The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1923, Page 4

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(in Bismarck) .... ‘uly by mail, per year (in state outside Bismai ‘aily by mail, outs ide of North Dakota THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) BY GOLLY , YUH HAFTA HAVE & LOT OF COIN To OWN ONE OF THEM SHEBANGS, THEY SAY HE HAS A FELLOW To RUN IT FoR HIN s which pointed out inst the evils which wings the present civiliz s ignored entirely or For the most impo: gress in Rome in Over Ace [baseball game in New York or Bos rek).... 5.00 6 the world, but it has by continuous | expert in ke | ing from its publie news . STRANGE | We wonder how Sherlock Holmes would have gone about In England a family is recei red letter without contents, from a miss which do not p solving this queer mystery: ing a week ing membe truth and of being mt of the truth, the As of spreading the 1S HE RICH ? TuaT BIRD HAS A WHOLE CELLAR FULL OF BooILeG LIQuOR! Mr. Holmes, are the: auto tester, vanished las don. A month later h writing, through the mails. Steven Cumming: September from his home in Lon- life received an envelope in his hand- some money, but no ts which are well known the world, and some alists publicly acknowi *Thereafter, week after week, Mrs. Cummings got the VINCENT WEHRLE mes k ge inside, but alwa Bishop of Bism same thing. Never a mes until the first of the yez Then the envelopes began coming empty. eamed open and their contents mings apparently doesn’t know that a third par vening, stealing the money he is mailing. mailing it, Mr. Holme: atlowed to address the envelopes They look as if | they had been s u y is inter- | should Oh is he really | Comp! held captive * method suggested Maybe he is yone here is known to you?” Kindersley, certainly,” 1 re- ‘and Mrs. Phillipson. have met you, have 1?” added, turning to the man, He looked at me with a rather pe- | pleasure. I cannot say that he | dramatic anyone; | to me. nething in his appearance ed me with a vague sense of uncas vest when he sows. I don’t Another queer case in tod was reduced and we seems that the Fascisti have decided to discontinue the money formerly appropriated each year to the philolog! This society has been working 90 years And so far it has reached only news comes from Italy. MICHAEL’S WEDDING to the entire nation. society of Florence on.a new Italian dictionary. the letter P. “At this rate,” a Fascis culiar smile. , BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Copyright, 1922, by E. Phillips Oppenheim Arrgt NEA Service. Inc. have been costly to the have brought him no benefi ial points out, “another 100 fire s would be needed to finish the work, and by that time | paid will have became out of date.” |) ing to devote his life to such ‘| the difference between an futile pursuit, even when paid by government subsidy. thoguh we haven’t investigated, we suspect that the men who have been toiling on this dictionary may be retired American congressmen. h of our crop and if the farmers into the government fiv bushel marketed through kets it would take f fear that I have not yet had honor, «Lady knowledged quietly. “Your husband, | his w is an old friend. is Escombe—Colonel James ‘st part of the dictionar; You marvel at anyone wi My name | “L will just look at the pearls eeoniie price of twenty-five cents 1 begins between SAYERS, noted criminal quiring Chicago to pa cents a bushel over the government to ret was dying in its My companion slanced downward, frowned, adjust- Nornian arrives,” the de- | turned to me with a little smile, | presentation of export bill of lading created out of the cents a bushel on ed in this country. This would need no appropriation ort organization as hing to carry this through and rmers would be financing this Kjndersley, who had been Young people who will court each other this spring will tanding looking on, suddenly began nip custom of penguins, solemn birds seen by Surgeon Levick when he explored the anarctic with Captain Scott. f Levick says that the male birds looks the ladies over until! « he makes his choice, then carries a pebble | This is his proposal. a reasonable he observed, “but was it with a detective in the room?” “I don’t understand,” I told him, a little bewildered. “The substitution of the necklace,” autiful housemai be interested in the court collection. of all the wheat she ex- through “Poor Colonel Escombe claimed, passing ‘her “Why, he is one of Dad's old- | s