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=qAt every turn the average man encounters people or situa- “tions or system existing for the sole purpose of speeding him up. In other words, the desire and purpose is to “burn N h of the total state taxes thus goes to meeting interest sued for these new activities, and in future years PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Publishers Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYN CHICAGO a Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS NEW YORK - E COMPANY - - DETROIT Kresge Bldg. AND SMITH MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exlu republication of all new sively entitled to the use or dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREA U OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PA Daily by carrier, per year...... Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) .. Daily by mail, per year (in state YABLE IN ADVANCE + $7.20 «+. 7,20 -+- 5.00 outside Bismarck) . Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) AN EFFEC The late J. G. Gunderson’s + T1VE METHOD sroposed plan for a flat re- duction of taxes by fiat of law 35 per cent over the previous year has been much misunderstood and much abused. Mr. Gunderson, a keen business man and devoted to the state’s welfare, never evolved or entertained a plan which he be- lieved would stunt the growth Dakota institutions. by Vice-President A. L. Martin o ciation. and development of North This is made plain in an explanation of the state taxpayers’ asso- Mr. Gunderson believed that tax reduction must come. Many shared his belief, but did not know how to engage the public interest. Mr. Gunderson found the way by proposing a flat decrease so drastic as to attract comment and engage publie discussion. Heé explained cation Association here last fall wreck the schoolss-his purpose to the North Dakota Edu- that it was not intended to was to pave the way for a searching inquiry into the possibilities of curtailment of un- necessary expense. derson’s idea was to enact a |] drastic cut but which would giv to increase the taxes beyond th is incorporated in the present tax virtue of concentrating publi As Mr. Martin now explains, Mr. Gun- law which would provide a e the people an opportunity is limit by vote. This idea x limitation law. It has the attention upon the public financial problems and of restraining prodigal officials. Each time a tax limitation law has been enacted it has been pre- dicted that it would wreck inst been wrecked. itutions, but they have not The report of the state d@partment and the old report of a survey made of North Dakota educational institutions under the direction of the Commissioner of Education of the United States lends strength to of Mr. Gunderson and the serio fronting the state. It is shown that 43.74 cents collected goes to payment of an prior to 1919. Of this 15.21 cen site industrial bonds and 1.36 ac tion deficit fund. belief‘in the far-sightedness usness of the problems con- of each dollar of state taxes expense whith did not exist nts is applied on payment of cents to the home building To those persons who assert that Nort’: Dekota’s experiments ‘into the realms of government iness are not costly these on bonds i figures are presented. One- when it is necessary to levy taxes to meet the principal of the bonds maturing the tax wil ll be increased. It mav be noted that under the “New Day” these industrial institutions were expected not only to yield the interest on the bonds, but bonds and fill the state treasury a profit which would meet to pay the principal of the with additional profits. The federal investigators of our higher institutions of learning found much duplication. They found normal schools and universities teaching high school subjects, at great ex- pense to the state and to the students who had better re- mained in their home towns to education. Two engineering sch tained in a state essentially agricultural. : found duplication in other branches of our higher ins tions of learning. The educator who would supinely yield to public senti-| ment and see his institutions destroyed is not faithful to his | task; but the educator who would*seek to impogg unneces- | sary scholastic burdens on a state is both blind to his true mission and forgetful of his state’s welfare. MODERN LIFE IS A L! The Twentieth Century Lim every 135 miles. a locomotive. fresh engine is hooked on. The behind for repairs. ~ This is a very clear-cut pict way it “wears out” all of us. ‘Our generation is almost ins: him out” as fast as possible. desire. . But it’s the net result of the system. Modern life is like the Twentieth Century Limited. Of course, 100 years from now it will not make any difference whether the passengers arrived at destination ahead of time But we’re living now, not 100 years hence, and so we're all victims of the system. Business is a lemon squeezer. lemon away and reach for a or a week behind it. then throw the remains of the new lemon. 