The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1924, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE pore at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., a8 Second Clitas Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. ouan G. TOUS CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - S Vifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to iy or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local Siews pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION “SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year... $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismare k) » 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) | . 6.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Publishers Representatives PAYNE COMPANY DETROIT Kresge Bldg. 9 WHO PAYS THE TAXES? The man who says Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is engaged in an effort to cut down the‘rich man’s tax should read an article in The Saturday Evening Post by Roger Rabson, noted stvlent of business, who,heads it: “Taxes are Paid by the Untaxed.” Mr. Babson points out that 25 years ago rz railroad and water-power securities, time, sold to net the investor a rate of interest of about 4.75 per cenf. The Federal income tax was enacted. It jumped. Purchase of the same bonds at an apparent net rate of 4.75 per cent ceased, because the income taxes lowered the net rate to the investor to such an extent that he got but 4 or 5 per cent. Bond buyers quit buying. This forced the est rates up, in turn this increasd the expenses of rai Is, street railways, all industrial life. The interest rate ig a part of the éxpenses of such a business, the extra cost was passed on to the ultimate consumer. Buyers turned to tax-exempt securities, for even at a lower rate of interest they could get a higher net return. A few weeks ago a great issue of farm loan bonds, exempt from taxes, was’issued. The net rate was 4.75 per cent, or about the same as obtained in industrial issues before the eytra taxes were added. Many municipal issues in the east now sell at a 4.50 per cent rate of interest, whereas before the income tax went into effect they sold on a 4 per cent basis. The extra interest in this instance is directly met by the taxpayer. A few weeks ago, Mr. Babson said, a manufacturer pointed out that after years of effort his company, making an automobile accessory, found a way to cheapen production costs materially. Naturally, Babson suggested the pri would be reduced. He was informed the price would remain the same, the surtaxes would swallow up the whole saving. In this case the auto owner paid the increased tax. Babson was examining the books of large hotel. A room that rented for $4,before surtaxes went into effect now rented for $5.50. The hotel owner replied 50 cents was added for increased wages and one dollar for income tax and surtaxes. An example of the cumulative effect of taxation is ‘given by him as follows: “The income tax that the farmer pays is added to the price of wheat; the income tax that the mil- ler pays is added to the price of flour; the income tax that the baker pays is added to the price of bread ; and the income tax that the storekeeper pays is. added to the price of the individual loaf which yan buy. Hence, when you buy a loaf of bread the tax of four groups of people is added and a profit on all these groups isgadded four times in addition. Get me? We not only pay the four taxes for these four groups but we pay a profit of, say, 20 per cent on each of the four sets of taxes.” Money spent ‘on taxes is largely nonproductive. he points out. The government does not use a large part of its taxes to pay cutters of stone and hewers of wood, who produce wealth, but rather bookkeepers, accountants, detectives and investigators. They are useful but they are not creating and spreading wealth as are producers. It at first seems wréng to pass the tax entirely on to the ultimate consumer, says Mr. Babson, but adds that it is 4 fact that interest rates, prices and wages ultimately adjust themselves so that all taxes, with the possible exception of inheritance taxes, are paid by the final purchaser of goods. Most men, he concludes, are willing to pay a fair share of tax. But when it becomes a burden on industry it is passed on. He concludes that the Mellon tax bill reducing taxes ought to bring about a reduction in prices in the nation. He summarizes this conclusion as follows: “The final retail sales each year for the United States are estimated at $30,000,000,000. It is now proposed to reduce the direct-tax bill by more than $300,000,000. This reduction is 1 per cent of ‘the final sales. There are four turnovers before the final sale is consummated. If these turnovers were all at the same valuation it would at once become evident that this proposal would enable a 5 per cent reduction in general prices. Of course, in practice the values of