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_ PAGE FOUR ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE MONDAY, ‘JULY 81, 1922°’ Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N, D., as Second Class Matter, GEORGE D, MANN Editor Foreign Representatives LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY * CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW, YORK a. M BER OF 'THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - ‘The Associated Press Is exclusive- ly entitled to ‘the use or. republi- cation of all news dispatches: cre- dited to it or not otherwise credit- » ed in this paper and also the local) news published herein, All rights of republication of special dispatches Herein are also reserved, 5 MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF - Fifth Ave, Bldg. ! THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE! statt of life? If not, it can hardly being in sympathy with and support: | | claim to be more than a frail bam- boo cane, 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 reade may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. ANADA PLAY A LONE HAND? SHOULD There are Canada grows restive for complete | self-determination. Canada does not enjoy the full right to be called a nation, and she resents the title of Dominion, which to some of her les the teachings of the Masonic or- | der. | ed by Masonry, the Klan contraven- Simultancously almost with this ac- tion of these officials of American! Masonry, clergymen of Protestant jchureches at Atlanta—the home of the Klan—-denounce the Ku Klux, charac’ ing their organization as | “a night-riding ‘mob, a) masked bully, a secret assassin,” bent on “enthron: {ing in'this state (Georgia) the most levil of all tyrants, religious intoler- | |ance and hate,” and callingyupon all| members of Protestant churches in Georgia to shun the’ order and re-, longs to the mu | press its activities: me indications that! With its appeal to racial and re-! does Roman Catholic and Jew alike,! the Klan had dared to presume that} The trouble with being born poor is you seldom recover. | We know a:bass drummer. who be- ian’s union. “Man’ Loses Two Fingers”—head- ‘ligious prejudice, prescribing as it line. ,Two fingers of what? The. ex-kaiser has decided to talk f thereby it would win the sympathy hack instead of come back. and support of Americans who are Protestant in rejigious faith. This| 4f the people carries the implicaticn of _ | inferiority i A movement for complete self- ree | presumptuousness is well, rebuked ‘by the action taken at Atlanta by determination hag made consider-| Protestant churches of tht cgm- able headway, according to Sir) munity. John Wilson, a Canadian, writing! America’s distinctive contribution Daily by mail, |p year state outside Bismarck) Daily by 1, outside of N Dakou seas “THE STATE'S OLDUST NEWS- in the London Nineteenth Century.| to civilization is religious tolerance. This idea is no longer confined to a It is the shame of the Ku. Klux Klan few cranks, according to Sir John, | that, in its quest of power, it. deli but it has become the living prin-|erately assails this contribution ‘ to diple of a new school of constitu- human progress made by the country\ tionalists. This new school desires | it _ pretends to serve,—Louisville 5 that all matters of foreign policy Courier-Journal, he _. THE COMING SMASH concerning the British: Empire be | irae; (You shake your head and mutter,/ submitted to the Dominion, and] TO CLEAN UP THE OCEAN eT he world in an awful condition. | that she be consulted in the making | Congress‘is atwlast moving in the| I don't know what it’s coming to.” \of all treaties and special alliances.! matter of il pollution of ocean| Cheer up, brethren, The big prob-/ In Canadian relations to the United | waters. With the increasing use of | Jems and unrests we have today al-/ States and other countries, she is oil for fuel, on ocean-going vessels, | Pee ad ae that come, to have the only say. | the nulsanee is rapidly growing. We} ghly, every 50 years, | ‘a te a cs i are | ja at the finicky woman 4 = = .../ It is true that the Canadian’ Par- | ™Y laugh a ; y smelted ousness. that occasionally resemble |e" OWN people, but under-the Brit-| 7 ‘auching auntear when aa oily mass insanity, and it takes a lot of {88 North American Act passed by | pi cagaiineer erecta the bisees| brain cadgeling to make both ends! {#@ Parliament of Great Britain. | iets 1 Mi reeee. wae ; (In theory the British pi an ene eee fehcks Loser Any old.man will tell you that they | ™#Y change this Canadian Hone than the. 