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Veg Was running thinks ar nice ‘ather for be. Entered at the “>stoffice, Bismarck, N. ask Alexander to score f D., as Second Class Matter. ome ie a P git, Seeoud Clase, Nate pay ins Tun by mother. ‘That would make @UBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN Preity much of all fatherhood squirm Belly, by mail or carr! 7 aa G ma! or carrier, pel month ».. ae. $60) = OLD SKETCH RECALLED. Daily, by mail, one year in North | og) ‘Twenty-nine years ago Harold Fred Daily. by mail in North Dakota, eric, a famous American novelist: of 1.25 three months .. 2 : : Daily, by mail outside th | the period, was the Berlin correspond: Dakota, one year s+ 6.00 | i a cap a Dally, by mail outside fent of the New York ‘Tim rhe Dakota, three months old) German emperor, William the 1, per y | LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Fi st, had recently died Special Foreign Representative welodtich. Wilhélil, an bie cig ‘ NEW TORK, Firth Ave, Bide; cHicaao, | FTietrle h Wilhelm, an able man with Marquette Bldg.; BOSTO> a Winter | liberal tendencies and Bt, DETROIT, Kresge Bide; MINNE- dying of cancer, ‘Th $10 ‘Lumber Excl | prince, destined to be William the Sec ond, wes impatiently weiting for the ‘time he should mount the throne. All lis son, in English wife, H young crov Tu STATE'S OLD’ d "___ Gistablished 1872) adering What Man- Hthe world was we = and what he would WEATHER REPORT j her of man he was do to the peace of Europe. Frederic sent to his paper a long i but, with singular for 24 hours ending at noon Aug. 2 at 7 ain. : open picture, Which not only now! William as he w sr adh] _ Teilay: jy elarity, showed just’ what a menace night . 17 he was to the world Precipitation i None Note this passage: i ed at | “You look into the face of this Forecast young Hobenzollern and remember, for North Dakota; Fair and warmer! With wondering reservations the ma-| tonight and Friday {lignani tales which have been told of tis inner nature by those who kne Lowest | npereture U hest. at feast all the English women—who | Apparently all the women— Fargo anal n nen | Williston 4 |! © had to do with the bringing up! Grand Forks 1s fof Prince William hold him in horror | Pierre Ofand = detestation, — Their dislike for| Sty aul: «see os. H | eral conception Winnipeg {him is based on a Helena Chicago swift Cu 2 This view is that) | he is utterly cold, entire elish, Wan- | | tonly cruel; a young man without con science or compassion or any soften hot his characte ing virtues whatever. ‘That he ha great quilities they all adiil, but the: | stop there | ROBER'PS, Meteorogolist. Heart he has none upon! te Oo ee eee = + = ag i ieeed * S| their sckoning i ‘To those whose god is honor, ‘Men Te Ne | “ disgra alone is sin.—Hare. | “William is very deeply and thor-| ee *, oughly Pru i breathing e: He a living, | yodiment of all the quali-| ‘ties and lack of qualities which, | PLACES FOR OLD MEN. ‘The war has reopened the doors of | through pre industry to the old men, who for] brought the litde Mark of Branden: | years past had been systematically burg up from a puny file, with a poor | barred trom employment by the great; scattered population, to the state of} ja great kingdom. He is saturated | with all the instincts and ideas which | least in the di have r ssia to! The Pennsylvania railroad ha just | its present eminence and his ch i announced that age will no longer) ter is the crown and flower of these | sely two centuries, have! Ameri Thus there is one bright spot at n corporations. ed his parvenu Pr clouds of arac: | a barrier to employment in that/ two centuries of might and ruthle corporation. Ii has been a rigid rule| ness and spoliation exalted into a iia that no man over | creed.” 45 years of age should be hired; but} Speculating about him, f now they ready to take men up/dicted he was a world-ighter, just as to 70 if they are in sound physical| was his ancestor, Frederick the Great. of the Pennsylve pre: | condition. ~ 1 ife pointed out that when ever a Ho- The Steel Trust used to have an} 1 prince married ¢ henzollern cro even more rigid rule that no unskilled! girl of (he house of Brunswick | man over 35 and no skilled man over! eldest: son was one who was a | 45 should under any conditions be! tain of men. | hired; but with the practical stoppage | Written nearly three decade: oF of immigration and the enormous ex-! by a man long since dead, there is a| pansion of the steel industry on war! truth in his words that makes them | orders this rule had to be thrown to! sound as if they