Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1934 — Page 2

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CLASSIFIED * ADVERTISEMENTS, BUSINESS CARDS, AND NOTICES FOR SALE FOR SALE —New furniture of all kinds at bargain prices. Liberal trade allowance on ’your eld furniture. Sprague Furniture Co., 152 BQ, Second St. Decatur. a-68-6t FOR SALE—One full blood Hampshire male hog. A good one. Wm Rodnnbeck, R. R. No. ", 5 miles north of Decatur. 71-3tx FOR SALE —Brooder house. Male hog. Tandum with 7 round discs on a aide. Walking breaking plow. Burroughs Bookkeeping Machine. Ward Stoneburner, Route 2 Decatur. J , 72-g2t FOR SALE —Beet plow with discs attachmems. John Berber. Decatur. route 4. Phone 219. 72- ltx FOR SALE — Coming yearly colt, trotn Habegger stallion. Onefourth mile west of St. Paul's church. Clarence McKean. 72-3tx FOR SALE—Chester White male hog, one year old. Wm. Weber. 11. 4, Preble phone. 71-3tx WANTED WANTED TO BUY—Up to S2O paid for Indian Head Cents; HalfCents, $125; large Capper Cents. SSOO. etc. Send dime for list. Romano Coin Shop. “A”, Springtield, Itx AV ANTED —Man in this locality as Direct Representative of well known oil company. Sell small town and farm trade on easy credit ' teims. Experience not necessary. No investment required. Chance for immediate steady income. Write P. T. Webster, General Manager, 6232 Standard Bank Building. Cleveland Ohio. 73-ltx | • FOR RENT FOR RENT 3 office rooms; heat and water furnished. Inquire Niblick Store. 72-3 t FOR RENT — Three front rooms, nice for a law office; rent cheap. Above Burns' cigar store. Bertha Ellis, phone 1223. 71-3 t FOR RENT — 60 acre farm 1 mile I east and 2 3-4 mile south of Mon- ( rqe. Well improved black soil; good . buildings. Immediate possession. A. ' J. Hlrschy 536 Packard Ave. Fort Wayne, Ind. 19-21-24-x o Bob Frisinger ie spending the ■week-end in Chicago visiting with ft lends. BANK STATEMENT Charter No. 469 Report of the condition of | Farmers State Hank at Preble, in tiie State of Indiana, at the close of its business on March 5. 1934. W. M. MEYER. President ALBERT KEPPERT. Vice-Pres. C. R. SMITH. Cashier N. A. ARNOLD, Asst. Cashier Resources Loans and discounts $72,755.53 Overdrafts .. 5.23 U. S. Govt. Secunties 14,901.2(1 Other Ronds. Securi- - ties. etc. .. . 23.804.:;4 , Hanking House 3.200.001 . and fixtures 2.600.00 ■-Other Real Estate Owned 7,031.00 Due from Trust Companies - Ranks and Bankers and Cash on Hand .. 19,937.49 .Cash Items 7.22 TOTAL $1 44,242.01 Liabilities C.upital Stock. Paid in $ 25.000.00 "Surplus Fund 4.100.00 Undivided Profits—Net 2,074.51 .Demand Deposits Deposits sub77 jcct to check $41,660.57 m Demand Cer- " titivates of „ deposit 47,068.60 • 88.729.17 7_ Time Deposits Time Certificates of „ Deposit $18,830.35 “ Time Savings Deposits 2,831.44 «. 21,661.79 ' Due to Banks and Trust Companies None 7 Due to Departments None - Bills Payable None X Notes Rediscounted None - Cash Over 8.50 Other Liabilities (List Below) 2.668.94 • Coupon collected 7 for customer $ 3.53 Bond Premium account 164.51 • Special Deposit . .. 2.500.00 TOTAL .. $144,242.01 Loans to Affiliated Companies (Sections 226 • and 232) None . Shares of Affiliated Companies None ~ First Lien Trust Funds None -• State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: I,' C. R. Smith, cashier, of the Farmers State Bank, of Preble. . Indiana, do solemnly swear that ■ the above statement is true. C. R. SMITH. •- Subscribed and sworn to before X nie this 23 day of March. 1934. Thurman Fuhrman. ” (Seal) Notary Public Iffy commission expires June 6. 1937.

