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The Elbert County tribune., 1917-07-13
FOURTH EPISODE
Double Crossed

Though not sound disturbed the
rooms tranquility, the tenant of its
silk-clad couch was not asleep. And
yet she was by no means awake. Nor
NAL youth had had Its fill of slumber (;
now she rested In a delicious state of
drowsiness, less than sleep. little II
any less than dream. vaguely aware
of her identity and of the familiar
gloom of her bedchamber, but still with
brain bemused by the glamour of that
romance which colored her every
thought were she waking or sleeping
who for the first time loved and who
knew her love was not wasted.
The little French gilt travelling clock
upon her dressing table chimed once,
softly and sweetly.
simultaneously the door to the nd
Joining drawing room was opened just
far enough to frame the amiable fea-
lures of her maid.
The girl in sleepy voice inquired
the hour.
Informed that 1t was Just half after
eleven she sat up smartly with little
exclamation of dismay:
And Captain Parr calling at one to
take me to lunch at Claremont :"
Immediately Patrin slipped from be-
tween the sheets and into a gossamer
garment so exquisite that it were sheer
profanity to name 1t bathrobe.
So it was nearly midday before, once
more abed but now wide awake, and
all a-tingle with the vitality stimu-
lated by a cold plunge, she disposed
of a poor apology for a breakfast, and
skinned through her mornings mail.
In it was a note from Rodney's
mother, Mrs. Gilbert Wrenn.
Her complaints were gentle but in
cessant. They must be answered.
Patria selected telegraph form and
wrote swiftly:
Mrs Gilbert Wrenn.
Shadow Lawn"-Newport.
Do not be impatient with me-you've no
Idea what intermlnably stupid busi-
ness taking formal possession of ones
own property can be. don't stop on in
this sizzling city because 1 like it-and If
nothing prevents. shall come home tomor-
row night by the Fall River boat
Patria paused and frowned little.
thoughtfully. Then with shrug and
move that meant she intended to have
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to journey to Newport, Parr was ar
rested on a warrant charging him with
assault and battery on the person of
one Jules Edouard.
Protestntions and credentials Mike
availed Captain Parr nothing. He wns
without choice other than to accom-
pany the detectives who served the
warrant. And by the time brief talk
with magistrate had set him free
(the complainant in the case being no.
where to be found) he had missed his
boat.
He did not for an instant doubt his
arrest had been deliberately planned
in order to prevent his accompanying
Miss Claiming.
But 1t was too late to do more than
send her wireless explaining what
had detained him, promising to be with
her in Newport the next morning, and
warning her to be on her guard.
Patria wandered uneasily, unhapplly,
about the decks long after the major
ity of passengers had sought their
staterooms.
Even after midnight Patria fingered
on deck. rather than return to the
stuffiness of her stateroom.
Resting her forearm on the rail, she
stared bllndly into the clear darkness
of moonlight night.
A light football started Patrla out
of the somberest of reveries.
Without the least warning thick
soft cloth. like heavy wooden band
age, enveloped Patria's head.
She essayed to scream, and the
folds of cloth settled between her
teeth, well-righ choking her.
Other hands seized her legs. She
fought desperately, In blind panic. to
no avail. Relentlessly she was lifted
and thrown bodily athwart the rail.
Then she was free of the hands,
but hurting down the side of the
ship.
Shouting waters leaped to receive
her. She went under. came up stran-
Cling. then let the waves have
their will of her while she fought to
free her head of the bandage.
By the time this had been accom-
plished she was far astern.
In the stateroom adjoining that oc.
cupied by Fanny Adair, woman In
nurses garb consulted wrist watch.
then nodded brusquely to a girl who
stood supporting herself with both
hands on the foot of a brass bed
stead-a girl whose eyes, watching
the nurse. were as the eyes of Patria
Claiming, wide with fright. even as the
rest of her was Patria Charming to this
life.
you'd best shift now" said the
nurse with a nod toward the forward
stateroom. "In two minutes more"--
she grinned grimly-"I'm going to
whoop and carry on about your sui
cidet"
With a short, dry sasp of terror
and disgust. the girl who looked like
Patria tore herself away from the bed
and reeled out to the deck.
The door to the next stateroom was
open. The light within sIlhouetted
the form of Mrs. Adair-Fanny with
CHASTITY fnce and every limb trem-
bling beneath her frivolous silken
negllgee.
Blindly the girl stumbled in and shut
the door and put her back to 1t.
For a moment the two stared at
each other with eyes of horror.
Then Fanny gasped one word:
Elaine -
The other Interrupted with passion
ate protest Informing her In tremulous
accents:
Don't call me Elaine Don't you
dare. I'm Patria Channing-dont
you understand. I'm Parria Claiming
now? We-we're both guilty-guilty
as sln--and you've got to stand by
mew
(END OF FOURTH EPISoDE.)
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-07-13
THE CAST.
SYNOPSIS.

