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Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota... . cits THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ABRAHAM LINCOLN Some orator in saluting the Great Emancipator has said: “Son of the cabin; child of the wilderness, we salute you.” This salute has been ringing down the generations since the fatal shot was fired that brought low that friend of man whose practice of the Golden Rule in government has written his name high in the history and affections of the American people. As we view some of the sordid aspects of politics today a fervent prayer goes up for more of the Lincoln spirit in the high seats of government. His wisdom, tenderness for the weaknesses of mankind and courage and firmness of purpose ~were never more needed in government than today. Recent disclosures at Washington have shaken faith in the integrity of rulers and given the cynic oppor- tunity to voice the adage that “every man has his price.” But those incidents cannot nor should not condemn a whole administration and there sits in the White House today a silent man whose integrity is beyond reproach; whose utter- ances recall in brevity and high purpose those of Lincoln. Calvin Coolidge’s tribute to Lincoln issued in the form of a proclamation in 1919 rings as true today as when it was uttered. “In wisdom great,” declared Coolidge on that occasion, “but in humility greater, in justice strong, but in compassion stronger, he became a leader of men by being a follower of the truth. He overcame evil with good. His presence filled the Nation. He broke the might of oppression. He restored a race to its birthright. His mortal frame has van- ished, but his spirit increases with the increasing years, the richest legacy of the greatest century.” It is well to turn back to the great lessons of Lincoln in the crisis that faces America today. Everywhere in gov- ernmental circles is there need for the preachments of this great example of American manhood. His famous speeche:s will be read from public forums this Lincoln Day fraught with-a new meaning, potent with greater lessons and may there be revived as vital forces in public life those ideals for which a nation fought and bled more than fifty years ago. : AYNE, SECRET SOCIETY A new international secret society, the New Crusaders, is spreading like wildfire. Already it has a million mem- bers in England. Branches are.swiftly being established in other countries. Organizers are at work in Canada and expect soon to invade the United States. While the New Crusaders is a British organization, by origin, it expects to become an international Ku Klux Klan. The members of the New Crusaders, when attending lodge, wear a white gown with a large red cross on the breast. It’s a secret society, but there are no masks. What it says it seeks is, in a nutshell, the universal brotherhood of man, regardless of races, nationalities and creeds. The founders started with the idea that international frontiers and their political complications are the basic causes of wars. So the New Crusaders preach the gospel that war can be eliminated only when the world’s people forget frontiers and boundaries and, tolerant, co-operate with other nations to check politicians. All this is an interesting and important attempt to bring the people of the world together in a common understand- ing. It’s a sort of unofficial League of Nations. These crusaders are opposed to violence. They are, however, ex- erting influence in elections. With a start of a million mem- bership in England alone, they have excellent prospects of becoming a powerful influence in world affairs. ’ CHANCE IS SMALL * ®°When an unknown writer sends a movie scenario to the producers, there’s only one chance in 10,000 of its being accepted. seat 5 athe Author’s League makes this interesting discovery in the law of chance. It found that only four scenarios were + aceepted out of 42,020 sent to producers. Maybe it’s all for the best, after all. Out of 10,000, we -« dgubt if more than 50 would be worth producing. " **Writers’ chief problem is over-production. As George *. Ade put it, too much competition with dead men. © the River Plata where it is over 26 miles wide. t GOAL IS AMBITION A girl in South America, Miss Harrison, swam across She had to swim for 24 hours and more. This is exceptional in every- day life. But thousands of people have swum farther and longer, at sea when their ships went down. Our possibilities are super-human, provided we have the necessary goal. Goal is Ambition. The higher our amb + tion, the higher we are apt to get. Life, after all, is a swim -aeross a wide river. MA’S WORK "A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is ; never done, runs the old saying. However, a lot of ma’s “work is unnecessary, a.duplication of effort. Uncle.Sam is jbusy along this line, making suggestions to farmers’ wives. Ofte woman writes: “The new location of my wood-box saves ime 400 steps in getting dinner.” : In former generations, the majority of women died of |. Fifteen opera singers are}working their way to {Germany as deck hands. If the whistle breaks, one can have new job on the boat. A ———————————————————— ics, th ill be 30,000 deaths by accident Statistics. show there will be 30, aa EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opjnion of The Tribune. They Psented here in order that aders may have both sides important issues which are being discussed in the press of the di UE REAFFIRMS BE DLITICAL NOSTRU LEAC Nonpartisan | at Bismarck Delegates to the League Convention reaffirmed their belief in political | nostrums. They are not convinced | as yet that State Socialism will not work For instance, they Fedje Labor Lien Bill sumes to be a me benefit of the farm would destroy the crop asset in North Dakota, Tr declared, — without qualification whatever, for owned = mills, — elevators, houses, coal mines, and briquetting plants. Instead of givi and fair trial to the stateowned stitutions which the they would put the State Govern: | ment further into business, not-} indorsed the withstanding the experience gained! the! | \ | through the wreckage of Homebuilders Association, the Drake Mill and the Werner Cream- ery. "They demand: The revision of the income tax law with higher rates on the higher incomes. Such revision would only add to the burden of taxation now falling upon the man in the lower brack- ets who would pay the tax bill iu indirect taxes. That the Bank of North Da- kota be made to function as was originally intended. Possibly referring to the w functioned under the Nonpartisan League regime which gave the State some 200 real estate mort-, gages on which neither principal nor interest has been paid, and which the bank officials believe never will be pa | That we advocate the imme- diate stabilization of the prices of farm products by the Fed- eral Government. Pricefixing. i A program, similar to this, had a great appeal some eight years ago. Then the Socialistie doctrines were disguised under a new name. H But since then the people have had experience and repudiated at the polls those who were the chief medicine men in the heyday of the League. It was found that Non- partjsanism meant Socialism, and that the attempt to carry out the original Nonpartisan program sad- dled onto the State a bonded in- debtedness of approximately $17,- 000.000 and caused taxes to be tripled. It is not probable that the ma- | jority of the people of North I kota can be inveigled into indo: ing any program for further ex perimentation which would mean the incurring of further obliga- tions. The State today needs to forget theories and continue to THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BY A little awkward and a little rough, Yet fit to we A heart that ! And yet a spi i \ | | | i BERTON BRALEY s or kings. ple things stuff, ) uk with common apt at homely, si it made of stern have told it to you at all but we have got to réach some plan of action in the matter.” h Vhat have you already told Jack, Leslie?” | “I declined to tell him’ anything.” | “Perhaps you hud better tell him | the truth, | "Think a minute and you will find | that I cannot do that. I will try and | Bee you tomorrow, however. In the meantime I have had a number of | packages sent to your shop. I bought |some lovely things for ‘you to sell.” “Are you sending the money back ruble & Struble today?” i y dear girl, I ean't do it. jhas it with him.” ! “Good Lord, what are you going to do. Leslie?” “Really I don’t Know. I am vely- ing on you to think up some play, be- tween now ang tomorrow.” (Copyright, 1 NEA Service, Inc.) ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Published by arrangement * Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Copyright 1923 by XXVI_ (continued) Elinor Goodrich, Mabel Law- rence. Polly Vane. Isabel Ruyler. Ellen de Lacey. Louise Prevost. She had been so intimate with all of them, not only in the school- room but when they were all in Soclety together, Now only her somewhat cynical senge of anticipa- tion mitigated utter baredom at the thought of meeting them again, Of the other six she had still vaguer memories, although she recalled having heard that the beauty of her | Own last season, Lily Armstrong, ile today,” | had married one of the Tracys. ly, “I am She also was to be at the luncheon. z Several short, ones. What on earth was she to talk to Sg Gay who can be first to Buess