weddings and functions of all sorts, suaded him to come here because he had met Sir Norman in Lady Greyes, We prom- man by shooting dead a ver and deposits | Rival males attack him : as soon as he drops the pebble. If he whips them, the lady it at her feet. T leaned down and felt a sudden with me little bit more for th s all other industries are ong the same line: farmer is paying more articles he buys ard of living twined around i setting of ivory satin, was one which I had never seen before. I called to the detective. “My pearl necklace has been taken half-hour!” I ex- “This is an imitation one which has been substituted!” The detective first closed the door and then came back into the room. yself and my companion, Mr. Harold Greyes, there were pres- cnt a very charming girl called Bea- trice Kindersley, a great friend of y I take him away? seq to call for Dad at his club, and our late already.” r runs wild and goes as chauffeur to Boulogne. to keep the stand- ter when the Ponder these three cases—mystery letter, futile diction- : ary and strange bird courtship. They are not important compared with major world events. : own kind of importance, in that they entertain, help us relax from headache problems. we are half an The detective was obviously dis- T murmured conventional and shook hands with vs {should object to the farmer having But they have their | the'same advantage, something j| orreet all things S necessary to - complish results as it is difficult for two million people to handle their troubles in an economic Wa Large corporations ¢: at banquets and arrange their pri to taka advantage of the protection |JA° the tariff was intended to afford, but without a law teh farmer is receiv- ing no benefits from wh aying more for w to protect other industries This is just submitted B.G. LOUGHREN. THOUGHT —— y the dross from the sil- ver and there shall come forth a ves- sel for the finer.—Prov, 25:4. favor of laws to “I may -be_permitte comparative stranger,” combe said as he bent over my fin- “to wish you all the happiness which I am sure you deserve.” They passed out, without any un- due haste, laughing and talking to The detective hurried on the track of some fresh in- T moved back, urged by some impulse, to the where the imitation pearl’ necklace i For the first time I no- le label attached to it. turned it over and read two words, written in a familiar handwriting: “Michael's Gift.” B although a Solonel Es- y becanse she has THE RISING SOUTH “Watch the South grow!” says Roger B: _ Statement. NOW GO ON WITH 1p THE STORY: et,” 1 told him, bson in a recent outhern prog: } Imost be taken for a native | He presents so rosy a picture of ress that the statistician might - booster of that section rather than the hard-headed New » Englander he is. . He finds that the South has all the-basic natural resources —climate, phosphates, fuel, water power and shipping facil : It also has a stragetic location to take advantage of _ the growing Latin-American trade. he thinks, is a little more vi Phillipson, and looking man stranger to me. one another. net,” he interrupted, “nothing: either of us could do, no pen s very distress many people have passed in and out during the last half-hour.” “It is only within the last three minutes,” the detective said, “that I have moved to the fi the room. May I asked, Lady Greyes, case ponsideration, her pension; I have All the section needs, sion and “pep,” and it is develop- ing those qualities so rapidly that the North and West will | + have to look out if they do not want to be outclassed indus- | Alabama, he says, may become | the greatest industrial state in the Union, and Florida the greatest agricultural state. This estimate may surprise a good many people in other | It is good for everybody, | 1s | have forgotten, “[ killed him, Norman,” I faltered. “I have killed men mysel? he replied, “and J shall ably kill Michacl, if he is stil} 1 betord our accounts EVERETT TRUE —_-eeeeeee trially and agriculturally. BY CONDO You acted on a us any longer. ste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts out receiving their tineture.