The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1924, Page 4

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ROO, Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) .... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota... sees 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) CHANGING VALUES Tragic is this news item: Appraisal of the estate of the late Colonel Jeremiah Evarts Tracy, of the United States army, lists his Distinguished Service Medal as worth only 50 cents and his Army-Navy Medal only 25 cents. : , se To Colonel Tracy, their value was largely sentimental. That part of the value was too high to be figured in dollars and cents, and he took it with him beyond the grave. All that is left is a bit of metal. The value of the metal is small. The real value, obviously, was imaginary. Yet, for such imaginary values, men risk their lives. Many other forms of “value” are imaginary. Including gold, which has no more actual value than silver, except for its hypnotic influence, its power to command respect and obedience, A man, dying of thirst in a desert, if offered his choice of a ton of gold or a glass of water, would take the water. At an auction, E. D. North pays $240 for a copy of the first edition of Joseph Conrad’s book, “Almayer’s Folly,” with pages uncut. He can buy a leather-bound duplicate of this book for a few dollars. So what he bought was not Conrad’s novel but the factor of scarcity. So it is with many things, including diamonds. All values properly should be based on usefulness. But the standard or basis of values is scarcity. That)s why our money system is backed by gold and silver instead of iron or copper. It’s human nature to want to own something “exclusive.” Explanation is in the psychology of greed and vanity. MILLION DOLLAR JAZZ PALACE A million dollar jazz palace, where unemployed counts and barons will be employed as dancing partners and hosts, will be built in New York. Isadore J. Faggen invented this wonderful idea. Some humorists consider it funny. Rather, it’s pathetic. Not that we are sorry for nobility forced to hunt a job. We'd like to force honest work on some of the parasitic noblemen who stay in Europe, bankrupt, and plot politiéally or set their traps for American heiresses. The former nobleman who is willing to work asa dancing partner or waiter, to make an honest living, has our respect to the hilt. BLAME PROHIBITION The death rate from diabetes increases a tenth in one EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opjnion of The Tribune. They are pysented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. MONEY MAKERS FOR WARD COUNTY We have a few farmers in our locality. who realize the the hog as a money maker. could name several nd market We y farmer had fifty he market u year he would be r ing around $500.00 a te. The feed can be ed, and it does not take very much money to provide housing for hogs. In have sdéme of the largest hog breeders in the state only three or four miles from town, and who: herds are from champion winners.—Ryder (N. D.) NO FREE PUBLI CANDIDATES addition we The presidential nomination campaign is beginning to warm up, and a great volume of publicity matter in the interest of various candidates is beginning to come to the editorial desks. — State and campaigns will un- and columns of our e to the mention of meri nd demerits of candidates, parties and c es. In order to avoid any possible misunderstand- ing we wish it to be plainly and emphatically understood that The Wells County Farmer thas unlimit- ed amount of space “for sale” at publicity prices but not o1 inch to be “given away.” Parties who are now, or may hereafter be, i terested in the promotion of p tical publicity will kindly keep this fact in mind. We shall be pleased to give information as to advertis- ing rates, but whatever is inserted as political advertising must be paid for at the time it goes in the paper. We reserve the right to use our editorial space for the expres- sion of our own opinigns, and this space is not for sale.—Wells Coun- ty Farmer, Fessenden. NITIATED ASURE A strong campaign to carry th Farm Labor Lien Law, commonl; known as the Fedje ‘bill, at the election of March 18, 1 is now being made by its sponsors and friends in the state. The petitions initiating the law ve ‘been filed and the measure will be upon the ballots. As has been stated, the bill would give the farmer and his wife the right to file a lien upon their crop to hold out enough grain at prices then prevailing, to equal Going wages for themselves and minor children over sixteen years of age, after paying the thresher, seed .bill and hired men if they have any. The purpose of the measure on its face is excellent, to insure to the needy farmer, who. already has mortgaged his crop, some return for his labor, and to provide for