The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 20, 1923, Page 4

| fy PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class % to aid j Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Publishers Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAY CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. NEW YORK " MEMBER OF TH The Associated Press is republi PAYNE, BURNS AND SMI NE COMPANY DETROIT Kresge Bldg. TH Fifth Ave. Bldg. E ASSOCIATED PRE clusively entitled to the use or ion of alt-news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved MEMBE. R AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANC Daily by carrier, per year....... Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)........ by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) .... 5.00 ide of North Dakota. "S$ OLDEST NEWSPAPE Dail by mail, out: THE STATE (Established 1873) A COMMENDABLE STEP A step forward in the development of Burleigh county was made with the organization of a cow testing association. Twenty-five of the best farmers in the county are pledged to go through with the plan, and officers were chosen for a period of one year. 1D) oo BF20 7.20 ... 6.00 aR 7 The value of*dairy circuits has been demonstrated in the The success of dairying New Salem and Flasher circuits. in western North Dakota is unquestioned. county circuit ought to be a great impetus to the develop- ment of dairying in the county. The Burleigh While the organization is in all respects that of the * farmers themselves, it is pleasing to note that the agricul- tural committee of the Association of Commerce stood ready mi: welcomed by the members of the circuit. Dairying is growing. the reorganization, together with State Dairy Com- sioner W. F. Reynolds, and that the cooperation was Members of the New Salem and Flasher circuits have profited by the sale of good stock to farmers in other parts of the state. Bismarck, as the capital of the state, centrally located, offers a splendid market cen- ter for the farmers when the circuit and herds are developed to such a point that farmers from this and other states will i-p#ek to buy cows here. WITCH DOCTORS In southern Rhodesia, Africa, where they have summer while we have winter, the natives recently called in a witch doctor to make it rain. The whole country was parched and withered as the result of a long drought. The witch doctor, of course, announced that a human sacrifice must be made to the rain god, Mwari. No one was very ambitious to be the victim, so the primi- tive city council turned their eyes to a worthless neighbor named Mtegedi. opportunity to get him out of the way. , Well, they tied him to a stake and burned him alive. Millions have perished similarly in the black history of superstitious humanity. He was notorious for his amours with his neighbor's’ wives, and the tribesmen gladly seized up. the, By coincidence, the victim had been-dead only a few minutes when a terrific storm blew along. Rain fell for days, torrents of it. Coincidence, you know, is the ally of superstition. If you have been following the scientific news, you know that Americans have been experimenting to produce artificial rain. electrified sand on a “roof of clouds.” The The most promising method is an airplane scattering theory is that a particle of moisture, suspended ‘in the air, tends to attract other particles — condense into raindrops—when electrified. The experimenters claim their first results are encourag- ing. Prof. Wilder D. Bancroft, of Cornell University, ex- pects Letter results with sand charged to 30,000 volts or over. Marconi some months ago predicted that “rain will come and go at your own will in the future. Then we will become lords and masters of creation on this planet. We will then be able to obtain any amount of power without effort.” The distance between the human sacrifice to the African rain god and the scientists seeking to make artificial rain in our country ig a matter millions of years of brain develop- ment. The contrast emphasizes how man in the primitive state seeks the solution of his problems outside himself, and how inthe civilized state he realizes that the solution comes from within. In other words, we have to work for everything we get on earth, and progress either individually or socially is “up to us,” ourselves. » We still seek alibis and blame our troubles on external (often invisible) influences. But we’re gradually learning ' that) the way ta get out of a hole is to climb out “with our Sk SE SSS Se ue : tu own hands and legs.” OUTDOORS The Boy Scouts now have over 500,000 boy members in the United-States alone. An excellent movement, for jit keeps. an important part of the rising generation close to na- ; ture.