The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 25, 1922, Page 4

| 4 SUBSCRIPTION H IN 4 | PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter, GEORGE D. MANN Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. , Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - Fifth Ave. Bldg, MEMBER 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, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION RAT PAYABLE ADVAD y by carrier, per year. by mail, per year (in B y by mail, r¢ state outside Bismarck) .... Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. aoa » 6. “THE STATE'S OLDES PAPER (Established 1873) ! Without the alleys through which | |we explored, gathering scrap iron | [and bones in a dirty old burlap bag | for the junkman? High board) fences were along those alleys, to} keep youthful pirates out of or- chards at the back of yards large enough to play a ball game in, | i The alleys are passing, So are | jthe tall back fences. So are the; jhuge back yards, A garage and a strip of half-dead grass the size of a living-room rug are’ all that sepa-| rate the typical modern city house from the neighbor on the street in} the rear. Youth on the pavements, | Codging the auto maniacs who curse | them and “wonder why. parents | don’t keep tHeit® brats off the) streets.” i We grown-ups talk a lot about) the discomforts of metropolitan! congestion. But it is youth that. is; footing the lion’s share of the bill.| ‘| Another 50 years of “progress” andj there will not be any such thing as| boyhood in the cities. Babies will be handed radio outfits and other pacifiers when they begin wonder-| ing what's beyond the walls of the! house, ‘ | ‘We're fortunate now, to be get-| ting old. ! | SCENERY OR THIRST Beer and light wines will return} ORDER OR CHAOS? | nation of Michael Col-/ 9, the brilliant leader of the Irish; ee State, cast a pall of gloom not over all Ireland but in the; rt of every true friend of Irish freedom. His death, tollowing closely that of Arthur Griffith, will be the severest test for the, Irish patriots who want the free- | dom of an autonomous and orderly | government, Either the forces of the Pree State will be solidified vith a new fervor or guerilla war- e will continue unabated and the Free State will fail to accomplish: the task of uniting Ireland which | apparently was within sight when! the assassination of Collins took} place. he peace settlement made with/ and, the creation of the Free State and the willingness of such! Irish patriots Michael Collins | Arthur Griffith to endeavor to compose Ireland under its banner leaves little support for the die- hards represented by Eamonn De- Valera. The action of this appar- ently m'sguided patriot leaves some Coubt as to whether or not he is in-{ spired more by his vision of true freecom for Ireland or an unbound— to rule or ruin. the plan of Collins and! n offered peace, a government! for Ireland on the same basis as/ cther Cominions of the British Em— pire and possibility for increasing | self-rule as ig shown in the history | of other British commonwealths, | the fanaticism of DeValera has of-; fered only continued strife without hope of success. Perhaps the death! of Michael Collins will sober thou- nds of followers of DeValera and| y bring order out of chaos, If it does it cannot be doubted that such a patriot as Collins would have; willed his own death. H A BIG TASK The commission appointed by; Governor Nestos to survey the regulatory laws now in force in the’ state and to make recommendations | for a reclassification by the legisla— ture can do a good work if it will simplify regulation, bring it under the head of responsible, elective of-, ficials and decrease the expense of| regulation which is accomplished in each case as a result of a tax, direct or indirect, on the people. The majority of the commission is composed of Fargo people, but it is hoped that sense of local pride will not deter them from recom- mendations that the legislature put} all regulatory work where it be-! longs—at the state capital, under|! ihe supervision of some responsible | elective officer and make the regu- lation an. integral part of the ad-} ministrative forces of the state.