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c a J ‘ ae oD sete rae on F3 esa. seve i { ‘ tains that the Anglo-Saxon will be the preeminent roe wage. of the future because of its fecundity since GE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune |". tisatiom: tae proved to him that the| ka lsdipeedies Newsies | Anglo-Saxon stock in America is more prolific n Independen' per i » Lati Slavic clements. | THE SIATE’S ULDEST NawoPAPER bed the Latin a Se ele behale e (Established 1873) | We may therefore take heart. America appar- | fently will not “change its spots.” The influx of foreign-born will nct swamp our native population. | All fears are at rest. | Oe een nentathsiritteintnahiaaes eens ” Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company. Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at ick as second class mail matter. D. Mann. .-President and Publisher This Changing Age «Jett lapel at le et aaa ward Robbins, viee president of the Historic Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck)...... 7.20| Society of Pennsylvania, in addressing a mecting Daily by mail, per ycar, lef the Pennsylvania Library club on “dead bool (in state outside Bismarck)....... + 5.00 and dying authors,” made some very interesting 1 AODIBCEEE Seal ae and illuminating comments on present day literary celine nthe sleet tendencies, He said, for instance, that Dr, Samuel | Member of The Associated Press Johnson would have been forgotten long ago had it The Associated Press is exclusively entitled te not been for his Boswell and that the works of Dry- | the use for republication of all news dispatches | nd Bryon have already gone into “total tredited to it or not otherwise credited in this pa- rer, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of ail other matter herein are also reserved celip Some suspicion of that condition has lately en tered the minds of others, but many of us are un- | Foreign Reutiseitutives pr pared f r the statement that William Cullen Bry. | G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY ant is “pas: ie” and Longfellow tvo mid-Victorian. CHICAGO DETROI? | Bret Harte being described as “a bit stale” is a posi- Tower Bidg. Kresge Bldg. | tive shock while the information that the works of | ew ee BURNS & SOME avaible ‘Thackeray are on a decline causes regi H - bal : u . a It is much to be feared that if these authors are now declining in popularity, there is little hope of their works eve regaining a former popularity. | age is moving very fast and has a very active | appreciation of the prolifie literary production. of the time. Less and less attention is being given the classics. The modern werld seems more inter- ested in self-expression than in appreciation of the | proven masterpieces of a former day. Some of the older authors will live for a while yet, no doublt; men such as Shelley and Keats, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Buchanan Read, Whitti 2 oy the leru me Ber vhs, s either the toleration of his} Walt Whitman—but who can deny that no one rea , or spending the remainder Ditkens any more? i} a . of his days in some sort of an institution. sae | on in ennentinl to: the ccreatiunvor Af-he is not an actual invalid, however, going into! siative values, which in turn is essential to appre- a home is torture. He then is cut off from the op-| ciation, it is to be regretted that the older classical portunity of making an income, even a small one.| Works are being ignored, This modern literature That Kills his self-respect. He is left with too i. no doubt very fine material, but a steady dict much time on his hands, and that makes him rest-| [+ it would be monotonous indeed. less and discontented. Also it costs some $900 to keep him a year, according to figures compiled by, Th Verdant Frestinen ew York Association for Improving the Con is RUE Poor | Freshmen are the college students who drink most, declares Mrs. Ella A. Boole, national presi-| i dent of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. | basing her comment on a survey taken among s (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Caring for the Aged Age is a tragedy. Just when a person, by virtue of his or her long experience, beeomes worth a great deal to the community age creeps upon him and reduces him to a feeble shadow of his former often to an invalid state. y fortunate and far-sighted and had the good sense to put something by for such an emergency, the old person then f children, if he has an, Unless he has been vers This association has figured out that it is almost ain the aged person in h own room amid familiar surroundings, outside of an | : : institution. In addition to that the aged person has | dents in various colleges. stat! ; an opportunity to cke out a small income and