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The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-20
House to Take Up Question
of Tax Exempt Securities

Washington. Dec. 19.--By vote of
lis to So the house today took up for
consideration the Green resolution pro-
posing a constitutional amendment
prohibiting the further issuance OF tax
exempt securities.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-20
Turk Peace Pact Prepared.

Lausanne. Dec. 19.-tBy A. PIT
was reported this afternoon that a
complete draft of the peace treaty
drawn UP as a result of the delibera.
tions of the near east conference here
would be presented to the Turks on
Saturday.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-20
Omahans Visit White House.

Washington. Dec. 10. - Especial
Telegram. HARRY Lapidus and his
wife of Omaha are in Washington.
They will be callers at the White
House tomorrow.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-20

To Mail Subscribers of The Bee:
Please do not be impatient if your
service is a bit irregular. Post
Office employees are doing their
best, but the tremendous rush Of
holiday mail is causing some de-
law.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-20
The Weather

Forecast.
Wednesday mostly cloudy: colder.
Hourly Temporal
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-20

Breaking records for speedy enact
ment of appropriation bills. congress
sent the treasury and commercial Dor
supply measures to the president.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-20

A suit challenging theconstitution-
ality of the Sheppard -Towner mater
nifty and infancy act was filed in the
District of Columbia supreme court.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-12-21

rolled spring, or a splinter in the
hand, sending on It's turbid disturb
ance or Its pain, so there was no peace
in his world, upon his earth.
The blame seemed to point to Mrs.
Fowler, as though the difficulty might
be In her disposition or her indisposi-
ton. There is natural discomfort
that nothing can cure, fault-indine
ambition that nothing can satisfy, an
ingratitude that never is thankful,
nagging nature that Is never pleased,
and his wife appeared to be possessed
of all these in the estimation of Tobias.
But the root Of the trouble lay
deeper than the mans understand
ing Of 1t. 1t was a lonely house. II
was a silent house. II was an order
ly house There was no child In It.
And, as many discoveries and
cures have been accidental, so Mr..
Fowler bmndered upon the remedy
for his troubles rather than devised
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-12-21

When the wind with sudden re,
Pulled at my green coronet,
Staunch l stood. and hid my fearA
Weeping silent. fragant tears.
Praying still ,ha, | might be
Fitted for Christina, tree.
"Now here we stand
On every handI
In us hoard Of summer stored,
Birds have flown over US,
Blue sky has covered US,
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-12-21
Tha Christmas
Spectrum

CEYEN points hath the chrisfnias sfsy;
One Is the love fbdS sinner stsg
From God TO rsdn, and one is the lore
That lrobs from Ibr world to the Lord sbops,
Aad one IS good viii on 'hs happy ssyth.
ind che is purity, one is peace,
Ind svo are the joys thar never esass-
God'S joy,
Mans joy
Afane in the star Of the NoHdsrtai Birth.
Ind the light of Gods love IS a golden light,
Ind mans love 10 man Is crimson bright,
And mans love 10 God Is an szaye ray
Alss, shsS il qiekerl and dies aBayi
fHd the tevcn rays through fse sOrsbiping night,
Liks ths fash Of oil jsael' saah and play
God5 joy,
MGn's joy
Yer they shine as one, and fhe star IS white.
-A'DoS r. H'sis.
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aHel. am II Her. am ii

Here am II Here am ii
"All the summer long | stood
In the silence of the woods.
Tall and tapering grew;
What might happen well knew
For one day little bird
Sang. and III the song | heard
Many things quite strange to me
OF Christmas and the Christmas tree.
''When the sun was hid from sight
In the darkness Of the night.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-12-21
Peace on the
Hearth

90. 1922. western Newspaper Union)
STSHE Christmas bells were making
4 their glad announcement again.
but Toby Fowler was not in sympathy
with them. peace on earth !" said
he. "What peace have l on eorthT
II wasn't that his worldly affairs
troubled him, but man may have
n good job and a sum in the savings
bank and vet find no peace In his
house, ana this 1t was that dimmed
Mr.. Fowlers holiday season and made
its gadness clash In his ears, there
was no pence upon his hearth.
And, ms a troubled home IS IKE a
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-12-21
Soft wind, have sung to "a.
Blossoms have flung to Us,
Measureless sweetness.
Now in completeness
We wait.
Mary F. Butts.

