Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1922, Page 8

s THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NATURDAY, JUNE. 24, 1922, By Arthur B. Reeve. One of The Star’s Week-End Fiction Series. Each story complete i n three installments. in M. kitchen by Edward, hix valet. to fight off il health with the aid of doctor, his diet. kitchen and his young wife. Cralg ‘gets Bdwarl to watch every one that Pitts is_fornd murdered his comes to the house, note has come fo Mra. questions Mrs. Pitts. Kenuedy mukes experl ments with the idea that some poison was |y, put in the food prepared in his own dlet hitchen by Sam, the murdered chef. Edward brings him the fragments of the note to Mrs. Pitts, which he puts together. It reads: have succeeded in haviug Tbornton declared (then gome words were missing) and confined in an fostitution where an do no further tarm.” Kennedy findu in a private sanitarinm that there is @ Mr. Thornton. a drug fiend, who keeps cailing for ““Minna." He goes to Mrs. Pitts and tells her that he knows what she i3 conceallng. Sbe begs him for mercy. HE note of appeal in her tone was powerful, but I could not 80 readily shake off my first suspicions of the woman. Whether or not she convinced Ken- nedy, he did not show. “I was only a young girl when I met Mr. Thornton.” she raced on. “I was not yet ecighteen when we were married. Too late, I found out the curse of his life—and of mine. He was a drug flend. From the very first life with him was insup- portable. I stood it as long as 1 could, but when he beat me, because he had no money to buy drugs, 1 left him. I gave myself up to my career on the stage. Later I heard that he was dead—a suicide. I worked, day and night, slaved and rose in the pro- fession—until, at last, I met Mr. Pitts.” She paused, and it was evident that it was with a struggle that she could talk so. “Three months after 1 was mar- ried te him, ornton suddenly re- appeared, from the dead it seemed to me. He did not want me back. No, indeed. All he wanted was money. I gave him money, my own money, for I made a great deal in my stage days. But his demands increased. To silence him I have paid him thou- sands. He squandered them faster than ever. And finally, when it be- came unbearable, 1 appealed to a friend. That triend has now suc- ceeded in placing this man quietly in a sanitarium for the insane. “And the murder of the chef?” shot out Kennedy. She looked from one to the other of us in alarm. “Before God, I know no more of that than does Mr. Pitts.” ‘Was she telling the truth. Would she stop at anything to avold the scandal and disgrace of the charge of bigamy? Was there not some- thing still that she was concealing? She tock refuge in the last resort— tears. Encouraging as it was to have made such progress, it did not seem to me that we were much nearer, after all, to the solution of the mys- tery. Kennedy, as usual, had noth- ing to say until he was absolutely sure of his ground. He spent the greater part of the next day hard at work over the minute investigations of his laboratory, leaving me to ar- range the details of a meeting he planned for that night. There wers present Mr. and Mrs. Pitts, the former in charge of Dr. Lord. ‘The valet, Edward, was also there, and in a neighboring room was Thornton in charge of two nurses from the sani- tarium. Thornton was a sad wreck of a man now, whatever he might have been when his blackmail furnished him ‘with an unlimited supply of his favorite drugs. “Let us go back to the very start of the case,” began Kennedy, when we had §ll assembled, “‘the murder of the chef, am.” It seemed that the mere sound of his voice electrified his little audlence. I fancled a shudder passed over the slight form of Mrs. Pitts, as she must have realized that this was the point where Kennedy had left off in his questioning her the night before. “There is.” he went on slowly, “a blood test so delicate that one might almost say that he could identify a eriminal by his very blood crystals— the finger-prints, so to speak, of his blood. It was by means of these ‘hemo- globin clues,’ if I may call them so, that I _was able to get on the right trail. For the fact is that a man’s blood is not like that of any other living creature. Blood of different men, of men and women, differ. I believe in time we shall be able to refine this test to tell the exact indlvidual, too. “What {s this principal? It is that the hemoglobin or red coloring matter of the blood forms crystals. That has long been known, but