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VOICE MADE TO ORDER
Artificial Larynx Demonstrated at
Scieutech Club.

IF you don't like your voice you
can have a new one" it was dem
onstrated Monday at a noon
luncheon of the Scientech Club.
E. j. Barland of the scientific
research departmentn of the Gray
bar Electric Company demonstrated
an artificial larynx in speaking on
Hearing and Artificial Speech
Aids"
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SpectdC
ELKHART, Ind Sept. 18.--No mess of pottage
shall buy Al Smiths birthright. Nor shall 500
buy AIS famed brown derby. Al has spoken
When the Democratic candidate left Elkhart
yesterday on his special train. bound for Omaha,
the derby was planted firmly on his head to stay.
AS the engineer "whistled out" of this city one
of the crowd gathered at the station calued, above
the din, How much will you take for that brown
derby, Alp"
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HELICOPTER MAKES HOP

Spanish Inventor Flies New Plane
From London to Paris.
By United Press
PARIS, Sept. 18.-The Spanish
inventor, La Cierva, completed a
fight across the English Channel
from London to Paris today in his
autogiro plane, helicopter.
La Cierva made one stop, at St.
Inglevert, and landed at LIE Bour-
get field with one passenger.
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Al Turns Doom offer of Hoosier'
to Buy His Broom Derby for 500

AL merely shook his head and smiled.
But the derby fan was not to be daunted,
Whipping his wallet from his pocket, he shook
handful OF bills in the air. Give you a hundred"
he shouted.
But Al merely smiled the train pulled out, and
the Elkhart citizen stood open-mouthed, still
clutching his hundred, as the special faded in the
distance.
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liner numbers about eight hum
hundred Of this number are il
the strict sense Of the term are
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CHAPTER SIX


Eddie was dimly aware that the
background behind these people
even behind the old negro-was
entirely different from anything
he had ever known. Indistinctly
he realized there were vistas of
ancient family relationships and
obscure traditions, all yelled with
the mystery of the unknown. 1t
was the form Of life with duties
and customs that We're blurred in
his understanding. He was an
outsider and he felt like an in
truder.
But the girl, Marion Thorndike,
concentrated his interest and held
him captive with the spell of sud-
den romance. She was like wine
TO him and his head swan slightly,
The fact that a feud existed be.
tween old Penfield Paradine and
her father was of no importance
Whatever to Eddie. What did cause
desolation, however, was that she
was leaving in a few minutes more
and she would be out of his sight
and maybe out of his life forever.
You're sick and you shouldn't
be left alone,' she told the old man.
tits kind of you to feel that
way, child, but old Tobe can look
after me good enough" Penfield
Paradine told her.
Nevertheless, I'm coming in and
see you tomorrow" she insisted.
Your daddy'll skin you alive,
I'm afraid. He hasn't seen fit to
speak to me for 20 years and he'd
probably burst a blood vein IL he
knew you set foot across my door. ~
The girl laughed, but there was
a note of emotion. Its perfectly
ridiculous for both of you to feel
the way you do-at your ages"
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she said, briskly. "At any rate
I'm not going to be bound by any
silly old quarrel.
Eddie, when she left, moved with
her toward the door; she did not
encourage him to go with her
down to the road. The smile with
which she bade him good-by un-
der the Paradine roof was, he
thought, distant and cold. But as
much as he wanted to walk down
to the road with her, Eddie hung
back to avoid the appearance of
forcing himself upon her. He re-
turned to the room where Penfield
less in his chair.
You better call in DOCTOR" he
said with a touch of sympathy.
A doctor won't do me any good,
young man." Paradine's voice was
whisper. I'm not sick, I'm
just worn out from staying alive
too long"
A silence fell between them.
Eddie's eyes looked out from the
window. It was a lonely view;
the vacant, dusty road hedged with
saplings and tangled honeysuckle.
The old negro, Tobe, appeared
with glass of liquor for Eddie
but he waved it aside and ad-
dressed himself to Paradine.
You don't have any visitors
here, I suppose, Mr.. Paradine? ?"
Il scarcely know the names Of
my neighbors," he said listless.
SO many who belong to my
generation have died. Only a
few are left"
You are pretty well cut off
from the outside world here"
Paradine nodded. "The kind Of
people / used to know don't exist
any more. I never cared to as
soclate' with the common run,
NO one ever comes here"
An odd kind of inspiration be.
gan. When he had left New York
1t had been a wild gamble. He
was now thinking exclusively Of
the opportunity to see Marian
Thorndike again. He might take
another long chance
I'm from New York myself" he
stated slowly. II thought I'd try
my luck some place in the coun.
try and I've been rambling along
looking for a place to light. May
be could get work on a farm.
I've been wondering where
could get place to stay a few
days. II you could take me in,
Ia like to stay a few days 10
look around"
Penffeid Paradine twined his fin.
strangers here-don't like them"
gers together. "I don't want any
he said feebly. "A mans home
is sacred. don't wish to appear
inhospitable, but that's the truth"
He cleared his throat and his
eyes frightened as though some
idea drifting across his mind had
proved stimulating.
III tell you something, young
man, a sort Of secret about this
house. am the last living Par
adine in the State of Virginia.
as far as I know. For years I've
been cherishing hope that maybe
another Paradine-a kinsman of
some Kind or other-would come
this way some day. I've kept a
room furnished against the posi-
bility. My oldest brother went
away after civil war, but he
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realization that he had said enough.
Penfield Paradine looked at him
with penetrating expression.
Young man, he said carefully,
.'you dent understand me rightly.
when man II . gentleman he
has certain qualities IN his blood
and neither money nor education
nor position has aught with It.
So tar as ] am concerned you seem
to have the right kind Of stamp
on you and you're welcome to
stay.
Eddie was impressed; here vas
view Of life a finely-gauged dis
tinction, that he'd never before
encountered.
Thank you. sir,' he said. and
his throat was d bit husky.
Old Paradine called to TObe.
.Tobe, this ~ Mr.. Regan and he's
going to visit with us. / want you
to look after him. Now get out
side and carry his bags to that
front room upstairs.
Embarrassment filled Eddie. He
hadn't any bags--he hadn't a thing
Of value on earth except q small
roll Of bills In his pocket. There
was nothing to do but smile and
face 1t out.
81 happened to leave New York
IN a hurry and didn't bring any
thing with me. I've got some
money. though. and l figured to
buy what need as soon as got
settled. expect that grocery
store up at the cross roads sells
shirts and OveralIs-'
But old Paradine waved the
apology aside.
'Tobe'Il run any errands You
want at the store. =
That's good. I'll send him out
and let him buy a few things for
me" Eddie said. trying to speak
easily. his hands in his trouser
pockets. Here He produced
3 banknote, '.taIxe this, Tobe. III
write you down list OF what /
need later. Buy some groceries,
too. Maybe You amt prepared for
an extra fellow coming into the
house."
The old negro stood looking at
. him with queer expression in his
yellowish eyes.
IT raises some pork an aigs an
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Caught in the Meshes Of Forgotten
Past, Can Eddie Regan Redeem
Himself and Reform?

