The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 25, 1923, Page 4

PAGEFOUR rae THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1923 x ‘ 1 ™" ; ee ee 2 dios IBU N EDITORIAL REVIEW r Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class} Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNECO. - -— - Comments reproduced tn t! column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sid of important issues which are being discu ia the press of the day, Publishers | Pupils Build “Life-sized” Bungalow | sleep” when placed in’ some green- Within School houses, led to the disccvery of a new ‘ cH argue anesthetic. Investigating the drowsi- i Cees Re eae oa eee of the flowers, it was discovered wue_experience of building a Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - “Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH ‘NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER .-OF THE ASSOCIATED. PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or ir trepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- * wise credited in this paper and also the local news published therein. ‘ All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are :also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year.... ce oe - $7.20 DETROIT Kresge Bldg. itting ilum-inatin 4 per cent of ett gas, which con- vlene, to escape. The ethylene caused the open flowers to close. It was only recently, how- ever, that Dr. A. B. Luckbardt and J. B. Carter tested the effects of this gas as an anesthetic at the University of Chicago, finding that it renders human beings and animals unconscious pleasentlyandcausesnobad aftereffects of any kind so far as can be determined. Recovery is said to ke rapid even after long administration. eee No Bigger’n a Minute TO AN ANXIOUS FRIEND William Allen White's editor- ial the Emporia Gazette dur- ing his controversy with Gov- ernor Allen of Kansas, The editorial won the Pulitzer prizé for 1922. You tell me that law is above | | freedom of utterance. And I reply | that you can haye no wise laws nor | free enfor nt of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wis- | dom of the people—and, alas, their | folly with it. But if there is free- | {dom, folly will dic of its own poison, | oe |und the wisdom will survive. ‘That | complete bungalow, “life-size 1 sgethe a en It is | ready for occupancy, the entire eon- | struction taking place within the high- history ‘ace. nan’s kinship with God. mle be mail per vear Cn Bismiar 20 | that freedom of utterance | schcel buik : Doors large Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)... . NS 7.20 is not for time ss, and 1 re- ie ugh to permit the pupils’ structure Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00) nly with the it only in| to be moved out cf the building on Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota........ ee 6.00 | time of stress is freedom of utter-| pollers and disposed of for a real kome : er = ance in danger. No one que have been provided. ‘Those who are THE STATEH’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER it in calm days, tL authorities cn teaching of children (Established 1873) needed. And) the reverse is UG | declare that {ais nethod of instructing expressed is it needed, and when it | them arouses their interest a hundred- necded, it is most vital to justice. | fold as compared with that they display a6 de oot, Bie Od uke in building miniature houses ad other terested in peace through for id articles, The school is planned without free discussion, that is io) throughout oa this idea, In the auto THEY'RE OFF FOR THE SEASON Bismarck welcomed organized baseball to the city yes-| Pe terday—the first all-North Dakota league in which the teams are playing under the rules and supervision which have | say, free ute ince decently and in department, a.3-ton crane enables the made baseball sily the greatest summer sport in the} or your interest in justice is pupils to work on real automobiles. : | if ‘i A ape | pup Tj country It is quite a task to put a team in the field in| slight. And peace : Justic eee Cmte ar a ; . * + s anny, no matte | a +1 Mojcr ClarencesH on, V eighs O; _ organized baseball to represent a city of the size of Bismarck, at wt oy it! ate