'itow sail: had, in principle, the same troubles | tution at any time without refer. marked injury 3 ‘ocean food supplies after the Civil War. They look migh-|CN¢e to Canadians themselves, The l.a the greatly “increased fire risk tier now, merely because the popula- | Dominion vhas no treaty-making | Z tion is larger and the troubles are POWers nor any power to make war | staged on a bigger scale. jand peace. There is appeal from\; in oil-polluted harbors. * | It is nét ‘a casetin which we may} The five-ring circus of 1922 is fun-| her couyts to bhe King’s Privy | el i damentally the same as the one-ring | Council in London. | of. the. trouble, for ourselves, whe-' “clean up our own yard” and be rid slow that used to tour country towns | OB their face these appear rather | ther olhers/act or not. We fay | + is bigge 0 j.' formidable restrictio: eality {UP any particular spot, and withi It is bigger now, because the audi ms. In reality | Pane the nuisance will ence is bigger, but there isn’t any/they amount to little, because by | Bh CaS ri more show “per spectator” thas | precedent and custom Canada en- |!" beyond. our: jrisdietion 4 there used to be. So with troubles, Joys large. autonomy. Never does #8 bad. as ever. All’ nations Which resulting from the war. Great Britain aunoy the Dominion eke anyseonsidésahle use of the : SSeS |by unreasonable restraints. ae rae ep ented a Lica ‘the! A wise nerve specialist, in H. G.! Canada may be neither a colony | 4%4 oly DY concellod Brion vented, Wells’ book, “The Secret Places of nor a self-determining nation, But ere oe nee en Preven ‘sca the Heart,” comments: jshe enjoys an increasingly © | The house of representatives has “This sense of a coming smash is'strategic position in the British | therefore passed a joint resolution, epidemic. It’s at the back of all sorts Empire. She occupies the middle originating with the foreign rela- of mental trouble. It is a new state ‘ground between the Hast and West, | tions committee, and authorizing the of mind, Before the war it was ab-land there are many prospects that | President to call a conference of the normal—a phase of neurasthenia.'she will play an important role ag | Maritime nations, for the purpose of Now it is almost the normal state mediator and interpreter between | devising measures by which the pol-| with whole classes of intelligent peo-) the two hemispheres. | lution of navigable waters by oil re-/ ple. A loss of confidence in the gen-| Moreover, the British ampire | fuse may igs controlled? he reson eral background of life. So that we tends to become a great federation | 10" satitehd tataney merger ea ta| seem to float over abysses.” lof free peoples, sharing common | ‘here ought to be no auestion of a. The world ate a lot of bad mental idoals “and. enjoying. common be, mediate and favorable action —Co- and sconeme, food ane athe war. erties. If Canada were to be com-| ambue: Dispate tiation, i Le wous \the pe hal tose the benefit of belonging to this | a sa Y a8 economic, and historic association. Ue 1d di it .. |She would also have to assume the Sauby Sr elaliats ti fhe. Lntestoel Hea burdens of self-defense w. economics, sociology and psychology.| Gancan nee ue pete 4 mays ng | life divided among hunting eggs, a Canada has the privileges and| feeding chickens, and fighting the spirit of freedom now in all essen- roup exerts such desperate attrac- tial matters. Why should she quat-! tion upon large numbers of our fel- rel with the letter, and thus sacri-| jow citizens that they quit soft jobs, fice the advantages that will come) sell out stores and securities, draw| 'to her in being a valued and valu-jtheir funds from the savings bank,| able member of a great federation | and set forth on the great adventure’ jot free s ates? To know when one! of tending fowl. After a few years | faster than the sick man who sees {8 Well off, is oftentimes better than | all they have left is a half bale of| néthing in sight except hearse; Play a lone hand.