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Evening star., 1922-01-01
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can't you? Or digging trenches to lay
gas pipes in. or carrying a hod? Huh?
And I can't even get a job in a swell
restaurant uptown; they don't want
any game-legged walters sticking
around. falling over the chairs. I )
was about the only kind of a joint
and the only kind of a job I was fit
for, this chophouse thing down >here,
and it's going to close in two weeks.
What then? Be somebody's house
maid? I can't see it. don't wish any
body any bad luck, but I hope the
guy that put over this prohibition
thing gets stiff in all his joints and
lives forever"
I sympathized and waited. and
finally he began.
r X *
GOLD MAN SINGLEToN'S fad"
said Ed. "as I remarked before.
is money. And, as you remarked, an
other Of his fads is corned beef and
cabbage-especially cabbage. He will
eat corned beef with his cabbage, and
like 1t; or he will eat pork with his
cabbage. and like it; or he win eat
cabbage without either: it is the cab
bage he likes-or kale. In fact. YOU
could reduce his two fads to one. and
say what he likes Is kale--kale IN the
slang sense Of money and kale that is
cabbage. And all his life he has
been stuffing himself with kale.
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feel and handle and show and carry
about with him. Not merely money
in the bank and stocks and bonds and
property and real estate, but actual
cash. He likes to carry 1t with him,
and he does carry it with him. / guess
he likes the feel of it in his bill-folder.
and the thought that he has got it on
him-on him. the poor boy that came
out of New England. with the red
knitted mittens on that everybody has
heard SO much about. I can under
stand the way he feels about it; with
folder full Of thousand-dollar and
ten-thousand-dollar bills he feels safe,
somehow; feels like he'll never have
to go back to that little New England
town and saw cordwood and shovel
snow again.
Hes got it on him now. that fold
er, and I'll bet you on it. That's what
I meant when I said it wasn't safe for
him to be trotting about this way
after night. For If know it. it stands
to reason others know it, too.
What you want to know is, how
know 1t. Well. was not always what
I am now. Once I was quite guy
and wore dress suits and went to the
Metropolitan opera and listened to
Caruso as he jumped his voice from
peak to peak. Yes, sir. I know every
darned acoustic in that place! They
weren't my dress suits that I wore,
but they fit me. Once I moved in the
circles of the idle rich, though they
didn't know it, and helped 'em spend
the unearned increment they wrung
from the toll Of the down-trodden la
boring man.
"Once, to come down to brass tacks,
1 was buffers companion. 1t is an
office you won't find listed in the
social directoroy, but it existed. for
me at least The butler in the case
was a good friend of mine by the
name of Larry Hodgkins. and being
part Irish. he was an ideal English
butler. Larry and his mother were
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I house is uptown, between the sixties
and eighties, east of the park, and
he wants it kept so he can drop into
1t with his family and flock Of SER
wants at any hour of the day or
night, from any part of the earth,
| without minutes notice, and give
a dinner party at once, If he feels
like it, and he frequently feels like 1t.
1T was Mrs. Hodgkins' and Larry's
| job to keep the fires from going out
| in the boilers. SO to speak, and
head of steam on, SO that the domes-
tic ship could sail in any direction
on receipt of orders by wire. wireless
or telephone. They were permanent
there, but Jake Hergsheimer and his
family, as far as l could make out,
never got more than an average of
of that mansion.
"This time I am speaking of was
nearly ten years ago. I was a waiter
in an uptown restaurant, and both
| my legs were good then: Larry and 1
! were old pals. The Jake Herg-
world in yacht. and would be at
! it for about a year. as far as Larry
! knew, and he asked me up to live
with him. I accepted; and believe
me. the eight months l put in as
Jake Hergsheimer's guest were some
eight months. Not that Jake knew
about it, but if he had known 1t, he
|
| a real human being.
"And his clothes fit me; just as IL
| had been measured for them. He had
| what you might call an automatic
! tailor, Jake did. Every six weeks,
rain or shine, that tailor delivered
new suit of clothes to the Herg-
sheimer house. and he sent in his
| bill once a year, SO Larry, the butler,
told me. Some people go away and
| forget to stop the milk, and when
Jake sailed for the other side OF the
world he forgot to tell anybody to
stop the tailor. Larry didn't feel
as if it were any part of his duty to
stop him; for Larry liked that tailor.
He made Larry's clothes, too.
