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The Holbrook news., 1922-07-28

g The BigzT0wn Round Up Co By WILLIAM MAC LEOD RAINE


"There wasn't a chance In a million that anybody would hear, but I kept firin' off my fohty-five on the off hope. And just before night girl on pinto came down the side of that uncurried hill round bend and got me. She took me to cabin hidden in the bot tom Of a canon and looked after me had gone to Tucson for supplies and we were alone there She fed me. nursed me, and waited on me. We di- vided one-rOOm twelve-by-sixteen cabin, Understand, we were four days alone together before her dad was lettin' down terrible lot of wa ter. When her father showed up he grinned and said, Lucky for you Myr- tie heard that siX-gun of yOre's pOpH He never thought one evil thing about either of us. He just accepted the sit uation as necessary. Now the ques- tiOn is, what ought she to have done? Left me to die on that hillsideT
 "Of course not. That's different" protested Beatrice, indignantly. You're trying to put me in the wrong. Well, I won't have it. That's all. You may take your choice, Mir. Lindsay. Either send that girl away give her up-have nothing to do with her, or"
 or"
 "Or please don't come here to see me any more."
 He waited, his eyes steadily on her. Do you sure enough mean that, Miss Beatrice?"
 Her heart sank. She knew that she had gone too far. but she was too i'm perious to draw back now.
 ':Yes, that's just what I mean"
 I'm sorry. You're leavin' me no op- tion. I'm not yellow dog. Sometimes I'm most a man. I'm goin' to do what l think is right"
 Of course" she responded, lightly. If our ideas of what that is differ"
 "They do"
 Its because we've been brought up differently, I suppose" She achieved stifled little yawn behind her hand.
 You've said it." He gave it to her straight from the shouldef. All yOre life you've been pampered. When you wanted a thing all you had to do was to reach out a hand for it. Folks were born to wait on you, by yOre way of it. You're a spoiled kid. Ask me to turn my back on a friend, and I've got to say, NOthin' doin'.' And if you was just few years younger I'd advise yore pa to put you in yOre room and feed you bread and water for askin' it."
 The angry color poured into her cheeks. She clenched her hands till the nails bit her palms. q think you're the most hateful man I ever met" she cried, passionately.
 His easy smile taunted her. "Oh, no, you don't. You just think you think it. Now, I'm goin' to light a shuck. I'll be sayin' good-by, Miss Beatrice, until you send for me-"
 And that will be never" she flung at him.
 He rOse, bowed and walked out of the room.
 The street door closed behind him. Beatrice bit her lip to keep from breaking down before she reached her room
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CHAPTER Ix-continued.

But miracles are made possible by miracle-workers. The Westerner was a sixty-horse-power dynamo of energy He felt responsible for Kitty and he gave himself with single-minded devo- tion to the job of discovering her.
 When Clay met Kitty at last it was quite by chance. As 1t happened, Bea- trice was present at the time.
 He had been giving a box party at the Empire. The gay little group was gathered under the awning outside the foyer while the limousine that was to take them to Shanley's for supper was being called. Colin Whitford. looking out into the rain that pelted down, ut tered an exclamatOry By Jove!"
 Clay turned to him inquiringly.
 "A woman was looking out of that doorway at us," he said. "If she's not in deep water I'm a bad guesser. thought for a moment she knew me or some one of us. She started to reach out her hands and then shrank back"
 Young or old?" asked the cattle man.
 "YOung-a girl"
 Excuse me-" The host was off in an instant, almost on the run.
 But the woman had gone, swallowed in the semidarkness of a side street. Clay followed
 Beatrice turned to her father, eye brows lifted. There was a moments awkward silence.
 "Mr. Lindsay will be back pres ently." Whitford said. "We'll get in and wait for him out of the way lit tie farther up the street."
 When Clay rejoined them he talked in a low voice with Beatrice's father. The mining man nodded agreement and Lindsay turned to the others.
 I'm called away" he explained aloud. "Mr Whitford has kindly prom ised to play host in my place. I'm right sorry to leave, but it's urgent" .
 His grave smile asked Beatrice to be charitable in her findings. The eyes she gave him were coldly hostile He knew Beatrice did not and would not understand
 4hC was NHtTc 1ldN had left her, crouched against a base ment milliner's door under the shelter of the steps.
 "I-Ive looked for you everywhere" moaned the girl. Its been-awful."
 q know, but it's goin' to be all right now, Kitty" he cOmforted. You're goin' home with me tonight. Tomor- row we'll talk 1t all over."
 He tucked an arm under hers and led her along the wet, shining street to a taxicab. She crouched in a cor ner of the cab. her body shaken with sobs.
 The young man moved closer and put a strong arm around her shoul- ders. Don't you worry, Kitty. Tore big brother is on the job now"
 He knew her story now in it's essen- tials as well as he did later when she wept 1t out to him in confession. And because she was who she was. born to lean on a stronger will, he acquitted her of blame.
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"'MOST A MAN."

