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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-05-04

swe her; for she did not suspect that
he was unable to answer her.
You would rather explain to father
than TO me-" she decided.
He hesitated. What he wanted now
was time to think, 10 learn who she
was and who her father was, and to
adjust himself to this strange reversal
Of his expectations.
YES; l would rather do that" he
said.
She caught up her fur collar and
muff from a chair and spoke a word
to the servant. AS she vert out on
to the porch. he followed her aud
stopped to pick up his suitcase.
simmons will bring that" she said.
unless you'd rather have 1t with you.
Ii is only a short walk"
They turned in at the entrance of a
house In the middle of the block and
went up the low, wide stone steps I;
the door opened to them without ring
or knock a servant I'm the hall within
took Alan's hat and coat, and he fol-
lowed Constance past some great room
upon his right to a smaller one farther
down the hall.
"Will you wait here. pleasef" she
asked.
He sat down, and she left him (:
when her footsteps had died away. and
he could hear no other sounds except
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-05-04
Let Cuicura Be
Your Beauty Doctor
Soap Csc, Ointment rs and Soc, Taleum 2Se
Sort of Absent treatment.

Up on the venue an old colored
man, who peddles coal by the basket.
stopped in a poolroom and asked the
proprietor: "Need any coal todayT"
Nope was the reply.
Turning to two loafers sitting be-
hind the stove. the old cdlored man
asked: Does you all need any coal
at your house tedayT
"No," was the reply.
So the old man left the pooiroom
and as he started to climb back or
his wagon he stepped q minute to pat
his old horse on the back and say:
"Psor old horse II business don't get
better than this the emily way you're
going to know when dinner time comes
Is by the whistles blowing,"-Indlan-
apolis News.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-05-04

the occasional soft tread Of some
servant, he twisted himself about in
his chair and looked around. Who
were these Sherrills? Who was Cor
vet, and what was his relation to the
Sherrills? What, beyond all, was their
and Corvet's relation to Alan Conrad
to himself? The shock and confusion
he had felt at the nature Of his recep-
ton in Corvet's house, and the strange
ness OF his transition from his little
Kansas town to a place and people
such as this, had prevented him from
inqulring directly froE Constance
Sheriff. as to that; and, on her part.
she had assumed, plainly, that he
already knew and need not be told.
He Strengthened and looked about,
then got up, as Constance Sheriff.
came back into the room.
Father is not here just now" she
said. "We weren't sure from your
telegram exactly at what hour you
would arrive, and that was why /
waited at Mr.. Corvet's to be sure we
wouldn't miss you. / have telephoned
father, and he's coming home at once"
She hesitated an instant In the door
way, then turned to go out again.
Miss Sheriff." he said.
She halted. "Yes."
"You told me you had been waiting
for me to come and explain my con-
nection with Mr.. Corvet. Well
can't do that that Is what I came
here hoping to find out"
She came back toward him slowly.
what do you mean?" she asked.
lie fought down and controlled
resolutcly the excitement In his voice,
as he told her rapidly the little he
knew about himself.
He could not tell definitely how she
vas affected by what he said. She
flushed slightly. following her first
start Of surprise after he had begun
to speak: when he had finished, he
saw that she was a little pale.
"Then you don't know anything
about Mr.. Ccryet at ALL" she said.
"No; until / got his letter sending
for me here, I'd never seen or heard
his NAME"
She was thoughtful for a moment.
"Thank you for telling me-" she said.
I'll tell my father when he comes"
"Your father is-?" he ventured.
She understood now that the name
Of Sheriff. had mean nothing to him.
Father Is Mr.. Corvet's closest friend,
and his business partner as WELL" she
explained.
He thought she was going to tell
him something more about them; but
she seemed to decide to leave that for
her father TO do. She crossed to the
big chair beside the crate and seated
herself. AS she sat looking at him.
hands clasped beneath her chin, and
her elbows resting on the arm of the
chair. there was speculation and In
terest In her gaze; but she did not
ask him anything more about himself.
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Important 60 Mothers
Preparedness !.

