The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1922, Page 4

| | | PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1922 ' Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck,| Back of this is a national tendency, jf. jg officially stated that the to buy more from other countries strongest element in the crop situa- We still, how-| tion thi ever, are over a billion a year to the the “fair average” condi iN. Di) as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN Editor Foreign Representatives G.) LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg.| PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH i NEW YORK - Fifth Ave. Bldg. and sell them less. good, That is profit. JULES unveiled with elaborate ceremonies, AEDS AB lS each cal MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jules was 21 years The Associated Press |s exclusive: | ranhood, | i ly entitled to the use or republi-| man bullet carried him into eternity cation of all news dispatches cre dited to it or not otherwise credit- ed in this paper and also the local news published herein. |young, promising, ambitious, best of the lot.” |_ The first man killed in the World ; War was Corporal Jules Peugeot, 2) sources, They constitute news of su- Frenchman, A monument to him is) preme importance both to the cities Pioneer He was typical of the toll of war—! That is the kind of meal the war BISMARCK TRIBUNE! months. Imports dropped $1,046,000, sible to what the threshers are going 000. to turn up per acre. year in Minne arate communities will suffer. | We may be sufficiently gratified jat the reports from these official ‘'and the state—St. Paul old, ,in the! Press, flower of his manhood, when ‘a Ger-| THE AMERICAN WAY Mr., William Allen White, whose dispute with his friend, Governor Henry J. All \the display of a strike placdrd has ta sis that on is uni- |form throughout the state, No sep- Boys will be boys and girls will too in a few years. ‘The auto has done lots for people and done for lots of people. the ed-| ; j “tho| itor of the Emporia,-Kanens,Gazetta,|., Every time we read about Furope life-long , over we wish the Atlantic ocean was as wide as the Pacific ocean. All rights of. republication of; god loves. Biologists tell you that i Ks ‘ spepial dispatches ‘horein are also! war makes a nation stronger in the| been much in the public eye of late, 4,103 penta up eRe ee rved. [lon run. False! War always takes, has set a noteworthy ‘example of, ‘ate !ong enough to say much. ee ey op the best lobedience to law in the circum- i REMBER AUDIT ONDAU OF ee | stances attending his arrest. Mr. res every: aay ee Sunday. bong ao | “BEASTLY DRUNK” | White displayed the placard, express-, PCoPle would wor mselves to CRIPTION RATES PAYABLE) You have used the expression,| ing sympathy for the railroad strik-, death. Patten ents “peastly drunk.” What does it mean? ers, in the window of his newspaper}. . re oer aaa [You never saw i beast drunk. ean?) cffice, Governor Allen and the At-| i This aio be. an swt, county: yarn : eReARLLY URLRE IE a 61d _[torney General of Kansas held that! but people in China have to get up ait, per “year’ a 3 s expres- | ; ; it) 12 hours before we do. utsidé Bismarck) 5.00] sion. It started in 1576 from a book| ‘the display of this placard was in ats mail, outside of | written by George Gascoigne. The jbook has this curious title: “A deli- DEST NEWS- | cate Dict for daintie mouthed Droon- PAPER (Established 1873) common carowsing and quaffing with = CHURCHES COOPERATE | hartic Draughtes is honestlie admon- shed. The need of a chautauqua or lar‘program for Bismarck and v nity during the summer months has often been voiced, In the absence of such a program for enlightenment and instruction the pastor of a local church conceived the idea of holding a series of evangelistic meetings. Consulting with other ministers he found the idea appealed to them. Six denominations of the city agreed to) Pk? join in one series of “The first is ape-drunk, and he evangelistic meetings in the city. leaps and sings and hollows and Miss D. Willa Caffray, evangelist. danceth for the heavens, who will preach each night, is said; “The second is lion-drunk, and hg to be a speaker of exceptional force. flings the pots about the house, A splendid example of inter-denomi-, breaks the window glass with his nationa] cooperation is given us in, dagger, and is apt to quarrel with the tindertaking of the local church-' any man that, speaks to him. es, and doubtless their efforts will| “The third is swine-drunk, heavy, meet with