sYNOPSIS.-A foreword tells this: Motoring through Arizona. party of customers. father and daughter and a male companion. stop to wit ness a cattle round up. The girl leaves the car and is attacked by a wild steer. A masterpiece or riding on the part of one of the cowboys saves her life. Then the story begins: Clay Lindsay, range rider on an Arizona ranch, an- nounces his intention to visit the "big town" New York. On the train Lindsay becomes interested in young woman. Kitty Mason. on her way to New York to become a motion-picture actress. She Is marked as fair prey by a fellow traveller. Jerry Durand, gang polid- clan and ex-prize fighter. Perceiving his intentions, Lindsay provokes a quarrel and throws Durand from the train. On his first day fin New York Lindsay is splashed with wa ter by a janitor. That individual the range-rider punishes summarily and leaves tied to a fire .hydrant. A young woman who sees the oc- currence invites Clay into her house and hides him from the po- lice Clay's ''rescuer' introduces herself as Beatrice Whitford. Lind say meets her father. Colin Whit ford. and is invited to visit them again. He meets Kitty Mason by accident. She has been disappointed in her stage aspirations. and to support herself is selling cigarettes in a cabaret Clay visits her there. Kitty is insulted by a customer. Clay punishes the annoyer. After a lively mixup Lindsay escapes. Outside. he Is attacked by Jerry Durand and companion and beaten insensible. Lindsay's ac- quaintance with Beatrice Whitford ripens. Through her he is intro duced into society" His "side partner" on the Arizona ranch. Johnnie Green. comes to the '-big town" The two take an apartment together. Word comes that Kitty Mason is in trouble. Clay goes to the rescue and Is helped by Annie Millikan. He comes on a party of ''gunmen." obviously waiting for his appearance. Lindsay 'gets the drop" on the thugs. locks them in a room. and escapes.
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in last night on the train? Tha's the story we'll put up to the landlord if you'll gimme the word"
 Johnnie told the story of the search for her, with special emphasis on the night Clay broke into three houses in answer to her advertisement.
 "I never wrote it. I never thought of that. It must have been"
 "It was that scalawag Durand, y'betcha. I ain't still wearin' my pin feathers none. He was sore because Clay had fixed his clock proper"
 "Pve got no place to go, except back home-and I've got no folks there but a second cousin. She doesn't want me. I don't know what to do. If I had a woman friend-some one to tell me what was best"
 Johnnie slapped his hand on his knee, struck by sudden inspiration.
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 table hotels open at midnight to lone women, wet and ragged, who come without baggage either alone or escort ed by a man?"
 I'm not telling you what you ought to have done, Mir. Lindsay" she an- swered, with a touch of hauteur. But since you ask newly couldn't you have given her money and let her find a place for herself?"
 Because that wouldn't have saved her"
 "Oh, wouldn't it?" she retorted, dry ly.
 He walked over to the fireplace and put an elbow on the corner of the mantel.
 "Lemme tell you story, Miss Bea- trice," he said presently. "Mebbe it'll show you what l mean. I was runnin' cattle in the Galiuros five years ago and I got caught in a storm way up in the hills. When it rains in my part of Arizona, which ain't often, it sure does come down in sheets. The clay below the rubble on the slopes got slick as ice My hawss, a young one, slipped and fell on me, clawed back to it's feet, and bolted. Well, there l was with my laig busted, forty miles from even whistlin' post in the desert, gettin' wetter and colder every blessed minute.
The Holbrook news., 1922-07-28
Hard to Estimate What the Country as Whole, Owes to Industrious
 Small Bird.