chickens. we got garden. sun.
We makes out Alright"
But he made no move to take
the bin Eddie proffered.
'aTobe and / do very well with
what we raise on the place"
Paradine said, In 4 difficult voice.
"Well anyway, Tobe can take
the money for the personal things
need" Eddie said, quietly.
1t was virtually necessary FOR
him to force the twenty dollar
bill in the Negro's haEds He
smiled and turned to Paradine.
You have 8 pretty big place
here, sir. / don't know anything
about farm work but il anybody
could tip me off I'd take wIfrl
at 1t. I've got two strong arms
and I might turn out to be
regular farmer
II suppose the place could be
made to pay IL one had the
strength and interest to give 1t
proper attention." Paradine said.
There used to be three thousand
acres in this plantation. parted
with it in sections after the war.
There was no one left to work IL.
] have now 40 acres left--tne rest
belongs to colored folks and the
poor whites. OF course, b living
can be made on the place--an In
dustrious man could do very well
here
Suddenly Penfield Paradine
stopped talking: he began strug-
Cling for his breath. One hand
crawled upward toward his heart.
The negro,s eyes grew CLASSY with
apprehension and he began tug
ging to lift the stricken mans
shoulders. Together they carried
Penfield Paradine upstairs to his
great four-posted bed, from which
he never again arose.
&#M
The responsibility for the care
Of the sick man seemed to fall
completely upon Eddie. but it was
the old negro who did all the neces-
sary tasks. Eddie sat in diIapi-
dated rocker on a hooked rug By
the bedside and worried. Unac-
countabIy, he felt as though some
near relative was fatally III.
To BE Continued Tomorrow
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CHAPTER SEVEN