success, | lumpish, and sleepy, and cries for a AN EDITORIAL BY COAL AGE [etre S7imK and, @ few. more “One great question of the imme-| “The fourth is sheep-drunk, wise diate: future is ‘What if operations jn his own conceit when he, bringeth are resumed; the railroads will be forth a right word. unable to haul enough coal to supply, “The fifth is maudlen-drunk, when more than half the country’s demand, a fellow will weep for kindness in with the result that most mines will the midst of his drink, and kiss you, get very little running time,’ and then he puts his finger in his “This| means without doubt that’ eye and cries. coal prices are going to stay in the; “The sixth is martin-drunk, when a clouds. | | : |man is drunk, and cries himself sober “A series of questions to operators ere he stirs. on the probable price at which they| “The seventh is goat-drunk, when will start their coal on the market in his drunkenness he hath no mind clicits a few vague replies. Some set but on lechery. the figure for southern Illinois coal: “The eighth is foxdrunk, when he as daw at $3.85, Others declare test fs crafty-drunk, which will never bar- recoup the losses occasioned by, gai ” {hevehutdown andithecotienaankseet" ones ee aren pense. of building up their organiza-| Nash adds: “All these species, and tions again after: resumption. ‘These’ more, I have scen practiced in one mention $4.50 and $5. ~' | company at one sitting; when I have Others are for getting: all the mar-| been permitted to remain sober ket will stand. They, boldly declare’ amongst the monly to note their thecountry needs coal so badly and’ several humours.” will be, able to:'satisfy so little of; A bartender, reading Nash’s satire its demand that Tlinois and Indiana; would dhuckle and recall . that all coals: will match‘mp; with...western||these drunken types ‘were common Kentucky coal, “Which already has only a few: years ago in our saloons. passed the $6 Bojnt and may reach| .. Nash’s satire is a, clever classifica- $7 uriless there is immediate produc-| tion of the-temporary insanity that tion-of coal from other fields.” accompanies John Barleycorn. 22 rereare mero People were noticing it, when Nash lived in the 16th century—also long before that. The wonder is, not that we-have prohibition, but that it don’t come centuries ago. long time to get prohibition. If you wonder what human nature was like in 1576, and would compare it with the present, read this classi- fication of drunkards Thomas Nash, English satiri: ly after Gascoigne published SPORT Here's. 2 woman who celebrates her 99th birthday by taking her usual daily ride in one of these bath- tubs that are attached to motor- cycles. She is Mrs. Hannah “Matte- son;-of Hope Valley, Rhode Island. | People who are on the verge of surrendering to old age can learn from Mrs, Matteson that age is mainly a matter of viewpoint. It is largely in the heart, Think youth-/ ful thoughts, do ‘youthful things, -and=you'll never be really old. That probably was how Noah kept him-/ + self chipper and sry until he died at the age of 950. 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, —— GOOD CROP NEWS DOOMED Enthusiastic reports of bumper For years we have all’been moan-| crops in Minnesota have been heard ing‘about “the ola oaken bucket that; frequently of late. The last one is hung in the well.” Quartets have from a party of University of Minne- advartised the famous old bucket sota department heads, state officials until most of us have it indelibly and farm, journal representatives, in our brains as a symbol for pure,| Which went through part of the state refreshing drinking water. a few days ago. Now comes the Connecticut state, The farm value of the ten chief board of health and warns that most; crops in 1921 was $171,682,000, on’ ah | kardes, wherein the wofle Abuse of |} All this was 346 years ago. It took a! wells with an old oaken bucket are germ-polluted, and about as fit to drink from as a swamp. Most of our sentimental ideals would be unmasked the same way if; we gave them sound analytical) thought. DRUNK Giever European lecturers visit us, with the attitude of children inspect-} ing a’ zoo. They Asked what they think of prohibition’ in America, they crack the old stale in at frequent intervals from thous-| grandeur to i’ ands of observers in every township | vaudeville jokes, such as, “When do they-begin enforcing it?” Dr. Robert Hercod, a wise’ Swiss who“imagines nothing but facts, has! been looking us over. He returns home «nd tells the reporters of his acreage of 15,914,000 acres, A mere in- spection of. this huge figure makes it easier to visualize the immense loss to the wealth of the state a slight variation in crop condition can cause, It is not with the idea of deflating any one’s optimism that attention is, drawn to the fact that reports — of; “bumper” crops are ndt borne. out in full by the reports received at the office of the Federal statistician who return home.