The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1924, Page 4

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MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year..............ece0008 « $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)................ 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..... «- 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) GOOD NEWS FOR NORTH DAKOTA The North Dakotan who has seen government financiers rushing to South Dakota and has noticed that North Dakota has been omitted in the discussion of the serious condition facing states to the south has been gratified that this state has escaped the unfavorable advertising they have received. The difference, however, is that North Dakota has long since passed the peak of her troubles while they are just beginning to the south. And while they were confined to the smaller financial institutions in North Dakota they began with the larger in South Dakota, chiefly through the inflation of land values creating a fictitious borrowing power and lack of warning in time to head off impending danger. A member of the Federal Reserve staff in Minneapolis has said that North Dakota passed the peak of her depres- sion in December, 1922, and has slowly been on the mena since that time. Whatever setbacks seem apparent now are more than offset by gains which may not be so apparent. North Dakotans who are studying the situation are im- pressed not so much by the immediate factors as those which are potent in building a new and more firm ‘structure of ag- ricultural and industrial life in the state. For example, in spite of the widespread talk that North Dakota farmers are leaving the farms in droves, in spite of pessimistic reports and unfortunate situations met by many individuals, the United States Department of Agriculture study of livestock conditions in North Dakota as of January 1, 1924, is dis- tinctly encouraging. Gains made during the past year include 85,000 more hogs on the farms, 30,000 more milk cows, 14,000 more sheep. about the same number of beef cattle. This increase could not come’ were farmers leaving the farms in large numbers. It could not come if the great bulk of the North Dakota farmers were broke or had lost complete faith in the state. It could not come if the farmers did not see that the future lies in diversified farming. Livestock prices, except on sheep, have been discouraging. Milk prices continue above the usual level. Shipments of corn, shipments of “finished’”’ stock instead of grass stock to market means a great gain for the livestock industry on the farms of North Dakota. A wheat failure in North Dakota never will be as serious again as it has been in the past. A great wheat crop will not be the bonanza it has in times past because it will not be the only crop of the farmers. But the gains from balanced farm- ing are certain; a sure livelihood, a certain and moderate prosperity, a busy and contented people—all these are North Dakota's in the future. And when the farmers to the south of the state learn of the results of the North Dakota Corn Show, when they find out they can raise corn on $30 an acre land as good as they can raise on $150 and $200 an acre land in their own states, they are going to see the advantage in settling on North Dakota’s fertile prairies. A LITTLE SERIOUS THINKING NEEDED A group of United States Senators telegraphed an appeal to Northwestern states asking farmers to meet in precinct meetings and decide what farm relief they want. We hazard a guess that many will reply: “Less -bunk and a little more serious thinking.” ’ The farmers of North Dakota, who are intelligent and studious, no doubt could give some good advice to Congress. But it is almost an insult to them for their elected represent-| atives, who have every facility at their command for the study of farm problems and the assistance of experts, to avoid their plain duty by seeking to have the men back home make decisions for them. It smacks of a fear on the part of} politicians to face the facts in Washington and an endeavor to find an excuse for their actions in advance. There are many farm relief measures in Washington— the Coulter plan bill, the Norris-Sinclair marketing bill, the; McNary-Haugen marketing bill, and plans to utilize various | government financial agencies. Congress has been spending much time on them and the senators ought to know their own minds. Many of the statements which have beenymade indicate that opposition to various measures arises from* poli- tical motives. After all there is too much economic soothing syrup proposed. Many farmers are beginning to gag. They are! getting weary of being continually “saved.” ARBUCKLE “COMES BACK” So “Fatty” Arbuckle is back in the movies—as a director for Buster Keaton. The news dispatch from Los Angeles says’ Arbuckles’ name on the screen will be changed to Will B. Good. Fs Human nature is perplexing. Many, who would