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PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1922: THE BISMARCK TRIBUN E Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, NyD., as Second Class Matter. Editor GEORGE D. MANN Fore G, LOG. ign Representatives AN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - Fifth Ave, Bldg. MEMBER OF E ASSOCIATED i PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive- ly entitled to the use or republi- cation of all news dispatches ere- ited to it or not otherwise credit éd in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF | CIRCULATION | CRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Ds by carrier, per year. ...$7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bis- THATCK) secvonenesee Daily by mail, “per year (in state outside Bismarck) .... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of Nort Dakota 09 lerack a mirror. Or you have ob- served that there is a sound, usually ja sereeching, that “sets your nerves on edge.” Sound may be a destructive wea- pon in future wars. Chinese have tried it, producing hideous noises with horn and gong. IRST DRESS-SUIT The Atchison Globe digs up thi | interesting fact: 8 jsuit that ever came to Kansas came |with the ‘aid’ from Boston during the dry summer of 1860, Some rich man in the east contributed it, hav- is | FLYING have to fall back on public aid, but probably less than 1 in 100. American women. are made of “real stuff.” Emergency proves it, even in the case of individuals seemingly helpless in luxury. | | Col. J. G. Vincent, one of the de- signers of the Liberty motor, be- lieves that families touring by ai plane soon may be a common sight. | A man can inherit dollars but not Touring planes, he predicts, will sonse. be unlike ones developed by the war. ‘They will be built primarily for com- fort and safety, rather than terrific poosts conl. It will be easy to keep Tariff boosts wool ‘and the strike ing outgrown it, and ‘a farmer Speed and heavy weight. named Paswell, in Kapioma townshin| _ Interesting to contemplate. Tour- in this county, plowed corn in it all ing in the air will eliminate road troubles, also tire bills. In place of them will be uncertain /weather trou- lin history, on which a dress-suit was, bles. One thing about a bad road, it ever put to a really useful purpose, | doesn't cave in and drop you half a The dress-suit, like the silk hat and’ Mile. the gold headed cane, originated as a badge of display or ability to pay., They are passing out. The modern summer.” This is probably the only occasion , OLD Charlotte Sharmna, world’s oldest badges are autos and bootleg. stenographer, lives in‘London. Ninety whiskey. | years old, she is head of a chain of Taz | orphanages, and does het own typing. PARASITES | It is refreshing to meet an aged What a pity, that new sciences, person who doesn’t need any ofd age and discoveries always attract pension. Barring bad luck, the aver- “THE STATE'S wWS- | PAPER 1 (stablished 1873) SLIGHTLY CUCKOO | There’s always a madman lurking at your elbow. You have seen the! common type that insanity experts call the Unstable Personality. i “This individual is highly emotional, | “goes off the handle” easily. He is not exactly crazy—just on the bord-/ erland, though under sufficient ex-| citement some of them have periodic, fits of vidlent insanity. | The trouble with this individual is,| as he claims, “nerves.” He reacts ex-| ely to the ordinary emotional irritants. of, life. | ble Personalities haven’t any, Dr. A. Warren Stearns, neu-| ys: “It is their uncontrol-| rologi: led excitement which often, touches the match to the mob, and_their lack) of emotional control is one of the im- | portant:.elements” in homicide and! suicide.” | Aveording to this description, a lot of these Unstable Personalities—/ lacking’ in judgment and calin deliber- ation’ are running amuck these days‘ in aur midst. i : | Another interesting type rf ment-| aldeficient is the Inadequate Person- | ality. With these individuals, say Dr. | Stearns, we can never be sure whe- ther they can but do not want to,! or whether want to but cannot. ‘This tvve of individual is constant- Iv undecided what to do. He is a ship} withoub a rudder. In prosnerity, he is dazed bv inability to understand his luck,:In hard times, he is almost men- | tally. paralvzed, gives up hope, sees no way out. ‘Such personalities have to be steer- ed or carried along by their asso- ciates who, mentally stronger. do the planning for them even in such minor details as explaining where would be the’best place to hang up their hats. Some of these Inadequate Person-! alities: would become petrified if left undisturbed. They are what mentally-| agile workers call “boneheads” or, “dumb-bells.” They are below normal. 