The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1921, Page 6

Z i WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 * THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ~ ye EDIN tte Tuned Tbires;-and put mew life and, sunshine into a home, this girl cculd, and she WE G. THE GARDEN did. ‘We all had the tine of our lives for over a week when a combination PAGE FOUR : PHEBISMAREKTRIBUNE| —_——_—_$____________________-—|_ Japan lifts its head from the poppy fields and . D, Second f 5 pacored: at ine rare fee Dolngiare ste | announces that in 1920 it proudced 939,662 kwam- = GEORGE D. MANN ‘s a B 7 ditor Me of opium, compared with, 29,675 kwamme in , |1913. That is nothing to be proud of, as a national + roma OPIUM of alarms, shocks, or signs, call them | what you will, happened and with such | suddenness and force as to cause the 2 Foreign Representatives % | Ros stoutest hearts to quake with real fear ‘ G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY jachievement. of the supernatural, It was now wid CHICAGO . DETROIT It revals an alarming growth of the drug habit. winter 8 near as I can remember, abaut the middle of December when Kresge Bldg’| the sun goes down. about four in ‘the tte Bldg. x Marquette BYE VNE, BURNS AND SMITH | NEW YORK : ' * Fifth Ave. Bldg. | PROBLEM afternoon, and ‘it’ is lar night sat y ; 5; | * |seven. We had finished our supper MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS i -In solving one problem, we usually create an- jand the whole family had*gathered in Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use ted eprttication of all news dispatches credited to it or Other problem, often a greater one. A speaker not otherwive credited in this paper and also the local tells the American Chemical Society that sewer | meal Tiehts ‘of republication of special dispatches herein | Pipes, which are very essential in rural roads and | are also reserved. |in draining farms, also take away from the farms | | MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION 50,000,000 tons of fertility a year. i SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE | Wise farmers replace this loss with commercial ' $7.2 Daily by carrier, per year 0 | fertilizer. The early farmers mined the soil in- | Daily by mail, per year (in 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. %.00 |stead of farming it. Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.......-+++++ 6.00 Ss ‘THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ‘ Ep October estimate, will be only 69+per cent of the | javerage yield. The only other crops that are worse ; THE JAZZ AGE : \off are cotton 68 and apples 58 per cent of aver: | Jazz life seems to agree with Americans. We ago \ ; | the living room to pliay*games and read, when the outside door of the jfront\rcom, the room we never used, and the door we kept nailed up tight {was opened and the joud soundiof i someone stamping snow off their feet t jon the steps was heart. Father hur- + \ | ried) to open the living icom door lead- ; ing into this front room and proceed- jed to the front door to see who was {coming in. No one waa in sight, ‘yet . |he heard the sound of ..ome one walk past him, and heard the swishing j sound caused by moving clothing as it. passed. The souna proceeded through the living room and went straight to the cellar door, which opened and the scund went down the steps. We were all in the sitting room and-had two good lamps burning and } | Wwe all heard the sound, }ct saw noth- i ry ing, except the opening of the cell:ir oop can WINE ‘ &) i The nation’s grape crop, says the government’s | not only live faster than our great-grandparents | The short grape yield will do more to help pro: | but, on the average, we also live eight years ‘hibition than an army of revenue agents. High | longer. So says the Census Bureau. Queer facts are being brought to life as the 1920 could have made the country dry by taxing liquor | census is analyzed. iprice is the original booze cure. Government /$25 a drink. Most unique is the discovery that the United | States has more than 3500 men and women who} 24 are more than 100 years old. Some day the centenarian will be the rule, not France forgi the exception. That will come as a result of health education, not from eating monkey glands, The forms of animal life that live longest are elephants, whales, tortoise, alligators and parrots. 