1 This system of taking a man and burning him up quickly is as bad for his employer as for the man f hecause the available supply of men worth burning up is’ limited, the ‘same as there is a limited supply of engines .¢apable of hauling the Twentieth Century. perspective, realize this. Wise employers, men wit! FIRST ADVERTISERS : ‘ee. he newspapers of Abraham Lincoln’s day were small, | usually four pages. ‘They had very little advertising. Ask grandpa. He'll recall that old-time advertising was | the great state in limited to classified ads. And-most of these were the pub- Ps licity of patent medicine firms usual services or devices for : At took real courage by -A.. 10-line ads about | was a new di bought Stewart out and ent store advertis' ‘was a page in history. That’s all the “Century” can get out of After being speeded to the limit for 135 miles the engine is exhausted and the train has to stop while a sale. is the history ‘of-America,... v4 complete their high school ools, it was found, are main- EMON SQUEEZER ited “burns up” an engine worn-out locomotive is left ure of modern life and the ane in its desire for speed. Well, maybe that’s not the} Get the juice, get it fast, imself, or, companies that had un- T. Stewart wi he began ins in his Net “plunged” by Fifth Ave, Bldg. |- EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or ray Rot express the opjnion of The Tribune. The; are pmsented here in order that our readers may rave both sides of important {issues which being discussed in the pres the day. THE PRESID PEA THE PEOPLE President Coolidge is trying to save the people from themselve He appeals to them not to for their representatives in Congre! to vote for h appropriatio! which would crack the. gountry's prosperity. Here is Congress, threatening to sink the Administration’s revenue bill and to substitute a bill which not only would keep capital in tax-exempt securities but would create a treasury deficit of $3 000,000. And at the same time bh are a series of appropriation b which if they all pass, would in- cre the government’s by half a billion dollars a year would force a tax increase instead of a tax reduction. A The surdity of such appropri- ations is lined with t of the ramshackle tax bill which is being hammered together by the anti- Adminstration forces. The dill would put a premium on idle wealth and would defer the use of productive wealth. It would dis- courage initiative and tend. still} further to rob industry of neces-} ary capital. : It does not adopt the Mellon plan for the repeal of various nuisance taxes. Whereas Mr. Mellon, for example, advocates the repeal of| all taxes on admissions, this hodge-| podge bill merely repeals the tax! on admission up to 50 cents, thys! favoring owners of movie theaters, | few of which charge more than a half dollar. And in the case of cigarettes the! bill actually increases the excise. At present the tax is outrageously high, being 3 cents on a package of arettes. The bill would raise this tax to 4 cents. Despite this nuisance attitude on nuisance taxes, the catchwork bill would create a $300,000,000 de- ficit. And yet members of Con- gress have presented a series of appropriation bills which would add to the annual expense of the! government as much as the total annual expenses before the War, exclusive of the costs of the Post- office Department, whose expenses are offset by revenue from post- age, President Coolidge knows that these bills have been presented not ‘because members of Congress favor such huge expenditures, but be- cause most of the members are yielding to pressure from various groups in their constituencies. G AW= We WAS ONLY { PLAYIN’ WiFi AlM ily be worse than the disease. It can- not but have