3 | ‘The .studv of various’ degrees of | mental iability is being carried on intensely by neurologists and alien- ists, It is an opportune time, and their findings should, be passed on to the, public, for the war has left the) world in a highly nervous condition, ifwhich mental ‘deficiencies become: intensified. +Civilization does so many insane) things, that it is high time we began) seeking. and isolating the madmen responsible, 2 igésibility suggested by. Carl Schrader, head of physical education in Massachusetts. He~thinks that in future schools the physical instructor will serve! dll instead of confining his effogts to: a, few. General athletics will the aim, rather than victory: a [swarm of parasitic fakers! They age person with common sense should ‘are like the gambling cars, hooked be self-supporting as long as he lives. For ones out of luck or improvident onto many old-time circuses so that at the end of the season the per- in youth and middle age, outside help formers’ wages were back in the is necessary. box-office wagon. | What will you be doing when you That, part of spiritualistic and|are 90? Are you making any plans psvehie phenomena that eventually for it? will have great scientifie value has/| been set back many years by the! grafting quacks who discredit what- ever they touch, The only useful quacks in history, were the patent medicine fs They developed the science of ad-,| column may or may‘not express {| the opinion of The Tribune, They vertising. s. | are presented here in order that EDITORIAL REVIEW ae Comments reproduced in this our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of | the day, You Men, are you the right weight?, To find out: Take the number of | inches you are over five feet, multi-| ply it by six and add this result to) NATION IN SELF-DEFENSE 110 pounds. The total will give you! Public opinion will uphold Presi- what your weight should be, for!dent Harding in any means that he good health. | may employ to reopen the coal mines Anything over that mark is excess | and operate the railroads, as both baggage, says Dr. Royal 8. Cope- coal and transportation are vital to land, who furnishes the formula.’ | the welfare and even the existence: And “a man 50 or more years old, | of the’ people. There may be a mild who is 50 pounds overweight, has curiosity as to the manner in which lessened his chance of living 50 per the President will act in this supreme cent.” |emergency, but his action is sanc- cool next winter. A transparent Palm Beach suit shows you what kind of a man he is. Funny things~happen. One store is advertising petticoats. “Mystery in Boarder's Death’— headline. Interview the cook. The old horse-trader didn’t have as many things to lie about as the modern auto-swapper. A speeder doesn't break any ree- ords getting out of the hospital. With six million things at home that are fine to worry about some people keep up with the Chinese wa. The outlook is brighter. We saw a man buy a new dinner basket. You ‘seldom see drunk boot- legger. a The man always turning up his nose might as well turn up his toes. Success is getting what everyone else wants; happiness is getting what you want. Rockfeller says he made his first dollar selling geese. Moral: something to sell geese. When an Office starts out to seek a man it usually finds him coming to meet it. Very few men who long for the good old days could eat through six inches of mustache. SJ A set of scales is the best ouija' tioned in advance, board for learning about your fu-| Both the miners and the railroad ture. |shoptnen have refused to accept any ——— reduction in their, pay, although other ADVOCATES THE LASH | workers for wages have recognized William ‘J. Pinkerton, veteran de- | the existence of worldwide conditions tective, thinks the whipping post is!which make reductions necessary, the best remedy for crime. and those who make their living by Pinkerton says he has talked with ‘selling goods have incurred heavy thousands of convicts and