The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 24, 1923, Page 4

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EVERYBODY’ NESS Harvesting of North Dakota’s 1923 crop is of concern to every person interested in the welfare of the state, and it behooves every person to lend any aid to the farmers that he can. Depressed price of grain makes it imperative for the farmer that’ the crop be harvested at a minimum of expense. : tA good start was made in the obtaining of a special rate for harvest laborers coming into the state, and it is hoped that the railroads’ promise to Governor Nestos will be fol- lowed by speedy approval by the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, Free employment offices have been established at several points in the state by the federal government’s employment bureau and the state employment service. Business men and other city residents may aid in this work by dirccting labor through these channels. z ; The setting of rates for harvest labor, believed to be fair yy the farmers and others in some localities who have co- operated with them ought to prevent one locality bidding against another in times when the demand may exceed the available supply of labor. Governor Nestos, who urged co- operation among business men and farmers in the various counties in this regard, also urges the cooperation of busi- ness men in the conduct of the employment service. The extent of the harvest cannot be known until the grain is threshed. Western North Dakota in most localities, how- ever, can boast of a better grain crop than the Red River Valley, if reports of experts reflect the true condition of the grain. Corn never was better, and potatoes give promise of large yields. Flax alsv is in excellent condition, and there will be no lack of forage to carry livestock through next winter. X-RAY An X-ray current of 250,000 volts, most powerful ever used, was “shot” into the cancer of a woman patient at} Bellevue Hospital, New York City. Three weeks later the cancer is reduced in size three-quarters of an inch. As a result, Dr. Lewis Friedman, a Bellevue radiologist, is able to make this scientific prediction, the most important medical news so far in 1923: “All tissue contains electrical energy. The X-ray burns out that energy. We believe that it will take the place of radium in cancer cases. There is no doubt that some form of X-ray will eventually be discovered that will produce an absolute cure.” PENALTY France has another disappointment—prospects are that she will have a low wheat crop this year. French interests are said to be buying enough wheat in the world market to take care of their country’s needs for several months. The law of compensation never sleeps. Swords plouh-shares and spears into pruning hooks, France! into MOVIES Eighteen thousand movie theaters in the United States, with an attendance of 50 million ticket-buyers a week, ac- cording to a trade estimate. Which means, the average per- son goes to the movies about once every two weeks. Edison was right when he said: “Whoever controls the motion picture industry controls the most powerful medium of influence over the people.” CENSORS New York censors eliminated certain parts of the movie, “Good Riddance.” The producers “went to law,” and the court of appeals overrides the censors. The film will go into ciréulation in New York state about as it was before the cen: sors cut it. . ‘An this particular film, the censors’ objection was that some of the episodes portrayed cruelty to animals, which might incite others to cruelty. It seems to be all right to portray cruelty to children in the pictures which is a puz- “zling contradiction. = PRICES :Retail prices in Germany, as the mark continues going to pietes, rise a third in one week. Cost of living there now is 11,000 times higher than it was when the war started 14. ‘The mark apparently was purposedly inflated to throw sand in the eyes of indemnity collectors. The Germans dug } a pit for their neighbors and fell in it themselves. The 4 boomerang usually returns to, its source, especially when : hurled by an expert, with power. 