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I V- THE ANSA CITY KAN-SAN Friday, Jannary 13, 1922. IB This Is a "Winter" Bathing Suit CORN IS LEADING CROP IN COUNTRY Department of Commerce An- WEAVER 'REVIEWS LIFE Of AMERICAN GENIUS 0 Current Number of Bookman Gives Curious Insight Herman Melville, the Blajestle, Solitary, Creative Writer, Ilad Life at His Fingertips, Mrs. Hawthorne Says. In a literary excursion in the current number of the Bookman, Raymond Weaver has gone bunting for the nounces Data. Dlay and Forage Crop Is Second on List, With Cotton Ranking Third and Wheat Fourth.

-Sv -'111111 Washington, D. Dec, 3J The department of commerce, thru the bureau of census, announces the fol heart, even the soul, Herman Melville, the majestic solitary genius of More meat for less money is easy to give but more meat with more quality is a hard proposition, but we still stick to our newly established motto: "A little more for a little less." Hence, these new low prices! SPECM FOR FMiCDAY and SATURDAY lowing data from the 19204census of agriculture for the United States. Americas most creative day. The twenty leading crops of the All literary relics: appear to have been raked, toeether to nroduce for United States in 1919, arranged in or Weaver the synthetic picture of this the coast call a winter bathing suit. While northern folk are snuggling der of value, were corn, hay and Just what was added to this suit to make it warmer than a'- summer suit fornia are dressing for winter.

If you don't believe, just look. The fair miss above has 'on what fashion experts on 3 'ESS. "iXaVSrSTe cmiS c0I4 dajs dt forage, cotton, wheat, oats, potatoes, tobacco, apples, barley, sweet potatoes, compound is mixed and made palatable I maidens on the beaches in sunny Call is a question for experts. PORK BEEF rye, rough rice grapes peaches kafir to modern taste, the casual oof-erra-tions of a woman, Mrs: Hawthorne, re oiiu iimu, granges, sugar kueeis, peanuts, main as the most distinctive Ingredi and she never let out a chirp of answered blithely. "She's dry edible beans, and sugar cane.

The Nice and Lean Pork Chops, 20 Genuine Corn Fed Round OCrt lb. ent. One paragraph included In a let total value of these twenty ctods was a pretty faithful old bus and IH trust ter to her mother has the flavor or a $13,75490,926, which represents more Self-Styled Flying: Hobo Drifts Broke -But Puts Up Gold Mine as Security and Obtains Airplane Worth $1,500 her anywhere." Fresh 17 than nine-tenths of the total value of profound character studv: Had Warm Heart. Major Scanlon appealed to Major lb. crops shown by the fourteenth census.

Harry Gessford, Washington's chief of iM Corn heads the list, with a value of "I am not quite sure I do not think Chuck Boast, lb. Rib Roast, lb. Shoulders, 17" ponce. -Major uessrord replied tnat ne had no jurisdiction-over, the air above vSn VScf SfrT heart 'and a S3 Biddick, self-styled -flying hobo," breezed into Min- I5c 20c 25 more than hay and forage, which stands second on the list with a value Washington. Riddick took up 100 pas 25c 3 lbs.

Fresh Pig Feet for and an ineUect with life to his finger nea-poiis, mmn, recently from Seattle a stowaway aboard a freight sengers in Washington that week of $2,523,050,224. Cotton ranked third, tips earnest, sincere ana reverent train. 3 lbs. Boiling Beef, for with a value (including cottonseed) of Then he went to Philadelphia, where he sold his plane. He was to get $700 ZIZ A day later he took off from Curtis field for Palm Beach, Fla, $2,355,169,365, and wheat ranked etnnlKh i tw hi, rA nnt sole passenger and pilot of a brand new $1,500 airplane.

