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The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-12-19

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Of the mechanism.
Eugene himself, as he came up the
cement path to the house, was q fig-
ure OF the new era which was in time
to be 80 disastrous to stiff hats and
skirted coats; and his appearance af-
forded debonair contrast to that Of
the queer-looking duck capering at the
Anderson ball in an old dress coat.
and next day chugging up National
avenue through the snow in his night
mare of a sewing machine. Eugene
this afternoon was richly clad in new
outdoor mode: his motoring coat was
soft gray fur; his cap and gloves were
of gray suede. and though Lucy's hand
may have shown itself In the selection
of these high garnitures, he wore them
easily. even with becoming hint Of
jauntiness. Some change might be
seen In his face, too, for a successful
man Is seldom to be mistaken, espe-
cially If his temper be genial. Eugene
had begun to look like millionaire.
But. above everything else, what was
most evident about him. as he came
up the path. was his confidence in the
happiness promised by his present
errand; the anticipation in his eyes
could have been read by a stranger.
His look at the door of Isabel's house
was the look of man who is quite
certain that the next moment will re-
veal something ineffably charming, in
expressibly dear.
When the bell rang George
waited mt the entrance of the ''recep-
ton room" until q housemaid came
through the hall on her way to answer
the summons.
"You needn't mind. Mary" he told
her. "I'll see who it is and what they
want. Probably it's only a peddler."
THANK You. sir, Mister George"
said Mary, and returned to the rear Of
the house.
George went slowly to the front door
and halted. regarding the misty silhou.
cite Of the caller upon the ornamental
frosted glass. After u minute of
waiting this silhouette changed outline
SO that an arm could be distinguished
I'm arm Outstretched toward the bell,
as If the gentleman outside doubted
whether or not it had sounded and
were minded to try again. But before
the gesture was completed George alb
ruptiy threw open the door and
stepped squarely upon the middle Of
the threshold.
A slight change Swallowed the face
of Eugene; his look of happy anticipa-
ton gave way to something formal
and polite. "How do you do, George?"
he said. Mrs. Minafer expects to go
driving with me. l believe-if youll
be so kind as to send her word that
I'm here"
George made not the slightest move
ment.
"No," he said.
Eugene was incredulous, even when
his second glance revealed how hot NJ
eye was the haggard young man be-
fore him. II beg your pardon. I
said"
II heard you." said George. "You
said you had an engagement with my
mother, told you. MOI"
Eugene gave him a steady look, and
then he asked quietly: "What is the
the difliculty?"
George kept his own voice quiet
enough. but that did not mitigate the
vibrant fury of 1t. my mother will
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ope-step, a girl, heartsick with the thought of what tomorrow holds for her. eNcusing herself from a waiting partner and fleeing to the waters edge for a mo- ment alone.
 A tall stranger, hooded and goggled, an aeroplane ready for flight, bronze native IF breech clout standing by. Take me with you" says the girl. The stranger looks her over appraisingly and without word helps her into the machine.
 Whir-whiz-wbir high into the air and straight for the heart of Africa. She civilization, society and her nodding chaperon. He is on his way home to the jungle. and has no thought of return A circle of high peaked huts black women pounding millet, pickaninnes at play, a group of bronze men under an acacia tree, calm, stoic!
 In the middle of this kraal they make their landing-the man and the girl neither knowing the others narne-and here for nine unforgettable weeks White Man is host and the girl who had left the dance for moment is his guest
 OUR NAVY AT WORK" By Reginald Wright Kaufman. The Bobbs Merrill company, publishers, Indlanap- oils,
 Then Uncle SamT went to war and hadn't any boats,
 Or not enough to guard the stormy
 green,
 And so he said to Mir Wall:
 II take your six-feet-over-al
 And set it out to get the call
 Upon the submarine" "A cruising fighter? NeverI" CThe experts chorused that)
 Shell sink before she's half way out
 to France;"
 But Sam cut out her bathtubs white.
 He painted her a perfect fright
 And loaded her with dynamite.
 Says he: 'I'll take chance" Good night!' said Wall of Wall street; the experts said it, too.
 But Uncle Sam was sot and sibylline;
 His little plan, it warn't a josh,
 Walls boats. as drys mackin-
 She fights, b'gum; what's more,
 b'gosh
 She gifts the Submarine,
 Here was, broad streak of moonlight splashed across a leaden sea, and, all around that vast ampitheatre, circular walls of ebony. Nothing but the gently ripping waves cut by single road the whole world seemed as it must have been when, before man the light of the night, first came upon the darkness that brood-} ed over the fact of the waters.
 Slowly black shape numbered into the illuminated track, moving with the clum- siness of antedeluvian monster. prov po6ed forward, funnel followed the whole hull of a merchant steamer was there
 Then something else appeared-a mere stick dancing upright in the little waves with the monster between it and the noon. Appeared and disappeared and ap- peared again.
 The monster gave frightened scream; the scream of tangled bell. It tried to turn away and run; it was in mortal ter TOT of that fragile stick among the waves The stick danced with glee demonias; it seemed to laugh at the monster. What followed, followed swifted than the telling; it happened in exactly 90 seconds. A tiny boat-a boat one-ffth the size of the terrified monster; a boat grotesquely painted like harlequin pCtnced out of the darkness, blazed twice from fore and aft at the stick twisted as coin on edge twists when flicked by a human finger, jumped directly
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Divorce and Children

