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to marry me thought he didn't have q
chance in the world to cut loose.
That was some swell ride. We stopped
of at a couple of shops to start the
trousseau business on the right road, and
we had tea at one of the swell places
where they charge more for the holes
in the bread than l generally pay for
my beef-and, and then we went up to
Mrs. De Clusters Fifth avenue Floren-
time palace and began to talk of the seri-
GUS things of married life, which is to
say the clothes to be married in. ! had
grand time, sitting there in the six.
teenth century boudoir, with a seven
teenth century bedroom on one side and
Mrs. De Custer smoking a twentieth
century cigarette and me chewing good
old nineteenth century gum. l felt like
that guy Napoleon did when he stood in
front of the pyramids and said: Gee,
fellersl Look at all the centuries peekin'
at us!"
That was some afternoon, believe me |!
You wouldn't have thought l was a
plain stenog chinning with a swell social
dame When it comes to chewing the
rag about clothes a little redheaded pro-
Ietariat is right there with any high
lifer in the gilt-edge deck Clothes is
the great Jewelers., amt they? That
night was quiet days at Mrs. De Gus
ter's house; she didn't have anything on
hand but musicale, with all the swells
in town in the Elizabethan music room,
and as all my clothes was still ideas, and
as l didn't think the guests would take
me for swell dame if / went dressed
in nothing but ideas-they'd take me for
new artistic dancer, doing a spring
song-I didn't go. took half cord
of fashion papers and had good time,
up in my own room. When went to
sleep l was so blissful l dreamed of
dressmakers all night.
But the next morning l began to get
worried. l thought of poor old Perky
down at the Office and no little Suzanne
to take dictation if he wanted letter
pounded out, and then thought of him
putting an ad in the paper and of the
lot OF girls that would pile in there look
ing for my job. Say, l know what
comes up in the elevator when you ad-
vertise for a stenographer. I've went
up in the elevator with them. Gee, what
bunch! And l just knew Perky would
grab off the one with the hossy hair
and the peek-a-boo waist, and then be
in misery ever after. You know them
hossy-haired ones-look like queens and
spell like Andy Carnegie. They turn
out letters erased until they look like
Little Mamie's first composition after
she's got the blots scratched of. Say,
when l thought of Perky drawing one
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WHEN THE MOVIES CAME
TO STAY

spoke and the impression on Nsthaniel's
mind was very strong.
In the meantime Mrs. Robinson had
been getting acquainted with her neigh
bors in the town. Among her first
friends were some of the ''highbrows"
whose methods had called forth the dis
approval of the policeman and the gro
ceryman.
81 wish you would join the woman's 5
club" Nathaniel said to his mother one
day when she was talking about her
newly made friends. Mrs. Robinson
protested that the expense would be too
great, but the son was insistent and she
finally consented.
For a few weeks young Robinson put
off beginning the summer work which
his mother had expected he would un-
dertake. Instead, he went almost daily
to the city and spent much time in the
moving picture places. Occasionally he
went to other nearby suburbs which
were provided with moving-picture
shows. sometimes to watch the pictures,
sometimes to study the crowds as they
came and went and sometimes to ques-
ton the operators, directors, ushers and
ticket sellers. In the meantime, he kept
himself posted on the woman's club in
his home town. He listened intently to
his mothers last word about the pro-
ceedings of the meetings.
One day, after he had been carrying
on this campaign for a month, he told
his mother that he wanted to give a
little talk to the woman's club-the sub
iect of the talk to be one of great i'm
portance anent the question of civic bet
terment. Mrs. Robinson thought that
the question had something to do with
his legal studies and willingly, even
proudly, called the members of the club
to 4 meeting at her modest home.
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valid. Nathaniel was in his second year
at law school, and the outlook had
seemed pretty hopeless for the Robin
sons.
In this perplexity Mrs. Robinson had
insisted on selling the brownstone house
in the city in which they had lived for
a generation. With the proceeds she
bought the small suburban house in
which, by sailing close to the wind, she
hoped to pilot her family till Nathaniel
got his law practice established. Ma
thaniel might find something to do in
vacations. Mr.. Robinson might be able
to do little clerical work in his chair
and at worst she could keep boarders
sell cake and rolls or raise chickens
Such was the way Mrs. Robinson had
laid her plans.
1t was Saturday morning, at break
fast, few days after their arrival in
the new house that Mrs. Robinson ex-
pressed her enthusiastic approval of the
distinct moral tone of the town. Ma
thaniel had no law classes that morn
ing and so, still bearing in his mind the
impression of his mothers prejudice
against moving pictures, he started out
to reconnoiter.
"a pretty clean little town, this" he
observed to a policeman who was dis
playing his brass buttons on the main
street of the town. "Spotless Town
isn't in it."
The policeman looked unconvinced.
1t may be clean and it may be high
toned, but" There was an empha-
sis on the but" that indicated much.
you might just as easy try to amuse
yourself in cemetery. A lot of those
highbrow clubwomen have made up
their minds that no one has got right
to laugh out loud. If they do, why US
police has got to arrest them. If a
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doors closed against the pernicious in
Auence of moving pictures"
Nathaniel Robinson offered a mild
protest at the time. There is nothing
pernicious about moving pictures-any
more than there is about grand opera, |"
he said. "In fact, a good, well-venti-
lated moving-picture theater would be a
decided asset in a place like this" But
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Perky, but getting a divorce is as well
as having Caruso sing at tango tea
all the best families indulge Getting a
divorce is the favorite parlor trick and
most fashionable indoor sport OF the
upper classes. l won't disengage you,
Perky, but I'll give you a divorce"
So me and Perky are divorced at pres
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"My deah child, what do you mean? ?"
she says.
Say, don't worry" I says. I'm 60
ing TO try to be credit to you, that
all Us swells has got to be divorced
some time or go into the discard" I
says, "and, believe me! if l ever do get
married to Perky I'm not going to have
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@DBReezn 5uzAl9Re Byflis ParkefBmer

