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New-York tribune., 1922-11-19


the buyer who pays
small price for rubbish worth even less On
rainy days the same thing is done with rain
coats, and Of similar practice is the sale Of a
bottle of colored water for hootch quick sale,
followed by hurried getaway. This is more
or less risky business, however, and is not
thought highly OF even by those who engage
in it.
Il am peddlin' bottle of perfume once"
narrated one of them. "It's cheap stuff in
bottle wit the label of high class goods on it,
| sprinkle little of the real brand on the stop
per, so it smells right, an l sell it in a scott
joint on Eight Avenue to truck driver who
recognizes it's the kind his girl uses, but too
expensive Cor him to buy. He thinks it's been
stole down on the docks, SO he gives me tree
fish for twelve or fifteen buck bottle. for
get about it an don't remember the donkey'e
map, when he meets me two days later, though
the second time he knocks me down am hip
that he must know me some place. He gives
me the low-down ON it while he's still usin' me
for punchin' bag. His twist don't find out
the stuff is phoney till after she sprinkes it all
over a lot of her clothes, an then every place
it touches is turned to East River mud color.
Next night the turk comes up to her place ex-
pectin' some gratitude, an she clouts him over
the conk wit the bottle
Strictly speaking, the mass of regular float
ers doesn't include the crooks or the profess
sional panhandlers, nor does il embrace those
temporarily down and out or those
unfortunates hopelessly 80, although /
all Of these classes may be found
within the ranks. The personnel Al
is widely varied and from every y
where. There are
many natives of the
city, but the latter
are firm in the opin-
ion that Boston SUP ~.s cssssa
plies more buns to s%E tMZ \
New York than any AkylkNyYGMN@g l
half dozen other cit NsxAM w I
ies---why, no one seems a Q assM@
to know, unless 1t is due = M (
to the fact that man yss=ar .sWM
may be thrown into Jail M
there for non-support. ~
Most Of the typi- A-.4
cals are lacking in Is
some element Of makeup, IS
either in ambition, judgment
or energy. Some are clear
III detectives, while others are
college men. Some boast they al
have been buns from birth, and
others have been In business or
the professions. and even fairly
successful in their time. Once hi little group
ofs six or eight men working on dollar pic
tura, there were formei, star reporter, an ex-
army captain, tIla composer OF song his ct 9
decade Of more ago, and ranaittanee man.
There are any number Of taciturn faces whleh
seem 10 tell Of life story out OF tha usual,
xvhila thare are others who are frank In speak
,,,y 20 their private history and affairs.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19

rw yHICH would you rather be-
'M/ Mayor Of New York City or
Wv Governor of New York State?'
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should be the guest, the friend Of suct,
people as the Sherrilis? No one as
yet, since Sheriff. had told him he was
Coryet'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 well. He bought
postcard In the drug store, and wrote
Just, arrived safely; am well'' to
John Welton in Kansas. There was
little vending machine upon the coun-
ter. and he dropped in penny and got
box of matches and put them in his
pocket.
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 1t. With
what had his father shut himself up
within that house for twenty years7
And was 1t there still? And was 1t
from that that Benjamin Corvet had
tiedg He saw no one in the street.
and was certain no one was observing
him us, 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 minute, with fast-beating heart
and 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.
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CHAPTER Iv.-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 aud now
and then exchanged comment with
her, 1t 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 go about 1t.
I'm sorry" she said to him, ''that
we can't be home tonight; but perhaps
you would rather be alone?"
He did not answer that.
Have you picture here, Miss Shcr-
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 book open ut half-tone
picture of Benjamin Corvet Alan took
1t from her and carried 1t 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; 1t was queerly i'm
peIling, haunting face. This was his
father! But, as Alan held the picture,
gazing down upon 1t. 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
theirs, the passions which, when
dreaming Of his father he had felt.
Alan stood still moment longer,
then. remembering the book which he
held, he drew chair up to the light,
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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
MIN, 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 IA
ther 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 house on
that street. Yet was that In itself
s~y more remarkable than that he
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D - G O L q
FoR suRNs ours iToh soREa
75e at stores; 65e BY mail Address
New York Drug Concern. New York
LAWYERS NOT ALL GRAsPING
Here's One Man Willing to Testify
That Some Of the Tribe Have
Heart.