ithem about at the table? She “Sometimes they're silver, sometimes | could hardly tel) them the story gold, t ; they expected before the servants. And oan things, are hard to jemmat would be for the later hour in The goig ones oft are kept in cases, the drawing-room—or would it be Made out of giass like precious vases. fm that absurd old room of Jane's ii ; upstairs? Eto Relea ne 28 | aati ebtalioa tithe taep (Gsea: They have no feet, but all have tails, rich) and her enthusiastic admira- They comme in schools but have n° | tton, which she had accepted as.a This is their motto, ‘Beware of matter-ofcourse, and given little hooks!’” beyond amiable tolerance in return. Ge ley Re nO cg ae {As she had told Clavering, she was Simple Simon, And at exactly the 208 woman's woman, She hoped sume instant didn’t Tommy Tittle- Nelly had outgrown “gash.” ‘For Dae eEse ean Riddle Lady. | some ten years after her marriage “Fish!” replied both Simon and ®2@ had met her from time to time Tommy promptly. No wonder they abroad, but she had not geen her for so long that she doubted if she Jack “Instead of a long rid announced the Riddle 1. going to ask with -Associated First National Pictures, Inc. Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Countess Zattiany. Gertrude Atherton jonable but not smart. They car ried themselves with a certain con scious rigidity and aloofness which even their daughters had aban- doned and was a source of disre Spectful amusement to their in. iquitous granddaughters. Although Mrs. Goodrich, Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs. Tracy were more up to date inf thelr general appearance, wearing’ slightly larger hats and fewer feathers, with narrow sdog tollars instead’ of whaleboned net, they were as disdainful as the others of every art. that alms to preserrp. something of the effect of youthf; although they were spickingly groomed. They accepted life as it was, and they had accepted it at every successive stage, serene In the knowledge that ip this as in other things they were above the necessity of compromise and sub- terfugé. They were the fixed quan- tities in a world of shifting values. In age they ranged from fifty-six to sixty-two, with the exception of Mra, Tracy, who was a mere fifty: two, A few were stout, the others bony and gaunt. Their hair was white or gray. Only Mrs. Tracy, with her fresh complexion and soft brown hair, her plump little figure encased in modern corsets, had got on the blind side of nature, as Mra. Oglethorpe had told Mary. The ‘others were frankly elderly women, but of great dignity and distinction, some charm, and considerable hon- esty and simplicity, And their loy- alty never failed them, ° The luncheon was by no reeans easy and informal. Mary, by rack- ing her memory, recalled the first names of most of them and never could guess so easily. Simon fishing the silly way he did, in his mother’s scrubbing pail, and Tommy Tittle. YOWld recognize her if they passed mouse, who lived in the little house, 0m the street. The only one of her Siting forever in other men’s old friends for whom she retained ditches “That's right,” said. the Riddle either interest or affection was Lady. “The prize is a new fishing Jane Oglethorpe, who, ten years older than herself, with a com- line for each of you. Now listen, everybody. What is this? manding personality unfolding rap- in all-‘her varied life had she been® more sweetly amiable, made so de- termined an effort to please. S%e might not care what they thought Wistful and fond, yet adequate a To bear the burdens which grim‘ A high imagination on whose wing: He soared |eyond the passions He swagethe v ssoul, the sublima 4 strong ‘ortune brings; $s of the throng. tion | dile-sounds as easyuspie’for you, but Of-that Ame In him we re Stalwart anc By Fate unmo: Masterful, w “@opyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc. a he died to save, the genius of a nation 1 tender, humorous and grave, ved, by love and pity swayed, | | himsical—and unafraid! build on a policy of sound econom- ics which alone makes for perm- anency and _ stability. — Fargo Forum. | THE FAMILY LIEN BILL All kinds of arguments for Fedje bill are being broad by League newspapers on a wave length of 400 méterg or more. The announcer in most instances is no | other than Fedje, himself. ih The bill in question provides} that a farmer and all of his chil-} ‘dren over the age of 16 have the right to file a lien for the labor of sowing, caring for and harvesting ' their own crops. Such a law Tsmacks of special legislation in that the stock farmer will be de- {nied the privilege 'of filing a lien ‘for the care of the increase of his stock, for instance. The law will be referred to the voters at