The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1922, Page 4

, GEGRGE D. MANN - + PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE:BISMARCK TRIBUN E ae Lftered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter, Editor ~, Foreign Representatives 2G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - = +. - DETROIT) Mirquette Bldg. - Kresge Bldg. YPAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEWYORK -_ - Fifth Ave, Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED | FRESS Sj he Associated Press is-exclusive- ly,,entitled to the use or republi- cation of all news dispatches cre- dited to it or not otherwise credit- edjin this paper and also the local; néws published herein, | All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also ———— _—_ MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RA’ Baie Dye MMA) vee seecees Daily by mail, _ per ‘@tate outside Bismarck) Dilly by mail, outside of N Ef Z ca ‘SHE STA’ OLDEST NEWS- ' PAPER (Established 1873) 7.20 «+ 6,00 BIG GAMBLERS he gambling casino at Montej lo fecls the pinch of hard times. 1t& income or rake-off from the| has fallen to 54,204,000! a year.. This is the latest financial report to the Paris bourse, ere shares in the famous. gam- Aes. Price - ividends ‘paid “by the Monfe 10 gambling: ,corporation are pigy :half as big as before the war.) But ag a business proposition, it is engugh to make even a large American manufacturer green with ervys pitalized at about 40,- 009,000. franc em When, it comes to “breaking” the bank, Monte Carlo is fwancially ready even’ for themost ambitious plunger with a system. Individual ables are “broken” at Monte Carlo regul; But the house, never. -You-hear a lot about Europe be- ing. “busted.” But you'd never imagine it while at Monte Carlo, even during the slump. It i3.a vision of diamonds and vintage wines, The Javish display of wealth at the Cagino, however, is not accom- panied by, any wild carnival atmo- spheres The. gaming rooms are nearly a3 quiet:a3 a graveyard. All around, accéfdmig to recent visitors, it is one.of.,the tamest sights in the; world: “Also, one of the most sor-| aid, People are nearly as serious at! losing money ag they are in making; it. P: \ing your eye over the gam- bling crowd at Monte Carlo, you notice a predominance: of fat, ugly,| bestial individuals who have “war profiteer” written all over them. ‘hen you notide that few of them are Americans, which may be be- cause American tourists usually! are more interested these days in! European drinking-rooms than in gambling-rooms. The average American comes away wondering why the semi- bankrupt governments of Europe do not take steps to tax these rich, fat, ugly people so they would have less time and money to spend at Monte Carlo, Heavily taxed, they,might take more interest in building up their own countries instead/ of continu- ally whining to Uncle Sam to do it! UKULELE Manuel Nunnes, inventor of ‘the ukulele, dies in Honolulu, He built the first ukulele out of a cigar box, in 1879. The ukulele music, played by na-! tive Hawaiians, later swept our country as’ a craze, made jopular by. “The Bird. of Paradise.” (This ic is a hash of old-timid‘camp- meeting songs taken, across the Pa- cific hy missionaries. 7°“ Nunnes was a powerful man. His invention swayed the emotions of millions. Too bad we can’t set common senseto music. Maybe we could. No one ever tried it. With economics in ragtime form, even statistics would be interesting, DANGER Nils Heilsen and two’ others a! kiNed in a seaplane connected with the Amundsen exploring expedition. A wing broke. The machine fell and-smashed. You read this and oiy, “Il stay on the ground. Fly- ingtisn’t safe.” ‘ Then you turn to another page and-read the customary story, many killed-in railroad wreck. But you donot say, “I'll walk, Railroads | aren't: safe.” Flying is 10 times safer than} most people believe. : NEW Avcidents to the flying machine make. a_ profound impression. Tha’s ecause it is a new inven- tton. It wis the same with the first traigs in the early days of railroad- ing. Many people now living said their prayers before they took their first ride behind the locomotive devil thats burned cordwood