The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 17, 1923, Page 4

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ORIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE «67.20 ate outside Bismarck).... 5.00 mail, outside of North Dakota DEST NEWSPAPE shed 1873) GOVERNOR PREUS DEFEATED The election of Magnus date, to take the seat in the United States Senate Johnson, Farmer-Labor ¢andi- made vacant by the death of Senator Knute Nelson will not raise the intellectual level of the world.” ity, to be ranked as a s “the greatest deliberative body in Mr. Johnson is not, by training or proven capac- ator of great ability. The election f Mr. Johnson will add strength to the radical bloc of Robert M. La Follette and to the extreme “progressives” through- out the nation, “Mr. Johnson goes into the United States Senate with the charges made that while a director of the Equity Coopera- tive Exchange he sanctioned a private pool which had the effect of turning profits from farmers into the pockets of a few men not satisfactorily answered. It is somewhat of a surprise to believe that a great bloc of farmers would en- ‘trust an important office to one who failed to serve them in the capacity in which he w: as placed by them in the Equity organization — for if not conscious of any wrong-doing he at least must share the blame for the mismanagement of the Equity which put it into receivership. That Governor Preus defected many votes by the uncer- tainty of action he displayed ‘son’s death is unquestioned. immediately after Senator Nel- It appeared that he was to resign the Governor’s chair to be appointed senator, but later he called a special election. upon the legal advice of the In this action, he acted state’s attorney-general. Hesi- tancy of decision is usually dangerous to any in high office. But in calling an election in the face of a legal doubt which may have made it unnecessary, Governor Preus displayed a straightforwardness which deserves commendation. In selting the election on July 16, he lost many thousafid votes heeause of the absence of adherents on vacation and the fact that the a elections. sent voter’s ballot can not be lised in special The majority of the successful candidate, however, ap- }# ars at this writing to be so large than the election cannot: be ascribed to factionalism o1 r other defections. It can only testify to the strength of the La Follette movement at this time, whether it indicates merely a protest upon the part 7of-voters, a desire to try out.a plain Miresota farmer in the United States Senate or a firm conviction that Magnus Johnson represents the type of man that Minnesota ought to send to the United State: 3 Senate. YOUR OBSTACLES We do our best work under difficulties, the same as an army puts up its best fight when trapped in a corner. No songs ever were written, no orations delivered about anvarmy that had easy pick accomplishments—are face of desperate odd ich the mountain pass or trench A good thing to keep in beyond our powers to handle v= It’s the working of a natu ing. Heroic deeds — really big aged by the warriors who win in the as the handful of men holding until help arrives. mind, when our obstacles seem them. ral law. Farmers and amateur gardeners often wonder why crops can’t grow as prolifically and with as much strength as weeds. This is the answer: Weeds grow wild, with no helping “hand, and they have to fight hard for existence or perish. . They fight hard. That’s why “*: ‘fake a garden. =<aid from man. 1. They are, in effect, pampered. Many generations they have come to “expect” this outside they survive. The vegetables receive almost constant Through aid, in the sense that by having this aid supplied to them they ‘lest,much of the natural vigor and initiative of veget- ) life @n ‘the wild state. 