The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 24, 1922, Page 4

. Gerous to thousands of disabled vet- “PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE : MONDAY, JULY 24, 1922 @HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Intered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, | N. D., as Second Class Matter, i} JEORGE D. MANN -— -. Editor} Foreign Representatives 49‘LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY | HICAGO DETROIT afquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg.! PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH | EW YORK -_ - Fifth Ave, Bldg! | IEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS iy Tne Associated Press 1s exclusive- ly entitled to the use or republi-| ation of all news dispatches cre- ited to it or not otherwise credit- jd in this paper and also the local) ews published herein, All rights of republication of! Special dispatches herein are also} MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION LE SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYAB = 1N ADVANCE Daily by 2 $2.20 ASC). y by m: year (in te outside Bismarck) .... y by mail, outside of North Dakota i hanes “THE S' 5.00 THE NEW U. S. HOSPITAL "It would indeed be unfortunate if 3B ck should lose the opportunity, having the proposed hospital for disabled veterans located, here through inactivity. A few weeks ago 3k appeared that the , matter had neared decision but Bismarck’s riva North Dakota city for the hos prevailed upon the government to send a man to Fargo to investigate| S their site proposed. | & Time is an important element in the location of this hospital. Lead-| ers of veterans’ organizations are de- nding action by the government rds, and hold that delays are dan-| Pa Bo: rans. I There would be little delay if Fort neoln were utilized. There already is a splendid plant which could easily be enlarged. = Perhaps the most important objec-, tion. that has been raised to Bis- jnarck is the fear that the facilities for recreation and entertainment are flot adequate. It is impossible to be-| lieve, however, that the people of the} tivin cities of the Missouri, who made! Such an enviable record in war acti- yities, would fail the disabled veter- ans in time of peace. TRADING PARTY LABELS | “The regrets and pleas of many Re- fublicans in North Dakota to wage political battles as a party, to shun hipartisan combinations, to place the Farty above the grasp of political cliques within it naturally made no impression upon, the. “Committee of, 45,” the I. V. A. campaign committee, arhich met in Fargo Friday, and de- ided to continue its effort for bi- partisan control. | = Those Republicans who. had been’ assured that the I. V. A. control! Mould be given up after the last primary will find a rude awakening in the=announcement that. fall cam- paign fs to be managed solely by the Independent Voters’ Association. \ FAME gC. W.!' Barron, veteran financial’ writer who has so much horsesense| that Wall Street stops and listens When he talks, says in a speech: wsiQn..the top of the Rocky Moun- tains where the line of the Union Pacific goes‘ over the Great Divide there stands a monument in stone tc. Wakes and O! ver Ames, the shovel makers.of Massachusetts, who first bound in lines of iron the Missis-, sippi,Valley’ and the Rocky Moun- tains.” You know a lot about Napoléon Bonaparte and other destroyers, But did you ever before hear’ of Oakes and Ames, constru¢tors of first rail- roads Jinking the Mississippi Valley with the Rocky Mountains? Probably not.Such is fame, laurels all for the destroyers. Even Barron off-hand couldn't. remember Oakes’ first name.’ IN ETERNAL ICE | Would you like to get away from Givilization and heat and join Roald Amundsen, explorer, first on his air- plane flight to the North Pole, then drifting seven years in the schooner Maud locked in the Arctic ice? “| We cannot go with Amundsen, but’ from his life, we can learn something of tremendous advantage to cach of us—that no obstacle is great enough | to keep us from our goal if we refuse! to become discouraged and if we Keep everlastingly after what we want. | Amundsen is a Norwegian, 50 years! old. He made his first exploration trip. “4 1897, when he was 25, TAS trip was a dash for the South Pole. It failed. Did Amundsen quit discouraged by failure and the terri- fie hardships of the land of eternal ige? No! He kept after what he want-! ed for 14 long years. | And in 1911, on the 16th of Decem-, ber, he reached the South Pole. He had gained what he wanted, had done ggmething no other man ever had done. For Amundsen was first to wach the South Pole, and his name will endure in history or legend when civilization that we now have earth will be dimly remembered, if not entirely forgotten. ‘S¥oi wonder who puta up, the money for these polar trips. It will interest you to know that Amundsen is not a millionaire and that it has taken 17 years to get the funds to finance the seven-year trip abroad the schooner Maud. Most of us would have quit after being turned down for a few years. That's why most of us are failures.’ Failure usually is just an alibi name for, quitter. And most men lose heart abd:“throw the sponge” onthe very * eye of success. laybe you have wondered if these exploration trips are worth ‘Are they sensible investments? e of his trips, in 1903, Amund- t ved that the north magnetic leis not a fixed locality like a post Given i. into the ground, but that it probably moves continually. is valuable 6f what is learned from each trip. igte: the Frozen North. AMindsen’s present trip will seek, chiefly, knowledge about the wea- | shown by a check-up, just completed. ‘are fined $1 apiece for flying over| j high enough they can establish their Nea knowledge, typi-' a much less attractive climate unless Tther and what makes it. That's well of Minnesota can give one the rest! = worth while—for we talk more about anil comfort that could be. obtained the weather than anything else, yet right here at home if we would only know very little about what causes slacken up on our work a bit and re- its eccentricities. lax for a little rest, mental and physi- _ cal. Some day we are going to try it-—Carrington Independent. MOSQUITOES Sixty different kinds of mosquitoes exist in New York, says Dr. Herman CUTTING OUT SCHOOL VACA-, M. Biggs, health commissioner of TIONS? that state. ~ | Some sort of an efficiency expert— Only two. kinds, however, are we suppose he is some relative to the numerous. One carries malaria man who invented daylight saving— germs; the other. is incapable of has it all figured out that summer spreading any disease, Roughly, vacations for school children are bad thing. wasteful in time, in money and in energy. They ought, he fig- ures, to be eliminated or shortened, the time ed being spread out over the year, in shorter school days. We. do not know but what the school day itself might well be short- ened, so as to provide for a little less indoor cramming and a little more outdoor frolic for the kiddies, but as this probably holds true nationally. If annoyed by mosquitoes there is stagnant water nearby. Biggs says an uncovered rain barrel or stopped- up gutter will breed millions of ‘the biters. And a few tin cans half filled with water will breed enough to: make a whole neighborhood misera- ble. Mosquitoes are the result, stag- nant water the cause. Fight the ; ; cause. for cutting out vacations, or making oe | them any shorter than they now are, PIRATES | we are, going to vote“nay” as long us there ig breath in our body. ‘And if the, efficiency experts do not quit trying ta, take so much joy out of the life of the youngsters with their efficiency. théories, based on dry-as-dust statistics and psycholo- gical and philosophical arguments, we predict that somebody is going: to The booze-runners of New York City are popularly imagined to be a new type of criminal, bred by pro-| hibition. | Not so, according to the marine po- lice, They say that the motorboat booze-runners are simply the old- time river pirates switched to a new graft. They get 75’ cents to $1.25 a Bottle for delivering smuggled liquor to bootleggers. | Thus, in this field, prohibition has not increased crime. The situation plainly is that men are smuggling hooch who otherwise would be pirating anchored ships and stealing precious merchandise cargo. It is the lesser of two evils. GOAT | England is talking about cancelling | the debt owed to her by France.| With such a noble example, idealists would reason that,we should cancel what England owes us. It is a chain affair. England for-| gives France, we forgive England. The joker is that here is no one to forgive us. We would be left holding the hot potato. The money, we out of Liberty bonds. bonds mature, Americans will have to pay them if Europe doesn’t. Re- gardless of sentiment, these are the facts. ficiency of the efficiency experts themselves. Which might be discon- certing to the experts and enlighten- ing to the general public, For we have more than a slight suspicion that some of the efficiency experts aren't nearly so efficient themselves as they are trying to look as they hand out theories about how the world should be run.