8 rs STATISTICS ‘Something new under the sun —a business doctor who coreeens his own brand of medicine. Slason Thompson, r jad statistician, says superfluous statistics are adding 100 million dollars a year to our nation’s transportation bill. Possibly an exaggeration, but in principle he is yight, And it’s true of all industries, semi-demented concerning statistics which few read and fewer understand. : Since 1895, railroad clerks have increased 441 per cent, while passengers increased only 147 per cent and freight ton- nage only 231 per cent. System is futile except when it €éliminates work and cuts cost of production. AUTOS. Four auto companies now have produced more than million cars apiece since they ‘started business. Willys Overland is the latest. Buick and Chevrolet passed the mil- lion mark early this year. Dodge soon will be the fifth to - > Ford. the million mark goal several years ‘ago. He’s --* getting along to 8,000,000 cars produced. These sy lg : 3 when jorse! ad best, an innoyation limited in its power of ——_—— The top of a dress this year is about where the bottom of a dress was last year, Summer will be over in a few weeks. Long. may it stay over. England and France couldn't be ony madder at each other if they ran rival filling stations. Alabama man who looked into a shotgun will recover, but will never look the same again. Dirty, low-down rum pirates are still robbing honest, hard-working bootleggers, Jesse James rode a horse. Men who leave the strawberries out of strawberry shortcake don't, A hard guy is a guy who likes his iced tea so strong he needs a chaser after. it, Most important things going on now are electric fans, Some men can't go forward be- cause they always have, the brakes on to keep from Sstippthg baekWard. Many a man can’t meet hig, fricnds because he can’t meet‘his expenses. , Report that Germany pulls up old well holes té“Bet™¥8"8s for paper money is not true, Weeds, their a tables. it seems, have about wor al race aga.nst the vege There are about 110,000,000 people in the United States trying ™# get a little cooler. Happiness isn’t scarce. It just isn’t being used much, A June bride tells up her new hus- band thinks she signed up fog love, honor and no pay, Loud ties make almost as much noise as squeaky shoeg. Very few of the autos left at homo en Sunday afternoon are able to run at all. Tall girls don't marry as quickly because they have to stoop to make a man kiss them. Winter is better than summer. You can always: put on mere clothes, but can’t always take off more, All of us would be patient if it didn’t take so much patience, Pedestrians have the law on then side all right, but the autos hit them from behind. Two dogs went mad downtown in Philadelphia, not, however, because they saw where they were. Georgia man who wondered if the 5,000 ‘he had in a coffee pot would be stolen found it would, The future becomes the past be- fore you realize it is /the present. Bathing beauties worry over what they will wear, while others worry over what they wont. What tickled a man more than finding a dollar bill in the pockets of his old fishing clothes? Summer is passing. Some elbows are clean already. . ADVENTURE OF THE’TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton The Twins and Mister Sky Bow hurried to the place the, sounds of crying had come frem) {1% And it only took them a second to discover who was doing it. It was the Little Peezers. Where a moment or two before they had all been so funny and so happy, now every last one of them was crying his head off nearly. But they were so tiny it took about a bushel of them vo cry loud enough to be heard at all and about two bushels of them to make ‘a real noise, “What can be.the matter?” asked Nancy. anxiously, dropping on her knees and speaking as softly as she knew how. “Is it that bad old Cross Patch? Has he begn here frighten- ing you?” x “Oh, yes, piped out a tiny Little | Peezer. “That's just what's the mat- ter. Before he came along we were as happy as flies in a honcy-pot, but aftes he waved his magic stick, we suddenly discovered that we. hate to be little. It’s awful to be little, so it is! We can’t run fast, and we ¢an’t eat a lot, and we "th much, and we're just nothing at. al 3, tle Poezers. growth.| Twins, we're not afraid of anything ig new —or predict its}nw.” “But gist think!” Nick: reminded him. And all the other Little Pcez- pped erying sd listened hard. “It’s fine to be little in lots of w: 4, When you're sick there’s such a it: tle bit of you to suffer! «And when. ‘ou fall down there's such a little bit of you to get hurt!. And when you have to take a bath there’s such A little bit of you to wash with soap! And when—” |. “Oh. stop’ stop!” eried all the Lit- soll tell him to.ert out, Thank vou, (To. Re Continved.) 1923, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ~ ~ UNWARNED A Vv \ 7) MG Mn ND: UNARMED Ouen stevich acces. This unusual derics pf stories deals 3 with the exploits “gf “Chinese” Pen- 4 nington, a ae sent by his gov- ernment to British North Borneo to ] run to earth The Yellow Seven, a Z gang of Chinese bandits. “CHINESE” PENNINGTON . lay tapping the toes of his shoes togeth- er, gazing through the:\wreath of smoke that hung above him:at a liz- ard that clung to the ceiling of the veranda of Captain John Hewitt Commissioner of Police, A hand reached down and scratched at a gcc- tion of; white, calf that’ showed be- tween the lowest extremity of a care- fully creased trouset-leg and the top of a crumpled sock. The strange dia- gonal