The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1929, Page 12

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE T TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, May 25.—-There may in the be prisoners somewhere side by side and where Sinclair at first slept between a couple of com- mon and impecunious lawbreakers. ‘The oil man’s food is as good as Re dormitory where their cots lay United States who are made more/the jail provides, which is not bad comfortable than Mr. Harry I, Sin clair, but it probably would take]eaten it. something of a search to find one. One does not -lat ail, according to those who have The detail staff, mostly made up of office workers and in- suggest that the| cluding Sinclair, are fed on a menu multimillionaire oi] man ought to|somewhat superior to that of the be given especially severe treatmen or even that the fact that he is ajth ire has won him any] pri mnultimilli t} general run of inmates. They all ive on it. The great majority of oners eat in a mess hall con- special favors, Doubtless if he were cae) the electric chair. dead broke and ently. But it is most em~hatically and in disputably true thi the other facts about him remained the same, belitors, would not have been treated differ- | ab hen it comes to a matter of vis- Sinclair again shares privileges those of the ordinary pris- oner. Whereas the relatives or -} friends of other prisoners must talk clair is the!through bars or across long tables most pleasantly situated of all the|with a jail attendant sitting watch- 300 inmates of the local hoosegow .|fully at one end, Sinclair has his He isn’t allowed out at night, but] guests in the medical office. The reg- if he is dissatisfied otherwise he|ular vi: simply doesn’ his luck. imply doesn t know ai ui iting day is Friday, but spe- cial detail men have an exclusive vis- itors’ hour between 7 and 8 on Sun- In the first place, of course, Sin-|day nights, Sinclair, unlike the rest clair avoided being sent to the work- | of his handful, receives visitors in house. He was permitted to drive to| privacy instead of in the main of- the jail door in his own car, instead djfice and the first one he had was of riding over in a wagon with other] permitted to stay half an hour over- miscellaneous wrongdocrs. time. Except for Sunday evening, Then he was assigned to what is| however, only Sinclair's «attorneys in the jail. daily chore alongside embezzle: bootleggers, petty thieves and other|supply of liquor. rasily the best job of any prisoner|are supposed to visit him. Instead of doing his oo In the pharmacy safe is a large One only men- prisoners his position as pharmacist} tions that in passing, as an inter- associates him in a sunny, curtained!esting fact, but the stuff certainly room with a pleasant young phys-|is handy in case anyone takes ill. ician and a pleasant and pretty girl va rom sonie occasional|barred from the jail, as they were nurse. Aside fi Newspapermen are no longer pill-rolling, his duties are far fromyat first, but they are barred from arduous. Other prisoners sweep and/Siclair as long as Sinclair desires. serub, make beds Jaundry. Of course, Sin to stand by or work in the There are also many other com- forts about jail life which Sinclair air sometimes has|enjoys, but nothing in this story s general handy man}need necessarily be taken as a re- during an operation, and operations | flection on Major W. L. Peak, the aren't always pleasant @ squeamish person. spectacles, | jail superintendent, but he is not commonly regarded as|Sinclair’s case quite frankly. who_ discusses Peak points out that the jail always need- Both the physician and the nurse|ed a pharmacist, that Sinclair was have reported that Sinclair is ajthe first registered pharmacist ever “nice man,” so he won't be submitted|to reach the 1, that it was ol- to any indignities by his immediate] viously the job for which he was bosses. most fitted, that Sinclair's new room Having a white ‘collar job, the|is handy to the infirmary if he is multimillionaire prisoner is permit-|needed at night, that prisoners at- ted to wear whatever clothes he|tached to ‘he main office are per- likes. eee mitted to receive visitors in their of- fice and that no one has any desire His crowning piece of luck came|to parad- Sinclair before newspaper- when he was given a special room| men and the merely curious, for sleeping quarters, near the jail Other prisoners, even|son need shed bitter tears over Sin- the office force, are piled into the infirmary. But for once Pat Tarver failed h daughter. came rushing into the R room” and laid her hot cheek agai his thick, curling black hair. Tony fled again, not waiting to an-|she is cunning and cute. swer her father’s “Did you want} hii anything, honey-girl?” Sh And as she stumbled into the room | Sandy's that was to be hers during the week|she looked at she had volunteered to nurse Mom| desperate, hungry eyes. And as