that losses through’ price. declines. The “they have been practically unani-|wages fixed by the Railway Labor mous in declaring that they would|board will buy more of commodities rather spend 10, 20 or 30 years in|than those paid before the war and jail than undergo the lash.” jhence no question of enough to live That may be. But, regardless of is involved. Both miners and shop- how much the whipping’, post is|men oppose removal of any of the dreaded by criminals, it does not | abuses or injustices in working rules: prove that ‘whipping curbs crime. |that grew in war time. Their The penalty provided for a crime final argument is the use of force, rarely bothers criminals, for none |a club brought down on the heads of | of them.commits.crime expecting to al] ‘the people to pound them. into be caught. |submission. This attack is the de- All criminals. are. diseased—ment-| struction of all the rights that gov4 ally, physically of psychically. _To| ernments are established to maintain, cure them, cure their disease. Scien-| B, M. Jewell, head of the shopmen, tists will do that, in time. . |points to the revival of the industries jof the country, which was under way | GERMAN MARKS jbefore these strikes occurred. He German paper marks in circula-| Says in effect that this prosperity, tion reach the dizzy total of about | shall not be until those he represents 156 billions. That is equivalent to, have their will. 1450 marks for every man, woman| The nation is forced to act in self- ‘and ‘child in our country. jdefense against this attempt to set \Have you more than your share of. aside, in favor of certain classes, them? every principle of give and take, live Observe that more than twice as and let live. The people must defend many marks are in circulation as a/ themselves, in this crisis, not in any year ago. Back of them is one gold/ spirit of injustice or ill will towards mark for each 156 paper marks,|the strikers as a class, but because which should interest amateur dab-| of absolute necessity—St. Paul Dis- blers in foreign exchange. patch, HAIL! THE OPTIMIST — Bad news is generally more spec- FLOW OF GOLD The flow of gold, into our country from abroad, continues declining. In| May, imports of gold exceeded ex- ports by about $5,500,000 or rough- ly a fifth less than in January. The United States now has about half. of the gold in the world. Its utility, or actual value, is largely! tacular than good, and for this rea. son the country has perhaps over-! looked the pleasant aspects of the present economic situation, which the Director General of the United States employment service wisely, chooses to recall to our attention just ag this time, His assurance Sunday that the barometers in his department indicate that the United *“We have had the wrong objec-; imaginary. But, for that matter,/ tive in physical education up to the life is based mostly on imagination Bresent, inasmuch as’ Victory in our games was our, only goal and defeat considered a disgrace.” Schrader’s theory is sound. But attention will concentrate on victors! as long as every one wants to be a‘ yictor. And that, apparently, . will Ke forever. bs eun DEATH se ran “1 know absolutely how to live to be; 100 years old ,and I don’t prac- tice what I know.” That is the confession qf Dr. Royal S. Copeland, health commis- sioner of New York. =<His admission sums up nearly! everything in life. All of us have wisdom, but we ignore it, as when we: spend more than we know we| can afford, or eat more than we know is*good for us. i We seek mythical panaceas, know- | ing in our hearts that we already | have them in simple, old-fashioned horse sense. CENTENARIANS In our country are 3500 men and ‘women past 100 years old. Occasion-} ally one of them gives the “rules why.” Take such rules with a grain of salt. Practicaly all of these cen- tenarians are such by accident. Few of: them achieved their old age by Gry formula, Arrived at the cen- tury mark, they look back and at- fempt _ self-analysis, ludicrous results. Almost any one with a normal body, sane mind and healthful view- point can live to be 100, barring ac- @idents. But, in one form and an- other, most of us are committing slow suicidie and know it. = KEY-NOTES ‘ Marguerite Kirmse, English artist and one of the world’s most famous etchers of dogs, notices that dogs like the violin. =Most dogs, as you have observed, also