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The New York herald., 1922-12-04
FINANCIAL NEWS
AND COMMENT
Stock Dividend Declarations
Feature Week-EcOnomic
Developments Lacking.
OVER BILLION IN MELONS
Distributions Made in Some
Cases to Escape Possible
Tax on Surplus.
OVER BILLION IN MELONS

The last week has been curiously
lacking in economic deve lopments of
great significance. The stock market
has moved within the narrow limits
established by it's professional char
acter; the bond market has done much
the same. Commodities. particularly
wheat have fluctuated over a rather
wide range, and foreign exchange rates
have moved in fashion which before
the war would have been epochai but
which now. due to tremendous specula-
ton In foreign currencies, is regarded
as more or less normal.
Perhaps the outstanding feature of
the last week was the broadening OF
the movement to declare stock divi-
dends by almost every company that
has a stable surplus. Some weeks ago
the Gulf OIL Corporation declared a 200
per cent. stock dividend This was
followed by other large surplus distri-
buttons by some of the STANDARD Oil
companies and then the smaller con-
Germs fell into line.
Rush to Cut Melons.
This tendency has grown until, with a
few exceptions. notable among which
are the United States Steel Corpora ton
and the larger railroads. majority OF
the biggest industrial concerns in the
country having large surplus accounts
have taken initial steps looking to the
distribution of at least a portion of this
surplus through the medium Of capi-
talization.
In seeking a sound and substantial
reason for this new condition one meets
cnly the single explanation of taxes.
On all sides are heard stories of pro-
posed revision of Federal statutes for
the purpose of placing an iripost on
large corporate surpluses, but from Of
ficial sources there has been a surpris-
ing reticence. Members Of Congress
have risen to demand of the Treasury
Department why companies should be
allowed to make these huge distribu-
tons which now amount to considerably
more than sl.ooo 900 COO in stock. and the
Treasury officials have patiently an
swered that the law as II stands to-day
is sufficiently broad to permit taxation
Of huge surplus account when Z: is
shown that that surplus is unreason-
able.
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WEEKS PRODUCE PRICES.

FOR week ended December :. ie2..
WHEAT
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New York stock Exc, Exchange sales for week
BONDS trAR rssuEy
Asa. .oel. COO siai .aa2. GOO ssa. ms -ooo

"a. ass s55 900 So 23e .sss 900 s5a7s. 200, 900
Detailed sales OF bonds for weeks ending
December and November %
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W. N. U., DENVER, NO. 12-1s22.
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INVOKED AID OF ST. WTUS
In the Past Many Have Had Implicit Faith in the Powers of An
 cient Holy Man.

For some reason a chapel was ded- icated to that holy man of the Fourth century who was martyred under the Emperor Diocletian-St. Vitus-whose festival is celebrated on June 15. We are told that to this chapel came an- nually many women who labored un- der a nervous or hysteric infiiction im- polling them to violent motion. This ailment came to be known as St. Vitus' dance, and perhaps the term was grad ually extended to other affiictions in- volving involuntary muscular motion. Scientifically this disease is known as chorea. Another explanation is that in certain places in Germany during the Seventeenth century Is was be- Iieved good health could be obtained for a year by dancing before the saints image on his festival day, and that it was in this way the original St. Vitus' dance was confounded with the dis. ease. The aid of this saint is also in- voked against sudden death, hydropho- bia, and so on.-Chicago Journal.
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Experience, the Great Teacher.

Observation more than books, ex- perience rather than persons, are the prime educators. Books aid as one has wit to use them to advantage, persons most when seeming not to serve us. Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us, and this oftenest against our knoweldge and consent. And it remains question able how far our attachments further or hinder natures intentions, the art of education being still so con- plicated and incalculable a matter that not a few of the most striking characters have been formed, untram- meled by our schools, under the more direct and potent influence of life and things, operating under the pressure of necessity and seeming ac- cident.-A. Bronson AlcOtt.
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Virginia finds a diary on the Island Queen.
CTO BE CONTINUED
SOME STRAIN ON THE EYES Wall Paper of Colonial Days Truly Deserved to Be Called "FearfuI
 and Wonderful"

