The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 6, 1917, Page 4

©OUR A MONDAY, AUGUST 6,.1917. = THE TRIBUNE Zintered at the F-stoffice, Blemarck, N. D. Beooud Class {SSUED BVERY DAY EXC SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVAN CE Daily, by mail or carrier, mon! seeee cease Daily, by mati, one year in North Dakota ° per sersccene § 50 4.00 1.26 Dakota, one year ... woe Daily, oy mail outside of North Dakota, three months . Weekly, by mail, per year. G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Special Foreign Representative NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg; CHICAGO, Marquette’ Bldg.; BOSTON, § Winter 8t.; DETROIT, Kresge Bidg.; MINNE- APOLIS, 810 ‘Lumber Exchange.“ in of Circulation it_Bureau of ¢ lation: ” ‘ATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAFE! (Established 1872) a WEATHER REPORT for 24 hours ending at noon Aug. Temperature at 7 a.m. . Temperature at noon . Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday . Lowest last night - Precipitation ... Highest wind velocity Forecast for North Dakota: Unsettled with showers late tonight or Tuesday; somewhat warmer northwest portion tonight; cooler Tuesday extreme west portion. 6. 53 Lowest Temperatures Fargo ... : Williston Grand Forks Pierre . St. Paul Winnipeg Helena .. Chicago Swift Current . Kansas City .- 68 ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorogolist. OVERWORKING SECRECY. Why blind the American people when the Germans sce? A month or more ago Uncle Sam Janded some thousands of his troops in France, where they are now under- going training. All of France knows where they landed and where they now are, but this information has been kept from the American public. Is there the slightest doubt but the Germans know exactly where these troops are? Our cablegrams are still coming under address of “Training Camp in France.” What sense is there in it, when nobody is fooled, save Americans? It is surely good policy for the Washington administra- tion to let our people have all the in- formation it can. Keeping Americans especially ignorant is silly business. Just to show the proper spirit, China may split up into two democ- Tacies. DO WE NEED A TRAGEDY? As the paving area increases the temptation to speed is greater. Those who run automobiles must observe more carefully than ever the traffic regulations. The work of the police in rounding up “speeders” is com- mendable and their vigilance should ‘be redoubled over the entire paved district. Automobile trafic will become con- centrated more and more in the two paving districts and the reckless driv- er and early morning joy-ridey must be put out of business now. Surely it is not going to take an accident to bring home to the thoughtless drivers that the speed limit must not be ex- ceeded. Is it going to take a tragedy to compel careful and moderate driving? The Tribune trusts not. There is too much fast driving now within the city limits. Before many streets were paved the condition of the thoroughfares was such that speeding was a poor diversion. With several miles of smooth sheet pave- ment the temptation to “cut her loose” is a constant menace to the safety of the community Commissioner Bertsch should not abate his vigilance in running down the speed demon who disregards the law. Public opinion is behind this crusade against scorching and offenders shculd be shown no mercy or quarter. A second offense should be sufficient to deprive one of the right to run a car. ‘Let the good work go on so that all can use the streets without en- dangering life and limb. s has been chosen as chief head hunter for the provost mar- shal. His specialty will be slackers, and he intimates right at the start that he will “give them fits.” \ MUST BE SATISFACTORY. Within a very short time—unless Jim Reed, Gore and other senators once more spill floods of words—con- gress will adopt some sort of food conservation measure. The sole question is whether in its finality it will do the work the presi- dent has promised the consumer it will do. Food conservation and control have met resistance every step through the senate. More.than in the house, the gray wolves of special privilege have flaunted their power. They secured long weeks of delay absolutely priceless to them and ex- ceedingly costly to the people. They emasculated sections of the bill. They were battling in the last ditch for their continued control of wheat, * four, meat and other foodstuffs which the people need and for which the prices have mounted sky-high. That