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Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15

Sheriff. hesitated, then assented; and
they went round the block together to
the Corvet house. Sheriff., after few
instants' hesitation, took the key from
his pocket and unlocked the door and
went In. The rooms. they saw, were
all in perfect order; summer covers
had been put upon the furniture; pro-
tecting cloths had been spread over
the beds upstairs. After their inspec-
ton, they came out again ut the front
door, and her father closed it with a
swapping Of the spring lock.
Constance, as they walked away.
turned and looked back at the old
house, gloomy and dark among its
newer, fresher-looking neighbors, and
suddenly she choked, and her eyes
grew wet. That feeling was not for
Uncle Benny; the drain of days past
had exhausted such a surge of feeling
for him. That which she could not
wink away was for the boy who had
come TO that house a few weeks ago
and for the man who just now had
gone.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15
PREVENT LOSS IN SHIPPING
Partitions In Stock Cars Separating
Large Animals From Small
Ones 10 Good Idea.

prepared by tho United states Department
OF Agrisulturs.)
A little time and labor, possibly q
little money, expended In building q
strong partition to separate the big
animals from the small ones In q
mixed carload of live stock frequent
ly saves the shipper from serious
loss on the consignment, say special
lists Of the bureau of markets, United
States Department OF Agriculture.
The smaller animals such as hogs,
lambs, goats and sheep are always
in danger of injury from the larger
animals. and this is especially true
when the car Is overcrowded.
Crippled animals mean loss to the
shipper, for they bring prices consid.
erably below the regular market price
for sound stock. Dead animals bring
still less-in the case Of hogs only
about 80 to Is cents per hundred
pounds for grease. There is always
the danger, too, Of the small stock
becoming bruised, through being
jostled and kicked by the larger ones.
Bruises make a carcass less valuable,
as the meat inspectors in the slaugn.
terhouses cut out all bruised spots.
Meat thus mutilated is sold as cheap
er grades. the depreciation depending
upon how much cutting was neces-
sary. The buyers in the stock yards
know this, of course, and, conse-
quently, pay less for animals that
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15

Alan's passion broke out suddenly.
Were anything but that, judah. I
found him, the first night got here
and while you were away, going
through my fathers things. I fought
with him, and he ran away. He was
the one that broke into my fathers
desks; maybe you'll believe that, even
If no one else WILL"
"Yes?" the Indian questioned.
"Yes?" It was plain that he not only
believed but that believing gave him
immense satisfaction. He took Alan's
arm and led him into the smaller H.
brary. He knelt before one Of the draw,
ers under the bookshelves-the drawer,
Alan recalled, which he himself had
been examining when he had found
Wassaquam watching him. He drew
out the drawer and dumped ito con-
tents out upon the floor; he turned
the drawer about then, and pulled the
bottom out Of it. Beneath the bottom
which he had removed appeared now
another bottom and few sheets of
paper scrawled in an uneven hand and
with different colored inks.
At sight Of them, Spearman. who
had followed them into the room, ut
tered an oath and sprang forward. The
Indians small dark hand grasped
Spearman's wrist and his face
twitched itself into fierce grin
which showed how little civilization
had modified in him the aboriginal
passions. But Spearman did not try
to force his way; instead, he drew
back suddenly.
Alan stopped and picked up the pa
pers and put them in his pocket. If
the. Indian had not been there, it
would not have been so easy for him
to do that, he thought.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15
MORE BROOD sows ON FARMS
Increase Of 1887 900 Over Year Ago
10 Seen, Due Largely to Big
Stock Of Corn.

There were 12,424,OOO breeding sows
On farms April /, the United States
Department of Agriculture estimates.
This is 1921, 900 animals more than
on the same date in 1921 and repre-
sents an increase of Ill per cent.
The large corn crop last year and
the unusually large farm stocks Of
corn are given as the explanation Of
the large increase in breeding sows
this spring. Corn was worth more as
pork than as corn, and hogs were
needed to eat the corn.
The number of hogs is quickly re-
sponsive to the general economic
situation, the department points out.
In April 1918, the number of breeding
sows was 9.5 per cent more than on
the same date in 1917, due to high hog
prices as result of war conditions.
The figures on April, 1920, show de-
cline Of 10 per cent for the year ended
on that date. The reason for this was
that the price of corn was relatively
too high to encourage the feeding Of
hogs.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15

