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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1921)
THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY. DECEMUkk so, lyii. Cuban Interests Oppose Fordney Tariff on Sugar Spokesman for Industry ia United States Tell of Bene fits From Protecting ' Producers. Washington, lc. 19. Extended argument for and against retention of the present temporary duty of 1.6 i cent a pound on Cuban raw sugar were presented today to senate tariff frameri. Spokesmen for American sugar companies operating in Cuba declared that the rate would prevent rehabi tation of the industry there, hile rep resentative of ' the beet sugar in dustry in this country asserted a re turn to the Underwood rate of 1 cent a pound would prevent develop ment of that industry, if it did not destroy it. ' . Those representing American com panies in Cuba declared that more than a mere tarilT question was in volved; that the rehabilitation of Cuba depended upon the sugar in; dustry and that the United States was morally bound to aid that coun try. They also argued that, there was $1,000,000,000 of American capital invested in the Cuban industry as against $200,000,000 in the industry in this country. , Highest In 30 Years. It was argued that the duty pro posed to be made "perinament" by the Fordney bill was the highest in 30 years and that it represented a tax of $162,000,000 annually on the American people, $81,000,000 of which would go to American sugar pro ducers. Attention was also called by witnesses that Cuba imported last year $515,000,000 worth of American products and that since the economic life of the island depended on its sugar crop, much of this trade would be lost unless the United States help ed rehabilitate the Cuban sugar in dustry.' ' 1 ' Finally it was argued that the clause in the Fordney bill permitting American refineries to import at three-fourths of the normal duty two pounds of sugar for each pound of domestic sugar refined from beets or cane was a violation of the spirit, if not the letter of the reciprocity treaty with Cuba giving a preferential rate of 20 per cent below the full rate on imports from that country. . It also was contended that this was a discrimination in' favor of certain American interests and injurious to others. " '. : Smoot Defends Plan. Senator Smoot, republican, Utah, took exception to many of the statej nients of the witnesses presenting the case for the American companies, H declared conditions in Cuba were no worse than those in this country and announced that he favored the protec tion of American capital invested in this country as against American cap ital invested in other countries. Spokesmen for the industry in the United States testified that, the beet sugar industry has been developed in 17 states; that there was invested in it $200,000,000, with 95 factofies. It is now producing annually 1,000,000 tons of sugar( or nearly one-fourth of the domestic consumption, and is reclaiming waste land because the beets will grow where other produce will not. The acreage now is 880, 000 and the farmers raising the crop number 100,000, who give employ ment to an additional 85,000. . Given proper protection, the wit nesses argued, the industry would expand where it would supply most of the domestic demand and in case of war make the country independent of foreign countries. It also was contended that the raising of beets improved farm lands. . As to the tax on the people repre sented in the duty, it was contended that this amounted to only $1.44 for each inhabitant each year and that the industry was worth such an ex penditure. Picture Worth 500,000 Francs Awaits Owner Paris, Dec. 18. No one has so far claimed the picture, said to be a Paul Veronese, which has been for some years waiting to be called for in the lost property office at Paris. The :anvas was Drought in curing tne war by a soldier who seemed to have met it by accident on his route, and although the legal delay imposed on objects found has long since expired, the man has not returned to claim what is now his own property. A . value of 500,000 francs has been set ' on the work, which looks decided' out of place among the umbrellas anil bags and .capes and other miscellan eous property left by absent-minded people on." the public highway or in public vehicles. For a Paul Veronese to go begging is a piquant incident ' in the history of old masters, yet that seems to be the case with this mysteriously lost and acquired pic ture at the prefecture of police of