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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-06-14

"Whon Did They Say You WereT
In the mirror, opened In a stare Of
amazement.
'Whom did they say you were?
she said In a grating voice.
"S-Snooks, m lady," said Aimee,
dropping a curtsey.
"Snooks! You are Aimee Scroope! |!
Don't deny It'll" said Diana fiercely.
Don't attempt to deceive me. 1
should know you in a thousand. What
IL the meaning Of fthis-masQueradeY
Aimee surrendered.
"Yes. Di-it's me! For goodness
sake don't shout" For once Aimee
lost her head. Aunt doesn't know
I'm here. you see. Don't give me
away. I'll try and explain"
II don't want your explanation. You
will explain to Aunt" rasped Diana.
II can see by your manner there is
something more in this than mere
folly! I've had my suspicious, from
what Aunt has said"
"Di." exclaimed Aimee imploringly,
there's no use trying to hide 1t now
I'm in trouble-real trouble II you
give me away now you'll get me into
a fearful row with Dad. You don't
want to do that, do you? lit will
simply finish him!'
"Very likely! 1t is high time he
knew the truth about you. know
q little more of your character than
he does, Aimee. His absurd leniency
to you up till now"
She moved swiftly between Aimee
and the door. and pressed the bell.
Let me out !" said Aimee, rather
white and her eyes cleaning. "Get
away from that doorp' She strobe
toward Diana.
81 shall not !"
There was knock at the door.
Diana opened it, and the housekeeper
appeared.
"Was that your ladyship's bell7'
"Yes" said Diana. ASK Lady Ery-
thea to come here Immediately. Do
you hear? hnmediatelgr
ITO be Continued)
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IL :. : ffvels
NATURAL Ais0 OTHERWISE
cHICACO'S MAIL TERMINAL
BUILDING
BY T. T. Maxey


To speed up the handling, distribu-
tion. and dispatch of all paper, catalog,
and parcel-post mail originating in
Chicago or passing through Chicago
destined to Illinois. Indiana, Iowa,
Kentucky, Michigan. Minnesota. Mis-
souri,, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee,
and Wisconsin, there has been recent
ly placed In service in Chicago a mon
ster mail terminal building which is
without parallel-anywhere.
This building is of brick and steel,
approximately 300 feet long, rs feet
wide, and six stories and basement
tall. On one side are tracks which have
a capacity for 81 railway mail cars
one track running the full length Of
the building inside. On the other side
Is 30-foot driveway bordering on
which is unloading space sulIicient to
accommodate 90 mail wagons At one
time.
The entire first floor il given over to
the receipt. dispatch, and storage Of
mail; another floor Ii devoted to
the distribution Of parcel-post mail;
another floor IL used for the
handling Of paper mail, and 90 on.
One floor is necessarily an operating or
service ioor-for the proper maints-
nance Of the plant, and contains the
ONCE Of the superintendent and his
force. machine shop, carpenter shop,
stock room, cafeteria, first-aid, study,
and rest rooms.
About $40 persons are employed In
the work of handling mail matter,
while about 80 additional employees
and 25 clerks and officials are required
to look after and operate the building
and its machinery.
-Four stairways, three passenger and
fourteen freight elevators facilitate
movement between floors. The mall
handling equipment includes about
1,SOO trucks of various kinds and
sizes, several hundred sorting tables,
sack racks without end, and a small
fleet Of electric tractors. Most Of the
work of distribution Is done by means
Of some eight miles of mechanical belt
conveyors which function with an
amazing rapidity and an uncanny sure
ness. These conveyOrs, some Of which
are A inches wide and $50 feet long,
carry mail between divisions. between
floors. and dump 1t on distributing
tables from which they also carry 1t
to chutes which drop 1t to dlspatching
platforms.
This terminal ultimately will handle
an average Of $4,000 sacks Of parcel
post and $1,000 sacks Of paper mail
every "a hours-or 1888 sacks Der
hour. According to an ofhcial Of the
railway mail service, through this one
building will pass moro mail than
originates in the entire Dominion Of
Canada.
60. 1893. Western Newspaper UnisH)
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-06-14
Good for Local Talent.