Raleicgt Thr, Sleeping Flowers Give Clew to ; pase acas Ena noc on but hard work by booster and support by fans has given the lke ae New Anesthetic Helieved to Be the Smellest Adult atte today is in more danger from Wer . ie Is Shewn Attempting to Pull a team its start. WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING AS SEEN BY POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE® S 4 Machine Cuts and CoresGrapefruit | A novel machine has tren devised that cores grapefruit and cuts it from the outer rind, in a neat, clean manner and about five times as fast as it can ba ne done by hand. equipped with a pair of curved blades so ar- ranged that when a crank is turned, one of w fruit just inside the rind, and the cther completes a cirele around the center, cutting out the core. The half grazefruit to be cut and cored is held iz place in a cup- shaped holder kelow these knives. Thus, by a simple twist cf the wrist, the grapefruit is ready to be served in | a moment's time. oe Retainer for Gasoline-Tank Cap The loss cf gasoline-tank caps is a frequent edcurrence, which, however, can easily be prev simple attach- ment illustrated. One end of a length of wire is soldered to the cap; the other end is bent into a loop, and a right-angle bend is made in the center of the wire. The loop at the end of the wire must ‘se a little larger than. the opening in the gasoline tank, and is sprusgz a trifle in order t6 force it through the opening. OASOUINE- TANK CAP : suppression than from, violedde, pe rists’ complaints that. carnations a of Gients whose “Comtined The uncertainty of baseball makes it interesting, and ie | use in the end, suppression | i curled up thee petals and “went, to eT raceloneta ay best-glub may look pretty bad at times. Thus, the real f. epee ae ee ree ee aia — seed SEE, ES wanes ° who-saw the home club go down to defeat by a one | f tice helps to keep the y score yesterday were not disheartened. Instead they are| 1 whoever tramples upon os pulling for the boys to come back. — ’ } ies ie He ere \ . The businéss men of Bismarck who helped make possible | ye Me ie aunie Hes || 7 the inauguration of the league here this summer were im-| in the heart of man which. God i y pelled to do so not only because they wanted good sport in| there when got our mant n Bismarck, but because they wanted good sport for all fang | When that killed,” Brute | me oon He of+the lina. each s in the Slope ter itory, and they will find a hearty welcome | dear friewd, put fedt out off r 7 at the games. This nation’ will sur- R FROM BEATRIC ' Pp ai a _ sia ate will prosper, the or if SHAW 7 cay derly of ite, will go for- i , _ FAMOUS SALESMEN a «| ward if meh can speak in | dust why Tam to be the receptacte | p Napoleon in his youth was a book salesman, Early in| whatever eivenathametomulter is) his career he found his lieutenant’s pay too meager. To] what their hearts hold by — voie +{ What most of us had rather be do-| grievances I do not quite understand. q provide himself with extra money, he assed from house cum) by 7 letter son oxi ne inalenimon wiitewe doing Of course, dear, dear Sally, 1 am | ] to house, taking orders for a book, “L'Histoire de la Revo- |?" Oply ei during spring is anything © f highly Hlatte acl ei you ils me | lution.” Waders ‘ B . such a confidant, but never having When you visit the Louvre in Paris, make inquires and | Anywhere is where many would | been married myself and being still under, thirty I sometimes feel that 1] eon’s book-selling outfit, including | 7 {must be somewhat inadequate in the | you-will be shown Napo like to be instead of where we are. a list with 200 names of subscribers who were induced to : cup of adv | . . 