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blood. Some mystic faker of their own race had thrown them into a spasm of
 fear by telling them that it avs a "cun-
 jur" bag. prepared by . "Voodoo" .doct-
 or under African tribal authority. Fear and the Rema nticists.
 The romanticists have found in Fear
 a theme which holds and interests.
 Crime stories. detective stories. stories of mysteries. all run back to that foun- tain head of emotion, Fear. Perhaos three-fourths of the novels and stories appeals to that fascinating impulse which runs the Eamut from thrills to deadly horror. For the works of the novelists. terror is infinitely prefer \ able to boredom.
 Of course the love element more than any other single emotion. ani- mates the fiction of today, as 1t has done since Bocacio recorded the fuEt- tive Italian stories and paved the way tor the modern work Of fiction. And yet the subtle, novel fascination of Fear. either through the threatened separa- ton of the lovers, or by some ave- some obstacles, which they must over come to be reunited. is missing In but ! few of the schemes of things. coming l from the hand of the romantic writer. There have been two masters of the short story. Poe and De Maupssant. Poe was the originator and the Rreat- CT: De Maupassant was the powerful scholar at the feet of Poe. Both dealt l in the horrible and the grotesque, for In that they realized that their art most appealed to the minds of men The cold, creeping terror of The Black Cit" and '"rhe Murder on the Rur Morgue," Is surpassed by nothing ir living literature. No man may read De Maupssants horrible story of hit struggle to fight of nervous insanity lu nA What less picture of despair at the approach of an unseen but inevitable disaster Is drawn by Poe of the doomed manor house in "The Fall of the House of Usher" The spell of that story is the thrill of that one must fell, when he is traversinG at midniKht the hall of some
 house of mystery, when the
 cold wind in the tapestry might be ta-
 ken for the movement of ghostly ten
 ants disturbed.
 In the one field. where Fear and hor-
 TOT disported themselves at bidding
 the master of the short story. Foe was at the heighth of his greatest power
 Stevenson. whose art was as clear cut as a cameo, took an old
 Scotch tradition of the incarna-
 tion of the devil in a woman of the
 parish and weaved the simple folk lore
 tale into an enduring bit of literature.
 How compelling sn interest ts Steven
 sons recital of the piraticai brutality.
 with quick and hurried tragedies in
 Treasure Island" when Captain Sil
 yer and his men are at work. Sensi-
 tive. hopeful and gentle. Stevenson was
 nevertheless as delighted to show his
 skill with the terrible and grotesque
 as Poe or De Maupassant.
 What would 1t all prove should time
 be taken to show the shapes that Fear
 Is made ot assume in the masterpieces
 of the artists Of time? Nothing ex- cept that 1t would demonstrate that
 Fear ia the potent and primal impulse
 from which in his upward advance
 through the centuries, man has but
 partly grown away.
 And that Arch Fear the Black Camel
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modern pagan's contempt for death. To the Japanese trained in the ideals of the Samuarai, Hamlet's soliioquy in the face of death, ITO be or not to be- would be inexplicable. For the Japan ese. 1t is but the opening of door. the beginning of journey and so that he bears himself to the honor of his an- cestors. it matters not when he pushes open the door or gets forth on the Journey
 He never knew what fear was " Of many men has this been said; of no man has 1t been truly said. There have been, there are today, men who never felt a tremor in the face of phy- sical.. danger. To such a man danger comes but to nerve his arm and steel his soul. Like the orator, who in con- versation among his friends is haltinR and difficult of speech, but who be- comes as one Inspired when he is on his feet and facing his audience, the brave man of modest bearing, is cap able of the highest enterprise when spurred by danger and in the doing of his deeds not a never quivers nor an eye faiters though he stands with death face to face.
 And yet so complex. Is the mind of man, that this same hero tremblas when he walks under a ladder and feels an anguished horror when he is brought face to face with the number "13." Nor can men of his class. escape that stab of pain, which sudden ap. prehension for the welfare of loved one. sends like an electric shock. when for them some real or> fancied danger is suddenly seen.
 If he be of finer nature such a man has felt too, the overwhelming Af frfn -an apprehension which is some supernatural danger signal. all the more alarming for it's vagueness and whlch alarms but cannot arm him to ward off the danger. If there be any man who has missed the stroke of pain, which comes ofs such a premoni- tion, he Is most fortune. He Is most fortunate if he has missed the desolate and helpless pain of the fear. that about him or before him there is some domestic. financial or professional misfortune.
 Life knows no quicker and keener suffering than the primal dread of the Unknown.
 And after all no age is free from 1t Paul great preacher and reader of men that he was on the Athenian monument raised to the Unknown God" and his hearers. he reproachej. with the charge that he perceived that they were in all things superstitious
 Negroes who have in the face or death, swapped shot for shot when pis- tols were touching. and who have gone as fearlessly to their death on the gallows as though they went to sit at a meal. have qualked and prayed in the presence of a dirty little bag, filled with hair spiders and dried
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ny WILL T. sHEEHAN.