There are robins throughout the land. Every morning at daybreak a wave of robin song rolls across the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Who does not recognize this cheering lay as that of our old friend, Robin Redbreast? Neverthe- less, he is not a robin at all. The real robin is little red-breasted resident European bird about the size of blue bird, and our robin is really a large migrating thrush. But the Pilgrim Fa- thers found 1t here, and as it reminded them of the English robin, they named 1t robin in memory of the little feath- cred friend in the old home; and, all ornithologists to the contrary notwith- standing, the name sticks.
 One of the first things the robin does when it comes home in spring and settles down for the summer is to look for mate, if not already mated, and then to begin to build a nest. As it raises two or three broods in a season, it must begin early and the nest must be constructed to withstand storm, frost and cold. So the little architect makes the walls of mud and finishes and lines il with nonconductive mate rials to keep in the heat and keep out the cold. If the weather is favorable, the nest is soon built, but If storms pre- vail 1t is long In building and some times Is forsaken altogether for an- other constructed under more auspi- ciOus skies.
 When the little blind, naked, help less nestlings have broken the shell and been carefully brooded for time,
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CHAPTER xI
A Lady Wears a Rino.

Clarendon Bromfield got the shock of his life that evening. Beatrice pro- posed to him. It was at the Roberson dinner-dance. in the Palm room. with In sight but not within hearing of a dozen other guests.
 She camouflaged what she was doing with occasional smiles and ripples of laughter intended to deceive the Oth- CTS present. but her heart was pound- ing sixty miles an hour.
 Bromfeld was not easily disconcert- ed. He prided himself on his aplomb. But for once he was amazed.
 T beg your pardon
 Miss Whitford lased her fingers round her knee and repeated. Her
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she's little girl who came from my country and can't hold her own here, because she was sick and chilled and starving Do you see nOw?"
 "No, but it doesn't matter. I'm not the keeper of your conscience, MT. Lindsay" she cOuntered with hard lightness.
 You're judging me just the same. If you'd let me bring her here to see you"
 "No. thanks"
 You're unjust"
 You think so?"
 And unkind That's not like the little friend I've come to-like so much"
 You're kind enough for two, Mir. Lindsay. She really doesn't need an- other friend so long as she has you" ous eyes. 'In New York we're not used to being so kind to people of her sort"
 Clay lifted hand. "Stop right there, Miss Beatrice. You don't want to say anything you'll be sorry for"
 I'll say this" she cut back. "The men I know wouldn't invite a woman to their rooms at midnight and pass her off as their sister-and then ex- pect people to know her. They would be kinder to themselves-and to their own regulations"
 will you tell me what else there was to do? Where could have taken her at that time of night? Are repu-
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could hear from his friends in Arizona about that place he's trying to get me I'd go right off,"
 He looked at her wistfully. Kitty had begun to bloom again. Her cheeks were taking on their old rounded con- tour and occasionally dimples of de light flashed into them. Already the marks of her six-weeks' misery among the submerged derelicts of the city was beginning to be wiped from her mind like the memory of bad dream from which she had awakened. Love was a craving of her happy, sensuous nature. She wanted to live in the sun, among smiles and laughter. She was like a kitten in her desire to be petted, made much of and admired. Almost anybody who liked her could win a place in her affection.
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ROBIN IS A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR

the struggle 10 mi food enough to fill those hungry caverns within begins Now the robin becomes a benefactor of mankind, for every day and every hour of the day those yawning mouths must be filled with worms, grubs, cut worms, caterpillarg and many kinds of destructive insects. He brings them to the nest, from one to twelve at a time, and in rearing two or three brOods he stays hfs thousands of our insect foes.-State Ornithologist of Massachusetts.
The Holbrook news., 1922-07-28
INSURANCE MAN IS
 ENTHUSED OVER IT
Gains IA Pounds Taking Tanlac and
 Is Restored to Finest Health.