at. The names and addresses on these
oldest, yeuowed pages had been first
written, 1t was plain, all at the same
time and with the same pen and ink,
and each sheet in the beginning had
contained seven or eight names. Some
OF these original names and even the
addresses had been left unchanged,
but most Of them had been scratched
out and altered many times-other
and quite different names had been
substituted; the pages had become
finally almost illegible, crowded
scrawls, rewritten again and again in
Corvet's cramped hand. Alan strained
forward, holding the first sheet to the
light.
Alan seized the clippings he had
looked at before and compared them
swiftly with the page he had Just read {;
two Of the names-Westhouse and
French-were the same as those upon
this list. Suddenly he grasped the
other pages Of the list and looked
them Though for his own name; but
it was not there. He dropped the
sheets upon the table and got up and
began to stride about the room.
He felt that in this list and in these
clippings there must be, somehow,
some one general meaning-they must
relate In some way to one thing; they
must have deeply, intensely concerned
Benjamin Corvet's disappearance and
his present fate, whatever that might
be, and they must concern Alan's fate
as well. But in their disconnection,
their incoherence, he could discern no
common thread. What conceivable
bond could there have been uniting
Benjamin Corvet at once with an old
man dying upon a poorfarm in Emmett
county, wherever that might be, and
with a baby girl, now some two years
old, in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin?
He called Wassaquam into the IL
brary and brought the lists and clip
pings out again.
do you know at all what these are,
Judah?" he asked.
mo, Alan. have seen Ben have
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15
"LAND OF THE DRUM.

SYNOPsIs.-Wealthy and highly
placed in tho Chicago business
world, Benjamin Corvet is some-
thing OF q recluse and q 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 prom
Use not to marry Spearman until he
returns. He then disappears. Sher-
Till learns Corvet has written to q
certain Alan Conrad, In Blue Rap
ids. Kansas, and exhibited strange
agitation over the matter. Alan
arrives In Chicago. From q state
ment of Sheriff. 1t seems prob
able Conrad is Corvet's illegitimate
son. Corvet has decided his house
and its contents to Alan, who takes
possession. That night Alan dis
covers man ransacking Corvet's
apartments. The intruder thinks
Alan ghost and raves Of the mi
waka." After q struggle the man es-
capes. Next day Alan learns from
Sheriff. that Corvet has decided his
entire property to him. Introduced
to Spearman, Alan is astonished at
the discovery that he IL the man
whom he had fought in his house
the night before. Spearman laughs
at and defles him. Spearman poi
sons Constance's mind against
Alan. Somebody tries to kill Alan
in the night. Corvet's Indian serv-
ant, Wassaquam. tells Alan he be-
lieves his employer is dead. He
also tells him the legend Of the In
dian drum, which according to old
superstition beats once for every
life lost ~ the Great Lakes. TWEEN
ty yeara before. the great freighter
Mtwaka had gone down with
TWENTY-FIVE on board, but the Drum
had fvunded for only twenty-four,
lea>!Tg the inference that one per-
sou had been saved. Luke, who
hos long been Matchmaking Corvet,
nppears. talks mysteriously and
dies.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15

"Do You Know At All What These Are,
Judah7'' He Asked.
them, and take them out and put them
back. That is all know"
DO you know any of these peo-
ple?"
He gave the lists to Wassaquam,
who studied them through attentively,
holding them to the lamp.
mo, Alan"
"Have You ever heard Of any of
their names before?"
That may be. / do not know. They
are common Names"
do you know the places?"
"Yes-the places. They are lake
ports or little villages on the lakes. 1
have been in most Of them, Alan. EN-
met county, Alan, came from there.
Henry comes from there, too"
"Then that is where they hear the
Drum"
eyes, Alan"
"My father took newspapers from
those places, did he not"
Wassaquam looked over the ad-
dresses again. Eyes; from all. He
took them for the shipping news, he
said. And sometimes he cut pieces
out Of them-these pieces, see now !;
and afterward !. burned the papers !:
he would not let me only throw them
away" &j..
'4That's all you know about them.
Judah?"
eyes, Alan that Is ALL"
Alan dismissed the Indian, who.
stolidly methodical In the midst Of
these events, went downstairs and
commenced to prepare 4 dinner which
Alan knew he could not eat. Alan got
up and moved about the rooms: he
went hack and looked over the lists
and clippings once more; then he
moved about again. How strange q
picture OF. his father did these things
call up to him! When he had thought
Of BENJAMIN Corvet before, It had been
as Sheriff. had described him, pur-
sued by some thought he could not
conquer, seeking relief in study, in cor
respondence with scientific societies,
In anything which could aengross him
and shut out memory. But now he
must think pf him, not merely as one
trying to forget; what had thwarted
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15
CHAPTER xl
Tho Land Of the Drum.