the e¥fect of seriously impairing the credit of the farmer and prevent him from securing ad- vances when he may most need them. Whatever the result of the vote On this measure may be, when counted, I trust that it will manifest to the world a wisdom that will re- bound to/our credit and will not be to your disadvantage as a state, Respectfully yours, H. A. ARMSTRONG, Hazelton, N. D. a | ple of titu- | trom Congressmen to vote for needless’ ming back to dry land and daylight, | hit the bottom they bounce. appropriations which are being ad-' when another rush of water came! i} York store, |: | all, without excepti The President knows, for exampl that most of the men in Congress | do not believe a soldiers’ bonus bill! is either right or expedient. He knows that though a few of the members. in thelr hunt. for votes, have heen hurrahinge for a bonus bill ever since the War, the* ma- jority of the bonus advocates in Congress ‘have ‘been reluctantly pushed inte their present position. The bonus hjll. although it is the ciant of them all, is only one of the unnecessary appropriation measures which have been intro- duced. The President realizes thet © enactment of this series of bills would wreck the hudget svstem, which was established in order to wrevent unnecessary anpropria- tions. The President believes that bonus ‘bill and of other measurés would compe! in rease in taxes. He feels thah such an increase would involve th: country in an economic disaster, Accordingly the President of the | ax-eating urging their Senators and | vocated by various groups. The) President calls upon the people to urge their Senators and Congress- men to vigorously oppose such class legislation —Chicago Journal of Commerce. | PEOPLE'S FORUM Ashland, Ohio; Feb. 26, 1924. o | o Editor Tribune: I am leaving f in a few dayasy ile my, vote at the coming prima: may. met change the result I am anxious to get back to do my bit toward securing the nomination of Calvin Coolidge for reelection, as President. I think tha: Henry Ford was right when he said “The country is safe in his hands. I would resent being called a pessi- mist but I tremble to think of our country being turned over to a bunch of radicals that seems to have lost sight of the essential elements that constitute good government; that seem to rate self aggrandize- ment above the perpetuity of .our beloved country. Unless a halt is called in the near future and the course of empire.changed the labors of the Fathers of the Republic will have been in vain and future gen- erations will reap fruits little to their liking. Every true American says: ‘Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may’; but as the Clevéland Plain Dealer—a Democrat- ic sheet—says, editorially, the oil seandal is not a party question, but ar national one, and that every true statesman should forget party in the interest of good government. A trily sensible suggestion! I hope that each and every voter in North Dar kota will pause and become a true Statesman instead of a follower of some “Pea-nut” politician. Should such a course be followed we will om, ie proud of ich we live. Should such a thing happen the out- side world will change its opinion of our fair state and quit giving ex- pression to’ very uncomplimentary remarks regarding us. While I have not had the oppor- tunity of giving that initiated meas- ure, the ‘Farm Labor Lien Law, a the Northwest THE TWINS . B88 OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON: Into the drain chased Purr with the Paddyfoot Twins on his back. Paddyfoot Purr was the big cat be-! longing to the king and queen ‘of Beanstalk Land.. He had ‘suddenly spied a mouse when ‘he was Nancy and Nick a ride. “Oh!” cried Nancy. as pitch! Where are we going?” . But Paddyfoot was tpo busy run- ning to answer. On they flew, on and on and on, and. all they could hear was the squealing of the poor mouse just a jump or two ahead. But suddenly some water giving foot had to swim hard to keep him- self from drowning. “Ugh! I hate water,” he cried, pad- dling for dear life.