The antique wall papers found in the colonial mansions" of Ports mouth, N. H., marvelbusly preserved, are too animated for restful compan- ionship. Only nerveless race could have gazed all their lives upon such a monotonOus variety of incident.
 Thomas Bailey Aldrich tells US that a typical paper, familiar to his child hood, displayed over and over again a group of English country people wear ing Italian hats, and dancing on lawn which ended abruptly in sea beach, on which stood a fisherman angling for a whale, and wisely indifferent to the issue of terrific naval combat which was being fought just beyond reach of his fishing rod.
 Grander in scale but as irrelevant in detail, is a very handsome paper on the walls of the athletic club, where we behold gayly dressed ladies and gentlemen passing under Virginia's Natural Bridge to get a good view of Niagara falls, and turning from the barbarous splendor of an Indian war dance to witness a drill of West Point cadets.
 The painted walls of the Warner house, discovered by chance in 1850, present a wide choice of disconnected subjects. Abraham prepares to sacri- fee Isaac under the supervision of Governor Phipps, and foreign cities of impossible picturesqueness stretch be- fore the eyes of fair Priscilla at her spinning wheel.-Agnes Repplier in Harper's Weekly.
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the stern, my cheek upon my hand, as he rOwed swiftly across the cove and drove the boat upon the beach.
 Everybody but Captain Magnus was assembled there, including CrusOe. Crusoe it was who had given warning of my danger. Like a wise little dog, when ignored his admonitions he had run home. At first his uneasiness and troubled barking had got no notice. Once or twice the ScOtchman, worried by his fretfulness, had ordered him away. Then across his preoccupied mind there flashed a doubt. He laid down his tools and spoke to the anil nal. Instantly Crusoe dashed for the rocks, barking and crying with eager ness.
 Then Mir. Shaw understood. He snatched the painter of the boat and dragged 1t down the beach. He was showing off as Cookie, reused by CrusOe's barking, appeared from the seclusion of his afternoon siesta. To him were borne the Scotchman's part ing words:
 Virginia Harding-in the cave hot blankets-may be drowning"
 And at dat," said Cookie, relating his part in the near tragedy with unc- tiOn, T jes' natchully pumped right down on nah bones and wrestled with de Lawd in prayah."
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"MY LAssIEI"

Synopsis.-Jane Harding, respect able and conservative old maid but never too old to think of mar riagS - with more money than minded spinster, Miss Higglesby- Browne, into financing an expedi- ton to hunt for buried treasure on Leeward island. Her niece. Vir- ginia Harding, undertaking to stop her, gets on the vessel and Is un- willingly carried along. By no means concealing her distaste for the expedition and her contempt for its members, Virginia makes the acquaintance of the Honorable Cuthbert Vane. Talking with Dugald Shaw, leader of the expedt- tton, Virginia very frankly ex- presses her views, practically ac- cusing Shaw and the other mem bers of the party, including somewhat uncertain parsonage Captain Magnus. and shady ''fnancier," Hamilton H. Tubbs, of being in a conspiracy to defraud Jane Harding. Landing op the island is a matter of some difficul- ty, Virginia being carried ashore party gets settled. Miss Browne tells about the treasure Virginia declares herself out of it. The dead sailors map is produced. Vir- ginia finds a mysterious dog, Cru soc. Virginia visits the wreck of the Island Queen. The dog saves Virginia from advances by Cap tain Magnus.
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shriek Echoed Through the Cave.