working on this fact Dr. Reichert and Prof. Brown of the University of Pennsylvania have made some wonderful dizcoveries, “We could distinguish human from animal blood before, 1t is true. But the discovery of these two scientists takes us much further. By means of bl crystals we can distingulsh the blood of man from that of animals and in addi- tion that of white men from that of negroes and other races. It is often the only way of differentiating between various kinds of blood. “The varlations in_ crystals in the blood are in part of form and in part ths molecular structure, the latter be- ing discovered only by means of the poiarizing microscope. A blood-crvstal is only one two-thousand-two-hundred- and-fittieth of an Inch in length and one nine-thovsandths of an inch In breadth. And vyet, minute as these crystals are. this discovery is Im- mense medico-legal importance. Crime mav now be traced hy binod-crystals.’” He displayed on his table a number of enlarged micro-photographs. Some were labeled. “Characteriatic ervetals of white man's blood"”: others “Crystal- lization of negro blood”: still others, “Rlood-crystals of the cat.” “I have here” he resumed, after we had all examined the photographs and had seen that there was indeed a vast amount of difference, “three character- istic kinds of crystals, all of which I found In the various spots in the kitchen of Mr. Pitts. There were three kinds of blood, by the Infalliable Reichert test.” T had been prepared for his dis- covery of two kinds, but three height- ened ‘the mystery still more. “There was only a very little of the blood which was that of the faithful, unfortunate Sam, the negro chef,” Kennedy went on. “A little more, found far from his body, I8 that of a white person. But most of it Is not human blood at all. It was the blood of a cat.” The revelation was startling. Before any of us could ask, he hastened to explain. “It was piaced there by some one who wished to exaggerate the strug- gle in order to dlvert suspicion. That person had, indeed, been wounded slightly, but wished it to appear that the wounds were ve-y serious. The fact of the matter Is that the carving knife i3 spotted deeply with blood, but it Is not human blood. It Is the blood of a eat. A few years ago even a sclentific detective woula have concluded that a flerce hand-to-hand struggle had been waged and that the murderer was, perhaps, fatally wounded. Now, an. cther conclusion stands, faillbly by this Relchert . The murderer was wounded, but not badly. That person went out of a room and returned later, probably with a can of animal blood, aprinkied it about to ive the appearance of a struggle, per- fiabn ‘thought of preparing in this way bR 0f ®elf Aufanee T that latter was the case, this Reichert test com- destroys it, clever though it » one wpoke, but the mame thought was openly in sl sur minde. V';!hn was this wounded crimined” 1 maked myself the usual quer: e lawyer 1 the detectives of ‘ho » Pin gurentns I wa Uil & woma oould 1|his unnatural eyes now gleamin by 8o great exposure, yet be so solicl- tous for him as she had been and then at the same time be plotting against l‘?m, I gave it up, determining to let ennedy unravel it in his own way. Craig evidently had the same thought in his mind, however, for he continued : ‘Was it a woman who killed the chef? No, for the third specimen of blood, at of the white person, was the blood of a man; not of a woman.” Pitts had been following closely, “You sald he was wounded, you r member,” he interrupted, as If cast- ing about in his mind to recall some one who bore a recent wound. “Per- haps it was not a bad wound, but it Wwas a wound, nevertheless, and some one must have seen it, must know about it. It i8 not three days.” Kennedy shook his head. It was :el:t:lnl that had bothered him a great “As to the wounds” he added in a measured tone, “although thig oc- curred scarcoly three days ago, there is no person even remotely suspected of the crime who can be said to bear on his hand or face others than old scars of wounds.” He paused. Then he shot out in quick staccato, “Did you ever hear o: Dr. Carrel's most recent discovery of accelerating the healing of S0 that those which under circumstances might take ten days to heal might be healed ™ twenty-four hours?” Rapidly, now, he sketched the theory. ~ “If the factors that bring about the multiplication of cells and the growth of tissues were discov- ered, Dr. Carrel sald to himself, it would perhaps become possible to hasten artificially the process