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MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS (CE ici ny 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. — MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF N RATES PAYABLE N ADVANCE by carrier, per year... $2.20 by mail, per year (in Bis- a) ss pre + 7.20 Daily by mail, per ye in state outside Bismarck) . 5.00 outside of No + 6.00 “THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWS-— PAPER == (Mstablished 1873) GOOD-BYE, ROMANCE ¢ The Arabian desert is the latest victim of “the age of machinery,” the steam-roller that crushes To- mance wherever it invades. From the land of the caliphs comes a printed circular, announc- ing that motor-busses now are run- ning régularly between Bagdad and eee: me route te Se iors than being imprisoned in a mine, by | In Michigan, 30 girls in pajamas trip ‘ive days, along tecnverine ‘The suspense is agoniz--| PUt out a fire. And now no house in auplgales. ‘valley: ing, not knowing whether help ia| the town is safe. Desert bandits, who raid camel) woming or not. andl ii ee garavens? The shrewd general Uncle Sam, working with m'ne| A ‘mosquito makes ‘the busy ant anaes of im motor line anel owners, is introducing portage | !ook like a lonfer. aken=eare ‘of them, The raiding) wireless receiving outfits which | Toe sheiks have been bought off. In “Keep e consideration of “a lump sum | Through tons of fallen rock, radio: home fires burning” was not a ite down,” they guarantee not to mo- lest the gasoline caravans. Who wants to take a trip through | supernatural. the desert under such conditions, | no chance of danger, no thrills? A--tourist to the Philippine Islands writes that he penetrated the jungles of Mindanao to see the Alas" ar head-hunt, d alack, he found the selling picture post- cards:of their trophies. The Young} ping Board ‘reports that in 12 bucks ‘have stopped carrying theit! months it placed 84,782 officers and * heads on poles. The old in the council house and, cbserving the change, lament that! | the world is going to the dogs. Rodger Dolan, back from a fish- ing trip in central Ontario, Canada, reporis. that most of the Algonquin and O£bway Indians he met used, safety razors. Onesof the fierce Red Men con- fided that he had lost $400 in a Ducket=shop crash. Mr. Dolan is disillusioned. He prediets that next summer he will; American, find the Indians exchanging home-; brew recipes and manicuring their | nails. > Even Stefansson, invading the land of perpetual ice, found that one of his greatest problems was) agreeing on the wage to he paid his} two Eskimo guides. It is not so many years since ro- mance and adventure a-plenty awaited the average American only a few hundred feet behind his cabin in the forest clearing. Something is lacking in life now,| course of prices. and that something is the natural setting for romance. Industry has killed it. The popular craving for departed romance probably ex- plains the phenomenal sale of such | books as “Outline of History,”| “The Story of Mankind” and “Out-! line of Science.” The readers are after embalmed thrills rather than knowledge. q LIARS Andre Tridon, famous psychia-| ~ trist, testifies at a trial that it is impossible for anyone to tell “the absolute truth,” because no two! reople see the same thing in ex-| actly th me light. Each gets a certain impression of a happening. None is complete. You. have observed arguments, both sides sincere, over what hap- pened. at a fire, fight or similar occurrence, Gather 1000 people at a banquet. Have ‘each write an account of it. You would have to combine the! 1000 accounts to get a complete| p‘cture — the absolute truth —and | then a waiter would begin raising argunjents. 