A harsh and brutal story two years 20 from the rough pen of Jack IoTl- Ion. took its theme from evolution as |aurht by scientist, advanced beyond heir time Before Adam" was the story |f the chase and capture of a young |emale. in a time representative of that |katus in the theory of evolution, which, Eot even Darwin has satisfactorily ex. open space in the line Of development from vegetable life to |nimal life upward to the high type of Dhan today. Darwin called the type Of Nhat hiatus. "the missing link"
 Writing as though it were the auto biography of the young animal who loved and chased the female, London kresented' as the unfolding of some hid len cell of memory, passed down in hysterieus fashion, through unnumber- d generations the story of the instinc- live attraction of two of this type when han was first making use of fire and |Fas first arming himself against his < &oes. The work is valuable only as |uthless bit of imagination. and yet ! he atmosphere of it is sufficient for |ts truth, as 1t is the atmosphere Of lear. There Is not in all it of scene [h which Fear Is not dominant. not a Ecene but in which the young animals re fleeing from danger seen and un- cen or fighting for their lives.
 The young animal who tells his Ettory through London's pen, primalbe- 'hg that he was demand his honor when |nother on taking another mate after he tragic death of his father, threw Ter young from the tree tops, to be rid sf them as encumbrances. Fear over thawods the whelp when he seeks ref Ige in a cliff with his kind. when they Ire beseiged by the Red Eye" the Smmunity's terror and bad men, Keen To drink their blood.
 Fear assumes a weird aspect, when |hey are hunted by the strange tribes .rsen across the river, tribe advance though to know fire and the use of bows and arowa In the daily things kf life there is terror-the journey Ggom tree top to tree top, the perilous Ikin back and forth across the river, 'n eluding enemies and in the contIn- E al hunte by animal for animal.
 The story harmonizes with that |cientific theory, which holds that the Nightmare common to all mankind, in which the sleeper dreams that he falls rom great height, is a primal im-
 Pulese' of the brain dating back to the
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The Impulse Of Fear

