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into swift action. A cop had recog-
nized him and was blowing his whis-
tie for help. Bull rushed into the
street jumped into a taxi hurrying
past and directed, Penn station,
thrusting bill into the hand of the
chauffeur. who promptly broke the
speed laws. But Bull. peering over
his shoulder, knew that he was being
followed. and at the Seventh avenue
entrance to the station he sprang
from the car and dashed into the
nearest waiting room.
On seat in the rear of the room
lay an old gentleman wearing the
genteel clothes OF a former day.
Slipping quietly down in the seat be-
side him. Bull removed the long coat
and put it on himself. then picked up
the hat and cane and strolled down
the room.
In the doorway two policemen ap'
peared, looking searchingly over the
crowd. Bull dropped down by the
side of a young and forlorn looking
girl and began to talk to her. AS he
talked he noticed a tag pinned on
her coat. and, reading it. realized
Palisadian., 1923-04-06

Of deep sorrow to him. and now he
planned little ways in which to atone
for the apparent long neglect
The next morning he awoke with
the sense of great events pending,
for Rose was coming today. He was
to meet her at the Pennsylvania sta
ton at 3 o'clock. He swept and
busted and waited on his customers
and at o'clock set forth to meet his
niece. Passing the florist shop up
the street he could not resist the
temptation to go in and purchase a
bunch of vivid and fragrant roses for
the newcomer.
"She will love their perfume and
the touch of their cool, smooth pet
als," he was thinking as he started
across the street unheedful of the
traffic.
Half a block behind him came Bull
Morgan. headed in the same direc-
ton, but bent on a mission OF a vast.
| ly different nature. In a chamois
bag suspended round his neck was a
part of Jimmie's loot of yesterday,
which he was, taking to place
where he knew they could be ex-
Palisadian., 1923-04-06
To be continued

is now the captain of the cadet corps,
the highest position any student can
attain. Captain Edgar has been
thinking of trying for Annapolis, but
has not yet decided where he will
pitch his efforts for final degrees at
an alma mater.
There was special service in the
Sunday School on Easter Sunday
The classes remained in general as
sembly under the direction of Mr..
Harry Clark, Jr., the assistant super
intendent, and enjoyed a program of
songs, recitations, etc, which was ar
ranged by Mrs. Sibley.
Mrs. Nils Paulson is confined to her
home with an attack of grippe. Mr.
Paulson is in Boston on a business
trip.
Miss Marine Sibley took the
Memphis Special on Sunday night
os did scores of other young ladies, to
attend the festivities now in progress
at the University of Virginia. She
is expected home on Monday.
Palisadian., 1923-04-06

changed for crisp yellow backed bills
and sparkling silver and no ques-
tions asked All told. it would not
be a great amount when divided
among four people. but it would sup
play many luxuries now lacking.
A shrill whistle, shrek and the
quick gathering of a mob on the
street galvanized him into sudden
action. He surged forward with the
crowd and pushed through just in
time to see old Adam Duncan breath
ing his last, while the driver of the
truck, that had struck him was ar
rested ON technical charge of homi-
eide.
Bull shrugged and turned away.
What time had he for dying old
man murmuring maudlin sentiments
about a rose or the roses or what
ever 1t was he was whispering?
AS he stepped back on to the curb
| he noticed rose petals and blood
clotted together round the sole of his
shoe.
81 have the blood of a rose on my
sole," he said to himself and repeat
ed whimsically, "On my SOUL" and
laughed because he had thought of a
rose as having blood and Of himself
as having a soul.
Suddenly he was again startled
Palisadian., 1923-04-06

that here was the niece OF old Adam
Duncan, whose death he had just
witnessed.
Accustomed to acting quickly. he
said to the girl with affected tender
ness:
You do not recognize me, Of
course, but do you. You are Rose
Duncan. and | am your uncle, Adam
Duncan" And as the girl smiled
and held her face up to be kissed he
said:
Come. Rose. We are late. Let
us hurry"
In a trice they had passed under
the very noses Of the bluecoats and
were whirling down town in a taxi
cab. Bull was laughing silently. He
had outwitted the cops and won the
day.
Stopping the cab at the bookshop
he led Rose to a bench and told her
to wait for him, that he would be
back shortly and departed to his den
and fellow criminals without another
thought for the lonely blind girl.
Shouts of merriment greeted him
as he appeared at the den in his
strange attire and with a grand air
The story Of his days adventure was
a thrilling one to the group who sal
around the table that night and for
Palisadian., 1923-04-06

