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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-08-12

sorry for him. For the old colonel
probably knew that I was to- be
ribbed up" tomorrow: was to be q
party to<the process, and I knew that
phe had a conscience, stultify it though
he might. And I couldn't feel corn
fully toward him.
The car stopped before a gate Of
the tropical garden around the hotel.
y stepped to the running-board. From
his seat ahead Colonel Buckmaster
did the same thing.
Herman" he whispered, withdrew
the mare"
! shook my head. Might Is well
face the music tomorrow-as later" !
who might do the colonel injury, by
reporting our conversation to those
who gave him his Job. Besides, l
can play tunes myself"
But yohll do the \dancin'," he
muttered.
Il guess not" + said. Then 1
swung from the car and made, my
way to the hotel. He followed more
slowly and a little later I s1ooked up
from a telegram which the room
clerk had handed me. and which j
was reading in the lobby. to g the
colonel enter. I learned q great truth
as he passed frdh door to elevator,
his face drawn and white and very
old. The truth was this; There is
mo price, that pays for the loss OF hon.
lor.
Justification . man may claim; Col.
lonel Buckmaster had q much justi.
ication % any mar may: he was dis.
daughter might not come to want
lAnd yet-he could not have suffered
more than he did now. conscious that
he was dishonorable. had his daugh.
tier been starving. He didn't know
that, butt was true. fGloou1ily.
turned back to the telegraph. 1t wat
from Benton and II read
Your letter received. Think yor
unjust exaGgerAte danger. Anyway, nc
one will pull anything on you viii,
your eyes OPEN Can learn nothing Of
think. You're plot shy after expert,
leHce up here. Glad the: mare is right
tipped.ta few OF your friend.
andre going down strons. Luck x
you Il ],
! smiled, bitterly. / couldn'ks blam,
old. Sam. despite the evidence Of rot
ltenness which / had written him TIVE
1.-The know could believe that thing,
were as had as I painted them. / wa,
1sorry that my pity for old Colone
BuckmaSter had made / refrail
from rnehtioningsrny8talk With him Il
my. letter to Sans That would have
lconyincedemy old friend. But my 70
llAtion Of pAnAss threats-SAm mus
have thought those threats but til,
Eavipksso 4 i drunken man. had no
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY RE PAPE

Yestidday after supir was setting
on the frunt steps jest setting there
and Leroy Shooster came up saying.
Hay Benny, can you go to the movies?
l don't know, maybe, Ill see, wait a
second, Ill be back in a minnit. sed.
And went in the house and started
to run up stairs to ask and wen 1 got
about a quarter ways up I tripped and
fell about a eighth ways back. making
a fearse noise, and pop called down,
Stay up, stay up, for the love of Peet
stay up, you've got all mite, haven't you ?
Meening wat was the hurry, and I
waited a little vile to give him a
chance to think of sumthing elts and
then I started to run up little slower
but not mulch, and wen / got about
half ways up I tripped agen and fell
about a quarter ways back, making a
even fearser- noise, thinking, Jimminy
crickits, gosh, G, and pop called down,
Be careful, be careful. confownd it.
you've bin falling up those steps for the
last minnits, do you think I have
nuthing elts to DO but sit heer and lis
sen to you trying to brake your fool
neck?
No sir. I sed Meening I dident
think so, and quick snuck down stairs
agen backwards. thinking. G, better
go out a vile and come back in about
10 minnits, he wouldent give me the
money to go now anyways Jest after all
that tripping. Wich jest then wat did
do but trip over the rug IN the hall
and bang into the clothes rack with
the fearsest noise of ali. pop calling,
Benny, come up heer.
Ony was going out the frunt door
Jest then and dident heer him. and
Leroy Shocster sed. Did you get ii?
changed my mind, amt going to
ask I sed-
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In a. financial statement <the War
Finance corporation shows that out of
a total of s352199s244 in loans ex-
tended by the corporation since. its or
sanization Ionly s1s2,2S5.sO remained
outstanding on August 81. OF the
S204,794,52o loaned to the railroads.
while they were under government
control, $14o,1S6,810 has been repaid.
leaving a balance due OF s64, 65S,210
sincs the armistice. a total of S45,-
4g4,s44 has been loaned to exporters
to aid in the development of foreign
trade, and Of this amount, s44,374,-
zsT remains unrepaid. other loans
made to aid in the prosecution of the
war and the outstanding balances on
them are as follows: Public utilities,
ass. T97, 40O-s21,2ss,9 essential in
dustries. s2s,s14,674-$97s.594; banks
and trust companies, $5,26s, s7T---
s15s;s0o; warehouse receipt loans,
sss,al6, 5Oa-Hope; cattle leans, SIS
sIs,1fs-s837,O61 Uncle Sam has
become one of the greatest bankers in
the country. The surviving Populists
must now feel that they have. not
lived IN vain.
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Charles Jonagan Paroled to Re-
turn to 'sDry" Town.
Former School superintendent
Plea for Mercy Takes.
WENT on MEDICINE DRUNK
Failed to Follow Directions on
Bottle Bought Here.
One More Chance for John
Barleyc0rn's Friend.

