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oun TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1017: THE TRIBUNE Entered at the ‘rstoftice, Bismarck, N. as Secoud Class Matter.” {BSUED BVERY DAY EXC! 4 SUBSCRIPTION N RATES, PAYABLH IN carri +. § 60 »: ti" in” North’ “Dak ta, eae ly. ‘of Dai MMONERS. sreisererssseeer poe Daily, by mall pautside of’ ‘North 6.00 pay.” Small outside” Doty thie Sonia 1.50 ‘Weekly, by mail, per year. 1.50 “—“G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Special Foreign Representative NEW YO! Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Mar ii Bidg.; BOS’ TON, 3 ‘Winter BI ETROIT, eage Bldg.; MINNE- APOLIS, 810 ‘Lumber Exchange. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Hk STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER _(Established 1872) Mesa WEATHER REPORT for 24 hours ending at noon sad ‘Temperature at 7 a. m. ‘Temperature at noon Highest yesterday . Lowest yesterday ‘Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity Forecas for North Dakota: Unsettled weath- er with thundershowers this afternoon or tonight east and central portions; ‘Wednesday generally fair cooler east portion. Lowest Temperatures Fargo 56 Williston Grand Forks . Pierre .. St. Paul Winnipeg Helena . Chicago Swift Current . Kansas City . San Francise: ORRIS w. ROBERTS, Meteorogolist. See POOR CASTRO. Poor old Cipriano Castro has been shut out of Cuba. Nobody wants the poor old duffer. And that makes a good subject for a summer sermonette. The point is that, no matter wheth- er you are right or wrong in the ab- stract, if you run afoul of the wishes of mankind you are in a bad w: It has been said that each stage in society finds a moral and ethical code made by society in that particular stage and that the code changes as social conditions change. All other codes undergo similar changes for similar reasons. Once it was wrong to help a slave escape. Once it was wrong to pro- test against witch ‘burning. Ideas change, surroundings change, beliefs change, notions of right and wrong change. Once no woman would have appeared on the street without a bus- tle. Humanity makes its laws as it goes —makes them and enforces them whether they are written in books or not. Only great pioneers standing for great new principles may stand out and face the crowd—and even they are slammed with brickbats innumer- able. Poor little old Cipriano Castro only teaches us the truth of old fundament- als. He somehow has rubbed the world the wrong way, just as the kai- ser has. Capt. Kidd couldn't get along in 1917--and Cipriano Castro seems to have been born a century too late. Many an evil word has been said about hot weather, but the good of it: is we can't freeze our toes. NOT LIKE ‘NAPOLEON. “The premier has decided that the new cabinet will be composed of 15 or 16 members, all equal in power,” says a Petrograd dispatch. It does not appear that Kerensky is much of a ‘Napoleon. One thing that the great Corsican would never put up with was division of power. He wasn't one of a trio of consuls much more than a half hour, com-; paratively, when he showed up as first consul, and he never let up on the job of bossing until the end. Given opportunity, he took all the power that was in sight, and this, backed by his great talents, made him what he was. We are engaged in a world war against autocracy but, in emergency, autocratic power is the prime essen- tial, just the same. Germany, today, holds Europe at bay for the simple reason that for nearly a half century she has been studiously and particu- larly perfecting her autocracy, and the hope for Russia is that she will speedily arrive at the right sort of positive autocracy. She cannot do it through long years of popular educa- tion, as has Germany, but must arrive at it through the “blood and iron” policy. Kerensky, with 15 or 16 ministers all equal in power, is about as far from the Napoleonic and autocratic as could be got. It’s more like the Chinese or Mexican condition, and really spells anarchy, which, so far as effective government in war times is concerned, is movocracy. But, it is not remarkable that Rus after the horrors of Romanoff autocracy, should at first, swing to the other extreme, may get around to the vital war emergency autocracy, if Kerensky has enough of the Napoleon in him to hang his dozen and more of ministers when they ibecome recalcitrant or quarrelsome. Fossil remains show camels once lived in dry western states. Maybe they'll come ‘back. CONSERVING MOTHER. The most overworked word in the language at present is “mother.” It turns up in print and conversation/ about as often as “war.” Mothers are expected to sacrifice and to save—just as they always have done—but now their marytrdom is ex- alted and their labors extolled until mothers themselves are getting a bit; shy of so much sentimentality. Lately a great national demand has ‘been made upon mother to conserve everything, but has anybody heard anything about conserving mother? It would be easy to do 80, if the family ever thought it worth while. Consider her vacation, for