- Most of our troubles are caused by living unnaturally * —and close contact with nature will help pull us back to normal. Nature is very kindly to us, if we only give her, the chance. f CHURCHES In Canada the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congrega- tional churches unite. Baptists and Anglicans may join them. This would fuse practically all the Protestants of that country into one organization. Twenty years ago this would have been considered im- possible, though many clergymen for centuries have hoped for it. ‘ It’s a movement that may spread. é SUICIDES About 16,000 Americans committed suicide last year, ac- It compares with around cording to insurance statisticians. 10,500 murders. The suicide rate was 15 out of every 100,000 of popu- lafien. Figuring it on the basis of lifetimes, suicide a) ls about one life out of every 150. It is a futile tempt to escape from the unescapable, for we take our troub-| press _wagoi el Jes with us when we pass over. while we ‘had our, cold rains and \ Europe Something is definitely bags 3 seat old earth of ours, and the our, matter of only a t only eer ss oe not Unele Sam or tnd fatal disas and the policeman, is WEATHER. recent hot wave, Japan shivered in had snowstorms as far south as Italy. with the trouble is Y- at- weather on this in the sun. - ty affairs too seriously. Did it ever strike atively few degrees of weather, with our real ter? Every: government, Fall will be here in two months if, some reformer doesn't object. Pickles, says the pickle, associa-| tion, people beautiful, But being pickled doesn’t. make Nice thing about King Tut clothes | roing, out is they can save them for fancy dress ball A girl is a person who will learn to swim just to get her picture in the paper. ts arrested in if it makes When a bootlegger these dayshe raises him late for sujper. The easiest way to run across} your friends is to heed a shave so badly you try to dodge them. Lower taxes will not be in sight as long as government expenses are | out of sight ; It is cheaper to move than to keep your grass cut. y Many a man is a bachelor because 8 onions or because he doesn’t brush his teeth. Many a girl is an old maid be- cause she can’t laugh when she doesn’t see the point of a joke. The crank thinks one bad turn de- serves another. You must keep as busy as a bec to keep from getting stung. ‘Greatest man in the world is the man you would be if it didn’t take! so much energy. The honeymoon is over when he thinks she is skinny instead of slen- der and willowy. Having a beautiful complexion doesn’t leave much time for clean- ing up the house. If winter were to drop in unex- pectedly she certainly would get a royal reception. Safety First. Edison invented the phonograph by accident. Next thing to perpetua] motion is a small boy wearing out. clothes. Many men flare up as if “Please Remit” and “Final Notice” were our worst cuss words. Your ship will never eome in if you stay away from the bank. —— Bloodhounds are getting useless because they can’t smeil auto tires. A half-soaked man always things jhe is hard-boiled instead. Some people find it hard to go to sleep even though they have been practicing for years and years. titled to life, liberty, and freedom in the pursuit of golf balls. If you must cuss the boss be sure he isn’t around. A business man tells us he is rial Nice thing about a vacation is get- ting back. ADVENTURE OF - THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton The next place in Rainbow Land where the Twins went with Mis- ter Sky Bow was the place where the Googlies lived, The Googlies were not beautiful: They were far from it. Indeed they were ugly, for their eyes stuck out like the lamps on an automobile and it gave them the appearance of in- itive beetles standing on their hind legs. “How ‘do you do?” said a Googly, stepping up and tipping his hat. “We've been expecting you for five hours and forty minutes and six- teen seconds. You are late.” “Why!” exclaimed Nancy. “How did you know we were coming?” “Never ask a Googly how he knows anything,” said the Googly importantly, “These eyes of ours were not made for nothing. Some people have necks that stretch. Oth- ers have ears that stretch (when there re secrets to be heard), but we have eyes that’ stretch. Look!” And before the Twins could so much as wink, hadn't the Googly shot his great eyes up .like sky- rockets and brought them down again! “A ha! I knew it!” he cried “The Emperor of China is having bird’s nests for lunch. I can see around the world with these eyes of mine. Anything you wish to know?” “Oh yes, yes!” cried Nick. “Please tell me what Santa Claus is doing. And Mrs, Clause gnd everybody.” “H'm! Just wait!” said the Googly shooting up his eyes again, Claus is painting a word on an ex- It says ‘Nick’. And Mrs, Clats is making a doll dress. Now she’s pinning a paper on it. It says ‘Nancy’” Then’ the Googly brought his eyes down again. “Santa | | v LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CONTINUED “I wish, Jack, you could have seen Harry Ellington’s face,” I said to Jack that night when I told him of meeting Walter Burke, “when he caught sight of his wife and me.” “I don’t blame him much,” said Jack