nc Lana OF tne Drum.
Alan went with Wassaquam into the
front library, after the Indian had
shown Spearman out.
"This was the man, Judah, who came
for Mr.. Corvet that night was hurt?"
"Yes, Alan," Wassaquam said.
HE was the man. then, who came
here twice year, at least. to see Mr..
Corvet?"
EYES,"
II was sure of It," Alan said. "Can
you tell me now why he came here,
JudahY'
Il have told you do not know"
Wassaquam replied. "Ben always saw
him; Ben gave him money. do not
know why"
Alan had been holding his hand over
the papers which he had thrust into
his pocket; he went back into the
smaller library and spread them under
the reading lamp to examine them.
But, as he looked the pages over now,
he felt chill Of disappointment and
chagrin. They did not contain any
narrative concerning Benjamin Cor
vets life; they did not even relate to
single event. They were no nara
tive at all. They were-in his first
examination Of them, he could not tell
what they were.
They consisted in all of some dozen
sheets Of irregular size, some of which
had been kept much longer than 9TH
ers, a few Of which even appeared
fresh and new. The three pages
which Alan thought, from their yell
lowed and worn look, must be the old
est, and which must have been kept
for many years, contained only list
Of names and addresses. The remain
ing pages, which he counted as ten
in number, contained nearly hun
dred brief clippings from newspapers;
the clippings had been very carefully
cut out, they had been pasted with
painful regularity on the sheets, and
each had been dated across its face
dates made with many different pens
and with many different inks, but all
in the same irregular handwriting as
the letter which Alan had received
from Benjamin Corvet.
Alan. his fingers numb in his disap-
pointment, turned and examined all
these pages; but they contained moth
ing else. He read one of the clippings,
which was dated "Feb. 1912"
.aThe passing away Of one of the
oldest residents Of Emmett county oc-
CURED at the poorfarm on Thursday
Of last week. Mr.. Fred Westhouse
was one Of four brothers brought by
their parents into Emmett county in
1916. He established himself here as
q farmer and was well known among
our people for many years. He was
nearly the last Of his family, which
was quite well OF at one time, Mr..
Westhouse's three brothers and his
father having persisted in various dis.
asters upon the lake. His wife died
two years ago. He Is survived By
daughter, Mrs. Arthur Pearl, Of Flint"
He read another:
"Hallford-Spens. On Tuesday last
Miss Audrey Hallford, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Hallford, Of this
place, was united in the bonds Of holy
matrimony to Mr.. Robert Spens, Of
Escanaba. All wish the young couple
we'll"
He read another:
e Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Hal French.
q daughter, Saturday afternoon last.
Miss Vera Arabella French, at her ar
rival weighed seven !. and one-half
pounds A I.
This clipping was dated. In Benja-
min Corvet's hand, Sturgeon Bay.
Wis, Aug. 1911" Alan nut 1t aside
in bewilderment and amaze and took
up again the sheets he hrst had locked
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15
CHAPTER XII
The Things From corvet's Pockets.
Miss Constance Sheriff.