the turnovers are excessively greater; or, to put it in another way, ‘Are excessively less as we approach the source. Therefore, it would not be fair to multiply the 1 per eent by five in arriving at the total figure. On the other hand, certain other factors come in which more than compensate for the reduction in valuation, and ‘I believe ‘that an &stimate of 5 per ¢ént is not cunreasonaple. “Whien this 5 per cent in the price level is added to the direct saving in tax and the saving in the tax which the other fellow passes along, we have ‘a fital’sim- mary i indicating somewhat as follows: & t ‘That the tax-revision plan recommended by Sec- retary Mellon should save men getting incomes of fro $2500 to $3500 per yeat a ‘total of from $200 00'per year.” A: complete reading of Mr. Babson’s article is recom- mend le is logical and has a habit of presenting with blunt emp asis real facts. He\sticks to the main argument much’ iin Secretary Mellon. The man Who is Voting ilroad, street the big issues of the bonds things which his commun ity can get alon with out 6 is voting for elaboration’ of governmental ‘tervicés are unnecessary — he 5 neiber hie believes*he is or not. UT WEAT + ii ‘birth of pen a ere are slowly ‘that has ‘prevailed for the ast th id to be taxed for“ it) EVERETT TRUE GO ON #5000.7 LISTEN? PRETTY GooD FRIE aes OR “PERSO HAVEN'T WE BEEN BY CONDO L NOTE “FOR nek alta ALONG 2 cn WELL, THEN, CET'S “MARKS IT A CCT TCS With these rapidly changing times we realize more and moré the jmecessity of rewriting the dictiona’ me bird invents the word SKOF- FLAW and géts $100, At that rate every poor professor can quit talking of his ‘wealthy rela- tives and boast of his rich vocabu- lary. ~ Poor old Webster will never know how nafrowly he escaped béing the 1 millionaire. ay, we've decided to {out $1000 worth today: SKOFFBLOND—A man, SKOFFGAS—A bird that horrows his oil from passing autoists, SKOFFGRUB—A fat Indy diet. grind . blase ona is one should be worth $200: TEAPOT DOME—A ‘guy with oily | hair. . EDITORIAL Temperamental folk should re- tmember that poets and artists are used to going without food and liv- ing in a garret. AUTO/NEWS From the various automobile shows comes information that auto tires are running into ntillions now, That's just the trouble, FASHION NEWS New York style show announces one-half-piece bathing suit. Another reuson for continuing that diet. MUSIC. Songs that will never grow old: young |), ar COFFWIT -..- EXTRA “Sixteen men on’n dead man’s chest; Yo ho! Yo ho! He had a bottle of yum.” ADVERTIS! hoe, thé mixsing: pipe, is more missing than ever, Does advertising pay? “Hearken! Janitor, after reading this not writes us he saw friend wife iW Something in garbage can. Reward not so liberal today. OUR HOROSCOPE Parents ‘born on this day should not leave their offspring out in. a blizzard. Pol People -born on Feb, 29 will grow old less rapidly than those born on other dates, : TY We read, that Mr. M. Rafschowizki is changing his name. Leap year had nothing to do with it. WASHINGTON BUREAU Mr. Bok'says he's ready to put up another prige. Peace a y price, “WAR DISPATCH On the eve of Washington's birth- day we read that Gus Cornwallis surrendered to the Chicago rum squad, so BEDTIME STORY ‘Just one more hand and then we'll all .go home.” ART ‘ss Sam Haskins is “painting his barn, over the age of 18 and under the Jage of 21 years who are dependent fupon the taxpayer for support and ‘are attending educational institu- tions. A fiduciary is required to report 200 years or more... Moore, in “The New over the north pole. BITING THE HAND Percy Trubshaw, editor of the Valley City Times-Record. reprints and commends an editorial in The Bismarck ‘Tribune on the closing of the Russell-Miller mills. sting which ‘Mr. Trubshaw’s effrontery is ininity of hi For it was Mr. ‘for the Grand Forks mill to Miller mill out of business in Valley City And The Tribune finds its Compromise With State Socialism” gtowing stronger every | entire y It has nothing to apologize for. day. information of the erudite Mr. ‘Tribune on February 15, 1921: “There are some people who will say that we Should give} the industrial program a thorough try-out. to them an earnest study of the report of the audit company on North Dakota industries. have tried it out and if that lesson we are blind bourbons. ministrations every two yea for profit, disaster is just have tried it otit rather exten: there should be no room in the independent program for any plank that even suggests going any farther with the socialistic scheme.” The Tribune has never deviated from this stand and challenges the “compromising” Perey to show otherwise from the editorial stand expressed in these columns. eTangles LETTER FROM 1 LESLIE PRESCOTT | TO RUTH ELLINGTON T am beginning to think, Ruth dear, that those pearls will finally prove the tragedy of my life. I have never worn them, never had any- thing to do with them that