7. , 7 In Poland, a Pole 132 oleh MED NETY | 1 y sign on the dotted line by Napoleon’s eloquence. ADVENTURE OF |! me 1 . se ing him as old:ng some 7S oe ae You piéture young Napoleon, slender, with burning eyes, | Panett = s, my dear Sa | a ; ed ee 2 pli) WI telephone poles. ‘ rial cy Olidal elle rulemnCeiVCH/ Ones . knocking at a door in Par The housewife meets him with | THE T NS : : r A Say One arten ahe en sya High & a scowl. Her poodle barks at the salesman destined to be| A Roberta | When we grow up-we want tobe | truth: that it was the little annoy e the future master of Europe. By Olive Barton jstreet car conductor so we'can teltances of life that made up modern It was near as hard to sell some of those books as to} Everybody down in Ragsy Land was | everybody wh to get off, martyrdom, | H win victories later on the battlefield. Napoleon made good very) busy She alinost made me t has hit S Things ry few men are mad received your letter. ; enough to fight a bull. . | Yoweare’ wre = | problem, dear {| Bootlegging pays pretty ;,g004 | does you a gre: | money after you get up to where you } able'to jean start a drug store, And you'll never guess what they | were doing, 2 Salesman. He “had the stuff in him” — the fighting | sho thad. made out her case until | I ; = Painting! George Washington also was a book salesman, canvassing p.\2"<°Y Sn a ae cae from house to house, in his early days. At 20 he sold a . A . ” a | were dippiig paint brushes into volume, Blydell’s “American Savage.” It cost him $2 a copy | buckets of red paint apd ‘painting. with a great , and perhaps it deal of good to be fel] it all to me. Tam sure if you, wish to tell me and it helps you, so ' 5 band. TS, You knows you did love him well enough to Abatry, him, Have you found out already. that you did not of my married friends’ griefs and | love him well enough tobe his wife. | The love of a wife means tenderness, sacrifice, every ready sympathy. It means comradeshfp in the best sense of the,word, Of -dourse of a these may hard woman ‘who is married, but in a wi tion was not -grevi hment seem m's derelic- us and his pun- seems most hard. ith you, however, that’ Mr. boss, is a be nd my White, | old “mar liked to t the beast Mr. White . is, .aurely deserving o1 that honors Here cones someone to out motoring. tomorrow, king of take ine io Special Articles The machino is | them cuts the | not yet | I quite , man | Will finish my letter | in | | | | | BEGIN HERE TODAY | Calvin Gray comes to Dallas and | rents the most expensive suite in the mot exclusive hotel. He be- comes friendly with Gus Briskow and meets Ma Briskow, Allegheny, the daughter, and Ozark, the son, nicknamed Bud. Gray hires! MaJow ‘and two associates to watch the ac- | tivities i the oil fields of Colonel Henry Nelson’ who is his enemy ‘Gray is in love with B Parkey, daughter qf Tom Parker. He goes to Nelson's ,office and warns him that he means to smash financially. Nelson defies Gray promises to make the fight a one, | NOW GO ON WITH S' Meanwhile it became evident that the alarming ruror about Desert Scorpion rapidly spreading, for jother investors were climbing the air now and the office was be- coming crowded, The later arrivals were -in time to witness MeWade Ny defer to his partner and to hear him’ announce that a rare | stroke of fertune had favored pur- chasers of this particular issue of stock for the land which really be- and hot ‘ORY jlonged to the company had turned j out to be much better than that | which it owned! Certain informa- | tion from the fleld had arrived that lvery day which was bound to send | the stock to-two dollars, | The refunding of money halted; | there was a deal of noisy argument. | Some of the disgruntled investors still insisted upon gelling out; others | decided to hold on; even a few asked | to repurchase the stock they had | turned in, and this they were reluct- antly permitted to do at an advance of fifty percent. i When the last caller had disap- peared, Gray inquired, curiously: “How ave you going to make good jon your assertion that the stock will said Stoner. “I'll change into my old clothes, put four mud chains on my ear and drive up to the exchange in a hurry then give some bby, guy a tip to grab | Desert Scorpion for me at a dollar and a half—all he can get. After that I'll shoot, out of town on high with the cut out open. There will be a string of cars after me inside of jhalf an hour, and the stock will be jup before I ean get back.” CHAPTER XIIL Mrs. Ring is Surprised Briskow always had been # woman without guile, but of late she had developed rare powers of dissimulation. She was, fact, leading « double life and neither her husband nor her daugh~ ter suspected the extent of her de- ception, . yes, Ma had slipped the leash. She robber baroncss; she dwelt