—Minneapolis| chicken wire and complete files of plumes. Journal, six or cight poultry magazines, The more the world allows itself This pessimist says that the trou- fobeildiseouvaged, the: lqnger the| ble with the chicken business is that world will remainj flat on its back. ; Recovery already is in evidence. The patient is sitting up, asking for nourishment. The agony is not all gone—some of it may linger as Jong as we live—but the worst of it { L of (Established 1873) EGGS I8 EGGS A discouraged chicken raiser ad-| | vises folks, through the Sun, not to the enter that’ alluring but financially ith-| unsound occupation. It seems that a The important thing to keep in! mind, during these strenuous times,| is that the malady causing our aches and pains is not fatal. The.world has recovered from it before. It will recover again. ‘A cheerful patient always recovers NOT MAN'S BUSINESS | The decision of a New York judge! a 16t of inexperienced persons raise that women have the right to wear and sell eggs at such prices that a ‘knickerbockers and to smoke would! duly organized and equipped compe- appear to be merely a restatement of titor is beaten before he starts. These the obvious were it not for. the fact | sorry weights don’t know what their that certain fussy folk by their ac-| goods cost; they just sell ’em and tivities as would-be reformers have} pocket the returns. They don’t even is_ over. ee jconfused the question in the public /keep books. This sounds pretty seri- WIZARDRY ' mind. A young married woman was, ous and damning until we realize ENicola ‘Tesla, greatest electrical attested while sitting on her porch |that the parties under indictment are | at a summer resort, clad in “knick-| farmers’ wives. That changes the sit-| lers” and smoking a cigaret. The} uation, You can’t expect a farmer's! charge preferred by the intelligent | wife to keep individual cost accounts | | officer was “vagrancy.” “I find no-| for her several hens; she is too busy thing wrong in wearing such a cos-/at more important matters. Morcover{ tume,” was the court’s ponderous|even with the best intentions, she edict. “That sort of costume is exten- can’t be expected to weigh the table sively worn by women for outdoor scraps with a view to determining | life and is generally recognized not! how. many -calories are put at, ita) wizard, predicts that people eventual- Ty will be able to see enormous dis- tances by radio. He refers to that @ming science as “television.” ? Tesla and others are working night and day to perfect a device for transmitting electric power by wire- less. With power sent through the r, your auto, airplane or ocean | There is a bright side. i trains: stop, kinsfolks can’t: visit. > When daughter smokes you know who is b If time is money, most of us are cigarets in that home. "| millionaires every’ Sunday. This reformer who wants to elimi- nate’ cussing could help some by eliminating himself. because school starts soon. War not only threatens Europe, but a New Jersey man wants all our widows to marry w:dowers. ing Stingiest man on earth refuses, to laugh at his own expense. Connecticut judge was arrested for having 129 barrels of cider in his gellar. That was hard. We, saw a man with laughing at women's. styles. sideburns Only.four more months until time to wish it was summer again. A fat profiteer takes up a lot of , room in church. Five Detroit nurses suspended for. bobbed hair. Maybe the patients didn’t want to get well. Dootor says cr: people are quiet at a ball game. Very few crazy peo- ple go to ball games. Average person is supposed to have $48.09 in cash, but most of us are below. the average. A new. ruling lets Kansas profes- sors smoke if anybody ‘.as 9 match Join the merchant marines and see the world from a schooner of beer. “Short skirts don’t catch germs, says a doctor. We saw some two- legged insects looking at one. Leader of Coxe: army will run for the Senate. Birds of a feather try to flock together. When you see a man with a far- off look, it’s the vacation daze. French :offer a prize for best plan to increase population. Here’s-ours= , Have only poor people, The coal problem is: Consumers minus cash equal nothing much, — ja aa TER 9h | ADVENTURE OF |; | THE TWINS | ——___—__-_-+ By, Olive Barton Roberts One day Dr. Snuffles’ telephone! rang. Nancy answered it. Cottontail talking. “Say,” said Cutie. “I’m in a fix. Ma’s gone out and I’m alone. A while ago I peeked out and there was | Fleet Fox watching for me. “I can’t go out and ma can’t come in, for I heard Fleet call up to Mr. Crow he’d get one or both of us if he: had to camp on our door-step till ext winter.” It was Cutie Cutie,” said kind ship could travel without carrying a O?!Y as proper but also as convention-| disposition’ of éach’ hen. Farm hens} ) “all right, Stock of gasoline, coal or other fuel,|l- Nor do,1 consider the fact that scratch for a living, andin $0 doing] Nancy. “Pll tell Dr. Snuffles and Coal will be burned at the mines, the defendant