The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 26, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR | THE. BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second. Class Matter, iGEORGE 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 7 ation. Perhaps his greatest service | was to build up closer relations be | tween the English-speaking nations. | —Mianeapolis Journal. LIFE OF FIVE DOLLARS The life of a $5 bill is about 10 months. Then it is worn out and has to be replaced with a new one. | This is reported by the Federal | IReserve Bank of New York. It keeps constantly on hand an excess supply of $500,000,000 of paper} money to be substituted for worn- | 1 Sims '|Says Right after two weeks of comes two off weeks About this coal, it takes a lump PWNS NOW You QUIT HOLLERING LIKE THAT AND HOLD Stitt! HOW’S YOUR MOTHER GOING To. GET THAT SLIVER IF You: KEEP ON y AAMILNE © 6% £ P Dutton Company | (Continued from our’ last issue.) There was a sudden snigger from Amos and Parsons’going out of the door together with Antony between , them. \ The Associated Press is exclusive-|out bills. j OvuT a nervous gentleman in the crowd \ ; Iy entitled to the use or republi-! You are not surprised at the SW” f° get a lump JERKING LIKE THAT P at the back of the room, and the} Ria ate eae seation 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 short life of $5 bills, having ob-; ‘served the speed with which they! travel, rarely lingering long enough to get acquainted. King George is broke again ‘That man must be farming : _ By fall all fish left are hard-head- YES, BUT corcner put on his glasses and | stared sternly:in the direction from which it came. The nervous gen- tleman hastily decided that the time had come to do up his bootlace. “Lamb” at Stanton; at Stanton Robert Ablett was to be buried the next day. Bill waited about outside for his friend, wondering where he | rear led from sinkers bouneing off ’ it eeiee 3 one. CE et ama pore arene SNAILS : | puis IT HORTS- LOOK WHAT | we corcnencput Sows lisy elassee pe enagilee that Cayley would —_—._______| Naturalists are excited over the; pomestic clouds are usuall en 6 3 ¢ i ora is cay directl 7 z| sually ace OU’ RE DOING “Did anybody come’ out of the|be coming out to his car directly, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF announcement by 'T. D. A. Rock companied by a lot of thunder * house while you were coming up}and that a farewell talk with Cay- AGia| Gacorsrent int orta Santo, Island | { RX WITH THAT | fomse, wt ing UP toy would be a itttle embarrassing, SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PAYA! pecowent orto. naan In Johnston, the mayor said they 1 “No.” \ he wandered round to the yard at INT ADVANCH home of Christopher Columbus, of o.iiq sell beer Remember the other A WATER. “Thank you, Mr, Gillingham.” | the back of the inn, lit a cigarette, $2.20 7.20 ally by carrier, per year dall> by mall, per year (in marck) .. a kind found nowhere else in the! pt nocd? world. t If ai. (ae by Inspector realizing He was followed Birch. The Inspector, and stood surveying a torn and weatherbeaten poster on the stable | Daily by ma: ear. (in The rest of us are not apt to be-! phe sa i MU f j wall “Grand Theatrical Enter” it state outside Bismarck) .... 5.00 ; | e sad thing about ears being ived that this was his afternoon, and kK , pally"? tall outa’ of NSF 100 y aah Hae vie mh ad | back is it takes more rouge rit that the eyes of the world were}announced, to take place on PRR OLAS SSR Een yee eyneae 880 See eat in Pane S olae ailier ara upon him, produced’ a plan of. the; “Wednesday, Decem.” as important as the various othe’) teaith hint Go on home. house and explained the situation] BUI smiled to himself as he THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWS-| PAPER (Eatablished 1873) TOWN DRUNKARDS Have you noticed ‘the passing of} that fanious character known as the Town Drunkard? He is nearly ex- tinct. Twenty years ago, and even less, {| higher than a year ago, reports the ; government, jcrease did you get? Not so loudly. things that get us “all het up. Human nature is most interested in the unimportant. H No matter what your walk of life | a little running herps. PRICES | So many congressmen are using jairplanes. But they are accustomed | te being up in the air. * { Average wholesale prices a tenth How much of the in- ‘Advancing prices may be an in-| Before marriage she believes every- of the different rooms. The plan was then handed to the jury. Inspector Dirch, so he told the world, had arrived at the Red House at 4:42 