Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1926 — Page 3

[Nature’s own body builder

•*Ste most A» age lift was unbrarabit, I was nervous and rundown. A'» .sleep, no appetite. ‘Sloce taking Tanlot I enjoy steaks, pastrie.. etc..sleep like a log, gained 10 lbs.” Miss Helen Terry, 1201 N. Broadway. fitdianapults, Ind.

Fw Hr :

Tanlac Is Nature** greatest tonic .ni builder. Made from roots, a nd herbs after the Tan lac formula, it revitalizes the blood tones up the digestive organs and puts the whole system in fighting • ‘Don't go about your work sickly end discouraged. Take the example of millions who have been Selfed by Tanlac. Stop at your druggist's today and get this wondsrful tonic. You’ll be surprised how quickly ynu improve • Formatipabon take lanlue Vegetable Pills.

COST OF PAVING BELOW ESTIMATES State Enabled To Pave 50 Miles More This Year Than Was Expected Indianapolis, Ind., April 26 —(United Press)— Sharp competition among contractors and the resultant decrease in the road paving bills will enable the state highway commission to pave approximately fifty miles more of Indiana highway than was originally planned .officials of the commission said today. The original plans of the commission provided for the paving of 250 miles of road this year, at a cost estimated at 130.000 a mile. For this purpose the commission established a budget of $7.500,000. When the time arrived for the awarding of several of the contracts, it was found that the competition among contractors was unusually sharp and that as many as thirty firms from eight different states hud entered bids for the work. This situation necessarily forced the prices downward until contracts awarded thus far have averegad a tittle less than $25,000 a mile. This will mean a saving of one-sixth the original estimate. At this price the commission will be able to complete their original plans with a balance 0f51,250,000 remaining. It is this balance which the commission believes will allow' taxpayers of Indiana an extra fifty miles of pavement this year. The question of which road shall directly benefit from this saving has not yet been decided, although officials of the commission admit they are considering Road 39, the Rushville road, east of the Marion county line. This road is being considered because it is the main road from Cincinnati to Chicago through Indiana and will have to b epaved eventually, officials say. The 1926 program calling for 250 miles of new pavement was mapped out last fall by the highway commission after careful study of conditions of state roads and traffic needs. Commission engineers prepared specifications and made estimates of the cost of the work and bids were advertised for. On each occasion when bids were opened it was found that the figures ( were universally lower than the estimates prepared by the commission 1 engineers. The average difference between the blds and the estimates was approximately $5,000 a mile. — o Vincennes — John L. Siewers came to this city to be married. Before he could get his bride to the minister he discovered that he had lost his marriage license. A hurried trip back to the clerk's office resulted in the recovery of the missing document, it having been turned in by the finder.

CAN YOU SOLVE THIS? DIE RFL AG . The above letters when properly arranged form the name of a late president. Everyone •ending In the correct solution will be awarded a beautiful lot •Ite 20x100 feet, FREE AND CLEAR OF ALL ENCUMBRANCES, located in one of our new subdivisions between New York and Atlantic City. ‘his offer expires May 15, 1926. BEWARE OF IMITATORS! We are the originators of this advertising plan. MAXIM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 110 West 40th Street ' Dept 544 J New York City.

