Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 27, 1922, Page 2

. 'f;- “odestly- positée was the house and there was the window at which he had seen Na- dine's face; but across the window, | ER I—The time is the late ‘é0s | boards had been nailed! The other SYNOPSIS or early 'l0s and the scene a steamboat on the Mississippi river. All the types of ‘the: period are present and the float- M‘ palace is distinguished by merriment, | dancing and gallantry, There are the customary drinking and gambling also. Drace, & young northern man, is on his way south on a mission of reveng‘ H He meets an’ eccentric character in the person of one Liberty Shottle, who is constantly ‘tempting ~the goddess of | r.hnnca They form a singular compact. windows, too, and the ' doors, were | nailed up; the place was deserted. been only a creature of his imagina- tion? | came down the walk from a house a | few doors away. He might have been footmnn to a harlequin. But when n—Drlce gets his mind off Drace spoke to him, by entering into deck sports | the dignified | mission i T whieh he exhlblu an unusual athletic | change In his countenance appeared row berty Shottle is again un- ?uckyu:t cards ‘:’nd attempts a financial to alter even the aspect of his attire; negotiation. with Drace. The latter, see- | gl Ing an - opportunity to use Shottle, con- and now he might have been usher to fides to him that his mission s to find | & governor. This quick change had a_Ccertain ex-guerrllla, Stepho la Vitte, who had murdered Drace’s father. It is, his detemlnh:Uon anm{,umed to )’nllhhm' discovery ¢hum, to ng La itte as gh as | o) Haman, Drace has become enamored Comsequence. of a mysterious beauty avoard the boat | CHAPTER IIL—The steamer m“h._' people who lived across the street?” New Orleans, at that time in the some- j Drace asked. what turbulent throes of carpetbag gov-| . » erpment. Shottle becomes possessed of | - Wall, no sah; da wus po’ folks, tWo tickets for the French ball, a great | ggh” and proposes that Drace soclety event, The young accompany him to the aflair. “Then you don’t know where they men attend and Drace unexpectedly meets l went.” the girl who had fired his heart aboard u.: ::eamer She is accompanied by one | “No sah. My 'ployment is ter look | Bpyce, whose proprietary interest indi-; cates” that he is her flance. Through stratagem Shottle learns that the name of the girl.is Nadine la Vitte and that' her companion of the evening is the man who, is-seeking to marry her. An den ter preach on Sunday.” “Oh. you are’a preacher.” been brought about by his intuitive | that Drace was a man of |} “Do you know anything about the ' after folks ob er higher ’dition, sah. |o}q Nest.” “Called, sah, wid er blast from de them with great trumpet.” . (Conunued from iass aue) “Does your church ever need money?’ In a moment he lost his i \u\\ Drace hastenesl toward the St. | dignity. Charles. The streets were quiet. But| a wagon rattled by, and he saw that church fur ef It ain’t ter need money? | ¢ it was filled with wounded men. Hel Co'se it need money. But what you thought of Shottle and: his spirit wns gwine do erbout it? appressed. with sorrow, Shottle's es-; «Yassuh,” he sald, when Drace had cape must have been impossible, and, wormed him with a greenback, “f {*Pd come | There‘ Het Wm"““‘l they would take his body, | reckon dey done moved away. throw-it into some oozy hole and covet‘ was er kind of rumpus last night. And | it with: mud. | T reckon they-all thought It wasn't no | - In the lobby of the St. Charles men_ place foh dem no mo’; dey Tef mlght,\' stood .in groups, talking of the fall in; sudden-like, uhly dis mawnin’.” the .price of cotton. The riot, which Apq that was all Drace could learn; ; to; Drace had meant so much, was not, no ope In the vicinity would admit | aven-kpown, so. accustomed was the| rpat they knew them or their destina- town to scgnes .of violence. Drace! yjon, Disltking to call too much at- asked the clerk If Shottle had come In.