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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-07-25
EDITORIAL.
CONFIDENCE

REAL, TRUE, LASTING PROSPERITY COMES ONLY WITH
CONFIDENCE Confidence each oher in community and
The disged Pessims has place this scheme for the
Good Times which always be if will WAITING
FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN MEANS NOTHING WILL HAP
Pen AND BUSINESS STAGNATION PREVAILS Squeezing every
lend feeling of safety first but eventually leaves
with income and corresponding financial shrnkage.
Purchasing what you need and when you need dollars
circulation that back rentals increased property
values and prosperity for all Employment is the
sty community for EMPLOYMENT MEANS WAGES AND
WAGES MEAN PROSPERITY Not just prosperity for those
evng these but prosperity for those that they
them Prosperity for the Banker Merchant the Property
Owner and last and most importanMAYSVLIE AND EVERY
ONE OF IT'S CITIZENS MAKING UP THE CIVIC BODY.
The purchasing of hat suit pair of shoes loaf of bread
other of the nnumerabe articles which the needs
mating purchase. THEREFORE, LET THIS PURCHASE BE
MADE IN NASHVILLE.
We make this individual
folks individual matter with every Bust
Men ALL THOSE APPENDED HEREWITH GIVE EN-
PLOYMENT TO NASHVILLE PEOPLE They wish to give more
employment and vocation to those who desire and pledge
campaign increasingly for the abOrng
community All of the Maysvie Business Men this
they ask your support and encouragement
THIS ENCOURAGEMENT CAN BE GRANTED BY A 1907
LOYAL PATRONAGE OF THE BUSINESS MEN OF THIS CITY
WHO IN TURN GIVE EMPLOYMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF TIE
COMMUNITY. be granted by your absolute pledge
ploy labor but what Maysvle labor performed by MNys
person.
BY these you will be Offering the working
of this city the tangible cooperation and support which they
fully and which will all contribute the final result
cxpecting-A GREATER NASHVILLE
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CENTRAL GARAGE.
IMPLEMENT g.
AUTO co.

Buggies, Farming Implements,
Cream Separators, Electric Light
Plants, Engines, Fencing, Roofing,
Automobile Painting and Trim
ming, Blacksmithing, Repairing.
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DEATH FROM ALCOHOL
SHOW AN INCREASE.
A New York dispatch says:

A New York dispatch says:
An increase of nearly SO per cent. in
alcoholic deaths this year over those
of 1920, and 81 per cent. over 1921, has
been reported by the chief medical ex-
aminer for New York. The report
shows that so persons died from alco-
holism in the first six months of this
year. These include only victims who
died without medican attention. Med
ical Examiner Charles Norris said
many others probably died from alco-
holism who were attended by private
physicians. The total number OF alco-
holic deaths for 1921 totaled 1877 or SO
less than the total will be for this
year, II the present rate is maintained.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-07-25
WAKE UP, TEXAS

Well WE'LL Here is the Houston Texas, Post asserting that
awakened loss is suffering dlsposng
materials including cotton in the state instead Of selling
finished state Why not add that the
United States needs to be awakened to the thing
Republicans their durndes
what will impose protective imports
abroad that this country will not suffer
the loss incident sending materials abroad and returning them
in Just copper from
countries there be and
Houston Post stands with that of trade
the time that harp the need Of manufacturing Texas
materials finished products Texas Why not be consistent
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my friends. Mrs. A. II. GARLAND, 2l8
E. Brown St., Iron Mountain, Michigan.
Xenia, Ohio. EVERY month / had
such pains In my back and lower part OF
my abdomen that ! could not lie quietly
In bed. suffered for about FIVE years
that way and ] was not regular either. i
read an advertisement Of what Lydia Il.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had
done for other women, 20 decided 10 try
II. II surely has helped me q lot, an ]
have no pains now and am regular and
feeling fine, Mrs. MARY DALE, Route
2, xenia, Ohio.
Lydia ". Pinkhan's Vegetable Com
pound 10 . medicine for womsn's all.
ments. II laespscially adapted 10 relieve
women. II you suffer ~ did Mrs. Gar
land % Mrs. Dale, you should give this
vall'known medicine thorough trIsl.
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suy In nsJsviIi. u pays
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ENGLISH PUBLISHER
WILL NOT RECOVER.