On her twenty-first birthday Patria
Charming becomes sole owner of Chan
nings, Inc. Americas greatest chain of
arms and ammunition plants. and stimuli
taneously sole executrix of 800, 600 900
proTenstors t9 cambsf tbs nsaoi neI patrlotiG ri
inherent in ''unpreparedness"- which
cause Patria dedicates her life Japanese
secret agents directed by Baron Huroki
OF Tokyo try to steal the Claiming Trust.
With the aid of Captain Parr OF the Unit
ed States secret service. Patria illustrates
all their efforts.
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her own way irrespective of her chap
eron's approval, she added single
line:
Shall bring Fanny Adair with me-
Patria.
Giving Anne the telegram for dis
patch without delay, Patria permitted
her thoughts briefly to linger upon the
young woman whom she chad just
named.
Fanny Adair's maiden name was her
spain title ta her place in the sun
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had elected to disappear In much the
same manner. She had decamped, lsav-
ing no address.
1t was not until late the following
afternoon that he found cause to re
wise this opinion.
Later while on the point of leaving
his rooma to board the Sound steamer
on which Patria and Mrs. Adair were
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-07-13
ASSASS SINS.

Dawn, formless sheen of gray,
trembled in the skies when Captain
Parr sought his bed.
He spent hours after leaving Patria
at her hotel in the care of Mrs. Admir-
(whose agitation seemed natural
enough), in cross-examining the chauf-
feur of the kldnaper's car, and with
plain-clothes men searching n cheap
Forty-seventh street hotel for two
guests who were not there.
The sum of his investigations was as
follows: On the words of half dozen
creditable witnesses the woman who
danced nightly under the name of
"Mademoiselle elaine" was strikingly
like Miss Patrla Claiming. The wom-
an had a dancing partner known as
Monsieur Edouard." The two resided
at the same theatrical hotel. Recent
ly Edouard bad been drinking rather
too much. and Elaine had broken with
him because of that fact. He had per-
sisted, however, In haunting the scene
of her nightly exhibitions. making him.
self general nuisance there. On this
particular night he had raised violert
objection to Elaine's conversing with
two gentlemen of foreign habit, both
unknown to deponents. To get rid of
him Elaine had taken the foreign
seeming gentlemen to her dressing
room. In her absence Patria had en-
tered the restaurant. In his befud-
died state, 1t was assumed, Edouard
had mistaken her for Elaine and had
determined to kidnap her. His plan
frustrated by PARIS interference. he
had returned to the hotel only long
enough TO pack handbag and change
his clothes. Curiously enough Elaine
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04
REPRasALs.

ReprisaIs have come at last. and
the war is due to enter a stage Of
even greater bitterness.
At safe distance of 5000 to 1000
miles, II is easy to point to the fair
play route. II hostile airships were
sailing over Fargo almost nightly,
dropping bombs on our schools and
hospitals. wrecking homes and kill
ing women and children. we might
find II less easy to smugly counsel
warfare according to accepted meth
DDS.
England has been long suffering.
Rules of sportsmanship and fair
play have been drilled into the youth
of Great Britain on the cricket and
football fields. Things no fellow
can do" constitute a rigid code OF
ethics. English soldiers have shut
their Jaws a little tighter after each
raid. and gone after Fritz" a little
harder.
But the growing demand for re-
prisals will not be downed. The
hand Of the government has been
forced, and evidently with great
reluctance, it is about to enter upon
reprisals. We will give 1t back to
them with compound interest" is the
promise Of Lloyd George.
Germany will find the air raids
another boomerang. The attacks on
London have served no military pur-
pose, unless 1t was the purpose of
keeping at home some airplanes that
might be needed at the front. On
the other hand they have aroused
England to the war as nothing else
could have done. Instead Of terror
izing the people, the raids have
filled them with a cold, relentless
rage against the Hun and his meth
DDS.
And now Germany is to get a taste
OF her own medicine-is already
getting it. The cities Of Germany
will be easier prey than those of
England. There is no channel and
no North Sea to be crossed. Air
planes can start from a hundred
points behind the French and British
lines. The biggest German cities are
within easy flight. and Germany is
due to have her first taste of war
within her own borders.
Germany has been hitting below
the belt ever since the war began,
and the Allies have taken the blows
whimpering, and have fought
back fairly. But the limit Of endur-
ance has been reached. Germany
will learn the meaning Of "frightful-
ness. The war is reaching the death
srapple stage.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04
Land WON'T BE
WORTH 40 CENTS
So Testifies North Dakota
Engineer In Drainage
Suits At st. Paul