object to Arbuckle returning as an actor, will consider it all right for him to have a job in another branch of picture-making, though one is as mechanical as another when the film gets to the public. He can be a cook but not a waiter, seems to be the system. BUSINESS OUTLOOK John Moody, one of the three best professional business forecasters, predicts that times will be much better at the end of 1924 than at the close of 1923. Look for a decided pick-up, aléng about June, Moody says. When another big boom ,is coming, you will know it about 90 days ahead, in a runaway stock market with prices soaring. Usually preceded by temporary rises, followed by drops, to lure suckers and then wipe out their margins. “CLEAN-UPS” In 13 leading cities the police recently have been’ con- ducting spectacular “clean-ups,” chiefly against gamblers and bootleggers. Such waves of activity sweep over the country periodically, especially after elections. Clean-up: activity is commendable. All laws should be continual. Crime is. oa X But one wonders why the “clean-ups” aren't lone ‘public service should ‘be EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opjnion of The Tribune. They are pmsented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. STATE OWNERSHIP AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY The permanent closing of three large mills in North Dakota, the largest of the three being at | Jamestown, the alleged chief’ | cause of such action being in- ability of the privately owned | mills to compete successfuly | against the state owned mili, ns bound to bring into the foreground once more, the con- troversy between the friends and the critics of state socialism which r: d in North Dakota so violently from 1913 to 1919. gains and the losses from the experiment will be checked up, | The | | conclusions drawn, and it will be | | difficult to keep the question out of the coming political cam- paigns. Friends of state ownership will argue that the ‘program’ has not | yet been given a fair trial, while | cri will point out that the avowed purpose of the state mill, to raise the price of wheat | to the grower and lower the | price of flour to the consumer, has failed utterly in fact, and that instead, the mill is proving a costly experiment to the people, as well as driving out of business one of the largest private indus- tries in the state and one that heavy taxes to support the government, — schools, roads, ete. At the time of the recall con- vention, the framers of the In- dependent Voters Association | platform decided it the wiser and fairer policy to include in the platform a compromise, namely | to complete the state flour mill at Grand Forks and give it a fair trial. This has been done, and | while the trial has been bri demand will be made for an counting, an audit of gains and losses, benefits and detriments. The people of North Dakota ! will ask themselves whether they | wish further trial of the social- istic theory that state owner- ship of the larger industries will | give a better distribution and better production of wealth than now prevails, or whether it would not be wiser for the peo- ple to stand once more for pri- vate ownership under private initiative, and for commercial competition of free individuals with fair supervision or regula- tion by the central government. The present desire of a large and outspoken number undoubtedly is for the least possible interfer- ence with industrial cgmpetition between private individuals or in- corporated groups of private in- dividuals, and it seems impossi- ble to convert their minds into any confidence that state social- ism can ever sutceed or that it will accomp! its purported aim to convert into general benefit what is now the gain of the com- paratively few. The people of the state and the tax payers, both friends and critics of the socialistic experi- ment will think deeply on this problem during the next few months.—Jamestown Ale: WAITING TO HEAR FROM MR. Albert B. Fall, formerly Secre- tary'of the Interior who hag been ‘summoned by subpoena process to appear as a witness before the Senate committee which is investi- gating the lease of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve to a pri- vate company, says he will go to Washington and make a full state- ment of his connection with the affair and of the facts as he knows them. This is well, but ‘how much het- ter it would have been for Mr. Fall's own sake if he had antici- pated the formal legal summons by going voluntarily to Washing- ton before or after Senator Cara- way, Democrat, of Arkansas, had made his public charges of alleged official corruption in connection with the letting of the lease, and demanding the opportunity to teil his story. Whatever may be the truth about the lease, it was placed long ago by critics and politicians in verbal sittings that gave it all the outward aspects of a national scandal. These commentators have repeatedly