Secretary Hoover Terms Adverse Trade Balance In 11. S. As I ’avorahle ri By S, I’. Hollingsworth (I'nited pi,. Staff (-orr.-Hpondent) I Washingion. April 26. — (UnJiod Press)—lncreased economic stability In foreign countries Is responsible for I the $6.500,000.n00 business done last year hy the United States with foreign countries, So rotary of Commerce Hoover stated today In announcing the balance of all transaction# in merchun-j tlise, invisible exchange and the movement of capital, gold anti silver in 1925. I Although the United States had a favorable balance of $666,000,000 in 1 commodity trade with foreign debtors in 1925, Including $25,000,000 in parcelI post packages shipped abroad, Invisible Items reduced this balance to $323,000,000 and the flow of money wiped out this different- in favor of the United States. i According to the figures compiled hy the commerce department, there was on January 1, of this year, an adverse balance in favor of foreign countries of $3,000,000 wheih sank even lower by 'the decline of $64,000,000 in foreign . bank deposits. This fact coupled with ’ the return of American currencyj abroad. Hoover believes, reflects a' | favorable turn in world commercial I transactions. "During the year the United States still further strengthened its international investment position,” Hoover I said. “Our total returns from foreign investments are now greater than at any time in our history.” I Foreign holdings c.f Americans now ‘ approximate the staggering total of ? $10,400,000, nearly as much as the total . Allied debt to the United States. These investiments increased $1,200,i 000,000 during the year. | A total of $920,000,000 was paid to foreign enterprises for securities j bought in this country last year. In ether capital movements $62,000,000 of U. S. currency was reimported and J $90,000,000 cash was delivered for securities, while foreigners paid $411.- , 000,000 for American securities, $140,000,000 on bonds amj $27,000,000 on the Inter-Allied debt. This left an unfavorable balance for this country of $494.- ' r 000,000. ,

I Invisible items made a further dent in the favorable merchandise balance, with the comparison showing $343,000.. 000 less than imports. But $168,000,000 ( increase in the gold and silver exchange made an even balance. Due to the decline in gold exports I which began last summer, the 19211 I balance may be still more favorable to I debtor nations. “Although gold movements revealed an export surplus for the year there is no certainty that such will he the case In 1926, since there was a gold import surplus of $16,000,000 during the last ' half of 1925,’ Hoover remarked. ! The “invisible’ credits listed in the report were; Interest on Allied debt, $160,000,000; Private interest, $520,000,000; Ocean freights, $75,0000,000; Services to tourl ists, $100,000,000; Motion picture royal- '; ties, $75,000,000. The debits in this group, however, were: 1 Private interest, $165,000,000; Ocean ’ freights, $83,000,000; Government payments, $5,000,000; Services to tourists, ' $660,000,000; Charitable and mission- ' ary expenditures, $50,000,000; Ininiii grants' remittances, $310,000,000. — oBoy Wonder Entertainer At Adams On Wednesday Something new in vaudeville entertainment will be offered at the i Adams theatre Wednesday night I when Ralph Wolf. 7-year old boy .wonder will give an interesting proI gram of singing and dancing. Young Wolf has appeared i several theatres in Fort Wyne and has made a big hit. I Special music will be furnished by I the boy’s fther and mother who are 'accomplished musicians on the violin and piano. The feature photoplay will be “Partners Again,” an exceedingly funny comedy concerning Potash ml Perlmutter in the automobile business, starring George Sidney and Alexander Carr. Admission will be 10 and 25 cents. Advt. o ■ Edna Keys, Famous • Swedish Writer, Dies Stockholm, April 26. — (United Press)—Edna Keys, the word famous Swedish writer and lecturer, died Sunday. She was 76 years old. Miss Keys was a feminist and a thinker of so advanced type that her books and . lectures frequently ran counter to accepted standards. In all, she published aibout 30 books in various languages, among them "Her Century of Childhood,” in 1901, comprising a survey of elementary education and its progress in the 19th cenI tury. |

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, APRIL 26,1926.

of BLUE | J LAKE 4SSV RANCH By GREGORY ■ k- COPYRIGHT BYv"

Synoptit CHAPTER I.—Bud Lee, horee foreman of the Blue Lake ranch, convinced Bayne Trevore, manager, Is de-, llberately wrecking the property owned by Judith Sanford, a young woman, her cousin Pollock Hampton, and Timothy Gray, decides to throw up hie job. Judith arrives and announces she has bought Gray a share in the ranch and will run It. She discharges Trevors. CHAPTER ll—The men on the ranch dislike taking orders from a girl, but by subduing a vicious horse and proving her thorough knowledge Os ranch life, Judith wins the best of them over. Lee decides to stay. "I am answering your questions.” "Like a half-animated trained Iceberg, yes. Can't you act like a human being? Oh, I've got your number, Bud Lee, und you are Just u« narrow between the horns as the rest of tiie outfit. You are narrow and prejudiced und blindly unreasonaide! I know as much about ranching as any of you; I know more about this outfit because the best man that ever set foot on It, and that's Luke Sanford, taught me every crook and bend of It; and now. Just because I'm a girl and not a boy, you stand off like I had the small-pox; Just when I need loyalty and understanding and when, the Lord knows, I’ve already got a double handful of trouble, I can't count for a minute on men that have been taking my pay for months! Get some of the mildew and cobwebs out of your head and tell me this: Wliat reason in the world is there why you choose to think I haven’t any business wearing my own shoes?” “That’s sure putting It straight," said Lee slowly. "You Just bet it’s putting It straight!" she announced vigorously. “And you'll find that it’s away I have,