| co-operates with the state department! twisting of agriculture. These reports come in the state, and constitute an offi- cial source of information~that is undoubtedly more authentic than re- | ports coming in through banks, raile roads, local newspapers or touring country that he saw only two. parties. drunken persons during “his two-| The official report, as of July: 11, is months’ tour of our country. summed up by the department When you imagine that’ prohibition is a failure, look about you; then summon up in memory the drunkards of old saloon days. MONOTONY Twelve million steps have been climbed by George B, Herrick. He is fhe night watchman at the Con-, tinental Mills, Lewiston, Mass. For 25=vears he has climbed’ steps and “rung in” clocks. Think of George when your job seems monotonoous. We are all in much the same boat. SAFER Is it safe to take a trip in a flying machine? You would think so, if| you: flew 1,750,000 miles and came out-alive. That is what our air mail has done in the last 12 months with of agriculture as presaging a “fair average crop” this season in the grains. Potatoes and other root crops are somewhat above the average and very much better than last year, when they resulted in a loss. Spring wheat shows no pronounced rust dam- age and a yield of 13.6 bushels to the acre is officially predicted. Oats de- clined in prospects 11 per cent in June but have recuperated somewhat in July. Barley has fallen off slight- ly in condition, Rye alone justifies the word “bumper.” It is described in the statisticians’ latest report as “a good crop, far above any other raised in past years.” Potatoes are in favorable condition. The word “bumper” slips off the tongue easily, and crops may look perfect to persons passing in trains or automobiles, But “bumper” crops no=fatalities. Incidentally, it car- are rare things. The only way to ried 49,000,000 letters. make an authoritative survey of In the previous year, 17 were crop condition is to have men go into killed carrying mail by airplane. Flying is getting safer. That is more important than news about faster flying. The airplane will be- come popular only as it is made safer. the fields and actually feel the heads, as the observers for the Federal-state statistician do. Those in close touch with the agricultural situation do not look favorably on over-enthusiastic crop predictions, as they invariably = Loss Exports in the last 12 months to- are reflected in deflation of prices jat the farm. The final story is told ' by the threshers. It is the aim of the ‘department of agriculture ,to. have taled:'$3,770,000,000,. This was $2,- 746,00,000 less than the previous 12 i its predictions come as close as. pos- t violation of the Kansas law which prohibits strikes, and caused the ar- rest of Mr. White. Mr. White, in bmitting to the arrest, did not alter \his position that the law violated [his constitutional right of free | speech, but volunteered to take down |the placard until the question could | be disposed of in court. He also re- | quested others who were displaying \ the offending poster to do likewise until it could be judicially deter- mined whether the right to display it | exists. | Governor Allen may be wrong in |his interpretation of the law. We | think he is. We think,Mr. White was within his right#\in{ displaying the card if he wished, \g {0 so. But Mr. White is setting abdut' the establish- ment of his point in the right Am- | erican. spirit—through the process of | the courts. He'is notjtalking about a | “evolution” or defying the state au- | thorities—and he ,is setting the coun- ‘try an example of the right method of dissent’ that js ,yery/ badly needed. | just now.—St. Paul 'Dispateh. | Z 1$tG i ms | PEOPLE’S FORUM | x s Editors Note—Rev. F. G. Westfall of Wishek was so impressed with | the improvements in and near Bis- marck during a two-hour stroll bout the city that he penned the fol- lowing as “a token of gratitude from one of the many visitors who come to Bismarck and who feel—as I do, I am sure—but who perhaps have not the cheek to say so.” Following are his impressions: | Editor Tribune: July 25, 1922. I saw the historic Missouri river— | for the second time (last time in | 1914) and walked across the new Me- | morial Bridge, which will be com- | pleted in a couple of weeks. I paced | the 3 spans and made it 647 paces. | he length is 1440 feet, and the two approaches make the total length | over 2,700 fect. The ‘eastern ap- proach is ona curve from right to left and the western from left to right. Seen from the air the struc- | ture would resemble -the’ letter 3. 