Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 26, 1922, Page 4

P ) i Ay R THE BEMIDJ1'DAILY PIONEER ° LY, am . e O \top\;riglfl by Willy \ 0 —— r - 4wi. SYNOPSIg W TFOREWORD.—Motoring through Arl- zona, a4 party of easterners, father and and a male companion, stop to cattle round up. The girl leaves the car and is attacked by a wild steer. A masterpiece of riding on the part of one of the cowboys saves her life, CHAPTER L—Clay Lindsay, range-rider on an Arizona ranch, announces his inten- tion to visit the “big town,” New York. CHAPTER IL—On the train Lindeay becomes Interested in a young woman, Kitty Mason, on her way to New York 1o become a motion-pleture actress. She s marked ag fair prey by a fellow trav; eler, Jerry Durand, gang politician and ex-prize fighter. Perceiving his Intention, Lindsay provokes a quarrel and throws Durand from the train. . CHAPTER IIl — 1 I ‘The Big Town, When Clay stepped from the station at the Thirty-fourth Street entrance New York burst upon him with what seemed almost a threat. He could hear the roar of it like a river rushing down a canyon. Clay had faced a cattle stampede. He had ridden out a bliz- zard hunched up with the drifting herd. He had lived rough all his young and joyous life. But for a moment he felt a chill drench at his heart that was almost dread. He dia not know a soul in this vast populace. He was alone among seven ‘or eight million crazy human beings, He had checked his sultcase to be free to look about. He had no destina- tion and was in no hurry. All the day was before him, all of many days. He drifted down the street and across to Sixth avenue. Chance swept him up Sixth to Her- ald square. He was caught in the river of humanity that races up Broad- way. He wondered where all this rush of pedple was going. What crazy im- pulses sent them surging to and fro? And the girls—Clay - surrendered ' to them at discretion. He had not sup- posed there were so many pretty, well- dressed girls in the world. “First off I'm goin’ to get me a real city suit of clothes,” he promised him- self. “This here wrinkled outfit is some too woolly for the big town. It's a good sult yet—"most as good as when I bought it at the Boston store in Tueson three years ago. But I reckon I'l save it to go home In." He stopped in front of a store above which was the legend “I. Bernstein, | | “Might You Would Want a Good Suit of Quality Clothes, My Friendt?” He Suggested. Men's Garments.” A small man with sherp little eyes and well-defined nose | was standing in the doorway. Aight you would want a good sult ity clothes, my friendt,” he sug- gosted. “You've e the west 4 me right,” agreed with his ready smile. 1o vin personally conducted to the suit department. vermyself on account you was a stranger to the city,” he ex- plained. The little man took a suit from a rack-and held it at arm’s length to ad- mire it. His tingers caressed the woof of It lovingly. He evidently could bring himself to part with it only after a struggle. “Worsted. Fine goods.” He leaned toward the rangerider and whis- pered a secret. “Imported.” Clay shook his head. *Not what 1| want.” His eyes rangea the racks. “This is more my notion of the sort of thing 1 like.” He pointed to a blue serge with a little stripe in the pat- tern, The dealer detached the coat lov- Ingly from the hanger and helped his { was watering the parking beyond the | tated for a moment to give the man Only fate could bave brought together this man and this suit, so manifestly destined for each other since the hour when Eve began to patch up fig leaves for Adam. “Like a coat of paint,” he murmured aloud. The cowpuncher grinned. He under- stood the business that went with sell- ing a suit in some stores. But it hap- pened that he liked this suit bimself. “How much?” he asked. The owner of the store dwelt on the merits of the suit, its style, its dur- ability, the perfect fit. He covered his subject with artistic thoroughness. Then, reluctantly, he confidled in a whisper the price at which he was go- ing to sacrifice this suit among suits. “To you, my friendt, 1 make this garment for only sixty-five dollars.” He added another secret detail. “Below wholesale cost.” A little devil of mirth lit In Lind- |§ say’s eye. “I'd hate to have you rob yoreself like that. And me a pertect stranger to you too.” “Qvality, ¥’ understan’ me. Which a man must got to live garments