The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 17, 1922, Page 4

er PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK. TRIBUNE. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, =N, D., as Second Class Matter, GEORGE D. MANN Editor Foreign Representatives LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. =PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - Fifth Ave. Bldg. a ———— MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ae The Associated Press is exclusive- “lys entitled to the use or republl- cation of all news dispatches cre-/ dited to it or not otherwise credit-| ed in this paper and also the local} news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved, EMBE JDIT BUREAU OF ea CULATION N ADVANCE by carrier, per year, y mail, per year (in ieee ine racneecs by mail, “per ate outside Bismarck) . Daily by mail, outside of No! Ds Dail OLDEST NEWS- PAPER (Rstablished 1873) | present commercial value berry Finn.” Not what you have, but how much ‘enjoyment you get out of it, is what counts. On these hot days, wouldn’t you trade places with’ the poorest country boy, fishing with ‘a bent pin and diving in the old.swimming pole? Not quite so loudly | | ail aaa | DANGER | Mistinguett, Parisian | pre: perfect legs in existence,” has them | insured for $1,000,000. it merely means that her legs earn her, says, 6 per cent interest on $1,000,000—or $60,000 a year. Take your income for one year, multiply it by 17, and you have the of your body, brain included./The real value, mining engineer, said to get the big- gest salary in the world, returns from the Orient. He is excited about China’s unde- veloped natural wealth, which he de- scribes as “incalculable.” Despite this wealth, China is a nation of MARKING TRAILS When the voluntary marking of | automobile trails first was started | there were many people who could; see no reason for this gratuitous ser-/ Viee to the itinerant motorist. The, is the same in’ our country, every its dangerous and debilitating heels. automobile! one’s prosperity shackled to the rail-| The escape from these monstrosities ‘lubs for the benefit of autoists. La-| roads. You realize this when a strike was not so much a change in style movement was inspired by ter, as the number of automobiles) grew and the trails began to be dotted! with tourists, a great mhany citizens | concluded that it was not only a civic) duty but was good business to mark trails; they saw that it was far bet- ter for the town to have a good word fall from the lips of a tourist. The Town Criers club of Bismarck in planning to mark trails within 100 miles of Bismarck is undertaking a| real service to the business men of | the city as well as to the tourists and, neighbors. Members of the club have} devoted much time to a study of the! best method of marking trails, and are willing to give more of their time | and money to put them up. They de-| serve encouragement, “GONE BUGHOUSE” | Around insane asylums there usual-! ly isa harmless lunatic who is men-' tally normal except that he has an obsession for dressing up in freak-j} ish clothes. The same individual would pass as sane at a masquerade, ! or even during epidemics of jazz| styles, Another _ interesting eccentric! around insane asylums is the gentle- man who has the thrift instinct so highly developed that he hoards bits | of glass or bright quartz pebbles, un-/ der=the delusion that they are im- mensely valuable. He has a lot: in common with some of the people out- side the asylum, who have the same eagerness to accumulate money, jew- els“or rare articles, The insane people are not all lock- ed Sup. Science now is training its guns on*nervous and mental disorders. Oné authority says that the biggest: problem in America today is curb- ing: our unconfined madmen—all the| way, from fanatics to what Ed. Howe, | wige country editor, calls “public-| affairs lunatics.” Dr. A. Warren Stearns, neurolo- gistzat.Tufts Medical School, points out=that one o fthe chief signs of a normal brain is the tendency to con-} forn:to ‘the customs and habits of the ‘majority. : Discusging eccentric individuals, he rays this about “paranoid personali- ties.” ; “These individuals, are peculiarly , sensitive. Their ego is dominant andj they..eare more for its promptings | than for the commendation of the othér members of their group. These| individuals frequently head reform moxements, but more often they live a thorn™in the fleih, ; ciates,.quibbling