slits, behind which his eyes had a knack of disappearing, widened presently, and he looked across at Monica. “Hot, isn’t it?” “Almost too hot to think. I'm glad you've decided to sit up because I’ve lots of things I want to ask you.” “What sort of things, Mrs, Viney?” “There are heaps’of thmegs I don’t derstand,” she told him. “Why ’t you” arrest Mr. Chai-Hung?” ‘You think we ought to?” “Why, of course. You know him to be the leader of Chinese opinion on the island; you xnow him to be cunning, unscrupulous, capable of anything. ... I can't see why Jack bothers himself to scour the coun- tryside for Chai-Hung’s puppets- when the oily Oriental who actually pulls the wires 18 still at large.” The man with the Chinese eyes balanced a rubber pouch on his knees and began rolling a fresh cigaret. LETTER FROM SYDNEY CARTON TO JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT, Perhaps I’d better confess in the first place, dear old caap, that Iam very much afraid—: d of Leslie] that young —affAid of myself—and most of all} tneir wives are immune: atinid"oti you: : +1 + Jus well as I, Jack, that y You are such a fool Jack.’ You} fectly free to complime never know when you are well off and all the while I feel that you“are sitting over a voleano and that some day this married life of yours will go all fluey. Did you ever. stop to think that there 1s a divorce ‘for every eight marriages? Don't add to your possibilities of being. that’un«’ lucky number eight. very Of course I her. There is always a wife, tiest girl in town as you neglect her? cannot understand how Leslie feels about you~ but knowing you as I do, I know I! wouldn't live with you a minute. Will you tell me just why you want to preak up the friendship between, Ruth Ellington and Leslie? I happen to have known Ruth Very well before she was married .and, as you say, she was the gayest and brightest girl in her ‘set. I know that something very terrible must’ have happened in the first year of her marriage, for she has never been the same since. I never did like Harry Ellington. He is the most selfish egotistial, ar- rogant man I have ever met, and that’s going some. What little I have seen of Ruth since her marriage’ has made me think she is a brave little thing who doesn’t tell her troubles to every one, but I would like to tell Harry Ellington one thing. 1 believe } know Ruth well enough to prophesy that there are plenty of men who would be very glad to make love tu she, will very quickly tel where he gets off. She is to'be blindly in love or voted. that Keep Leslie away from kia yourself, Jack. a mind of her own ang ercise it in ‘Because I know that I neither prejudiced, any controversy. that letter. I crow h whenever I think ofc it. always think there is so1 tween you and me that not know. Of course th in the offing for a pretty neglected | It always seems so strange to me hustands seem to feel with the wives of any young men of your acquaintance if they will let also that down deep in your t you think you have the pret- Then why should not all the other fellows try to make love to her if you I-have seen that so many times and I am satisfied that in the case of Ruth Ellington, if she ever falls in love with another man, ‘ Perhaps you have noticed this and the reason you wanted to Leslie also has the selection of her friends, both men and women. Leslie's part against you, for I know her well enough to know she nor jealous, I don’t want to come over and get into I know you would be just fool enough to commence one. You put me in wrong with her with » She will that she should not know about you if she wants to be happy and that’s what makes me afraid of her, for. I Monica watched him impatiently, She found it difficult to associate in her mind the two + Penningtons—the youthful, immacutaté jdler who orna- mented her brother's bungalow, lead- ing an apparently purposeless exist- ence, and tho gaunt, lean searecrow who, a master of dialects and dis- guise—wandered undetected from tell you, my friend, that if Leslie asks me anything about you, I'll tell her the truth. SYD. INDIANS ASK eee or a5 drinking-house to opium den, from market-place to camp-fire, hounding out the spreaders of a sedition that disturbed’ the peace of the handful of white settlers that dwelt on these fringes of . civilization. “I'm afraid you have to blame me for that, Mrs. Viney,” he said slowly. “You see, things aren't always as easy as they. seem. Chai-Hung is pal the most respected Chinaman in ‘oriteo. I'm prepared to admit that there was a time when things looked black against him. It seemed i credible that he should be able'to find a way out,-but he did, Among a legion of worshipping followers it was by no means -difficult for him to discover a scape-goat.” Monica‘ sat up.