4 These frequently pass 150 years. Note that they 4 all live languidly, move slowly, rarely hurry. Is 3 that the secret of advanced age? Possibly — | though jazz existence seems to prolong the lives ” of those who duop off before the 100 mark. A popular song had this refrain: “He may be old, but he’s got young ideas.” That appealed to popular fancy because it/caught the subconscious mind, which probably knew what the census now reports: : That marriages of pérsons beyond 50 years of age are steadily increasing in numbers, already x being frequent. ¥ Out of! 100 American men and women, 80 are ’ married before they reach 45, while 10 take the leap afterward and 10 remain single. Divorces among those who have passed 45 are also becoming more common. not making: us a cynical people, for the census ~ finds that the majority ‘of divorced: people try marriage at leasta second time, many making three or four ventures. Figures — which never lie, though liars often figure—show that the span of life is lengthening during the Jazz 4ge, It will take several centuries to learn whether or not this is a permanent phenomenon. Possibly it is only a temporary tendency. 2 Very often, what people do in their lifetime does not take its toll for several generations. The probability is, that we are being carried for- ward by momentum acquired from healthful lives and habits of our ancestors. They gave us the phySique and stamina to withstand the metropo- litan congestion and nerve-racking existence of * modern times. \ = The strain at times gets on our nerves. . Fre- > quently one of the contestants howls and goes to pieces.--But, on the average, the real effects of the io Jaaz-Age will not show up until our-descendants of. 100 OATS} or more hence. % 534 MAY BREED CHICKENS AS BIG AS OSTRICHES A monster wild duck is brought down by the shotgun of Capt. Alex Martin, at Calgary, Canada. = It measured 17 inches around the chest and 41 ‘ inches from wing tip to wing tip. Some meal! ». This wild duck, expert say, got its huge size by the cross-breeding.of a tame duck wtih a mall- * ard. ; Scientists might cYoss-breed chickens, ultimate- ly crossing with the 300-pound African ostrich, } + and produce chickens of enormous size. Food gain é woufti be as great as present-size cows compared ‘ with cat-size cows. : ¢ Horse once was as small as aypoodle. Nature grew it large. Science can do the same with any kind of life. It_has been done with' apples and many vegetables and fruits. | Suggestion of crossihg chickens with: ostriches may seem bizarre, but future generations will dp it. units and mass production. PROHIBITION Ice cream manufacturers hold a national con- vention in Minneapolis. They say that ice cream consumed by Americans has increased 100,000,000 gallons a year since prohibition went into effect. That’s nearly a gallon for every man, woman and child. : But is prohibition really responsible? Imag- * ination has to work overtime to. picture an old- * time bar fly finding, in ice cream, a substitute for _ firewater. + Increased consumption of ice cream is due to § its growing use as a substitute for noon-day lunch. Pohibition is an easy alibi. It is blamed for many 2 @iags it is not responsible for, and given credit for much that should-be credited-elsewhere; This however, is| jany purpose of relevancy to the United States,/| Civilization, as it advances, requires larger! e talk about canceling war debts, | ing Italy, England forgiving France, | America forgiving England, thus wiping the slate | clean. 2 i ! Objection is, there is no one to forgive us. We) ; would be the last to hold the hot potato, passed | |from one debtor to'the other. Money we loaned, ‘allies came from Liberty Bonds. If the allies! 'don’t pay us, we have to pay: the Liberties when | they come due. \ , ‘Again mor POPCORN | lyour children weary of their toy airplanes and/ mechanical dolls, buy them a corn-popper. |. The child that has never shaken the popper and/ iwatched yellow kernels explode into fluffy white! |popcorn, has missed. one of the real joys of life. | Hot and buttered, or candied into balls, it. is as vital, for a complete childhood, as Santa Claus or# 'Charlie Chaplin. By the way, do you think chil-} idren of today have as much fun as we did years| |ago in that! little country town? | | bes MYSTERY | | A man once toured the country and astounded | \scientists with an automatic chess player. It was jan iron box too small.to hold a human. The owner | | placed it on a table and its iron arms moved the} chess men intelligently. 