} Power now is delegated by the, legislature to professors at the Ag-j ricultural College, to inspectors who live elsewhere far from the) state capital, who cannot be well! checked by the state auditing board ; and who are deprived of the friend-| ly counsel and cooperation of other branches of the state government. There is some educational work! being conducted from the state cap-| ital, especially the farm institute next summer or in 1924, predict; oflicials of the Association Against. the Prohibition Ameadment, * Some communities will be surprised to) learn that they have been away. | Congressman Volk. of Brooklyn says the Volstead act. would be re-| H pealed if some congressmen ; vated |. the way they drink. * die From the north: comes this echo}! of the wet-dry argument: Last year 617,2885 autos entered Canada foi touring purposes, against only“93,-, 300 the year before. . Scenery..or thirst? CooL How would you like’to be ab'e to adjust the weather instantly, as hot | or ag cold as you wanted? That’s being done in the new. $20,000,000) council chamber, London, England. Members, sitting in chairs, press buttons on their desks,,.making tem- | perature run up or down in their! immediate vicinity, without affect-) ing their neighbors. It’s controlled | by a maze of pipes, feeding hot and | cold air from’ the basement. | Our descendants will have such} systems in home and at work. De-! cember weather in ‘August, August) weather in December. | ee ra | i HIMMEL ! | German prices, reports the Frank- | furter Zeitung, on August 1 were 139 times higher than in 1914, | If we had a similar situation, it! would mean paying $3475 a month rent for a house that rented for $25 a month before the war. You need no investigation . to know. that average incomes in Ger- many have not risen ag fast es com- modity. prices, GERMAN TRADE Hamburg, great German -export city, announces that arrivals and}. departures of ocean shipping in the first sevén months this year totaled 14,500,000 tons. This is 2,000,000 tons less than in the first seven; months of 1913. The obvious meaning of this is that the bulk of German foreign trade is about an eighth less than) before he war. EDITORIAL REVIEW ee Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune, They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. , PROTECTION OF ALIENS In his address to congress the President has asked for legislation which will place aliens directly un-| der the protection of the federal government. It is high time ‘that | we had such legislation, Lacking | it we are not in a position to ful-| fill the obligations to other nations} which we have voluntarily assumed, and such as we would certainly de— mand that other nations fulfill in their relations with’ us if the oc- casion should arise. \ The President’s recommendation |-Youngstown crooks overlooked $800. Sims |\Says A straight path has just got to lead somewhere. If winter comes, will the flapper galoshes be far behind? Coming-out parties. don’t. worry mother like staying-out parties. Germany is issuing aluminum coins, so wealth wont’ be sach a burden, A reformer considering other \peo- ple’s wrongs neglects their rights. Clog dancer wants $20,000. for, broken foot. He claims the jig is up. Things are getting higher, but the people feel cheaper. the A movie star arrested. for speeding’ had his own wife with him. Some towns have , all, the, luck. Harding’s dog's’ brother ‘ splays with goats, but every great: family tree has a rotten branch. a Fruit Crop Saved at Eleventh, Day or night?’ Hour!’—headline. Seventeen Eskimos arrived in. this fountry may be janitors ‘back, ‘from their, summer vacations. We saw a poor fish having a.whale of a time. When two countries decide to bury their differences eal wants them; buried the other yr If every cloud Has a silver lining isn’t the future bright, though? % | Weapons of 10,000 years 4go have been dug up in Spain, Tha rolling! pin was not among them. Soe Va RN One might say. resuming miner operation was a major operation, Health hint: Shut up!” Men who long for the good old days would hate to ride bicycles. One man blames this 20 home-run game on the lively ball. What we need is lively ball players. Aclittle bad luck, now’ and. then|/ surely helps the best of men. i Reason .s§0..many women think their place is hot:in the home is so many men think it is in the kitchen. Hunt the bright side.. ‘Mosquitoes haven't’ any coal either. Stick your nose in other