1 set foot on the wesiern shore. ‘The woods there have wnite and yel- low sweet-clover growing through them—at least, next to tne briage head. 3 of them—on which the three spans rest—rise for possibly 15 or 20 rect above the water—surmounted by two massive pillars at cach end of cach | of the bridge rest. ‘The approucnes rest on pillars graduated irom tne ends of tne spans to the road grade upproach. I do not know—but I should estimate the height of the floor at over a hundred feet above the water. ‘the whole structure is massive and at the same time beau- tiful—view from shore to shore. It has been two years under construct- ion. The Missouri—mysterious be- i*grey silk Banks, No one has ever seen a foot below its surface. ‘Yhe ; white man—with his cities and. farmis—océupies its banks now —where erest the Ind.an and tne buffalo held undisputed sway. But | the Missouri is the same as when jit skirted. the south-western terminus of the ancient glaciers. Probably not sb large as it was then, but just as untamaple, and characterful. As Jong’ ag the:mountains from which lit!:takes its\_sourcé—remains, the issouff, will, tak¢ “ats own muddy way—playing old ‘ame of build- ing» silt. bays) ihe will. pe rrihed |" "The rugged, tunibled hills and oulees that border it on cither aie end a peculiar wild s broad wooded valley. It, is most impressive to one who sees it for the first time. A terrific | thunder storm is raging‘at this mo; ment—11:00 p.m. 1 am‘on the fifth floor of a hotel here in Bismarck, and looking out of the window, the | great valley is a sea of grey rain, | lit up ‘by-almost continuous flashes of lightning. “The sunken valley and | the peaks and “deep coulees—near and far—give a. peculiar resonance | to the thunder. | Letting time retreat 50 or 60-years ‘and what now is a well-built. little | city—would have been ‘possibly a Sioux or Mandan camp. The slopes | of the buttes would be dotted with standing buffalo—the wood-covered | bottoms would shelter elk, mule and | white-tail deer—and wolves and | grizzlies would crouch in sheltered nooks. in the wild storm. | It does not seem possible that in ’64 when I was’ born this was the | primeval wilderness, with only an | occasional white trader pushing his | way up or down this watery high- | way of empire. There is something | magnificent about the all-conquer- jing, all-swallowing white race. Nordic enterprise and mastery—but | one can not but regret the old days —the wild days. Ah me! to have been born 20 years earlier; to have | had a hand in those days! Accept this hastily penned but sin- cere tribute by one who sees Bis- marck and its surroundings for the first time. F. G. Westfall. There are appr ately 100,000 miles of canals in China, 'Yhe boat shaped abutments— | | avutment on which the bed yiruers cause opaque—grey—like its mucdy|’ where it~ The wild world—stolidly still j England wants American laws. ! We might give her some we don’t ! use. Twin beds would be fine if you could sleep in one and get the mos- quitoes to use the other. Sometimes we think a pessimist is a man whose name is mud. Women will not be men’s equals until little girls want to be police- men when they grow up. - Man has tofdecide between staying “single and staying at home. The famous race horse owned by a grocer did not learn to run while delivering packages. Missionaries being sent to the Es- kimos won't get anywhere by telling how hot it is in hades, = She hates to go to the mountains see the scenery when she can go the beach and be the scenery. When some men find money in their pockets they wonder whose pants they are wearing. The soldier bonus rates cight ser- vice chevrons and a whole sleeve full of stripes. New war in Europe is predicted. Hope we have sense cnough to,make our old one do for a while. worked himself to death. People who claim they will do any- thing once have never said “You looked better before it was bobbed.” One thing about a rich old bach- clor, he is a bachelor on purpose. Health hint: In ¢ marks, be careful whom they hit. ple they kick because she doesn't burst out laughing. | THE TWINS ° >—________-__» By Olive Barton Roberts