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would be all in the family. since
Bryan was related to Davis through
the lat.er's middle name.
How interesting" said a lady
who was distantly related 10 Mr.
Bryan. Il never knew before that
there was any relation"
On n subsequent occasion the
same guest told the story with evident
relish TO Mr.. Davis himself.
Mr.. Davis looked puzzled. then re-
marked We'll. I never looked up
my family tree: but that's the first
ime I've heard ] was related to
Bryan
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The Suber-SnObS
BY BERToN BRALEY.

BY BERTON BRALEY.
THEY at the obvious always
L With up high in the air.
When their shn-boues a cracked o obvious fac
They will admit q
They all conventional thinking.
As "pabulum for the throng,"
And they simply ignore any commonplace lore
Which proves them extensively wrong.
They pacifsts during tho conflict,
And that the battles
They sit back and carp in manner that's sharp
At all that's accomplished done;
They're proved indispensable prophets
On what they have said ali along.
Yet with undismayed hope they prepare dope
Which is Just confoundedy wrong.
Their theories them where.
Their formulas function asSew
Yet 1t inks them indeed that the world will not heed
The things that they ten it TO do;
With proud supcrcilous hau teur.
Their paths phlosophic they Tread,
And II by strange sOoth they encounter the truth
They cut the lady quite deadl
Copyright. 1923. NEA servce)
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World Must Stop Getting Better
or Reform Bureau VIII Exbire

It has a record of 1900 reforms in
twenty-seven years, including eight
cen bills which have stood the test
of the courts.
One, by the way, was war prohibi-
ton.
But with all this. trustees wonder,
can it survive DR.. Crafts?
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BIZ Times Special

DR ttHfS EptttHt
WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.-The
world may have to stop getting bet.
ter and better so far as the interna-
tional reform bureau is concerned.
Trustees Of this ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
most-pOpular organization have
given it three months to demonstrate
whether it can survive its founder.
Dir. Wilbur F. Crafts
1t has valuable property here, at the
site where John Marshall held Su-
preme Court when the Capitol was
destroyed by fire more than one hun
dred years ago.
1t has more than half of a $780,
600 fund for a building DR.. Crafts had
planned to erect on this site.
1t has practically a worldwide or
ganiZation.
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On leaving home for an extended
stay, it frequently happens that
one owes calls 1t is impossible to
make.
In such a case one should leave
at each home where an indebted
ness exists ones visiting card.
with the initials up. 2. c." writ
ten in one corner. The letters
mean pour prendre congo" a
French expression siSn.fying 20
take leave"
1t is quite proper TO drive from
house to house. leaving the cards
with whatever servant opens the
door. Or, If there IS not time for
this. the cards may be mailed.
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1000 people and thenceforward the
number will oscillate back and forth,
as a few years of famine and then
CT plenty affect it."
Pearl is we'll known in economic
circles for his studies in population
growth. He is one of the countrys
leading biologists and statisticians
biometry, or statistical study in hui
man life's variations.
THE world is on the high road to
population saturation," is his conclu.
sion. 'From~my experiments | have
formed two mathematical laws nc
cording to which populations seem
TO grow.
How Law Works
One is that a population, start.
ing at beginning as near as possible
to zero, grows at an increasing rate
until it reaches its optimum relation
between its means Of subsistence and
the number of people Then it keeps
on growing. but at an ever-decreasing
rate until the saturation point is
reached.
The 'optimum relation in the
United States was passed in 1914
Now our poulation is growing. but
at decreasing rate. Hoboken.
n. J.. is already close to its own satu-
ration point II its poulaton in
creases. the CITY will have TO expand
or its people will have to move out.
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when the saturation point is
reached, what happens to the United
States win be about the same as
what is happening in China today, if
nothing is done meanwhile to cor
rect this law That is. famine, pes.
thence, war, will cut down the popu
lation for a few years. Then there
will be a few more good years, and
famine will step in again.
War, Pestilence, Famine.
China is reacting to the second law
of population growth--the law of self
regulation. That, in simple terms, is
that war, pestilence and other calani-
ties make only. little jiggle in the
population curve, which then corrects
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:: ::
Most of sorry cussed last 1 $780, MSSS
| 8MM sM4
Ii prices not too high then \ GssN
certainly too low. Y Wss@ AssW
The danger about following in ia >a@42-.I<
theirs footsteps you liable to wind Ian ILEEtA
up in the cellar WN
One thing fine about crowded is warmer.
Our favorite uplifter is the elevator boy
The monkey gland business good what pity can't
put in other businesses
We would hate to live the and have stay all
night
Evening dresses don't go far because they haven't
backing
More 0vercOas and fewer watches being
Girl basketball players better speed in stockings
because stockings have the in them
Corkscrew has not lost it's pull
Wealth is burden-easly dropped.
Silence isn't golden-it is platinum.
Uneasy lies the head that lies
The price of may keeping eggs in
cold storage getting cold feet
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EFT out the English
as the only people
who don't get Amer
lean jokes!
Once on a time, as
most people will re-
call. Williams j.
Bryan ran for Presi-
dent and his run
ming mate was Hen
~ Gassaway Davis.
At a dinner one
Of the guests re-
marked that if Bry-
an We're elected the
presidency and the
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This is one of the
startling assertions
of DR.. Raymond
Pearl, professor of
vital statistics at
Johns Hopkins Cni-
versity.
If no way has
been found to beat
p op u lation's prog.
ress, he says, the
United States will
find itself then in
the same position as
China today. We
sfI .z.-. Dnh
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VIII water from an old mine
containing sulphur and iron be
harmful 10 hogs?
No; one the contrary 1t should prove
beneficial. and while the amount OF
iron would not be sufficient to prevent
nection.
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QUESTIONS ANSWERED