time in which our ancestors lived In trees to the accampainment of tragic falls. No man has missed that shudder bringing dream of drop and of fall- ing from some lofty height.
 The First Impulse.
 We may class London's story as q piece of fiction, belonging to the Jules Verne type. but We must nevertheless regard Fear as the primal inpuiese. the human motive, so great that 1t runs thread like. through mankind's life and climb upward through the ages. Love. as It is recognized today Is young when put side by side with that other great impulse of nature. Fear. The time Is not so remote, that scieutise grcpe and guess to find it. In which the fear stricken male would not willingly choke his mate and throw her body to his foes to'fwin respite for his own life.
 From so low a state as that man. kind. guided by Christianity has lifted himself, but he has yet to conquer of Fear.
 Was this the face which caused the topless towers of Ilaium to burn?' To this burst of song a poet was moved when he looked upon a cameo of Hel- en, for whose sake Greece and Troy warred to the death. The Trojan War and its romantic cause was but an incident In the story of man. For after all Fear has more than any other impulse guid- ed Destiny and made History. Mega. lively, In this Fear had done it's work, but 1t has done 1t none the less sure. ly. The conquered nations of time have been those nations, which bore the larger burden of Fear and the conquer ing nations have been those which had the least of such s burden.
 The Roman soldier and his short sword conquered the world of his day. He met his foe breast to breast and they who feared him fell back at. the sound of his march. .-
 The English flag floats in every quarter of the globe. because Eng lands soldiers and sailors have been firm in purpose and instinctive in courage.
 China winch should be the strong est nation of the world Is it's weak est. a jelly like giant, fear stricken and prostrate. The shadow of fear is forever over that unhappy land. The temples of China. to the minds of her people, are inhabited by strange and horrible shapes. The hiliside though spring and nature cover it with a yer dant carpet. interwoven with flowers, is horrible sthe home and refuge of a dragon. To this day warning tribes fight each other with pictured dragons, tom toms and noisy shouts.
 The Contempt of Death.
 What meat hath the Japanese Caesar fed upon that he has grown so great ' Thfs-this Is his greatness as fighting n1an---no man that walks the earth holds death 90 cheaply as he l There ris barbaric splendid in this
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of the Arabs which knesis once at every door--the Pale Horse which comes for his rider and goes not witn. out hirn--will humanity ever learn 70 bear Deaths coming and look him in the fact unafraid? There. may oe an ultimate stage in which Death shall wear no terrors for men. but such stage is not now foreseen or expected' Death to man in the aggresete IS as friRhtful today as it was when ADei quailed at the murder he saw In ms brothers eye.
 have been who refused to be master ed by the Arch Fear-who have taunt- ed and defied it. Man. as weak as ne may be rises to no greater plane than when he gazes into the palltd face or death and feels no fear Pope stood upon that plane when he voiced tnr great consoling strength of religion. in his "Dying Christian to his soul "oh, grave. where Is thy victory, Oh, Death where Is thy sting The cry of pagan. but none the less steadfast is embraced tn those stirring lines of Henley.
 'out of the darkness which encom-
 passes me,
 Black as the pit from pole to pole,
 
 I think whatever gods there DC. For my unconquered soul.
 No matter how strait the gate.
 How charged with punishment Inc
 scroll, I am master of my fate:
 I am Captain of my Soul.
 To greater heights. than all these, Tennyson rose when born of his genius there came forth that mighty poem ol consolation, Crossing the Bar. It le to an oppressed soul--not a defiance of death. but the splendid swell or nine organ, the music of which in- spired and comforting. falls ike benediction in the bringing of tha, 'peace which passeth all understand ing" .. NDot>nrt.
 And those beautiful lines Of hooer' Browning, "Prospice," written when ne contefnpJated death. almost with rap ture. what a magnificent fntroduc- tio,, to death are they. It is as though q Traveller. reaching the last stage oI his tourney stops upon hill, ana standing there he sees the goal or hls endeavors hidden in purpiish na1e beautiful and mysterious -- standing there enraptured with the sight or tne rInInown there comee floating to nim fine clear silver call of a ousle tha' sings to him of welcome and home
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The historic buildings of the Usul- line Convent in New Orleans. are to be sacrificed to levee protection for the city. .-.-
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That Preniai Emotion of Man, which Has So Guided Destiny, and From which Mankind iu Ills ourney Up- ward Has Not Left Behind Him
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What meat hath the Japanese Caesar fed upon that he has grown so greet1
 Thfs--this is his greatness as fighting n1an--no man that walks the earth holds death SO cheaply as he. There r is barbaric splendid in this
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-01
Somewhat Mixed.