Bring in the pictures you have at
home and let us frame them. They
make nifty little Xmas presents. WA
also have a complete line of stand
frames-Owen's Studio DE-.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-12-21
Observation-Disclosures
TheChristrnas Tree
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llsaSS1saSaS1sasa52s75eSaSaSES2Sa
THERE'S STR among the trees.
There, whisper in the breeze,
Little ice-points clash and clink,
Liale needles nod and wink,
Sturdy 6r-hees sway and sigh
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-12-21

It. For 1t was for his own comfort
rather than with the hope Of stilling
the home tempests that he brought
IN lovely little boy on Christmas
day and announced that he had adopt
ed him.
He had been too uncertain Of ap.
prevail In the matter to have any
conference about It first at home,
but, after her first expressions of sur
prise, his wife did not leave him long
in doubt, for the child found a place
In her arms as one who belonged
there. Not only to him, Mr.. Fowler felt,
but to them q child had been given.
II is amazing what solutions of
trouble little child can bring, what
response meets its dependent claims
upon love wlGI JOY ministers to It's
development what peace is felt even
amid its glaa@s sor our self-forget-
fuIness VIII happy satisfaction
IN the No. It's new cares peace
1a5 aNicrs hearth and
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13

should be the guest, the friend of such
people as the Sherrills? No one as
yet, since Sheriff. had told him he was
Corvet's son. had called him by name ;
when they did, what would they call
him? Alan Conrad still? Or Alan
Corvet?
He noticed, up street to the west,
the lighted sign of drug store and
turned up that way; he had promised,
he had recollected now, to write to
those in Kansas-he could not
call them father" and mother" any
more-and tell them what he had dis
covered as soon as he arrived. He
could not tell them that, but he could
write them at least that he had ar
rived safely and was we'll. He bought
postcard in the drug store, and wrote
just, arrived safely; am well" to
John Welton in Kansas. There was
a little vending machine upon the coun-
ter, and he dropped in a penny and got
a box of matches and put them in his
pocket. t'."6 81 ...
He mailed the card and turned back
to Astor street; and he walked more
swiftly now, having come to his deci-
sion, and only shot one quick look up
at the house as he approached it. With
what had his father shut himself up
within that house for twenty years?
And was it there still? And was it
from that that Benjamin Corvet had
fled? He saw no one in the street,
and was certain no one was observing
him as, taking the key from his pocket,
he ran up the steps and unlocked the
outer door. Holding this door open
to get the light from the street lamp,
he fitted the key into the inner door
then he closed the outer door. For full
ly a minute, with fast-beating heart
and a sense of expectation of he knew
not what, he kept his hand upon the
key before he turned it; then he
opened the door and stepped into the
dark and silent house.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13
II You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the Best

Have you ever stopped to reason why
it is that so many products that are ex-
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
of sight and are soon forgotten? The
reason is plain-the article did not fulfill
the promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to a medicine.
A medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy is
recommended by those who have been
benefited, to those who are in need of it.
A prominent druggist says take for
example DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root, a
preparation l have sold for many years
and never hesitate to recommend, for in
almost every case it shows excellent re-
suits, as many Of my customers testify.
No other kidney remedy has 80 large
SALE"
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who have
used the preparation, the success of DR..
Kilmer's Swamp Root is due to the fact,
SO many people claim, that it fulflls al
most every wish in overcoming kidney,
liver and bladder ailments; corrects uri-
nary troubles and neutralizes the uric
acid which causes rheumatism.
You may receive sample bottle Of
Swamp-Root by Parcels Post. Address
DR.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y,
and enclose ten cents; also mention this
paper. Large and medium size bottles
for sale at all drug stores. Advertisement
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13
CHAPTER lV.--Continued.