thus| Show,” she maintains, “that among juniors an¢ keep some shred cf his self-respect and his contact | Setors, drink has been reduced to a minimum with people makes his lot easier to bear. [eee pes eu eu ere nent ce eee ree The association is going to work the plan out for! ffeshman class in college. By the time the serene the able-bodied poor so as to make room in existing | heights of junior and senior years have been won the fires have spent themselves to institutions for those age poor who are infirm and ill ne | embers. and who need constant care. The waiting “4 : nae the homes for aged are so large that many old | Very poetically expressed, but is it really true people, the association finds, are suffering greatly | It is rather hard to believe that freshmen are the because of lack of facilities to care for them in an | Ply college students who are affected by the drink PatiGition , |complex. If that were so, then freshmen would 7 poet be the only patrons the bootleggers would have. Old age is a traged: human must | 2 é ; : ae, ees aaa’ | Somchow, we believe that this is a libel on fresh-! face, ng accident, and we should concern our- i RRRE een . ; en and we wo ke e able to prove it. selves with the problems of old age and try to devise | MEN ANE We woud like to be able to p some plan whereby this difficult period is made as comforting and pleasant Success in Business The number of retail businesses that fail is aston- ishing. The Alexander Hamilton Institute, one of! the most reliable sources of business information, : : a Pee a Fate has been playing queer tricks lately with states that 85 per cent of those who have gone into] ., " ern ae oe Edward P. Weston, the veteran pedestrian, | business in the past year, will fail. So serious hast 7 ’ 5 Na Gaede MIs1 "A little while ago this tricky sprite had him on this percentage of failure become, in its undermin-| Y oat 18 Pe rilcned neck the verge of starvation, He was old-—he is eighty- cight—and out of all his triumphs as a champion which eve! | Editorial Comment _|| Fate and Weston the Walker (Duluth Herald) possible, y in modern com mercial r ions, that the institute has compiled a « pomagy q : ‘ [ARR as leeh doukeep dui hie special course for retail merchants, made up of ex-| pane PRET ee OS SDUMO Ne Vloty Coase n mule e : | old age. periences of succésses and failures, in an attempt | s ; a . | en Anne } ols, yot very rich by writing ta.edncate the retail man out of the fed ink side] Then Anne Nichols, who got very rich by writi and staging a no producer w called “Abie's Tri " which | ad put_on and whi atic | _| critic could observe without loathing, settled a/ Beer icc of skill to properly ‘apily ithe nl thirty-thousand-dollar trust fund upon him, the in-| spell failure. The merchant who started in business | Me te be his as long as he lived. i as a shipping clerk and has risen by dint of Thus in a moment he was lifted from poverty to} work to the head of a business might be sup} a faked ‘ BN en circa allcthe intormatinn that ace But faté wasn't through with Weston the Walker. | Bree widiaiitée a continued success | Hardly had Miss Nichols thus generously rescued | aie however, is fartromtrue. Mos him from want when he was struck by an automobile aecomplex composition. of seemingly ‘ant |i the street and dangerously hurt. At first it was | aeniend Panduicre can be Tata sah said that he had been fatally hurt; and fate seeme‘ | alyzed and its effect confidently predicted when |*® have given him the fin ; | Fae thst) tha necessary training: | But now it is announced that he will recover. | It is to provide this training for the retail store Bae : ig fi A | proprietcr that the institute has compiled its course, | Wtlked all competitors through his long life. =| Several colleges with extension departments ar: | It was in 1861, the first year of the Civil war, | known to be planning similar courses, the whole | that Weston won fame by walking from Boston to movement taking place as a form of public service | W#shington to see Lincoln inaugurated. And here i, in the preservation of business confidence by the re- | #* 1927, and Weston, still living, has just beaten out duction of the percentage of failures | starvation and then won a victory over death by the The soul of the nation’s business lies in credit, | Co™menest mgdern ailment—autemobile _accide: Credit is based entirely on confidence, which, in | May he live to enjoy Anne Nichols’ bounty for many turn, rests squarely on the application of the law of verages as it applies to success and failure. Any movement to increase the former and decrease the | latter should receive universal support. | The U. S. Birth Rate of the ledger. Certain fundamental and the ignorance of these fundamental princip principles govern suc ation that is neces- Modern