oxer” sot traeaeltene of tel sneighbors, and attempting numerousis soci mea: ureggthe) main, motiyesfor githich is; an “antonscious blind struggle agaiast:the dictates of the‘ jarger! herdar:groupof people. Among these willbe found. sympthizers with the! enemy.an time ‘of war, ‘certain con- | scientious, objectors, and those who habitually form themselves inta, ‘an- ti? gapicties. Carried tb. he exite e degree, these ‘individus ‘ealle ‘paranoiacs’—those who. are .so. f. unbalanced as to have delusions of, persecution and ideas of grandeur.” Dr. Stearns adds this word of cau- tion, in considering “paranoid per- sonalities’—that it is human instinct to regard any one who disagrees with | us as of morbid or inferior mind,! “and jit must be remembered that every once in a while one of these, individuals is right and the world is| wrong.” { But, on the whole, this wouldn't | be a bad time for the American peo-' ple to take an inventory of some of the national “paranoid personalities” and figure out their degree of sanity or mental unbalance. | PASSIONS Detectives check up and find that New York City’s most sensational erimes_occur during summer. The, Thaw, “Rosenthal and Elwell cases) were ‘staged during the warm! monthg;'So are nearly all the other metropolitan murders involving prominent people. Theré is no mystery about this. Nor is it coincidence. In hot weather, emotions are stronger and the brain languid. In winter, the brain is keener, emotions more under con- trol. People are blamed or given credit for a lot of deeds that really are due to the weather. Back of the weather is, the-sun, regulator of the swarm cilled humanity. The mystery of life has something to do with the! sun. _ _ PLEASURE Henry E. Huntington, owner . of the famous Gainsborough painting, “Blue: Boy,” has a library worth $10,000,000. This collection, at San Marino, Cal. consists of rare vol- umes and priceless old manuscripts. Yet Henry doesn’t get as much pleasure out of these brain mum- poverty, congested, no system, a coolie and his family living on 16 cents a day. What keeps China poor? Hammond answers, lack of transportation. It disrupts freight service. SPORTS More than 1,000,000 Americans have taken up horseshoe pitching, says the magazine, Horseshoe World. This ancient game _ still runs neck-and-neck with — radio. Horseshoe pitchers will hold their national tournament at Des Moines, Ta., beginning August 28. Croquet is another old-fashioned game that is sweeping back into popularity. The best metropolitan sporting goods houses are selling croquet outfits. Fads ‘always come back, like the rubber ball you used to bounce against the barn, back) h | ome. STRANGE A museum of death is started at the University of Brussels, in Bel- gium. Susan Minns, of Boston, do- nates her large collection of mum- mies, poison cups, coffin nails, stuffed buzzards and other cheerful objects. You wonder why Susan’s hobby | ran in the direction of the grave- yard. She would be equally perplexed at your hobby. A wise Nature gives us different tastes to make us interesting to each | other. If we were all exactly alike, life would be stupid, boresome. out of a book on radio or.“Huckle-- dancer, -agented as haying “the most This seems a fabulous amount, But) from the curse of their soggy breth- ren and, if the department is to be taken as mentor, may be eaten with- out fear—New York Tribune. eee havin SUFFRAGE ENTANGLEMENTS The Fergusons of Texas have pre- cipitated a situation that -has’ been | apprehended as a result of woman’s enfranchisement. _ Both former Gov- ernor James E. Ferguson and Mrs.! Ferguson are candidates for the Unit- ed States senatorial nomination to succeed Senator Culberson. The form-| er mistress of the executiye mansion’ ig of the Lone Star sta has scored not to have an appetite. first by filing her nomtination papers ry jin advance of her lord and master. It may be that in this particular case the rivalry is of a friendly as well as a family nature. If the lady should win the nomination, the de- feated member of the team might be beer sign they cuss. L Many a dream is a nightmare with her make-up off. | A boy follows in his father’s foot- steps by taking after his mother. however, has nothing to do with ‘ : 4 carning power. If it had, Bdison #8 Proud to be known in Washings) a woman can't make a fool out shoulds be insured for as much as cor ator Ferguson as she was to be of @ man hut she can prove he 18 . _ | known in other days as the wife of one. | Governor Ferguson. But the possi- : ; CHINA | bilities of disaster are obvious. Prices are down on everything John Hays Hammond, famous) The problem is the same old one,! except what we buy. |“Whither are we drifting and, if so, |to what extent ?”