gald Shaw. I clasped him about the neck and would not let him go, for fear that I should find myself alone again, perishing in the dark water My head was on his breast, and he was pressing back my wet hair with strong and tender hands.
 What was this he was saying? My lassie, my little, little lassieI"
 And no less incredible than this 1t was to feel his cheek pressed, very gently, against my hair
 After a little my self-control came back to me. I stopped my senseless childish crying, lifted my head and tried to speak. I could only whisper, You came, you camer'
 "Of course I camel" he said husk- fly. 'There, don't tremble so-you are safe-safe in my arms!"
 After a while he lifted me into the stern and began to maneuver the boat out of the cave. l suppose at another time I should have realized the peril of it. The fierce flow through the archway all but swamped us, the cr- rent threatened to hurl us against the rocks, but I felt no fear. He had come to save me, and he would. All at once the dreadful shadow of the cavern was left behind, and the sum- shine immersed my chilled body like a draught of wine. lay huddled in
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gists of flat cakes made up of a large number of thin, oblong slices. One slice rubbed between the palms of your hands furnishes an average pipeful.
 Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed is the same tobacco already rubbed up for you and in form to pour right into the bowl of your pipe.
 Both kinds pack nicely, light quick ly, and burn freely and evenly to the very bottom of the pipe.
 Edgeworth is sold in various sizes to suit the needs and means of all pur- chasers. Both Edgeworth Plug Slice and Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed are packed in small, pocket-size packages, in handsome tin humidors and glass jars, and also in various handy in- between quantities.
 For the free samples which we would like you to judge, address Larus 6 Brother Co.,, fl South Fist Street, Richmond, Va.
 To Retail Tobacco MerchGnts-H you jobber cannot supply you with EdgeWorth, Larus 6 Brother Com pany will gladly send you prepaid by parcel post a one or two-dozen carton of any size of Edgeworth Plug Slice or Ready-Rubbed for the same price you would pay the jobber.
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Frantically sprang for the entrance
 on the cove The floor of the cave was slOping, and the water deepened swift ly as advanced. Soon was founder ing to my knees, and on the instant a great wave rushed in, drenching me to the waist, dazing me with its spray and uproar, and driving me back to the far end of the cave.
 With a dreadful hollow sucking sound the surge retreated. I stag gered toward the archway that was my only door to life. The water was deeper now, and swiftly came anoth- CT fierce thrush of the sea that drove me back.
 fled to the far end of the cave, but the sea pursued me. Swiftly the wa ter climbed-it flung me against the wall, then dragged me back. I clutched at the naked rock with bleed ing fingers.
 Again, after 0 paroxysm during which I had seemed to stand a great way off and listen to my own shrieks, there came to me a moment of calm. l knew that my one tenuous thread of hope lay in launching myself into that wild flood that was tearing through the cove. I was not strong swimmer, but a buoyant one. I might find refuge on some half-submerged rock on the shores of the cove-at least should perish in the open, in the sunlight, not trapped like a des- perate rat. And I began to fight my way toward the opening.
 And then a dreadful vision flashed across my mind, weighted down my feet like lead, choked back even the cry from my frozen lips. Sharks The black cutting fin, the livid belly, the dreadful jaws opening-no, no, better to die here, better the clean embrace of the waters-if indeed the sharks did not come into the cave.
 And then I think I went quite mad. I remember trying to climb up to the ledge which hung beetling fifteen feet above. Afterward my poor hands showed how desperately. And I re- that once I slipped and went clear under, and how I choked and in the salt water. For my mouth was always open, screaming, continually.
 And when saw the boat fighting It's way inch by inch into the cave was sure that 1t was a vision, and that only my own wild beseeching of him to save me had made the face of Du- gald Shaw arise before my dying eyes. Dugald Shaw was still mending the boat on the shore of the cove, and this was mOcking phantom.
 Only the warm human clasp of the arms that drew me into the boat | made me believe in him.
 The boat bobbed quietly in the eddy at the far end of the cave, while a wet, | sobbing, choking heap clung to Du-
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perfectly? It may not-or it may.
 Just drop us a postcard bearing your name and ad- dress, also those of the store where you buy most of your tobacco. We @ will send you h samplesofEd
 worth in both
 forms-Plug 1 SliceandReady- Rubbed.
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CHAPTER VIII.
-10--
"Lassle, LassIs

EaSSiSJ GdSStS
 Two or three days later occurred a painful episode. The small unsuspect- ed germ of it had lain ambushed in a discourse of MT. Shaw's, delivered shortly after our arrival on the island, on the multifarious uses of the cocoa palm. He told how the juice from the unexpanded f1ower-spathes is drawn off to form a potent toddy, so that where every prospect pleases man may still be vile. Cookie. experimentally disposed, set to work. MT. Vane, also experimentally, sampled the results of Cookies efforts. The liquor had mere ly been allowed to ferment, whereas a complicated process is necessary for the manufacture of the true arrack, but enough had been achieved to bring about dire consequences for Cuthbert Vane, who had found the liquid cool and refreshing. and was skeptical about its potency.
 Aunt Jane took the matter very hard. and rebuked the ribald mirth of MT. Tubbs. He had to shed tears over uGhdSldllnS- pOClu NoliSu AnC Drunkard's Home" before she would forgive him. Cookie made his peace by engaging to vote the prohibition ticket at the next election
 MT. Shaw was disturbed over Cuth- bert, who was not at all bad, only queer and sleepy, and had to be led away to slumber in retirement. Also, it was exceptionally low tide and MT. Shaw had counted on taking ad- vantage of 1t to work in the cave. Now Cuthbert was laid up
 "You and I will have to manage by ourselves. Magnus."
 "Nothing doing-boat got to be patched up-go out there without it and get caught r' growled the captain.
 "Well, lend a hand, then. We can be ready with the boat inside an hour."
 The captain hesitated queerly. His wandering eyes seemed to be search ing in every quarter for ;omething they did not find. At last he num- bled that he thought he felt a touch of the sun, and had decided to lay off for Ehe afternoon and make his way acroso the island. He said he wanted to shoot waterfowl and that they had all been frightened away from the cove, but that with the glass he had seen them from Lookout thickly about the other bay.
 every well," said the Scotchman coldly. "I suppose you must suit your self. can get the boat in shape with out help, I dare say" I saw him pres ently looking in an annoyed and puz- zled fashion after the vanishing figure of the sailor.
 Mir Tubbs and the umbrellas soon disappeared into the woods. I believe the search for Bill Halliwells tomb stone was no longer very actively pur- sued, and that he and Aunt Jane and Violet spent their time ensconced in a snug little nook with hammocks and cushions. more than suspected MT. Tubbs of feeling that such a bird in the hand as Aunt Jane was worth many doublOons in the bush. But in spite e uBeasiness about the future for the
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Just the Boy for Papa.