Flop Fieldmouse had a bad habit. He had a hundred relatives Bright Meadowland—the Mouse family, the Harvest-Mouse family, the Jumping-Mouses, the House-Mouses and lots of others. And here’s what Flop would do: He'd visit ’round about’ mealtime jand find out what they had for des- | sert. Then if he didn’t like it, he'd go onto his next relative’s house and sniff around and find out what they had, and stay there if it suited him. !If not, he’d go on to his next ‘réla- tives... Meadow- One day Flop struck it lucky, The eadow-Mouses were having cherry- tpie for dessert. fr That suited Flop. So, he sta: and ate three pieces of pie. | Luck was with him. He wandered ' on to the Harvest-Mouses just to find; essere having strawberry short-| cake! yed ' . Sometimes we think the fool killer,| dropping! sre- |, When fortune smiles at some peo-fiu * fday, Will take care of bill of lad- —_—_—__________.__g jing! @morrow.” | ADVENTURE OF ||. 5° tht tance shot had nity tne mark! in ‘ Y in Hit (Continued from our. last issue.) When Zorn drove up in a station jitney he gave no sign of ever hav- ing seen Miles before, but an hour later When he took his leave he slipped a note into the hand of the other, The mote was terse and to the point. : “Mrs, James Slocum removed rnishings from Gotham Storage Warehouse to Edgecombe Road, Brookside, New Jersey, last Fri- i Miles locked up the house and then “made his way to Scottie’s room. “Rip and I have been very busy this afternoon,” began Scottie as Miles took a seat. “So Rip has been up to some- thing! Is that what you had in mind to tell mé, Scottie?” “It is, and I have had an exciting fime. I’m a matter of twenty dol- ©1922 NEA Service, Inc.' in the big buck’s face and gave him a crisp new twenty. from my wallet in exchange to show him what I thought of it, Here's the bit of paper the row started over.” He handed to Miles a limp, worn twenty-dollar bill; one end of which had a tinge of brown and the de- tective turned it. thoughtfully over in his hands. “I wonder how Rip got it!” he remarked. “What did ‘he tell you?” “Nothing. Not-a sensible word could I get out of him.” “We'll make him ‘come clean when. we get’ hold of him. If the billig all right he needn't be afraid —!” Miles checked himself sud- denly. “But is: it, Scottie? It’s so old I wouldn't take an oath on it—” “I would, lad.” There -was a cer- tain grimness in the other’s tone. “You'll mind I told you I was the poorer by twenty dollars? I learned a trifle from the experts and that bill: is as phony as the brightest lars poorer for it which I shall charge to the expense account and Rip is nursing a scratch on the {shoulder.” Scottie closed his right hand and looked at it thoughtfully and -his companion observed for the \first. time that the knuckles were ijreddefed and a trifle swollen. |’Twas a nasty minute and a close shave for him!” “You've been in a scrap!” Miles exclaimed. 4 “You were not attacked—?” “No. It was me did the attack- ing. You see, Owen lad, I took a jlook at that cottage in the woods where our friend Roger had his laboratory long ago, I caught a Jimpse of a clearing just ahead) with a blackened chimney sticking up, and heard the sound of a num- So ho stayed and had two pieces. On his way home he walked slowly | forshe was pretty full; but. passing | hisaunt's Mrs, Jemima Jumping-| Mousé, as she was clearing up the! dishes he saw a picce of chocolate- cake. In he went and sat around till his! aunt offered it to Him. | He gulped it down, winding up’ by , "ea of cheese. i | When he got home his ma tele- phoned to Dr. Snufiles. Dr. Snuffles, the fairyman doctor ispering Forest, took Nancy and Nick along, and what with hot! poultices, and. castor-oil and a hun- dred bitter pills, they saved Flop's! (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) —_____________.__» | FODAY’S WORD | ¢ moses iy Today’s word is CU It’s pronounced kul, witl } It means—to’ separ: pick out. | It is traceable from the Latin “col- ligere” to the French “cueiller,” mean- ing to gather, pluck or pick, and to | the Middle English “cullen.” It's used like this: “His minfl was filled with thoughts culled from memory’s garden.” a, short uw. scteek. or} = ! 