his subsistence until another crop is gathered. The lien of the farm- year. A medical specialist at Johns Hopkins University blames prohibition, which has greatly increased the average American’s consumption of sugar. Diabetes is a disease of the pancreatic gland, and excessive use of sugar is apt to make this gland function abnormally. Alcohol, however, has a similar effect on the pancreas. In some respects, sugar and alcohol are twins. Drunkards, | sobering up, usually eat a lot of candy. To date, the most | important result of prohibition seems to be its effect on the pancreatic gland. | i IS CLIMATE CHANGING? Regarding this discussion of whether or not the climate Ve is changing—winters milder than formerly—you may have observed that our generation does not see the huge icicles that used to hang from the eaves. We recall icicles larger than baseball bats, lots of them. It was great sport for a Yad,#in the days when Bryan was making his first runs for the presidency, to knock down the big icicles with a stick, then run for safety as they fell. In some ways, it was as big a thrill as radio. i RACE OF SPENDERS j Two-thirds as much money is spent for gum, by Amer- | icans, as for insurance, according to Dr. John A. Stevenson, vice president of the Equitable Life. This strikes us as about the last word in contrasts. It indicates that the ele- ment of fear is being eliminated in our civilization, in the matter of money. We are a race of spenders. Viewpoints vary, regarding this situation. However, the national income is 70 per cent “insured.” STUDIED BY GOVERNMENT Mosquito, pest and disease carrier, is being studied by government experts. They find that the adult females, which do all the “biting” to get blood for their young, thrive quite well on a diet of fruit, especially bananas, and honey, molasses and other sweets. Blood, however, is absolutely necessary for the development of mosquito eggs. c ~ This interesting investigation may eventually lead to a method of eliminating the mosquito, which has been known to live as long as 154 days. CONTRAST Man in scientific fields is winning control over nature on an astonishingly wide scale. The General Electric Company displays the largest electric light bulb ever made—150,000! candlepower. Alongside it is the smallest electric light, a bulb the size of a grain of rice, used in delicate surgical oper- ations, such as that recent removal of a tack from a baby’s lungs. ~ By ancient sta: BIRTHS ON. INCREASE aes ‘ best news from France in many 4 moon is wor af ; birtho hove been exceeding deaths at the rate of over 100,000 _@ year. Not a big increase in population, as we reckon things in America. But it’s important in France,-where the chief fear is a growing population,in Germany and a shrink- age in France: The cradle situation over there is the real key to politics between the two countries. ' Mexicans are fighting Americans over oil rights. Now ‘you know why some are called “greasers.” | ndards, we are a race of magicians. er who raised the crop takes pre- cedence Over mortgages and other evidences of indebtedness with ex- ceptions noted above. The object, to prevent the farmer from being deprived of his entire crop when he has nothing else on which to rely, is excellent. The effect, however, must also be carefully considered by the farmers, whose votes should de- cide the fate of the measure. If tie law passes the crop mortgage redit is greatly lessened, the farmer losing that additional source of loans. Undoubtedly there are many people who believe mer should not be permitted to mortgage his crop in advance. The farmers themselves will weigh the measure and decide whether they will gain more in safety than they will lose in restricted credit, by the passage of this measure.— Jamestown Alert. — | People’s Forum |! ¢—_—____________«¢ ASKS SCOUT SUPPORT Editor The Tribune: The purpose of this letter is to a) peal to the men of Bismarck on be- half of the Boy Scout Movement, and wish to begin by saying that it is not an appeal for money. _ One of the great things about the Boy Scout Movement is that it does not call for a large outlay of money and so does not build up a barrier keeping out boys or men of modcrate means. Bismarck needs and should have several more Troops of Scouts, and the only real reason we have not more is that the men have not come forward to act as Scoutmasters, The average business, office or profes- sional man has practically the re- quirements for the work, that is, health and strength, education, some time which he should devote to re- creation and relaxation from his bus- iness or profession, so if he has a love for boys, which most men have, though some seem unwilling to admit it, he is about ready to make a start, The program is so well laid out and the boys take to it so naturally that a little advice, a