Eddie Regan compressed his
lips and sought to fathom PEN
field Paradine. At one stroke he
might provide for himself. the
best hiding place and, immeasure-
ably more alluring, he might re.
main in the vicinity of Marian
Thorndike.
The hands that. lay in Penfield
Paradine's lap began suddenl; to
twitch; his lips moved but no
sound came from them.
Il wonder il you could take me
in for boarder for a week or
SOP Eddie said, and his youthful
personality was infinitely ingra-
tiating. You're not well, and
could help this colored man look
after you"
Slowly, Penfield Paradine nodded.
found a fragment in his voice.
You-~you can't come here as a
boarder. If you stay it will be as
a guest. My eyes are not as clear
az they once were-but YOU re-
mind me, somehow, of some Of
my folks. l used to know a boy
who looked something like you
so years ago. Maybe he was q.
cousin. I don't remember. Some.
times when / wake up from
daze in this chair 1 think I see
the outlines in this doorway Of
some of my old friends, and
now"
The old man extended a trem.
bling hand. Eddie smiled. There
was something he could not help
admiring about the old fellow and
he gave the hand before him a
warm clasp.
II take it. sir, that you are
gentleman" Paradine said.
I'm try to act like one, any
way, while / am in a place like
this" Eddie grinned.
The others voice quavered.
mo, no, don't mean that.
When I say gentleman 1 mean
something that's handed down
from generation to, generation.
There's no better standard, a man
can judge other men by" '~
For moment Eddie was
tempted to claim a ficticious gen.
tility-to pretend a background Of
wealth and education. 1t might
make things soft for him. Just
for an instant he hesitated,t and
then he shook his head regret
fully. x.
II am afraid you got me wrong,
Mr.. Paradine. There's nothing
high-hat about me. l might as
we'll tell you the truth. My name
is Eddie Regan and my old man
used to work on the docks in New
York. Ny people never amounted
to much, I guess. They didn't
have any money and they never
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: Ny boy will eat it
Just like cake

need to be coaxed to eat 1t with jam-or,
according to Mrs. Harnden, even with butt
ter. They love it just plain they fOur-
ish on it, gain in weight as they should, and
crow strong and healthy.
Read these two letters, and look for the
Others in the series appearing in this paper.
They will give you hundreds of reasons why
you, too, should have Rice's. You can get
it at your own. .erocer's fresh twice daily.
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A surge OF protective Ieelng
spread through Eddie. If she
needed service-if it made her
any happier he was ready to
walk into fire into q den OF
Hons
"You leave it all to me-" he de-
clared with unexpected vehem-
ence There amt nobody on
earth going to harm q hair oli
The blue eyes looked at him
and smiled.
3 How ridiculous-of course no.
body is going to harm hair on
my head!' she said. What made
you think / was afraid?"
Eddie felt his neck grow red.
SIM sorry" he mumbled.
They went into the house and
passed through a bare hall into
living room that was dusty and
disorderly as rooms get when men
live without women. Against the
wall was duIl-finished table of
mahogany with drop leaves. Musty
books were in shelves; cheap wall
paper peeled from plaster and
there were scattered chairs of de-
sign unfamiliar to Eddie. The
wide-planked floor was bare.
Double doors revealed a dining
room, scantiIy furnished, yet
somehow jnnbIed with walnut and
mahogany pieces.
Collapsed in a great chair in the
living room was an old man, a
lanky man with lean face and a
high. arched nose. The face was
the color of ashes. The form In
the chair was inert, a rack of
bones in shiny black broadcloth,
an unresponsiYe husk. A bony
hand that had been pressed to the
breast dropped like a dead thing.
Between them, Eddie Regan and
Marian Thorndike performed the
ministrations that brought old Pen
field Paradine back to conscious.
ness. The yelfowish eyes of the
old watching negro grew rounder
and began to bulge: his lips hung
open and he moved out Of the room
with shambling step to fetch water
In basin.
Fetch some liquor, Uncle Tobe'"
the girl commanded.
Eddie's muscular hands rubbed
circulation back into the prostrated
man; he poured a tablespoonful of
clear corn whisky down Penfield
Paradinc's throat With a sop
ping wet cloth the girl bathed
the stricken mans face till water
ran in little riVulets down the fur
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rows. Presently, he opened his
eyes and his dim gaze fell upon
Eddie first.
"I thank you; SIR" he said in
a thin, dry voice. Apparently he
sensed what had happened. You
are a stranger, sir-I regret ex-
ceedingly obe-you black scOun-
drel-where are you?"
fright heah on yore luther
side, Marse Penfieldr' The tone
OF the negro was ecstatic.
Push out a chair for the gen.
tleman and get something to
drink Penfield Paradine com.
manded, feebly. sir" he re.
sumed to Eddie Regan, you
certainly escaped witnessing an
event Of, perhaps. passing inter
est-the death Of the last Para.
dine"
His eyes began to lose some Of
their glaze and surprise crept
into them as he noted the girl In
the room. The habit of gallantry
instantly asserted itself and he
attempted to rise. but his strength
failed him.
II beg your pardon. Miss. Tobe,
q chair for this young lady, at
once!"
Marian Thorndike smiled at
the last of the Paradines with
slow. aIniable gentleness.
Don't bother about me. Mr..
Paradine," she said, soothingIy.
You see-I just came In to see
if I could do anything for you.
I'm Marian Thorndike." q
A silence filled the ROOM. The
old negro stood motionless. and
even Eddie Regan. whose compre-
hension of family feuds was vague,
sensed an acute embarrassment.
Old PenfieId Paradine closed his
eyes for q moment and then
opened them. II remember you,
Miss Marian" he said almost in
whispering reminiscenee, when
you were only a baby. I've seen
you canter on your horse past my
place a thousand times and / can't
tell you how flattered I am that,
at last, you have dropped in to
see an old devil like myself"
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yX7HEN mothers find bread that chill
wv dren actually like and will eat without
persuasion naturally there just isn't
chance for any other brand!
Among the hundreds of letters that we
have received from Washington housewives
many, like the two given below, stress this
point.
Mothers say that the favor of Rce's Is so
rich and tasty" that their children do not
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were in politics. IL tried to tell /
you was 4 gentleman I'd be kid
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1.-THE happy medium
that pIeGSeS GII''