3 Later this myStery was solved. The iron box! contained a legless midget. Every generation has its mysteries. Those o! the presentare mostly financial mysteries. They | ;seem beyond human solution, on the surface. Fu-| {ture generations will look back at them and class ;them with the mechanical chess player. ° | TOIL | instance, in 1919 there were 289,769 manufactur- jing establishments in the United States. These employed 9,103,200 wage-earners, which is an es+ | plying the food. i These wage-earners took $37,372,534,000 worth of materials and, by human labor, converted them! into finished products that sold for $62,910,-| 202,000. background will be the romance and adventure , involved in these statistics. They express the| soul of America. | EDJTORIAL REVIEW |. Comments reproduced in this colamn may or may fot express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues i] which are being discussed in the press of the day. THE UNITED “STATES” It is a matter of great interest that Secretary | Hughes, in official papers, has*referred, td this! nation as a-“state.” His replies to foreign com- imunications touching the League of Nations care} |said to conclude always with the following para-| igraph: “Note is taken of this information for! as a state which is not a member of the League of Nations.” Students of political science have hitherto been fairly unanimous in. th op*r‘on that the United |States could not be désignated as a “state.” Al | divided or double sovereignt:, it is said, is an im- possibility. A body politic either possesses sover- jeignity and is a state, or it does not, and is not a state, Thus, Great Britain and Franice and Italy jare states, while the United States and Germany ‘cannot so be termed. | | Secretary Hughes, perhaps, intends to imply \that such a development has taken place in this ‘country, and that the federation has given way to ‘the state, for external purposes. Whether he iholds that sovereignty. is indivisible is not quite jclear. In any event, his‘use of the word “state” jas referring to the United States indicates the ex- /tent to which unification, has progressed since the DEBTS i | Popcorn season. approches. City folks, wien | | buried, within a -vear. | as the pi | Amazing facts are disclosed by the census. For! close together. BY H. 8. LOBACH. In the late seventies, when I was a lad about ten years old, my paren with a family of three girls and thre: boys, moved, bag and puggage, from a small town in, Pennsylvania to ‘the plains of North’ Dakota. My father ‘was a mechanic in a maciine shop and his heaith>was in such a serious con- dition that/the “doctor told him it was a case of move west and live or he preferred:to tive, and chose health, the Father ce torebuild his health giving atmosphere of Ci ty, \North Dukgta. | He’ rented section ‘of lama) north of C with buildings#and all complete. The house Was 4 substantial eight- an attic overhead rv mere than “halt ‘The entrance to: the cellar opened ‘from the living room, the stairway feading lo the second floor opened out of this same room, and ted up directly into one of the large rooms of*the:thrce upstairs. My brothers. and 1 dccupied this room I-sleeping With thé older one. My two younger sisteis slept in the room adjoining ours, while the old- est sister had the room farthest away from the stairway. Favher and moth- er had the bedroom downstairs, off from the living room, the stair dcor. and their bedroom door, being very There was a front rocm, which we used onty in the sum- mer, it being too large and too hard to heat during winter. We did, how- ‘ever, have it furnished as a bedroom, and used in case of travelers stopping | pecially interesting figure if you are a farmer SUuD-| over for the night, or being caught ‘in a blizzard and stcrm. This front | room had, an outside door which was always ‘securely locked and nailed up with an extra storm door for warmth. This explanation is of the ins and outs of the floor plans and the distribution of the family. . When we meved into house, it was had not been worked tiat year, and the yard and garden wus a wilderness of weeds and wild suaflower stalk: ‘The man who, had worked the pl before had been a bachelor, and’ had moved out the fall befare. He had a bad reputation and. many wierd stor- jes were told of the doings on the old Gillett place, which we had heard repeated at Casselton ant even in Far- go. It was a lonely, cut of the way pl: Casselton being the nearest town, over twenty-five miles away. Our nearest neighbors were eight miles away, liv- ing on what was then called the Dalrymple farm. My father did not intend to k up the tarm until the following ing except for a team of fine driving horses and a cow, 30 there was practically nothing te do. Atter the haymow was