p, m. on, the after- roon in question, He had been re- | cetved by Mr. Matthew Cayley, who had made a short statement to him, }and he had then proceeded to ex— ;amine the scene of the crime. looked at, it, for the part of Joc, a loquacious postman, had been played by “William B. Beverl,” as the remnants of the poster still maintained, and he had been much less loquactous than the author had intended, having forgotten his words completely, but it had all been great fun. “Sorry to keep you waiting,” said thing he says—she does not. no community was complete with-' dication of prosperity, but the bill the voice of Antony behind him. out a Town Drunkard. If he were | js collected dollar for dollar, some-| The french windows had been ferced from outside. The door! married, his wife usually had to, take in washing. If single, he slept! in the tanyard, back of the grain elevator or in any other convenient and rent-free locality that goes to, make up the typical village. in the cities, the Town Drunkard’s| residence and means of support al-| ways were somewhat of a mystery, though he passed many a night in jail. times more. The system takes! In Detroit they teach phone girls more when it gives more. It is re-| to talk pleasantly. Best way is to luctant at taking less when it gives invite one to dinner, less, Economists talk a lot about} stabilizing prices at a permanent level. But it’s a far-off dream. POWER AND EFFICIENCY The various Standard Oil com-j panies own only 34 per cent of the; oil refining capacity of ‘United Russia has more hard luck. Bullet | missed one of her leaders, A man with a wooden leg gets along much faster than a man with a wooden head, There were all kinds of, Town! Drunkards, from vagrants _ to! worthless sons of respectable and} hard-working families, Whether rich or poor, in village or city, they} were all tarred with the same stick. ! Their thirst was characteristic and) mutual. i When the Town Dunkard; couldn’t bum the price of a drink, | he sometimes resorted to draining; the few remaining drops from the| empty bottles behind the village tavern or the depot where they; awaited shipment back to the brew-) ers and distillers, | All Town Drunkards, whether or, not they were like the father of | Huckleberry Finn, always had some woman eating her heart out with worry. How many people, now scheming} like bucketshop plungers to get a} drink, recall the heartaches and/ misery in the home where some) malé member had “developed the} appetite” that was “getting the best|- of him”? Tho outlaw, John Barleycorn, has: | become almost an heroic figure. People seem to be forgetting his/| monstrous side. i Prohibition has its defects. There | is much drinking in some homes! “among people who never thought of it before the country went dry.” In the main, though, the nation is basically against alcohol. A refer— endum would find a good many} wets, at the last minute, changing | ‘their minds and voting dry. Light) wines and beer may be returning, maybe not, but “the hard stuff” is gone for good. In all the talk about! “modifying the Volstead act,” the most interesting feature is that practically no one is plugging for a return of the saloon. TWO FOREIGN LEADERS PASS. The careers of two remarkable men across, the water have just come ‘- a premature clese. Both Arthur Griffith and Lord Northeliffe were dynamic men, who leave the impress of their personalities on their times, Arthur Griffith was the less well known to Americans. His nieteroic rise was timed to the troubled state of Ireland. But as President of the Dail: Eireann and-superior of the Irish Free State, he was a destiny-maker for his, nation. | Like Lord Northcliffe, Arthur Grif- fith was at’ first a newspaper man, he press was toohim but the of opinion.’ For ‘this opinion he. sacrificed’ greatly. If Michael Collins’represents che’ soldier-defend- er of the new order in Ireland, Ar- thor-Griffith was {ts statesman-plan- ner. Like’all strong men he had enemies, but unlike many such he was able to compromise. When he could not get a whole loaf, he had the wis- dom to take a half a one. As a knight defender of the Free State of Treland he will take a high place in hig people’s history. In trying and testing times, he showed high qual- ities of statesmanship. A man longer upon the scene was Lord Northcliffe, better known in this country than any other contemporary Englishman, save perhaps Lord Bryce. He was really an internation- al figure. He, too, was a dynamic man, who rose by sheer force of ability, He wads an editor-staresman who broke tle traditions of his people in regara