"Rice's must have health
giving qualities, because
my SON who started to
High School this Fall
bought his lunch at the
school until a few months
ago when he asked me to
prepare several sand
witches for him to take
from home as he wanted
to prepare for the athletic
contests. Just in the few
months time he has grown
I'm height and gained in
weight"
Mrs. L. III. Brown,
6l0 East Capitol St.
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never wrote back. Most likely he
died years ago, but j have lived
in the hopes he might have left
a son somewhere to
bear the name and carry on the
family blood. It's been damn lone
some for me here, sir"
: The old man had spoken slowly,
had CROPPED for his words, but
been uttered precisely.
that he would find shelter under
the roof-tree OF old Penfield Par
adine,
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This Day in History

On October 81 1918 Italians captured Ceseme Ridge
seized the plateau of Asiage
Fifty thousand prisoners captured and the Austrian army
routed.
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What DO You KMOU?
ANSWERS TO TODAY'S TEST
Questions on Editorial Page

Questions Editorial Page
L l. John Adams 1912 Seventeenth. Woodrow Wilson
D. Blue. g. Convicts. 2. Christopher
Straight TO- Dawn II. Fraud H. Prominent 49, Poverty
a. Lenient. Is. Unpalatabe
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Story Of a Reformed Racketeer and His
! Deep Love for an AristOcratic
Southern Beauty
Rend This First:

Eddie didn't drink cOmradeship Eddie
Eddie their
man." But night
andh leading The
open window, chopped md headed
And EddieS drab lMo
He sitting when she
which Eddie
nots spoken to them for 20 in troubles
NOID Go On With The Story.
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The Cre.O of Transatlantic Liner

The crew Of q large Atlantic
dred and eighty members. Six
the stewards department and in
not sailors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-05