and had side- brakes like a stagecoach. People are afraid of anything new, That's why progress is 30 slow. Mabe it’s a good thing, to keep us from trying too many of the crazy ideas of visionaries. ICONOCLASTIC The pores of your skin are never closed, says the New York Medical Jounal. It brands as nonsense the rotion that the condition of the pores is responsible for contraction ‘of infections like colds. For years we have been talking about “open- ing’ and closing the pores.” It dgesn’t mean anything, according to -histologists, the pores being al- ways open, All this is typical of the icono- clastie‘age in which we live. Long- accepted beliefs are being exploded) powers in the field of foreign rela-| ly listening we shall hegr the right Is it t} like packs of firecrackers. 5 xy diskate on thin pg house ave quotedsabove 3000 bate secretary of the New York possible that most of the circulat- ing coin of “knowledge" is counter. feit? EMBALMED Movies, showing the white-haired aiser sawing wood, are exhibit- ed in ‘the ballroom of a New York} hotel. It is a private showing, but people with more money ~than! brains can get in for $10 a head. | The film, however, will be his: torically important, as centuries slip by. Movies of Napoleon, at the height of his power or in captivity, | would be invaluable now. The ancient Hgyptians made mummies. We moderns embalm; our celebrities in the celluloid mo-j vie film. It is more lasting, pro- jects a reflection of lives—virtually | forever. | HEALTH : A valuable health hint: Tubercu- lar people rarely die from tube: losis of the lungs. Nearly always they are ‘carried off” by other com- | plications. ‘This is from the an-} nual report of Dr. T. D. Bronfin,| sanitarium head of Jewish Con-| sumptives’ Relief society. | 1 plain meaning of this is that’ even the deadliest disease finds: a! human life hard to destroy if the} general health igs good, Healthy} organs of the body’ rally to the aid | of the diseased organ, As Hdison! puts it, the body is a cooperative | city of cells. i CENSORS A campaign is started to censor the. manuscripts of writers who sex-ice. John S. Society for the Suppression of Vice, makes the announcement. \Some| publishers aré said to have agreed, and it looks like business. The censorship is badly needed. | But the root of the evi] will not be} gotten to until a way is devised to censor the emotional appeti‘es of fietion readers. They support the; traffic. Like prohibition, the real| problem is the drinker, not the} drink. f MURDERERS A speeding motorist swerves his | car and knocks down a motorcycle; cop who had crept up alongside the} auto and ordered the driver to halt. The policeman is badly injured, Such cases are fairly rare. But! thousands of drivers daily chortle! with glee as they swing their cars| and make pedestrians jump. With-| out realizing it, they have murder! in their hearts. Psychologists call them “potential criminals without} the courage to commit the actual crime.” | SILK HAT The silk hat seem3 doomed in England asa yesult.of King George deciding not to wear it to'the races. British dudes worry. Over there, royalty sets the styles. Over here, the thinly masked un- derworld. 1 Incidentally, ‘how long — since u've seen a silk tile? It used to be the badge of wealth. The new badge is the wine cell: se sS EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opirion 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, THE NORTH BOUNDRY The negotiations which have been entered upon between Canada and the United States for the revision of | the old Rush-Bagot agreement along lines made necessary by re- cent developments, notably boot- legging, present no difficulties. There is no change in policy in- volved for either party, and no new circumstances which fundamental- ly change the relation of the two governments exist. The under- standing of 1818 is merely to be- come a formal treaty, with certain new clauses to provide for the pat- rolling of the Great Lakes against liquor running. As the agreement now stands, it is almost impossible for the United States government to combat the bootleggers without violating the spirit of the agree— ment. The Canadian border has always} been