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DENVER LIVE STOCK.
fnttIa

Trading on the local market took q
turn for the better and part of the loss
Of last week was quickly recovered
Stronger prices are prevailing and the
stock was moving well under a good
demand from all quarters.
Beef was in the minority again, but
the supplies of this division were of a
good attractive quality and the higher
prices Were easily obtained. In general
the market appeared 15 to rs cents
higher. but traders were not uniform
In their estimates, some calling the ad-
vance full quarter and some even
higher.
Most Of the reported advances were
tn the beef lines. A feature of this
division was the disposal Of one lot
OF feedlot steers for 81. the highest
price paid for several weeks. Other
steers sold at $6.25 and $3.50. and in
the female division n satisfactory trade
was reported with cows selling for
f4.35 and $40, and string OF heifery
animals for S5
The feeder and stocker division wa,
not quite as active and the advance
were not as sharp.
broad and insistent demand pre-
vailed on the local hog market ana
with supplies running conservatives a
very active session resulted with values
rs cents. ~
Quality ruled fair. A biz part n,
the run consisted OF good attraotiys
handyweight hogs. Most eastern cen
ters were also reporting advances. Ton
here was $3.50 and other good stock
sold for s7.35 and $40. Bulk ranged
from $3.50 to $735. Prime cutouts were
quoted as high as s5.75.
Sheep.
Conditions in the sheep division COM
pared wen with those that prevailed in
the other markets. An active trad.
was reported and values showed a good
advance.
Best fancy fat lambs are now be,ng
and seventy head of good Quality nv,
mails, weighing eighty-three pounds
In the feeder section the advance was
not so marked. A top for the season
was established in the sele ~ and isa, 1
OF y-seven-pound lambs FOR 80
Other feeders weighing fifty-eirht
pounds sold for $3.50. ~
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TURNED IT BACK TO BAKER
Chinese Dairy Farmer Had Good ts-
cuse for Selling His Product
Without Using Scales.

A dairy farmer living In a small
Town was recently summoned to APP
near before the local magistrate on o
charge Of selling butter under weight.
The complainant was the village
baker. who felt he was being wrongcd
when he discovered that every pound
of the farmers butter fell below the
weight that n pound ought 10 he.
Have you pair of scalesT asked
the magistrate OF the farmer.
"Yes. your honor"
"And weights?"
'No, your honor, | have no weights. '
''You have no weights How, then
can you weigh your butterf"
"That is very simple. your honor
Since the baker has bought his butter
from me, l buy my bread from him
and his one-pound loaves serve me as
weights to weigh my butter II the
butter does not weigh what 1t should
1t Is the bakers fault, and not mine
you see."-North. China Herald
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Probably Not.

'I presume my letters to her VIII he
read in court?'
ITS quite likely" said the lawyer.
who had been engaged by the de-
fendant in breach Of promise suit.
II dread that. The pet names /
called her will make me look foolish. -
II wouldn't worry" said the lawyer.
soothingly. 1.-The court is used to hear
ing terms OF that sort, and don't
suppose you thought up any new
ones" s."-Birmingham Age-Herald.
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Reconsideration
MADE HIT WITH yovNs
companionable Mother Nee. NJ,
Been Afraid She Was oe
doing Her Rompin,

A prominent Ioosler a.
Is a devoted mother. and laa
TO rorup with her childpae'nl
The other evening her d.tiE
laughter brought her cham ha.
ler for the night The chVail
+ Is dirnlfed and neve' 10
okes with her children, Sel
dent woman outdld hersi Z
hlltren's amusement. Fml
sid lnusllnely: Il mus sPi
ced win think you have ils
rotlier."
The next morning when d.
rosiaIrs to pull her daushis
bd she heard the two 10
tiking. And the little visis
I'm going to begin to pfay a
vii make my mother Into a.
yurs."
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so you have graduated IN
leef"
Yes, sir"
Studied abroad, too''
Yes. SIR"
Consider yourself nov lip'
ale to get along and adap y
ir any kind of society,"
Il believe So"
.rhat's what ! used 10 !. ,la
lived TO discover this: No :
h.w many college degrees ~. !. /, .
nj how carefully his pa''aa
hiye trained him, when as . ~ \.
rid there's always a lot DIS , W.
thinks necessary to 'eacn AA
troit Free Press.
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NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE
,ws,,ern Newspaper Union New, serIos3
WESTERN

