The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1923, Page 4

&¥ PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers DETROIT Kresge Bldg. Bldg. - r CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMI NEW YORK - MEMBER OF THE ASS! The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. y , . All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. “MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION ~~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE TH Fifth Av Daily by carrier, per year...... Beate ati . $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) .. 5 Ai 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. 5 5 -» 6.00 "THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPE (Established 1873) IN ETERNAL SNOW What do you know about the Eskimos? You’ve seen pictures of them, standing around in the snow in their heavy furs, and probably decided they looked too stupid to be interesting. But the Eskimos are a remarkably fascinat- i trange people, according to an interview with Donald «Millan, the polar explorer, published in the Christian rister. *** Parents select their children’s husbands and wives among the Eskimos. Men marry at 20, girls at 12. A man’s at lib- -€rty to have two wives if he can support them. The first wife is never jealous of the second, for she knows the new- comer will, by custom, do the household drudgery. Orphan children are gladly given a home with any fam- ily they select. And Eskimo children never are punished. The old are deeply respected. Life up there is a problem of hunting wild game for clothes and food, with no other industry that amounts to much. Eskimos have no calendar, no days, weeks or years. No weman knows her age. Time is taken as it comes, with. out worry, without measuring it. Until they were discovered by explorers in 1830, says MacMillan, the Eskimos thought they were the only people in the world. They ve in their, mythology two people who started the human race, an Adam and an Eve. The old men pass on to succeeding generations a legend about “a4 great flood that long, long ago came over the tops of the hills 2000 feet high.” Noah’s flood? The Eskimos have always believed in a life hereafter as firmly as in this existence on earth. Théy accept this belief ; as too sensible to doubt or argue about. Heaven, they be- lieve, will have less cold than here, with better hunting and ‘a reunion with loved ones who have died. They also believe in a form of reincarnation. ! The Eskimos, says MacMillan, are the happiest, most ' carefree people in the world, though terrors of darkness, tempest, cold and famine are ever at their doors. ¢ | “Many children die at birth, the mothers are so hard- : woking; but if a child lives four or five days it will live until it is 60; for there are, no diseases in the Far North—no can- .cer, pneumonia or tuberculosis.” What? A country with no disease? A people among. ; whom every day is Sunday? A race where parents are re- spected by their children and families are supremely happy? : That won’t do. Our public affairs lunatics will have to hurry * up and CIVILIZE them. * MONEY i Twenty-five years ago this month, the nation was excited hy reports that a consolidation was under way. to control, the -- iron and steel industry. Newspapers of that time said the proposed deal involved the stupendous sum of 80 million dol- lars, A dollar now is worth half as much as in 1898, but a busi- ness consolidation involving only 160 million dollars wouldn’t cause much excitement in 1923. We are losing our respect. for money. That's at the root of a lot of our economic and Spcial problems. CONSIDER Union Pacific railroad men in one week built a 33-mile branch from Lund to Cedar City, Utah, to get President Harding to one of his speaking engagements. ; At the same time, in Montana, Northern Pacific engimeers were rushing 40 miles of railroad sidings to park 1200 Pull- njan sleepers for the Dempsey-Gibbons fight. Boy, page Mr. Socrates. FINE! A small pony, hauling a peddler and his ice cream wagon that weighed over a ton, collapsed in the shafts in New York ity. A dozen idlers came to life and made the peddler haul _the wagon two blocks. By that time the crowd had grown *-46 5000 and police had to interfere to head off a riot. In very hot weather, too, this great show of activity. -*-¢ Kindness to animals is a very fine thing. But the high- light of this pony episode is its illustration of the contagion - mob spirit, the factor that is apt to upset the political t 5 Only place a m4n can write'a tele- gram imtwo seconds is on the mevie sereens, The rising generation gets many of its faults from associating with its parents. Do you remember wh you were worrying about this time last year? Very few of us do. Over in Europe they are viewing things with alarm and alarming things’ with the views. Hospitals are ready for vacation- ists’ returns, Mosquitoes and flies never go on hunger strik Ry starting now and working every day on it you may get your Christ- mas shopping done in time. Speaking of optimists, a great many.girls know it is only about five months until Leap Year, There are entirely too many selt- made srouches, TTT OR yah Many future convicts think they are too good for hard work mow.