to, what a newspaper should be, He found it a small sheet printed for a select eoterie. He left it an interna- tional institution read by all sorts and conditions of men. Not only did Lurd Northcliffe coin a‘fortune from his journalistic gen- ius, but he made his papers a politi- cil power. Statesmen felt the lash of his judgments, and leaders were glad..of his support. Politicians might concern’ themselves With dipl. macy.and affairs of state, Lord Nyrth- cliffé- spoke directly to the people. Nor did he fail to take the far lapk, The quality of his genius was sampled not long ago in The Jour- nal, where one gut his impressions about world problems and conditions, Here he showed }.fs capacity to rise above details and to envision world movements. He realized, as few others of his time, that Anglo-Amer- Lloyd George is wri’fig his memoirs but he may forget a los. States and Mexico, They prdduce only a fifth of America’s crude oi]. So says R. L. Welch, secretary of American Petroleum Institute. ‘On this basis, independent oil in- | terests combined are more powerful | than the Standard, with cash in- vestment twice as big. Standard Oil hag been accused of many; things, never of inefficiency. | Michigan joy riders burned thre barns. One might say they were blaz- ing the trail, When dad sits on the porch with out his shoes you know who’s boss, : | Figures show the use of hair dyc POLICE linereases. Thq olv gray hair aint Scotland Yard’s investigation -of | what she used to be. the assassination of Field Marshal; Wilson surprises Americans by dis- | closing that Bobbies, the London! Police, do not carry revolvers. The cnly exceptions are when they are detailed on dangerous missions where the survivor is certain to be the one who shoots first. If we had that system over here, we would be recruiting a new po- lice force and burying the old one every week or so, The invisible might of the law ia more terrifying to the criminal in England than in America, CHANCE?) + D’Annunzio, melodramatic Italian Poet, is seriously injured in the head by falling only seven feet out of a window. You recall how he repeatedly risked his life in airplane and bat-! tle, only to come to disaster by a simple fall, and you think: “This shows the power of chance—luck.” There is no chance or luck about it. In danger, D’Annunzio was cautious. He meets his accident when off his guard. . Personal cau- ion is the best Safety First. Acci-j mental powers, adopted a plan where- | dents come when it is laid aside. by he allowed himseif a certain period for meals, nor would be leave the table until the expiration of that! time, Thus he gradually slowed up, and took the full allotted time for his food. It would be well for all of us if we would adopt a simiar plan and stick to it. We eat too fast. We let our teeth off with too little work and give our stomachs too much. The trouble with “Fletcherizing” | food, hovere, is that it’s tiresome. | It’s about as pleasant as scalisthenics : —swinging your arms so and so for: a certain number of counts. Thorough mastication means mas- ticating up to the point of involun- tary , swallowing. It eoesn’t mean forcibly holding the food in. the mouth, counting th, chews, or other- wise making a bore of eating. The evils of insufficient mastica- tion may be enumerated as follows: Insufficient. use of the teeth and jaws (hence dental decay as we.l as other and worse dental <evils); in- sufficient saliva mixed with the food | | (hence imperfect digestion of the; | starchy substances); insufficient sub- division of food by mastication (hence slow digestion); the failure of Home is where the garage is, ‘ A wise man with bats in the belfry makes his living selling them. There are so many jazz records on the farms now the barnyards are ashamed to make a noise. Many a man with a laugh coming doesn’t see it until «1s gone. oe ieee | Chewing Your Food |' —_—_——_—_ BY DR. R. H. BISHOP. Some years ago a great deal of public interest was awakened by = plan of eating foo¥ sitowly, put forth by Horace Fletcher. It consisted; merely in counting a certain number while chewing your food. This pro- cess was called Fletcherizing. Long before this, however, str. Gladstone, realizing that his own habit of pols. '| ing meals ras) rapidly endangering his digestive prdcesses and hence his EDITORIAL REVIEW Beater an AERIS A Lab, cas OA ND Comments reproduced in this column may of 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 preas of the day, TO AN ANXIOUS FRIEND You tell me that law is above | freedom of utterance. And I | reply that you can have no wise