The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1929, Page 2

— wetaaster reaan Sipgugn wore ‘PAGETWO ' CATTLEREGISTERED Two per Cent Addition Noted in Dairy Cows, While Swine Show 10 per Cent Drop DECLINE EXTENDS TO U. S. Hogs Are Lower, but All Other Stock Quoted Higher, so Total Mounts, Too A smaller actual total number of livestock on farms January 1, 1929, compared with a year ago, but an in- creased total valuation of $8,981,000 for all North Dakota livestock this year over last January is due princi- Pally to higher cattle prices and in- creased number of sheep, according to the annual summary of the livestock situation by Paul C. Newman, agri- cultural statistician for North Dakota. ‘The most interesting items of the re- port are the 10 per cent increase in sheep numbers during 1928, the 2 per cent decrease in milk cows, the 10 Per cent decrease in swine numbers and the greatly increased prices of both cattle and hogs. Work Stock Drops in State All work stock in North Dakota shows the usual yearly decrease, with the number of horses dropping from 633,000 on January 1, 1928, to 589,000 January 1, 1929, and mule numbers remaining stationary at 10,000 head. As present prices are estimated at $52 @ head for horses and $55 a head for t™ules compared with $53 and $57 re- Spectively, one year ago, the present valuation of all work stock shows a decided slump. All cattle and calves show a one Per cent increase over January 1, 1928, to 1,078,000 head and an a in price per head of $10.10 to $53.80. The present estimated total value is $57,990,000 compared ‘with $46,622,000 a year ago. The esti- mates for all cattle include milk cows and heifers. Milk cows and heifers decreased 2 per cent, from 463,000 head a year ago to 454,000 head on January 1, 1929. Average price per head is $75, compared with $61 last January. Increased cattle prices coupled with low prices of wheat caused larger marketings of cattle, and apparently more milking stock went by the block proportionately, than from the other classes of cattle. Three Increases in Sheep The number of sheep on farms on January 1, 1927, was revised up to 460,000, an increase during 1926 of 23 Per cent. A further increase of 15 Per cent occurred during 1927, bring- ing the total number on January ‘1, ~ 2928, to 529,000. ‘The estimated num* ' on January 1, 1929, is 587,000 or ® 10 per cent increase for the state during 1928. The estimated average Price of $11 is not changed appreci- ably from that of a year ago. North Dakota hogs show the big- gest slump in numbers due to several | hall A 10 per cent decrease to 587,000 head is estimated to have year. Although the average price is now $15, compared with $13.80 a year ago, the factors, Occurred during the past estimated total value on Jaquary 1, 1929, shows a drop of $198,000 to $8,819,000. ‘The report does not make any esti- mate of production, but merely gives the livestock inventory of North Da- kota farms in the aggregate for the and end of the year, 1928, Previous and comparisons with Prices of all species except hogs are higher than a year ago. trucks’ ad of Livestoc TNREASE IN SHEEP. |[_ St cuaNces -—— by George cirk_] ~ AND IN PRICES FOR ‘ ©1922, ir NLA StAVICE, INC. Resi, y. 8, PAT. CoP. dem up? Vot does madame think? I have a fleet of delivery o” oy crease from 21,624,000 head on Janu- ary 1, 1928, to 21,820,000 head on January 1, 1929, is noted. Yearling heifers kept for milk cows as well as heifer calves intended for milk cows, however, both show increases in num- bers. Hogs over the United States de- creased materially in numbers during 1928. All sections showed decreases except the far western states where there was little change. Sheep numbers continued to in- crease during 1928, and the present estimate of 47,171,000 head is a 6 per Cent increase over a year ago. ? Legislative Calendar ‘ Cs BILLS PASSED BY SENATE 8. B. 48—Appropriations committee. $161,319 for Ellendale normal school. Includes $40,000 for new library build- 8. B. 50—Appropriations committee. $449,006.02 for Valley City normal school. Includes $115,000 for annex to training school. 8. B. 51—Appropriations committee. $180,082.18 for Dickinson normal school. Includes $35,000 for wing on main building. 8. B. 52Appropriations committee. $410,496 for Minot normal school. In- cludes $115,000 for training school building. 8. B. 57—Appropriations committee. $95,000 for wing on agricultural build- ing and $95,000 for wing on science state agricultural college. To- tal $190,000. 8. B. 70—Murphy. Provides levy for band purposes, levy to be on sliding scale in proportion to assessed valu- ation of municipality making it, with maximum of $4,000. 8. B. 82—Van Arnam. Permits mu- nicipalities to bond for airports. 8. B. 11—Fowler. Reappropriates $75,000 for construction of bridge over Red river at Fargo. 