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CURB ISSUES ARE
ALL FAIRLY ACTIVE

NEW YORK, July 1S.-Dealings
were fairly active on the curb today.
The professional element and floor
traders operated about evenly on both
sides of the market. There were a
number of irregular periods due to
profit taking. but when this selling
was completed the market displayed
firmer tone.
Standard Oil issues hesitated in. the
early trading and some went slightly
lower. but rallies followed later IN
the session. Standard Oil of Indiana
was the active leader Marland of
Mexico was under pressure. but after
yielding sharply there was good re-
Govery on sort covering. CitIes Ser
vice common went somewhat lower.
while Skelly, Mutual and Slmms Pc
troleum were practically unchanged.
New England Fuel was again in ac-
dive demand and established a new
high record.
Motors Are Active.
Motor stocks were active, but dis
played an irregular tendency most of
the time. Daniels advanced, while
Cleveland, under moderate offerings.
was inclined toward lower levels.
steady.
absorbed and prices held well.
There was a fair demand for Du-
bilier Radio. United Retail Candy
was quiet and Gillette Safety Razor
went slightly lower on small offer
!ngS.
Mining Shares Wanted.
Mining shares were unusually ac-
i've Gold Star Consolidated was one
If the features on the announcement
that work on the companys St. Ives
a1t
under way. with assays showing high
values in the 400 and 500 foot levels.
Magma Copper went fractionally
higher.
Dealings in bonds were fairly ac-
tive, but with no particular feature.
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NOTICE TO sTOCKHOLpERs,

At 4 regular meeting Of the board of direc
tors Of the Washington Loan and Trust Com
pany. held July II. 1922. the one hundred and
twentieth regular quarterly dividend Of 2IT
was declared on the capital stock of the com
pany. payable August I. 1922. The books fol
the transfer Of stock will be closed from July
"a to August 1. 1922. both dates inclusive.
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Mining shares Wanted.

Women are candidate for public Of
fice in twenty five Missouri counties
which will hold primaries next month.
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OIL.

OIL CITY. Pa, July 1s (speciaD:-
Reineries here have reduced naphtha
and most gasoline grades half a cent
q gallon.
BAKERSFIELD. Calf. July Is
fspeciaD.- The drop in petroleum
Nv rate Of production in California
Seld., which has been in excess of
consumption. which has been below
normal
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Commodity Reports
From Various Sections
shoes.

BROCKTON, Mass. July Is (Spe-
eiaN.-A number of leading shoe
manufacturers in this district have
orders enough to insure capacity
operations at their plants for several
months.
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Shirts.

SYRACUSE, N. Y. July Is Especially.
Demand for silk shirts again is on
increase here. Haberdashers declare
dustrial plants has been followed by
recovery from slump in silk shirt
business. Palmer colors are being
chosen.
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Coal.

PITTSBURGH, July IS (speciaD.-
Coal is firm. West Virginia and Ken
lucky coal is selling at $3.50 to $3.75.
Local Goals range from $4.25 to $4.75.
DUBOIS. Pa, July Is (SpeciaD.-Al-
though coal production in non-union
mines of this section has dropped off
40 per cent. there Is no great increase
in demand. Prices, however. are creep
ing slowly upward. Coal is selling at
81 to $435 at the mine Lake ship
ments have dropped from l25 to IS
cars daily
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retailing for s5c four-quart baske,

Trunks.
CHICAGO. July Is (SpeciaD.-Re-
duced railroad rates and increased
foreign trade travel have stimulated
sale of trunks and travelling bags In
this territory. English kit bags and
ladies' enameled duck hat boxes are
especially active.
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Lumber.

SAN FRANCISCO. July Is Especially:
There is a heavy demand Tor All
of labor difficulties In, California
mills has allowed increased output.
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AutOm0hilea.

SAN FRANCISCO. July IS Especially.
of autos here have continued
good for some time and. indeed. have
been of record proportion in some
makes. but is showing signs Of a
slight falling off,
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SEATTLE. July IS (SpeciaD.-
Fruits for canning are in short supply
and dryers are paying $57 q ton for
pears, against an average of $40 q ton
last year. Strawberries were q short
crop and Gamers are scouting the
valley farms for contracts for raSp-
berries and loganberries, which are
now coming into market.
ATLANTA. July Is Especial Belle
cf GeeT4ia> peaches,- extra f&uoy,-Are
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Copper.

