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FOR SALE

FLOR1DA-4O acres decided for
slight service in famous Suwanee
River Land Belt, North Florida.
Mixed farming, trucking, dairying,
poultry, bees, satsuma, oranges,
fruits, berries. Especially pecans.
Sample free. ]. B. Clark, Industrial
Agent, L.O.P. & G.R.R.Co., Box S3
Live Oak, Florida. 1 1919.
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gross income of an individual equal
led or exceeded $4,000, or if the COM
bined gross income of married cou-
pie and that of a dependent minor
child equalled or exceeded $4,000, a
return must be filed regardless of the
amount of net income.
"Net income" is gross income, less
certain deductions. The fact that al
lowable deductions from gross in
come, for business expenses, losses,
bad debts, etc, may reduct the net
income, to an amount below the per-
sonal exemptions of $1,000 or $4,000,
does not alter the requirement to file
return of gross income, if such
gross income equalled or exceeded
$4,000.
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en-. TO BUILD
STEEL COACHES
ANNOUNCES PLAN TO REBUILD
PASSENGER COACHES TO
ALL STEEL.

President Ralph of the G. N. rail-
way today announced plans for re-
building the roads wooden passenger
coaches into all steel cars in the
companys own shops, involving an
expenditure of about $1,O0O,OOO, The
company also is buying 80 new steel
coaches at a cost Of $75O,0OO.
Ordinarily the rebuilding of pas
senger cars is done in outside shops.
President Budd said: eve probably
could have it done for less money
elsewhere, but it was though desira-
BILE under present conditions to keep
our own men busy and spend the
money in our own communities.
The Great Northern program will
prove an important factor in reliev-
ing the unemployed situation this
winter.
President Budd also announced a
large number of the 1000 clerks laid
off recently will be re-employed
early in January.
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CHURCH OF THE ADVENT
Cor. Hill Ave. and Sixth st.
Second Sunday after Epiphany.
1000 a. M, Church School.
HOO a. M, Morning Prayer and
Sermon.
H. G. Walker, Rector.
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U. S. WAREHOUSES; HOLD
3s,00O,DOO GALS BOOZE

Approximately 100000 gallons
of whisky are stored in warehouses
throughout the country, according to
testimony of Willard F. West, deputy
commissioner of internal revenue at
a recent executive hearings of the
house appropriations committee on
the treasury appropriation bill.
The reports also showed, Mr.. West
estimated, that on July 1, last, there
were in distilleries and general band
warehouses 39,961 900 gallons of
whiskey.
Twelve months previously, he tes-
titled, the amount of liquors in storage
were 50,570,000 gallons of whiskey.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes,
during his testimony before the COM
mittee requested an appropriation of
$1O,OO0,OO0.
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GERMAN FLAG
uNFURLED IN US.
CONSULAR OFFICES OF NEW RE-
y PUBLIC OPEN-SCENE HAS
UNDERGONE CHANGE.

New York, Jan. 3.-Germany's flag
today reappeared among those of the
other nations which fly from the tall
buildings of New York's finincial and
shipping disericts.
It was unfurled from the same flag
pole, on top of No. II Broadway from
which it was hauled down in the
spring Of 1917, and market the loca-
ton of the re-established consular
offices of the new German republic.
For more than a week representa-
tives of Counsel General Karl Lang
temporary charge d'affairs of his CAV
eminent at Washington-had been
preparing for re-opening of the Of
fees. A score of desks, filing cases,
and a couple of steel safes were NOV
ed across the hall from the offices
of the Swiss consul, their custodian
during the war. Among the furnish
ings missing, however, was an oil
painting of former Emperor William
The old consular seal had also been
discarded, and the official stationery
took on the new dress emblematic of
the New Germany.
The flag today waved from scene
different from that it witnessed at
its last appearance. Then the build
ing was the American headquarters
of the North German Lloyd Steam
ship line, now occupied by an Ameri-
can steamship line, and the former
Hamburg American line building a
few doors north is the New York base
Of the United States Shipping. board.
Just across Broadway on the fucade
of the United States customs house
the shadow of the American flag prior
to the war fell upon a magnificent
statue Of "Germania" standing with
figures of other great maritime pow
ers. The war, however, caused Ger
mania" to disappear and in her place
now stands Belgium" remoulded by
the artists Chisel from the same
block of marble.
Across the Hudson from the base of
the flagpole are the great Hoboken
docks, the former home of German'ys
steamship lines, and several of their
ships, including the 54,0O0-ton Levia-
than. These have also passed to new
ownership and to the protection of
the American flag.
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WHAT sPUDs TO GROW

The Minnesota Potato Exchange re-
commends the growing of only five
late varieties, namely, Green Noun
tain, Rural, Burbank, Burbank Rus
set and King, and three early vari-
cites, Early Ohio, Triumph and Cob
bier.
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1922-01-11

Clyde Clayton and Chester Foster
OF Lakota were visitors in the city
Friday and Saturday.
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HOW TO FIGURE
PERSONAL GAINS
U. S. REVENUE COLLECTOR
SHOWS METHOD OF CON-
PUTTING INCOME.