* “I wish I'd nev- er seen that mouse. I shall go back at once. Drains were never made for investigators | United States calls upon the peo- aristocrats like me. I'll go back and, The bs the United States to refrain get the herring the cook left for me,” | So saying, he turned and was swim- swishing by fand washed Nancy and Nick off his back, F'don’t know what would have happened had they not had the mogi green shoes which had helped them climb to Beanstalk Land. But as it was, they swam around .and around and around in the dark, shouting for somebody to save them. Presently they heard a_ splashinj nearby, and a strange voice asking, “Who are you?, And where are you going?” “We're Nancy and Nick, the Twins,” called Nick, “Please save us.” “You are not cats, are you?” cume the voice again. “No, no! We're a girl and boy. Do please come and get us and take us out of here,” begged Nancy. “People!” exclaimed the voice again. “They are worse than cats. No, no, I can’t save you. I am Long- tail, the mouse. People step on us. I don't dare to let you out.” “But we're so little, we couldn't hurt you,” said Nick. “We aren’ half as big as one of Paddyfoot’s paws, You are a hundred times big- ger than we are.” ‘ “Well, I declare!” sajd Longtail in surprise. “Then I'll save you. It’s very dark and I can’t see you, but when I swish my tail around, catch hold of it and climb up on my back and I'll take you out of the drain and show you where there is somé lovely cheese.” bs So he. swished tis long tail around and the Twins caught hold, of it and climbed up on the mouse’s back. Tt.all happened in a second. “Now, then, out we go!” cried thé mouse, starting to swim: hard. “Do you know where Haddyfoot went?” “Back to the palace kitchen to get hig herring,” said Nancy, “Good! way. Thé drain ends under the gar- dener’s cottage. Yesterday he put a, queer lookifig of ject down in his ce lar with the loveliest piece of cheese in it,” I’m not selfish, ao “I'll divide.” All the time the mouse .was talk- ing and swimming and swimming and swimming, and pretty soon they came to the end of the drain and crawled out of.a hole to's dry place, S ope. Twins jumped off Longtail ack, f closeup study, from this distance it Ng. ;.* For, after all, the history. has the appearance of being a very. laa in’ cay hard nd one -that may sorely regretted, if jt, he: comes a Ifw, T think ds fat pil v encanta aeniadiee \eeneslenmnnai “Oh, thank. you for savin; said Nick gratefully. “Maybe do the same for you some time.’ Continued). « v8,” an, “It’s as dark, came* the passage of the $5,000.000,000 Tushing through the drain and Paddy- | Then I'll swim the other | THE BISMARCK ‘TRIBUNE ) PLAN PROBE NUMBER 9999 IS WALL STREET TOO CROOKED? Senator King gf Utah advocates a searching inquiry into the oper: of all stock exchanges. He thinks Wall Street may (be more crooked than it is paved. He wants to know why ‘so many Wall Stréet firms go to the wall; why so many brokers be- come broke, and why so many people] , invest before’ they investigate. CONGRESS House. Investigation to gate investigations started. Janitor asked to resign . because oil was found in his hair. Talk plentiful, but, nothing said. Senate. Investigation to investi- | gate the investigation to investigate | investigations started. Many more} things done, but what's the differ | ence? | investi- SOCIETY | Just when people were getting | bridge down so they could play with- out cussing too much, mah jengg! stepped in ‘and demanded attention, | Now that a few can play. mah jongg it is time to make some other crazy | ‘game popular, BOOZE NEWS | It/is a wise scofflaw who marri¢s:a | trained nurse. i STATISTICS H trouble in All Washington | placed end to end reaches the con-+ clusion something should be done. MARKETS Prices seem to be among the many \things made of rubber. When they { ‘ | I FASHIONS All the optimists are not ‘dead.! Corset Makers Association says the} corset is coming back. _ hela LETTER . FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY. CARTON DEAR SYD: This’ has been the most devastating and hectic week.I have ever spent in my life. I have never thought it could be possible that an average or- dinary man—who at least does not think himself a double-dyed yillain— could have as much worry and trouble over pecufiarly personal affairs ‘as I have lately. I gent you the newspaper clippings on the billboard affair.” Could ‘any- thing have been mpre unfortunated By what malignant fate the Acme company just at this timeghould get into a row with the billboard com- pany beats me. Of course, as usual, I had to be the goat. I did not dream that the articular billboard outside my Kontinent would