Six men were injured, three Sc
riously in a gasoline explosion caused
by a fire which destroyed six stores,
a moving picture theater and a
garage at Duke, Jackson county,
Okla.
Two defendants were dismissed and
eleven others We're bound over TO the
next term of Criminal District Court
under bonds of $4,000 for trial on
charges of murder in connection with
the killing of three men at Wilson,
Okla, the night of Dec. u.
Declared to be members of an in
ternational gang of bandits whose op-
erations during the last two years have
netted approximately $2,50O,0o0 in loot
from many cities, Herbert Cox and
Herbert Wilson We're held in Jail in
Los Angeles by federal and county au-
thorities.
So many fires have visited Auburn,
Calf, Chinatown during the last few
years that the residents are now build
ing only fireproof buildings. One small
building is being erected by subscrip-
tions for the use of n group of aged
Cinnamon who lost their homes in the
latest fire.
Crazed, it was said, by moonshine
liquor and possessed of the idea that
his condition was due TO an influ-
ence of his victim, G. d. Harvey shot
and killed Oscar R. Nordgren as the
latter slept on a couch in Harvey s
home in Waterman, S. D. He used
a shotgun, holding the muzzle close
to Nordgren's heart.
Eastern scientists to whom WAS
shipped the ashes in which it was be-
lieyed a quantity of radium lost in the
Axtell hospital at Newton, Kan, would
he found, report that they have reeov-
cred about S1,S00, or about one-third
of the radium lost, from 300 pounds
of ashes, it was learned. On the sup
position that the radium had found its
way into the hospital furnace the ashes
were shipped east for analysis.
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GENERAL

New York's unemployed numbered
330,01 on Dec II, against 342, $50 two
months before. This report was made
by the local committee appointed in
accordance with recommendations
made ut the unemployment conference
in Washington.
| An involuntary petition in bankrupt
ey was filed in Federal Court in New
York against Robert H. Ingersoll and
Brother, manufacturers of 1ngersoll
watches. Liabilities We're set at S3,-
100000 and assets, exclusive of good
will, us $2,OO0,000
Harvey Church, charged with the
murder of two automobile saIesmen,
was found guilty at Chicago and SEN
fenced to death. Church killed the
men, Carl Asmus and Bernard Daugh-
erty, when they delivered a car which
he had arranged to buy.
While attempting to replace a blow
out fuse in the power house of the
Illinois traction system at Danville,
was shocked to death, and Edward
Hart, who rushed to his assistance,
was seriously burned.
With the purchase of a large plot
of ground in New York, Mecca tenn
pie, mother temple of the Mystic
Shrine in the United States, has an
nounced plans for constructing a ST.
100000 oriental mosque Work on
the building. it was said, will begin
at once.
Grieving over an illness, August
Smell, 10, a patient of the county
hospital, ended his life at Los An
geles by chewing a dynamite cap
which virtually blew off his head
when 1t exploded The explosion
terrorized number of patients.
The body of Charles Swinney, for
mer soldier, has been found near
Kings Mill, Tenn, after a search, ac-
cording to advices received. The top
of Swinney's head had been blown
away, Officers attribute the crime to
robbers. Swinney is said to have left
home with $500 in cash. Nothing was
found in the pockets when the body
WIS discovered.
George w. Walker, conductor, YVES
asphyxiated and three other train
men were overcome by gas or smoke
when their train apparently was
stalled in a tunnel between st. Johns
Junction and Portland on the Ore.
gon-Washington Railroad and Navi.
CATION Company's lines. The train
was found standing near the east end
of the tunnel, which is about a mile
long. The engineer, fireman and a
brakeman were in the cab of the
locomotive and Walker was at the
rear of the train
George Rogers, alias George lewis
convicted of conspiracy in connection
with the $1,000,00O Toledo postal
robbery last February, pleaded guilty
to the charge of robbery in connec-
tion with the case and was sentenced
to serve sixty-seven years in the fed
eral penitentiary at Leavenwortb
Kansas. by Federal Judge Killits.
Onsville G. Coffin, who built the
first toll road in Colorado running he.
tween Boulder and Black Hawk is
dead at his home in Bayside, N. Y. He
served in Indian campaigns with tbe
First Colorado cavalry.
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WASHINGTON

