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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-09-14
Plymouth

w. H. Switzler is busy making
preparations for the Round Up.
Roy Klinefelter drives the school
bus from Longview this year.
Miss Helen Morton of Benton
City was a visitor in school We'd
nesday.
N. L. Russell was acting ferry
man last week during the absence
of Mr.. Switzler.
Everyone who can get away
lis planning on attending the
Roundup next week.
Mrs. Rogers and daughter and
Helen Blank, her niece, went to
Amber last week. Helen Blank
is to attend school there.
w. L. Blakely went to Hermiston
Monday and ordered new engine
for his pumping plant. His old
one being broken beyond repair.
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Huntington,

Miss Winnifred Huntington,
Miss Norma Hooper and Miss Mo-
ma Yost will leave this week for
w. S. c..
Mr.. and Mrs. H. r. Vibber were
hosts at dinner party given at
their home Wednesday evening.
Covers were laid for eight.
Mrs. M. j. Carter of Benton City
came in Tuesday to attend a meet
ing of Chapter A G, P. E. O. of
which she is a member.
The ladies Of the English Luth-
eran church will conduct booth
during the local fair and will serve
lunches, ice cream, cake and coffee.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Rayno and
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Taylor of
Yakima were week end guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Spofford.
The Congregational Ladies Aid
will meet Thursday, September 81
in the church parlors with Mrs.
Gravenslund's division in charge.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. S. Knowles and
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Whitbeck
have returned from the P. p. & l..
construction camp at the Tyee val.
ley.
The M. E. Aid met Wednesday
afternoon with Mrs. R. A. Oliver.
There was a large attendance and
plans were made for the furnishing
of the kitchen in the new church.
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Highlands News
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The remodeling and additional
building on the Appenzellar resi-
dence is progressing rapidly.
A. Lehnhard, o. Sullivan, Mrs.
Hess, Mrs. Beiderweiden and Miss
Robertson comprised the Highlands
election board.
Mrs. ]. T. Long was hurried to
Pasco on Wednesday of last week
and underwent an operation for ap-
pendicitis the same evening. Her
many friends will be pleased to
learn that Mrs. Long is doing very
nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. O. Cleve arrived
from Minneapolis on Sunday and
are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. d. o.
Urch. Mr.. and Mrs. Cleve are for
mer pioneer Highlands residents
and will be gladly welcomed back
by their old friends who are
pleased to learn of their decision
to make their home here again.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Boldt have
been enjoying a visit FROM Mr..
Boldt's sister, Mrs. Young of La
Crosse, Wis, and her daughter,
Mrs. Hart of Puyallup. Mr.. Boldt
and his sister have not seen each
other before for twenty years and
have greatly enjoyed this oppor-
tunity OF visiting and bridging the
intervening years. The party left
for their respective homes on Tues
day.
