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Show DOHENYaJWCLMfir AsKdarestBe lemons of SIQOkiQ. He Is StoWI to have given suo,000 to the laat Democratic campaign fund, and $25,i) to the war cLert. lie was, It will be pul In nomination for vice pree-tderrmi-inliere- at the laat Deroocrat-1- c national convention. He Save $250 ,Ui to the Iriab rauaeL He bet $3110.000 on Wilson's election and intended to bet half a million, but bis wife found It out and top;d him. Doheny a ct $100,000 to Fall In a satchel. at bla old friends request. It la no more of a Mcrflce for me Lave $100,-00to let a frl than It la for many men to part with $10 or $15." So he testified In the oil lease Im estimation. And those It'e a good who know Mm well, that he meant nothing wrung by It Otherwise, they any. be never would have sent it by hie eon KJdle, who la the apple of Ida eye. Doheny looks and talks like a college professor. On occasion he can get very angry Indeed. He had a flat light with one of hie toe Angeles architect!. He waa angry clear through when he tend fled before the committee of the senate 0 1 " Churchyard " s Older Both iLe word cemetery and the word churchyard have been uaed fur many centuries In England. The word cemetery was originally applied to the catacomb In Home. It is found as early as 13S7 In England. Tha word churchyard, on the otlier hand, In the old English chronicle! at about the year 1154. Heed Natures Warning Before It Is Too Late Pains in the Side, Back and Luck That Changed Kidneys Show That SomeAn Insurance agent found a quarter thing Is Wrong With Your on bis doorstep, his wife picked up Nervousness, half a dollar and his daughter ruelied System In announcing tlie discovery of a dime. Loss of Appetite and At supper their toust was May our Sleeplessness Are Adgood luck continue," and then the father found that, owing to a hole In vance Warnings That if hi pocket, he hud lust about a dollar. Heeded Will Save Serious London Trouble Later On. Fair Warning Tlie Aggressive Youth (before tlie TANLAC HAS HELPED fight began) Look ere, before we aturt Id better warn you tliut one of THOUSANDS REGAIN me unifies l.s in tlie undertaking business. E s me favorite umfie, too, and NORMAL HEALTH iin. London Tlt-Blr- Ill do anything to help Fussing Show. Over 100,000 Persons Have Testified That TANLAC The Seala Santa, or the staircase by Has Corrected Stomach which Christ went up into Pilate's near In e Is chapel house, preserved Trouble, Indigestion, tlie Lateran, Koine. Its 28 marble Rheumatism, Nervousness eteps ere ascended by devout visitors on their knees. and Kindred Ailments It Builds Up the System Brighten Faded Carpet and Starts Rich Red Blood Add half a cupful of vinegar to half a pint of water, wring a large, clean Coursing Through Your cloth out of tide and go over your carVeins. All Good Drugpet with wide stroke. You will be the with Improvement greatly pleased gists Sell TANLAC. Sacred Staircase In Iceland Many Icelanders have never seen a train nor a trolley car, a drama nor a masterpiece of art ; nor have they ever een a tree ; only saplings In some very sheltered nook. They have no gar- dens, fruit or grapevines. Mitchell p .w A QsllA OdIVe For ether liTUatton. or The eld simple remedy tfwi brings romfutlng relief Mt dfUBtistg iUAHacM'IPwYestCUj ' SORE EVES that a xtrwsrwAxim caarrrreg' By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN OIIENY and Sinclair as picturesque famous I So reads the headline. are some of course who will say the laat word of this headline should be longer by another syllable. That la neither here nor there, Thle writer bolds briefs neither for nor egalnst IHilieny and Sinclair. Nor la this article all about the oil scandal. The purpose simply la to act furth some of the high Bpota In the Uvea of two Americans who are both picturesque end famous. They hare always been picturesque And they were famous long before the oil scandal broke. Doheny la one of the richest men In the world and probably tlie third richest American. Ills properly holdings are International ; so are hla Industrial and commercial operations, Hla several homes are palatial. Hla Caslana la the finest private yarht afloat. Hla money gifts and contributions to charity and politics have been large. Ilia name la known all over the world, lrreaiectlve of the oil lease Investigations. Sinclair