The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1924, Page 6

(By Florence Borner) Phe wind that loudly whistled; he thought slyly, Ean through the tree tops but made the| TP bave found her now.” whirling snowflakes dance the Little Jeanne Jett her rier Myriads t twinkling tars | so and came to Gr ent down their tiny lights to guide} *Won't oo tell me semefin about} of the man who had been a str r| shine so? ist like sunshine.” Little! the footsteps of those who would] Santa Clits, an why mamma says be] to her a few hours before, but whose| Jeanne was Vv much rprised| otherwise have had to walk in dark-| won't come this year, she pleaded. I] eyes now shone with a sweet and} when a few hours later the visitor of ne do so want a pretty dolly at goes tol holy passion Nellie Hastings felt that] the night before came and, taking her Pulling on his eigar and hurrying sleep and a tory book st last she had found a refuge from] on his knee told her he was soon tg onward, John Graham, warden of the “Santa not coming”? said Graham.| the world with its burden of woe] be ne new papa, But, when she cate f ntiary battled with the} “Well, little, darling we will see] and. sorte c she asked ly understood just what had hap-/ el Is a nasty night to be | about that. “Of course he is com-| shyiy, “Why, Mr, Graham I believe] pened she went wild with joy. ou dito himself, as a gust of but when he does © you right now, yu hive been! “Doody, doody,” she said. “I asked! tbe fast asleep, y i the corner aln “But 1 prom uld deliver his m ull bout dat do it. although it will) cried today an said o| know tmas sad for his little} fa i ngs blus 1 Christinas shoppers hur aid, “We ' nd nowith his arms troubles, ' en i ackagee Cra. m understood every hat i from the lighted street) few dollars that Nell to i i “T must b her when they died were Kone,| A spe sf some might call) Little Jeanne was silent a mo- 1 tationma tid and mother and child were in sore) it, px often said: | ment: Then, mamma,” she said, A ' few block. Too bad [ t It required mone keep) Happy the wooing that's not long} “oo won't e@ say again that San- I'd have been) 2 roof over for food and clothin on came from be-|be none for Christmas j ind he saw just) such as every child: ha ut lighted —cottage.| expect rh ist be the house,” he thought.) ‘The clock on the m Entering t ite he made his way| eight, and little Je to the ind rapped. The meant bedtime “Well”, she! for you.” Placing the ring’ on her| wis 6 1 irl about three| said, “I guess I will hang up my! finger he took a kiss of betrothal| ears old n pn curls veiled) tocking anywa pima, tn see if) beneath the wreath of mistletoe that | we her eyes as she said: “Is 00 Mister! Santa won't come. » She brought| hung just above then | anta Claas? Jout a little white ng from her 1 not a wealthy 1 neewenlan replied the stranger, “but some one| the mantel piece. Then bi v few minutes later; “but f have a] to see your mamma. A woman hur-| mother and Graham good night comfortable for and a berutiful] Ritdeailo’ the room ine,” she} hurried into her Little bedroom and | home just outside New York whieh 1] vid, “what ix it dear"? n to} soon was fast F am sure will delight you, There are} The Hague, Holland, Dee. 27.—If fe you, mamma,” replied the child.| For a time there was silence in| largo grounds surrounding the houre the d gested At the woman's bidding Graham en-| the had left. Graham did) in which our little girl will love tol ,, ‘ aa tered the room, cozy and neat, but) net ha how to broach the | ramble Profe nbden’s recent anti- inly showing the evidences of pov-| subject that filled his mind, and his] “And now, dear it is getting| militaristic addre: ny indication {hostess evidently thinki Madam, sid, “Lam the war-| past and all it had bre den of the penitentiary, and [ have! mained silent brought you a letter from your hus-| But finally Graham hand.” | Mrs. Hastings, [wan Then Jack i “Yes, an | play Santa Claus for wered th been for aj It has been so ma week, It was hi h that he be) Christmas meant anythin raveyard, But,| the ¢ | Looking into his hand. nid “T wil buried in the pri here is the jetter 1 the missive and read “When y er be among the living, Lam sending} little Jeanne’s | Christin this by John Graham the whitest man} very much worr! that I have ever met, T have caused | managed to get her you so much trouble that 1 do not} Christmas until this y want to make more, so 1 am asking} thing is so expensive them to bury me here and not tell! am indebted more than I you about it until it's all over, Kiss|to pay for some time | work of some kind, but nne for me, and try to forget that be I do not kno ever was such a scoundrel Tears trickled down the wo-| Graham arose and donned his coat thing el My term as wat of another great war in the light of. inan's face. “Poor Jack,” she said.