of desperation flung out in bitter, rcck-
less defiance.
He put hia hands 10 his face, and
beneath them bis jaws clampcd and
locked They would never beat him,
he would go under first, bu--but-----
- Time passed The routine of the
prison life went on like the turning
Of some great. ponderous wheel that
moved very slowly, but at the same time
with sort of smooth, oiled immutabil-
ity. It seemed that way to Dave Hen
derson. Hc was conscious Of no definite
details that marked or occupied the
passage Of time. The library hour
had come. He was on his way TO the
library now--with permission to get
look. lie did not want book. He was
going to see Millmau, and, God knew,
be did not want to sce Millman--to say
good-by.
TO bo continued tomorrow
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rms pEGtNs THE STORY

paye Henderson. who has como no
,.ny, the piuins to manhood IN an en-.
,,i,nnment ,ig OF chicanery, is sorcly tempted
when his emploLcr. Bookie sks,ryan. ,,%a
oon from Martin X. Tydefnan TO rocoup
Tsce.track losses Dave spGcpmes sSS sS, ssI
Mss 's ,ent two thugs TO do the same
SInr. They learn Dave. has taken. the
money, and set o trap for him. from
which ho escapes after hiding the $780,:
no He eludes his pursuers IN wild
sutomobils chase. and skulks about the
Sountryside fhearly starving and forced
10 auench his thirst IN ditch water. At
last he suocunrbs TO fever and is
i found by Joe Barjan, q detective. who
triss TO learn where the money is hid.
n,hrnush which Henderson gets a jail
"nisnco Of fye years. TO the jail, as
rsrsuade him to reveal the hidins place
n the money. This falls. Meanwhile
pave plans to let a, fellow-convict. about
10 be released. in on the secret.
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SEGo7aR1 &qon

flEk Christmas always arises ONT spoil
the fascinating question: What - the holidays
shall buy with this solng new dance frock or
hcre can never slippers will
doubt as to the supremacy of them Bargs l3 Chestnut
STERLING SILVER as lasting AND they will be able
RJd1e ~ that they will look quite
of will find be
single
equally exquisite There skifu clothes
reproductions of the Old English send their
french designs and
of handsome old
created BY this House when it suits remember
h Silver Service white cleaned
from Baleys will be
things that the
will cherish its most priced heir have old
loom. dyed black 49, " ~ '''
seeing the WISH to disagree with tho old
ana bottom edges OF your
T nn ayo @ So fine birds In this psychology
sbaned osos Inc there remain doubt the
psir mas M % W S % Gur G next sperecnc of the
wal oeIS' oPll who confident
w. d o. al
Of increased cIothiS ne
comfort improved
When you have adjusted
by this firm the
years qualify them
select the size which fnInwe lhSlr
glass suited Sy
btoa is especially adapted "Ste ana
round lens and when far apear-
wn ~ ING tne hy lou cannot make in
efficiency from, - dress t snt "" "a ring ing, apparel,
NEW YEARS Gft-A Gift Basket Of Fruit from l1aIIou, ,p
'nestnnt erab Horn of Nothing could be So
lhese baskets are hle with all those delicious
cluster OF dollhouse Grapes from under which peep u
wbt annexed ose Pear brilliant Lady Apples Anjou Pears
o attractive color effects Gift Basket bound win the the
deepest apRao from friends Haoweis guaraue
VIZ Sb $50 and $25 to $50 and upward ~ @'' Te' Sio
, THE CHESTNUT STREET AssocIATIoN lE
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Acorn Day Prices in Furnishings and Hats