la also a very rich man, whose inter- national property holdings and financial alterations have given him a world-wldreputation. The American baseball world knows him. Wherever men nice thoroughbred horses he Is known ns the owner of Zev, winner of the Inat Kentucky Derby and International champion, tlie greatest money-winnof any horse In history. Albania tried to Induce him to be Its king. Slncluir" Is a garage word among the IS, 1X10,000 American owners of automobiles. So these two men are famous. Irrespective of the oil leaso Investigations, in the strict sense of the word. And picturesque! Brad what follows. Kdward I.aurcnre Doheny was born In 1S50 at Fond du Lac, Wla., with a wanderlust. So. after going through tlie high echool, he went west and became a prospector for gold and silver. The prospector gets someone to grubstake him, parka bla outfit on n burro and heads for the wildest country he ran find. The hardships kill off many. The solitude drives most of the survivors crazy. Tboee that retain both life and reason are strongly Individualistic and different from almost any other kind of man. Fill In a gap of twenty years or so In Poheny's career as a proqieetor to suit yourself. They say bis acquaintance with Albert IV. Fall, another picturesque adventurer of lha West, began In 181. About 1887 IVilieny drifted Into Kingston, N. M. "We need a school teacher." said tlu; citizens, lie had to rat, so he taught school. He was made head of a vigilance committee to rid the community of . cattle thieves, bandits and lie got a lot of them. The rest ordered him to kave. lie didn't go. In July of 18S7, on the nmln street of Kingston. n cattle-rustlfired 10 bullets from bis rifle St him. The man was known as a dead shot, hut not one of the bullets touched IMieny, who then walked across Ike Street and arrested the rustler. This bad man got a long sentence In the pen for bis Crimea. Here begnu the legend Unit Doheny bore a charmed lift. Another lime, in n town visit between prosjs'cllng trips, a drunken man started to shoot Doheny In the tiaek. A frleml Dan Gm.ly. leaped on the drunken man mid saved iMdienv. Death whs cheu'ed n third t!im when Doheny fell down a only broke both m kles. At forty tills linsiiecessfid wanderer of the wild ls places found himself dead broke on the of Is's Angeles. A rnyro drove put witli a load ef queer looking brow n earth. Unlit ny took up a handful. It was oily. The driver explained ihat it was "Inver" brvn, Spnr.i-.I- i for pltih. Doheny hurried to the pit, where the stuff was being dui. for the making of a cheap fuel. Ho had nenr Men even an oil derrlek, Imt lie smelled oil. Doheny hustled off to an old side partner. Charles Canfield. Together they returned to Los Angeles with ten cents between them, which thev luvested In grapes, being hungry. With pick auj Daa o er bad-men- ool.-hir- JOTCZAC& 2 Z&v shovel they tackled the pit. Thirty feet down they found olL They put In pump and made enough money to start out on n thousand-mil- e prospecting trip all over California. They got control of s great acreage In what are now tha California oil fields. Thenceforth their rise to wealth was rapid. Canfield died a millionaire and his family now has large Interests in the Doheny holdings. California profits enabled him to Ikdicny'a spreud out Into Mexico. Mexico niude It possible fur him to spreud out all over the world. In Mexico, for Instance, tils companies uwu something like 1,400,000 acres on the east const. He has spent on surface Improvements nhout a third of a , billion dollura In railroads, roads, storage-refineries and wliut not. Ills tanks, steumers curry so much black gold" out of Tampico that they have made It, tn value of export the second port n this continent. Now here is something that hears directly on Ihiheny and In a measure explulns him. Oil Is the biggest gamble on earth. In every phase of Its production the ietnileum business Is literally the moat When tha speculahighly speculative on earth. tion Is successful, the llnunclal rewards are enormous. Kuril men as Ihihcny come to look on life as a huge gamble. Money era sea to be money to him. It la power. If lie wants a thing, he sees no reason why he should not go and get It. Ibiheny married Carrie Kstelle lletxold of Marshalltown, la. He haa a magnificent town house In Chester Place In the heart of Los Angeles. There were seme 40 mansions there when he He then purchased tlie entire block so bought. that he could dictate who tils neighbors should be. In 1915 the Dohcnya were preparing for an elaborate entertainment. He thought an apartment house fuclng the wrk was unsightly. So he bought It and moved It a block, at u cost of $100,000. pipe-lines- oil-ta- At Chester Iflace he has n vast steel, concrete nnd glass observatory. 