of re- pair of the body. Aseptic woun could probably be made to cicatrise more rapidly. If the rate of repara- tion of tissue were hastened only ten times, a skin wound would -heal In less than twenty-four hours and 3 fracture of the leg in four or five days. “For five years Dr. Carrel has been studying the subject, applying vari- ous extracts to wounded tissues. All of them increased the growth of con- nective tissue, but the degree of ac- celeration varied greatly. In some cases it was as high as forty times the normal. Dr. Carrel's dream of ten times the normal was exceeded by himself.” ‘Astounded as we were by this reve- lation. Kennedy did not seem to con- sider it as important as one that he was now hastening to show us. He took a few cublc centimeters of some oulture which he had been preparing, placed 1t in a tube and poured in eight or ten drops of sulphuric.acid. He shook it. “I have here a culture from some of the food that 1 found was being or had been prepured for Mr, Pitts. It was in the ice box.” Then he took another tube. *“This,” he remarked, “is a one-to-one-thou- sand solution of sodium nitrite.” He held it up carefully and poured three or four cubic centimeters of it into_the first tube so that it ran carefully down the side in a manner such_as to form a sharp line of con- tact between the heavier culture with l}m acid and the lighter nitrite solu- tion. “You see,” he sald, “the reaction I8 very clear-cut if you do it this way. The ordinary method in the labora- tory and the textbooks is crude and uncertain.” “What is it asked Pitts eagerly. leaning forward with unwonted strength and noting the pink color that appeared at the junction of the two liquids, contrasting sharply with the portions above and below. “The ring or contact test for Indol" Kennedy replled, with evident satis- taction. ‘“When the acid and the nitrites ars mixed the color reaction is unsatisfactory. The natural yel- low tint masks that pink tint, or sometimes causes it to disappear, if the tube is shaken. But this is sim- ple, clear, delicate —unescapable. There was (ndol in that food of yours, Mr. Pitts.” “Indol?” repeated Pitts. “Indol?” repeated Pitts. “Is” explained Kennedy, “a chemi- cal compound—one of the toxins se- creted by {ntestinal bacteria and re- sponsible for many of the symptoms of senility. It used to be thought that large doses of indol might be consumed with little or no effect on normal man, but now we know that headache, insomnia, confusion, irri- tability, decreased ' activity of the cells and intoxication are possible from it. Comparatively small doses over a long time produce changes in organs that lead to serious results. “It 1s,” went on Kennedy, as the full horror of the thing sank into our minds, “the indol- and phenol- producing bacteria which are the un- desirable citizens of the body, while the lactic-acid-producing merms check the production of indol and phenol. In my tests here today, I linjected four one-hundredths of a grain or indol into a guinea pig. The animal had sclerosis or harden- ing of the aorta. The liver, kidneys and supra-renals were affected, and there was a hardening of the brain. In short, there were all the symptoms of old age.” . We sat aghast. Indol! What black magic was this? Who put it In.the food? “It" is present,” continued Craig, “in much larger quantities than all the Metchnikoff germs could neu- tralize. What the chef was ordered to put into the food to benefit you, Mr. Pitts, was rendered valueless, and a.deadly poison was added by what another—" 2 Minna Pitts had been clutching for support at the arms of her chair |as Kennedy proceeded. She now ;l’;rew herself at the feet of Emery Ptts. “Forgive me,” she sobbed. “I can stand . it no longer. I had tried to keep this thing about Thornton from you. I have tried to make you happy and well—oh—tried so hard, so faith- fully. Yet that old skeleton of my past which I thought was buried would not stay burled. I have . bought Thornton off again and again, with money—my money—only to find him threatening again. But about this other thing, this poison, I am innocent, and I believe Thornton is gt Craig lald a gentle hand on her lips. She rose wlldly and faced him in passionate appeal. “Who—who 15 this Thornton?” de- manded Emery Pitts. Quickly, delicately, sparing her as much as he could, Craig hurried over our experiences. “He is in the next room,” Cralg went on, then facing Pitts, added: “With you allve, Emery Pitts, this blackmail of your wife might have gone on, although there was always the danger that you might hear of it—and do as I see you have alveady done—forgive, and plan to right the unfortunate mistake. But with you dead, this Thornton, or rather some one using him, might take away i in your estate, at a word. The law, forgive as you woul as if dazed. ““Who was caught in your kitchen, Mr. Pitts, and, to escape detection, killed your faithful chef and cov. ered his own traces so cleverly,” knew about the fatal properties of indol? Wh willing _to forego a One-hundre ousand-daliar prize in a fortune of OK“l‘n‘lf' ennedy =~ paused, then fini with Irrestibiy Aramatio togte. 