From Domestic Relations and the
 Child by Robert Grant, in the Scrib-
 ner.
 On the issue of preserving the family, an aim alike of the church, the lawgiver and the courts, each from it's own angle it is significant that 75 per cent of proceed . ings for divorce, and all for separate maintenance, are initiated by women. Modern divorce at its inception, though open to men, was designed primarily for the protection of wives from masculine tyranny, and the dire statistics which offend so many people have been in large measure register of relief from intoler- able conditions more or less sanctified by prior generations of patient Griseldas. Yet when We turn from the immediate past and look ahead, does not the estab- lished policy of modern courts Cat least those in the United States) to vouchsafe complete protection to the wife, both as concerns herself and custody of her chH< dren, unless her conduct has been out rageous, prompt the question whether re- sponsibility for the preservation of the family will not rest henceforth largely on the attitude of woman?
 To develop this it is today practically possible for wife to allow mere caprice or unsubstantial grievances to deprive her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-04
LIBERAL GIFTS
 MADE TO ANZACS
New South Wales Buys Land for Him and Pays Him Salary Until
 Crop Time

Sydney, March 4.--(By Mail)- state of New South Wales of Australia. in set ting it's returned soldiers on the land. not only provides them with a farm on easy payments, but makes sure of the repatriated Anzacs welfare by paving him an allowance up to sl0 a week for sustenance during the unproductive period of his tenure.
 Describing the work of the state repa- triatiOn department, C. C. Ashford min ister for lands, in recent statement, said:
 Tn addition to the so500 advanced to each settler for the requirement of his property, those in circumstances warrant ing further assistance during the unpro- ductfve period of their holdings are en- titled to and receive for six months sustenance allowances, inclusive of pen sicn, on the following basis: Married men N50 week, for each child up to in number and not over Is years of age. an. additional 6 cents week; single men $ week. The maximum rate Of sus- teEance paid to any one settler during the unproductive period of his farm is $10 a week."
 Further, each settler if he wishes to raise mutton and wool is provided with sheep undeta share farming agreement
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PRICE AS ALWAYS

Ia spite cf greatly Increased iaborutorv costs d,,e to the War. by sacrificing profits and absorbing war taxes we have maintained the price at which this family laxative has been sold by ducssts for the pact yea1s- Two aises-SCc and Sl %.
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LAKE bA|KAL IS SCENE OF BEAUTY
Is Exceeded in Size by Only Four Other Lakes in the
 World
By Associated Pc,.