! X x
| .sA ND didn't see where it was up
| "A to me to protest. AS I said,
| Jake's garments might have been
made for me. In fact, a great many
of them were made for me. There
| were at least fifteen suits of clothes
that had never been worn In that
house, made to my measure and
Jake's, when 1 became buffers COM
panion in the establishment, and they
kept right on coming. Also there was
| a standing order for orchestra seats
| at the Metropolitan. Jake had box
every second Thursday, or something
like that, but when he really wanted
! to hear the music and see the show he
usually sat in the orchestra Not only
| did his business suits fit me. but his
dress clothes fit me, too.
| Il used to go often with lady
maid that had the same access to
clothing as 1 did. She was part OF
caretaking staff also. Being writing
person, you have, of course, only
viewed New York's society and near
society from the outside, and no doubt
you have been intimidated by the
naughty manners of the servants.
Well, when you get close to swells
and really know them personally, you
will find they are human, too.
Evening star., 1922-01-01
Vacuun.Made Films.

AT meeting Of the Academy of
Sciences in Paris Prof. Houl-
levigue described method Of pro-
ducing thin metallic films by vo-
latilization in a vacuum. The metal
to be deposited is first disposed in a
layer on a platinum wire, which is
then heated in a high vacuum. The
film forms on a plate Of glass, which
is kept In rotation near the heated
wire, In this manner. II is said. thin
films have been produced of gold, sill
yer platinum, iron. copper, zinc, tin
and cadmium.
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"'Ha! Hum" said he, and sneezed.
It's you, Ed, is it?'
"And, snuffing and sneezing, he
passed in front of me.
"And as he passed by me that bar
said something to my hand. And the
hand raised UP. 1t wasn't any Of my
doings, it was all the hand and the
bar. 1t raised up. that bar did. right
behind the old mans head. He stopped
just outside the front door and tapped
his big. bony feet on a rug that was
there, to get the snow off his shoes.
and while he tapped and sneezed that
bar was right over the old mans
brain box.
"'Well.' said to myself. here is
your chance to be an honest man and
prosperous man, reunited with your
wife and your kid and your folks at
home, and not have to borrow any
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came a millionaire, down here In New
York city. He was tickled to sec
her and he didn't care darn if she
was Jake Hergsheimers housekeeper.
She could cook cabbage and kale bet
ter than any one else in the world
and he used to come and sit with her
and talk about that little old town
up there and indulge in his favorite
dissipation.
"Old Man Singleton has had what
you call the social entree in New
York for good many years: for so
long that some Of his children and
all of his grandchildren were born
with it. But he never took it very
seriously himself. He has been an
n-and-outer, you might say. If he
saw Mrs. Hodgkins around Jake's
house he would call her Mary and ask
her how folks were up home in front
Of Jake and his wife and a whole
bunch of guests. just as soon as not.
And his sons and his daughters
and his grandchildren never could get
him out Of those ways; he always was
bullheaded about doing what he
pleased, so Mrs. Hodgkins told me,
and he always will be. And the old
lady liked to see him and chin with
him and cook for him; and, believe
me. she was some cook when she set
everything. She didn't cook for the
ergsheimers-they had chef for
that-but they missed 1t by not hav-
ing her. Victuals was old Mary's
middle name, and she could rustic up
some Of the best grub you ever threw
your lip over.
"At first Old Man Singleton and
Mrs. Hodgkins didn't mix much with
US younger folks when we pulled a
party. 1t wasn't that we were too
aristocratio for them, for of duty, as
said before, buffers and other swells
can be as easy and jolly as common
people. But they seemed too anti
quated. If you get me; they were liv-
ing too much in the past.
X X X X
&c A ND then, one night, I discov-
~ cred what Old Man Singleton's
fad was-kale. Money. Big money.
Big money on his person. It was his
way; Larry and I wanted to go down.
town and have a little fun, but
neither Of US had any cash in hand.
Larry had a check for $3.50, which
Jake Hergsheimer had sent him, but
all the tradesmen we knew were
closed at that hour and there wasn't
any way to cash it, unless Old Man
Singleton could.
"Mr. Singleton says Larry to the
old man, who was sitting down to a
mess of pork and kale with Mrs.
Hodgkins. maybe you can cash this
for me@ And he handed him the
check.
"The old man stopped eating and
put his glasses on and pulled bill
folder out of his pocket. with kind
of q pleased smile on his face.
"Let me see,' he says, taking out
the bills and running them over with
his fingers; let me see.'