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DR.. Frank Spaulding left today
for his home in Portland after 3
short visit with his brother, DR.. l.
G. Spaulding. He was en- route
from Spokane.
Mrs. w. L. Craver was hostess
to the Bridge club at her home on
the Highlands Wednesday after
noon. Honors were won by Mrs
w. H. Gascoigne.
At the meeting of the Congrepa.
tional Ladies' Aid held last Thurs
day at the home of Mrs. R. E.
Pratt, plans were made for holding
a bazaar later in the fall.
B. E. Reser has returned to the
Reser-Vessey sheep camp in the
Pend d'Oreille country and will re-
main there until the sheep are
brought down for winter quarters.
Mrs. Rose Carr and her brother
w. M. Holmes Of New York have
returned from Pennington where
they went several weeks ago to at
tend the funeral of their sister.
Mrs. Kadow, Mrs. Trimble, Mrs,
Personette and son Roland return.
ed from a motor trip to Spokane
where they spent last week at the
fair and visiting relatives, Mrs.
Kadow and Mrs. Trimble at the
home of Mrs. .Kadow's sister and
Mrs. Personette and Roland with
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Felts.
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Two Tommies turned punsters
went into restaurant over on the
eastern front and said to the wait
er: Eve want Turkey with
Greece"
The waiter replied: "Sorry, sirs,
but we can't Servia."
"Well, then, get the Bosphorus. %
The boss came in and heard
their order and then said: 81
don't want to Russia, but you
can't Roumania." So the two Tom
mics went away Hungary.-Com-
merce and Finance.
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East Kennewick
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Edwin and Emil Albrecht have
gone to Wenatchee.
Allan Arnold was dinner guest
Of Russell Elliott Wednesday.
Russell Elliott has accepted a
position in the Price & Lincoln
store.
B. F. Neel was called to Pull
man Friday by the serious illness
of his brother.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Waters spent
Sunday at the home Of their son
L. w. Waters at Eltopia.
Rev. and Mrs. j. E.Strevey spent
Monday and Tuesday nights at the
E.. A. Miller home. NJ
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Waters have
as guests this week, Nj. and Mrs.
Gordon Lucas Of Seattle.
Rev. Koppelman Of Portland and
Rev. Messerli were dinner guests
Monday at the Emil Albrecht home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Webb and Mrs.
Downie of Spokane were guests
Wednesday at the w. B. Elliott
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Brown and
Guy Davis returned from Spokane
Saturday and say the Interstate
fair was exceptionally good this
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lyons are
enjoying a visit from their son
and family Of Oregon.
Rex Miller from Iowa arrived at
the home of his uncle, E. A. Miller
and will spend the winter here.
Mrs. p. C. Book accompanied Mr..
and Mrs. A. C. Anon to Walla
Walla Thursday where she will
spend the week end with Mrs. w.
HI. Thomas formerly Of East Ken
newick.
The ME-. Ladies' Aid society
met Wednesday with Mrs. R. A.
Oliver, with Mrs.. II. w. BROWN
and Mrs. L. N. Dague as assistant
hostesses. The afternoon was spent
sewing carpet rags.
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Nopt THINK!,.