Mems silk Shirts Finest Silks in Jersey.
Crepes and Broadcloth) h).............,S7O 90
Mems 50 Silk Fibre and Linen Shirts. 81 80
Mems $3.50. So and $3.50 Madras and
Russian Cord Shirts. rtS..........S So M
Mems $3.50 Blue Flannel ID. Il. Fremen's
Regulatory Shirts. ts.,..............,,.S S. 30
Mems $3.50 Blue Flannel d. H. Firemen's
Regulation Shirts. S35O
Mems 81 Gray and Khaki Flannel Shirts SO. 90
Mems SO Khaki Shirts ts..............,,.s2 $3.50
Mems 1926 Heavy All-WoOl Shirts &
Drawers (Broken Sizes) .,......S2 50 25
Mems S225 Heavy All-W ool Shirts and
Drawers (Broken Sizes) ..,..........s1.5O
Mems 1925 Medium. Weight Woo. Mixed
Shirts and Drawers erS........... each 81 X
Mems Ss AllWool Union Suits 90
Mems $3.50 Merino Union Suits $500
Mems 81 Cotton Union Suits ts...,.........S1.O 90
Mems 1925 Duofod Union Suits $3.50
Mems $3.50 Duofold Union Suits $3.50
Mems S5 Duofold Union Suits "a m
Mems 81 Duofold Union Suits 80
Mems $3.50 Natural Wool MerinO ca M
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Mems $40 Coat Sweaters, N-necks (aII
=, '''''. ,,.,..... $500
Mems Sl2 Coat Sweaters. Shawl Collars
Call wOOD .............. On -
menS $500 N-neck, pu.oNer sweaters 81 o0
Boys S6 N-neck. pull-Over Sweaters S500
"eSs Nl;'o Silk Wool Half Hose
Mens Doc Heavy Lislc Half Hose i0c
Ni Men zoc Cotton Hose, two pairs for. ....2Sc
NJ, coz, Exactly Half Price
Mems 81 SIX Knit tour-n- Hand Ties 75c
Mns Mens % Siik Knit Four-in-Hand Ties S22S
Mems SOC Mercerized Garters ave Sgc
Men 35c Cotton Carriers '32c 32
Mems S. Bathrobes s..........'''' '''''' e,o %oc
Mems IS Bathrobes '''''' sd'O0
Mems SO Bathro so'0O
Mems SIS Bathrobes ...., ''''' SS,,'90
SS Hudson Seal Caps ct" "si'0 sioO
Mems SS and &c = i iats rs ,'''''','.....,. $500
Mems * aud &c nj M ha's ''''''........ SO so
Mems 40 snd sa I,o'es'' ''''''''.,......s $500
Boys' 81 IN Cans "P'' '''''''....'..,.S S1.50
= =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-02
The Slow Mill.
ION S. RAvENEL. a southern coz

|DON S. RAvENEL. a southern coal
operator. was discussing the Eng
lish coal strike.
THE English government" he said,
had right on it's side when It refused
to increase wages unless there should
be an increase of output.
You see, every time wages went up
beforehand they had gone up of late
pretty often-output had gone down.
Indeed. if output keeps en- going down
in England, it will be like the milIer's
mill.
"A miller, you know. had an old
fashioned mill which ground the wheat
into flour very slowly. A progressive
young farmer-one of these new style
farmers, who use tractor plows and.
long amber cigarette tubes watched
the mill for a while one afternoon and
then said to the miller:
by heck, / could eat that -four
faster than your old mill grinds it
out
Yep said the miller, chuckling,
yep. but how long could We keep on
eatin' of it, boy?'
THE young farmer yawned,
It'll / starved he said"
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HO the Editor: i read some
where's a vile ago that vile
life in small towns and on the
farm was in many ways de-
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Lardner Goes In for -
Accommodating a Culture I
By Ring w. Lardner.