8. B. 90—Whitman, $15,000 to pay deficit in state's share of cost of con- structing bridge over Red river at Grand NEW SENATE BILLS 8. B. 103—Committee on education. Permits counties to levy up to one can pa spoil Ubraries so. ain establishing and main- taining libraries. i 8. B. 104—Bond, Fredrickson, Lynch pel fund la and wince op guaranty fund law up business df state fund commission by peony 1030. Assets of pete Prorated among persons ig Spproved claims who have not yet received dividends, amount equal to their capital stock as fund protection of depositors. Requires all Profits of banks to go into this fund until it reaches the required amount. 8, B. 106—Bonzer. Would reorgan- full-time ‘commlsloner 8 commission, Puts time commis- stoner in full charge of state highway operations. 8. B. 107—Cain. Repeals law pro- for boards of conciliation. Ww re- 8. B. 11- $6,000 for miscellaneous refunds. - BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE H. 3B. 82 — Westford, SENATE BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE Appropriations committee. World war memorials by tax lexy until September 1, 1933. H. B. 108—Jardine, Cass. Provides for leasing of lands acquired by the Bank of North Dakota through mortgage foreclosure, including leases for agricultural purposes and of min- eral, oil and gas rights. H. B. 1089—N , Barnes; Freeman, Grand Forks. Provides for establishment of a North Dakota mill and elevator commission consisting of three persons appointed by the gov- ernor, H. B. 110—Cox, Burleigh. Permits domestic insurance companies to place investment funds in first mortgage real estate loans, industrial bonds, and public utility bonds. H. B, 11 — Bubel, Oliver. $100,000 appropriation for bridge across Missouri river at or near Stanton between McLean and Mercer counties. Judge Christianson to Speak at Theater :Celebration at Fargo Fargo, N. D., Jan. 31.—Richard T. Ely, veteran economist now connected with Northwestern univetsity, and A. M. Christianson, judge of the North Dakota Supreme court, will speak at the North Dakota Agricultural col- lege, Sunday, Feb. 10, as part of a three-day program celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Little Country Theater, founded by A. G. Arvold. The event, which is held every five years, will close with a social session and Thespian supper Tuesday, Feb. 12. Former Arvold students will return to present two plays given in former years. They will be presented as far as possible by original casts with “The Servant in the House” on Feb, 11, and “David Harum” on Feb. 12, The other Plays, “Back to the Farm,” by the Bergen Township Farmers’ club, of Pekin, and “Brand” by students of the college, complete the list of plays to be presented. “Brand” is the third Ibsen play to be given at the Little Country Theater in as many years. It is a five-act drama, and will be given Monday evening, Feb. 11. DRY RAID IN WALES LLandevand, South Wales.—A raid on the community well here recently forced the surrounding countryside into a dry spell. Someone had pumped the well dry, but residents succeeded in obtaining a very small supply by dropping buckets to the bottom and scooping the water out, KeepYour Stomach Young and Sweet ; {errands to Asks |scured by the hideous spectacles, she THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE E ©1929 THIS HAS HAPPENED RUTH LESTER finds that her blond beauty interferes with her opportunities for becoming an expert secretary and conse- ease dons yellow spectacles, ill-fitting clothes and skins back her curls so she may go her way unannoyed by flirtatious em- ployers, But for this concealment of her loveliness she could not have worked unmolested four months for “HANDSOME HARRY” BORDEN, promoter of dubious stock companies and notorious for his affairs with women. Ruth would resign but for a romance which springs up between her and JACK HAYWARD, young insurance broker, whose office is just across the narrow airshaft from Borden’s private office on the seventh floor of the Star- j bridge Building. H On a Friday night in January, | Jack and Ruth become engaged and Ruth comes to the office next morning with her disguise removed. In her office, Ruth greets BENNY SMITH, 17- year-old office boy, who is as- tonished at her transformation and who instantly becomes in- fatuated. He advises her to don her disguise before Borden's ar- rival. She is interrupted by a phone call. It is “the woman with the beautiful contralto voice” whom Borden has previously re- fused to talk to. Ruth has time to put on her spectacles before Borden's arrival. Among his pri- vate mail is an orchid-tinted en- velope which he thrusts into his pocket. He instructs Rath to go” to the bank for $500 in cash and to the station to buy two rail- road tickets anda drawing-room. ‘NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER II Ruth