in | | Ma known : : robert A ia : 1 am only too glad to hear it, a racky ‘“fastness”—whatevi I and he sold it for $3. His sales, as recorded in his diary,| They were painting’ queer-looking | Chola women, of South America, But Rael ARO aeldhe uaa coll le 5 : ac alreoundeainy Wiese ee t totaled over 500 copies. + little things round all ever exsene wear 20 petticoats, showing them 20) much as I might advise, your prob-| Beautiful Womanhood Magazine | laws as desperata as any seed vor A Washington had to make his own deliveries, galloping /° Sree cguaaee ae a ™ | petticoats Behind gelul tea chon Hee coe cu no ycne sean clue) AW UDG ES) ponete win ere end drew cutlass and dagger, and she ay x distances wi » books i is sa -bags. [endicies ca Ree eT aac “ [for you. You say you are afraid you | iustrations of unusual appeal to the | ruled them not only. | AR ir long distances with the books in his saddle-bag | They smelled like radishes hecaus Being heavyweight champ is easy | are hard because you not the | fair’ sex. Of all the magazines de*| strength of character, but also by he , g < A [they were xadishes. That's what) work, but Dempsey will fight you! sympathy f in you might have.| voted to woman, that come to the | the air of other forces, for she was + For these salesmanship angles on Napoleon and Wash- the Ragsies were doing, coloring Ue i ofure you jul thal Jub, [You also wonder if anyone knows| editorial desk for review, there is| on friendly. terme wii uke ae | - ington, we are indebted to a speech by R. S. Branch of, radishes nice and red in Farmer =a i why he or she marries. none which fills the nichd quite like | prominent wood sprites, fairies, and |; Chicago, before a convention of subscription book publishers. | 8"°v"'s * spateh Barden. over. Eka “erewt Pyramid in Egypt) Although I have not experienced | this Macfadden Publication, so ably |the like, and they brought her’ wi 1? Branch’s comments cannot be improved upon: penn’ Sass-Patch garden being ever weighs 6,000,000 tons, which is also | those reactions myself [believe that | cdited by Garl Easton Williams, ‘The | dem, ( “As a book salesman, Washington learned the lessons | thevigh’ the ‘ling: in ia Tang | the welzkt of a wife's suitcase. Eek? Clone hs ener nen ae ae calle of Ran i ae A The eee act was altogether i : pcs 2 rarer ae || s age SEA | some time in her life and usually t/as You Darn Please,” by! Bladen | too rich for Gus Brickow's blood, so i every house-to-house salesman learns today — courage, de- | underneath, in long, even rows, anu Dutch boys and girls dress alike, } jg within the first three y | Brock, “Why Petting Parties?” by |he sought more congenial naar iee 4 termination, patience and resourcefulness that helped him the Ragsies“had to reach up to which is why Duteh boys who cuss] In the first place, Sally dear, | Hopewell Hepburn; “Dén't Be a Mere | ment. He found it in the village in in after life to win battles and achieve the independence of , “°'*: A often yet in Dutch, i wonder if you remember the words, | Wife, Be a Personality,” by Alice {a livery stable; there, amid familiar i | At first they had only been little = “Love, honor 1 cherish, until | Kimball, “How I Came to Hate, My | odors and s dings both ‘s i the American colonies. | slender things like strings. ‘Then Nubunel ena aratjepy Had Doe pains a ch) ain valle ow ane Hate, y dors and surroun ings both agree- Pc “ Faia AGhonamal allt aN aire i [SABARE f bs bt i burglar has a hard job. nas | death do you part?” Son women | usband” by Margaret Melvor-j able and economical, he spent most yay There ere | oneal cling books; even for Napoleon. | cach deve theyseot fatten and alien | fo) work spilale. have loved and cherished a man all | ‘Tyndall, “The Monster” by Fulton {of his time, leaving Ma to. amuse fa e learned what every subscription book salesman learns Dau thevavere sae coping assnarled ——- their lives after it has been impos-|Oursler perhaps the most brilliant | herself and Allie to pursue her rou. 43 ~~ today . courage, determination, patience, resource- || That's when the painting began, wsshoppers are plentiful in Aus-| gibte to honor him. and versitile of the new’ school of | tine of sstudies ‘laid down by her tu- bY fulness and skill in