wasn't tattooed. At that BARLEY done
pretty good for a fighter named Bart
ley. but the bout was slow. and some
of the birds in the 1850 seats begin
wishing that they had put in another
dollar and bought ton of coal.
** sz~~
The Sd. event was a fight between
descendants of sunny Africa which
l suppose you might call IT a riot of
color. One of them. Kid Norfolk, had
whole lot more color and done pretty
near all the rioting. When he come in
the ring he had on a night cap though
they was no chance OF has Opt. Big
Bill Tate rocking anybody to sleep.
Norfolk seemed TO realize this when
he set down in his corner. He had his
monogram X. n. embroidered on has
trunks. Mr.. Humphreys Introduced
him as Kid Norfolk from Baltimore,
which added touch of mystery
Big Bill Tate is Dempseys sparring
partner in every day lite which L have
often wondered whether l would
rather have that job or tumor. Big
Bill fights on the side for rest and
relief. but he didn't get neither from
Norfolk
Big Bill stands about It. Z in his
socked TT. and Norfolk amt no bigger
than cutie but he's even more OF a
eye. though you couldn't see how he
ever reached up there. They said be-.
fore the Toledo fiasco that Dempsey
couldn't reach Willard neither. Nor
folks favorite punch however was a
straight left that lit anywheres be-
low the belt and about the only way
Bill could of protected himself from
a licking was to wear chin guards.
Bill might of claimed a foul s or 2
times but when you got all day job
like Dempsey's sparring partner what
is a kick in the shins more or less.
Bill didn't show nothing. and before
the bout had went far the crowd was,
calling him Big Bum instead of Big
Bill. Big Bum is a crowds pet name
for anybody over 6 fit. tall that tried
to partake of athletics. Don't l know?
Referee Houkop which sounds like
he had drank his ginger ale too fast
refereed the main event of the even
ing which il won't be nessary for me
to describe. as il has all ready been
wrote up by better men than j am or
Gungha Din either Mr.. Humphreys
announced before the bout that the
winner was to receive a diamond belt
the gift of Tex Richard. So Arthur
made the remark that he couldn't
think of nothing handler to have
around the house and he wished h.
was Dempsey.
Mr.. Brennan got a belt in the 12tl
I'd. but they wasn't no diamonds in il
only stars. and then Mr.. Dempse
stood up in the middle of the ring
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pens at the table? At least, when
you're playing against those that STICK
strictly to the rules.
Tostelli's face acquired flush OF nlgn
color, then paled violently; for moment
he seemed to be having intense difnculty
depressing vivid words, but Bits eyes
challenged his and he got command oil
himself and shrugged his shoulders.
When it was evident the incident might
be regarded as closed. Bill rose. wished
the players perfunctory goodnight,
and received cash for his chips from the
steward
Marsh had been watching the clash
with ill-concealed uneaSineSs.
THAT chap Tostelli isn't a good man
to have trouble with" he said. the
moment they had reached the outer air.
81 wouldn't have had muss with him
such as you had for ten times what
was in that pot
"It wasn't what was in the pot; it
was mostly matter of principle. Bill
said, contentedly 'Td been laying for
him ever since he pulled the strict rules
on that good-natured Teller Broome-
after making his raise when he knew
Broome had dropped a card. l wouldn't
make that play just made in a friendly
game-that is, unless it was a mighty
small ono and awful friendly. where you
get a Teller good and then hooraw him
afterward-but with nobody else in the
pot but him and me- So he's a bad
hombre. is he Well. he kinda looks it.
What is he? Professional gambler"
That's Lightning Louie Tostelli.
He's supposed to be the quickest shot
there is anywhere. He has a gang;
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thoughts it come to me that I seldom
never profited by my location and as
far as acquiring elegants and Poiisn
and etc, might as well be receiving
teller on garbage wagon in Rum
ford Corners. So I made a resolution
to turn over a new leaf and went
right to the phone and called up Tex
Richard and got tickets to the
: Dempsey-Brennan fight, and as OF
coarse they was only a very few of
my readers that was able to be there
1 may as well try and tell them
little about it SO as they can be OBJ
tanning culture second hand you
might say.
These educational evenings is gen.
orally always held in Madison Square
Garden, where they also devote
whole wk. every yr. to the six-day
bicycle race between ten or twelve
teams of Belgium, Cuckoo and other
spireing sight unlest its the Philadel-
phia Athletics. Well on this night
and a friend of mine, named Arthur
reached the Garden a u after but
they was all ready several 1000 other
diletants there ahead of us. Our
tickets said working press so we as
sumed rakiSh expression and
stuck a pencil behind our ear and
was showed to ring side seat with
no questions asked.
Erudite N. Y. was out in mess in
cludeing many fashionably drest
members of the demi- mondaine ac-
companied by their escorts in head
all the
was one that made a lasting I'M
preston on the eye and nostrils
We hadn't hardly had time to locate
the different aromas however, when
man named Joe Humphreys clumb UP
in the ring and begin announcing
where the st. Agnus guild was gong
to meet and etc. and the gentlemen
is kindly requested to refrain from
smokeing which seemed to be a slgnai
for everybody to throw away their
costly cigars and light a fresh one
THEW say Mr.. Humphreys has been
makeing announcements from the
prize ring for thirty yrs. wuhout the
English language ever getting
draw with him.
The first bout of the evening was
between representatives OF sunny
Finmark named Marty tarreil ana
Frank Mcclure. Marty had his gloves
nerfumed and Frank couldn't keep
his nose off them. The old snoot
lasted the full 6 rds. but it looked ike
somebody would half to tell him II
the dressing for his Xmas turkey was
Favored with garlic or bay rum.
Mr.. Humphreys next introduced
BARLEY Madden and Charley Weinert.
the Adonis of Newark. But maybe
Mr. Humphreys said that SO as Char-
lev wouldn't feel out Of place along
side of BARLEY whose natural charms
was added to by the elegant handi-
work of some old master amongst tat
tooists. The ornaments was confined
to his arms before the bout started
hut after 10 rds. of it they wasn't |
hardly no part of his carcass that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-02
SmattererS.