—Washington Post.| | Rene aRER In | THE CONSPIRACY OF DRESS en’s clothing is of far more | significance ‘to the wearer's health! ;than it is to the esthetic tastes of . the beholder. Not so long ago it was too terrible for description, with its! grotesque sleeves, its skirts trailing! in the -mud, its multiplication’ of | petticoats, its tightly laced corsets, The railroad strike did some good. On those lines where trains were taken off farmers got more werk done. They put everything on the. girl who won't put much on herself. i Throwing cold water gets a man into hot water, All a flea has to do to get his back | scratched is bite a dog. It meant, not!’ Times are ‘better and boiler shops are opening. Jazz musicians can go| back to their trade |as an emancipation. | merely that woman’s dress was to be as sensible as man’s, but that it was’ ito be more sensible. At a stroke it be- {came healthful as well as beautiful. |The change aceompanied a wide ex- ‘cursion into fields of sport and pro- |fessional life heretofore almost for- bidden to women, It remains to be seen whether wo- men will resist style changes which | will inevitably infringe upon their)’ | present physical freedom. There is a) | There isn’t any vacation in the school of experience. People go to the movies to forget everything and some even forget not to talk. Very few women haters are men; very few men haters are women. | good chance that they will. Hamper-| ing clothes stand for hampering tra- ditions, It is impossible to believe that women who have known freedom from either—who have become, for he first time in history, real human beings instead of a mere embodiment; | of sex—will ever willingly go back ‘to their old chains or skirts or laces. |—New York Globe. There is a shortage of optimists. Don’t shoot any. When two fishermen meet ‘the recording angel writes shorthand. “Average man can’t love but one woman,” says W. L. George. , No, not on the average man’s pay. COUNTERFEITING A secret service man tells of a man, in Chicago near 80 who has spent about two-thirds of his life in prit- on as a result of an’ overpowering inclination to make counterfeit dimes. Every time he has been released he has gone back to dime-making, and been caught and returned to the pen- There are only 2700 Eskimos left. Where will we get our janitors next winter? The stingiest man on earth’ re- sharpens his phonograph needles! If their dresses are getting longer their legs are doing the same. Every time some men see a near Our idea of luck is for a Russian itentiary. Another man, originally from Co- lumbus, Qhio, about 67 years old, has spent nearly 40, years behind stone COLD To forget summer heat, imagine yourself a fur trapper* snowshoeing through the woods of the Canadian Far North, with the thermometer 54 below zero in January, You might like that now, for a few; hours, but not in winter. It’s a lone- some life. Rather, has been. For a} reader at Fort William, Ontario, postcards that trappers are install- ing radio outfits in their cabins. Civilization is killing solitude. it a.gain or loss? walls for making lead dollars. He has never: succeeded. i pthan 100 of them.” 4 “Counterfeiting: is a mania,” saz the secret. servi¢e man, “and once it, | seizes'a man, he rarely gets over it. | They tell me there’s a rare thrill about seeing a counterfeit bill come from the press.” There must be. A young Federal employe who was arrested recently for raising banknotes by pasting fig- ures of large denominations over the original imprint apparently had done it purely for the love of the game, without profiting at all. He had given Jaway the bills he raised, Thus most counterfeiting seems to e t be creative work gone wrong. If the mirrored in others. All of us admire | counterfeiters could only be caught in ourselves in the looking-glass. |time and made to use their construct- Study of human nature is popular) iye ingenuity in a better cause the because we use others as dim mir-j| world would be the gainer—Asbury rors of ourselves. All based on} Park Press. vanity. We think the weather is mighty warm. To make sure and flatter our| judgment, everyone parrots: “Is it warm enough for you?” Is OTHERS It’s consoling to find someone else cursed