dealing with men and problems. These ee reais (phe were os small #8 tralia, but fishermen probably keer] ~ Sam is a good man, a charming, young writers, and a. brilliant edi-| toress, . d aris AlWatve ines aoNG 1 > are the : ‘’e Ragsies themselves, having their | them on the jump. maw, He is only weak and I do not | torial “Ilealth-Wealth” by Bernatr qualities do not always make a Napoleon, but they are the magic shoes, worked hard. | | Nick had just about dinished one of | A Hanker has it nice. He keeps his rows when Rag Tag, one’ of the Tet ouips We Wiaitiadieath araicesl) tion as we busiest, little; Regzafés; ‘yelled, “Oh, Yat "s son's hours. Washington was an | !*ck! ' : hs: foundation stones of success in every line of work.” All of us should find new courage and inspir ponder these two famous book agents. think that you yourself, to the e sorgy * for” him thing that has con any right to pity jon of feeling er this terrtst® to your hus- torial “Health-Weulth” by Bernard MucFadden, whose God-driven pen frente Anton s“tnshe was eo number one of great appeal. ; es ; ~ - 44 ; aristocrat, but he did not think the work beneath him. Na- | ,,1ust.in Mme, too, for an army of |= The River Nile is 4,400 miles Tons, Lies i 8 a genius, with ambitions for world power, but a HEA e pes ne [eae aa anes Balter | EVERE IT TRUE BY CONDO ; nsible enough to make the most of every oppor- , radishes, and had poked their heads | Ssebaspesig as Si ain it tunity for advancement, however small, as it came. through the ‘ground. College professors live an-ensy life, | / Haw ~HAaWw~H4 Ww Pee THS FUNNY ~ i Future Napoleons and George Washingtons, now in 1923. It took the Ragsies several min- | hut you must have a head for the . aa LOOKING ALD GoY HS STRGET Ill utes to drive them away with broom | pusiness, handles. But at last every one of | the cut-worms was gone. My!" said Nancy, “I don't believe mer Brown knows how much | obliged he should be to the Ragsie (To Be Continued.) \2 (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) dow EXHORTING | | cae Old-time bookbinders at the Levey Printing plant in Start New Farm i Indianapolis comment that in the old days Bibles were re- | Sante bound over and over again, while now there are very few. Organization are also struggling for a start—selling books, clerking, keep- + ing accounts, studying at nights in short, toiling at the humble tasks of life. Whether we later will have a bigger job to handle depends ‘to large extent on how well we handle the present job. Every job can be made a stepping-stone to better things. Great Britain_imports, about 500 000 goldfish every: year, not counting | American tourists. 1 living across from us is a win- dresser. Forgets to pull down the shade at bedtime. a2) Many men are out of work in Ire- land, perhaps because all of them : an't be policemen, oe Does this mean our generations is using the Bible less?) Minneapolis, Minn. May25 . Selling insurance is, fine. You can | Not according to the binders. Their theory is that’ there eration of the American Whe: prove toan enemy by figures he will | are not as many “fighting parsons” now as there used to be, Growers Incorporated as the suc- : to | cessor the Northwest Wheat! | ] die next week. | Growers Associated has been start- = and the Bibles do not receive such rough treatment. ¢ s This will start many gray-haired people reminiscing. Do ed with headquarters in “Minneapol fA - you remember when a preacher could be heard a block away Geo. C. Jewett general manager | _on a clear summer's night when the church windows were announced today | | Natives of Persia eat dirt for medi- the dirty things. 2 ae 1s 5 5 pane 0. ay be too good to be true. | ~ fore/in history. Combined bank deposits total 43 billion dol- Falls,“was elected president. of the Cie co anemmeare pie | ae $390 for every man, woman and child. Figure it up "e™ organization.’ Other officers in- politician can make a good | A i _ for'your family, whether you are above or below the average. ‘ute Geo. E, aes one Werth pat, race if the wind is against him, | : queer thing: ' No one deems to have as much money ots Wiest Growery Ausotationy | pie cre ey ae = now as during the big boom of 1919 (barring the very rich), | patie ea se Pee eatat e eusereideaecine: Job, - but bank deposits are nearly 6 billion dollars more than then. | sy are Ly AS tee en Act One - ~A fabulously rich country, these United States. Money in Elevator Damages the bank is not more than.a sixth of our national wealth. Reach $12,000, 2 shy PERFUMES 7 | Velva; May-25:--A‘re-chetk of the}" ® --Napoleon before-and’ after battles ‘bathed his head and’ Joss today incurred ag a tesult of the | |} shoulders in perfume, Mr. Mason Writes in a recent Mentor “tring of the Occident. Elevator] To Build Bridges Grand Forks, May 25.—Kighteen bridges will be built during the coming summer in Grand, Forks ‘ounty, and another will be répair-.|* ed, it was decided by: the board of ‘eounty commissioners in special here Monday’ evening. today ‘placed { me. ty Se er ‘ the. total di at. $12,000,, includ. ~. He used perfume as a substitute for 4 bath. That was ing: the building, oN Repreeonetaly “perfumes were invented—to counteract lack of. sanita- | 16,000 bugsels “of. grainswhich was 4ion. Running water and the bath-tub enable us to get near | stored’ in’ the elevator; Th ct session. : each other without scent camouflage. cause of the firedsunkhown, but it] These bridges _are tn v i ei R is believed to have started_by | throughout ’ practically all : be you wonder why good perfumes are so expensive combustion or! d we in eth | of the county und will be built three million roses to yield ong pound of rose egsence. ' machinery. » | er “Of wood’ or concrete, i 2 i Gas \ f ue . age HOBBLING ACROSS aoa > this Now Ma had not gone wild alli at once; her atavism had been gradual ~-the result of her persistent ex- plorations, “Ever deeper into the wilderness she penctrated, but with the sly caution of an old fox return- ing to its lair, for she was always being followed by wicked people | Having baffled them all, she laughed scornfully, flung deceft to the winds then hurried straight to the “fast- ness, and there uttered the trival feall. At the sound her gypsy band came bounding forth to meet. her. Having accepted their homage and heard the details or their latest raids against her enemy, the false Duke Ran . : The male halibut is much smaller | - open? - Organization of the new associa-| than ‘the female, so shed a tear for bisa Barat erie ae | tion was completed after a three} jute halibuts ~ ens S 4 conference of thirty represen- Sipe eah rma \- (He Poo oLp SLLOW Fi, ‘ MALE |tatives: from ten’ ptates." | A bit of gossip too goo to keep | J! oe & i ,More money is deposited in the ‘banks now than ever be- Wm, J. Brown, of Thief River 1S Kind of BENT CLOT of Dallas—he whose treachery had made her what she was—she as- sumed her throne and. held formal court, < The throne was « low flat rock be- side a stream, and usually Ma re- moved her shoes and stockings and she gave audietice to visiting poten- tates, * Thus would Ma Brisk¥v spend one morning. Another perhaps - she would be an altogether different character, but always she was young and beautiful. and full of grace, and only when it came time to go did she assume the disguise of an aged, wrinkled, bent old woman. Sometimes she ran miles and miles at a stretch, darting, springing like a fawn, rushing through the soft, |gteen leaves, leaping rock and rill, her laughter echoing, her bare bs flashing, her gold hair streaming, her scanty silken draperies whipped to shreds behind her by the very swiftness of her going. Oh, the ecstasy. of that! The excitement! Of course Ma did not actually run. Neither did her bare limbs flash— being incased in flannels. And her hair was not . gold. It was gray, what little there was of it. No, she ambled a bit, perhaps, where the grass was short and the ground smooth, then she stood still, closed her eyes, and ran and leaped and swayed anti darted—with her arms, Anybody can do it. that the world was so clean. She blessed God for making oil to lie in the rocks, of the earth and she | prayed that none of “them hotel ople” would: discover her retreat: copyni ‘PRI BY ARRANGE MERT WrTH HETROPEL him | paddled her feet in the water while | Ma Briskow had never dreamed]. Nan? eakR Dy ROX BEACH. 