The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 15, 1923, Page 2

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The greatest fear of those who wanted to see the city waterworks bond election carry in Saturday’s election was -k of interest upon the part of citizens and complications | ich might result from a very light vote. The fact that r than 1,000 local citizens went to the polls to register their views indicates that a healthy interest in the affairs ty k e hedy of citizens. True, only voted, but this situation may that the election involved not erworks plan but financing by H st Tat ee ee THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE... barrel. not a German. the World War. Honolulu has rainbows common there than dresses, a cashier there. King George's first’ and too many Christmas presents. Tibet is the lofticst region of its extent on the globe. there are in hotels. Not counting Lloyd George, there has been no serious earthquake in England since 1350, About 70,000 mice were killed in one Australian wheatfield, which, of course, served them right. Saturn has 10 moons. With so much moonlight there shouldn’t be a single girl there. Thunder has been known to break watch sprfhgs. Jewelers are often given thunder for this, There are 5,000 stars visible to the naked eye. If you don’t believe it you may count them. sed to substitute the $235,000 bond issue for t of warrants, at a considerable saving in in- | is hardly to be expected, that a great number | ould ect a plan to save the city money. cannot turf back in the course it ] ed desire upon the rworks system of the} ters The city adopt and to make it JUST A FRIENDLY WORD / : k citizen tind asure in visiting | Missouri river have ex-} the udition of the chief Mandan citizens and offici i dicated by the sfeps ng program, for which the city is In these days of , wher lief mea and’ permane’ or. adequate the an to suggest t gram is welcome $ a means of pe f but that temporary measures to improve tl would be welcome. Nor will it be misunde are sure, when it is stated that Bismarck citizens} rticularly interested in the improvement of Mandan’s treet, which is the chief artery into the city, and also ain thoroughfare out of it. BOOZE CRIMES At Windsor, Canada, where a lot of liquor is smuggled! \cross the river into Detroit, and on to other cities, the police find a dead man wrapped in a blanket and buried in a marsh. “Another victim of the rum-runners,” the police say. Quite a common thing to find mysteriously murdered victims around Windsor. That’s to be expected. The worst element of the under- world co-operates with the bootlegging traffic. Its big pro- fits lure crooks who otherwise would be blowing safes or holding men up with pistols. o Yes, there’s a lot of crime in the wake of prohibition. Murder, burglarly, forgery, counterfeiting. Due to prohi- bition? Many think But— The crime that trails prohibition is small compared with the crime that was hatched in the old-time saloon days. ‘All very well, to be alarmed about crime accompanying prohibition. But let’s not lose sight of the crime that accom- panied the wide-open bar. John Barleycorn always was a bad citizen. He was the king of the underworld. Driven to cover, he naturally con- tinues his operations to as great an extent as possible. People have become so intensely interested in discussing prohibition that they are inclined to overlook the fact that the real problem is just what it was originally—the havoc of liquor. It took generations of education and publicity to arouse people to the evils of King Alcohol. The injuriousness of liquor—to the health, to the home and to the nation—should be remembered indelibly. The details of prohibition enforce- ment are secondary. MODERN TIMES. e first water-power grist mill in America was the one at Scituate, Mass., built in 1640. It’s the mill described in “The Old Oaken Bucket.” Recently it has been restored by an historical society, so that it’s the same as when pioneers haujed their grain or carried it on their backs to the ‘mill, to get it ground to flour. foday we phone the grocer and the delivery boy brings the flour. In this and many other ways we live a soft and -e:s% existence, compared with the pioneers. _That’s why we ave. more illness, especially colds, indigestion and lazy iveks. ‘4 \ CANNIBALS BORED . ern and other wild tribes in the interior of South -6r'ca shrugged their shoulders and yawned when they ~vgmovies for the first time, reports Lederman, film man cranked the machine. , pe movies for some time have been charged with a ten- , toward stupidity, but we didn’t realize’ they were as dull as this.’ ' : ' ederman says his cannibal audiénce boasted, through ho’ an eter, that nothing he showed them in movies was ne pe as-some of their own antics, We'd investigate a| lot Before agreeing. ; a n While shutting the mouth is sim- ple some seldom do it, A caterpillar eat twice its weirht in 24 hou many boys envy him. Sea lions will eat as many as 40 salmons a day, while boarders will not eat so many. There are 31 pounds of salt in a ton of Atlantic ocein water, which shoulg keep the fish fresh. While the giraffe’s tongue*is about 18 inches long some neighbor tongues seem longer. Fine laces &re worth their weight in gold. Fine weather is worth its {weight in coal. ran French ‘scientist predicts an ice age soom.| We predict one sooner. than that. The pouch of a pelican will con- tain seven quarts of water, if he ever gets that thirsty. Spiders lived on earth millions of years ago, but it is no reason for their taking the place. { ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS ne See By Olive Roberts Barton Georgie Guinea Pig met Grubby Ground Hog one day in Squealy- Moo Land;=right near the corn-shock where Mister Dodger lived. The Twins and‘ tfie’fairyman heard every word they sald., Georgie said, (Say, Grubby, why do tMey call you a hog? You don't look like one at all. You have long hair and a nice nose that isn’t any- thing like a snout, and fine whiskers, and a nice brush of a tail that has neither a twist nor a curl.” “I don’t know;” answered Grubby} soberly. “I never did know. Why do they call you a pig?” he asked suddenly. “That's a mystery, too,” said George Guinea Pig shaking his head. . “I never knew either. It’s most peculiar!” “It certainly is!” agreed Grubby. “Your tail doesn’t curl, because you haven’t any. And’ you have soft fur like a rabbit’s, And-your eyes are entirely differefit and everything.” “Let's ask the pigs if they know?” suggested Georgie. “That's a good idea,” said Grubby. “Come \ along.” “ So the two friends started off. Mister Dodger and Nancy and Nick tippy toed after them, not so much to spy as-to find out for themselves what the answer really was. They had always wanted to know, too, “What's that?” exclaimed Piggy Wig Pig when Georgie.and Grubb; had put their questions. Why, I don't know, to tell the But ‘perhaps my friends So he called Saucy Snout. Pig and Twisty Tail Pig and they talked it over. . “Each one of us will ask you a question,” said Piggy Wig Pig after a bit, “and see if you can answer. My question is, ‘Do,you like to wal- low in a mud padafe dor” : “No!” shouted Georgie,and Grubby together. so quickly that Piggy Wig Pig almost fell: over. “Now it’s my turn,” said Saucy Snout Pig, looking very learned, “Do either of you squeal when you get stuck under @ gate?” “No,” answered both of them to- gether again. “We never squeal at al? at . * “Now it's my” turn,” declared Twisty. Tail Pig: with ‘a good-natured grin, and pushing the others asid ‘Are you both hongry all the tim and could you. EAT and EAT and EAT and:EAT?” == “Yes!” shouted: Georgie Guinea nd Grehby Ground Hog loudty. eat all the time when'.we can’ ; fell. grandly, “I teew "Ta Germany has the world’s largest It holds 625 gallons and is The first post cards were used in Austria. This, however, did not start almost every day, making them even more Natives of Africa hoard cattle as their wealth, so we would hate to be second cousins number nearly 80, which is Highest rooms nd thereby make | even Uke’ other pigs { v — BAhoTangle se. ou | LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT. we TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CARE OF THE SECRET DRAWER *| — ie Dear little Marquise, a dreadful’ ‘ g has happened and because I +): t ialk to somebody I am; going to tell it to you. “ Jack came home this. morn} ‘1 was absolutely eae te. and shocked et~ his °! years, The first thing he me was, “Leslie, do you your father will lend me six :thou- sand dollars?” + ne “I don’t know, Jack. Whatido you need it for?” “Isn't it enough that I need it? You know if you asked your father for six thousand dollars he. “would: give it to you.” ae “But Jack, I can’t do that’ nless it is very necessary. You know father has given us at least three! thousand dollars this year and he gave me five thousand dollars when I was married. It seems to’ me eight thousand dollars is a_ good slice of.money for. aman to. have given his daughter. in less than a year after her marriage.” “Well, you can make up any story you want to as long’as you get the comntissio1 “Thats, it will be mojey, Jai ment, Will you mdney ?” thing else er-way?” tion. “That won't do, Jack, I shall not ask him.” “But you must. I've got to have |-@. the money absolutely before the fif-| { |teenth of the month.” “If I ask father for it I must not * only know the reason myself, but I must tell him.” “Well, it is all on account of that damned Ellington. He couldn’t play square with his best friend: 1|' thought-I had made thirty thousand dollars, I did make it, You must have seen the papers and read how all told him to sell. #And you also spent My ood on the market. ns.” just it, the gate for me.” ick 2” “Oh, let up on the baby for a mo- Turn your attention to me. for the! ask your father “I hate to do it more than any- Are you sure that you cannot get it any oth- in the world. But Jack wag sure,‘so I am going tojsee what father will say. money,” was Jack’s amazing sugges-; we, shall sec. LESLIE. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought Fools because of, their transgres- sion, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted—Ps. 107:17. ‘The compliments of the season to ‘my. worthy masters, first of April to us all. ‘a speck .of the motley.—Lamb, and a MAKE THE FIFTH Ting, You SUFFERING CATS, Hess TRU iS, THIS tvs TRotteD SOMS THING OR judg- : Even ©ollege has accepted a position as r would have to say that. T couldn't be expected to st friend would welch on’ ne out and run away with z Consequently, instead, ying thirty thousand dollars! face. He seemed to have aged ten} above’the fifteen that I have put in| said to the deal I am losing fifteen thou-' suppose! sand;'@nd six thousand more which I cansiét pay.” “Bat Jack, you must have some I put my entire! ‘savings into this deal and have over- drawn my account six thousand dol- larg. If old Bullock ever finds it out, the baby’s Well, merry We have all Paul W. La Cornu,’ who recently graduated from the Montana State co-ordinator at the North Dakota Agricultural college, under the U.'S. Veteran’s Bureau of Fargo. He en tered the Montana State college with one year and four months, in high work in three yéars and ‘$ix months. Mr, La Cornu served with the med- ical corps at Base hospital No. 88 | Savariey, France and became disabled in service. to spend the.winter. They will make the trip by car; driving from here to the Black Hills aid’ then “over a southern route. Mrs. H. K. Jensen was elected pre- sident at the meeting of the library {board Tuesday afternoon succeeding Mrs. Frank McGillic, Other officers who hold oyer for the year are: Mrs. E. R. Griffin, vice. president; Mré. E. A, Ripley, secretary and Mrs. Ro- bert Wilson, treasurer." |! It was decided at the méeting to hold the annual rugmage sale Fri- day and Saturday, Nov. 9 and 10. Mrs. Ed W. Miller and Mrs, J. M. Hanley were hostesses to members of the American Legion Auxiliary today. > ||_ Merville and Roy Loomis who have @| been visiting at Sherwood during the summer are guests of their father, E. R. Loomis.: The boys are on their way to Dickinson, Miss Theresa Miller‘ has left for Forsyth, Mont., to visit fora few days with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. George Gruenfelder who moved there recently. Rev. W.R, Peterson, pastor of the Methodist church -in Mandan four years ago, has been appointed assistant pastor of the Methodist church at Mitchell, S. D., it has been learned here. Rev. Peterson for the past three years has been complet- ing his studies at-the South Dakota “Wesleyan -college: at Mitchell, ° Mr. and Mrs. ©. E. Bell of . San Diego, Calif, formerly of Glendive are guests at the-home of Mr. and Ed Hoger and John Grosgebauer of Judson were city visitors Satur- day. [ Haltorial Review TREES HELPED WIN WAR Only a trip through the thinned: out forest areas of England or a ‘| pilgrimage efong the, trecieds ‘course of some onze-shaded French highway. will reveal the countless school and completed sevén' years of | Mr. and Mrs. George M. A. Dailey | left Saturday for Long Beach, Calif., | Mrs, Morgan Morris for a few days. | Lord Lovat should . learn ‘here what not to do. ;War has depleated ouf forest resources—the war of the saw and the ax.—Buffalo News. : THE TIME TO SAVE There are many families whose; providers have a limited wage ca- pacity, but who have acquired homes, put money in the savings bank, retired in old age, and died leaving a small esiaie. How did they do it on their small wages? The answer is simple. They lived within their means. Instead of living up every cent, and indul- | ging in luxuries far beyond their indéonies, they curbed their desires. ‘A few years ago, a map! promi- nent in ¢arrying the doctrine of thrift to the people, uttered a fun- | damental truth when fhe that | a mar who cannot sate a little on | a gmail income will not save_much | on a big income. * | Most persons put off saving until they are. makifig “big money.” {They forget that this. goal may be | many years off, and that in the meantime the few hundred dollars saved and judiciously invested may be’ the ‘cornerstone on wiich a fu- ture fortune may be erected. The time to begin saving should be in the present and not in the future.