have, the very day complained of it, Paula Perier’s name slapped across it in black let- ters. | Bill Gregory came to’me and told !'m@ he'thought I had been very fool- ish to make such an exhibition of |rmvsct over the sight.of my old girl’s name. outside my window, and when T explained matters to him he laugh- jed until I could have choked him eas- Lily and looked upon his grinning face }. Ipwrote a letter to Paula—because iturning black, with joy. \ T knew that if I did not she would; probably come to. my office—and pele her I wobjd not be able to see {her while she was in, town. She, ey , A THOUGHT | Reman say when he is, tempt- Iam tempted of God; for God s 8 se tempteth he apy man Jas. 1:13. in! thou. knowést thou car- Desire Chri i Bunyowder about thee. | wrong. .| blame to her, $500 REWARD Dan Dobb offers a reward of $500 for information lgading to finding Tom Sims who sold Dan Dobb this s :. SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1924. | y Her Darling | Published By arrangement with Associated First National + Pictures, Inc. Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Lloyd with Corinne Griffith Copyright 1923 by * XXX (Continued) | Clavering returned to his seat with no’ sense of the old chairs jcomfort, and she went on in @ mo- ‘ment, | “The unfairness of it as I looked ‘at that old witch in the glass that had reflected'‘my magnificent youth, seemed to me unéndurable, 1 bad lived a virtuous and upright life. \{ knew damned Wwe she hadn't. I jhad done my duty by the race and my own and my husband's people, and: i had brought up }my sons to be honorable and self-respecting men, whatever their failings, and my daughters ip the best traditions of Amer- ican womanhood, They are model wives and mothérs, and they have made no weak-kneed concessions to these degenerate times. They dore me but I'd rather they did than disgrace me. Mary never even had one child, although her husband must have wanted an duty to my family traditions, my husband, my children, my country, and to Society; she one of self-in- dulgence and pleasure and excite- ment, although I’m not belittling the work she did during the war. But noblesse oblige. What else could she,do? And now, she'll be at it again. She'll have’ the pick of our young men—I don’t know whether it's all tragic or grotesque. She'll waste no time on those men who loved’her in her youth—small Who wants to cod- dle old men? They've all got some- ‘thing the matter with ‘em . : But she'll have love—love—if not here—and thank God, she's not re- maining long—then elsewhere and wherever she chooses. Love! I too onge took a fierce, delight in making men Jove me. It seems a thousand years ago. What if I newspaper, Dan Dobb’s Daily is for sale, price $500. That’s the way we expect to get the reward money. D. Dobb. EDITORIAL. Several months ago insect voices were amplified by radio so they could be heard. Now a new device makes a man’s heart beats audible 50 feet away. Such things show progtess. Some day the voice of the people may sound as loud as it should, - H SPORTS ! Circus men meeting in Chicago de- cide to do away with acts where sup- vosedy «wild men ent raw meat and bellow. at the spectators, But these wild men will not be out of work. They can always sign up. with some baseball club qs rookie -pitchers. POLIFICS* “Gox Entévs White: Horse Race,” says -a typographical efror in the headlines. What littlé° reader can show us the mistake? No, you are!: The “White” should be Y \ “Dark.” { AUTO NOTES i Why doesn't some smake car,with ready hent-fe always look new? FINANCES Talk may be cheap, but Vanderlip is being sued for $600,000 for what he said. WEATHER Only a few more weeks until time to cuss the, flies. | HOME HELPS. Nothing. takea_a man off his feet quicker than a. goad: ehair. would not have it that wey at all. Shq sent me very compromising | telegram saying she must see me. Then, Syd, I capitulated, swallowed my pride and,‘calléd. up the only wo- man that I thought could help me out—Ruth Ellington, I told her L wanted to ask her for some acvice and also to return the six thousond dollars that I had of hers and apolo- gize. She told me I had better come ove to her office that afternoon and i timated she would not see me under any cireumstances if it were not for Leslie. I told her that it was for Les- lie that I was asking her advice. She. softened