John Z. Hazard. actor, tells this
story: when the Lion and the Mouse
was playing in New York a man from
the far-distant suburbs came into the
city and saw the play. After the first
act he walked out to the box office and
said: I have enjoyed your show, but
I'd like to know SO could tell the
folks. where all these actors come
from So he began with the program
and asked where they all lived. The
young man at the box office replied
they all lived In New York. Geo. re-
sponded the countryman, it's corking
good show for local talent. We tried
local talent, but they never were able
to give as good show as you are
doing here New York Herald.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-06-14
"Then what" asked Ann, soberly.

linen Wnat, asked Ann, SODerly.
Il wish you would stay on with us"
Lester said. "rhe future with the
Hudson people may be better, but the
salary Is all that concerns you. for
you'll marry, anyway. So If we meet
their offer in salary and advance you
in salary as they would, our PROPOSE
tion is really as good as theirs.
Il need you, Ann" said Lester after
4 pause.
Ann looked up with radiant smile
Let's do little psycho-analyzing,"
she suggested. "Since neither of us
know anything about 1t 1t is perfectly
safel According to these learned folk
you have taken your demons out where
you can watch them romp and you
know exactly what they are and what
they are doing. You are master. Your
relatives possessing similar collec-
tons. put theirs down cellar and lock
the doors-and the uproar destroys
the peace of the entire household. I'm
not afraid Of you." Ann ended firmly.
Then you'll stay?" cried Lester.
Ann shook her head
mo. I'm going with the Hudson
people. I'm going to prove to your
self that 1t Is yourself. not that is
nghting and winning this battle. ri
stand on the side lines and cheer"
'Where does that leave us7" Lester
inquired perplexedly.
ut doesn't leave us@it starts us, +"
said Ann. 1--WE are engaged. We are
going to be happy engaged, and as
happy married"
IL believe you are right" said
Lester, returning her radiant smile.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-06-14
CAUSED LAUGHTER IN CHURCH
Small DonaId's Remark Too Much for
Sense Of Humor Of Those Who
Heard II

This Is printed for the benefit of a
certain Los Angeles minister who is
probably still wondering how 1t hap
pened that a certain portion of his
erstwhile decorous congregation
laughed out loud In the middle Of the
offertory the other Sunday. This is
what happened:
It was Donald's first experience in
grown-up church though the little
chap had attended Sunday school.
When the collection was being
taken, his father placed the weekly
family Offering In the plate. The pew
was q short one, and no other contri-
button was received from 1t.
Evidently this aroused Donald's
curiosity, for he blurted out. with all
the eagerness of childhood trying to
understand:
"Pa, did you have to pay for the
whole row."
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-06-14
Deer on. Of the Family.

At MatamagOn on the east branch
Of the Penobscot, where supply depot
is maintained, there is tame deer
which enters the house occasionally
and eats food from the table. The
deer prefers to sleep In the open at
the edge Of the woods, but during the
day plays around the dooryard Of the
farm, following dog, Of whom It ap-
pears to be fond. wherever the animal
goes. Several times when the deer
has been in the house and has wanted
to go out it has leaped through win
dow, taking out sash and glass with 1t.
Portland (Me.) Press.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-06-14
CHAPTER XVIII
"CoId Lambeth


Lady Diana might have been the
riginal of that tedious young woman
VINO was described by the poet as
"hivinely tall and most dlvinely fair"
she was without doubt strikingly
beautiful type of the large and very
pale blonde. But an atmosphere of
rrigidity surrounded her, which many
people found repellent.
My dear aunt" she said calmly,
entering the drawing room and kiss
ing Lady Erythea, $50 good of you
10 nave me for this flying visit. Alex
ahder, how nre your" She touched
uer brothers cheek with her lips.
You will have clear field for your
Investigations, my dear" said Lady
hrythea, land I hope the advances
you have made in psychic science
whi-ah-bring you to terms with the
shost. But / doubt 1t. BY the way.
your cousin Aimee is here, as told
you. But she is unwell and Is keep
ing her room. am rather anxious
noout her. Incidentally. we shall have
%nother guest; I expect Monsieur de
'ussac today
alexander left the room.
monsieur de Jussaci" exclaimed
i'iaha. She paused. Lady Erytbea
ma'ched her somewhat keenly. "What
"rlngs him here?" said Diana.
He is very anxious" said Lady Ery-
snea giibly, ito examine the Lambe
eonection of armor. We have a suit
VI mall which is believed to have been
.aptured at Crecy; there is tradition
uiat It belonged to one of the De JUS
sac family"
LAdH Dinna lnoked incredulous.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-06-14
According to Nationality.