| “Well,” he smiled “IE am going to} expires with the end of the year the fact that the country had miracu- “And, yet, remembering everything, | leok old Santa up and in the mean-/ then we will take a trip to the Con-| lo escaped from being dragged T cannot say Lam sorry. But, maybe| time you can make room for the|tineat. My one reason for wishing | into the last world conflict. How. you do not know my tree Graham smiled, “N) ed, “Jack did not tell y about his affairs; he m two boys. AL w Christmasy looking asked me ch when he was{ larger boy carried a fir Fone?) t Dismissing and ‘It has now heen over four years] helpers Graham ince [ first met the man who later} Work, What a t to deliver his messé became my husband,” the woman be In the middle of the roe idely copied by similar institutions | audienc yan, “1 was a care free and light] the tr loaded down with all put the country, so I feel! horrors of , citing reports heart rl just turned eighteen, A} of pretty toys: and decoration e done some good as war-! by Amos Alfred brother my classmate came home| the top, a beautiful represe f | Fries, e Chemical front ce Pan enGhri (the Bethichem Star glitte Nellie opened the door for her| Warfare service, Major General Wil- frontaicineine) | H | Around the tree were placed many er's departure the clock on the| ibert and General Task. | lege chum with him. fs it was | pack Little Je stocking | town hall struck twelve. The wind,| “If the next war find what some would call love at first| Was filled with candy and nuts. AJ} which c in the evening had been armed nation, we sh; ight, for three months later we were} Wonderful do with real and) blowing « gust had died down, and| ter! r y lo married. [cannot tell you how leeping eyes dressed in blue silk) over the stillness of night they could| clared. Ry te wiediuring those aire in cunningly made little chair.) hear the sound of chanting, “It is} General Snyders agreed that Hol- of our marriage. It seer t of dolly’s furniture and) the choir in the church, land coveted nothing, and that the though my home was a wee corne 1s spread around her, They are holding midn next war could never be an aggres- taken out of Heaven itself. But, such| they worked Nellie’s eyes which rn as she spoke the words of the] s as Holland was con- happiness cannot La “One even his sten told me. that] Shone with happiness Hen, Micok More than once she wn was to! he married within a short time and| had touched hands p as they stood drinking in the| equipped for the production of war- he was looking for someone to fill| and an electric thrill s werds which since Time Immemorial | like material. As to gas warfare, his her place I do not know just where to enter both whenever ‘e meant so much to the world,| opinion was that it had come to sti ecenin iieelerelG Gi touched, Trust I distrust of | alway and there was no time li ive with its joy bells y traditions, Evelyn Vance can from the first, a her, She applied for and g position of stenographe i then the trouble be “Twas not able to yut much at that time, and it was through | ome friends that L learned that m ly seen with | *#e and s ae ie” Nellie Hs eyes un blush was completed ham drew forth husband was frequ her at questionable s old jut eloped | reprimand him for the Christian nar A rl di “Little Jeanne was three d. when the blow fell, Jack with hi and I was left with ctically penile na few | wrapp! s were removed k Had | Woman gasped, Pearls been arrested for forgery, and Eve-|1 cannot accept them, tired of him had sought ; a) hy not,” asked) Gra ind perhaps wealthier me heepishly he dr » "}er and a smaller | of ps wa At surprise whi IJearned that . now, you tell me he is dead.” | Ye answered Graha But, he| Ping it he had a dded, “I do not nt you to think) Ting in his hand. Hastings w: 1 bad, Dur-| Softly. Please do 1 time he was at the peniten-| Precipitous; but, the was a model prisoner, and trustiest men, You | been tempted. 