—Arkansas Democrat. THE DUKE SUPPLY We read that -the: English dukes are viewing the egonomic situation in their country with, grave, alarm. We gather from some of the, things they have been saying that they serious- ly apprehend that if England keeps on the way she is: going she will soon be unable to afford the, luxury of dukes at’ all. . : | Even now, we believe, there are lent Europe ame oui some. thirty, dukes left ip’ all Britain, from which’ it ‘Will’ be’ ‘seen | that if the country’ doesn’t want to ‘yun out of this commodity completely | it is high time it adopted some meas- ures for their conservation. England is doing nothing at all in that direc- | tion-at present; in fact, if she has a jducal policy at all it seems to be of an opposite character. The dukes are | being taxed literally to death, for one lof their chief complaints is, against what the British call death duties, or CRIME The leading crime in auto stealing. Autos. worth 000,000 were stolen in 1921. America is $100,- This is The motor thief has eclipsed the bank robber and the housebreaker. This will keep on until there will ‘ be the usual reaction of extremes, Thus the dukes not only are having You know what happened to a horse-|Sreat difficulty in living, but they thief years ago in the west. The|can't even afford to die. ! auto is to us what the horse was to! They are telling about it in the the pioneers j house of lords and in communications eee Ae |to the papers. They want to know PROPERTY , | what England is going to do about it. Lieutenant Nevin and Leon Smith! Dukes must live. Perhaps so. We don’t know. Eng- the Grube farm*near Punxsutawney,| land has a lot of things to attend to Pa. The judge held that ‘they were! just now, and it may be the dukes trespassing. will have difficulty ‘making ° them- Landlords are acknowledged to| selves heard. Maybe some ‘of our Am- own down to the center of the earth.| crican experts on drives. would go Not surprising, that they claim the| over there and put on a tag day for air. It is a ridiculous claim, though, | them ‘if the: tase: 'were brought | to for if their aerial jurisdiction goes) their attention.:: Otherwise Englan’ | may wake up some fine day and dis- ; cover she is dukeless. She would then be almost as -bac\ off as she was in {that perilous position, discovered by Charles Dickens, in which Lord Doo- dle went out of office and Lord Foo- dle wouldn’t come in. And we have Dickens’ word for it that England al- ownership of the sun and charge us for the heat. Some of them would jump at the chance. Yate NEGLECTED Experjence is nothing but a chain of mistakes. We go through life pay- ing bitterly for experience. Other|most went on the rocks.—Kansas City men\ in former generations have) Star. sought the same truths, paid the same price, ee a THE ONLY WAY fost of the our mistakes cou Ce tion i avoided by using our public libraries,| ¢hough it docs. batter, an eae aenich aici aeaiiers sqenings ir the papers. Lots of folks are adver- v life, m the) tigi; i i. greatest minds. o la co In our most populous states, Ait nec emmannee do hey. tell us. how, to ever, books taken out from, public| + : libraries average only two a’year for! There are two: kinds of mistakes each resident. And usually the two| that auto drivers make at railroad are fiction—a form of mental opium,| CTossings, Some motorists, ‘a large tii number in fact, fail to’ remember | where they are. They know the fatal | resulteof being hit by a train of tars, | but do not keep that_idea in active. oe a circulation. To know'a Tot Of things is “cine || grea bat CO PROTO BP wT Comments reproduced in_ this || know is better yet. EDITORIAL REVIEW column may or may not express || ; 3, the opinion of The Tribune, They’|| , To think, about ain of Kara when are presented here in order that || you drive neag@résditing te our readers may have both sides || tural thing&-But by" sis the of important issues which are || being discussed in the press, of | the day, VACATION IN N. The vacation bug is biting us all these days, infecti us with the! lazy germ and making work and at tention to business nothing more than servile drudgery. zi ; While vacations are largely a mat- ter ‘of habit, ‘efficiency’ people make out a rather strong case that vacag tions are necessary; that the human Machine ‘can be made to produce usual thing; so one is led to think | when ‘he reads about ;dkily disasters at railroad grade. crossings. It is harder to forgive the error of 1 | the driver who tries to béat'his way ahead of a train. The other, kind is | this one is as wideawake as a chick- jenhawk and knows all that is going | on. Probably in one more generation it will surprise and shock people to | read that in the year 1921, over 5,000 folds, men, women and children rid- more in fifty weeks of effort than! ‘"# in automobiles, were killed or in- jured at public crossings in this in 52 vacationless weeks. To the people of a great part of |COUNtrY. 