some- thing has not happened to make me annoyed or unhappy. | Even the day of my wedding, Jack and I had a little quarrei that/I have never told anyone about, not even mentioned to anyone'but you. Some day I may tell you about it. I know that you thought you were doing everything for the best and T will never cease to be grateful for all you have done for me, but, oh why, why did you go so late in the Afternoon to’ look into my wall safe? You might know that was the time Jack would be home early. New I'll} just have to have another quarrel says the authority, Dr: Willis Luther ir, World.” Much of our weather originates somewhere in the Far North. So weather observations up there will he the most | valuable feature of the coming airplane and.dirigible flights Mr. Trubshaw feels, prove too strong he seeks relief yy casting anathema on The Tribune as responsible for the Frazier regime and the state industrial program. tatements. rubshaw who in the legislature with a great hurrah voted to provide the-bonds that made it possible | sport has missed the mark and the present financial and political impasse teaches us no ound the corner, PDaihiyiaboutivon: Jack Aas’ been very nasty our friendship ever since Harry de- serted you, He seemed to think that in some way you wére te blame for ‘it all. I tried to maké him ‘under- stand that you would hardly hé to} blame «for. Harry's . running away with another woman, at .least that you wouldn’t know- about it. But he took that hi¢h arid mighty air that most-'men have when’ one: --of their sex goes wrong. It is always search for the womun and, you hap- pening: to. be the .woman nearest Harry, Jack was altogether too lazy to pursue his search any, further. He has been very suspicious ever | since ‘you opened the shop.‘ ‘He always wongetng where. you ‘gat the money. He has questioned me very closely’ until I finally told him that, if-I-knew—and I wonld not acknow- Jedge that. I did—I would not tell, Bis. fe said to me, ‘Leslie, I. insist that you tell me all you know about Ruth’s affairs. I am not sure that she is the kind of woman with whom T wish my to associate.” As youscan imagine, that made me see réd and J turned on<hjm with, “John Aldew Prescott, I insist that abdut Sydney Carton’s a: explain al} of your about | the amount of income o: estate or trust which has been distributed to the various ‘beneficiaries during the income year. The individual benefi- ciaries are required to report such income in theit individual returns. In case the net income of an estate or trust has not been distributed or ‘ has been ibuted only in part, the fiduciary is entitled to an ex- THAT FEEDS HIM emption of $1,000. The undistributed ed to the fi fiduciary ng for an incompetent individual, the fiduciary receives the fame exemption as such individual. In the case of a return for ‘a person who has died during the income year It is permissible to take the fall ex- émption which would have been al- lowed him on the date of his’ death had that been the last day in the year. The status oft the last day of the income year determines the exemp- tion. A person who marries on De- “No | cembe: mntitled to the exemp- tion 1 married person for the vr. The taxpayer is entitled We requote for the|to deduct the exemption for husband, Trubshaw an editorial in The| wife or other dependent who has died during the income ¥ear. Corporations are taxable on their entire net income. No exemption is We recommend |allowed a corpora Then, lest the hardly less pronounced than expand and put his Russell- position in the past of Be ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON The Tribune insists that we When a state changing ad- attempts to go into business eo ie We ively and expensively now—|_ ‘Mother Goose,” said the Riddle Ludy next day when the crowd had gathered in Riddle Town to hear the mext riddle. “J don’t want? you to get offended at my riddle today. Will you please not?” “Is it about me?” Goose in surprise. 4Not exactly,” laughed the Riddle Lady, and then saying “Excuse me,” to :everybody she whispered some- thirig in Mother Goose’s ear. Thén Mother Goose’ laughed, and the Rid- até Lady laughed, and they both laughed. “Go right ahead,” declared Mother Goose, Winking at Nancy. “Don't mitd me.’ “Now for the riddle,” said the Riddté Lady. “I suppose you ate all tiked waiting: “Get out “of my way, get out of my asked Mother parentage ‘of little Jack .I will tell you all I know’ about Ruth, for then 1 will know whether Sydney Carton is the kind of man that I want to be my husband’s best friend.” I think Jack came very near knock- ing me down. He turned on his heel quickly and without saying a word went out, slamming the door so hard that I felt it like a blow and little} Jack woke up and yelled. I was rathér glad of that, however, | I hope John heard it, My husband hardly spoke to me for a week, but there js one good thing about marriage, ‘Ruth. Per- haps you noticed it when you were living wth Harry. Husband and wife cannot be under the same roof in the intimacy of everyday life and stay open enemies. There musi be at least an armed truce or a real se- paration. INCOME TAX | Following is one of a series of articles eBvering ‘provisions of the state income tax law prepared by the state tax department. No, 3—Fxemptions The amended state income tax law of 1923 provides that every’ single person not the head’ of @ family is entitled to an exemption of $1000, Married persons are pernfitted an exemption ’ of °$2,000. * Only * one ex-| And” when. we come back in the emption. is ‘allowed’ the "husband and |’ .sweet.bye and bye, wife, but if separate returns dre filed |The first. thing I do is to have i y divid the” exer tion he- sweeping day eta ee Se eee na Lt dreadful how dirt gathers when “The Read of a familg is entitleal — OHe# away. to the same exemption as @ married p rsdn. To be classed as the’ head of| i family ‘a taxpayer thust ‘actual- ly Support’ one “or more persons in his or her household. By supporting is meant contributing to more than one half of the maintenance of an- other. ~ ATl persons.whether single or mar- ried or the head of a family are en- titled to a further exemption of $300 for each"person (other than hushand and Wife)ethder the age’ of 18 Years or iriedpable of “self-support way, Doeén't everyone know that ‘it’s sweeping day? I rush: and I run and I spread out) my skirt, And shoo: from my feet every wee scrap of dirt, “I live in the corner hesidg the back door, i I never ait. down, I just stand. on the fi € When I Ry muddy footprints, breadcrumbs, or dust, Then out‘I go rushing, it just seems “I’m very old-fashioned—l’ve supply no «style, And I’m quite a home body — but once in a while They take me and dress me in old ragged clothes And leave me outside just to scare away crows, or e “Sometimes in the winter when snow’s lying deep, I clear away - paths, ‘and J sweep, | And the boys ‘make a snow man, then shrieking with fun, They seize me and give me to him for a gun. and I sweep “old Natl Goose rides me up to “the » much prefer in, To ‘alk -of the places that I've al been. clean. floor, : Then: slip to -my corner beside the ba eek door.” “I's a broom,” said Noney eit ly. Bhy b ad to be quick, for nearly | ally ofthe’ Riddle Land’ people liad guessed it, téo, and shouted it out " ' tions ming” he “elatmed ‘or children ae as is ‘at thi of thelr lungs.’ eald’ the’ Riddle Lady. & Fide with 3 ter who is deperdent pon them. Exemp- jeight years. Goose ow her magic broom. ou may ‘start at once and take Nick with you. But be sure to be back by tomorrow.” (To Be Contin tie! d (Copyright, 4, NEA EDITORIAL REVIEW SSE Commenta reproduced in this column may or the opjnion of The bre ‘pipsented Aero in order that our readers may have both sides of jmportant issues which are pelng :dideuused ta the press of he day. The Press editor’ appreci keenly the endorsement for Gover- nor given him by the Convention held there dn» Wednes not know just what we best express our app! vil to properly exp w we nevertheless ha our heart and mind, The men and women whe com- prised this Convention are of the rank and file of the Nonparti: League, and of our best citizen With a very few exceptions, have known all of them for years and they have known us and have known our life, public «ctivities and work, and, under the circum- 2 sk for no higher com- pl ment than to have these men and women, God's noblemen and noblewomen, endorse us for the the highest office of our state. The endorsement came ag a sur- for although we havé here tofore heen mentioned fof Gover- nor, we did not know that én? own home people were looking toward our nomination and election, and Wile we are not saying t we a candidate for Governor, we ure our good. friends thar, should we ever ‘come to serve the | people of North ‘Dakota as Gover- nor, we would be the very ‘best kind of Governor that we would know how to +he and permit noth- ing to stand #etweén us and our whole duty to all ‘the ‘people. You good, true friends, T YOU. — Divide County Fa edited by Roy Frazier. “put it in it in SENATOR INGERSON’S STAND ‘The position taken by Senator Ralph Ingerson, ‘one of the state leaders of the Nonpartisan League, that the league~should abandon its former policy orngead ed gain, its ends by seeking of ntrol either the Democrati MRepublican party machinery, tnd should a sume its true ‘position as a sepa ate party, holding its own primary, is one which ‘should be commendel by ‘friends “and foes of the league alike. The Nonpartisan League and the issues which it lias -created have determined the line of cleavage in North ceca yolitics for the last le issues’ which the Yeague has brought to the front are such that National party line have tecome entirely irrélevant’in the staté elections: The League hay been a separate political: party in fact and. should be so recognized in present’ siti: tion fs “unjist to both and their opponents. he pointed ont howeve that the ‘Very’ chiinge ‘which ‘ator ‘Ingerson denfands would he brought about cor iM practical) pir po: by’ the dAdption’ of thre *Non- arly électfon’ laws which were passed Qt the Jdst'‘session of the stath legislature; and which ere to Se votedson hy _popiilar feférendu 4f these laws ate ‘approved thy t people the practicalvresivit will he theestablishment ‘of a logical di- vision line im'state politits, and as long asthe league continues to be the’ factor which it is today, that line will be @rawn on ithe Nonpar- tisan, and Independent issue, ator Ingerson and those leag “But I don’t like it outdoors, | who agree with him can. thus xc-, He as I wanted it to cure the result, théy desire, by sup- pone these “election laws. ~ and: Forks: Herald. To sweepts my hobby, I love a} | aamonaT | "Every mari al reward ore ae y 1" vy civ ‘his own Tit own. labor. Heaven often regulates effects by thei¥ causes, and pays’ thé” wicked ‘whet they have’ deserved.—Coineile. cians whose birthdate this is, would do well to have nothing to doj j with oil leases, ‘for a colymuist to indulge.in is the state ‘Mectioh machinery. “The Sén-| with Associated First National © Pictures, Inc. Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Lloyd with Cqrinne Griffith as Copyright 1923 by XIX (continued) — “You write singularly pure Eng- ‘lsh, in spite of what s¢ems to me ja marked ‘individuallty of style, ‘and—ah—your apparent delight in ‘glang!” Her voice was quite even, ‘although her eyes had glowed and sparkled and thelted at his poetic \phantasma of her past (as what woman’s would not?). “I find a 'rathef painful effort to be—what do you ‘call tt? highbrow?—in some of your writers,” “The youngsters. I went through ‘that phase, We all do. But we ‘emerge. I mean, of course, when jwe have anything to express. | Metaphysteal verbosity is a friend. ty refuge. But as a rule years and jhard, knocks drive us to directness \of expression. . . . But poets must begin young. And New York is -not exactly a hot-bed..of mance,” “Do you think that romance is impossible in New York?” ghe ask- ed irresistibly. “I—oh—well, what {s romance? of course, it Is quite. possible ¢ to fall in love in New York—although anything but the ideal setting. (ab romance!” “Surely the sense of mystery be- tween a man and’woman frresiati- | Published by latrarigement | Countess Zattiaiy. Gertrude Atherton It 1s far stranger—I fancy {t would cure you.” “Cure me?” “Yes, Do you deny that you love me ‘WNo, by God! Y don't! But you take a devilish advantage. You must’ know that I had meant to keep my head. Of course, you are playing with me—with your cursed technique! Unless “ He reached her in a stride and stood over her. “Is it possible—do you—you——"" She pushed back her chair, and stood behind It. Her cheeks were very pink, her eyes startled, but very soft. “I do not admit that Ad --I have been ,too astounded} went away to think by fe Ara where I was sure not to see you— but—my inind seemed to revolve in cireles. 1 don’t know! I don’t know “You do know! You are not the woman to mistake a passing Inter- est for the real thing.” “Oh, does a woman ever—I never wanted to be as young as that again. I should have believed it fMmpossible if I had given the mat- ter a thought—It is sq long! I had forgotten what love was like. There was nothing I had buried as deop. And there are reasons—rea- sons!” “I only follow-you vaguely. But I think I understand—worse luck! I've hated you more than once. You must have known that. I be lieve you are deliberately leading bly attracted may be as‘provoca- tive in a great. city as in 9 feudal castle surrounded by an ancient |forest—or on one of my Dolomite lakes. Is it not that which consti- tutes romance — the ‘breathless trembling on the verge of the un- explored—that {solates two human beings as authentically—I aut pick- ing up your vocabulary—as if they were alone on a’star in space? Is it not possible’ to dream here in New York?—and surely dreams play their part in romance.” Her fingertips, moving delicately on the surface of her lap, had a curious suggestion of playing with fire. “One needs leisure for dreams.” He stoog up suddendly ani leaned against the mantelpiece. The at- mosphere had become electrie, “A good thing, too ~s far as some of us are concerned. The last thing dreams, Fine hash ‘he'd Wave for his readers next morning!” “Do you mean to say that none of you clever Ss men fall fn love?” “Every day in the week, sqme of them, They even marry—and tell fatuous yarns about their babies. No doubt some of them have even gloomed through brief pariods of unreciprocated passion, But they don’t look very romantic to me.” “Romance {s Impossible.