filled with hay and the oat bin with oats from the Dalrymple farm. and our cellar well btocked with coal and provisions from Casselton we were ready to settle down snug fer the. long winter that was before us. His First Scire. It was up to ne, of being the youngest boy of the family to see to it that the coal and wood was always in the box, back of the kitchen range. It was on one oi my trips to the cellar when the first incident oc- curred that made-me think my time had come, and is -n9 doubt responsibie for the many gray hairs_I carry to day. I had filled the cowzi scuttle with ccal and had kneeled dawn on one knee by the wood pile to put some wood on my arm and Jac reached out for my-last stick when ‘my hand seem- ed to be seized by another hand very much larger than mine, and icy ccld. It forced my hand down to the dirt floor, was dragged back and forth sev- eral times and to” my surprise, the dirt was soft and. yieiced under ms touch. The floor of ihe cellar thougn being of natural dirt was packed down so firmly that it ‘Seemed strange that | adoption ‘of the Constitution a century and a third ) ago.—-Baitimore-American. -—-~< ‘ this particular spot should yield to my touch. It presently felt wet and warm, I tried to call,. but was too necessary td/ ‘give you an idea of the lay of the jhouse, for what I am about to tell When the Great Ameriéan Novel is written, its! ¥ou, you must understand something the latter part of Octover; the land) } A GHOST STORY OF HALLOWE'EN | frightened to make a sound. I evi- deeply made some re: ce, however. fer I found myself free and making my way toward the irs, when di- rectly over my shoulders there. sound- ed the most hideous, most blood ing laugh that mortal ever he: don’t know how I gained the upper flocr and got safely intg the kitchen. I have only a dim recolection of be- ing held firmly on my mothers’s. lap, while. my father was examining my hand and wiping my fingers with a damp cloth The cloth was stained red with bleol, yet there was notea scratch to be found. 1 was a very bad- ly frightened boy, but iy a word at a time, mother gct me‘to teli what happened Looks Into the Cellar, a Father immediately went'to the’ cel- lar to investigate’ oul ‘could find nothing unusual and concluded I had been scared by a rat or the dark, but when \he came back upstaits there was the hlood ned cloth and my uninjured hand. here cid the blood come from? i It was a good many days before-I could be persuaded to go tc the cel- lar, in fact my father cr one of my brothers preferred doiug my chores, rather than see the iook, of terror that came to my face when the cellar was mentioned. The incident was told to our frends, at Casseltca and in the country so that tuere was ccn- videfable interest created and several people came and looked eyer the place and had:»me show them the spot in the cellar floor. .The old sheriff of Cass county. was espeviatly interested, he filling that office almost. from the beginning of the county. He was ac- quainted with all the nappenings for years back, but this was a mystery. Nearly a month had passed since my experience in the cellar, and we were all beginning to think ot it,;as a trick of the imagination, when at the break- fast table one morning. mother quiet- ly asked which one of‘us had come dcwnstairs‘and opened the cellar dogt,; this for if any one couid dispel the! the sheriff, who-said he had endpglt: | not go hack, s .in blood,/pointing to the intérior. of | | i i | t during the night. We all answered, | “not I,” except my oldest brother. He said he had not céme down stairs, but was awnke sind he -in turn asked | mother why she had come half way ‘up the stairs and then go back. Moth- er said she had done nothing of the kind, but had gotten up after waiting quite a while for whoever it was that} came down, td go back, and they did she :struck a light and folnd the cellar Josr open. She called ‘softly down, and when no ‘an- swer came she conciuded she: had dozed. cff to sleep, while waiting, ana! the’ night prowler had gone bac to bed. The oldest brother wa cus and declared something was not right and began to hunt for some ex- planation, - He went hail way up the stairs, to the point he thought nother had reached in' the night. ‘He could; see nothing unusual and came. Back down, and had taken hold of the door- Imob to open the door, whet he found it Wet and sticky with blood, that ap-| parently had been on there for five or six hours, Brother was a brave man, but this was a considerale shock ang after he had washed ile bicod: from his hand he asked fatier