SMOKED MEAT i fourth, with a value of $2,074,078,801 large and deep. When conversing Eiddick is a son of Carl W. Riddick, congressman from Lewis for it; but a wind came along, blew it over and smashed it before the new owner had ever taken it up. The new These four crops 'combined represented LARD a value amounting to $10,460,095,492, he is full of gesture and force, and I ton, Mont, and had less than $1 when he crawled out of an empty loses himself in his subject. There Is I Tt rar RnTlrnor nrwrml fn Vila nnVaf VTTTTr.

rro or 70.9 per cent of the total, value of all crops harvested in 1919. no grace nor polish. Once in a while! jswawv, xiuup his animation gives place to a gin- of clay, wMch glistened particles of white and yellow metal. He The next four crops in order were Swift's Premium, 2-lb. Q(J Swiff Premium, Mb.

Pjg owner refused to pair the $700. Riddick went to work for an airplane company in Philadelphia, carrying passengers. He earned $800 in September and rode "on the plush" from Philadelphia to Seattle, Wash. gularly quiet expression, out oats, with a value of of these aiso camea a papery snowing ne naa sxaisea on a Claim to mining eyes to which I have objected an in- rights to a small tract of land in the Olympic peninsula of Wash Morris Bacon, whole OCn or half side, lb. UOK, Good bacon sliced.

35 Premium bacon, 38C 1.500 lbs. of Swift's Empire Ilams at the very low Of), price of, lb. wt potatoes with a value of $639,440,521 tobacco, with a value of drawn dim look, but which at the same ington. time makes von feel that he is at that $444,047,481, and apples, the leading Arriving in Seattle early In October S1.40 At 11 am let, in two men wanted to Swift's Premium 10-lb. pail moment takine deenest note of what is RIddick went to the office of W.

A. fruit crop, with a valueof $241,573,577. he got a hunch that he'd like to go to try the life of a bird for a few minutes, The following table shows for the before him. It is a strange, lazy glance, Kidder, president of the Curtiss North-but with a nower in it rmite union" west Airplane Co and hauled the twenty leading crops both the value Riddick touched them for $5 apiece and began filling his pockets, as well as his Weaver's own conclusions concern- I little lump of clay out of his pocket. and the acreage or, in case of fruit insatiable gas tank 'Gold." announced RIddick.

"Gold, -SAUSAGE- crops the number of trees or vines ing Jieivuie lend tne weignt of re Alaska. He bought: a 22-foot launch and started out, with a hobo pal named "Shorty," as mate, -cook, cabin boy and able seaman. They were somewhere off British Columbia when the motor stopped. Waves washed into the boat and she At Monroeville, also in Indiana, he also silver." search to Sirs. Hawthorne' rasual XAL.XTR AND ACREAGE OF TWENTY found sixteen persons who were will Great work, boy.

Fine Imagina judgment. "Despite his comparative. LEADING CROPS IN THE V. 1919 ing to pay $3.50 each for a little joy- CHEESE tion Tell us another," Jeered Kidder. obscurity" he writes.

"Melville is one Acreage. Crop. Value. Pure Pork Sausage in hulk, lb. OL Link Sausage, 20 ride in the clouds.

Here Riddick Riddick hauled out his little paper of the greatest and most unusual 87.771.600 Corn sank. Riddick and were and laid it down upon Kidder's desk, Hay and 2.523,050,224 filled himself with the best chow in A. a a geniuses of our native literature 96.121.228 33.740.106 We have a full line of Imported Swiss Cheese at all times. Cotton and cotton town ana purcnasea ior nis steea a beside the lump of clay. picked up by a fishing vessel and taken back to Seattle.

seed 2.355,169,365 'Know any mining people around Moby Dick is the expression of an imagination that rises to the highest, and so Is amongst the world's great Wheat 2,074.078.801 Oats 855.255.468 20c here?" he asked politely. lb. Tough Proposition. In Seattle I ran up against, a tough Kidder did. Together they went over 73,099.421 37,991,002 3.251,703 1.864.080 115.309,165 6,472.888 works of art." Review Has Merit.