were written yester-| the winds. | da These are not isolated cxanples. ; Hohe: zollern has brought upon the! All the latent dan in the | i smali} man's ch ter were pertectly clear Before the war began almost every | world. large corporation and many j He used the very word | - | concerning which we i even | to Frederic ge. It got so} “ruthlessness” ones had set up a deadline against men of middle sthat a man over 40 who lost bis job] have heard so much since August; ninates passed. There was something | There is no difference between well-pre-! the William we see and the one Fred- And if he was) eric saw, save that we know by his the} novelist knew him only by intuition | had no chance for r ployment, no! J9 14 matter how vigorous and served he might be over 60 ther cept oid jobs, support by relatives, organized charity or the poorhousc! based upon observation. ‘The kaiser! over the hill j lL Ne sa | proportions of a conspiracy against! danger to the world, ‘The only ques: | was nothing ahead ex-| foul deeds what he is, whereas It reached almost the} was always e' alw the fathers and grandfathers. {tion was when he would fecl himself The discrimination against old meu! strong enough to attempt to put his| ted with the establishment of pen-| dream of world-empire into exec uLion. | | sion funds. Men over 45 became a} _- scriptures revised by a war! liability for the companies: so they) ‘The arted in to arrange things so that! gardener: ye weed so shall ye an could possibly come up for a) reap. pany at least 10 years of service | ya bundle and be a patriot.! It vy was also a valuabie damper on strikes. s soon found that this policy y the married men, aiready intensively trained by their wives. | The older men were not only kept! Se eee from striking by the fear of losing) ‘Thousands stop work in Leipzig to} their pensions, but by the greater fear) protest war. But that's not efliciency! | that they could not get another job lest is for the dead Carlyle anywhere if they were over 15 Sol eee ee the policy was soon taken up by ccs Q-~—--—-—-—---—-- ~ re WITH THE EDITORS || ———- | TWO DOLLAR WHEAT. i (New York Post.) porations which had no pension sy. tem and could not plead the financial, 9 liability of their companies for pen sions as a bar to the employment of | old jen While the proposed guaranteed min- In some of the cities the old men) imum of $2 a bushel for the best attempted to form organizations for| Wheat is under conference in| Wash-| mutual help and agitation against the! ington, a test vote in the hous: of! age-limit rules: but they could not! commons reminds us that Britain is! break dawn the barrier | guarantecing both the price of wheat! Gray airs were on the black list) and the wage the British ground very d of the farm laorer, But stands upon} t from ours. It is always difficult and to get farm: | Any man’ ers to break up land for wheat usky and ready to do a’ raising, and British farmers remember ithe years in the eighties when the id os: . plowing of too much pasture almost where » Jat string anging s Sug Where The latchstring is hanging | suined them: out f bor in every factory in the, George determined that it. w country sary to obtain a million fres' wheat in a few montis of 5 activity, In A athe balance : among crops has always been good.| hey can help it. i i they can help ie aie, Be We have no such reason’ as Britain to} ae offer a huge bonus for the doubling of THE GRECIAN GOAT. the wheat acreage: for what increase raeed is serraile there is already more than | enough — incentiv There is gre monarchy, 5, 7 : : danger, as Senator MeCumber point mocracy, without her king addressing! out, that if this high gus i parliament. fered for wh King Alexander didn't detiver an 18" hile pate he and potatoes than ar address, because, si i : ada sbi) tecay Y l the food consumer, with the p it would involve criticism of a father wheat and flour held at artificial le by! his son. Just another case of! els, would demand that the food b father. being the goat. The world| Pe repealed. If there is need for state . interference in this matter, it shou knows that it was Alexander's mother | ye left to Co create ou and there was apparently no hope of relief | Now all this is changed that looks day’ work can get a job almost e last winter Lloyd! No porkless days for senators, if becomes a constitutional which is next door to de. : of will gro arley, oats, hay needed. Ther vthe y the dispatches. | gether explain, 1} car and drive aw; | Streets, By E. PHILLIP: SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER | Gn a trip through