seTHE late Jacob Schiff." said a
banker. was a progressive and
a social reformer. but he hated the
pinks, or parlor bolsheviks and. above
all, he hated your real bomb throwing
reds.
"Mr. Schiff believed that the cure for
the reds lay not in deportation, but in
education. AS he once said:
"a red 10 . chap who hasn't read
enough" SD
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that they was whole lot of city
jewellers that don't never take ad-
Vantage D. their opportunity and
spend their time and money on Fatty
Arbunkle and Marion Gish when they
might be grading off little culture
and 'refinements for themself at the
Public Library or the museum of Fine
Arts or the aquarium and etc.
Well at first / thought how lucky
1 was to live in a suburb of n. Y,
city where they's nothing worth vile.
you might say. that a person can't
get there in u hr. but on I'd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-02
Origin of Throwing
Shoes at Newlyweds

THROWING the old shoe was not
always confined to weddings,
though the custom nowadays has
come to be associated entirely with
the going away of bridal couples.
Authorities differ concerning the
origin of the practice as well as of
the exact meaning attached to it, but
there seems to be a general opinion
that it has to do with some very
ancient ceremony or rite in connec-
ton with the transfer of property
woman being regarded as such among
the nations where the custom of such
a ceremony is first found.
There is also the possibility of it's
referring to the time when the BRIDE
groom carried off the bride by force.
though this seems less likely.
It was in the sense of confirming
sale or exchange that the Jews
understood the removal and giving
of a shoe or sandal. When the kins-
man of Boaz consented to waive his
claim upon the parcel of land which
Naomi would sell, in favor of Boaz.
he drew or his SHOE" for this was
a testimony in Israel"
In a different sense the removal
Of a shoe marks the winding up of
negotiations among the laws and or
dinances given in the book of Deu-
teronomy, where the widow, who is
refused marriage by her husbands
surviving brothers. is directed to come
unto him in the presence of the elders.
and loose his shoe from off his feet"
thus asserting her independence and
heaping upon him the blame for fail
ure to comply with the law.
When the Emperor vladimir pro-
posed marriage to the daughter of
Reginald, she refused him with the
words:
It will not take off my shoe to the
son of slave
In Anglo-Saxon marriages the
brides father delivered her shoe to
the head with it in token of his
authority.
The idea of luck is the principal
thought associated with 1t always in
these later times, especially luck in
making journeys
Ben Jonson wrote:
Hurl after me a shoe.
I'll be merry whatever I'll do.
Haywood says:
And home again hitherward quick as a bee.
Now for good luck. cast an old shoe at me.
While Tennyson tells us:
For this thou shalt from all things seek,
MARROW OF m1rtn ana laughter,
And wheresoe'er thou move. good luck
Shall throw her old shoe after.
Undoubtedly it is the remnant of
something which came from the Egyp-
tians or some other ancient nation
with which the Jews came in con-
tact though investigation shows that
it was never confined to any one
race.
There are some interesting points
in regard to the practice which have
usually been overlooked in treating
the subject For example, the priests
and worshipers at the shrines of the
Roman Cybele, the Grecian Ops. the
Canaanitish Ashtaroth and the Egyp-
tian Isis were compelled to remove
their sandals.
The shoes and sandals Of the Greeks,
Romans. Egyptians and Jews were
ornamented with horns, crescents and
other representations of the moon.
while at marriage ceremonies the
custom Of casting the shoe was, and
is now, combined with the throwing
Of flowers ar8 various kinds Of grain.
These symbols and offerings seem to
indicate the Precipitation Of a god.
probably the deity who presides over
productiveness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-02

get his. Mr. Humphreys give it to
him, and he took it with a elegant
bow a good deal like WIZARDS bow
when he entered the ring at Toledo.
That bow of Wizards was the LIST.
inkling anybody had that they was
something the matter with the big
fellow.
Well Mr.. Dempsey made his bow
but the presentations wasn't over yet.
The crowd got up all of a sudden and
give him a elegant shower bouquet
Of raspberries.
All and all. 1 felt like it was an
evening well spent and from now ON
1 am going to try and go somewheres
once a wk. and improve my mind and
If 1 feel like I can spare any of the
culture I pick up 1 will pass il on.
RING w. LARDNER.
Longs Island, Dec. 81.
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Johns Comeback.
TDGE GARY was discussing mar.

FUDGE GARY was discussing mar
J riage.
MANY a marriage which began as
a pure love match" he said, ''devel-
ops into an eternal wrangle. Haven't
you seen marriages wherein the con-
tracing parties do nothing but argue
and fight and contradict each other
over trifies from daylight till dark?
Il remember dining once with such
menage. When the soup came on
they started an argument about the
price of the parlor carpet or some
such ridiculous matter. and the serv-
ing of the fruit saw this argument at
its height.
Then the wife interrupted. herself.
to say to her husband, plaintively: =
"T don't know what would happen
John. if you ever agreed with me on
any topic =
IT'D be wrong said John. I'd be
wrong" -