is why the president should scrutinize the bill with a microscope when it comes to him;—to find out not whether it has some little technical flaw, but whether in its larger pro- visions, it is anything like what is needed to meet the situation. The people have looked to Wash- ington for relief, to lighten their bur- dens Food comes closest. They know they are being victimized and they demand the pillage ‘be stopped. They are coavinced that if the right kind of bill is passed, if Herbert C. Hoover is clothed with authority, results will be quickly obtained. Results are what are wanted, not apologies or explana- tions. And that is where the president can and should come in strong. If the bill as finally laid before him is a | mere shell, if it gives him the mere | color of food control without the real power, if it is aimed merely to make a noise without accomplishing definite results, the chief executive should promptly veto it. ‘He should do more. In plain language, calling a spade a spade, he should TELL WHY he ve- toes it and place the responsibility directly where it belongs. He should then insist that congress go to work honestly and speedily and adopt a measure that he can sign. The American people are in no mood for trifling. They want reiief and THEY WANT IT NOW. They will back up thefr president, if he will but lead, to the finish. And they will make their voices heard in so unmistakable a manner that even the senate marplots will heed. —— THE RIGHT SPIRIT. “Sign me up. I do not claim exemp- tion.” Such was the answer of the first New York city man to qualify under the selective draft law. This is the spirit which will win the war. Unfortunately, the percent- age of exemptions in the east are too numerous. “Sign me up.” That should be the answer of every man drafted’ who is without dependents and is sound in body and mind. Not satisfied with flirting with the camel, many congressmen also seem inclined to imitate the ostrich. NOTICE. OF DEMISE. Whatever happens from. now on jis no sin. Satan is dead. His bones have been found somewhere in West Virginia. This skeleton shows horns on the head, the: traditional cloven hoof and the spiked tail. So, of course it must be the skeleton of Satan—if the news reports are to be believed. Few characters have been more written about and talked about than Satan and about all we've got to say is that if he has really died, the news- AW THE Hi SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I—On a trip through the English Cumberland country wey. CHAPTER II—At dinner Louise di covers that the brothers are, woman- hating recluses. CHAPTER Il]—Next morning she discovers that John, brother, has recently come into a large fortune. In company with him she explores the farm. x CHAPTER IV—In a talk with him she is disturbed by his rigid moral principles and finds that his wealth has created no desire for any other life 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 rehearsal of a new play, meets her friends and is entertained at luncheon with her by the prince. CHAPTER VI[—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 ar:anged for. CHAPTER IX—The prince takes John under his social care. Graillot, the playwright, warns Louise that both the prince and John love her and that the prince will be a dangerous enemy to his rival. CHAPT::. X—The prince intro- duces a relative, Lady Hilda, to John, hinting that she may he of use to him in his “education” of John. CHAPTER XI—At Seyre House John is introduced to a celebrated dancer, Calavera, who at once starts a violent flirtation with 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 supper party and afterward entices John to her, but he leaves her and the house. CHAPTER XIII—John tells Louise that he came to London for her and for her alone. Louise pleads for time. CHAPTER XIV—Graillot inadvert- ently plants suspicion in John’s mind Lady Hilda calls upon him® in his rooms and attempts. flirtation with him, her talk of Louise and the prince further increasing his awakened jeal. ousy. ‘CHAPTER XV—Dining with Sophy Louise and the prince appear in the restaurant, to the surprise of John. whom Louise had told she would be out of town for the week-end. He at tends the first night of the new play and at the climax is so shocked that he leaves the house. Sophy follows and brings him back to the after-the ater supper. CHAPTER XVI—Stephen Stange papers missed a mighty good story at] wey comes to London to see the new the time the old boy kicked in. play. CHAPTER XViI—Stephen calls on Just to