-
You can get an answer to any cues
ton Of fact or Information by writing
to the Indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau, 1922 New York Ave Wash
lngton. D. c. InclOsiug . cents in
stamps Medical, legal and love and
marriage advice cannot be given. I'm
signed letters cannot be answered. but
all letters are confidential and receive
personal replies Although the bureau
does not require it. il viii assure
prOmpter replies if readers win con-
hne questions to a single subject writ
ing more than one letter if answers on
various subjects are desired. EDITOR.
What percentage of homes in
the United States are owned free
of incumberance and how many
are owned, though incumbered?
According to the census Of 1920,
there were 45.6 per cent of the homes
n the United States owned: 2S.2 per
cent being owned free and 175 per
cent owned incumbered.
What railroad crosses the
United States from coast TO coast:
There is no single railroad that
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By NEA Service
BALTIMORE. Md, Jan. 22.-About
the year 2100 the United States will
have reached a point at which it will
be unable to support any more in
hah1tantS
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GET WELL! KEEP WELL!

Some folks "enjoy poor health"
That's a fact, they actually do ENJOY
being sick. They like to boast about
1t. They insist on telling it to any
body and everybody who will listen to
their lamentations.
They enjoy telling how many doctors
they have consulted, what they said to
every doctor, what every doctor said
to them, and how every doctor they
ever talked with said che never saw
a case like mine!" They are sure to
say, none of the doctors medicines
ever did me one bit of good" They
will also name over the patent
medicines" they've tried and add with
grave solemnity that mot one Of
them ever helped me little Bit"
Some of these chronic complain
ers' go to, a Chiropractor, who patient
ly listens to them and honestly tries
to help them-for hypochondria is a
real disease, and it can be cured If
the CAUSE is removed
But Chronic complainers" of this
type usually find a way to beat the
Chiropractor, too. They may take an
adjustment or two or perhaus three
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$50 Per Cent of Homes in q. S. Are
Ozcmed: us Per Gent Unincumbered