was smoking a cigaret, put a little pockét money into(ILHk! Nick “and. we'll help you. Don’t | generating artificial lightning that @vidence of moral depravity. Womert aprons of several million of ope fost) worry, Just keep still and don’t Willzbe, broadcasted’ to. run the Scnerally would rise up in indigna- deserving citizens. qorl?’s machinery, z \tion at such an infringement of their, Of course, this _is_rough on the, This js a great though uncanny |Tehts and privileges, for it must be professional poultry Faiser who has age to be living in. We may be on|Tecognized that day by day they in-/ to have all the modern inconvenien® the threshold of the supernatural. | dulge ini greater numbers in’ the| es Before he. tan sct Wp. shop, but | pas teactasises Natt use of tobacco and that such proce-| it appears to be a positive boon to| dure is considered good form in po- the ultimate consumer of eggs. There lite society.” lis no-telling to what heights the scientific world will come clicking} “I find nothing wrong in wearing! price‘of eggs might, soar if busines¢ | over the telegraph wires one of these | 8¥ch a costume.” But what man, un-| principles could'he “ wholeheartedly days; to the effect that “important less a professional costumer, is justi-' applied to their production and sale. discoveries have been made in broad- (fied in setting himself up as an au-|—New York Evening Post. casting human thought.” thority on women’s clothes? If the| o—_——___—______» | POET’S CORNER | © Many scientists are toiling in their! Women themselves cannot be trusted + 3 TELEPATHY Thenext startling news from the laboratories now, on this problem to dress modestly and becomingly, | If you doubt that mental telepathy |¢an we hope for any reform to come | is possible, how do you explain let-| through mastuline dictation? Women ters that cross in the mails afd the | are not constantly tryng to tell men} Hlash-coincidences when people say,|What they shall or shall not wear.} “Youstook the words out of my| Was there ever a time when women | mouth?” |dressed more appropriately and sen-| Every good -salesman, every expert, Sibly than they they do today? Until | psychélogist, is an embryonic mind-,@ decade or so ago the fashions im-| reader. posed a heavy handicap on the health | and comfort of womankind. Their) ‘THE LIGHTNING EXPRESS We like to sit on the fence and watch The fast express go by; For it comes like the wind, And we're left behind, vIn the twinklitg of an eye, ‘And we hear its roar far down the POSSIBLE “emancipation” in recent years has! track, Scientists predict radio movies.' been more notable in the matter of Like rain in a summer sky. ‘The féxt step after that may be Clothes than in the gaining of any| —Florence Borner. wirelegs newspapers. jnew political privileges. When wo- Ougsdescendants, instead of read-,men began to engage in business ac- ing t¥pe to get the news, may have’ tivities, a generation or less ago,| i paratuses that will repro- there was the same outery against jovie films and phonographic their “unwomanly” invasion of the records of the day's leading events./ masculine ficld that’ there is today Sitting at home with your radio and regarding their donning of knicker- seeing a prizefight as fast as it took bockers..As for smoking by women, ' .placegand hearing the gong and the that is a question of taste and cus- spectators’ cheers, would “have it tom with which the law should have all over” reading a modern news-,No concern. To arrest a woman for | paperéxtra. sitting on her porch in knickerbock- | The great newspaper men of the j ers smoking a cigaret, on the charge | futuyg: will be the wireless opera- of vagrancy, while our city streets tors. his seems impossible now, are filled with male loafers, who. do perhaps, but no more so than a mod- Wothing but obstruct the sidewalk and ern {iewspaper would have seemed , insult passersby, is to make a mock- to the Chinese who invented print- ery of justice—Pittsburgh Chronicle- | thousands of years ago. ‘Telegraph. HER PICTURE There's a picture in my watch case, Of a maiden fair to see Hair is of a reddish golden, And as curly as can be; Byes that seem to speak of heaven, While the pearls refulgent beam, Is no brighter than the beauties, That between her ripe lips gleam. Would you like to meet this maiden, Who has placed a golden art, Like a fairy’s glad enchantment, All around my throbbing heart? Certainly Pl introduce her, If you will but come with me— She’s my darling little daughter, | And her age is almost