impatiently “Walters dutk&' 4s one of the greatest rounders” in town and there lington, I would rather you would not train around with one much, Leslie.” Being a ‘woman, little * Marquise, you can understand that this made’ me very angry and I answered some- what coldly, “I cannot understand why Ruth Ellington and I. cannot. talk to Walter Burke in a’ public tea room. He did not také us there. And why haven't people been talk- ing about Mr Ellington? . He cer- tainly looked like the one who was guilty. “His face was most laughable ‘as he struggled between surprise at meeting us there and a sheepish an- noyance at heing found out., “Who is friend husband’s dear friend, Walt?” asked Ruth as com- posedly as though “friend husband” was nothing to her. “I do not seem to recognize her.” ' Walter Burke made a great show of scrutinizing the woman with El- lington and then he said, “That {s Edith Chapman, the moving picture actress. I thought, of course, she was a friend of yours, Ruth. Harry has been beauing her around a lot lately and he rather intimated to EVERETT TRUE has been a: good deal | ‘said lately about him and,Ruth,£I- me when I razzed him about it that he was doing it at your request.” Right then and there, little Mar- Guise, T learned something about men that shattered one of my ideas completely. I had always heard that jmen never fail to stick ° together, ‘that they never told a woman any- "thing which would reflect upon j their own sex, and here was Walter Burke telling his friend’s wife that !heé husband had been paying court to another very pretty woman. From under. my. , eyelashes 1 , Watched Jlarry, Ellington. He kept neing our way, although he did : call the attention of tin ‘com- panion to, us in any way. Finally he’ decided fi IT wos the woman with whom Burke was flirting and T saw a look of anger go over his he came to the conclusion that I was using his wife as u ena- Heron in my nefarious designs. “There you have it,” said Jack a8 I told him this, “You see very well what it would mean ‘for you to tro+ around with Ruth Ellington, I won't have it.” “If you thought Mrs. Ellington "was not the kind of woman for your, jwife to go with, why did you invite her here?” “Oh, she's all right, only a little foolish,” he answered, “and Harry, you know, is one of my oldest riends.” an “Then you think Jack, it is per- fectly all right for Harry Ellington to be seen in the smartest tea room in the city with a moving’. picture actress, while all the while, his wife ‘is staying home and eating her ‘heart out? , “I like Ruth Ellington, Jack. I have a feeling that she is going to BY CONDO THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR A MAN BEING. BALD, MR. TRUG, lF HE WILL USE THE WAT S'M TELLING Yo It CORED ME. “Oh, my!” sighed Nancy happily. “l wish I were a Googly. never have to study at all. know everything.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1923;:NEA Service, Ine.) Dry Cleamng, treasing, it HAIR Tonia UV ABour ! be my oldest and best friend in the | years to come.” Would you ‘believe it, little Mar- quise, Jack looked at me a moment is silence, then went out and slam- med the door. MANDAN NEWS To Pave 30 Blocks And Road to Bridge The plans ‘and specifications for paving which were approved at the meeting of the Mandan city commis- sion Wednesday call for the im- provement of about 30 blocks on West and East Main street, the dis- trict between Collins avenue and Sixth avenue, and for the alley from Collins avenue to Sixth avenue N, W. between First and Main streets, ‘The paving on the highway leading to the new Missouri bridge must be completed by Oct. 15, 1923, while the balance must be completed not later than July 1, 1924, according to pro- visions of the call for, bids. After the publication of notice for bids twice the contract will be let |to the best bidders for the construc- ition of the work Aug. 6, provided | there’ are no protests filed by’ major- lity of the property owners. \ ' Sleeping Driver Causes Auto Wreck The Ford car that struck’‘the Dodge driven by C. A. Conlee, manager of the Farmers Elevator company yes- terday morning about 4 o’clock on the penitentiary road was driven by' a young man who had gone to sleep after having danceq all night. Mr. and Mrs. Conlee and children had left their home about 3 o'clock enroute. to Aberdeen, S. D., where . they were planning on enjoying a vacation visit when they were met by the Ford, which was driven, head on in the Conlee machine. The Dodge car was badly damaged while the Ford was almost demolish- ed. The four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Gonlee “sustained a bad senlp wound which required several | stitches to clo: The marriage of Miss Leila Clausen and Ritchey Johnstone; both | of Mandan, took place at Moorhead, Minn., July 12. Thé announcement which was made today came as a complete surprise to friends. Mrs. Johnstone is the daughter of) M I, M, Clausen and was reared-in Mai ‘dan, During the past year she hi j been teaching. in a rural school: near {here. Mr. Johnstone is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. 