| tention to himself, Drace walked away Neo; his key was In the box. Then| pegyy-henrted. Drace thought that surely Liberty| wgndered the streets. He came to the must be dead or 'wounded, hauled| jevee, and the French market. He away to suffer. He went forth again,| went into the old St. Loufs cemetery, | to the .department of police, to the| gng looked upon the novel sight of cavalry barracks, but nothing could| pogies sepuichered in a wall with he learn. Then in his room he sat| goors like a furnace. These compart- sorrowing over his frlend and yet ments, he learned, were rented by the thrilled with o selfish happlness, for| month to the poor; and a’short ténsn’| he had found the barbaric rosemaid. try it was for many a son and daugh He went to bed, tossed, slept, dremed‘ ter of penury answering Eternity's in @ mingling of distress and gladness, | cqll, for when the grim ngent falled | and awoke. Shottle was standing in| ¢y collect the pittance promised by the room, E sorrow, the shrouded renter was evict- “Thank the Lord!” cried Drace, nud ed—an old Spanish custom, Drace wa: sprang out of bed. | told. “That's what I say, friend Virgil.! But you will please address me as, to the purpose that had brought him Colonel Shottle. I am a free man.| to the South, Drace now determined Here!” ! to give himself wholly to his quest for He held forth an envelope; opening Stepho la Vitte. He returned to the it, Drace took out a hundred-dollar’ hotel, and found Shottle nervous in a banknote. cloud of smoke. The floor was cov- “What does this mean, Lib?" ered with burned matches and the “I am Colonel Shottle, sir, and not| ~tuhe of ecigars. Tib.” ' j “I beg your pardon, Colonel; but what does this mean?” Shottle sat down and crossed his long legs. ; ‘He took out a clgar and RIBE FOR THE PIONEER lighted it. - g — . ?“Virll, I fought as long as I thought it was ot advantage. The old carbine T'had wouldn’t sh’ot,.and I want to tell- you . that mauling darky heads with a plece of fron Is hard work. I looked about for you but csuldn’t find Fou, and knowing that you knew how -1p take care of yourself, I began to lsnifr 'for a way to get out, found a ole In a ‘wall, ducked through and scooted. That was all natural enough. Anybody could have done that. But now comes the Inspirational part. I got around into Royal street and met a steamboat captain who asked me to have a drink, and I needed it, for I had been hard at work. . -8o I:went In with him." And then np-/I.hops to a gambling house with ,Jnnney you'a paid me for intro- ng ;¥ to Nadine la_Vitte. Thm ter- tables were full, so T/nipped! “l -lam-bnnl. U] i (Continued In Next Issue) ut daylight; gdred, and: letes aiflas uf : Hed s a horse graziig on ’ Bicycles — Motorcycles Harley-Davidson Line: NEW AND REBUILT Order Your Parts Prom US GENERAL REPAIR SHOP. BEMIDIT = —:— MINN. “(,olonel I congratulate you!” said Drace. The two breakfasted together, and then Drace set out to find again the louse at the scene of the rlot—the | ——————r" e = House at the window of which he had seen the face of Nadine la Vitte. At! length he found himself in the side ! LEARN BARBERING street where he had taken refuge the || Now is the time. Summer rates still in effect. Enroll now and save $25. Twin City Barber College, night before, and turning out of this he’camé to the tree from the limb of 204-Hennepin Avo., Mhnupc» Minn. which he had cut down the half- strangled victim of the mob. There op- For a long time he' Recalled by these grim surroundings | | | i | | | pendent { “SON OF THE WOLF” AT ELKO THEATRE TODAY An Indian village in the heart of the frozen wilderness in Alaska is i mg for Jack London’s great Son of the Wolf” a vivid of which ¥ill be shown 2bnight last s| owirig. Not his productiony founded on the faglous authors noyel but:parts of? his “The :Wife of £ King” have also baén emerged intoithe tale, the fnlmmg of which- by Norman Dawn /{is being hailed all over tbe country as one of London’s:most gnppmg nar- ratives. In the cast are such noted players as Edith Roberts, leading | star of .Cecil B. deMille’s’ “Saturday Night;” Wheeler Oakman, Sam Allen | Ashley Cooper, Fred Kohler, Thomas Jefferson, Fred Stanton, Arthur Jasmine and others. Included ip the Could that face at the window have 'p;."oagt are 4 clan of Indians from the snow lands which add much to the general atmosphere of the pro- An old negro in nondescript lvery | g, tion. ADDED ATTRACTIOM AT GRAND THEATRE TONIGHT An Irish-American cnmedy by Alice l ue .m , une u' Am gayest ia Breamer, | 5 the fcature! Mary Alden as the real mother (and at thaty of Dennis O’Neill (Cul-! len Landis) gives another & tion of motherhood as sharply etched, a its ways, 2s ner mother in “The Mr. Landis has a role insofar as its require- oncerned and he meets | credit. Sy‘vm that is ste ' ments are | Breamer gives a5y e as Dennis’ sweetheart. also Thursday, matinee and a company of Montana In- They present Indian Mu- Dancers. jard, a genuine frontiersman, | also with L’ e company as a violinist when presenting tne “GRANDMA’S BOY” AT REX “FINAL SHOWING TON!GHT! If there has been any doubt as to | the ladder of fame, it is dispelled h randm Boy”, his five-part | ated Fx s comedy, whi places him at the top. Yesterday's, udienves at the Rex theatre were! :d with sympathy, thrilis and pa-} thos, the while they laughed as only | those who have forgotten all person- | |al troubles can abandon themselves| ‘to ‘mirth. “Grandma’s Boy” is the perfect comedy- It contains a real story—a Story rwith such a theme as real cow-| ardice, and the power of mind over matter. This serious .. undertone | |is probably why the comedy is soi funny. Lloyd is seen as a young man stri- ing to be brave and failing at every turn, always in a humorous way, of | course. Finally Grandma tells him how his ardice with a good luck charm. wives the charm to the boy, who goes An added attraction at the Grand | vhere liavold Lloyd stands on Grandfather overcame cow- | She | |racing motor,. for -speed—and still more speed. As a lone cow-boy 1ighting desperztely against the plot- ting of a band of crooks who seek the water hole he owns in the middle of the desert, Carey has a role that Iilu him like a well-cut suit- Others in the cast are Ethel Grey Terry as his leading lady and Henry B. Wal- thall as ihe ecrafty Aaron Price whose villiany besets the cowboy- | landowner until the final, tremend- uous climax in which the latter tri- umphs with the aid of the United States cavalry. * “THE STORM” COMING TO “The Storm”, the Universal-Jewel | attraction which has won widespread commendation as the outstanding | {Lhe Elko theatre on Saturday for an engagement of iour days. An all- star cast, headed by House Peters, makes the screen version of Langdon artistic triumph fhat holds the spec- tator spellbcund. Virginia Valli and Matt Moore play the chief supporting Iroles. In fact this stellar trio carry the burden of the majcrity of thre - | scenes. With the action of the stovm in the n | ceptiona { peviorm- | old |} ELKO THEATRE SATURDAY | screen success of the year, comes to McCormick’s world famous play, an | for intense dramatic scenes, and Di- i rector Reginald Barker took full ad- vantage of “each chance to build up the suspense element.. The forest fire scene, in which the flames sweep,a long in leaps an 1:purts, is nmgmil— {cent and exceeds tne thrilling méchan- ical forest fire given in the stage | presentation. Eight canocs were wrecked in the filming of one of the thrilling scenes. Miss Valli and Josef Swickard were in constant peril as they shot :the rapids in their xraglle crafts. ~The picture throughout is a thriller. Photoplay, critics in New York, Chi- cago and other meh‘opuhtan cities o have been unammnus in :their praise: of the grtamess 6t this Universal- Jewe] jen o “‘Storm” as one of the g;eag;x!l pi’ctqu of. th? de- cade- 1 “THE ISTORM” Which has been creating havoc in many cities will pass over Bemidji— SATURDAY September 30th. You Know how it is i8] At the Elko theater run- ning four days. t CULLEN LANDIS and i ! and suprises galore. | Admission, Children 15¢ out and, with