make up for the dereliction | Louise and offers to buy his brother's of the press at the time of death we] freedom from her influence. John per. pen these lines by way of obituary, suades the prince to withdraw an invi passing betimes to remark that if he is dead we're glad of it—but we don’t believe he’s dead, and if he is dead his bones haven't been found, and if they have been found he couldn't have been the kind of devil we always thought he was. Aside from that all we've got to say is, we wonder what Billy Sunday will have to say about the case. However, in this hot weath- er anything can happen—and wé wait further developments. Say, over in England they're mob- bing pacifist members of parliament, on Sunday, too! Uncle Sam is going to draft 24,000 doctors without depriving any com- munity of enough to care for it. It can be done. It would be a sorry spectacle to make North Dakota an I. W. W. para- dise. In spite of official orders it might be a good plan to keep the vags moving just the same. No political generals or other offi- cers are to be recognized by the war department. This is a good start. Tho fine young men who are going manfully to the service of the nation are entitled to the best officers. We have it from our able London correspondent, Mr. Ed L. Keen, that there's considerable gloom in England over the discovery that “earlier re- Ports as to the size of the first Amer- ican expedition were wildly exagger- ated.” The truth always burns like that, after a foolish attempt to hide it. Governor Frazier honored the pro- fession by selecting Arthur Van Horn as a member of the first architects’ board. It is essential that the per- sonnel of this body be sympathetic to the aims and objects of the new organization. Mr. Van Horn is well qualified and especially interested in seeing that the board becomes ef- fective and carries out the objects!for which it Was called into being. tation to Seyre House he has given tc Louise, on the plea that it will com. promise her. GHAPTER XVIII—Louis acknowl edges to John that she loves him, The prince proposes marriage to her and she tells him he is too late. CHAPTER XIX—John asks Sophy if Louise has ever cared for the prince, and she advises him to ask Louise herself the question. CHAPTER XX—John hears that Louise has been very close to the prince. He asks Graillot about it and the playwright begs the question. His brain in a whirl he meets Sophy at a supper club and while she is dodging his questions the prince comes in. John defiantly announces his engage- ment to Louise. The prince says that the night is the anniversary of the one when Louise consented to become his. John throws him over the table. CHAPTER XXI. Toward nine o'clock on the follow: Ing morning John rose from a fitful sleep and looked around him, Even before he could recall. the events of the preceding night he felt that there was a weight pressing upon his brain, a miserable sense of emptiness in life, a dull feeling of bewilderment. Al- though he had no clear recollection of getting there, he realized that he was in his own sitting-room, and that he had been asleep upon the couch. He vy, too, that it was morning, for a As he struggled to his feet, he saw with a little shock that he was not alone. Sophy Gerard was curled up in his easy chalr, still in evening clathes, her cloak drawn closely around her, as if she were cold. Her head had fallen back. She, too, was asleep. At the souhd of his move- ment, however, she opened her eyes and looked at him for a moment with a puzzled stare. Then she jumped to her feet. “Why, we have both been asleep!” she murmured, a little weakly. A the sound of her yoice it all came back to him, a tangled, hideous ‘night: mare. He sat down again upon the couch and held his hefid between his hands, “I remember everything that hap- pened at the club,” he went on slowly. “Is the prince dead?” She shok-her head. “Of course not! He was hurt, though;-and there-was a terrible scene of sunlight lay across the curpet. | 4y E.DHILLIPS OPPENHEIM breakdown of her au mobile forces somehow, to drag you away. Loufse Maurel, a famas London ac-' manager helped-us, To tell the trath, tress, to spend the night at the farm pe wus only too anxious for you to home of John and Stephen Strange! oot gway before the pulice arrived. the younger}, | i LMAN f “THE DOUBLE TRAITOR; FE MASTER MUMMER; Eu of confusion in the room. The péopte the crowded around him, and 1 managed, The Fle was so afraid of anything getting into the papers. I .drove you back here, and, as you still seemed stunned, I brought you upstairs. [I didn’t mean to stay, but I couldn’t get you to say a single coherent.word, I was afraid to leave you alone!” “fT suppose I was drunk,” he said, ina dull tone, “I remember filling my glass over and over again. There'is one thing, though,” he added, his voice gaining a sudden strength; “I was not drunk when’ I struck the prince! 