8, Johnstone and is assistant cashier in the Merchants National bank of which institution his father is president. Josetta Connolly of\Superior, Wis., ‘arrived yesterday to ‘visit ‘at the home of her uncle, Mike.Connol- Pie " J. L, Bowers, ho has been \in Grand Forks for the past few days attending”the North Dakota ithe: men’s association, has returned,” Mrs, P, Wagner and son, Frank left last night for Dubuque, Ia., where they will spe! bout a month visiting with relativ ‘ Mr. and Mra, George M. Darrel left yesterday te: 2K Bi aes ment and the Minnesota highway ‘commission are ready to proceeq with Quen SERUICE inc.ig2es. NEA Service Inc. 1923, , CAPTAIN JOHN HEWITT—Com- missioner of Police at Jesselton— sprang to his feet and extended a welcoming hand to a’ stout, elderly Chinaman: pausing on the threshold. Monica Viney, delightfully at ease in a cane chair, raised her eyes from her' book to observe the newcomer. His attire seemed to be a studied compromise between eastern and western’ fashions, for he wore a white tunic, baggy trousers of black silk, and black boots with elasti?) sides. Across his chest stretched a gold watch-chain, the links of which were peculiarly massive, and the third finger of his left hand dis- played a ring set with a large green stone. 4 “You sent for me,” he announced with a harsh intonation that, for some reason, struck térror into her soul, “That's right,” agreed the com- missioner cordially. “Come in and sit, down. This is my sister, Mrs. Viney. Monica, I want to introduce you to the wealthiest and most re- spected Chinese gentleman on the island—Mr. Chai-Hung.” “How do you do?” murmured Monica sweetly. She .was about to rise when a movement of the orien- tal’s hand checked her. “Please don’t move, Mrs. Viney. 1 cannot tell you how delighted I am to make your honored acquaintance. I understand you arrived in Borneo only a short time ago.” Monica flushed. “I came from Singapore three days ago—in the Jelandang,” she replied. “It was a wonderful trip. {I was practically the only passenger in the first-class saloon.” Chai-Hung lowered himself into a chair. “Practically?” he echoed. “Why yes. There was only my- self—and a Mr. Pennington.” Hewitt looked up sharply. “Of course you'll stop to tea, Mr. Chai-Hung?” The Chinaman slowly. “I never take tea, at least, not what you western people term tea. You'll pardon me, I know, if I say that our national beverage suffered considerably when it came into your hands. You diluted it with milk— and spoiled it with sugar!” The commissioner crossed his legs and held his cigar-case toward his guest. Chai-Hung helped himself. Hewitt slapped each of his pockets in turn, accepted the Chinaman’s box of matches, lit. Chai-Hung’s cigar, then turned his attention ‘to his own. With blissful unconcern, he ‘dropped’ the ‘box into his ‘tunic pocket. 3 Monica, keenly observant. watched with amused interest the almost pathetic expression with which the oriental followed the cool anuexa- tion of his property. A rippte of laughter escaped her lips. “Didn’t you know that?” she de- manded. “I thought everybody did. I don’t believe he’s ever bought matches in his life! Jack, give Mr. Chai-Hung his matches.” The commissioner started guiltily. “By Jove! I’m frightfully sorry. I hddn’t the least intention—!” He handed them back. The eyes of Ch twinkled. “I must remember that,” he said. “I sent for you, Mr. Chai-Hung,’ Hewitt began, “because I am serious- ly in need of help. Your amazing insight into affairs that concern your own people has been of great service to me in the ‘past: I am hoping that, it will serve to lift the veil from a mystéry of which the non-solution may enforce my. re- signation of my position here.” “As bad as that?” 3 The commissioner nodded. “Lord Stornaway and his wife dined here last night and left this morning for Sandakan. -. “I wanted their visit to be devoid of unpleasantness. While we were at dinner, her ladyship remembered she had left an unusually valuable diamond pendant on her dressing- table. I suggested that my sister should fetch it. She got there just in time to see Lady Stornaway’s iamonds disappearing: through the open: window.” . He paused and glanced at his sis- er. She began speaking very quickly. “As I openel the door, a current of air met me, sending something fluttering to.the floor Ixstopped to recover it and a sound from the win- dow. attracted my attention. It was open and, through the aperture, 1 saw a long, brown arm, its fingers passing “rapidly aléng the wooden Surface‘‘until ‘they closed over the ease that held the pendant. A sec- ‘ond later and Both arm and pendant had disappeared, 1 | believe ~ I 'sereamed, for the next. moment Jack and Lord Stornaway ‘ were both in the room, Lady Shorn&way followed. I felt the room going: round me. The, next thing I ‘remember ‘is - finding