The Work Committee of the Wom
ans League of the Union Church real
lied $103 from the recent Dollar Sale
held in the church basement.
Mrs. T. A. Fredericks' brother, Rev.
P. de Vaux, died after a short illness
Saturday night.
Miss Rebecca Blakeley of Oneonta,
N. Y, is visiting her niece, Mrs. Will
liam Cooper of West Palisade.
Mrs. l.. K Saeger of Abbott boule-
ward has just recently recovered from
an attack of grippe.
To Dr. and Mrs. Charles Littwin on
March ga son.
Mrs. Anton Grulich is entertaining
the members of the Bridge Club this
afternoon at her home on Edgewood
| lane and Dorincourt road.
Prof and Mrs. C. P. Berkey of Cum
bermede road had as their guest over
the Easter weekend Mr.. Warren E..
Berkey of Temple University, Phila-
delphia.
1t is reported that Mr.. and Mrs. E.
Yancy Cohen, formerly of Palisade,
expect to leave their present home in
Fairhope, Ala, sometime in May and
come north to spend the summer in
Merriwold, N. Y.
"A party of Palisadians are planning
to attend the symphony orchestra
concert in the Town Hall of West
New York on next Sunday afternoon
at 2:30 p m. The concert will be
under the direction of Howard Barlow,
conductor of the Beethoven Choral
Society of New York.
"A basketball team was recently or
ganized by the Palisade grammar
School, Last week they defeated the
Cliffside Park team and this afternoon
they meet the Cliffside Park team
again in the gymnasium of the c. P
H. S.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burns have
returned after spending the Easter
vacation with relatives in Utica, N. Y
Miss Calm Hoke is attending the
being held in New Haven, Conn.
I-Mayhew Lake, of Palisade, com
poser and musical director, spoke be
fore the members of the Discussion
Club at the meeting in the home OF
Mrs. Adele Oman on Monday evening
Mr.. Lake spoke on Instrumentation,
explaining the mechanism and func
tions of the various musical instru
ments, emphasizing the string instru
ments, the wood-wind instruments
and the brass. The speaker supple
mented his talk by several selections
for string trio, in which he was as
sisted by his son, Lester Lake, and by
Nicholas st. George, violinist, of Jer
sey City.
Edgar Ebell, fresh from his mill
tary school up the Hudson, is at home
for the Easter holidays, looking as
handsome as a prince and very big
one at that. Edgar now tips the beam
at 202 pounds avoirdupois, but looks
like he might be bit over that. HI
Palisadian., 1923-04-06
NO REAL CAUSE FOR ALARM
Chinese Fortune Teller Was Merely
Wishing That Good Luck Might
Follow His Customer.

To have your fortune told in Chir@
is likely to be rather an ordeal. In
Beyond Shanghai Mr.. Harold Speak.
man describes a curious experience
that he once had with fortune teller
at Wuchang. What the fellow told
him was something astonishing-con-
sidering the length of time he took to
tell it,
Asking All Chow, my interpreter, to
listen attentively, says Mr.. Speakman,
l sat down at the book-littered table Of
a large prophet with a benign express
sion and horn-rlmmed spectacles. All
that he had to work with was a pair
of dirty hands with long, razorlike
nails that he instantly began to play
about my face with all the abandon Of
an excited orchestra leader. Hoping
that the prophecy he was to make
might not include the immediate loss
of my eyesight, l sat still and waited.
After he had felt my head, thumped
my chest and looked at my palms he
seized my left hand and began to
shout his voice doomed out like a bell.
In a minute 1 was the center of a
large and eager crowd. In three
minutes the crowd that listened breath
less to every word blocked all ways Of
escape.
The fortune teller gave his predic-
ton in short, precise sentences each Of
which began vociferously with the
preface, "Yehalla !" What with the
humidity of the crowd and the steady
bombardment of yehallas close to my
ear decided after five minutes that it
was time 20 depart. With a smile and
bow that 1 meant should convey
thanks and finality l tried to withdraw
my hand from the grasp of the prophet ;
but he only held on the tighter and
fairly peppered me with yehallas.
Should he cheat foreigner? No-no
Four hundred cash had been paid, and
the yehallas were only hNlf finished.
At last after | had begun TO have
morbid thoughts of knocking him on
the head and of escaping in the con-
fusion he let go his talonlike grip. We
rose MOSTLY and made our way out
through the sweating crowd, which
opened in respectful silence in front
of us. For nine minutes by the watch
he had foretold just what the future
would hold for me, and. though
thought him faker, l was curious to
know just what he had been saying
during all that time What" | asked
All Chow, did the fortune teller say?
"Oh," replied All Chow, ''he say
Good luck - - = rs Co,HHanion.
Palisadian., 1923-04-06