Accent apart, there is said to be a
tea-table test by which the national
ity of hostess may be determined.
In serving tea the EnglishwOman Sc
lects one or more Jumps of sugar, ac-
cording to the capacity of the cup.
The Irish hostess hands round the
sugar basin so that guests may help
themselves.
In Scotland. however, the guild
wife fixes her eye on the guest and
inquiries sternly: "Are We sure we've
stirred it?"-Chicago Daily News.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-06-14
FOUND POSITION OF NEPTUNE
Young English Mathematician Solved
What Was Long a Mystery Of
the Sky.

According to an English writer.
many years ago astronomers were puz-
zled by the weird wanderings of the
two gigantic planets. Jupiter and Ura-
nus. Sometimes they arrived at points
in the heavens long before they were,
due; at other times they were unac-
countably late. Their paths, too, were
strangely crooked.
No one could furnish an explana-
ton. A young English mathematician
named Adams set himself to tackle the
problem. If these worlds wandered
out of their courses. he argued, some
thing must be pulling them astray.
After nearly two years of work upon
figures he was convinced Of the exist
ence of some still unknown planet,
whose mighty bulk was responsible for
the apparent confusion. He calculated
not only it's size and the path that 1t
must follow In the skies, but also the
exact places 1t would occupy on certain
future days.
As he had no telescope of his own
he sent his calculations to the Astron-
omer Royal asking him to search the
part Of the sky he had indicated. At
first the authorities were skeptical, and
would not make the search, but eventu-
ally they decided that there might be
something In 1t.
The huge telescope was swung to
the proper quarter Of the heavens, and
there, precisely in the spot indicated,
was a dim point Of light. Subsequent
observation showed that 1t was NOV
ing. In this way Neptune. most dis
tant Of all the planets that swing
around the sun. was discovered.
Its size, II times that of the earth
was found to correspond almost exact
ly with Adams predictions, and he
had calculated Its year, which Is al
most 1856 times as long as our own.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-06-14
Spends Little for Food.

"Seventy-five cents day is what
spend for food" s:dd young man,
land am never hungry"
Gee" said his. friend, whose re
sources are just as limited, remarks
New York Sun writer. II spend a
dollar and I always feel as though
had gone without food for week.
How do you do it7"
MY scheme is this. My first course
for each meal. including breakfast. is
5-cent bar of the sweetest candy
can find. When have finished that
my appetite Is gone and can buy all
want for 20 cents"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-06-14

MY own incumbrance has been
away for two days." said her aunt,
but we have parlor maid who really
attends to ones hair very soothingly {:
she did mine last night" Lady Ery-
thea pressed the bell.
The butler appeared, "Tarbeaux.
You will tell Snooks to attend Lady
Diana in her ROOM
Very good M lady"
Mr.. Tarbeaux found Aimee on her
way upstairs to bed, and gave her
the order Aimee was astonished.
and secretly panic-stricken.
This has absolutely finished II ~
she reflected. "I might as well bolt
at once" Suddenly she came TO a
resolution. 'But-rd better 20. /
snail run against her sooner or later.
And anyhow she'll be alone. DIS
such fool she may not know me-"
Aimee reached the bedchamber,
where Lady Diana had just arrived.
she scarcely glanced at the parlor
maid. and donning a light wrap, seat
ed herself before the mirror.
Take down my hair" she said
curtly, land If your fingers are cold,
warm them first at the fire. 1 abhor
oeing touched by cold fingers"
Aimee's fingers itched to warm
themselves by totally different
method. But she held them to the
nre, and then set about her task. She
had hardly commenced when Diana's
pale blue eyes, catching sight Of her
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-06-14

what were your fathers las:
words?"
"Fatner had no last words. Mothc'
was with him to the end."-Wag jag
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-04-06
christian Herald, March II, 1929
LESS DRINKING