—Sterne. LATEST SKIN GAME. Marzhausen, German man of highly official ma Is here he'd been sent tecting the man whom you jat that time, you cared for. “I was doing more than that,” “I was aveng rl in those da No man had ever It may even shock them. t however, to spread such comment before the country. . mightily encouraging to the South because the results of a} ! long up-hill struggle are beginning to show. the North and West, because healthy competition is always | ‘stimulating and because the prosperity of any section helps i to enrich other sections. I was a stupid but I haq ideas. kissed me upon the lips. It is good for | electric wiring of the whole village and replace it with heavier wiring, which would deprive the village of light for one removed the Marzhausen’s getting along with candles now. PARDON ALL LIFERS. weapon in hand then, I should have RAIN-MAKING The United States Weather Bureau considers all rain- , making schemes “entirely futile,” including the latest pro- | * Hect which features the use of electrified sand. The bureau sages think that the presence of dust or|} and in the air has little to do with rain, since some of the | reas of greatest rainfall are in pceanic regions where dust | They believe also that the elevation of ters into the subject to an extent beyond human | What: may be practical as a laboratory experiment , iithey. think would be of limited value in producing rain in} ‘satisfactory amounts where -(In spite of this adverse op’ I saw a look almost of content in the face of the man I loved. “I always guessed that here was something of the sort,” he said. “The immediate question is, are you going to marry me?” I suppose I was weak, but all wo- men are weak when the care for pleads. Just ag I was, in mi shabby clothes, we went restaurant in Soho and dined. the time we! made plans, or rather he made plans and I listened. long struggle was at an were to be married almost at once, to travel for a time in Italy, Egypt —all the places I had longed to vis- it—and afterward to-settle down in the country ang forget. There were crowds of people at has asked the minister of justice to free all on completion of 30 to 50-year terms. be freed immediately. CAN'T KEEP A “DAKOTAN” DOWN The example of her new em- ployers, the Leeby Wholesale 1 Co. Fargo, N. D., should encourage Ohlin, stenographer, to aim Only 10 years ago, President Victor Leeby was a ‘student at Dakota Business College, Fargo, N..D., the| same school Miss Ohlin re- cently attended. The firm’s secretary, Mr. Leeby’s broth- er, was a D. B. C. man 7 years yw tically nil. } clouds en rain is most sorely needed. { inion the inventors of the sand! instorm are preparing for experiments on an ambitious} scale, both for making rain and scattering fog. They know en must proceed in the face of opposition {ior even ridicule.’ They know, too, that more than once in| ; the past the old guard scientist has been wrong about what | id or could not be done. Whether they make rain suc-| or not, they are serving mankind just: by helping; 2 live the spark which has-led man out of the cave! id jungle to.modern civilized life. és ‘that invention oft where Norman’s sister was giving a reception for us after the wedding. Everybody was wonderfully nice to me, and I made new friends at every Just as I was warned that it was time for me to go and change into my traveling gown, an uncle of Norman's, a Mr. asked me to show him the necklace which had been Norman’s I took him at. once into the little room where the wed- Harold Greyes, : DARKNESS : In Daghestan,: Russia, Explorer Golder finds a tribe so primitive and ignorant that they believe we Americans live in abselute darkness somewhere down under their feet. This present to me. ding-gifts were set out. a_small gathering of guests there, nearly all of whom were known to At the far end of the room, seated in a chair and apparently jy taking little interest in the proceed- rbaly with many Euorpeans’ conception of us. people in Daghestan think we walk upside down. ’s mathematically correct) in relation to the folks on the us. If there were a hole through and you, dropped down. it,.you’d.come ‘compares favo Business practice as taught at “Dakota” leads to big things. 