Count Armand du Bucamp, the Bel
CLAN publicist, said the other day in
an interview:
"When I hear of any good thing
coming out Of Germany I wink my
eye and think of the story about the
lawyer.
"'Gents,' fat man said in hotel
smoking room, I hate to hear you
lambasting lawyers the way you've
been doing. A lawyer last year made
me present of $780,
"Yes, he did!
".Come offr
"'What are you giving usr
"But these gibes and jeers didn't
move the fat man.
ats the solemn truth, gents he
said. You see. was injured In
railroad accident last year, and this
lawyer sued the railroad company,
and got 5000 damages. His bill was
$3.50, but he didn't say a word about
the $50 balance. He made me a
present of IT,"
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RATION MUST BE ATTRACTIVE
Dairy Cow to Do Well Requires Feed
Containing Proper Elements
for Milk Flow.

Cows won't do well on food tina,
isn't palatable, say the feeding mer
at the New York College of Agricul
ture at Ithaca. Not only must tn,
dairy cows ration contain the proper
elements If she is to be worth hel
keep" but 1t must be so attractive to
her that she will eat plenty and keep
up good flow Of milk.
On the other hand, say the dairy.
men, 1t Isn't wise to change a ration
suddenly even to make 1t better. A
cow is delicate milk-producing ma.
chine, and sudden changes in her food
are quite likely to upset some part OF
the machinery, with resulting loss Of
milk.
The condition Of the food probably
has most to do with Its palatubllity :
moldy grains or roughage don't appeal
to amy self.respecting COW.
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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 1t 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 Corvet's disappearance was
discovered
This proof that some one had been
pryfng about In the house before him
self and since Corvet had gone. star
tied Alan and angered him. Who had
been searching In Benjamin Corvet's
lin Alan's house? He pushed the
drawers shut hastily and hurried
rcross the hall to the room opposite.
In this room-plainiy Benjamin Cor
vets bedr0om-were no signs Of In
trusiOn. He went to the door Of tile
room connecting with 1t, turned on
the light. and looked in. 1t was a
smaller room than the others and
contained roll-top desk and a cabi-
net. The cover of the desk was closed.
anu the drawers of the cabinet were
shur and apparently undisturbed. He
tried the cover Of the desk, but 1t ap-
peared to be locked; after looking
around vafnly for key. he trleo
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 1t. He examined the lock. sur
prised, and saw that the screws must
have been merely set into the holes !;
scars showed where chisel or some
metal implement had been thrust in
The Holly chieftain., 1922-06-01
TREATING sTERILITY IN COW
Most casss Become Chronic or Psrma.
nent Unless Properly Handled
by Veterinarian.

In many herds where abortion dis
ease is present, from five to ten per
cent of the cows become sterile or bar
rem, and most cases become chronic
or permanent unless they are treated
by a qualified veterinarian. DIR. w. L
Williams Of the New York State Vet
Urinary college is to be given credit
for the plan of procedure In handling
these cows. The treatment should not
be neglected too long after the cows
manifest this symptom.
A thorough examination of the pa.
tient Is necessary to locate the trou-
BILE either in the uterus, ovaries or
fallopian tubes. and treated accord
irgly. 1t Is not uncommon for askilled
operator to restore fve out Of six cases
to reproductive state under favor
able conditions.
Cases of long standing should be
sold to the butcher, as the treatment
fails to help them. A case of more
than eight months to one years
standing is very discouraging to the
operator, for he realizes that function
al changes have taken place In the
reproductive organs that will be diff.
cult to correct by treatment. There
fore do not delay having an animal
examined and treated in the beginning
of the trouble instead of waiting until
1t Ia too late. The annual loss caused
by sterility would be surprisingly high
If survey could be made and accurate
data obtained from the cattle breeders
The Holly chieftain., 1922-06-01
"FLEsH. rLesH."