Paris. Construction of New State Capitol to Be Begun in June A Lincoln. Dec. 19. (Special.) Construction on Nebraska's $5,000, ,000 capitol building will start by the middle of June, Governor Mc Kelvie said today on his return from a conference of the state capitol com ; mission with Mr. Goodhue, the archi- tect, in New York City. The governor said the state will save about $250,000 by eliminating the contractors' "cuts" by awarding . contracts directly for the various kinds of work instead of giving one contractor the whole job and letting him award the subcontracts. Advertising- for bids will start next month. Widely-Known Theatrical Manager Dies Suddenly Chicago. Dec 19 John C Fisher, widely known theatrical manager. - died suddenly yesterday when about to leave for Pittsburgh. He was with his company, the Irish Players, and had just concluded five weeks' en- ; itagement He was one of the pro ducers of "Florodora." which netted its owners nearly $1,000,000. Ratifications Exchanged Paris. Dec. 19. The exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty be tween the United States and Hon ( pry took place yesterday, accord ant; to a, Budapest dispatch. By RUBY AYRES. (CaallnOMl rrant tfaturdar.) The Fortune Hunter had made a swift movement to stop Anne's im pulsive action, but lie was too late; the little rinif went zigzagging down into the clear, stilt water, and disap peared into the dark rushes in the bed of the river. Anne looked tip into his white face and laughed, though there were tears tit her eyes, "I never believed I could do a thing like that!" she said. "Cut now I'm glad it's gone! I'm glad it's irone!" ' "And some day," the Fortune Hunter said grimly, "some day you will throw me out of your life in the same way." Her face named into passion. "And if I do," she cried, "wllose fault will it be? Why, yours, yours only" "Perhaps yours, a little as well," he answered her. "You've judged me unheard." She. turned round, looking1 up at him directly as he stood behind her, the water dripping from the punt pole, which he had taken up again. "Unheard I she echoed bitterly. "When I have begged you, and beg ged you, to tell me the truth I What ever it is! However, bad it is! Even if it's that that you find you don't care any more now you've come home." He gave a little stifled cry of pro test, but she went on ruthlessly: "I'll tell you something now something that I meant to keep to myself, because I hoped I was fool ish enough to hope that you would tell me about it yourself if I waited! But now I know you never will, and so it's just this that day you went to London I know why you went. I know whom you met, and so that's why I threw your ring away." The Fortune Hunter cried out fiercely: "Foster told you! The sneaking hound. He came back here and told you " She closed her eyes for a second as if in actual physical pain. "It was the truth, then! You did go to meet a woman!" "I did! I'm not denying it, but it was for a very different reason to the one you are thinking.Anne I swear to you" "You swore to me once before that her photograph was not yours," she said faintly. "That you did not even know her." "It was the truth! If I could only explain everything " She gave a cold little laugh. "It would make no difference. I shall never believe anything you tell me now! The sunshine had clouded over, and a few drops of rain began to splash heavily down. The punt had drifted out into midstream again, and there was no shelter at hand. The Fortune Hunter picked up his coat and put it around Anne's shoul ders. "You'll get wet oil, my coat won't hurt you!" he broke out iron ically, as she protested. She submitted then and held it closely around her shoulders. A cool breeze had come up with the rain clouds, and the face of the riv er was ruffled. "It looks like lasting," the For tune Hunter said, glancing up at the sky. "Shall I make for liome? "I don't think it will be much if you get under the bank the trees will shelter us." She did not want to go back to the house; there was a kind of fore boding to her heart that this was to be one of the few hours when she would have this man to herself. Al though she guessed nothing of the real tragedy between them, instinct told her that the end of yet another dream was near, and, woman-like, she clung to it tenaciously. There was a faint scent of tobac co smoke' clinging to the coat he had put around her shoulders, and the touch of its rough . surface against her throat reminded her of that night in the garden after the Fortune Hunter came home, when