3 JAIL Young James Marchesani, arrest- ed for throwing stones at a house in West Hoboken, N. J., must serve an hour a day in jail for 90 days. Thi installment plan system of prison sentences might be applied in numerous cases. Agony is more effective when prolonged in small doses;over a long time than when administered in one short dose. It might. do wonders with auto speed- ers A Western judge some years ago curedza boy of stone-throwing by tencing him to throw 1000 Mayhe some auto speeders could be cured by making them drive 1000 miles with their cars propped up on jacks. es DEBT “Mortgage the future,” ‘seems to be the policy of most peoplee Cities, also. =So far this year, about $850,- 000,000 of municipal bonds have been floated. It should interest taxpayer-vot- ers to:know that the average city is borrowing $83 for each $25 bor— rowed, in 1913. The politicians will have us in the poorhouse unless we wake up. RUSSL Reports pouring from all over Russia indicate that the harvest will be the biggest in into Moscow years. and s on abundant grass. Nature in ‘Russia is making up| harvest. for last year’s famine Grain crops are immense Keleton cattle are getting fat| pared with the liberty he sought for) Cg, may have them redeemed nxious to keep him alive, healthy | and happy. | ‘There is some wise reason for the | exceptions, when we are made to’ suffer famine or other agonies.| {Over there, the reason apparently | to bring Russia to its senses. It is a definite program, not chance. | | SLOW-DOWN | The timid—fearing prosperity is, too good to be true-—-get out their | telescopes and search the busines sky for clouds. You hear many eT Ty wonder if “there'll he a slow-down, . The man who wrote the song, | this fall | “Bubbles,” died recently, but not be- Wise men at te head of the steel ctuse of it. industry, weathervane of general | j business, do not seem to think so. | Shipments ‘of iron ore, down the | 4 i Great Lakes from the mines, so far| One might say the strikers who this ‘on are three-fourths bigger | threw mud at the guards thought than in the corresponding period aj they were mud guar year ago. Steel men woud not be} Tk building up their stocks of ore un-| Demysey wants a safety match. less reasonably sure they will need | _ it this winter, | Working like a horse is much bet- eee td ter than loafing like a jackass. CHAMPION EATER —— U. B. Chase, Jr., in a New Orleans When the ball season is over contest, ig declared champion craw- | farmers will get their hands back, fish eater of the world. He ate) Ave Pa ey five bucketsful, weighing 60 pounds) It isn’t what you think about as in the shell. The speed record goes | much as what you think about what ‘to George Luthy, who devoured 100 | you think about, crawfish in two and a half minutes. | Maybe these are dog days because | they are such dog-gone days. The long skirt is coming shortly. This may be unimportant news, | It the good die young, the bad but it would be a dull word without | die younger. people like Chase and Luthy. Back | po eee fof events like the crawfish tourna-| Funny things happen. One day iment, you see the American sense | last week all of Hollywood's married |of humor, our safety-valve. people stayed parried. RESC UE OUTFITS | | What is the most terrible situa- ‘tion you could get in? Few worse | cheap at ar. Straw hats [idire alws |the wrong time of the y The man who wrote | miners will carry with them,! will carry the glad news: “Cheer | operator, ie }up! Rescue is at hand.” Almost} One night in the park we heatd « couple of coo-coo birds, Waxahachie, Texas, had a big fire. It doesn’t matter, but the name | sounds like a clog dance, It never takes any nerve to join | the majority. « AMERICAN SAILORS American ships ant jant, building merchan in : : i marine, as having the ships under | head-hunters in their natural state. jthe American flag. up a | So you approvingly chuckle “Okeh!” at this news: The Ship-; Always hunt, the bright’s'de. If | the trains stop they can’t ship any men on American ships. And 92 canned beans. out of 100 of them were American} citizens, i Ken Williams, is showing Babe Ruth that being a hero is never a DEBT | permanent job. Good news for taxpayers: The} national cebt was reduced $6,000,- 000 in July. Not much, but it all helps. ‘ The debt on July 31, reports the treasury, totaled 22,957,378,891. The figure is big enough to give even a Russian banker a headache. But it is only about $212 for -each We would be lucky peo- ple if personal debts were no larg- er. Hotel dining room motto: the brave observe the fare.” In.a New Jersey marriage lottery names ‘were drawn from’ a frying pan, Out of the frying into the fire, | “Only Son goes to college to get ahead j while dad uses his at home, We had forgotten this was can- ning season until we heard about the sugar combine. | Autos are down; gas:,is down; tires are down—pedestrians, also. ¢—_______..__» ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS | | GA American export trade is 59 per cent larger tian before the war. So reports the department of com- merce. . Money is used ag the measure, | however. Actual tonnage .of ship- ments has not changed much. When most of us think we are watching the course of foreign trade, we really are ‘watching the omen a . By Olive Barton Roberts *| Nancy had been changed into a doll!- baby. EDITORIAL REVIEW Nick had been changed into a wood- en soldier. . Flap-Doodle, the purple fairy, hae done it with the Fairy Queen's wand. They decided to roll, so they rolled and: rolléd—and plump! First thing they knew, they fell off. 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 of the Irish people who loved the man | this! ‘ and had faith in fis leadership. It} By, and by a ‘and fished Nafcy strikes dismay to the hearts of sup-| Utéand dried her pf. fe porters of the Free State in(Ireland,| Then Nick was, hauled gut and and is deeply regretted by such Bri | dtigd off, too! ish. officials as Premier Lloyd. George |_ 1 was Mr. Rubadub of Serub-Up- who relied much ‘on Mr, Griffith in| Land. hcaheet bar i the work of bringing stable peace | “Don’t you know ‘us, Mr. Rula- and a stable Free State government | dub?” “squeaked to the troubled .istand. (ee le. Just as there were in this country.) Suddenly , Mr. Rubadub saw the | Green Shoes. in 1865 those who did not mourn the passing of Abraham Lihcoln as an ill | to the nation, so there are in Ireland, #mazement, M today those who were in no way dis-;1 don't know whut I'l be. tressed by the passing” of Griffith. | happened?” ? : The reaction to his death, whether| So the Twins told him all about it. regretful or the’ opposite, depends| “You wait here,” sald Mr. Ruba- | on the political view point, and hence | dub. “I'll fix it. Ting-a-ling-a-ling? ‘on the appraisal of the service he | And he telephoned to Mr. Sprinkle- rendered to Ireland. | Blow, the Weatherman, to come and | “Lincoln died by the hand of an as-| set him with his magic umbrella, \sassin just after che Civil war had| Pretty soon Mr. Sprinkle-Blow ar- jcome to a close aad the public mind | tived and heard the whole story. | was still in a confused and uncertain | “My, my! That's awful!” he ex- state. Griffith was tie fictim of i} | claimed. “But never mind! I know | health at a time when opposing forecs | Where Flap-Doodle is, F saw him lin Ireland were still battling as be-| flying to the Moon with his big ears. tween the Free State eause espovsed| “He's there now annoying the Man- by him and the cause of a complete-| in-the-Moon. Jump on, Rubadub. ly autonomous republic supported by | We'll go and get aim and make him | other influential Irish | change these poor Twins back to leaders of | ped thought. Many were fearful for the themselves again.” fate of a nation when Lincoln passed, | “Nancy and Nick!” he cried in “Well I'll be—I’ll be— What's Both fairy gentiemen hopped on land many are anxiously concerned | the, Weatherman’s magic umbrella un to the sky. about the future of Ireland, now that | and flew kK H (To Be Continued.) Griffith is no more. | a Contin ; What place ultimately is to be giv-| (Copyvight, 192, NEA Service.) | en Griffith in Irish history is yet to) “ be determined. There are at present | A THOUGHT f — diverging judgments in Ireland and | | elsewhere as to the quality of his | g——-————_____—_-- patriotism and the value of his lead- c De ary | trship. To some he is anathema, to| Thou will keep him in pettcet others a hero, That ‘he cndured | Peace, whose mind 2s stayed on Thee; heavy sacrifices for Ireland and Irish | because he trusteth in Thee.—Isaiay freedom none can deny. In a sense | 26:3. . : it may be said that he gave his life Confidence is a thing not to be for whit he believed to be the safe| produced by compulsion, Men can- and sane éourse ¢o pursue in thése | not 8, “forced “into trust-—Daniel latter days. He hig served his time | Webster. in prison’ for his courageous chal-| a a Henge of British authority. His own| Holders of Ferry Coupon Miberty was a little thing to him com-| Books of the Red Trail Ferry, his countrymen through years of bold striving. » Now he is one, and| the balance is stitl to be struck from | at par by mailing them to R. B. O’Rourke, Mandan, N +1922. ' Tom | EVERETT TRUE the day, » 4) [Down they fell: Down, and down 4! and. down until they landed with ARTHUR GRIFFITH. splash in a’tab full ofsiids. The unexpected death of Arthur| “BY the Great Mogn Spoonti! griedg is Grifith is a stunaing blow to those | fomenne What's this?) Or who's | this? Nancy, ‘trying: 'to,/idpn’t you?” i} #\ 1 j them naturally ?” “Ah, then these are books, ‘Ilalf-Hours with the Infinite’| «To explore the passage, of —I must order that from the li-! course.” i brary when I \get back. ‘The Lost} “Suppose we find Mark?” said Looking behind this, you realize, the ledger of his career. Minneapolis | Dak., before September Ist,’ that nature-is very kind to man, | Tribune. [ let hand — so. BY CONDO CADDIES AN GISNTUSHANS - NE] G-ROUND OF HISTORY WG SEGE'THG ---- ONS MomonT $ L SEE You'Re QING To READ YouR SPEEcH SO WSH TO Gs OUT BEFORG ‘Sou AP MINISTSR THES ANAGSTHSTUC WO THAT = EMBALMGS STUCE MAY READS WELL IN THE NGW. RACERS, BUX ITS NO SPESCH t! Ie You CANIT THINK ON Your OF THES ORATOR Game Wy y Af:MILNE 1921_B PDutlon Company BEGIN HERE TODAY | { , dexter hand, grasp this shelf firmly Who had’ shot and killed the; —so. Now, when I say ‘Pull,’ pull neer-do-well “E | gradually. Got that?” ROBERT ABLETT, within two min, “Bill nodded, his face alight with tas alter his , val at a Rel | editement. couse, the country estate of his Mage ” . a " food.” Antony put his hard into wealthy bachelor brother, Blige ue aie thie space left by the stout Ussher, MARK ABLETT? Robert's body! gua fingered the Lack of the shelf. was on the floor of the locked] spay ; nee | “Pull,” he said. office, Mark was missing and, in pulled the opinion of Inspector Birch, it} gi) ?PY CS i was clear that Mark, who haj{ =-Nowejust go on pulling lixe that. ‘ looked forward with annoyance | [ashalh:get it directly. Not hard, the return of his brother, from | Y&%: know, but just ‘keeping up the Australia, had shot Robert ant ae Histingers wentatat again 4 asily.'s .. then disappeared. ‘ sae ZAnd then’ suddenly the whole row 7 ; 2 But there were mysterious cit | oF shelves, from top to bottom, cumstances. The shot was fired @ few moments before ; | s¥ung gently open toward them. ANTONY GILINGHAM! —gentic.| “Geed Lord!” said Bill, letting go man adventurer and friend of {| &the shelf sn his amazement, ‘Antony’ pushed the shelves back, extracted Ussher from Bill's fingers, replaced him, and then, taking Bill by the arm, led him to the sofa and defosited’ him in it. Standing in front of him, he bowed gravely. XChild’s play, Watson,” he said; “child’s play.” “How on earth—” “Oh, my dear Bill!” He smoked silently for a little, and then went on. “This passage has been here for years, with an opening at one end into the library, and at the other ae ; end into the shed. “Then Mark dis- epaning.to ft in the Libfary, covered it, and immediately he left GO ON WITH THE 3TORY ‘| that everybody else must discover it, “We shall have to take every! So he made the shed end more dif- blessed book down,” Bill said, “before | ficult by ‘pulling the croquet-box we, epaube certain, that we haven’t| there,,and this end more difficult sséd it.” ‘amtony’s pipe was now: going sat- i factorily, and he got ‘up and walked BILL BEVERLEY, one of/ Mark’t guests, had cntered the, . hall where he found 3 MATT CAYLEY, Mark’s. constant companion, pounding on the doof ‘and demanding admittance. The two men entered the room through a window and find the body. Anteny and Bill have decided that Cayley -knows more of the crime than he will disclose. They discover a secret passage from the bowling green to the house and, in Cayley’s absence try-to find an ati other—Sy what, Bill?” But Bill was being Watsonish. eisurely to the end of- the wall op-| “What?” posite the door. “Obviously- by re-arranging his “Well, Ict’s have a look,’~he said,| books. “He happened to take out “and see if they are so very fright-|‘The Life of Nelson’ or ‘Three Men ful. Hallo, here’s your ‘Badminton.’| in a Boat, or whatever it was, and You often read that, you say? y ithe merest chance discovered the “If I read anything.” secret. Naturally he felt that every- “Yes.” Hg looked down and up| body ‘else would-be taking down’The the shelf. ““I like books of travel, | Life of Nelson’ or ‘Three Ménilin a Boat’ Naturally he felt that the | secret would be safer if nobody’ ever interfered with that shelf at all. When you said that the books had becn rearranged a year ago—just about the time the croquet-box came into existence—of course I guessed why.’ So'I looked about for the dull- est books I could find, the books nobody ever read. Obviously the collection of sermon-books of a.mid- Victorian clergyman was the shelt we wanted.” “Yes, I sce. | But why were you so certain of the particular place?” “They're pretty dull as a rule.” “Well, anyhow, some people like them very much,” said Antony re- proachfully. He moved on to the next row of shelves. “The Drama. The Restoration dramatists. You can have most of them, Still, as you well remark, many people seem to love them. Shaw, Wilde, Robert- son—lI like reading’ plays, Bill. There are not many people who do, but those who do are usually very keen. Let us pass on.” He went to the next shelf, and then gave a sudden whistle. “Hallo, “Well, he had to mark the par- hallo!” ticular place by some book. 1 “What’s the matter?” said Bill] thought that.the joke of putting ‘The Narrow Way’ just over the en- trance to'the passage might appeal to him. Appareutly it did.” amongst it. Sermons, as 1 live. Bill nodded to himself thoughtful- Sermons. Was Mark’s father a! Jy several times, “Yes, that’s very clergyman, or does Mark take to neat,” he said. “You're.a clever devil, Tony.” “Well, come: on, then,” said Bill,| and he got up. “Come on where?” rather pevishly. “Stand back crowd back, Bill. there. Keep the We are getting “His father was a parson, I be-; lieve. Oh; yes, I know he was.” Father’ Sheep, ‘Jones on the Trinity,’ *The Antony quietly. j Narvew Way, being Sermons by itis, .“L'say, do you really think the's Rev. Theodore Ussher’—hal-lo” "1 there? | “What is the matter?” “Suppose he is?” “William, I'am inspired. Stand] «Well, then, there we are.” _ {ing for, by—" ‘he stopped and looked at ‘the F ny, breaking ‘rather appropriately into his thoughts. Bill looked up at him with a start. | “Nor,” went on Antony, “can you say, ‘This is my friend Mr. Gilling- ham, who is staying with you, We were just going to have a game ot bowls’ i “Yes, it’s dashed difficult. I don’t know what to say. I’ve been rather forgetting about Mark.” He. wan- . | dered over to the window and then} turned back to his friend. “All the same,” he said, “you wanted to find the passage, and now you've found it. Aren’t you going into it at all?” Antony took his arm. Let's go, outside again,” he said. “We can’t go into it now, anyhow. It’s too risky, with Cayley about. Bill, I feel like you—just a little bit frightened. But what I’m frightened of I don’t quite know. Anway, you want to go on with it, dont you?” “Yes,” said Bill firmly, “We must.” “Then we'll explore the passage this afternoon, if we get the chance. And if we don’t get the chance, then we'll try it tonight.” “Do you really think we might find Mark hiding there?” asked Bill. “It’s possible,” said Antony. “Bither Mark or—” He pulled him- self; up quickly. “No,” he mur- mured: to himself, “I won’t let my- self think that—not yct, anyway. It’s too horrible.” CHAPTER XII In the twenty hours or so at his disposal Inspector, Birch hhd been busy *,. ‘ é The discovery, of Mark was all that ,;mattered. immediately Drag- ging the pond. might not help toward this, but it would certainly, give the impression in court, tomorrow that Inspector Birch ,was handling the case with zeal, He was feeling well-gatisfied with himeclf,, therefore, as he walked to the-pond, where his, men were wait- », and quite in the mood foria little pleasant talk with Mr. Gillingham and his friend, Mr. Bever- ley: He gave them a cheerful “Good afternoon,” and added with a smile, “Coming to help us?” “I wish you luck. But I don’t ‘hink you'll find much at the pond. It’s rather out of the way, isn’t it, for anybody running alvay. “That’s just what I told Mr. Cay- ley, when he called my attention to the pond. However, we shan’t do any harm by looking. It’s the tn- expected that’s the most likely in this stort of case.” “You're , quite right, Inspector Well, we mustn’t keep you. Good afternoon,” and Antony smiled pleas- antly at him. “Good afternoon, sir.” “Good afternoon,” said Bill. Antony stood looking after the in- spector as he strode off, silent for so long that Bill’ shook him by