NEW YORK, July IS (Specia).-
Tune recorded largest copper ship
ments in the history of the copper
business and July shipments are ex-
TRANSFORMATION is more seriously al
fected by rail strike than at present.
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Steel.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. July Is Especially.
Cambria Steel is operating nineteen
out Of twenty open-hearth fur
naces and three out Of eleven blast
furnaces.
PITTSBURGH, July 1s (SpeciaD.-
Iron and steel plant operations con-
tinue on basis of IS to 80 per cent.
Most steel buying SIS for prompt de-
livery, in some instances premiums be-
ing paid over United States Steel quota
tions. Merchant steel bars are quoted
at $3.50 to $3.50, Pittsburgh. Demand
for seamless tubing and pipe products
is strong. with new records in produc-
tion set up in June.
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Leather.

BOSTON, July Is (SpeciaD.-Al-
though sales of leather have shown
some Iet-up after the squirt In June.
prices are extremely Arm. Quotations
have advanced about a cent a pound
on an average last week making av-
ierage advance OF SC Inv the last
month.
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Notes.


DETROIT, July Is Especially
sumption of electric currents here in
May set a new high record for Michi-
gan with 17S.o00,oo0 kilowatt hours
consumed. water-power generating
current was increased per cent for
May over April.
PHILADELPHIA, July 18 Especially
Local fire hazard has been smaller
this year than last, when falling val
ues of stocks of goods are believed to
have given incentive to arson. There
have been great many small failures
and the bankruptcy. court. has been
unusually busy, but the situation is
now well cleared up.
BOSTON. July 1s (SpeciaD.-Massa-
chusetts industries are operating at
TN per cent of normal. according to
a canvass made by the associated in
dustries. Normal is estimated on a
basis not of pre-war level nor of peak
reached in 1919. but on pre-war levels
plus a normal yearly growth since
1913. In nearly every line of industry.
trend is toward increasing operations
and. what Is equally important, to-
ward increasing profits. Manufac-
turers as whole are making money
now for first time in two years.
DETROIT. July 1s (SpeciaD.-Ford
retail sales Of 14s. 500 cars and trucks.
or an average of $500 machines a
day. Sales for first six months Of
wear totaled $4,000. making a record
half-year in company's history. The
company Is employing $4,000 men in
Detroit. which approaches high en-
ployment mark. July sales. according
to Ford officials. will just about equal
June record although company a9enfs
are asking for 100000 machines,
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Rice.

SACRAMENTO. Calf. July Is (Spe-
ciaD.-Heavy rice purchases for export
to Japan are reported here. The COM
ing crop in California is estimated at
$3.50 bags, an increase Of 100000
bags over last year.
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Hats,

NEW YORK, July Is Especially
Waring Hat Company reports sales
for six months ended June 80 showed
gain of so per cent over total for
corresponding period last year.
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Paper.

BOSTON, July Is (SpeciaD.-Ad-
vance in price Of newsprint from $40
to SIS a ton has been justified by
trade conditions, according to leading
New England paper manufacturers.
Practically all newsprint mills in this
section are running at capacity. Fine
mills making those grades are gradu-
ally increasing output
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! Nuts.