to the office of one of the mining com 45c Potatoes Cwlilte). 39.440,521 Tobacco 444.047,481 Apples 241,573,577 Barley 160.427.255 Longhorn Cheese, lb. New York Cream, lb. 25c Smoked Sausage, lb. panies.

proposition," Riddick said. "I didn't have a nickle and I couldn't get a job. Finally I landed in a lumber Aside from the pleasure derived brimming flagon of gasoline with a real "head." Couldn't Find an "Angel." The 6hip perked up Instantly and roared joyfully, on to Kenton, before it gave up. Here Riddick was unable to' find anybody who wanted to part with his shekels for a ride. So he.

purchased a tank full of gas and shook the dust of the town from his Sweet 124,844,475 Ten minutes later Riddick was sign from throwing new light on the bones 803,727 7.679.005 ing an agreement, putting up his claim camp at 25 cents an pay ing $1.25 of a genius. Weaver's review has an Rye Rough rice 911.272 i a day for my keep. I didn't care mnch as security in return for a new airplane. 225.754.28S Weiners or Franks, QC 2 lbs. for OtJC Fancy Liver Sausage, 2Q(J Grapes Limburger Cheese, 4Q(J Pimentp Cheese, 25 intrinsic merit concealed in the author's Ved Ionian philosophy and ap for the old axe-swinging business.

116.637,965 97.194.481 95.586.021 95,669,868 90.221,046 83,898.894 66.051.989 65,646.101 3.619,034 Peaches Kafir. mUo, Then one day I dug up that little parent in the citric charm of his pagan lias Flown 5,000 Miles. Riddick's last appearance in Minne lump of clay. I staked out my claim 14.397.836 Oranges tail skid. Before leaving Ohio, he col epitaphs.

"The artist who goes out to find ser 636.434 Sugar beets Peanuts lected another $5 tribute and plugged on toward Wheeling, Va. apolis was about a year ago, when he purchased an airplane from Kidder. and climbed aboard a train headed for the East. Happened to think of Kidder in Minneapolis and 1,125,100 1,161,682 372.938 62,751.701 61.795.225 59.499.467 mons intones does at the periol of Dry edible beans. Sugar cane EXTRA SPECIALS Since that time he has: However, Old Sol decided to call it converting his stone pile into his mausoleum" is his nummary of much dropped off." Number of trees or vines of bearing; age.

Flown 5,000 miles a swashbuckling a day. Dusk came on, and he had to Nuto Oleomargarine, lb Creamery Butter, lb. well meant moralizing in the literary land. He had three gallons of gas journey without parallel in American aviation history in which he touched 35c 95c 20c 35c field from the day the first adversary left' when he swooped down on the wrote a book. Brookfield Eggs, dozen 10 lbs.

Raw Leaf Lard for on the southern, western, northern and top of a conveniently flat mountain eastern boundaries pf the country, earning his way en route by carrying ELEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS LOLL ABOUT DENVER BANK passengers at $3.50 and $5 a trip. Set sail for Alaska from- Seattle vln a 22-foot launch which sank off Brit WAITING FOR CLAIMANT ish in company with a hobo near Old Uoncord, where he stretched his legs and shouted for the natives to come and invite him. to supper. Finally an old farmer came up the hill, gaped at the ship from all possible angles and a lot of impossible ones, rubbed his nose and invited Riddick into the farm house. Riddick had a good, feed and a long night's sleep in a feather bed; In the morning he soaked his host $5 pal whose full name he never knew.

REAL ECONOMY SALE! ALWAYS "BYILO99 FELDS FOR FINEST FOODS Worked a month in a lumber camp There are 11,000 honest-to-goodness American dollars lolling in the mountains for 25 cents an hour, around the vaults of a local bank that paying' $1.25 a. day for his board. Saturday Meat Specials! lelong to Louis C. Gasper, but the Bummed his way from Seattle to Minneapolis as an unwelcome guest for a hop, and when he had landed young man cannot be foynd. If Casper fails to put in an appear Aboard freight trains.