An Indianapolis druggist had been
rather persistent in endeayoring to col
lect an account from a man whose
credit was rather doubtful. A series
of letters, each a little stronger In tone
than the n that preceded II. finally
brought a reply, as follows:
Deere Sirs-Be Paysshunt. I'd rath-
er owe We all my life than beet ye out
of it. i amt ~fergettin'. When them
thar owes me pays me you'll get yourn
an not before. IL ye want no more
prepared to meet yore Maker jest now
than / am to pay yore bill you shore
Is agoin' to halifax In a hanbasklt."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-05-04
THE INDIAN DRUM
By egi1iam MacHarg and Eds0i1 Bafner
copyHhtb by edwin Amer
.HurG and Edevfr7 Balmer


the station, pricked in Alan's veins,
and hastily he dropped the window to
his right and gaZed out. The lake,
as he had known since his geography
days, lay TO the east Of Chicago;
therefore that void out there beyond
harbor. A different air seemed 10
come from it; sounds . Suddenly
1t all was shut off; the taxicab,
swerving a little, was dashing between
business blocks; a row of buildings
had risen again upon the right; they
broke abruptly to show him a wooden
walled chasm In which flowed the
river full of ice with a tug dropping
its smOkestack as it cut below the
bridge which the cab crossed; build
ings on both sides again; then, TO the
right, a roaring, heaving crashing ex-
panse.
The sound, Alan knew, had been
coming to him as an undertone for
many minutes; now IL overwhelmed,
swallowed all other sound. 1t was
great, not loud all sound which Alan
had heard before, except the soughing
of the wind ver his prairies, came
from n point; even the monstrous
city murmur was centered In compari-
son with this. Over the lake, as over
the land, the soft snowflakes lazily
floated down, scarcely stirred By the
slightest breeze; that roar was the
voice of the water, that awful power
it's own.
Alan choked and gasped for breath,
his pulses pounding in his throat; he
had snatched off his hat and, leaning
out of the window sucked the lake air
in his lungs. There had been nothing
to make him expect this overwhelming
crush Of feeling. The lake-he had
thought of it, of course, as a great
body Of water, an interesting sight
for a prairie boy to see; that was all.
No physical experience in all his
memory had affected him like this I;
and il was without warning; the
strange thing that had stirred within
him as the car brought him to the
Drive downtown was strengthened
now a thousand-fOld; il amazed, half
frightened. half dizzied him. Now. as
the motor suddenly swung around a
cOrner and shut the sight of the lake
from him, Alan sat back breathless.
The car swerved TO the east curb
about the middle of the block and
came to a stop. The house before
| which it had halted was a large stone
house of quiet, good design; 1t was
some generation older, apparently,
than the houses on each side of ii,
which were brick and terra Gotta of
recent fashionable architecture; Alan
only glanced at them long enough to
get that impression before he opened
the cab door and got out but as the
cab drove away, he stood beside his
suitcase looking up at the old house
which bore the number given in Ben
jamin Corvet's letter, then around at
the other houses and back to that
again.
The neighborhood obviously pre-
cluded the probability of Corvet's be-
ing merely a lawyer-a go-between.
He must be some relative; the ques-
ton eve present in Alan's thought
since the receipt Of the letter, but held
in allegiance, as to the possibility and
nearness of Corvet's relation to him,
took sharper and more exact form
now than he had dared to let 1t take
before. Was his relationship to
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-05-04
ALAN CONRAD.