77 by 230 feet. It houses one of lVlieny's hobble the largest collection of palm In the world, every knwn specie collected from all part of the tropic. Another building, peeially constructed for the purpose. Is said to contain the largest and most varied collection of orvl.ltl tn the world. Hi estate at Beverly llllls, on the outskM of Hollywood, l of vast acreage. It one of the show spots of southern California. Dohopy' yacht, the t'asiiirii.. said to he the finest afloat, I Jot feet In length uinl 33 feet beam; Its 1,227 ton. It crew number ;w tonnage oiliec!' and men. It ha a store.ge capacity fur a trip of 7 .'it) mile. no piker when Pol, ei-- I no tightwad. And he It come to spending. In loll. when Villa was ravishing Mexico and leaving horde ef starving peotilled a si. ip with SJiNl.ikKi ple In Ms wake. worth of provision and sent it down to Tainpleo for the sufferer. Just now he is hearing the entire expense of etivtliig for St. Vin.rnf Unman Catholic church In lea Angeles, a new edllW at a cost which may reach a million, llo Built nnd equipped for the timid Samaritan hospital (Kpls-copalu Los Angeles, a radium sunex at a cost 1 os 1 1 l) 000-acr- e two-yea- He Cot HU Hat A yoang man who has lost his new hat states that unless It Is returned ha will forward to tha wife of the per son who took It the note found concealed In the lining of tha old one left In lta place. A Vereion Often Followed Asked by her Sunday school teacher to give the Bible verse for that day's lesson, a little western girl replied: Go ye Into all the world and spread Boston the gossip to all the people. Transcript. Got a Bide Anyway "A man got hlsself some loaded dice, eald Uncle Eben, "'pectin' to fllwer, 'etld win hlsself a plush-line- d o which he got nullin' but a one-wa- y ride In de ambulance. Logician a Pygmy Alyplus of Alexandria, a logtcinr and philosopher, wee eald to be one Inches In height. foot five and one-half The Cornerstone "Tlie hearth has ever been the cor neratone of the family and of society. John Bellows. Protection From Floes Eskimos use lnfluted sea leopard skins to protect their craft from Ice floes. Elephants Easily Trained Wild work In elephants can be trained to six months after being caught Salt Lake City Firms s uii-ec- V - W, t, - Locating HU Aches After several tripe to the dentlq Etlille woke up the other tnornin- - vrith a toothache, lie lmm. dlatcly took his renewed troubles tt hie mother. Mother, he eald, rnefully rnliblB tils face, "my tooth aches Is the pain now?" It'e in the juw neurest town," hi said. again-"Wher- 8have With Cutleura 8osp And double your razor efficiency y well as promote skin purity, skin comfort and skin health. No mug, no slimy soap, no germs.no waste, no Ink tntlnn even when shaved twice dally. One soap for all nses shaving, bath big and shampooing Advertisement In INDERCORNS hr tslkiiff easy. Obm oa- - SDsdorlts (la asll r st Dnr M, HlsiiChiUlwkbfMbiiablkIi fist IB by your-home- . "Better look again, returned the prospect, sourly. There's a wife, ( baby and a collie pup between nte ug the throne at my bouse." Kansas City Star. NO TROUBLE WHEN BABY CAKE Mrs. Crossan Gives Credit to Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound Mrs. Dakan Also Tells What This Medicine Does St Joseph, Missouri. I heard so orach about Lydia E. Pink horn's Vegetable Compound that I decided to try it as I haa hod such a hard time with my first child. I took nine bottles of Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and I never felt better In my life than the day my baby girl woe bora I will be glad to tell what it will dot to any woman who will let Mrs. Rosa me know her address. Daxan, 2227 S. 11th St, St Joseph, Missouri. Back To Normal Health 1 took Vegetable Com- Mew Orleans, Louisiana. Lydia E-- Pinkhama pound while 1 woe carrying my child and 1 must praise it highly because 1 never suffered one day during that time and could do all my housework and