Boys in this country ander 8 years
of age average from one-third to one
half inch taller and about one pound
heavier than girls, according to re-
port by the federal children's bureau,
of data on the heights and weights of
children under years of age ever
brought together in this country" The
tabulation was made in connection with
''children's year" and includes both
native and foreign-born children.
The number of cattle and calves
slaughtered on farms in the United
States in 1919 for beef and veal, ae-
cording to the fourteenth census, was
1,904,581. as compared with $780,
240 in 1909. The number of farms
reporting cattle or calves slaughtered
in 1919 was sS7,611, or 1873 per
cent of all farms; while in 1909,
593,2S5, or 90 per cent of all farms,
reported cattle slaughtered. and
26S,508 farms, or AZ per cent of all
farms, reported calves slaughtered.
The average number of cattle and
calves slaughtered in 1919 per farms
reporting was FL.
Deaths from cancer in the death reg
istration area of the United States in
1920 totaled approximately 73,0OO, ac-
cOrding to report by the census bu-
reau, which on basis of proportional
population estimates the total of
deaths for the entire country at $4,000,
or an increase of 5000 from the esti-
mate for 1919.
The exchange of ratifications of the
treaty between the United States and
Colombia is expected to take place
within few days, it was learned at
the State Department. The depart
ment was officially advised that the
pact was signed by the acting presi-
dent of Colombia and the minister for
foreign affairs on Dec. "a.
The army horse and mule, too. face
another war horror, this time in the
form of astronomical tests. They
are being fed "horse bricks" Army
officers declared, however, they are
not as bad as the name implies, for
they are made of the finest grade
oats with about 13 per cent pure
cane molasses for food value. Each
brick equals four quarts of oats.
The animal appears to be thriving
on the new fodder" said an official
statement.
The annual joint maneuvers of the
Atlantic and Pacific fleets, which we're
to have been held in Panama bay in
February and March, 1922, have been
abandoned, the Navy Department has
announced. Decision to cancel ar
rangements for the maneuvers was
reached by the department, it was
stated, in the interests of economy and
because of the shortage of funds avail
able for purchase of required fuel.
Expenditure of s1,371, ,450 for the i'm
provement of Oakland harbor, San
Francisco bay, has been recommended
10 Congress by army engineers.
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Wifely Training.

so you have graduated tr
ia.,r
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FOREIGN

Further disorders have occurreu ~
pa,f.o, dozen shot were fired in
one street. but so far as is KNOWN nv
one was injured. Soldiers restored or
der.
Several Americans We're on the ven
ice express which collided with the
Trieste Rome express nj san Doha'
Italy. but none was hurt, according ''
the Times Milan correspondent. rive
nersons were killed and thirty injured
in the crash.
DIR. Traugott Won JGgow, former
Berlin police commissioner, was sen,
fenced to five years imprisonment
bv the Federal Supreme Court fot
the part he played in the kapp re-
volt of March, 1920, which tempor-
arily overthrew the Ebert govern
ment.
sixty-two more Nationalist volun-
teers and members of the all-lndla
Congress have been arrested ana nine
sentenced to three months imprison-
ment each at Allahabad. India. The
editor of the Allahabad Independent
was sentenced to a years imprison-
ment
Fashionable London jewelry shops
are selling large numbers of dla'
ond-studded pipes and cigar ahd
cigarette holders to women. Ihis Is
the first record that cigarholders for
women have been on sale as the IN
PRODUCTION of cigar smoking by wom-
en- is of recent origin.
Maj. Braithwaite Wallis, British
consul general at New orleans, com
pleted an investigation into the tar
ring and feathering of the Rev
Philip S. Irwin. a British subject
several weeks ago, by band OF night
riders at Miami, Fla. He withheld
comment on his report TO the Brit
ish government.
Mexicos cotton crop this year viii
not be more than 10000 bales as
compared to a normal annual crop OF
125,O00 bales, according to recent
be the result of the determination OF
growers in the Laguna district, where
the bulk of the crop is produced, not
to cultivate their fields until market
prices are higher.
y great discovery of Turkish stamps
is reported from Cunstuutiuople. where
Il packet numbering 1000 eN.
amples of the earliest issues has
been found in the archives OF
the finance ministry. These early
Turkish stamps are said 10 he
rare and much sought after by collec
tors, and it is believed thar the discov-
cry of such quantity AT one time will
affect the stamp market.
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The Exchange.