lrkutsk, Siberia, February 20-American i"iiroad engineer who will doubtless e'ine to SlperIa in large numbers in con- i-eoeion with the reorganization of the irans-Sioerian railway will have much to do with the region of the famous 1.aka Balkal, which is slirted on tbe south o,d southeast by the great Rnss;s,, .a;1ro.-, It IS possible in the winter months to l cross the lake on sleds. thus xo,.1,ir11r 4to ihohotony of the long journey ans i1 summer by embarking on A stear,er p,,t l.ie builders of the railroad found if de slraDie to have safe all-raiI pa to t,Ix' nhauivostok' so the way was hewed ,,r,o ranses or hills. The tunnels are now guarded by Japanese troops. Baikal, which is one of the lareast f,.,sh 1 water lakes in the world, is called inc hoiy sea by the Russians who live in US vicinity. It is only exceeded in size Dy the American lakes Superor. Micbi- gan ana Huron and by Lake Nyanza in Tn contour it resembles the hu- man heart It attains at certain noints the great depth of 31S5 feet.
 A number of islands may be seen as one crosses the water in the naviga hIe season. The Buriats, descendants of inc Mongoians who are found numerouslv m m the Balkal region, have a supersti tlous reverence for the island of 0Ixbon as being the residence of tbe inferno, olVln1ty, Begdozy, who is sunposed to nave under his care the souls of the uafnned The scientist, Gheorghii. who visited the island in 1772. declared tbat at no place in the then known world were so many sacrifices made as on this island Accoroins to another Mongolian tradf- tloh, oikhon was the domain and home oI the ancient hero, Genghis- Khan
 Anerlcans who have seen the rocky human profile in the White mountains of New hampshire would be interested in the spectacle on the eastern short of the iake, to the north of Cape Holy. where the summit of a perpendicular column of Jagged rock resembles the colossal head of man, with a long nose, and with the eyes represented by profound and sonbra caVlties. In the crevaSse which makes the mouth flocks of cormorants build their nests.
 The idolatrous Buriat priests and the Lama priests regard the submarine rock situated near the point where the mighty Ahsara r1ver finds it's source in Lake baikai as being especially sacred They noio It to be the refuge of the "Inyincible White God and offer up many sacrifices.
 Ine water is pure and transparent. The climate is rigorous. The summer is short and the nights for the most part are cold in winter the temperature falls to 40 de- srees below zero, Fahrenheit. Violent winds driving from the arctic region nro- uece snort, perpendicular waves which. | curing storms, reach height of seven Ieet. f1sh are abundant, and welcome food to the people
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children of their father, and thus sac rifiee their true welfare to her own ego t1sm- No woman can be compelled to live under the same roof with her husband, and, if she leaves him, even Hiking some one else better" will not prevent her from retaining the custody of young children. If all that appears on the surface is in compatibility. It would be incorrect to allege that the consciousness of the courts recognizes more than a drift in this di- rection; yet opportunity runs hand in glove with the temptation, one extenu- ated by the apostles of freedom who hold that marriage is "up'' to a man, and that If he cannot retain his wife's affection she is Justified in leaving him. This DOS tulate of liberty, if not set forth in much of current fiction is to be read between It's lines. Years ago, when a woman in whose favor l had decided, whispered to the court officer as she went out, "Tell the judge he's a darling" thought it not unlikely that I had been cajoled.
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swIrH THE HELP OF GOD AND A
 FEW MARTNES'
''SWAT THE FLY"
 IS SLOW WORK
Fly Rid" Kills Them By the Thou
 sands in Few Minutes.

i~F1y Rid" Kills Them By the Thou
 sands in Few Minutes.
 When your house is full of flies they crawl over your kitchen and dining room, sticking to your food, sting and annoy you and in this way carry and communicate many dan gGrous diseases. Swatting one fly at a time is long and tedious job. Bet ter fan about spoonful of @FLY R1D7 into the air of each room. This is harmless and fine insect powder. Tanned into the air it comes into con- tact with thousands of flies. In a few minutes they fall dead and can be easily swept up. 3'FLY RID" is harmless to humans, but death to flies. It comes in handy packages at about ten or twenty-five cents at drug and grocery stores. Manufac- turers of RAT RID," ROACH RID," "ANT RID," FLEA RID."- Adv.
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MONTENEGRO HAS
 FORMAL COMPLAINT