74 Progressively, as you take the obstacles away, the garden :<truek becomes weaker in abili ty to compete for existence with -other growing things. So with all of us. ¢ Obstacles are sent to make us fight, thereby developing our powers, our strength. Carveth Wells, explorer, blazed a railroad route through Malay jungles. He and his crew hacked their way through the dense wild growth. When they returned, months later, they found that the surveying stakes which they had driven along the path had grown up into tall bamboo trees. wouldn’t happen’ with domesticated trees, That. accustomed through generations to being pampered and aided, and thereby weakened. The bamboo, forced to struggle in com- petition with millions of other specimens of plant life in the dense jungles, had built up a tremendous power of growth and victory. ==} You find the same thing in the Far North, where short _ summer seasons make the struggle for existence so acute and ~“initense that vegetation grows with almost asparagus speed, and spilled grass seed even sprouts in the cinders along rail- road tracks. Compare this with the trouble you have grow- ing grass on your lawn. -* You have observed how rats and mice flourish and aolioly as a reaction to being constantly hunted. So on, ~aH through the animal kingdom, man included. Success of . the able, like survival of the fittest, necessitates a hard struggle—obstacles galore. ; ~-{ Iron and steel prices igh to need monkey secbnagers in other industries PRICES w a weakening tendency — not is, but sufficiently to worry sales who watch the steel gams as a weathervane of general business. When another period of depression comes, prices will hit + He Prive ince by. hia, ib ed $200 . How far will they drop? Some experts what they were in the old days. judging by this letter written in 1779 to John} money, per bushel. Linens are ordinary calicoes are $30 ahd yard; molasses: at $20 per -gal- gah THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. Justice may Le blind, but an At- lantie City judge held a a bathing beauty for examination, , Fine thing about all the family be- iy away is it makes a man boss in his own home, One might a Spokane rejectea lover who jumped off a tall building fell hard for her, z ! Even hot weathcr has its use. If you don’t want hot weather all the time start being good, A New Yo.k youngster talks five but that’s nothing, most uk 10 or 12, When she gets sunburned these | days it is just about all over, All work and no pay indicates Jack is a farmer, Chicago man was robbed twice in Los Angeles, perhaps Just to make him feel at home. European nat‘ons can't get peace with each other by trying to get piece of each other. A bee or not a bee, that’s the pie- nic question, The ambitious amateur thinks the golf course hasn't enough holes so digs a few himself, Now is the time to put coal in the cellar if you can get prices in the cellar. _ Too any people’s idea of a good time seems to be too many people's idea of a wicked time. Some people making long summer trips are wished success going, but not coming, What could be worse than-getting shot by mistake? To the pure all things are pure, but to the simple all things are not simple, A prétty Dallas, Tex., girl of 16 is held for picking pockets. Just a slip of a girl, The female of the species gets more sleep than the male. In London, ~ hotel was dynamited. Rumor has it several hotel steaks were badly bent, Boston June bride wants’a divorce already, claiming she has been hug- ging a delusion... es Very few boys are as goog as their Parents think or as bad as their neighbors think, The “gun that wasn’t loaded” isn’t in it with “the water that wasn’t deep.” The average fisherman gets cheated by swapping good wormbs for what he brings home, Take any county, and you'll find the holes in the roads and farmers’ | Pockets about equal. It is warm enough to leave off the! heavy underwear now, a ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton The next place Mister Sky Bow took the Twins to in Rainbow Land | was the town where the Rimies lived, | They were funny Jooking little folk with long hair and spectacles. The Twins knocked on the door of the first house they came to and a Rimy answered it. “Why, how do you do, “And pray who are you?” asked. | “Answer him with a‘ rime if you can,” whispered Mister Sky Bow to Nick, 3 “We came here to see “This strange cpuntiee,” said Nick, and I think it was pretty good poetry for a little boy, don't you? “Then come in. and be seated/ *“Till the kettle I've heated,” in- viteg the Rimy, “Oh, we can’t just now, you, said Nancy, and can’t stop.” Suddenly the Rimy slammed the door and was gone, “Wh-what’s wrong?” asked Nancy. “What did I do?” boopetsd “You forgot to speak in poetry and offended him,” expMineq Mister Sky Bow. “Here comes