with our faults. Human na- ture eternally seeks alibis. It’s pleasing to see our good qualities THE ‘PLAN NOT DISCARDED The Canadian government some | weeks: ago notified the United States that it was not prepared at that time to proceed with negotiations relating to the completion of the proposed deep waterway between the Great Lakes. and the ocean, in accordance ta TALK For 22 years John Hope has been a member. of the British House of Commons—and’ has never made a/with suggestions emanating from speech, | ‘ __| Washington. In many quarters this We need a few John Hopes injwas interpreted as a rejection of the Congress, our Parrot House. Con-} waterways plan, or. at; least’ as evi- gressmen’ are like the rest of us./dence of an unfavorable attitude to- The moté they talk, the less they|ward it on the part of the adminis- do. John Hope’: says he steers clear} tration at Ottawa. It was promptly of oratory beca: “A man can do| explained on behalf of the Canadian more in life by not talking about it.”| government that its action implied ae ino hostility or indifference toward iy EATING 3 |the plan, and. the inference was What do. you make of this, Wat- left that the Canadian government son? Cold storage plants in America| would be glad to take up the question hold only half as much beef as alas soon’ as certain domestic matters | Year ago and only slightly more than | demanding precedence could be dis- a third of what's stored normally at | posed of. this time of year. -| Premier King of Canada is now in A good thing, to keep meat stocks Washington for the purpose of taking low until winter, especially in your up with the American state depart- own refrigerator. Meat in ‘the ment a number of matters of interest stomach generates. heat. Eat lightly|to both countries, and it is under- of it, to help keep yourself cool. —_| stood that the waterways plan is one jof the subjects to be discussed. It —,|may he, therefore, that before very |long formal negotiations may be un- der way for the development of a plan of co-operation in the promotion | of ‘this great and important piece of | work. | One other subject which is to re- |ceive consideration at this gathering jis that of a revision of the Rush- | Bagot treaty which will make the | boundary relations, of the two coun- |tries more specific, and in which wili EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in_ this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. & HAIL TO HOT BISCUITS! confesses. that -in. all’ that time he} Most ‘of these men longing for the j olden days would cut their heads off with a straight razor, =~ “People get better. every says. | a, preacher, What... of; 4 | nights? 5 EES, / Funny things happen. One last week everybody in Hollywood | was alive, ——o F SCR RR ‘: | ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS |! —_—_______. —+ By Olive Barton Roberts .It was being whispered all over Bright Meadowland. Everyone was talking about it, but no one knew who had started it. Some said it was Mike Mole, who had a habit’ of dis- appearing into one of his million un- derground passages the minute he made a remark. : Some said it was the butterfly, but ihe, too, had gone on a journey. Some said it was the kingfisher, but he'd gone on a fishing trip to Silver River. ; Nancy and Nick heard it and told it to Dr. Snuffles, the fairy doctor, but what was the use? He couldn't do anything because he didn’t know where Buddy— But there! Dearie me! I’ve not told you yet what they were saying. Everybody. was saying to his neigh- bor, “Buddy Bluebottle can’t’ move. Hasn’t moved since seven o'clock this - morning.” Well, Dr. Snuffles couldn’t help him any, because he didn’t know where Buddy was in the first place, and in the second place because he didn’t know why Buddy couldn’t move. | He'd have asked Buddy’s ma and his pa, but he didn’t know where} they lived either. It was rumored Buddy had no ma and pa, jand even whispered that they, too, had been unable to move, just like Buddy, be- fore they left him an orphan. By and by Sar’ Ann Spider passed on her way to school. “M-m-m-m,” she was saying to Flossy Fuzzy-Worm, “I wish school were over.