instance. Thousands of just average mothers have never had one in their lives. And they never expect to have one. But father goes fishing, sometimes. | And son goes camping. And the teach- er- or stenographer-daughter “takes a trip” every summer. But mother’s only trip is to an amusement park with the youngsters. Which can hardly be called a restful experience. Whoever desires to help conserve mothers would probably better begin at home. A practical step in the right direction would be to stop exclaiming about what mother has given up, and what she is saving, and what she is going to do, and SEE WHAT CAN BE DONE TO HELP MOTHER. There's quite a difference ‘between looking on mother as a wonderful sac- rifice, and making some honest per- sonal sacrifice for mother. Warning to slackers’ brides—a man who will slack his martial duties by getting married will slack his marital duties after he is married. MERELY THROWING DUST. The pacifists, the people's peace councillors, the majority socialists and all the other “ists,” wittingly or unwittingly playing the German game in America, never cease to ring the changes on the speeches and pronun- ciamentoes of Michaelis and other junker and military puppets of Ger- many and, Austria. They overlook the fact that thése German diggourseg,are merely intend-, ed to throw -dust. into German eyes, and befool the rest of the world. What is left of the socialist party in this country—and as such it is made up of Germans and proGermans --is constantly talking about the beau- ties of internationalism. The truth is that socialism as an international force is in complete bankruptcy. It could not hold its own adherents to the principles of inter- nationalism. When the French social- ists saw the German soldiers goose- stepping over French soil they went mad and rightly so. They were Frenchmen first and socialists after- wards. It was the same way with the socialists of England. They rushed to the defense of the liberties of man. Also the German socialists. Like all other Germans they meekly marched to the front. They became tools of autocracy—mere cannon-fod- der. And the same thing is true of their course in the reichstag. Philip Scheide- mann, majority socialist leader, has consistently swung his followers to the support of every ‘big German war measure and credit. He went to Stockholm to play the kaiser's game at the so-called peace conference. He and his fellow socialists were flattered clear out of their hides when invited to the new chancellor's garden party to reichstag leaders, and tickled when the emperor deigned to talk to them for a few minutes as if they} were real human beings. There seem to be only two real democratic voices in Germany—and they are gagged. The brave Karl Liebknecht, a social- ist, is serving a prison term. The fearless Maximilian Harden, for telling the truth about this war in his paper, Die Zukunft, has been drafted as a military clerk. Germany today is the same (Cer- many that started the war upon civili-| zation, only it is a Germany les sure of victory and, indeed, appre- hensive of defeat. But it is still an unrepentant and defiant Germany, in which the common man is a mere pawn in the autocratic game. That is the Germany we have to defeat. He is a poor American who peeps and chirps of peace, who prates of democracy, while, at the same time, he pleads for an understanding with the murderous and still uncrushed forces of kaiserism. cock- ‘With Germans poisoning our court plaster and our wells, we are getting a first class slant at kultur without going out of our own backyard for it. Chancellor Michaelis declares Rus- sia is being bled. He diplomatically | and attempt government by miscel- lan@@as* division of authority. She mens refrained from telling what is happen- SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I—On a trip through the English Cumberlau'! country the breakdown of her automobile forces Loulse Maurel, a faious London ac- tress, to spend the night at the farm home of John and Stephen Strange- wey. CHAPTER II—At dinner Louise di covers that the brothers are woman: hating recluses. CHAPTER III—Next morning she discovers that John, .the younger brother, has recently come into a large fortune. In company with’ him she explores the farm. CHAPTER IV—In a talk with’ him she is disturbed by his rigid moral penelples 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 lift ‘n London. The prince and Louise postpone a little journey they had arranged 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. CHAPTiUK X—The prince intro- duces a relative, Lady Hilda, to John, hinting that she may be of use to him in his “education” of John. CHAPTER XI—At Seyre House John is introduced to a celebrated danoer, 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'tatk 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- wey comes to London to see the new play. CHAPTER XViI—Stephen calls on Louise and offers to buy his brother's freedom from her influence. John per- suades the prince to withdraw an invi- tation to Seyre House he has given to Louise, on the plea that it will