to go wita him to the cellar. They took a light and found a drop or two cf blood on each step.. On the bottom step was an “X” mark, and an arrow traced i the room. They made a careful search, but found nothing more andj gave up very much mystified. A Real Blizzard. This ozcurrence had tirown us all,! especially mother and my sisters into| a very nervous state and father was about persuaded to move.the family into Casselton for the winter, when) the first real blizzard we had .e seen’ struck and that With tie mer- | cury at 40 belew, put inoving out of! the question, and we iad to make the; | wail.of an imprisoned soul, pledding door. - Father found the outside door wide open with fresh tramped snow on the steps and the snow was spriu- kled with blood. Fath@r closed and holted the front door, hurried back to us in the living room,.where we were all, except the oldest brother, huddled together, tco frightened to move. He and brother. detrmined te search until they should find the cause of these strange and hideous doings, © | They“é&ch' took a light“and went: to the cellar, but cutside of the few drops of blocd on the steps und the X‘and a new. arrow,. freshly traced they. found ‘npthing and came back: up- stairs. , es g My oldest brother volunteered to sit up and watch while the rest ‘of us went to hed, but not to sleep. -Our Nerves were too ‘high sirung for that. in fact the women folks were onthe: verge cf hysterics. My youngest ésisi: ter, a year and a half younger fhanm myself, and I Send eas tighten oto be left along 2 moment. However? we al went to dlr beds, except our watch- man-in the living room. wig Feels Blood Frozen, ' It must have been «after midnight when I found myself awake but ‘my blood felt frozen in my veins. I cquld not move, and must have laid scifor several seconds, when what had chill- ed mY..blood a moment before occur- red again, this time I was awake and the awfulness of the sound stopped the ver beating of-my heart.” It was not. a laugh, ncr was it a cry, yet it was a combination of both,’ with ithe fcr release, and expressiag the despair of the very damned. | And so ef to. me that-I could «almost feel 3the sound on my cheek. I could not méve, until the brother I was sleeping qillr raiged cn his élbow and asked if 1 had heard anything. | did not gave time to answer “him, uatil the s@me sound was repeated in the oldest Sii> ter’s room and a momert tater, agin on the stairway. Father must have heard the ‘first sound and was with brother in thejliv- ing room as the sound seemed to--be gcing down the stairway, and they were both at the stair dgor as it was slowly pushed open. father sudden- ly. pulled the doon, wide open, an he did so, some heavy »uik pitchedout against him. He grabbed this, and’¢all- ed to brother to help. As he did«so he found his hands fvli of a filmy substance that was enijrely invisible to the eye, but felt like a piece of fine silk. A fierce struggle followed, but in'a few moments this covering Was torn away and a man was revealed, who was none other than the bachelor who had worked the farm the year be~ fore; and» had been living and carr. ing on his meanness all the time wh the place was thought to have fieen. vacant. _ He» had‘ bovh liquor sand: best of a very bad nerve racking sit- uation. ' To relieve this somewhat and after! the storm had worn itseif out, my old-| est sister drove to Casselton and) brpugtit one of her friends - out! for a visit. We were all pleased with | An | | EVERETT TRUE ‘= AND — SGOAT, AND (IT | WORRIGS MING AAA=—ARAm—ARA— WHEN iL HEARD AGovT IT < HAD To CaucH— HAA Amr AAA mm AAA Ameer AA Bits ab | SAYS— If ou want gto CaucH, MAKE A NOISE LIKE 4 HUMAN BEING! ' WHEN You OPEN YOUR THROTTLE IT } {SOUNDS UKE A*WORRIED Vaan BY CONDO | | oe i ae — i) oN \ mohey, stored. in gellar, andghis: magical performance with a Btid. red paint and his invisivle cloth ere: to frighen us away, so he could Hive the house to himself. ? The next day rather took the gman to Casselton and turned him ovefi to against him to hold him for some mex Thus ends a terrible viood freeging’ ghost story, as all ghost stories i end. i Ss edTEADS ALG, Gran@ ‘Forks, N. D. mour Anderson, of the Extension ,Di-’ vision of the University has been: elected. Alumni-Secretary, .suc iy ing Wm. Greenleaf, resigned. UGHS Appiy over throat and chest Qver 17 Million Jars. Used Yearly: TYPEWRITERS © “All makes Bismarck... Typewriter Co. } : Bismarck,. Known allover the Northwest for @ MAIL US YOUR FILMS % Quality Work for the Amategr' a SLORBY STUDIO : La Successors to £ i ‘4s HOLMBOE STUDIO ' i