One hot day last July Riddick jazzed ance before January 1, 1923. he will be PORK SAUSAGE, lb. declared legally dead, and the money into Chicago from Texas. He had less than $2 in his pockets, and no immediate prospect of getting any. He will be distributed among twenty-odd another farmer took a chance, also at So.

In a little more than tw.enty-four hours after he had left Chicago, he put his wheels down in a vacant lot hear one end of Massachusetts avenue, Washington, D. C. cousins of the missing youth Pork Shoulder Roast, center Young Casper disappeared early in decided to fly to Washington, D. C. Lean and good Sugar Cured Swift's Breakfast Bacon, real value, whole or half, price only OOr Spare Ribs, lb.

Bacon Squares, 12ic 2 15c 15c Hops Out of Chicago. So, with eight gallons of gas in his lb. Surprises Army He went home that night. Next 191b. on a day when his mother sent him to the bank to deposit $1,000.

The money never rached the bank, and Ixuis has not ln heard from since. In 191S his mother died. Two years later his father died, leaviug an estate Dressed Chickens, 32c lb fuel tank, and some change in his pockets, he hopped out of Chicago one Saturday morning and headed off to the Southeast. He figured on 6ix miles to 15c 15c Pork Roast, lb. Fancy Chuck Roast, lb.

Loma Vista Butter, the very best. Fifty cents refunded for wery pound not satisfactory.) QQ Special, pound OOC Gallon Michigan Plums the and, when he thought he had used up his supply, he landed gracefully at the nearest which Large Tangerines, 'QO dozen happened to be Gary, Ind. lie had gasoline and no money morning, with his mother as passenger, he hopped off from the vacant'lot, flew, around over Washington for. a few minutes, and then landed at Boiling field, to the consternation of the army officer in "What's the idee?" inquired Maj. M.

F. Scanlon. "You can't passengers in that thing," the niajor said In a scandalized voice. "Hobo flier, carrying passengers," Riddick replied with dignity- "I.flew this ship from Texas to Chl-rago and from Chicago to Washington. 10 Lbs.

Leaf Lard, NO. 1 EGGS PORK CHOPS Dozen 34c Lb. 19c Fancy Plate Boil, f71- Juicy Chuck Roast, 11. lb. I 2v lb I Pork Loin Roast, lb.

16c I 5 Nice Florida Grape Fruit 28c Gallon Tellow Free Peaches $11,000, A Denver law firm Insti- gated country-wide srarcb for Cas- Jr- IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE A New Hampshire girl advertiseu for a Job, and among her other accom- plishments mentioned she make good home brew. She received twenty -eight offers of a position and ninety-three proposals of marriage, two of these by telegraph. Wayside Tales. 'In Hanover square. New York City, there stands a house in which Captain Kidd, the famous pirate, once lived.

A centenarian of Aldershot, En- gland. Is recorded as having lost his first tooth at the age of 102. for 2 cans Booth Sardines, In QK Tomato Sauce, for Ot1 4 big rolls Toilet Paper 25( 2 -cans is Oysters 25C for with which to buy any. So he began to cast around for natives who might want a He finally found a victim, who paid 53,50 in advance, with which Riddick bought a little gasoline. A little hop with his passenger, and Riddick headed merrily on his way.

Over Valparaiso, IncL, his motor popped in a discouraging fashion, and Ruldick knew it was time to feed his tank again, nere he found a ready customer who paid $5 for a ride. With bis motor humming merrily, Riddick again "gave her the gun" and rollicked on his way. 40c 19c Neck Bones, lb Pork Steak, lb. Best Creamery Butter, lb. Brisket Bacon, lb 5c 12c So: Highly Recommended! I-H Flour Crystal White Soap, bar All you want.

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