''There is something" he said, that I have wanted for a long time to tell you. I am not rich, as you know, but I am young, strong and willing to work. Miss Millyuns-
 "Oh!" she cried, 'I will tell papa about you. I think I heard him say this morning that he wanted to hire an office boy with just the qualifica- tions you mention Pittsburgh Press.
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IdI. tn Rorrnw rro1hl.

Idle to Borrow Trouble. Sorrow comes soon enough without despondency. It does a man no good to carry around a lightning rod to at- tract trOuble-Aughey.
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"The best
 tobacco-bargain
 Eve ever found"

Here is the story of man whC wouldn't take something for nothing
 154O Hillcrest Road, Cleveland. Ohio Larus 6 Bro. Company
 Richmond, Virginia
 Gentlemen:
 About a year ago, In Richmond on Q business trip, I was fortunate enough to be allowed to go through the factory where you manufacture Edgeworth To- bacco. Until that time had supposed that tobacco manufacture was com paratively simple operation, and I was very much impressed by seeing how care fully you choose the leaf tobaecos used in Edgeworth, how exactly you blend and treat the various kinds of leaves, how BcrupulOusly clean your factory is kept.
 During my visit helped myself to . can of Edgeworth from a pile on one of the packing tables. I'm enclosing IS cents to pay for that can. know you'd have been glad to give it to me, but want to pay for it because consider it ths beat tObGeeO-bGrOGiH Fvs sSer found
 Until that time I'd never used a pipe tobacco that really suited me. One kind was too strong-it left me groggy. An other burned unevenly and wouldn't stay lighted. Still another gave me a sensa- ton like heartburn. None tasted quits right, and practically every kind, after two or three pipefuls, left me with sore tongue and parched mouth and dark, dark brown taste.
 Well, smoked that package of Edge worth from your factory and, to be brief, 1t suited me down to the ground. It was real ind I've stuck to Edgeworth since that time and so far I've failed to notice any of the bad qualities that bothered me in other tobaccos. Several of my friends also have adopted Edgeworth on my recommendation. and they're as en- thusiastic about it as I am.
 Yours very truly,
 ISignedl Edward A. Evans. We can add nothing to such a
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Yours very truly.
 lSignedl Edward 1

We can add nothing to such a recommendation. Would you like to learn if EdgeWorth would suit you as
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-12-23
MURDER CHARGE
AGAINST N|ER

PORTLAND, poo. sS,--Applicn-
ticn Ter u hahcas corpus order for
Cash Wlcr was made by his N,tor
ncy today, District Attorney Myers
promptly ordered the deputies to file
first degree murder charge agains,
Cash Wicr and n charge W acccs.
sorry after the fact against his son,
Earl Wlcr, The writ hearing was
set for this afternoon.
Earl Weir rccicycd the third de.
gree but the officers obtained no
further light from him On Helen
Lcary's stCry that Cash Weir killed
u girl in his houscboat.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-12-23
h had been CHARGED TO hin.

u had been charged TO him,
A the cid man was sleeping he
wps dreaming Santa Claus drove a
coal wagon.
by his side was mamma dreaming
the Christmas dinner dishes Jumped
from the table to go wash them.
selves and Mary went crazy and
swept the floor for once.
In the next room Mary was dream
ina Santa Claus was she'k In dis.
euise and his reindeer were csme~
tanimai not fueD and he swung her
around his hand three times so she
landed before a movie camera on a
pals Of million-doliar contracts.
But what we started out to say,
was .Merry Christmas tr-a.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-12-23
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H5F1oS1 Stf1e
EXtNtJ