a‘little at this, but I could almost feel the cold air coming through the phone all during the in- terview. I was on needles and pins until it was time to go to her'shop. In doing go I had to pass thé Criter- ion Theater and, Syd, the line in front was nearly a block long, fopr abreast. Many of the people in the line knew me, I think I suffered as did those peo- ple'who had to go down through two lines of tortures and ‘be mauled b; them with stieks and stones, It ‘was’ worse for me, however, because I could not run the gauntlet, I had, to walk slowly and act as though I did/ not mind their curious faces, > I arrived at the lingerie shop door | without mishap and-waa glad when! it closed upon-me,.even though the reception I received was not any too cordial. ee 3 : i (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ine.) | tance. _It ig a dangerous crisis, when 4 proud heart meets with flattening lips.John Flavel. a4 " MKENNA LOANS ‘DEFENDANT MONEY TO AI JOB QUESP Wahpeton, \N. -D., Mar, 1.—Distriet Judge, Geo, M, McKenna, recently. while here, ‘nigde an’ investment in the interests pf reformy and in triat of. Jhis faith in humankind. (To Be "Hlent (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) thom that curry fire to keep at a dis-4i¥ Mébtiagsu man what he’ had given should try to make’ a man fall in love with me today? I'd’ be rushed off by my terrified ‘family to a pad- ded cell.” 4 “Well—Jane——" i “Don’t ‘well Jane’ me!~ You'd jump out of the window if I sudden- ly began to make eyes at you. “I could rely on your manners. You wouldn’t langh until. you struck the grass.and then. you'd be ar rested. for disturbing the peace. Well—don’t worry. [I'm not an old ass. t old woman. heir. I have lived a life of duty—| Countess Zattiany. Gertrude Atherton ant.’ The only thing 1 ever regret ted was that I wasn’t a man.” She paused and then went on ir & voice that grew more raucous ev. ery moment. “That was later. It's a. long time since I've admitted even to myself that there was «@ period—after my husband's death —when I hated growing old with the best of them. I was fifty and found myselt with complete lib erty for the first time in my life; for the elder children were all mar: ried, and the younger in Europe at school. I had already begun te look upon myself as an old womaw + . . But I-soon made the terrible discovery that the heart neve: grows old. I fell in love: four times, They were all years young er than myself and I'd have opened one of my veins before I'd have le! them find Jt out. Even then I had 8 little use for old men as old men hve for old women. Whatever {i may be in men, it's the young heart fn women. I had no illu sions. Fifty is fifty. My complex jon was gone, my stomach high and I had the face of an old wat horse. But—and here is the damn ed trick that nature plays on us I hoped—hoped—I dreamed—an; as’ ardently as-I’ever had dreame¢ {n my youth, when I was on the look-out for the perfect knight anc before I compromised on Jamet Oglethorpe, who was handsome be fore be grew those whiskers an¢ got fat—yes, as ardently as tn my youth I dreamed that these clever intelligent men would Jook througt the old husk and see only the young heart and the wise brain; koew, that. I could give them more than: many, ayyounger woman, Bu: if beauty ts only skin deep the ski® ig all any man wants, the best 0: ‘em. They treated me with the most fmpeccable respect--for thy first timé in my life I hated the word—and liked my society be cause I way an amusing caustic ol¢ woman. Of course they drifted off either to marry, or because I terr! fied them with my“sharp tongugy when I loved them most and felt a: Ay if Thad poison in my veins. Well I sayed my pride, at all events, ““By the ,time you came along } had sworn at, myself once for al as an old fool,.and, in any case, | would hardly haye been equal t falling jn love with a>brat of twen Ay-two.” She seized the stick that alway: rested against her chair ani thumped the floor with tt. “(Never theless,” she excldimed with say, age contempt, “my heart {is af young today as Mary Ogden’s. Thay But I'm a.terribly bewildered {1s the appalling: discovery I have It.seamg to me there |made this week. Td give my tm has been a crashing in the'air ever! mortal soul to be thirty again—o1 since, she sat in-that chair, é Geowing old-always seemed to me a natural. process