\ We're going to, have something extra good for lunch, but I'm, not allowed to tell.” 3 “Ah, ha!” nodded Dr. wisely. “Now I know.” He called Nancy and Nick and took his sharp scissors and started off. ‘ There Was poor Buddy Blucbottle in Mrs. Spider’s web, bound all around with a strong thread, No Snuffles Another tradition is shattered. Hot bread, the bane but delight of many stomachs, has been declared by the ¢v- , partment of agriculture not guilty of ‘the charge of causing indigestion. i Rolls or biscuits may be served piping hot from the oven without fear of bad effects, provided they are well cooked. Be they made with yeast or baking powder, or the now almost unknown sour dough, they ‘will do no harm if the oven is sufficiently hot. The quality that causes indigestion is not the heat, but the sogginess, In ment justifies the normal fear of “sinkers.” The principal character: tic of that variety of biscuit is its well known heaviness—a heaviness ‘which has sunk it to the level of the stereotyped joke. Who does not know the pallied biscuit with a thin crust, with the inside of an eclair! This is the type that has brought hot biscuits in disrepute. But 'the light, well made, thorough~ mies as a lad in knee pants gets ly baked hot breads are now freed) taffeta. = " J 4 this respect, therefore, the depart-| |be incorporated deails which are lo- cally appropriate growing out of the recent arms conference at Washing: ton. The dispatches have not indicat- ‘ed in what precise manner the treaty is in need of amendment, but it is quite possible that some changes in the direction of bringing it up to date may be ‘useful. If this proves to be the case and the changes are made, the old treaty should be given a place of honor in the archives of the two nations, for not only. is it the formal expression of sentiments of peace such as should animate two neighbor nations, but the fact that in it were placed on record these sentiments has of itself done much to make ‘possible the century”and more of. peace which stands to the everlast- ing credit of the two peoples.—Grand Forks Herald. ,GOSSAMER CAPES { At the English derby gossamer | A smart frock which bears Poiret’s capes were introduce’. These were signature is of orange and white waist length affairs of fine Spanish crepe georgette, heavily embroidered lace with ruche collars of ‘petaled in white silk, with an elaborate gir- 5 ysis of twisted blue and orange silk. wonder he couldn’t move! Snip! snip! went Dr. long scissors. Buddy was soon free and, after he buzzed his thanks, flew away. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Servi Snuffles’ e) —————_—____ + | A THOUGH | pobre irate —* do: Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; Execute the, judg- ment ‘of truth and peace in your gates.—Zachariah 8:16. _ Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all ‘to pieces.—Feltham. FROM POIRET These are the things that ye shalt} MONDAY, JULY 17, 1922 sQys , Ze, —— | STORMS ARE NO RESPECTERS OF CROPS. | tow Oe eat Hth, AUN as © by JOHNFOXJr i 7 oa ; Continued From Our Last Issue i “Catch her!” cried the mother. Quick.” Erskine fled after her, wertgok her with her hands up- lised, for. the plunge on the very i¢ge:of the cliff, and half carried er, struggling and sobbing, back] the tent. Within the girl dropped a@'weeping heap, and with her! ce: covered,, and the woman! irned to Erskine; agonized. “I told. her,” she whispered, “and he was going to kill herself. You Tre my son.” * Still sleepless at fol'’owing dawn, the boy fode Firéfly into the woods. At sunset he came in, gaunt with Srooding and hunger. His. mother, watching from her wigwam, under- stood and grew fesrful. Quickly she called him, and he rose and went to her bewildered; she was smiling. “ “I have decided,” he said. “You dnd she must leave here and go with me.” His moiher:pretended much dis- pleasure. “She will not leave, and f will not leave her” — her lips trembled—‘“and I would have gone long ago but—” : “T understand,” interrupted Ers- kine, “but you will go now with your gon.” The poor woman }:ad to scowl. “No, and you must not tell them, They will never let me go, and they will use me to keep you here. You must go at once, Some day—": She turned abruptly and went into} her tent. Erskine wheeled and went to old Kahtoo. “Tam a soldier and must obey the big chief's commands, as must you.” “I shall live,” said the old man wearily, “until you come again.” Erskine nodded and went for his horse. Black Wolf watched, him with ‘malignant satisfaction, but! said nothing — nor did, Crooked eos a Lightning. Erskine turn [once 23 | ke rode away. His mother was standing outside her wigwam. Mournfully she waved her hand. Behind her and within ‘the tent he could see Early Morn with both hands at her