5 Ree the United States, especially those|, The only way to check this fright- southern and corn belt areas, the| ft! condition is to remind drivers, summer vacation, no matter whore|*"d then remind them again, of some- thing they already know—the danger spent must come as a delgiht. But) ‘hing t ang are we of North Dakota justified in| 0 being forgetful, or of committing daredevil acts at the crossings —Na- leaving our delightful summer climy ate to go to some place that does not | Poleon Homestead, compare with home for cool nights | Sa and bright, bracing days? We think |, not. If North Dakota's weather is 8 ever faseinating, and whether we con-| ‘bor conditions, North Dakota and [fess it or not, our climate has a| especially the western part. of the charm that holds us all, the summer | State i8 fortunate. in having lignite is the time of all the year for us to! CO! me High priced coal does be home. We are, almost mosquito, Not Worry the people here as lignite proof, hot murky air.is almost un-|CO#! tan be: obtained in many places known, rest at night is always sweet | £0" the digging. Go out through the and refreshing. county; look at the crop prospects If.ever North, Dakolans are juste) Yuch cannot be-beat ‘and’,-consider fied in leaving for oneaticne, wteng|the price of land. ‘Take a survey should be made to get to a warmer! Of the lignite coal mines in’ the climate in the winter. There ifno use COUNtY, not forgetting the oil pros- onying that our winters Are log, Peets. Consider the healthful and in- and sometimes severe, After a few|Vigerating climate, good water and and resources in months of steady, solid cold, ix js| Other advantages Tikely to ret once ‘mevvess A tte; Grant. county, then: ,ask., yourself trip then to where things are gtcen | were san\Ligo fo ‘beat! At. Carsbn would be a delight to be appreciated. | ?T°S* There would be justifiention fori I o f course, we could and ought to get A THOUGHT | With the threatening. shortage of oal ‘that faces, the country due ‘to whore ‘pleasure daring. ove “awlater||l months, but again habit interyenes. and we just hibernate. | But in summer we have nothing to run away from. We are sure to find © For the/carnest expectation of the creation’ waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God—Romans 8:19. it would be that prevailing in the Creation lies before us like a glor- | mountains during the summer: days, ious rainbow; but the sun that made We. doubt if any of the very at- it lies behind us, hidden from us.— tractive lakes in our neighbor state Jean Paul Richter. \ start a little investigation of the ef-). s tite inheritance taxes, as we would say.) ’ | dreamy and mentally(talygeish} t Bit}. man starts out to who is boss and Sometimes show his wife learns, a Who wants to laugh and grow fat during the hot summer months? “Drop Fatal’—headline. Sounds like more bootleg stuf. " One day last week a train was late when a man wanted it to be. Working yourself to death is hard, Loafing yourself to death is easier and much quicker. It took a few hard knocks to get Ruth to put in some hard knocks. Sure, flappers are liberty belles. And it leoks like their motto is, “Peel off, wild belles.” ‘ ary i An Berlin, a man accused of killing 20 people hanged himself. He got the right man at last. i The Japs want an army cut. The strange part is they, want the Jap army cut. Boys leave the farm because :they, hate to plow through life. vivial; but some men are kicking be- cause it isn’t a flood. Isn't it about time to change the saying, “That’s a horse on me” to “that’s an auto on me?” Very few children succeed in get- iting born into a rich family. “New York woman named Moon asks ‘divorce because hubby stayed out at night, and that’s the truth. Actress wants her legs insured, for a million dollars. That is what they look like. Florida man who started out for the time of his life is in jail for the time of his life. fire departments are the same man. < ate THE TWINS | | By Olive Barton Roberts ©: One day Mr. ‘Tingaling, the fairy: man landlord, went to call on Snuf-| .fles, the fairyman doctor. Nancy and Nick had helped. Mr, Tingaling to collect rents and..M Tingaling, knowing the Twins were. helping Dr. Snuffles, decided to. go and sce all three of them. After ‘they'd talked about, the, weather, and everything like, that, fat old Tingaling took his rent list out of his pocket and tapped it. “T've ome on a, jittle,, business.” said he. “Isn’t_ my rent” pai Snuffles anxiously. sent you a check.” “Oh. yes, ves! Yes, indeed!” said Mr.. Tingalin matter. In plain words, I came to find out . about Chirk Chipmue’s health.” \ “Chirk - Chipmunk! 