another. Now remember what ¥ toa you.” But before Nancy could say an- other word, the Rimy began, “The cat had no king But the king had a cat, Now, please tell me, sirs, Where do you Itve at?” “On the other side of the rainbow door, ! In a nice white house front door,” answered Nancy, quickly, getting this Limes ‘echo ais “That won't do,” shaking his head, can’t use the same again.” he thank “We're traveling with a_big safd the Rimy “In. poetry you word twice, Try - ie ples v4iligk house with a-a-a- s I said before,’ breathlessly, afer eee Z “Fine! Fine!” said the Rime, ‘Now, ss T am the Grand High Rimy, I will make you both Rimi the restest honor vou ‘enn have,” And he touch-d:tham both on the- hood with a small'stick: E “Com MOS hoy UN THE STRONG-MAN ACT ™ = = : oe < STN = a9 Ss SSNS = = = LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, IN CARE THE SECRET DRAWER, I like Ruth Ellington very much, dear little Marquise. On the night of my dinner patty she asked me to go with her the next day on a shopping tour. She wanted her spring hat. She was another woman ‘when) we were age, ' Talk about the joys of the cf I venture.that no man ever ‘hac as much fun with a gun -in...a.well stocked game preserve as a .woman does when she is stalking a hat at a spring opening. = “Let's go to that awfully expen- sive new hat shop,” I suid to Mrs. Ellington. “But I can’t afford any of their hats,” she answered. i. “I know it but we can get an idea of all the exclusive modes and ideas and then\if we see the other kind we will know how nearly they come up to the standard.” “I think J’ll get a black hat,” said Mrs. Ellington as we entered. The pretty young woman who spoke French with an Irish brogue aiid} called us both madamoiselles, soon had us seated in front of the mirror, While we were waiting for her to return, we saw in the next booth a woman who was surety over forty trying on hats. “Don't show me n black hat. can’t wear it.” we heard her say. The obliring young woman brought hor one of baby blue. “My, do vou suppose that woman is going to buy that hat?” asked Mrs, Filineton. “Someone, her it looks terrible oh 1 (IT Acso. TRANS MITS TREMGWROYS Enero. ought to tell) up every wrinkle and aging defect in her face.” +ALL 1igitt, you ¢o it,” I said and we wun giecd so loydly thac une voman turned toward us. Au of a sudden I knew { was look- ng upon a tragedy, The woman was vainly try.ng to find her lost youth, Sue was uying on-hits that were becoming to her young heart and not her oid head, the same thougat must have come to Ruth Ellington, for she said, “De, you know, Mrs. Prescott, I hope my heart will grow old witn my face. I don’t want my face to wrinkle my. rorm to shrink, while my heart stays young. “It must be tragic to want pretty youthful clothes, to long to dance and sing and know all the time down deep your heart that physically you have grown too old for the things your young heart wants for its own,” T looked at Ruth Ellington pitying- ly. She was young still but some- thing was bl.ghting her joy of living. If, her heart had not grown older than her face it haq grown colder, Both these women were fitting their hats to their hearts instead of their heads. Ruth Ellington wanted ‘a black hat because, for some reason which I had not found out, her heart was in mourning, The other woman wanted a youth- ful hat because her heart was still young. ' I looked over my friend’s shoulder into the glass and found, thank God, that my heart was still young while from my eyes still shown youth. A stamps, valued at $125,000, was re- cently -exhibited in London. her, It'showg| longed to the United States. It be- | collection of 5000 rate Hin Florida, there the | cross, some miles away on the coast A RIGHTEOUS VERDICT T. W. Higginbotham, the inhu- man whipping boss who flogged Martin Tabert to death in the Florida prison camp, was found guilty by a jury Saturday of mur- der in the second degree, and sen- tenced to twenty years. The verdict of the jury will be commended by the people of this country, but it is to be regretted that those higher up, the officers of the Putnam Lumber Company of Eau Claire, this state, who operate the prison camp in Florida, cannot he reached through some court mandate. The whi under orde: nd deserving. of the punishment. that has beén inflicted