hate the piano—and frequently howl when certain keys are thumped repeatedly. That is because each dog has a particular musical note usually with! few| —chiefly, delusions. | States is “striding vigorously to- COLD ward industrial prosperity” could The .world’s coldest place right;not have come more opportunely. now is seven miles up in the air|The “great mass of the American public is tending to business, and, above the equator. It is colder there |note the word, vigorously pushing than at the same altitude over the North Pole. |forward. Under the white caps of Directly under this coldest place, | calamity, Mr. Jones might say, there the thermometer is registering )is a steady and strong current. ‘ higher than anywhere else on earth. | After all, the coal strike will in due Only a few miles of air separate us | time be settled, and so will the rail- from intense cold. Fool-proof air-|road trouble. They are only tem- planes eventually may enable-us to| porary aberrations from the norm, take cold plunges in the upper air.| Which is unaffected and will be ready That would beat swimming in the to catch them up in the forward water. | swing at the proper time, and carry |those industries with it. Similarly, SAMARITANS | the bonus is not in fact passed, and Nine million Russians now are be- 'the Fordney-McCumber bill is not the ing kept alive on American food. | last word on tariffs, | This means, one Russian is ‘being| The basis of Mr. Jones’ optimism fed by every 12 Americans, It islies in-the increase which fifty-two pretty good Samaritan work, con-| of the sixty-five leading sidering hard times. |in employment. All industries, ap- When it comes to foreign charity,| parently, except the glass, clay und we are entitled to be a trifle con- stone, which are affected by the reg- ceited. There is not quite 2s much |ular seasonal lay-off, are humming. Samaritanism here at home, among The nation is at work, and buying ourselves. power is being generated. It does nee ‘not do, of course, to permit Mr. Jones’ TROUBLE | optimism to ride on without a critical A shortage of labor is reported in| challenge. As he -himself indicates, 22 states. Prosperity is coming summer is the particular season for back, steadily. When it finishes its | prosperity. The grain belt is clamor- return trip, most of us will look ing for men dnd there is a shortage back and reflect that hard times of skilled building craftsmen which ‘were good for us. | is more or less to be expected at this It takes trouble to develop our time of the year. The seasonal de- best qualities. We make money dur-| mand in the Kansas and Nebraska ing prosperity, but we learn to make | harvest fields has been accentuated it during hard times—when economy by an unusually early cutting, coup- ‘and good management become com- led-with’ transportation. difficulties. | pulsory. The employment problem, the United |” Whenever trouble comes, it is to States Farm Labor bureau reports, is train us for bigger tasks. All life is one of the most difficult in its his- a training school, a spiritual gym-| tory, but it arose rather from a faul- nasium. ‘ty distribution of men than from an ' —_—_—_____—__— ‘actual shortage. | WIVES | The fact remains, however, that the Dr. Anna Hochfelder, Democratic increase in employment is not lim- candidate for the senate of New ited to a few industries or occupa- York state, says no woman should tions, but extends in a fairly general be permitted to get married unless manner over all. This is the factor she can convince, authorities that, which is, significant. As long as the she can earn a‘living for herself and gains are-horizontal, there is justifi- ‘children in case her husband dis. that causes it extreme pain. Everything has a key-note that can destroy it. Maybe you have seen a certain note, struck on a violin, shatter a drinking glass or That condition already exists, al- has taken hold, and economic history, most universally. When widowed, with its record of the business cycle, American women develop amazing is authority for optimism whenever resourcefulness and step forth:as this takes place,;St. Paul Pioneer competent bread-winners, +A‘! few} Press...7 | { cation for the view that the “turn”, After they get talking movies we will learn what a man gays when he gets paid for kissing Mary Pickford. Canada has a larger percentage of home owners than any other