0 “Who elne ‘but the man who held o many hundreds of th o-dnte doctor who Ituted an elixir of death at night for the elixir of 1} lnr"vnu by him In the Lord ~ Kepoodx hod mewmt guiediy or your heirs-at-law, would never | foot. x Life’s Darkest Moment. R0 | 2 7 B, B &> D) ey SSS8 ™ cA GUR-RUL C-CALLED TME A-A=A KE EATER. = v I | NS FAL ~TH - THAT — Coryrighe, 1982, . 7. Weber Jor BEDTIME Wood Mouse Lessons. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. His place 1n life he best will earn Who doth .each daily lesson learn. “—Whitefoot the Wood Mouse. The four children of Whitefoot the Wood Mouse were no longer babies. The time had come for them to begin to venture out into the Great World. Like all healthy little folks, they were full of mischiet and delighted to play. But Whitefoot and Mrs. Whitefoot knew that it was time for them to go to school. That is, it was time for them to learn certain things very necessary for a young Wood Mouse to know if he wanted to grow up. So Whitefoot started in to teach them thelr first lessons, and what do you think the first one was? It was fear. Yes, sir, it was fear. At first the youngsters were not at all afraid. In all their short lives they never had had a fright. They didn't know what fear was. When they came out of their home to make their first very short journey out in the Great World they were filled with wonder at everything they saw, but they were not afraid. You see they didn't know enough to be afraid. So the first thing they had to be taught was fear. The more timid a Wood Mouse is the longer he is likely to live. “Now, .childr said Whitefoot, very gravely. “You follow me and do ‘exactly what I do. Before We “NOW, CHILDREN,” SAID WHITE- FOOT, VERY GRAVELY, “YOU FOLLOW ME AND DO EXACTLY WHAT I DO.” % start oft I will tell you some things that you should know. In the first place, the Great World Is filled with enem always seeking a Wood use.” - 'What for?” asked one of the chil- n. "“To eat,” replied Whitefoot so sol- omnly, that each little Wood Mouse shivered clear to the tip of his tafl. “Why should they want to eat us?” another asked. ecause by certaln people a Wood Mouse is considered the finest eating to be found,"” replied Whitefoot. “There .are enemies who will hunt a long, long ‘time and_walt very, very patiently to catch a Wood Mouse.” “Who are these dreadful enemies?” a third younster asked. ‘Whitefoot stroked his whiskers thoughtfully for a reply. At last he spoke, -“I'think,” said he, “I will tell you firat of the enemies to be watched out for in the daytime. To begin with, there are the members of the Hawk family.” “What is a Hawk?' piped up the from Minna Pitts her whole interest | smallest of the children. “It Is a great bird,” replied White- “There are many members of the family, but they are all alike in Pitts, long polsoned by the subtle | their love for a ‘Wood Mouse dinner. microbic polson, stared at Kelneflyl'rhey have very wonderful ay:u. They can see from a great distance. Some of them sit.in the .tops of tall trees and watch. When they see a Mouse they swoop down with great speed td seize that Mouse in terrible claws. It takes a quick-moving Mou escape them. - Sometimes they to drop down right out of ‘the — e ward the door. It was ynnecessary. Dr. Lord was cornered and knew fit. He made no fight. In fact, instantly his keen mind was busy outlining his in eourt, Inf on the con- testimony hired experts. murmured Pitts, falling usted by the excitement, “Minna—forgive? ve? The only 1 11 be This is the fourteenth of a s by experts of the United States Star is publishing weekly. The c Saturday. One out of every five children in the country is undernourished, according to the best standards avatlable at the present time. The majority of these poorly nourished children are below welght, some as much as 20 per cent. Taelr flesh is flabby and their entire system is in such condition