Who and what is man? What
was our Creators purpose in put
ting us here? Is mans existence
for this world only? Can we at
ford to ignore our relation to our
Creator? What sort Of treatment
shall we deserve If we do ignore
Him?
These are some Of the questions
that will be brought up next Sum
day evening in the N. E. Mems
club. Come! Meeting opens at
seven o'clock in the high school
auditorium.
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4. " =. 3. carnahan.
- Harper left .l FRIDAY
visit with Spokane
..,,.,ors club will meet e
4. week with Mrs o
J. p..rse Of Seattle assd is
= bone q ner O'0''ei
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your father was particularly anxious
that you should take q personal as
well as Il financial place among the
men who control the traffic of the
lakes. l have told Spearman that this
is my intention. He has not been able
To see II my way as yet; but he may
change his views, l think, after meet
ing YOU"
Sheriff. got UP. Alan arose Il little
~unsteadiiy. The list OF properties he
had read and the letter and SherrilfS
statement portended SO much that its
meaning could not all come to him at
once. He followed Sheriff. through "A
short private corridor, thanked with
files lettered "Corvet, Sheriff., and
Spearman," into the large room he had
seen when he came In with Constance.
They crossed this, and Sheriff., with
out knocking, opened the door of the
office marked, "Mr. Spearman." Alan,
looking on past Sheriff. as the door
opened, saw that there were some half
dozen men in the room, smoking and
talking. His gaze went swiftly on past
these men to the one who, half seated
on the top Of the flat desk, had been
talking to them and his pulse closed
upon his heart with a shock he start
ed, choked with as%onishment, then
swiftly forced himself under control.
For his was the man whom he had
met and whom he had fought in Ben
jamin COrvet'S house the night before
the big man surprised in his bias
phemy OF COrvet and Of souls gin HI"
who, at sight of an apparition with a
bullet hole above its eye, had cried out
in his fright, You got Ben! But you
won't get me-d-n you! On you ~
Alan's shoulders drew up slightly,
md the muscles Of his hands tight
ened, as Sheriff. led him to this man.
Sheriff. put his hand on the mans
shoulder; his other hand was still On
Alan'S arm.
Henry" he said to the man, "this
is Alan Conrad. Alan, / want you TO
know my partner, Mr.. Spearman."
Spearman nodded an acknowledge
ment, but did not put out his hand /;
his eyes-steady, bold, watchful eyes
seemed measuring Alan attentively /;
and In return Alan, with his gaze, was
measuring him.
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down this boulevard; then, with a
car to the curb and stopped. She led
Alan into one Of the taliest and best
looking buildings.
On several Of the doors opening upon
the wide marble hall where the eleva-
tor left them, Alan saw the names,
"Corvet, Sheriff. and Spearman.'
Constance led the way on past to a
door farther down the corridor, which
bore merely the name, Lawrence
Sheriff.; evidently Sheriff., who had
interests aside from the shipping bust
ness, had offices connected with but
not actually q part Of the offices OF
COrvet, Sheriff. and Spearman. 4 girl
on guard at the door, saying that Mr..
Sheriff. had been awaiting Mr.. Con
rad, opened an inner door and led
Alan into a large, many-windOwed
room, where Sheriff. was sitting alone
before a table-desk. He pulled the
visitors chair" rather close to his
desk and to his Own big leather chair
before asking Alan to seat himself.
you wanted to tell me, or ask me,
something last night, my daughter has
told me-" Sheriff. said cordially. I'm
sorry | wasn't home when you came
back"
II wanted to ask you, Mr.. Sheriff., !"
Alan said, about those facts in re-
gard to Mr.. Corvet which you men
toned TO me yesterday but did not ex-
plain. You said it would lot aid me to
know them but | found certain things
In Mr.. Corvet's house last night which
made me want to know, if l could,
everything you could tell me-"
Sheriff. opened q drawer and took
out a large, plain envelope.
son the day after your father disap-
peared," he said, but before l knew
he was gone-or before any n except
my daughter felt any alarm about him
i received q short note from him.
The note was agitated, almost incoher-
ent. 1t told me he had sen for you
Alan Conrad, of Blue Rapids, Kansas
but spoke of you as though you were
some one ! ought to have known about,
and commended you TO my care. The
remainder of it was merely an agitat-
ed, almost indecipherable farewell 20
ae. When / opened the envelope, n
key had fallen out. The note made
no reference to the key, but, compar-
ing it with one l had in my pocket, !
saw that it appeared to be a key to Il
safety deposit box in the vaults OF a
company where we both had boxes.
1.-THE note, taken In connection with
my daughters alarm about him, made
it so plain that something serious had
happened TO COrvet, that my first
thought was merely for him. Corvet
was not q man with whom one could
readily connect the thought OF suicide (;
but, Alan, that was the idea | had.
hurried ct once 10 his house, but the
bell was not answered, and / could not
get In. His servant. WassaQuam, has
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Benjamin Franklin had an OverpOw-
ering desire-a desire which gripped
HIN to the end Of his life, and to which
he gave himself over without stiLt.
That was q desire for books. He read
omnlvorously, If you know what that
m~eans-and IL you don't, look 1t up In
the dictionary. He stole time from his
work and play, and leisure, and per.
suaded his fellow apprentices to fitch
books for him from their masters
shops. ,
His first literary adventure was into
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and 1t
was followed by every other book he
could lay hold Of. OF curse his field
was limited. In those ancient days lit
tie was published in Boston other than
sermons. essays, political pamphlets and
learned treatises. But Franklin didn't
care whether they were interesting or
not. What he was concerned with was
matter for reading. He wanted TO learn
the language. He desired TO write it
and speak it more effectively than any
man of his time, and he certainly at
tanned a rank with the finest OF them.
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HAPTE vi.
The Deed in Trust.