Margaret Durham was the latest ar
rival at Miss Simmons select boarding
school, and, being pretty and well
dressed, she was popular
Would she be an usher at the month
~ musicale? Margaret was horribly
shy. She never could do it-oh, never!
But the chosen five elected her for the
sixth, SO the evening found her a per-
feet flutter Of white frills and pink
bows (this was the pink musicale)
awaiting to receive the early Corners.
Each of the hardened five bore for
ward an imposing auditor, and Mar
garet found herself inquiring Of very
ancient and elegant old gentleman In a
voice scarcely audible, "Sir, shall
show you to a seat?"
''What, what, whatY' demanded the
elderly party irascibly, holding his
hand to his ear.
"Sir," screamed the flustered novice,
shall sew you to a sheet?"
Then five lace handkerchiefs were
crammed into five tittering mouths,
while Miss Margaret bolted from the
scene Of her discontinue, and the five
were left to do the honors.-Harper's
Weekly.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-01
ANECDOTES or PROCTOR.
How the Vermont Senator Got Even
With Congressman Capron.

How the Vermont Senator Got Even
With Congressman capron.
Redfield Proctor. United States sena-
tor from Vermont, who recently died
at Washington, was not only d sue
cessful fisherman, but could tell
good story, as is shown by one he told
at fish and game league meeting at
Fort Frederick one summer. Congress
man Capron of Rhode Island was one
of the guests and had succeeded in
spinning a yarn that brought a good
laugh at the expense Of the Vermont
senator.
Unfortunately for the Rhode Island
er, Senator Proctor had the last,
chance. He said no sportsman worthy
Of the name would tell fish story
that was not true. He happened to
know of one good fish story in which
the visitor figured.
He proceeded to tell how in Rhode
Island there were two fish and game
clubs. Congressman Capron belonged
to one of them. The record maintain
ed by Capron's club was the constant
surprise and envy of the members of
the other club, the secret of which was
not discovered until some time after
ward.
One day neighbor came rushing
into the Capron clubhouse and wanted
to use the scales. He said there was
a new baby over at his house and
there was controversy over its
weight. The nurse was sure it was
ten FOUNDER. Capron hardly wanted
to lend the scales. but could not well
refuse, SO the baby was weighed.
"And what do you think the baby
figured on Capron's fish scales p
smiled the senator. "Well, 1t tipped the
beam at an even forty-seven pounds.
Senator Proctor liked to tell of an
experience he had some time ago while
making tour of the west He was
accompanied by Mrs. Proctor and
some fifteen or twenty other men and
women. The party made a stop at
Salt Lake City, and the senator and
his wife went for. a walk about the
place, half dozen ladies following
them. That morning large party OF
tourists from the east had arrived
there, and some Of them caught sight
Of Mr.. Proctor and his friends. Said
one of the tourists in stage whisper:
There's an old Mormon out for q
walk with his wives. wonder ifs he
has any more"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-01
Some knowledge Profound.

Nobody knows how noble it is to
know. But if you do not know, and
nobody knows that you do not know,
and you know that nobody knows that
you don't know, 1t is very pleasant to
know that they don't know that you
don't know that they don't know that
you don't know. No man knows how
much he really knows until he knows
how much other people know that he
doesn't know. To know thyself'' is
really all there is worth knowing, and
since no man really knows himself and
there is no other knowledge worth
knowing and we do not know the only
thing worth knowing we really know
nothing. But to know that we know
nothing is knowledge greater than the
knowledge that some people think they
have when they really know nothing
and think they know something.
Therefore it is greater to know moth
ing and know it than to think we know
something when we know nothing. So
if you know nothing and you think you
do, and know nothing and don't think
I do, know more than you. 1t is
therefore we'll that we know that we
don't know.-Exchange.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-01
MONOGRAM VEST.
It's Color 10 q Cross Between London
Fog and soiled Mortar.

It's Color 10 Cross Between London
Fog and soiled Mortar.
The monogram waistcoat has arrived
and been introduced at Chicago by
Harry Avery. board Of trade operator.
Its design resembles the plat Of new
suburb. It's color is cross between a
London fog and slightly soilpd mortar.
The buttons are miniature photo
graphs of woman who ia represented
to be the most beautiful in Brazil
South America, not Indiana). Mr..
Avery does not know the. woman's
name, but John 81. Wilkins, another
board Of trade man, who dared Mr..
Avery to wear it, asserted that the
senorita in question simply owns Rio
de Janeiro.
The monogram, done in fancy scroll
of black tape, is about two inches
above the lower left pocket. In order
to exhibit the initials 1t LIS necessary to
keep the left hand in the trousers
pocket. Mr.. Avery says that he be-
lieves it will become fad. 81
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-01
A Breakfast In slberi..