that it has little resistance to disease. A relatively few children are very much overweight. During the last two years thousands of school children have been welghed and measured under the superlvsion of state and national health authorities Investigations have brought out some surprising facts regarding the condition of the children of our country. Reason for Underweight. In one typical midwestern community about three thousand school children were weighed and measured by repre- sentatives of the United States public health service, and approximately 50 cent found to be noticeably underweight. The percentage of underwelght in the rious school districts were compared, and, to the surprise of the teachers and parents, the highest percentage of un- derwelght was found in a school where practically all the children came from well-to-do homes. This showed that there was some cause aside from the economic one. Investigations were carried on to dis- cover, if possible, why these children were underweight. 1t was found by questioning of the children that the ma- jority had plenty of spending money, With very little supervision as to how this money was spent. Being in a con- venient neighborhood, many went to the moving picture show or other amuse- ments practically every evening. As a result, they seldom went to bed before 11 and so were unable to obtain the ten hours’ sieep needed by every school child before time to awaken in the morning. Without Appetite. On the following day they arose tired and slecp-hungry, With no ap- petite ‘for breakfast. . Many went to school without breakfast, others with only a cup of coffee and a hot biscuit. Before noon they naturally became ' over the Balkans and when the lib-} very hungry, and so, having plenty of money, they stopped in at the store on their way home and purchased candy or pastry, which satisfied thelr appetite, so that by the time they reached home they had no desire for the nourishing. meal. that awalited them. The same thing occurred after school, so that many children went through the entire day without one wholesome meal, although there was i plenty at home. Every child, to keep well, needs well regulated meals, so planned that some time during the day the child obtains all the élements so essential to health and growth. Milk Canmot Be Replaced. Milk is the one food of childhood which cannot be replaced by other foods. Every child should have from one to two pints of milk daily. Be- sides this” he needs cereal in the morning and g to supply nece: tial to growth and development, now known as vitamines. One g or a slice of meat once a day, with fruit for dessert, completes the food re- quirement of the child. Furthermore, food is not the only A —ee You must always be watching for Hawks in the daytime. “Then there is another big fellow,” continued Whitefoot. “He is black and he is called Blacky the Crow. He is not nearly as big as the Hawks and he doesn't spend much time in hunting for us. But if he should ! happen to see one of you by chance, he would be very likely to try to catch you. Then there is Buster Bear.. He is a terrible big fellow.” * “Is he as big as you?' asked the smallest one. ‘Whitefoot just had to laugh. He was tickled that any one, even one of his own children, should think him blg. “Yes,” said he, “he is as big as L. In fact, he is a thousand times big- ser. 1s's0 big that I would hard- 1y make one of his toes” *Oh-0-0-0 cried the four little Mice toether, and their eyes grew round with wonder and opened very wide. “Yes,” continued Whitefoot, “he is a great glant and you never know when he may come along. He hunts by day and night both. claws can tear an old stump to plece: or dig you out of a hole in the - ground. ~But he | can ses himr co a3 dan| as a Hawk." & 1038, by T, W, Burgeead I],TTLESTOIQES| HOW TO PREVENT DISEASE eries of fifteen articles, prepared public health service, which The oncluding article will appear next NUTRITION IN CHILDREN. cause of undernourishment. Sleep 18 essential to growth and every child |needs, "at least, ten hours' sleep at night. He needs fresh air day and | night and & moderate amount of out- | door play. | But even with sufficient sleep, all his proper food and well regulated | health habits, he probably will not | become well and strong unless he is free from physical defects that :handicap his growth, such as bad ltceth, adenotds and enlarged tonsils. Defective eyesight also affects the nutrition through the nervous sys- tem. Every child should have a com- plete physical examination once a year, and any defects found should Dbe corrected, leaving tha child free to gain turough well regulated food and health habits. DECLINE IN BIRTH RATE ALARMS MONTENEGRO | Government Offers Premiums to l Mothers for Bearing of Male Children. GETTINJE, Montenegro, June 24.