laws nor free enforeement of | wise laws unless there is free | expression of the wisdom of the people—and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its,own poison, and the wisdom will survive. That is the history: of the race. It is “the proof of man’s kinship with God. You say that freedom of utterance ‘is not for time of stress, and\I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance jn dan- ger’. No one questions it sin calm days, because it is not, |the taste nerves to telegraph ahead, needed. And the reverse is true |as it were, to the stomach and other digestive organs an intimation of the kind and amount of digestive juices required (hence indigestion); the ‘| over-seasoning of food to make. it “tasty” even when bolted (hence over-eating and irritation of the mu-, cous lining); the excessive use of meat and eggs and like foods, which can be eaten rapidly with relative! impunity, and the corresponding neg- lect of other foods which require | more mastication, like bread, grains, vegetables, and saluds (hence intes- tinal poisoning). also;. only when free utterance | is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed, -it is most vital to justice. Peace is good. But if you are interested in peace through force and without free discussion, that is to say, | free utterance decently and in order—your interest in justice is slight. And peace without jus- tice is tyranny,-no matter how you may sugar coat it with ex- pediency. This state today is in more danger from suppression | than from violence, because in ee the end, suppression leads to | violence. Violence, indeed, is | VOLSTEAD ACT HITS the child of suppression. Who- ever pleads for justice helps to | keep the peace; and whoever | tramples upon the plea for jus- tice, temperately made in the name of peace, only outrages PORT OF ST. THOMAS! Charlotte Amelia, St. "Thomas, Vir- |gin Islands, Aug. 26.—The Virgin peace and kills something fine in | Islands are now officially “dry” and the heart of man which God put | the Volstead Act is in force, but there when we got our manhood. | Rear Admiral Kittelle, the naval gov- When that is killed, brute meets ernor, by officiel publication, hus an- nounced that there are no funds pro- So, dear friend, put fear out of j vided by law for the enforcement of your heart. This nation will survive, this, state will prosper, || the act and that, the police officers in the island will have watch out for the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can | violations which will be punishable in the local courts. | SAN FRANCISG BY W. H. PORTERFIELD beautiful Civic Center of San Fran- cisco, stands a monument of modest size and pretensions, the gift of the great pioneer and philanthropist, James Lick. On the facades of. this monument are a number of sculptured groups which well illustrate the story of picturesque of American cities, One group shows an early “Call- fornian,” or Mexican as we would say, sitting astride his wild broncho with his lariat around the. neck of a poor Mission Indian whom he is about to punish. Besides the fright- only human being whom the Califor; | nian. respected, a San Franciscan friar from the Mission Dolores. ‘The padre stood to both Indian and Mex- iean for the God they could neither see nor understand, and he has ar- | vived in the nick of time to prevent a crime and save a life. All that lies back in those ro- mantic, hazy, dolce far niente ‘days “before the Gringo came.” The next group shows a group of the Argo- nauts, with their long beards, their slouch hats and rough miners’ shirts, bending eagerly over a placer-pan, which having been sluiced of the mud and, water from the bed of the stream, shows the gleaming gold in the bottom. Home of Romance The ‘story of San Francisco is known, or should be-known, to every a story the most alluring and fasci- nating of any I have ever read in history or fiction. San Francisco, alone of world cit- ies, did not grow. It came into be- ing in a night. For a century, well Dolores had had their influences upon the romantic, pastoral, patri- archal life of Spanish California, But almost concident with the signing of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, came the startling news of the discovery of gold in the moun- tain streams of the Sierras;a day’s ride to the eastward. In a twinkling all was changed and from the sleep- iest region in the world California became the Mecca for adventurers from every port. American clipper ships, fastest in the world, crowded the splendid bay of San Francisco in the days of '49 and ’50, their sails