somewhat of a marvel to| “Buropean statesmen. It extends for; MOur thousand miles, and along its entire length there is not a fortifi- cation on strong point to be found. The Great Lakes are patrolled un- der an agreement more than a hun- dred years old by a naval force of half a dozen insignificant vessels. To Canadians and Americans this unguarded border is the most nat-| ural phenomenon in the world. The possibility that it might be any| different never occurs to them. It) is a point of view which Europeans| simply cannot understand and one which we, Canadians and Ameri- cans, have so long accepted as one of the normalities and conventions of existence that in our everyday | life it no longer gets or needs the! slightest attention. Not the least interesting phase of the present negotiations, however, 3 the personnel of the Canadian delegation. The principles of the Rush-Bagot agreement are to be maintained, but the discussions are | to be carried out in a very different | manner from those former ones. | In 1817, the Canadian case was pre- sented by Charles Bagot, the Brit- jish minister at Washington. To- day we negotiate directly with the! Canadian prime minister, Mr. W. L.| Mackenzie King, and his minister) of defense, George P, Graham. The| hundred years intervening have} not interrupted the fundamental) principles of friendship between} Canada and the United States.) Policy remains unchanged, Canada has in the meantime grown. | subsequent reform of British im- perial policy, the grant of dominion status and the growth of dominion autonomy have intervened. The ; present negotiations represent an | important extension of Canadian tions.—-St. Paul Pioneer Press. jus don't stir hard enough, | “speech, to speak, to say.” | But] | i} Lord Durham's famous report, the} A chorus girl would make a fortune if she were a centipede. These are stirring times. Some of A man who léads a double life gets through twice as quick. ‘ Beach guard’ saved the same girl three times, Men are so dense. This longer skirt fad has hit Washington, so congressmen may get a little work done now. Our roads are long enough, but some are not quite wide enough. Poland will borrow Harvard's giant telescope. She may be looking for the German mone: Distance lends enchantment to ct many a summer resort. Winter styles follow Grecian lines. With a coal strike on, Eskimo lines would be best. Cost of living is up two per cent in Chicago, but isn’t worth it. Chaplin visited Great Britain last winter. Almost time for them to start laughing at him. , Wouldn't we see some funny things if night came during the day time? Ohio man slept eight days; but all of us can't act as we feel. a Perhaps the Mexican boys:who rob- bed the state capitol are taking a course in politics, : Tariff on wool indicates it is being pulled over someone’s eyes, 6: } Nickel cigars have returned; but the nickels are being delayed. Caracristi, exiled by the United States, will settle in Virginia and we refuse to comment. Those looking forward instead of backward see what’s coming first. Ex-kaiser sues a writer for calling his “memoirs” a joke. Here’s a chance to sue us, William. The woman who once horse-whip- ped her rival has to hit her with a box of auto tools now. They are reducing our army again, Why not cut it down to three days a week? — ADVENTURE OF | ' THE TWINS | —_—____—+ By Olive Barton Roberts The next place the Twins came to or the .Tinky-Winkle Star was a giant’s house. “Boo!” yelled the giant out of the window. “Boo yourself!” “We're not afraid of you. not afraid of anything.” “Tl bet you are,” answered the giant. “Just you wait.” Pretty soon he reappeared in the doorway. And what did he do but change into, a pink elephant and rush at them! But Nancy and Nick bravely stood their ground. Even when the pink elephant took his trunk and lifted them on his back, they weren't afraid. “Oh, shucks!” said the elephant. “Aren't you afraid of anything?” “Only bees!” answered Nancy. “Ah, ha! I thought there was something!” cried the elephant, and then he disappeared so suddenly that the Twins lit on the ground with a thump. And just &s suddenly there was a buzzing and a wuzzing and a large slarm of bees came right at