The following statement is issued
by the Collector of Internal Revenue,
Gunder Olson, discreet of North Da-
Aota..
The Revenue Act of 1921 contains
two new and important provisions,
which are the subject of frequent in
quiry. The first relates to the per-
sonal exemptions allowed married
persons, and the second to the pro-
visions requiring that return be
made of gross income of $5,000.00.
The act provides that married per-
sons, living with husband or wife,
whose net income for 1921 was $5,-
100000 or less shall be allowed per-
sonal exemption Of $2,50O.0O. If the
net income of such person was over
S5,000.O0 the exemption is 100000.
Under the Revenue Act of 1918 the
exemption allowed a married person
was 100000, regardless of the a
mount of net income. The normal
tax rate remains unchanged, per
cent on the first $4,000 of net in
come above the exemption and per
cent OH the remaining net income.
In order that an income slightly
in excess of $4,000 shall not be sub
ject to an inordinately dispropor-
tionate tax because of the reduction
of the exemption to 100000 thereon,
the law provides that such reduction
of the exemption shall not operate to
increase the tax, which would be
payable if the exemption were ST.
10000, by more than the amount Of
the net income in excess Of 100000
For example, on net income of
$5,010.00, the tax without this saving
clause would be $12O.40, which is
percent ON 100000, the amount of
net income less an exemption of $4,000
The actual tax is $110.4O, computed
as follaws: From the net income of
$5,010.00 is deducted $4,000, leaving
$4,000 the 4 per cent tax on which
amounts to $10O.4O. To this is added
$40, 'the amount of net income in
excess of $5,000.00."
The personal exemption allowed
married persons, apply also to the
head Of the family, person who sup
ports in one household one or more
relatives by blood, marriage or adop-
ton.
Heretofore, person whose net
income was less than this exemption
$4,000 if single, or $4,000, if married)
was not required to file a return.
Under the Revenue Act of 1921, if the
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1922-01-11
Education Cost Quad
rupled in 30 Years

According to records in the office
of the state superintendent of public
instruction, the cost of educating chill
dren in the public schools of North
Dakota has increased from $23.93 per
capita in 1890 to $106.61, or an in
crease of about $50 per cent in the
30-year period.
Total expenditures for all common
school purposes increased from $685.
022.43 in 1890 to $12,716,526.65 in
1920. The valuation of common
school property increased from ST.
147,2O1.59 in 1890 to $25,218,577.52
in 1920.
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Miss Viola johnson of Lakota at
tended the dance at the Grand Roller
ring Saturday evening.
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CHURCHES

St. Peters Evangelical Lutheran
Church,
Seventh & Uline Ave.
Rev. E. !. Moede, Pastor.
Sylverter, Eve
500 p.m.-English Services.
New Years ay.
1870 A.M.-English Services.
1880 A.M.-Sunday School.
METHODIsT-EPIsCOPAL
Fourth St. and Hill Ave.
HOO a. M, Public Worship.
1900 noon, Sunday School.
$3.50 p. M, Epworth League.
1880 p. M, Public Worship.
Rev. Benjamin Babcock, Pastor.
BETHEL Ev. FREE CHURCH
Corner of Uline Avenue
and Second Street
11:00 a. M, Morning Services in
Norwegian.
1900 Noon, Sunday School.
500 p. M, Evening Services in
English.
Wednesday evening, Prayer Meet
ing.
Carl Fosmark, Pastor.
CATHOLIC
Low Mass at 500 and 900 a. m.
High Mass at 1890 with English
sermon.
Father Edwards, Priest
CHURCH OF THE ADVENT
Cor. Hill Ave. and Sixth st.
Second Sunday after Epiphany.
1000 a. M, Church School.
11:00 a. M, Morning Prayer and
Sermon.
H. G. Walker, Rector.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST
SCIENTIST
Kelly Ave-, between 9Th
and 18th Streets
Services: Sunday morning, II a. m.
Sunday School, 1900 noon.
Services: Wednesday evening $500.
Reading room is open Monday,
Wednesday and Saturday from 200
to 400 p. m.
SALVATION ARMY
Monday-Corcedette Glass.
Tuesday-Soldiers Meeting.
Wednesday-Girl Guards.
Thursday-Public Meeting.
Saturday-Publc Meeting.
Sunday-2:30 p. ~, Sunday School.
$3.50 Y. P. L. Meeting. Regular meet
ing at o'clock.
Adjutant Rose Kirchner, officer in
charge, and Lieutenant Marie Steb-
bens, assistant.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
harrington and 9Th Streets
1000 a. M, Delta Alpha Glass.
All young women are invited to
come.
10:45 a. M, Meeting Of the Session.
11:00 a. M, Morning Worship.
1915 p. M, the Sunday School.
$50 p. M, Y. P. S. C. E.
1880 p. M, Evening Service.
Rev. P. H. Case, Pastor.
ST. OLAFS LUTHERAN
II a. M, Norwegian Service.
1900 noon, Sunday School.
600 p. M, Luther League.
7:45 p. M, English Service.
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1922-01-11