rotting in the sun, while their deserted decks gave mute proof of the power of gold, to lure skipper and crew from the sea. I suppose it is literally true that no other city in history has ever been the scene of more romance and adventure than the San Francisco of "49 and '50. There is something about the splendid trade winds (as they! blow their gales up through the Golden Gate over the sand hills on which this’ city is built which breeds the very spirit of dare and do. A lazy man just has to work in San Fran- ciseo, work and eat; for in no other place that I ever visited is one’s ap- petite so consistent and regular. What of Prohi? ’ A nervous dyspeptic finds here a stinging appctite for thick juicy steaks and two cups of coffee, and this may account for the fact that ' San Francisco has the best restau- rants and cafes this side of Paris. That brings us to prohibition! In the old days thousands upon thou- sands of Californians and: middle westerners, too, who never, never took anything stronger than black tea, would feel the urge for a seven- course French dinner and a pint ‘hottle of claret, cabernet, Reisling or Sauterne, or maybe even of spark- ling Bergundy, before they got half speak in whatever way given | them to utter what their hearts | The period of time granted for the hold—by voice, by posted card, | disposal of liquor stocks on hand ex-| by letter or by press. Reason | pired July 20. A commission is now: | in Washington urging modification of never has failed men. Only force and repression have made | the law to permit the gale of liquors las ships stores ix order to prevent ican leadership in the wor}d is desir- able, but is conditioned on co-oper- the wrecks in the world.—Wil- liam Allen White in the Emporia | foreign ships giving up St, Thomas as a port cf call. i Gazette. way across the five-mile wide bay leading to the city! I hear on every hand the solemn declaration that prohibition doesn’t prohibit—that it is just as easy to} get a drink in San Francisco jas it ever was, that “everybody is doing | it,” ete, ‘ =A SLIVER _IN HIS FooT— eee Near the intersection of Hyde| over the French restaurant district street as you come up Market from| yesterday and saw the Old Poodle the ferry and are about to enter the| Dog closed up and Teachu’s famous t} palace into a cafeteria, I wondered the birth of this most romantic and| ened but stoical. Indian kneels .the| school boy and girl of America, It is/ nigh the sleepy Spanish settlement} areas will be swept with prairie fires of Yuerba Buena and. the Mission; jn the near future, Wonderful — Also Dry — Porterfield Discovers; Appetites and Meals Fine It may be true, but as I walked tavern with its doors closed, and a score of others in the same fix, and when the head waiter at Tait’s told me in disgust that they were going to turn that once hilarious eating whether my informants “were alto- gether right! | Read and Weep! }« San’ Franeisco may. be wet— but I fear me much that the wetness is ‘largely ‘of the tears of, those ‘who look backward to the happy days when the wine flowed free till the wee ‘sma’ hours. Spdaking of San’ Francisco restau- ranté,"last night I dined in one ot ‘San’ Franciséo’s ‘three finest hotels— Which means one of the world’s best. Thete were two of us. No one ever dines. alone in San Francisco. And I had a California oyster cocktail,» which if you've never had one, you have still a thrill coming your way, and after that 1 mealy baked potato and a great big artichoke right from the Sacramerto cious ice cream, cake and coffee, and the entire charge was $2.50 each and 25 cents for the water, who said “thank you,” and I'd like some one to rise up and tell what that layout would ,cost him in some of the big hotels back east. So much for food and drink. I said that San Francisco is an ideal place for working because of the invigor- ating climate. So it is, but play fol- lows work, or should do so, and 1 suppose there are few other cities whose inhabitants enjoy their play more than‘here, A mere list ofthe famous stage people born in San Francisco would i surprise the world. PRAIRIE FIRE +» DANGER . SEEN BY DR. WORST North Dakota needs to organize to fight a danger that the ample growth of grass of the p:4t months has brought to the state in the opinion of Dr. J. H, Worst, Commissioner of Immigratio Dr. Worst is speaking from experience fc. te admitted fight- ing fires until his back was so lam that he had to go to his knees tu reach the ground. “There is a grave probable danger from most disastrous prairie fires,” declares Dr. Worst, “as soon as the