According to Prof. Henry w. Far
nam, OF Yale University, there is much
less drinking among the Yale students
than formerly. And he reaches the
conclusion also, from Investigations
on wide scale, that the drinking
habit is decreasing rapidly all over the
country.
His reasons for his conclusions are
CD General decrease in arrests for
drunkenness; CD falling off in deaths
from alcoholism; CD closing up of
nearly all drink cure" establish
ments.
According TO the enemies of National
Prohibition there is a general debauch
going on, especially i'll College circles,
and the statement is often made that
personal drinking is on the increase.
Frof Farnam evidently is making
comparison between the present time
and the palmy days of the open sa-
loon. The present condition of law
lessncss and Bookkeeping, bad as it is,
cannot compare with the old days
when the liquor trade was i'll bust
ness.
AT a recent Bankers Convention in
Chicago it was the unanimous YER
dict of the bankers that Prohibition
was largely the cause for the great in
crease in savings bank deposits by
laboring men. The great sum of
nearly $7,000,OO0,0O0 is in savings
bank reposits in the banks of United
States. 1t is not exaggerating to say
that many millions of this would have
been spent in saloons before Prohibit
ton.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-04-06
(Forum, March, 1929
EDITORIAL

Good service in the interests of
Americanizing "society boot-leggers"
and impressing respect for law upon
conspicuous members of the Amer
lean bar is rendered by this editorial.
Here we nave the spectacle OF four
men socially prominent i'll New York
going laughingly to Jail for having
committed a crime against the Consti-
tuition of the United States. When we
consider that the four La Montague
brothers who were sentenced to a
Federal Pententary for Bookkeeping
are the friends and associates OF the
same society people who talk about
radicalsm and the dangers of the
lawless emigrants from Europe, we
wonder what has become of what in
our youth we knew as the American
Tradition.
"In early Colonial times, the best
American families were willing to die
for liberty-the right of free speech
the right to worship God as they
saw fit. The descendants of the
same families seem to be perfectly
ready to go to Jail in order TO pre-
serve the right to get drunk, and even
the sacred Constitution has no terrors
for them when il interferes with
hootch
More astounding than the attitude
of the society people were the pleas
of the distinguished attorneys who
went into Court and stood up before
the Judge who was about to sentence
the society boot-lcggers and uttered,
what we hope we will be pardoncd
for calling, the prize banalities of this
curious age"
Mr.. Joseph S. Auerbach pleaded for
light sentence for these boot-leggers
i'll speech which the Forum thinks
did him little credit and, should he
live long enough, will come back to
plague him. For when distinguished
leader Of the bar asks for leniency for
cuprits, It should never be on the
ground that the law of the land is
one for which certain number OF
people have no respect.
more shameful, however and one
more insulting to the intelligence, was
the oratorical effort of Mr.. John e..
Milburn, president of the State Bar
Association-a man who Is supposed
to represent in his person the dignity
of the bar, and yet who had the
effrontery to plead that the promi-
nence of the defendants as tennis
players ana polo players should be
considered in the pronouncemeut Of
sentence.
rs it any wonder that the influence
of the original stock OF America is
lessening year by year, in the East,
and especially in New York, when cx-
hbitions such as these are made in
public by those who are supposed to
know how subtle are the influence
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-04-06
PORTUGAL PUTS PRESSURE
ON NORWAY PROHIBITION
Both Divisions of Parliament
Vote to Abolish Prohibition
on Heavy Wines.
KING o. KS. M EASU RE
Norway's Prohibition Laws
Abolished All Liquors Con-
tanning ID Pct. Alcohol.