people’s. business and you lose by a nose, Funny things happen. We saw &. wreckless driver. There is no vacation for a man who likes to fish. Besides, being school month Sep- tember has five bath nights. oo | ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts Flap-Doodle had, changed Nancy and Nick, the ‘Twins into two white rabbits. He did it with the Fairy Queen's wand he had stolen. Then he flew out of the mulberry- tree straight up to thé sky where’he liked to: li 1 don’t skinow whether, he went tothe. Tinky-Winkle Star or the Beamy-Gleam Star or the Spik, Sparkle Star, but whereyer it waseyou may be sure he intended to;4o some- thing mean. df Weal? TE ee Nancy stood looking sorrowfully at Nick and wiggling her poor little pink nose and, Nick looked forlornly: at | are over, or, practically so. southern ‘plantation mansion or @ ‘rare old Elizabethan period interior me NEA Service Nancy, his whiskers trembling indig-} work under the Commissioner of| was called forth by the massacre at Agriculture and Labor, which may| Herrin, Ill, in which aliens were nantly. well be made a part of the duties of killed.’ The foreign governments} “Oh!” went Nancy. ‘My!”'gasped Nick, « the State Agricultural College atjof which these aliens were subjects after a rain. “Them were the days!” Fargo, and it is highly important that the regulatory work now being | done at that educational institution ke transferred to Bismarck. CURSE OF YOUTH y Is the barefoot boy a vanishing institution in our cities? A travel- ing salesman sends this letter: _“T make hundreds of towns and | cities, selling my goods, and it! s me that each year I see| and fewer barefoot boys. Of & about without shoes, particu- ly in the smaller towns. But I} am ‘wondering if the time is not far off when the barefoot boy will be a curiosity in the big cities, You can travel miles now without seeing aj lad with a stubbed tge bound up in} a wad of cloth. When I was a boy,| youngster wearing shoes and} stockings in summer was so scarce, that people when they saw one wondered what was wrong with him.” Many of the rest of us have no- ticed the gradual passing of the barefoot boy. City pavements are too hot for the unprotected foot. Jt is a big loss for, youth, a loss, is known only to the grown- up who in memory has the delight- ful recollection of bare feet pad- ding through thick August dust of a country road or wiggling deli- ciously in mud puddles and ruts \. Ancther institution of which \youth is: being robbed in the cities is the alley. \ Real estate is too valuable to vaste on alleys. Blocks are being sid out smaller. The short garage tive from the curb has taken the | should have taken no steps to cor-; How big} have very properly called the at- tention of the American government to the murder of their citizens, and | have asked that proper steps be taken to bring the criminals to jus- tice. This the government is pow- erless to do, as all these matters) are within the jurisdiction of the, states, and the state of Illinois) seems to feel no great interest in} the matter. It seems strange that congress rect this condition in all the years) that have passed since the need was so plainly shown in the Italian in- ident at New Orleans. On that oc- casion a number of Italians were! shot by a mob, and when the Italian | government took the matter up with Washington it was informed that under our constitution Washington had no jurisdiction. ‘The rather pointed reply ofsItaly was that if} the American constitution stood in| the way of the fulfillment of Ameri-| can pledges, the constitution should | be changed. That reply gave some| offense on this side, but the fact re-| mained that if the federal govern-| ment could not and the state gov- ernment would not protect foreign | | residents, and our states could not be reached by the foreign govern-| |ment interested, the security of for— eigners in this country was merely a matter. of courtesy, and any! | pledges which we made in the mat-! jter were worthless, The ‘matter |wag later adjusted by the payment ,of compensation by the federal gov- | ‘ernment, and expressions of regret. | We are under no obligation to| ;admit to this country more foreign- | ers than we desire. Just now we} are limiting the number. But the, foreigner who is admitted is en-| ace of the alley. ‘Qh, grievous loss! What would shood have been like, years ago, titled to the full protection of the federal government.