Lester was grateful for the ank and station which “Handsome Harry” Borden had giv- en her to do, for they gave her an perience to another. As Benny Smith, the office boy, had guessed, the wives of the married men she had tried to work for had been the worst. «+ But those scenes would not bear thinking of now, when she was so happy.... f+ @& It was a motion picture, finally, which pointed a way out of her dif- ficulty. Out of work, she had gone forlornly into a movie theater in an effort to forget her rather absurd troubles. And she had seen, on the screen, a timid, mousey, homely little secretary with skinned-back-hair, ill- fitting clothes and horn-rimmed spectacles, suddenly transform her- self into a beauty, so that she might jwin the love of her employer, Ruth Lester laughed so hysterically that lovers of the silent drama turned in their seats and glared at her. The next day a mouse-like, timid little creature, with golden hair pulled tightly into a hard, unbecom- jing knot on her neck, eyebrows jerked back into a scared-rabbit ex- pression, blue eyes obscured and drained of their color by enormous yellow-lensed, horn-rimmed specta- cles, a longish, aa dark dress libeling her lovely small figure, had presented herself at the offices of Henry P. Borden, who had adver- tised for a secretary. And for four months, although “Handsome Harry” Borden was no- toriously fond of beautiful women, Ruth had been permitted to work in peace. Sometimes it had been cruelly hard to keep her pose and her deliberately achieved homeliness, for Ruth found, to her surprise and disgust, that she missed the admiring glances of men and women who passed her in the street. And those months had been the loneliest she had ever spent, for in all that time no man had asked her for a “date” —except Jack Hayward. Ruth drew a deep breath of joy. The pain of recalling the past had been wiped out by the ecstacy of-ar- riving, inevitably, at Jack Hayward’s opportunity to review, in undisturbed ecstacy, the miracle which had hap- pened to her. In a jaunty little brown hat, against which the newly re- leased golden curls clung like sprays of delicate embroidery, her new nu- tria coat wrapped snugly about her small body, her blue eyes unob- stepped into the elevator which was directly across the hall from the Bor- den offices. ‘ i Micky Moran, the jolly, impudent, red-headed lord of the elevator cage, did not recognize in the pink and white and gold little beauty the timid secretary who had been a daily pas- senger for the last four months. His bold eyes took her in at a glance, then he began to whistle significant- ly: “Yes, sir, that’s my baby!” Just before the elevator reache the ground floor, Ruth asked, im:the hesitant, meek voice whith had. been part of her “disguise”: “Is your fa- ther recov from that awful au- tomobile accident, Micky?” Before the astonished boy could reply, Ruth, laughing at him over her furred shoulder, stepped into the lobby of the Starbridge Building. “Vain little imp!” she character- ized herself, as a gust of January wind tugged at her coat. “But oh, I’m so glad I can be me at last! Four months of being someone else! But worth it, worth it, worth it!” she chanted under her breath, as she joined the Saturday morning shop- pers who milled about the busy cor- ner. It was uncanny how accurately Benny Smith had diagnosed the ab- urd situation which had made a guise necessary. Perfect blond bea ty had been a pleasant Possession, one which would some day bring her great happiness, she had thought, so long as her father had been alive to me nea be id of hi e en as proud of him as he of her, for Colby Lester had been one of the greatest criminal lawyers of his day—a criminal lawyer whose eatness lay in his keenness as a jetective rather than insjury-sway- ing oratory. During the last five years of his life he had talked: over all his cases with his daughter. Many a night they had sat up until dawn, Ruth curled kitten-wise in his arms, her childish brows knit amusing! in the same fashion as his, her lo; cal mind keeping pace with his and sometimes leaping ahead of it. “Good work, Infant! You've got the makings of a Grade A detective behind those yellow curls. But please God, you'll never have to earn your living in any such sordid feshion as this,” he had told her once. A dignified home, exquisite clothes, servants who adored Colby Lester and his daughter, private schools association with keen and cul- tured minds—all these things Ruth had enjoyed until Colby Lester’s sud- den, tragic death. He had been defending a woman on the charge of poisoning her lover, a married man, and had been shot down by the crazed widow of the vic- tim. because she had believed that Colby Lester would win the defend- ant’s freedom for her. And he had, although his funeral took place while the jury was bringing in its just