* Think of the money this hot weather saves you! on coal. Fastest ‘nato race’ seems to be to ree who can get the biggest auto in the neighborhood. Only a few more months until we will be wishing it was summer again. No matter how town station, it is a better place to get off a train than to catch a train. Way radio works in summer you can't tell if it is a cat on the back fence or not. Everything is all right in its place, but some days, everything seems to he out of place. Hitching your wagon to a star is fine, but don’t let your little boy hitch his to the ice wagon. Only a few more weeks until in- come tax. If the world’s problems are not settled soon there will be another shortage of print paper, The honeymoon is over when hubby starts chewing tobacco again, Difference betweett a‘success and a failure is a success knew what kind of habits to pick out. Bootleggers jhave a harder time in summer because they don’t have as many pockets, The nice thing about being a man is you don’t have to stay home after washing your head. paaal After having it seven months many autoists know their license tag number now, It is hard to-borrow money from people who have it have it because they don’t lent it, People often get so mad they tell the ‘truth, ) ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton The next place in Rainbow Lanu was where the Little PSs:ers lived. When Mr. Sky. Bow brought Nancy and Nick to this queer place, they al- most stepped on 'six of them before they knew they wéfe' there. Before you could ‘sneeze the Little Peezers began to ¢faw] up Nancy’s legs. and Nick’s legs and Mister Sky Bow’s legs and to run all over,them like ants, for the; yt any big- sef than ants, reatipes Py “Oh, look!” gried one. “Look what I've found! What do you s'pose it’s for?” “It was Nick’s pocket, my /dears, that the curious little fellow was poking into. _dopesters in the next national election. Most people lose their mental balance in a multitude, which may be why we ve so many defects when we express our mob spirit in na- tional movements. =f INDIA ; Another of the last strongholds of romance and adven- --thre—india—begins succumbing to the steam roller, civiliza- 5 ‘tion. We like to think of India‘as a quaint jungle country of temples, tigers, buried jewels and magicians. But a trade rts tells us that India already ‘has 265 cotton mills, arms of steel plants, a billion dollars worth of irrigation jects under way, and a growing net-work of government- Instantly. a hundred of them Popped down in and pretty soon out they came dragging Nick's knife. “What's. this funny thing?” they cried. ick took it carefully so as not to crush any of them and showed them how the blades opened. “What's it for?” they wanted to now, “To cut with,” said Nick. At the same time a-hundred more of the Little Peezers had jumped |‘ down into Nancy’s open pocket and hauleq out her scissors. ed railroads. ss : This is “‘progress’—which makes the world duller, - a GAMBLING « » Do you play the stock market “on margain?” If you do, you should be backing a 10-to-1 shot, in order to get an even run for-your money. For 9 out of 10, who gamble in stocks “What are these funny things for?" they wanted ‘to .know.. ‘They had to yell with all their might so Nancy could hear thein, “They are to cut with,” she an- swered, fee eth “Ooooo! Eeee!” screamed all the Little Peezers, dropping Nick’s knife Hike a hot- potato,-and dropping Nancy’s little sci ike a hornet’ < fon a marginal basis, lose their money. 3 al Why an 8.207 A high former official of the Consolidated Stock pet New, York City: Paste this in your hats, ent has’pi wea wager that the Soviet ia has print much paper money that the Sov 4s six months behind in announcing the total. But from the : i] lutio , up to the first of 1923, over two we from the printing. presses that ‘out, put = the down “It's ovér 2 million rubles for every nest. “These pe are butche: Anr they se down off the Twins shoulders “:and° arms and ands, ‘and every place they had found a toe hold for their tiny little fanaa they sli¢’down their legs and skedaddled away so fast that in two seconds Hay ihe quarters there wasn’t a singh ittle’ Peexer left. “Oh. Tm | a them.” aatd Nake: “We lenva’a Inmp ot sugar for; - them.” a Me Sky, Bow: (Th love it” ohn ea small the home |~ - we scared: Sn, X - GETTING MIGHTY HOT Syn (4 HARD CORY Z—— 4 THE B Quer service menses. BEGIN HERE TODAY Captain John Hewitt, Commission- er of Police at Jesselton, British North Borneo, asks help from Chai- Hung, influential Chinese, in the re- covery of jewels stolen from Lady Stornaway while a guest at ner’s home. / Peter Pennington,’ known as “Chinese” Pennington, because of his slant eyes, beautiful widow, is living with her brother Captain Hewitt. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Monica gasped, Sie “The well of oriental. cunning knows no bottom,” continued Pen- nington, “and yet I flatter myself Tve learnt to probe into it deeply.” “I have been working quietly but steadily on this rather unusual jewel robbery. “I found no difficulty in running the eriginal thief to earth. 1 was on the point of closing with him when a singular complication oseurred: As T lay. on my ‘tummy’ in the under- “Is this Mrs. Ellington?” “Yes.” “Say, that was a temps worry about “it, dear. “It make you see that ‘what’s,aauce for the goose is sauce fe “By the way, what ‘was’ ter with you yesterd: husband came in? anything to make you angty,* have 1” coming into the tea me in my decision that-things have been going too fast with us. going to call a halt. “I have taken a Mrs. Prescott, - Walt. terday that I had more fun shopping with her than I have ing foolish nonsense I do not intend to have our friend- ship hurt by any fool part.” “{ thought you told you were not a prude.” “I am not, but I do for what people say of me, though I know I am in the right. don’t believe there is who does not have regard for what people will say unless she has com- pletely lost her own self-respect.” “There you go again, thought you were a ni “I am, but yesterday you showed me that even you want your women to be above reproach ji speech of people Yi be the most circums; with.every one but yourself and yet Yov look WORR(GD, GVERGETT. yesterday but you rfeedn’t “Not in the least Harry,, but your: fsclt. I did not like it.” A to me. Ruthie.” funny contre ItGought |to »f course ‘or the/gande je mat jay before your I haven’t done .t_ the appearance of nischief. { guess I’m vain. he little foolish things that an sappiness. room confirmed satter} I am| friend: great fancy to I found yes-| ever, had talk- with you,|and Consciously you egg him on,’ lishness on my. ‘ wish that were true, Walt. me, Ruth, that band.” care very much} ‘Do you ever try?” even 1 a woman living “No, it isn’t, Ruth, for after yest day I have found out the reason wh; a mistake. just what wants, I} woman must show him. that age-old tradition Rut lew. woman.” still daily food. It’s up to you, Rut! make him think that you are not “And you don’t think so, Walt?” in the mind ang ‘ou wish us to pect of beings LAM wWwoRrRes !. UVS BEEN TRYING To: ‘ DECiSS WHERE TO SPEND: MY VACATION $ TELEPHONE CONVERSATIOIN. BE- you will not protect us against your- TWEEN MRS. HARRY ELLING- TON AND MR. WALTER ‘ | BURKE. Any woman with the slightest intuition would have known yester- day that you had’ been making love |eod of Everett, Wash., were guests And you ave succeeded, Walt, in waking me quite udnappy. You know that -qur \ittle flirtation vas perfectly harness, but you gave gmeditated I wane up Lesl.e Prescott it,,th nail on the head yesterday when the aid, ‘All’ women want littlé kisses) mall caresses, tiny bits of loving ittle children and a few % “Don't you know, my dear Ruth,| fornia, that you are the kind of woman who will never get anything little? You have a kind of magnetism or fascina- tion that some women have for all in~MeClasky for men. A man starts in to flatter-you ere ay ces y le little but either consciously or un- wish I could do that to my own hus- “Isn’t_ that. rather brutal, Walt?” y your’s and Hagry’s marriage seems No man really, knows | o Always some | Harry has in” his veins that his wife must be some- thing too good for human nature’s dau to “Certainly not 1 would not have | EVERETTTRUE BY CO | [pSouthweat. anarter of | }'ot Southeast aiarter ( hung around you as long as I have if I had thought that.” “Then it is ‘goodby,’ Walt.” There was a click at fhe other cnd of the wire. Ruth Ellingson smiled as’ she too hung up. i [ MANDAN NEWS | Mrs. J. Cardle and Miss Maida Mc- of Northern Pacific brakeman J, M. “Ieonly wanted to make you happy, | McLeod yesterday. as Dr. E, D. Ball, director of agricul- tural research of the U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, and brother of Dr. C. R, the department of cereal investiga- tion, arrived in the city yesterday to spend a few days at the U. S. Great Plains Field station, Dean and Mrs. McKee of the Fran- cis Shimer College’ of Chicago, are sts of Mr, ang Mrs, Harry Thor- bert for a few days. They are en- route to’ Yellowstone Park and Cali- They expect to return by way of\the Canadian Rockies. Frank Hudson: and George Thor- past few days, returned home yesterday. \ ‘ Miss Margaret Peterson was host+ ess Thursday evening at a dinner at the home of her’ parents im honor of her birthday, As a'token of the day Miss Peterson was presented with an artistic handbag by