business Gen. Dawes’ “Brief Comments” \ (Chicago News) In his laconic remarks at the end of the crossing ession of the Sixty-ninth congress, Vice President | One finds the observations of Professor Warren | Dawes was content to refer to his explicit attack on | S. Thompson, noted sociologist, regarding the birth | of the senate in his celebrated speech on| rate in the United States of more than passing in- | the first day of its first session, and then to point to terest. He has analyzed them with great care | the final clash of filibusters as an impressive object | and his reputation leads one to suspect that he has , less checked his facts rather carefully. is impossible to defend rules which enable a He denies, for example, that the “old American | small group of perverse men to paralyze the senate stock” is dying out. In Southern communities, he| and prevent the transaction of business, Talk about Points out, the birth rate is markedly high. He) the wonderful theoretical effects of unlimited free-| admits that the birth rate in America since the. dom of discussion becomes ridiculous when one con-| civil war has been cut in two, due to the preva-, templates the waste, confusion and flagrant inef-| lence of birth control and the movement towar'l) ficiency resulting from the exercise of the pr “industrialization and urbanization.” But he does | ege of unrestricted gabble and cynical obstruction. not see in this situation any cause for alarm. | The senate need not curb useful and sincere dis- On the contrary, he says, “American mothers un-j cussion. It is asked only to adopt a rule that would doubtedly give birth to more children than French.| permit a majority to bring a measure to a vote. Th Italian or German mothers,” and he follows that| closure rule was a step in the right direction. Fur “by*declaring that despite the decreasing birth rate | ther revision of the rules in a spirit of reason and! in the United States, statistics prove that the birth | fair play is imperative. | rate here is higher than that of any European coun-| Mr. Dawes might have improved his opportunity | try. in closing the session by calling attention to the wis- All of this is rather astonishing information. We! dom and necessity of the Norris amendment to the have been accustomed to believe that the real Amer-| Federal Ccnstitution to do away with the absurd ican stock was being submerged by large numbers | short sessions and the anachronism of a year’s de- of foreign-born progeny. But Profes:or Thompson | lay in the convening of congress after its election by ies this and says further that, although the| the people. first, generation of foreigners in this country,; Government should not lag behind industry and notably the Italians and Poles, breed large families, | business in respect of proper organization for work. tha second generation is ofteh childless. The American governmental system has a high In fact, Professor Thompson, who is sociological| degree of stability, but that is no reason for the instructor at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, main-| nation’s retaining obsolet: arrangements and ncg- lecting to adjust political institutions to new condi- tions of life, a ashes and) ; ing touch. \> {Once more he had outpaced bad luck as he has out- |* THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | Looks Like They Might Be Right, After All | cy | BARBS “We have statistics to WE AMERIC. f typical American ex- stepping out! .. . can tell where an from--if he has a# home is sure to be f he speaks drawl you can home in but that he x months at | f 1‘. 4. You can a New Yorker, too, from Bloomingtot s 2 Ab hoit. he Am: n a litt e Taj Mahal. . . il knom them. . lea le in h cir word ring, not det i the evil New York pro a bundit has cording to ms tha The younge ing a new ts all y y of the Treasury wa hack in U an item about rouge pots dating to 3000 B, C, being turned up see Chicago's new ordinance requir. ing women’s skirts to fall at least two inches below the knees is in What 4 policeman’s life without a tape mi : Errore arg ; | Old Masters | I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in jail Is that the wall strong; And that each da is like ay A year whose d: are lon But this I know, that every law That men have made for Man, nes ne Man took his brother's ife, And this sad world began, But straws the wheat and saves the chaff With a most evil fan. This too I know—and wise it were If each could know the same That every prison that men build Js built with bricks of shame, And bound with burs lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim, Oscar Wilde: From “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.’ "A THOUGHT ~ Love is the fulfilling of the law. —Romans xiii se 8 Love can sun the realms of night. —Schiller. |. ¢——_________________» ' AT THE MOVIES . eee ELTINGE THEATRE Lewis Stone and Anna Q. Nilsson score a double triumph of personal- ities in “Midnight Lovers,” which comes to the Elntige for Monday and Tuesday. The acting of this duet is | 4 constant delight, from the opening] ’ gipgle to the closing laugh. As an aviator who misunderstood hs bride, and even goes so far as to help her get a divorce though he dearly loves her, Stone is superb. As| the bride who thought she didn’t love her husband, but finally found that she did, Miss Nilsson surpa: all her previous performances as a comedienne. The supporting cast give very capable performarices, and Chester Conklin ax a bujler is especially funny. John Roche plays the milk- and-water pole Ad Others in the cast are Dale Fuller, Purnell Pratt and Harvey Clark. Most of the story takes place in London, but it shifts also to the Mesopotamian battle front. ‘ int Churchill left the witness, Albert. words to. Hathaw: Ettleson, for a moment, to lean com- his way into the d ionately over une Weeping prio his hand patting her shi with fhen he whirled with furious upon the deflated, lesman, and shot a ques- leson, did you not admit to Mr. uthaway and to while they were in the di of the Pullman that you had prom-, ance?” Miss Cherry as s Over Banning’s heated the judge ruled that Ettleson was to| | unswer. scantanigee| something like that— By | 8°: ve 4 4 n » ismt it true That you you were lying? intention of. divorcing your wife to| ey marry | we innecent girl that you! flicked the dismissal » planning, with all the wiles of experienced man of the world, to| Ettleson’s about the then | ne: Mrs. i | husband’ jst he philande | between the horn he replied that he ‘had intende divorce his wife and marry Cherry, his wife would probably leave him, and if he denied that such had been ention, he would bran’ him-/the Pullman porter who had shown self as a liar and an unspeakable cad, “Answer the question, churchill commanded him sternly. I was lying,” Ettleson mutter- “But Cherry oughta known I In the next column there | © “That will do, Ettleson,” Churchill “Now Ettleson,” he is cross-examination, e that y Cherry had -good-girl’ line and en she found you had taken }a drawing room for the two of you?| Then someone lifted up the locks: Aren't those practically your exact shouted at him. nner sa © 1927 & NEA SERVICE, INC. a y when he forced ng room with ue her from | this child's sister to y fatherly Fitleson admitted, before the judge had had time to listen te Banning s_ objections, “Now, Ettleson, is it not also true! that Cherry Lane was ying her small and weak though ‘ape you when her si: Hathaway came to her squirming Miss Faith Lane to ing room Mr. jonas) “I told you she w ayed me for a sucker, tted sullenly, cheater, | arranged Ettleson ad- objection, |) question, Ettleson, r. I ask that the wit- r be stricken from ul that) had so ruled, Ettle- had no! judge son answered sullenly, “Yes. “That is all, Ettleson,” Churchill at the deflated, squirming witness contemptuously. Banning made sorry work of the rebuttal. hunted eyes! “Now, Ettleson, I will ask if you courtroom, ! knew anything of this defendant’ terrified moment) reputation, anyth' which wo lead you to act as you did?” Banning | asked, Churchill's objection, on the ground ' upon the ‘that the witness’ answer would be rer was | hear: evidence, was - sustained, wsof a dilemmi jand Albert Ettleson was dismissed. “Call Henry Brown,” Banning in- structed the court crier. When a grinning, uneasy colored boy tock the oath, Faith recognized i. her and Bob to the drawing room oc- Ettleson!"| cupied by Ettleson and Cherry. TOMORROW: Court adjourns until Monday and Bob and Faith are be- sieged by reporters and photograph- u whined to Justajingle ‘pulled threw] He rowed out on the small canal His fishing luck to try. The blamed canal ran dry.’ THEY’RE ALL ALIKE By Bess Bly C You SAID You Go To CHu | tion, | she felt some approa | the doorway that led to.the golden | that quite natarally she recovered “ SATURDAY, APRIL 9,'1927 Alabaster Lamps ete » . Copyright, 1925, by Margaret Turabail. ‘WU Berrios THE STORY ” Polls redthe. wae Wueh the same, save that she spent more time In bed reading feverishly and without discrimination. They talked in the usual jolly, casual way at | night. But certain subjects were avoided—Clover Hollow, Claude Dabbs, Ned Carter and Loren, Rangeley. Just three days behind them, on the same course, Claude Dab and Ned Carter followed. Ned was finding Claude a delightful traveling companion, utterly free from the shame of ignorance, and willing to acquire knowledge of all sorts. Ned also discovered that others found Claude attractive, and | Ned even accused Claude of being too popular, “Polishing up for Mary,” was his explanation and