the arm at last, and asked him rather crossly what was the matter. ‘Antony shook his head slowly from side to side. “T don’t know; réally I.don’t know, ibs too devilish what I keep think- ing. He can’t be as cold-blooded as that.” “Who?” Without answering, Antony led the way back to the garden-seat on which they had been sitting. He sat there with his head in his hands. “Oh, I hope they find something,” he murmured. “Oh, I hope they do.” “In the pond?” “Yes.” “But what?” “Anything, Bill, anything.” [Bill was annoyed. “{ say Tony, this won't do. You really mustn’t be so damn mys- terious. What’s happened to you suddenly?” (Contiriued in Our Next Issue) NEWS BRIEFS 1 ele tees ee Chicago.—The Mlinois chamber of cdintmere ‘began “d' edmpaign’ for ads for, ues in pfosecution of per- responsible for: the Herrin mas- sacte, 1s 1 . “ Fort Madisonjda:—Charles John- son, 50, a striking car repairer, shol and killed himself, leaving: word that he ‘was despondent’ over his. idleness: and, domestic’ troubles, + ! Rockford, 'Ill—-Miss€arrie Ander- son, 48; ‘was’ trampled to death by 3 team of horses whose bridles she was holding while her brother hitch- ed them to a wagon. Oklahoma City;—Edwin De Barr, vice president of the University of Oklahoma, was reprimanded by the board of regents for his political-ac- tivities and alleged connections with the Ku Klux Klan in violation of uni versity regulations. Paris.—Professor Howard Crosb, Butler of Princeton university died. | He was a noted authority on arch- aeology. Leavenworth, Kan.—Mrs. Margaret Anderson, 63, who walked from Siou Falls, S. D., to Washington to ash President Harding to pardon her son was rewarded when-Joseph Ander- son, 19, was freed. Yellowstone Park, Wyo—A new geyser, bigger than Old Faithful, de- veloped. It will be named “Semi- Centennial” in observance of the fif- tieth anniversary this year of the establishment of the park, —_ | TODAY’S WORD | __—_—_____—_— y.” He took down the Reverend Antony walked over to the fire- Theodore Ussher’s classic work,| place, knocked out the ashes of his| looked at it with a happy smile for| pipe, and turned back to Bill. He} a moment, and then gave it to Bill} Jooked ‘at him gravely without, “Here, hold Ussher for a bit.” speaking. : Bill took the book obediently. “What are you going to say to “No give it me back. Just go out], him?” he said at last. into the hall, and sec if you can| “How do you mean?” hear Cayley anywhere. Say ‘Hello “Are you going to arrest him or loudly, if you do.” help him to escape?! \ Bill went out quickly, listened, and] “J—I—well, of course, I—” began came back. Bill, !stammer-ng, and then ended | “It's all right.” lamely, “Well, I don’t know.” “Good.” He took the book out] “Exactly. “We've got to make up of its shelf again. ‘Now then, you] our minds, haven’t we?” can hold Ussher, Hold:him in the] - Bill didn’t answer. With the right or] “You know, you can’t just say, Today’s word is—VERVE. It's pronounced—vurv, Tt means—vivacity of imagination, especially such as animates a poet, artist or musician, in composing or | performing; enthusiasm; spirit. |" It was borrowed into English di- ‘rectly from the same French word, |“verve,” with the same meaning in the two languages. It's used like this—“Literature of | the old-fashioned ‘dime novel’ school, long looked down on, is beginning to be recognized today as having been distinguished by its verve and éon- tinuity of interest.” 2 4 schools, beautiful méuntain roads, a WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922>°* | ‘Oh—er—hallo!’ to. him,” said Anto-| DENVER Rex PLENTY OF SCENERY; PLENTY OF AIR; BUT THE-OLD GET- RICH-QUICK DAYS ARE GONE i By 'W. H. Porterfield On the western periphery of that great circle which frames the migh- ty valley of the Mississippi sits Denver, “Queen City of the Plains” —a mile above and more than 1500 miles distant from the nearest sea, one of the great mountain metropoli of all time. “Beautiful for situation,” the snow-capped Rockies at her back and a thousand miles of fertile | plain stretching eastward from her feet, Denver is rightly the goal of him who longs to breathe deeply, {see far, renew his youth and lie | down at night under the pines, Born in that romantic decade im- mediately following the discovery of California gold, when every pros- pector’s