2” asked Dr. “T thought 1 Why, ing running a race with Scramble Squirrel, and Chirk won.” “OM, h’m! So that’s it, is it?” nod. ded Tingaling wisely. “I thought the rascal was .fooling me and now I know it. “=™Hfe"said that his house of stones "so damp he was sick all the onia and he couldn't pay me’ any more Yent until either the house was | dryer or he was sprycr. “I just thought I'd ask. That | Chirk is a cute one and you've got! to get up early in the morning to get ahead of him. “What do you s'pose I can do, dgctor. ¢ Fairy Queen _ expects ; i if Mince rents and I'll have nie to ‘et to get it'some way.” “T tell you what I'll do,” said Dr. Snuffles.. “IH. go to see Chirk at; once, then I can let you know if; Chirk is really and truly sick.” i (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service.) AYS WORD || ’ TOD RUNS Slash cat Today’s word is COUPON. It's pronounced kgo-pon, with the accent on the first syllable. The oo is pronounced as the oo in food, and the u is short. Ku-pon, with the v long as in Cuba, though often heard ; is incorrect. It means—An’ interest certificate; | that part of a ticket which shows | something due the holder. | It comes from the French couper, to cut. It's used like’ this “He was en- titled to a box-seat according to his coupon.” GIRL TAKES POISON - Steele, D., July 24.—Alice, 14° year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Quingle, is under the care of a phy- sician at Gackle:and is in a precari- cous condition following an attempt at suicide by taking paris green. She was found in a semi-cons ious | condition and medical aid summon- ed. Chris Hehr, 64, laborer at Gackle, | died there Monday as the result of | injuries self-inflicted three days pe viously. His wife found him hang- ing on the rafters of a barn and while still alive cut him down. Every effort was made to revive him, but he succumbed after remain- There is’a wave of business re- |! A village is where the police and ! “It’s about another ||* what's |! wrong with him?’ asked Nancy in/anq the way the neighbors regard surprise. “I saw him this very morh-|them,” Scottie grunted. “I've come especially to warn you of a rumor of. some strange actions of Hobart Drake’s.in Wall Street today. He's home, the night?” si time with rheumatism and pneu-|up,” returned Scottie. “Unless the Hobart ‘is planning to retire or the events jnouse servant. seems to be unaffected, but there is ‘a forced and unnatural note in his ‘form of villainy that is unprece- ‘dented in the annals of the depart- |veloping nerves over the prablem {glistening on a heavy coil of silve BEGIN HERE TODAY : What horrible power was forcing the three Drake brothers, HOBART, the Wall Street broker, ROGER, the scientist, and ‘ANDREW, recently returned from Australig, to place themselves in ridiculous situations? Sedate, \ three were now terror stricken. three were now. terror .stricken. liver a mock speech in a public square, Roger to burlesque a sci- entific paper, and Andrew / to -sit. “on the’ parlor floor and play with toys., They were sane, and ‘un- known to them. PATRICIA DRAKE, daughter of Ho- bart, secured OWEN, MILES, detective sergeant, and his colleague, SCOTTIE, McCREADY, to investi- ‘ gate. Miles is employed as a houseman and Scottie is to report On his first night there, Miles discovers Andrew preventing Roger from commit- ting suicide. The’ following morn- ing a letter throws Hobart into a passion. Miles find that the letter did not go through the mail. Scot- tie investigates the family at the country club and reports to Miles. GO ON WITH THE STORY “General history of the family as gardener. “Yes, and calm and more self- contained!” Miles exclaimed ‘in surprise. Mons “That's becau8e hio mind is made runior {s unfounded — our’ friend make his getaway. He has started to wind up his business affairs. Overheard anything?” f “Nothing.” Briefly Miles told his colleague of which had : occurred |, pince his installation 2s thenseudo |, pana | } “Andrew is the only ‘one, who boisterous cheerfulness, I don't know whether we're dealing with a bunch 'of ‘lunatics or but that they are’ the victims of some obscure ment,-and I am on the point of de- myself! . I'll. be glad when ‘ you tackle your job here.” Miles watched until the bulky form jhad vanished, Then he ent- ered the kitchen door and fastened it behind him,- ee He had started for the setvants' staircase when a flickering glow from “the front of the house made him pause with every sense alert. Noiselessly he crept toward it and saw that it emanated from the Qrawing-room, As he advanced, the ‘sputter of flames and hissing thud of a falling log came to his gars’ and then the dull clank of metal. Carefully he drew aside a fold of the. heavy curtains’ which draped the doorway and peered in. There was no light save that from