crosses from coast to coast. The prin-
cipal lines that cross the country
from the Mississippi to the Pacific
Coast are: Union Pacific, Central
Pacific. Southern Pacific. Northern
Pacific, Great Northern and Santa
Fe. Connections may be made from
the Atlantic Coast for any of these. g
According to the treaty with
Great Britain and Canada, how
much water may be diverted for
power purposes from Niagara
Falls?
BY the treaty ratified in 1910, the
amount of water that may be d.
vertde on the American side for
bower purposes is 10000 second feet
and on the Canadian side, $4,000 sec
ond feet. About 500, 900 horse power
Is generated at present.
What will remove the OdOr of
paint from rooms?
suggested:
Sprinkle handful Of hay on the
seor and place a little chloride of
! lime on the hay. This is said to alb
sorb the offensive smell in a couple
of hours.
Leave in the room overnight, a pail
Of water with three or four sliced
raw onions in it. Shut the door, and
in the morning the paint smell will
have gone. the onions and water alb
sorbing It.
How many pounds are there i'm
busheI of the following articles?
Rice. 45 pounds.
Pears, As to So pounds.
Peaches. as to so pounds.
Plums, 40 to 81 pounds.
These different weights Of fruit are
caused by some fruits being more
solid than others.
How do the deposits in postal
savings banks compare with
those in mutual stock and saw
ings banks?
On June so. 1921. the total deposits
i'm the postal savings system were
S152 1888 903; in mutual and stock
savings banks. the total deposits on
the sSsne date We're s6.O1S, 25s 900.
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TESTING YTIIREE hundred babies given soealled in
HUMAN telligence tests at a meeting of American
BRAINS = Psychological Association
Just what is intelligence? It certainly
not merely the facts for the average schoobOy
1923 knows Socrates in the DAYS
when science and most of the world unexplored
We have lot of act-knowledge without being intelli
gent Any bottle be with milk Real intelligence is
in reasoning power the ability distinguish right wrong
and the logically from the obviously spurious.
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or possible fveand not back
friends neighbors with this postscript
.
when through felt than when began" So they
go backo their old doctor other,
medicine" OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
health"
Sensible with REAL suferings who finally
practor Chiropractor REMOVES
CAUSE when they GET WELL; them with
their hearts they spread the good
friends and nghbors with this Chropracor
WELL"
Afterward something gets wrong they go to the
Chiropracto FIRST of way
RESERVED
Practitioners of Straight Chiropractc'
. New Message Here Every Monday.
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HOW ~ I'D you notice that Rbot is dead? You don t
FAME J quite place the name" He prime minis
FADES H. ter of France from March to September,
1917, during of the critical periods
Of the war
Less than six years make him dim memories Even
the World War beginning dsantly
indebe in the memory of blessed pos
sessions is the power forget quite indispensable and sooh
ing memory the power keep fresh mind would
be terribly unhappy did this ability to forget
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TOM SIMS SAYS:

A VOID accidents. Edison in
~ vented the photograph by ac-
"a cident.
Moc+ oF NC oro corr1z ,vo o,,ccoJ Lost
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PEACE - VOW and then somebody rises say nterna-
OR WAR IN tona conferences don't get anywhere
FOR US? I Simon pure mOssbacks! With simple
nnnbI tho ocido tho nfnrtc
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-07