London, March 26.-Charres that Mon tenegro, the smallest of the allies, has peeh victim of intrigue during the war, are made by Alexander Devine of Win chester, friend of the little Balkan coun- try In letter of complaint to Premier Lloyd George, MT. Devine writes:
 The great feature of intrigue has been to ignore her existence as a separat., country; then to protest that fraternal ecnfederation with her was most desir- able, and finally to deliberately attempt to absorb her existence and nationalitv :,
 Lloyd George replied that he hoped ami believed that the interests of Montenegro would be amply protected at the peace conference.
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on and be slain-waitng for US like a
 dragon in its den.
 "Our brains told US 10 fear it; our wills heard but one command-to clean 1 l. out l can still see before my very | eyes those waves in that poppy -spattered wheat field as the steady lines of our marines went in Prom the first chap ter
 l General Catlin writes the way he fights. | There is plenty of vim and red blood in this story of the United States ma rIes.
 [ Not just an account of the Belleau Wood affair-it is full of intimate word sketches of the training camps, Reproductions of the actual diagrams and maps used by General Catlin on the bs ttleields. as well as many photographs, greatly add to the interest of this book. How the United States marines saved Paris is told here, for this is the story of the great fight at Chateau-T -Thierry, when the United States marines, with American infantry, brought about the turning point in the war.
 THE BRITISH NAVY IN BATTLE By Arthur H. Pollen. Doubleday Page &
 Co, publishers, Garden City, N. Y.
 England's greatest naval expert tells the vivid story of the British navy and it's marvellous success in sweeping the enemy rom IDe seas. MT. POueu mas had access to the official report filed a. the admiralty of the fighting com- handlers.
 With literary skill bordering on the un- canny, Mir. Pollen has made such sub iects as range finding and ballistics com prehensible and entertaining to ordinary readers.
 The subject of Engiand's dependence on her navy is treated at Iength-a topic t. ~r-k,. -r.-
 A first serious contribution to history or naval war; says London Truth of this volume. Nothing likely to displace it from the unique position which it is des- tined to occupy. It is very unlikely that Pollen's conclusions will ever be serious ly disturbed. brilliant permanent con- tribution to naval history
 WHITE MANI
 By George Agney Chamberlain Illus
 trated by Koerner. The Bobbs Merrill
 company, publishers, Indianapolis.
 'Twhite Man." by George Agnew Cham berlain, is the story of man and woman, utter strangers, forced together by cir cumstances, living in the heart of the Af- rican jungle without communication with the civilized world.
 The lovely daughter of an impoverished English baron is on her way to meet uldHOuO mining mlIllOnalre whom she mas agreed to marry. She slips away from the dance in the great hotel and stands alone for moment on the beach in the African moonlight, dreading what is ahead of her.
 There is an aeropiane on tho white sands and a goggledaviator making ready for flight On a sudden mad impulse she says, Please. MT. Man, take me with you" A half dozen words and they a eyi Fl don, neither knowing the others name, are high up in the air and headed straight for the heart of Africa.
 A forced landing leaves these two utter strangers together in the African jungle, completely cut off from the world. Here in a small clearing, with huts for habi- taton and native Africans for servants, they Hve-he modern American, strong and dominating, she an English aristo- crat, independent and unafraid.
 "An African night, moonlit beach, an orchestra playing the latest
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Lamp Posts Suffer

Paris, March 24.-Thousands of 1arnn- posts have been knocked down in the streets of Paris by vehicles in the light less nights of the past three years. One big cluster of electric globes on busy boulevard has been set up again IS times. and near the Grand Palais there is one which has been replaced four times.
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FREE SAMPLES

yuu have never used Dr. Caidwei's svnr. fepsn send for free uis bottle to Dr w. B. Caldwell aos Washington St. Monticello, Ill. If there arc ba'ies st home. ask for copy Of Dr. Csldwcs book 'fhc Care of Baby.''
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A British expert on gas poisons con- tends that one of the effects of carbon monoxide upon the human system is to cause pronounced susceptibility to pneu- monia Automobile engine exhaust fumes always contain this insidious poison.
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THE BOOK SHELF
By THE BIBLIopH1LE
"RnNM N1rMRER