little encouragement and a man to get right in and Pal with them is all that is required. A Scout uniform costs no more than a good Sport or Hunting suit and an axe or hike stick is just as good for exercise as a gun or golf club, and’ the upkeep is much less, while many men will find the Scouts better companions for relief from the daily grind of business than the Same Old Bunch from the office. No Troop worthy of the name ex- pects their Scout Master to spend a lot of money on them nor do they monopolize his time, but Troops Ho not get started nor do they continue unless some man helps a little. .. Bismarck should have six or more Troops of twenty four Scouts each, while every fellow who goes olt at the age of eighteen should wish te’ y value of | parties here between | 1 hundred hogs a year, easily proper | !| When Ellen dusts and cleans and P-4 That tells the months, and dutes 'n’ THE | | BISMARCK TRIBUNE Starting Out Like a Real Jumper remain in touch with the Movement. There are at present a few vacan- cies in each of the Troops, also some former members of one inactive Troop around which could easily be built another Troop, while there are dozens of the finest of boys who {would like to be in the Scouts, if on- ly the Scout Master would step for- rd | | ‘DISHES: WILL d, ou all believe in the Boy Seout|JUDGE SAYS MISTAKE 1S BEING Movement and want your own boys! 4 Chicago qMADE: prea Office, Business and Professional |" i pees ctoe eaves inoue cons |than during any year in the history “YOU WILL LIKE THE BOY jor the world. SCOUAEE: | There are many broken and un- broken ones tied up in his court as jevidence. A broken dish usually means the woman didn’t aim to throw it. She merely turned loose and let ADVENTURE OF |)" Sin & aish nits x husband it THE TWINS |meither breaks nor bounces. When BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON —S. 0, LeBarron. it hits furniture it breaks without beuneing. This belief that you can take a piece of china and bounce it is all wrong. SOCIETY. Only 21 out of every 300 applicants |for chorus girl positions are fit for cold, I’m afraid that nobody can hear} the job, according to a New York me. I don't believe there are any|@@nager. This proves that you can’t very hard words, or rather I mean Ij #!ays believe your looking-glass. believe there aren’t any. Here!” ____ SCIENCE NEWS. Naney took the paper and got on! Scientists tells how the earth was a platform and read the riddle to all ‘ivided into land and sea. Maybe the Riddle Land people and Mother, ®¢ can tell how politics was divided Godse people. She had guessed it be-, inte oil a a fore she was half through reading, | LPS. Gg litt Caterpillars ate all the food in the jbut she couldn't stop in the middie ts f t and tell the answer. That wouldn’t| TTansvaal “so the natives are eating | the caterpillars. have been fair. This was it: EDITORIAL. 1 “You hold the cloaks of queens and, Mellon says he eannot reduce tax- hinga; jes and pay a soldier bonus. We say |And fasten shut all sorts of things,| the soldier bonus is not the only From baby’s bib and pinafore, aes ateras ie cite 5 = |taxes an e oil men, for one Toscook's old atess that Rover|tora| nice nigel gene etree {und pay a good many other things |that should be reduced, but are not. “Nancy,” said the Riddle Lady next day, “will you please read this riddle for me? I have such a bad | “You hold together Bobby's cuff, |The button’s off—he’s very roughi You mark the place in Mary's hem r 1 b To let it down—she's grown again, |“ PC™s*S could be reduced BANK NOTES. Two Chicago publishers were fined $1,000 each for printing an ~alleged Jacious book. But they will make it up, using this publicity to sell their other books. “You hold the satin into place | While Mother drapes a piece of lace, Or if she wears a posy gay, She slips you in to make it stay. ; Here is a suggestion: Maybe useless * Women as well as men have been Published by arrangement with Associated First National Pictures, Inc. Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Countess Zattiany. Copyright 1923 by XXVI (continued) Madame Zattiany shrugged her traceful shoulders. “I have been told that America never takes up anything new in science until it has become stale in Europe. But flocking to'Vienna. Russian prin- cesses have pledged their jewels”— “How romantic!” exclaimed Mrs. Goodrich, who was one of those ‘women fn whom a certain spurious sense of romance increases with’ age. But Mrs. Vane mumbled something less complimentary. She had never been romantic in her Ute; and she was beginning to feel the strain, Bae | “Well,” sald Madame Zattiany, j“I suppose I must begin at the be- ginning. I dislike holding forth, but if you, will have it”— | “Don’t leave out a word!” ex- ‘claimed Mrs. Tracy. “We want every detail. You've made us feel both as young as