Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 23, 1922, Page 2

P 1iwo unfortuniale niece: i mnmnmn.vmfim e Author of the Millionaire Baby, “THE AMETHYST BOX” The Mist, Etc. (Copyrighted by the Bobbs-Merrill Company) The Filigree Ball, The House In A Scream Heard in The Night CHAPTER IV I turned and hardly consci my “actions, stumbled from the room. It was several minutes before I found ‘myself aléne and making for the little room into which Beaton | had vanished a hali-hour before. I approached the doorway and was about to cnter when a heavy step shook the threshold ve.ore men wnu 1 found myself confronted by the advancing figure of an elderly lady whose portra:t 1s now tlae tor me to draw. Imagine, a broad, weighty woman of not mu-h he.ght, with a face whose features were usually forgot- great cheeks and falling jowls. If the small eyes rested on you. you| found -them sinister and strange. She was a woman of immense mezns | afd an ‘oppressive consciousness .of | this spoke m every movement of her heavy .frame. was seldom seen without a display of “diamonds which made her broad bust look like the bejeweled breast of some Eastern idol, and some idea may be formed of this redoubtable woman whom I have hitherto con- fined myself to speaking of as the gorgon. The stare she gave me had some- thine venomo#s and tireatening in {t.-Yet. why should the old woman | ol T RTTRIN _once that she rezarded me with great 1avor. tlau a1 unwicting- 1y done something to displease *her? 1 entered the room. Two men and ome’woman stood in rather an em- barrassed. silence about. a table on which lay some cards. One of the men wag Will Beaton, and it was i who now remarked: ‘“‘She has just found out that the youny pevfic ,afe enjoying ithem- selves. 1 wundm upon which of her she Wil ex-! pend her-temper tonight?’ *‘Oh, there’s no - guesuon abou that,” remarked the iady who stoul near’ him. “Ever since she has nad a,.reasonable prospect of working Gilbértine off her.hands she has’de- voted herself quite exclusively to her remaining burden. I hear that the south hail was biue today wita the talk she gave Doroty Camerden. No one knows what about for the girl! ewdenfly tries to please her.” --1'gdve Beaton a look and stepped out on the veranda. In a minute he ‘followed me. “Beaton,” said I, “we have not! known ‘each other long, but I am dis- posed to be trank with you. I am in trouble. My affections are engaged, deeply engaged, in a quarter where I find some mystery. You have help- ed make it. I refer to the story you related the other morning of the. young girl you had seen hanging ov- er the verge of the cliff with every appearance of *ht¢nding to thriw her- self over.” “It was as a dream I related it,"t he remarked. “That 1 am aware of. no dream to me, Beaton. I fear I know that young girl; I also fear that T know what drove her to con- templating so rash an act. The con- But it was versation just held in the card room ; should enlighten you. wrong?” “It was a dream. Remember that I insist upon its being a dream. But some of its details are very, clear in my._mind. When I stumbled upon the dream.maiden in the moonlight her face was turned from me toward the ocedn, and I did not see her fea- tures then or afterwards. Startled by some sound I made she crouched drew back and fled to cover. That cover I have cvery reason to believe was this very house.” “This drcam-maiden was a wo- man?” I inquired. “Onc of the wo- men now in this house.” He replied reluctantly. #She was a young woman and she wore a black cloak. My dream ends there.” I started for the nearest window which proved to be that of the mus- ic-room. I was about to enter when Beaton, I am - 1 saw two women crossing the oppo- sitc doorway. The aunt had evident- 1y come for the niece and they were leaving the room together. Not, amicably however, Harsh words had passed, or I am no judge of the hu- man countenance. Dorothy especial- 1y bore herself like one who finds difficulty in restraining herself from some unhappy outburst, and her ,Hands were held clenched at her sides. I stepped into the room. Another porson was sitting there. 