them, “Oh!” screamed Nancy. Nick!” Quick as a flash Nick grabbed a large mat from the giant’s door-step and threw it over his sister and then crawled under himself. Of course the bees coudn’t stin; through anything so thick, and the; got tired and buzzed away. ; Nancy and Nick waited and wait ed. Then, peeping out, they saw the bees had gone, so out they crawled. | A purple fairy, flying by his ears, was just disappearing around the corner, . “My goodness!” said Nick. “Th¢ giant and the elephant and the bees must have been Flap-Doodle himself. He’s changed himself with the Fairy Queen’s wand.” ; (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) PERE TS mE Tid | TODAY’S WORD | ———___ 4) Today's word /is—DECALOGUE. It’s pronounced—dek-a-log, with ac- cent on the first syllable. It means—the Ten Commandments, given by God to Moses (Exodus 20:1-18) on Mount Sinai. It comes from—two Greek words, meaning respectively, “ten”/ and answered Nick. We're “Save me, } It’s used like this—“Considering how many things there ard to dy that the Decalogue doesn’t mention, it’s surprising what a preference most people show for the acts this famous code prohibits.” ’ ATHOUGHT | ——_ | I will instruct thee and Jeach thee lin the way which thou s§alt go; |will guide thee with mine cy Psalm 32:8. | We need only obe There is | guidance for each of us, and by low- ‘The w “vith a ferry in the Huds; verbeard and 50 were ifijured. vented panic amon, ushoreman, jumped fnto the river ‘reck of the Grand Rephiblic, excursion*steamer which collided in river at New York. Several women jumped Playing of jazz tunes by the ehip bang the 1261 passengers. ere Hundreds Faced Death William Patten (inset), to save one of the women. MYSTE @1522 & P Dutton C4apany } BEGIN HERE TODAY The body of gap te’er-do-well brother, fi r ROBERT ABLEPT, was found on the floor of the/locked office, off The Red House and . j MARK ABLETY, ‘bachelor proprie-+: tor of the coyntry estate, was ndo- where to be/found, In the eyes: of ors irch, it was clear}: that Mark lfad shot Robert," par- ticularly sjfn¢e everyone that Mark /learned with disgus and annoyJnge of Robert’s return from his otyear stay in Austra- lia, / / But the cjrcumstances were mys- terious. The; shot was heard wo |: minutes affer!Robert’s arrival, and): when 3 ANTONY GILLINGHAM, a gentle man ad¥qdnturer, entered: the house to'yisit Mark’s guest, BILL BEVERLEY, he found MATT CAYLEY, Mark’s constant companion, pounding on the locked /@oor and demanding ad- mittange. ‘The two men entered througi a. window and found the body.j How~ could Mark have the door, if the keys were on tlfe outside? puzzled Antony. He (discusses some of the my: “P)o-you-follow-me-Watson; that Are you prepared to have k futile questions, to give es of scoring off you. Be- e it all helps.” | “My dear Tony,” said Bill delight- aly, “need you ask?” Antony said | hothing, and Bill went on happily ‘o himself. “I perceive from the strawberry-mark on your shirt front that you ‘had strawberries for dessert. Holmes, you astonish me. ‘fut, tut, you know my methods. Where is-the tobacco? The tobacco is ip the Persian slipper. Can I leave my practice for a week? ‘I can.” Antony smiled and went on smoking. Aftér waiting hopefully for a minute or two, Bill said in a firm voice: F “Well, then, Holmes, I feel bound to ask you if you have deduced anything. Also whom do you sus- pect?” Antony. began to talk. “Do you remember,” he said, “one of Holmes’ little scores over Wat- son about the numberof steps up to: the Baker Street lodging? Poor old Watson had been up and down them a thousand times, but he had} neyer thought of counting them, whereas Holmes had counted them as a matter of course, and knew that there were seventeen, And that was supposed to be the dif- ference between observation and non-observation. Watson = was crushed again, and Holmes ap- peared to him more amazing than | ever. Now, it always seemed to me that.in that matter Holmes was the ass, and Watson the sensible person. What on carth is the point of keeping in your head an un- necessary fact like that?