London, July "a, Rumors that
Viscount Northcllfe was poisoned In
Germany during his incognito tour
were afloat in Fleet street today.
The famous publishers physicians
frankly are puzzled over his eompli-
Gated toxic condition. Associates say
his recovery 10 unlikely aud, even
though no escapes death from tho
present illness he never again Will
assume control of his publications or
WELD dominant power In British poll
tics,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-07-25
MUSCLE SHOALS VIEWS

Under the Craftsmanship of Senator Norris Nebraska the Sen
Agriculture actively engaged in consideration of
offers have been made for taking the Govern
property Muscle Shos 1t understood that there
least three differing views held by the committee members including
acceptance development of the project by the
itself They will probably all be laid before the Senate
by body will follow exhaustive discussion of
the VIII
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" ~ " Dcu OH nc
count of them. l saw
your advertisement
and took Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound with
very good results. ]
can work all day long
now at my sick time.
You may use these
facts as a testimonial
and / am recon-
nending the Vege-
table COMPOUND to
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-07-25

They bargains at Csc. They re
super-bargains at 69c. Made of pretty
ginghams in checks and figures and
two very fetching styles. Buy them
in twos, threes and fours; you can't
stop to try to make them yourself any
cheaDer
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THE BIG STORE WITH THE
LITTLE PRICE
That is What We are doing. We
ire out to get your business. Not
With force sales or special bats.
But by selling you the world 5
best Furniture in the smart and
newest models at rock bottom
prices every business day in the
year.
JOHN BRISBOIS
The Furniture Man,
Maysville, KY.
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PAINS so BAD
WOULD GO TO BED
Two Women Tell How Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Stopped Their Suffering

Iron Mountain, Mich. 81 had terri
BILE pains every month and at times had
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-03

some OF the Princess's pictures. He
had an uncanny talent for finding
stories in the unlikellest places,
and for giving the twist to an un.
workable story that made IL go.
He represented, you might say,
Mas private stock OF intelligence,
and as he never put II at the dis
posal OF anyone else, never tried
to capitalize any of his ideas into
credit for himself, he filled what
otherwise would have been an ach-
ing want.
In his relations with the Princess
herself there was never anything
that even momentarily caught Mas
eye or awakened the faintest mis-
giving. He was rather shy with
her. friendly enough OF course, but
uncommunicatiye, IL was always
to Ma that he talked when the
three OF them were together and
he never made the mistake, which
had cost many a good man his job,
OF trying to slip any private little
asides into the Princess's ear. And
he was, as matter OF fact, per
fectly unaware that he was the
serpent which led the Princess to
the apple tree. There were no
wiles about 1t at all.
But what she first perceived
about this very humble member OF
the household-thi word is used
in the sense in which Il is en-
ployed by royalty-was that he did
not regard her as everybody else
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Nothing but iulnbago," the hastily
summoned staff Of physicians IN
formed her, but lumbago so in
tense as to be absolutely paralyz-
ing.
At noon they told the Princess
that 1t had been decided she was
to cross the continent without her
mother. That wonderful woman's
place at her side vast be taken
by a newly engaged social secre-
tary. 1t Is appalling to think of
the agonies Ma must have suf.
fered before she assented TO any
such arrangement.
The Princess bade her mother
a fearful farewell dt certainly made
a touching scene as reported in the
afternoon papers, and ! see no suf-
fclent reason for tearing the veil)
and found herself a little later leav-
ing that inseparable lady behind
at a smooth persistent forty miles
an hour. In an abstraction which
her new chaperon found it impos-
sible to break (by dinner time she
had begun to think the girl was
really an idio) she sat gazing out
OF the drawing-room window at
the slipping, rotating landscape of
upstate New York, contemplating
this miraculous deliverance with a
suffocating joy hardly to be dis.
tinguished from terror. She was
alone at last. 1t was qualified
solitude to be sure, with a chap
eron, a courier.secretary and a
maid, but Mas absence created a
void no mere numbers could fill.
The Princess was alone, and the
refrain the rails sang to her all
that night was Now or never!"
The resolution she had come to
next morning when she rolled up
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her shade. packed her pillows and
gazed out upon the fields OF Indiana
was "Nowl" This very day. in the
city Of Chicago, the great deed
should be done. She would go
somewhere, she would do some
thing, all by herself!
She tried a few experiments on
Miss Smith, expressed two or three
hastily invented preferences and
found to her delight that they had
the validity OF orders. But she
submitted tractably to the elabor-
ate routiae of installation In the
Chicago hotel : and she saw the re-
porters at two, as had been ar
ranged by telegraph from New
York.
Don't you think, Miss Swan"
her chaperon said when they had
gone, that you had better rest
awhile? am afraid you're q little
excited"
The Princess looked at her watch
1t was Just half-past two.
I'm going TO lie down." she
said, until five o'clock. You said
you wanted to do some shopping
here in Chicago. think you might
as well go now. My maid can look
after me II / want anything"
She held her breath until Miss
Smith assented to this program.
"Oh, you needn't wait" she
added. through a yawn. II have
already rung for Barton Barton
was. her maid.
II was a breathless moment, for
Barton had been dismissed for the
afternoon. Ma would never have
stirred a step until she had seen
the maid Lcme in and accept the
responsibility of sentry duty. This
wasn't distrust--it was Just Mas
perfected technique.
Miss Smith was. ! think. vaguely
aware that the situation wasn't
watertight. Ten minutes later.
after an excursion to her own room
for her hat and coat and a shopping
list, she knocked at the Princess's
chamber door, and, In response 10
a sleepy invitation, entered to find
her charge In bed and covered TO
the chin. This satisfied her and
she went away,
Before the elevator door had
clashed behind her the Princess
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-03
he Rmanoe daPr hPc1mp Princess