—Grand Forks , Herald. And that'was all they could say. But something else was happening far, far away. The Fairy Queen was so worried about the long absence of. the Twins she had called a mecting of her coun- cilors, There was Mr. Rubadub, and Mr. Tingaling, and Mr. Scribble- Scratch, and Mr. Sprinkle-Blow, and all the other good friends of Nancy's and Nick’s, “Fairies,” said the Queen. “I am sure something has hapened to the Twins. Dear only knows what mis- chief lap-Doodle has done with that} wand. We'll have to do something.” Scarcely had ‘sHe spoken when something fell at Fairy Queen’s feet. f “Why, it’s the magic Green Shoes the Twins wore!” she cried. “Now |I’'m-sure sothething has happened. Quick all of you! ke off and leave no stone unturned on the earth or in Fairyland until you find those dear children.” (To Be Continued. (Copyright, 192, NEA Service.) rr | TODAY’S WORD || — Today’s word ix -PSEUDO. It’s pronounced-—su-do, with accent on the first syllabie, It means—false, counterfeit, tended. It comes from—a Greek word mean- ing lying, false, It’s used like \ais—“Official esti- mates place the proportion of pseudo pharmacies, bootlegging interests, at 70 per cent of the entire nv aber of so-called drug ‘stores in greater New York.” i pre- Many savages paint their skins | as protection against the cold. BY W. H, PORTERFIELD © How many of you folks know that one movie factory or studio, if you prefer, employs regularly 350 car- penters? I didn’t know it and I'm might glad that. I decided to come out here to Hollywood and learn something of the “activities of the inarticulate creators of the movic picture. Inarticulate and non-pictorial, be- cause they've had no highly paid publicity men, hitherto, to either write their life stories or put their pictures in the papers. And the reason I tale it, for this sad remissness on the part of the publicity men is because said .‘in- articulate ones” have just gone along working their cight hours a day, sawing and plumbing and hammer- ing and painting and sculpting and doing all the other things needful to make the movies a success, realizing that it .woud be exceedingly bad form for a $7-a-day carpenter to in- dulge in a brainstorm when he chanced to hammer his thumb or step on a rusty nail! So I was mighty glad, when Pub- Lasky studios asked his assistant, Mr. Allen, to show me all about be- hind the scenes and let me: see what makes the whgels go round. maybe 50 or 60 or even 75 stars, mear-stars, and part-stars of the gen on its published lists, and ib pay-roll, making the pictures which ten million folks see every day! : ‘© Many More ‘And while this studio is the big- gest, there are 109 others big and little, all told in southern Califor- hia, cach with a quota of the “in-, articulate” artisans, running at about a 30, to 1 ratio. * And: while these artisans do not cat so much possibly, nor maybe drink so much as some of the screen- ing stars have been rumored to, ru , bet sy eat more, regularly and that ife insurance: risk on their lives is a better bet, on the average, than one on the stars as a whole. Now what do you say? I wish you could see these artisans of the scteen at work. Here is a@ great shop filled with men carrying out splendid imitations of classic pillars, for the front of a Colonial mansion, which will-later appear in @ production.’ And here is a Spanish Galleon in miniature which also is to play an important part in that forthcoming picture. Maybe you thought, some of you, that the mansion was taken “on lo- cation” somewhere. No, those days Today when the director the biggest man /wants a Virginia Colonial mansion, or & New England cottage or & or the Bowery of New York or al- ¢ + How It’s Done A wired order is the! ‘desired to be reproduced. The/;pho- tograph is; sent to the studio, en- larged and from this picture the car- penters and. brick masons ‘and paint- tation of the scene desired, regard- less of size, cost or complicatio When it comes to scenes 0: wreck, the battleship 0: tleon is built to a calipered pro- portion, in miniatu: models you see in London and then this little ship i placed in the; tank, the sea, which it does with simply amaz- ing fidelity, photographed through lens to give the ‘effect of