UNIoNTOwN,. Pa. july 1s (spe-
ciaN.-Farmers predict that Fayette
county chestnut crop will beNheaviest
in years. A large crop is always gath
cred in this vicinity.
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Have you forgotten that you have adj
vertised yourself in this out-of-the-way
corner of the world rather successful
ly as one of two things: a pretty
| dangerous sort Of lunatic, ora Grim
inal? As a matter of fact, the rail-
road detectives have been looking high.
low and level for you ever since you
stole that inspection motor at the An
gels platform and got it smashed"
''Twombly knows about that; and
so does Miss TwOmbly," / cut in.
They wouldn't give you away, of
course; In a certain sense you are
TwOmbly's guest, and in another you're
his employer. But you'll notice that
neither of these restrictions apply to
me. Now, perhaps, you can understand
just why you are obliged, in ordinary
prudence, TO leave the girl out of it
and why I am not so obliged"
Miss TwOmbly herself, has the
casting vote on that" is what 1 flung
at him.
'She has already voted" he said
cOOlly. Then: You're not in the
game, BrOughton; you don't hold any
thing higher than a seven-spot, and
you are buckfng a straight flush Do
you take fifty thousand and vanish?
That is the one live question of the
moment"
mo"
"Very well; I'll give you another
day TO think it over but I'm warning
you here and now that the price will
shrink. 1t is fifty thousand today, say
up to sunset: tomorrow it Will be for
ty thousand"
I slid from the anvil and half IN
consciously picked up the blacksmith's
hand-hammer.
"You go straight to HI" 1 said;
and at that he left me.
l sat down to try once more to think
things out to some sort of an action
focus. Should l take BullertOn's fff-
ty thousand and quit? Common sense
said Yes, spelling it with capital and
understanding it for emphasis. What
was the use in hanging on? Hadn't
we proved that the mine was undrain-
able, save, perhaps, at the enormous
cost of driving an undermining tunnel
from a lower slope of the mountain?
Then there was Jeanne. Then, again,
there was Lisette. Fifty thousand
dollars at six per cent would buy ner
hats-but it wouldn't buy much else.
1 could picture the calm and collected
way in which she would say, Eyes,
Stannie; you've succeeded nicely in
the hats. But you know as
well as l do that we couldn't buy hats
and keep a car on three thousand a
year"
1 had just climbed down to this bot
tom round of the ladder of detection
when I heard a bit of noise and looked
up to see a small, trim figure darken-
ing the engine-roOm door. Then a
voice that 1 would have recognized in
a thousand voices all speaking at once,
said:
''Mr. BrOughton-Stannie, are you
here?"
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YaIe's Stone Bulldogs.

Four bulldogs in stone represent
student life at Yale. The bulldog has
been Old ELS mascot for To- these
many years. One Of the dogs, with a
wrinkled brow, wears spectacles. He
is the student. Another bulldog, brow
not SO much wrinkled, wears a foot
ball players helmet, a nosepfece with
its end gripped in his teeth. He is
the hero of the gridirOn. Another
bulldog wears a soldiers campaign hat,
depicting what Yale men have done
in the various wars. Still another
bulldog has a cap and gown, repre-
senting the completion of the college
course. OF all the carvings found,
these are the four most interesting. al
though there are faces representing DIR.
Hadley, and few of his predeces-
sors."
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Ideas to the Contrary, Long Held
Have Been DisapproVed by
Painstaking Studies.

Even one of the most plausible
statements, namely, that a high fore
head is a sign of intelligence, has been
definit " ,.,sapproved by the PAINS
taking studies of Karl Pearson, He
demonstrated experimentally that the
color of the hair, or its straightness
or curlinesS, shows ones intelligence
better than does a high forehead, al
though these are not offered either as
good induces. In other words, there
has been found no definite relationship
between any single popularity OF the
shape of the head and any trait OF
character, Henry Foster Adams writes
in Scribner's.
For many years an Italian criminol-
ogist. Lombroso, made a study OF GRIM
inaf structural peculiarities and their
relationship 10 crime. He found we'll
marked tendencies for criminals to
possess certain stigmata or signs, but
unfortunately the signs of the criminal
we're found to be widely prevalent
among those whose names had never
been upon police blottersa 1t was his
net scheme to have all individuals who
were marked by peculiar sign
watched by his detectives. thus pre-
venting crime instead of merely pun
fishing it after it had been committed.
IT was entirely improcticable, for the
characteristic sign of murderer was
found in altogether too many tender
hearted individuals to make the
scheme at all feasible.
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could you or I, if we had the money
to drive long drainage tunnel from
the lower slope"
The old man smoked along in
thoughtful silence for a few minutes.
Then he said:
Bout that there tunnel job: some
thin like two hundred thousand, we
fiugerd that'd cost, with no bad luck,
didn't we, Stannie?''
THAT was the figure"
'And. first off. Charley Fullerton
was willin' to give you fifty thousand
for your rights-though now you say
he's shaved it down to forty. That'd
mean an investment of at least two
hundred and fifty Thousand; all a-goin'
out and nothin' a-comin' in. Let's see
where that's fetchin' US to. I don't
know what your granpaw paid for the
mine, but it was less'n half a million,
and 1 reckon he paid ever dollar it
was worth, don't your
Doubtless he did" I admitted.
$50 there's where we land" he went
on speculatfvely. 1.-TWO hundred and
fifty thousand tackled onto half a mil
lion gives her a capital of three-quar-
tiers of a million sunk in her, first and
last Question is: Is she worth it?'
I was beginning to get his idea at
last. He was wondering if a mine
that had once sold at a tOp-nOtch
price of half a million could stand
the investment of a quarter of q mil
lion additional and still hope to be
paying proposition.
ing upon spending a quarter of a mil
lion more on it?'' I queried.
Nope; reckon I can't. There's too
niger in the woodpile. sOmewheres,
Stannie, as sure s you're born"
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CHAPTER TX.
To Fish or Cut Bait.