Charles Jonagan. former school sup
erintendent and college man. broke
into tears today in Judge James A.
McClure's court room when he was
threatened with Jail sentence for
drunkenness, which officers say is his
"besetting sim
MY Cod Judge. not the JAIL" he
said. THAT would be the last straw.
Parole me and I'll go to Norton.
drink for love or money"
Judge Mcclure paused.
''Well, Charlie" he said, cit isyour
sin more than yourself that is to
blame. I know your history. You
come from "a good family, graduated
from college. became a school super.
intendent and was dragged down by
drink
This is your last warning. I am
going to sentence you to thirty days
in the county Jail and parole you upon
your promise to go out to Norton and
behave I'll have the county attor-
ney write TO your employers and get
a report on you. One slip ana you
go TO JAIL
There was a government operative
in the court room who is engaged in
running down Illicit liquor selling in
the state. There was cynical smile
on his lips as Jonagan said he couldn't
get anything to drink" in Norton for
love or money!
THAT settles any work I might in
tend to do in Norton" said the opera
tive. IF Charlie couldn't find It, the
stuff just Isn't there"
Liquor His Downfall.
For years Jonagan has been in
trouble because of his drinking. He
started life as superintendent Of the
public schools in a Missouri town.
court officials said. He went from
bad to worse always because of
liquor, they stated.
Several years ago Jonagan came to
Topeka with hts wife and two chill
dren and lived at Fifth and Van Blu
rem streets. Time after time, officers
stated, the happiness of his family
was halted by drunken sprees
A divorce petition was filed several
weeks ago by Mrs. Jonagan. A re-
straining order was issued to keep
Jonagan away from the house. Jona-
gan was working at Norton.
He returned week ago. Drink
caught him again. He went home,
breaking the court order. and caused
trouble. He was fined for contempt
of court.
Liquor Purchased Here.
Officers found Jonagan drunk and
abusive on the fair grounds Tuesday
afternoon. In his pocket. they found
a bottle of beef. wine and iron. is per
cent alcohol. He was arrested and
charged with having liquor in his pos
session. He pleaded guilty today and
threw himself on the mercy of the
court
The government operative was in
terested in the case because the
liquor was purchased in a Topeka
drug store. However, there will be
no prosecution Of the druggist.
I'VE find that Jonagan purchased
the stuff from druggist, all right"
said Hugh T. Fisher, county attorney
today, but the druggist didn't know
Jonagan and II Jonagan had followed
the directions on the bottle and taken
it in the right-sized doses he wouldn't
have been in court today
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FAIR ATTENDANCE WILL
tContinuM from Page oDe.l

tContinued from Page Onel
Gals that between $4,000 and 10000
persons attended the fair Tuesday.
The big race card, including two
$1,000 stakes, featured the afternoon.
The boys of the state industrial school
also gave an exhibition of wall scaling
in front of the grandstand. They were
divided into two teams, the team
which got all its men over the wall
first being the winner. These contests
seemed to hold as much interest for
the audience and bring as many cheers
as the races. The Lunette Sisters and
the Leach QUillin Trio also performed
on the east platform. The grandstand
and bleachers were packed for the big
night show and fireworks spectacle.
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Dorothy Dix 7dks
keen Your Own Home.-t.
BY DOROTHY DIX
WOaa,s Highest Paid. Woman -yTrivc9,