great distance —and there’ you have the storm, the shipwreck and perhaps the gallant rescue shown close-up later! LE In the room where the sculp' is made,.I saw copies of priceless marbles and antiques which, had bech GHB" in plaster, for the villain to hurl to the floor and smash into a thousand pieces when the daughter of the house finds out his villainy and spurns him, as we always, knew she would at the last! Bui | Costumes Bewildering Fact is,.the movie business is a great manufacturing industry where things are made by hand to repre- sent something else. The chief dif- ference is that in movicland the sub- stitution is ;admitted. ture licity Director Arch Reeve of the). Here is one institution, which has! 00 other men and women 6n its}. most anything else in his picture, he] merely issues an order for the same.} jg s, n gent to have} education, her expenses while she ‘a photograph taken of the picture aba ers actually: produce ‘a perfect: imi-} Mi f ship-! sb! gets her best pay, r ocean liner| self is a good cook, too, specializ- te, just like the| weekly during four years she was the museums of/ going through. high school. airplane mo-|'at; the state normal school at Hays, tor is turned on to agitate the wa-| ahd now she ters and make it resemble a storm at} college. and then the whole is| field’ of business activity, but her ‘a reducing! home is at Kirwin. in the; not believe it is necessary to com- SEEING THE MOVIES FROM “BACK STAGE” ! CULPTURE FORT PLCAIN “To Sea i Business Comeback | Reflected in’ Postal Receipts of: Nation (By the Associated’ Preis)’ ‘ Washington, ‘Aug. 25.—A health of business index based on the) pos- tal receipts of fifty selected indcus- trial cities of, the country is to be isued monthly ‘by the Post Office De- partment, in addition to the list of the fifty leading cities/in amount of postal receipts which has. been is- sued for more than 20 years. The first announcement of the bus.ness health, index by Assistant Postmaster General “Glover shows} July postal receipts for the selectat industrial cities increased 10.45 per cent over July a year ago, while in the fifty leading cities of the coun- try the increase was 11,62, per cent. The postal receipts of the fifty in- dustr.al cities totaled $2,164,441 |, compared with $1,959,547 in July last ear. Albuquerque, New Mexico, had the largest percentage of increase with 40.59 per cent, while South Bend, Ind., increased 31.28 per cent, Tren- ton, N. J., 27.51 per cent, Topeka, Kans., 26.45 per cent, Pueblo, Colo., 20.49 per cent, and Tampa, Fla., 21.21 per cent. NURMPAL rooms ELE |? Unusual Folk ——_————* Aug, 25.— At the off20 Miss, Clara Perkins already o Hever a kitchen: executive that she’s dpaying:.for,“her own higher '‘Lendéta, Kans., re ity and,.saving. considerable ney jin the ‘meantime. For in: stancd\ her earnings one year were} $1060—not a round sum,.for an odd $60 is included, which sggests that ss, Perkins keeps books and knows just where she stands financially. It is,for planning cafe menus that ‘but she her- ingz on pies, having averaged 100 Since then she has taken a course ’s planning to go to Lenora has been her principal a Sa FEEDS TURKEYS ON HOPPERS Eugene Weigle of Hebron, does plain of crop damage from grass- hoppers. He declares that a, dozen turkeys with their aggressive broods will! range the fields a mile or more and that the farmers having a few are HE Ss Rows vPON ROWS PERION costumes, i= aaa {this year should be ready with the turkey treatment next spring. | git i! Sunburn and bes Freckles o—- »! BY. DR. R, H. BISHOP Lately, I. have been receiving a number of letters asking how sun- burn, tan and, freckles may be re- moved easily and inexpensively. Personally, L like to see freckles and tan, for they are signs of out- dcor activity and consequently good health,, : j«fBut if you must try to remove them, do not use unknown brands of skin creams and lotions, Some of these cosmetics contain sub- stances harmful to the skin. Casmetics, as ordinarily used, tend to clog the pores or irritate the skin and thus are’ likely-to interfere with the normal healthy action of that) organ, skin it is much better to remove these blemishes by. improving the texture of the skin. A simple rem- edy is bathing the face in a lotion of lime water. Each application not only. improves the skin but aids