the tiny-blaze burning itself out in the fireplace but against: its glow he saw outlined a huddled, shapeless figure in # loose robe ‘kneeling be- fore the hearth.and while he gazed a narrow tongue of flame leaped up, Ty bair which hung to the floor. It was Miss Jerusha. Drake! ‘Holding his breath and moving silently'inch by inch, Miles slipped through the curtains and into the shadow behind a tall cabinet, from around the farther side of which he. could gain a.more direct view ing unconscious for three days. No reasons for his suicide are known. “Ysabel strander~ ona NEA. Service, Inc. low, indistinguishable mutter not unlike some weird (incantation is+ sued from her lips." i The flame died and'Miss Jerusha drew a deep breath. 2 -\ “Gone!” The mutter’ resolved it-| self into dull, ‘monotonously in- | toned speech at last. “Ashes, every] one! If only the first :had never peen concelved this horror would) not have ‘descended upon us. They4 are destroyed, but théir very fumes) breathe poison!” i Her hands clutched at her throat: as though she were. indeed choking. and for a moment the woman, seemed on the verge of. collapse. Then catching up a small object whigh ‘had laid.on the rug by her side she rose and turned, A tiny pin-point of iight shot out. before her and Miles saw that the object she carried was an electric torch, its eery gleam distorting: her face, with the wisps of gray“hair falling about jit, into the semblance of the veriest witch, He shrank back fearful lest she discover his presence, but Miss Jerusha stared straight before her with the wild blank gaze of one who looks upon the hideoys visions of a mind distraught and slowly, gropingly she passed frem the room. “fi CHAPTER VII. A soft rain s falling when Miles. awakened the next morning ayd,in the clear, gray, light the ‘scene. which he had” witnessed, in Ime wing, room,,seémed vague nd unreal. . That creature with d SSS te Sa bIGe Mn ees EVERETT TRUE You 'Ris 7 | 1 MN, — ul BRSeeD i of the crouching form. It was swaying back and-forth.and now. a vs [Tas CERTAINisy is BRGAKING THS LAW? GH E Do. ou wect, & DON'T KNOW -TOUR ;NAME) BUT Lt DS Know ras! lh ih SPOILING THE FISHERMAN’S STRIKE Bp! (A BUM Way:To SPEND A SUMMER * hevelled hair and crazed eyes could not have been the dignified, self- contained Miss Drake, nor could that cryptic speech have issued from her lips! Hastening out into the hall he: | opened the door of the closet under | Roger has got himself in a mess ‘too over a apéech he made in the | schoolhouse last week. I am com- ¢’ mencing to think they are all get- ing queer again like they was years ago when they first come into the money, Do you recollect what I told you’ about their, actions? |Seems like it was yesterday. Miss |Jerusha has not been herself lately land no wonder with the gossip and jall and she hag put a stop to Pat | going out with that nice young | man I wrote you about but I guess it will come out all right. “Y'r aff't sister “Hitty.” Slowly Miles replaced the letter and gumnied the flap of the en- velope together once more. He |had heretofore regarded the lugu- | brious Mehitabel as negligible, but jhe realized now that she might be well worth cultivating. She thought “they! were all getting queer again” like they were when their inheri- tance came. ‘That was the out- standing phrase in her letter which struck him with the greatest force. Miss Jerusha wag her calmly re- served gelf at breakfast, and Miles j could perceive no trace of the emo- tion which had .possessed her at midnight. “] wonder if you will go on an errand for me, William?” asked Roger. “I know it is raining, but I have an important letter which must go in the next mail.” “I'll go at once, sir.” Absorbed in his thoughts the de- tective bad plodded mechanically jalong the path and it was with a start of surprise that he saw the raincoat and bedraggled, broad- brimmed hat of Andrew Drake just jahead. He was walking rapidly be- side a taller, more distinguished figure. Miles recognized him as the visitor on the night of his arrival, the next door neighbor, Enslee Grayle. What could these two, so widely dissimilar in character and _pro- clivities, have in common? Miles hastened his footsteps and was al- most at their heels when they turned abruptly off at the head of a lane between two tall hedges. He was about to continue to the vil- lage when he turned to find a wo- man beside him. She was dressed in a tailored suit of brown which displayed the buxom lines of her figure with rather startling frank- ness; a face that was undeniably pretty although of a coarse type, and bold hazel eyes gazed into-his from beneath a fringe of all-too- ‘the stairs The mail bag was hang-/| yellow hair. ing in its accustomed