the confidence borne of | possessing the charm, iicks his small world to a‘frazzle. He finds :ha:\ self-confidence is the secret of cour-| age, and he wins his final and great- est battic—the heart of the girl—in a manner that leaves the audience 1aum-mg hysterically long after “The End” is flashed on the screen. It's | a laughter wallop with a knockout punch. “SHAMS OF SOCIETY” AT ELKO THEATRE FRIDAY Jewish home life is depicted with | unerring réalism in ‘“Shams of So- ** the first Walsh-Fielding inde- production directed by Thomas B. Walsh and released by -C Pictures corporation. It will be wn at the Eiko theatre for two ! days beginning Friday. Not on the least engrossing of the numerous interesting episodes of the praduction is the barmitzvah party held in accordance with the age-old | Jewish custon of feting a lad of thir- teen when he is confirméd and efters {the church. Several Jewish families were in- vned to take part in the jxcture mak- -and they played theiy roles, how- in these scenes,' ini which the rabbi ts of the produci high credit upon ngle detail wi ¥ the party the re omitted to thing. =, “THE KICK-BACK” AT REX THEATRE THURSDAY A big quick-shooting tale, full of the sizzling action of tense drama warm with the glow of romance and all set amid the _ sun-baked stretches of the Arizona bad-lands— that’s Harry Careys’ latest screen drama “The Kick-Back, scheduled for exhibition on Thursday and Fri- day at the Rex theatre. "The Kick-Back” was built like a B — [ | | | v TONIGHT 'E MOTHERS ~ick MARY ALDE. 4ALICE'DUER MILLER %= A~GOLDWYN PICTURE,, A picture with a punch and a heart grip, with five reels of action and a hundred laughs, a love story that appeals —Added Attraction— % MONTANA INDIAN STARS * Musicians, Singers and Dancers GR A N D The Moth (Zhe Mocher of. SYLVIA BREAMER. | 2y PAUL BERN Adults 35¢ Matinees 2:30, 10c-25¢ | MONTANA INDIAN STARS | TowGHT GKAND ISTATOTO The Melba of the Sioux LILOTO Little Singer-Dancer WHITE CLOUD Banjoist and War Dancer f¢Yiblinist dnd Ghmedian - A edmp‘ny seldited from ,.u.g bent Indian _talent, in;, Ameyi ica. iz ¢ 4 Different fronlj any show -, you have ever swen. Also picture program chang- ed each day. £ Nights 7:30 &‘9, 15¢-35¢ WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1922 BISMARK AND MANDAN, . 1 KEEPING UP REPUTAT!ON | Palmistry and Card Read- | ings At 623 Fifth street Hours: 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. Evenings from 7 to 9 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday only, Appcintments made by phone Call 807, I1da Hailadey. (By United Press) ’ Bismark, Sept. 27-—The twin cities I of ‘the ‘Missouri—Bismark :and :Man- | dans-are striving to live up to"their | [ miilion-dollar bndge rcputatmn l System is to be’tsed in-the city il planning. C. D. Waldron, dean of | agriculture at the ‘North Dakota Ag— ricultural college, has been invited by Lboth towns to draw up a p:uk sys- | .QQO.QQ...OO.Q.0.0..O..OO. Last Time Tonight Tonight : " €% . 7:30 9:00 and Ve, EL KO 10 and 25¢ I.ulte Samson HeTore The ,Bmtes Jaws _*™ Edith Roberts < .ANORMAN DAWN PRODUCTION You'll find abundant thrills 'in this smashing out-door story of love and adventure. that delves deep into the roots of human nature and finds those common faults that knit mankind together. —Also— Comedy and Travel- {ondon laugh. voaring ! mbdfamoflhefimm PFLOCK’S MUSIC “«THE STORM” IS COMING SOON 'ééegoeceoooooooo 000000000 DON’T MISS THIS- ONE R E x TODAY Your Last Chance Tonight Some 6Boy - Some Joy. \ | | 1 GRANDMAS Boy His FirsT PART PICTURE —And You Will | Our Hero is— Awkard, - - - - - - - -Giggle ! Bashful, - - - « - - - -Chortle | Helpless, - . - - - - - - = Laugh _ Brave,- - F = -= - - -Shake i Bold, - - =- = =» = = = -Roar ! Fearless, - = « - . Qunke A laughing joy—-“Grandma s Boy”. Llo?d’s latest and moa ongmul ed: Angéles, ‘California, rer Cu of?anma ] “Tflg‘@mné MOUSE” ‘Rex Six-piece Wtra Mat. 2:30, 10-30c, 7:10-9 Grandma, bring your boys to the opening show and two will be admitted for the price of one.