What Sheriff. had told Alan of his
father had been iterating itself again
and again in Alan's thoughts; now he
recalled that Sheriff. had said that his
daughter believed that Corvet's dis
appearance had had something to do
with her. Alan had wondered at the
moment how that could be; and as he
watched her across the table and now
and then exchanged comment with
her, it puzzled him still more He
had opportunity to ask her when she
waited with him in the library, after
dinner was finished and her mother
had gone upstairs; but he did not see
then how to 90 about it.
I'm sorry" she said to him, that
we can't be home tonight; but perhaps
you would rather be aloneY
He did not answer that.
Have you picture here, Miss Sher-
rill of-my father?" he asked.
uncle Benny had had very few pic
lures taken; but there is one here"
She went into the study and came
back with a book open at a half-tone
picture of Benjamin Corvet. Alan took
it from her and carried it quickly
closer to the light. The face that
looked up to him from the heavily
glazed page was regular of feature,
handsome in a way, and forceful.
There were imagination and vigor of
thought in the broad, smooth fore
head; the eyes were strangely moody
and brooding; the mouth was gentle,
rather kindly; it was a queerly i'm
pelling, haunting face. This was his
father! But, as Alan held the picture,
gazing down upon it, the only emotion
which came to him was realization that
he felt none. He had no emotion of
any sort; he could not attach to this
man, because he bore the name which
some one had told him was his IA
TIERS the passions which, when
dreaming of his father, he had felt.
Alan stood still a moment longer,
then, remembering the book which he
held, he drew chair up to the light,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13

At the age Of forty a man is either
an old bachelor or a pesSimist.
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and read the short, dry biography of
his father printed on the page oppo-
site the portrait. 1t summarized in
a few hundred words his fathers life
Alan shut the book and sat thought
full. The tall clock in the hall, struck
nine. He got up and went out into
the hall and asked for his hat and
coat. When they had been brought
him, he put them on and went out.
He went down the steps and to the
corner and turned west to Astor street.
When he reached the house of his fa-
Their he stopped under street lamp,
looking up at the big stern old man
sion questioningly.
He could not call up any sense that
the house was his, any more than he
had been able to when Sheriff. had
told him Of IT, He own a house on
that street Yet was that in itself
any more remarkable than that he
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13