the English Cumberland country — the breakdown of her automobile forces Louise Maurel, a famous London ac tress, to spend the night at the farm home of John and Stephen Strange: PTER I-—-At dinner Louise di hating recluses. CHAPTER IIl—Ne: discovers that Jo brother, has recei. large fortune. In ¢ he explores the % xt morning sh come into a any with him a talk with him ples and fin that his wealth realed no desire for any other e than the simple one he is leading. She tells him her name and that she is the friend of the prince of Seyre, a rich and disreputable neighbor. CHAPTER V—Three months later, unable to rid himself of the memory of the actress and in spite of his brother's protests, John goes to Lon- don. CHAPTER VI—He finds Louise en- gaged in the reh al of a new play, meets her fi at luncheon with her by the prince. CHAPTER Vii—John drives Sophy home and gives him friendly advice about love and life ‘n London. The prince and Louise postpone a little journey they had arranged tor. CHAPTER iX--The prince takes John unde the playw both the pi t his social Graillot, ght, warns Louise that nee and John love her and the prince will be a dangerous pnemy to his rival. CHAPTER -The prince intro- duces a relative, Lady Hilda, to John, | hinting that she may be of use to him n his hn. Seyre House John ii to a. celebrated. dancer, ( o at once starts a violent flirtation wich him. At sup- per the prince tells Calavera that en- mity for John has caused him to em- ploy her to ruin him. CHAPTER XII--Calavera dances for the : .pper party aud afterward entices John to her, but he leaves her an > hou CHAPTER “ili—John tells Louise that he c.me to London for her and for her alc te. Louise pleads for time. CHAPT! RR XIV—Graillot inadvert- ently plaiis suspicion in John’s mind. Lady Hilda calls upon him in hi roon end attempts flirtation with him, her'talk of Louise and the prince furthe sing bis awakened jeal- ousy. CHAPTER XV—Dining with Sophy, Louise and the prince appear in the restaurant, (o the surprise of John, whoin Louise had told she would be out of town for the week-end. He at- tends the first night of the new play t the climax so shocked that the house. Sophy follows s him back to the after-the- alor supper. CHAPTER XVI--Stephen “education” of CHAPTER XI red Stange- | wey comes to London to see the new] play. There-wieer silence between the two women, Che anvuflled ‘street noises y with full knowledge of what this! trom,outsidexbeeame: the background | to a. stillnes nent more oppressive. Louise returned :o her former attitude. She looked teadfastly before her, her face sup- ported by her hands, Sophy grew paler and paler as the strange and almost beautiful in Lou- o her lately, and which shone from er eyes only at rare intervals. “You care for him, I believe!” Sophy ried at last. “You care for him!” Louise did not move. “Why not?” she whispered. ‘There was a ring at the front door. Louise, from her place, could see the ong, gray bonnet of John’s car, Al- nost before she could speak, he was mnounced, “I's an atrocious time to come, I snoy he began apologetically, “you're in time for some coffee, any- how,” Sophy told him cheerfully, “And sion unless he had given the com Reeoatingral ge ae {{ know Louise is glad to see you, be- | sause if you hadn’t come, I was going ; to make her go through some ac- counts.” “You know I am always glad to see you,” Louise murmured, pointing to a chair, “Sophy and I have been having 1 most interesting discussion, but we ulve come to a cul de sac.” “I really came,” John explained, “to k if you cared to come and see a ‘ollection of pictures. There's an Ital- an—a futurist, of course—just un- neked his little lot and set them up ; ty shop in Clifford street. sending out cards for next week, but I could take you today—that is f you aould care about it. We can zo somewhere for some tea afterward.” Louise made a little grimace. “What bad luck!” she exclaimed. She stopped short. She felt that by her hesitation she had, in a sense, com- mitted herself. “I have promised to go and have tea with the prince at Seyre House,” she said. “It last weel John set down his empty coffee cup with a clatter, An inexplicable but dominating fury seemed to have sud- denly iled him. He took out a ette and tried to light it. Sophy, fter watching him for a moment in astonishment, slipped out of the room. Louise came over to his side. “Are you really so much disappoint: ed?” she asked. “I am so sorry! If Thad known that you were coming for me, I would have kept myself free.” “It isn't that exactly,” John an swered. “It's