financial cha1S II HIS resent visit
10 the Pacific coast was not purely
fer personal reasons but was also
10 adjust antagonisms such as charged
by Gabriel Warden before his death,
the loss OF SantOine at this time may
precipitate troubles which, living. his
advice and Information might have
been able TO prevent"
Having read and reread this long
paragraph. Eaton thrust the sheet
out the window. AS he sat think
ing. with lips tight closed, he heard
for the first time that morning foot
steps at his end OF the car. The
door OF his compartment was I'M
locked and opened, and he saw Doc
tor Sinclair.
''Mr. SantOine wants 20 speak to
you" the surgeon announced quietly.
This startling negation OF all he
imagined, unnerved Eaton. He
started up. then sank back for bet
ter cOmpoSure
'AIr. Santoine Is here. then?"
"Here? or course he's here?'
"And he's consciousT"
"He has been conscious for the
better part Of two days. Didn't they
tell your
Eaton looked toward the window,
breathing hard. heard the news
boys"
Sinclair shrugged. The papers
print what they can get and in the
way which seems most effective to
them" was his only comment.
The surgeon led Eaton TO the door
OF the drawing room. showed him in
and left him.
Harriet Santoine was sitting on the
little lounge opposite the berth where
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they took her from the room and left
him alone again. But there was
something left with him which they
could not take away; for In the
moment he had stood alone with her
and passionately pleading. something
had passed between them-he could
give no name to II, but he knew that
Harriet Santolne never could think
OF him again without a stirring OF her
pulses which drew her toward him.
The following morning the relieving
snowplows arrived from the East, and
Eaton felt II was the beginning Of
the end for him. He watched from his
window men struggling In the snow
about the forward end of the train |;
then the train moved forward past
the shoveled and trampled snow where
rock and pieces Of the snOwplOw were
piled beside the track-stopped,
waited; finally II went on again and
began TO take up It's steady progress.
The attack upon Santoine having
taken place In Montana. Eaton thought
that he would be turned over 10 the
police somewhere within that state.
and he expected II would be done al
the first stop; but when the train
slowed AT Simons. ne saw the town
was nothing more than a little hamlet
beside a side-track. They surely
could not deliver him 10 the village
authorities here.
II made no material difference 70
him, Eaton realized. whether the po-
lice took him In Montana or Chi
cago, since in either case recogni-
ton Of him would be certain In the
end; but In Chicago this recognition
must be Immediate complete, and ut
terly convincing.
The train was travelling steadily and
faster than its regular schedule; II
evidently was running as a special,
some other train taking the ordinary
traffic; IL halted now only at the
largest cities. In the morning IL
crossed into Minnesota; and In the
late afternoon. slowing. II rolled into
some large city which Eaton knew
must be Minneapolis or ST. Paul. The
car here was uncoupled from the train
and picked up by a switch engine; as
dusk fell, Eaton. peering out OF his
window, could see that they had been
left lying in the railroad yards; and
about midnight, awakening in his
berth. he realized that the car was
still moionless. He could account
for this stoppage in their progress
only by some change In the condition
Of Santoine. Was Santoine sinking,
so that they no longer dared 10 travel?
Was he, perhaps-dead?
No sounds came TO him from the
car 10 confirm Eaton in any con-
clusiOn; there was nothing 10 be
learned from anyone outside the car.
Eaton lay for a long time, listening
for other sounds and wondering what
was occurring-or had occurred-at
the other end Of his car. Toward
morning he fell asleep.
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Gives Impression Of sorrov..

Among the most interesting objects
Of public attention In Washington Just
now Is the Lincoln memorial as IL
Illuminated each night by electric
searchlight. BY mOtorcar. bus line
and on foot, thousands Of citizens view
the wonderfully beautiful spectacle
and the general verdict is. "Y0u viii
have 10 see II 20 appreciate Il"
As the classic structure stands out
against a dark background. its out
lines showing chlseled marble on
ebony, the building takes on an en-
tirely different aspect from daytime
presentation. The scene arOuses vary
ing emotions in the Observers as
shown by their explanations and Ut
terances.
The most pronounced impression II
makes upon the average observer Is
one OF inexpreSsible sadness II an
inanimate thing can be said 10 breathe
spirit, the structure gives forth an al
most tangible expression Of sorTOw.
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CHAPTER K
Publicity Not Wanted.