the March primaries, It is a law that concerns the farmer are it. Therefore there is no organ- ized opposition against the passage of the bill. it may not have occurred to many of those now in favor of the { Mill, however, that if it becomes law the farmer has forfeited his right to mortgage his crop. If a farmer, for instance, had the best crop he ever raised, delayed ar- ranging for twine until harvest time and then makes the discovery that he can get twine only for cash, {such a law might be the worst that could happen. The family lien law ‘being in force he could not mort- gage his crop and he has no other security. His grain would be apt to lodge or shell out before he ‘could harvest it without twine. | fi 1 Furthermore he might find it con- | venient in case of sickness or Some other misfortune in the fam- ily to have a crop to mortgage. There are many other things for which it would be convenient to mortgage a crop, such as seed grain, milk cows, hogs, etc.—Wat- ford City (N. D.) Guide. CUTTING EXPENSES The McLaughlin Messenger doubts very much if the Agricul- tural Extension Service is worth what it costs the taxpayers of ‘South Dakota. The service has Speakers on most every conceiv- able subject traveling over the state at big expense telling the public how to do this and_ that thing. One of the latest frills is a woman who is lecturing on the use of empty flour sacks. Every woman in McLaughlin and Corson ‘county undoubtedly knows what use can ‘be made of bleached flour Sacks. We don’t blame the good lady, but the head of the economics department who assigned her to this task must be hard up for a subject to work on. When a lot of these fool state expenditures are yeurtailed there will be relief from high taxes and not before.—Elgin (N. D. News. Education First Hand. “Where do your children learn all their bad language?” _ ips “We live near the income-tax er Munich)... MISSING WIFE FOUND BY POLICE hap ng York. years. such weuld worr: did. finding her in Chicago safely mar- ried to a plumber. Now doesn’t that show the futility of worry? been arrested. young fellow is learning to be a den= erlmes too far. with Young men, enthusiastitever their work able dentist shenld only n a man before robbing him. with triplets tells dumb in more ways than one. on record lasted shortest one four wrong in both cas fight we ever heard of is Bryan's fight to become presid | tucky sheriff's present escaped without loss. glad to see us. better. to John Alden Prescott: c | appearances Will probably be in your city. ter get Leslie out of the town when you know for sure when she is com- ing, Young man by name traveling with her as business man- ager. months. Leslie Prescott and Ruth Ellington: lington.” your voice.” f get: back? + MAN’S WORRY pmethi weep: | Every day how how usele hed milk can be. of a man in New Ifis was missing. He had no idea where she was for three What would you do under mstances? Why, you Thats what this man Why wor Take the eir Cops searched three years, finally ITORIAL. A Cincinnati. dental student has Cops say he killed a man and then robbed him. This c, he carried both at is the trouble y become too A cap- arly kill ist fast. Of cour: BIRTHS. The stork is voiceless, but_a man us the bird is spor7s. Tex Rickard says the longest fight wo days, and the seconds, He is s. The longest ent. ars. This has asted for years and Perhaps the shortest fight was one time when |an auto driver thought he could whip a traffic cop. JAIL NEWS, Pickpocket robbed a girl in a Ken- office. Thirty cops #FioTangle CABLEGRAM FROM MRS, JOSEPH GRAVES HAMILTON TO MRS. JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT Arrived London safely. Alice very Dad feeling much Love. MOTHER. Night letter from Sydney Carton ve continent. Bet- P. P. making a series of persona across the Think she means business. of Summers I'shall not be back for three Keep me advised. SYD, Telephone conversation between “I would like to speak to Mrs. El> “This is she.” “Hello, Ruth, I didn’t “recognize uy “Ts that you, Leslie, when did you itt iS .USELESS CONTEST. More Entries in Effort to Find Good to find the six ant words in the English age ri sults. The prizes will be New entries ar water, not bootle; use my handkerchief.” “So I stopped, looked and listened.” “The seed | extalog did not lie.” “Yes, we have | a lower berth.” “I love you, I love | you.” “I hate you, I hate you,” and | “Spring isn't so far away, now.” | SOCIETY, 5 “Home often is merely a ‘pla Whete you get your mail. That. Where a Chicago man slipped up He didn’t even come home for his mail, so wife opened it for him. | Now he ig paying alimony. | MARRIAGES. | Cafe cashier chased a robber with | a broom. She is single so we don't | know