II spent two weeks In the hut Of a
Siberian savage a prisoner to the black
FROST" said an explorer. "Shall I ever
forget those two weeks? No, no! A
Siberian breakfast comes to my mind.
We took 1t lying on our stomachs round
kind Of pie board, which was our ta-
BILE. The first dish was frozen weeds
dipped in seal oil and served with
large chunks Of fresh blubber. The
second dish was raw walrus. The
third dish was walrus hide, an inch
thick and hairy. You swallowed it
whole, for it was too tough to chew.
Dinner was breakfast over again plus
a hot meat, seal or reindeer, after the
hide course. Supper consisted of cold
blubber and cold hide served with seal
oil. Don't wrinkle your nose and shud-
der. In that intense cold, the Their
mometer never above 40 degrees below
zero, / liked that greasy food. You
should have seen me munching away
at great soft yellow balls Of fat sim
liar to duck fat'
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-01
JOY OVER TRUANT's RETURN.
colIinwood Schoolgirl Surprised Fa-
Their Searching For Her Body,

Their Searching For Her Body.
Like returning from the dead, Helen
Marks surprised her parents by slip
ping up behind her father and throw
ing her arms about his neck while he
was prodding among the ruins Of the
Lake View school at Collinwood, O..
for her body. The girl was sent to
school as usual the morning the fear.
full disaster occurred. Instead she
played truant and visited an aunt in
the country and knew nothing of the
fire until the next day.
Not returning to her parents, they
supposed she had persisted. The ia
Their could not find among the bodies
recovered one he could identity as that
of his daughter. In despair he was
prodding about the ruins when the girl
threw her arms about him and cried,
"Guess who am, papap'
Mr.. Marks was nearly overcome with
Joy and emotion.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-01
New Plan For coaIina at Sea.

: W. W. McLaren of Ensley, Ala, an
electrician, has submitted to the secre-
tary Of the navy new scheme for
coaling ships at sea. McLaren intends
to have captive balloons attached to
two ships, one of which is to be
naval collier and the other the vessel
to be coaled. The balloon is to be filed
with the coal from the collier and then
moved over to the other ship by paying
out the line from the collier and haul
Ing In on the other vessel. When the
car of the captive balloon is over the
vessel to be coaled, flap in the bottom
Of the balloon car is to be opened, and
the load of coal slides down into the
bunkers. Mr.. McLaren says that his
method is easier and quicker than the
present way.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-01

The city council has designated the
following as the polling places in the
respective wards or precincts:
First Ward-High school building.
Second Ward-North store room in
Grand Pacific Hotel building facing
west on Fourth street north of Broad
way.
Third Ward-Residence of Mrs. Au-
gusta Little, 806 Seventh street.
Fourth Ward = Robidou building,
southwest corner iSxth and Front
streets.
Fifth Ward-City hall, north side Of
Main street, between Third and
Fourth streets, over French &
Welch's store.
Sixth Ward - Smiths blacksmith
shop, northeast corner Seventh street
and Broadway.
The polls will be open at s o'clock
a. m. and will remain open continu-
ously until o'clock p. m.
E. e. Young,
City Auditor.
Dated Bismarck, N. D., April 16,
1908.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-01
Charmiess Music.

The man had just reached home aft
er a heavy days work at the Office
and was resting himself in his easy
chair for a few minutes before par
taking of ten. Little Jim, his youngest
son, had climbed upon the paternal
knee and was relating to his f1ther
the events Of the day. "And, oh, Ia
ther," said the boy, won't you show
me your fiddle some day."
II have no fiddle, my boy" answered
the fond parent.
"Oh, yes, you have, papa" returned
the boy, for heard mamma telling
Mrs. Strongwill this afternoon that
ever since she married you you had
played second fiddler