myself in this chair, still “holding the piece of: card’ that I up before ? saw the’arm.” ‘She shuddered*~and Chai-Hung rone to his feet, “A, distinctly. “wmpleawant’. experi- ence,” he commented suavely, “And the piece of card—what‘was it like. Mrs. Viney?” =. > 7 “It was) long. as my index firiger,"\ broke in the commissioner, “with rounded corners. On one side it was black, one the other yellow— with seven’ black dots, four of them above a faint dividing line that ran ‘thalfway—and three below.” i Monica, Iéaning ovei her chair, wrinkled her, forehead: shook his head -Hung positively ‘the construction of the bridge, he *. {tually ‘unruffled’. Chai- jung She could have sworn that the habi- ea violently. * Eitan GE YELM SEVE THE BOX TRICKS” had picked |- oi ' SEVE BY EDMOND SameLL.\ | _ BAUSTRATED By LR SATERFIELD 4} “An ordinary Chinese card,” he suggested. The commissioner shook his head. “It was possibly intended to look like one, but the coloring was differ- ent. The background is, I believe, invariably white. This was yellow. I am inclined to attach a good of importance to this card, Mr. Chai Hung. I fancy this theft was no common theft, the perpetrator no ordinary thief.” Chai-Hung regarded his’ watch. “What is your theory, Captain Hew- itt, if 1 may ask?” “I belieye that this affair is ot wholly unconnected with the pres- ent wave of anti-British feeling that prevails everywhere. I look at it as a carefully calculated plan to cause considerable annoyance to a promi- nent Englishman; the work, in fact, of a secret society. Be that as it may,” he concluded abruptly, “I’m in abopt the biggest hole I've drop- ped into during the whole of my official career.” “Has it ever occurred to you, asked the oriental blandly, “that a secret society in the east is very much the same as a trade union in the west?” “Then you don’t agree with me?” “Hardly” “But”, cried Monica excitedly, “how do you account, for the yellow seven?” a Chai-Hung leaped to his feet and stood glaring at her, his fists clench- ing and unclenching in his efforts to choke down the fury that con- sumed him, oa “What do you know, of the Yellow Seven?” he demanded fiercely. She regarded him in amazement. “Why,” she retorted innocently, “it was yellow—and there were seven dots.” The oriental swallowed gomethjng in his throat. “Of course. I was forgetting,” he admitted, half to himself. “I'll do everything possible, Captain Hewitt.” At the entrance he turned. “Good-afternoon, Captain Hewitt. Good-day, Mrs, Viney.” He was off at a rapid pace and the commissioner watched his red pagtr umbrella until it was out of sight. He turned to find_ Pennington at his clbow. “Good Lord, man! How did you get here?” The other grinned. The only thing that was remarkable about Peter Pennington was the angle at “ which his eyes were set on an otherwise youthful countenance. They ran ob- liquely and were as celestial in ap- pearance as those of the great Chai- Hung. “Came as far as the sun-blinds,” Pennington explained. “Heard the sound of voices—and retreated to the kitchen-entrance. Found your offige a damn’, sight cooler than the’ outer atmosphere.” The “commissioner doubtfully, “You've been listening.” “I always listen,” admitted the newcomer unabashed. “It’s my job.” “I suppose you gathered that our oriental acquaintance is a washout as far as this affair is concerned,” said Hewitt gloomilyy The younger man leant against the wall and began rolling a cigaret, “Afternoon, Mrs. Viney! Hot, isn’t it?” “Frightfully. Mr, Pennington, you don’t really think Mr. Chai-Hung will help Jack, do you? I think he's a horrible man!” 2 “Know anything about Chai-Hyng?” asked Pennington suddenly, Hewitt started. “He's a prosperous Chinese mer- chant. He plants rubber as a sort of profitable hobby. | Chai-Hung’s as white as they make 'em, for all his yellow hide.” “And yet he refuses to help ypu?” “Not at all, He promised to do his best. I hardly expected him to send the damned pendant to me by this evening.” Pennington turned and _ gazed though tally toward a sea of jnfinite jue. “Thanks,” he murmured drily. “I take it then that you place absolute confidence in our friend?” “Certainly. I've no reason to do otherwise.” The younger, man’ swung slowly round on his heel. ‘He walked dow toward the kitchen” quarters, the: came back and stood in front of the commissioner's chair. “If Chai-Hung knows as much of the manners and customs of Nis peo- ple as you are inclined to imagine, he could have told you one thing at least—if he had chosen. He could have explained to you that the re- covery of the lost diamonds is every moment becoming more difficult—be- cause it is changing hands, with in- credible rapidity,” (Continued in Our Nex¢ Issue) & Whatsoever good thing aty man docth, the same shall he ae of the Lord, whether he be bond or the good, just as there is in free.—Eph, ~ body an appetite for enjoyment. =— —Joubert. © Playing- _surveyed him _ AThought | > o- There is in the soul-a taste |