made Mr. Fall the foreground figure and outstanding object of their ugly portraitures. Under the circumstances Mr. Fall’s best and most faithful friends can carcely feel otherwise than that he made a serious mistake in not going to Washington and insisting to the committee that he be heard in a frank and full presentation of his side of the case. Instead of that he has elected to assume an attitude that unmistakably places him in a disparaging light in the popular mind. i The resignation of Archie Roose- velt from the vice presidency of the lessee of] company, and his public statement that he severed his relations with the company ‘be- cause he ‘had “learned some things which, while not proven facts as yet, corroborated certain suspicions I entertain,” make it even more im- perative than before that the truth about ‘the lease should ‘be found and made public.- Roosevelt's ac- tion was bound to have the effect of strengthening any surmises of ponenoing outsiders may‘ have ad. The shadow that rests on Mr. Fall has been deepened. He is the one man above all others to whom the public looks now for a clearing ‘away of doubts and for an answer to the serfote flings and innuen- does made by Senator Caraway in public thearing. Mere denial of these ig neither an answer nor a refutation. Whether the letting of the oil lease was @ good thing or a bad thing from the standpoint of the public interest, the circumstances of the letting of the lease in so far as they show or fail to show dis- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO ‘'wttsn & ORDER CREAM WIKKH MY | 'C6REAC % WANT GNOUGN OF THE FLUID TO DAMPEN WE SPOON Mt! JUD SING wFROM FIVE Cows IN THE CREAM THAT'S SG2VED WITH A CEREAL You'D THINK THERE WERE ONLY FOUR OR THE AMOUNT GF UMTED STATS el i EXTRA! ANTI- No Tongues Stepped on At Thirsty Meeting More than 1000 delegates attended the anti-dry meeting in Washing- ton. The thirsty gathered to make fi at prohibition, Sober facts were presented. The law, they say, making ood drinks as plentiful as feathers on a gold fish, but it is making bad drinks as scarce as whiskers ~ on Santa Claus. GOOD NEWS is London is going dance crazy. This is fine. A dance craze will produc: a great race of wrestlers AD NEWS Prisoners in the Carlinville (Ill.) jail got drunk. We need a better class of people in our jai WORSE NEWS Brockton (Mass.) grandma bobbed her hair. Says she is only 35. A woman is as old as she bobs. CUSSING NEWS “Mah jongg is a menace, Techny (Ill.) preach ing our cuss words. says a It is increas- SPORTS Stanford (Ky.) teacher's wife Was his pupil. He spanked his pupil. Now she doesn’t love her teacher. Imagine a woman trying to learn from her husband, or a husband teaching his wife anythin, AVIATION NEW Texas plane went ne: three miles in a minute, which faster than a dollar buying coal. SOBER EXTRA! | ADVERTISING | ‘The editor’s pipe is missing. The | pipe was chasing a cat yesterday and .ceidentally tore down a neighbor's | garage. Answers to the name of |Gumshoe. Liberal reward deag or | alive. SCHOOL NEWS | Henry Ford has bought his boy- |hood school, and now he can cut his BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON The Riddle Lady said next day in Riddle Land, “We have had several winter riddles, so this is a summer riddle. Its about something very ‘small and bright and only seen on a jsummer night. Listen now Nancy and Nick! Listen everybody! Here's | the riddle: “My home's a garden where the flowers {Stay wide awake for hours ana hours 'And then at dusk they fold up tight | And say good-night. : |‘But the house I rent—a big, red rose, Is not so sleepy I suppose, Because it docs not shut up so! And out I go. ‘Lam the watchman, if you please. I watch the flowers| and garden trees, No one comes in, no one goes out If I'm about. “My lantem winks and winks and { winks, And Mister Moon he blinks and blinks, i And so between us both why we Watch carefully. “For fairies and the tricky elves Would just come in and help them- selves, To leaves of this and-buds of that, For dress and hat. ‘And caterpillars! My, oh me! They're out for food—to get it free, They'd gobble stems and break off leaves, The greedy thieves! x “t fly around ’most everywhere, I peep in here I look in there! What would this lovely garden be Were it not for the mogn and me? _ “L only go out when it’s clear, And never when a storm is near, When thunder crashes home I hug; Although I'm called a lightning “Oh, dear!” cried Missez Muffet. “If you mean it's a lightning bug I wish you wouldn't say it in front of my daughter. Since that day with the spider, things like that upset her dreadfully.” 5 “But you have just said it your- self,” the Riddle Lady exclaimed laughing. ‘Didn’t she Nancy!” “Wihy I declare! So I have!” de- clared Missez Muffet. “And she TUESDAY, 2 me A RS best book ly Americas beat worsan fiBiacx JANUARY 29, 1924 t GERTRUDE ‘ATHERTON Published by arrangement Pictures, Inc. Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Copyright 1923 by + SYNOPSIS. At a first night performance in New York, a beautiful young woman attracts attention by rising and leisurely surveying the audi- ence through her glasses. Claver- ing, a’ newspaper columnist, and his cousin, Dinwiddie, are particu- larly interested, Dinwiddie declar- ing that she is the image of Mary Ogden, a belle of thirty years ago, who had married a: Count Zattiany and lived abroad. He is convinced that this, is Mary’s daughter, but all efforts to establish her identity prove futile. Clavering manages to meet her, and she finallg tells him she is the Countess Josef Zattiany, a cousin of Mary Ogden’s; that she had married a relative of Mary’s hus- band; that Mary és ill in a sanita- rium in Vienna. Clavering does not believe her story and next time he sees her frankly tells her so. As time goes on he becomes so distraught over the whole affair that he finally goes for advice to his: friend, Gora Dwight, a young novelist, who as- sures him that he is in love with Madame Zattiany. Dinwiddie, meanwhile, has been continuing his investigations and makes the suggestion that Madame Zattiany is in America under an assumed name, possibly hiding from her husband. A few days later Clavering receives an invita- tion to dine with her alone. XVIIE (continued) “New York and Atlantic City must seem prosaic.” He had never felt so polite. “I suppose you are eager to return?” (Why in hell don’t those servants bring the din- ner!) “I have not seen the Alps since two years before the war. Some doesn’t look a bit nervous. She must be cured.” “Of course I am,” said Miss Muffet, speaking up for herself. “And as for lightning bugs, they are 1 They always| remind me of fairies.” “Me, “too!” said Nancy. I love them, cute little things, with their initials on every desk. University of Washington offers a course in can- ing, but boys at many colleges get | pickled, FASHIONS | Berlin girls wear ankle-warmers. American girls still dress to catch cither a man or pneumonia. EDITORIAL Thre world is full of troubles. l¥ighting in Mexico. Talking in | Europe. Scandal in Washington. Jack Dempsey got wrecked in a sea- ;Plane. Yeopte wno enjoy worrying jshould be very happy. | FINANCIAL | New York will have an $18,000,000 |hotel, The news doesn't say if this is thé cost or rate, MOVIE NOTES Man blacked Charlie Chaplin’s jeye in a restaurant fight, but there were no pies handy. SOCIETY When Mrs. Soc heard a Kentucky teacher spanked his wife she said, “My husband hasn't tried to bit me since just before I broke all the dishes over his head.” HOME HELPS A stick of dynamite will remove phone numbers from the walls, LETTER FROM DR. EBENEZER KNOX TO JOHN ALDEN \ PRESCOTT MY DEAR JOHN: We Are certainly in a kind of mess. with your, mother and I don't know exactly how to adjust it. My boy, your mother is not ili in any way. She is hale and strong but, like many women who lead very sheltered lives and grow old in con- ventions and prejudices, she is very hard to handle, Priscilla Bradford, who is abso- lutely a younger addition of your mother with added decorations in the shape of love for standal mongering and unkindly comments, has helped foster all the bad habits that came down to your mother from her puri- tanical ancestry. Don’t for one moment think, Jack, my boy, that I am not fully appre tive of the sterling qualities of that Mayflower - stock from which you came, but even as old fogey a doctor as I am I cannot have lived to the threescore years and ten, which the Bible tells us is the span of life, without coming to some conclusions that the “world do move” and unless we move with it we are hopelessly out of the procession. I haye viey£d with alarm, my boy, your growing away from your moth- er all these years and I know that in some ways yf1 are to blame, but not: as much as she, She has never been able to understand that a man goes out into the world and, unless \he gets many of his sharp corners of prejudice and egotism rubbed off, he to the fact that he is on trial at the; bar of popular opinion, as well a: at the bar of the Senate’ investt-| gating committee. He is, entitle: to, and he should be eager to ¢ake, assailants. brought out ‘into the open without ceservatiOn, Mr. Fall te not blind demnation, He is only under fire. Political enemies are taking ad: yaptage of positions of immanit, eho Tangle not only will be very uithappy but his “day in court” and make the| best of it in defense against his Mr. Fall is not today under con- he will be a very inefficient member of society. John, your mother lives in a by- gone age. e frankness of word and action that we know now is a horror to her. She does not stop to think that in the modern shiboleth of life one does not assume a virtue if |one has it not. I have some very distinct ideas on the subject, my boy, which would probably neither coincide with yours or your mother’ If one assumes a virtue, one strives