1t was Gil-| CALL FOR—SANF FORFST “bertine Murray, sitting alone in an atjtude of deep thought. Truly she was a beautiful woman. 1 did ‘not consider that Sinclair had succumbed to charms so pronounced “and .uncommon. = “I am glad to have a moment in " which to speak to you alone,” I said. +“Ag’ Sinclair's oldest and friend. I wish to tell you how truly | ~you can rely both on his affections closest and esteem. He has an gond heart.” Something seemed to choke her, something which she finally mastered. “Thank you,” she then said, “my infinitely us of but mself knows how happy. "2 And Add to this that she| ,prospects are very happy. No one ‘she smiled again but with an ex- pression which recalled to my mind Sinclair's fears. i But before I could answer she {was surrounded and dragged off by a knot of young people. I found Sinclair at last in his room sitting with his ‘head buried in his arms. He started up when I entered. “Well?” he asked sharply. “I have learned nothing dedisive.” “Nor L” “I exchanged some words with | both the ladies and I tackled Beaton. | | But the matter remains just about | "1 where it was. It may have been Dor- othy who took the box and it may |have been Gilbertine. But there |ceems to be greater reason for sus- pecting Dorothy. S=e lives a hell of ! |a life with that aunt.” | “And Gilbertine :s on the point of | | escaping ‘that bondage. {have thought of that.” “But the doubt,” he cried, “the doubt! How can I go through this rehearsal with such a doubt in my mind? I can not and will not. Go will tell no untrutns.” “It will be unwise to rouse com- Jment,” I said. “If that box was tak- 'en for the death it holds the one re- straint most likely to act upon the| young girl who retains it would be} the conventionalitieg of her position jand the requirements of the howr | !Any break in the settled order of things might precipitate Lae areadian} event we fear. Remember, one turn | of the hand and all is lost.” “Frightful,” he murmured, perslprauon oozing from his fore- head. “What a wedding eve! Walter, Walt- ler, don’t you see that even if that! uu-sed box remains unopened and the | seeds of distrust are now sown thick | n my breast and I must always ask:! “Was there a young bride shrank from me enough ; to dream of death? That is why I {can not go through the mackery of | this rehearsal.” “Can you go through the ceremony of marriage?”’ “] must—if nothing happens to- | night.” Later he went through the rehear- sal very much as I had expected him |to do, quietly and without any out- |ward show of emotion. | -As soon as posible after this the ! company separated, Sinclair mak- ing me an lmperatlve gesture as he went up stairs. I knew what it meant, {and was in his room a; soon as the fellows who accompanied him had ileft him alone. “The danger is from now on,” he cried, as soon as I had closed the door behind me. “I shall not undress | tonight.” “Nor 1.” “Happily we Lot have rooms by {ourselves in this great house. I shal put out my light and then open my door as far as need be. Not a move in teh house will escape me. i “I will do the same.” “Gilbertine—God be thanked—is alone in her room. Little Miss' Lane shares it with her.” “And Dorothy’" “Qh, she is under the strictest bondage, day and night. She sleeps in a little room off her aunt’s. Do you know her door?” Why was I on my feet? heard anything? yes, a stir, a faint stir somewheres down the hall—the slow,cautious} opening of a door, then a footfall —or had I imagined the latter? l could hear nothing now. Pushing past my own door I look. ed cautiously out. Only the pale facé Had- I I konw, Ilcomes nothing ever comes of its theft, the|g moment when my | WARNS AGAINST FIXING (Continued from page 1) | was insistent. At that time, my advice they | snatched the mask from one .of the | to business men was, that |should make terms withl abor as | quickly as possible so as to keep | Thig sealyd his fate and also the fate; their factories running and turn out|of Richards. were to be |'deeper into the woods and never seen charged up to the consumer. This|again. ‘the stuff. The costs advice, the business men of the country cheerfully took,e ven to the extent of improving upon it. “At the present time my advice is directly opposite. Under