ver- dict of “Not guilty.” Even now Ruth could scarcely un- derstand why there had been so little for her when her father’s estate was settled. But his books showed that he had defended more penniless vic- tims of tragic. circumstance than wealthy ones, penis His 4 came problems which int ive instincts. And he had de- t nothing—nor him- been a connoisseur of Hy ari be name. Her little highheeled pumps ANNE AUSTIN k in State But Value Exce BLACK PIGEO By NEA Service, Inc. clicked.a staccato accompaniment to bar $07 nee she sane ot si a hare ing into tl inside poc! of her fur coat she retrieved her spectacles, straddled -her ‘small nose with them, so that the teller could recognize her and make no difficulty about cashing Borden’s check, In the street again, on her way to the stat to buy two tickets and a drawing-room for Harry and the woman he was to take to|to Winter Haven with him, Ruth had tive more precious minutes in which to review her strange romance. Pigeons! Involuntarily her blue eyes, free of the spectacles again, scanned the sky for a glimpse of the birds which had brought her hay ness. She saw none. Probably they were huddling against chimneys for warmth. The poor darlings! . She hoped it would not be too severe a winter, for their sakes. eee She laughed softly as she remem- bered how she must have looked, in her “disguise,” leaning out of the window opening upon the airshaft, coaxing the black pigeon to her with crumbs held invitingly in the hollow of her palm. eyes,.. the whimsical mouth, as he had said: “I: wonder if you'll let_me lunch with you, Miss Lester, so I can find where you: get such potent bread crumbs. My (bre ambition in life is to have that black rascal of a Pigeon eating out of my hand, too.” bi had wanted to. turn n, into her own office, ‘for five. swift minutes at the ‘mirror—just long enough to remove her spectacles, scrub off that sickly yellowish Dang der, release the golden glory of her curls, but the elevator came, and to show him how Ruth ater It was during that first luncheon of theirs that Ruth’s resolve was made. For Jack Hayward had talked her as no man since her father’s death had talked—as if she had a mind worthy of his; as if she were something more than a beautiful lit- tle scrap of femininity made to be gobbled up by a man. opportunit; Leste: until he has a chance to learn and love the inside me,” Ruth resolved, and trembled lest the great experi- ment should fail. For she already loved him—the outside and the in- side of him. What if he should only like and feel congenial with her mind, and fail, because of her dis- guise, to love her as a man must love the woman he married? But that would have to be her risk, she resolved— eee “Oh!” Ruth came to herself with But Jack Hayward, who had been watching, had not laughed. He had smiled, that tender, whimsical smile which was so dear a part of him. And she had smiled, forgetting for the moment that the dimple must be sternly repressed. Two days later, when she was feeding the whole greedy flock with crumbs, sprinkled upon the window ledge, Jack Hayward had tried ito lure them away from her, with crumbs of his own. It had become a game between them—between the handsomest man in the Starbridge Building and the dowdiest, frum- piest, most timid-looking ‘little sec- retary. Then one day he had appeared at the elevator—not the elevator in his wing of the building, but at the one across the hall from Harry Borden’s office. She could hear him now, see the dancing light in his bronze-brown MADGE BELLAMY , , . Beautiful Fox star ia bor letest release, “Mother Knows ‘Best,’ Madge Bellamy explains the growing popularity of Old Golds in Hollywood a start, and smiled at the ticket agent. She had not even realized that she had arrived at the station, “Two round-trip tickets and a drawing- room for Winter Haven, please. The 2:15 train for this afternoon.” “What is the name?” the ticket agent asked briskly, though his eyes drank in her loveliness gratefully. “We have to keep a record of draw- ing-room reservations.” “It is for Mr. Borden—I meap Mr, H. P. Benton,” Ruth corrected her- self hastily. “Mr, and Mrs. Henry P. Benton.” - The ticket agent raised his eye- brows at her slip, then gave her a long, significant glance, in which there was a little . astonishment. “Hope _you have a nice week-end, Mrs.—Benton,”” Ruth flushed vividly. “Thank you, but I am not—Mrs, Benton.” As she turned back toward the Starbridge Building, her errands ac- d the tove “I won't show him the outside me |, shed, she wondered who “M time. And she shivered a li and was glad that it was not she. such sordid ed Ehomacts wich we ’s wife. Mrs, Joan Corsingiee Reveard aes ae ly she shivered again, and « it she were taking cold. (Te Be Continued sqft the next chapter—a torn $500 her! 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