"'UH *"1 Was Trained by a Better Man Than You’ll Ever Be!" putting things straight. 1 was trained to the business by a better man than you'll ever be, Bud Lee." “Maybe so,” lie admitted without heat. "I'll take off my hat to Luke Sanford for a man. And I'll take off my hut to you, If you want to know. But, training or no training, this is no Job for a lady, and shooting up Trevors and riding the Prince isn't going to make it so.” “What you're looking for,” sniffed Judith contemptuously, “is a female being extinct this one hundred years! You’d have every girl wear tails to her gowns, and duck and dodge behind fans and faint every time she jabbed her thumb with a pin!" “I can't see that a woman's place is riding bucking broncos and rampsing around. . . .’’ "4 woman's place!" she scoffed. "Her place where a blunder-headed man puts her! How do you know where her place is? How would you like to he told Just what your place Is? To be Jammed, for instance, into a little bungalow in a city; to be squeezed into a dress-suit and told: ‘Stay here and look sweet'; to be commanded not to get up a natural sweat, nor to kick over the traces with which some woman had hitched you to the cart of convention. How’d you like it, Bud Lee?” Bud Lee grinned and a new look crept into ids eyes. “Being Bud Lee," he answered frankly, ”1 wouldn’t stand it for one tick of the clock. I'd say there's two kinds of men, too. There's my kind; there’s the Dave Burrill Lee kind. You see, he’s a sort of relation of mine, is Dave Burrill Lee. and I’m not exactly proud of him. He's the kind that wears dress-suits and sticks In a bungalow. He's proud of his name Burrill and Lee, both, because big men down south wore ’em before he did, und they were relations. He's ayyel.led up over the way he can