nation. We are bordering on prosperity any- way. The millenium will be here when a church bell draws as big a crowd’ as a fire bell. “He knocked me down 30 times.” says a Kentucky woman asking, di- vorce, Thirty is too many. The boss can get away with loafin, on the job by pretending he is figur- ing out something. One-half the world doesn’t know why the other half lives. You never have to go to any trouble to find trouble. -—$$_—_—_—_* ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS —> By Olive Barton Roberts Phil Frog had a busy time of it. the best-natured person et and yet he had moye enemies than a fish has scales. Oscar Owl made Phil jump a yard every time he went “Whoooo!”= Marty Mink gave Phil a cold chill every time his shadow fell on the Tie was you'd ever me * still waters of Lily Pond. ‘And Cob Coon and. Phil couldn’t live in the same house. But the one Phil dreaded most, was Dave Duck. . Oscar and Marty and Cob could only make Phil's life miserable on dry land (although Marty was a pretty good smimmers), but Dave Duck could chase him on land and water and even under the water. Phil hid under. his lily-pad house and watched Davy's yellow feet push-| ing about on top of the water. ‘Push, push, paddle, paddle! went/ Davy’s feet overhead until Phil could stand the sight of them no lon- ger. One could never tell when both feet were going to kick up into the air, and Davy’s yellow bill sud-j denly take their place under the water. One snap and that would be} the end of Mr. Frog. : | One day Phil had an idea, He hopped in among the slime and) weeds where Poky Pickerel lived and| whispered something into Poke’s ear. =f “Will you?” he asked anxiously. “Sure!” said Poke obligingly. By and by Davy came along, somersaulting and snapping\ up things and gobbling them down ‘again, He didn’t see, Poky right under him. Suddenly something’ else snapped. It was Poke Pickerel’s jaws this time and they snapped on Davy Duck’s foot. Davy honked and quacked and! made a terrible racket. At last hel got away, but he left a bit of his’ yellow foot in Poke’s sharp teeth. He had to go to Dr. Snuffles’ house right away and get it patched up. He had an awful bill—not the! one he ate with either. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) a | TODAY’S WORD |! Find |, DALE PLAY i AW SHUX! We DON'T Like T'PLAY 2 ld i BS $ BS tr) U \ N ERSKINE PIONEER by JOHN FOX Jr Continued from our last issue, self, ‘her eyes flashed toward the door. Erskine saw it, drew himself drect, bowed and strode straight oat.’ "Nor did the irony of the situ- ation so much as cross his mind— that he should ‘be turned from his own home by ‘the woman he loved and to whom he had given that home: Nor did ‘he look back—else he might have seen her sink, sob- bing, to the floor. XXI. Up the James rode Erskine, hid- ing in the woods by day and slip- ping cautiously along the sandy road by night, circling about Tarle- ton’s camp-fires, or dashing at full} speed past some carcless sentinel. On the third morning he came upon a ragged sentinel—an Ameri- can. Ten minutes later he got ‘his first glimpse of Lafayctte, and then he was hailed joyfully by none oth- er than Dave Yandell, Captain Dave Yandell, shorn of his woods- man’s dress and panoplied in the trappings of war. [2 ae But late in August came the mes- sage that put Washington’s great “soul in arms.” Rochambeau had landed six thousxind soldiers in Connecticut, and now Count de Grasso and a French fleet ‘had sailed for the Ches:peake. General Washington at once re- sorted to camouflage. He laid out camps ostentatiously opposite New York and in plain sight of the en-' emy. He made a feigned attack on; their posts. Rochambeau moved south and reached the Delaware before the British grasped the Yan- kee. trick. ‘Then it wa; too late. The win- dows of Philadelphia were filled with ladies waving “handkerchiefs and crying bravoes when the tat-/ tered Continentals, their clothes| thick with dust but hats plumed with sprigs of green, marched through amid their torn battle-! flags and rumbling cannon, ‘Behind followed the French in “gay white uniforms faced with green” and martial music throbbed the air. Down the Chesapeake they went in transports and were concentrat- ed at Williamsburg before the close of September. Cornwallis had erected works, for he knew noth- ing of Washington and Count de Grasse, nor Mad Anthony and