~ If you really want to know at any time the number of steps to your lodging, you can ring up your landlady and ask her. I've been up and down the steps of the club a thousand times, but if you asked me to tell you at this moment how many steps thére’ are I couldn't do it. bs Could you? “T certainly couldn't,” said Bill. “But if you really ited to know,” said Antony casually, with a gndden change of voice, “I could | Word--R. W. Emerson find out for. you without,even both- fering to ring up the ‘nall-porter.” Che RED /HOUSE B:ll_ was, puzzled ag to why they were talking about the club steps, but he felt It his duty to say that he did want to know how many there were, : “Right,” said Antony, “I'll find out.” He closed his cyes. “Im walking up St. James street,” he d slowly, “Now I’ve come ito the club and I’m going past the smoking-room windows—one—two -thréeefour: Now, I’m at the teps. I turn in and begin going ‘them, <«, Dne—twa-th ve—isix, tlien a hroad step; six ven —eight-—— nine, nother road step; nine— ten — eleven. Eleven—I’m inside. Good morning, ogers, Fine day again’” With a ttle start he opened his eyes and ame back to his present surround- igs. He turned to Bill with a smile. “Eleven,” he said, “Count them. the next time you're there. Eleven—ahd now ,I hope I shall forget it again.” Bill. was distinctly interested. “That's rather hot,” he said. “Ex- pound.” “Well, I cant explain it, whether it’s something jn the actual eye, or something in the brain, or what, but I have got rather an uncanny habit of recording things uncon- sciously.. You know that game where ‘you look at a tray full of small objects for three minutes and then tarn away and try to make a list of them. It means a devil of a lot of concentraticn for the ordi- ‘nary person, if he wants to get his list complete, but in some odd way J manage to do it without concen- ‘tration at all.” “I should think that’s rather a EVERETT TRUE a TWO WEEKS! VACHAT NERE'S YouR CAT. You CCFT WANDERING JROONOD NEIGHBORHOOD To HACE STARVE, NES, INTHE Two WEEK. ree-—four |. SEE YOU HOLES ARE BACK FROM “ouR| useful gift for an amateur detec- tive. You ought to have géne into the profession before.” “Well, it is rather useful. It’s rather surprising, you know, to @ stranger, Let’s surprise Cayley with it, shall we?” “How?” “Well, lets ask him—’ Antony stopped and looked at Bill comi- cally—“lets ask him what he’s go-! Reports from county agents of crop conditions in the state for the week ing to do with the key of the office.” | ending August’5, indicates continued For a moment Bill did not under- | stand. “Key ‘of ‘the office?” he said vaguely. “You ‘don’t mean—Tony! What do you mean? Good God! do you mean that Cayley—But what about Mark?” “t don’t know where Mark is— that’s another thing I want to know —but Vm quite certain that he hasn’t got the key of the office with him. Because Cayley’s got it.” “Are you sure?” “Of course, I don’t really know} that he’s got it, but I do know that he had it. I know that when I came on him this afternoon, he had just locked the door and put the | key in his pocket.” “You mean you saw him at the time, but that you’ve only just re- membered it—reconstructed it—in the way you were explaining just now?” “No. 1 didn’t seo him, But I did see something. I saw the key of the-billiard-room.” “Where?” “Outside the: billiard-room door.” “Outside? But dt was inside when we looked just: now.” ' “Rxactly.” { “Who put it there?” “Obviously Cayley.” “But—” “Let’s go back to this afternoon. I dont remember noticing the bil- liard-rogm key at the time. I must have7done go without knowing. Probably when I saw Cayley bang- ing at the door I may have won- dered sub-consciou::ly whether the key of the room next to it would fit, Well, when I was. sitting out by myself on that seat just before you came along, I went over the whole scene in my mind, and I suddenly saw the billiard-room key there—outside, And I began to onder if the office key had been qutside too. When Cayley came up, I told you my idea and you were both interested. But Cayley was just a shade too interested. I dare rav vou didn’t notice ft, but he was.” i “By Jove!” “Well, of course that proved nothing; and the key business didnt really prove anything, be-| cause whatever side ‘of the door the other keys were, Mark might have locked ‘His own