Bismarck, n. D., Oct. 4.-That is
IL Minnesota is allowed to pursue the
drainage program which it has COM
menced, lands south Of Wahpeton in
Richland county will not be worth
40 cents an acre was the testimony
Of Dean Shanahan, North Dakota's
expert engineer, in the Dakota Min
nesota drainage suits now being
heard before Referee Douglass in st.
Paul, advises Assistant Atty. Gen. HI.
A. Bronson, who was home yesterday
between trains, returning last night
to the gopher capital.
Shanahan testified that Minnesota's
drainage project had destroyed two
natural reservoirs, and that as a
result flood waters which had Seen
detained and allowed to drain off
gradually now are dumped in a heap
on Richland county, much Of whose
finest farm land is under water.
Minnesota is presenting its expert
testimony this week, and South Da-
kota will next have an inning.
Mr.. Bronson anticipates that the
hearing will consume three weeks
more. #s.."
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freedom are Of Anglo-Saxon origin
and that nearly one-han OF our
population Is OF Anglo-Saxon blood.
The president OF the organization
was undoubtedly correct in declar-
ing at its eighth national conven-
ton that ''the National German
American Alliance. properly under
stood, is a part OF the German idea
throughout the world" The mis-
conception of American character
and ideals exhibited by it's officers
L. typically Prussian: the alliances
propaganda on behalf OF the Ger
man language press, on behalf of the
teaching of German in the public
schools, and for the revision OF our
school books in the interest Of
Prussian megalomania all smack
strongly of the Fan German kultur
methods which were employed in
Bohemia and the German por-
tions of Austria Hungary to further
the contamination of the scheme Of
Mittel- Europa; the DOGGY OF jealous,
envious and unfriendly elements in
our population which it has Haunted
before German-Americaan is close
ly allied to the thought which for
generation the German government
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04
HAS NOT YET APoLoGIzED

The local La Toilette organ
has neither retracted nor apol-
ogized for its insult to the peo-
pie of Fargo.
On Tuesday morning in an
nouncing it's support of Senator
La Toilette, the La Toilette
Townley daily said: at is an
attempt to do on a national
scale what the people of Fargo
have seen attempted again and
again, namely, to use war
patriotism for base and person
al ends.
1t is an implied insult to ev-
cry man and woman in Fargo
who has been active in Red
Cross or Liberty Loan work, and
the La Toilette organ should
either name the men or women,
or retract it's statement and
apologize to the people of
Fargo.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04
Years Work at Public Library
Opens With Good Circulation

The United States government, alb
solutely the most authoritative spon-
sor for any work Ii undertakes, is
putting out a number OF war thrift
bulletins and pamphlets. These PAM
phlets are being distributed by the
public libraries, and copies of them
may be found on our display ledge.
Cards advertising the next issue Of
Liberty bonds will also be found in
every book issued during October.
The colored poster of the flag and
the oath of allegiance which adorns
the bulletin board Is the gift Of DIR.
Stearns.
With great effort we have refrain
ed until this minute from mention
ing the fall house cleaning which has
been going on In the library. The
patrons of the past week, however,
can testify that 1t has been far
reaching, searching out the weak
places like an east wind. The steel
ceilings are painted, the walls re-
decorated, the wood work cleaned.
There are also a dozen new chairs
for the reading rooms, and a new
work desk back Of the loan desk.
When some attention has been given
to the floors and the radiators, the
furnishing up for the year win be
complete.
WINNIE BUCKLIN, Librarian.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04
Other Mems Views
An Editorial That May or May Not
Square With The Forums
Opinions.