autumn frost kill the grass. Every possible preventive measure should be resorted to, and mt once, or g “ev “Though there is more farmed land now than years ago,” continued Dr. Worst, “nevertheless, the heavy stu ble left by the grain fields will, in many instaneés, carry fires as readily as the open prairie. A number of furrows plowed around stubble fields will afford considerable obstruction to a prairie fire, but blazing tumble- weeds and Russian cactus defy fire breaks upnless they are sufficientiy numerous to doubly safeguard stacks, building and winter range. “Under any. circumstances every community should be prepared witiv fire fighting facilities and be so or- ganized that on the approach of a prairie fire a sufficient force of fire fighters with fire fighting facilities can be turned out immediately to squelch it. ‘A New Orleans man ate 60 pounds of crawfish before he backed away from them. | EVERETT TRUE MR, DOBSS, t Have MG TO Get THAT foook 1 LOANET You OVER TWO MONTHS 5 Heese IT IS, NE OF AT SSVERAL T WSL, VLE Do IT IN oTHGR WORDS FOR SvIl . TRYVS. MECGLECTSD TO RETURN BY CONDO O48, YES — vee Ger IT FOR You — ANE SECOND t | tl THOUGHT Imes, GuT Ft \T. FoR You ! TLE RSETVRNW had a thick, juicy sirloin and al delta and two ears of corn and deli-| leading into the hall was locked; jhe had searched the room thor- oughly and had found no trace of a key. In the bedroom leading out of the office he had found. an open window, but it was a low one, and, as he found from experiment, quite easy to step out of without touching it with the boots. A few yards outside the window a shrubbery began. There were no recent footmarks outside the win- jdow, but the ground was in a very | hard condition owing to the ab- ; sence’ of rain. In the shrubbery, | however, he found several twigs on | the ground, recently broken off, to- gether with other evidence that | some body had been forcing its way | through. | He had questioned everybody | connected with the estate, and none |of. them had been into the shrub- jbery recently. By forcing a way jthrough the shrubbery it was pos- sible for a person to make a detour jot the. house and get to the Stanton end of the’ park without ever being |in sight of the house itself. He had made inquiries about the deceased. Deceased had left for | Australia some fifteen yearsi. ago, ; owing to some financial trouble at |home. Deceased was not well | Spoken of in the village from which ‘he and his brother had come.’ De- j; ceased and his brother had never {heen on good terms, and the fact that Mark Ablett had come into money had been a cause of great Vitterness between them. It: was shortly after this: that ‘Robert’ had left for Australia, He had made inquiries at Stanton station. It had been market-day at Stanton and the station had been more full of arrivals than usual. Nobody had particularly noticed the arrival of Robert Ablett; there had the 2:10 train that afternoon, the train by which Robert had un- doubtedly come from London. A | witness, however, would state that he noticed a man resembling Mark Ablett at the station at 3:53 that afternoon, and this man caught the 3:55 up train to town. There was a pond in the grounds , of the Red House. He had dragged this, but without result. . | Antony listened to him carelessly, thinking his own thoughts all the time. Medical evidence followed, but there was nothing to be got from that. He felt so close to the truth; at any moment something might give his brain the one little hint which it wanted, Inspector Birch wag just pursuing the ordi- nary. Whatever else this case was, it was not ordinary. There was something uncanny about it. Antony went on with his thoughts, The coroner was summing up. The jury, he said, had now héard all the evidence. The medical evidence would probably satisfy them that Robert Ablett had died from the effects of a bullet-wound in the head. Who had fired that bullet? If Robert Ablett had fired it him- self, no doubt they would bring in a verdict of suicide, but if this had been so, where was the revolver which had fired it, and what had become of Mark Ablett? If they disbelieved in this possi- bility of suicide, what remained? Accidental death, justifiable homi- cide, and murder. Could the‘ de- ceased have been killed accidental- ly?