2,Ss'rFss the nisht before Christ.
No. and oil through the house no,
aohns vas stirrinG. Not even a
sD4>9, Net even . rosbtr. There
wasp't sysa > boctlcsser stirring.
Ne sAAs N The Kitchen was all
startb4 Ia fire on the hearth
had besa pttrred. And the family
as.sAiss ssassp Asx had seen stir
ousads .hs yind whis,lcd, I, had
s{sieM 70 ,rhistie. Il was soins
soatA 70 shs warn country.
tAsid@ beAntifully set IN the very
etatbs ~ sAsIp psfior's czauisite yfire.
phee spssAieds osssv lsnp Of coal.
y44 ShsstliAs Wind looked down
~ eAinssy and the costly lump Of
sal bprps into ? tiny - flame.
~ 'Mtstb. whistle" wlis,led the
StnA, - n jumped back. This wss
" cAsastmas Of 40 and coal burn
Nc sas . vesy strange sight.
Bat the damage was done and bY
~ vAy ~ fllsher enc could see four
stecAinO AansiaG from the man,ei.
: tAsrs vas Aarys ssechias. Mary
~ 6oqAiaeicatel ~, sad hsd never
oessod being kisssd. Her stoehina
psi1 - eyebrow pencil for Mary TO
saAee ~ .nask n the xcrld. And
-, Rita ~ ssss through the i'm
tse>ept esps n w psrs vas . new
leAe<e rpesfd On the mantel.
y 199fy'p seockins vas there. Henry
~. ~ Aae AsA never voluntarily
vnehsd ~ an. HIS stocking held
D tceletk4lss - ~ could cut his
tutltsis % shs piano. And an sirgun
lss Ain % shoot st cate. birds. dogs.
v1adeus. horsss and people.
!. 'fAsrs vas mama's stocking. In It
vsfs cIcthsssDsns. hairptns. hatpins.
sefstyptns. pins. Q butterknife. o.
fIssirun and nearby stood . wash
iae nseAins. s-i-fot Es a.
ieest os1e che old mans sock. II
Aeld tceseco. smokins and eating,
vAl,s assshy stood . ney easy chair
T1s go. chair came hard because
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The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-12-23

NEW YORK. Dec. ss.--Rum run.
ning by airplane Is the next move
anticipated by a few desperate sea
bootleggers who still are maroon.
ed off the coast with their Christ.
mas carRoes ani cannot get small
boats to run the blockade.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-12-23

SANTA FE. N. NJ. Dec. 23.--
Seven men who arrived here today
In large touring car we're taken
Into custody here following the re-
port that one Of them cashed a
brand new IS bill In . restaurant
at Las Vegas las, night. They are
being investigated and will be held
until the officers are satisfied they
are not connected with the Denver
robbery. All gave Denver addresses
Which are being checked by the po-
lice there.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-12-23
Denver H0lDuP
SUSPECTS TAKEN

BALTIMORE. Dec. s3,-Discoy-
cry has been made here OF one Of
the IS bills stolen in the holdup Of
the United States Federal Reserve
bank truck at Denver last Monday.
the police declared today. The bill
vas passed at . downtown restsu-
rant las, night. Federal secret ssr-
vice agents and local detectives are
at work on tho case, securing ho-
tells, .roomins houses and eabsrcts.
Every railroad station and ell high
ways are watched.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-12-23
WILD DEER To m FED

PLACERviLLE. Dec. s2,--Thc
Placerville Rod and Gun club has
completed plans for the caring OF
deer In this section during the win
ter. Heavy SHOWS are predicted
and Il is believed that unless tho
deer are given extra protection they
will not live through the winter.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-12-23

Was your baby a "hospital" baby? Did your
wife have good care" when the baby was born?
Ia your baby bottle or breast fed?
IF the mother had good care" shc should be
healthier than before, and the baby breast fed
and lusy. The strength Of the mother and vigor OF
the child rest on good care. The hospital stand
ardizcs good care. II 10 the last word in good
care" Your doctor knows that. Surround your
loved ones with good care" at this critical time.
Secure standardized, utterly dependable care. Let
there be no regrets.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-12-23
OREGON DRAFTS NEW NIL

SALEM. Ore, Dec. ga new
sterilization bill to replace the law
which was declared unconstitution.
al by the circuit court here a few
months ago has been prepared and
win be introduced In the legislature
at It's next session.