The Bobbs- Merrill Company, pub
fishers, Of this city in the last year
contributed many first sellers, some
not by Indiana authors.
Meredith NicholSon's new novel,
1.-THE Chevalier Of the Cumberland"
is now running in Cosmopolitan and
will be published by Bobbs- Merrill
this spring.
Elmer Davis of Aurora, Ind, has
a literary column on the New York
Herald Tribune and has published
two books last year. They are
Strange Woman" and SHOW Win
dow"
MacCready Huston has written
many magazine articles and has
contributed to the South Bend Trib-
une last year.
The following Indiana authors
had books published last year by
Bobbs- Merrill:
Karl w. Deter, author of "The
Marked Man" He was born In FIT.
Wayne and now lives in Leland,
Mich.
Paul Wilstach, author of patriots
Off Their Pedestals." Born in La
fayette and now lives in Washing
ton, D. G.
Charles r. Williams, author of
1.-The Return of the Prodigal." Was
former editor of the News. He died
last year.
William Herschell, author Of a
new edition of 1.-The Smile-Bringer."
He is most active of the living Indi-
ana poets.
Florence Bass, author of "Stories
of Early Times in the Great West"
Was born at Columbus, Ind, and
now lives in Indianapolis.
Received the following communi-
cation from the Century Company:
Bennett ]. Doty, the young Amer
lean soldier of fortune whose esca-
pades in the Foreign Legion almost
brought him before the firing squad,
has Just finished writing the story
of his adventures. The book is to
be called MY Adventures in the
Foreign Legion" and the Century
Company will publish it some time
next month.
In this book Doty promises to re-
veal inside" story of the famous Le-
gion of the Damned. He is generally
acknowledged to be the first and
only man to desert the legion and
live to tell the tale of his adventures.
Doty enlisted in the American
Army in 1917 and went into action
in France a few months later with
a tramp artillery outfit. The arnnis-
tice was signed a year later, and
Bennett j. Doty found himself a
young man of some eighteen years
with a keen appetite for action and
no means of satisfying it. For few
years he wandered around seeing
the world" and then in 1925 he
joined the Foreign Legion under the
name of Gilbert Clair and was sent
out to Syria to fight the Druse, the
strange tribe of Mohammedan heret-
les who still worship the Golden Calf
of Baal.
Doty was quickly passed through
the whole repertoire Of thrills which
the Foreign Legion has in store for
it's soldiers. Within less than a year
he was awarded the Croix de Guerre
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OLDEST STATE
BREWERY GOES
TO JUNK HEAP
Prohibition Ruins Company
Started at VinCenneS
in 1859.
BV United Press

BH United Press
VINCENNES, Ind, Jan. 5.-A
strange obituary was published re-
Gently in the Vincennes Sun-the
obituary of Indiana's oldest brewery,
which passed out of existence the
first of the year. The old, ivy-cov-
cred building, where good beer has
been brewed since 1859, until pro-
hibition went into effect, and which
has been known as the Hack g. ST.
mon Brewery since 1874, is being
vacated, its costly machinery sold
for junk and its cool cellars emptied
for the last time.
"Of course, the closing of the
brewery is no financial catastrophe
for Vincennes," the article reads.
1.-THE old brewery has been dying
for years. The end is not unexpect-
ed. } % vast pay roll will be lost to
the city, but an old friend is passing
away and if there's bit of senti-
ment in you, it makes you bit sad,
and we don't mean to be facetious
either, as far as the prohibition law
is concerned"
Definite shutdown of the plant is
sad chapter in the lives of a small
group Of men, who have spent years
in mastering what is rapidly becom-
ing lost art.
Julius Hack, manager of the plant,
declares that the old company's
troubles have been growing since
the advent of prohibition. Attempts
we're made to manufacture near
beer, but resulted in failure. when
prohibition came we owned business
property, had Liberty bonds and
$150,000 in the bank" Hack eX-
planned. cts all gone now. There
was nothing else to do but close
down for good. When we got SO
hard up that we couldn't issue cal
endars this year, as has been or
practice for the last fifty years, we
decided to junk the plant"
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for distinguished service under fire.
Finally, he became thoroughly fed
up" with legion life. He recruited a
small band Of rebels from his COM
pany and deserted the Legion. Dur
ing their flight from the post this
little group encountered hostile
band Of Druse and were forced to
defend themselves with single rifle.
This incident, says Doty, was one of
the most narrowing experiences in
his whole career.
Doty intends to remain in New
York until after his book is pub
lished. Then he will return to his
home in Biloxi, Miss, where he will
spend his time writing fiction.
n II
Indianapolis theaters today offer:
Gay Paree" at English's; Weaver
Brothers at Keith's; Sugar Babies"
at the Mutual; Beau Sabreur" at
the Apollo; THE Gay Retreat" at
the Ohio; Man, Woman and Sin"
at the Circle; Spring Fever" at the
Indiana; stepping Along" at the
Lyric and movies. at the Isis.
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TEACH DISTILLING HERE
Chemistry ClasSwork Showed Him
How it Worked, Youth Says.

BIZ NEA SerUice
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-A high
school youth of Irvington, N. j., ar
rested for violating the prohibition
laws, blamed his high school train
ing for the predicament
He told police that the twenty
five-gallon-a-week stills were manu-
featured as result of knowledge
obtained in, his chemistry class.
However, no increased enroll
ments have been noted in the study
of chemistry. officials say that
knowledge other than set forth in
school is necessary to build booze
plants.