According to a Christiania dispatch
of March 20 both divisions of the Nor
wegian Parliament have voted by a
small margin to abolish Prohibition
OIL. heavy wines and the bill has been
sanctioned by the King.
At its last meeting the Parliament
unanimously authorized the govern
ment to conclude a commercial treaty
with Portugal on the basis of free inn
port of wine into Norway. Prohib-
ton OF brandy in Norway is 'un-
changed.
Under Norway's partial Prohibition
law, liquors containing more than four
teen per cent OF alcohol have been
prohibited. Economic pressure has
been brought to bear upon Norway
by wine producing countries TO COM
pei surrender of this law. 1t was by
this means that Spain compelled Ice
land to abandon Prohibition This is
evidently part of the worldwide pro-
gram OF the international liquor inter
csts who recently organized in Brus-
sells and established headquarters i'll
Paris.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-04-06
(The Saturday Evening Post, March
10, 1929
THE CROOKED KEY
By VIII Payne

Public thanks are due to the story
writers and publishers who devote
their talents and their capital at the
present time to realistic portrayals OF
the character and consequences of
bootlegging and disparagement of the
Eighteenth Amendment.
The story OF "The Crooked Key"
traces the logical sequence of events
that encompassed wealthy man who
let his prcjudices against "a fool law
which nobody with the price pays any
attention to, carry him into backing
friend who wanted to get rich quick
on smuggling whisky. He had a
daughter who did not approve of the
bootleg business, particularly because
the consequences, and the penalties
when someone was caught, fell chief
ly upon the poor So when one of
her proteges was shot i'll liquor
melee, she tipped off friend Lieutenant
in the L. S Customs Service.
Among the things that happened as
consequence was one that taught her
father the lesson he needed:
Some one sent me present or a
sample" she said, coming on toward
him. the bottle i'll her right hand while
her left hand was busy at the cork
She got the cork out and held the
bottle nearly at arms length, admir-
ing it, saying, What a pretty bother
But the contents of the bottle effer-
vesced strongly, running down on her
fingers. The next instant she dropped
it, clasping the finger tips of her
right hand, looking at her father in
astonishment. 1T burned" she said,
at loss.
The bottle striking rug had not
broken, but its contents were running
out A pale, wavering, evil simmer
of blue fame appeared over the
spreading liquid. Newton stopped,
staring at it. A smell of burning wool
arose from the rug. There's vitriol
in that he said How did it get
here"
When the burned fingers were
bound up and the burned rug put out
on the terrace they got the paste
board box out of the wastebasket, ex
aiming the typewriter address. She
told him a boy had brought it from
the hotel.
If his laughter, uncorking the per-
fume bottle, had at once put it to her
nose, as person usually does, the
foaming contents would have gone ia
to her face He knew of but one man
who had motive for vengeance
upon her and was malignant enough
to do that, He started down at the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-04-06
BARNEY GROGAN, CHICAGO
POLITICIAN, IN DRY MIxUP
After Pilsener Incident, Grogan
Said to Be General Manager
Hoerber Plant.
HoERBER BEER SEIZED
When Prohibition Agents Raided
Brewery, Director" Grogan
Was on Job.

A squad of Prohibition agents
nabbed a truckload of beer at the gates
OF the Hoerber Brewery, Chicago, on
March "a and thus once more Barney
Grogan, prominent politician, is in a
mix-up with the dry law enforcement
officers.
The Hoerber Brewery is said to be
Grogan's new stronghold. About a
month ago Prohibition officers broke
up heavy traffic in beer out of the
Pilsner Brewery where Grogan had
been installed as general manager. 1t
is charged now that Grogan merely
changed his base by investing in the
Hoerber Brewing Company.
According to story in the Chicago
News, Grogan offered five thousand
dollar bride for return OF the truck
which the officers seized. This bride
offer and other evidence the raiders
uncovered is expected to bring about
a grand jury investigation OF the or
ganized protected beer running of
which Grogan is said to be director.
Dry officers say that policeman off
duty acted as lookout" for Grogan.
The policeman was derelict in duty,
however, and had gone to sleep at his
post and the raiders were on the run
ming board of the beer truck before
he awoke.
They forced open the brewery gates
where they found Grogan and John L.
Hoerber The Daily News said that
Grogan was frantic with anger He
boosted of his political influence and
threatened the raiders with dismissal.
When these threatenings failed he
pulled a huge roll of bills from his
pocket and offered $1,000 in spot cash
for return OF the truck.