no had told her that he loved her.
And even that ending she was in
no hurry TO come to: It wasn't
the best part of her dream The
best part of her dream was the ad-
ventures. the light-hearted, IRE
sponsible adventures when she
herself forgot that she was Leda
Swan.
OF course, before II could begin
the greatest adventure of all must
be brought of;-the escape somehow
from Ma; the emergence all by her
self, unchaperoned, unllmousined,
Just in an ordinary hired taxi or
perhaps even afoot, into the dimly
surmised world where common peo-
pie lived
And then, effortlessly, all by It.
self, the thing came off. The new
contract had Just been signed--the
contract all the newspapers were
ringing with. The new super-de-
luxe million-dollar production with
which Leda Swan, Incorporated,
was to inaugurate its heliacal career
was yawning I'm Hollywood for tho
physical presence of Leda Swan
herself. Transportation, including
n private car, had been engaged
across the continent and the bulle-
tin given out to the Associated
Press; city editors in Chicago,
whore the run was TO be broken
in favor of nights sleep, had al
ready assigned to reporters the Job
of meeting the train. And then
on that cry morning Ma found
that she couldn't get out of bedi
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Il met her once, you know She's
really awfully nice-just as simple
and unaffected as can bel"), Ma
was always there TO, as II were,
dress the window, prompting her to
say this, reminding her OF that
quoting what Senator OF Judge or
General So-and-So had written to
her about her last picture.
AS for her encourage, they were.
with a single exception, selected
for their diplomatic and lubricat.
ing qualities. The exception was,
It may be conceded, one of Mas
mistakes.
Yet he was invaluable, and the
qualities which might have made
him dangerous seemed pretty we'll
ovorlaid by the humiltles Of brok.
en- spirit which failure had i'm.
posed upon him. He had at one
time belonged, no doubt, to that SUI
perior class OF persons, whom Ma
could not abide, who knew too
much; who contrived to imply
even in the simplest Of their atti.
tndes and judgments sneer; who
read incomprehensible books, yet
professed themselves utterly unable
TO account for Harold Bell Wright;
who listened TO impossible music
with pleasure. but writhed at "The
Rosary" and Somewhere a Voice
is Calling who, to sum up their
damnation I'm a single phrase,
thought they were smart,
Walter Patrick, as Ma was re.
sentfully aware, had once belonged
TO this class, He had been sort
OF critic or editor on an unread
able highbrow weekly; he had writ
ten, she thought, o book. His in
ability to make a living at those
pursuits had drawn him into the
fringes OF the motion picture world.
but he had a way of producing
every now and then real idea. 1t
was he, for example, who had in.
vented for Mas halfnedged duck
ling OF a daughter the inspired
name Leda, which has four letters
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so beautiful that It made her cry.
For months after that experience
the Leda Swan column had no
more enraptured reader than Leda
Swan herself
II was queer sort OF mirror gaz-
ing, and Il remained delightful un-
I'll from somewhere, at the lnsuga-
tion of some unseen, lurking serpent
in the garden. the misgiving arose
-Ahow shall put it?--as to which
image was the mirrored one and
which the real. The two images
moved together, laughed, sighed,
had their hair brushed. But on
which side of the mirror were all
these appropriate motions initiat-
ed? Was the mirrored Leda Swan
who was always so pretty and so
nice, so gay and so sweet, whose
thoughts and impulses as well as
acts were so infallibly such as
fitted her TO be the ideal OF un-
spoiled young girlhood FOR all the
WORM Was tI4lI lal1ESr !!!!!ItISH
so persistently on the screen, In
the column, even in the great tri-
partite lOokingglass above the
dressing table In her own chamber,
herself2 Or was these somewhere,
inarticulate and ignored, another
self she never, in any mirror. saw
at all?
Consciousness, the philosophers
tell us-at least some of them do,
I'm sure, since II is exactly the sort
OF thing some philosopher would
say--consciousnes Is just a mat