— | in the birth rate of Montenegro, due to the loss during the war of so many of the “Black mountal; fighting men. The government is offering premiums |to mothers who bear male children. The females now greatly outnumber the males. The incentives offered by the gov- ernment to mothers of male children ! have resulted In pathetic appeals from the untutored peasant women to the American Red Cr nu them “some medicien to make a boy." In Montenegro, boys are considered much more valuable than girls, and the constant prayer of the mountain dweller is that she may be blessed ‘Wl(h a male child. This disparity in llhe sexes is largely the outgrowth of the days when Turkey held dominion erty-loving Montenegrins had an ever-present need of men to defend :the homeland. |, In Montenegro, the women do all the work, the men considering man- jual labor undignified. They feel it thelr chief duty to carry firearms and swords, talk politics, and prepare for the next war. MORPHINISM HELD MAIN CAUSE OF CRIMINALITY Municipal Court Medical Director Says Few Alcoholics Turn to Drug Habit. CHICAGO, June 24.—A cure of morphinism would decrease crimi- nality, according to C. Edoua: doz, medical director of the munic! pal court of Boston. “Morphinism, in & majority of our morphine cases, is the main determining cause of crimi- nality,” Mr. Sandoz declared in a re- port published in the Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminality. He gave the propor- tlon of arrests of morphinists for vio- lation of the drug law to arrests of morphinists for other causes as one to three and one-tenth, “Weaning is possible In practically every case.. We have no medical in- stitutions in which addicts without means are kept long enough to have a’'chance to be ‘cured.’ Under these conditions a sentence of several months, the longer the better, is the hest thing that can happen to them. There 18 need of special itutions. i 'In spite of the widely spread be- lief. that many alcoholics would take to morphine after prohibition, I have not yet seen such a case. “The remedy can be summed up in the simple formula: ‘ontral- the drug, control the addict.’” —_— PROGRAM AT HOSPITAL. Ell Brown and Hershal Kapl thirteen and fourteen years old, spectively, furnished the weekly tertainment for the convalescents at St. Ellzabeth’s Hoepital yesterday afternoon at 12:30 o clock. The pro- gram consisted of ral dance nus bers and songs by the children. Yi terday's entertalnment was one of the regular Friday afternoon affairs, which the veterans’ bureau 't-l.:- hospital uces fer the r service i i 1 { senator, | INNORTH DAKOTA Non-Partisan - Fight -Dulls National Issues in Prj- mary Coniest. By the Assoclated Press. BISMARCK, N. D. June 24.—With party lines broken and disregarded, North Dakota s approaching its state- wide primary June 28 with the interest centered In the struggle between the present administration and the Non- Partisan League for the control of the state government. Gov. R. A. Nestos, the first governor In the histary of the United States to be elected in a recall campaign, s heading the combination of republicans and democrats aligned against the league. The latter is mar- shaling its forces under the name of re- publican, the democratic members of the league signing up as republicans for the purposes of the primary. The primary is strictly a North Da- kota affair. “While a candidate for United States senator is to be elected, the league and anti-league battle en- ters into this and the selection of the senator is one of the queerest angles ever presented to the people of a state. Lynn J. Frasier, recalled governor, is the candidate for_ the Non-Partisan League. Porter J. McCumber is a can- didate to succeed himself, and Ormsby McHarg of Jamestown, a former pri- vate secretary of Senator McCumber, is also a candidate. No Party Col According to political observers, the primary will not give a line upon the trend of national feeling. Conditions politically, they contend, are too cha- otic, the paity label too easily changed, for any stamp of pro or anti to be de- clared from the result. Something of the tangled conditions can be guessed from the fact that the names of the same men appear on petitions of candi- dates named for democratic and repub- lican offices. No alignment has yet been made in this potpourri of politics stamping one side or the other as car- rying the banner of progress, immo- bility or reaction. Back of all these conditions trall the years in which North Dakota has been the experimental ground for economic theories—theories which needed a po- litical party label for functioning—and atill farther back are the years in which North Dakota was attempting to align itself under the progressive banner, up- held at that time by its near-native son, | Theodore Roosevelt. 