4 NAMES ARE NOT APPROVED i The state board of administration’ ‘has approved faculty — recommenda- tions for the Minot Normal school for the ensuing year with the excep- tion of L. 0. McAfee, director of the training school for teachers; Everett Davis, manual training; Mrs. Amy Simpson, music and Miss Angelina Jefferis, mathematics, the board had advised President Beeler. * \but out of the tail of my /evea, ber of voices in dispute. Among, them I recognized Rip’s and he was plainly frightened. I. hurried for- ward and saw Rip and a‘fellow Who towered half a head taller than he, shaking something under his nose. “You done pars dis phony money on me yestiddy when I faded you!’ he was fair shouting, and he added ting a banana, a pickle and a piece @ curse that no accorded with’ the; Sabbath, ‘You is gwine take it back and give me real goods or I'll cyarve your heart out!’ “I could see 'Rip's face and it was as nearly, white as it ever will be. “your lies don’t go with me, Rip Lunt! Dese boys all sce you gimme dis bill yestiddy and it was. the onliest twenty dollar one in de game! <Ain’t dat right, boys?’ “The rest of them were getting excited and threatening and Rip commenced to whine and blubber when ali of a sudden the big fel- low went wild and then things hap- pened quick. He crumpled the bill and. threw it in Rip’s face and with a yell. reached into his pocket and that: was where I took a hand in the\game: I reached that big buck as his knife streaked down acres ip's shoulder aud caught him-One Onathe point of the jaw that put him dut“fer, the count!” Scottie glanc jown once more affectionately at ‘elegched fist. “Rip was loud, in his ‘gratitude him hunt for that bill and them to him dy the collar to wait till the) lout who had accused him woke up. “He sat up after a bit rubbing his jaw and started to turn ugly but I spoke to him man to man and said I’d make good for Rip if there'd been a mistake. He told me Rip had Jost the money to him Yn a crap game Saturday and when he tried to change it he found the bill was counterfeit. I made Rip let me neak away and I laid hold‘ef| gold brick that was ever sold!” CHAPTER XIII. It was nearly lunch time the next day when Miles’ glance fell upon the door-plate of a room at the end of the hall; a roam which had re- mained locked since his arrival and which he had once heard Carter re- fer to casually as ‘‘Mr. Roger's store-room.’ He had/polished that door-plate only Saturday morning, but now there seemed something Fedd about its appearance and the tive hentijel ap tH! eS ‘brass’ ones keyhole was | EVERETT TRUE ( rem ad LOOK "GARLY oD TO K jhave a look at it and then I laughed Awaiting an early reply we BLINK. DSS x Nex ECPLE WHOA DON'T: KNO THe VALUS OF TIMG AT THAT NAMGS reper"! HOW SOON J WROTE AN AN SWER VD GESt w dulled save where a tiny, jagged scratch or two glinted and there were traces upon it of a congealed, greasy substance at sight of which Miles drew a quick involuntary breath. Wax! Someone within the last two days had taken an impression of that keyhole, someone who was too careless or in too great haste to remove the evidence of the act. What could Roger have stored there which would be of such in- terest to anybody but himself? Luncheon was over when the de- tective heard the telephone ring again and with a‘muttered excuse he hastened toward the library, but the sound of Roger's voice in reply arrested him before he reached the threshold. Yes? . ... This is Roger Di speaking . . What is. it receiver fell with a. clatter to the desk but it was evident that, Roger had retrieved it for in a moment his voice came again, shrill with some- thing very like terror . “Who are you?. .... You must be mad! My brother?” There was a long pause and then the one word. “Never!” it ended in a strangling gasp, a chair creaked heavily and then ‘a dry, muffled sob reached the listen- er’s ears, He peered in cautiously between the curtains to behold the scientist sprawled limply in a chair, his arms outflung across the desk and his white head pillowed upon them while the thin shoulders shook spasmodically. Carter’s:querulous summons from the dining room recalled Miles hur- riedly. When next he entered the library he found it empty. Dusk was settling down and nothing untoward ‘had occurred to break the brooding stillness of the house when all at once a woman’s shriek rang out. The detective rushed from his room and down the stairs but just as he reached the floor below another door was flung ide in his face and a man dashed out, almost colliding with him. rake BY CONDO in v ‘Yours truly, NER UTING . _ & R iC TATION. UTH AM ER FOOL WITH a No IT WOULD BE Too MAIL BY THE TIMGS THE ADORESS. ALL RITTEN CUT SY Miles halted for an instant, taken ‘aback by sheer surprise for the ‘opened door was that of Roger's store room and the man who had emerged was Andrew! He was without coat or waistcoat, his sleeves rolled back and his shirt and collar grimy with