—Fargo Forum. * Hero of the Hospital’ By ANTHONY ‘REIMERT |” George, the elevator boy at the ; hospital, has a very pretty ear, del- {cately shaped, like a girl’s, On | the other side he: wears his: long hair brushed’ low. Miss Van Dyce, the soclety bean- ty, had shell-like ears, ike George's. George had often seen her, for the { Van Dyce home ts not far from the hospital. Everybody knew the beau- | tiful Miss Van Dyce, whe ased to drive the powerful car... She Is driving it again, by the way. Miss Van Dyce was brought into the hospital’ uncenscious. She had j been doling social work, had. gene {nto a factory, and had a plece of her scalp torn away by a machine which she stood too close. The ir was missing, too, The girl was disfigured for life. “Can nothing be done?” asked the distracted mother. The doctor shrugged his shoul- ders, The ear had not been found. Every one knew where It wus, be- | fore they stoppedi the machine, but — “Unless'some person would be willing to give up an ear.” “I would pay five thousand dol lars!” exclaimed the distracted mother, The beautiful Misy Van Dyce without an ear was simply unthinkable, “There's George. '. He has ears of the exact shape,” said the nurse. Somebody broached the ‘subject to George. “Five thousand dollars, George, and you can wear your halr j long. It won't matter in a man.” “Five thousand “nothing!” sald George stoutly. -“You won't eh, George? Don't blame you,” sald the surgeon. “Sure you cah"take me ear—both ears—for her,” responded George. ,| “but I won't take no money for It.’ A volunteer had been found. The ; mother was strictly catitioned sot to let her daughter. know that It was a strange ehr she would be wearing on her head- when she came out ofthe ether. “To her dying day Miss Van Dyce was’ to be ignorant of the heroic George's sacrifice, The day cume when George, feel- ing the ether cone upon his nose, put his right-hand up to his ear in last farewell. , He awoke with only one ear, but so happy! Two weeks later he was running his elevator up and down again, and his hair was growing nicely, He was the hero of the hus- pital, Once, on one wonderful occasion, passing the passage, he peeped into the room in which Miss Van Dyce sat with her head bandaged. She was in a chair, reading .a novel of heroism—and young love. She did not even glance up when George passed. She was never to know anything about It. ‘ George was a willing martyr. The thought that he had contributed to Miss Van Dyce'’s continued social career,was infinitely Joyous to him. He went about in an ecstatic dream. ‘The day came at last when Miss Van Dyce was to leave the hospital. George had been fully informed of the progress of the illustrious pa- tient. She was doing very nicely indeed, the ear had grafted quite well and now formed ,an integral part of Miss. Van: Dyce'’s physical mechanism. x Best of all, the ear resembled Miss Van Dyce's private ear s0 closely that it was practically im- possible to see any difference be- teen them. Now Miss' Van Dyce emerged from her room, walking a little weakly stfil, but radiant at'the idea of going home, With her walked her mother, The nurse p1 d the elevator bell, George, ‘below, few up on wings, z He knew that it was. Miss Van Dyce, reddy to depart for home. The door was opened. Miss’ Van Pyce and her mother stepped into ‘theelevator..George’s hand trembled so that he could hardly. pull. the rope. 4 He shot a’shy glance at his divin. itty, but/ the divinity’s eyes were upon the ground: The mother, who fnew all’about George, of ree, and was afraid he was going to ask for the pre. thousand her eyes orf the floor of the car. George stole a look at Miss’ Van Dyce's head, There was ‘his ear, her, ear ‘now, - growing’ nicely, and took tne particularly: pink and) shell- that George was .look- ig. at her. ear, Miss: Van .Dyce oked. ‘at George's: ‘Suddenly she "Obs mother, taka , mother, me me awdy!. That Wet oid ear! It oughtn’t to @ public hospital, 1 lollars, kept |: _. »- MONDAY, OCTOBER.15, 1923 _ CONVERSATION } DEAD ART Telephone Has Killed Politeness ‘and Murdered Repartee and Rejoinder. It was, we believe, a spinster of experience, who observed that you can catch more files With molasses than with vinegar. In the same way you can best make a conversa- tion interesting by being u good lis- tener and letting the other party talk about himself. . The art of conversation is said to have become, like the art of epistolary correspondence, dead. The telephone