got to eat while listening to his mar.
row escape.
please. am seeking my Uncle
Adam. Is he here?" asked low
sweet voice from the doorway.
Four heads turned in astonishment
and displeasure at this intrusion into
their privacy and viewed with grow.
ing bewilderment the apparition
framed in the doorway.
A crown of sunny hair. a pair OF
orget-me-not eyes, over which arch
ed brows like swallows wings, star
tied, ready to fly; rose-leaf skin
and a tremulous. sensitive mouth.
The violin tucked under her arm
completed the picture.
While they held their breath and
wondered what would happen next
Bull Morgan came to a sudden deci-
sion and stepped forward.
End of Part
Palisadian., 1923-04-06

The Universal Recompense
The best pay we can receive is the
JOY we get out of doing our duty.
Palisadian., 1923-04-06
Lsxlsr iaot.

The man who can read woman
like a book should no; skip the intro
duction. n.-BoSton Evening Transcript.
Palisadian., 1923-04-06
Village Gossip

S~S<S~S~SSl
Miss Helen Paulson has returned
to school in Chambersburg.
Mrs. Magee of Edgewood lane who
has been suffering with typhoid fever
is reported to be much better.
Raymond Bacchitti of Dearborn
road entertained the $3.50 Club bas.
ketball team at a dinner party in his
home last Saturday evening. Those
present were Boody Sibley, Joseph
Cornell, Thomas Fredericks and Will
liam Jabilsnick.
Mr.. T. A. Fredericks is home from
Alabama where he has been for the
past three weeks on a business trip
-Boody Sibley returned to his school
in Andover, Mass, last Tuesday morn
ing.
The Executive Board of the Young
Peoples Society met at the home OF
Mrs. ]. A. Marcus on Abbott boule
ward last Monday evening. After the
business session Charles Lane acted
as host to the members of the board
and a number of the other members
of the society who came after the
regular meeting to enjoy an evening
of dancing. The guests included the
Misses Eleanor Pennell, Helen and
Gertrude Boswick, Christine Freder
D,,fh Mi11nr.
Laure Marcus, Mrs. ]. A. Marcus, Mrs
L. B. Tracey and Messrs. James Bin
ner, "Tommie" Fredericks, JOSEPH
Cornell, Alfred Pennell, Hans Walters
Bernard Fink and Lloyd Reisenberger
The annual meeting of the Woman!
Club of Palisade is being held thi
AFTERNOON at the home of Mrs. j. A
Marcus, 1103 Abbott boulevard. Th'
new officers of the club will be elected
at this meeting.
The Helping Hand Society of th'
Fort Lee Orphans Home have launch
ed a drive to raise $4,000 which will
be used to liquidate a debt incurred
when the dormitory was erected
| Those wishing to make voluntary sun
scriptions are asked to send same t
Mrs. Boswick, Mrs. Ruehman or to thu
Orphans Home.
The ladies' who were to conduct th'
rummage sale in Jersey City for thu
benefit of the Fort Lee Orphans
Home report that they are unable tt
secure the place in which the salt
was to be held so the plan has beei
dropped entirely and those person
who saved clothing or other materia
to contribute may feel at liberty tt
dispose of the same.
Mr.. Adolph Fink has resigned as dl
rector and treasurer Of the Palisad'
Theatre Corporation.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. Goodman hav'
returned to their home on Bluff roa'
and Edgewood lane after a pleasan
= vacation in Hot Springs, Va.
Palisadian., 1923-04-06
PART u.