excuse, A curlousif congenial pair they were, finding an infinite variety of things to talk about. They sel- dom mentioned Mary, and Ned wanted to talk. about Mary. He had reached the stage when tf the beloved name {s not mentioned by some one, there is no ‘conversa- Some one, any one, every one must speak of her to him. Claude, a charming companion in every other respect, was, on the one vital subject, dumb. Ned fumed in secret, knowing that with Claude Dabbs all half- measures were useless; he would elther have to declare his whole purpose, or keep silent. Since he knew nothing yet of Mary's feel- ings, he kept silent. He wished heartily that Claude and his Polly would play out their comedy by themselves and leave him a clear field with Mary. Mary in Venice! The combination would be heavenly, but not if everywhere that Mary went a mother and fa-\ ther, utterly estranged, fallowed. As their journey brought them closer to Mary, the two men com- muned in their hearts with the to- tally different images they had set up of the same girl. The real and very different Mary —in that instead of only being what they thought, was all that and more—slept as tranquilly as an Italian railway carriage: would Permit. As the time drew near when she might reasonably expect her father to appear, Mary thought of nothing else, and grew nervous lest she shauld betray in some unguarded speech, the thoughts that were up- Permost in her. mind. Polly Johnston steadily refused to disclose her plans to Mary. Polly's nights were sleepless, her days restless. It was as though ing change and strove to evade it. Several wakeful nights followed thelr arrival in Venice, and one morning, Polly awoke with a head- ache. Though she kept up val- Hantly until after luncheon, she was compelled finally to seek her darkened bedroom. Mary knew that Polly would not endure being read to when her head was like that. So, when Mary pi that she should spend the after- noon in St. Mark's, just around the corner, there was no excuse Polly could justly offer to oppose the plan, though she did not like t. Mary laughed down all. sugges- tions that she was quite too attrac tive to wander ut alone. Mary was an American, though she had had a foreign bringing-up, and she reminded her mother of this, and that she knew how to take care of _herself. Polly, who had -wandered about as she chose when Mary's age, real- ized that she was being absurd. She told Mary to go, but not to stay late, and If she, Polly, did not feel better she would have her dinner in bed. In that case Mary might dine with the Farleys, whom they had met on the train. Mary acquiesced, somewhat absent-mind- edly, Having made her mother com- fortable, or at least as comfortable as a headache would: allow, Mary set forth. Venice, that lovely city of the sea, seemed to Mary to be looking her best that afternoon. The sun shone warm on the plazza. The shops had a sleepy look, their awn- ings like drooping eyelids, and the Patches of ‘shade were grateful to the eye. Mary thought Venice was like «a lovely, seductive- woman, who, past her first youth, stirred men’s. hearts to pity for all she had lost, and then to passion for the ageless beauty which she stil! retained. 4 | Mary had made brief visits to} St. Mark's with her mother, but now she hurried up the stone steps ; toward the galleries and the capello di oro; A service. was in| Drogress before ‘one of the altars. Mary paused a moment to fee the genial old custodian, whose greet- ing was as toothless as it was friendly. As she stood peering down into the dim church, she was conscious of some one near her, watching her. She looked up—into Ned Carter's éyés. She could scarcely believe it, and yet something she read in his | eyes ma her stretch out her hand. Ned grasped it, and that steadied her. She thought she heard him murmor “Mary.” She was not sure. She turned, con- fusedly, her hand still unaccount- ably in his, and they went through horses. It was so harrow here her hand, ‘As they out into the sunshine, and cool sea perene mary, felt herselt able to found this no easy thing to/do. There was a shining something in his eyes, to which she seemed loath to give a name, or to fully recognize. There was so much con- fusion in her mind, thoughts halt formed :fiitting across it like birds | of the night, that she finally left it” to Ned to break the silence. All he j Seemed able to say was “Mary!” “Are you here,” Mary began ace perately, “with my—" Ned gave a swift look about to assure himself that they were alone. + “Oh, what does it matter who I am with? I'm here because you here, and I couldn't stay in lover Hollow without you. I've followed you, Mary, to tell you—” “Hush!” said ‘Mary warningly, and put her finger gently against his lps, for out of the little door- way had appeared the