Esau sold his birthright for mess
of potage. Il was trying to do my
Christmas shopping early" he cried.
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METAL MARKETS.
HAY AND GRAIN PRICES

Corn, No. yellow. per cwt. ...s 90
Wheat, No. ], per bushsl. ... On
Oats, per cwt. .......... ,1o
Barley. per cwt. ....... or
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07
DESERTS TEAROOM
T0LEARN T0F|GHT
Harry Kemp, Poet and Thinker,
Takes Up Noble Art OF
Self.Defenss
FIGURED IN ELoPEMENr

Harry Kemp, erstwhile member Of
several Little Groups. Of Serious
Thinkers, poet, Socialist and stowa.
way. has shaken from his feet the dust
Of the Tea N Tea;7 which as every one
who thinks knows is the very green
est spot in Greenwich Village, and has
allied himself for the time being with
certain muscular but non intellectual
persons whom he has retained to teach
him the noble art Of self. defense.
In other words, he is going to learn
to fight. .
Harry won ephemeral prominence
some years ago by eloping with Upton
Sinclair's wife from the Arden Colony.
which was one Of the little groups
aforementioned. Their romance was one
Of those 1--WE care not. for man made
laws it-is- righteous in the sight of.
heaven" affairs.
The unfortunate opponent who will
face the annililation which Harry is
preparing for him is none other than
Samuel Dewitt, one of those gentlemen
whose presence in the New York Legis-
lature was rejected by that body. Some
authorities hold that. his private brand
Of bolshevism caused his political down.
fall: others maintain that he tried to
read some of his poetry to the assembled
statesmen.
The returns from this battle. which
will be an honest to gosh contest with
a referee and everything. have been
consecrated BY the combatants to a
fund for establishing a prize for the
most meritorious piece Of verse during
the year.
But Harry feels himself at a disad-
vantage in the affairs because he never
has learned to swing the festive fist as
Samuel has done, the latter having had
more prolific, not to say fecund,
flow of poetic inspiration.
Therefore, he trains daily at "Philn-
delphia" Jack O'Brien's place on Mad
ison square, New York, returning only
at night to the sweet solace Of a dish
Of oolong among the Little Group of
People Who Do Things.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07
STORE AID GIVES PROGRAM
oppe helm, Collins G. Co. Employees
STAGE Entertainment

The sixth annual entertainment and
dance given by Oppenheim, Collins 4
Co.'S Mutual Aid Society in the Belle
vuc- Stratford last night was declared
n success by large gathering. Tive
east of the play, 1.-The Fashion Flower
Garden" was composed of employees
of the company. and all did well.
In the opening musical numbers were
Miss Margaret Bates. Miss Minnie
Kessler. Miss Marie Russell. Miss Bes.
sic Fogerty, Miss Elsie Hamaker. Miss
Frances Boardman. Miss Edna Horn,
Harry Black and the entire cast.
Jesse Bussillio sang "Au Old
Fashioned Garden" In the Colonial
octette were Miss Suzan Stewart. Miss
Kathryn Mooney. Miss Anne McMcna-
min. Ferdinand Radue. Clifford Horn,
Frank Brown and Harry Black, giving
the Colonial minuet.
Another part Of the program that at
tracted particular attention was the
song, "Strut Your Stuff by Miss
Marie Samon, assisted by twenty -four
strutters.
After the entertainment a dance was
given.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07
GIRL HAS ABDUCTION TALE
Domestic Says She Was Seized by
Men From Auto

Mary Norton, employed as a domestic
in the family of William e. Thomson,
1924 Milton street. Mount Airy, no.
tilted the Chestnut Hill police that five
men in an automobile tried to abduct
her Sunday night about o O'Clock.
She said she screamed, and tw" OF
the men, who had jumped out of tn"
machine and seized her, loosencd their
hold and ran back to the automobile.
which speeded away. The attempted
abduction occurred at Gorgas lane near
the Pennsylvania Railroad. the young
woman told the police. She is twenty
three years old.
Mr.. Thomson, employer of the girl,
is vice president of Thomson 4 Co.,
Inc, leather dealers. Mrs. Thomson
said she did not know Of the affair until
she was informed by the police, as the
young woman had said nothing about it
to her,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07
FANCY POULTRY STOLEN
Eddystone Mans Hen Coop Looted
Of All but Two Fowls

When jocund morn stood tiptoe on
the Eastern mountain top Sunday
morning, Joseph MOlinski, Of Eddy
stone. Pa. arose from his couch with
ear attuned to catch the gladstone cluck
of his ninety four prize specimens of
fancy poultry in the back yard. There
was nary cluck.
With fear in his heart Joseph ran
down the back stairs and into his hen
coop only to find the place deserted ex-
cept for one rooster and an equal num-
Der of hens. The other fowls had "few
the COOP" or, to- be more precise, had
been snatched bodily therefrom.
His splendid aggregation of Orping.
tons. Brahmins and Leghorns had died
to make a Roman fricassee. The soli-
tary pair that remained sat perched
with dropping feathers on their perch. a
sorry reminder that ther' was yet hope
for the future.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07
KILLS HERSELF WITH GAS
Dependency 10 Believed to Have
caused Woman to Commit suicide