1 remember those few seconds very dis- tinctly. T saw everything, knew ev- erything, felt everything. If no one had interfered, I think I should have killed him!” “You were not drunk at all,” she de- clared, with a little shiver, “but you were in a state of terrible excitement. {t was along time before I could get you to He down, and then you wouldn’t close your eyes until I came and sat by your side. I watched you go to sleep. I hope you are not angry with me! I didn’t like to go and leave you.” “How could I be angry?” he pro- tested. “You are far kinder to me than I deserve. T expect I should have been in a police cell but for you!” “And now,” she begged, coming over to him and speaking in a more mat- ter-of-fact tone, “do let us be prac- tieal, I must run away, and you must go and have a bath and change your alcthes. Don’t be afraid of your repu- ation. I can get out by the other en- crance.” “Remember,” she whispered, “you rave to go to see Louise!” He covered his face with his,hands. “What's the use of it?” he groaned. ‘It's only another, {yrn of the.screw!” “Don’t be foolish, John,” she ad- nonished briskly. “You don’t actual- ly know anything yet—nothing at all; ‘Remember,” She “Whispered, Have to Go to See Louise.” “You \t least, you are not sure of anything. And besides, you strange, impossible yerson,” she wel on, patting his rand, “don’t you gee that you must judge her, not by! the standards of your world, in which she has never ived, but by the} standards of her world, in which ghe was born and ored?. ‘That is only fair, ¢su’t it?” He rose listlessly;to his feet. There vas a strange, dulf'look in his face. “You are a deat girl, Sophy!” he said. “Don’t go just yet.. I have never telt like it before {n my life, but just aow I don’t want: to be left alone. Send a boy for s§me clothes, and I will order some tea.” She hesitated. « ; “My own reputation,” she mur- mured, “is absolutely of no conse- quence, but remember that you live here, and—” “Don’t be silly he interrupted. “What does that matter? And besides, according to you and all the rest of you here, these things don’t affect a man’s reputation—they are expected of him, See, I have rung the bell for breakfast. Now I am going to tele- phone down for a messenger boy to go for your clothes,” They breakfusted together, a little later, and she made him smoke, He stood before the window, looking dowa upon the river, with his pipe in his {mouth and an unfamiliar look upon his face. i “Do you suppose that Louise knows anything?” he askéd at length, “I should think not,” she replied. “It is for you to tell her, I rang up the prince’s house while you were in the bathroom. They say that he has a broken rib and some bad cuts, sus- tained in a motor accident last night, but that he is In no danger. There was nothing about the affair in the newspapers, and the prince’s servants have evidently been instructed to give this account to inquirers.” A gleam of interest shone in John’s face. “By the bye,” he remarked, “the prince is a Frenchman. He will very likely expect me_ ty fight with him.” “No hope of that, my belligerent friend,” Sophy declared, with an: at- tempt at a smile. “TEC ipEcs knows OT Ty SSSS = MusT. BE, CRUSHED THE ALLIES eejaqeaate | \ \\ \ sqqditaentny ices age S MQ ayysgsss ANTENA IAEA iN mt! N THATLL MELT YouR- Weather F orecast---Sissling that he is in England, ite would not be guilty of such an anachronism, Be sides, he is a person. of wonderfuily well-balanced mind. When he ts hin self again, he will realize that what happened to him is exactly what he asked for.” Joln took up his hat and gloves He glanced at the clock—it was a Ut tle past eleven, “I am ready,” he announced, “Let me drive you home first.” His motor was waiting at the: door, and he left Sophy at her rooms. Be- fore she got out, she held his arm for a moment. “John,” she said, “remember that Louise is very high-strung and very sensitive, Be careful!” i “There is only one thing to do or to say,” he answered. “There is only one way in which I can do it.” ' He drove the car down Piccadilly like a man in a dream, steering as varefully as usual through the traffic, and glancing every now and then with