230 graduates rose to bank “Follow the ce$$ful.” Write this very. day to F. L. Watkins, Pres , 806 Front Sti Farge; Ne Di ~ detective who had come from Scotland Yard to watch |’ over the bk ts fa : thet you have only a)m: ings, was the Re side of the earth fro: iesiddle of the earth and Cveev, very, Ke trial after another. Veen, DAM eS TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1923 | Suddenly Norman came hurrying \in, already changed into a gray | tweed traveling suit. ward the door. exactly a quarter of an hour.” “One question, please,” I begged. “Did you ever know a Colonel Es- in the Indian Army?” ever in my life,” he answered. w the detective hurrying to- ward us and I clutched Norman's arm. “Norman,” I whispered, ing the necklace—” “Well, dear?” “Supposing it was stolen?” His grasp on my arm’ tightened. | “[ shouldn't care a hang, sweet- heart,” he whispered, “so long as we catch that train in half an hour and I have you all to myself for the rest of my life.” | MICHAEL RESUME The greatest genius in the world | cannot foresee all contingenc It ‘has always been my practice to leave something to Fate. How on earth I was going to get out of the house in Southwell Gardens, if the led before I could get away by na- able to decide. tled the matter for me. flying colors, rescued by the girl with the st: st eyes, whose lips had mocked at danger on the’ preci- pices of the Foret du Dom. “Where to?” she asked, as we took our places in her automobile. “To the British Museum Tube, if you can take me so far,’ I] answered. She gave the order to the chauf- feur through the — speaking-tube Then sne leaned back in her place. Her expression puzzled me. “You are disturbed?) I ventured | “Lam unhappy,” she answered. “You regret your intervention?” She shook her head. “It is not that. You stole | pearls.” “Of course I did,” I admitted. ? “You are a taief!" \ “I nevér pretended otherwise, | Her eyes filled with tears. ate, however, set- I left with the will give you t it,” she confessed bravely. ‘an 1—would it be possible for me to buy the pearls from you?’ ‘or what purpose?’ I inquired. “To return to Lady Greyes, of course. Don’t you see that I am partly responsible for their loss?” 1| “My dear young lady,” I said | carnestly, “the pearls are yours, with ide of the theft appealed Norman Greyes and I are | old enemies, Het has hunted me as j only man can hunt man. * His wife is an old acquaintance. It flattered my vanity’ to attend his reception ac- | unrecognized and to help myself to 's pearls, Allow me.” * 1 took off my silk hat and laid it upon the opposite seat. Then I ssed my hand slowly over my hair, \ cd the top of my skull and \ handed her the necklac She look- ed at me with her eyes wide open in wonder. “IT appreciate told her. your surprise,” I “As a matter of fact, this false top to my head is one of the j most ingenious things my friends in Paris ever made for me.” The car pulled up outside the Tu- be station, The girl held out her per- ; hand. “I think that you are a very ter- rible but a very wonderful person,” she said. “Anyhow, I like to think that I have paid a part of my debt.” The madness had me in its grip. I lifted her fingers to my lips. .1 laughed in my soul because she made no effort to withdraw them. “The whole of it is paid,” [ tot her as I turned away. MANDAN NEWS BEAUTIFY CITY. Around $500 worth of flowers will be planted in the'small city park on Collins —avenu: as soon’ as_ the ground is tillable members of the jeity park commission declared tp- tday. The plants have been ordered and will ivered as soon as weather conditions warrant. The fountain which was broken by children will also be repaired. Decision to make a flower garden beauty spot out of the Collins Ave. |property was reached at a mee! of the park commission just before Christmas time with F. W, McKe! dry, W. J, Gill, H. O. Altnow, W. Bipck and Miss Gertrude Ritch present. 1| J. S. TAYLOR DIES, _ | J. S. Taylor, age 62, for more than 40 years an employe of the Northern Pacific, died at the railroad hospital at St. Paul on Sunday following an | operation for removal of gallstones. | Mr. Taylor was assistant general claim agent of the Northern Pacific, to-which Position to was promoted in | MANDAN FAIR PLANS. | Whether to engage a carnival com- |pany for the annual Missouri Slope ‘fair the last four days in August or | what attractions might be used to | take the place of a carnival is a mat- |ter which was discussed and settled \at a meeting of the stockholders and ; directors of the Missouri Slope Fair association Monday, & Mrs. C, E, Edquest and daughter, Miss Helen, who are spending a cou- ple of weeks with Mr. Edquest, who is in charge of one of the depart- ments of the Northern Pacific shops at Forsyth, Mont., have returned home. Benjamin L, Dittus and Miss Opal Hughes of Glen Ullin were married at the Presbyterian manse by Rev. | Hugh Owen. The young couple will reside, in Glen Ullin, where Mr. Dittus operates a successful farm. been spending the Easter vacation at the home of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Porter, left today ‘| for Garrison to resume his studies at Sacred Heart academy. \ Geo. E,, Dailey returged Saturday night from Long Beach, where the Daily family has been spending tnx winter months since December. Mrs. Dailey will remain in “Long - Bea for some months. 