IT nearly dropped dead. There
wasn't a bill in there Of lower de-
nomination than one thousand dol
lars, and the most of them were ten
thousand-dollar bills.
".No, Larry says the old man. I'm
afraid I can't, afraid I can't-haven't
got the change
"And while We stood there and
looked, he smoothed and patted those
bills, and folded and refolded them,
and then put them back into his
pocket and patted the pocket.
MARY he says to the old woman.
with a grin, that's quite q lot of
money for little Lem Singleton to be
carrying around in his pocket. amt
itr
"Tt IL that, Lemuel.' said the old
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thing from Jake Hergsheimer's col
/ lection-just one little tap on the old
4 mans head, and down he goes, and
I, thousand to two hundred and fifty
| thousand dollars in his clothes
| Yes said myself to me, one little
| tap, and maybe you kill him. What
| then? The electric chair, huh?'
HE'LL 1 said to myself Take a
i chance! The old man has so much
! money that what he has in his pocket
means nothing to him one way or an
other. Larry's gone till morning. and
I the old woman won't wake for long
time. 1t means little bit of a head
ache for Old Lemuel here, and it
means your chance to lead an honest
life hereafter and be a useful citizen
and take care of those you have been
neglecting'
Eyes, said myself!to me, Its more
moral to do it, and make your life over,
but you never have been one for mo-
rality in the past. Besides, you'd kill
him.
"And l might have killed him, boss.
l wasn't sure of it, then, but I've been
sure of it since then. 1 was that strung
up that would have hit too hard.
| And yet, l might not have done so!
I might have just hit him just enough
to put him out and make my get
iaway. and might have led an honest
| life since then.
| RItf OF he 7
saw, all of a sudden, something funny
! l saw the old man stamping his feet
and getting the snow off, and ]
| thought of him as a dead man, and
1 says to myself, How damned funny
for a dead man to stamp the snow of
his feet" And I laughed.
"Heh? Heb? What did you say
Ed?' says the old man. and turns
around.
Il dropped the iron bar to my side
and that dead man came up out OF
the grave.
"Nothing, Mr.. Singleton I said. i
was just going to say, go on in, and
off of YOU
II said I saved his life from a. man
one time. Well. I was the man
saved his life from.
HE went on in, and I barred the
grille and locked the door, and we
went on down to the dining rooms.
was shaking, and still I wasn't easy
in my mind. I told him there wasn't
anybody home but me. and he said
he'd take a drop Of Jake's brandy.
And while I was opening bottle of
f, it for him what does he do but pull
out that billfolder.
"'For Gods sake, Mr.. Singleton I
said. turning weak and sitting down
in a chair all of sudden, put that
money up
"He sat there and slipped his brandy
and talked, but didn't hear what he
was saying. just looked at him and
kept saying to myself, should 1 have
go by?
| Boss, that was nearly ten years
ago, and I've been asking myself that
question from time to time ever since.
Should have done 1t? Was it moral
to refuse that chance to make my life
over again? You know me, kid. You
know some Of me, at least. You know
1 don't hold much by morals. If
was to tell you how got that bullet
under my knee-cap, you'd know me
better than you do. II had hit him
lust right and made my getaway ]
would have led a different life.
| X X X 4
.;A Nd 1 wouldn't now be waiting
| ~ for my death sentence. For
that's practically what this prohibi-
Ition thing means to me. can't work
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and do everything but kiss it. Larry
and I stood looking at him with our
eyes sticking out; and he looked at
US and laughed. 1t came to me all
Of a sudden that he liked to come
where we servants were because he
could pull that kind of thing in front
Of US. but that he was sort of lost
among the swell society bunch be-
cause he didn't dare pull it there and
didn't feel so rich among them.
MY God. Larry 1 said. when we
were outside the house, did you no.
tice how much kale the old man had
there?
"'Uh-huh.' said Larry. Mother al
ways cooks a lot for him.
"'Wake up, stupid said. don't
mean cabbage. mean money. There
| must have been nearly two hundred
| thousand dollars in that roll"
"'He always has around one hun
dred thousand dollars on him, al
least says Larry. And I've seen him
| flash as high as quarter of a mil
lion.'
"'Well.' says. something ought tc
be done about it
"What do you mean, Ed?' says he
"'oh. nothing said.
I'VE walked over to get the L train
downtown. saying nothing, and then
finally, Larry remarked:
Electricity is a great thing. Ed.
ct never said it wasn't says I.