WHEN Bull Morgan stepped to-
w ward the blind girl in the door.
way the other mem bers of the party
were startled and watched him in
suspense. What was he going TO do?
Threaten her? Throw her out bod.
lily?
What Bull really did was the last
thing to he expected. He took the
girls hand and drew her into the
room.
You have come to the right place.
child. am your Uncle Adam, and
these other people are friends OF
mine who live here with me. Come
to the table and eat and tell us how
you found the place"
Molly. scowling darkly. set place
for the girl. and Jimmie got a chair
and helped her to be seated, while
Slippery looked on. ears wriggling
and eyes more prominent than ever.
Here was a pretty turn to the days
adventures!
While Rose ate lightly of the food
placed before her she told them how
the children had gathered round her
to see her violin and had told her
| they could take her to her uncle. as
| they had seen where he went when
he left her.
IL feel that am never going to be
lonely again now that ! am going to
live with you. Uncle Adam. And it
| is lovely to have all these nice
friends around. hope you will all
/ like me-"
Can you play this?" asked Jim.
mie. touching the violin gingerly.
"Of course. And Uncle is going to
give me lessons so that | may be-
come a wonderful violinist and with
my music make people laugh and cry
and want to be good. When do
begin my lessons. Uncle?"
"Well-er-soon. But not Just yet.
You must get acquainted with us
first. Now you must go to bed.
Molly, fix place for her."
But Molly started toward him
fercely. her eyes dagger points OF
light.
You are mad-mad!" she cried
"Do you think l will stand for that
miserable little white faced
With a quick movement Bulls
hand closed over Molly's mouth and
choked back the words that would
: have been a revelation to the blind
girl.
DO as you are told!" he hissed
, into her ear. Get the girl into bed
. and come to me later for an explana.
ton"
Palisadian., 1923-04-06
n haroiness.

We can't choose happiness either
ror ourselves or for another; we can't
tell where it will lie. We can only
choose whether we will indulge our
serves In the present moment or
whether we will renounce that for the
sake OF nbeying the divine voice With
IN ns-for the sake of being true to
all the motives that sanctify our lives.
George Eliot.
Palisadian., 1923-04-06
BY capitola Williams Ashworth
SYNOPSIS

GULL Moe"'.i. leader OF gang
OF New York crooks. whose mem
bcrs include
~hARD-solLED"M MOLLY MALONE.
Bulls sweetheart, eood-lookin9 but
rather hard type OF brunette;
~sLIPPERY EDDIE" FOSTER. an
elusive Individual whom the po'
lice consider particularly we'll
named:
e4UMPTY LOGAN. or The Rat, as
he was known. cringing, furtive
hunchback;
JIMMIE HARRISON, young. clean
cut, buoyant. product OF environ
ment, tutored by Bull Morgan
Members of the gang. are with
standing severe tongue-sIashine
from Bull because OF an unsuecess
tuI day when Harrison enters the
dive with bag full of stolen jew
els. There is much excitement in
the dive as the loot is examined
and Bull gives Molly necklace.
Palisadian., 1923-04-06
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH
THE WoMEN?" WHO KNOWS

You will find an amazing answer to
this question at the Palisade Theatre
in Cliffside next Tuesday and Wednes-
day nights. 1t has puzzled people for
ages, but now the question is solved.
Coming soon, "The Fast Mail" fea
turing Charlie Jones.
Palisadian., 1923-04-06

w height over this sudden acqui-
sition of visible wealth in the den
of the gangsters there reigned next
door in the little basement book
store excitement of an entirely dif-
ferent kind.
Old Adam Duncan. poor but hon.
est and therefore despised by his
neighbors, darted hither and thither
about his store with an old feather
duster. sending sprays Of dust into
the air and knocking over books and
bric-a-brac. His fine eyes were glow
ing, and he was talking softly to
himself and now and then address
ing his old second hand books as if
they were people,
Tomorrow it'll be a nice. soft,
white hand that'll be busting you,
Am thinking, old friends. Um-let's
see. She's seventeen and pretty,
like her mother, with sunny hair and
forget-me-not eyes. Poor. poor little
sightless eyes! Well, your old un-
cle's eyes are still good enough for
both of us. Ten years since | saw
the child. How l hope she'll remem-
ber mel"
Thus he pottered about the shop
until a late hour. absorbed in pleas
ant memories of the past and happy
visions of the future. After many
years of struggling with poverty, un,
able to make more than a bare liv'
ing, he at last felt that he could sup
port both himself and his blind9niece
the only being in the world whom he
loved. To leave her back there In
Ohio in the asylum for the blind
these many years had been a source
Palisadian., 1923-04-06
GarruIous as LIVER.

1t may he. as thar English writer
says, that women don't talk love as
much as they used 10. hut we all know
that If he reversed the Two words he'd
be away off
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-01-26
CHILD LABOR
CONTROL
Urged at Senate Committee
Hearing

Washington. President Gompers.
Miss Grace Abbott, of the federal
children's bureau, and other speakers
urged subcommittee of the senate
judiciary committee to favor the child
labor amendment to the federal con-
stitution proposed by Senator McCor-
mick shortly after the United States
supreme court set aside the law that
would tax profits of child labor. The
authors of that legislation intended to
make child labor expensive and based
their act on supreme court decisions
like the oleomargarine and state bank
rulings, which held that it was legal
to tax oleomargarine and state banks
out of existence. When this was at
tempted, in the case of child labor,
the court held the act was illegal.
The Mccormick amendment empow-
ers congress to limit or prohibit the
labor of persons under 18 years of
age. Amendments on this subject are
also proposed by Senators Johnson,
of California, Lodge, of Massachu-
sets, and Walsh, of Montana Or
ganized labor and other opponents Of
child labor are supporting the Nc
Cormick amendment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-01-26
TO OUTLAW OILED
MILK