her guests. Mrs, Freq Stabler and two sons of akjand, Calif., ave visiting at the ome of her sister, Miss Genevieve Bochm, and with Mrs. Wm. Stabler. Two babies, the’ 11-months old ighter of Mr. and Mrs.:Louis Dil- iger, and the four-months old. daugh- ter of Mr, and Mrs. Pauj Ferderer, yesterday, Whooping cough was en asthe etause of the former while colic was given as the cause of death to the other. ee B ICK OF {PORECLOSURE SALE on ON SPECIAL EXECUTION — Notice is hereby given that by virtne of ‘a jndgment of foreclozure rendered: in District Court of Rur- leigh, Bount North Dakota, on July ith! 1988! bn ‘action wherein 'T. G. MeDérmbtt, Trustee for William Ezra Wheeler. Eilen: Brett Wheeler. Doris May Wheeler, Pearl Amanda Wheeler and Hattie T.ydia Wheeler is plaintiff, and Phebe L. Rogers, F. I. Rogersand Grace Rogers and R. R. Rogers, F. L. Rogers and M. S. Rogers an ithe executors of 1. last will of F, Rogers, Dectased, | Mason City Losn ‘a ee yy eesti Rebrge Ay: B. Gli rett. Mark na, Re at gublic| bidder, for ° pear House in the City of Bismarck, Bur- leigh County, North Dakota, on .the ‘th day“of Aurust, 1923. at 4wo oHlak BP. a the, real estate’ des peri as folloes:” ¥ ‘South halt (8%), of Section Phree (8), andthe Sontheast ‘onarter inf’ Northwest quarter’ (SEANW 5 i at Rection Four (4). Township One Wun- | fred Forty (140 Range, Seve (76). nnd, sso all of Section On To Hundred ¥ortv | (7) in ‘quarter (SW%NE%) and North NYSE: Ball, who has charge of |. }when her: brot! Tewst Commanve| his aftaje ay " ow ght growth, he was knifed—completely and effectively—before my eyes!” Hewitt bent forward suddenly. “Good Lord!” i “I collared the assassin low and we’ fought like wild cats. He had the strength of a bison and, if he hadn’t left his knife in the: back of his victim, I shouldn't be here now. Anyhow he broke away'and got clear, leaving me with this.” He held the torn half of a yellow strip of paste-board before the com- missioner’s astonished eyes. For a second Hewitt seemed de- prived of the power of speech, and it was Monica's voice that launched the question. “But, Mr. Pénnington, if he .were a confederate—why did he- kill his friend?” “Because,” suggested her brother, “once having got the’ pendant, he de- cided to keep it.” “No,” said Pennington with con- viction, “I fancy you're wrong there. The assassin didn’t trouble | to GE YEUOW SEVEN: ON TRIC search the dead man, but I went over him very thoroughly. The booty had passed from his hands long be- fore I overtook him.” Monica drew in a deep breath. “T still don’t see—" “I believe our friend was guilty of a serious indiscretion in leaving be- hind the token that had been en- trusted to him—the yellow seven.” “I don’t see that we're. much for- ra'der,” declared Hewitt moodily. “What do you suggest doing?” “Turning-in for a spell,” said Pen- nington. “In the meantime watch every port, search everyone who tries to embark—everyone, you understand. Cheeriol” ki ie ae He made his way toward the back af the house, leaving | Monica bub- ling over with curiosity. Hewitt anticipated the question that was forming itself on her lips. “That's about the most remarkable feller in eastern, waters,” he told her. “‘Chinese Pennington’ they call him, You saw his eyes? His pedigree’s faultless, but some. ex- traordinary freak of fortune—or birth, ‘if you like, decreed he should go through life—looking like: tb: I faricy locality has a big effect appearance.’ Pennington’s people have been merchants in Shanghai for generations. Anyhow, there it is! To all intents and purposes he’s as white as you or me, but there’s rio getting away from the fact that he has the cyes of an oriental. He knows Chinese character inside out. He can talk like them, He can get himself up to look like ’em: He holds a sort of roving commis: He's streets ahead of the ordinary “native detective. The queer thing is that the natives know of Pennington, but they’ve, never managed to nail him. They regard him as something most ‘ superhuman. They call him ‘he who sees in the dark’.” “How delightfully thrilling!” com- mented Monica, “He must be fright- fully brave.” The commissioner smiled grimly. “Pe igton’d tackle the devil in- The presence of a foung, beautiful and undeniably attractive . widow . is bound to cause something more than mild sensation in any quarter of the globe where there happens to be a PrpRorriaranss of unattached males. Tt was. perfefly natural, therefore, that Monica Viney, at such times jer. was occupied with ins, rarely‘at a loss for a impany: her on her’ search of fan was down. ver, Pennington “He came and jad never witnessed ‘arrival or departure. It was ‘during one of those evening walks that.she persuaded Dawsoh— loral ‘district officer—to take her to a‘gambling-den. . They hag been strolling ‘through the native hectare at inny; b! an inordi Srelase articles’ ently, before a1 building © from | which, ot intervals, came burats ‘of ral tering. At one end a half-open, a patch of yel- a -on the roadway. ‘Ais atm impulsively and a She cai | to | | ous. Sy EDMOND Sauer.) QUA S975 WALA? Moalats | crudely-celored pictures without frames, The whole ( atmosphere throbbed with feverish activity, the rattling of dice, and spasmodic, in- articulate grunts that she could’ not decide whether intended for signs uf Pleasure or despair. There wege clerks in white duck, natjve éver- seers in reasy suits, coolies with broad-brimmed hats of plaited cane and wearing only loin-cloths, A Chinaman, wearing enormous horn-rimmed spectacles, sat at the far end of a big table before wi! appeared to be the inverted halve: cocoanut shells, Whenever ti were lifted, there arose & repetitic of the. ‘discordant babel she had heard as they approached. All along both sides, orientals @f every class and distinction thronged the rocking forms. Every now and then a man rose, seemingly emotionless, and 1>it the table. Monica, the novelty of this strange scene holding her enthralled, allowed her gaze to wander round the room| Presently it fell upon the form of an oriental ina suit of greasy blue whose face seemed peculiarly fam- iliar. Every time a player from the top vacated his seat, this enthusiastic gamblet moved into it, in this nanner getting gradually nearer fo the man with the horn rimmed spectacles who manipulated the shells. Presently he looked up! at the swinging oil lamp... and Monica uttered a little cry. In spite of the elaborate disguise, there was something in the set vf the mo- bile mouth, something in the Poise of the shoulders that betrayed him. She found her lips forming the words “Chinese Penningtgn.” A moment later and he had rea ed the apparent zenith of his desire. His elbow touched the sleeve of the man‘who presided, but his cyes were staring straight before him at\an enormous Chinaman who sat opposite both hands resting on the table, the fingers slightly closed. For some reason that she could Not quite define, a mental picture be- gan forming in her mind; a Picture that the vividness of Pennington’s description had impressed on her memory. She saw a glade in {le night-shrouded jungle wastes, a hud- dled form with a long knife protrud- ing from between hunched-up should- er blades—and “he who sees in the dark” struggling for dear life in the matted undergrowth. Her vivid imagination had already established the identity of the man who now faced the hero of her ro- mance. Behind her she heard Daw- son strike a match and puff strenu- ously at his pipe. And then, through the nebulous smoke-haze, the three principal figures at the top. end of the long table stood in bold relict from the surging background of neg- ligible supers. In a moment of time the thing ha- pened. The man opposite Penning- ton slid a yellow hand toward the Chinaman in the horn spectacles, as if trying to pass him the something over which the powerful fingers were closed. Like a flash, Penni ton’s arm shot out, sending coins clinking to the dusty boards, scat- tering little heaps of paper-moi y like autumn leaves in a sudden gust. Swift as the movement had been, the action of the listless oriental who presided was quicker. The mysteri- package—wrapped in a. broad green leaf secured by strands of twisted bamboo—vanished into some hidden pocket beneath the wide- sleeved jacket. A score of swarthy forms leaped to their feet—and Ben- nington was lost to view in a writh- ing, swaying circle above which flash- ed a forest of naked blades. “We'd better get out of this,” said Dawson at Monica’s elbow. As his arm slipped through hers ‘she cast one last glance into the see- thing den. The circle dissolved into the form of an irregular hor ofhve. She saw the central figure stagzer back, the horn spectacles slipping from his face, si the long arm of the powerfully-built oriental. out- Stretched, the index-finger eloquent of a hoarse denunciation that was lost in the tumult of voices, and caught the glint of the blue barrel of an automatic. Pennington swung completely round ort one heel, _his pistol sending his antagonists stumbling over one another, leaving him a channel through which to es- cape. But he only fired once. wid, astounding accuracy, he shatteret the’glass chimney of the swinging lamp, plunging the building into darkness, , . Thirty seconds later Monica found herself leaning against a-wall under a jet dome sprinkled with stars. Daw- son, gasping for breath, stood at her side. She was’ wonderigg whether Pennington had fought clear, whether it had actually been’ Lady’ Storn- away’s diamond pendant contained in the queer package the transit of which the Englishman had striven to intercept, (Continued in Our,Next Issue) o Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to th: herdc—Prov, 27:23. 4 roar - DILIGENCE is the mother of gma fortune.—Cervantes, f h- EASY TO USB