how she got her training. \ POLITICS. | Last presidential ¢glection we jump- | ed from one party to another. It, may mean nothing, but this is leap, year. “Here, you can DAN DOBB SAYS One nice thing about your wife be- ing missing is you can find a place | at home to hang your clothes. SCHOOL NEWS. Tho college student who recently | marriéd her professor may be teach- ing him,now. SPRING NOTE. Only a few more weeks before the ernual Easter egg shortage. AUTO NOTES. The 1924 model autos are said to be model autos. “Last night.” “L guess you think ‘I fool, “Leslie,” “Pgrhaps you did the same thing I would have done myself, but any- way, you certainly have kicked. up a mess. If you had to put that money in my safe, why did you wait until so late in the afternoon?” / “Well, you see, Leslie, I was aw- fully busy until just before closing and I thought I could get. away *be- fore, Jack came’ in, \Was he awfully angry?” 4 f (“Very. He told me, never to speak to you again, He seems to, think Harry sent you that\money to pay on his debts and that \you were put- ting. it to your own use”. | = “Gan you beat that, Leslie? am a big To think that. Jaeck-of all\men could expect Hatry Ellington, Who batray-| ‘ed him’jn every way possible, could ever send him’ back a. ednt of ithe ‘money’ he: stole from him. He is mighty. quick 40 pay ‘the fren dia es : “Don't ‘feel Hurt; Ra { sons. ‘helping Mister, Stamps. t , a “It lives in a cellar, {dly at the dawn of their intimacy, had attracted deeply but subtly her own untried force of character and ruthless will, Embarrassment over, the had enjoyed their long hour to- )sether, and was glad to renew their Intimacy, to find that her old First, -because they had lesen ae Seay be HH : ae ee u cothing with years. nd she had worked in the’Pairyland Benes ltound ‘her more interesting than in did you ever,sever, ever hear of [UF youth. - anyone In Mother Goose Land writ-| She sighed a little.as she looked ing a letter? back on her Jong hours..of almost “Yes, that’s what it was, a letter, |anbroken solitude in this old house. and Nancy’ guessed it anf got a nice |3he had. been- comparatively -happy box of writing. paper of her own with ‘at first—a blessed interval of rest pictures on it. “The Mother Goose}and peace 4a thts marvelously people thought it very curigus. wealthy and prosperous city where “Now then, for the thirg riddle,” |. said the Riddle Lady. “Listen care- |20. POOT Were kept out of sight, at fully: kg ‘east, where all the men wefe whole and where one never saw a gaunt woman's appealing eyes. or emaci- -ed ragged children, Those’ un- troubled hours had fled for ever. ind astonishment, impotent fury, and dire mental conflict had fol- lowed, but nevertheless she had ireamed—dreamed—and been glad of her freedom from social and all ather duties. Now, probably these women and many more would swarm here. Her mouth twisted as her maid aelped her into the soft gray coat trimmed with blue fox. Ordeal! That would ¢ome on Saturday aight. No wonder she was merely amused and totally indifferent to- jay! When she arrived at the honse in |Sranrercy Park, purposely late, to give her. entrance the effect Mrs. |2glethorpe had. commanded, she {2eard.an excited buzz of voices in jthe drawing-room as she was being telieved of her wrap. As she en- tered it ceased abruptly and she heard several hardly; perceptible zasps. But the pause, before they all crowded about her, was too brief to be noticeable, and they shook her. hand heartily or kissed jher warmly. If their eyes were perhaps too studiously expression- less, their words and manner might have been those of old friends wel- |coming back one who had been. long absent and nothing more. Con- Qicting emotions, born of undying temininity, were not evident for the moment. Mrs. Goodrich cried out }at once how wonderfully well she |looked, Mrs, Lawrence asked if she ad stopped in Paris® for her clothes, ahd Mra, Vane {f she found \New York much changed, Nothing could have gone off better. Mrs, Oglethorpe, in old-pile black velvet as usual, with.a front and high-boned collar of yellow rose es, point lace,‘stood in the background MANDAN LOSES. watching the comedy with a frank Mandan high school still playing ‘sardonic grin. If her guests had with a handicapped team lost another been faithless to the traditions in “It wears no gown, but ne'er the less, It travels not without address, It cannot walk, it cannot tramp, Yet never moves'without a stamp.” Now, of course, my dears, this rid- nobody Knew what it was Twins. but the They knew for many rea- But never leaves .the kitchen, It’s one of the seasofis, Yet never.sees the sky,.. (ap is full of holes) 2 But. never puts a stitch in, Must have its reasons! Can you