private room from the inside sometimes. But I piled it on, and pretended that it was enormously important, and quite altered the case altogether, | and having got Cayley thoroughly anxious about it, as T expected, he couldn’t resist. He altered thé keys} and gave himself away entirely.” “But the Jibrary key was. still outside. Why didn’t he alter that?” “Because he’s a clever devil. oy one thing, ‘the inspector had/ been in the library, and might pos- sibly have noticed it already, And for another—” Antony hesitated. “what?” said Bill, after waiting | for him to go on. | “It's only guesswork. But I fancy that Cayley was thoroughly upset about the’ key busines, He didn’t want to commit himself definitely to the.statement that the key was either outside’ or inside. He wanted to leave it vague. It was safest that way.” “T see,” said Bill slowly. But his mind was elsewhere,~ He was wondering suddenly about Cay- ley. - “Now, then, Watson,” said An- tony suddenly, “It’s time you said something.” i at say, Tony, do you really mean lead “I mean what I sald, Bill. No more.” . “Well, what does it amount to?” “Simply that Robert Ablett died lin the office this afternoon, and ‘that Cayley Knows exactly how he died. That's all. It doesn’t follow , that Cayley killed him.” BY CONDO| lO. THE o—~Q) S| wiry, sete = SEEMS WELL “aN Nour: SHED h AT THAT, (| AR. TRLYE. NY F \y | | vancing. | Bill gave a sigh of relief. favorable weather in most parts of the state. Conditions through the western part“of the state are good. Reports from agents from various locations of the state include: Ramsey County—Very hot weather prevailed during the greater part of the week, but probably no damage done to crops. Late flax, corn and potatoes need rain. Rye harvest is practically completed. Some rye has been threshed. Yields from 8 to 20 bushels have been reported. Much oats and barley hs been cut and a small amount of Marquis wheat. Hot weather during the week has not done any noticeable damage to crops. Wheat has ripened very rapidly dur- ing the past week. Much durum wheat is beginning to lodge and se- vere winds or rain will probably do damage to-such crops. Quite a lot of rust has developed during the week but a very large part.of the wheat crop is so far along that it is not thought that rust will cause any great amount of damage. Hot weath- er of the past week. has been benefi- cial to corn, which has made very rapid growth. Where no disease is present, potatoes ‘look very good. Late flax needs rain. Early flax is beginning to turn. Dry hot weather has not been favorable for alfalfa and sweet clover. Pastures are get- ting very dry. Sweet clover fields to be cut“for seed look very god.—A. M. Challey. Hettinger County — Heavy rains fell over a portion of the county this week. Rather warm weather with a few days favorable for rust develop- ment, Wheat cutting is well ad- vanced, and grain is filing out nicely. Oats and barley headed out well and ripening fast. Cutting well along. Flax coming along nicely, even late fields promise a good yield. Pota- toes and garden crops, as. well as millets and other forage crops, are making luxuriant growth due to warm weather and plenty of rain. Pastures are keeping up well, due to frequent rains. Meadows and tame hay average yield, and haying ad- Damage here and there by. grasshoppers. Rust has been report- ed in many parts of the county. It is mainly in the red rust stage and damage cannot be estimated as yet. Hail and heavy wind storms have damaged and lodged grain in many. places.—H S. Bacheller. Kidder County—Very warm weath- er prevailed throughout the week. Wheat harvesting is on in full force. Considerable damage by black rust will be ‘found in late seeded hard red spring, wheats. Black rust is quite prevalent. Some especially~ late fields appear to be damaged as high | as 50 per cent—R. E. Arnold. Pembina County — Weather has been extremely hot and dry. ‘Pota~ toes have suffered, especially on the light land, Several reports of loss of horses in harvest, due to vver- heating, have come in. Weather cooled off last of the week: Consid- erable red rust is present‘in wheat, as well as some black stem rust. Harvesting has been going on for a week and a good deal is cut. , Short- age of labor is a factor.