hod a very easy confinement I am still taking the Vegetable Compound because 1 have a weakness due to working around the house too soon after my baby was bom. But thanks again to the Vegetable Compound I am getting bade to normal health once more. I advise any woman to Mra. A. Meyn, Js., 2019 take it Touro St, Mew Orleans, Louisiana. Not A Bit of Trouble I was Wilmington, Delaware. nervous and weak and not at all regular. I worked in a factory at tno time and could not work very much. I waa ride over r. year, then a (rial told me about Lydia E. Pinkhut'i Vegetable Compound and I etsrtod B pick np as soon as 1 began taking It Then I took it again before myint bby was bora and I never bed slit of trouble. 1 recommend it highly. Mrs. Jamb Crossan, 612 Finest Wilmington, Delaware. Lydia EL Pinkhams VegetsHi Compound bos helped many othef women just os it nos helped Mil Dakan, Mrs. Meyn and Mrs. Croua, Consider the statements of thm They give yon the benefit of their actual experience with the Vegetable Compound. A nation-wid- e canvass of wanes purchasers of the Vegetable reports that 98 out of sveeyUt nave been benefited by its uie. This is m remarkable record nd proves the dependabilityof the medicine for the relief of the troubles women often have. conditfcis n For weak and women. d run-dow- so common after child-birt- itiiweS h adapted. It strengthens and torni np the system ana restore noma health. The Vegetable Compound eontda no harmful drugs or narcotics m can be taken In safety by tits nm Ing mother. For sale by dnggw everywhere. Marvelous! Hu(l'i ROOKS AnT ,wok Unmet lira " fa M hr nwti. hut c.ao Su. Temple SONGS A SHEET MUSIC SONGS nw. him, . n. 1 kin.lx Sheet muir hf Ilnkf iluiic Cu 5i lltii n- Al - 1)). j Children Cry for CLASS PINS lien in ttrfd, money-winne- elry KJ. Let IT Mlfe.. Htl' IT IWIXI S ft 4 awn BEAT iini.a hitikwi net' 111 Maig. I'lwtaira, VKOKfASI.E ('RATES BERRY cure short Holier. Sait I tike Dug jmEass Lumber C'suiiNiny IT rlU.OR KOLrrVKSTiTsiM'nTKS Scell Mi reel Iron llentemand nil Beauty ':irlir Supilieuiul fcjmpiiient Non U'KLS nitule fhm your tunibiim If u iti tn Iciiiii Mflret'iig Write us WERTERN BARBER SUPPLY CO. 47 Smith M iin Say it With Flowers Fresh Cut Flowers at AH Times Hobdays Flower Shop Keith Kniporium Illtlg. t said the agent, "I hi tell at a glunee that you ure the boa Chopping Him Off $24,-0(5- 5. Zev's victories In the 1923 Kentucky Derby, In the International match nice with the English champion Papyrus and In the mntch race with In Mcmorlaiu need no routin' lug here. If Zev trains on tld year, he will be one of the Amerlcnn horses to moot the French champion Eplnard, who come over for three spi'clul races this suniiiier a! Belmont lurk. Aqueduct nnd Estonia, totulliu floO.iHK) ndtled money. Incidentally Slncluir Inn at le:it six entries in the 1924 Kentiieky Deih; which are considered formidable at this writing. Sinclair's Intimates s.iv he Is the best of company. an Inveterate prirtlml Joker, and nlw.nyi ready to take n sport 'nx gamble. He Elizabeth Farrell of independence, Knn., In liifil anil lia two children. The Sinclairs live In an apartment at 975 Fifth avenue. New York, and have country home at (.rout Neck, L. L, of 80 acres with shore front of bull a mile. Thousand! upon thousand of v have kidney or bladder trouble ii'i. vtr t it. Women's complaint often prove to nothing eke but kidney trouble. (,r .j result of kidney or bladder d..If the kidney are not in beu.'Ey'L. ditiun they may caue the other 0- to become diseased. You may fuller pain in the Luk, ache and Iocs of ambition. loor health make you nervous, and may be deepondent; ii one 0. But hundred of women chim ! :1j p, Kilmer' Swamp-Booby n:o:-:!ibahh to the kidney, proved to be jul remedy needed to overcome racL o ndy tiona. M.iny lend for a aample bottle to , the great kidney, j;r what Swamp-Boot- , and bladder medicine will do f.,r ti,M By enclosing ten cent to I)r. Kiimer Co., Binghamton, N. Y., you recent uiiple eize bottle by patvvl pot. y medium and can purchaae large tirt bottlw at all drug stores. Advertiaecient. T, uaire prapt scrvic and aatek Trtinu Alt, !r," begun the measly mendiWillis "Doctor Jones Is aulte to Um UrirlliiMinli ntiaa tha mm af IhU papr. cant, I eke out a most miserable ex- popular M. D., Isn't he? Nlllls-- 'l ist and " he claims to cure thirst witbost BUSINESS