unseeing eyes at the streams of peo- ple upon the pavéments. Finally he came to a standstill before Loulse’s house and stopped the engine with de- liberate care: Then he rang the bell, and was shown into her little draw- 'ng-room, which seemed to have become a perfect bower of pink and white Mac. He sat waiting as if in a dream, unable to decide upon his words, un- able even to sift his thoughts. ‘The one purpose with which he had come, the one question he designed to ask, was burning in his brain. The min- utes of her absence seemed tragically long. Then.at last the, door opened and Louise entered, She came toward him with a little weleoming smile upon her lips. Her manner was gay, al- most affectionate. “Have you come to take me for a ride before lunch?" she asked. “Do you know, I think that I should really like it! We might lunch at Ranelagh on our way home.” The words stuck in his throat, From where she was, she saw now the writ- ing on his fac She stopped short. “What is it?” she exclaimed. “Ever since I knew you,” he said slowly, “there have been odd moments when I have lived in torture. During the last fortnight, those moments have become hours. Last night the end came.” “Are you mad, John?” she demand- ed. “Perhaps,” he replied. “Listen. When I left you last night, I went to the club in Adelphi Terrace. There was a well-known critic there, comparing you and Latrobe. On the whole he fa- vored you, but he gave Latrobe the first place in certain parts. Latrobe, he said, had had more, experience in life. She had had a dozen lovers— you, only one!” She winced. The glad freshness seemed suddenly to fade from her ‘ace.. Her eyes became strained. ‘Well?” “I found Graillot. I cornered him. { asked him for the truth about you. He put me off with an evasion. I came down here and looked at your window. It was three o’clock in the morning. T dared not come in. A very demon of unrest was in my blood. I stopped at the night club on my way back. Sophy was there. I asked her plainly to put me out of my agony. She was like Graillot. She fenced with me. And then—the prince came!” LouiSeé stiratik back. “He told you that?” John was on his feet. was blazing once more. “He told me that, face to face!” “And you?” “If we had been alone,” John an- swered simply, “I should have killed him. I drove the words down his throat. I threw him back tothe place he had Jeft, and hurt him rather badly, I'm afraid. Sophy took me home somehow, and now I am here.” She leaned a little forward on the couch, She looked into his face search- ingly, anxiously as if looking for something she could not find. His lips were set in hard, cold lines, The ikeness to Stephen had never been more apparent. * x “Listen !” she said. . “You are a Purl- tan. While I'ndmire the splendid self- restraint evolved from your creed, it is partly temperamental, isn't It? T was brought up to see things differently, and I do see them differently. Tell me, do you love me?” “Love you?” he repeated. “You know it! Could I suffer the tortures of the damned if I didn’t? Could 1 come to you with a man’s blood upon my hands if I didn't? If the prince lives, it is simply the accident of fate. I tell you that if we had been alone I should have driven the breath out of his body. Love you!” He rose slowly to her feet. She leaned with her elbow upon the man- telpiece, and her face was hidden for a moment. “Let me think!” she said. “I don’t know what to say to you. I don't know you, John. There isn’t anything left of the John I loved. Let me look again!” She swung around. “You speak of love,” she went on suddenly. “Do you know what it isi Do you know that love reaches to the heavens. and can also touch the neth- ermost depths of kell? If I throw myself on your knees before you now. if I link my fingers around your neck. if I whisper to you that in the days that were past before you came T had done things I would fain forget, if 1 told you that from henceforth every second of my life was yours, that my heart beat with yours by day and by night, that I had no other thought. ne other dream, than to stay by your side. The fever “The prince was there?” she fal- tered. “He came up to the table where Sophy and I were sitting. I think I was half mad. I poured him a glass of wine. I told him that you had prom- ised to become my wife. He raised his glass—I can sce him now. He told me, with a smile, that ft was the anniversary of the day on which you protilsed: to_become_his—!” to see you happy, to give all there was of myself into your keeping, to keep it holy and sacred for you—John, what then?’ Never a line In his face softened. He looked at her a moment as he had looked at the woman in Piccadilly, into whose hand he had dropped gold. “Are you going to tell me that it Is the truth?” he asked hoarsely. “Think for a single moment of that feeling which you ‘call love, John!” she pleaded. “Listen! TI love you. It has come to me at last, after all these years. It lives in my heart, a greater thing than my ambition, a greater thing than my success, a greater thing than life itself. I love you, John! Can’t you feel, don’t you know, that noth- ing else in life can matter?” | by Tasker H. I , major general act- ing chief of staif to Adjutant General McCain, and which Adjutant General Fraser now has on file. Major Gen- eral Bliss advises that arms and am- munition and other equipment may be procured in limited quantities froni the government, subject to return ou 30 days’ notice, and providing the home guard is organized with the authority of the governor, through whom application must ‘be made. Practical Joker Turns Wrong Tap; Boy Bably Burned Dickinson, ‘N, D.,.Aug. 6.—A practi cal joker employed at the Dickinson roundhouse of the Northern Pacific turned on the wrong tap when he sought to “douse” Fred Foscher, 11- Id son of J. B. Fischer of South son, and instead of giving the lad a cold ducking, he drenched him with boiling hot water which cooked the flesh on the boy’s right side and has placed him in the local hospiatl in a precarious condition. FRANCE HAS ARMY OF THREE MILLION IN FIELD, SAYS LETTER Washington, Aug. 6.—France has an army of nearly 3,000,000 men in the field against the Germans on the Western front and will ‘be able to keep it at that strength for a long time to come, according to a letter Newton D. Baker, secretary of war, has received trom’ Andre Tardieu, nch high commissioner in the United States. In fact France is stronger today in fighting men and materials than at any time during the war, despite three years of terrific combat, Mr. Tardieu’s letter shows. The letter, which was written to give Americans. some {idea of what France is doing, shows that. French losses are only one-fourth what they were at the first of the war, that the French still are. holding more than two-thirds.of the Western front, that in addition. }to--equipping their own great army=the French have reequip- ped the armies of Belgium, Serbia and Greece, and that the ‘French nave been able to meet all~requirements for heavy artillery and ammunition. ( | Geran or ee ame! | ) | WITH THE EDITORS | WHY SEND THE GUARD SOUTH? (From the Minneapolis Journal) Thé war department with inscrut- able wisdom is about to’send the na- tional’ guard regiments’ into southern camps for: intensive training. The First ‘Minnesota, with summer torrid- ity at its height, is about’ to entrain for Deming, N.-M.> Other training camps have been’established through- out the south, where the. guardsmen are to be “hardened” for service ! abroad. It would be a fair inference that they are to be sent to’Mesopotamia or Not # line in his face softened. His! Palestine when they’ are ready to teeth had come together. He was like! fight. Why else should they be train- @ man upon the rack. “It is true? It Is true, then?” he demanded. She looked at him without any reply. The seconds seemed drawn out to an interminable period. He heard the rolling of the motorbuses in the street. Once more the perfume of the lilac; seemed to choke him. Then she leaned | back and touched the bell. “The prince spoke the truth,” she said. “I think you had better go!” (To be continued.) ORGANIZATION OF HOME GUARD UNITS! A thod ‘to ‘be. employed: in. the tion of home ‘guard units is defined in a.bulletin issued. July 23 ed in-the»south, unless they are to serve in’ the tropics? The ‘climate of northern France is much like. that of morthern United States<:In = (winter“it is cold’ and snowy and altogether rigorous. Who does not remember the dispatches from the front last winter, with their tales of sheepskin clothing, frostbit- ten fingers and toes, and other in- juries by freezing? One would suppose that our own northern fall in winter would be a better preparation for campaigning in France than the enervating heat of the south. But the war department knows better. It knows that the statesmen who rule the committees of congress are all from the svuth. That is an argument for intensive training in the southern camps that outweighs all considerations of cli- mate. - ree ets =); { t t {, ? e { { wot ' { t 7 “< » { ficiere a : . Stee