has killed politeness and murdered repartee and rejoin- der. ‘When at one end you get nothing but grunts and ventrilo- quism = punctuated here and there by @ yep or a nope, niceties of speech do not greatly mutter. In, the good old days, whén neighbor- ing ladies discussed the neighbor- hood over a fence, there was & good deal of pretty fencing, and It took an artist to give the right in- | flection and the proper intonation , which, underscored by a shrug or 8 nod, spoke volumes. But today 80 many people live in flats and apartments, when they are not fliv- vering over the landscape, that the backyard amenities have passed out of American life with the old-fashioned kitchen out in the yard, crazy quilts‘ and chap- erons, There is talk, and everybody talks at once, but there is no con- versation; jyst as there is no etl- quette, no table manners and’ a very widespread reluctance to say grace. Promiscuity used to be con- sidered dangerous. Today no fa- ther or mother would be so foolish as to risk an inquiry concerning the company with which daughter has been out riding. Since they were not consulted and their objec- tion would certainly not be heed- ed, the less they know.the sooner mended. But one thing is certain; daughter and her date did not con- verse while out riding. They may have stopped at ‘a roadhouse and gotten something fHicit, but they didn’t exchange amenities at a roadside jnn. The inn was a pleas- ant place of home comforts and much useful conversation. The roadhouse is a place—. But there we balk. It passes description, .» that’s all. But we do not despair. Leg-of- mutton sleeves. are coming back. The last time they were in fashion conversation was a fine art.— Louisville Herald. MYSTERY OF THE JUNGLE Elephants Have Secret Graveyard In Africa—Fortune Awaits ‘Man Who Discovers It. ‘The statement has been. made; many times that no white man has ever seen the body of an elephant that died from natural causes elther in Africa or India, and where they go when they feel the summons {s one of the secrets hid- den from the most persistent.stu- dents of natural history. One of the stories on that sub: Ject is that there is a secret grave- yard in the mountains in the In-}- terior of Africa, entrance to which man has not discovered, to which the elephants soberly journey to find their tomb, and varied stories have been told'of the millions of|* value in tvory there !f venturesome man could but find the elephant sleeping grounds.—Ohio State Jour- nal. Any French Village. See—I am old, but Iam beauti- ful; my devout children have em- broidered my robe with towers, steeples, crenelated battleménts and belfries. I am a good smother? I teach industry and all the arts of peace. I nurse my children in my arms. . . Iam their rec- ord. ... ~ I have lived he- cause I have hoped. Learn of me. this blessed hope which saved the fatherland. Think of me so as to think beyond yourselves. -Look at this fountain, this hospital, this market that the fathers have be- queathed to their children. Work for your children as your ances- tors have worked for you. Each of my stones brings you a benefit and teaches you a duty. See my cn- thedral, my gullthall,) my Hotel- Dileu, and venerate the past. But think of the future. Your sons will know what jewels you, in your time; have incased in my robe of stone.—Anatole France, aN Curious Changes in Eyes. of Fi: A study of the different forms and habits of fishes’ will bring ani interesting things to ‘light. An in- stance: One/of the-most peculiar things about flounders is that the young of the species swim upright asin the, case of all adults of any ordinary species. The eyes of young flounders are like those of any ordinary fish, one being situ- fated on each side of the head. Gradually, however, a change comes in the appearance of the young A flounder.” As It grows one of tho’ eyes travels around to the side of the head until both. are on the same side. Subsequently this side becomes the upper side of the head. Most of this rotation of the eye Isq a rapid process, taking not. more than three days. « Ancient Egypt Had Wheels. The wheel was old when Egypt was still a new nation, and of its actual origin there is no authentic record. One theory goes back to the distant period of cave-dwelling man, whose chief occupation lay In building. Prehistoric man dragged logs of timber from the forests di after day and piled them at a: angle against the rocks, filling in the ks with earth and rubble, — thus. affording himeelf shelter,’ It thought that by using semicir- gulag. ‘branches as runners under- neath the logs it was found that they. could be moved forward ‘far fhore easily tha: ‘Soat | the dead weight.—Detrojt