tell me why?” Well, sir! Everybody nearly guessed his head off. But.not a per- son could getyin. Not even Nancy and Nick, and usually they could guess anything. “Perhaps the kitchen is in the cel- lar. Some are,” said the Crooked Man, whose front door went in the back way. “No!” the Riddle Lady shook her head. “Not this cellar.” #4 “And a season just.cannot be in the house!” declared the Old-Wom- au-Who-Lived-Under-the-Hill, “This one can,” smileg the ‘Riddle Lady. “There are other seasorfs be- sides summer and winter and spring and fall. Perhaps I should have said ‘The four seasonings’ instead. That iet the cat out of the bag! It!” shouted everybody at once, ‘That's right,” laughed the Riddle Lady. “But there is no prize. You were -all too slow!” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) MANDAN. NEWS DEATH NATURAL. James Calder, aged 84, who lived ‘on a homestead southwest of Glen Ullin died of natural causes and ‘was not a victim of any foul play, was the | decision reached by Coroner J. K, Kennelly after examination of the body and conditions about the place. Calder was found dead in his farm home Saturday morning. He lived alone and is not known to have any relatives. He has been a resident of the Glen Ullin@istrict for more than 36 years." ‘ “that shows| The pres dollar to. the of the United Stat jis “officers, /#he:;;pagto, {and 27,400 ‘enlisted 'm geme Saturday evening on the local which they. had. been.>bred; she to 8 in a harder fought basketball bo¢ the automatic manner In which game than the score would indicate they rose to the occasion and took f + THOUGHT.? the blow standing (Mra. Oglethorpe ry A THOUGHT, her son, -her Janet, and“her Lee) ° made ber rock with silent. mirth. Better is a little with rightous- |She knew exactly how they felt! wither Brera ‘women and handsomely dressed, Riches without law are more dan- |but they indisputably. belonged to gerous than is poverty without law. (the old regime, and even Mrs, Tra- thing of what Mary Zattiany called The Fiery. Cross. allf-up The dusty porter at one of the aS HA tte They, istah ay photoplay theaters found a Red bringing it’to the box office he in-|'eause Ah thought it was a klan pin.” quired: Youngstown (0.) Telegram “What's dis?” . a 3 you have subscribed a Red Cross fund.” floor to Valley City by a score of 20 wonid have felt angry and hamed, often indulged in the vernacular of. o ness, than great revenues without |. omey were & fine-looking set of Henry Ward Beecher.’ ey, the youngest of tem, had some~ Cross button the other day, and|“Ah was seahed to put dat on. me “Oh,” said the cashi “. «» Mary looking up,at the por trait. of Jane Oglethorpe in her flaming youth.” of her, but she was sorry tor them, they “had behaved very decently, and for Jane Oglethorpe’s sak alone the occasion must uc cess. \ She was ably seconded by Mrs. Goodrich, who stared at her in wide-eyed admiration and rattled off the gossip of New York, and by Mrs. Tracy, who had an insatiable Interest in diplomatic society. _ When she had satisfied the latter's + curiosity she led the conversation by @ straight path to the sufferings of the children of Austria and begged them to jojn her in forming a relief committee, They received this philanthropic suggestion with Ro apparent fervor, but it relieve the stiffness and tension un- til they-retired to the drawing-room for coffee, . They stood about for a tew mo- ments, Mary looking up at the por trait of Jane Oglethorpe in her flaming youth. But the hostess or dered them all to sit down and ¢x- claimed peremptorily: “Now, Mery, tell them all about it or I'll have a lot of fainting, hysterical women on my hands. We're still human it we-are old and ugly. Go to it, as Janet would say. I believe you haye met that estimable exponent of the later New, York manner, You are no more extraordinary 4 yourself than some of the changes / here at home, but you're more pio turesque, and that’s herder to swallow. Put them out of their misery.” The ladies smiled or frowned, according to what humor the Al- mighty, niggardly in his bestowal of humor, had allotted them, at all events they were used to “Jane.” Mra. Goodrich, who haa’ led Mary to @ sofa and seated her- Self beside her,rtook her hand and Pressed it affectionately, as if she were encouraging her on the way to te cvesating Toom, “Yes, tell us the story, darlin; wonderful!” Res Seat ie “Do you really mean thi have néver heard of this trest ment?” asked M: oe Zattiany, who knew quite wellithat they had hot. “Few things are bet! in Burope.” o Sth “We have never heard of. ig” . sald Mrs, Vane austerely, We were totally.unp: red.” i Con: 4 Right Old you again “and when older per- but wait until they And Jessie ‘Jessie; I have t