breast. XIX. Dawned 1781. The war was coming into Vjir- ginia at last. Virginia falling would thrust a great wedge through the center of the Confederacy, feed the British.armies and end the fight. Even the: great Washington was near despair, and in foreign help hig {sole hope lay... Already the traitor, Arnold, had taken Rich- mond,;burned warehouses, and re- turned; but little harassed, to Portsmouth. Cornwallis was coming on. Tarle- ton's white rangers were bedevil- ing’ the land, and it was at this time that\Brskine Dale once more rode Firéfly ‘o’ the river James. The boy had been two years in the wild:° When he left the Shaw- ree camp winter was setting in, that terrible winter of '79—of deep ‘show and hunger and cold. When he reached Kaskaskia, Captain {Clark had gone to Kentucky, and ‘Erskine found bad news. Hamil- ton and Hay had taken Vincennes. There Captain Helm’s Creoles, as scon as they saw the redcoats, sliffped away, from him to surren- der their arms to the British, and thus deserted by all, he and the two or three Americans {with him had to give up the fort. pouring in and the long, long trail wa:; now no lonesome way. At Williamsburg Erskine learned many things. Colonel Dale, now a general, was still with Washington and Harry was with him. Hugh with ‘the Virginia militia and Dave with Lafayette. ‘Tarleton’s legion of rangers. in their white uniforms were scourg- ing Virginia as they had scourged the Carolinas. Tkrough the James River country they had gone with fire and sword. Barbara’s mother was dead. Her had left their mark on Erskine. He was tall, ‘lean, swarthy, gaunt, neighbors had moved to safety, but} Barbara, he heard, still lived with (old Mammy and. Ephraim .at Red} ' Oaks, unless that, too, had been re-; cently put to the torch. Where,| and yet he was not all woodsman, then, would he find her? XX. for his born, inheritance as gentle- man had been) more ,than ,empha- ed by his association with Clark and certain Creole officers in the Northwest, who had improved his ¥rench and gratified one pet wish | of his life since his last visit to the, James 7- they had taught him to fence. His mother he had not seen again, but he had learned that she was alive and:not'yet blind. Of Early Morn he had heard nothing trees he could see the chimneys of at all. Barbara’s home — his home, he Once a traveler had brought, thought helplessly —and perhaps word of Dane Grey. Grey was in those chimneys were all that was Philadelphia and prominent in the left. ¥ ' gay doings of that city. And,then he saw the-roof and; After the battle at Piqua, Er- “upper windows and he pulled Fire-| ine put forth for old Jerome fly in‘again, with overwhelming re- Sander’s fort. He found the hard lief7 and wondered at the miracle. days of want over. There was not Again he started and pulled in only corn in plenty but wheat, po-' when he caught sight of three! tafoes, pumpkins, turnips, melons.! horses hitched near the stiles. Honor Sanders and Polly Conrad.Turning quickly from the road,-he| had married, but when Erskine hid Firefly in the underbrush, He bade Lydia Noe goodbye she told slipped along ‘ the path and lay him to carry her love to Dave Yan-| down where, unseen, he could peer cell. through the closely matted hedge. There were many, many travel-, A white uniform;issued from the ers on the Wilderness Road now,'great hall door and another and and Colonel Dale’s prophecy was another—and after them Barbara coming true. The settlers were —smiling. Down the river Erskine rode w:th a sad heart. At the place; where he had fought with Grey he| pulled Firefly to a sudden halt. There was the boundary 6f Red} Oaks and there started a desolation } that ran as far as his eye could! reach. | Red Oaks had not been spared, and he put Firefly to a fast gallop. Soon over a distant clump of EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO NOW, SHAY ,, EVERETT — CISHEN— {i WAIT A SHECOND —:DO You Know || WHAT. T. THINK ABOUT THISH VOLSHTEAD | PROBISH'N CAN F CHIC) | with him now.” The boy's blood ran hot—smiling at her enemies. Two officers bowed. Barbara courtesied, and they wheeled on their heels and descended the steps. The third stayed behind a mo- ment, bowed over her hand and kissed it. The watcher’s blood turned then to liquid fire, Great God, at what price was that noble old house ‘left standing? They were coming now. The boy had his pistols out, primed and cocked, He was rising on his knees, just about to leap to his feet and out into the road, when he fell back into a startled paralyzed, inactive heap. Glimpsed through an opening in the bushes, the leading trooper in the uniform of Tarleton’s legion was Dane Grey, and Erskine’s brain had worked quicker than his angry heart. This was a mystery that must be solved before his pis- tols spoke. He rose crouching as the troopers rode away. A startled gasp behind him made him wheel, pistol once more in hand, to find a negro. + “Marse Erskine.” he gasped. It was Ephraim, the boy who had led Barbara's white ponies out long, long ago. “Whar’ yo’ hoss? Gawd, I’se sutn’ly glad to see yuh.’ Er- skine pointed to an oak. “Put him in the stable and feed him.” The negro shook his head. “No, suh, I'll take de feed down to him. Too many redcoats mess- in’ round, heah.” ‘How, .is,Miss Barbara?” The negros, eyes shifted. “She's well.” “Wasn't one of, those soldiers wko jagt rode away Mr. Dane Grey?” The negro hesitated. “Yassuh.” “Go tell Miss Barbara I’m here and then feed:my:horse.” Ephraim..went’ swiftly and Er- skine followed to the kitchen door, where: Barbara’s' faithful old Mam- my was waiting with a’ smile of welcome. ~ ““I tol’ Miss Barbary, suh. She’s waitin’ fer yuh in de hall.” | Barbara, standing in the hall doorway, heard his step. F “Hskine!” she cried softly, and the came to meet him, with both hands outstretched, and raised her lovely face to -be kissed. “What are you tloing here?” “I am on my way to join General Lafayette.” “But you will be captured. It is dangerous. The country ig full of British soldiers.” “Sn I know,” Erskine said dryly. “When did you get here?” “Twenty minutes ago. I would not have been. welcome just then. I waited in the hedge. I saw you had company.” “Did you see them?” she faltered. “I even recognized one of them.” Barbara sank into a chair, her el- bow on one arm, her chin in her hand,. her face turned, her ‘eyes looking outdoors. She said nothing, but the toe of her slipper began to rap the floor gently. “Barbara,” Erskine said with some sternness, “what does all this mean? Why did they spare tho house?” “Dane Grey saved our home.” “How did he get in communica- tion with Tarleton when he was an officer in the American army?” The girl would not answer. “He fought once under Benedict Arnold — perhaps he is fighting “No!” she cried hotly. “Then he must be a—” She did not allow him to. utter the word. “Why Mr. Grey is in British uni- form is ‘his secret—not mine.” “And why he is here is—yours.” “Exactly!” she flamed. “You are a soldier. Learn what you want to know from him. You are my cou- sin, but you are-going beyond the rights of blood.” I won't stand it —I won't stand it—from anybody.” “I don’t understand you, Barbara. That last tine it; was Grey, you— and now—” ‘a (Continued in our next issue.) & 3 a 7 | PEOPLE’S FORUM | + : xa Bismarek, N.. D., July 15. Bismarck Tribune,., ‘Gentlemen: é I desire to enter a complaint against certain State officials for closing their offices on Saturday afternoon since coming to Bismarck from some distance to transact im- portant business matters and finding them closed, I was not aware of the fact that Saturday afternoon has been declared a legal holiday for certain state of- ficials or I would have arranged my, business accordingly. ; Yours truly, A resident tax payer of the State of North Dakota. Editor Tribune: : All North Dakota needs is to be advertised properly. I note by the Tribune that the Criers intend to | ‘Ce. SAY (T'S NOT DIFFICULT To SEG WHICH WAY ‘fou CGAN Aut y | The two years in the wilderness | post Bismarck for a hundred miles around. ‘ I would suggest that while they jare doing this posting, i e., “Phis land | adapted to hogs, cattle and corn, can | be bought from $25.00 to $75.00 per | acre, compare this to your country.” With all the touring farmers etc., |each would like to know land values jas they ride along and it appears to |me as though we can give them 100 | cents on the dollar. Cc. 0. R. o—_____ |, naa ‘| TODAY’S WORD | 2g | .Today’s word is UBIQUITY, . | It’s pronounced u-bik-wi-ty, the ac- | cent falling on the second syllable The u is as the u in*unite; all other ‘ | vowels are short. Pas | It means—presence in more than {one place, or in an: indefinite num- | ber of places at the same time; pres- | ence everywhere. | It comes from the Latin ubique, | meaning everywhere (from ubi, where). * | It’s used like this: “Escape was made impossible by the ubiquity of the police.” A ° tbe, e t \ e » » . 4 { 1 in 4 .