any unmarTying in the family. Tn go
ing to stick tight So Pm having the
divorce before marriage instead Of after.
Swell idea, amt it?"
'ReallyI" she says back. But per-
haps it is better so. Many of US are
happier in the marriages following the
divorces. / suppose the sum was satis-
factory"
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Sum-" I says. What sum-"
The slimony," she says. You ar.
ranged for a satisfactory sum-"
Say! what do you think of that? You
do have to be TO the manner born, don't
you? Low caste will show itself. won't
it? Ne thinking l was being a real swell
and then forgetting slimony!
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"rhe dicksnsi" I says. "And just
when, tool"
But Suzanne" he says. eve can't be
married"
IAN right then" / says, of a sudden,
if we can't be married, let's be di-
voreed. I'm not going to break per-
fectly good little old engagement.
Breaking engagements is bum business,
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Mrs. Robinson was firm in her prejudice
and went on talking about the manifold
advantages of the town they had
chosen for their home.
This conversation took place just a
little while after Mr.. Robinson. senior,
had lost out in business, following the
stroke that had left him a helpless In
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ent. He's got till the end of the week
before he's fred out Of this once, and
III stick while he's here, then maybe
well have to go separate ways, just as
if our divorce was a real Reno business
Well, say; maybe Mrs. De Custer
wasn't surprised when teiephoned up
and told her to put off ordering the
trousseau because / was divorced!
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Copyright. lsl4.)

STHERE isn't a single moving pic
i ture show in the place" This
was Mrs. Robinson's final word
in commendation of the suburban town
which she and her invalid husband and
her son, Nathaniel Robinson, had chosen
for their future home. She had been
alking to some members of the women's
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civic betterment society and she was full
of enthusiasm. There is a campaign
against the mosquito and the fly," she
had informed her husband and her son
at breakfast "the children are not al
lowed out alone after 9 O'Clock and the
women have such an influence with the
town council that they have kept the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12

save that the downfall of Robespierre
came so quickly that she was releas.
ed before many more red carts rum
bled their dismal way from the pris'
on to the scaffold.
A. this time Josephine met Bona
parte, who already was looked upon
as q man Of coming greatness. DIS
liking him at first, even ridiculing
him, she finally married the young
soldier Of fortune-younger than she
was. In 1896, two days after his mar.
rage, Bonaparte. nov commandment.
chief Of the army In Italy, left for
those fields, leaving his bride behind
to strengthen his political power In
France. This she did to a consider
able extent. and from then on Bona
parties fortunes were greatly further
ed by the fact that he possessed So
gracious q wife. During all their life
together she Influenced him for good.
Napoleon himself said of her, II con-
quer nations; Josephine conquers
hearts," ...
But rs he grew in power he lost
affection for his wife, and ambition
soon took the place of love. After
hotov o1on%od Cjrct Consul ho GROWN.
ed himself, in 1904, Emperor, and Jo-
sephine Empress OF France. This act,
which should have been the browning
point of her happiness, was In reality
but the beginning Of her great sor.
row. For the Emperor, Influenced
only by ambition, had determined to
link himself with kings, and in order
to do 30 1t first became necessary to
rid himself Of Josephine.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
LEAD 1894.
Officials Returns From Fifteen
Counties Filed With sscrs-
tary Of State.