com- promise her. CHAPTER XVIHI—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—John repeats the prince’s words to Louise. She tells him they are true. CHAPTER XXII. Befor attic bedchamber, Sophy Gerard was crouching with her face turned west: ward. She had abandoned all effort to slecp. The one thought that was beating in her brain was too insistent, too clamorous. that tangled mass of chimneys and telegraph poles, somewhere on the oth- er side of the gray haze which hung about the myriad roofs, Louise were working out their destiny, speaking at last the naked truth to each other, She started suddenly back into the room, There was a knocking at the door, something quite different from her landlady’s summons. She wrapped her dressing-gown around her, pulled the curtains around the little bed on which she had striven to rest, and moved toward the door. She turned the handle softly. “Who is that?” she asked. John almost pushed his way past her. She closed the door with nerve- less fingers. Her eyes sought his face, her lips were parted, She clung to the back of the chair. “You have seen Louise?” claimed breathlessly. “I have seen Louise,” he answered. “Tt is all over!” She looked a little helplessly around her. Then she selected the one chair in the tiny apartment that was likely she ex- ing to Germany. to hold him, and led him to it. . THE H I_LLMAN | Ay E.DHILLIPS OPPENHEIM ‘tz ast mame s?ae the wide-flung window of her; Somewhere beyond i John and} “Please sit PowWA, she weEsed, “and tell me about it. You musn’t despair like this all at once, I wonder if I could help!” ly. “It is all finished and done with. [ would rather not talk any more about It. I didn’t come here to talk about it. I came to see you. So this is where you live!” He looked around him. and for a mo- ment he almost forgot the pain which was gnawing at his heart. It was such a simple, plainly furnished little room, so clean, so neat, so pathetically elo- quent of poverty. She drew closer to- gether the curtains which concealed the little chints-covered bed, and came and sat down by his side. She clasped her hands tighter around his arm. Her eyes sought his anxiou: “But you mustn’t climb down, John,” she insisted. “You are so much nicer where you are, so much too good for the silly, ugly things. You must fight this in your own way, fight it according to your own standards, You are too good to come down— “am I too good for you, Sophy?” She looked at him, and her whole face seemed to soften. The light in her blue eyes was sweet and wistful A bewildering little simile curled her lips. “Don’t be stupid!” she begged. “A few minutes ago I was looking out of my window and thinking what a poor little morsel of humanity I am, and what a useless, drifting life I have led. But that's foolish, Come now! What I want to persuade you to do is te go back to Cumberland for a time. and try hard—very hard indeed—tc “Am I Too Good for You, Sophy?” realize what it means to be a womat like Louise, with her temperament her intense intellectual curiosity, hei charm, Nothing could make Louls¢ different from what she is—a dear sweet woman and a great artist. And John, I believe she loves you!” His face remained undisturbed ever by the flicker of an eyelid. “Sophy,” he sald, “I have decide to go abroad. Will you come witn me?” She sat quite still. Again her face was momentarily transformed, All Its | pallor and’fatizgue seemed to have van- ished. Her head had fallen a little back. She was looking through the cciling ‘into heaven, Then the light died away ‘ almost as quickly as it had come. Her Ips shook tremulously. “You know you don’t mean it, John! You wouldn't take me, And if you did, you'd hate me afterward—you'd want , to send me back!” He suddenly drew her to him, his arm went around her waist. She had lost all power of resistance. For the first time in his life of his own delib- erate accord, he kissed her—feverish- jly, almost roughly. “Sophy,” he declared, “I have been a fool! I have come an-awful cropper, but you might help me with what’s left. Tam going to start afresh. I am going to get rid of some of these ideas of mine which have brought me nothing but misery -and disappoint- j ment. I don't want to live up to them any longer. I want to just forget them. I want to. live as other men live—just the simple, ordinary life. Come with me! Til take you to the am always happy and contented with you. Let's try it!” Ner arms stole around his neck, “John,” she whispered, hiding her face for a moment. “What can I say? What could any poor, weak little crea- fond of you—I haven't had the pride, even, to conceal it!” He stood up, held her face for a moment between his hands, and kissed her forehead. “Then that's all settled,” he de- clared. “I am going back to my rooms now. I want you to come and dine with me there tonight, at eight o'clock.” Her eyes sought his, pleaded with them, searched them. “You are sure, John?” she asked, her volce a little broken. really? Iam to come?” “I am sure,” he answered steadfast- ly. “I shall expect you at eight o'clock 1” John went back toms rooms fighting all the time, against a sense of unreal “No one can help,” he told her grim?) places we've talked about together, 1) ture Ike me say? You know I am} “You want me! You Can't BEAT IT! —$—$$——— The Dog in the Manger om 7 “tl => Lig" | 2 COMERE Ss sen’ Set Ne EA SS A dog was lying in the manger on the hay which had been put their for the ox, and when he came and tried to eat, the dog growled and snap- ped at him and wouldn’t let him get at his food. said the ox to himself; “he can’t eat himself and yet he won't let those eat who can.”