MARKETREPORTS! DAILY REPORT OF LOCAL • AND FOREIGN MARKETS BERNE MARKET I Corrected March 24 No commission and no yardage A’eals received Tuesday Wednesday Friday and Saturday ■ lib' tO 210 libs $4.25 310 to 250 Iba. $4.30 X'to • ’.!>• $4.15 300 to 350 lbs. $3.90 140 to 160 lb*. $3.25 120 to 140 lbs $2.30 100 to 120 lbs $2.00 Roughs $2.75 Stags $1.50 Vealera $7.00 Lam ba - $8.50 Fort Wayne Livestock Hogs steady; 250-300 tbs. $4.55; 200-250 lbs. $4.45; 180-200 lbs. $4.30; 160-180 lbs. $4.20; 300-350 lbs. $4.05; 150-160 tbs. $3.65; 14)150 lbs. $3.40; 130-140 lbs. $3.15; 120-130 lbs. $2.65; 100-120 lbs. $2.15; roughs $3.25; stags $2. Calves $7.50; 'lambs $8.75-9. EAST BUFFALO LIVESTOCK East Buffalo. Ny., March 24 —(UP) Livestock. Hogs Receipts 500; holdovers none; rather slow; most-1 ly steady; desirable 160-280 lbs. j $4.90-15; 120-150 lbs. quoted $3.85- I $4.50; pigs downward to $3 and be- j low. Cattle: Receipts none; week'is steer and yearling run light; quality plain; market steady to 15c higher, good steers $6.50-$7; bulk medium $5.60-$6.25; few cows: . around $5; cows and hulls firm; i fat cows $3.40-$3.75; cutter grades ' $1.50-$2.60; medium bulls $3.15- I $3.40. Calves: receipts none; vealers; losed fully 50c overlast week ; good | to choice mainly $8; few selections I $8.50; common and medium $4.50-, $6.75. Sheep; receipts none; lambs ■ strong with one week ago; early ad- ; vance erased; good to choice $9.75 i and sparingly $10; early top $10.25; | common and medium $8.25-$9.25; , shorn lambs SB-$8.50; few 50-56 lbs. ! spring lambs $11.75-$12.50. CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE May July Sept. I I Wheat .87% - 8 " ■» - 88 % ! ’Corn .50% .52% .541.1 joats 34 .34% .344*: LOCAL GRAIN MARKET Corrected March 22 No. 1 New Wheat, 60 lbs or better 79c No. 2 New Wheat 58 lbs. 78c Old Oats 31c I New Oats —29 c I First Class Yellow Corn 58c . Mixed corn 5c less I Soy Beans 60c to 90c o | Test Your Knowledge | Can you answer seven of these tese Questions? Turn to page Four for the answer*. 1. Name the Austrian bailiff in ; I the legend of William Tell. 2. In what motion picture did ■ John Boles sing The Song of the Dawn?’’ 3. What is an epitome? 4. Where does Walt Mason live? 5. Where did the Mountain Meadows Massacre outur? 6. What does eleemosynary 7. What is the body temperature of an average healthy adult? 8. Can the Prince of Walesj succeed to the throne if he remains a bachelor? 9. What is the national motto of the United States? 10. What is aleurophobia? Old Doctors' Bills Paid Cleveland —(UP)— Another recovery note: People are paying up their old doctor bills, at least in Cleveland, Furthermore, Cleveland hospitals report a decided increase in occupancy. The news is on the authority of Miss Frances Klaus, head of the credit department of the Pythians’ and Dentists’ Credit Bureau, who says that physicians' accounts which have been dormant for 18 months to three and four years are beng brought back to life by payments. SPECIAL— Meet Me At The WHITE SPOT CAFE, 116 Monroe St. 71t3