dunce and _ ride after a fox’ and over the coin he's got In the bank. Then there's Bud Lee who ducks out of that sort of u scrap-heap und beats it for the open.” "I get you!" broke In Judith, her eyes very bright. “And you men here, my men, want me to be the sort of woman that your precious cousin. Dave Hurrill, Is a man? Is that it? Where's your logic this morning?” '.Meaning horse sense?" lie smiled. "It's in these few little words: 'What's right for a man may be dead wrong for a woman.' ” "Oh, seat!” gbe cried Impatiently. "What am I wasting time with you for?" She swung buck to her table. “What was Trevors’ latest excuse for selling at a sacrifice?" she asked. 1 "Told me he just had a wire last night from young Hampton, asking for three thousand dollars,” be explained In a similar tone, though Ids eyes were twinkling at her. "Pollock Hampton has his nerve!” she snapped. She took up the telephone Instrument at her elbow and demanded the Western Union at Rocky Bend. "Judith Sanford speaking," she said crisply. "Repeat the message of last night for the general manager. Blue Luke ranch.” In a moment she had It. "So Trevors wasn't lying about that part of It," she said reluctantly. And to the Western Union agent, "Take this message: "Pollock Hampton, Hotel Glennlyn, San Francisco: "Impossible send money now or for some time. Have tired Trevors. Running outfit myself. Need every cent we can raise to pay interest on loans, men's salaries and keep going. This is final. "Judith Sanford, General Manager." "That may start his gray matter working," she ended as she clicked up the receiver. "Now, Lee, will you stick with me ten days or so and give me time to get a man In your place?” “Yes, I'll do that. Miss Sanford." "You will help me in every way you can while you are with me?’.' “When I work for a man—or a woman," he added gravely, "I don’t hold back anything.” "All right. Then start In right now and tell me about the gang Trevors lias taken on. Are they all crooks? That little gray, quick-spoken man with tiie smelly pipe—he's straight. Isn't lie?" "That would be old Carson? Yes; he’s a good man. You won't find a better.” “Is be going to quit, too? Just because I’ve come? Has he any love for Bayne Trevors?” "Maybe you’d better ask Carson.” In a flash she was on her feet and had gone to the door. "Carson I" she called loudly. “Come here, will you?" There was a little silence, a low sound of laughter, then Carson’a sharp voice answering: "I'm coming!" Judith went back to her chair. She did not speak until Carson’s wiry form slipped through the doorway. Then with the old cattleman's shrewd, hard eyes upon her she turned from a clip full of papers she had been looking through and spoke to him quietly: "You used to work for the Granite Canyon crowd, didn't you, Carson?" "Yes'm," he answered. "Cattle foreman there for several years?” / “Yes’m.” "Helped clean out the Roaring Creek gang, didn’t you, Carson?" Carson shifted a bit, colored under her fixed eyes, and finally admitted: "Yes’m." “Haven't had a real first-class fight for quite a bit, have you, Carson? Not since that gash on your jaw healed. Not since you and Scotty Webb mixed with the Roaring Creekers?” Carson rubbed Ids Jaw, flashed a quick look at Bud Lee as though for moral support, looked still further embarrassed, and finally choked over his brief: “No'm.” Judith sat pmlllng brightly up at his hard features. "I’ve heard dad talk about that," she said thoughtfully. “I guess I've got at least one real man on the ranch, Carson. Oh, don’t dodge like that! I'm not going to put my arms around you and kiss you on the top of your head. But I do love a man that loves a fair fight. . . . Lee, here, has given me bls promise to stick on the job for ten days or so, to give me time to get some one else to look after my horses." “Yes'm," said Carson, fingering his pipe and looking down. For a few moments the girl sat still, now and then flashing a quick, keen look from one to the other of her two foremen. Then, abruptly, her eyes on Carson, she snapped: "You’ve found out, more or less recently, haven't you, that Bayne Trevors is a crook? You’ve perhaps even guessed that he's been taking money from me with one hand qpd from the Western Lumber with

the other?" "Yes'm,” said Carson, "I duped It tip like that.” "Why," cried tiie girl, “he’s Cred all of the old men aud heaven knows how many of Ids sort he's put In their places! Help me elean 'em out, Carsou ! Where will we begin? I’ve chucked Trevors and Ward Huuuoa. Who goes next, Carson?” "Benny the cook," suld Carson gently. "An’ I'd be obliged, ma'am, if you'd let rue go bout him off'n the ranch.” "That's talking," she said enthusiastically. "You can attend to him. Any one else?" Curgon shook Ids bead. "I got my suspicions,” he said. "But that's all I'm dead sure on." "The others can wait then. Now, I'm taking a gamble on you and Lee. You have all kinds of chances to double-cross me. But I’ve got to tell you something: Trevors Is trying to sell me out to the Western Lumber people. He Is one of their crowd and has been since they bought hiiu up six months ago. The ranch, outside the stock we've gut running on It, is worth a clean million dollars if it Is worth a nickel. Well, the Western Lumber company has offered vs exactly two hundred and fifty thousand! one quarter of what It’s worth! They know we're mortgaged; they know the Interest we have to pay Is heavy; they know that Pollock Hampton, for one, Is a spender who knows nothing about big business; they think that I, because I'm a girl, am a fool. It looks to them like a melon easy to cut und ripe for tiie slicing.” She paused a moment, frowning thoughtfully at the floor. Then suddenly she lifted her eyes to Carson's saying crisply: "Trevors took time at the end to tell me something. Thut something was that he was going to make lue sell. He even threatened. If I hadn't come to my senses before the ranch was dry in the summer, to burn me out I" — "The durned polecat!” whispered the cattle foreman. "Now then," cried Judith, "you've got your first Job cut out for you. Let Bayne Trevors or one of his gang set foot on Blue Lake land, and I'll tell you what I think of you, Carson! Or Is the job going to be too big for you?" Carson smiled deprecatingly. "I’d like to see ’em try it," he said In that •Oft, whispering voice which upon occasions was characteristic of him. "I sure would, Miss Judy!” "That’s all this morning. Carson." she said quietly. “On your way don't forget to look In on your friend, Benny." Carson went hastily down the knoll. Ids eyes bright. Judith laughed softly. "I've got his number, Bud Lee! All that’s needed to keep that old rnoun-tuln-Hon on tiie job is to show him a real fight ahead! And by golly. Mr. Man, there's going to be scrap enough from the very Jump to make Carson forget whether tie's working for a woman or John W. Satan. Esquire 1” CHAPTER 111 Bignets of the Venture “And now," said Judith Sanford to the stillness about tier—she wns alone in the big ranch-house —"not being constructed of iron. I'm going to