2 ighed t is} true, she answered, “but to me the] great thing was h rted me just when I needed ‘him the hour this little angel was sent to} is, she added turning to look at her| little girl snugly cuddled on the sofa. uld never have forgiven him for} most; almost at During the time the mother was! king, Graham had been looking | steadily at her. She was of slight build, and daintily formed. Her hair| was of the same golden color as little | Jeanne’s and her eyes were of a deep,; blue. “Just the color of a pansy”| thought Graham. And how she had} suffered, Just at the age when many a young girl was just beginning to! enjoy life most, she had been plung- | ed into the depths of despair, And now she was just past twenty two} years old, Graham was a bacheior,| and had never cared for women’s so-| ciety, but as he gazed upon the sweet face of Nellie Hastings he| thought for the first time what luck; fellows some men were to have aj wife, home and little children around them. “Knowing your story, I donot! blame you in the least,” Mrs. Hast- ings,” he seid. “And now that the sad part of my errand is over, may I! stay a little while and visit? For,, somehow, you and your little girl) seem like old friends. I have never had a real woman friend since my mother died.” Nellie Hastings “blushed. “Then you are not married?” she asked, Air gervice men a est barrage baHlocn “No,” answered Graham, “I have] in one test. » cs," answered — the s parents had| said the man, heir heads, @ o there would “aw ing so will be a pl your kind offer, my friend, for, 1 1 get this Twill no long-| want to confess that the and T already | you. 1) wonder if he did not In about an hour he returned with jnstitution was that 1 might be thus | Huei), (ra ind Nellic set to! ed for so long worn a look put his best foot foremo: the room with its deeora| His children were rift f looked int |< hristmas gift 1 ask you will! fixed up, and my tocking | promise to be my wife. rom the! tandy an nuts, An moment 1 first saw you [knew that| all dressed in silk a you were the only woman I could] an oh—everything she added almost Please do not refuse me,| out of breath.” di Your life bh ard ellie hugged the little girl close {that | would Jike to make the futu id: Santa did really come, hopretty sure! bright and sunt Oh, yes,” exclaimed | little girl, Won't you try to love me| the happy littie girl, and mamma she] place on the | Jitth: in return for the great love| added looking at her mother very chain's des} 1 into the face} closely, “What makes your eyes nd for you and your! did he, Jeanne? | little girlies | 1 Is | Jeanne and I have} oo last night if oo Mister Santa! e child. “T) yeceived so little kindness from the} Claus an you said no; but ist th] t, mamma) world, Levings you will be the cas me I fink oo is the nicest man I} nta wouldn't! jest thing in the world for 1 with a hug and kiss. “Darling,” said her lover, who was standing near with o kind to us, an to do.” my name hed. “Hushy) is John. Won't you call me by the es, laid her hand on John's must net) name given me by my dear old] shoulder and said: “If he was not now other es, John, wered the| Santa himself I think he was Thank God,” | substitut }eift to u thing. The | happy, little woman.” da glorious Ch not going to come, will 00? she added with childish ean. 11 the time.” have no one to consult but! For, if you willing, we] dor, “he will be with u s 4 tight tol will be married as soon as possibl nd from now An y on, he added taking! know Uhatline hee Goyeand) Ranpinesel an elorel| vys and toys | ourselves ar leave. 