sYNoPSIS.-Wealthy and highly
placed in the Chicago business
world. Benjamin Corvet is some
thing of a recluse and a mystery
TO his associates. After a stormy
interview with his partner, Henry
Spearman. Corvet seeks Constance
Sheriff., daughter of his other busi-
ness partner, Lawrence Sheriff..
n admits Spearman has asked
her to marry him and that she
hasn't given him an answer Cor
vet-"Uncle Benny"-makes her
promise not to give an answer It'll
| come back" Corvet is much aSi-
tated and acts strangely. Then he
disappears. Sheriff. learns that
Corvet has written to Alan Conrad
IN Blue Rapids. Kan, sum,noning
him TO Chicago. None of Corvet's
associates have ever heard of Alan
Conrad.
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Corvet. perhaps, the closest of all re-
lationships? Was Corvet his :.
father? He checked the question
within himself, for the time had
passed for mere speculation Rpon II
o Alan was trembling excitedly:
for-whoever Coryet might be-the
enigma of Aian's existence was going
to be ans cred when he had entered
that house. He was going 10 know
who he was. All the possibilities, the
responsibilities. the attachments. the
opportunities. perhaps. Of that person
whom ne ~was--but whom. as yet. he
did NJ: know-were before him. He
went up the steps and, with fingers
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III
plseussion Of ) Shadow

Alan. as ne looked confusediy and
bIankly az her. made no attempt to
answer the question she had asked.
or 10 explain. His silence and con
fusion. he knew. must seem to Con-
stance Sheriff. unwillingness to an
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-05-04

Our Own Webster.
Love: An ocean of emotion entirely
surrounded by expenses.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-05-04

The ancient Egyptians made coffee
Of cork.
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eve brought you." he said
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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
That Big Saving.

ABOLISH the state constabulary
throw out the game department, dis
card the cabinet form of state gov
eminent, save the taxpayer a lot OF
money. That, in a nutshell, is the
campaign war cry of M. Alexander,
Democratic candidate for governor.
Let us see. Anyone who investi-
gates can learn that state administra-
ton of government costs-in Cald-
well, for instance-1.2 cents of every
dollar paid for taxes, state, county,
city and schools. In other words,
raze the state house, dispense with
every elective and appointive officer,
and you would pay of every tax dol
lar you now pay, exactly 98.8 cents.
OF course, state administration does
not include all the state tax. But Mr..
Alexander never has advocated reduc-
ing appropriations for state institu-
tions, for the university, for the insane
asylum, for other similar parts of the
states business. Including high
ways, all tax requirements for funds
during the past biennium aside from
purely administrative expenses, brings
the total to six cents of every dollar of
your tax. Ninety four cents, in Cald-
we'll, goes for county, school and city
purposes.
Mr.. Alexander does not dare make
charges that Republicans have over
appropriated funds for state institu-
tons. He knows that Idaho will be
long in forgetting what his schedule
OF starvation cost Idaho in scandal,
humiliation and added later expense.
But if he be elected governor, it is
only reasonable to suppose that he
will follow the old time policy of his
as it relates to these state institutions.
1t is ridiculously easy to make
flambouyant speeches about the cost
of state government and make glib
promises of how that cost may be re-
duced. But Alexander is addicted to
generalities. He has never told an
Idaho audience, and he never will tell
an Idaho audience, how much his
program of state administrative eco
nomy is going to cut from your tax
dollar. AS matter of fact, any re-
duction which could possibly be made
would be so small as to be completely
buried in the multiple costs of city,
school and county government costs.
Figures talk And these are the
kind of figures and facts that Mr..
Alexander always shrewdly overlooks.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
The Cost of Public
Apathy.

THOUGH the people of America
are one hundred per cent opposed to
any more taxation and are heartily
sick of the burdens that have been
placed on them, they fail utterly to
make their feelings known with suf.
hcient vigor to cause their represent
atives in congress to take notice.
Every man lodges the issue by
saying to himself: whats the use OF
my saying anything" As Mark
Twain said of the weather: Every
body growls but nobody does any
thing"
Best authorities agree that addition
al Federal taxation this year is unes-
capable. National receipts will be less
than figured on and expenditures
more. President Harding has an
nounced an unbridged span of $697,-
100000 and if Great Britain fails to
pay interest on money lent her here
during the war the deficit will be
5000, 100000.
Against this may be deducted $272,-
100000 of the balance in the treasury
at the close of the fiscal year, and
this spells additional taxation.
The farming interests are flatly op-
posed to a sales tax, the business in
terests shrek at the thought of screw
ing up the corporation taxes, which
would prove final blow
to business revival. There remains
then the income tax, now outrageous
y high, but standing out as ''the best
bet of the politicians.
If the public remains apathetic, as
S its custom, then there will be no
Justification for complaint when the
new burden is added.
1t is questionable if any country in
he world is as unscientifc in its tax
ltion as the United States. This is
because the people refuse to take an
interest in what is being done IN their
lame.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
A Real Service.