Highest in Quality Lowest in Price Fordcars are builtthroughoutofthe from mining of ore to final asfinest materials that can be pro- sembly, is under direct control of duced.Tne very bes. steels available the Ford Motor Company, are used in Ford manufacture. . The plate glass for windshields and lron »» taken from Ford mines in windowsisa perfectascanbemade. Michigan; coal from the Company s Upholstery material contains a mines in Kentucky and West Virlarf’er percentage of wool than is gmia. Glass comes from Ford glass ordinarily specified-evenformuch plants; wood from the Ford timber higher priced cars. The basic tea- facts in the North. Raw materials turcs of Ford design have never and finished products are carried been improved upon by any over the Company’s owntranspormanufacturer. tation routes; coke ovens, blast fur- ~ , a .j naces, a steel mill, foundries and No other ca r offers greater de- saw millg _ an arc tof this com . pendability. The Ford car has , organization. There are even won th. favor of millions of users e mill, cement under every conceivable motoring lan » £ t ‘ ansform waste condition. Its convenience is materia i s into useful by-products, known and appreciated the world over; its performance is taken for j n t bi s way every possible economy granted. is effected. Under no other circumSuch quality i. 5 possible at Ford stances could Ford quality be had prices because every operation, at Ford prices. Features That Maintain Ford Leadership All-Steel Bodies Thermo-Syphon Cooling Planetary Transmission Simple, Dependable Lubrication Torque Tube Drive Three-Point Motor Suspension Dual Ignition System Multiple Disc-in-Oil Clutch FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN NEW PRICES TUDOR FORDOR SEDAN RUNABOUT TOURING COUPE SEDAN $ 520 $ 290 $ 3lO S SOO $ 565 Closed car prices include starter and demountable rims. All prices F. O. B. Detroit TWENTY-TWO YEARS OF LEADERSFIIF