1 will] of the general feeling of the country, jthe people of the Netherlands may said to be virtually solid for dis- ng over the) Jate, I ht her re-| come ust take om n tomorrow, and then our n be made.” rple one,| armament. Ithough [| The spokesman for the abolition of the army and n met General Sny- | ders, formerly commander in chief of the Dutch army, at a public debate packed audience in the big- sembly hall of the Dutch royal wedding arrangements tid: “Now “Let w pu to let om y v little gir sir me that uded Nellie, since forgotten my love for ily s right for us to while he lies out there, | 3.” | before a m smiled, “It shall be! zest darling,” he answered, | residen! But, wherev k is, if he can| longing to all el: thought of look down on us tonight, I believe he| setly followed the ad me | will rejoice, He was only ill three| Sides. A battery of sound amplifiers when he died of pneumonia, but}! had been ‘insialled for the benefit of Raveved FAS » outside which had been and b 1 me to visit; crowded out. Both spe , it ha © happy ome earnest 1 not refuse always | ¢ x for! but every-| your rs agreed that despite conventions the menace had not been wholly lifted |from the world, and they envisaged Holland's position in the eventuality wal be able} Something of what hi Tomust find 1 ay the dying sometimes what it will! see into the futur And now dear, let me tell len of the position of wa nent, the profes- y by disarmament loaded with | bette able to study the inmates more} By total di ges, and the! closely, and perhaps provide a means | sor # ne Christmas| of forming a better understanding| but only quate preparation to paying his! between them and the men who look-| keep th out, declared the them. I have inaugurated | general. x an Honor System which is being | Profe an Embden made his 4 y nting the of sadnes chant were made plain, " nted ont that Hol- ry to God in the Highest, land w gricultural, not an in- nd good will to men.” qustrial countty, and therefore ill and Gr they Yan Cupid to} brir ing us they do the hope and|and timely defensive precautior »| certainty of eternal life, the man| were essential. He s ke Christmas| and woman felt that to them God had] ies by gas were not n ringing and|been most generous; that His ways| horrible than those produced by red- which at times may seem strange to| hot shell splinters. How, he de- always for the wld the country be saved submitting to the overrun by; small pack-| fiercest fires can gold be sessed the means of re-j or | pure from dross, and by hments. his; true through times of trial is the of further heavy military he did not} proof of true manhood and woman-| expenditur dowed in the use of her! hood budget not missed Christmas morning dawned clear! their effects on the audience, Gener- ind bright, and long before the al Snyders’ appeal for preparedness 1 made his appearance little | was punctuated with shouts of “No n smilin best; that only b unless it isting ¢ Prospect I. The little | for my nne had stolen quietly out of bed| more money for and the end Mr. G ce if Santa had really forgotten | of his spepch was drowned in tu-| ham or not. With a shout of happy| mult. The meeting broke up with w out anoth- | glee » ran to the bedside of her} the audience singing anti-militaristic | J songs. | “Oh, mamma wake up quick and wmuor ee see what old brought, she! In a Milwaukee (Wis.) park is an me too) shouted, “Ist th’ prettiest fings you clevated, fence: inclosure that ser- and only| ever did see, an a dreat big tree alijves as a pound for lost children. | This Is Army’s Newest Barrage Balloon nd attaches of Wilbur Wright Fi eld, Dayton, O., are seen here filling the army's new- in preparation for an experimental flight. It has reached an altitucle cf 20,000 feet } The ‘ship cirries instruments for recording weather conditions, wind - ad dass and other’ found the right woman, But,| data, The fins. on its.sides take care of the expan. sion anu retraction of | the gas, . . “THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE weesenonnecneeseeseeeserrs sss TOtttteee seers ett PPPPCOOCCOTOCEL OTL ESODODEOOOOOOLS LICIIISEOOCLODCEEEESEDODDOCODODLE EL ED DOCS DE DDDODODDO LLL LCLLCE+COEEboeCCoCOoeE _ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1924 - The Coming» Three Months Will be the Most Important in the History of North Dakota A New Executive will be installed to manage the destinies of ‘our state with its complex problems. Many members of the house and senate will sit for the first time, re-elected members will #esume their places. Committees will be formed. 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