greatly in bringing aobut a perma- or forehead and removing dried, cream’ made. of the following ma-/ terials is recommendew: One ounce of spermaccti, one ; ounce of white wax, five ounces of | oil of sweet almonds, one and a halt ounces of rosewater:and 30 grains of chlorate of potash. As the old skin,is gradually car- ried away by this method, unsightly blemishes such as red blotches, tan places, ‘“liverspots” and sunburn will disappear gradually and harm. | lessly. WOMAN BLAMED BY HER FAMILY. Restless, irritable, nervous, excit- able and ‘exacting is the charge against her by those nearest and dearest. How littse they realize the struggle the overworked wife and mother is making to keep about and | perform the hundred and one duties that devolve upon her! Every hour her headaches, backaches and pains drag her down until she can stand it no longer. Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has restored more women in this condition to health and happiness than any other medicine. The grateful letters we are continually publishing in this pa- per from women who have found health by its use prove it. The surface of the earth is one ' twelve-thousandth that‘jof the sun. not bothered with grasshoppers.| 47°, ~ = believes that the districts where ere considered a pest He the hoppers w — AND ‘ourteen,, thousand « species of ‘moths arid butterflies exist'in Brazil. | EVERETT, TRUE BY CONDO | es cl ds Sh hi Instead of hiding blemishes of the} nent’ change, . | For cleaning: the skin of the face | dead skin particles, a simple cold,| FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1922 | (Continued froin our last issue.) “Was it the collar you were look- ing for in the cupboard?” said Bill eagerly. i SCautae: ‘Why no collar?’ I said. For some reason Cayley con- sidered it, necessary to hide all Mark's clothes; not just the suit, ut everything which he was weat— ing, or supposed to be wearing, at the time of the murder. But he hadn’t ‘hidden the collar. Why? Had he left it out by mistake? So I looked in the cupboard. It wasn’t there. Had-he left it out on pur- pose? If so, why?—and where was lit? Naturally I began to say to my- self, ‘Where have I seen a collar lately? A collar all by itself?’ And I remembered—what,. Bill?” _ Bill frowned heavily to himself, and shook his head. Y*Don’t as me, Tony. I can’t— Ey Jove!” He threw up his head. “In the basket in the office bed- room!” _ “Exactly.” |> “But-is that the one?” “The one that goes with the rest }of the clothes? I don’t know. , Where else can it be? But if so, why send the collar quite casually to the wash in the ordinary way, and take immense trouble to hide everything else? Why, why, why?” ‘ Bill bit hard at his pipe, but could think cf nothing to say. “Anyhow,” said Antony, getting up restlessly, “I’m certain of ohe thing. Mark knew on the Monday that Robert was coming here.” J CHAPTER XVIII. * The coroner, having made a few commonplace remarks as to. the terrible nature of the tragedy which ‘they had come ‘to: investigate that aftcrnoon, proceeded to outline the case to the jury. Antony did not expect to learn ‘much from the evidence—he knew | the facts of the case so well by now ;—but he wondered if Inspector Birch had dveloped any new the- ories. If so, they would appear in {the coroner’s examination, for the | coroner would certainly have been coached by the police as to the im- portant facts to be extracted from each witness. Bill was the first to be put through it. “Now, about this letter, Mr. Bev- erley?” he was asked | when his chief evidence was over. “Did you see it-at all?” “J didn’t see the actual writing. I saw the back of it. _Mark was holding it up when he told us about his brother.” “You don’t know what was in it, then?” Bill had a sudden shock. He had read the letter only that morning. He knew quite well what, was in it. But it wouldn’t do to admit this. And then, just ag he was-about to: perjurc himself, he’ remembered? Antony had heard Cayley telling the Inspector. “I knew afterwards. I was told. But Mark didn’t read it out at breakfast.” “You gathered, however, that it was an unwelcome letter?” A “Oh, yes!” “Would. you-say that Mark was frightened by it?” 3 “Not frightened. Sort. of bitter— and resigned. Sort of ‘Oh, Lord, here we are again!’” There was a titter here and there. The coroner smiled, and. tried ‘to pretend that he hadn’t. “Thank you, Mr. Beverley.” The next witness was summoned by the name of Andrew Amos, and Antony looked up with. interest, wondering who he was. “He lives at the inner lodge,” whispered Bill to him. All that Amos had to say was that a stranger had passed by his lodge at a little before three, that afternoon, and had spoken to him. He had seen the body and recog— nized it as the man. “What did he say?” “Ts this right for The Red House?’ or something like that, sir.” “What did you say?” “I said, ‘This is. The Red House. Who do you want to see?’ He was Ce RED HOUSE MYSTERY (“That's him,” said Parsons, point- ing. \ Everybody looked at Antony. “That was about five minutes afterward?” “About that, s:r.” “Did anybody come out of the house before this gentleman’s ar- rival?” “No, sir, That is to say I didn’t see ’em.” : Stevens followed. She gave her evidence much ag she had given it to the inspector. Nothing new was brought out by her examination. Then came Elsie. As the reporters scribbled down what she had over- heard, they added in brackets “Sen- sation” for the first time that after- noon. “How soon after you had heard this did the shot come?” asked the coroner. “Almost at once, sir.” “Were you still in the hall?” “Oh, no, sir. I was just outside Mrs. Stevens’ room. The house- keeper, sir.” “You didn’t think of going back to ‘the hall to see what had hap- pened?” “Oh, no, sir. I just went in to Mrs, Stevens, and she said, ‘Oh, what was that? frightened like. And I said, ‘That was in the house, Mrs. Stevens, that was.’ Just like something going off, it was.” “Thank you,” said the coroner. There was another emotional dis~ turbance in the room as Cayley went into the witness-box; not “Sensation” this time, but an eager and, as it seemed to Antony, sympa- thetic interest. Now they were get- ting to grips with the drama. He gave his evidence carefully, unemotionaly — the lies with the same slow deliberation as the truth. Antony watched him intently, won- dering what it was about him which had this odd sort of attractiveness. For Antony, who knew that he was lying, and lying (as he believed) not for Mark’s sake but his own, yet could not help sharing some of that general sympathy with him. “Was Mark ever in possession of a revolvpr?” asked the coroner. “Not to my knowledge. I think — Now, ME; nes. TEve, Yyou'vS HAD in reality controlled by, I wasn’t so much interested in the wardrobes. But I suppose some ot you would be. The rows upon rows of “period” constumes are ‘simply bewildering. * But, most of all, I was interested in the apparently perfect order and! system prevailing throughout this great factory. No ‘undue: noise, no; loud talking, no swearing,"nor even particular emphasis. I had always imagined the director of a picture as raging about the lot with the stub of a cigar between clenched teeth as he tore his long hair and busted a gallus-strap every other minute. ‘I ‘saw William de Mille directing a picture, and I'll swear that he didn’t speak a word above a parlor conversational tone all the time 1; listened. Maybe this de Mille is an} exception to the rule, but he’s sure some silent worker. Yet he seemed to get results everytime. Over in a corner a few highly colored and highly costumed actors and actresses chatted, waiting their cues. They looked absurb as all stugé people do off the stage, and as I looked I wondered what in the CISTEN To You t! gecmMs TONGS WovLD “dress up” in ma’s clothes and £0 walking down the street as if we weregrown up. : (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) oe, |’ A THOUGHT | ——— - SAY, NOW CET -7"->~ DON'T INTSRRUCT I! A PERSON OF TouR AGS KNOW ENOUGH To O8SS Te RLCES OF CONVER SITION world is the attraction that the stage Bs holds for so many of us or for the ——— > folk of the stage. Scan gy T guess its thé age-old passion to — “CONVERSATION Nl. = ——wmr's A Yi MONOLOSUS F CUSTtTSEN TO a bit rough-looking, you know, sir, and. I didn’t. know what he was doing there.” . “Well?” ¢ “Well, sir, he said, ‘Is Mister Mark Ablett at home?” Jt doesn’t sound much put like that, sir, but I didn’t care about the way he said it. So I got in front of him like, and said, ‘What do you want, eh?’ and he gave a sort of chuckle and said, ‘I want to see my dear brother ‘Mark.’” your I should have known if he had