three! —Florence Borner. s THE KU KLUX KLAN The world’s wheat crop this year} Within the last few days highest will furnish only a trifle more than officers of the Masonic order in NOTICE a byshel and a half for each in- Massachusetts and’ Connecticut have —— habitant. [advised Masonic lodges in their res- City drinking water should A hungry man would make a bu-| pective states that the Ku Klux are pe boiled : shel‘and a half of wheat disappear seeking to capitalize Masonry as a C. E. Stackhouse. BREAD -as the exgediest. [be said:. poke your little pink nose oué until | we tell you.” Nancy and Nick and Dr. Snuffles talked. it over and finally Dr. Snuf-! fles said: 5 fe “I’ve got a plan, Fleet is the most curious person I ever knew, as well So we'll fool him. Nick, g@,out and gather some sleepy- , berries.” So Nick got the sleepy-berries and | the three started off to Cutie’s house, Sure ~enough. There sat— Fleet, you going?” “Just to call on Cutie Cottontail and take him something,” ‘said Nancy. ‘ Fleet had sharp eyes and he saw the round blackish berries. “Look like wild cherries,” he said “But they aren’t!” mysteriously. “I don’t believe it,” declared Fleet. “Lemme taste one.” Nancy handed it over and Fleet gobbled it down. “Ugh!” he coughed. “That's bitter!. What is it?” “A sleepy berry,” laughed Nancy. “You'll be asleep in two minutes, Mr. Fox, and poor Cutie can get out!” And so it happened. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) ¢——__________.___» | A THOUGHT 4 o Is there anything whereof it may Sce, this is new? It hath heen already of old time, which was before us.—Ecclesiastes 1:10. There is not one grain in the uni- verse, either too much or too little; nothing is to be added, nothing to be spared; not so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse of it, according as it is applied —L’ ‘on shozt notice. means of increasing the Klan’s pow- a Is ‘Wheat-bread losing out as the, er, and warning them that, far from | City Health Officer. trange. | when the—table tilted an ‘aside with a sweeping gesture of never taking his eyes off Cutic’s “Hobart, I have found out who it front door. is! I know—I know the—the ne- “Hello,” said Fleet. “Where arc mesis—!” hungrily. ; i said Nancy ; WELL SoLONG FoLKs, ft) OFF ON MY ANNUAL, Two WeEKs s i WHaT!s TH IDEA OF THE AX? DIDJIA GET TaaT TRUNK \ WANTED ? (Continued from’ our. last issyg.) “Tried to catch the spjrif*kettle the blaz- ng alcohol ran up my sleeve!” He groaned in spite of himself. and, seizing a servietle, he wrapped it about his injured arm. | “Don’t putter about. with: that stuff like anvags!” : “Very good, sir.” When .thi;° was accomplished ‘Miles sought Scottie and found the latter chuckling to himself. “What's the joke? Did you see Migs. Hawkes armed for conquest?” “I did not!” Scottie still smiled broadly. “I’m. thinking of the march. the young people have stolen on their families. Dick Drought the girl back as he prom- ised. but she’s not ‘Miss Patri any more; they bundled old Higgs on the running board and made for the minister’s house before they left’ Freedale and it is young Mrs. Kemp who has come home.” “I’m glad of it,” Miles said after a pause. “There comes Roger Drake up the drive from the gate,” he con- tinued. “He’s a sick man and no mistake! a The scientist wag walking more steadily than when he had left the house but slowly, and he paused every few steps to rest. “Excuse me, sir, but may I help you?” Miles asked as he hurried forward. “I saw you coming and I thought that you might perhaps feel a little weak still.” tory Miles became aware of the ex- treme inward agitation of the man. Roger leancd his weight heavily upon the younger man, who could feel the thin finger:; closing about his elbow like hands of steel. The scientist summoned his remaining strength to negotiate the steps of the veranda and Hobart Drake himself opened the front door. “What is this?” he exclaimed as he hastened to support his el on the other side. “Hobart!” With unexpected vigor the weak man thrust them his long arms, and stood crect. > ‘abel Ostrander~ ©m2 NEA Service, Inc. ten, unless, of: course, another gtroke—only. absolute quiet and— look in again tonight.” Hobart had ‘established himself ag nurse and although Miss Drake demurred, she. was .for once over- ruled ‘and only permitted to take ‘his place while her brothey des- cended to snatch a hasty bite in the dining room. Miles hovered about in the hall just outside the sick room, beset with the question which haunted his mind. 1 While he pondered; ‘Miss Drake appeared’ suddenly in the doorway and, seeing him, beckoned. * “William, I must go. downstairs for a moment. Will you come in and sit beside Mr. Roger?” Secretly thanking his lucky stars that he had been at hand, Miles entered and seated himself beside the still form outstretched upon the bed. -The instant Mi3s Drake's fdotsteps had died away the detec- tive bent forward:: “Mr. Roger!” He spoke in a low, compelling tone. “I am here to help you. If you realize what I am say- ing close your right eye.” A wave of exultation swept over bim, The eye-lid ‘quivered and slowly, flutteringly, it closed! “Good!