COLLEGES New York Sun and Glob Well, I shall not nsalat you to eke knife. L. D. S. BUSINESS COLLEGE. ny longer, ungraciously Interrupted Schoid of Efficiency. All core mere lot bnuwkra. J. Fuller Gloom. Kansas City Star. Statistics may not long seltl Catalog free. CO N. ltols St, Salt Lake City. thing. They change. Buloeu College Srhm.rnll tlie ymr. Enter any tine. Pnoltkma A good laugh and a long sleep, the guaranteed to graduate. Write fur Infbnuatioe beet cures In the doctor book. ProvOn the program of human en BOOKS AND SHORT STORIES women are tlie consolation rare erbs of Ireland. four-year-o- $21112175. a Fine Medicine ot Not Even Near It cock- A naturalist declares roach has 2,987 teeth. Aa the odd one has no corresponding tooth to meet these poor It It la not surprising that much from little creatures suffer so Indigestion. Boy's Lifa dfcryvi fcgurfWf Swamp-Ro- Of course, The Poor Cockroach &NA2t Readers of This Paper m-i- In tlie color. the second time. He had read the newspapers Harry Ford Sinclair was born In Wheeling, W. Vs in 1876 and his parents moved to Independence, Kan., tn 1882. He got hla education In tM John Sinclair, his father, was public schools. druggist and wanted Harry to follow on. So liar ry took a pharmacy course In the University of Kansas. But hard times struck Kansas and Harry lost the Union Drug store. Sinclair next appears to view In Oklahoma a US tie before tha oil fever broke out them Old-tlera at Ponca City say ha worked as a drug clerk and for a abort time as a waiter in a restaurant. Soon, however, ha was operating a successful brokerage office. Anyway, ha became locally famous as tha owner of the first silk underwear ever seen In the Cherokee Strip. Later he ales operated In other towns, Including Bartlesville. Juat west of Bartlravllle was an oil leaso that Sinclair and a baker wanted to buy. Tha baker had soma money, Sinclair had nonsi Sinclair went hunting quail with John Vann, a deputy sheriff. Sinclair tried to drag his gun after him fence. Beault No. L the through s barbed-wir- e loss of part of his foot Besult No. 2, $5,000 Insurance money. Besult No. S, the purchase of the oil lease. Besult No. 4, Sinclair and the baker disagreed and flipped a coin. Sinclair won and chose the half which turned out good. lie got some producing wella and then and there started This waa around hla financial climb skyward. 1000. He was shrewd enough to see that rock hound, na the geologists are called In tha oil fields, had all the hest of It So he studied tbs scientific end of the oil buslnese from A to Z. Sinclair's operations during his financial rise would fill a book. Ills name is known In every region of earth. Sinclair, through his various Interests, has holdings pretty much everywhere, lie has concessions In Buxsla, Palestine and Saghnlin. He la stated to own something like 2,000,000 acres in Central America, and concesa 55 per cent Interest In a 45, 000, e sion In Angola, on the west coast of Africa. In the Persian field he Is credited with beating out both the British government nnd the Standard OIL Sinclair haa made two ventures outside of oil and made both pay. One was baseball. He waa Federal leaguei one of the big men In the Lots of people lost money In that deal, but not Sinclair; he got out with a profit The other Is racing. Deciding to have a stable, he bought the horses of Sam Hildreth of the It success stable, purchased the famous old Pierre Lorillard place at Jobstown, N. J-- , near Harry l'ayna Whitney's Itrookdale farm and with Hildreth began breeding and racing on a big scale. Last year the Bancor as stable, under Hildreth's management and with Earl Sande as Its premier jockey, stood at the head of American owners with the world-recor- d winnings of $43840. The star of the Sinclair stable if Zev, a brown colt by The Flnn-MlsKearney, now a Last year Zev won 12 out of 14 races and r old In 1922 Zev won $272.01 '8. Aa a The total, $290,073, makes him the champion r of the world, eurpnsslng the longstanding record of the English horse Isinglass, Important to All Voo .Suit Iike MOTHER- :- Fletcher's Castoris Substitute pleasant, harmless TeethCastor Oil, Paregoric, Soothtol ing Drops and Inf Syrups, prepared for and Children all agefc To avoid imitations, always look (or the signature of Proven dirertiorn on rnrh package. Physicians everywhere rconunn I T |