dust, a smudge of which lay across his cheek giving a grotesque twisted expression to his features, “what’s happened?” he roared. j“Stop that yowling, Hitty, and stand aside!” Miles became aware that a thin, reedy wail had succeeded the shriek and shaking off the spell which had held him transfixed, he hastened down the hall. At the head of the main staircase the maid was kneeling before a re- cumbent form wringing her hands and sobbing hysterically, but An- drew seized her arm and thrust her violently aside. “Roger, old man! — Here, pull yourself together, Hitty, and call Carter or William—!” So Andrew had not consciously noted that momentary encounter. The detective stepped forward. “What is it, sir? Oh, is Mr. Roger ill? Can I be of any assist- ance?” “Yes, Help me carry him to his room and then get my sister. No need to call a doctor; he’s had these attacks before and I know how to bring him around.” He placed his strong arms about the ‘shoulders of the unconscious man and Miles supported the knees ‘while Hitty ran ahead to open the door. Between them they got Roger Drake into his room and upon the bed where he lay breathing ster- torously. Miles slipped out into the garden where he found Scottie at work among the rose bushes. “What is it, lad?” straightened. “Has come off at last?” “Something that has all but taken me off my feet, Scottie! It may be a waiting game for a few days more but there’s daylight ahead!—Got a pencil?” He pulled-a notebook from his pocket and, tearing out a page, he scribbled hastily upon it while his colleague waited in si- leri¢e, “There! I don’t care what excuse you make afterward but get down to the telegraph office at the station as fast as you can and send this wire off to the chief; tell him to send one, of the boys down here with the reply the instant it comes. no matter at what hour of the day or night! We'll be ready then to stand out in the’ open and declare ourselves!” / Scottie read the message slowly and then lifted amazed eyes to the other’s face. “Man, but we’ve been blind!” he exclaimed. “You say that there’s daylight ahead? I’m thinking that for some in yonder house it may be a red and fearsome dawn!” ! After dispatching Scottie to the i village to transmit his wire, Miles re-entered the house and ascended to the second door. The door of |Roger’& store room did not yield | when he turned the knob. As he started down the hall J Drake appeared. “We shall not need you; Wil- liam,” she announced. “My brother ig subject to these heart attacks and he is quite all right now, but of course he will not come down to dinner.” An hour’ passed and Hobart Drake returned from the city. Miles could scarcely. restrain his im- patience as he helped Carter to serve dinner, -but the occasional glimpses he stole at the financier’s |face told him-nothing. It was in- scrutable and when the telephone rang he rose with calm delibera- tion. “That. was Zorn,” he announced on his return. “He assured me that he was making ‘tefinite prog- ress.” . His tone had lacked conviction, and Andrew glanced up with a sneer. “Sounds “good but doesn’t mean anything!” he commented. “Isn’t that what the police always give out to the newspapers when they’re stumped?” (Continued in our next issue.) fA THOUGHT + The latter something iss * | Provide things honest in the sight of all men—Romans 12:17, An honest, man’s the noblest work of God.—Pope: SURE TO HELP SICK WOMEN Mrs. Baker, So Much Benefited by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com-, pound, Anxious to Help Others Lebanon,’ Indiana.—‘‘I wascomplete- ly run down from women’s troubles and stomach trouble and for a long time was hardly able to do my at] work. - ‘Compound, and they told mg about it. [ know. what it has* done for me and I recommend it to others, as I am sure wJit-will bea great help to all sick women. It is a wonder- | ful medicine, and I give you permission | to use my testimonial and my photo- | graph.” — Mrs. EMMA BAKER, 310 S. | Bast St., Lebanon, Indiana. | _ These letters recommending Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound ought | to convince women of the great worth | of this medicine in the treatment of ail- | ments to which they aré often subject. Mrs. Baker calls it ‘‘a wonderful med; icine.’ If you are suffering from troubles women often have, or feel all run down, without any ambition or en- | ergy for your regular work, take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound... It is a natural restorative and should help |you as it has Mrs. Baker and manv. many other women, \ ’ { _—— ir