Wealthy and highly
placed In the Chicago business
world. Benjamin Coryet Is some
thing of recluse and mystery
to his associates. After a stormy
interview with his partner. Henry
Spearfnan, coryet seeks Constance
Sheriff.. daughter of his other
business partner. Lawrence Sher-
rill. and secures from her 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, a youth OF
unknown parentage. to Chicago.
Alan arrives In Chicago. From a
statement of Sheriff. 1t seems prob
able Conrad Is Corbet's Legitimate
son. Corvet has decided his house
and its contents to Alan.
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DAIRY
POINTS
GIVE PUREBREDs MORE CARE
oaIryman Often Takes More Interest
In High Glass Stock Because
Of Possibilities.

(Prsparsd By the United states Dspsrtmsat
Of ASriculturs.)
There II no good reason why 1t
should cost more to care for q good
herd Of purebred dairy cows than It
costs to care for the same number Of
good grades. although farmers some
times believe that the purebreds are
more expensive to keep. However.
says the United States Department Of
Agriculture. the dairyman often does
The Holly chieftain., 1922-06-01
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. footstep He went
out quickly to the foot Of the stairs
and looked up them.
"Is any one, here?" he called. "Is
any one herea"
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 1t, was occupied by a
library table-desk. He pulled open
some drawers in it; one or two had
blueprints and technical drawings in
them; the others had only the miscel-
lany which accumulates In 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
% get when he looked at his fathers
'icture. He could realize better now
he lonely. restless man, pursued by
some ghost he could not kill, taking
up for distraction one subject of study
after another, exhnusting each in turn
until he could no longer make 1t en-.
gross him, and then absorbing him
self In the next.
On the top Of chest Of high draw
ers in corner near the dressing
table were some papers Alan went
over to look at them; they were invi-
tntions. 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 Alap touched them, he
saw TINT 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
a day or so. They could not have
been made by Sheriff.. for Alan hat
noticed that Sherrill's hands were
slender and delicately formed: Cor
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A medicine that has been muse nearly
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II you are suffering from troubles
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It d especially adapted to correct such
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The letters We publish ought to con-
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fair trial.
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under the top to force 1t 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 for7
And had the other man got them?
Who might the other be, and what
might be his connection with Benja-
min Corvet? Aim 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
being carried in a pocket, and one of
these contained series of entries
stretching over several years. These
listed an amount-$150-opposite 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 u
blank, and below, in the same hand
but In writing which had changed
slightly with the passage of years. nn.
other date md the confirming entry of
$500. Alan looked through the little
hook again and put 1t In his pocket
1t was, beyond doubt, his fathers
memorandum Of the sums sent to Blue
Rapids for Alan; 1t told him that here
he had been In his fathers thoughts
He grew warm at the thought as lie
began putting the other things back
into the drawers Is
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, unmistakably on tie
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 before-was In the house
| with him. Was II his father
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COWS ON PASTURE TOO SOON
Many Owners Expect Animals I,
Thrive on Thin crass-eraIn
Must Be Supplied.

Owners OF cows usually put them
out on pasture too soon, expecting the
cows to get all feed necessary from
scant early pastures. Until the pas
lures have made good growth, cows
will need about pound Of grain for
every SIX pounds Of milk as we'll as
some dry hay.
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vOObe Vb0 N0m-
pound. Ny mother
bad Eeat faith IN Il
- shs bad taken %
much Of II and when
j had trouble altar
my baby was born
|Ae gave II to me.
|lthslped me - much
more than anything
else had done that ]
advise all women
with female trouble
To rive IL n fair trial
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spend more on purebreds because he
sees greater possibilities in them, and
consequently takes more interest in
them, feeding them better and build
ing better barns to house them. He
does not need to do this, but usually
he finds that 1t pays him in gross re
turns and In net returns.
The results would have been the
same. though possibly not in the same
degree, If better care and feed had
been given to a good grade herd. But
1t sometimes takes the stimulation
supplied by the ownership Of few
purebreds to induce man to improve
his practices.
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"For this was the man whom
he had fought in Ben jamin
corvet's house the night be.
fore"
tTo BE coNrINuEp.)
Jud Tunklna,