—Aesop’s Fable. “What a selfish beast,” Ky; a Sense aliiwose of fost’ {déatity. He bought an evening newspaper and read it on the way.* He talked to the hall porter, he talked to a neigh- bor with whom he ascended in the lift—he did everything except think. In his rooms he telephoned to the restaurant for a waiter, and with the menu in his hand, a few minutes later, he ordered dinner. Then he glanced at his wateh—it was barely seven o'clock, He went down to the barber shop, was shaved and had his hair cut, encouraging the barber all the while to talk to him. He gave his hands over to a manicure, and did his best to talk nonsense to her, Then he came upstairs again, changed his clothes with great care, and went into his little sitting room. It was five minutes to eight, and dinner had been laid at a little round table in the center of the room, There was a bowl of pink roses—Sophy’s fa- vorite flower—sent in from the flor- ist’s; the table was light&l by a pink- shaded lamp. John went around the room, turning out the other lights, un- til the apartment was hung with shad- in the middle, An unopened bottle of champagne stood in an ice-pail, and two specially prepared cocktails had been placed upon the little side table. There were no more preparations to be made, He turned impatiently away from the window and glanced at the clock. Tt was almost eight. He tried to imag- ine that the bell was ringing, that So- phy was standing there on the thresh- old in her simple but dainty evening dress, with a little smile parting her lps. The end of it all! He pulled down the blind. No more of the wins dow, no more looking out at the lights, no more living in the clouds! It was time, indeed, that he lived as other men. He lifted one of the glasses to his lips and drained Its contents. Then the bell rang. He moved for- ward to answer its summons with beating heart. As he opened it, he re- celved a shock. A messenger boy stood outside, He took the note which the boy handed him and tore it open under alamp. There were only a few lines: John, my heart is breaking, but I know you do not mean what you said. I know it was only a moment of madness with you. I know you will love Louise all your life, and will bless me all your life be- cause I am giving up the one thing which could make my life a paradise. I shall be in the train when you read this, on my way to Bath. I have wired my young man, as you call him, ta meet me. I am going to ask him to marry me, if he will, next week. Good-by! I give you no advice. Some day I think that life will right itself with you, SOPHY. The letter dropped upon the table. John stood for a moment dazed. Sud- denly he began to laugh. Then he re- membered the messenger boy, gave him half a crown, and closed the door. He came back into the room and took his place at the table.’ He looked at the empty chair by his side, looked at the full glass on the sideboard. It seemed to him that he was past all sensations. The waiter came in sl- lently. “You can serve the dinner,” John or- dered, shaking out his napkin. “Open | the champagne before you go.” “You will be alone, sir?” the man inquired. “I shall be alone,” John answered. (To be continued.) oo ————or | STATE HOUSE NOTES | o— ing |\N FOR CONFERENCE— Colonel Frank White and. Major Mudgett of Valley City came into mil- itary headquarters this afternoon for a conference whose purpose is to de- termine “ where the Second regiment is at.” TO CANVASS VOTE— The state canvessing board will meet in the secretary of state's uffice at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning to canvass the vote in the special elec- |tion recently held in the first. The vote as unofficially reported to Sec- retary of State Hall was: Eangs, 3276; Vick 75; Burtness, 8969; Cuth- bert, 72; Baer, 13,211; Aaker, 212 WELCH WAS PEEVED— When instructions first came over the wire Saturday night relative to recognition for units of the Second regiment, they read that Co. I of Bis- ows save for the little spot of color} jected because they exceeded the age limit for their grade. While Captain A. B. Welch is no youngster, neither is he aged and infirm, and when j Shown the message he said a polite little swear word. “My age went in,” said the captain, “as 39. Somelvody must have switched it around down there and made it 93.” The second lieutenant of Co. I is Ferris Cordner, who hasn’t seen 30 yet, by some years. It was generally believed at military headquarters that an error had been made in transmission, and this morn- ing there came a correction which ex- plained matters, stating