7AM MIREAPER SPREE, tw youn | But, of course, somebody did dis jcover it. Mr. Delamater, the dane- ling instructor, for stumbled | \ upon it while Ma Bri was in the midst of one of her imag games, and he reported his discovery to the day clerk. “What ails that old dame, how?” he inquired, after rdcounting Ma's peculiar behavior. “Not a thing in the world except money,” the clerk declared. Poubtfully Mr Delamater shook his handsome auburn head. Pegple ‘with good sense don't act like that, doing an Isadora Dune: when I saw her. Dancing ~if you care to call it that! Anyhow, her hair was hanging, she was flapping her arms and jiggling up and down.’ Delamater laughed at the memory. “There's a big awkward bird—sort of a crane or buzzard of some kind that dances. I never saw one, but she reminded me of it. And she sang! Gee! if was’ fierce!" mind, bedig “Did she see you!” “Seareely. I don't alone with Allie’—Delamater'’s teeth shone in a smile, then, seeing his reflection in a convenient mirror, he studied it with complacent He tried to smile again, and, it to his better satistaction, conclud- ed—“don't mind it a bit, but a bosky "ay = | She was dell with a mad woman is my idea ace to he.” The clerk lifted his | o—Allie'! Has it gone as as that Del?” Oh, you know how it is! A les- son every day, soft. mu arm jaround the waist, a kind word. The girl is human, I'm probably differ- ent to anything that ever came into her young life. Look at my ward- robe! She's not so bad to take, either, and yet—" The immacyate speaker frowned. “Father smells like a horse, and mother’s a nut! mental, and the application, the energy she display ed had surprised not only her #fir- ents, who could but dimly under- stand the fece: of self-culture, but also Mrs. Ring, the instructre Mrs. Ring, a handsome, middle-aged woman whose specialty was the fin- ishing of wealthy young “ladies” had been induced to accept this position partly by reason of the attracti jselary mentioned in Calvin Gray's telegram, and partly bytreason of the fact that she aecded a rest. Allie possessed ciaracter and will power. For some time she had cepted Mrs. Ring's tutorship out comment or question—Cal Gray had recommended it, therefore she obeyed blindly—but one d\y, after they had become settled in the mountains, she out with a forceful declar: th- ion. + She knew full well her own short- comings, so she declared, and she was not content things day by ¢ intensified training; der forced draught. well, Riding i ment. Can to learn a few he demanded education un- horse?” “Pshaw! [can carry a hor: “You'd look well in a hubit,. and with baths, massage, dancing, and a little diet I dare say you can duce.” “IN_starve” Allie asserted, fierce- ly. “But that ain't half envugh. You gotta give me more ctudy I got callouses on my hands and fm used to work. We'll get up at day- light" “Good heavens!” Mrs, claimed, faintly, “How long you allow it will take The older woman chrigyed. “Years, perhaps.” ears 1” ‘Real culture, social accomplish- ments, are the results of generations of careful traning. I'm not a mir- rele re- Ring ex- worker, But~why this impa- tience 2” “T got—" ‘I have.” “I have a reason. I can't take a generation; I'd be too late.” “Too late for what?” But Allie refused to answer, “Wefll start today and we'll work doutie tower till one of us plays out. What d’you say?” At first Mrs, Ring took this ener- getic declaration with some reserve, but before long she realized with consternation that Allie Briskow was in deep earnest and that this was not a soft berth. Instead of obtaining 4 rest she was being worked as never sefore. Allie was a thing of iron; she was indefa| able; and her thirst for knowledge was insatiate; it grew daily as she gained fuller understanding of her ignorance. Most things she appre- hended readily enough, but when she failed to learn, when mental/or uhysical awkwardn halted. feo- gress, then she flew in a fury. Her temper appalled Mrs. Ring. (Continued in Our Next Issue) ——___________»4 | A THOUGHT { | ir? It is impossible but that offences will.come; but woe unto him, through whom they come.—Luke 17:1, Between the acting of a dreadful thing . f And the first motion, all the integim is z Like a phantasma, —*Makespeare. orchest medi iia easily V VARO Gee! It would take some coin to - square that. Allie Briskow was in training, both phy and or a hideous