place and the There was no sign of life about kettle boiling and expertly steamed open, two of the jenvelopes. The first felt so bulky that he was not surprised to take from it a folded inner envelope inscribed: | “Mr. Richard Kemp.” It was un- addressed -but the accompanying etter was explanatory: ‘Millie, dearest. “I am going to.ask a most tre mendous favof, Iam not allowed to'see or even write to Dickie any more—it,isn't that he has done.any- thing, he is the darlingest boy alive, but both our families have decided to break up our happiness and Aunt Jerusha watched me like a lynx! Will you not put the en- closed letter in one of your own envelope: and address it to Dickie for me?? For heaven's sake don’t fail me for I am simply heart- broken! “Hastily but with ‘fondest love, “Pat,” Miles smiled to himself as he resealed the letter with its enclo- sure, but his gravity returned when he opened the final envelope: “My dr. Brotier,” he ‘read, “I take my pen in hand to let yow know that I am well and hope you and all are the same but I can’t say as, much for the folks. The house ‘has not been the same ince Andrew came back from for- eign parts more noisy and fresh like than .when he. was a boy only different but up to his old tricks. He .played a joke on the houseman ‘Monday and scairt him so he left. ‘Hobart has took to liquor and made a holy show of himself in the town. BY CONDO { KNOW. wi handy man’s first task of the morn- ling was to take it to the postoffice. the house and Miles soon had a | their unfailing loyalty. with pride that,during the year we |” “T sye, ’oo is that man?” she de- manded with an imperative nod to- ward the pair who had struck off down the lane. “Friends o’ yours?” | “The man in the raincoat is Mr. Andrew Drake and the older one lis hig neighbor, the owner of the |house from which you say they came. His name is Mr. Enslee Grayle.” “Ow, is it?” Her eyes shifted ‘from his to rest contemplatively upon the two figures already mistly jin the slanting rain “Strike me pink if I didn’t faney one o’ em was an old pal o’ mine!—I sye, ‘ow far ig it to the station? My car broke down a mile back and I’ve got to be at the sudio in New -York at twelve.” “The station is half a mile far- _ther on, but here comes a jitney and it appears to be empty.” Miles gestured toward a ramshackle taxi + which was rattling down the road. “Wot luck!” She waved to the driver of the approaching vehicle and then once. more. her, eyes sought the lane. “Andrew Drake, you said, and the w'ite-headed old toff ‘is Enslee Grayle? My mistyke! —Well, cherrio! If you’ve a cine- ma in this giddy metropolis watch for little Maizie—To the station, my man, and look sharp!” ‘CHAPTER VIII. Miles hastened to the village, mailed Roger's letter and lost no time in, returning to the house. The dreary day drew to a close and the evening passed unevent- fully. The family were fintshing break- fast the next morning when the rumble of a well-known voice sounded from the kitchen, “Ze new gardenaire, he ees ar- rive,” announced Pierre. “Hello, Jack!” Miles grinned aS he advanced, for the absence of the grizzled, sandy beard had wrought a vast. change. . “I'll take you to Miss Drake—” (Miles Jed .the way to the hall. “Study her, Scottie, for she’s in on this, too! Whatever it may be that is affecting the men of the family, she is sharing it!” (Continued in our next issue.) ° at ame || 39th Birthday ! > | } The Steele Ozone says: With this issue of the Ozone we begin the 39th year. One ycar ago last week Editor Wood wrote his last article in the office before leaving the city for the south where he had hopes to find * relief from the rheumatism. ‘The writer had hoped to receive a letter from the editor for this week's is- , sue, but has not. It has been a year that the present writer was left in charge of the of- fice, and it has been a hard year both for the paper and the patrons of the paper, and we wish to thank those loyal friends of the Ozone for We can say have not had but one subscriber stop | the paper and have gained hundreds. With the beginning of the 39th year or volume of the Ozone the pros- pects for better times seem more | bright, as the coming on of one of the biggest harvests is at hand. The people: of the county have begun to change the methods of the farm and | the cow and the hogs and corn are fast taking up their place in that |vacancy of the one crop method, of | the past. RAISES VILLAGE ASSESSMENT. | Zap, July 24.—At.the last meeting * | of the board of county commissioners -| the assessed valuation of Zap eleva- | tors was raised 10 per cent. Also all | stocks of goods and merchandise in | the village were raised 30 per cent. | Read estate taxes to remain the same {ee 1921, ’ ’