4 am a middle-aged woman, and
have recently lost my husband. All of
my childrenFare married and living in
distant cities, and they are insistent
that l give up my own home and come
and live with them.
GU will be so lonely living here
by yourself. now that father is gone
they tell me- you have worked
enough, so come and spend the bal
ance of your life in ease with US. Why
toll just to keep up a house for your
self? Sell, or give away all the junk
in this place and come to us. And it
won't be Just living with one of us.
You can visit around among US, and
have nothing on earth to do except
to anause yourself ~.
fOf"course, what my. children say Is
lreasonabIe, and appreciate their low
ing desire to have me live with them
and to make my life easy. OF course
it will be.4onely in the old house with
the man who brought me to it as a
bride gone from it, but I cling to every
brick and stone with a passion they
do not understand. It seems to me it
will kill me to leave It, and that I can
have neither peace nor happiness save
under the, reof-that has been q sanctu-
airy to me sc long. -
You are a woman. and, I imagine,
home loving woman. viii you tell
me what to do?"
So writes a correspondent to me,
and my advice o1het is most en-
phatic. Stick to youx own home, sis
ter Don't let your children persuade
you or browbeat you into giving it up.
They mean we'll, but they cannot even
imagine what her home is to a woman
of your age. They do not know that
after woman has had a home of her
own for thirty-five or forty years she
becomes a sort of human snail. She
has carried her house on her back so
1 long that she has grown to its walls,
and to, even attempt to separate her
from them is fatal.
] Inevitably you will be lonely Twins
/ by yourself, but you will not be SO
lonely as you will be in another's
home. no matter how welcome a guest
/ you are nor how kindly they treat
you. For the thing you will never
4 forgotten a moment is that tits some
body s7se's home and not your own,
In her own house a woman is a little
queen. Her will is law. Her taste
stamps everything. Everyone who sits
at her table, or by her fireside, must
( bow to her rule, but when she goes to
live in another woman's home. she
abdicates, hsr throne and becomes sub
ject to that other woman's within.
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An English physician has invented
a machine which will detect. thru
tie accent OF the person speaking,
whether or not he is telling the truth,
and that only. It is called the 'epi-
diaseope" Its discoverer tells the
Royal Society of Medicine that the
epidiascope records speech infection
en- a blaekened revolving drum in such
a way that7abnormalities are seen long
before they can be distinguished BY
the trained ear of the most expert
enced- doctor. But the average poll
t4cian probably would be proof against
it IN a campaign year.
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Price reductions ranging from IS to
IS per cent have been put in effect
hy the American Wooden Company on
fits lines for the spring season Of 1921.
Operatives are to have the same wage
scale that prevailed at the closing of
the mills two months ago. The reduc-
ton in prices is intended to bring in
enough orders to keep the mills busy
during the winter. Labor at present
exhibits extreme reluctance to accept
any wage reductions. The tendency in
this respect is rather upward than
downward. Yet if the cost of clothing
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Is YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From the Columns OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
September Is, 1895.