ROOM NUMBER g.
 By Anna Katherine Green. Dodd Mead S
 Co, publishers, New York city.
 No American author is more widely known than Anna Katherine Green. For many years she has thrilled her multi tude of readers with her wonderful stories of the solution of crime mysteries. Room Number g. and the other equally enthral- ling stories in this volume will be well comed by all those who like the best in detective fiction
 This book, which has been out of print for several years, and was formerly pub hshed under the title Masterpieces of Mystery" is confidently offered by the publishers in its new form.
 1.-THE CRIMSON ALIBI." By Octavus Roy Cohen. Dodd Mead & Co, publishers, New York city.
 A plot which is unique, a detectice which is human and a story of absorbing, cumulative interest-those are the ingred- ients of Octavus Roy Cohens new novel, t'The Crimson Alibi."
 The Crimson Alibi" sounds a new note in detective fiction. It contains all the thrill, all the action and all the sus- pense of the conventional detective story But through its pages there rings the compelling note of sympathy. Mir. Cohen's characters are not mere puppets used for the development of plot. Some oF them you will love, some you will hate all of them you will understand.
 With it all there is a murder mystery which is unique in conception; a story which will set you gasping. It is tense and gripping and certain to appeal to the devotee of mystery fiction as well as to the reader who inclines toward virile stories of red-blooded love
 'wITH THE HELP OF GOD AND A
 FEW MARINES By Brigsdier General Catlin. Illustrated. Doubleday Page & Go. publishers, Ga- den City, N. Y.
 Waking or sleeping, I can still see be- erre me the dark threat of Belleau Wood. as fail of menace as a tigers foot, dan seruus as live wire; poisonous with gas, brtstfing with machine guns, alive with snipers. scornfuily beckoning us to come
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"A SOLDIERS MOTHER IN FRANCE,

"A SOLDIERS MOTHER IN F'RANCE'' By Rheta Childe Dorr. The Bobbs Mer-
 Till company, publishers, Indianapolis.
 Mrs. Dorr's son was in the First di- vision, A. E. F. She went over not to see her boy, but to see how he was being looked after, how his home country was taking care of him on foreign soil. What she saw she wrote down for every mother to read. The personal element, the fem mine point of view, the heart interest are therefore strong. The authors un- usual knowledge of facts and conditions her sound common sense and her eloquent bursts of patriotic expression make "A Soldiers Mother in France Of great pres ent interest and of real and lasting value.
 Mrs. Dorr tells of our foreign legion regiments of mixed blood, often contain ing many nationalties-and points out that the training camp was our first real melting pot. The marvellous work of Madame Avril de Ste. Croix in the house of mercy is one of the most interesting chapters in this most interesting book It is impossible to summarize the con tents but chapters on Clemenceau, the Tiger" and Albert Thomas, the French socialist, stand out conspicuously.
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FARMERS
 ARE IN TROUBLE
So Much Wheat Stored in Granaries That It Is Hard to Sell
 CrOp Now
By Associated Press


 London, March 20-The British farmer is suffering from the fact that the gov ernment had stacked the granaries of Great Britain with wheat in preparation for a great spring offensive against the Germans this year. Now that the offen- sive is not to be undertaken, the farmer is having difficulty in selling his crop of last years wheat.
 Explaining the situation at the annual dinner of the Land union recently, Lord Ernlo. formerly Robert E. Prothero, pres ident of the board of agriculture, said: q do not know that am revealing a se- cret when I say that the government in tended, if the war had not finished in November, to make it's great push about this time. In this month or next month we should have tried to place on the western front the whole force of the al- lies we could command and should have tried to bring the war to conclusion this summer.
 For that purpose we wanted the abso- lute control of all the tonnage we could get We wanted every ship to be free to bring over munitions, food and every thing else which the army required For that reason we brought into this country large quantity of food supplies If our shipping was to be engaged in bringing over food to this country in the middle of that military push we should have been hampered
 'The consequence was that we filled the granaries of this country with wheat in order that we should be free for this great military enterprise. You cannot alter your plans in a few hours. The wheat is now heing passed into consump- ton as quickly as possible