Washington-A bill now pending
in the senate would prohibit the man
ufacture and sale of evaporated or
condensed skim milk to which cheap
vegetable oil has been added to take
the place of butter fat which has been
extracted.
1t is shown that manufacturers of
this oiled milk make two enormous
profits. Their first profit is when they
extract the butter from the whole
milk and sell it and the second is when
they doctor this skim milk with cheap
oil and place it on the market under
pleasant-sounding trade names. The
stuff has absolutely no value, and is
downright harmful because it is given
to babies as a food. Manufacturers
Of condensed milk declare it is running
that industry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-01-26
FINE ALIBI
For Steel Trust Prepared
By "Angel" Advertis-
ing Agent

New York.-Like snarling griz-
Fly with sore toe the steel trust
has been squirming ever since the in
terchurch world movement published
it's probe of the steel strike. The
trust is hard boiled, but it is not too
tough to ignore criticism.
Marshall Olds, an advertising agent,
comes to the rescue of the trust. He
has written a 500-page book to show
that the church mems report is wholly
unreliable. Mr. Olds claims the
steel trust was wronged by radicals
who led the well-meaning church men
astray. Even liberals" were in the
plot, according to Mr.. Olds.
The tale real like a story from
fairy land First, the wicked strik-
ers; then the justice-loving clergy
men who were deceived by radicals
and ''liberals" and then Mr.. Olds,
squirting across the plains, like the
knight of old, to rescue the distressed
steel trust.
Mr.. Olds has devoted two years to
prove the trusts innocence. He has
received no money from the trust
not one single kopek. His only de-
sire is to seek the truth and announce
the same to victimized world.
DR.. jeremiah w. jerks, Of New
York University, blesses the book, and
| in a foreword he lectures the clergy
men for venturing into the industrial
| field. According to DR.. jerks it takes
special training to investigate a IL
hour day, a seven-day week, outrages
by cossacks and denials Of free speech
by steel-owned public officials.
| Neither Mr.. Olds nor DR.. jerks dis
cuss the cause of the strike, but they
show much alarm because some church
men printed some affidavits that they
now declare are false. No mention is
made of Judge Gary's refusal to meet
Representatives of his employees. The
steel executive said he favors the anti
union shop. When the strike started
the trusts publicity agents realized
Judge Gary's reply was poor de
fense for the trust. Then, and no
till then, was it discovered that tht
strikers were attempting to over
throw the government.
The Olds book and DR.. jerks fore
word will make fine alibi for th'
trust.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-01-26
STEEL INDUSTRY
WRONGS
Would Be Hid Disguised BY
Abuse

New York.-The steel industry's
12-hour day cannot be remedied by at
tempts to discredit those who have
called attention to these conditions,
said Bishop Francis j. Mcconnell,
chairman of the interchurch world
movements commission that investi-
gated the steel strike. This report is
now attacked by Marshall Olds, a
publicity man in this city, who has
written 500-page book on "The
Analysis of the Interchurch World
Movement Report on the Steel Strike"
Bishop Mcconnell says the commits
sion stands by it's investigators and
its report. "All the loose and wild
charges about the investigators as
bolshevists and anarchists" said the
churchman, "were perfectly we'll
known to the members of the COM
mission and the interchurch officers
and after thorough investigation,
were contemptuously thrown aside.
"Once again the members of the
commission urge their report of the
hours, wages, and conditions in the
steel industry upon the public for
careful reading and re-reading. The
12-hour day is still the rule of the
continuous production departments
of the steel industry, and undemocrat-
ic and un-American conditions of con-
troll still characterize many of the
largest steel plants"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-01-26
BARGAINS IN LABOR"

Washington. - In announcing it's
list of available office employees in a
confidential bulletin to local business
men, an employment agency in this
city says:
1--WE have many other excellent bar
gains in all types of office help"
This agency also assumes to "edu-
cate" business men on the questions
of the day. In discussing the stock
dividend it says the stockholder is not
enriched, but
MANY Of the companies that have
declared large stock dividends are
continuing to pay the old rate on the
increased amount of stock and to that
extent the stockholders will be bene-
flied in actual cash income in the
future"