Golfers Weekly: The other day
Tiger" Clemenceau, French senator
and editor and ex-prime minister,
was talking to American soldiers in
France. In one Of his sentences he
compared the landing of an Ameri-
can army on French soil with the
landing Of the Pilgrim Fathers in
America.
Now" was his idea. 1.-The children
OF the Pilgrim Fathers are returning
to the Old World, disinterestedly to
fight for the liberty of France and
for democracy the world over"
We liked NJ. Clemenceaus speech
when we read it, and we still do like
it-and our war really is a war for
democracy-but we don't like all the
implications that some folks may
draw from such a speech as the
Tigers. In various quarters we
have heard people say that we are
fighting for France, or that we are
fighting for Britain-in other words,
that we are fighting somebody eIse's
battle. This is rubbish, for the Uni
ted States is not fighting Frances
battle, or Belgium's battle, but fight
ing-or getting ready to fght-its
own battle. In the meantime, France
is fighting our war for us on land,
emies in port so that they cannot
raid our harbors and shipping. We
have a good navy Ourselves, and
even without the British navy we
should give the Germans some hard
battles at sea; but the point Ameri-
cans must realize Is that we stayed
out Of this war about as long as we
could manage-in spite Of Germany's
murder of Americans at sea. in
spite of German plots against us at
home and in Mexico, in spite II
broken pledges-and now that we
are in it, for us to talk about our
part as being a self sacrificing or
generous part smacks somewhat of
kind of cant which nobody loves
but the born canteT.
And to that sort of cant we prefer
what Secretary Lane. told the Ma
tional Chamber of Commerce, as
sembled at Atlantic City. I'VE make
war in France" said Secretary
Lane, that we may not be compell-
ed to do battle here. Let Germany
have Canada or Mexico or even
Cuba, and we would go to our daily
work like the Pilgrim Fathers with
our guns in our hands 1t may be
hard that the clerk must be taken
from his desk, the lawyer from his
case, the fireman from his engine,
the farmer from his Elow. the me-
chanic from his lathe-but If they
did not go now, they and their sons,
other clerks and lawyers and farm
ers and mechanics, would live one
long dread day of fear. This is our
war;"
And what we Americans do well 20
remember in October 1917, is that
We are mighty lucky to have loyal
allies fighting our battles while we
learn how.
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has industriousIy instilled In the
minds Of school children-the idea OF
their fatherland being surrounded by
hostile nations which Germany must
prepare some day to fight.
More than this: we cannot forget
that an ineffaceable part Of German
thought in the world is the ravish-
ment OF Belgium and France. the
Lusitania horror, and the countless
crimes of German militarism on land
and sea. 1t must fill every loyal citi-
zen with Indignation that an or
ganization which uses the name
American should claim kinship with
this German idea and what 1t rep
resents.
And yet this organization pro-
fesses to speak for the entire Ger
man element in the United Statesl
Every loyal citizen Of German
descent owes it to himself to make
1t plain that the alliance neither
represents him nor speaks for him.
1t Is this agency, more than any
other, that is responsible for the iso-
Iation of which many German
Americans are complaining. They
can end that isolation by repudiating
its cause.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04

Library hours: a. m. to 3 p.
m. daily except Sundays, when
the reading room is open from
to 6 D. m. The children's room
Is open every afternoon from
3:3O to $3.50. and every Saturday
afternoon from 1880 to $3.50.
The statistics for the month OF
September show a satisfactory OPEN
Ing up Of the years work. There were
/ Dos books loaned from the juvenile
department, and 2,512 from the
adults. The total, $3.50, is sos more
than were issued during September
of last year, and is a gain OF 2s4
over last month. There were III
new borrowers added to the register
during September.
The books and magazines which
have been collected during the past
six weeks for the war camps were
shipped out on Saturday. There were
1884 books and 4,O4s magazines, and
they filled Al boxes. They were sent
to the Chicago station, where they
will be pocketed and put in shape
for the shelves of the cantonment
libraries. Compared with the number
sent out from larger places, Fargo
has come forward in this matter In
a praiseworthy manner and has rea-
son to be very proud of her record.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04
The Duty Of German
Americans To Them
selves
(sy eustavus ohIinssr.)