pan and pick were carried by a potential millionaire, and where wealth untold might be just under- neath the roadside rock, Denver be- | came the Mecca in those days of the 60’s and 70's for adventurers of every kind and sort without regard to sex, creed, color or apparel. ‘Those were the day when any- thing seeemed possible and almost anything likely. Up and Down A Millionaires of today were the penniless laborers or adventurers of ‘yesterday, but many who went up like rockets, came down like sticks. Among the spectacular early Den- verites, the name of Horace Austin Warner Tabor looms large. Tabor was a Vermont Yankee, stonecutter by trade, a wanderer on the face of the earth by choice. He came to Denver when he was 29 and Denver was one year old, viz. in ’59, but soon after hiked to Lead- ville, another mile nearer the sky, where he prospected and played seven-up, and generally enjoyed himself in the well-earned obscurity of a wild mining camp 11,000 feet in the air. 3 Then Tabor struck a vein of silver big enough to sink a battleship, and his troubles began a wild career of speculation and found he just. couldn’t lose. Ten years later he was mayor of Leadville and worth $10,000,000. He gave Leadville a $500,000 opera house—which has since burned down, I believe—and scattered his dough in every diree- tion, finally ‘becoming _ lieutenant | governor of Colorado. In February of '85 he got the apopintment of U. S. | senator, which he held for a month, | till the regularly elected H. M. Tell- er got on the job. | $1000 For Nighties Being senator seemed too much for Tabor. It is said he spent $1000 for a flock of wonderful nightgowns. | Anyhow, he lost all)his money faster than he made it, and died broke in ed, is a hopeless invalid, dependent upon public charity! They don’t all go up so:fast or come down so suddenly as “Senator” Tabor, but the early story of mining regions is: pretty -much the¢game-—8 little group’ of big-heartéd, -free- spending, ostentatious multi-million- aires and a vast horde of folks dreaming of a rich strike.” No kind of’ previous metal mining tends to make homes upon the soil, and if Colorado had possessed no asset but gold, silver, lead and cop- per, she would .today be another— even if more beautiful—‘Mother ’99, while his widow, her mind cloud- | this state has no monopoly on big business representatives in Con- gress, but she really ought to have one senator, don’t you think? Phipps, the stecl magnate and own- er of vast mining and power inter- i ests, lives in Washington and pays an astonishingly low tax on his mag- nificent estate in the District of Columbia, In two days in Denver, I failed to find any one’ who knew Senator Phipps. Maybe They Will Senator Nicholson, a rich miner, doesn't seem to represent anyone in ‘Washington excepting as Phipps di- rects, How do they do it? Yes, I should think it’ would be real nice for the people of Colorado to have a senator or two. Maybe they will some day. And Denver needs a first-class hotel —one large enough and fine enough and up-to-date enough to at- tract the free-spending tourist, who, after all, is, next to sugar beets, her chief crop. In Denver you can find a couple of hoteis, with the very highest prices, but neither can hon estly make claim to being in the class’ that Denver attractions de- serve. I should say a citywide cam- paign for a splendid hotel ought to prove popular. Then there is the transportation monopoly in.the wonderful Rocky Mountain National Park. © Under the arrangement. sanctioned by National Park Superintendent Mather, one concern has the abso- lute control of transportation in the most beautiful natural , park in the world, a day’s trip by auto from Denver. Pretty Soft for Them The prices are agreed’ upon by Mather and the company, in return for which no leased car, no hired car, no rival company, however small, nor any other arrangement by which money is paid for riding through any part of the park can be made, excepting with the monopoly. A privately owned car can get in- side, but, according to reliable re- ports, it must give the right of way to the stage monopoly when request- ed to do so. But there are many other splendid roads on which folks may travel clear up to the 12,000-foot snow line, in perfect safety and with keenest delight. Taking it all in all, I