yourself and as old as Methuselah.” Madame Zattlany smiled amtably , &t the one woman in the room who | had lingered in the pleasant spaces {of middle age. “Very well. I'll be as little technical as possible. . + . As you know, I ran a hos- pital in Buda Pesth during the war. After the revolution broke out I was forced ta leave in secret to es- cape being murdered. Bela Kun's list”— in the group. could grasp on the wing. NOT BOUNCE CONTEST. Dan Dobb's Contest Causes Much Ex- A citement. Our recent contest to find the six most important words in the language | is being contested. Many have writ- | ten us to say the judges were not | selected properly ‘and did not make their selection properly. But that is the way with every contest. Look at Bok’s peace plan— | they had a fight over who knew how te make peace the best. While his contest was not dis large as ours, we use the illustration to show that con- tests are very dangerous. FOREIGN ‘NEWS. Lloyd George has started another argument, proving he has his health back. Wish -money circulated as fast as { rumors. DAN DOBB SAYS. If Dempsey really wants to figi-t | he will find several senators mad enough to go 40 or 50 rounds‘ with him. SPORTS. Battling Siki, the one-time dark horse of the square ring, tried to kiss Strangler Lewis in Chicago, but | escaped. | Kissing in the ring is a French custom which was ruled against re- cently. So Siki’s actions were only natural. FINANCIAL, The thing strikes us as being a good idea. If the purse put up doesn’t ‘make two boxers mad enough to fight they can start kissing. Then one of them is sure to get mad enough to | whip anybody. { RADIO NEWS. . They are broadéasting grand opera, but many.a radio fan will think he is hearing static. GERMAN NEWS. Germany may recall Ambassador Wieldfeldt since his actions are caus- ing wide-felt disapproval. | | 1 { “You hold up many a curtain frill, | To keep it off the window sill, sweeps, And ‘shoes the dirt all out in heaps. “You hold the calendar on the wall, | | i | | LETTER FROM SALLY ATHERTON all, TO LESLIE PRESCOTT Or keep the arm on Peggy Jane— Her glue all melted in the rain! It was sweet of you, Leslie dear, : to recommend me to your husband, especially as you must know why I am leaving your father, who is one of the best and ‘understanding raen I have known. I am quite sure I yould have liked to stay with him always, I am do- ing better here than I have done in all my life, but I want to get away from Sam. ‘Don’t bé shocked, dear. I'm only saying what probably hundreds and even thousands of married women think every day of their lives. Neith- er Sam nor I have been very nappy since our marriage, which was a great mistake. Both of us saw this before we had “But when you're in your bed, All covered up except your head, It must be stacks and stacks of fun To tell the others all you've done! cushion “And though your small, I do not think you dull at allt I think you're sharp and very bright, And work and work with all your might.” head's so very “I know what jt is!” shouted the little Wheelbarrow-Boy, who had gone to London to get himself a wife. “It’s a pin.” “How do you know?” asked Nick, “Because,” said the little Wheel- barrow-Boy, “It says, ‘Needles and pins, needles and pins, when a man marries his trouble begins!’ And who should know better than I? The minute I put Betsy-Anne Sprigg into my wheelbarrow to take her home to keep house for me, my troubles he- gan, for the wheelbarrow was an old one of Daddy’s and fell to pieces the minute I put her in it. Of course, we were only playing, but I decided then and ’there never to really get married.” “My! My!” laughed the Riddle Lady. “What a long speech! } But you guessed the right answer, It is @ pin! And the prize is a nice new little red wheelbarrow. But it isn’t big enough to haul around even a. pretend wife, I’m afraid, “Oh, thank you!” said the little: Wheelbarrow-Boy. “£ can haul sand in it, anyhow, which is much better.’ (To Continued) m IEA Service, Inc.) Sam has been just as anxious to get away from me as I have been to get away-from him. Of course, I could not leave him alone during his blindness, but now that he has got back his sight, I feel perfectly justified in getting out of this mess as soon as possible. ‘Sam and I do not think alike on any subject in the world. He is a very good business man along his own lines. He has no vision. He will never be anything but a plain employe, dubbing along on a good salary. He is always afraid to take the initiative. I,.as you know, am entirely dif- ferent. *Some-day I want to be per- Mfectly independent. I want to work for myself, and I am sure that with your husband to teach me I will be ‘able to attain my ambitions not very far in the future, " Now, my dear girl, I have come to-the real gist of my letter—the Be <Coprrielty 1924, NI 2% Ae Tangles