like I done to appreciate such a suit. All wool. Every thread of ir. Unshrink- able.” Mr. Bernsteln caressed it agaln. “One swell plece of goods,” he told Thimself softly, almost with tears in his eyes, “All wool, you say?” asked Clay, feel- ing the texture. He had made up his mind to buy it, though he thought the price a bit stiff, Mr. Bernstein protested on his honor that there was not a thread of cotton in it. “Which you could take it from me that when I sell a suit of clothes it Is like I am dealing with my own brother,” he added. “Every gar- ment out of this store takes my per- sonal guarantee.” Clay tried on the trousers and looked at\himself in the glass. So far as he could tell he looked just like any other Nev‘fi)’ orker, The 'dealer leaned forward and spoke nshamed’ of his softness of heart. “I'ifty-five\dollars—to you.” “T'll take\It,” the westerner said. The clotitier called his tailor from the rear of ithe store to make an ad- justment in the trousers. Meanwhile he deftly removed the tags which told him In cipher that the suit had cost him just eleven dollars and seventy- five cents. Half an hour later Clay sat on top of a Fifth avenue bus which was jerk- ing its way uptown. His shoes were shined to mirror brightness. He was stripe running through the pattern. That suit just now was the apple of his eye. It proved him a New Yorker and not a wild man from the Arizona desert. E The motor-bus ran up Fifth avepue, cut across to Broadway, passed Co- lumbus circle, and swept into the Drive, It was a day divinely young and fair. The fragrance of a lingering spring was wafted to the nostrils, Glimpses of tne park tempted Clay. Its wind- ing paths! The children playing on the grass while their maids In neat «caps and aprous gossipea together on the benches near! :This was the most human spot the man from Arizona had seen in the metropolis. Somewhere In the early three-figure strects he descended from the top of the bus and let his footsteps follow his inclinations into the park. He struck across the Drive into a side street. An apartment house occuplea the corner, but from the other side a row of hand- some private dwellings faced him. The janitor of the apartment house sidewalk. The edge of the stream from the nozzle of the nose sprayed the path in fromt of Clay. He hesi- time to turn aside the hose. But' the janitor on this particular morning had been fed up with trouble, One of the tenants had complained of him to the agent of the place. Another had moved away without tipping him for an hour’s help in packing he had given her. He was sulkily of the opin-’ conspiracy to annoy him. Just now the approaching rube typitied the world. "] Clay's newly shined boots and the lows’ er six inches of hig trodsers, “Look .out what you're doing!” prog tested the man from Arizona. {’ “I tank you better look where you’re going,” retorted the one from Sweden. He was a heavy-set, muscular man with a sullen, obstinate face. “Mj*shoes and trousers are sopplog wet. Ibelieve you dit it on purpose.” “Tank so? Val, yust one teng I lak to tell you. I got no time for d—n fule talk.” The westerner started on his way. There was no use having a row with a sulky janitor. But the Swede misunderstood his | purpose. At Clay’s first step forward Clay was swept back to the Wall by the heavy pressure of water that played over him. The stream moved gwiftly up and down him from head to, foot till it had drenched every lnch of the perrect fifty-tive-dollar suit. He drowned fathoms deep In a water spout. He was swept over Niagara Falls. He came to lite again to find himself the choking center of a world flood. He .gave a strangled whoop and charged straight at the nan behind the hose. The two clinched. While they struggled, the writhing hose ‘slapped back and forth between them like an agitated snake. Clay had oune ad- It did not matter how_wuych of the T N delbige struck him, The janltor fought to keep dry and he had not a chance on.earth to succeed. For-one hundred and seventy-five pounds of Arizona bone and muscle, toughened by years of hard work in sun and wind, had clamped Itself up- on him. The nozzle twisted toward the Janitor. He ducked, went down, and was instantly submerged. When he tried to rise, the stream beat him back. He struggled halfway up, slipped, got again to his feet, and came down sit- ting with a hard bump when his legs skated from under him. 5 (Continued in Next [ss=e) vantage. He was wet through anyhow. I‘I'HE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS In Hard Lines “I could not work at all and had to take to my bed with a high fever due to intestinal indigestion, gasses in my stomach and pain in my right side. - I had spent my last cent xor doctors and medicine, which gave me no relief. I was in despair. A lodge brother gave me a bottle of Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy, and the first; dose relicved me. Thanks to this medicine I am now in the best of; health.” 