Memory, if Alan could call it that,
had given him a feeling for ships and
for the lake. But these recollections
were only what those Of a three-years'
child might have been. Not only did
they refuse TO connect themselves with
anything else, but by the very tinality
OF their isolation, they warned him
that they-and perhaps n few more
vague memories Of similar sort-were
all that recollection ever would give
him. He caught himself together and
turned his thoughts TO the approach
ing visit 10 Sherrill-and his fathers
offices. He had accepted Constance
Sherrilrs invitation to drive him
downtown to his destination.
Observing the towering buildings to
his right, he was able to identify some
Of the more prominent structures, ia
miliar from photographs of the city.
Constance drove swiftly a few blocks
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CHAPTER VII.


The instant OF meeting, when Alan
recognized In Sherrill's partner, the
man with whom he had fought In Cor
vets house, was one Of swift readjust-
ment Of all his thought-adjustment
to a situation Of which he could not
even have dreamed, and which left
him breathless. But for Spearman,
obviously, it was not that. Following
his noncommittal nod Of acknowledge
ment of Sherrill's introduction and his
first steady scrutiny of Alan, the big,
handsome man swung himself off from
the desk on which he sat and leaned
against 1t, facing them more directly.
"Oh. yes-Conrad," he said. His
tone vas hearty in 1t Alan could rec
Ognize only SO much of reserve as
might be expected from Sherrilrs
partner who had taken an attitude Of
opposition. The shipmasters, looking
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CHAPTER V.-Continued.

Alan took up his hat and looked
about the house; he was going to re-
turn and sleep here, Of course; he was
not going 10 leave the house %unguard-
ed for any long time after this, but,
after what had just happened, he felt
ne could leave it safely for half an
hour, particularly if he left a light
burning within.
He did this and stepped over TO the
Sherrills'. The man who answered his
ring recognized him at once and adj
united him in reply to Alan's ques-
'tion, the servant said that Mr.. Sheriff.
had not yet returned. When Alan
went to his room, the valet appeared
and, finding that Alan was packing,
the man offered his service. Alan let
him pack and wen downstairs a mo-
tor had just driven up to the house.
1t proved to have brought Constance
and her mother; Mrs. Sheriff., after
Informing Alan that Mr.. Sheriff. might
not return until some time later, went
upstairs and did not appear again.
Constance followed her mother but,
ten minutes later, came downstairs.
You're not staying here %tonight?"
she asked.
Il wanted TO say 10 your father"
Alan explained, that | believe l had
better go over to the other house"
Are you taking any one with you?"
she inquired.
"Any one?'
"A servant, l mean" "
"No."
Then you'll let us lend you a man
from here"
You're awfully good; but / don't
think I'll need anyone tonight. Mr..
Coryet's-my fathers man-is coming
back tomorrow, l understand. I'll get
along very well until then"
She was silent a moment as she
looked away. Her shoulders suddenly
jerked a little. 81 wish you'd take
some one with you" she persisted. Il
don't like to think of you alone over
there"
MY father must have been often
alone there"
Eyes" she said. Eyes" She looked
at him quickly, then away, checking a
question. She wanted to ask, he knew,
what he had discovered in that lonely
house which had sc agitated him for
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Notable Pictures.

A remarkable collection OF pictures,
which will be more highly priced as
years go by, is the series of American
a~eronautical photographs which ex-
Major Ernest Jones, army air service,
has gathered during his Is years in
this work. They cover the develop
ment of aeronautics, particularly avia-
ton, from 1868 to 1917. The 1900
photographs visualize the successive
steps made by the Wright brothers.
Curtiss, Thomas, Witteman and other
pioneers in this country. Some of
these are the only pictures in ex-
istance Of certain machines and
events. 1T IS probable" says United
States Air Service, that this is the
most complete collection of air photo
graphs in Observation-Disclosures.
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"You can see why l have to
distrust the young fellow who's
come to claim Ben Corvet's
place."

gro BE CONTINUED.)
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Dehydratinu foods

by dehydration has been made posi-
BILE, says Popular Mechanics Magazine.
by the production OF an ovenlike ar
rangement manufactured by a New
York company. In operating, a num-
Der of trays containing the food to
be dehydrated, are placed in the APP
paratus, while underneath these Is a
pan, or humidifier. having a certain
amount Of water in 1t, and which has
been previously heated to the proper
temperature.
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JOY IN SACRIFICE
East Indian Rulers Tribute to
Wonderful Woman.
From the World to Comfort
Victims Of Leprosy.