something I can't alto- If you don't mind, ] think I will be going. There is some- thing I must put right.” He left without another word. She watched him step into his new motor: a little recklessly, idering the crowded state of the He drew up, a few minutes later, outside the. club. in Pall Mall, Hie cou s that the brothers are woman-) the younger ; his rigid moral’ and is entertained) which grew every mo- | face, something which had come | is an engagement we made i wheére, as’ it ehanced, he’ had lunched that day with the prince of Seyre, : He found the prince still sitting in| ee: the smoking room, reading a review, | over the top of which he glanced up | as John approached, and nodded pon: | chalantly. “Back again?” he murmured, “I came back to have a word with | | | you, prince.” | The prince laid down the review, | eeping his finger in the place. | | “Delighted !” Hl + “Not long ago,” John went on, “in this room, someone—I think it was Ma- | jor Charters—asked you what) you} ; were doing this afternoon, You replied | that you were engaged. ‘There were | several others present, and they began to chaff you. Perhaps I wed in--I don’t remember, I think that it w Major Charters who asked you, to use| his own words, whether your appoint-| ment was with a lac You replied inj} the affirmative. There was a loud vol- ley of chaff. You listened without con- tradiction to many re concern: | Ing the lady and the afternoon's en-| | gagement.” | The prince nodded slightly, His face remained quite expressionle: H “As a matter of fact.” John conclud: | ed, “I have discovered by the purest) accident that Miss Maurel is to be your | \ guest this afternoon at Seyre House.” | The prince inclined his head gently. | YUL HELP You, Weopy He remained monosyllabic. “Well?” | John frowned heavily. | “Can't you see,” he went on bluntly “that if any one of those men whe | were present. and heard what we nid about your guest, found out afterward | i that it was 0 Maurel who came te see you—well, I need not go on, need | 12 I am sure you understand. The things which were hinted at could not | possibly apply to her. Would you mind sending a note to Miss Manret | and asking her to have tea with you | Now for the Others! The Hillman | S$ OPPENHEIM < a ann Se | some other afternoon?” “And why the deuce should T da that?” the prince asked, 2 trifle paler but entirely self-possessed. “To oblige me,” John replied. | how T found out that you were net go- The prince wiped his eycglass care- | ing to tea with the prince. Well, I fully upon his handkerchief. is the truth: T asked the prince to “Mr, Strangewey, you are a very | chinge the day of your visit to him.” amiable young man,” he suid equably, | _ Her fine, silky eyebrows came a little “to whom I have tried to show some | closer together, kindness for Miss ‘Maurel’s sake, 1| “Yeu asked him that?” she repeated, | John nodded. “And he ¢cénsented?” i “F will explain,” John continued: “It was a most unfortiinale ércumstance, but in the club, after Junch, the subject of spending the afternoon exme up. The prince spoke of an engagement. He was tied at home, ne sid, from four to six. Some of the men began to chaff him, and suggested that he was entertaining some lady friend, his latest: favorite--well, To dar ou can imagine the rest.” John broke ¢ Tlor fingers played nervously for a | moment With the edge of the rug. She me thrée times since we started’ out this afternoon, You wanted to know { + te wt fh so hard, but poe | “Thad a fancy to see you this afters now [shall not try any more!” “noon,” the prince explained, “and, They drove quictly down the long finding you out, I took the liberty of hill and through the dripping streets, Waiting, If you would rather I went Not another word passed between @Wway and came for you later, please them ill they drew up outside her J0 not hesitate to say so.” door, She felt a new timidity as he — “OL cou not!” she exclaimed. “I handed her out, an immense gratitude 40 not know why T should have been for his firm tone and intuitive tact, £0 Silly, Aline, take my coat and “No, I won't come in, thanks,” he de- veil,” she directed, turning to the clared. “You have so little time to maid, who was lingering at the other rest und get ready for the theater.” @2d_ of the room. “I am not wet. “you will be there tonight?’ she Serve some tea in here. I will have asked, : my bath later, when I change to go to IIc laughed as if there were humor the theater. In the suggestion of his absence. She spoke bravely, but fear was in “Of course!” her heart. She tried to tell herself He slipped in his clutch and drove that this visit was a coincidence, that ain-gleaming streets [t meant nothing, but all the time she knew otherwise: ; The door closed behind Aline, and off through the with the smile and air of a conqueror. Louise pass her little house to ; find av ng for her ‘there. they were alone, The prince, as if * re anxious to give her time to recover igene, prince of Seyre, had spent herself, walked to the window and drew it higher up. first time ‘this. -atiomagm, T., straight back te.the, prince, , I pointed {out to him that after what had been jsald, as itm you were his guest of tod: ibe better for him toe po: visit. Ile agreed to do so.” it would | pone your | t quite,” John replied, “He Fasked me what concern it was of mine, you would be my wife.” Not Possibly Apply to Her.” upon the flaring lights, She was filled with a restless de: start the motor herself, and rush through the wet air into London and safety, And side by side with that desire she knew that there was noth really do not see, however—pardon my putting it.plainly—what business this is of yours.” “It is my business, | “because I have a: be my wife, and because I am hoping ‘that some day, before very long, she will consent.” John declared, where she was, and te sat quite still in his chair, fixed upon a certain spot in the carpet. He had not even the ap- ipearance of being engaged in thought. He seemed only steeped in a sort of ally, with a sigh, he rose vinuch for that!" John proceeded, ‘And now please listen, TP have brought vou out here bee litions T feel mor anil my thor T want io say to you. Something takes me by e throat in your Ifttle drawing-room, th its shaded lights, its perfume of flowers, and its atmosphere of perfec: P of my to his feet. “My young friend,” he decided, “your statement alters the situation, I dia ae eee eat Bs {inten lion, You sit enthroned there like the ae fips vonsea wer so slightly-—so / Men of a world T know nothing of | eighitiys thath they’ showed) sonly. 0) cue the ume: letters and, tow er ' glimpse Gt: hia teath: in one sine flattering invitations are showered ‘hard line. He looked at John mildl Npon. you from the greater’ ten 1s and his words seemed’ destitute of all | London, The atmosphere there stifles offense; yet John felt the lightnings | tne, Louise. Out here you area Sonata | vere playing around them. end I a man, and those other things " fall a . I have tried my best to “I shall write a note to Miss Mau-| come a little way into sympathy with rel,” the prince promised, as he 1 . 7 his way toward the writing table, “and her to visit me upon some other afternoon.” your mind to come down a little way | into mine!” | She felt the sudden snapping of ev- | | ' ery nerve in her body, the passing away of all sense of will or resistance. She w Back again to his rooms, and, later} movement toward him, the involuntary on, once more to Louise's little house | yielding of herself. She lay back in in Kensington; a few minutes’ master-' his arms, and the kisses which closed | ful pleading, and then success, Louise | her eyes and lips seemed to be work- j wrapped herself up and descended to! ing some strange miracle. the street by hi: de. She was in some great empty space, | For an hour or more John drove |hreathing wouderful things. She was i steadily westward, scarcely speaking}on the hilltops, and from the heights | more than a chance word. It was twi-| she looked down at herself as she had light when he brought the car to a) }heen—a poor little white-faced puppet, | standstill, Louise raised her veil and) strutting about an overheated stage, in looked up. a fotid “Well?” she asked inquiringly. ja brain artificially stimulated, and a He pushed back the throttle on; beart growing cold with selfishnes: CHAPTER XVIII. i = ‘his steering wheel and stopped the en- She pitied herself as she had been.| i gine. Then he turned toward her, , Then sh» opened her eyes with a start | “I have something to say to you,” he | of joy. said, “I have brought you here that “How wonderful it all is!” she mur- I may say it in my own way and in my mured. “You brought me here to tell own atmosphere.” me thi “This is like you!” Louise mur-| “And to hear something!” he insist- 'mured. “You had to bring me out to! ed. _a hilltop, on the dreariest hour of a; “I have tried not to, John,” she’ con- jwet March afternoon, to tell me—/fessed, amazed at the tremble of her | what?” weet, low voice. Her words scemed | “First of all,” John began, “T will an- | like the confession of a weeping child. * swer a gues! ich you haxe asked !