<| Much wheat is unshocked. ‘Quality is fine. Early oats are about harvested and a very good crop. it is thin and short. Wild oats pre- valent. Barley—same as oats. Corn has made a wonderful growth last week and no doubt much of it will orable weather. Some corn is in the milk stage now. Potatoes: Skips, disease and dry weather has cut the crop down to about 65 per cent. Some fields will not pay to dig un- the binder in a week. All sweet clo- ver pastures are excellent and those in other grasses are bare. | Alfalfa and sweet clover are fine crops. The second hay crop has been taken off in places on both clover and alfalfa. —E. G. Parizek. Grant County—Rain fell in all parts of the county, with severe wind lodging grain badly in many communities. Some light hail dam- age reported in small area. stacked. Wheat hagvest is general, late seeding. Crops generally good and well filled with an abundance of crop is practically assured, which will be the heaviest in some time. Second cutting of sweet clover ready for harvest and alfalfa making great growth. Some rust but not much dam- age will be caused:—R. C. Newcomer. Morton County—General rains fell ‘No, of course, it doesn’t.” “He's “No, just shielding Mark, what?” “That's the simplest explanation, if you're a friend of Cayley and want to let him down lightly, But then I’m not, you see.” “Why, isn’t it simple, anyhow?” “Well, let's have the explanation then, and 1’ll undertake to give you S SHE HAS GATEN NINE | a simple one afterward. Only, re- The late oats are | | looking fine and will make a good crop except on real light land where| ©? than was expected. Wheat, oats Rye | practically all harvested and some! jhis fall. also oats and barley. Some damage | to wheat from rust in low gpots and | straw. Corn and potatoes, in fact all ! growing crops, were greatly benefit- ! ted‘by the heavy rains, and the feed ! LUARS! WORTH OF CREAN, THAT J ORDERED FOR HCE MEAT AND FISN AND HAD CHARGED TO MOUR ACCOUNT Se |member—the key is on the outside | of the door to start with.” | “Yes; well, I don’t mind that. | Mark goea in to see his brother, 'and they quarrel and all the rest {of it, just as Cayley was saying. | Cayley hears the shot, and in order | to give Mark time to get away, \locks the door and pretends that | Mark has locked the door and that the can’t get in. How’s that?” | ““Hopeless, Watson, hopeless.’ throughout the county for two days during the week. Very severe winds on Sunday, August 6, did some damage to the wheat which was very Percent of loss has net been ripe. reported. Harvesting~ is in full swing all over the county. Some of the farmers were delayed in starting because of the shortage of help but many men have been secured from eastern and western points. Rye and barley practically all cut and wheat harvest well under way. Alfalfa and sweet clover crop is wonderful, Also wild pasture, Rust quite bad on late wheat.—Geo. H. Ilse. Williams County—The week has been exceptionally hot. No precipi- tation. Soil is very dry in. fields. Wheat is ripening rapidly. Harvest general in southwestern part of the county. Early sown oats are being harvested and are very well filled, with heavy stand. Barley is general- ly being harvested. Early sown flax is turning brown and a heavy yield is expected. Rye harvesting is prac- tically over and several farmers are threshing. No report as to yield has yet been received. Sweet.clover is setting seed heavily. One field har- vested of yellow sweet clover. Heavy tonnage of hay cut. Black rust infes- tation is now found on the stem in low places. 75 per cent of fields are past any material damage from rust, even ‘should, it develop quickly. Grasshoppers;,ar¢, doing a small amount,.of damage.