SCVEtEI DIT IO' 4oVVs
The Topeka Nail contains an interesting
article today telling how Joap and John K.
Mulyane have secured control Of the salt
business Of Kansas, and that every I'M
portant salt plant in the state is either
owned or operated by them
These Topeka men were at first fougnt
by the salt trust but they organized a rival
company and now have urdisturbed posses
sion Of the salt market in the west A tram
loaded with Kansas salt is shipped from
their Hutchinson mines every day
Mr.. J. c. Wilson and Miss Eleanor ac-
companfed Miss Mabel east today on her
way to enter Vassar college.
Miss Edna McClintock has gone to Law
renee to attend the Fraternity parties
The Rev. c. Rowland Hill has been Gales
70 the rectorship OF Grace church, Ottawa
but has declined. He will remain for the
time being as chaplain to the bishop OF
Kansas.
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should be reddced,t to the wage work
er who is also the consumer it would
no doubt prepare the way for wage
reductions and these would be fol-
lowed by decline in all living ex-
penses. And the latter is what the
public seems to want.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS

MISS JULIA BELL MARCH. so, dieo
at Ingieside Home today. Burial at Law
renee, Kan.
MELyINA LEACH, II. died September
12 at home, ZIG Forest avenue Funeras
services at o'clock Thursday afternoon
The. funeral of Peter Miller, age p, who
died Monday in Trinidad, Colo, will be
the Holy Name church. The body will lie
In state until the time of the funeral at the
home Of his daughter, Mrs. E c. Heck, 2olo
Clay street Burial in Mount Calvary Gem
etery.
GEORGE LOUIS CROKER, former To-
as a result of influenza. News of the death
of his sister, Mrs. Ella Sexton, in Topeka
last week, is believed to have contributed
70 his death He is survived by his widow
and one son, Clyde.
MRS. MELISSA ROSE, age 81. an old
resident of Alma, Kan, died Tuesday morn
in Topeka Thursday afternoon. The funeral
will be held Saturday morning at 9 30
o'clock from the Elmont Methodist church.
Burial in Half Day cemetery.
The body Of Mrs. Mary Kopp who diea
Thursday in California will arrive In To-
peka Wednesday afternoon The funera,
will be neld Thursday morning at 9:Jv
O'Clock from Shellabarger's chapel. Bur-aI
HELENA SOUTHWESTERN, the TO-
month--old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ia
cob Schulmeister, 1903 East Crane street,
died Tuesday evening at her home. Flu
neral announcements later.
GEORGE W. WALL, who was buried
Monday in Mt Hope cemetery, was a Kan
sas pioneer He was born in Morgan
county, Indiana, March o. 1S45, and be-
came a member OF the Christian church in
that state in his youth. He enlisted In the
32nd Indiana infantry at the beginning of
the Civil war, and with his brother, who
survives him, served until the close Of the
war, when they were honorably discharged.
He was married September 4, 1864, to Miss
Letitia Jackson. They came to Kansas in
1873, and he resided here until his death.
He is survived by his widow Mrs. George
W. Wall, his brother and one sister, five
daughters, Mrs. Martha Cozad. Mrs. Viola
Smith, Mrs. Ivy Heston. Mrs. Alice Stsick-
land, Mrs. Eunice Calkins; also twenty
three grandchildren, and three great
grandchildren.
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For several months the recession in
wholesale prices has been continuous,
says the Guaranty Trust Co. of New
York. and it will be reflected in the
retail markets as soon as dealers rec
egnize the inevitable necessity OF TAX
ing some losses in order to stimulate
the tagging purchasing of the public.
Until that turn comes, the present dis
position to make commitments with
extreme reserve will continue.
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Farmers this year are ffkeIy- to re-
ceive more than s2g,6oo5oqo. 900 for
their. products, and they are 4good
spenders- We are still selling to other
countries more. than we buy from
them. and gold is row coming inta.the
country faster than4it> lis leaving The
Gripping of domestic trade thru
seriously inadequate railroad facilities
will shortly be modified. One. could
enumerate, says Forbes Magazine, a
Dozen twenty--encourag features
Of the present situation and the out
look.
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THE MAINE ELECTION.