Dependency, it is believed. cahsed
Mrs. Minnie Bowers to commit suicide
this morning by inhaling gas at the
home of August Gogolin, 1446 North
Dover street, where she was employed
as housekeeper. She was engaged for
this work yesterday.
Gogolin called Mrs. Bowers this
morning, but she did not reply lie
summoned Patrolman O'Keefe, who
burst In the door of Mrs. Bowers room,
She was found dead in bed. The gas
was turned on full.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07
FIREMEN KEPT ON JUMP

False Alarm 10 Turned In In West
Philadelphia
Two fires and false alarm kept West
Philadelphia Rremen busy last night
until midnight. The false alarm was
turned in from Thirty seventh street
and Woodland avenue.
An overheated kitchen stove caused
n FIRE in the home of Thomas Cordsr,
285 South Thirty seventh street. The
loss was trifiing. Damage to the extent
of 500 was caused in the home q Mss,
street, due to the ovsrturuing Of an OIL
|stove,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07

~ShOe,~.;**. 70; ~::." T.:

Unsigned with an all-leather arch
ID heXible like your own arch.
M ,sdaes Eases every step. gives poise, makes
as ana walking natural, graceful
srr iar less fatiguing, The lower
lever .,s heel and the rounded toe
C,,;,, aualtionai Cantilever comfort
u -'hese are now In Fashion.
"0men-no matter in what walk Of
n sr,onao r,no wear Cantilever Shoes. step
,htiy ,hsttiy In footwear that suits and
NJ melr s feet; that prevents and cor
crihs soot troubles to which physicians
M 'e T.. 80 many other ailments. When
Lrhssa aCe Cantilevers. their flexible
lchss iaw ira up to give each one OF your
Pds. p'ee'se oesree or support 1t
ihe,tI Isantllever Idea 10 Comfort Of the
NJ in in,o oegree at every point. Slip your
)miort pair and learn what foot
nv can be--what 1t means to you.
widths AAAA to e.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07
..ded At Dances
And the Seashore
,A,ds to Beauty

!. a home treatment for remcv-
Hsre y that is quick. painless AND IN
mjsnsive' eater make enough paste to
4. s., enc cover the opeU,iOn;sSi' On;ss rdS sai5; n
s0py sno Win and Il will be left soft.
Vcsh ne Ss1t,sss. This treatment Will
sisas anc he skin. but to avoid die.
not nh,.sn,snt. MAJ be careful to get real
.ssciss%'IMaix .sscaSsl Nix fresh as wanted.--Adu. 4,
The New York herald., 1922-01-15
CLYDE MILAN WILL
MANAGE SENATORS
Outfielder Succeeds George
Mcbride as Pilot of Wash
ington Team.

WAsHTSGroS, Jan. 14.-Clyde Milan,
outfielder, Will be the manager of the
Washington American League baseball
club this season. It was announced to-
night by President Clark Griffith.
Milan is a native OF Tennessee and
has been a member OF the local team
since 1907. when he was obtained from
tho Wichita club of the Western Asso-
citation. As pilot he succeeds George
Mcbride. who resigned last month. due
TO illness resulting from an injury re-
ccived on the field last season.
Milan viii be the fourth playing man.
sger in the major leagues this year, the
others who will appear in dual roles be-
ing ry Cobb of the Detroit Americans.
iris speaker OF the Cleveland Americans
aud Bin killefer of the Chicago Ma
tionals.
CLEVELAND. Jan. 1.-THE appointment
OF Clyde Milan as manager OF the Wash
ington team Is heartily approved by
Roger Peckinpaugh, star shortstop. re-
Gently secured by Washington from the
hBoston Americans and who has been
mentioned for the msnagcrship left
vacant by the retirement of George Nc
Bride.
Il think Milan knows as much base
ball ss anybody IN the game and I feel
certain he will be success as manager"
said Peckinpaugh tonight when i'm
formed that Clark Griffith had selected
milan as manager. II don't know who
7 would rather play under than Milan"
he added.
Peckinpaugh sent a message OF son.
graduation to Milan at his home in
Linden, Tenn, tonight.