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CHAPTER I Lanyard found his lost youth again less than an hour after he had fondly bade it a last farewell. At pause by the port rail he watched the dusk blur out the dusty loom of France and saw the last small shine of longshore lights washed under; and lifting a hand in salute to one of the temples that already were well silvered, “Pays de ma jeunesse perdue ", the man said in a muted voice—"land of my lost youth—adieu!” As if by describing this sentimental gesture he had discharged a duty of the soul, he turned to go below to his lonely cabin. The door to the smoking-room was the nearest. Most of the congregation in there were Americans getting off to a fast start in their race against time —with only five days to go ere the breath of their native desert would dry up the bar —and nothing tempted the man to tarry till his eye lighted haphazard on another solitary figure. This was one who sat by himself, in a corner, minding his pipe, and. to all appearance, nothing else but his thoughts: a long lean body, loose-jointed, with the carved lean mask and almost the complexion of the aboriginal American —that type of fine i stock gone native which New England and the Midlands turn out in greater numbers every generation. Coming to a halt before him Lanyard politely remarked: "Mr. Crane. I believe, sometime of Police Headquarters, New York, and —who knows?—perhaps still—” The man with the pipe lifted a cool gray stare, scrutinizing his one-time quarry. “I don’t believe it,” he declared' with a touch of testiness but no | change of muscular expression j whatever. “Ain’t no sich animal. . The Lone Wolf shed his felonious hide and showed himself up fori nothing but a dumb law-abiding sheep while I was still kicking around in short pants. Go ’way. Quit trying to kid me. You don’t exist” A raw-boned hand at the same time shot out and nipped Lanyard’s wrist. "Maybe I’m wrong at that; you feel like flesh and blood, all right. Sit down, hombre, and don’t resist If you do, I'll tell the Captain on you. Maybe I ought to, at that, instead of buying us a heap of drinks.” “Who am I to oppose you?” The show of resignation, while quite in Crane’s humor, was touched by some real feeling, too. “You have reason, my friend: I am a shade indeed, revisiting these glimpses of the moon, but too substantial for all that to care about finishing the voyage in irons. Set aside the inconsistency of a ghost’s refusing spirituous consolation.” A steward hovered to serve their pleasure. “But you, my friend, you have not changed. I mean, of course, outwardly. One would say the years have not been unkind to you. How many is it? No matter!”—a shadow darkened Lanyard’s gaze—“l have too good reason to remember.” “Well, if you ask me.” Crane heedlessly rejoined, “you don't show a terrible lot of wear and tear, either. It isn’t every day a former holy terror has a change of heart and comes back looking like you do. How come?” “Quite simple. You view in me the result of a change of methods rather than a change of heart Once a thief, you know—” “Uh-huh, the other grunted; “I know all about that. You just couldn’t stick to the straight and narrow, so you went back to fancy second-story work. Now tell me another." “But ask any of my clients. I am sure every one will tell you Michael Lanyard, merchant of antiques and objete d’art, is a robber stall. You may recall, the last you saw of me I was but newly married— ’’ “I haven’t forgotten—nor how I envied you.” “Figure to yourself, one could

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not consent to do nothing with one’s life but be the idle husband of a lady of means. One turned one’s modest talents to account, then, by forming an alliance with Delibes et Cis of Paris—and prospered to such effect that one is today a partner in the business.” “Delibes!” Crane opened his eyes. “The antique barons who have a store on Fifth avenue near Fifty-seventh?” “The same. It is to take over control of the American branch that I am now crossing—for the first time in twelve years.” “Good business! And bringing Mrs. Lanyard, I hope, with you?" “Mme. Lanyard.” accents of desolation answered from a face for the moment averted, “is no more.” “Poor old boy!”

Ip’. A ikw w i Coming to a halt before him, Lanyard politely remarked: “Mr. Crane, I believe, sometime of Police Headquarters. New York ”

“Thank you, my friend. That is why it seemed wise to profit by the opportunity, when it presented itself, to end my time abroad. France had come to be a land of memories too poignant. . . .” “You don't intend to return?” “Never of my own will. It is only just now that I watched the land of my lost youth vanish, and bade it good-by.” “Morbid. I call it—man in his prime. With the best time of life before him, mourning his lost youth!” ” 'Who leaves France’ Lanyard quoted—“ You remember Mary Stuart’s Farewell?—‘B'ho leaves France, dies’ . . What is life but a prelude to death, when one has only oneself left to live for?” “No blood kin anywhere?” Crane wondered uncomfortably. “None. The parents whp wjtsook me in Paris, an infant, to live or die as God willed, I never knew. Even that wretched woman who informally adopted me, Madame the proprietor of the mean hotel in which I was abandoned, and made a very slave of me, an unpaid drudge at the beck and kick of waiters and scullions—she too is dead these many years.” “Hello!” Glints kindled !n the gray eyes with the hoodlike lids, “That’s how you took off for a life of crime, eh? I’ve often wondered —a man that’s got the stuff in him' you have—” “But figure to yourself, my friend, what chance had I. with such a background for my boyhood —the backstairs life of a third-rate hotel, the companionship of servants recruited from the kennels

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and—in my rare hours off—riffraff of the streets, Apaches and worse. Such were the tutors who taught me my trade and turned me out a thoroughpaced young blackguard with the moral sense of a hyena arffl every thieves’ trick at my fingertips, past-master of crime at twenty.” “Going on all they tell of you, that’s no idle tale. What beats me is how you ever came to snap out of it.” "Two things were my salvation, the intelligence my unknown parents endowed me with and”—Lanyard with a dim smile paused for a thought—“love.” “So?” Crane’s eyebrows were skeptical. “They don't pull too well in double-harness, as a rule, those two—love and horse-sense.” ,