FOR Cheap 100 acre farm,
no incumberance near Crookston,
MIMI, good level land, black loan
soil in high state of cultivation
good water, located in sugar beet
and potatoe, country on good grad
ed road one mile to market. 500
per acre, cash or will trade for
farm in vicinity of Devils Lake.
Call or address, Mr.. VIM. Mccain,
Crookston, MINI. p 1919.
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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST
SCIENTIST

Kelly Ave-, between 9Th
and 9TH Streets
Services: Sunday morning, II a. m.
Sunday School, 1900 noon.
Services: Wednesday evening $500.
Reading room is open Monday,
Wednesday and Saturday from 200
to 400 p. m.
, 1922-11-29
BY ZANE GREY
Author of
The Riders of the Purple Sage,
Wildfire, Etc.
Copyright by Harper & Brothers
Copyright by Harper & Brothers.

little water left into Warren's can
teen. He threw his OWL away.
Soon afterward Warren discovered
the loss.
where's your c~anteen?" he asked.
1.-THE heat was getting my water,
SO I drank what was Left.
"My son !" said Warren.
The day opened for them in a red
and green hell Of rock and cactus.
Like a fame the sun scorched and
peeled their faces. Warren went
blind from the glare, and Cameron
had to lead him. At last Warren
plunged down, exhausted, in the shade
Of q ledge.
Cameron rested and waited, hope
less, With not, weary eyes gazing
dowa from their height where he sat.
Movement on the part of Warren at
tracted his attention. Evidently the
old prospector had recovered his sight
and some Of his strength. For he had
arisen, and now began to walk along
the arroyo bed with his forked peach
branch held before him. He had chung
to that precious bit Of wood. Warren,
however. stepped In a deep pit, and,
cutting his canteen in half, began to
use one side Of It as a scoop. He
scooped out a wide hollow. so wide
that Cameron was certain he had gone
crazy. Cameron gently urged him TO
stop, and then forcibly tried to make
him.. But these efforts were futile.
Warren worked with slow, ceaseless,
methodical movement. He toiled for
what seemed hours. Cameron, seeing
the darkening, dampening sand, real
lied a wonderful possibility of water,
and he plunged into the pit with the
other half of the canteen. Then both
men tolled, round and round the wide
hole. down deeper and deeper. The
sand grew moist, then wet. At the
bottom of the deep pit the sand coars-
ened, gave place to gravel. Finally
water welled In, a stronger volume
than Cameron ever remembered find
ing on the desert.
The finding Of water revived Cam
eron's tagging hopes. But they were
short-lived. Warren had spent him
self utterly.
I'm done. Don't linger," he whis-
pered. my son., go-gol"
Then he fell. Cameron dragged him
out of the sand pit to a sheltered
place under the ledge. While sitting
beside the failing man Cameron dis
covered painted images on the wall.
Often in the desert he had found these
evidences of a prehistoric people.
Then. from long habit, he picked up a
piece of rock and examined 1t. Its
weight made him closely scrutinlze 1t.
The color was a peculiar black. He
scraped through the black rust, to
find a piece Of gold. Around him lay
scattered heaps of black pebbles and
bits Of black, weathered rock and
, 1922-11-29