- » “But the Yellow. Sey. sisted excitedly. “Not plain away that.” Pennington spyead. out his hands. “I know,” he agreed... “In almost every outrage committed that yellow card with its seven black dots has been traced; but what does it go to Prove, after all?—merely that tho Perpetrator belonged to a society or fult among which this symbol ex- ercises a significanc nothing ag: “But you know—’ 3 “Of course I know. You know— and so docs your brother, but, it's up to us to prove our case. It's up to me to catch Chai-Hung red-handed with the cards in his possession, Have you ever ,seen lalang, Mrs. Viney? It’s a weed that grows high on i HUGE SUMS Seek Millions in Return of Property nother man You know ou feel per- nt ang flirt Sioux Falls, S. D., July 24. Falls, the Pipestone, Min: quarry and several additional items,” are lumped together under the title of. Indian territory in a suit to be brought against the fed- eral government .by the Yankton Sioux Indians, according to Wash- osay, or Alfred C, Smith of Wagner, @ representative of the tribe, who was in Sjoux Palls Friday. The suit involves several million dollars. It is declared to, be the largest individual action of the kind that has ever been brought. Washosay and several tribesmen were here to witness the signing of a contract’ with E. E. Wagner of Sioux City, former attorney of this Don't | city, who has been engaged’ as at- torney for the tribe. The group was accompanied here by A. W. Leach, supervisor in charge of the Yankton j Indian agency. | Attorney Wagner was formerly United States district attorney for South Dakota. According, to Washoshay, there are two centyal..claims involved and several minor claims, the earliest of which dates back to 1836, First on the basis of. having been the original dwellers in the Black Hills, the Yankton Sioux tribe was said by Washoshay to be asking an indemnity for part ownership in that region. 9 Another large claim to indemnity is put forth on the basis of a treaty of 1852 in which the Yankton Sioux ir wife, en,” she . per-} & can ex- 1 Mr. Harry n't a woman blindly de- her. she will ex- lung.” would take is ot all over you must dig it up— l—and burn it until there is nothing left that can take root again. The Yellow Seven is like lalang. I've got to make certain that ung is the root—and the only mething be- she should ere’ is a lot “I see,” said Monica thoughtfully. | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | ALG RIGHT, TROT T €vekstt, 1 Ave OT. 'SOMG. SNAP-S8HOTS OF mY CITTCSe KID THAT T (Oy: WANT TO at 1 GET A sO CHANCE See He (8 hig eur VERY nO R PHotocrRaPNy ! —4lOOKS CiKS Wis Service, Inc.) | 4 Cres HE GRoaws UP» bt PORS AL HIS FRIENDS WITH PIcTVESs STORISS OF MIS FIRST= Kips Witt BS K 5 “We're hapny arain. |’ t mean much unless you recall the ‘oldi| rq i¢ old Cross Patch ooreen book: carriage” struck most people as a T RAVE ALWAYS BSSN FOND OF CHILDREN, |: ——| AND WHENEVER HS wict DoevBrcess ceded this section of the state. and also a large area in the north. Noth- ing: has ever been ‘received from these cessions, actbrding to the pre- sent suit.. Sones “And until this happens—?” “Until then every planter’ who walks in lonely places—goes in peril of his life; every white man who em- i Chinese cook-boy should look Hem A Rt closely ibe his srerlentials, when. he ing 2 | engages him,.and carefully i ito hi: | A Thought ] cooking forever after!” x i niin W > He. that ,cayoreth .9. transgression seeketh peddy he that repeateth a matter seperateth very friends— Habe: regarding her from the faot of the steps. which@ed to the veranda. Over his head was the inevitable red um- brella, and an undersized coolie—ill- favored and hijmp-acked—Iurked in the backgroun The. Oriental’ berit himself nearly fouble before the Eng- lish girl. “Good afternoon, Mrs. d’you do,: Mr, Excellency’ the home 2” Lewy “I'm. afraid he’s’ ouitj Mr.- Chai- Hung,” she said. “I came in by the train this after- }noon,” he said, in'a rasping voice. “I came, to suggest that a little more Police vigilance might be exerted in the district in’ which. my estate lies. An unpleasant: incident occurred there last night. Mr. Ailison—an sistant on a local plantation—was the victim of what I believe you call ‘a gang-murder’.”* < Pennington’s ‘brain reéled, “Alison!” he gaspéd.' The Oriental nodded calmly. ‘ “It appears he was the bearer of ® considerable sum’-of tiéney with which to the coolies, and stayed he ‘kidney path td too long at a friend’s bunga. Prov. 17:9, sce Let the greater part ofthe news thou heares® be, the least part of what thou bClievest.—Quarles, PRETTY AT 96 % Turin, Italy, July 24—A woman, ‘| 96, won first prize in a beauty con- test fdr ‘elderly, w4men here the other day. There were 130 entrants. One who was 73, had hair that was Perfectly black. (, —— DON’T BLAME THE CHILD Don’t scold. your children for lack Viney, How Pennington? Is His Commissioner at tions: It is: not ‘always the children’s fault—in many cases it means weak kidneys and can be readily ‘righted. Read this Bismarck father’s advice. 