CONTINUED reports of slumps
in the estimated potato production Of
the middle west, reflected in a steady
Strengthening of the local demand
are being distributed by the Canyon
county farm bureau as they are being
received through its sales agency, the
California Vegetable Union.
The federal crop forecast compiled
for September l, was published too
soon to take into account the havoc
wrought by one week of excessively
hot weather in the upper Mississippi
valley. From no other source has
come information covering the fact
that today's forecast of the total po-
tato production places it about on a
par with last year. And at no time
in the past have Idaho potato grow
ers been kept intimately in touch with
the production phases of the potato
business as they have this year.
One cannot fail to recall the ire
mendous upheaval in the local potato
market last year when the federal re-
port indicating crop shortage, was
released. Nor can one fail to find
sympathy for those producers a year
ago who sold their stuff a week too
early and far too cheaply. Accurate
day by day information of crop fore
casts and estimates would have pre-
vented last years hectic Monday when
potato prices went skyrocketing.
Here, it seems, the farm bureau is
giving Canyon county farmers a real
service of tangible conetary value.
For, who can say that Canyon county
producers today, but for this service,
would not be ignorant of conditions
in the middlewest, would not continue
SO until the next federal report is is
sued about October 10?
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
Is This Your Wish?

Do you want to go back to the time
when the Blackfoot asylum for the
insane was disgrace to the state? To
the condition when eight mentally de-
tective inmates, likely to become raw
ing maniacs at any moment, were
housed in single room?
Do you want to 60 back to the
time and conditions when the state
OF Idaho wouldn't even buy tin cups
tor its prisoners in the state peniten-
tiary, when those men and women
used tomato cans for drinking YES
sells?
Do you want to go back to the time
when the state university was so
starved tor funds that its president,
DIR. Melvin Brannon, appealed to the
student body for a petty loan and
instructors salaries might be paid.
that the doors OF the institution might
be kept open until the close OF the
school term?
DO you want to go back to the
time when Idaho saw its bonds over
due and unpaid because a chief ex-
ecutive of the state believed il eco
nomy to let those obligations remain
outstanding and thereby threatening
to ruin the states credit?
Do you want to 60 back TO 3l3
miles of improved state highway or
would you rather maintain the l40O
miles of good state roads that we
have today?
Do you wish that Idaho should re-
fuse, through a refractory governor,
to meet just obligations, such as wa
ter assessments levied against state
land in the Gem district, during
administration
If you do, you will vote for NJ.
and all his false ideas of
economy at the November election.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15

across the dinner-table at my
wife, who has been a blessing to
me, | will have nothing to con-
ceal. Keep me young enough to
laugh with little children and SYM
pathetic enough to be considerate
OF old age. And when comes
the day of darkened shades and
the smell of flowers, the tread of
soft footsteps, and the crunching
of wheels in the yard, make the
ceremony short and the epitaph
simple: Here lies q man."
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
Constitutionality.

THE Democrats and Alexander
say great deal about constitutional
ity and make divers-and false
charges of constitutional violation by
the business-ike and responsible form
of state government given Idaho by a
Republican legislature Perhaps Mr..
Alexander has forgotten the COM
missioner of immigration in Idaho is a
constitutionally created office and
that, in his last year as governor of
the state, Democratic legislature
failed to make an appropriation for
this department. Talk about viola
ton of the state constitution!
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15

science, without gun under my
pillow, and undaunted by faces
OF those to whom | have brought
pain. Grant that | may earn my
meal-ticket on the square, and
that in earning it l may do unto
others as | would have them do
unto me. Deafen me to the jingle
OF tainted money and to the rustic
of unholy skirts. Blind me to the
faults of the other fellow, but re-
veal to me my own. Guide me
so that each night when | look
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
The Greed of Today.