woman's face. 1t was there Il the
white moonlit shadows; 1t drifted in
the darkness beyond; it softened,
changed to that of a young girl, sweet,
with the same dark, haunting eyes of
her mother. Cameron prayed to that
nameless thing within him, the spirit
of something deep and mystical as
life. He prayed for mercy to a wom-
an-for happiness to her child. Both
mother and daughter were close to
him then. Time and distance were
annihilated. He had faith-he saw
into the future. The fateful threads
Of the past, SO inextricably woven
with his error, wound out their tragic
length here In this forlorn desert.
Cameron then took a little tin box
from his pocket, and, opening it, re-
moved a folded certificate. He had
kept a pen. and now he wrote some
thing upon the paper, and in lieu of
ink he wrote with blood. The moon
afforded him enough light to see; and
having replaced the paper. he laid the
little box upon a shelf of rock. 1t
would remain there unaffected by
dust, moisture, heat, time. How long
had those painted images been there
clear and sharp on the dry stone
walls? Years would pass. Cameron
seemed to see them, too; and likewise
destiny leading a child down into this
forlorn waste, where she would find
love and fortune, and the grave of her
father.
Cameron covered the dark, still face
of his comrade from the light of the
waning moon.
That action was the ~severing of his
hold on realities. They fell away
from him in final separation. Vaguely,
dreamily he seemed to behold his
soul. Night merged into gray day;
n night came again, weird and dark.
Then UP out of the vast void OF the
desert, from the silence and Him
ftableness, trooped his phantoms of
peace. Majestically they formed
around him, marshaling and muster
Ing in ceremonious state, and moved
to lay upon him their passionless
serenity.
, 1922-11-29
CHAPTER
Old Friends.

Richard Gale reflected that his So
journ In the West had been what his
disguised father had predicted
idling here and dreaming there, with
no objective point or purpose.
1t was reflection such as this, only
more serious and perhaps somewhat
desperate, that had brought Gale down
to the border. For some time the
newspapers had been printing news
of the Mexican revolution, guerrilla
warfare, United States cavalry pa
trolling the international line, AmerI-
can cowboys fighting with the rebels,
and wild stories Of bold raiders and
bandits. Regarding these rumors Gale
was skeptical. But as opportunity,
and adventure, too, had apparently
given him a wide berth In Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado, he had struck
southwest for the Arizona border,
where he hoped to see some stirring
life.
1t was after dark one evening In
early October when Richard arrived
in Casita. There was a jostling, jab-
bering, sombreroed crowd Of Mexicans
around the railroad station. He felt
as If he were In a foreign country.
After a while he saw several men of
his nationality, n Of whom he en-
gagged to carry his luggage to a hotel.
OF the many people encountered by
Gale most were Mexicans. His guide
explained that the smaller half OF
Casita lay In Arizona, the other half
in Mexico. and of several thousand
Inhabitants the majority belonged on
the southern side of the street, which
was the boundary line. He also
said that rebels had entered the town
that day, causing a good deal of ex-
citement.
Gale was almost at the end of his
financial resources, which fact occa.
stoned him to turn away from a pre-.
tentious hotel and ask his guide for
q cheaper lodging house. When this
was found, a sight of the loungers In
the office, and also a desire for com.
fort, persuaded Gale to change his
travelling clothes for rough outing
garb and boots.
"Well, I'm almost broke" he solllo.
qui1Cut ihouehtAuhJ. Inc governor
said 1 wouldn't make any money. He's
right-so far. And he said I'd be
coming home beaten. There he's
wrong. I've got a bunch that some,
thing IL happen to me lii this Greaser
town."
He went out into the wide, white.
washed, ~high-ceiled corridor. and
from that Into an immense room
which, but for pool tables, bar and
benches. would have been like a
courtyard. Bare-legged, sandai-footed
Mexlcans In white rubbed shoulders
with MexIcans mantled In black and
red. There were black-bearded
coarse-visaged Americans, some gam,
bling round the little tables, Others
drinking. There were khaki-cIad cav,
alrymen strutting In ana out.
At one end Of the room, somewhat
apart from the general melee, was q
group " six men round a little table
four Of wren were seated, the other
two standing. These last two drew
q second glance from Gala. The
, 1922-11-29

pieces of broken ledge. and they
showed gold.
"WarrenI Looki See It'll Feel It'll
Goldi"
But Warren was too blind to see.
"Go-gol" he whispered.
Cameron gazed down the gray
reaches Of that forlorn valley, and
something within him that was nei-
Their intelligence nor emotIon-some-
thing inscrutably strange-impelled
him to promise.
Then Cameron built up stone manu-
ments to mark his gold strike. That
done, he tarried beside the uncon-
scious Warren. Moments passed
grew into hours. Cameron still had
strength left to make an effort to get
out of the desert. But that same In
scrutable something which had or
dered his strange. involuntary promise
to Warren held him beside his fallen
comrade. AS the long hours wore on
he felt creep over him the comfort
Ing sense that he need not forever
fight sleep. Absolute silence claimed
the desert. It was mute. Then that
i~nscrutable something breathed to
him. telling him when he was alone.
he need not have looked at the dark,
stfll face beside him.
Another face haunted Cameron's-a
, 1922-11-29