he had 4 taken her in his arms for the first time She thpught of her own words to him: "Now I am quite, quite, happy!" How foolish 1 when surely nobody in the w'orld was ever quite happy. m(k risttnas nee. u.s.R pat. off. if YOU STILL have time to get a Redipoint to your friends by Christmas morning. This little package mailed today will reach them in time to say "Merry Christmas!" You can seledt the right Redi point in five minutes at your dealer's. Yet no more thought ful gift could be found in hours of shopping. Every one needs a beautiful Redipoint the wonderful pencil with the Auto matic Push-Back protecting the lead. Right now! Go to your dealer, select, your Redipoints, and mail! Heavy Rolled Gold Redipoints are $3.00 to $3.50. Sterling Sil ver and Rolled Silver styles are $1.50 to $3.00. Others are less. Mdie and Quaranutd by Brown &. Bigelowl Saint Paul The Fortune Hunter had turned the punt about, and was making for the bank where the trees drooped over the river with thick sheltering branches. The leaves were falling al rady, and the bosom of the water was strewn with twin, creeii, brown and yellow, like little Uiry boats. "And so FoMer told you he saw me in London," the Fortune Hunter said after a moment, dryly. "Very k nd of him, I m sure! Had he any othrr interesting news to impart at the same time? She did not answer, but her si' lencc was eloquent, for lie broke out again presently "Did he tell you some cock-and bull story that he had seen me a year ago, in an rrancisco, running a gaming .saloon? .He told it to me most eloquently. I fjrant him that!" he laughted hardily. "No doubt it was easy enough to convince you that he spoke the truth) Via lie ten vou that. Anne" "And if he did" she broke out tremulously. "I suppose you are not going to deny th.t a g truer lie shrugged his shoulders, "Why should I deny anything, when you have told me already that you will not believe a word I say?" Jle ran the punt alongside the bank and sprang ashore, securing the mooring rope to a tree stump. ' The rain had not increased at all, and as yet the leaves overhead af forded an efficient shelter. The Fortune Hunter lit a cigaret and sat down on the tree stump, his eyes on Anncs face, and once again ths burning desire to take Garry Cannon's advice and tell her the truth rushed through him. Would she believe him and, what mattered more greatly, would she forgive him? Her pretty face seemed1 to have lost something of its soft childishness, he thought with a pang, to have grown thinner and harder. She shivered a little, and he rose hurriedly and piled the cushions more cjosely around her. "We'll go back as soon as the rain stops," he said. "You ought to have brought a coat. I'm afraid you will take cold." "Thank you, I am not cold." There was a little silence, and the Fortune Hunter looked away down the gray, deserted river and wondered how many times in the future he would think of these days and long for them to come again. "Is that Fernie's cottage on the opposite bank?" he asked suddenly. He pointed across the stream to a small white-washed house with a crooked chimney, standing by itself at the end of a waterway. "Yes" Anne followed his gaze "yes, that's Long-End cottage." The Fortune Hunter ' rose and came to stand beside the punt. "It's raining harder than ever. I think the best thing we can do is to cross the river and ask him to give us shelter." He glanced up. "The rain is coming through the leaves now." He began to unfasten the mooring Cope, but Anne cried out in protest: I will not go over there. X would rather get wet. I hate Fernie and I will not go into his house." "If we stay here we shall be drenched to the skin look at the rain now." The river was a mass of bubbles, raindrops dancing up and down like mischievous sprites. He ; CHOCOLATES INNER- CIRCLE CANDIES' KATLEMAN'S BEST HEN SCRATCH $2.00 per hundred lb. Beet Buttermilk Laying Mh, $2.25 per hundred lb. Clexcd Sat urdaysopen Sundays. Phon Douglai 6620. OoO Qhe Pencil with soft lead and the (Automatic Push-BadO threw the rope into the punt and followed it, pushing off from the bank determinedly. "I will not go into Fernie' house,' Anne said again, excitedly. "John- please, I beg of you." But he was already pushing out Into mid-stream strongly; the rain was pouring down now, and after a moment lifts thin shirt and bare arms were running with water. Anne glanced at him and said no more, but she kept her eyes fixed apprehensively ahead to where the smoke trom the crooked cnimney ot Long-end cottage curled up into