Gen- eral Nelson, who were south of the James to prevent escape into North Carolina. Then came: de Grasse, who drove off the British fleet, and the mouth of the net was ‘closed. Cornwallis heard the cannon and gent Clinton to appeal for help, but the an:.wer was Washington him- self at the head of his army. And then the joyous march. At Williamsburg the allies gath- ered, and with Washington's army — ae a eae Today’s word is LANGUID. | It’s pronounced lan-gwid, with} the accent on ‘the Both the a and i are short. It means—feeble, weak or ‘faint,!Dane Grey had been a close inti- {mate-of Andre,-and that intimacy “lan-| had been the cause of much specu- heavy, dull, weary, sluggish. It comes from the Latin guere,” to be faint or languid. It’s used like this—“Hot. summer, days are apt to make one languid.”/and E3 FOR HATS. Crepe scarfs, sometimes’ fringed but usually plain are a favori method of trimming felt hats that}to come, , are so popular now. first syllable.| delpiia. that was of great interest [mother,, and he re came Colonel Dale, now a general, and young Captain Harry Dale, who had brought news from Phila- In that town to Erskine Dale. lation since. He had told Dave of his mother rly Morn, and Dave had told him gravely that he must go get them after the campaign was over and bring tiem to,the fort in Ken- tucky. If Early Morn still refused then he must bring his | Surely Does Take Some Folk COME COME NOW, {NY LITLE FRIEND NKE WiTH a Long Time to Get Acquainted lipase on and stacked arms/ in a |nearby field. Some of them threw surrender was over, Between the lines the British their muskets on the ground, and ja British colonel bit the hilt of his | sword from Tage. As Tafleton’s legion, went by, | three pairs of eyes watched eagerly ‘for one face, but neither Harry nor Captain Dave Yandel! saw Dane Grey—nor did Erskine Dale, XXII. To Harry and Dave, Dane Grey’s absence was merely,a mystery—to | Erskine it brought forebodings and oSSeittes SS ERS a we OS 4 ina that no* mouth would He paused and, in spite of her-| word that could offend: her. open In mid - September. ‘Washington came, and General Dale had but one chance to visit Barbara, Er- skine’s plea that he was:too busy to go with them arovsed Harry’s suspicions, and ‘he went bluntly to the point: “You wouldn't go to Red Oaks and PLarbara did. not seem sur- prised. Is Dane Grey concerned?” “Yes.” ‘Harry looked searchingly at his cousin: i “I pray to God that I may soon meet him face to face.” “And J,” said Erskine quickly, “pray sto God that you do not—not until after I have met him first.” And Harry, after a searching look at his’ cousin, turned away. They marched next morning and at sunset of the second day they pivouacked within two miles of Yorktown and the siege ‘began. The allied line was a crescent, with each tip resting on the water fayette commanding the Amep- icans on the right, the French on the left under Rochambeau. De Grasse, with his fleet, was in the bay to cut off approach by water. Washington himself put the ‘nutumn fields south of Yorktown. | said Erskine. {at the head of the French on the | fate for you. | sickening fear. He started for Red Oaks and | with every mile suspicion ,and fear lgrew. The distance to Williams- | burg was soon covered, and skirt- ling the town, he went swiftly for Red Oaks. | “Stop!” he cried suddenly, as a jnegro came thundering blindly. on. | Firefly swerved aside, and Ephraim |shot by, pulling in with both hands jand shouting: | “Marse, Erskine! Thank Gawd |you’se come.” When he wheeled jhe came pack at a gallop—nor did he stop. A ‘ “Come on, Marse Erskine!” he cried. “Come on, suh!” | With a few leaps Firefly was abreast, and neck and neck they ran, while the darky'’s words con- firmed the instinct that had brought Erskine, “Yassuh, Miss Barbary gwine run away wid dat mean white man. Yassak, dis very night.” “Is he alone??” “No, sah, he got an orficer an’ four sojers wid him.” “Does hei know that Cornwallis | has surrendered ?"’ : “Oh, yassuh, he tol’ Miss .Bar- bary dat. Dat’s why he says he got to git away right now an’ she got - to go wid him right now.” “Dis arternoon,” the negro went jon, “he got his American uniform. He gwjne to tell folks on de way dat dem udders is his prisoners an’ he takin’ hem to Richmond. Den dey gwine to sep’rate an’ he an’ Miss Barbary wine to git married ;somewhur,on de way ‘an’ dey goin’ jon an sail fer England.” “You jest wait in dat thicket next |to de corner o’ de big gyarden,” days began. The scene was “sub-'said Ephraim, “Dey won't know T lime and stupendous.” \been gone. I'll come to de thicket Bombshells were’ seen “crossing!