no condi- |tions should wage rates be increased | if it is at all possible to avoid it. A wage rate, once established, is a millstone about an employer’s neck. cy of wages and of commodmes is |downward. This present’stifrening of conditions is but an edy in the main stream. A year .from now, perhaps, the lower price tendency will again be resumed. The employ- er who has allowed himself to be weighed down with increased wage | rates will find himself at a disad- vantage then the downward tendency is again resumed. “If, therefore you must pay more for your help in order to secure the {labor and keep the peace,” continued | the statistician, “do it by some means of a bonug which will be eliminat- {ed automatically when the turn In 1917 and 1918 you could pass the cost on to the public but | that time has gone. The pubhc is not looking for goods at any price; it is looking for goods at a lower| find a ready sale. “Furthermore, investors are go- ing to be extremely cautious about putting their funds into. industrial | enterprises. They are going to ask a great many perplexing and embar- rassing questions. First among these is going to be the question as to how far the particular plant has got its production costs down to a per- | manent level. These questions are going to be asked strictly from the {the profit-making possibilities of pro- ductive enterprises to be curtailed. Your normal margin of profit, in the i years just ahead of you is Zoing to be very much less than it has b=cn or the last five years. Any ele- ment, therefore, which tends to in- {crease production costs is going to add to the embarrassment of your ,cnmpany For this reason investors |are going to look beyond the ad- vertisements as to the assets and in- comes -and things of that kind. They are going to ask to see your wage sheets and to demand information as to how the wage levels under whii. pend not.only the profits which you you_are opx.ratmg correspond with nhose of six months and a year ago. This is a perfect legitimate question and upon the answer to it will de- will make in' 1923 but also the dif- ficultieg which you will meet in.ob- taining money to finance your oper- ations.” General business according to the index of the Babsonchart has sag- ged slightly from exact normal reached last week. The current re- action of 2 per cent is due to in- crease in failures. ADDITIONAL TROOPS ARE CALLED TO LAKE WHERE (Continued from page 1) |geons. ‘Liic bodies were dislodged {from the bottom of Lake La Four- sche by a terriffic explosion early yesterday after they had lain .in tie imud since August. The men hag ben bound with a wire and thrown into the lake. It is believed that members of the hooded orgamznfian that killed them dislodged the corpses by setting off 'dynamite in an attempt to hide them clsewhere and so conceal evidence of the crime, The' troopg guarding Lake Cooper nearby, which was being dragged for the bodies, surrounded Lake La WAGES AT WAVE'S PEAK 5220 3 " omenie and. whiskea éflmwm Cui oy Minm PG DMIAIVE FAGALTAR SATURDAY- EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1922 ing each machine. zniels were away, and their three comhanions were tled to trees in the forest and whipped. Daniefs is said to have At 18 and Those 25 and Over Have to Marry men’s faces and recognized him. They ' were carried —— By Gus M. Oehm (United Press Staff Correspondent) Berlin, Dec. 23—Spinsters and bachelors—ye who have . hoped in vain—hark! . Hie ye to Angora where marriage Is about to be made compulsory! A proposal to legislate compulsory CAPTIVES ATTEMPT TO CONVERT CHINK BANDITS oy 4 COMPULSORY MARRIAGE | PLANNED IN ANATOLIA Minimum Age Would Be Set; long ti:pe and his inances permit, he ) to pay for the education and mainte- is required to marry a second time | nance of one or more orphans. while away and.to-bring his|second wife back home upon his return. Whoever reaches. the -age &f 50, u{ith only one wife, he is, if finan- !proposed law would free students or cially able, required to take another. The only/sway 6ut o these regu- lations would be for “an-individual to remain a_student;all his life. The the marital reomirements until the If he refus2s to dn