the gray sky, "I am sorry to disobey you," the Fortune Hunter said after a mo ment. "But it's madness to stay under those trees; you'll take your death of cold." She laughed. "If I did, you would be free then." v The Fortune Hunter made no an swer; he, too, was looking towards the cottage. lie was conscious of a queer sort of eagerness to meet Fernie again; he was curious to see what sort of a home the man had, and what greeting he would give them. . . . , . . As they neared the-opposite bank they saw that Fernie was standing at the open door, his slouched hat pulled down over his eyes as usual, smoking placidly. He wstched them without mov ing, until the punt entered the waterway leading up past his cot tage; then he knocked the ashes from his pipe and sauntered leis urely down to the bank. "A sudden shower," he said: he made a clumsy sort of attempt to raise his hat to Anne. "You're wel come to come in, Miss Harding, and shelter." 'There's really no need," she an swered hurriedly. "We're so wet now that we might as well go straight home." You re welcome, and I ve got a fire in the kitchen," was his only answer. The Fortune Hunter was already on the bank, and he held out his hand to help Anne ashore. Her fingers felt cold in his, and he kept them in his hand for a moment till she drew them away. "Is the rain going to last, do you think?" the Fortune Hunter asked of Fernie as thev went ud to the cot tage together. Shouldn t be surprised: the wind's in the right quarter." was the laconic answer. He went ahead of them and opened the door wider: he seemed to be deliberately avoid ing the Fortune Hunter's eyes. 'It's a small place, but you'll find it clean," he said in the same dis interested fashion. It was a diminutive kitchen, with a bright fire burning in the erate and a chair drawn up close to it. Anne, looking around with appre hensive eyes, noticed the orderly array of china on the dresser and A Partial List of ' Appointments Unusually deep upholstery of ray mohair velvet plash; adjustable silk shades to match; cut fclass dome li&ht; frosted nickel trimmings; Move pockets at sides of rear seat; jeweled 8-day clock; magnetic speedometer on ebony-finished in strument board; collapsible steer ing wheel; exhaust heater; massive headlights; artistic coach lamps; three piece rain-vision windshield; windshield wiper; adjustable venti lator in cowl. jlMjKr Suppose you come in and see this car today. f-7VS Then, if you wish it, we'll be &lad to co- A L Qa i 1 operate to the limit in placing it at your front M JfA Ife'm RsAi door early Christmas morning where all. the 1rTC KvnJlm family will see it through the window holly. cjx f (vSa, jiffiJU Terms can be arranged to suit your con- jT!V THIS IS AvSTUDEBAK E R the frcthly scrubbed floor, and she felt vaguely surprised. 'Tull up to the lire, M is llurdinc. and warm yourself," Fernie .iid more affably, as she shivered; for the first time he looked at the For tune Hunter, and added, hesitatingly: "I don't know that I can offer you a change of clothes, Mr Smith" his eyes scanned the Fortune Hunt er's wet shirt. "Hut, perhaps you're used to weather of all sorts," lie added. "I am! Weather never troubles mel" the Fortune Hunter answered He shook the rain drops from his hair, and dried his wet arms on his handkerchief. A sudden gust of rain had lashed the window, and, glancing out, he saw that the river was blurred and almost hidden from view in driving mist. "We could have been almost home by now," Anne said ungra ciously, though in her heart she was grateful for the warmth and shelter. She leaned forward, holding her hands to the flames, her eyes still wandering curiously around her. j ihcre were none' of the many curiog visible, of which Tommy had spoken so often with such enthusi asm. The kitchen was almost bare in its tidiness. An old print of the balaclava Lharec nunc over the hieh mantelshelf, on which stood a clock and a couple of pewter mmrs. one of them filled with paper spills. Mie asked an impulsive question. "Who docs you work for you, Mr. Fernie?" "My work? Do you mean who cleans, the cottage, Miss Harding? Well, I clean it myself, every bit of it! and do my own cooking, . too! And I dare say that's more than you can do, Mr. Smith," lie added, looking up at the Fortune Hunter "Oh, I've cooked many a meal in my time' the Fortune Hunter an swered, laughing. "And scrubbed the floor of many a shack, too. I remember when I was in Frisco" He broke off, as Anne turned and ADVERTISEMENT. 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