1 Six Different Elements. Under these conditions six different | elements entered into the campaign.; The elements, each one paramount to some certain group or alignment or| section follow: { (1) Interested In the state ticket and the return of Gov. R. A. Nestos ta the position he has filled since No- | vember 28 last. This element has no candidate for the senatorship. _ (2) The Non-Partisan League, with| its members signirg up as republi ars, its ticket headed b: Frasier as candidate for and with a comp s ticket, headed by B. F. Baker of Glen- burn, a farmer, for governor. (3)' Democrats, supporting J. F. T.| 0'Connor for United States senator and a complete state ticket. (4) Porter J. McCumber, senator, ardently supported by former stel-| warts, with followers in both the re- publican and Non-partisan camps. Fear Bi-Partisam Move. (5)_ Protest against the purpose of the democrats to align with tae In- dependent republicans foliowing the primary upon certain candidates from each ticket. (6) Protest in srepublican ranks against the industrial experiments the state has been trying. The preliminary campaign, up to the time of final filing for office, was a con- test between the independent republi- can and the McCumber forces. The in- dependents attempted to force the sena- tor and his immediate followers to ally themselves with the independents againat the Non-Partisan League. This was met by the equally_insistent demand of the supporters of McCumber that the inde- pendents aily themselves with the sena- tor regardless of the league question. Both sides failed in this effort, although some independent candidates have an- nounced that they personally will vote for McCumber. The third man in the race for senator, Ormsby McHarg of Jamestown, iS re- garded as an unknown quantity. Since fis return to the state, less than a year ago, which accounts for his inability to vote In the primary, he has aligned him- self with the Independents. He is a former private secretary to Senator Me- Cumber and has been absent from North Delkota for some years. Seek Key Positfons. Gov. Nestos is leading a state ticket There has been an alarming decrease [on which George Shafer of Watford City is the candidate for attorney general and Joseph A. Kitchen is asking renomina- tion as commissioner of agriculture and labor. These three positions form the industrial commission, whica has con- trol of the large business interests of the state. The league's candidates are B. F. Baker of Glenberg, for governor; Peter | Garberg of Hettinger, for attorney gen- | eral, and W. J. Church of York, for | commissoiner of agricuiture and labor. Baker and Church are farmers, former | members of the North DaKota senate and familiar with the work of the state. | ‘Several independent candldates are in the fleld, but the only one who is con- sidered by politicians to have much of & chance is Stver Serumgard of Devil's Lake, candidate for commissioner of agriculture and labor. It is contended hat he is taking votes from both sides e e More miles of rallroad are being! abandoned than are being built, ac-| cording to figures compiled by the Tit for Tat. ERRIAM Lindsay, with a dashing new hat pulled bel- ligently over her angry brows, sat bolt upright in her suburban train. Across the aisle from her sat her blond hus- band, even angrier than she was, as he pretended to be immersed in his evening paper. “IU's 8o unutterably silly of him.” she thought deflantly, “to be so ridiculously jealous of me that he can’t even Eee me with an- other man without suspeciing that I am on the verge of eloping.” John had no coherent thoughts. Just a sort of jumble of emotions that hinted—“she cannot possibly love me or she'd have more respect for my wishes. She flirts arcund with anybody, young or old, who will dance with her or buy her bonbons. I'm glad I dumped that Gresham's candy box into the gutter. She may have been gadding around with him all the