thls, he ig forced ! end of their studies, 3 = price and if your goods are put in-! tell them 1 am ill and can not.come igy the market on the basis of increas- down again tonight. God knows ¥OU o4 production costs, they will mot ! dividend-paying basis. On all sides | (Continued from page 1) to another, taking what they want or can get. However, a bandit is a The fundamental long swing tenden-| bandit and -he may get mad, so there | ers* sum. The Honan bandits who have been seizing missionaries say quite frankly ‘they are disbanded soldiers and are taking foreign prisoners to thus force Peking to take them back into the national army. The government says that is what comes of ‘disbanding soldiers. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR FRANK JERGME SUNDAY + Funeral services wiil be held Sun- { day afternoon at 2 o‘clock at St. Phil- 1p’s.churen. aor s'rank serome who | passed away at Marschrield, Wisc., | ‘Wednesday. night as the rasult of an {-accident. which he met whde working in the woods near here. Burial is | to be made at Pemoina, N. D. anu tie body will be shipped on the 3:20 | Great Northern train Sunqay aite.- noon. The deceased is a former service, ‘man, having served about three years during the .World War. Ex-service men, members of the American Leg- ion, will act as pall-earers and oth- erwise assist during:the services. He is survived by his parents, Mr. nad Mrs. John Jerome of this city and ‘bne sister, Mrs. Joc Blondo, and five | brothers. The body is now at the Joe Blondo home where it may be viewed by friends. LOCAL NEWS A. E. Hodgdon, drl\'er of the school bus, left last night for Hutchison to visit his parents over Christmas. Miss Esther Joda of Tenstrike was among the Christmas shogpers [in Bemidji Friday. L. B. Peters left Bemidji Friday for his old home at Cannon’ Falls to visit friends and relatives for two weeks. Mrs. Clyde Martin of Turtle River was 8 Christmas shoyper in Bemidji Friday. . {is just'a little cloud over the prison-|the following restrictions would he marriage ‘hag been laid before the'l Anotolian national assembly, accord- ing to Anatolian néwspaper§ reachs ing here. Under the proposed law made effective; The minimum age at which ‘mar- riage may be performed: ‘would be set at 18 years, while those 25 or more, who have failed to take unto themselves a helper, would be forced to marry whether they desire to or not. If an Individual fails to marry on acount of illness, he would be forc- ed to undergo a strict medical ex- amination at the age of 25. If the ailment is incurable, he will not be required to marry. Otnerwic wui be, forced to marry as soon as he is cured. If a husband is forced to go on a journey and is not in a position to take his wife along, he must obtain a “marriage holiday” permit from the city authorities. © If he .ig forced We would be without sentiment if we did not voice our appreciation of your valued patronage the past year, and we thank you and wish you during The Season’s Greetings WILSON & CO. S.'S, WILSON to remain away from his wife for a BIDS FOR FIRE TRUCK AND HOSE Sealed bids will be received by the undersigned to be opened at a reg- ular meeting of the City Council to be held Monday, Jan. 8, 19234t 8 o’clock P. M. for the following: 1 One Triple Combination fire truck. 500 feet of 2% inch double jacket fire hose. Quotation to be F: 0. B. Bemidji. Payment to be made in city warrant. Certified check in sum of ten per cent of the amount of bid" should accompany the same. Plans and specifications file at office of City Clerk. The City Council reserves the right to reject any or all pids . Belle Denley, City Clerk. Bemidji, Minn, Dec. 2, 1922. Monday’s Mondays1-1 are on TAKE OUR ADVICE--USE CALUMET Yhe Economy BAKING mwnm We want all our friends, far and near, to believe us when we say that weé wish tmem a A MERRY CHRISTMAS WOLD & OLSON BANKER ADVISES D.B. C. COURSE Miss Lillian Matson’s banker told Roy Webster, student at the U. of Minnesota, arrived in Bemidji Friday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Webster, Doud avenue, for two weeks. ] " Altho we have been in business but a short while in Béniidji, we are.grateful for the con- fidence shown in our business methods and J. S. Stecker of Williams’ Cor- ners autoed to Bemidji Wednesday and attended to Christmas shopping. Ralph and Marjorie Kingsbury, who have been rooming at East Be- midji while attending the Bemidji DEAD BOD[ES ARE Fo“ND h!gh school, returned to Grant Vzl- y Friday evening to spend their .,hnstmas vacation with their par- =nts, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kingsbury ind family. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Petra, 1005 Mississippi avenue, left by train Friday morning to spend the week Jaughter Mrs. Phillip Mangan and luring. the. holidays with . their family at Little Falls, and Mrs. Petra’s sister, Mrs. Peter St. Mane at Belle Prairje. Misses Hilda and Clara Pederson who are teaching at Warroad and Roseau respectively, will spend the holidays with their parents, Mr. and of Sinclair confronted me. Advanc- ;[ Foursche before the torsos could be|Mrs. Edward Pederson and family ing, we met in silence. For the mo- ment we scemed to be the only per. sons awake in the vast house. “T thought I heard a whispered. “That is what I heard,” was his| murmured protest, “what I heard was a creak in the small stairway running down at the end of the hall| where my room is.” “Next instant his face, and I have | no doubt, my own, turncd the color of clay and Sinclair went back xeel. ing against the wall. A scream had risen in this slecnmg ‘house—a pmrcmz and insistenf; step,” T curdles the blood.” (END CHCAPTER 1V) ‘I'he ran. scream such as raises the hair an(}* | fished out. The hooded agents fled but one dropped a bunch of keys as Search for the owner of the keys was started immediately. The Pwarfare between - the hooded band and the authorities dateg from last August. The people were divided, some siding with the secret organi- zation. Richards and Daniels were - outspoken in their opposition, how- ever, and Daniels was accused of having spied on the secret meetings of the society. On ‘August 24th,” the masked ter- rorists struck. = A processlun of au- tomobiles going from Bastrup to Mer on Fourteenth street. Miss Mx rgaret Christianson. who has been staying with Miss Myrtle Hallowell while attening the Bemidji thigh school, left Thursday moon for her hmoe at Puposky to. spend her vacation . with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Nels Christianson. ' S. A. Swznson who has been mak- ing his home at 423 Fourth street is staying with his father, A. L. Swan- son at Twenty-first street and Irv- ine avenue. The latter has been ill Rouge, following a barbecue, was and -under the doctor’s care for the eld up in broad daylight by another | past 16 months znd his condition-has car halted across the road. Hooded | not been so favorable for the past her to avoid a short,*‘easy’” steno- ; graphic course, and go to Dakota | Business College, Fargo,N. D. She did. Now she has a fine position with the Northern Trust Co., Fargo. Bankers know that D. B. C. gradu- ates are thoroughly trained, make splendid dependable employces. Nearly 700 banks employ* ‘Dakota’ | graduates. About 226 have become executives, 40 being women. “Follow the $ucce$$ful.” Enroll : now. Send names of interested | friends and get Success Magazine. | free. Write F. L. Watkins, Pres., 806 Front Street., Fargo, N. D GREETINGS! FRIENDS At this happy season we pause to greet you with the sincere=wish ‘that you will have a i MERRY CHRISTMAS wish to extend to our many friends the SEASON’S GREETINGS men went down along the line search- i POLICY IN SOUTH STATE (Continued from page 1) asset to the state, are aiso advocat: | program. The economic problem that is ats tendant upon the despoilation of for: ests of the state, is not to be avery looked, according to Quinn. “The number of people whose livelihood |depends, directly or indirectly, upon our forests is very large. Their wels " |fare is of vital importance to. the’ state- and hinges directly on outcome lof forestry legislation,” ed by Quinn as part of the forestryx — I W. R. Spears NIGHT AND Enclczed and Heated Cars - PHONE 622 207 Belt. Ave, ——__—— STUDEBAKER AUTO LIVERY week. R. M. Thome DAY SERVICE Opponte Hotel Markham GILL BROS. BEMIDJI .« .