~It was possible, but then would Mark Ablett have run away? The evidence that he had run away from the scene of the crime wag strong. His cousin had seen him go into’the room, the servant Elsie Wood had heard him quarrel- ing with his brother in the room, the dooy had been locked from the | inside, and there were signs that outside the open window someone |had pushed his way very recently | through the shrubbery. Who, if not | Mark? | They would have then to consid- |er whether he would have run away jif he had been guiltless of his | brother's death. No doubt innocent people lost their heads sometimes. ue was possible that if it were | proved afterward that Mark Ablett had shot his brother, it might also be proved that he was justified in |so doing, and that when he ran | away from his brother’s corpse he | had really nothing to fear at the jhands of the law. | guilty of murder it would not pre- | Judice his trial in any way if and | when he was apprehended. . pane jury would consider their ver- | dict. | They considered it. They an- | nounced that the deceased had died as the result of a bullet-wound, and | that the bullet had been fired by his | brother Mark Ablett. | Bill turned round to Antony at \his, side. But Antony was gone. [eeree the room he saw Andrew been a good many passengers by! Mark Ablett | | “My old friends Amos and Parsons insisted on giving me a drink, He ‘slipped his hand into the crook of Bill’s arm, and smiled hap- pily at him. “Why were you so keen about them?” asked Bill a little resent- fully. “I couldn’t think where on earth you had got to.” Antony didn’t say anything. He wag staring at the poster. “When did this happen?” he asked. x “What?” Antony,,waved to the poster.” “Oh,, that?. Last Christmas. was rather fun.” Antony began to laugh to him- selfy “Were you good?” “Rotten. I don’t profess to be an actor.” “Mark good?” “Oh, rather. He loves it.” “Rev. Henry Stutters—Mr. Mat- thew Cay,” read Antony. “Was that our friend Cayley?” “Yes.” “Yes.” “Any good?” “Well, much better than I ex- pected. He wasn’t keen, but Mark made him.” ‘Miss Norris wasn’t playing, I see.” “My dear Tony, she’s a profes— sional. Of course she wasn’t.” “I’m a fool, and a damned fool,” Antony announced solemnly, “And a damned fool,” he said again under It from the poster, and out of the yard into the road. “Avda damned fool. Even now—” Ie broke off and then asked suddenly, “Didn’t Mark ever have much trouble with his teeth?” “He went to his dentist a good deal. But what on earth—” Antony laughed a third time. “What luck!” he chuckled. “But how do you know?” “We go to the same man; Mark recommended him to me, Mart- ‘wright, in Wimpole street.” “Cartwright in Wimpole street,” repeated Antony thoughtfully. “Yes, I can remember that. Cartwright in Wimpole street. Did Cayley go to him too, by any chance?” “I expect so, Oh, yes. I know he did. But what on earth—” “What was Mark’s general health like? Did he see a doctor much?” “Hardly at all, I ‘should think. He did a lot of early morning exer- cises which were supposed to make him bright and cheerful at break- fast. They didnt do that, but they seemed to keep him pretty fit. Tony, I Wwish. you’d—” 2 Antony hell iup a hand = and hushed himvinto silence. “One last question,” he said. “Was Mark fond of swimming?” “No, he hated it, I don’t believe he could swim. Tony, are you mad, oram I? Or is this a new game?” Antony squeezed his arm. “Dear old Bill,” he said. “It’s a game. What a game! And the answer is Cartwright in Wimpole street.” ‘ They walked in silence for half a mile or so along the road to Wood- ham. Bill tried two or three times to get his friend to talk, but An- tony had only grunted in.reply. He was ju::t going jto make another at- tempt, when Antony came to a sud- den stop and turned to him anx- jously. “I wonder if you'd do something for me,” he said, looking at him with.some doubt. “What sort of thing?” “Well, it’s really dashed im- portant. It’s just the one thing I want now.” ; Bill was suddenly enthusiastic | again. “I say, have you really found it all out?” Antony nodded, “At least, I’m very nearly tere, Bill. There’s just this one thing I want now. It means your going back to Stanton. Well, we haven’t come far; it won't take you long. ; Do you mind?” | “My dear Holmes, I am at your | service.” | (Continued in our next issue.) | @———_______» || TODAY’S WORD | Today’s word is—TURPITUDE. It’s pronounced—tur-pi-tood, with accent on the first syllable. It means—inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words or ac- tions; shameful wickedness; pravity. It comes from—Latin “turpis,” foul, base. 1 It's used like this—‘President Hardin; deciding to pardon cer- tan weif-time prisoners,.took the position that their offenses, while such as to justify the sentences against them did not imply moral turpitude on their part.” his breath, as he led Bill away - —— ———s— de- ff Fa