1t is nothing short of wonderful how
the sOurest crouch can sometimes be
banished by a single word. That word
"Stannie," you know; she had never
called me that before; though her
father had been using the familiar ham
die, western-wise, right along, almost
from the day 1 landed on the Cinnabar
reservation.
Yes" 1 said, and jumped up and
went To her.
did you ever hear of such a thing
as a bear with a sore headF' she
asked, in the tone of a schOolma'am
asking the dull boy if he'd ever heard
Of the letter a.
Often" / admitted.
"WeH, isn't that the way you've been
acting?"
Haven't I some little cause?"
Maybe, of course, I'm willing to
make some allowances. 1t does seem
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if I'd like to swap skins with a con-
dummed gopher and duck plumb into
a hole"
"Wel,' said /, grinning at him.
you've ducked. for once in way, and
SO have l. What about it?"
Charley Fullerton" he spat out.
without further preface. THAT slick
tongued word artist sure does get onto
my nerves. What-alIs he tryin' TO do
TO you, anyway. Stannie?"
didn't see any reason why he
shouldn't know, so I told him all OF
it, from start TO finish. offers, bully
ingS, and threats. but, of course. moth
ing about the Jeanne factor.
Great Moses - he CALCULATED. at the
end of the sorry tale. "Why, gosh-tO-
Methusaleh Its a hOld-upi Do you
reckon he kin unwater the Cinnabar?'
"Surest thing in the world. So
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milton, BroughtOn. You haven't any
money. and you1l look a long time be-
fore you'll find an engineer able to
finance his own experiment on your
drowned proposition"
"That may be-" I retOrted But if
you told me the story straight that
night fin the Pullman. you can't turn
a wheel until I tell you to go ahead.
So your contract. if you've got one,
doesn't amount to a hill of beans"
THAT point may make nice little
question for the courts to decide" he
snapped. But 1 don't want to go to
law about this thing, and neither do
you. AS matter of fact, you haven't
any money to throw away in a legal
scrap. You make me a deed to fifty
one per cent of the Cinnabar property,
just as it stands, and then you may go
back East and enjoy yourself playing
marbles. or pitch and toss, or red dog
whatever your pet diversion may
happen to be. Fifty-one per cent and
you give me a clear field-not stick
around. 1 mean. That goes as it lies
HUH / scoffed. "A while back
you were talking about pulling the law
on me. You can't make anything like
that stand in the courts and you know
it mighty we'll"
Maybe not; but can make it stand
with you-which is much more TO the
purpose. You said minute ago that
1 couldn't turn a wheel without your
consent. You can't turn a wheel at
all-without money"
His rubbing the poverty gibe into me
made me madden than ever and /
thought it was about time to tell him
where he got off.
''Then, by Jove, the wheels needn't
turnr' / countered. "And that let's
you out. If you want TO go to law
about that contract-sail in That's
all I've got to say"
"Oh. hold on" he protested. with
mock concern. Then he showed me
plainly what he'd been doing in the
interval between his first and this Sec
0nd appearance in the Red Desert
region. "Tve had time to look you up,
you know. You're engaged to a girl
back East and you can't marry her
because you haven't money enough.
Half a loaf is better than no bread;
and I'm offering you very nearly the
half loaf. Take day or so to think
Ii over. I'm in no hurry" And with
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"IT's A HoLDUPI"