would earnestly recommend a fortnight in and around Denver as about the most delightful vacation I know any- thing about. Undoubtedly, the most interesting citizen of Denver is Judge Ben Lind- sey. Tomorrow we proceed via the D. & R. G. over the mountains to Colorado Springs. (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) 5,000 WORKERS COME IN STATE More than 15,000 harvest workers were sent into North Dakota on all railroads during the period: of ths $5 special rate from the Twin Ci- ties, according to a telegram receiv- ed by Governor Nestos from R. G. Catron, deputy commissioner of agri- culture and labor, who was in charge of the Minneapolis state-federal em- Lode” of Nevada, a region of tin cans and buried hopes. But Colorado has something else far greater than all her mines, al- though they produce $60,000,000 an- nually in previous and semi-precious metals, She has something far less romantic than a frontier gold camp or even a vein of silver and lead— but something infinitely greater and more valuable—the Platte river. You wouldn't think much of! the Platte if you first saw it merely as a stream of water, for as Horace Greely said of some newspapers which have great circulation and mighty little influence, the Platte is a mile wide and a foot deep. The Glorious Platte But water in a semi-arid land suchi as eastern Colorado is a stream of purest gold, which means homes of comfort and even luxury for the people, schools“and churches and clubs and baseball parks, and uplift ‘societies and pool halls/and Fords at every crossroads. Left in its original bed, the Platte would never haye added much to the landscape other than brightening the lives of a few hybrid willows. Taken out by diverting dams and conduits, it produces annually $150,000,000 worth of beet sugar and alfalfa, all of’which stays right on the land in} one form or another, feeding, cloth- ting and educating thousands upon thousands of people and making them good citizens; and that's more! than all the gold mines from Gol- conda to Cripple Creek have ever done! 2 And so I say that the greatest thing, after all, is the South Platte river; which flows right through the center of the city to- remind the people that the days of gambling are over and the days of home-mak- ing are here. Denver is a beautiful, spacious, clean, well-built and splendidly laid out city, with a civic center which} might be the envy of any municipal- ity in America, a beautiful state capitol, the second finest natural history museum in the country, with several mounted groups of bison, bears, deer and antelope, said to be the peer of anything of the kind ever done. Joyous Air 4 Denver has_ parks, _ splendid set of privately owned public utility concerns, .which make the people pay tribute whenever they turn on the gas, electric juice or take a street-car ride. | I have seen, three feet of snow on the streets of Denver. but that, | as we.say in Southern California, ° | very unusual.” I have also seen the mercury mount well into the 90’s of a summer day, but that also is unusual.” The usual thing is the air through which you can catch glimpses of | mountain peaks 50, or 100 miles | away, and in which it isa joy, to, | live and play and work and sleep. Colorado, however, needs | things; for exampel, a couple of a few: ployment office. The $5 special rate ended yesterday. ' “MANDAN NEWS | To Raise $2,000 to Build 1 Fair Barns At the joint meeting of the direct- ors of the Commercial club and the directors of the Missouri Slope fair Monday .evening it was decided that $2,000 must be raised for the Mae struction of new barns for the live stock exhibits, It was agreed that each group should appoint two men who would solicit- subscriptions from the citi- zens and business men. Since money is considered scarce just at pres- ent it was decided that the subscrip- tions should Be made payable with- in sixty days. Build Hotel for Strikebreakers Extensive preparations for the housing of strike breakers are be- ing made at the local yards. Car- penters arrived in Mandan Saturday and Sunday and are already engaged in the construction of a hotel suffi- ciently large to house a force of 52 shopmen and carmen. The number of strike breakers has beén increased to 50 men, it is reported. 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