8, Scully it Mont., Mandan as the gu of ly’s mother, Mrs. Patrick Tobin. Aaya st sied BoE Cats are fetching, 10,000,000 rou- bles, and kittens half that,price in Kiev, Russia, where mise are caus- ing enormous damage to foop. He thrust his | arm through mine and swung me to- | “Janct dear,” hes aid, “you have | “suppos- theft of the necklace were discover- ; {tural means, I had been quite un- | I took them because the | Francis Goodall of Sanish, who has | ‘Tom Sims. March had five Fridays. very hard on the fish. | | That was His presidential boom is another \¥ord coupe. form movie d again. Marriage doesn’t stars. They get marri ' One sign of spring is a coal dealer, frowning, | Men drown their sorrow. A wo man shoots him. Rouge changes the complexion of things. A bad prophet is a loss. It's an ill wind that blow. own horn, ; ae a cash was paid for all au would be safe to cross the str | dt is quite possible for a thin man to be thick headed. | Wh some gir been three years eyebrows met. ince A tra cuse we veling man tells us his suit hs about three gallons. Dame Rumor seldom grows older gracefully. The motion nearest approach lo py some men loafing. “What is the dang a writer. This is it. One sign of spring in Pittsbury was when someone stole 225 barrel of beer. Perhaps a Los Angeles man clain ing he as driven 200,000 miles couldn't find a parking place. New York cop has been charged with robbing a man. The man should have yelled! for a burglar. Boston has limited phone talks to ive minutes, which is hardly long gh to “Guess whosis?” e Two full moons in April indicate a big crop of weddings this June. | : say the yptian note in j dr sho originality. — Others, however, say it shows aboriginality. Some | In spite of the fact that Russian jdancers rin America get big pay they dance sitting down. | Very few can sing our national anthem all the way, but everybouy |knows “How Dry T Am.” acting in the movies is done j by man who smiles you \ squeeze past on his pet corn. John Howard was luch John neve saxaphe moaning his “Home, Sweet Home. nglish literature, he pleased, just The father of Chaucer, spelled like a stenographer. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts The next place the Twins came Lo was the Picture-Book House. | Tap, tap, tap! went Nick on the | door. Instantly it opened there | stood Cinderella. Cind ad the | chores to do and door-answering was one of them. “God-day!” said she she liked children. “Good-day!” answered the Twins i “Is the Story Teller at and Ha hi kindly, for es, indeed,”answered Cinderella, “Come. right in.” So Nancy and Nick went into the little parlor and -sat down. Presently in came a lovely lady, just the kind of a lady a story te ought to be. She had a large pair of scissors at her belt. | “How do you do?” she sai “What story would you like to hear?” “We haven't time for a_ story, thank you,” said Nancy. “We have come to see if you can match the She's only got one side and one eye other side of the Jut Lady the other side of her is printing wll over. She can’t see very well | With two eyes she might do bette “I'l look over all my pictures.” said the story teller, “and’ see if we can | match her.” | She brought out book after book jand magazine after magazine, with all sorts of cut-outs in all shapes and sizes. “Here is-where she was cut out,’ said the story teller, pointing to a | page with a hole in it, Indeed, it was a perfect outline of ‘the Cut-Out Lady, sharp nose and all. “Why I do believe this picture on the other page matches her exactly,” said the story teller. “Just see how it fits. ‘You take my scissors and cut it out and paste it on her other side, then she will have two good sides and two good eyes. Then, per- haps, she can sew’ the Gingerbread | Man’s buttons on straight.” The Twins set to work at once. - (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) DONKEY AT TABLE, Rochester, England, April 3.—Sur moned to court for working a don- key with a sore foot, Charles Alfred | Jennings told the judge the animal was accustomed to open two doors, enter the kitchen and eat bread and butter from the table. But Jennings was fined $1 and costs.