—E, G. Schallan- der, t McKenzie County — Hot weather with local showers and high winds prevailed thoughout the week. Hail in scattered areas over, the county did considerable damage. | Many ifarmers suffered total loss. Thresh- ing of winter rye, is nearly complet- ed. Yields jower than reported last week; will probably, average 17 bush- els per, acre. Quality, very good. Wheat harvesting has commenced and will be general by the middle of next week Early seeded wheat is well filled. Late seeding needs rain in scattered localities. Oats and barley are both filling well, especial- ly early seeding. Late seeding. will need rain to make a full crop where local showers have not fallen. Hot weather and drought in some sec- tions of the county have checked boll formation in flax to some extent. Late seeding needs rain. Late fields are weedy. Potatoes are making sat- isfactory growth but need rain in dry districts. Local showers during the past thirty days have missed the principal potato district of the coun- ty. Corn has been making rapid growth during the past week. Late planting is almost up with the early seeding in tHe size of stalks. Pas- tures are still good but drying in some localities on the higher land. Haying completed on few farms. Will be postponed until after harvest on others,. Quality. of hay is fine. | Second cutting of alfalfa mostly in the stack. Seed crop will be light. Heavy dews and foggy mornings have been favorable. for the develop- ment of stem rust. This has reach- ed the black state in some fields. Late seeding will be damaged consid- erably.—M. B. Johnson. McLean County—We have had no rain, hail, or severe winds during the ; week with the exception of one or i two small local showers. The weath- j er has been very warm and grain is rapidly maturing and will be ready to cut in some cases a week earli- and barley are being harvested just as fast as possible. During the first of the week there was considerable shortage of farm hands but many mature in another month with fv") mea have come in during the latter part of the week to every part of the county. Wages range from $3.00 to $3.50, Iwas personally over the en- tire western half of the county dur- ing the week and believe that the ‘a . oon or thrée bushe}s less than last week’s Laced treated fields to 10 Mian: | Teports due’ to the fact that the grain r , eS : 2] is ripening’: very’ fast. alia A ent saan ata ene ey bee fielgs which‘‘were' deeded for hay are the early seeding will be ready being cut with the binder during the Some oat week and one farmer reported that it took three pounds of twine to the acre. Flax and corn are both looking good. Corn has made wonderful prog- ress during the'past week. Two “fatiners during the week reported to Eme'that their flint corn is now inthe Eroasting: stage ready for table use. Grain which was stubbled in will not make nearly as good a crop as spring plowing or fall plowing. The potato crop promises to be a bumper crop Almost all gardens are exceptionally good. The second crop of sweet clover is now being cut for hay. H. G. Randol of Raub reported two tons to the acre on the second cutting. Alfalfa is ready for a sec- ond cutting or to be left for seed. The grain which was sown reason- ably early ean scarcely be damaged by rust to any extent. I saw one sample of Durum this week which was seeded on May 20th. This shows the black stem rust developed in good shape and late seeded grain will no doubt be considerably damaged.— A. L, Norling. h RR ESESESESEaEaaEaEaEeaEeEErErrrw*™ “Yes.” He thought for a moment. “All right. Say that Cayley has gone into the room first, and seen Robert on the ground.” “Well?” . “Well, there you are.” “And what does he say to Mark? That it’s a fine afternoon, and could he lend him a pocket-handkerchief? Or does he ask him what’s hap- pened?” “Well, of course, I suppose he asks what happened,” said Bill re— luctantly. nd what does Mark say?” “Explains‘that the revolver went off accidentally during a struggle.” “Whereupon Cayley shields him by—by doing what, Bill? Encour- aging him to do the damn silliest thing that any man could possibly do—confess his guilt by running away!” (Continued in our next issue.) Mo} why |__ “How does Cayley know that it is Gh | | Mark who has shot Robert, and not V'| | the other way round?” bod { rather upset. | “Oh!” said Bill, In Massachusetts, a man has been sentenced to sleep with his horse and this may be a horse on him. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1922 , CROP CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO BE FAVORABLE THROUGH NORTH DAKOTA, REPORTS FROM COUNTY AGENTS SAY a