A NEW creed has come into the
American business world. Business
men generally have come to realize
the community interest and community
development are paramount for every
individual. Kiwanis, Rotary and
other similar organizations, whose
aim is unselfish service, are out.
growths of this idea and have done
much to sponsor and broadcast it.
Here is creed, business mans
prayer, that the world, by adopting
can well profit by:
Teach me that sixty minutes
make an hour, sixteen ounces
make one pound, and one hun
dred cents make one dollar.
Help me to live so that I can lie
down at night with a clear con-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
x X X X y X hk X X + X r y X
X CURRENT COMMENT +
X X X X \ X y X X X X X X = 4
Very Old Stuff

There never was a protective tariff
measure, from the Morrill, law on
down, which was not denounced by
free traders and importers as the most
damnable, atrocious, unconscionable,
unspeakable, infamous bill ever propos-
ed, and yet under the operation of
these protection laws this country
grew to be the most prosperous and
in the world.--National Re-
publican.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
WHERE HE m.,

The minister met Tom !"
ne'er-do-well, and, much r. s =.
surprise, shook him bs,.,,
hand, I'm SO glad you've fl,
a new leaf, Thomas" s,;a w.
man.
"Me?" returned Tow
him obviously. '
Eyes, I was so pleased ;,
at the prayer meeting lac, :.
oh" said Tom, light hi.
on him, so that's where I ~.
Tit Bits.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
Usual Advance Signs

Lloyd George is talking again about
the high value of human freedom,
leading many to suspect that he has
something about ready to slip over
Beatrice (Neb) Express.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
Hard on Spendtb,;,.

Cuba probably will h. u =
ed in General Crowder. -, .
his mission a fairule ~ aug
nothing more constr,,c.;. e
the government should :.
Kansas City Times. ~
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
Americans Self D

When this country is .s 4''
a crisis it doesn't get uDo0 u
legs and shout for Euro,. "
over and help it out =, rs
0a.) Globe Gazette. ''
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
Sam Gompers!

What makes Henry Ford so mad
about the money expended by Sena-
tor Newberry's friends to assure the
latter a seat in the senate is that he
spent SO much more and didn't land
|it-Marion (Ohio) Star.
Evening star., 1922-03-12
AUTOREG|STRAT|ON
GAINS IN AMERICA
Final Statistics Show One
Automobile for Every 1912
Persons.

Interesting and illuminative COM
parsons are revealed by the statistics
on motor car registrations for 1921.
figures for which are now available. .
according to Mr.. Walter c. Davis,
secretary and sales manager of the
Davis Motor Car Company.
According to the final totals of
motor cars registered there is now
ono automobile for every 1912 persons
in the United States. In Iowa there
is one motor car for every 5.28 per-
sons, in Alabama one to every 1850
persons. In between these extremes
come all the other states. with the
Portable margin. New York is still
on top of the list of registrations.
with over 100000 motor cars, Nevada
is at the bottom. with little over
10000. Florida showed the largest
per cent increase in registrations last
year. with an increase Of 32.40 per
cent The average gain for all the
states was 17.6 per cent.
Starting with New York, which
has the largest number Of motor cars
Of any state, and running down the
list we find these states in the order
named: New York, Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, California, Illinois, Michigan,
Texas, Iowa and Indiana. In the
ratio of persons per car, Iowa leads
all others. Other states in order of
the number Of persons per car are:
California. Kansas. Colorado. Oregon,
Nevada and North Dakota. It is in
teresting to note that while Nevada
is last in the number of motor cars
registered, it is eighth in the ratio of
persons per car"