she Ross and to keep house for her, Tony |looked at the grown-up asked herself wildly: “What if I'd said, ‘Yes, Pat, I do want something! Something 1 can’t have, something you can’t give|Sandy at fourteen — crowded closer Oh, dear God,|and closer, grinning at her with the what a fool I’ve been, what a blind,|grin that had never changed. greedy fool I’ve been!” Tears were crowding her eyes, so that she had to wipe them away on|been lost for—let’s see—eight years. me. I want Sandy! thrill-hun; the sleeve of her dress. He was so engrossed in a close game of dominoes with Den- nis Ross that he had only an absent smile for the distracted girl who Nevertheless, no sentimental per- clair’s imaginary hardships. For the first time in all 's that she had known Sandy Tony Tarver wanted to run away from him, instead of to him, like a homing pigeon. “But how can I bear to see him now, since I know?” Tony whi ered. “I'll have to see him h her..... He laughs at her, thinks 1 can see es crinkling ... Oh, no, no!” e had been in that room of a thousand times, but now it with new eyes, Sandy’s room,.a dozen other Sandys crowded about—Sandy at ten, Sandy at twelve, Sandy the first year hign, A single white iron bed, with one of the brass knobs missing. It had An old-fashioned patch-work quilt as “Lost my hanky,” she moaned, like|a spread. She looked close, shen ani a desolate child. home pretty soon clothes and things. to phone Annabel to get some|pressed it to her li Mustn’t forget|same, the same! Wh to pack a bag.|it herself, as Sandy laughed at her “Got to send Pat|snatched up a corner of it It was the he’d pieced Lay things to last me a week. Ajfor her sudden interest in sewing, week here, in Sandy’s room... San-|not knowing that it was to be a; dy’s room. can’t, I can’t.” Oh, no, I can’t stay inj Christmas this room, with the ghosts of all the|long ago was it that she had pieced Sandy's I ever knew crowding it. I}him a quilt? But even as she protested, sheJand it still covered his b knew that she must stay, for she|Burns had never pieced hit present for him. How She was twelve then, POOR TOM CARR - 1 CAN'T GET HIN OLY OF MY MIND Freckles and His Friends WELL, IN JUST'A Few MINUTES TAG'S’ LONG TRAIN RIDE WILL BE OVER: Z CAN SEE THE SMOKE MOM’N POP RIGHT HERE ON POOR LONESOME - FORLORN BOY — TUIS 1S THE CAR HE'S IN=CAR 423— OONT GET Too CLOSE, FRECKLES: STAND HE DOTTED LINE. ; T OUTTA Now 1 CAN SYMPATHIZE WITH HIM WOW WELL ) KNOW SHAT FEELING= THAT EMPTINESS OF WEART <= YO ALL AINT JOUING | OFF AT TIS END= | |ME, 1S YOU? MASTAR Boy! WAITLE HE SEES ME IN TH ig BACK To DE WATER TANK= A COWBOY TAES cosu! 1 Guess YOU'LL -HAVE TO DRAW UP ANOTHER. DEED, OW 1 WISH “THERE WAS SOMETHING ¥- COULD DO. to HELP HI dy Wii aia >. Lease A POWAKFUL Bic , FELLA-MOUSTACHE © ) WAN eres TE CLEAN CROSS HUIS FACEBI6 WAT~-AN! DE GUN DAT FELLA WAD!! WHoocee TAS THING owt! SAKA WoRKS|| OF TELLING METS we GOT MER PARCEL FROM WHAT Was THE [OER ) FORMA — THE |/JacKsSONVILLE ON M1! OSTRICH PLUME epee WAGON, MR. GU22LEM— Awan On [RUSH COWN HERE? /SAM PROMISED TA!] WHAT'LL I Co wit? SEND YA ARRIVED TODAN— GYPRESSMAN WILL GE HERE ANY (FER GOSH SAKES! SAM MUSTA SENT ALL TH’ PLUMES IN ELORIDA— BY GOLLY, You. CAN PICK OUT TH’ BEST ONE AN' THEN WE'LL PUT TH REST ON SALE — I'LL HAVE) (T OPEN IN @ MINUTE! wasn’t she? Yes! Nine yea ry a quilt! could not hurt Mom Ross by de-| And there was the hole in the rug— her now, when she had/the funny, flowered old Axminster serting begged the doctor for permission to|with its nap worn off—burned that act as nurse. And she would have}long ago when she and Sandy had to here, in this room, for the|locked themselves in to smoke cigar- five-room cottage had onlyjettes made of corn silks. lary Ross' two bedrooms, and the hospitable}Burns hadn’t that Sandy to love! would be outraged if she|But would Mary Burns care, having insist upon sleeping on the|today’s Sandy to adore? Ti room davenport. That would indy’s bed when he came back from New York, and he wi f "IN NEW YORK coming @| toilet articles for the frilly damsels, || most of whom were brought up on 9|five-cent laundry soap, but who now NEXT: A heart in torment. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) must have their bath salts chosen by ‘New York, May 23.—Many a fan-|“an artiste.” tastic job is created in Manhattan due to the various extravagances of the Park avenue, Fifth avenue "and the Riverside drive crew ofjrich Long’ Islan spende! th salts.” TITTLE JOE‘ rs. the new and swanky Park rves maintains a “mas- ol" ” hoss flesh’ to, good gecount, ‘+ Ray Bell, the ex-cowboy of rodeo |show fame, picks polo ponies for the h “polo set.” He maintains connections with an Ar- gentine stock farm where ponies are raised for polo purposes. Il is, in The fellow, an i ib at am ritay pertume eo pomp mee, in the class of the it, selects the various|a beautiful whoy tales. 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