that Co. I and) its officers were accepted in toto, sub- ject to the provisions of section 74 of the defense bill, and that the nota- tions relative to the captain and sec- ond lieutenant referred to Co. M of Beach and not the new Bismarck com- pany. NEW COMMISSIONS— Commissions were issued Saturday by Governor Frazier as follows: C. E. Duncan and Milton P. Graham to be first lieutenants, medical corps; Paul R. C. White to be second lieu- tenant; Stanton A. Hayes to be first lieutenant; Thomas J. Thomsen to be major of infantry. Thomas J. Thom- sen is captain of Co. I, First regi- mnet, at Wahpeton. The majorship in the Second regiment made vacant by the resignation of District Judge J. M. Hanley, was tendered him, and he indicated that ,he would. accept, Then, late Saturday night, developed doubt as to the fate of the Second, and Captain Thomsen has been debat- ing since the wisdom of abandoning a certain captaincy in the First for a somewhat uncertain majorship in the ‘Second. It is doubtful now whether authority to accept rests with Captain Thomsen, as his acceptance and qua- lifications were not offictally filed with the adjutant general prior to midnight Saturday, at which hour the ability of the governor to appoint or of indi- viduals to accept commissions in the national guard ceased, and the war department took charge. ETHEL CLAYTON “Man's Woman” is the captivating title of the new World Picture Brady- made which will be the attraction at the Bismarck theatre tonight. Miss Ethel Clayton is the star of this at- traction and. she appears with hand- some Rockcliffe Fellowes. The other members of the cast are all capable and pleasing actors. The story moves along smoothly to an entertaining cli- max. This is a thoroughly pleasing picture throughout. HEIRESS WEDS JUDGE MRS JOS. ©. CORRIGAN Mrs. Corrigan, bride of a New York city magistrate, was Mrs. Margaret Faith Robinson Haggin. She was di- vorced from Ben Ali Haggin, portrait painter of international fame and chief heir of the late James B. Haggin, mill- ionaire copper king. This also is Mag- marck was accepted, but that the cap- ‘tain and second lieutenant were re-. istrate Corrigan’s second marriage, his first wife having died in 1916. PROPERTIES OF DEFUNCT TELEPHONE COMPANY SOLD Following Sale District Judge Restrains Issuance of Certi- ficate to Buyer Towner, D., Aug. 7—The tooP lines and exchanges of the Western {Telephone association in McHenry county were sold by Sheriff J. A. Wik to satisfy an execution issued in dis- trict court in favor of the First Na- tional bank of Detroit, Mich. The properties brought $8,000, a represen- tative of the Detroit bank said to be the purchaser. Following the sale Judge A: G. Burr issued an injunction restraining the sheriff-from issuing a certificate. YOUNG MEN OF LEEDS ORGANIZE HOME GUARD Preparing to Fight in National Army or in Local Defense Under Able Leadership — Leeds, N. D., Aug. 7.—Twenty young men of Leeds have organized a home guard company under M. L. Strong and O. E. Fielder, both experieaced military men. Some of the boys ex- pect to be called for servicé and have taken this means of preparing them- selves. Those who are: not chosen desire to be in position to respond to any call which may arise for their services here. Rancher’s Daughter And Hand Trying to Save Cattle Drown Plentywood, Mont., Aug. 7.— While endeavoring to break up a milling hérd in the ‘Missouri river, near Eighth Point, Miss Cecil Teets and B. J. Turner, wno were assisting the herders, were carried into a swift undercurrent and drowned with their horses. The stream was dynamited in a number of places before the bod- ies were recovered. Cecil Teots was a daughter of Joseph Teets, a well-known rancher 60 miles south of Glasgow, and Turner was employed on the Teets farm. They were making a crossing with the cattle when the accident occurred. Bolt of Lightning Strikes Driver and Kills Farm Horse St. Thomas, N. D. Aug. 7.— Byron Hearst was striken uncun- scious by a bolt of ligntning which Struck him in the field while he was driving a mower; the shock stampeded the horses, and one of the animals was so badly cut by the mower blades that it was’ necessary to kill it. By good fortune Hearst did not fall under the knives, and when the bleeding horses reached the barnyard a rescue party set out and found the boy wanderirg about the field, still stunned by his experience. One arm and a strip down his back were blister- ed by the electric current, but ~ otherwise he was uninjured. The bolt apparently rendered the lung of one of the horses, which lived, however, to reach the nthe Baroyare: CONTRACTS FOR Rn NEW JAMESTOWN LIBRARY TO BE LET THURSDAY Jamestown, N. D. Aug. 7.—The Johnson Construction Co., of Fargo. and W. H. Carson, of New Rockford, were the lowest bidders for the gen- eral construction work for the new public library to be erected here. The contract will be let at a meeting of the library board Thursday night. Construction work will start this fall and it is expected to nave the build- ing gompleted by next spring. FOR TAXI SERVICE PHONE 342°