Miss Constance Sheriff..
Harbor Springs, Michigan"
The address, in large scrawling let
tiers, was written across the brown
paper Of the package which had been
brought from the post Office in the lit
tie resort village only few moments
before. The paper covered a shoe box,
crushed and old, bearing the name of
IS. klug, Dealer in Fine Shoes, Mani
towoc, Wisconsin" The box, like the
outside wrapping, was carefully tied
with a string.
Constance, knowing no one in Mani
towoc and surprised at the nature of
the package, glanced at the postmark
on the brown paper which she had re-
moved; it too was stamped Mantle
voc. She cut the strings about the
box and took off the cover. A black
and brown dotted silk cloth filed the
box; and, seeing 1t, Constance caught
her breath. 1t was-at least 1t was
very like-the muffler which Uncle
Benny used to wear IN winter.
She started with trembling fingers
to take it from the box; then, realiz-
ing from the weight Of the package
that the cloth was only wrapping or,
at least, that other things were in the
box, she picked up box and wrapping
and ran up to her room. She locked
the door and put the box upon the
bed; now she lifted out the cloth. 1t
was wrapping, for the heavier things
came with it; and now, also, 1t re-
vealed itself plainly as the scarf-Un-
Gle Benny's scarfl A paper fluttered
out as she began to unroll ia little
cross-lined leaf evidently torn from a
pocket memorandum book. 1t had
been folded and rolled up. She spread
it out; writing was upon it, the small
irregular letters of Uncle Benny's
hand.
"Send to Alan Conrad" she read;
there followed a Chicago address-the
number Of Uncle Benny's house on
Aston street. Below this was another
line:
Better care Of Constance Sheriff.
(Miss)." There followed the sher-
rills' address upon the Drive. And to
this was another correction:
"Not after June u; then to Harbor
Springs, Mich. Ask some one Of that
be sure the date; after June r."
Constance, trembling, unrolled the
scarf; now coins showed from a fold.
next pocketknife, ruined and rusty.
next a watch-a mans large gold
watch with the case queerly pltted
and worn completely through in places,
and last plain little band of gold of
the size for a woman's fnger-a we'd
ding ring. Constance, gasping and
with fingers shaking SO from excite
ment that she could scarcely hold
these objects, picked them up and ex-
amined them-the ring first.
1t very evidently was, as she had
Immediately thought, wedding ring
once fitted for finger only a trife
less slender than her own. One side
of the gold band was very much worn,
not with the sort of wear which
ring gets on hand, but by some diff
ferent sort of abrasion. The other
side Of the band was roughened and
pitted but not so much worn; the in
side still bore the traces Of an In
scription. "As long as we DO
all alive" Constance could read, and
the date, "June 2. 1891"
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15

Have Purebred Females Too.
OF course the purebred sire is the
first step, but there's no good argu-
ment against purebred females in live
stock Improvement.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15
"You mean you want me to
marry you-at once, Henry?"
(ro BE coNT1NUED.)
Human LIE Too Short.

fssSsss0ss @bV wv 0hVs -
BY all the rules which nature OBJ.
server among humber mammals, 100
years ought to be very ordinary age
for a human being. Where is the
mammal which, unless its life Is cut
short by accident or disease, fails to
i've to I'm age Eve times as great as
the time 1t took to reach maturity A
fairly careful survey Of the field an
swers Nowhere" Indeed, the ratio
Of total life to maturity is more likely
to be SIX, seven or eight, than five.
But man, whose maturity cannot be
placed at less than 20 or %, thinks he.
is doing well when he passes three
score and ten, and only one out Of
many thousands reaches the age o..
one hundred .ssss
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15

show bruises or seem likely to have
suffered In this way.
Buyers are afraid of bruised stock,
and for this reason are suspicious of
small ANIMALS arriving at the stock
yards In mixed carload where the
larger animals are not partitiOned of.
Such injuries are difficult to detect
in the live animal, but when small
stock, such as calves and lambs, ar
rive in badly soiled condition buy
ers usually suspect they have been
trampled and bruised by larger ami
mails and as rule the buyers play
safe by paying less money for such
stock.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15
FINE FORAGE CROPS FOR PIGS
Rape 10 Rich In Protein, While Alfalfa
Will Carry More Animals
Per Acre.

Rape Is rich in protein, and Is al
most equal to alfalfa as a forage
crop for pigs. The chief advantage
to alfalfa lies in the fact that it will
generally carry more pigs per acre,
and does not need to be reseeded each
year.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15
Make Land Pay More.

Make Land Pay More.
Purebred live stock on every farm
would go far toward making high.
priced land pay 6 per cent net on its
value.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-15