but the higher-ups escape. We ant tp congratulate the state of forth Dakota, the home of Martin Tebert, for first. setting in motion fhe ‘investigation which brought about the indictment, and the con- viction of the so-called whipping boss. A jury of citizens from Flor- ida. rendered the verdict of guilty, and in a measure have vindicated théir commonwealth. Higginbo- tham. testified at the trial that he had -begten the youth ag a’ part of his duty, but stoutly maintained that at no one time had he admin- istered more than ten lashes. This was very ingenuously put, but the ry evidently was*of a mind that ‘abert met his death at the hands of the whipping boss, and rendered the verdict accordingly. In order to convict of first degree murder, | the intent must be shown. This was hard ‘to prove because the whipping ‘boss, administering the punishment, evidently did not star: out with the idea of killing Tebert, but his frail condition wag a con- tributing influence. ‘Tabert was convicted of vagrancy when he ‘was arrested at. Talla- hassee, Florida, on December 15, 1921, and in default of twenty-five dollars, the amount of the fine, was sentenced to serve two months in the Putnam Lumber camp near Clara, Florida. He died February 1, 1922, and the death certificate assigned the cause as “fevé end other, complications.” An inquiry covering a year’s; time, instituted by friends, brought about the indictment of the whip- ping boas. . Sometimes ;we wonder whether’ we're living in-an.age of civilization, of have we gone “back to the days when indignities were heaped upon the people through a lack of understanding, when civili- zation wag still in its infancy? All the‘ wealth that the Putnam Lumber (Company may acquire in the years to come will never wipe out the shame and degradation as a result of the murder of Tabert. While the mén' at the head of this concern ‘never knew Tabert and had no direct tonnection- with the whipping, still ne permitting the system ‘employing the whip- ping bosses, and resorting to this class of punishment, they are responsible for his death. The laws of the land are not such that they can be punished, but morally, they will be held to account by the people of the United States. They sanctioned thig system of punish- rrent. they nald a salary to Hig- ginbotham,-whose main duties were thosg of' whipping unfortunates in camp. , ‘ We can see inthis man a char- acter. similar to that immortalized. in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s' “Uncle: ‘Von's Cabin,” in the pérsonality of Simon Legree, brutal, without feel- ing, a’ contaminating influence up- on better mttizenstip. - \ In the ‘Un‘ted States, under: our comat tion| men are Imorisoned with’ of reformation, ae ion 0 Anat thas been replaced by an in- homen practice It is hard to con- ceive of in this day and.age. No onder sometimes the question\is ‘ked, “Are we drifting back to the eae. when civilization was unknown rod unheard of?” — Sheboygan {of the jj Prove such a suspicion’ vain. {just occurred, and the tragedy prov- BEGIN HERE TODAY Michael, husbarid of Jenny Pen- j dean, disappears and Robert Red- mayne, ‘uncle to Jenny, is swspected of murder. Mark Brendon, criminal investigator, has charge of the case. Jenny goes ,to live with her uncle, Bendigo Redmayne. . Robert, in hid- ing, sends for Bendigo to come to a secret cave. Both men disappear and there is evidence of a terrible struggle in the cave. Jenny marries. Giuseppe Doria, who works for Bendigo, and they go to live in Italy where Jenny’s uncle, Albert Redmayne, lives. , Peter Ganns, famous American de- tective, assists Brendon in the in- vestigations. Ganns arranges an arrest of Doria. Jenny is killed when she throws herself in front of her husband and receives the bullet meant for him when he tries to escape. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “Nothing at present was positive- ly known by me which made it out question’ that Joseph Pen- dean’s ‘wife should be the mother of Giuseppe Doria. But none the less many facts might. exist as yet be- yond my knowledge, which would I con- sidered how to obtain these facts and naturally my thought turned to Giuseppe himself. “Having found out what Penzance could tell me, I beat it up to Dart- mouth, because I ‘was exceedingly anxious to learn, if possible, the ex- act date when Giuseppe Doria ‘en- tered the employment of Bendigo Redmayne as motor boatman, Al- bert’s brother hadn’t any friends that I could find; but I traced his doctor and, though he was not in a position to enlighten me, he knew another man—an innkeeper at Tor- —who might be familiar with this vital date. “Mr. Noah Blades proved a very shrewd and capable chap. Bendigo Redmayne had known him well, and it was after spending a week at the Tor-cross Hotel with Blades and go- ing fishing in his motor boat, that the old sailor had decided to start ong himself at ‘Crow’s Nest.’ He did so And his first boatman was a fail- ure, Then he advertised for another and received a good many applica- tions. He’d sailed with Italians and liked them.on a ship, and he decided for Giuseppe Doria, whose testimon- ials appeared to be exceptional: The man came along and, two days after his arrival, ran Bendigo down to Tor-cross in his lnunch to see Blades. “Redmayne, of course, was full of the murder at Princetown, which had ed so interesting that Blades had little time to notice the new motor boatman. But what matters is that we know it was on the day after the murder—on the very day Ben- digo heard what his brother, Robert, was supposed to have done at Fog- gintor Quarry—that his new man, Giuseppe Doria, arrived at ‘Crow’s 2. COPYRIGHT GER THEMEMLAN Company RELEASED By NEA SERVICE INC, ARRGT.MET. NEWS, SVS. “Now we get to blindman's buff with the forgery. Follow each step. Bendigo never sees his supposed brother “once; you never see him again, Your united search throt the woods is futile; but Jenny dnd her husband in the motor boat bring news of him. Robeft must see Ben- digo all alone—and he must have food and a lamp in his secret hiding place. “Well, it’s fixed up and Ben de- cides to meet his brother after nifd- night, alone; but the old sailor’s pluck wavers—who shall blame him? —and he arranged in “secret with you that you ghould be hidden in his tower room when Robert Redmayne comes to keep the appointment. “Now the next thing puzzled me for a moment; but I think I know what happened. Only Pendean’s final statement, if he ever makes one, will serve to clear the point; but I can guess, that at that first in terview with, Ben he tumbled to the fact that you were hidden in the tower room) “That being so, his own plans had to be modified pretty extensive- ly. Whether he meant to finish off Ben that night, you can’t be sure; but there is very little doubt of it. Everything was” planned. “Now we get’ another lifelike re- port of runaway Robert; and finaliy Bendigo consents to visit him in his hiding place. The lamp is going to burn and show the particular cave on that honeycombed coast where Bendigo’s brother is supposed to be concealed. Another night comes and’ Ben goes to his death. “Two .Redmaynes have gone to their account and there remains but one. Meantime the course of itue love runs smoothly and Doria mar- ries his wife again.” CHAPTER VXIII. Confession. During the autumn assizes, Mich- ael Pendean was tried at Exeter and condemned to death for the murders of Robert, Bendigo and Albert Red- mayne. He offered no defense and he was only impatient to return to his seclusion within the red walls of the county jail, where he occu- pied the brief balance. of his days with just such a statement as Peter Ganns had foretold that he would seek to make. This extraordinary document was very characteristic of the criminal. Here: is his statement, word for word as he wrote it, MY APOLOGIA. “Hearken, ye judges! There is another madness besides, and it is before the deed. -Ah! Ye have net gone deep enough into this soui! ‘Thus speaketh the red judge: “Why did this criminal commit murder? He meant to rob.’ I tell you, how- ever, that his, soul hungered for blood, not booty; he thirsted for the happiness of the knife!” And again: ’ “What is this man? A coil of wild” serpents at war against themselves —so they are driven apart to seek their prey in the world.” Nest’ and took on his new duties. “That meant that not Pendean, but his wife's uncle,*Robert Red- mayne, perished on Dartmoor. And there he lies yet, my son!” Mr. Ganns took snuff and pro- ceeded. “Here, I think we may spare a tribute, of admiration to Pendean’s histrionfes. Both he and his wife were heaven-born coniedians as well as hell-born criminals, That he will leave a full statement before the end I venture to pro- phesy. His egregious vanity de- mands it. You may even expect something a litle new in the sui- cide line if they give him a chance; for be sure he’s thought of that. “And now I'll indicate how I brought fact after fact to bombard my theory, and how the theory with- stood every assault until I was bound to accept it and act upon it. “We start withy the assomption that Pendean is living and Robert Redmayne dead. We rext assume that Pendean, having laid out his wife’s uncle at Foggintor, gets into his clothes, puts on a red mustache and a red wig and starts for Berry Head on Redmayne’s.:motor bicycle. The sack supposed to contain the body, is found, and that is all. His purpose is to indicate a hiding-place for the corpse and lead search in a certain direction; but he ing to trust the sea; he is not going to starid the risk of Robert Red- mayne’s corpse spoiling his game. No, his vietim' never (left Foggintor and probably Michael will presently tell us where to find ‘the body. “Meanwhile a false atmosphere is created a} ywhich he proceeds to his ‘engagement at’ ‘Crow's Nest.’ And then what happens? The first clue—the forged letter, ‘purporting to come. from Robert Redmayne to his brother, jo sent it? ‘Jenny Pendean on her ‘way through Ply- mouth to her Uncle Bendigo’s home, “Jenny plays widow but' spends as much time as she wants in her hus- bard's arms all the.same; and to- gether they plan'to put out poor Be He’d never seen ' Pendean, of course, which made the Doria swin- dle possible. ‘I incline to think that Michael meant to begin with the old sailor and'that, when Robert turned up unexpectedly on Dartmoor, he altered. his plans. “Now. we come to the preliminary steps at ‘Crow's Nest’. which ended in the death of the, second brother. You offered just the starting point; and before you left on that rough, moonlight night, “Pendean had. _re: cont the forgery of Robert ‘Red- e¢ ‘and appeared before you in that cl r. “And not content with. this, he kept the ‘or all it was worth. Redma: e part going] Rol So"wrote one whose are and wis- dom are nought to this rabbit-brain- ed generation: but it was given to me to find my meat and drink with- in his pages and to see my own ‘youthful impressions reflected and crystallized with the briliancd of genius in his stupendous mind. Remember, I, who. write, am not thirty years old, As a young man without experi- ence I sometimes asked myself if some spirit from another order of beings than my own had not been slipped into my human carcass/’ It semed tome that none with whom I came in contact was built on, or near, my own “pattern, for I had on- ly met one person as yet—my moth- er—who did not suffer from the ma- lady of a bad conscience, My fath- er and his friends wallowed in complaint. ga At fifteen years of age I killed a man, and found, in a murder under- taken for very definite reasons, a hrill beyond expeptation. That in- cident is unknown; the death of my father's foreman, Job Trevose, haw not been understood till now. He lived at Paul, a village upon the heights nigh Penzance. Among the fish-curing sheds one day, unseen, I chanced to hear Trevose speak of my mother to another man and de- clare that she did evil and dishon- | ored my father, From that moment I doomed Tre- vose to death and, some weeks lat- er, after many failures to win the right conditions, caught him ,alone in a sea fog. I: walked beside ‘him for fifty paces, then fell behind, leaped at his sieck and hurled him over the cliff in an instant. My life proceeded orderly; I chose the profession of dentist, as being” likely to introduce me to people of @ more interesting’ type than my ‘ance; and I~ kept an open. mind for 1 [eee eae ie mye, but a shut Tie brainless: Robert Redma: brought his niece to spend ee school holiday with him and I dis- <eozered in the Seventeen-year-old sel oo} girla magnificent and pagan simplicity of mind, combined with a Greek loveliness, of body that creat- ed ae me & convulsion, loved one another from: the first Understanding sae (Continued in Our Next Tasue) Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such ie the kingdom of God—Luke 18:16, There ia a { eisiden 6 everything, To be young | . 2 [0s oe. of th