“Yet it was the same intelligence that earned me my sobriquet, the Ixine Wolf—for I perceived from the first that the thief was a fool who had allies or confidants to betray him—which told me the jig was up when I fell in love with a right woman. Never since the time immediately preceding my first marriage has the Lone Wolf prowled. That was long ago, my friend: but to this day the police distrust me. Even you, when we first met. if you remember—” “Yeah,” Crane drawl'd. “You were a great disappointment to me. But when was this first marriage?” “In my early twenties.” ‘‘lt didn’t last?" “We were very happy,” Lanyard replied with eyes wistful for the faded years. “We left France to escape the attentions of the police and made our home—unde- another name, for the sake of our children —in Belgium.” “Children, eh? But I thought you said—” “There were two, a boy who was seven years old, a girl who was four, when they perished with their mother in the sack of Louvain. It so happened that I was in Paris when War was declared. When at length I managed to break through the lines, I even had trouble finding a neighbor who could lead me to their graves. By my second marriage I had no children. So. as I say, I am alone now,” Lanyard wound up, “ —and find myself tedius company, as I am afraid you must.” Any time that happens. I’ll tell you.”

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CHAPTER II “But about yourself, please! I have often thought of you, who have so much in the way of kindness to remember you by.” "What do you mean, 'kindness’?” Crane snorted. “Good will, if you like- -always did have a soft side for a sportsman. But I’ll be jiggered if I can lay my mind to any time when the Lone Wolf asked odds of man or devil.” “For all that, there were occasions when I would have been put to it to remain at if you hadn’t seen to it—how do you say it?—that 1 ‘got the breaks’." "No more than I’d’ve done for any man—have, like a sap, too often with others.” “One has more than once thought you were too just a genius, and too good-hearted, to round out your days a policeman.” Lanyard saluted with his glass and laughed as he drained it: “If it’s a fair question—” “I’ve been out of the P. D. a good many years now,” Crane confessed, grinning, “ —by request more than from choice, if you must know. It seemed to be the consensus of the mugs higher up that a dick who believed in giving a crook a break didn’t belong. Shouldn’t wonder if they were right, at that.” “But you were too much in love with your profession, surely—” Crane grinned again, wryly. “You can’t teach an old flatfoot to do toe-dancing, that’s a fact.” “Then it is Crane's Private Detective Agency today, no doubt?” ■Nothing so grand. No," Crane vaguely professed, “I just do odd jobs as they turn up. Friends send me clients and the ones I satisfy pass the word along to others. The racket will never make me rich, but it’s a good enough life—l like it.” “That makes me happy for you.” Lanyard forbore to follow up a line toward which, it was plain. Crane preferred to maintain a noncommittal attitude. “For myself, no less, I shall not feel so much a skeleton at the feast, amongst all these gay folk, with you on board to gossip with ” A bugle, silver-throat-ed, just then sang on the night»wept deck, and Lanyard confirmed by the clock a dark surmise. “It doesn’t seem possible that can be the second call for dinner.” “Dressing?” Crane inquired, without offering to budge. “Oh, if one will travel first-cabin on express steamers—” “I suppose so. Especially the heavy swell you've turned out to be. It’s different here. Nobody cares how a journeyman dick dresses, not so long as he delivers the goods. Mind my saying again you make me tired?” “I’m sorry,” Lanyard alleged, without troubling to look it, “Anyone our age that’s got as much ambition as you have, moaning about his ’lost youth’l Not only that, but I never knew you except when there was something doing, something lively, and the old Lone Wolf in the thick of it. What odds will you lay your precious ‘lost youth’ ain’t waiting for you just around the cot-ner?” “Ah, no, my friendl” Lanyard protested, laughing. “No such luck!” I