vet, too, was not large man: Alan's
own hand was of good size and pow
erful, but when he put his fingers over
the marks the other man had made, he
found that the other hand must have
been larger and more powerful than
his own. Had it been Corvet's serv-
ant? 1t might have been, though the
marks seemed too fresh for that; for
the servant, Sheriff. had said, had left
the day Corvets disappearance was
discovered.
This proof that some one had been
prying about in the house before him
self and since Corvet had gone, star
tied Alan and angered him. Who had
been searching in Benjamin Corvets
in Alan's house? He pushed the
drawers shut hastily and hurried
across the hall to the room opposite.
In this room-plainly Benjamin Cor
vets bedroom-were no signs of in
trusion. He went to the door of the
room connecting with it, turned on
the light, and looked in. 1t was a
smaller room than the others and
contained a roll-top desk and a cabi-
net. The cover of the desk was closed,
ana the drawers of the cabinet were
shut and apparently undsturbed. He
tried the cover of the desk, but it ap-
peared to be locked; after looking
around vainly for a key, he trieo
again, exerting a little more force,
and this time the top went up easily,
tearing away the metal plate into
which the claws Of the lock clasped
and the two long screws which had
held it. He examined the lock, sur
prised, and saw that the screws must
have been merely set into the holes {;
scars showed where a chisel or some
metal implement had been thrust in
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under the top to force it up. The
pigeonhOles and little drawers in the
upper part of the desk, as he swiftly
opened them, he found entirely empty
He hurried to the cabinet; the draw
ers of the cabinet too had been forced
and very recently; for the scars and
| the splinters of wood were clean and
fresh. These drawers and the draw
ers in the lower part of the desk
either were empty, or the papers in
them had been disarranged and tum-
bled in confusion, as though some one
had examined them hastily and tossed
them back. To Alan, the marks of
violence and roughness were unmis-
takably the work Of the man with the
big hands who had left marks upon
the top Of the chest of drawers; and
| the feeling that he had been in the
house, very recently was stronger than
ever.
Alan ran out into the hall and lis
| tened he heard no sound; but he went
back to the little room more excited
than before. For what had the other
man been searching? For the same
things which Alan was looking for?
And had the other man got them?
Who might the other be, and what
might be his connection with Benja-
min Corvet? Alan had no doubt that
everything Of Importance must have
been taken away, but he would make
sure of that. He took some of the pa
pers from the drawers and began to
examine them; after nearly an hour
of this, he had found only one article
which appeared connected in any way
with what Sheriff. had told him or
with Alan himself. In one of the little
drawers Of the desk he found several
books, much worn as though from
these contained a series of entries
stretching over several years. These
listed an amount-$150-opposite a Sc
ries of dates with only the year and
the month given, and there was an
entry for every second month.
Alan felt his fingers trembling as he
turned the pages of the little book
and found at the end Of the list a
blank, and below, in the same hand
] but in writing which had changed
slightly with the passage of years, an
other date and the confirming entry Of
$500. Alan looked through the little
book again and put it in his pocket.
1t was, beyond doubt, his fathers
memorandum of the sums sent to Blue
Rapids for Alan; it told him that here
he had been in his fathers thoughts.
He grew warm at the thought as he
began putting the other things back
into the drawers.
He started and Strengthened sudden
ly; then he listened attentively. and
his skin, warm an instant before.
turned cold and prickled. Somewhere
within the house, Enthusiastically on the
floor below him, door had slammed.
Some one-it was beyond question
now, for the realization was quite DIFF.
ferent from the feeling he had had
about that hefore-was In the house
with him. Was 1t his father
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13
CHAPTER V
An Encounter.

Alan, standing in the darkness of
the hall, felt in his pocket for his
matches and struck one on the box.
The light showed the hall in front of
him, reaching back into some vague
distant darkness, and great rooms with
wide portiered doorways gaping on
both sides. He turned into the room
upon his right, glanced to see that the
shades were drawn on the windows
toward the street, then found the
switch and turned on the electric light
Alan had the feeling which so often
comes to one in an unfamiliar and
vacant house that there was some one
in the house with him. He listened
and seemed to hear another sound in
the upper hall, a footstep. I He went
out quickly to the foot of the stairs
and looked up them.
SIS any one here" he called. SIS
any one hereT
His voice brought no response. He
went half way up the curve of the wide
stairway and called again, and lis
tened; then he fought down the feeling
he had had; Sheriff. had said there
would be no one in the house.. and
Alan was certain there was no one.
So he went back to the room where
he had left the light. -
The center of this room, like the
room next to it, was occupied by a
library table-desk. He pulled open
some drawers in 1t; one or two had
blueprints and technical drawings in
them; the others had only the miscel-
lany which accumulates in O room
much used. There were drawers also
under the bookcases all around the
room; they appeared, when Allan
opened some Of them, to contain pam
phlets Of various societies, and the
scientific correspondence Of which
Sheriff. had told him. Alan felt that
seeing these things was bringing his
father closer to him; they gave him a
little Of the feeling he had been unable
to get when he looked at his fathers
picture. He could realize better now
the lonely, restless man, pursued by
some ghost he could not kill, taking
up for distraction one subject of study
after another, exhausting each in turn
until he could no longer make it en-
gross him, and then absorbing him
self in the next.
On the top Of a chest of high draw
ers in a corner near the dressing
table were some papers. Alan went
over, to look at Them they were invl-
tations, notices of concerts and of
| plays twenty years Old-the mail,
probably, of the morning when Corvet's
wife had gone away, left where her
maid or she herself had laid them
and only picked up and put back there
| at the times since when the room was
busted. AS Alan touched Them he
saw that his fingers left marks in the
dust on the smooth top of the chest
| he noticed that some one else had
touched the things and made marks
of the same sort as he had made. The
| freshness Of these other marks star
tied him; they had been made within
day or so. They could not have
been made by Sheriff., for Alan had
noticed that Sherrill's hands were
slender and delicately formed; Cor
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13
FLESH! FLESH"