afternoon. She ought to have been home with the youngsters. She will never, never try to settle down!” “If he dosen’t stop grumping I shan’t explain to him that I'd only met Paul Gresham a few minutes be- fore,” Merriam was deciding. “If he wants to believe all that he looks as though believed, I might just as well g0 anywhere 1 please and have all the fun I want. I get blamed for it whether I do it or not. And to think that he threw all those spiffy looking lollipops into the street. Oh me, oh my, it used to be I had the temper of the family, but now it's getting to be Johney." Through sheer restlessness she opened her purse, gazed at her per- turbed oountenance in the wee mir- ror that was under the top, dabbed a mite of powder on her charming lit- tle nose and, somewhat mollified the altogether satisfactory new bon- net, unknit her scowling brows. Whereupon her John, covertly watching her, thought: “She’'s a frivolous, silly little thing at heart! I'm a fool to care—to let her hurt me so.” They had reached the stage of waliting for the other one to speak drst as they plodded along the dusty road toward the pumpkin shell. Tho twins dashed out to welcome them rapturously. Susan Sue had bathed them both and put spicky-span yellow linen rompers on them. Dicky, with his red curles still glistening from a wet oomb, threw both arms around his mother's knees, almost up- setting her. “Dear, ‘dear Merry!” he crowed with delight. *“What a nice, funny bat you have!” Ricky, her straight hair bobbed at a most fascinating angle, held up both arms for John to life her up to his shoulder. he chanted. “What did you bring us, Men‘)’?‘" The Wife Who Wouldn't Settle Down! A Sequel to “Brides Will Be Brides” By Lucille Van Slyke. | meen” you myself today | be so heedless of know exactly what I think about this ""ledel'fll-m'l jaws shut in a grim “I had a great big box of lollipops.” she answered viclously, “but daddy dropped them In the gutter..But don't cry,” she added hastily. “Merry will take you to the village tomorrow to buy some big fat ones.” She paid Susan Sue for her day's mending, waved the dear old soul a brisk good-bye, changed from her street clothes to a kitchen pinafore and sullenly cooked John's supper while that young gentleman refereed the twins' evening pillow fight. She had chops and creamed potatoes and salad and coffee waliting for him when he came downstairs, but she was still too angry to think of eating with him. She would not even sit down in the dining room, but bustled about the kitchen noisily scouring her arch enemy, the frylng pan. A trifle mollifled by food, John tamped tobacco Into his pipe, picked up his plates and leaned against the kitchen door. “Got anything sweet—cake or any- thing?” he broke their siege of silence awkwardly. Merriam whirled upon him, pent-up anger boiling over. “All the sweet I had was that big boxful of lollipope for the kiddies that you threw away.” “Sorry,” he apclogized. “Didn't know that was for the youngsters: thought it was candy that idiot had bought for you.” “Even if it had been,” she retorted stormily, “you had no right to behave like that—or treat me like that™ “Merriam,” he glowered at her. ‘aren’t you ever going to get wise to the fact that I simply see red when I realize how perfectly idiotic it is for a woman who has been married as long as you have, who has two her children, to go traipsing about with any lovesick college boy who wants 7 If 1 hadn't to dangle at her heel I wouldn't ossible for you to my wishes. You have belleved it Gresham and you ought to know what a dangerous sort of chap he is after your former experiences with Oh stop | 3 'This is such a childish old squabble and ve gone through it so many times that 1 almost know it by heart® About here is where you always ex- pect that 1 am going to begin to wheedle you back into good humor. Well, this time we'll vary the monot- ony a little—you can be the one to do the coaxing.” A sudden whimsical thought siruck her. “It just occurs | to me, Mister John Munro Lind=ay, to | ask what you were doing in town on an afternoon when you were sup- posed to be at the factory, eh? How would you like to have to explain a: apologize for every move ¥ou made (Oentinued in Monday's Star.) “ozvright, 1822) TAXIS! man we're glad to 25¢ first 3 mile! 10c each additional 1/ mile! CALLA United States Interstate Commerce Commission. employ. The New Taxi Service Company, Inc. SAFEST WAY “Aren’t they the nifty little cars? 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