ter OF Illustration. So long as you
get what you want by the mere
instructive gesture that acCompan-
les wanting II. you are conscious
neither of what Il was you wanted
nor Of how you got it. Unless You
encounter a little roughnesB or
resistance somewhere. a refractory
object that says simply mo- to
your intention, you can float along
indefinitely in tleece-lined trance.
'9hanks to Mas marvellous engin-
eerinG 'he Princess had been slid
ing alohS in her well-lubricated
ways with haSdly more opportunity
for self-coualior. thought than a
reciprocating mempC- OF steam
engine. when a director Shd TO be
Quarreled with Ma did IT privStely.
All tho Princess was aware of wss
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was cut OF ned, putting on her
shoes. She was trembling a little
with excitement. but this did not
cause her TO tumble even the un.
familiar processes OF a. maidless
toilet. In a shorter time than Miss
Smith just now had needed for the
accomplishment of a great deal
less, she was dressed, hated.
yeiled, ready for her adventure.
There was a flight down the cor.
ridoF to the bronze doors whose
position she had carefully marked
when she entered the hotel; the
agonized wait for a descending car:
moment of unbetrayed panic
while she braved the publicity OF
the white marble lobby and slipped
past the liveried doorman without
caring glance to determine
whether he had seen her or not.
she had wild apprehension that
II he did see her he would reach
out long arm and drag her back.
And then with a thrilled intoxi.
cation she realized that she had es.
capped. She was walking down tha
street alone. The world, busy with
Its multitudinous affairs, went on
as II nothing had happened. Men.
women, youths OF both sexes, sin.
giy' In pairs, in little groups OF
three or four, overlook her, passed
her' turned out for her, fingered
before show windows and went on
again exactly as II she had bean
merely one OF them. Why, she
was one OF them-just an unre.
garded unit in the throngi
Wen. there you are. You know
now all the essential facts, I think,
that led to the flight Of the
Princess.
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reason, she didn't look to one like
a princess at all? He wasn't laugh.
ing at her, was he? or course not:
how could he? How could anyone
laugh at her, let alone shy, shabby
self-confessed failure like him? Or
did he feel sorry for her? The sup.
position. was still more ridiculous.
Why, wasn't she Just about the
gladdest. gayest and most highly
favored mortal In the world? One
had only to read the column to be
sure OF that. Was there a girl in
the whole United States who
wouldn't change places with Leda
Swan II she could? Wen, she, the
Princess, was Leda Swan herself.
But was she?
That was the first bite Of the
apple. 1t turned her a little giddy;
and from that day began the day
dream OF the Princess; a vague
and curious sort of dream at first
which acquired definition only slow
ly, But the germ of Il was always
a secret unknown person who was
not Leda Swan;-a princess perhaps,
but unacclaimed as such. who went
about unknown and disregarded;
an orphan like Sara Crewe or Polly
anna.
Only her dream didn't end like
Pollyanna's or Sara Crewe's with
a rich elderly gentleman devoting
himself to her. Her dream ended
with prince, who was not TO dis
cover that she was a princess until
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the disappearance into nothingnoss
~ the actor she didn't like ur the
rc-nodeling OF part which she had
felt 10 be unsympathetic. When II
came 10 contact with outdoors. in.
directly through the represents
lives Of the press, or, more rarely
through n purely social function
when especially favored persons
IN highly nervous state we're
permitted TO pay their homage, TO
clasp the Princess's hand and hear
their name pronounced 10 her and,
slttIng on the edges Of their chairs,
TO tell how wonderful she was $50
that aftcrwnrd they could boast,
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Just as Swan had and could be
seen even then, with the eyes OF
faith. cleaning wonderfully in elec-
trio lights. He hadn't any precise
ly designated duties, but he hung
about on the lot when the Princess
was working and occasionally con.