been.” “You were alone with him all that morning. Did he talk about this visit. of Robert’s at all?” “I didn’t see very much of him in the morning. I was at.work in my room, and outside, and so on. We lunched together and he talked of it then a little.” “In what terms?” “Well—” he hesitated, and then went on, “I can’t think of a better word than ‘peevishly.’” “You didn’t lear any conversa— tion between the brothers when they were in the office together?” “No. I happened to go into the library just after Mark had gone in, and I was there all the time.” “Wag the library door open?” “Oh, yes.” “Did you'see or hear the last wit- ness at all?” “No.” “Would you call Mark a hasty- tempered man?” Cayley considered this carefully before answering. “Hasty tempered, yes,” he said. “But not violent tempered.” “Was he fairly athletic? Active and quick?” “Active and quick, yes. Not par- ticularly strong.” “Yes.’. + One question more. Was Mark in the habit of carrying any considerable sum of money about with him?” “Yes. He always had one £100 note on him, and perhaps ten or twenty pounds as well.” “Thank you, Mr. Cayley.” Cayley went back heavily to his seat, “Damn it,” said Antony to Limself, “why do I like the fellow?” “Antony Gillingham!” Again the eager ‘interest of the room could be felt. Who was this stranger who had got mixed up in the business so mysteriously? Antony smiled at Bill and stepped up to give his evidence. He explained how he came to be staying at the “George” at Wood- ham, how he had heard that the Red House was in the neighborhood: how he had walked over to see his friend Beverley, and had arrived just after the tragedy. Thinking it over afterward he was fairly cer- tain that he had heard the shot, but it had not made any impression on him at the time. “You and the last witness reached / “Well, then I took a closer look at him, and I see that p’raps he might be his brother, so I said, ‘If you'll follow the drive, sir, you’ll come to the house. Of course I can’t say if Mr. Ablett’s at home.’ And he gave a sort. of nasty laugh again, and said, ‘Fine place Mister Mark Ab- lett’s got here. Plenty of money to spend, eh?’» Well, then I had an- | other look at him, but before I | could make up my mind, he laughed and went on. That’s all I can tell ‘you, sit.” | Andrew Amos stepped down and |moved away to the- back of the room, nor did Antony take his eyes off him until he was assured that Amos intended to remain there un- til the inquest wag over. “Who's Amos talking to now?” he whispered to Bill. “Parsons, One of the gardeners. He’s at the outside lodge on the Stanton road. They’re all here to- day. Sort of holiday fpr ’em.” “T wonder.if he’s giving evidence, too,” thought Antony. | He was, He followed Amos. He |had been at work on the lawn in front of the house, and iad seen Robert Ablett arrive. He didn’t hear, the shot—not to notice. He | wap a little hard of hearing. He ‘had seen a gentleman arrive about reve i | Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. —Gala- tians 6 E No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone jelse-—Charles Dickens. | five minutes after Mr. Robert. ; “Can you see him in court now?” |asked the coroner. | Parsons looked round _. slowly. | Antony caught hig eye and smiled. the french windows together and found them shut?” “Yes.” * “You pushed them in and came to the bedy. Of course you had no idea whose body it was?” “No.” “Did ‘Mr. Cayley say anything?” ‘He turned the body over, just 30 as to See the face, and when he saw it, he said, ‘Thank God.’” Again the reporters wrote “Sen- sation.” “Did you understand what he meant by that?” “T asked him who it was, and he said that it was Robert Ablett. Then he explained that he was afraid at first it was the cousin with whom he lived—Mark.” “Yes, Did he seem upset?” “Very much so at first. ‘Less when he found that it wasn’t Mark.” (Continued in our next issue.) TO TAKE CHANGE. Change of venue to Morton county | will be taken in the case brought by | Bertha Jnazen against C. L. Crum, | attorney of Mandan, in which Mrs Janzen demanded return of $700 which she alleged Crum accepted while, acting es a special prosecutor against her husbaz.d, to keep him out of prison, according to William Lan- , Ber, attorney for Crum, ‘Para, Brazil, is known as the “gateway of the Amazon.” ‘ <e ¢ ’ i ff