With official returns in from fifteen
counties, no returns from one and in
complete returns from two, the total
vote for congress in the Second dis
trict is futile 7,4s2 and Young 1O,476.
These relative figures will not be chang
ed materially. Young's plurality will be
increased BY complete returns from
Barnes, and Griggs, while Mr.. futile
will increase his plurality slightly in
Stutsman county. The figures follow:
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
With the Photographers
Georgia democrats have elected

Georgia democrats have elected to
q county Office q democrat who has
been in his grave ten years. Moth
ing strange about that. Both parties
have the habit of electing men who
are ~pottering ABOUT to ave funeral
expenses.-New York Herald.
Col. Roosevelt's throat malady per
mits him to speak when he wants to
and to remain silent when silence
seems to be preferable.-St. Louis
GlObe-Democrat.
There is considerable dry humor"
among naval officers over the new
prohibition regime in the navy.-Min-
neapolis Journal.
They make wry faces at prohibit
ton in Canada for obvious reasons.
Rye Is q staple crop.-Brooklyn Ea-
gle.
Packers predict there will be an
early rise in the price Of meat. Why
predicty-St. Paul Dispatch.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
A Mirage.

A Mirage.
"And what is that little building
over there?" asked the visitor to
T0mpy's place.
THAT? Dh, my wife calls that the
garage" said Tompy.
"Oh-what is your carl" asked the
visitor.
"Oh. that's a mirage" said Tompy.
--Harper's Weekly.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
Motion Retarded.

Intoxicated Party-"Of'cer, will
you he kind nun to blindfold me 20
/ can't see those stop, look and list.
en- signs on the telegraph poles? It's
taken me half an hour to walk two
blocks tryin' to cooperate In this
safety business."-Buffalo express.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
Al unela'a.

Cissie-Why in the name Of good.
ness do you keep taking out your
watch? Have you a train to catch?
Tom-Eh?. Oh, no. The fact is |
haven't een it for q long time-lllus.
trated Eits.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
jndieationO.

For North Dakota: Unsettled
weather tonight and Sunday; proba-
bly, local showers; cooler In south
portion tonight.
ORRlS w. ROBERTS,
Section Director.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
First Official Returns On
Head Of State Ticket
Complete Returns From 80 Counties and Unofficial lncom
plete Figures From II Counties Give Hanna 4
Lead of 1917 Votes

Official returns from thirty-two coun.
ties and incomplete returns from seven.
teen give Governor Hanna 90 ,331 and
Burdick 20, O15, and Wishek II ,247
Hanna's majority is 1917.
Hellstrom's official vote in % coun.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12

It will be sometime before all the
official primary returns are In. The
Tribune publishes the first official re.
turns received In today's issue. From
time to time. as fast as they are re-
ceived, the Tribune will publish the
official returns. There is consider
able inquiry from our readers relative
to official figures and to comply with
this request We ire duplicating the
publication Of some Of the incomplete
returns published the day following
the primary.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
The tMicrobe Aae.

The old-fashtoned boy who used to
eat red ants spread on his breai an
butter now has a son who won't
touch a table knife until he knows
that 1t has been properly sterilised.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
The Weather

Bismarck, NJ. D., jury II, 1914.
Temperature, 300 a. m. yesterday, ~
Highest temperature yesterday :. 30
Lowest temperature yesterday -. 66
Precipitation last "A hours ...... W
Hikhest wind velocity and direc.
tion, yesterday ........ I'm. w.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
OLD STORY oREroLp.

81 EfNt
= Love is the greatest thing In the
world-the power that has moved
men and women to deeds both good
and evil. Certain 1t is that love has
been the motive for many tremendous
sacrifices made By both sexes. who
have considered no immolation too
great to bear for the sake Of those
they cherished.
We have only to turn to the pages
OF history to fnd them filled with in
stances where kings have endangered
their nations, queens have cast regal
rights aside and counted the cost but
little to pay for the sake Of q con-
Stunning passion. Down through the
ages into u own modern times
comes this theory that the world is
we'll lost for love, and today we find
men, and especially women, giving
up their all, and gladly, willingly,
~recklessly deyoting their lives to the
siren call Of Cupid.
A woman whose name is written
indelibly upon the pages Of history is
Josephine. famous not 90 much as q
queen Is she is as q wife whose love
was sacrificed r%uthlessly upon the al.
tar Of ambition. The story Of the
beautiful Creole who o from an oh.
scure position to grace one Of the
proudest thrones in Europe is q
chronicle not only Of pomp, power
and ambition, but Of love and Of sac
rince.
Josephine was born in Martinique
In 1868, the daughter of a Creole
planter in the West India Islands. q
beautiful dark-eyed willow girl, who
early In her life caught the fancy Of
the Comte de Beauharnais. This
fancy turned into love and the
French nobleman married the young
sCreole-she was only sixteen years
old-taking her to France with hin.
There they lived for a while, not alto.
sether happily. for Josephine, though
decidedly pretty, was young and un.
sophisticated in the was of the world
into which her husband introduced
her. and other women of more ma,
ture charms attracted the Counts
changing fancy. His indiscretions
were hagrant and, though Josephine
had borne him q ION and a daughter,
she separated from him, taking her
children with her. The troubles OF
the Revolution brought them together
and for awhile their home in Paris
became the resort Of all the best
minds In Paris, when the baleful pow
er Of R~obespierre descended upon i,
and sent the unfortunate Count and
his wife to prison. He lost his head
BY way Of the guillotine. Josephine
would undoubtedly have followed
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
BARNES HAS RESIGNED.