in town. Any momert we might have
trouble. / ought to he ready for duty
within call. If I'm discovered II
means arrest. That means delay
the failure of my plaus-ruin."
Thorne bent over closer with mia
dark eyes s%earchingly bright.
what would you say. Dick Gale
II I told you that yoa're the one mar
I'd rather have come along than an.
other at this crisis Of my life?y
The earnest gaze, the passionate
voice with its deep treinor drew Dick
upright. thrilling and eager. conscious
Of strange, unfamiliar impetuosity.
"Thorne, l should say l was glad to
be the fellow replied Dick.
Their hands locked for the moment,
and they sat down again with heads
close over the table.
Listen" began Thorne, in low.
swift whisper, "a few days. a week
ngo-it seems like a year IL was Of
some assistance to refugees fleeing
from Mexico into the States. They
were all women, and one of them was
dressed as a nun. Quite by accident
| saw her face. 1t was that of a
beautiful girl. ! observed she kept
al9of from the others. / suspected 4
disguise. and, when opportunity az.
forded, spoke to her, offered my sery-
ices. She replied to my poor efforts az
Spanish in fluent English. She had
fed in terror from her home, some
place down in SInaloa. Rebels are
active there. Her father was cap.
tured and held for ransom. When the
ransom was paid the rebels killed
him. The leader OF these rebels was
a bandit named Rojas. Rojas saw
the daughter, made Off with her. But
she contrived to bribe her guards and
escaped almost Immediately before
m harm befell her. She hid among
friends. Rojas nearly tore down the
town in his efforts to And her. Then
she disguised herself and Travelled by
horseback. stage and train to Cas,ta.
"She had no friends here, no money
She knew Rojas was trailing her.
This talk ! had with her was at the
railroad station, where all WINS hustle
and confusion. No one noticed us, so
I thought. I advised her to remove
the disguise of a nun before she Jeff
the waitlng-room. And l got a boy to
guide her. But he fetched her to this
house. had promised to come In
the evening to talk over the situation
with her.
Il found her. Dick. and when / saw
her-I went stark. staring. raying mad
over her. She is the most beautiful,
wonderful girl I ever saw. Her name
Is Mercedes Castaneda, and she he
longs to one of the old wealthy Span
Ism families. She has lived abroad
n In Havana. She speaks French
as well as English. She is--but i
must be brief.
, 1922-11-29

ing the line. Yet we don't light. Ny
commission expires soon. I'll be dis.
charged in three months. You can
bet I'm glad for more reasons than
I've mentioned"
Thorne was evidently laboring un-
der strong. suppressed excitement.
bis face showed pale under the tan.
and his eyes cleaned with a dark fire.
He had seated himself at a table near
n of the doorlike windows leading
into the street. and every little while
he would glance sharply out. Also he
kept consulting his watch.
These details gradually grew upon
Gale as Thorne talked.
George. it strikes me that you're
upset. said Dick. presently. II seem
to remember you as a c~ool-headed
fellow whom nothing could disturb.
Has the army changed your"
Thorne laughed. 1t was a laugh
with a strange, high note. 1t was
reckless-it limited of exaltation. He
peered out n window, then another.
His actions were rapid. Returning to
the table. he put his hands upon II
and leaned over to look closely into
Gales face.
"Tm away from camp without
leave" he said.
isn't that a serious orenser'
asked Dick.
"Serious7 For me, II I'm discov.
cred, 1t means ruin. There are rebels
, 1922-11-29
DESERT GOLD
"eoLDI"

notwithstanding gold in the
desert Cameron" solitary pros
pector, forms a partnership with
an unknown man whom he later
learns is Jonas Warren, father OF
a girl whom Cameron wronged,
but later married, back in Illinois.
Cameron's explanations appease
Warren. and the two proceed to-
gether. After many h~ardships
they are reduced to the limit of
physical endurance. In a dying
condition they seek refuge In a
cave. once occupied by a prehis-
toric people of the Southwest.
, 1922-11-29
Tho clever Fly.

The h~ousefly Is the cleverest OF IN.
sects, its intelligence far SURPRISING
that OF the mt and the bee. a re-
cent worldwide authority asserts that
Il car think 100 timcs more quickly
than a man
, 1922-11-29
Dear lady, RoJas viii hound
you no ore tonight, nor for
many nlehts-AN
cro BE c%oNrINunD.)
What Wives Know

"Expe;f fence teaches a wife that the
more she agrees with her husband, Nc
matter how big a fool he is, the better
she gets on" said q pms In an nnr
ash police court,