been married a month,\and I expett|* ee t thing for which I have written this preamble—that is, I want to place myself in just the position with you that I can keep up as long as I stay in your husband’s employ. , I know we have been friends, dear, all our lives, and your friend. ship has been one of the loveliest things that has come into my scme-| what gray existence. Because that, is so, and because I want to keep the memory of it, I want you, Les- lie, to forget that we have been ahy- thing more than chance acquaint- ances, and accept me as your hus- band’s segretary. One cannot mix society and busi- ness, especially, an employe cannot keep up in the society of her em- ployer. It woifld be very foolish of me to try to do so-and would only end in disaster. Oceasi ally, perhaps, if you ask me, dear, I may come to your housé and dine with you if you are alone, but I do not*want your husband ever to meet me socially. Please do not say this is foolishness, for I }-ave tried it and I know. One réason I have been-so happy here with your father is because he absolutely un- derstood and: did not invite me to his home, although your mother is kind enough ‘to do so. Don’t think I am ungrateful, Les- lie, for our friendship; I am enly trying ‘to. lay it away carefully in my memory until some time comes when we can be friends again, Lovingly’ yours, i SALLY. (Copyright, 1924 .NEA Service, Inc.) The three’. golden balls, former pawnbrokers’ signs, are derived from | | the armorial bearings of the Medici : family; ‘earliest: and most fantous 0! the money-lenders of ‘Lombardy, of: B Mrs. Tracy cried simultaneously: “No! No! Go on—please!” “Quite right,” Joy herself. later.” “I naturally went to Vienna, not only because I had some money in- vested there, but because I could tive in the Zittiany Palace. The old house ‘was difficult to keep warm, and as I was too tired and nervous to struggle. with’ any new problems I went at a friend's sug- gestion into a sanitarium. “The doctor in charge soon be- gan to pay me something more than perfunctory visits when he tound that intelligent conversation: after my long dearth did'mé more good than harm. Finally he told me of a method of treatment that might’ restore my youth, and beg- ged me to undertake it”—. “Ah!” There were sharp ‘in- drawn breaths.. Mrs.° Vane. drew herself up—figuratively, for sle could hardly: be more .perpendicu- lar, with her unyielding spine, her long neck encased in whaleboned get and her lofty heat topped off with feathers. A ‘ook of hostility dawned in several pairs of eyes, while frank. distaste overspread Mrs. Ruyler’s mahogany visage. Madame Zattiany went on unper- turbed Fi “tt may relieve your minds to hear that.I was at first as indiffer- ent, as all of you no doubt would have been. The war—and many other things—had made me pro- foundly tired of life—something. of course, that .1 do not expect you to understand. , And now:that the war was over and my usefulness at an end, I had nothing to:took forward to but the alleviation of poverty by means of my wealth when {t was restored, and this could be done by trustees. Life had seemed to me to consist mainly of repetitions. 1 had run the gamut. But I began to be interested, at first by the fact that. science might be able to ac- complish a miracle where centu- ties of woman’s wit had failed”— “wit?” snorted Mrs. Vane. “Ig- noble vanity.” “Well, call it that {f you like, but the desire to be young again or to achieve {ts simulacrum, in both men and women, has something of the dignity which the centuries ‘ive to all antiques. However, at the time, you will also be glad to know, I was far more interested in the prospect of re-energizing my worn out mind and body. I was so mortally tired! And if I had to live on, and no doubt with still much work to do in distracted Eu- rope"— “But what did they do to you?” cried Mrs, Tracy. “I'd have done it in your place—yes, 1 would!” she said defiently as she met the au- gust disgusted eye of Mrs: Vane. “1 think Countess Zattiany was quite right. What ‘is sctence for, anyhow?” \ "Go on}. Go oni". murmured Mrs. Goodrich, “She was too fat and comfortable to*bave any desire to return to youth’ with its, tire- some activities, ‘but all her old ro- mantic affection for Mary Ogden had revived ‘and she was even more interested than curious. “I am ttying to! Well, | must tell yon that the explanation of my condition, as of others of my age, was that the endocrines”— ‘The what?” The demand was simultencous. if ~ ‘A THOUGHT gold in Weng. + { “Tact teaches you when, to he silent, I was on]. There was a sympathetic rustle This at least they Mrs. de Lacey interrupted to beg for excit- ing details, but Mrs. Goodrich and said Mrs, Ogle- thorpe, who was prepared to en- “We can have that Gertrude Atherton “The ductiess glands.” “Oh, said Mrs. Prevost