"It's a great thing says Larry
| but when you sit on 1t, sit on II
right For instance, I'd a darned
sight rather sit in one of these cleo
tric trains than in that electric chair
up at Sing Sing
"'Who said anything about an elec.
trio chair?' I asked him.
Nobody said anything g,'says Larry
| but you're thinking so darned louG
I can get you
"Pift1e, peanuts and petrifaction.
said. Take care of your owr
thoughts and I'll skim the fat off Of
mine myself
X X X \
seIHJELL.. as I said, after that We
" got better acquainted, the OLE
him. He interested me more. Nv,
always been interested in science o
all kinds, and the year spent in JAKE
| Hergsheimer's house I cut the leave:
| of a lot of books in his library ant
gave them the once over. I was al
| ways interested in psychology, ever
before the word got to be headlinel
in the Sunday supplements, and tool
, good deal of pleasure that winter
trying to get inside Of old mar
ISingleton's mind. I must say. never
got very far in, at that. My genera
conclusion at the end is what it wa.
at the beginning-his fad is kale.
"And he loved to show 1t. you coult
see that. Not that he pulled it every
time he happened to be at one of oul
winter from some swell social event
at one of the big houses uptown
where he had been a guest, and eat
some of old Mary's chow, and never
intimate by word or look that he hat
all that kale on him. And then agair
he'd come among us, diked out In th<
soup and flsh, and flash the roll. fol
no other reason that know except
he enjoyed seeing US get the blind
staggers, which we always did. And
then he'd fuss with 1t and pet it and
go into a dream over it, and wake
up again and grin and talk about life
with old Mary. And they agreed
about life; you never heard two more
moral persons exchange views. Il
was sometimes as good as a Sunday
school to listen to them for half Ar
hour. -
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he is; he just looks so stingy that if
he was the most liberal man on earth
he would get the reputation of being
stingy.
THE lady's maid that I used to go
i, to the opera with quit me little
while after Christmas. She and
were walking around the promenade
between the acts one night at the
Metropolitan and Larry was with US
when a fellow stopped Larry and
spoke to him. I could see the guy
looking at the girl and me he and
Larry talked. Later Larry told me
that it was one Of Jake Hergsheimer 5
surprised to see Larry at the opera
all diked out, and he had wanted to
know who the girl was.
We'll. anyhow. she never went to
the opera with me after that: but a
few weeks later saw her at a caba-
ret with Jake's friend. 1t was grief
to me: but I got into some real
trouble, or let it get into me. about
the same time, and that helped take
the sting off. I had once been mar
ried-but there's no use going into all
that. Anyhow. when the marriage
kind O. wore off. my own folks took
my wife's side of the case and she
went to live with them. My old dad
was sick. and they needed money, and
my wife wrote to me that she was
willing to let bygones be bygones and
accept some money from me. and tina,
my parents felt the same way, and
there was a kid, too, that my folks
were bringing up.
well. was desperate for some way
to get hold Of some cash and send to
| them. In the end I took one of Jake
Hergsheimer's silver vases and
hooked it. and sent the money, and got
it out Of hook two or three months
later; but in the meantime there was
spell when was so hard pressed ii
looked to me like I would actually
have to do something dishonest to get
that money.
"One night. before Jake Hergsheim.
er came to my rescue and lent me that
silver vase. if you want to call it that
,, I was sitting alone in the house, think
ing what a failure in life was, and
] how rotten it was to have a wife and
kid and parents all set, against me
and drinking some Of Jake's good
booze. and getting more and more low
in my mind. when there came a ring
at the front door bell. The butler was
out. and old Mary was asleep way up
in the top Of the house, at the back
and wouldn't hear.
"Tn bet I said to myself, that's
Old Man Singleton nosins around for
his cabbage And made up nv mind
I wouldn't let him in-he could ring
till he froze to death on the front
steps. and wouldn't. It was a blus-
terry, snowy January night, with new
snow over the old ice underneath. and
I says to myself. It's wonder the old
coot don't slip down and bust some OF
those big New England bones Of his
And wouldn't care much II he did,
X X + X
stDUT he kept on ringing. anu final.
- ly I thought I'd better 60 and
let him in. didn't have any ulterior
notions when went up the stairs
from the servants dining room and
made for the front door. But the min.
ute I clapped eyes on him though,
of all that kale in his pocket.
II opened the front door, but out
side of that was an iron grille. II
had a number Of fastenings, but the
final one was a short, heavy iron bar
that lay in two sockets, one on each
side of the opening.