"Tanlac has restored my health and built me up fourteen pounds in weight" said H. W. Morrison, 4768 Thrush Ave, St. Louis, Mo-, agent for the National Life Insurance Co.
 1.-Two years ago my stomach went wrong and I could not eat anything without suffering agony afterwards from heart palpitation and shOrtness of breath. Some nights I was in so much misery my wife had to get up and try to get me some relief. My health got to be so poor I had to stay in bed for weeks at time.
 "What Tanlac has done for me is nothing short of wonderful. I now eat anything I want, sleep fine, and am working full time every day; in fact, I'm in splendid health. I can't praise Tanlac too highly"
 Tanlac is sold by all good druggists.
The Holbrook news., 1922-07-28
Power of the Press

Sometimes a subscriber can make mean remark" sighed the editor of the Chiggersville Clarion.
 "Yes?"
 ''An old codger was in here a few moments ago who said he hadn't be lieved single opinion I've expressed in the Clarion since Jan. 15."
 You must have had strong edi- torial on that day."
 "No, but in personal paragraph, stating that he had gone to Squirrel Junction on business, called him one of our prominent citizens" -Birming- ham Age-Herald.
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table Compound. took it regularly un- til all the hard pains had left me and was able to be up and to do my work again. The hard lump left my side and I feel splendid in all ways. I know of many women it has helped, Mrs. G. RICHARDSON, 4640 Orcas St, Seattle, Washington.
 This is another case where Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound broughtresults after trying everything any one told me" had failed.
 If you are suffering from pain, her. vousness and are always tired; if you are low spirited and good for nothing, take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. You may not only relieve the present distress, tut prevent the development of more serious trouble.
The Holbrook news., 1922-07-28
FARMERS ARE WORKING HARDER R

And using their feet more than ever before For all these workers the frequent use of Aliens Foot=Ease, the antiseptic, healing powder to be shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in the foot-bath, increases their efficiency and insures needed physical com fort. Aliens Foot=Ease takes the Friction from the Shoe, keeps the shoe from rub ping and the stockings from wearing, fresh ems the feet, and prevents tired, aching and blistered feet. Women everywhere are constant users of Aliens Foot=Ease. Don't get foot sore, get Aliens Foot=Ease.
 More than One Million five hundred thou sand pounds of Powder for the Feet were used by our Army and Navy during the war In a pinch, use Aliens Foot=Ease.
The Holbrook news., 1922-07-28

my feet, then l had chils and fever and
 such pains in my
 right side and a hard lump there. I could not turn myself in bed and could not sleep. I was this way
 for over twomonths, trying everything
 any one told me, un- til my sister brought
 me a bottle Lydia IE Pinkham's Vepe-
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After Somethinu Easx

"Why do you think of moving when you like your place out in the country so much?"
 ''The place is all right. It's the bunch that commutes. They're the slickest lot of card sharks I ever run into."-Judge.
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Free and lndependeni

"Why didn't you laugh at the boss joke, Bill?"
 Don't have to: I quit Saturday."
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SUCH PAINS AS
 THIS WOMAN HAD
Two Months Could Not Turn in Bed. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
 pound Finally Restored Health

Seattle, Washington.-'T had drag ging pains first and could not stand on
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"Jim'd eroak me if he knew I'd given thisr'

(TO BE CONTINUED)
, 1922-03-15
EDITORIAL ON "cAsH BONUS"
Chicago Newspaper Comments on Com
mander MaeNider's Plan for Ro-
tatinQ Fund to Be Loaned

The soundest policy which has been
offered with respect to a cash bonus
is the editorial comment of a Chicago
paper on Hanford MacNider's plan for
a rotating fund to be loaned out to
needy ex-service men.
The editorial, in part. follows:
sin many cases the bonus, distrlb-
uted to all alike, will be given to men
who are not in actual need of 1t, to
some who do not need 1t at all. All
degrees Of financial competency were
in the army. For other men the al
lotment will moi be enough. They need
more credit than that to o
"Men who have no need of a bonus
could take it without scruple if they
intended TO place it in the fund. Men
who have need of 1t could get it from
the fund, pay 1t back when they could,
and keep the money available for con-
timing relief"
, 1922-03-15
DISAGREEMENT OVER
SHOALS LEASE LOOMS
Proposal to Form Government Opera
ting Corporation Is Opposed
by Chairman Kahn