lake a snooze." i Vivid bluisuui that sh« was upon the tough, hardy stulk of her pioneer ’ ancestry, creature of ardent flume and passion which tier blood und her life < la the open liud mude her, she was not devoid of the understundliig us the limit us physical endurance. Last night, through the late moonlight und luter starlight, tlii-oiigli the thick darkness which lay across the luuiintuln I trulls before the coming of day, un Into the dawn, she hud ridden forty j miles from the railroad nt Rocky Bend. Certain of treachery on the part of Bayne Trevors, she had arrived only to find him plotting another blow ut her Interests. She had ridden a mad brute of a horse whose rebellious struggle against her authority had taxed her to the lust ounce of her strength. She had shot a man in the right shoulder and the left forearm. . . . And now, with no one to see her, she was pale and shaking a little, suddenly faint from the heavy beating of her own heart. Stie hoi had virtually no sleep lust night. She was glad of It. For now she would sleep, sleep. “I am not to be called, no matter what happens," she said to Jose, who came trotting to the tinkle us her bell. Slipping out of tier clothes, she drew the sheet up to her tiiroat —and tossed for a wretched hour before sleep crime to her. A restless sleep, filled with broken hits of unpleasant dreams. At two o’clock, swiftly dressing after a leisurely bath, she went out Into the courtyard, where she found Jose making n pretense of gardening, whereas in truth for a matter of hours he hud done little but watch for her coming. "Jose," she said, ns he swept off his wide lint und made tier tlie bow reserved for la senorlta and la senorita alone. "I am going to telephone into town for a woman to do my cooking nnd housekeeping and be a nuisance around generally. While I do that, will you scare up something for tue to eat and then saddle a horse for me?" She went to the office, arranged over the wire with Mrs. Simpson of Rocky Bend to come out on the following day. and then spent fifteen minutes studying the pay roll taken from the safe, which, fortunately. Trevors had left open. As Jose came In with a big tray she was running through a file of reports made at the month-end, two weeks ago, by certain of the ranch foremen. I "Put it down on the table, Jose. Thank you.” and she found time for a smile at her devoted servitor. “Now have a horse ready, will you?" And without waiting for Jose's answer, taking up tiie telephone, she asked for the office «t the Lower End, as the rich valley land of the western portion of the ranch was commonly known. Briefly making herself known to the owner of the boyish voice which answered, she asked for “Doc" Tripp and was Informed that the ranch veterinarian was no longer with the outfit. Judith frowned. "Where Is he?" "Rocky Bend, 1 think.” "Bin!” said Judith. "Who has taken his place?” "Bill Crowdy is sort of acting vet, right now." (TO BE CONTIMEO)

"Zip, The What Is It?”, Dies In A New York Hospital N>'W York. April 26. — (United I‘res 1" —The fat lady mid the thin man. the-, sword-swallower nnd the snake charm-,,, er. Major Mite, tiie midget cllclto, the"African bushman and Jim Carver, the, Texas giant. Joined in orrow today, mourning the passing of "Zip, the What is lt>" , • Zip died nt a hospital here after nocareer of sonic 65 years as probably . the most famous of circus freaks. His real name was William Henry Johnson. But P. T. Barnum, in the early days of his career, saw him, noted bis queer figures, his protruding nos*and his comical head topped with u* tuft of hair and named him "Zip." Barnum pul him in his museoutn at_ Broadway and Ann streets, New York; and there thousands paid their money, to look upon him. Among them was Charles Dickens, the novelist. "What is it?" Dickens asked. "That's it what, is it?” said Darnum and the name was completed. Thereafter Wiliam Henry Johnson; was placarded as “Zip —the what is it.” Wednesday he will be buried by the queer people of whom he was one, his mourners. Mt, Carmel — The day of gyp<y caravans, of colorful covered wagons and shrewd horse traders is past. Two Packards and a Dodge carried Huband of gypsies through this city .Cast week. -•

Back Ached So He Couldn’t Bend Over Had to Get Up Several Times Every Night. Trouble Gone Now. “Six weeks ago I got a severe aching in my back. It just seemed as if my back would break in two, • and I could not stoop over without pain. I was nervous, had to get up several times during the night to attend to nature’s laws, and did not sleep well. I would get up in the morning with a dull aching headache and feeling just as tired as when I went to bed. Nothing did me any good till I found Viuna, and right from the first I began to improve. The hurting in my back stopped and I went to bed and got a good night’s rest. My nervousness has gone and I can sit down to the table and eat a good hearty meal. I tell you Viuna is a wonder. I don’t have to get up at all at night any more and am feeling fine.” —A. M. Caudell, Fortville, Ind. Viuna acts promptly on sluggish bowels. 1,-ir.y liver nn.l weak kidneys. It piiritieH the Ll<)ud. cb‘urs the ekin, fpHtorea appetite and digeation, and brings nuw strength and energy to the whole l»ody. Take a bottle on trial. Thun if you’re not glad you tried Viuna, your hioney will bn refunded. $1 «t drngglstn, or rnail'ti postpaid by Iceland Medicine ('o„ Indianapolis, Ind. VIUNA T/te vegetable regulator Sold By CALLOW & KOHNE

3