‘without imagination, I should think. Aching for what you cannot have ’or falling in love reciprgcally with a charm-| ing girl is hardly romance. That is} a gift—like the spark that goes to the making of Art.” “Are you romantic?” he asked harshly. “You look as if born to inspire romance—dreams—like a beautiful statue or painting—but mysterious as: you make yourself— and, 1 belleve, are in ‘essence—I should never have § associated you with the romantic. ‘temperament. Your eyes—as tliey too prion are— Oh, nol” “It is true that 1 have) never hag @ romance.” “You married—and very young,” “Oh, What is. young love! The urge of the race. A blaze paat ends in babies or ashes. Romance!” “You have—other men have lov@a you.” 4 “European men—the type my lot was ‘cast’ wjth—may be romantic in their extreme yofth—!’*have never been’ attracted by men fn that stage of development, so I may only supfose“bit- when’ a man has learned to adjust passion to technique there is ‘not much ro: mance left ip Him.” ~ “Are you waiting for. your ro- mance, then? Have you come to this more primitive civilization to find itt” She raised ‘her head ‘and looked him full in the eyes.”""No; 1 did not believe in the possibility thén.’”” “May I have a high- ball?” “Certainly.” x 5g He took his drink on the ‘other side of the ‘room. | It( was eral | ininutes’ before--he returngd to” the tearth. Then he asked’/ (without looking at ‘her: “How ‘do you’ e; pect to find romance Je’you sh t yourself up?" ~ { “I Wanted mothing less,” Ab ut be known that Iwas here’ at all.” “That ’ damnable mystery! :|ere your” | =! BaP “Nothing that you wha | privacy as its dead. me on to make @ fpol of myself.” “Iam not! Oh, Tam not!” “Do Fou love me?” “I—I want to be sure. J have dreamed . . . I—I have leisure, you see. This old house shuts out the world—Europe—the past. The war might have cut my life in two. If it had not been for-that—that long selfless Interval . . . Td like you'to go.now.” “Will you marry me?” “It may be. I can't tell. Are you content to wait?” “Iam not! But I've no intention of taking you by force, although \I don’t feel particularly civilized at the present moment. But I'll win you and have you if you love me. Make no doubt of that. You may have ten thousand strange reasons —they count for nothing with me. And I intend to see yon every day. Tl call you up’in the morning. Now I go, and as quickly as I can get out.” Not yet. XX He plunged down the steps into a snowstorm. Even during his precipitate retreat he had realized the advisability of telephoning for a taxi, but Had’ been incapable of the anti-climax. He pulled his hat over hig eyes, turned up the collar ot his coat, and made his “way hastily toward Park avenue. There was not a cab tn sight. Nor was there a rumble ig the tunnel; no, doubt the cars were snow-bound. He hesitated only a moment; it would hardly take him longer to walk to his hotel than to the Grand Central Station, but he crossed }over to Madison avenue at once, for i, was bitter walking and there was a bare cliance of picking up a cab returning from one of the hotels. But the narrow street between its high dark walls looked like a desert- ed mountain pass rapidly filling with snow. The tal) street lamps shed a sad-and ghostly beam. They might have been the hooded torch- es of cave dwellers sheltering from enemies and the storm in those perpendicular fastnesses. Far down, a red sphere glowed dimly, exalting the ilpision. He almost fancied he could see the out-posts of primeval forests -bending over the canyon and wondered why the “Poet of Manhattan” had never im- mortalized a scene at once so sinis- ter and so" lovely. And nocstiliness of a high moun- tain solitude had ever been more intense. Not even a muffed ro: from trains on the distant “L/ Clavering wondered if he really wére.in New York. The whole eye. ning had been unreal enough. Cer- tainly all that was prosaic and ugly and feverish had’ been obliterated by what it was no flight of fancy to call white magic. ‘That seething mass df humanity, that so often looked as {f rushing hither’ and thither with no definite purpose, driven merely by the obsession of speed, was a8 supine in its brief in spite of the fever in him he felt curiously up- litted—ana@_ glad tobe alone.’ There are moods and solitudes when a man wants no woman, however much he may be wanting one partic- ular wong... . .. But'the mood was ephemeral; he hag been too close to her’ a moment before. Morever, she was still unposseéssed. .- tee seemed. to take shape slowly the” white whirling’ snow, as white and imponderable. A Nordic princess drifting north. ward over her. steppes. God! ‘Would he ever get her? =, he did ‘n6t it would be because, one of them was qualitying for ‘another {ncardation. (To Be Continued) Guess She Didn’(:1K LONDON—A Woman pianist has heen, awarded damages‘amounting to $100 hecause. her, name sgnpeared on a theatre, program , As agegmopanist to a singer, ‘when she not been en- geged at all’ Not sh { That's Not Nice “SHRI heard you your room ‘this morning, HE—Oh, T sing a little to kill time. SHE—You jcertainly have a good singing F