wondering heads of a German youth of about twenty, and his bride. y Mary moved away, seated her- self on the stone parapet beneath the horses and looked out over the —* piazza. Ned stood beside her, look- ing down. “My father—" she began. “Yes, I came here with C. M. Dabbs, and f know where he Is, I'm not to meet him for half an hour yet. Surely you can listen to me for that length of time. If you don't,” he threatened, “I won't tell you where to find him. If you're kind to me I'll lead you to him.” “Mr. ter, aren't you a little \dden in your methods?” “Im anything you like except ‘Mr. Carter.” And if I seem sud- den, look at the provocation, At a certain shop your father ts wait- ing, and once.he gets within hall- ing distance I'll be pushed, shoved, ignored, or kicked Into the back- ground. So, Mai ‘o you don't, my dear. There's absolutely no use in our roaming around looking aty, things in shop windows. Down this alley-way there's a flight of stone steps leading to the canal. If you come that way we could wait in the shade for a gondola.” “To take me to my father?" “Eventually, yes,” admitted “but primarily to Hsten to mi “about father? Oh, I should love to hear about him!” “Would you? Well, I've lots to tell.’ A wonderful traveling com- panion. But first you must hear about me.” They had reached one step and while Ned signaled a passing gon- dola, Mary thought of him and wondered at herself. Why should she go with him? Mother would never approve of this! Neverthe- less, she waited for his gondola and Itstened to him with a smile. Its was like walking Into a trap. but was she so unwilling to be caught? She had one wild {mpulse to- | ward flight as Ned concentrated. his attention upon getting the gondola ready for his lady. ‘It would be aot easy to slip away now. As she made the first step his hand was on her arm, very gently but cém- pellingly, and she had stepped jnto the gondola, . * ‘They sat side by side for a few moments in silence as the gondola made Its way into the Grand canal. Then Ned turned to her and spoke about Venice, tts sudden and un- expected charm for him when he Ned, ; had -first seen the city. Hé loved it. This lazy method of locomo- tion was perfect. Did she not think 80? Mary could .rhapsodize with him over Venice to his heart's con- tent, and began to think she had been fearful without cause. They had turned from the Grand canal into a narrower, half-desert- ed looking erway, quite eyident-3. ly leading to the private entrance of several old palaces. Over the wall of one streamed green branches and creepers, the remains of an old garden, once hidden from the public eye. The canal was beautiful, and dark with shade. Here and there long splashes o sunlight stole between thick walls and made bars across the water. “I knew you'd love ft. I've al- ways planned to bring the girl I— some day I mean to bring—Mary, I've kept {it for you. ‘Isn't it lovely 2” Before Mary could reply, her| hand was crushed in his, his shoul- der was against her own and his lps close te her ear were mur-| muring,‘'so that she alone could hear at he longed to tell her.) It ‘Was extremely jerky and inco- herent. In fact, there was very little sense in it. It was rather like what every man does with his pre- conceived idea of how he ix going * to conduct his love scene. Ned, be ing very much In love, made a bad botch of it. In fact. the astonished Mary ‘vould not distinguish , any- thing except that she was disturb- ing the even tenor of hi ife con- siderably, that she ‘was adorable, and—though everything was im- plied that should have been {m- plied, thére was not a single word about marriage or engagement. Most of it was “Ob, Mary!” They were approaching the old bridge. The bridge, low and dark, seemed to Mary the. proper place to arrest the stream of Ned's elo- quence. She determined to releai her hand. It did not seem easy. She tried it, however, and turned her face-so that she might look at him and make him understand.. As" she turned, the lips so close to hi ear brushed her cheek, met her inouth and clung there, It was the first time—for Mary. Other men had tried to kiss her mouth, just as other men had asked her to marry them, but gene had succeeded. ‘When the gondola shet from. un- der the bridge into the sunlight, the gondolier, who of course must have suspected, if he had not seen, burst out into one of his cries of warning that precede a turning. Ned involuntarily straightened up; came out of his dream and looked” guiltily at Mary. Mary was furious. Her cheeks flamed. She felt her whole body was one burning blush. She hated him. It was as though he had?” kissed her in the open street, But she hated herself more, for even - while she blushed to remember his ps, she had a horrible suspicion aeons Uke to be kissed , (TO KB CONTINUED.) ND obit