“] cannot help it. Ido Jove you! I ‘the early part of that aft | “Well, when I Jeff your house the ; manner wholly yn, T.avent | Suance of an order given to his major- ght become known that, tion rooms of Seyre House, the picture s that all that passed between ; painting and sculpture were uncovered, and [told him I hoped that some day | day, and the few wor “The Things That Were Hinted Could She sat quite still, looking down) re to esenpe, to! The sight of his tre d Miss Maurel to) ing ja the world she wanted so much) had paid a great price for the things use under these cons | ©! your life. I want you now to make up | s conscious only of the little | yhere of adulation, with | ernoon in a stood for some moments looking out. range to him, In pur- domo immediately on his return from his club after lunch, the great recep- gallery and the ballroom were pre- sare if for a reception, Du eets [were swept aside, masterpieces of he soft brilliance of concealed electric (lights lit up many dark corners He was forty-one years old that which John had spoken to him barely an hour ago had made him r e that there was) ‘only one thing in life that he desired. | ures merely | soothed his vanity. It left empty and j unsat fied his fuller and deeper de- ) sire of living, He told himself that | his time had come, Others of his race} | they had coveted in life. He, too, must } }4) follow their example. . He was in Louise's drawing-room | j when she returned—Louise, with hair and checks a little damp, but with a| | wonderful light in her eyes and with footsteps that seemed to fall upon air.! “Some tea and a bath this mo-| ment, Aline!” she called out, as she “fl Beg You to Do Me the Honor of ran lightly up the sta ever mind! Becoming My Wife.” about dinner, I am so late. I will | have some toast. Be quick!" “Madame—” Aline began. jitsleast Lan ree to meet what she fe vas nu ent. “Don't bother me about anything |"). 114 now.” Louise interrupted, “I will prince uppreached her deliber- | throw my things off while you get the She knew «what he was going bath ready.” She stepped into her little room. } i fe throwing off her clonk as she entered. | fp Wor, We “I have found myself Then she stopped short, almost uper! ing tie] ie ae oea about you dur- the threshold, The prince had risen| (M2 {He bist few weeks, foaistrects _ She did not interrupt him. She “Pagene!” Shuny waited and watched, He came toward her, Even as he}, Bio he eeeh ee sciermins stooped to kiss her fingers, his eyes sou will grace It with yout which, 1f seemed to take in her disheveled con toh vive are aren ha Ue gpproval, idition, the little patches of color in yoy to tote. ee ees L ask [her cheeks, the radiant happiness |} ive RAGS perhein tags whieh | whieh shone in her eyes. i seed between us. T have come i if you nee to beg you to do me the es ot ee jhonor of becoming my wife.” But how wet you she turned her head very slowly sunt she ‘as king [The fingers which he released fell! ince. Moe wy emmins him full in the | nevvetessiy to her side, She stool) hur eyes a litele ceed eee Htooking at him as if confronted with was leaning Gene The prince a sudden nightmare. It was as if this'tionat attitudes his words pana | new-found life were being slowly spozen simply ‘and i ee had been drained from her veins, | versitional tigation: "There srreennk aul manner, There was some- ow are overtized,” he murmured | thine at x (Ming about him, howev ‘itude toward an convinel Sieh, profoundly r. “One would in ne, from that Twas the bear-; ble tiding: Let me or, 3 it is not so. } He spoke with his usual delibera- tion, but she seemed powerless to r cover herself, She w: still ¢ H and white, She sank into the chair and looked at hin “Nothing, I trust.” he went on, “has yened to disturb you “Nothing at all,” she declared hast-! fiy. “Iam tired, 1 ran upstairs per {When he turned around, Louise had he began, drawing a chair | “Tam not an unwelcome intruder T hope,” he said. are {1 | easy che your appea' cr of some ter eX dur wife!" Louise repeated, ‘It you will do me that great hon- seemed at first as If her nerves were strained to the breaking-point. The situation was one with which her vain seomed unable te grapple. She set her teeth tightly, Then she had a sudide n interlude of wonderful clear- sightedness, She was almost cool. ‘4 must forgive my surprise, Eu- she begged. “We have known her now for some twelve years, lave we not?—and T believe that this pne |'S the first time you hay | r e ever hin jae anything of the sort! be zen ach ot haps a little too quickly, Aline haa not told me that there was an (To be continued.) \ i t