BARNES HAS RESIGNED.
It is refreshing to learn that c. E.
Barnes has resigned as deputy
sheriff. Burleigh county residents
resent the Barnes-Marti1eson affair,
but the continuation of this man in
ONCE as q deputy sheriff could not
by the very nature Of things be pro-
longed.
The resignation and the payment
OF . fine Of IS and costs in Police
Magistrate Casselman's court do
not dispense with the affair.
II reports are true Martineso1 Is
In q serious condition. The severity
of the attack AID the position once
held by Mr.. Barnes call for a search.
ing and rigorous probe Of this affair.
That Police Magistrate Casselman
should have imposed IS and costs 40
sufficient punishment for this das-
tardly attack upon a citizen Of Bur-
leigh county, calls into serious ques'
tion his ability to serve the commun-
ity as = police magistrate.
Let justice be swift, and complete.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
PhitaoonhY.

Al Phillipsburg philosopher is quot.
ed as saying: ut IL al right to pu:
your best foot forward, but for good,
ness sake don't forget to move the
other one once IL awhile ct least.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
NOR10N'S MAJORITY
IS NEARLY 1893.
Unofficial figures Seem TO Ildi-
cate This; Complete Returns
From Nv Counties.

Returns have been slowest coming in
from the Third district. Official figures
have been received by the secretary Of
state from but ten counties. The fig
ures which, follow are not indicative Of
the exact results. In these meager re-
turns Norton shows a plurality Of
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12

ties is 4,7O4 to knudson's 2 1886. 1t is
probable that complete returns will in
crease Hanna's majority by about 1 zoo
votes, 50 that his majority will be ap-
proximately 800.
The figures:
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12

There is no relation between the
day and the deed in the fact that
the Mexican elections are always held
on Sunday.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
SIEEN LEADS BY I,758
Official Returns From Thirty
Counties Give Him That
Over Thasalson.

Steen leads Tharalson BY 1883 in Of
fetal returns from thirty counties filed
with the secretary sof. state. Stems to-
tai vote in those counties is II, 2S2 as
against 1924 for Tharalson. The fig
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
4Al.DlN6 AHEAD 4,3Q9
oa'cial Returns From as coun,
ties Show Chief Justice 21,601
and Uhristisnson ~

One Of the surprises of the ~non-parti-
san judiciary election was the remark
able run made BY Christensen of
Towner for chief Justice. Official fig
ures from % counties and incomplete
returns: from one give Spalding a total
of 22,S91 and Christianson 10, 754, or
a plurality of 4,309 for Spalding. Con-
siderable interest attaches to this vote.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
Moro lmportantI

he-"Darling, refuse me, and l
shall never love another girl" She
(briskly)- What I want is . maA
who will promise me that II ! accept
him."-Judge.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
.llNDE IS Ear IN lEAl
omcial Returns From Thirty
Counties Give Him Lead
Over zugsr Of s,527.
Democrats

Official returns from thirty counties
give Linde 16, 1898 and Zuger 1871 or a
majority of 6y527. If the rest of the
returns keep this up Linde's majority
should reach nearly Is, 600. The figures
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
Easily Settled,

Hickville Postmaster discussing
affairs Of state)-''Now, what do you
think of our foreign relations, Ezry?'
Prominent Lounger (warmly)-I
think they should he barred out NV
this here country II they cant read
an write!"-Judge.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
Sad Sound.

First Working Girl-"Say, Name, I
heard an awful sad thing this morn.
Ing" Second Working Girl (wearily)
$50 did Tho alarm clock."-Life.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
HOW 70 KEEP UP WITH HISTORY
(rrnm tho Hartford Cnurantl

You are not up In American con-
temporaneous history unless you see
the New York Herald these days. Its
revelations Of the inside Of our Mex
lean policy are simply amazing. Any.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
First Official Returns on tho Late Primary Election
dRONNA WINS By 7,4l7
odlcial Returns From Thirty-Two
Counties Gives Him BIC
Margin.

Official returns from thirty-two u
ties filed with the secretary Of state give
Cronna 16, ga, Worst 9,227, Miller
g, $3.50 and Midtbo 1901. The figures
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-12
Reparation.

Il think, William, Ill ask those
new people next door to take dinner
with us tonight" What for?!'' well
the butcher, by mistake, left their
meat order here, and It seems only
lfair."-Life.