flded 10 Ma (never to anyone else)
a suggestion When the continuity
for now picture was put into Mas
hands she always turned Il over to
him To- read and listened non-com-
mittally when he told her what he
thought OF H. lie turned up with
extraordinary precise information
about the necessary local color for
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lions and millions OF people who 20
10 see my pictures and come away
loving me Just little But some
day / believe the right man will
come along. and then you will know
an about H.
You win agree. think that Il
would be gliding the lily to AT.
tempt To- add anything 10 that, and
for a while the Princess felt that
way about II herself The letter
had been making occasional appear.
ancos for perhaps year before It
was ever brought 90 her attention,
and when she first r,nd IL, II was
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did, literally did not look at her
the way they did. II everybody
else was silk TO her he was bath
towel; and II he hadn't been bath
towel she would not have become
aware that everyone was silk.
Don't think that he was rude 10
her. There was never anything in
his bearing that sha could have
complained about to Ma Indeed
there was something kind about
him that there wasn't about the
others.
Well. perhaps that was Just Il.
How could one be kind to a prln.
cess unless, for somo perplexing
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wonderfully sweet to her You
know the deep sense of obligation
she feels never to betray the pub
Ice trust by appearing In picture
that isn't perfectly sweet and
wholesome. You know how strongly
she feels about tho sanctity OF mar.
riage and the family tie; how one
ought to conHde everything to ones
mother. because one could never
have a better friend. You know
all about Leda Swans charity to
the unfortunate. the good cheer she
d;sVaHsos 20 the discouraged, now
perfectly democratic and human she
is, despite her vast wealth and
fame. even to seryants-of whom
she has OF course an enormous
retinue. You know about her bub-
bling sense OF humor and what
amusement she derives from the
bushels OF absurd proposals OF mar
riage which she receives daily In
the mail, and yet how careful she
Is never to wound the feelings OF
any real admirer, however humble.
You know--and this is what you
are never allowed to forget on tho
screen or off-her simple, un.
spoiled, girlish simplicity.
You cannot possibly have missed
the letter which appears ten or Il
dozen times a year, answering an
inquiry whether really and truly
she isn't married and has never
fallen in love:
No, my dear, not yet. am stlll
waiting for the absolutely right
man 10 come along, think know
little what he will be like. | am
not sure that he will be handsome
not In the ordinary sense OF tho
word-though OF course he will
look handsome to me. But he will
be brave and true and utterly sin.
cere. lie will be a hundred per
cent American. / think he will
have fought for his country, at
least in his heart. And then he
must BE one who was meant for
me. think It Is a frightful mis-
take not to wait until you are obso-
lutely sure of that, don't you? Or
to be so impatient just to get mar
ried that one takes the first man
who comes along | have had to
say mo" great many times OF
course and II has often been very
lard to do. OF course, waiSSag isn't
so hard for me because am blessed
with such a wonderful mother. We
are - well $500 everything to eacf
other. Just pals, you know; the
best pair of pals that ever lived. |
think, though | hope there are lots
OF other girls who think that about
their mothers too. Some people
have said that the reason cannot
fall in love with anybody in par
ticular is because love all tho
world so much. Vol, / do love It
and everybody in it, All the mil.
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aeontlnued from Preceding Paue)

tho held of her official bioRrapher
the young woman referred TO three
or four paragraphs back who turns
out tho weekly syndicatcd lottcr
and fills ont the column with an.
swers 10 correspohdeuts Whether
YOU read that column or not you
are unayoidnbly In po8session OF
tho picture IL presents. You know
all about Leda Swans gratitude 10
the dear public that has been 80