Synopsis. - Under his GRANDPA
theirs will, Stanford Broughton,
society idIer, finds his share of the
estate. valued at something like
$40 600, lies IN a safe repository
latitude and longitude described.
and that Is all. It may be identi-
fed by the presence nearby of a
brown-haired. bIue-eyed girl, a pie
bald horse, and a dog with a split
face. half black and half white.
Stanford at first regards the be-
quest as a joke, but after consider
alton sets out to find his legacy.
on his way TO Denver Stanford
hears from a fellow traveller,
Charles Fullerton. a mining engi-
neer. a story having ID do with a
flooded mine. He has a "hunch''
this mine is the safe repository
Of the viii. Fullerton refuses him
Information. On the station plat
form at Atropia, just as the train
pulls out, Stanford sees what ap-
pear TO be the identical horse and
dog described in his grandfather's
Will. Impressed, he leaves the train
at the next stop. Angels. Unable
to secure a conveyance, Broughton
seizes a rack-inspection car and
escapes, leaving the impression on
the town marshal Beasley, that he
is demented. Pursued. he aban-
dons the car. which is wrecked,
and escapes on foot. IN the dark
ness he is overtaken by the girl,
the horse and the dog. After he
explains his presence, she invites
him 70 her home, at the Old CHINA
bar mine. Broughton's hosts are
Hiram TwOmbly, caretaker OF the
mine, and his daughter Jeanne
Stanford does not reveal his iden-
tity. Hiram and Stanford go put
tering about the mine. Stanford
gets interested in the work and
falls in love with Jeanie. who saves
his life. Fullerton shows up at the
mine.
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CHAPTER VIII.-continued.

you're not the only pebble on the
beach, BullertOn," 1 said, looking him
squarely in the eye. What you can
do with this mine, another mining en-
gineer can do quite as well; and the
other man Will probably be willing to
do 1t without asking the fenced-in
earth for his reward
'Humphl' he grunted; $50 that's
your play, is tt?" Then, after a scowI-
ing pause: You're licked before you
begin. You're fighting without ammu-
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provoking that your grandfather
should have left things in such a
dreadful middle"
How much do you know about the
muddleT' ! asked
Il know that old Mr.. Dudley let,
or partly let, a contract for the drain
ing of the mine. to a man who was
almost a total stranger to him."
I saw how it was. Fullerton, always
reader to talk than a stuck pig is to
bleed, had been giving her his own
version of things. But let that part
of it go.
Grandfather Jasper was laboring
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CHARACTER is NOT EASILY READ

All systems of similar nature, in
which relationship has been sought
between traits of character and pecu-
liarity of the structure, have met about
the same fate.
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Costs Money to Keep Mines prv

One of the big expenses of a coal
mine is the continual pumping of wa
ter to keep it dry. In the average
anthracite mine, Is tons Of water are
hoisted from the mine for every ton
of coal mined, and in some mines 1t
runs up 70 - tons.
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bout how much We'd do fob humanity
if we was rich, nStid o' gittiu out
an dOin' whut we kin VIII a snow
shovel"
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A Feeling of Security

You naturally feel secure when you
know that the medicine you are about 60
take is absolutely pure and contains no
harmful OF habit producing drugs.
Such a medicine is DR.. kilmer's Swamp
Root, kidney, liver and bladder remedy
The same standard of purity, strength
and excellence IS maintained IN every
bottle of Swamp-Root.
It is scientifically compounded from
vegetable herbs.
1t is not a stimulant and Is taken IA
teaspoonful doses
1t is not recommended for everything.
1t is natures great helper IN relieving
and overcoming kidney, liver and blad-
der troubles.
A sworn statement Of purity is with
every bottle of Dr.. E;lmer's swamp
Root.
IF you need a medicine you should
have the best. On sale at all drug stores
IN bottles of two sizes. medium and large.
However. If you wish first to try this
great preparation send ten cents to DR.
Kilmer & Co, Binghamtou, n Y for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper-AdVertisem
One pound of self-reliance is worth
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The bank wrecker may be bsned
out, but the bank usually sinks.
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The man who does right seldom gets
left.
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One pound of self-reIIance is worth
q ton of expectation
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-09-15
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