—Now,' sir, I can't take your message to your brother for you, the thing you were about to tell him when you were overcome, but do you want to see him? Can he guess the name you were trying to speak?” , Miles, waited, but the eye stared HAVE, ‘YoU SEEN THE W6 ARE DEMONSTRATING WE HAVE SOLD Quite A NUMBER EVERETT TRUE : unblinkingly, although a spreading moisture had come into it and ‘the pupil seemed to enlarge and darken with the effort at expression. “Is there something you think I can do?” The eye closed, more quickly this time. 4 ‘ “Do you want anything? Is it in this room?” The lid remained open but the eye itself moved toward the right as though striving to see through the blank wall beside which the bed had ‘been placed. Beyond the wall was the locked door behind which lay the relics of the past in the impotent guardian- ship of the woman centuries dead. “You mean your storeroom, don’t lyou, sir?—You know that your be- longings in here have been scarched?—Do, you know also that the lock of your storeroom has been jtampered with?” ‘Miles drew a deep breath for at each question the eye had winked rapidly and an eager glint had shot, across its dulled. expanse. “The room.has been, ransacked, sir. Did you know that?” | The eye widened and into it came ja look of such utter despair. that Miles obeyed a sudden impulse. . “I found a new key in the lock and the door swinging open. The only thing that hasn’t been touched is tat long box that looks like a mummy case. It’s safe still. J jean fix that door so it can't be opened again by anyone. Shall I do it, sir?” y The eye winked spasmodically and rested on his for an instant while a single tear welled forth and rolled down the waxen cheek, CHAPTER XVI. The next day was a busy one. At daybreak Miles presented himself at Miss Drake's door with one side of his face convincingly swollen by means of an improvised cotton plumper which he had inserted\in- side his ¢heek. “It’s my tooth, ma’am,” he ex- BY CONDO "RUB-DUB, sie $ | lr HERE NOW, wW tS NGIGHPORHOCOD, AND HERE ARES SOME: SSTLMONIACS ~FRom —— His voice had thickened oddly and the last word ended in a chok- ing cry as he wavered and then suddenly pitched forward on his face. . Miss Drake's startled exclamation from the staircase was lost in Ho- part’s-sharp command: “pon't try to lift him, William; ‘turn him over—Great heavens! He has had a stroke!” ‘The body turned rigidly beneath their hands and Roger Drake lay staring wildly up at the ceiling, the left side of his face twisted into a hideously grotesque mask, the arm crooked and leg drawn up ina manner there could be no mistak- ini ig. Miss Drake swept down to kneel ‘peside him, but Andrew brushed ‘her roughly aside and descended in reckless leaps. ’ “ts it, paralys:s, Hobart? Shall I’phone the doctor? Can he speak?” ,His ‘ruddy face had paled and his voice was grave and shaken. “The doctor, by all means,. as quickly as you can get him here!” | Hobart responded. For an hour all was excitement while the stricken man was car- ried to. his room and placed in bed. | Carter: admitted the physician and \the detective: was able to catch snatches’ of ‘his phrases. “in these cases, nothing—Pos- in a. ‘or 80, possibly in MY SEAR MAN, Do A. Sesd Bysin IGF You Sxeccrt to GSs AROUND HEGRE CUT OFF THE; FIRST SEVEN TESTIMONIALS FRom. roue US ONLY, ONG THAT CLST OF SIGHT. um OT KNOWS THOM. ‘ .plained. “I just can’t stand it any longer and the milkman will give, me a lift.to the, station if you can spare me to run to town and see my dentist.” Permission was granted and he was soon rattling townward in the early train. On arrival he went straight to Headquarters and then journeyed uptown to an actors’ agency, whose proprietor was an old acquaintance, “You ain’t givin’ me much to go on, Owen,” he complained when the visitor’s errand had been explained. “A full-figgered blonde, you say, | and youngish. Calls herself ‘Mai- zie? I’ll do what I can for you.” It was. not a great distance from the theatrical district to the digni- fied Archaeological Museum where Miles found Professor Nigel Lor- ton. Spread before him on his desk was the spurious papyrus taken from the wrappings of| the Peruvian mummy and which the detective had entrusted to Zorn to deliver on the previous day, The old’,professor removed his spectacles and tapped his knee thoughtfully with them. “My dear Sergeant,” he began at last while ‘the other waited: expect- antly. “This document is, as you assumed in your note, an imitation in texture and symbol of the an- jcient Egyptian and whether it be a hoax or not I confess that it is the most remarkable record it has ever ‘been my privilege to examine.” “You found it easy to translate, ' gir?” Miles asked. “Fairly so; although the terms used were unfamiliar to me. I have made a transliteration for you also and with your knowledge of the subject: of: which treats you will be able to determine if it is the hallucination of a disordered mind or the revelation of a brilliant if abnormal one.” . It was well toward noon when the conference ended jand Miles left the building with a feeling of exultation not. unmixed with awe at the very enormity of the secret so fortuitously disclosed. The | theatrical producer had exerted: himself: to some purpose in the brief period allotted to him in which to locate the motion, picture jartiste. Miss Maizie Gray, it hap- pened, was playing second leads with the Luxor Company and would be delighted to meet the press rep- | Tesentative, Mr. Owen Miles, at the | Admiral for luncheon. Maizie was prompt to keep the appointment but «her professional smile changed to one of good-nat- ured derision when she recognized her host. “Ullo!” she exclaimed with the utmost sangfroid as she buried her nose in his fragrant offering, “I might ’a’ knowed there was ado somewhere. I wasn’t on that you | were in the gyme when I spoke to you in the road the other day, but ‘I knew you were following Mr. |Enslee Grayle and his nobs, Mr. Andrew Drake. Wot’s the lay?” | “I can’t tell you that, but Drake’s going to double-cross you,” Miles had lowered his voice confidential- ly. “I have proof that he means to double-cross me, too, and that’s wky I've come to join forces with you .jif;we,can, reach,an agreement. Suppose we give our order and then we can talk in peace.” 4 That detail attended to, the detec- tive went on. “There's a lot you'll have to take for granted, but you “ must use your own judgmeht about trusting me. If you show. up with your little story before the right minute you'll queer, the whole thing and we won’t any of us get our bit, but it is only right that you should be on the spot to appear when I tip you off, and we-two can take in all the swag for. ourselves.” “Sounds fair enough,” Maizie ad- mitted slowly. “You’ve come out. honest, and strike me pink if I don’t think you’re on the square with me.” t The arrival of their lunch put a temporary halt to further discus- sion of the, subject, but later over the sweets Miss Maizie Gray showed herself to bea person of quick. de- cision. “I've made up my mind to put my money on you, old top!” she an- nounced, “When do you want me to go to Brooklea and where’ll I put up? At the King’s arms? Wot price a widow named Mrs. ’Iggins who keeps to ’er room until she "ears from you?” (Continued in our next issue.) t UNUSUAL FOLK | -—* By NEA Service. Seattle, July 31-—Though a pretty successful short-sto«y writer, S. B. H. Hurst never tried a novel until he undertook “Coomer Ali.” Finished, even hy didn’t like it. But he'd worked so hard on it that he sent it to an editor anyway. It cans back with the editorial comment that it was “terrible.” Hurst tried anoth- er editor, who said it was the worst thing the author ever wrote. The latter threw it into the waste basket in a friend’s office. The friend fished it out, and not knowing Hurst had meant it for the discard, returned it to him. For 18 months it kicked around his | study. Then, in order to squelch a literary agent who. had been bother- ing him for some of his work, de- | spite repeated refusals to submit any to him, he mailed the despised “Coom- er Ali” to the importunate one. The agent found a publisher for it, @; REGARDUSSS OF WHSTHSR AN ARTICLE | lit made one of the hits of the sea- HAS MERIT OF ANYTHING to sGG AGI NAMES NoT THCY woucdD weRite son and now it’s gaining popularity in England, Australia and Canada. 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