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And went below to meet it faee to face. . . . His stateroom was far forward on the starboard side of A Deck, at the head of a long passageway which was empty at the instant when Lanyard first viewed it from the after end. In the next, however. he discovered in a start that its vista held another figure, a man who had appeared sd abruptly at a point about amidships that Lanyard could by no means have said ivhich door he had emerged from, or for that matter that he actually ! had emerged from any, the effect • being that of a shape all at once i materialized out of thin air—a quite young itan, point-device in evening dress, who was sauntering aft with , all insouciance, precisely as if’ it . were his common practice to pop up out of nowhere like an imp in a pantomime. Now Lanyard hadn’t forgotten any of the dodges at which the Lone Wolf had been adept and was hardly to be dumfounded by one which he could readily Lave duplicated. It was recoil from a violent nsychic shock that sent him on, to bring up with disconcerted eyes questioning the portrait of himself at middle-age which the glass above his cabin washstand pictured. All a-tremble, he whose unshakable nerves had been his secret boast! For it bad been for a space his lot to look upon himself in the pride of his youth, upon a revenant of the Lone Wolf at the zenith of a career that stood still unparalleled in criminal annals. As if in entering that passageway he had crossed unawares a forbidden threshold and in the mad perspectives of a realm where Time stood still had met his own lost youth again. . . The stare that searched and searched again the lineaments of the mirrored Lanyard saw them, everyone, a prototype of the younger man’s. Yet Lanyard questioned whether any vision unbiased by his memories would see the resemblance that in his sight was so bold. If both had the same firm yet mobile mouth, his had grown sad and cynical while the other’s was generous still and gay: if both could boast the same dark eyes deeply recessed, one pair was a little weary, the other quick with unquenched verve. And so with every other feature—his hair thinned out and dusted with snow, the other’s lush and darkly lustrous, his face graven with deep lines, its temples hollowel, the other’s rounded and innocent of crow’s-feet. . . Had he, then, come blindly upon a younger brother—or. possibly, some collateral of his untraeeable paternity? Or might the likeness by any chance conceivable be owing to a closer kinship still. It demanded an effort of will to put that wild thought by and get on with his dressing. It was a shaken man and one who felt himself measurably older who tardily presented himself in the diningsaloon to claim a place at the Captain’s table and find it between two ladies, one whose becomingly bobbed ' white hair marked her at sight as the most interesting woman of his ' acquaintance, and one with hair of ' ashen gold and sedate brown eye» who was to prove in his esteem, the most winsome of her generation. The look askance which the first —Mrs. Innes Crozier of New York —turned upon Lanyard promptly < kindled with the kindliest spirit “How perfectly splendid! And j here I’ve been sitting all over goose- , flesh, monsieur, for fear you’d turn out to be either a junior execu- ( tire of big business or some old dodo- , bird winging back to his roost in a Fifth Avenue club window or—•heaven save us!—what have you?”

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> "Madame is graci OMto J simple tradesman better eoJ i Unyard responded ‘ » T ark 5° the mw! 1 r tradesman' indeed!" Mrs M : dimpled on him and l white head ov< r the ■ if you hadn’t, simply ; weight of your expert hj i behind it, pushed Del'.besJ 1 first place in the last few J - and weren’t vain as I it! Fenno, sweet!” she caikil , ing forward to look cast IJ ’ “This is the same Mons:esr[J ; whom you have heard me iW i hind his back so often. M i taken in by his deeeitfnhJ ; knows more about jewels aSI i ings than any man living J] : the nerve to call himself"‘ij tradesman’!’’ ] “Thank you, Mother, for tit J ly warning,” Fenno Crozier J with disarming simplicity Lanyard all the attention 73 sweet eyes. ‘T'm very foJ don’t you think, monsieur!"l “Blessed, indeed—or ay J need looking after and my less.” “What a neat way to am J Fliment —not to mention my'd only meant in having a moM guide me. So few girls iu»d adays. Though I think I i have been on my guard tkiil without a word from Fay, I j heard so much, such curoa I of Monsieur Lanyard." “I am sure," Lanyard ud with just a trace of patience. | “Forgive me. I didn't meu l cheeky?’ “But forgive me. To be ped is beauty's privilege. Iwiileid however, I am a little boreci seeing pretty eyes light up d with interest in viewing thed remains of a bad lot" “And not, you feel sure, ma terest in what you have made them? A figure of intend authority.” “Sure of nothing, madeaod except that I'm no match ford "Mother was right.* the pl] nounced with a thoughtful ad she hadn’t cautioned me. Id have been taken in by But tell me: Are you ainpl sensitive to teasing?" “Supersensitive tonight, I afraid, because I have jusM disturbing experience. Do ywj lieve in ghosts? I never saw one.” “But surely you’re gousj »| n-.e—” “Don’t think to draw allff crets at once with those d eyes. Some day. perhaps, «•! had time to mull it over." “If you don't, I shall nevef give you.” “What have you two focntHi) about so earnestly ?” FenneiQ er put in. “Secrets. Thus far, howeWJ remain locked up '' r.rnsiewil om. Maybe you'll have monj cess with the man: but as»R I’m a wash out." The Captain, on her left, cm Fenno's attention. “Well?” Fay Crozier queried. But Lanyard made believem understand and merely an.- 18 “She is exquisite.” 1 “Fenno ? Os course she is B you wonder how I. with myrouse backgrour i, made outu| the world such a daughter “In a word—n AndwM'J •rough-house background “Don’t be a fraud. You kn««l fectly well—at all events, 1 ’ think somebody m t have , —I arrived on Pai A'' eßU kJ of Weber and Fields. daughter is a lady ’ “But naturally. m*d* me ' j (To Be Continued)