II lifted the bar and swung the
Grille opeu,
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"One night, when they had been
gassing for a while, they sort Of got
my goat, and said to him:
"'Mr. Singleton. does it ever strike
you as a little peculiar that you
should have so much money and SO
many other people. such as myself,
none at all"
No, Ed,' he says. No, 1t doesn't.
That's the Lords way, Ed! Money is
given as a sacred trust by the Lord
to them that are best fitted to have
and to hold
Meaning asked him, that If
you were ever to let loose Of any of
1t, it might work harm in the world?
"He chewed over that for quite a
while. as If he saw something per
sonal in it. and he gave me ten-dollar
bill for a Christmas present. He
isn't as stingy as some people says
Evening star., 1922-01-01

Nd wouldn't now be waiting
for my death sentence. For
that's practically what this prohibit
tion thing means to me. can't work
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quote pASSS OI M6TCUc A0EoAi "
you. and at the same time he might
pronounce ''Euripides'' as II the last
two syllables were one. riming with
shidesi'; his reading, like his life. has
been elective.
'IIe doesn't recall you." repeated.
~And that's ingratitude." said Ed, "if
he only knew 1t. saved the old mans
life once"
And Ed limped over to the table and
resumed his seat opposite me. He has
o bullet under one kneeoap. and at
times It makes him very lame. He
would never tell me how It came
there; to this day do not know.
from what did you save his life?"
Z asked.
~From q man." said Ed moodily.
sFrom Q man who had q notion to
bean him ono night. And to this day
Z ask myself, Did do right. or did
- wrong?"
tell mo about It," insisted.
Drink up" said Ed. manipulating
- Scotch bottle and the siphon Of
0sltser. This IL one OF the last high
tails you'll ever have. unless you
sneak around and take It on the sly.
don't know that should have
smother one myself; It settles in this
Damned knee Of mine II I get little
|oDo much"
cTe!l me when. whore and how you
2nsw old man Singleton" demanded
|a0Aan.
xAis knee Of NINE" went on Ed.
|oArsgarding me. "is . hell Of han
|110p We were talking about prohi-
tlsSo0-what'S prohibition going to
~ - me? Hey? It puts me out Of .
~ in . barroom like this the hrst
oht1R. And what else can do? With
eAlD OnDs Leg you can see mo going
- - a1noD - . Russian dauosrs
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1922-11-02

The prospective deficit for the year
does not look so bad, when you learn
that for the first fiscal year under
Republican rule. the treasury had a
surplus of 1914, 900 900. With the
constant revival in business going or
under \ Republican administration,
the revenues can be expected to i'm
prove, and deficits will be a thing Of
the past.
The current deficit is due to the fail
ure of the revenue to yield the ex-
pected amount. The income taxes now
being collected are paid for the calen-
dar year ending January l, 1928. The
business situation during this period
when the Republican party was just
beginning to shape its measures OF
economy and reconstruction, was gov
erned almost wholly by the conditions
created by the previous administra-
ton.
To blame the Republican party for
the falling off in revenue due TO the
mistakes of its predecessors would be
perfectly foolish. It takes long
time to undo the mistakes Of eight
years of mismanagement. Wait until
the Republican policies have had a
chance to work and produce revenue
sufficient to run the country, as they
will in = few months.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1922-11-02

All of these names stand for q type
of product or for a quality of product.
They have a reputation. We expect
the reputation to be maintained or sur
passed. Every merchant has name
for his store. You 60 there once and
are satisfied. You go there again and
you tell your friends. The store name
is associated with good products and
squae dealing. The merchant is proud
Of his store.
Why stould not the farmer be proud
of his farm and the products of his
farm? Wouldn't it be fine if every
farmer had a name for his farm, a
trade mark for his products? With a
name to live us to, . reputation to
maintain, the farmer will take a new
pride in his farm. new interest in
his business.
Select an appropriate name-Hap-
py Hollow, Goodenough, Tongue Creek
Orchard, Black Mountain Ranch, WAX
inim (Indian meaning Crooked River)
Ranch, Cherryhurst. Let the farm
name and the owners name appear in
farm. Use the farm name on letter.
heads and on product containers.
The law of Colorado permits the
farmer, who wishes to have an exclu-
sive right to certain name for his
farm, to record that name with the
county clerk with a certified statement
of the land and ownership thereof.
The right to exclusive use of the name
is countrywide, not statewide. The
price for registry of a name is $1.00.
YOUR FARM NAME is YOUR
TRADEMARK.