that no arts: dr. “I'd. give -m , Immortal eoul to. be thirty again—or look it.’”’ dodges could interrupt, and any attempt to arrest the processes of nature was an itreverent gesture in the face of Almighty God. It was immoral and irreverent,, and above all it showed ‘a lack of hu- mor and of soynd. common sense. The -world, my candid grandchild tells me, laughs: at women of my generation for thelr old-fash- joned ‘cut.'' But we have our cage and we have-the courage to live up to ft, That is one reason, ‘perhaps, why growing old. ‘has never meant anything, to. me but reading spec- tacles, two falge teeth, and weak. ankles. It had seemeg to me that my life had been pretty full—I never. had much imagination—what with being as good a wife as ever lived—although Jaines..was a pompous, bore if there ever -was one—bringing’ eight children into the world and not making g fatlure of one of them, never ‘neglecting my charities: or my social duties or my establishments. As I have grown older I have often reflected | J0ok it.” Why in‘heaven’s name dic nature play us this appalling dirty trick” “But. Jene!” He felt like tearing bis. hair,” What was -Mary Za ‘tiang’s tragedy: to this? Banalities were the only refuge.”“Remember thatiat thirty you were in love with your ha#band and cau on having & family—" X “I meant thirty and all 1 know, now. Tm not so damn sure T'd have tried to make myself think I was in love with James—who had about as. much imagination as grasshopper. and the most infernal mannerisms. I'd have found out what lote and life meant, that’s what! And when I did I'd have sent codes and traditiéns to the devil.” ‘Oh, no, you would nat. If you'd ag if 18. you you'd have done it, yhow, All. Women of your day were\nat virtuous—not by a long sight. I'll admit that your hest.pos- sibilities have been wasted; I’ ways thought that. terrific personality and if you were ‘at your maturity in this:tradition- less era you'd be a great national figure, not a mere social power. But nature ina fit of spite launched f° you too soon and the cast-iron tra.’ ditions were too strong-for you. I? wap the epoch of the submerged woman.” ane “Mary Ogden was brought up in those: same cast-iron traditions,” “Yps, but Madame Zattiany. be longs to a class of women that de- rive less from immediate ancestors than from @ legendary. race of si- rens—not’ so merely legendary, perhaps, a8 we think. Convention ‘ is only a flexible harness for. such women aiid plays no part whatever in their secret lives.” “You're in love with Mary.” “Don't come-back to me, I won't have tt. For the moment I don’t fee) ag-if 1 had an. atom of per. sonality left, Fm so utterly absorb- ed in you; and I'd give my immor- tal soul to help you.” Ae “Yes, 1 know that. I wouldn't be turning .myself inside out if. 1! upen a life well spent and looked torward to dying when: my\ time tame with no quahws whatever, particularly @s.,there was precious}, ; Ittle left-for me te do:except give parties for my.-grandchildren and dlow them.up occasionally. Iinever labored. .ynder the deluston ‘that 1 had an “angelic: disposition or a ‘perfect’. character, but ‘I! had al-| What a m {ways had, and matntained. certain standards; ‘and.‘ according to my fights, it.seemed. to me: that when Nartived at ‘the foot’ ef the throne the Lord’ w0uldsay’ tome. ‘wen don fhou 00d and\faithful serv the option’ of serving years: far wife desertion, or coytributing $60 monthlyfor the support of the. det fendant’s: wife’ and two children, the judge loaned him niohey.enough to. to: Bistharck wheré the ines Bhoneee fe eoald fad’ wor arth “This here. judge is a régulor. fel. di os | Soin: ot ty den itd didn’t. T've-never talked to a liv- ing soul as T'ye talked to you to night and I never shall.again.” | She. stared at him fora moment, and then she burst {ntoa lond laugh. It was awe-inspiring, that laugh. Lucifer in-hell, holding‘his sides’ at the futilities of mankind, could not have surpassed it. “What a mess! i! Life! “Begins no- where, ends nowhere.” She went on muttering to herself, and then, abruptly, she. broke into the sar castle speech which her friends knew, best Hhingigers os (To. Be Continued): : 7 Suid: the work: secker sasithe led ‘a ‘train, sites Ios board Pe EL Ware ‘ ‘ONTRAST REL IKG. a “black. auede hats have .white ‘trimmings, or gold: or silver -nailheads studding the crown. ig te tn