Take Care Of Animals.
Take good care Of the animals now
md they win take care Of you9l atss
Evening star., 1922-06-22
PROBLEM Of ALLIED
DEBT DISCUSSED
Chicago Banker Says Pay
ment or Cancellation Is
Vital Issue Before u. S.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS. June 22.-The problem
OF requiring payment OF the allied
debt or canceling 1t Is the fundamen-
tai question. upon the answer to
which will depend the future Of our
own commercial and Industrial well
fare and that OF the rest of the
world" Walter Lichtenstetn. Phi. D..
the Chicago banker, said at the con-
vention Of the Illinois Bankers AS
sociation here today. DR.. Lichten-
stein then presented 4 summary OF
both sides Of the controversy as
voiced IN q recent statement from the
Chicago Association Of Commerce.
Makes Ecoaomic Survey.
Most OF my time during the last
months has been spent in making an
economic survey OF this country on
behalf Of the American Bankers As
ISOLATION" said DR.. Lichtenstein. ut
is evident that there Is q much great
or feeling Of hopefulness in the coun-
feel that we have probably gone as
far as we can in a rehabilitation OF
our conditions. unless we can bring
some influence to bear upon Europe
as it is Europe which is the sore spot
and 1 believe that in the present
juncture OF affairs this fact cannot be
overemphasized.
with the exception Of Great Brit
ain. none OF the European countries
Is really in a position to bring about
net reduction Of its government
indebtedness to US in the near future.
The world has become more and
moro interdependent. even though 1t
Is indtSputable that this general
truth Is less applicable to this coun.
try than to any other.
Quotes London Banker.
ITO quote from a recent speech Of
Mr. Reginald McKenna, the very able
cha irman OF the London Joint City
and Midland Bank: One nation, and
still more a large group Of nations.
cannot be broken IN and impovertsh.
ed so as to destroy it's ability to func-
ton, without throwing the entire ma
-hine out Of gear. . The trade OF
each country is linked up with that
Of the whole world. Our own trade
ernnot recover its pre-war activity
whilst SO many countries continue In
their present broken-down condition.
And he well exempNfies that world.
trade de-interrelationship by showing
that II Russia, for instance. fails to
make purchases OF tea in China or
! India, as formerly the result Is to af-
feet unfavorably the capacity OF those
countries to buy cotton goods from
England, which. in turn, leads to q
reduction OF the purchases OF raw
cotton by England in the United
States. and that again reacts unfa-
vorably on England's business Of
shipping. banking and insurance"
Evening star., 1922-06-22
WANTS JUSTICE OFFICE .
TOIAKE CRIME BUREAU
Hal. Eylvester's suggestion on
Control Indorssd By 20.
: lice Chiefs.
By the Associated Prsss.


By the Associated Prsss.
BAN FRANCISCO. June ss.-chies
Of Police Philips 8. Smith OF New
Haven Conn, was elected president.
and Buffalo. N. z, was chosen as the
1923 convention city at yesterdays g
sessions Of the International Asso-
citation Of Chiefs Of Police.
Resolutions favoring government
control OF the national bureau for
criminal Identification and askinG for
radio equipment for all police sta.
tions and a standardized police uni.
form throughout the country were
adopted today.
Other resolutions adopted called for
the standardising Of trafiic signals and
the regulation OF pool halls and kin.
dfed places OF amusement
The resolution favorins the control
OF the criminal bureau was Endorsed
by Maj. Richard Sylvester, former
head OF ths metropolitan police OF
Warrington, D. c., who read 4 letter
from Attorney General Daughefty.
suggesting that the Department OF
Justice handle the operations OF the
bureau. with three ohiefs OF police
40 an advisory board. II 10 At pres
buttons OF shertRs and chiefs OF
police.
william A. Pinkerton, head Of the
detective bureau. opposed govern.
ment control OF the bureau on the
ground that politics would destroy
its effectiveness.
The resolution for standardized uni
forms was offered by superintendent
OF Police Rutledge at Detroit.
Evening star., 1922-06-22
SUNDAY SCHOOL HEAD.
Hugh S. Magill of This City New
Association Secretary.
By the Associated Press.

By the Assoc iated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-. June 22.-Ths
election Of Hugh s, Masill Of Wash.
ington to be general secretary Of
the International Sunday School AZ.
ISOLATION was the outstanding event
Of the frst day Of the sixteenth quad.
rennial convention OF the convention
which started here yesterday.
The new secretary was director
general OF the Illinois centennial
celebration in 1918 and since then
has been field secretary Of the Ma.
tional Educational Association.
Evening star., 1922-06-22

To be England's first woman surveyor
Martin. who has Just passed the final
examination of the College Of Estate
Management. Mise Martin has special.
lied in town surveying, and It was SYM
pathy with bad housing conditions that
hrst led her to adopt her profession.
Evening star., 1922-06-22


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