Jud Tunkins.
Jud Tunkins says there's a big ad.
vantage in using long words. Anv.
body would rather take what you saw
for granted than be put to the trophl.
Of looking In the dictionary.
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YOUNG NOTHER
NOW STRONG
Her Msther's EaitA II Lydia Z.
Pnkhan's Vegetable Csapssnd
Led Her 70 Try Il

Ksnoeha, Wiscousin.-sT cannot nv
enough In praiss Of Lydia r Pinkhams
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-23
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF sHERlFF's SALE

In the District Court for Carter Coun-
ty, State of Oklahoma.
Tom ellis. Plaintiff. VS.. Calvin Bruce
ct al. defendant
Notice is hereby given that under and
by. virtue OF an order of sale issued 10
me out of the District Court of Carter
County, Oklahoma, | will on the 18th
day of December 1922, at = o'clock p.
m. OF said day, at the front door OF the
Court House in Ardmore. Oklahoma, OF >
fer at Sheriffs Sale 10 the highest and
best bidder for cash in hand. without
appraisement, the following described
property, to-wit.
The northeast quarter OF the south
west quarter and the southeast quarter
o. the northeast quarter OF the north
west quarter, Of section rs. township 8
south, range 3 east, IN Carter County.
Oklahoma.
The above described property is sold
as the property OF Erret Dunlap by fore
closure OF mortgage Of WIN. Davidson,
and is directed by said order OF sale
TO be sold as upon execution without
appralsement according 10 law to sat
isty judgment in favor of plaintiff
for S626.40. together with interest from
the 4th day of December. 1920 at 10
per cent per annum and all costs.
Il. G. LONDON, Sheriff.
BY j. w. CHM, Deputy.
published in the Daily Ardmoreite
November l6 20, 80 and December I,
and ID, 1929
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-23
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE OF
REAL ESTATE
In the District Court OF the United
States for the Eastern District of


In the matter Of Harold Wallace.
IN bankruptcy. No. S05e.
Notice is hereby given that the un,
dersigued. AZ Trustee OF the estate OF
Harold Wallace bankrupt, will ON the
21th day OF November, 1929. at o'clock
y. M, sell at public venue In the office
~ the Honorable r. Mcmillan. referee
In bankruptcy. In the post office build
ing In the city OF Ardmore. Oklahoma,
sell to the highest aud hest bidder for
cash. the following described real estate
situated IN the city VI Ardmore. Car
ter county. Oklahoma, to-wit
The Briarwood Hotel, the Dodge Gar
age and the laundry building ON Wash
ington street. Ardmore, oklahoma, more
particularly described as follows.
That part " Lot . IN and of Block
No. aOi. bounded as follows to-wit. he.
ginning at the southeast corner VI said
lot =, thence northwardly along east
ern boundary line ~ said lot a dis.
tance OF ~ feet TO a point, thence west.
wardly In straight line a distance
OF about 50n feet ut point ON the
western boundary line OF said lots a..
feet from the southwest corner thereof
thence southwardly along the western
boundary line OF said lot a distgnce
" slt feet to the southwest corner III
aid lot. thence Eastwar,lly along the
southern boundary line of said lot a
distance Of about 500 feet to the place
of beginning.
part ~ Lots I and In Block aoi
more particulatlv described as follows
beginning at the northeast corner oi
Lot A. running thence Ia n westerly
direction along the north boundary line
Of Lots and \, a distance Of iia feet.
thence In = southerly direction and