SYNOPSIS.-Wealthy and highly
placed in the Chicago business
world, Benjamin Corvet is some
thing of a recluse and a mystery
to his associates. After a stormy
interview with his partner, Henry
Spearman, Corvet seeks Constance
Sheriff., daughter of his other
business partner, Lawrence Sher-
rill, and secures from her a prom
Use not to marry Spearman. He
then disappears. Sheriff. learns
Corvet has written to a certain
Alan Conrad, in Blue Rapids, Kan
sas, and exhibited strange agita-
ton over the matter. Corvet's let
ter summons Conrad, youth of
unknown parentage, to Chicago.
Alan arrives in Chicago. From a
statement of Sheriff. it seems prob
able Conrad is Corbet's Legitimate
son. Corvet has decided his house
and its contents to Alan.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13
Why Suffer From rheumatism?

I cured myself of rheumatism of
three years standing by simple sys-
TEN of diet. Drugs are worthless. You
must rid your system of the surplus
uric acid; then the rheumatism disap-
pears. Particulars for stamp. C. Coch-
rane, $50 Center ST., N. Y. Advertise
Inent.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13
Poor human Nature.

SIS Penfeld's novel of small town
any good?"
1T must be. The characters are so
true to life that the originals don't rec
Ognize themselves. "-Judge.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13
Gro BE CoNTINUED.)
Jud Tunklns.

Jud Tunkins says there's big ad.
vantage in using long words. ANY.
body would rather take what you say
for granted than be put to the trouble
nf looking in tho dintiol,s--
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13
Speakinu of furniture

Bride-'I want to buy an easy chair
for my husband" alesman-"Mor-
ris" Bride-"No Clarence"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13

"For this was the man whom
he had fought in Benjamin
Corvet's house the night be-
fore"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-04-13
YOU CAN WALK In COMFORT

II you Shake Into Your Shoes some ALIENS
der for shoes that pinch or feet that ache.
1t takes the friction from the shoe and
gives relief to corns and bunions, hot tired,
sweating, swollen feet. Ladies can wear
shoes one size smaller by shaking Aliens
Foot=Ease in each Observation-Disclosures.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-22
Read his invitation
Dear MR. L3ebmayasag

Dear Mre L1ebmaxag
When first tasted Old Scotch Brew New
took me back TO my bonnie Scotland
Now want every and 4n Kew York drink
Brew ma
Th1s excellent between America
am glad that Amer1oa's leading malt drin
finest malt drink 1s the most popular ale
Amer1oas1
Will you kindly the details chat every
1ork may taste Good Old Scotch Brew ny gaeste
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-02-10
New Vaudeville
at the Bligh

Bert Ford, starts the show with
a musical novelty in lively man
ner, "The Musical Doughboy."
Walker and Brown are a col
ored comedy couple who present a
snappy singing, talking and dane
ing act.
Hoot Gibson and his winning
smile in a new feature, "Sure
Fire." adapted from the novel
"Bransford Of Rainbow Ridge"
The breezy cowboy saunters
from one thrill to another In mis-
inimitably affable manner. jeff
Bransford seems to have been
written particularly for Hoot Glib
son, SO perfectly does Eugene
Manlove Rhodes famous char
acter fit the smiling western star.
The story, produced under the
direction of Jack Ford, director of
many Harry Cary successes, is
jammed and crammed with red
blooded action.
Sure Fire" is the fighting
drama Of man who makes good
"a vagabond cowpuncher, who
shows his worth for something
more than riding the range.
This we'll balanced program
will be at the Bligh theater today
and tomorrow and an entire new
show comes for Sunday and Mon
daY