vaguely, “I've seen something”— “It 1s all Greek to me,” sald Mrs. Vane, who felt that unreasoning resentment common to the minor- informed for the majorinformed, “You promised to avoid Tt terms.” Madame Zattiany explained in the simplest language she could command the, meaning and the function of the ductless glands. The more intelligent among them looked gratified, for the painlegs achievement of fresh knowledge is a pleasant thing. Madame Zattiany went on patiently: “These glands in my case had undergone a natu- ral process of exhaustion. In wo- men the slower functioning of the endocrines is coincident with the climacteric, as they have been de- pendent for stimulation upon cer- tain ovarian cells, The idea in- volved is that the stimulation of these exhausted cells would cause the other glands to function once more at full strength and a certain rejuvenation ensue as a matter of course; unless, of course, they hi withered beyond the power of sci- ence. I was a promising subject, for examination proved that my or- gans were healthy, my arteries soft; and I was not yet sixty. Only experimentation could reveal wheth- er or not there was still any life left in the cells, although I respond. ed favorably to the preliminary tests. The upshot was that I con: sented to the treatment——” Yes? Yes?” Every woman in the room now sat forward, no long: er old friends or rivals, affectionage or resentful, nor the victims of con- vention solidified into sharp black and white by the years. They were composite female. “Tt consisted of the concentration of powerful Rontgen—what you call X-Rays—on that portion of the body covering the ovaries——"— 4 “How horrible!” “Did you téet as if you were being electrocuted?” “Are you terribly scarred?” “Not at all. I felt nothing what- ever, and there was nothing to cause scars——” “But I thought that the X-Rays—” “Oh, do be quiet, Louisa,” ex- claimed’ Mrs. Tracy impatiently. “Please go on, Covntess Zattiany.” “As L said, the application was painless, and if no benefit results, neither will any harm be: don | when the Rays are administered by a@ conscientious: expert. My final consent, as J told’ you, was due to the desire to regain my old will power ang vitality. I was extreme- ly skeptical about any effect on my Personal appearance. During the first moiith I felt so heavy and dull that, in spite of assurances that these. were favorable symptoms, I was secretly convinced that I had forfeited what little mental health T had retained; but was consoled by the fact that I slept all night and @ part of the day: 1 had suf-; fered from‘ insomnia since my du- ties at the hospital had ended——”" “But surely you must have been nervous and terrified?” All of these women had seen and suffered illness, but all from time-honored visitations, even if under new and technical names, and they had suf- | fered in common with millions of ~ others, which, if it offénded their sense of exclusiveness, at least held the ‘safeguard of normalcy. They felt a chill of terror, in some cases of revulsion, as Madame Zat- tiany went on to pigture this abnor- mal renaissance going on in the body unseen and unfelt; in the body of one who had been cast in the common mold, subject to the common fate, and whom they had, vistoned—when they thought about },. her at all—as growing old with themselves; as any natural Chris- tian woman would. It was not only mysterious and terrifying but sub- tly indecent. Mrs, Vane drew back from her eager poise. Almost it A word fitly gpoken is Ike apples pltares of sliver Fev. seemed to the amused Mrs, Ogle- thorpe that she withdrew her skirts. Drama’ was for the stage or the movies; at all events drama in private life, among the elect, was objective, external, and, how- ever offensive, particularly when screamed in the divorce court, it was, at least, like the old diseases, remarkably normal. But an inte- rior drama; not to put too fine a Doint on it, a drama of one’s tn- sides, and especially one that dealt with’ the raising from the dead of that section which reflaed women Ceased: to discubs after they had) got rid of it—it was positively ghoulish. Drama of any sort in this respectable old drawing-room, which might haye been photo- graphed as the sarcophagus of all the Respectabilities, was extremely offensive. And what drama! Never had these old- walls listened o such a tale. Mrs, Vane and others like her had long since ‘out- grown the prudery of their moth- ers, who had alluded in the most distant manner to the most decent of their internal organs, and called a leg a limb; but the commonplace was thelr’ rock, and they had a~ sense of sinking foundations, (To Be Continued), Inquirers who are always inquifing ‘e never learn anything.-—1 consfield, | ; A iad or ope Fre eS Nearly 44,000 of Iceland's inhabitants are i tural pursuits, eed in ‘94,679 gticul-