/an’ tell you de whole lay o’ de cach other’s path in the air, and | land.” were visible in the form of a black, Erskine nodded. ball by day, but in the night they! More quickly than he expected, appeared like a fiery meteor, with he saw Ephraim’s figure slipping \through the shadows toward him. | “Dey’s jus’ through supper,” he jreported. “Miss Barbary up in her ber that the two redoubts project-|T0om. De sojers down dar by de ing beyond the British lines and| Wharf playin’ cards an’ drinkin’. enfilading the American intrench-|Dat udder man been drinkin’ hard.”* ments were taken by storm. “Ephraim,” said Erskine quickly, One redowbt was left to Lafayette |“g0 tell Mr. Grey that one of his and his Americans, the other to/men wants to see him right away Baron de Viomenil, who claimed|at the sun dial. When he starts that his grenadiers were the men, YOU Tun around the hedge and be for the matter in hand, Lafayette ,on hand in the bushes. stoutly argued the superiority of “Yassub.” | . his Americans, who, led by Hamil-| Soon Erskine saw Grey's tall fig- ton, carried their redoubt first with Ure emerge from the hall-door. Grey came swiftly down the great the bayonet, and sent the French-| As Grey neared the dial Er As Grey neared the dial Er- man an offer of help. The answer | path. t I was: |skine moved toward him, keeping © «ft will be in mine in five min-|/in a dark shadow, but Grey saw utes.” And he was, Washington! him: See he ¥ watching the attack anxiously: | “Well, what is it?” Erskine “The work’ is done and | well stepped out into the moonlight with cone.” ‘his cocked pistol at Grey’s breast. “And then the surrender: | “This,” he said quickly, “Make The day was the 19th of October.| 80 noise—and don’t move.’ Grey The victors were drawn up in two|Was startled, but he caught his con- trol instantly and without fear. lines a mile long on the right and tro! Ri left of a road that ran through the) “You are my prisoner, Mr. Grey, “IT could lead you to {| of| your proper place at the end of a u rope, but I have in mind another I tried once to stab left. Behind on both sides was a/you—I knew no better. You once tried to murder me in a duel and you did know better. Twice you have said that you would fight me with anything, any time, any. |place.” Grey bowed slightly. “I It was nearly the middle of Octo- Washington stood at the head his army on the right, Rochambea great crowd of people to watch the ceremony. Slowly out of York-! town marched the British colors, cased drums beating’ a significant English air. “The world turned topsy-turvy.” Lord Cornwallis was sick. Gen- eral O’Hara bore my lord’s sword. As he approached, Washington 9a- luted and pointed to General Lin- coln, who had been treated with in- dignity at Charleston. O'Hara match to the first gun, and the mu-| handed the sword to Lincoln. Lin- tual cannonade of three or four coln at once handed it back and the ishall ask you to make those words | good and I shall.accordingly choose \the weapons.” Grey bowed again. | “Ephraim,” said Erskine, “slip into the hall.and bring me the.two rapiers on the wall.”, (Continued in our next issue.) ? A THOUGHT > 1 | VERETT TRUE ckoned grimly .MEDICINGS Yes, sie, LOCKING FoR [A DROG store! ‘Goop DAvIY $e Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way; and he that hateth -reproof shall die—Proverbs 15:10. j No man e’er felt the halters draw With good opinion of the law. —Trumbull, in “McFingal.” SPENT HALF HER + TIME IN BED Farmer's Wife Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound . Made Her a Well Woman Corvicer’s Creek, Tenn. —‘‘ Three years ago 1 was almost an invalid. I spent half of my time in bed, being afflicted with a trouble which women of a certain age are apt to have. 1 took Lydia E. BY CONDO Ver SET THe IN HERG waice mM PASSING. — Compound Tablets and used Lydia E. Pinkham’s Sanative Wash. I am a well "]woman now and have been for two years. - {can work as well as any one whois younger and as I ama farmer’s wife I have plenty to do for f cultivate my own garden, raise many chickens and do my ‘own housework. 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