0. Baer, carpenter, 221 ‘8, Anrep he had no control 4 Peevi nas rota bib {tTbanks,” said Pennington drily: .|night. The’complaint: ‘came on after ee age it’s a queer she had, recovered from Infantile | June Mr. | Chat-Hung, Paralysis and it seemed: to leave, her kidneys but ‘I'd al- af thi trees § iweak., and disordered, h she acd ing s0.gdod for kidney, trouble and! For » fraction of'a second ‘th thought it well to try them on the| of Chal-are’ rokea sage tee child, After taking them she got)’ The Chinaman produced an envel- { 0Ver the, trouble .and her health |'ope from his tunic pocket, F “Perhaps you would be ked up at..once he. is picked up ih sad ah ee ae Tis ene % Milburn | itt.” It was ‘foihd .[that, he’s gifted TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1923 THE BOX TRIKE? SweLU., | | pares 5 : £2 22 -d eh Oe Pennington took the envelope. “I thke it that the crime was en- acted within reasonable distance of your house, Mr. Chai-Hung?” “Unpleasantly so.” “And this—clue was discovered by one of your men?” “It was found—by me,” Pennington screwed up his eyes. “That's interesting,” he said soft- ly. “I wonder if you could manage fo pass this way again, say tomor- row morning—about ten?” ‘ Chai-Hung shook his head slowly: “I'm afraid that would be utterly ible.” ing away?” inquired Penning- ton casually. The corners mouth twitched. “I may possibly be absent my _residence--for an indefinite period,” he announced loftily. “I shall be obliged if you will inform His Excellency the Commissioner that one of my secretaries will at- tend to any correspondence he may think necessary.” He turned abruptly and made his way toward the dusty road—a hun- dred yards below, “Well?” demanded Monica eager- ly, as soon as the Celestial and his hunch-backed satellite were out of car-shot. Pennington leaned back against the wooden pil. “It’s perfectly amazing,” he ad- mitted. “Im dashed sorry for poor Allison, of course, but it’s the main issue that interests me at this mo- ment. Look at the staff-work! He deliberately organizes a tragedy al- most on his own doorstep, and calm- ly arranges things so that he will be the first to bring the news to the Commissioner. Then he presents us with one of these delightful little symbols, for all the world as if he’ hever seen one in all his life before! Ye Gods!” He slid a finger under the flap of the envelope and tore it open. Moni- ca saw him draw out a card. He held the thing with its black back before her, then twisted his fingers sd that she could observe the bright yellow surface of its other side, and thi seven black dots with which it was’ ornamented, ame Yellow Seven!” she whisper- ed. Pennington left the rail and began ing the veranda, His agents are everywhere,” he ventured presently. “Even his’ visit this’ afternoon was carefully calcu- lated so that he should run no risk of encountering your brother on his way. He knew that Hewitt was lunching- with the governor at Sanda- kan. He is undoubtedly equally srpe that the Commissioner is re- tufhing with the warrant for the ar- zest of our friend, Chai-Hung!” “Then that is:why—” “That is why he is going away for an indefinite period.” Monica’s forehead wrinkled. “Oughtn’t you to do something?” Pennington smiled grimly. “Chai-Hung is being watched— night and day.” Monica uttered a deep sigh of con- tentment. “I'don’t see that there’s much to bother about, then. You’re bound to get him.” “You'd think so, wouldn’t you? I used to think so—once. But that - was when I allowed myself to be ried away by youthful enthusias There’s something about Chai-Hung that baffles one at-every turn, H a past-master of cunning, an enthu astic student of every diabokeal crimd in existence, but, beyond all an intuition—. @ sort of second-sight, that borders on the supernatural.” of the Chinaman’s , from pai Captain John Hewitt swung into view a bare half-hour after the f: of darkness, and found his sister waiting for him on the threshold. “Have you got it? she whispered. The Commissioner looked down at her and smiled reprovingly. “Got what?” ie reached up on tip-toe and whispered something in his ear. “You've been hearing more state secrets than are good for you,” he laughed. “Why do you ask?” She stood looking out into the tré- pic darkness, (Continued in Our Next Issue) oie { a= = Pee like a volcano, is a grim destroyer, belching forth when least expected, laying waste everything in its path. : Give thought.for a moment {" to the selling price of your Property. Think of the amount which would cover its present value? Investigate the restig “insurance, protection of this agency of the Hartford Fire Insur- ance Co. i Just call or phone— eee