I The result of the. Maine, election
doubt1ess will prove encouraging to
the managers of Senator Harding's
campaign. On the other hand it win
cause the opposition to put forth
greater effort. But should either
party conclude that the election was
decided on the issue of the League of
Nations. it probably will find later
that it has made a mistake
Persons not normally Republican.
but who vote with that party this
year, probably will have in mind the
record of the Wilson administration,
the continually increasing federal
debt, the high taxes and the high cost
of living.
It is the custom of the American
people to hold the administration re-
sponsible for all their ills, real or
imaginary. and to give it credit for
most Of their benefits. They seem
little inclined to take credit to them
selves for render any to kind Provi-
dence.
Republicans are prone to see all the
pevils of Democrat rule and none of the
good. Democrats, on the contrary,
see great benefits and little cause for
complaint when their party is in con-
troll Of the government. But the in
dependent voters. they on whom the
result of, the election depends, weigh
both sides carefully, strike a balance.
and cast their ballots accordingly. II
is safe to say that their decision this
year will not be based on the attitude
of either party with regard to the
League of Nations. E
Several states that are normally Re-
publican voted for Mr.. Wilson four
years ago as result of 81 wheat
They can hardly be expected to repeat
the performance this year On the
other hand. the Republicans are in
some danger of losing New York this
year and with New York usually go
Connecticut. New Jersey and Indiana.
All these voted for Hughes four years
ago Senator. Harding cannot lose
these states without seriously endan-
gering his chance for election. These
are states in which there always has
been a large voting element that can
be controlled. Much will depend upon
which party egets to- it.
While the Maine election, therefore
maybe accepted asia good omen. it
can not be relied .upen~as having set
tied the result in November. Nor can
either party afford toybase- it's hopes
on the League of Nations as an issue.
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To the long list of big strikes which
have been lost by the strikers this
year now is added that of the railroad
yardnien in Chicago. After being
out since March, losing the wages
they inight have earned and working
enormous injury to the business of
the country and labor in general, they
are going back to work worse off than
they were before the strike.
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paused and gaEed thoughtfuliyi at the
stars.
"Yes. you go on. What viii you be
doing?" egged on Tom gloomily
'pn be consoling the maid of
honor" finished Jack cheerfully.
Copyright, 1920, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndtcate.)
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Chairman Hays says the Maine cleo
tion demonstrates the dependability of
the women voters. This depends upon
the point of view. The Democrats
prs5ably feel that it was mistake tc
urge Tennessee to ratify the amend
naent.
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Republicans should not put great
trust in the Maine vote. The~political
battle-ground is in New York, Ohio and
Missouri. The party that can carry
these states probably will win.
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Not only is there unrest among the
Inhabitants of the earth, but the old
world itself is restless. as both Calf
fernla and italy can testify.
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The custom of making a vow not to
shave until ones favorite candidate
has been elected can be safely adopt
ed by the new voters.
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It is reported that the editor Of the
Houston, Tex, Press has been kid
mapped. Is this. a new way of boosting
circulation?
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Wall St. New York, Sept. 15.-STOCKS-
Politics, easier money and the better indus
trial outlook were primary factors in to-
ket. Sales approximate $4,000 shares.
Call money declined to per cent later
aided the further improvement of the lis
but prices reacted in the final dealings on
selling of steels and equipments. The clos
ing was irregular.
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New York Liberty Bond Market.
New York, Sept. 15.-Liberty bonds close (.
SIS 90 90; first 4's, $50; second as, 81 80 ,
first avs. s5.Ie; second AS. s49s; third
33t's, 9542; Victory ANS, $3.50
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Lords Flowers satisfy. Tel. s27.-
Adv
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50 III &A

eecPyright, 1920 b<-the Wheeler Syndicate,
Incl
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MISS JULIA BELL MARCH, so, dieo
at 1ngieside Home today. Burial at Law
renee, Kan.
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New orleans Cotton Market


New Orleans, Sept. 15.-COTToN-spol
quiet and unchanged; middling. $3.50
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HELENA SCHULMEIsTER, the TO-
month--old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ia
cob Schulmeister, 1903 Fast Crane street,
died Tuesday evening at her home. Fu-
neral announcements later.