often to live up to the reputation one receives from haying that virtue. Prissy Bradford moved out of your mother's house bag and baggage yes- terday. I think your mother has come to understand how selfish that |was in her but, honestly John, I am very glad she did this as she has been a trouble maker ever since she has been in the house. Of course I know your mother will be very lonely and I also know that the neighbors in this little town think it is very strange you do not ask her to come and live with you. But I would not advise you to do that, John. . She would only make both you and Leslie very unhappy. Her life is nearly over. She has had her good times and yours have just begun. Old people do not think of thjs as’ a rule. They think be- cause they have lived:many years they deserve great deference, but I shave found that few people iave achieved enough understanding to be worthy of deference. Will let you know from time to time all about your mother. Sincerely yours, EBENEZER KNOX. ito scourge him unduly on an in- jeufficient basis of ascertained fact, but he may count on his friends to stand by him just as long as he shows himself worthy of their winky, blinky lanterns.” (To Be Continued. ) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) ? INCOME TAX | > — >. Editors Note—Following is one of a series of articles covering provi- sions of the state income tax laws prepared by the state tax depart- ment. No. 1. WHO IS SUBJECT TO TAX. The amended state income tax laws of 1923 provides that all persons who reside in the state are subject to the tax on their entire net income even though all or a paft of it may be derived from sources outside of North Dakota. Non-resident indi- viduals are not subject to tax. Citi- zenship has nothing to do with the matter. Every individual who was a resident of the state of January Ist of the tax year is subject to the tax. The term “tax year” means thie calendar year in which the tax is payable. Every individual who was a resident of the state on Janyary 1, 1924, is subject to the tax on his entire net income |received during the calendar year 1923. Partnerships as such are not sub- ject to tax, The partnership is re- garded merely as an association of a number of individuals. The indi- vidual members of a partnership are subject to tax. All corporations engaged in bus- iness or owning property in this state are subject to the tax unless expressly exempt. The law exempts from taxation corporations organ- ized exclusively for religious, char- itable, and educational purposes. Also certain other organizations no part of the net income of which in- ures to the benefit of any private stockholder. A THOUGHT | o. The earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.— Mark 4:28, Bate The feast js such as earth, the gen- eral mother, Pours from her fairest bosom, when she smiles, In the embrace of autumn. SAME SCALE SEEN. @ Indianapolis, Jan. 29.—After a week in which the insurgent element in the mine workers convention eccu- pied most of the time the delegates. generally were showing impatience over further controversy when the second week opened atid were look- ing forward to the report of the scale ‘committee ,which will meet with operators February 11 to draft @ new wage ent. President Frank Farrington of Illi- nois, who heads the scale commit- tee, had indicated that he will be ready to report by the middle of this week and those close‘to him have ventured a prediction that his com- mittee wilk recommend that a re- newal of the present contract be de- manded for a term of four years in- stead of from year to year as ‘at present. It was also'rumored that the committee might include a de- mand for a 20 per cent increase and friendship, support and sympathy. ‘His own honor thas ‘been challen; ged, and beyond, that the worthy traditions of net stewardship through the years are brought in- ito the shadow. — Minneapolis Tribune, s / N a six-hour day clause! but would do this only as a concession to the in- 8 rgents. Best information was that the coni- mittee does not hope for anything but a renewal of the present wage scale for‘mine workers and extension. of the present working conditions. day—yes! Oh, yes! Shall we sit down?” The two men entered with enor- mous dignity bearing plates of oysters as if offering the Holy Grail and the head of Saint John the Baptist on a charger. Impos- sible to associate class-conscious- with Assoctated First National Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Countess Zattiany. Gertrude Atherton ‘new order.’ ~ We stil have a few pseudo-socialists among our busy young brains, but youth must have its and they*can originates nothing better. I thought I'd coin a new head-line that would em. brace all of u “It {8 comprehensive! Well?” “A friend of mine, Gora Dwight —at present ‘foremost woman au. thor of America’—is giving a party next Saturday night.’ I'd like enory mously to take you.” “But I do not know Miss Dwight.” “She will call in due form. 3 as. sure you she understands the con. ventions. Of course, you need not see her, but she will leave a cag¢. Not that it wouldn't be quite prop. er for me merely to take you.” “I should prefer that she called, Then—yes, I should like to go, Thank you.” The men arrived with the entree and departed with the soup plates, Once more he had an inspiration. “Poor old Dinwiddie’s laid up with the gout.” 8 “Really? He called a day or two after the dinner, and I enjoyed hearing him talk about the New York of his youth—and of Mary's, Unfortunately, I was out when ha called again. But I have seen M;, Osborne twice. These are his flow. ers. He also sent me several books.” “What were they?” growled Clay. ering. He remembered with dis. may that he hadn't even sent her the usual tribute of flowers. There had been ng place in his mind for the small amenities, “A verboten romance called ‘Jur. gen.’ Why verboten? Because {i is too good for the American pub lic? ‘Main Street.’ For me, 1! might as well have been written in Greek. ‘The Domesday Book.’ ,A great story. ‘Seed of the Sun, Ta enlighten me on the ‘Japanese Question.’ ‘Cytherea.’ Wonderfu) English. Why is it not also ver boten?” “Even censors must sleep. It that all he sent you?” “I am waiting for the chocolates —but possibly those are sent opiy by the very young men to the very young girls.” He glowered at his plate. “Da you like chocolates? I'll send “The name Marie doesn’t su! enough | shall call you Mary.’” ness with beings who looked as impersonai as fate, and would have regarded a fork out of alignment as a stain on their private ‘scutcheon. They performed the rite of placing the -oyaters on the table and re- tired. Madame Zattlany and Clavering adjusted ‘themselves to the. Gothic period. The oysters were succu- lent. They discussed the weather. “This was a happy thought,” he said, “It feels like a blizzard out side.” “The radiator in the dining room is out of order.” “ont” She was 8. woman of the world. Why in thunder didn’t she make things easier? Had she asked him here merely because she was too bored to eat alone? He hated small talk. There was nothing he want: ed i their previous conversations, but she might have entertained him. She was eating her oysters daintily and giving him the benefit of her derk. brown eyelashes. Possibly she was merely in the mood for comfortable silences with an estab- ished friend, Well, he was not. Passion had subsided but his nerves soup and some excellent sherry. “By the way! .Do You remember T asked you—at that last first-night —if you wouldn't. like to see some; thing of the Sophisticates?” “The what? = -' “Some of them still like to call tnomsetves Intellectuals, but that title—Intelligentela—is now claim- ed by every white collar in Europe who has tarned Socialist or Revo- s8. than the personalities of | it you. If ever 1) know you well » some tomorrow. I've been very re- miss, I’m afraid, but I've -lost the habit.” “T detest chocolates.” Squabs and green peas displaced the entree. The burgundy was ad- mirable. Once more he was permitted to gaze at her eyelashes. He plunged desperately. “The name Marie doesn’t suit you. If ever | know you well enough I shall call ypu Mary. It sults your vast repose. That 1s why ordinary Marys nicknamed ‘Mamie’ or ‘Mame.’” ‘“I was christened Mary.” She raised her eyes. They were no longer wise and’ unfathomable. They looked as young as his own. Probably younger, he. reflected. She looked appealing and girlish. pice more he longed to - protect er. “Do you want to call me Mary?” she asked, smiling. Sg “I hardly kndw whether 1 do or not. .... . There’s something eise I should tell you.. 1 swore I'd never ask you any more questions—but I —well, Dinwiddie kept on the scent until he was laid up. One of the Thornhills verified your story in 80 far as he'remembered that a cousin had settled in Virginia and then moved on to Paris. There his isfor- mation stopped. ... . But... Dinwiddie met a Countess Loyos at dinner.” “Countess Loyos?” “Mathilde Loyos? ‘She ts one ef my oldest friends,” “No doubt you'd like to see her. 1 can get her address for you.” “There is nothing I want less than to see her. Nor any one else tutionist.. He may. have the intel- lect of a cabbage; but he wants « from Austria—at present.” (To Be Continued) agi a ig Tab on Council... ‘ , SHO epINCH ‘Eng.—The coun- ¢ilmen: can't{ put anything over on the taxpayers ‘here. A cadio set has been ‘installed in ‘the council cham- bers so citizens ‘may listen in on.eli Proceedings." Strange part of it-is the munfcipat’ dads had it installed, themselves, *7 97" | $angled._ And. inspiration .cdme with the Return! G for Evil. Berlin—A ary ro gold watch was stolen on an omnibus here the other day. The lawyer inserted an advertisement in the newpaper Promising not only reward for its return, but pledging to defend the thief when he comes up for trial, if he is apprehended, © poe ——