Read German papers only: sup
port German schools; after Ger
many has come out victorious in
this war we German Americans will
be hated for fifty years." exclaimed
one Of the leaders of the National
German American Alliance in a
speech delivered at a time when the
controversy with Germany over u
boat methods was acute.
Neither the so-called "Nativists,"
anglo americans" nor any other
section Of our population has ever
encouraged racial antagonism; ii is
the National German American AL
lance that has sought to create this
cleavage by concentrating ali those
Of German descent within well de-
fined racial lines.
THE Alliance Is waging war
against Anglo axonisn, declared
one Of the vice. presidents of the or
ganiZation in its official Bulletin.
Surely a large undertaking when we
remember that all our ideals Of per-
sonal liberty, individual rights and
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04
The ForumWdntS Letters From
The Boys in Uncle SdnlS SerUice


What about the boys In ssrv.
iee7
They are writing interesting
letters TO the home folks, and
their friends.
Why not let your neiahbers
read what your boy Is doing?
How he is enjoying himself
What does he think OF army
life?
The Forum wants 70 print any.
thing of interest that is avail.
able in the letters from the boys.
information Of military char.
acter, of course, will be eIininat-
ed, so don't be afraid to mail the
entire letter 20 The Forum.
Good pointa-points Of general
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04
AMEN TO THIS!

81 have been here eighteen
months, and I want to see the
Job finished and finished right,
but when it is over / never want
to see a military uniform again.
The foregoing was in substance, an
extract from a letter written by a
Canadian soldier and quoted by
Tracy Bangs in his speech at the
Liberty Loan luncheon yesterday.
It expresses the hope and earnest
purpose of every good American.
Amen to 1t.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04
ENROLMENT AT u"
WILL BEGIN OCT. s
President Money Will Give Both
Welcome and Farewell Address
Glasses to Start Oct. 10.

Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. Am
address of welcome and farewell will
be given by Pres. Frank L. McVey
at the opening OF the North Dakota
university Oct. 10.
Dean r. ]. Babcock, who will be
the acting president OF the uni
versity, will take up his duties in the
presidents ONCE after Oct. is. when
President McVey leaves.
Enrolment will begin Oct. and
class work will start two days later.
Officials say there will be about a 10
per cent decrease in attendance due
to the number of upper classmen who
have entered the war.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04
HERE'S CHANCE FOR
LONELY MAN-CHlCAGO
GIRL WANTS HUSBAND.

Bismarck, N. D., Oct. 4. - Chris
Martinson, Bismarck's big chief OF
police, appeared in a new role as an
aid to Dan Cupid yesterday when he
received the following interesting let
ter: kind Sir: Would you please
be so kind as to have this ad. insert
ed in your city's papers, and ! viii
thank you so much. / am an, honest
working girl lonely i'm a big city, age
S5 years, 5 feet, . inches tall, and
weigh 100 pounds. / would like to
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04

complish and what Germany spent
forty years in doing. Mistakes and
blunders are inevitable. but the rec
ord of actual accomplishment is a
staggering one. In any event, criti-
cism is the one commodity in which
there is no shortage.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04

interest, only-ars wanted for
publication. But anything that
relates TO your boy is Of interest
to everybody theae days.
Send your Soldier Letters" TO
The Forum. They will be re-
turned 20 you, and il will be a
splendid way Of letting folks
know what the lads are doinu.
The Forums "SoIdier Letter"
feature will be under way seen.
Watch for IL, and help make IL q
success by sending letters from
the boys.
Address letters to the "scIdier
Letter Editor land besure and en-. =
close your own address so there
may be no delay in returning let
tiers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04
Do OUR SHARE FIRST.

Let's be honest with our,
selves in this Liberty Loan cam
paign.
Let us not ask how many
bonds the other fellow is buy
ing, but let us ask if we are buy
ing our share.
If the man in the trenches
waited to see if the fellow next
to him started before he went
cover the top" there would
never be a charge.
If 81" wait to see if my
neighbor buys a bond, before
81" buy one, the bonds won t
be sold.
And once again, BUYING A
BOND is NOT A SACRIFICE.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-04
Sour Stomach.

Eat slowly, masticate your food
thoroughly, abstain from meat for a
few days and in most cases the sour
stomach will disappear. If it does
not, take one of Chamberlain's Tab
lets Immediately after supper. Red
meats are most likely to cause sour
stomach and you may find 1t best
to cut them out.-Adv.