The rance OF Sarawak, writing from
kuching, Sarawak, to a London paper,
says:
| was asked the other day what I
considered to be one of the greatest
deeds Il woman had ever done. This
is my Far from the town,
along a straight white road fringed
by "a brown mud ditch and rubber
trees, there lives a little pale, unas-
suming woman; her only companion
Is a bent and aged Chinaman, who
keeps house for her and looks after
everything that she needs. The house
itself, standing a few yards from the
road, is nothing but a native hut made
cut Of rushes and palm leaves, and
built on wooden piles.
Passing by, and seeing the woman
sewing in her garden, you might say:
what Il strange choice this is-tO
cut oneself off So entirely from civilza-
ton" But that would be because,
hidden among the trees below her,
you had not seen the leper camp.
1t is true that this little European
lady has cut herself off from what
is called the world, from the friends
that she once knew, and the relations
she once had.
But what has she taken to herself
In place of them?
An encampment Of human souls that
no one else dares go near. A herd OF
beings mere terrible thar death.
She is not even of their race. They
speak TO her in every language from
their decayed and crumbling mouths.
Each day she goes to them-nurses
those that are most sick, encourages
those that have talents, to make use
OF them.
1t is she who occupies the tirle they
spend in waiting to die.
She helps them to tend their gar
dens. One is q basket-maker, another
carves in wood and all the time her
eyes are confronted by the ravages
Of disease. Things indescribable she
sees, and yet her gaze remains pure
and unaffected, even joyful, as If that
great mission within herself upliftS
her from 1t all.
When l went to visit her / expected
to find her morbid, perhaps infinitely
sad.
Instead, she talked eagerly and
frankly Of all that she was doing. Il
am so deeply interested in my
patients" she said, that / am busy
taking impressions Of their thumbs. 1t
is remarkable how the thumbs Of q
lepcr bend backwards, and are abso-
lutely 1attened at the tips"
She went on to describe how charm
ing some Of the lepers are. A few OF
them are boys of only twelve and
thirteen years Of age. One or two Of
them had run away from the camp
and had died a horrible death in the
jungle.
As l was leaving, she said with a
slight smile. You know the most
popular person among us Is the cOf-
fin maker" That was the only touch
of-shall / say?-bitterness in the
very greatest little woman that I
know.
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HENRY

SYNOPSIS.-Wealthy and highly
placed in the Chicago business
world, Benjamin Corvet is m
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
business partner, Lawrence Sher-
rill, and from her a 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. Covet's let
ter summons Conrad, a youth of
unknown parentage, to Chicago.
Alan arrives in Chicago. From a
statement of Sheriff. it seems prob
able Conrad is CorVet's illegitimate
son. Corvet has decided his house
and It's contents to Alan, who takes
possession. That night Alan dis
covers a man ~ransacking the desks
and bureau drawers in CorVet's
apartments. The appearance Of
Alan tremendously agitates h in
truder, who appears TO think him
q ghost and raves of "the Miwa-
ka." After a struggle the man es-
capes.
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of course she had noticed agitation In
him. And he had intended to tell her,
or, rather, her father. He had been
rehearsing to himself the description
Of the man he had met there in order
10 ask Sheriff. about him; but nov
Alan knew that he was not going to
refer the matter even to Sheriff. just
yet.
Sheriff. had believed that Benjamin
Cnrvet's disappearance was from cir
cumstanceS too personal and intimate
to be made a subject Of public inquiry /;
aud what Alan had encountered i'm
Corvet's house had confirmed that be-
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on, could see, no doubt, not yer that (;
except for the excitement which Alan
himself could not conceal, IL must APP
pear to them only an ordinary intro
ductiOD.
Alan fought sharply down the swift
rush Of his blood and the tightening Of
his muscles.
II a say truly that I'm glad to
meet you, Mr.. Spearman," he man.
aged.
There was no recognition Of any,
thing beyond the mere surface mean
ing of the words in Spearman's slow
smile OF acknowledgment, as he turned
from Alan to Sheriff..
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went 10 sleep with the sole conscious
connection in his mind between him
self and these people, among whom
Benjamin Corvet'S IN had
brought him, the one name "Miwaka."