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS between
the house and senate eel disposition
of the governments war built prop
critics at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. was
seen as a probability tonight in some
congressional quarters. Chairman
Kahn of the house military affairs
committee which has jurisdiction for
the house over the disposition OF the
Alabama properties too sharp issue
with the proposal of chairman Norris
OF the senate agriculture committee.
which is studying the Muscle Shoals
question for the senate for creation of
| government owned and controlled
corporation to take owe the projects.
II for one Mr.. Kahn said, .'am
strongly against government operation
of any project that can be run by priv
ate enterprise. If the Norris scheme
is sent to the house ! shall certainly
oppose it,
Mr.. Kahn said house members had
seen many times the fallacy of gov
ernmemsl operations and reiterated
his belief that the creation Of govern
ment commission comprised of repre-
sentativcs of the treasury. agriculture
and war departments empowered TO
lease or sell the Muscle Shoals prop
critics, was the logical solution of the
problem of getting them in quick proc
ess of development by private capital
and without additional cost to the fed
eral government.
The military committee, Mr.. Kahn
said. would call Secretary Mellon and
Attorney General Daugherty to testify
next week. The testimony of the cab
met officers he said would give the
committee first hand information on
the financial and legal phases of the
Muscle Shoals question.
, 1922-03-15
ALLIED FINANCE MINISTER'S DIS.
TRIBUTE FIRST GERMAN
REPARlr-ioN PAYMENT
AMERICAN CLAIM RECOGNIZED
Debt Commission Leaves Question Of
Expense Of American Occupation
on the Rhine Up to Powers
90 Settle

Paris.-wje allied finance ministers
signedSss agreement .nis afternoon for
the distribution Of the first 10000
100000 gold marks of German rep
arations. The agreement dlsregards
the American claim OF priority for its
expenses in connection with occupa-
ton of the Rhine. and so far as the
actual sharing of this money is CON
cerned, but recognizes the claim by a
special clause. which states that all
the agreements on this question are
subject TO the American rights as the
various governments may establish
them, the finance ministers considering
that they do not have power to decide
this question.
n ministers decided, after long
discussion hat the question was not
for the Preparations commission to de-
eide, because that body was acting
solely under the provisions of the
treaty Of Versailles, 70 which the
United States no longer was a party.
Consequently 1t was decided that the
question was one for the various gov
ernments concerned to settle.
h finance ministers also concluded
that 1t was impossible for them in any
case TO reopen the long and difficult
deliberations which resulted In the
persent agreements so they could only
reserve the American right and leave
the question for diplomacy TO settle.
The agreement provides that the ex-
penses Of the armies of occupation
inter May !. 1921, shall be divided as
follows: One hundred and two million
Belgian france 10 Belgium: 2.000.000
pounds 20 England ind 4G0.O00 francs
10 France. The distribution of deliv-
cries in kind by Germany in 1922 viii
be on the basis of G5 per cent to France
and 30 per cen 70 the other allies.
, 1922-03-15
pefIeleney eln Passes senate

washington.-The senate today pass
ed the deficiency appropriation bin car
rying a total of S136.S95, 900 or $685.
35S.0O0 more than was appropriated
by the measure as passed by the house.
The principal amendment added by
the SENATE was an appropriation of
$27, 46S,O0O0 for use In repayment of
Illegally collected taxes The bill sup
plies an additional $73.340.O00 for the
use of the veterans bureau in voca-
tional rehabilitation of former service
men. The measure now goes to con-
ference with the house.
, 1922-03-15

in moulding clay. The Veterans
bureau became interested in the case,
and sent him to an art school where
he shortly afterward won first prize
in a modelling contest. His growing
ability has led the bureau to under
take to send him abroad.
Avardo's is only one of a number Of
cases of rehabilitation in which men
who before the war were driving
trucks or pushing shovels have dis
covered their true talents in the
course of being vo~cationalized. Men
who previously had been content with
unskilled labor are now attending
classes in auto-mechanics, radio-work,
drafting. machine design, agriculture,
and various other trades and pro-
fessions.
, 1922-03-15

but an outward motion of the patriot
ic feeling within. 1t is not the mere
physical movement that counts. 1t is
what it signifies. When we salute
the Stars and Stripes we show rever-
ence for the flag that our forefathers
made INT preserved. 1t shows that
we realize what the red, white and
blue typiies."
A little Russian girl won the second
prize. She said she liked to salute
u flag because this country. unlike
Russia. had so few pogroms and
starving children.
, 1922-03-15
lover"

Mr.. Jessaway was fussy about the
correct use of the English language,
too fussy perhaps, and was always
ready to find fault with offenders. Also
he was In anything but a good tenn
per as he sat down in his favorite res
taurant.
"Give me a steak" he said. "and
some corn and some baked potatoes"
Baked potatoes are all over said
the girl.
oh, they're all over, huh" snorted
Mr.. Jessaway. And what are they
all overT'
with she replied simply.-Ameri-
a Legion Weekly.