1t is a simple, harmless preparation funded. At All Druggists.—Adv. that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes prac- ticaliy all stomach, liver and intesti- nal ailments, - including appendicitis. e FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1922 MANDARIN CAFE 302 Second Street Open Under New Management Open from 9 to 2 O’Clock A. M. DALLY PIGNEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS Chop Suey Dinner Served All American or Chinese Dishes Served =~ in First Class Style, iR CHARLIE LUM, Prop. W AN T [Li in a whisper. Apparently he was |° garbed in a blue serge suit with a little | fon that the whole world was in a | ¥ A little flirt of the hose deluged:| ¥ he jerked round the nozzle and let the customer into it. ‘Then he fell back, eyes lit with_enthusiastic_amazement, IO P P E Now on the Last Days et o ou: Smoke Damage Sal We have had a splendid sale and have disposed of an enormous lot of goods at very low prices. All who have taken advantage of this sale have saved money. We are now getting in new goods, right along, to take the place of all the damaged goods that have been disposed of. FOR THE LAST DAYS!—COMMENCING TODAY, WE OFFER THESE EXTRA BIG SPE- CIAL ITEMS AT THESE REMARKABLE LOW PRICES! 26-inch Unbleached Muslin, good* weight, yer Y“d"“-"--»-»--"s'zl'c 26-inch Unbleached Muslin, in good weight, per yard....lZéc Pyrex Cake Plates ... Pyrex Pie Plates Pyrex Baking Dishes, v ot §1.25 - 95 - §llc & Pyrex Casseroles....SlAg - $l.95 Ladies’ AllSilk Hose§] 95- 85¢ Men’s Black Hose .................. gc #2-in-1” Shoe Polish, paste or bot- tles,, reg. 15¢c, sale price....loc 5-sewed Parlor Brooms, sale Men’s Heavy Overalls........ $1 19 Boys’ Overalls.“.49c - 750 % 98¢ NI Sale Prices ‘on Rugs 27x54 Wool Fibre Rugs, in Green d’ R back- an ose bac! $1.69 grounds ...... 27x54 Lorraine Crex Rugs, splen- did patterns, diffccent than the average, at ... o 27x54 Blue,dBrown and Rose back- grounds, it $325 27x54 Wool Rugs, fancy $3 50 patterns 27x54 Axminster Rugs .. 27x54 Best grade Ax. minster Rugs 27x54 Velvet Rugs, in Rose and Grey.. 36x72 Best ec.rr:fe Ax- $1250 ::.:' 75c ® 980 it $l.48.ml up Liquid Veneer Auto Spray and Bottle of Polish, for . 32-piece Dinner Sets, in pretty decorated patterns, all at sale prices 549575 - 5.95 -3¢ 10c Linen Envelopes .............. 5¢ Shoe Laces, all sizes, pair..... Liquid Veneer Oil, Spray, $1.75 value, sale price for both..ugsc Bathing ~ Caps, large selection, at..15¢, 19¢, 29¢, 35c¢, 49¢ to $1.49 Ladies’ Fine Cotton Summer Union Suits, open or tight knee, sizes 36 to 44, sale Garden Seeds, pkg . 25¢ Shaving Brughes, each...... 9c Crackér Jack, pkg . Children’s Rake, Hoe and Spade Sets, 29c.value, per set...... lsc No. 1 Kiddie Kars ................ 85¢ Don’t miss the last days of our Sale. Come and see. «Of C Bemidji’s Largest and Oldest Variety Store ON BELTRAMI AVE. IR A A AR RAR R A E LY No. 2 Kiddie Kars ............. $1 25 No. 3 Kiddie Kars ........... $1 49 $8.00 Children’s Swings, made of heavy rope and steel supports, where children can swing them- selves, will last forever, sale i $5.95 Children’s Rompers, 2 to 6 years, sale prices3gc - 9 - e Tge Children’s Unionals...g5c - g6 - §1.25 Children’s Union Suits, sizes 2 to 16 years, sale price .......... 39¢ ¢y, sale price ... Ladies’ Black Hose, pair........ 9(: Ladies’ Fine White Hose...... lgc Boys’ and Men’s Straw Hats, Bt 10c - 15¢ - 25¢ - 35¢ Showing new Ladies’ Sport Hats, at ] 95 295 305 Showing new Silk Sweaters for Ladies, all new colors as well as black— 3.95-4.95-5.95-6.95* $10 Be Sure ito See These! Flagsand everything for Memorial Day—Come in and get what you want here.” Graduation Gifts Every sort of a gift at this Big Gift Store at very rea- sonable prices. We are sure to have just what you want. A e s e T TY TS T