'Basll Santoine dyingl Blind mil
lionaire lawyer taken m on trainw
The alarm Of the cry came TO
answer Eaton's question early the next
morning He threw up the curtain
and saw a vagrant newsboy, evidently
passing through the railroad yards
TO sell 10 the trainmen. Eaton. hail
ing the boy put out his hand for a
paper. lie spread the news-sheet be-
fore him and read that Santoine's con-
dition was very low and becoming
rapidly worse. But below. under a
Montana date-llne, Eaton saw IL pro-
claimed that the blind millionaire was
merely sick: there was no suggestion
anywhere of an attack. The paper
stated only that Basil Santoine, re-
turning from Seattle with his daugh-
ter and his secretary, Donald Avery,
had been taken seriously III upon a
train which had been stalled for two
days in the snow In Montana. The
column ended with the statement that
Mr. Santolne had passed through
Minneapolis and gone on 10 Chicago
under care OF DR. Douglas Sinclair.
Eaton stared at the newspaper with
out reading. after he saw that He
had not realized, until now that he
was told that Harriet Santoine had
gone-for If her father had gone on,
Of course she was with hlm-the ex-
tent 10 which he had felt her fair
-. -. ~, e~fnvHet,Fv, % bfy, A.
least. he knew now that, since she had
spoken to him after he was first ac-
cused OF the attack on her father,
he had not felt entirely deserted or
friendless TIL now.
But why. II Santolne had been
taken away, or was dead or dying.
had they left Eaton all night In the
car In the yards7 Since Santoine was
dying. would there be any longer an
object In concealing the fact that he
had been murdered1
He dressed and then paced back
and forth the two or three steps his
compartment allowed him. He
stopped now and then TO listen; from
outside came the noises OF the yard I;
but he made out no sound within the
car. II II had been occupied as on
the DAYS previous, he must have heard
some one coming TO the Mushroom at
his end. Was he alone In the car
now. or had the customary moving
about taken place before he awokel
Finally, 10 free himself from his
nervous listening for sounds which
never came. he picked up the paper
again. He read:
The news OF Mr.. SantOine's visit
Of a week on the Coast. II not known
already in great financial circles. Is
likely 10 prove interesting there. For
years he has been the chief agent
In keeping, peace among some Of the
great conflicting interests, and more
than once he has advised the declar-
ing OF financial war when war seemed
70 him the correct solution. Thus.
five years ago. when the violent death
OF Matthew Latron threatened 20 pre-
cipltate trouble among western
capitalists. Santoine kept order In
what might very well become
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ale has a chance. then. now1~

ale has a chance. then, nowT"
"Yes: but We don't know how much.
IL wanted you 20 know. MIR. Eaton,
that / recognize-that the chance Ia
Their may have came through you, and
that I am trying 10 think OF you as
the one who gave him the chance"
The warm blood flooded Eaton's
face. and he bowed his head She,
then. was not wholly hostile 20 him /;
she had not been completely con
WINGED by Avery.
Her eyes rested upon Eaton stead
lily: and while he had been appealing
10 her. a flush had come 90 her cheeks
and faded away and come again and
again with her impulses as he spoke.
II you didn't DO IL, why don't you
help usy" she cried.
Help your
"Yes; tell US who you are and what
you are doingl why did YOU take the
train because Father was on II. II you
didn't mean any harm TO him? Why
don't you tell us where you are going
or where you have been or what you
have been doing? Why can't you give
the name Of anybody you know or tell
US o. anyone who knows about your
Il might ask you in return" Eaton
said. ''why you thought IL worth while
Miss Santolne. 20 ask so much about
myself when you first met me and
before any OF this had happened?
Why we're you curious about meT
my father asked me TO find out
about you"
"whyT"
Harriet had Redeemed under Eaton's
gaze. "You understand. Mr.. Eaton. II
was-was entirely impersonal with
me. Ny father. being blind. Is obliged
20 use the eyes Of others-mine. for
one: and he has Mr.. Avery. He calls
as his eyes. sometimes: and IL was
only-only because I had been com
missioned 10 find out about you that
was obliged to show so much
curiosity"
Harriet arose, and Eaton got up as
she did and stood as she went toward
the door.
Avery had reached the door. hold
Ing Il open for her TO go out. Sudden
D. Eaton tore the handle from Avery's
grasp. slammed the door shut upon
him and bruced his foot against IT,
Miss Santoine." he pleaded, his
voice hoarse with his emotion, "for
Gods sake, make them think what
they are doing before they make
public accusation against me-before
they charge me with this 20 others
not on this train II viii not be
merely accusation they make against
met will be my sentence! l shall
be sentenced before / am tried-con-
demned without a chance 10 defend
myself! That Is the reason | could
not come forward after the murder
Of Mr.. Warden. I could not have
helped him-or aided In the pursuit
OF his enemies-it had appeared;
merely would have been destroyed
myself, The only thing I could hope
90 accomplish has been In following
my present cOurse-which. l swear
20 you. has no connection with the
attack upon your father. What Mr..
Avery and Connery are planning TO
90 10 me. they cannot undo. They
viii merely complete the outrage and
Injustice already done me-Of which
Mr. Warden spoke 20 his wife-and
they VIII not help your father. For
Gods sake. keep them from going
further!"
Her color deepened. and for an In
slant. he thought he saw full belief in
him growing In her eyes: but II she